PROFESSOR TED SNELL

PERSONAL DETAILS

Ted Snell was born in 1949, at Geraldton, Western Australia. After completing an Associateship in Art

Teaching he travelled to England to undertake postgraduate study in Birmingham. He returned to Australia

and began teaching part-time at WAIT (now Curtin University of Technology), where he is currently

Professor of Contemporary Art and Dean of Art, John Curtin Gallery.

Over the past decade he has contributed to the national arts agenda through his role as Chair of the

Australian Council of University Art and Design Schools (until 2002), Chair of Artbank, Chair of the

Asialink Visual Arts Advisory Committee, Chair of the Premier’s Fashion Industry Taskforce, Chair of the

State Living Treasures Reference Panel (Arts WA) and as a Board member of the National Association for

the Visual Arts.

He is a commentator on the arts for ABC radio and is currently art reviewer for The Australian and a

regular contributor to local and national journals. He has published several books and has curated

nnumerous exhibitions, many of which document the visual culture of Western Australia.

Ted Snell is also a visual artist and since 1968 he has shown his work in solo exhibitions in Perth,

Melbourne and Brisbane, and in numerous group exhibition. His work is represented in many public and

private collections including the National Gallery of Australia, the Art Gallery of Western Australia and

Artbank.

INDIVIDUAL & JOINT EXHIBITIONS

1968 Hesling Archer Gallery, Perth.

1973 Old Fire Station Gallery, Perth.

1980 Exhibition of work completed at the Owen Tooth Memorial

Cottage, Karolyi Foundation, Visual Arts Board of the Australia

Council Studio in Vence, France.

1982 Galerie Düsseldorf.

1983 Galerie Düsseldorf.

1987 Galerie Düsseldorf: Festival of Perth.

1989 Galerie Düsseldorf.

1990 Galerie Düsseldorf.

1992 Gore St Gallery, Melbourne.

1993 Le Cose Italiane, Michael Milburn Gallery, Brisbane (With Mostyn Bramley-

Moore)

CURRENT PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS

1998- Elected Board Member of NAVA — (National Association for the Visual Arts, Sydney)

1999- Chair of Artbank — The Federal Government’s Art Rental Scheme, Department of

Communications, Information Technology and the Arts. (Sydney).

2003- Chair Museum’s Australia Art Craft Design Special Interest Group (ACDSIG)

2003- Chair of the State Living Treasures Reference Panel (Arts WA)

PREVIOUS PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS

1991-93 Member of the Fremantle Arts Centre Management Committee.

1991 Member of the Museum's Taskforce Working Party on

Collections: Research and Management, established by The

Western Australian Department for the Arts.

1998- 99 Deputy Chair, Kaos Theatre Company

1998-02 Chair of ACUADS — The Australian Council of University Art & Design Schools.

1999-2000 Arts Community elected representative on the Fremantle City Council, Gallery and

Performing Arts, Planning Committee.

2000-03 Chair Visual Arts Panel, Asialink, University of Melbourne. (Melbourne)

2001-02 Chair ANCCA — Australian National Council of Creative Arts

2002-03 Chair Premier’s Fashion Industry Taskforce, Western Australian State Government

PUBLICATIONS:

1988 The Artist's Rottnest, Fremantle Arts Centre Press,

ISBN 0 949206 34 2.

1989 Degrees of Excellence, Curtin University of Technology,

ISBN 0 7316 7539 8.

1991 Arthur Russell in Retrospect, University of Western Australian,

ISBN 0 86422 1169.

1992 Salvatore Zofrea: Images From The Psalms, Craftsman House

Press, Sydney, ISBN 976 8097 23 X.

1992 Howard Taylor - In Private Hands, Erica Underwood Gallery,

Visual Culture Research Unit, Curtin University of Technology.

1992 Orientations, Fremantle Arts Centre, Visual Culture Research Unit, Curtin

University of Technology.

1993 Imagini dai Salmi: Salvatore Zofrea, G+B Arts International Ltd,

Basel & Sydney, ISBN 976 8097 40 X.

1995 Howard Taylor - Forest Figure, Fremantle Arts Centre Press,

Fremantle, ISBN 1 86368 116 7.

(Newspaper Articles)

Since 1982 I have published regular articles and reviews in The Australian, The Western Mail

and The National Times. I am currently the Perth Art Reviewer for The Australian.

Curator Of The Following Exhibitions Since 1995:

1995 Installation Art, a West Week exhibition in the Aherns Department Store, Hay

Street, Perth.

1996 Installation Art (2), a West Week exhibition in the Aherns

Department Store, Hay Street, Perth.

1997 Installation Art (3), a West Week exhibition in the Aherns

Department Store, Hay Street, Perth.

1998 Installation Art (4), a West Week exhibition in the Aherns

Department Store, Hay Street, Perth.

1999 Installation Art (5), a West Week exhibition in the Aherns Department Store, Hay

Street, Perth.

1999 Haynes to O’Connor: Western Australians and Water, John Curtin Gallery, Perth

International Festival of the Arts.

2000 Forest Radiance: Howard Taylor, John Curtin Gallery, 20th Sept’-11th Nov’

2003 sacred ground beating heart: Works by Judy Watson 1989-2003, John Curtin

Gallery 25th September — 9th November 2003, IMA Brisbane, then in Ho Chi

Minh City, Manila and Colombo on an Asialink tour.

2004 Tracey Moffatt, John Curtin Gallery, 5th February — 28th March 2004.

2004 Writing the Collection (With Kate Hamersley), John Curtin Gallery, 25th June — 8th

August

2004 Mise-en-scene: Work by Su Baker, John Curtin Gallery, 25th June — 8th

August

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