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About

Narinda Cook is a Naarm/Melbourne based artist working across spatial practice, photography, video and drawing. She uses children’s arts materials, with intent to play with time and evoke nostalgia and memory. Her work often responds to the body and architecture creating site-specific environments. Her current series questions the use of unsustainable materials and their contribution to the anthropocene. Her work is held in private collections nationally and internationally.

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Selected Solo Exhibitions

2018 Moon, Little....No BIG

2017 Wasted: Finding melting Point,Trocadero Art Space

2016 Play, Artplay

2015 Play, Incinerator Gallery

2007 Play, Linden New Art

2005 Nine3, in collaboration with Paul Irving, Bus Gallery

2003 Dot2dot, 24/7

2001 Botbotscape, Westspace

2000 Plasticins blobulis, Studio 12, Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces

1999 Eyecandy, Parlour 2000

1997 Hundreds and Thousands, Gogo Gallery

1996 Illusive Realms, George Paton Gallery, Melbourne University

Selected Group Exhibitions

2020 Picturing Footscray Photography Prize, Victoria University, online exhibition

2020 McClelland National Small Sculpture Award 2020, McClelland Gallery, online exhibition

2020 Angel Exchange, hosted by Bus Projects, instigated by Zara Sully

2020 Small Mercies Fundraiser, curated by Tara Gilbee, Creative Spaces River Studios

2019 Friends and Family, Daine Singer

2019 Colour Chameleon, with Tara Gilbee and Melinda Harper, The Project Space Deakin University

2019 BIG/SMALL, curated by Matto Lucas, Motley Bauhaus

2019 Ghost Without a Home, curated by Jess Wilson, Rubicon ARI

2018 House Party : A Group Exhibition, curated by Jess Wilson, Coburg

2018 Trocadero Art Space Fundraiser and End of Year Party

2016 Standing Ovation, Trocadero Art Space

2015 Allot, Trocadero Art Space

2009 Wallpaper, Trocadero Art Space

2008 Williamstown Festival Art Prize, Substation

2007 The Space In Between #4, curated by Tara Gilbee, Margaret Lawerance Gallery, Melbourne; Bendigo Art Gallery, Bendigo; Umbrella Arts Studios, Townsville; and LaTrobe Regional Gallery, La Trobe

2005 A4 Art, Westspace

Selecta, Westspace

Toyutopia, Yarra Sculpture Gallery

Williamstown Festival Art Prize, Substation

2003 I heard It On The Grapevine..., curated by Zara Stanhope, Heide Museum of Modern Art

2002 While Stocks Last, curated by Gabby O'Connor, Enjoy Public Art Gallery, Wellington, NZ

The Space In between, in collaboration with Gabby O'connor, curated by Tara Gilbee, Platform Artist Spaces

2001 Best Practice, curated by Samantha Comte, Monash Faculty Gallery

2000 Make It Yourself, Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne Festival

Salt, sugar, plasticine and string with Gabby O'Connor, Artist Made Objects

1999 Gertrude St Studio Artists, Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces

New Horizons, Curated by Shaun Wilson, as part of Melbourne Fringe Festival, Mass Gallery

1998 Sophia, with Emilia Storm, curated by David Thomas, Bridge: Construction In Process IV, Melbourne
1996 Box, Next Wave Festival, VCA Gallery

1995 Like A Rash It Spreads, curated by Rachel Brusachi, 202 Gertrude St

Curatorial Projects

2022 Conscious Projections, Artspace at Realm, Maroondah City Council, featuring Alison Bennett, Roberta Rich, Jonathan Homesy and Diimpa

2021 DIS/Connected, Maroondah Federation Estate, featuring Konrad Winkler, Cherry Hood, Larry Jenkins and Kate James

2021 Light and Shadow - Works from the Maroondah Art Collection, Maroondah Federation Estate featuring Jill Orr, Lin Onus, Martin King, Karen Kasey, Edward Blinter, Paul Andrew Compton, Ben Reid, Judy Holding, Peter Lyssiotis and Catherine Woo.

2019 Knocking at Newell’s, in conjunction with West Projections, incorporating projections, artist talks, performance and a talk at the Greek Orthodox Church

2016 Standing Ovation, co-curated with Georgia Banks, Trocadero Art Space featuring Julie Sheils, Kate Just, Gabby O’Connor, Georgia Banks and Narinda Cook

Education

2009 Masters of Visual Art, Monash, deffered

1993-1996 Bachelor Fine Art Sculpture, VCA

Prizes, Grants and Residencies

2020 APHIDS No Contest Art Prize, 2020, Recipient

2020 McClelland National Small Sculpture Award 2020, Finalist

2020 Picturing Footscray, Recipient of Third Prize

2015-16 ARTSBOX Studio Residency, City of Maribyrnong

2001 Recipient of Pat Corrigan Grant managed by NAVA

1999-2001 Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces - Studio Residency

Appointments

2019-2020 General member, West Projections Committee

2018 Chair, West Projections Committee

2019-2020 Advisor, Trocadero Art Space Committee

2015-18 President, Trocadero Art Space

Workshops

2016 Artplay, The Art of Play: Abstract Sculptures

2016 Incinerator Arts Complex, The Art of Play: Abstract Sculptures, The Sound of Play: Meditation and Abstract Collage

Artist Assistant

2009-14 Artist assistant for Julie Shiels for private collections, public sculpture Albert St, South Melbourne and public sculpture Hampton Rd, Hampton, Melbourne

2005 Artist assistant for Arterial Collective inconjunction with Vicky Couzens, Treahna Hamm and Lee Darroch’s public artwork Birrarung Wilam, Birrarung Marr/Yarra River, Melbourne

2005 Sculptors assistant for Vengeance Productions, Ghost Rider

1996-2001 Artist assistant for Arcana Pursuits Kaleidoscopes

Bibliography

Comte, Samantha, Best Practice, Exhibition catalogue, 2001

Comte, Samantha, 2000 Gertrude St Studio Artists Show, Exhibition catalogue

Comte, Samantha, Plasticinis Blobulis, exhibition catalogue, 2000

Comte, Samantha, make It Yourself: Gerturde St Studio Artists 1999, Exhibition Catalogue, 1999

Cotching, Kate, Seleckta, Exhibition Catalogue, 2005

Gilbee, Tara ,The Space In Between, Exhibition catalogue, 2001

Maylon, Craig, Narinda Cook Essay, Art Right Now 2, Discovery Media, 2002

Nelson, Robert, Playful Pick of the Crop, THE AGE, August, 2003

Nelson, Robert, Greater Prestige for regions, THE AGE, 2001