Suzanne Phoenix: photographer, artist, zine and book maker

0438 780 911 [email protected] https://suzannephoenix.com/

Awards

2021 Living Memory: National Photographic Portrait Prize Finalist 2021 Listed in Best Antipodean Photobooks 2021 2018 Honourable Mention - Picturing Footscray 2015 Winner - Upper Yarra Visage Photographic Portrait 2014 Finalist ‘Snapped – by the Water’

Exhibitions

2021 Memory Lane - Midsumma and Metro Tunnel Creative Program (group) 2021 Soundscape - YAVA (group) 2020 Isolation Portraits - Community exhibitions in Upper Yarra business windows 2020 International Women’s Day: Live Loud Now - Hares and Hyenas, Fitzroy 2020 Double Trouble, Unexposed Collective - Bondi Beach, Sydney Head On (group) 2019 Loud and Luminous - Contact Sheet, Sydney (group) 2019 What Does International Women’s Day Mean to Me? - Laneway, Fitzroy 2019 Seen and Heard, Brunswick Music Festival - Mechanica, Brunswick (group) 2018 Picturing Footscray - VU at MetroWest, Footscray (group) 2018 What Does International Women’s Day Mean to Me? – Fitzroy Laneway 2018 Loud and Luminous - Brunswick Street Gallery (group) 2018 Unseen Lilydale - Yarra Ranges Regional Museum (group) 2018 Suburban Autos - Nancy’s of the Valley, Yarra Junction 2017 What Does International Women’s Day Mean to Me? - Fitzroy Laneway / Warburton 2015 Visage Portrait, Upper Yarra Arts Centre Warburton (group) 2015 Yarra Valley in Black and White - Solo exhibition at Round Bird Can’t Fly 2014 Suburban Autos - Solo exhibition at Upper Yarra Arts Centre, Warburton and at Red Earth Gallery, Mooroolbark 2014 Abandoned Brunswick - Solo exhibition at Ruby’s Nest, Brunswick 2014 Snapped - Melbourne by the Water, Docklands Library (group) 2013 Through Their Eyes - Red Bean Coffee Café, Preston (group)

Publications

2021 IWD 2012-21 2020 Artists in Residence 2020 Isolation Portraits 1 and 2 2020 Unprecedented 2020 Downhill Festival 2020 2020/19/18 Loud and Luminous Book (inclusion) 2020/19 What Does International Women’s Day Mean to Me? 2020 Mass Isolation Photobook (inclusion) BIFB 2020 Shot in the Heart of Melbourne/Melbourne Unmasked (inclusion) AASPI 2020 Landscape Photo Books - Looking at Landscape Vol 1 2019 Double Exposure 2: Bangkok and Bang Rak with Tum Wuthipol 2017 Tape, Bradmill Factory and Suburban Autos 1st edition 2016 Lilydale Show, Streets of Phuket and Double Exposure with Tum Wuthipol 2015 The Lilydale Project - Handmade mixed media artists’ book Events

2021 Strong Artists in Residence: online launch event for ‘Artists in Residence’ series as part of The Kindness Pandemic, Festival of Strong. Featured live performance and filmed interviews with 10 of the artists involved in the series.

2020 IWD2020 Live Loud Now: featuring live music, burlesque, drag king, spoken word and side show at Hares and Hyenas including: Shrimpwitch, Daddy Doe, Freddie Merkin, Themme Fatale, Batz band, Miss Jessi Leigh, SPAWN band.

2019 What Does International Women’s Day Mean to Me? featuring live music, burlesque, drag, spoken word and stand-up comedy at at Alderman including: Weird Alice Yankadic, Ruby Boots (Bitch Diesel), Rosie Lane, Justine Sless, Miss Jessi Leigh and Kathryn Jamieson (Gun Shy Design)

Artist Talks / Interviews

2021 Lance TV 2021 Silly McWiggles - The Female Factor in Australian Music 2020 Yarra Valley Writers Festival launch of Isolation Portraits project 2019 Loud and Luminous as part of Head On Festival

Community Development/Photography Projects

2021 My Body’s Story – Body of Wellbeing 2012-2021 What Does International Women’s Day Mean to Me? 2014 Journeys within our Community - Sussex Neighbourhood House 2012/13/14 Mixed Media Inclusive Art Exhibiton - Sussex Neighbourhood House 2012 A Neighbourhood Holding Space, MoreArt Public Art Show - Sussex Neighbourhood House 2012 Sussex Neighbourhood House 21 Years and Counting documentary film 2009 Stencil Art project - Delahey Community Centre 2008 Delahey Community Cookbook - Delahey Community Centre 2004/05 CrossOver, Race Relations Day multicultural art exhibition - Wellington City Council

Writer and Interviewer

2017 Looking Glass Magazine including interviews with Jack Picone, Stephen Dupont and Sabelo Mlangeni

Professional Development

2014/16 Photographic Mentor Kate J Baker 2015 Masterclass Stephen Dupont and Marshall Weber, Creating Photo/Artists’ Books in the 21st Century, Centre of Contemporary Photography (CCP) 2015 Masterclass Stephen Dupont and Marshall Weber, The Next Level, CCP 2014 Masterclass Barat Ali Batoor, Footscray Community Arts Centre 2014 Masterclass Stephen Dupont, CCP 2014 Waterway Reflections, Scenes on the Yarra – Ephemeral art workshop and exhibition

Teaching/Workshops

2020 VCE Creative Showcase - Through the Photographer's Eye Workshop 2019 Street Photography Workshops 2018/2019 Photography for Beginners 2018/2019 Photography Mentoring 2018 Kids Portrait Workshop

Membership

AASPI Australian Association of Street Photographers Inc – member Melbourne Photobook Collective – founding member YAVA Yarra Valley Arts - member

Media

See some media listings at https://suzannephoenix.com/news

Clients

3RRR FM Alphington Community Centre Toy Library Anastasia La Fey Designs Anouk Flowers Archer Magazine Association of Neighbourhood House and Learning Centres Barba Presents Betty Grumble Broken Heel Festival Chester Communications Chester Creative Cire Incorporated Services Christopher Boots Darebin Neighbourhood House Network Desert Highways Diggers Club Eastern Volunteers The Eternal Headonist Gay Life Drawing Melbourne Gaytimes Festival Glitterfist Productions Gun Shy Design Hear No Evil Speak No Evil Productions He Cries Diamonds Highway Robbery Productions Hume City Council Kings Kongs Kylie Auldist Leadership Melbourne Jewish Comedy Festival Michael Veitch Midsumma Festival Minus 18 Mt Evelyn Community House North East Neighbourhood House Network Pharmacy Records Projekt 3488 Queerstories State Government Department of Health and Human Services TEG Dainty The Boon Companions Thomastown Neighbourhood House Yarra Valley Tourism Yarra Ranges Regional Museum Yarra Ranges Council Uniting Church of Victoria Unicorns Party Vintage Garage Women’s Health East

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