Jill Orr

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PHOTO 2024 Jill Orr – The Promised Land Refigured: Linden New Art

IN THE GALLERY: ORBIT

Ravenswood Australian Women’s Art Prize 2023: Finalists

Archiving the Ephemeral – Performing the Archive: Abbotsford Convent

Beating About the Bush: Art Gallery of Ballarat

IN THE GALLERY: Mitre Lake

Art Basel OVR 2022

Exhume the Grave: Geelong Gallery

Spring 1883 x ARTSY 2021

Tree Story: Monash Museum of Art

Falling and Flight Reclaimed: 2021

IN THE GALLERY: Detritus Springs

Dark Night: Dance Massive

Laundry: Temporal Proximities

Dark Night: Lorne Sculpture Biennale 2018

Antipodean Epic: 2018

Cracks in the Seams, 2017: Federation University

Antipodean Epic (Live performance): Palimpsest Biennale 2015

Performance, Presence, Video Time: Australian Experimental Art Foundation

We create the image together: PAIN PONG Festival, National Gallery of Sopot, Poland

The Promised Land: Isola di San Giorgio Maggiore, Venice

The Promised Land: Jenny Port Gallery

Still Moving Despite the Tide: Melaka Art and Performance Festival 2012

Song to the Sea: Lorne Sculpture Prize 2011

Between Somewhere and Nowhere: Jenny Port Gallery

Southern Cross – To Bear and Behold: 2009

Avoca’s Children, 2009: Avoca Primary School

Faith in a Faithless Land: 2009

Cubbies : Eco-Living Festival, Avoca

A Prayer: 24HR Art, Darwin Festival 2007

The Crossing: Mildura and Wentworth Arts Festival 2007

From the Sea: 2003

Ash: 2002

The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters – Goya: 2002

Family Ghosts: 2001

Presence: Mass Gallery

Exhume the Grave, 1999: Geelong Art Gallery

The Hunger, 1998: Ivan Dougherty Gallery

Myer Windows, 1997: Melbourne International Film Festival

Marriage of the Bride to Art, 1994: National Gallery of Victoria

Lovesongs, 1991: Australian Centre for Contemporary Art

Walking on Planet Earth: 1989

The Digging in and the Climbing out, 1982: ACT 3, Canberra

Pain Melts, 1979: Arts Projects

Bleeding Trees: 1979

Lunch With the Birds: 1979

Response: 1978

BIO

Jill Orr’s work centres on issues of the psycho-social and environmental where she draws on land and identities as they are shaped in, on and with the environment be it country or urban locales. Her practice grapples with the balance and discord that exists at the heart of relations between the human spirit, art and nature.

Jill Orr has a Master of Fine Art, RMIT Melbourne and a PhD Monash, Monash University, Melbourne.

Orr was represented in the inaugural Venice International Performance Art Week, 2012. Recent exhibitions include at PAC Padiglione d’Art Contemporanea, Milan, 2020, Ballarat International Foto Biennale, 2018, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 2017, Marina Abramovic: In Residence, John Kaldor Public Art Project, 2017.

Seminal exhibitions include Belo Horizonte Biennale, Brazil; Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern, Switzerland; Biennal International De Curitiba, Brazil; National Gallery of Art, Poland; MAP Festival, Malaka, Malaysia; LOOP Barcelona video festival, Spain; Howl Festival, New York; SAVVY Contemporary, Berlin; Redgate Gallery, Beijing; Sherman Galleries, Sydney; Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne; Artspace, Sydney; International Performance Art Festival, Toronto, Canada; Gallery Neue, Graz, Austria; Salon O, Amsterdam and Institute of Modern Art, Belgium; Institute of Modern Art, London; and Paris Biennale, Musee D Àrt Modern, Paris.

Recipient of the Australia Council Fellowship, Orr has been Artist in Residence, Cite Des Arts International, Paris and Redgate Gallery, Beijing.

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