Bronwyn Calcutt is a multi-disciplinary artist whose practice traverses music, visual art and performance.
Originally trained in architectural design and music, her work over forty years has embraced musical direction, set design and playwriting for professional theatre companies, performing one-woman shows that have toured nationally, production of albums of original music, and the formation and direction of community choirs.
Currently completing a Master of Fine Art at RMIT, her most recent work aims to open hybrid spaces in which the languages of music and painting can interact and enrich each other. Having shown in several Melbourne group shows in recent years, her first Melbourne solo exhibition is at Montsalvat Residents Gallery in September 2023.
Websites:
montsalvat.com.au
https://sites.rmit.edu.au/artschoolgraduates/?p=15823
shakingthetreechoir.com
facebook.com/ExpressiveWomensChoir
instagram.com/calcuttbronwyn/
| QUALIFICATIONS AND TRAINING | |
| 2021-23 | Master of Fine Art, RMIT researching relational aesthetics and the interpenetration of music and visual art practice |
| 2018-20 | Advanced Diploma of Visual Art, Latrobe College of Art and Design, Collingwood |
| 2017 | Create course at NCAT, Melbourne (Cert 3 in Visual Arts) |
| 1999 | Graduate Diploma in Direction (Animateuring) VCA, Melbourne |
| 1978 | Bachelor of Science (Arch.) Faculty of Architecture, University of Sydney |
| SOLO EXHIBITIONS | |
| 2023 | Montsalvat Residents Gallery – The Pianola Collection |
| 1985 | Adelaide Festival Centre Artspace – The Cupboard Conspiracy |
| GROUP EXHIBITIONS | |
| 2023 | Experimental Print Prize, Castlemaine Art Museum |
| 2021/23 | Darebin Art Salon, Bundoora Homestead |
| 2021/22 | Multicultural Art Challenge – Footscray Arts Centre – finalist |
| 2018 | Bob Brown Foundation Tarkine in Motion Art Exhibition, ACU Gallery |
| 2017 | NCAT Create Graduate Art Exhibition, Neon Park Gallery |
| GRANTS AND AWARDS | |
| 2023 | Finalist in the 2023 Experimental Print Prize, Castlemaine Art Museum |
| 2020-22 | Finalist in Australian Multicultural Community Services Anti-ageism Art Challenge |
| 2005 | Received an International Women’s Day Award for enhancing women’s health through singing |
| 2004 | Received Australia Council project grants for Women of the Broken Circle and Skeleton Woman |
| 2003 | Selected by Robyn Archer to showcase Disenchantment, National Festival of Theatre, Canberra |
| 1994 | Received a Music Grant from the Australia Council for The Three Shielas project |
| 1980 | Awarded a Drama Fellowship at the Seymour Centre, Sydney, to devise new works in theatre |
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