MAURICE ORTEGA
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Selected Exhibitions

2004         Sleight. Redland Art Gallery

2004         Qld Photo-media: Maurice Ortega, Ray Cook and Deb Mansfield. Institute of                  Modern Art, Brisbane.

2004         Another viewpoint camera-less. Queensland Centre for Photography

2003         The Thiess Art Prize. Finalist. QCA Gallery

2003         Ulrick Schubert Photographic Art Award. Gold Coast Arts Centre

2003         Serendipity and Lunacy. Soapbox gallery, Brisbane.

2003         Platinum Photographs. 60 Merivale Street, Brisbane

2001         A Family Album. University of Queensland, Brisbane

2001         Buried in cotton. 482 Gallery, Brisbane. Group exhibition with David Michael                  Kennedy, Marian Drew, Annie Hogan and Jason Castro

1999         Possession. Herringbone Gallery, Sydney. Group exhibition with Ruark Lewis, Fiona                  Foley, Diane Loche and others

1998         Banalities. Collaboration with Ruark Lewis and Christopher Gill. Stills Gallery,                  Sydney & Eat Carpet, SBS Television. Video installation as of Still Moving, a joint                  project between SBS Television and the Australian Film Commission.


Selected Publications

2004         Photofile #72: Spring 2004 – Satire: laugh ‘til it hurts. “Mike Gray, Greg Leong,                  Maurice Ortega: A Crisis of Masculinity” by David Broker. Double spread on
                
page 48-49.

2003         Artworker. Published article on “Your Practice”, autumn 2003.

1989-1995 Australian Natural History Magazine. Regular contributor

1993         Oceanic Art, vol. 1 & 2, published by Konemann.


Selected Education

2000-2003 Master of Visual Arts, Griffith University.

1995          Lighting for Commercials. The Australian Film, Television and Radio School

1995          Stage Lighting. National Institute of Dramatic Arts (NIDA)

1994         Arnold Newman Seminar. Australian Association of Photographers, Sydney

1993          Environmental Portraiture with Arnold Newman. Rockport, Maine, USA

1993          Platinum/Palladium one-to-one Workshop. David Michael Kennedy, Santa Fe                   Workshops New Mexico, USA

1987         Awarded scholarship to complete studies in Swedish. University of Stockholm and                  the Swedish Institute Helsingborg, Sweden

1986          University Centre for Cinematography. Mexico City, Mexico
                  Subjects: History of the Avant Guard in Modern Cinema, Introduction to                   Scriptwriting, Analysis of Cinematic Text, Editing Techniques


Selected Employment

2002         Appointed President of Queensland Centre for Photography, Brisbane (current)

2004           Public Art Commission, Queensland Health, Sandgate project.

2004          Lecturer, Photojournalism. University of Queensland, School of Communications                    and Journalism.

2000-2003 Lecturer, Photography. Griffith University, Queensland College of Art and Gold                    Coast campuses.

2000-2002  Seminars in Art Theory (Photography, Sculpture and Curatorship). Griffith                    University, Queensland College of Art and Gold Coast campuses.

2000            Platinum/Palladium Workshops. Griffith University, Queensland College of Art

1989-1995  Photographer, Australian Museum                 

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