Ms Marea Atkinson

Marea Atkinson lectures at the South Australian School of Art, in the undergraduate and post graduate programs. She is currently Studio Head - Printmaking, and Studio Research Supervisor for the Masters of Visual Art Research Degree. She has held positions, on a part-time basis as Chair MVA Studio, and Acting Program Director (formerly Course Coordinator) of the Masters of Visual Art Coursework Degree during 1994-2000. Educated at Cranbrook Academy of Art, USA and in Australia with additional study/studio work in Italy, Spain, Canada and the Philippines. Since 1982 she has shown in national and international exhibitions in printmaking, paperworks and more recently digital works. Since 1992 she has worked in installation with text and sound and created siteworks in buildings and vacant spaces. The Silent Project, ongoing, neon.

Marea is a member of three research groups and is currently working toward a project for the INSAP V . She has recently completed 3 projects for The Inspiration of Astronomical Phenomena, an art and astronomy conference in Oxford in 2003 where she was invited to participate and exhibit at the Oxford University Museum. At the conference she also presented The Space Project 2, interpretations of space from the South Australian School of Art Printmaking Studio.

Marea has attended INSAP 11, 111 and 1V with astronomy-art projects which have included Reflections from Elsewhere, that explored light and dark based on installational works of artificial, visual/sound environments, which inhabited vacant rooms and spaces investigating time, light and the semblance of nature, to evoke a sense of nature that is carried in the imagination. Liquid Space, a research project with a series of digital prints explored the inter-relationship between land and sky in the links between art, nature and astronomy, with a paper that uncovered the connections between wine and space. The third project, explored interpretations between art and space in the work of Lucio Fontana, responding with a body of artworks entitled The Shard Series, 2003. The Shard Series, work in progress, to be exhibited at the Oxford University Museum, in the travelling exhibition entitled The Sublime Metaphor, 2003-2004. Photo credits Michal Kluvanek.

Since 1997 Marea with her students from the Printmaking Studio, has created inclusive, international print projects exploring the themes of, travel, peace, sound, text, astronomy, mail art, visual art, wine and gastronomy, etc, approximately 250 prints have been exhibited in England, Europe and USA.

• 2003 Printmaking Studio Exhibition Project, Marea has curated an exhibition project for the Inspiration of Astronomical Phenomena Conference at Magdalen College and at the University Museum in Oxford, August, 2003. The Space Project 2 featured students' work from the Etching and Intaglio Course, Printmaking Studio, exploring interpretations on and about space and the relationship between printmaking art and astronomy. Graduate Qualities # 1, 2, 3, 6 & 7.
• 2001 Printmaking Studio Exhibition Projects, Marea has curated 2 exhibition projects for the Inspiration of Astronomical Phenomena Conference in Italy in January, 2001. 1, The Space Project featured 17 students' work from the Printmaking Studio exploring the individual notions of space. Project 2. La Dolce Vita an exhibition of 40 works from the Printmaking Studio, exploring the influences between art, wine, food, Australia and Italy. Graduate Qualities # 1, 3, 6 & 7.

Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia

ANAT - Australian Network for Art and Technology

Experimental Art Foundation

World Forum for Acoustic Ecology

Masters of Fine Art Cranbrook Academy of Art, MI, USA.

Diploma of Fine Art Adelaide College of Art and Education

Diploma of Design Torrens College of Advanced Education

Artwork is held in the following collections: Brooklyn Museum, NY, USA. Bureau of Art Exhibitions, Lodz, Poland. Cabo Frio International Print Collection, RJ, Brazil. Chesterton Art Gallery, IN, USA. City of Banyule Council Collection, Vic. Cranbrook Museum, MI, USA. Denmark Postal Museum, Copenhagen. Denmark. Detroit Institute of Art,MI, USA. Kornhaus Museum, Bern, Switzerland. Laredo College Library, TX, USA. Lefebvre Collection, Sydney,NSW. George Paton Gallery, University of Melbourne, Vic. Mint Museum of Fine Art, NC, USA. Mornington Peninsular Arts Centre, Vic. National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, ACT. Print Council of Australia Archives, Vic. Peace Museum, Chicago, IL, USA. Sherman Library, CT, USA. Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart, Tas. Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, USA, and numerous international corporate collections

I am able to provide media comment in the following areas of expertise:

Discipline: Visual Art Printmaking

• Setting up Wine Art Prizes
• Curator of Wine Art exhibitions in printmaking
• Curator of Printmaking exhibitions
• Wine art research
• Curator of Art and astronomy exhibitions