Virginia Hilyard

Biographical data

Name

Given names Virginia
Family names Hilyard

Roles

Broad Role Artist
Detailed Role New Media Artist

Birth

Date 1959-06-20
Date Precision Exact
Place Camperdown, Sydney

Period Active

Start 1985
Precision Exact
Place Sydney

Place of Residence

Start date 2018
Precision Exact
Place Hurlstone Park

Training and Study

Discipline or medium Architecture
Course name Bachelor of Science, Architecture
Qualification Bachelor degree
Start date 1979
Precision This decade
End date 1979
Precision Exact
Place (Name of Institution/Sanggar/Studio etc) University of New South Wales
Discipline or medium Sculpture
Course name Certificate IV in Fine Arts, Sculpture
Qualification Certificate IV
Start date 1981
Precision This decade
End date 1981
Precision Exact
Place (Name of Institution/Sanggar/Studio etc) East Sydney Technical College
Discipline or medium Visual Arts
Course name Bachelor of Visual Arts
Qualification Bachelor degree
Start date 1983
Precision This decade
End date 1983
Precision Exact
Place (Name of Institution/Sanggar/Studio etc) Sydney College of the Arts
Discipline or medium Visual Arts research
Course name Master of Visual Arts, Research
Qualification Master degree
Start date 2005
Precision This decade
End date 2005
Place (Name of Institution/Sanggar/Studio etc) Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney

Practice history

Groups/Societies/Associations

Name National Association for Visual Artists
Nature of Relationship Member of
Name Articulate Project Space
Nature of Relationship Other
Place Leichhardt
Note Board member

Collections

Name Chulalongkorn University
Nature of relationship Collected in
Place Bangkok
URL https://www.chula.ac.th/en/
Name Griffith University
Nature of relationship Collected in
Place Brisbane
URL https://www.griffith.edu.au/
Name Museum of Modern Art
Nature of relationship Collected in
Place New York
URL https://www.moma.org/
Name SBS Television
Nature of relationship Collected in
Place Artarmon
URL https://www.sbs.com.au/
Name State Library of Victoria
Nature of relationship Collected in
Place Melbourne
URL https://www.slv.vic.gov.au/
Name Sydney Living Museums
Nature of relationship Collected in
Place The Rocks, NSW
URL https://mhnsw.au/
Name Sydney Opera House Trust Collection
Nature of relationship Collected in
Place Sydney
URL https://www.sydneyoperahouse.com/about-us/our-people/trust
Name University of New South Wales Art and Design
Nature of relationship Collected in
Place Paddington
URL https://www.unsw.edu.au/arts-design-architecture/our-schools/art-design
Name University of Technology
Nature of relationship Collected in
Place Sydney
URL https://www.uts.edu.au/

Recognition

Name New Media Arts Grant, Australia Council
Nature of Relationship Received
Note $19,000 in 2001 for residencies in Melbourne and Bangkok
Name New Media Arts Grant, Australia Council
Nature of Relationship Received
Note $5000 in 1998 for travel to Manila
Name Hybrid Arts Grant, Australia Council for Darwin Festival
Nature of Relationship Received
Note $6000 in 1996
Name New Image Research Fund, Australian Film Commission
Nature of Relationship Received
Note $8000 in 1990
Name Finalist, Hazelhurst Art on Paper Award
Nature of Relationship Received
Place Hazelhurst
Name Finalist, Fauvette Loureiro Artists Memorial Travel Scholarship
Nature of Relationship Received
Place Sydney
Name University Postgraduate Award
Nature of Relationship Received
Place Sydney

Publications

Name Occupied
Place Blue Mountains Cultural Centre
Note Catalogue by curator Rilka Oakley in 2020 http://bluemountainsculturalcentre.com.au/exhibition/occupied/
Name Sonic nature of the wind
Place Sydney College of the Arts
Note Sydney College of the Arts news, 2017. http://sydney.edu.au/sca/news/2017/sonic_nature_of_the_wind.shtml
Name Blueprint/Picture Start
Place Artlink
Note Keri Glastonbury, December 2016 https://www.artlink.com.au/articles/4548/blueprint-picture-start-sue-pedley-and-virginia-/
Name Regenerative/recombinant
Note Helen Grace, catalogue essay, October 2016
Name When Life Looks at Art
Place Cementa 13
Note Alex Wisser, 2014 https://alexwisserart.files.wordpress.com/2015/02/cementa13-catalogue-essay-when-life-looks-at-art.pdf
Name Home Garden
Note Ann Finegan, Feb 2012. http://kandosprojects.wordpress.com/
Name Pelt: Modern aesthetics in the moving image
Place Art Monthly Australia, No. 188
Note Ann Finegan, April 2006
Name New home, new sounds
Place RealTime No 70
Note Keri Glastonbury, 2005-06
Name Trapped in Space
Place Eyeline, Number 56
Note Simon Enticknap, 2004
Name screen
Place Realtime
Note Liz Bradshaw, June-July 2001
Name Excavating Layers
Place Bangkok
Note Naomi Urabe, catalogue essay, Bangkok, 2001
Name FILM-open and closed
Place Artspace
Note Ben Curnow, catalogue essay, Artspace, 2001
Name Film – open and closed
Place Art and AsiaPacific
Note Andrew Frost, April 2000
Name <somewhere between storm and sleep>
Place Broadsheet
Note Teri Hoskin, Dec 1999
Name Synchronising thoughts
Place Artspace
Note Varsha Nair, catalogue essay, Artspace, 1999
Name From the Minds Eye Cantrills
Place Filmnotes No.s 87 & 88
Note 1997-98
Name Places of Memory
Place Museum of Sydney
Note 1997-98
Name The Swimming Sonambulist
Place Cantrills Filmnotes No.s 75 & 76
Note Steven Ball, 1994

Exhibition

Nature of relationship Is part of
Exhibition The centre is everwhere
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Exhibition Fem Flix
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Exhibition One Minute Vol. 8
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Exhibition One Minute Vol. 8, LightNight Liverpool
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Exhibition 16th Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival
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Exhibition Australian International Experimental Film Festival
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Exhibition Cementa13
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Exhibition Welcome to the Treasuredome
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Exhibition One Minute Vol. 4, London
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Exhibition Hunting and Nature
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Exhibition One Minute Vol. 5, The London Underground Film Sessions
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Exhibition One Minute Vol. 3, Sydney
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Exhibition One Minute Vol. 3, Melbourne
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Exhibition One Minute Vol. 3, Leeds
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Exhibition Sydney Underground Film Festival
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Exhibition In the Depths
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Exhibition Womanifesto II
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Exhibition ARX 4
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Exhibition systems collapse
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Exhibition Sonic Analogue
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Exhibition Somnauralisms
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Exhibition Ice Sound
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Exhibition Kinokophonography
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Exhibition Swell
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Exhibition Screen
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Exhibition Trans-southeast Asia Triennial
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Exhibition Sonic Pressure
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Exhibition Rift: Lake Baikal
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Exhibition This Precious Liquid, Hazelhurst Art on Paper Award
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Exhibition Hi-Vis
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Exhibition Voyage au centre de la terre
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Exhibition Vulcan's Mirror
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Exhibition Womanifesto, Procreation/Postcreation
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Exhibition Phantom Hair
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Exhibition Mirror of the World: books and ideas
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Exhibition Fond memories
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Exhibition Places of Memory

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