The Second Asia-Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art exhibition catalogue (APT2)

'Spoken Because "I" ', Museum of Modern Art at Heide, Melbourne, Australia 'Aussemblage', Auckland City Art Gallery, Auckland, etc. Aotearoa/New Zealand 'Drawings: Louise Bourgeois, Asta Groting, Eva Hesse, Roni Horn, Kathy Temin, Rosemarie Trockel, Rachel Whiteread', Frith Street Gallery, London, UK 'Loop, A Critical Cities Project', Longford Cinema, Melbourne, Australia 'Melbourne Seven', David Pestorius Gallery, Brisbane, Australia 'Drawings as Drawings', Galerie van Gelder, Amsterdam, The Netherlands 'Bad Toys', Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, Australia 1993 'Wits End', Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia 'Monster Field', Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney, Australia 'Australian Perspecta', Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney, Australia 'Scrounge Time', Plimsoll Gallery, Centre for the Arts, Hobart, Australia 'The Exact Moment, A Critical Cities Project', Melbourne, Australia 'Art Cologne' represented by Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Germany 1992 'The Body in Question: Works from the Monash University Collection', Monash University Gallery, Melbourne, Australia 1991 'Frames of Reference: Aspects of Feminism and Art', Pier 4/5, Sydney, Australia 'The Subversive Stitch', Monash University Gallery, Melbourne, Australia 'Magasin 5', Galerie Cannibal Pierce, Paris, France 1990 '10 Animals', Store 5, Melbourne, Australia GRANTS AND AWARDS 1996 Anne & Gordon Samstag International Visual Arts Scholarship, London 1995 Visual Arts and Crafts Board Grant for International Travel 1994 Visual Arts and Crafts Board Quick Response Grant Rupert Bunny Foundation Acquisitive Scholarship, City of Port Phillip, Australia COLLECTIONS Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney, Australia Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, Australia University of Wollongong Collection, Wollongong, Australia Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne, Australia The Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia Vizard Foundation, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia 148 ART I ST B I OGRAPHI ES Demse Born 1962 Pouebo, New Caledonia Lives and works in Mont Dore, Noumea, New Caledonia EDUCATION/TRAINING 1990 Studied at Ecole d'Art de Noumea, Noumea, New Caledonia 1985 Studied art of Oceania with Jipe Lebars, Office Culture! Scientifique et Technique Canaque (O.C.ST.C.), Noumea, New Caledonia SELECTED EXHIBITIONS Selected SoloExhibitions 1994 'Ko I Ne Va 3:Waawe: Le Sapin de Pwea', organised by Agence de Developpement de la Culture Kanak, touring exhibition, City Hall, Pouebo, New Caledonia Centre Culture! de Koutio, Noumea, New Caledonia 1993 City Hall, Yate, New Caledonia Selected Group Exhibitions 1995 Alliance FranQaise, Sydney, Australia 1993 Year of Indigenous Peoples Exhibition, Yate, etc. New Caledonia 'Bureautique et Art Kanak', Hotel Le Surf, Noumea, New Caledonia 1992 '6th Festival des Arts du Pacifique', Raratonga, Cook Islands, New Caledonia, Vanuatu, Australia 1991 'Festival des Arts du Vanuatu',Vanuatu 'Polyptique', Noumea, New Caledonia 'Le Mythe', Noumea, New Caledonia 'Djinu Owa', Noumea, New Caledonia 1990 'Ko I Ne Va: Sculpteurs et Peintres Kanak d'Aujourd'hui', touring exhibition organised by l'Agence de Developpement de la Culture Kanak ... A collective of New Zealand/Polynesian artists is located within the concept of two wakas (Maori canoes), one containing five men and the other six women. Together, they create one Pacific narrative. John PULE Born 1962 Liku, Niue Island 1996 Writer-in-Residence, University of Waikato, Hamilton, Aotearoa/New Zealand 1996 Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland, Aotearoa/New Zealand (solo) 'Seventh Festival of the South Pacific', Samoa 'Re-imagining the Pacific', Australian National University, Canberra, Australia 1995 'Malika', New Works Gallery, Wellington, Aotearoa/New Zealand (solo) '95 Kwangju Biennale', Kwangju, South Korea 'Island to Island', Cheju, South Korea 'Africus', 1st Johannesburg Biennale, Johannesburg, South Africa 1994 'Bottled Ocean: Contemporary Polynesian Artists', City Gallery,Wellington, etc. Aotearoa/New Zealand Brett GRAHAM Born 1967 Auckland, Aotearoa/New Zealand Lecturer, Department of Art History, University of Auckland, Auckland, Aotearoa/New Zealand 1991 MFA, University of Hawai'i, USA 1995 'Te Kohao O Te Ngira', Artis Gallery, Auckland, Aotearoa/New Zealand (solo) 'Tainui',Waikato Museum of Art and History, Hamilton, Aotearoa/New Zealand (solo) 'Korurangi - New Maori Art', Auckland City Art Gallery, Auckland, Aotearoa/ New Zealand 'Te KarohirohingaTaonga', Waikato Museum & Art Gallery,Waikato, Aotearoa/ New Zealand 1994 '1492-1692', Govett Brewster Gallery, New Plymouth, Aotearoa/New Zealand (solo) Chris BOOTH Born 1948 Kerikeri, Aotearoa/New Zealand Lives and works in Kerikeri, Aotearoa/ New Zealand 1967-68 University of Canterbury, Christchurch, Aotearoa/New Zealand 1996 '150th Anniversary Exhibition', Royal Botanic Gardens, Melbourne, Australia 'Sculpture in the Gardens', Robert McDougall Art Gallery, Christchurch, Aotearoa/New Zealand 1995 New Art Centre Sculpture Garden, Salisbury, UK Grizedale Forest Park, Cumbria, UK 'In Celebration of Victorian Stone', Meridian Gallery, Melbourne, Australia 1994 'In Celebration of Victoria Stone', Meridian Gallery, Melbourne, Australia (solo) Palau de la Virreina, Barcelona, Spain 1993 Museum of Modern Art at Heide, Melbourne, Australia 'Differentes Natures', Galerie Defense, Paris, France 1992 Nadia Bassanese Studio d'Arte,Trieste, Italy (solo) Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland, Aotearoa/New Zealand ('94) (solo) 1991 'II Sud del Mondo-South of the World, the Other Art', Marsala City Art Gallery, Sicily, etc. Italy Ben WEBB Born 1976 Dunedin, Aotearoa/New Zealand Lives on the spit, Aramoana, Otago, Aotearoa/New Zealand