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Sue Apted-Muir

Born:

1953 Melbourne, Victoria.

Education:

1995 Small Business Enterprise Competencies Certificate,

DETE, Melbourne

1989 B.A Honours in Fine Art (Painting), RMIT, Melbourne

1969 Diploma in Dental Nursing, Pharmacy College, Melbourne

Experiences relating to art:

Since 1989 collaborated with Indigenous Australian Artists from Arnhemland and Victoria, and worked with the renowned Aboriginal actor, David Gulpilil,

Activities include:

CulturalStudies&ExchangesPainting/Concerts/Festivals/

Tours/Workshops/Seminars/Lectures/Research/Photography/

Posters/Brochures/CD & Audio Tape cover Designs etc. Collaborated with the Montslavat Artists Trust (Eltham)

– Cultural Programs including Cross-Cultural Collaborations (Indigenous Australian & Ainu Japanese), Festivals/Concerts/Workshops/etc. Developed an Indigenous Program for their annual Festival of Poetry & Song.

Lived and worked in the artistic communities of the

North East Ranges and the Yarra Valley (Victoria),

worked in studios of artists such as Andrew Sibley, Clifton Pugh, Piers Bateman (painting) and Neil Douglas, Syd Tunn & Ona Henderson (life drawing), Geoffrey Davidson and Heja Chong (potters/ceramicists), Cecelia Wilkes (textiles -wool felting/

dyeing), lived in a household during the formation of

“Handspan” Puppet Theatre and became involved

with Puppetry Workshops. Other cultural highlights are with

“Djalu and Dopiya Gurruwiwi and Family” organizing &

participating in workshops; Traditional painting, basketmaking/natural dyes, painting, featherwork, shell beading, body painting, didjeridu, song, dance, storytelling and concert “Arntys.ink” - Cultural Collaboration with Sharon Hodgson Riley, “WOMADelaide Festival & Southern Tour”- Touring Waak Waak Jungi /Crowfire Music (Alice Springs/Adelaide/Melbourne), “The Bridge” International Artists Symposium- Collaboration with Indigenous artists from Arnhemland/Australia and Ainu /Japan, “Artgasm”-Student oriented arts access radio program (RMIT Radio) and working in the “Swanston St Gallery” (RMIT/Melb)

Honours and awards:

1997 “Waak Waak Jungi/Crowfire Music” Debut Album-Photograph

for CD Cover Festival/Larrikan Records (Sydney)

1988 Mural Commission – “Melbourne’s Bid For The 1996 Olympics”

(101 Collins Street Melbourne/Badger Enterprises)

1969 Arts Award – Kilmaire College (Hawthorn

Solo Exhibitions:

1996 North East Bushland Environmental Council Launch (Christmas

Hills/Victoria

1989 “Experiential Installation” Faculty of Fine Art RMIT

(Melbourne/Victoria)

Group Exhibitions:

selected recent exhibitions:

2006 “Her Presence in Colors V11-Her Light in Native Colors”,

Australian Chapter, Manningham Gallery Doncaster,

Victoria, Australia

1984-1990 “Group Shows” Swanston Street Gallery RMIT

(Melbourne/Victoria)

1889 Kyatt Hotel”

1989 The Lounge”( Melbourne/Victoria)

1989 “Penthouse For A Pine Plantation” Swanston Street Gallery

RMIT (Melbourne/Australia)“ Mitchell College National

Student Art Award” (Canberra/Australia)

Important Collections:

RMIT University (Melbourne/Victoria)

Badger Enterprises

The Lounge

Private Collections

Sue Apted-Muir - Australia

" My work is connected to the environment/Nature through which I experience my life. I love the Australian natural landscape/bush, its sublimity and the profound secrets it can unveil. Amidst the backdrop of a developing technological world encroaching on remnant pockets of natural habitats it also offers sanctuary. By reminding me of the rhythms of the universe that we are all bound to I know we are all part of this Nature helping to shape and reveal its pattern. It provides me with a metaphor for the transient state of our being along with its timeless universality and just how special each transition is as part of this whole. I find the diversity of human response and perceptions to these cycles sometimes as caretaker and sometimes as destroyer parallels Nature herself. All life it appears to me is bound by this dichotomy and cycle that constantly reinvents itself through destruction. Most of my works start with and acknowledge the Nature I experience; this may be the point of departure for more psychological or spiritual works I sometimes feel compelled to talk about and some simply a celebration of the life I am part of.."