Aliey Ball, Artistic Director / Curator
www.alieyball.comAliey Ball is a multiple award-winning contemporary artist, curator and community development arts officer, living and working in Melbourne.
Current appointments include:
Arts Development Officer - Arts Access Victoria
Curator - Skin Gallery
Curator - Skin & Cancer Foundation Members Gallery
Artist In Residence - Thornbury Primary School
Lead Artist - 2 x AAV SRS Studios
Facilitating Artist - Migrant Resource Centre
Aliey has six years of tertiary education in fine art and design (Victorian College of the Arts & RMIT), over four years experience teaching art and design at tertiary level, fifteen years of professional arts practice and nearly a decade of experience working within the community arts sector. Through her broad professional appointments Aliey has delivered a wide range of high quality public outcomes, including public art and exhibitions within the gallery setting, non-gallery settings and artist run initiatives.
Working regularly with local governments and non-government organizations Aliey has delivered a substantial number of public art projects of distinction; The Venny (City of Melbourne) Winner Dulux Colour Award 2012 for Best Sustainable Interior, Winner Dulux Colour Award 2012 for Best Commercial Interior and Finalist for the 2012 Victorian Architectural Awards; Orchids & Bubbles 2010 (with designer Marc Pascal) for the Dandenong Hospital, Southern Health, Wangal 2007 for the City of Moreland,Birrarung (Yarra River) Mapping 2004 for the City of Stonnington and My Best Egg Yet 1998 for Andrea Hull, Victorian College of the Arts.
Awards include:
2012 Winner Dulux Colour Awards, Best Commercial Interior
2012 Winner Dulux COlour Awards, Best Sustainable Interior
2012 Finalist Victorian Architectural Awards
2010 Finalist, Yering Station Sculpture Exhibition & Awards, Yarra Glen
2007 Winner, Moreland Sculpture Show, People's Choice Award,
2006 Awarded, Moreland City Council Cultural Arts Grant
2004 Awarded, Moreland City Council Cultural Arts Grant
1997 Winner, National Gallery of Victoria, Undergraduate Encouragement Award
Pezaloom, Key Artist
Pezallom's website"With a fetish fo rate scientific, the sexual and the industrial gothic. mysterious Morwell artist Pezaloom could be best described as Morwell's answer to Max Dupain, coupled with the intrigue of Nine Inch Nail's Trent Reznor. Pezaloom came to photography and sound art after begin diagnosed with Parkinson's Disease 6 years ago. Like as online Phantom of the Opera, he has developed an impressive following online communicating his ideas and curiosities through the prosthetic of social media."
Rachel Lucas, ABC OPen Producer
Jeremy Hawkes, Key Artist
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