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Brigita Ozolins
Brigita Ozolins
Senior Lecturer in Fine Arts
Art | School of Creative Arts and Media
Room 1.7 , Centre for the Arts
Dr Brigita Ozolins is a Senior Lecturer in Fine Art in the School of Creative Arts and Media. She is best know for her large-scale installations that explore our relationship to language, history, literature and codification.
Biography
Brigita completed a BA at Monash University majoring in the classics. After moving to Hobart in 1983, she studied librarianship at the University of Tasmania. She subsequently worked for the State Library of Tasmania and for Glenorchy City Council as an arts administrator where she established the Moonah Arts Centre. In the mid 1990s, Brigita returned to study at the University of Tasmania's School of Art. She was awarded the University Medal and an APA scholarship in 1999, and her PhD, completed in 2004, was awarded the Dean's commendation. Brigita began sessional teaching at the University in 2000. She is now a Senior Lecturer and supervises postgraduates as well teaching undergraduates. She has undertaken a range of administrative roles, including First Year Art Theory Coordinator, Chair of the Plimsoll Gallery and Art Forum Committees, Honours Coordinator, and Learning and Teaching Coordinator. Brigita is actively engaged in the wider arts community, regularly opening exhibitions, giving public presentations, and supporting the arts sector as a Peer Assessor.
Career summary
Qualifications
Degree | Thesis title | University | Country | Awarded |
PhD | Searching for the subject: new narratives through installation. | University of Tasmania | Australia | 2004 |
BFA (Hons) | University of Tasmania | Australia | 1999 | |
BFA | University of Tasmania | Australia | 1998 | |
Grad Dip Lib | University of Tasmania | Australia | 1984 | |
BA | Monash University | Australia | 1980 |
Languages (other than English)
Latvian
Memberships
Professional practice
Contemporary Art Tasmania
Committee associations
Arts Tasmania and Australia Council for the Arts Peer Assessor
Administrative expertise
Brigita has extensive experience managing large-scale art projects associated with her research. At the School of Creative Arts and Media she has undertaken various administrative roles, including Learning and Teaching Coordinator, Course Coordinator, and chair of the Plimsoll Gallery, Art Forum and Rosamond McCulloch Studio Residency Committees.
Teaching
Critical Practices in Art, Art Theory, Modernism, Post modernism, Installation Art, Performance, Australian Contemporary Art, Contemporary Art of the Asia Pacific Region, Professional Practice for Artists.
Teaching expertise
Since 2000, Brigita has been involved in the teaching and coordination of 20 different core and elective units across critical practices in art, art theory, studio, professional practice and complementary studies, including taking undergraduates on field trips to Indonesia and the Asia Pacific Triennials at the Queensland Art Gallery. Her particular areas of expertise are Contemporary Australian and Asian art, and installation art practice.
Teaching responsibility
FSA123 Critical Practices in Art: Manifestos https://www.utas.edu.au/courses/cale/units/fsa123-critical-practices-in-art-manifestos?year=2020
FSA222 Critical Practices in Art: Writing https://www.utas.edu.au/courses/cale/units/fsa222-critical-practices-in-art-writing?year=2020
Brigita also gives guest lectures in other units.
View more on Dr Brigita Ozolins in WARP
Expertise
Brigita's research is concerned with visually exploring the paradoxical nature of the relationships between language, history, literature, bureaucracy and codification, principally through installation, performance and digital media. Her art practice harks back to the conceptual art movement of the 1960s and has developed through an engagement with post-structural theory and literature. Her projects have become increasingly complex and cross-disciplinary, often involving collaboration with other experts such as sound engineers, builders, animators and architects. All of her projects aim to challenge perceptions about our relationship to language and the histories and systems that govern our lives, and contribute to a field of contemporary art practice concerned with similar ideas. Brigita has a growing national and international reputation for creative work in this field, particularly projects that are directly associated with literature and libraries.
Research Themes
Brigita's research aligns with University's theme of Creativity, Culture and Society. It is concerned with visually exploring the paradoxical nature of the relationships between language, history, bureaucracy and identity, themes that stem from her interests in the symbolism of the book, the word and the library. To convey her ideas, Brigita uses a wide range of materials including books, handwriting, video, digital imagery, sound, furniture and signwriter's vinyl. Her work usually takes the form of installation, is often text-based and site-specific, and sometimes incorporates ritualistic writing performances. Brigita's art practice harks back to the conceptual art movement of the 1960s and has developed through an engagement with post-structural theory and literature. The key idea informing her work is that language is a powerful cultural and social tool that both shapes and restricts who and what we are and how we think. It is this inherently paradoxical relationship to language that underlies the focus of Brigita's research and experimentation in the studio. As a result, her art projects often create environments that offer a series of opposing experiences: the obvious versus the mysterious, beauty versus anxiety and the simultaneous promise and denial of meaning. One stream of Brigita's work focuses on the aesthetics of the book and the ambiguity of the word, as in Oracle (2020), A Tasmanian Reading Room (2019), The Secretary (2017) and Graphos (2016); another reflects her interest in the way bureaucracy manages information and manipulates the individual, as in Secure Content (2004), the series of installations that comprised her PhD submission, and many recent projects have explored the links between writing, mystery and codification, as in The Learning (2019), Kryptos (2011) and Codex (2009). Alongside these explorations Brigita also creates work about lesser-known aspects of Tasmanian, Latvian and other histories, as in Grimstone and Savery: Australia's first novelists (2012) and Celojums/The Journey (2010). All of Brigita's projects aim to challenge perceptions about our relationship to language and the histories and systems that govern our lives, and contribute to a field of contemporary art practice concerned with similar ideas, particularly projects that are directly associated with literature and libraries. All the works referred to can be viewed on Brigita's website: http://brigitaozolins.com/ |
Collaboration
Brigita regularly works with musicians, designers, writers, engineers and architects on many of her large scale projects. She has worked with Professor Ralph Crane (past head of English in the School of Humanities), The Tasmanian Archive and Heritage Office and Roar Film to develop prototypes of rich media editions of Australia's first novels. She has worked with renowned pianist, Michael Kieren Harvey and poet Arjun von Caemmerer to develop a set design for a performance at MONA for MOFO. She was team leader for a collaborative project with Liminal Studio and Inspiring Place, being shortlisted to develop a design for Immigration Place in the Parliamentary Triangle in Canberra, and also worked with P-LAB collective for the Hobart Town Hall 150 Design Award.
Awards
Brigita has received numerous grants from the Australia Council and Arts Tasmania, and was an inaugural recipient of the 2008 Qantas Contemporary Art Award. She has undertaken residencies in New York, Paris, London, Riga, and historic sites in Tasmania. She has completed commissions for the Tasmanian Musuem and Art Gallery, MONA (Museum of Old and New Art), the State Library of Tasmania, the Soros Foundation Latvia, Dark MOFO, MOFO, Ten Days on the Island and Detached Cultural Organisation.
Current projects
Brigita recently completed a major site-specific work on the theme of language and liberty for Hobart Current, the inaugural city of Hobart and Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery Biennale, which will opened in March 2021. To find out more, follow this link: https://hobartcurrent.com/liberty-2020/ or brigitaozolins.com/my-voice-2021
Fields of Research
- Fine arts (360602)
- Performance art (360603)
- Visual cultures (360104)
- Art theory (360103)
- Australian literature (excl. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander literature) (470502)
- Visual arts (360699)
- Art history, theory and criticism (360199)
- Other creative arts and writing (369999)
- Heritage, archive and museum studies (430299)
- Interactive media (360504)
Research Objectives
- The creative arts (130103)
- Expanding knowledge in creative arts and writing studies (280122)
- Understanding Europe's past (130704)
- Understanding Australia's past (130703)
- Communication (130299)
- Literature (130203)
Publications
Brigita has been exhibiting regularly since the late 1990s. Her best known publications include Kryptos (2011), a large scale permanent installation built into MONA that juxtaposes binary code with cuneiform artifacts from David Walsh's collection, and The Reading Room (2011) an installation commissioned by the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery that incorporated 30,000 discarded books and videos of over 100 Tasmanians reading a passage from a favourite book. Highlights of other significant research outcomes include A Tasmanian Reading Room (2019), a architectural installation that features 2,000 books about Tasmania in a Tardis like library, commissioned by Detached Cultural Organisation and exhibited during Dark MOFO in 2019; 2 additional commissions for MONA (2012, 2013), 2 site-specific installations for the windows of the National Library of Latvia (2007) commissioned by the Soros Foundation for its 15th birthday celebrations, and a solo installation in the Allport Library and Museum of Fine Arts (2012) that explored the lives of Australia's two first novelists for the first time through visual art. These examples offer a small cross-section from almost 50 solo and group exhibitions and commissions.
Brigita has also curated several exhibitions, including An Archival Impulse (2011) which featured renowned international artists Susan Hiller and Brook Andrew, and Parallel (2008), which toured to 12 interstate venues and was the subject of the feature story in the March 2009 edition of Australian Art Monthly.
Total publications
77
Highlighted publications
(10 outputs)| Year | Type | Citation | Altmetrics |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | Major Creative Work | Ozolins B, 'A Tasmanian Reading Room', Detached Cultural Organisation, Detached Artist Archive Hobart, The Old Mercury Building, Tasmania (2019) [Published Creative Work] | |
| 2018 | Chapter in Book | Ozolins B, 'Julie Gough: the art and culture of collecting', Fugitive history: the art of Julie Gough, UWA Publishing, Julie Gough (ed), Crawley, pp. 67-75. ISBN 9781742585581 (2018) [Research Book Chapter] | |
| 2016 | Major Creative Work | Ozolins B, 'Graphos', MONA: Museum of Old and New Art, MONA: Museum of Old and New Art, Berriedale, Tasmania, 1 (2016) [Published Creative Work] | |
| 2014 | Major Creative Work | Ozolins BT, 'The Secretary', SASA Gallery University of South Australia & Hawke Research Institute, SASA Gallery University of South Australia, 1 (2014) [Published Creative Work] | |
| 2013 | Major Creative Work | Ozolins BT, 'Moira', Museum of Old and New Art (MONA), MONA, Berriedale, Tasmania (2013) [Published Creative Work] | |
| 2012 | Major Creative Work | Ozolins B, 'Grimstone & Savery: Australia's first Novelists', Allport Library and Museum of Fine Arts Gallery, Tasmanian Archive and Heritage Office, Allport Library and Museum of Fine Arts Gallery, Tasmanian Archive and Heritage Office, Hobart, Unique state (2012) [Published Creative Work] | |
| 2011 | Major Creative Work | Ozolins BT, 'The Reading Room: Star/Dust', Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery / Detached, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart, 1 (2011) [Published Creative Work] | |
| 2011 | Major Creative Work | Ozolins BT, 'Kryptos', Museum of Old and New Art (MONA), MONA, Berriedale, Tasmania, Unique state (2011) [Published Creative Work] | |
| 2007 | Major Creative Work | Ozolins BT, 'Spogulis (Mirror)', The Soros Foundation, Riga, Latvia (2007) [Published Creative Work] | |
| 2004 | Thesis | Ozolins BT, 'Searching for the subject: new narratives through installation' (2004) [PhD] |
Book
(1 outputs)| Year | Citation | Altmetrics |
|---|---|---|
| 2008 | Ozolins BT, 'Parallel', Salamanca Arts Centre, Hobart, pp. 48. ISBN 978-0-646-49783-9 (2008) [Authored Research Book] |
Chapter in Book
(4 outputs)| Year | Citation | Altmetrics |
|---|---|---|
| 2018 | Ozolins B, 'Julie Gough: the art and culture of collecting', Fugitive history: the art of Julie Gough, UWA Publishing, Julie Gough (ed), Crawley, pp. 67-75. ISBN 9781742585581 (2018) [Research Book Chapter] | |
| 2006 | Ozolins BT, 'transfer, copy, print, transport', Transport: Contemporary Print Media in Tasmania, Salamanca Arts Centre, Miller, Rosemary (ed), Hobart, Tasmania, pp. 5-7. ISBN 0958174547 (2006) [Research Book Chapter] | |
| 2005 | Ozolins BT, 'Diary Extracts: December, 2001 - March, 2002', London: Looking East, Plimsoll Gallery, University of Tasmania, Jonathan Holmes (ed), Hobart, pp. 34-39. ISBN 1-86295-272-2 (2005) [Research Book Chapter] | |
| 2001 | Hobba L, Ozolins BT, 'How do you frame a minute', So many things can happen in one minute, Plimsoll Gallery, Nathalie deBriey (ed), Hobart, pp. 9-10. ISBN 085901 962 4 (2001) [Other Book Chapter] Co-authors: Hobba L |
Conference Publication
(7 outputs)| Year | Citation | Altmetrics |
|---|---|---|
| 2016 | Ozolins B, 'Grimstone & Savery: reviving the work of Australia's first novelists', Forgotten Books and Cultural Memory Conference, 26-28 May, Tiawan, pp. 1-13. (2016) [Plenary Presentation] | |
| 2012 | Ozolins BT, Beale JK, 'Read: using art to transform the Carington smith Art Library', Conference proceedings, 6- ‐8 September 2012, National Gallery of Victoria (2012) [Non Refereed Conference Paper] Co-authors: Beale JK | |
| 2010 | Ozolins BT, 'The Journey: the Archive, Narrative, Truth and Identity', ACUADS 2010 Annual Conference, 1-3 September 2010, Launceston, Tasmania (2010) [Non Refereed Conference Paper] | |
| 2007 | Ozolins BT, 'Truth, History and Transformation', Revelation: installation art and its capacity to interpret and elaborate places of historical significance, 26-27 March 2007, Tasmanian School of Art, Hobart, pp. 5. (2007) [Refereed Conference Paper] | |
| 2005 | Ozolins BT, 'Making art for libraries', Claiming Ground Public Art Conference, 29-30 August 2005, Hobart, Tasmania, pp. online. (2005) [Non Refereed Conference Paper] | |
| 2003 | Ozolins BT, 'Installation: Strategy or Style', Survey: Current art and design research and practice within Australian tertiary art and design schools, 1 - 4 October 2003, Tasmanian School of Art, University of Tasmania EJ (2003) [Refereed Conference Paper] | |
| 2002 | Ozolins BT, 'Are You Thinking What I am Thinking', John Curtin Gallery, 1st August 2002, Perth, pp. 48. ISBN 1 74067 158 9 (2002) [Conference Edited] |
Design
(2 outputs)| Year | Citation | Altmetrics |
|---|---|---|
| 2016 | Ozolins BT, 'Noiheena: peace justice healing', Plimsoll Gallery, Centre for the Arts (2016) [Refereed Designs] | |
| 2015 | Ozolins B, Hefferenan P, Brienese E, Allen T, de Gryse G, 'Immigration Place Australia: Leaving crossing arriving becoming', National Archives of Australia, Canberra, and the Immigration Place Australia website, Immigration Place Australia, Canberra (2015) [Refereed Designs] |
Major Creative Work
(49 outputs)| Year | Citation | Altmetrics |
|---|---|---|
| 2019 | Ozolins B, 'A Tasmanian Reading Room', Detached Cultural Organisation, Detached Artist Archive Hobart, The Old Mercury Building, Tasmania (2019) [Published Creative Work] | |
| 2019 | Ozolins B, 'The Learning', Bett Gallery, Hobart, Tasmania (2019) [Published Creative Work] | |
| 2018 | Ozolins B, Harvey MK, von Caemmerer A, 'The Green Brain Cycle', MOFO and the Museum of Old and New Art, Pulse Gallery, MONA, Berriedale, Tasmania (2018) [Published Creative Work] | |
| 2017 | Ozolins B, 'BAC Brighton Army Camp', Ten Days on the Island, Brighton Army Camp, Brighton, Tasmania (2017) [Published Creative Work] | |
| 2017 | Ozolins B, 'Death Mask', Dark MOFO, Narryna Heritage Museum, Hampden Road, Battery Point, Tasmania (2017) [Published Creative Work] | |
| 2017 | Ozolins BT, 'Unity II', Sydney Contemporary and Bett Gallery, Carriage Works, Redfern, Sydney (2017) [Published Creative Work] | |
| 2017 | Ozolins BT, 'The Secretary', Lake Macquarie City Art Gallery, Lake Macquarie City Art Gallery, NSW (2017) [Other Exhibition] | |
| 2016 | Ozolins B, 'The Black Tulip', Tasmanian Archive and Heritage Office, Allport Library and Museum of Fine Arts, 1 (2016) [Published Creative Work] | |
| 2016 | Ozolins B, 'Graphos', MONA: Museum of Old and New Art, MONA: Museum of Old and New Art, Berriedale, Tasmania, 1 (2016) [Published Creative Work] | |
| 2016 | Ozolins B, 'Unity', Bett Gallery, North Hobart, Tasmania, Bett Gallery, North Hobart, Tasmania, 1 (2016) [Published Creative Work] | |
| 2016 | Ozolins BT, 'Tree', Gippsland Art Gallery, Gippsland Art Gallery (2016) [Other Exhibition] | |
| 2014 | Ozolins BT, 'The Secretary', SASA Gallery University of South Australia & Hawke Research Institute, SASA Gallery University of South Australia, 1 (2014) [Published Creative Work] | |
| 2013 | Ozolins B, 'The Library', Domain House, Queens Domain, Hobart (2013) [Published Creative Work] | |
| 2013 | Ozolins BT, 'Moira', Museum of Old and New Art (MONA), MONA, Berriedale, Tasmania (2013) [Published Creative Work] | |
| 2013 | Ozolins BT, 'In the beginning', Plimsoll Gallery, Tasmanian College of the Arts, Hobart (2013) [Published Creative Work] | |
| 2012 | Ozolins B, 'Grimstone & Savery: Australia's first Novelists', Allport Library and Museum of Fine Arts Gallery, Tasmanian Archive and Heritage Office, Allport Library and Museum of Fine Arts Gallery, Tasmanian Archive and Heritage Office, Hobart, Unique state (2012) [Published Creative Work] | |
| 2012 | Ozolins BT, 'Read', Carington Smith Art Library, University of Tasmania, Unique state (2012) [Published Creative Work] | |
| 2012 | Ozolins BT, 'The Chapel', MONA (Museum of Old and New Art), Berridale, Tasmania, unique state. (2012) [Published Creative Work] | |
| 2011 | Ozolins BT, 'The Reading Room: Star/Dust', Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery / Detached, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart, 1 (2011) [Published Creative Work] | |
| 2011 | Ozolins BT, 'A longing for connection', Plimsoll Gallery , Hobart, Tasmania, 1, pp. 2-5 (2011) [Published Creative Work] | |
| 2011 | Ozolins BT, 'Kryptos', Museum of Old and New Art (MONA), MONA, Berriedale, Tasmania, Unique state (2011) [Published Creative Work] | |
| 2011 | Ozolins BT, Frost RE, Redmond E, 'an archival impulse', Plimsoll Gallery, Hobart, Tasmania, pp. 40 (2011) [Curated Exhibition] Co-authors: Frost RE; Redmond E | |
| 2010 | Ozolins BT, 'Celojums/The Journey', National Library of Latvia, Exhibition Rooms, National Library of Latvia, Riga, 1 (2010) [Published Creative Work] | |
| 2010 | Ozolins BT, 'Competing Histories [in Rivers Run, ed. Janette Laver]', Cairns Regional Gallery, Cairns Regional Gallery, Queensland (2010) [Published Creative Work] | |
| 2010 | Ozolins BT, '10 x 100 Words on Conceptual Art [in Conceptual, ed. Colin Langridge]', Contemporary Art Spaces Tasmania, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia, 1, pp. 7-9 (2010) [Published Creative Work] | |
| 2009 | Ozolins BT, 'Codex', Hobart City Council, Carnegie Gallery, Hobart (2009) [Published Creative Work] | |
| 2008 | Ozolins BT, 'Orb: Deep Water: The Truth: Clouds: Stain', Plimsoll Gallery, Hobart (2008) [Published Creative Work] | |
| 2007 | Ozolins BT, 'Spogulis (Mirror)', The Soros Foundation, Riga, Latvia (2007) [Published Creative Work] | |
| 2007 | Ozolins BT, 'The Truth Shall Make You Free', Port Arthur Project, Port Arthur Historic Site (2007) [Published Creative Work] | |
| 2006 | Ozolins BT, 'The Gorge', Design Centre, Launceston, Launceston, Tasmania (2006) [Published Creative Work] | |
| 2006 | Ozolins BT, 'Still as, Read, Don't let it slip', Long Gallery, Salamanca Arts Centre, Hobart, pp. 3 (2006) [Published Creative Work] | |
| 2006 | Ozolins BT, 'On the edge', Brigita Ozolins and the Design Centre, Launceston, Tasmania, pp. 43 (2006) [Published Creative Work] | |
| 2005 | Ozolins BT, 'Look On', Acidophilus: Live Culture Colonised at the TMAG, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart (2005) [Published Creative Work] | |
| 2005 | Ozolins BT, 'In the beginning', A Beating Heart, Devonport Regional Gallery, Tasmania (2005) [Published Creative Work] | |
| 2005 | Ozolins BT, '3m per hour', Resonator, Long Gallery, Hobart, Tasmania (2005) [Published Creative Work] | |
| 2005 | Ozolins BT, 'I know where I come from, I know where I'm going, I know who I am', London: looking east, Plimsoll Gallery, Hobart, Tasmania (2005) [Published Creative Work] | |
| 2005 | Ozolins BT, '6,376', London: looking east, Plimsoll Gallery, Hobart, Tasmania (2005) [Published Creative Work] | |
| 2004 | Ozolins BT, 'Second sight: the vision of Roland Pope', Look: artists and society, Newcastle Region Art Gallery (2004) [Published Creative Work] | |
| 2003 | Ozolins BT, 'The Library', Contemporary Art Services Tasmania, CAST Gallery, Hobart, 1, pp. 52 (2003) [Published Creative Work] | |
| 2003 | Ozolins BT, 'Content (#2)', University of Tasmania, Tasmania, pp. Installation (2003) [Published Creative Work] | |
| 2003 | Ozolins BT, 'Living History', State Library of Tasmania, Hobart, pp. Installation (2003) [Published Creative Work] | |
| 2003 | Ozolins BT, Kunda M, 'The Library: Brigita Ozolins', CAST, Australia, 1, pp. 52 (2003) [Published Creative Work] Co-authors: Kunda M | |
| 2002 | Ozolins BT, 'Inhabitation', Seven Warehouses, Long Gallery, Hobart, Tasmania (2002) [Published Creative Work] | |
| 2001 | Ozolins BT, 'Touching From A Distance (I don't want to talk about it)', Touching from a distance: a Hobart and Perth excha, Moores Building, Fremantle, WA, and Foyer, Hobart (2001) [Curated Exhibition] | |
| 2001 | Ozolins BT, 'Voice', State Library of Tasmania, Hobart, Tasmania (2001) [Curated Exhibition] | |
| 2001 | Ozolins BT, 'I have my work cut out for me', Linden Centre for Contemporary Arts, Melbourne, Australia (2001) [Curated Exhibition] | |
| 2001 | Ozolins BT, 'Are you thinking what I'm thinking?', Figure It, Plimsoll Gallery, Hobart, Tasmania (2001) [Curated Exhibition] | |
| 2000 | Ozolins BT, 'Now I lay me down to sleep', 6=9, CAST Gallery, Hobart (2000) [Curated Exhibition] | |
| 2000 | Ozolins BT, 'Don't let it slip', 6=9, CAST Gallery, Hobart (2000) [Curated Exhibition] |
Other Creative Work
(3 outputs)| Year | Citation | Altmetrics |
|---|---|---|
| 2019 | Ozolins B, 'Important Idea', Palazzo in Venice, Italy, and Grau Projekt Gallery in Melbourne, Victoria (2019) [Minor Creative Work] | |
| 2012 | Ozolins B, 'Grimstone & Savery: Australia's first Novelists', Tasmanian Archive and Heritage Office; B Ozolins, Hobart, pp. 22 (2012) [Catalogue] | |
| 2007 | Ozolins BT, 'The 2007 Hobart Art Prize Catalogue Essay', Hobart City Council, Hobart, pp. 10 pages (2007) [Catalogue] |
Thesis
(1 outputs)| Year | Citation | Altmetrics |
|---|---|---|
| 2004 | Ozolins BT, 'Searching for the subject: new narratives through installation' (2004) [PhD] |
Other Public Output
(10 outputs)| Year | Citation | Altmetrics |
|---|---|---|
| 2017 | Ozolins BT, 'Death Mask by Brigita Ozolins: Book and Arts interview with Michael Cathcart', ABC Radio National, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Hobart, Tasmania, 9 June 2017 (2017) [Media Interview] | |
| 2016 | Ozolins B, 'Does our Biology drive us to create art?', Michael Cathcart on Books and Arts Daily, ABC National Radio, Hobart, Nov 7 (2016) [Media Interview] | |
| 2012 | Ozolins B, 'Cate Kennedy and The Reading Room', Books and Arts Daily with Michael Cathcart and Cate Kennedy, ABC Radio National, Hobart, 27 March 2012 (2012) [Media Interview] | |
| 2012 | Ozolins BT, 'Australia Council Overseas Residency Grant for the New York Studio in Greene Street, Soho' (2012) [Award] | |
| 2012 | Ozolins BT, 'Grimstone and Savery' (2012) [Award] | |
| 2011 | Ozolins BT, 'The Reading Room', Island, Island Magazine, Sandy Bay, TAS, 127, pp. 51-53. (2011) [Magazine Article] | |
| 2011 | Ozolins BT, 'Interview', dasSUPERPAPER, Rococo Productions, 21, pp. 16-18. (2011) [Magazine Article] | |
| 2008 | Ozolins BT, 'Inaugural QANTAS Contemporary Art Award' (2008) [Award] | |
| 2005 | Ozolins BT, 'Dean's Commendation for Outstanding Doctoral Thesis' (2005) [Award] | |
| 2003 | Ozolins BT, 'Pat Corrigan Artist Grant', Catalogue support, Pat Corrigan, Gold Coast, Queensland (2003) [Award] |
Grants & Funding
Brigita's reputation as an established visual artist in her field is reinforced through the numerous grants she successfully been awarded from highly competitive local, national and international sources, in particular the Australia Council, the arts industry's premier Commonwealth funding institution. Her major grants total over $250,000 in government and private funding and include: City of Hobart & Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery Hobart Current Commission ($15,000); Australia Council for the Arts residencies in London and New York, and a New Work Grant ($40,000); 2 Arts Tasmania residencies and 2 project grants ($15,500); 3 MONA commissions ($143,000); University of Tasmania Research Enhancement Grant Scheme and New Appointee Research Grants ($15,171); a Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery commission ($20,000); a Soros Foundation Latvia commission ($8,000), and a State Library of Tasmania commission ($13,000). In 2008, Brigita was the inaugural Qantas Contemporary Art Award recipient for Tasmania ($30,000). This award was a peer selected nomination and the judging panel included Elizabeth Anne McGregor, Director of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney.
Funding Summary
Number of grants
11
Total funding
Projects
- Funding
- University of Tasmania ($14,000)
- Scheme
- Grant-Research Enhancement (REGS)
- Administered By
- University of Tasmania
- Research Team
- Ozolins BT
- Year
- 2014
- Funding
- University of Tasmania ($1,171)
- Scheme
- Grant-New Appointees Research Grant Scheme (NARGS)
- Administered By
- University of Tasmania
- Research Team
- Ozolins BT
- Year
- 2010
- Funding
- Australia Council ($20,000)
- Scheme
- Australia Council New Work Grant
- Administered By
- Australia Council
- Research Team
- Year
- 2007
- Funding
- Arts Tasmania ($2,500)
- Scheme
- Arts Tasmania Cultural Residency
- Administered By
- Port Arthur Historic Site
- Research Team
- Year
- 2007
- Funding
- Arts Tasmania ($5,000)
- Scheme
- Arts Tasmanian Project Grant
- Administered By
- The Design Centre, Launceston
- Research Team
- Year
- 2006
- Funding
- Contemporary Art Services Tasmania ($2,130)
- Scheme
- Exhibition Development Fund
- Administered By
- Salamanca Arts Centre
- Research Team
- Year
- 2006
- Funding
- Arts Tasmania ($5,000)
- Scheme
- Arts Tasmania Cultural Residency
- Administered By
- Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery
- Research Team
- Year
- 2005
- Funding
- Arts Tasmania ($3,000)
- Scheme
- Arts Tasmania Project Grant
- Administered By
- Contemporary Art Services Tasmania
- Research Team
- Year
- 2003
- Funding
- Pat Corrigan/National Association of Visual Artists ($500)
- Scheme
- Pat Corrigan Artist Grant
- Administered By
- Contemporary Art Services Tasmania
- Research Team
- Year
- 2003
- Funding
- Australia Council ($10,000)
- Scheme
- Australia Council London Studio Residency
- Administered By
- Australia Council/Acme Studios
- Research Team
- Year
- 2001
- Funding
- State Library of Tasmania ($13,000)
- Scheme
- Commission
- Administered By
- State Library of Tasmania
- Research Team
- Year
- 2001
Research Supervision
Since commencing Research Higher Degree supervision in 2008, Brigita has overseen 10 completions (6 PhDs and 4 MFAs) and is currently primary supervisor for 1 PhD candidate and co-supervisor of another. She is particularly interested in supervising candidates whose work is installation based, who work across disciplines, and who visually and theoretically explore themes associated with history, memory, language and cultural displacement.
Current
2
Completed
10
Current
| Degree | Title | Commenced |
|---|---|---|
| PhD | Re-envisioning the Master Narrative of Anzac: A painterly investigation of memory and memorialising of the Great War at the Australian War Memorial | 2017 |
| PhD | Redefining the Regions: the case for a new public art in regional Australia | 2018 |
Completed
| Degree | Title | Completed |
|---|---|---|
| PhD | Breaching Borders: An investigation into painting the news Candidate: Tania Jane Price | 2019 |
| PhD | Memory Stitches: A painterly exploration of migratory dowry Candidate: Elizabeth Joan Gray | 2018 |
| PhD | Beautiful, Dead, Dissected: The dismembered female body in artistic representation Candidate: Neil Graham Holmstrom | 2017 |
| Masters | 'Unsettling Space: Trauma and Architecture in Contemporary Art' Candidate: Eliza Kate Burke | 2015 |
| PhD | Imagined Portraits: Reviving Figures from Australia's Past Candidate: Amy Elizabeth Jackett | 2013 |
| PhD | The Museum as Art: Site-specific Art in Australia's Public Museums Candidate: Lucy Emma Hawthorne | 2013 |
| Masters | Family Album: A Photo-media Investigation of the Global Family Candidate: Elisabeth Johanna Redmond | 2013 |
| Masters | The Urge to Appropriate: Internalising Appropriation Through Hybrid Studio Practice Candidate: Scott Denis Cotterell | 2012 |
| Masters | Energy, Air and Climate Change: A New Sculptural Language Candidate: Michael Neil Singe | 2011 |
| PhD | Nocturnal Phenomena: An Investigation in Print and Installation Candidate: Iona Elizabeth Johnson | 2011 |