Laura Skerlj
b. 1983, Geelong, Australia
EDUCATION
2012–2013
Master of Fine Arts (by Research, First Class Honours)
University of Melbourne (VCA), Melbourne, Australia
2011
Master of Visual Arts (Course Work)
University of Melbourne (VCA), Melbourne, Australia
2010
Postgraduate Diploma in Visual Art
University of Melbourne (VCA), Melbourne, Australia
2002–2005
Bachelor of Journalism/ Bachelor of Arts (Art History and English)
University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
AWARDS AND GRANTS
2020 City of Melbourne COVID Relief Grant
2018 Ian Potter Cultural Trust, Individual Artist Grant
2014 Arts Start Grant, Australia Council
2012–2013 Australian Postgraduate Award, University of Melbourne
2004 Dean’s Commendation Award, University of Queensland (semesters 1 and 2)
RESIDENCIES
2018-2019 LIA (Leipzig International Artist Residency), Leipzig, Germany
COLLECTIONS
Deakin University
Private collections
PROJECTS
2022 Non-Stop Wave Shape, book, Stray Pages small press, Melbourne.
2016 Elastic Field exhibition, curatorial project, Strange Neighbour, Melbourne.
EXHIBITIONS
Solo
2019
Private Life, Bus Projects, Melbourne
2017
Aqua Lung, Alaska Projects, Sydney
2016
Love in a Better Climate, Fort Delta, Melbourne
2015
Tropical Planet, Fort Delta, Melbourne
Ultra-Violets, Artereal Gallery, Sydney
2014
Cosmic Cuttings, Tristian Koenig, Melbourne
Collapsible Wilderness, Linden Innovators 3, Linden Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne
2013
White, Gold, Mountain, Blindside, Melbourne
Fool’s Gold, Platform Art Space, Melbourne
Group (Selection)
2022
Text Tile, Caves, Melbourne
Stray Pages Group Show, NGBE, Melbourne
2020
These Days, COMA, Sydney
2018
Winter Sun, Daine Singer, Melbourne
Paint, Painting, Painted, Deakin Southbank Gallery, Melbourne
Patina, LON Gallery, Melbourne
Paint18, Artereal Gallery, Sydney
2017
Losing Farther, Losing Faster, Alaska Projects, Sydney
Hyper Hyper, Michael Reid Berlin, Berlin
What’s Happening Here? Town Hall Gallery, Melbourne
2016
Various Findings, Chamber Presents, Melbourne
New Strokes, Gallery 9, Sydney
Concrete Agenda, C3 Gallery, Melbourne
Palm Reader, LON Gallery, Melbourne
Here’s to Future Days, Fort Delta, Melbourne
Elastic Field, Strange Neighbour, Melbourne
VIEW, Artereal Gallery, Sydney
2015
The Perfect Lethargy of Orbit, Rubicon ARI, Melbourne
MAN, Tristian Koenig, Melbourne
2014
John Leslie Art Prize, Gippsland Art Gallery, Sale
The Aggregate and the Algorithm, Tristian Koenig, Collingwood, Melbourne
Exploration 14, Flinders Lane Gallery, Melbourne
2013
VCA Masters Graduate Exhibition, Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne
Luminescence, Windsor Hotel, Melbourne
2012
Rubicon Launch Show, Rubicon ARI, North Melbourne
The Negative Mirror, C3 Gallery, Abbotsford, Melbourne
2011
VCA Masters Graduate Exhibition, Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne
2010
VCA Graduate Exhibition, Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne
Art Fairs
2016 Spring 1883, Fort Delta Presentation, Melbourne
PUBLICATIONS (selection)
2022
“Break and enter.” Georgia Biggs, Firefighter exhibition essay, Block Projects, Melbourne, 2022.
2021
2020
2016
“NEW15.” Group exhibition review, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, ArtAsiaPacific online.
“The Kaleidoscopic Turn.” Group exhibition review, National Gallery of Victoria, review, ArtAsiaPacific online.
2014
“The Floating Studio.” Runway: Australian Experimental Art, Islands issue, critical essay.