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FORMAL QUALIFICATIONS: 1997 – 2002 Master of Fine Arts (Research) College of Fine Arts, UNSW, Sydney 1976 - 1977 Post-graduate research School of Sculpture, Royal College of Art, London 1975 - 1976 Post-graduate research in Art History Chelsea School of Art, London 1969 - 1973 B.A. Honours Fine Art (Sculpture) Chelsea School of Art, London
SOLO EXHIBITIONS: 2005 Thin Air in Soundworks, premiered The Kino Cinema, Cork European Capital of Culture 2005 2002 One Million Candelas in Incarnations, video installation, Paddington Uniting Church, Sydney 2001 Voice – Motion – Euphony, The Listening Room, ABC Radio Classic FM 1999 Frequency in Swelter, sound installation, the Palm House, Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney 1998 There Are Warnings Of Gales, The Listening Room, ABC Radio Classic FM Repeated 1999 1997 Air Pressure,soundinstallation, Artspace, Sydney 1997 There Are Warnings Of Gales in Artists in the House! sound installation, Elizabeth Bay House, Historic Houses Trust of NSW 1995 Spectre, Installation, Tin Sheds Gallery, Sydney 1993 Spill, Installation, Pendulum Gallery, Sydney 1993 Bread & Water - Ink & Paper, in Glare Artspace, Sydney 1990 Martin Sims New Sculpture, Syme Dodson Gallery, Sydney 1987 Martin Sims Recent Sculpture, Irving Sculpture Gallery, Sydney
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS: 2006 9th Revelation Perth International Film festival Experimental Showcase, Luna SX, Fremantle 2006 Bend It Like Beckett, in Soundworks Unlimited, Cork 2005 Train Ink Video Works #3, Sydney Moving Image Coalition 2005 Look Right Video Works #4, Sydney Moving Image Coalition 2005 Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize, finalist Woollahra Municipal Council, Sydney 2003 The Democracy Of Objects, Multiple Box, Conny Dietzschold Gallery, Sydney 2002 Blake Prize for Religious Art, finalist Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre, Sydney 2002 Appliance, Solar Research Station, University of new South Wales, Sydney 2001 Palimpsest #4, sound work in progress,Mildura Arts Centre, Mildura, Victoria 2000 Palimpsest #3, sound work in progress,Mildura Arts Centre, Mildura, Victoria 1997 Sextet, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney 1996 Manuscript in a Bottle, OR Gallery, Vancouver, BC 1996 V Bienal Internacional de Poesia Visual/Experimental, Mexico City 1995 The Viaduct Project, Leichhardt Municipal Council, Sydney 1995 Bandwidth, Particle Contemporary Exhibition Space, Sydney 1994 Matter and Mutations, The Substation, Singapore Festival of the Arts Fringe 1994 Out of the Box, Nolan Gallery, Canberra and touring regional galleries nationally 1993 Virtu, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney 1992 Manu et Mente, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney 1991 Australian Perspecta, King Street Gallery on Burton, Sydney 1991 The Alice Prize, finalist Alice Springs Art Foundation 1991 Recent Sculpture, Coach House Gallery, Sydney 1990 New Faces, Solander Gallery, Canberra 1989 Gallery Artists, Syme Dodson Gallery, Sydney 1986 Canberra School of Art Gallery, Canberra 1983 Showroom Gallery, London 1983 Mario Flecha Gallery, London
CATALOGUES: 2005 Moore H. et al Art Trail Presents…Soundworks 05 Art Trail, Cork 2003 Hill P. Thin Air Martin Sims interviewed by Peter Hill, Australia Council for the Arts 2002 Pattenden R. Somewhat Like Angels in Incarnations, Eastside Arts, Sydney 1997 Sims M. There are Warnings of Gales, Historic Houses Trust of New South Wales 1997 Dunn J. Air Pressure, Artspace, Sydney 1995 Brauer F. Inversion/Subversion The Art Of Martin Sims, The Viaduct Project, Sydney 1994 Forsyth G. Matter and Mutations, The Substation, Singapore Festival of the Arts Fringe 1994 Haynes P. Out of the Box,
Nolan Gallery, Canberra 1991 Harrison M. AGAPE An Exhibition of Sculpture, Australian Perspecta, King Street Gallery on Burton, Sydney 1990 Krell A. Martin Sims New Sculpture, Syme Dodson Gallery, Sydney 1987 Krell A. Martin Sims Recent Sculpture, Irving Sculpture Gallery, Sydney
MEDIA REVIEWS: 2005 Hamilton I. a torn parchment the Murray Darling Palimpsest, Artlink, vol 25 no 4 2003 Critic’s picks, Democracy Of Objects, Sydney Morning Herald, 17-23 October 2001 Radok S. Vacancy, www.abc.net.au/arts/palimpsest 2001 Cathcart M. Arts Today, ABC Radio National interview 26 April 2000 Radok S. Mildura’s Palimpsest: the sigh of the land, Real Time no 37 2000 ABC Radio National, Arts Talk, Mildura Palimpsest #3, 26 March 1999 Dysart D. In-House Intervention, Art & Australia, vol 36 no 3 1995 Dabek R. Martin Sims, Agenda Magazine, Australian Contemporary Art, no 43 1993 Fenner F. Dumping On A Material World, The Sydney Morning Herald, 3 December 1990 Lynn E. Bits and Pieces, Fit and Fitting, The Weekend Australian, 8 September 1990 Allen C. A Decade's Optimism and Pathos, The Sydney Morning Herald, 31 August 1989 Watson B. Galleries, The Sydney Morning Herald, 17 February 1987 Lynn E. Steel and Serenity, The Weekend Australian Review, 14 March 1987 McDonald J. Sculpture Smooth and Flaky, The Sydney Morning Herald, 14March
TEACHING APPOINTMENTS: 1990 - current College of Fine Arts, The University of New South Wales, Senior Lecturer Sculpture, Performance & Installation studies 1986 - 1988 Canberra School of Art, ACT, Lecturer in Sculpture & 3D Foundation Studies 1985 - 1986 Nepean C.A.E. Sydney, Lecturer in History of Sculpture and Combined Studies 1985 – 1986 Sydney College Of The Arts, Lecturer in Studio Theory 1978 - 1983 Chelsea School of Art, London, Lecturer in Art History and Post-Graduate Sculpture
PUBLICATIONS: 1982 Sims M. Unacceptable Offering, A Concise History of Sculpture by Germain Bazin, Art Book Review vol 1 no 2, London 1981 Sims M. Joseph Cornell At The Whitechapel, Artscribe no. 28, London
GRANTS, AWARDS & PRIZES: 2006 College of Fine Arts, UNSW Faculty Research Grant 2003 College of Fine Arts, UNSW Faculty Research Grant 2001 Australia Council for the Arts, New Work Grant 1999 Australian Research Council, Small Grant 1999 Australia Council for the Arts, curated programmes grant (multiple recipients) 1997 Australia Council for the Arts, curated programmes grant (multiple recipients) 1994 Australia Council for the Arts, International Promotion Programme Grant 1993 & 1995 College of Fine Arts, UNSW Faculty Research Grants 1995 Winner, inaugural site-specific sculpture competition, University of Western Sydney
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