LINDA TEGG
(Australia, 1979)
EDUCATION
2010 Master of Art (Research), Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne, Australia.
2008 Master of Visual Arts, Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne, Australia.
2002 Bachelor of Arts (Photography), Honours, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia.
2001-2002 Parsons School of Design exchange program, New York, New York, USA.
In an expanded photographic practice that deploys video, performance and installation,
Linda Tegg works with animals and their handlers, and human subjects trained as
performers, ideas of display and performance in staged scenarios in which she photographs
her subjects under a range of physical and behavioral constraints. Her photographs tackle
the conventions of looking and being looked at that operate across a series of contexts.
Tegg considers viewing behaviors that exist between species; that are integral to lensbased
and embodied practices; and that set the arranging of exhibitions. In her recent
commission for Australian Centre for Contemporary Art’s NEW13, entitled
Tortoise (2013),
a mirrored ‘organism’, animated by a group of women who are concealed by its
‘exoskeleton’, deflects traditional notions of authorship and spectatorship. Its morphing
reflective surface circumvents any defining of the shared sightless form assumed by the
performers.
SELECTED SOLO SHOW
2013 Choir, Centre Intermondes, La Rochelle, France.
Goat Study Part 2, Square2 City Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand.
2012 Coexistence, MARSO, Mexico City, Mexico.
2011 Animal Studies, Alpineum Produzentengalerie, Luzern, Switzerland
Unknown Animal, Ecoh Galería, Mexico City, Mexico.
2010 Horse Video Study, Neue Gallery, Bern, Switzerland.
2007 Heart Rate Project, Kings ARI, Melbourne, Australia.
Heart Rate Project, Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia Project Space, Australia.
2010 - present
2010 - present
SELECTED GROUP SHOW
2011 Black Box<>White Cube, The Arts Centre, 9.11.11 a Decenallia, C3 Contemporary Art
Space Melbourne, Tree Line, Brisbane.
2010 Sub 12, The Substation, Worm Mountain, C3 Contemporary Art Space, Melbourne.
2009 Self Timer/Dancer, Sutton Project Space, Enclosure, Alliance Française, Melbourne.
2007 Sunstroked, HetWildeWeten, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
2005 Bus & Phatspace Project, Designfesta, Tokyo, Japan.
Through a Stranger’s Eyes, Arts-Apporia, Osaka, Japan.
2004 Six Young Artists, Mary Place Gallery, Sydney, Australia.
2003 Moments of Clarity, Sotheby’s, New York, New York, USA.
2002 Life of the City, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York, New York, USA.
2014 Anne and Gordon Samstag International Visual Arts Scholar,
Arts Victoria, Art Grant, City of Melbourne, Art Grants Program, Australia Council
2013 New Work Grant
2012 Georges Mora Foundation Fellowship
2011 Arts Victoria Cultural Exchange International Program
2011 Australia Council, ArtStart Grant
2010 KPMG Tutorship Award
2010-09 Australian Post Graduate Award
2009-08 National Gallery Women’s Association Postgraduate Encouragement Award
Keith & Elisabeth Murdoch Travelling Fellowship
2008 Alliance Française Award
ANZ Art Award (People’s Choice)
2000 Australian Student Photographer of the Year, AIPP