KUIPER PROJECTS - Key Persons
Courtney Pedersen is the Academic Program Director for the School of Creative Practice at QUT and a Senior Lecturer in Art History/Theory. She is also a practicing artist and art writer.
Emotionally Overcontrolled/Undercontrolled is an exhibition of new works by Elyse de Valle. Intricate embroidered adaptations of notes from the artist's journals taken throughout Dialectical Behaviour Therapy sessions, articulate painful emotions, urges and symptoms. They are stitched into fabric as words and physical traces of process.
Elyse de Valle is an artist and archivist who engages with materials and site to express the conceptual concerns of her art practice. De Valle's work explores little known narratives that permit her contemplation of creative labour, memory, trauma, loss and experience. It is often a pursuit to trace, re-examine and respond to social and personal history, reflecting on how memory is encoded directly and indirectly within the body and built form.
De Valle completed a Bachelor of Fine Art with First Class Honours in 2012 and a Masters of Fine Art in 2015 at Monash University. She has held solo and group shows around Australia and internationally, was awarded the 2017 Glenfiddich Artists in Residence program award for Australia/New Zealand, and has undertaken residencies in Italy and Scotland.
Hine and Weise are long-term collaborators and were founding co-directors of two galleries in Naarm/Melbourne: Screen Space (2010-2016), a not-for-profit gallery dedicated to the moving image, and Beam Contemporary (2010-2014), a commercial gallery focused on emerging artists. Together they co-curated the Melbourne Art Fair Video program in 2014, and have co-curated exhibitions at Careof (Milan), Blindside (Melbourne), Window National (multiple USA locations), Brenda May Gallery (Sydney), Boxcopy (Brisbane), MARS (Melbourne) and Metro Arts (Brisbane), among others.
Kyle Weise is a writer and curator. He has a specific interest in the moving image across cinema and art, and its mediation of technology and space. Weise has curated exhibitions in Brisbane, Melbourne and Perth, and has written about contemporary Australian art in catalogue essays and articles for various publications, including Eyeline, Dissect, Un Magazine and Millennium Film Journal. He was the Curator of the Exhibition Program at Metro Arts (2018-2023). And is currently a Curatorial Officer at Redland Art Gallery and Acting Curator at the University of Queensland Art Museum.
To open this exhibition, local artists Michelle Vine and Leah Emery will have an open discussion exploring some of the themes in their own practice, as they connect, broadly, to the concerns of de Valle's exhibition, including self-portraiture, tactility and ritual, processes of healing and the role of art within contexts of care.
Rachael Haynes is a contemporary artist who lives and works in Brisbane, Australia. Her art practice engages with feminist ethics and activism by examining the social and personal constructs of language and gender.
Rachael Haynes completed a Doctor of Philosophy in Visual Arts (2009) with the support of an Australian Postgraduate Award for research at QUT, where she is now a Lecturer in Visual Arts. Haynes is also the Director of Boxcopy, an artist-run contemporary art space and was a founding member of the feminist art collective, LEVEL.
Simone Hine is an artist, curator and writer. Her artworks expand across performance, video, installation and sound. She re-contextualises media images, with a particular focus on the cinematic. These media images are expanded spatially and temporally in order to re-examine otherwise transitory moments. Hine holds a PhD from the University of Melbourne, School of Culture and Communication, in Art History.