Mina Young

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ARTIST’S STATEMENT – MINA YOUNG

Mina Young has recently graduated with a Masters of Fine Art from the Victorian College of the Arts.

“In my art practice I employ the languages of fashion, advertising and cinema to create fabricated episodes using the digital manipulation of analogue photographs. These deliberately constructed images suggest moments of narrative, but don’t pitch commodities, or fix the viewer into a pre-determined position. The work is contextualized by broader themes of globalization and consumerism.

The female heroines featured inhabit fantastic dreamscapes that signify the surreal nature of dream and trance, exploring the phenomena of deja vu. Peculiar but everyday objects linger as remnants from other realms.

I assume that there is a boundary between reality and fantasy, a surface that allows visual representation, simulation and reinterpretation to occur. I refer to this as the “screen”.

At one extreme, humans in our culture walk around inside an all enveloping screen. Continuous discourses are thrown at us. We have to make sense of this experience, and our typical interactions, are characterised by a heavy filtering of this barrage of media messages. Browsing is the new expected mode of information consumption. “ – Mina Young 2010

CV

Mina Young

Born: Brisbane

Lives and Works in Melbourne

EDUCATION

2006 Master of Fine Arts, Victorian College of the Arts

2003 Bachelor of Fine Arts Drawing, First Class Honours, Victorian College of the Arts

2002 Bachelor of Fine Arts Drawing, Victorian College of the Arts

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2007 Strange News from Another Star, Metro 5 Gallery, Melbourne

2006 I Always Suspected I Was Watching TV Instead of Living Life , Margaret Lawrence Gallery VCA , Melbourne

2004 You’ve Changed, Metro 5 Gallery Melbourne
2001 Spare Room, RMIT Project Space, Melbourne

PUBLIC ART COMMISIONS

2009 – 2010 Strange News From Another Star, QUT Creative Arts Precinct Billboard, Brisbane. Upcoming installation 2010.
2007 I Always Suspected I Was Watching TV Instead of Living Life, QUT Creative Arts Precinct Billboard, Brisbane.

2005/2004 Mirvac Docklands Billboard Project, 50 Lorimer St, Docklands, Melbourne.

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2008 William and Winifred Bowness Photography Prize, Monash Gallery of Art, Melbourne.
2008 Australian Marine Conservation Art Auction, State Library of Queensland.

2006 “Selekta”, West Space, Melbourne

2006 Next Wave Festival WWW. Artist Running Space, Melbourne

2005 ANZ Visual Arts Fellowship Award Exhibition , ANZ, Melbourne

2005 Archibald-Citigroup Photographic Portrait Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales

2003 “Flashpoint”, Metro 5 Gallery, Melbourne

2003 “Be Mine 69”, 69 Smith St., Melbourne.
2003 Keith and Elisabeth Murdoch Travelling Fellowship, VCA Gallery (Margaret Lawrence), Melbourne

2002 Wallara Travelling Scholarship Exhibition, VCA Gallery (Margaret Lawrence), Melbourne

GRANTS AND AWARDS

2009 Rupert Bunny Visual Arts Fellowship Finalist

2008 William and Winifred Bowness Photography Prize Finalist

2005 ANZ Visual Arts Fellowship Award Finalist

2005 Anthony Ganim Postgraduate Award

2004 -2006 Australian Postgraduate Award

2004 Archibald Prize – Citigroup Private Bank Australian Photographic Portrait Prize Finalist

2004 “Proud”, Postgraduate Award Winner

2003 Keith and Elisabeth Murdoch Travelling Fellowship- Highly Commended

2002 Victorian College of the Arts Contemporary Drawing Prize Winner

2002 Wallara Travelling Scholarship Finalist

2002 St Kilda Postcard Show (Postcard Winner)

COLLECTIONS

Victorian College of the Arts Collection

Private Collections, Australia and Internationally

PUBLICATIONS

Artlink. Vol 27, no. 4, 2008.

Art and Australia, Spring 2007

NGV Magazine, Spring 2007

Photofile, Spring 2007

Backhouse, Megan. “Art Galleries”, The Age, 2 September 2006

Mark Hammond, “Mina Young”, Essay in Unfinished Journeys, McMillan Press, Melbourne 2006

Sophie Knezic, “High Gloss”, Catalogue Essay: I Always Suspected I was Watching TV instead of Living Life, April 2006

Ten Things to Do, The Age, 25th April 2006

“Artist of the Moment”, Art Journey: Melbourne Docklands Public Art Walk. VicUrban: Melbourne, 2005.

Citigroup Photographic Prize, The Australian, March 2005

Art and Australia, Spring 2004.

“The Good Weekend”, The Age, September 2004.

“Around the Galleries”, The Age, November 2003

“Arts Review”, Herald Sun, September 2003

Australian Art Collector, Issue 23, January 2003