Melbourne based artists Janet Burchill and Jennifer McCamley undertook a MAAP residency over 2009 to 2010, in order to research new solar technologies (Built-In Photovoltaics) to develop their temporary public artwork Light From Light, displayed at the State Library Queensland and the Shanghai Library, National Art Museum of China and the Hangzhou Public Library in China (2010 – 2011).
As part of their residency, Burchill and McCamely visited MAAP in Brisbane in early 2009 to help scope the Light from Light exhibition concept and design.
Their interest in solar technologies has seen them undertake artist residencies at The International Art Space Kellerberrin Australia (IASKA) and the University of Woolongong to develop art and research in this area.
Since 1985 Burchill and McCamley have been frequent collaborators and have had numerous individual and collaborative solo exhibitions both in Australia and internationally. Their art practice interlaces feminist, psychoanalytic, filmic, semiotic and spatial concerns, with language, and the language of art, film and popular culture, central to their work.
A major survey of their collaborative works, Tip of the Iceberg: Selected works 1985–2001, was held in 2001 at the University Art Museum, University of Queensland, and at the Ian Potter Museum of Art, University of Melbourne. Recent solo projects included Neon 2005, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, and All That Rises Must Converge, Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne. Recent group exhibitions include 21st Century Modern, 2006 Adelaide Biennial, Art Gallery of South Australia. Burchill and McCamley have both been awarded a number of international residencies including the Australia Council Studio, Paris, and the Künstlerhaus Bethanien Studio, Berlin, to Burchill; and the University of Sydney Power Studio, Paris, and the Australia Council Studio, Tokyo, to McCamley. They lived from 1992 until 1996 in Berlin, where they were jointly awarded the Berlin Senate Art Scholarship in 1995. They currently live and work in Melbourne.
Selected Solo Exhibitions & Projects
2011
- The Emily Dickinson Project continued., Shanthi Road Gallery, Bangalore, India
2010
- Janet Burchill & Jennifer McCamley: 3 Works, Peloton Gallery, Sydney
2009
- Janet Burchill: Equivalence, Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne
- Imitation of Life, Shanti Road Gallery, Bangalore, India
2008
- Primary Views, Monash Museum of Art, Melbourne
- Inland Empire – Solar Neon, IASKA, Kellerberrin, Western Australia
2007
- COMBINE – Janet Burchill, Jennifer McCamley & Melinda Harper, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne
- Burchill/McCamley – Films, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne
2006
- Our level of delusion is awesome, Yuill/Crowley Gallery, Sydney
2005
- NEON, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
- Repent and sin no more, Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne
2004
- All That rises must converge, Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne
2003
- Three neons, Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne
- One location – Berlin 1992-1997, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
2001
- TIP OF THE ICEBERG; selected works 1985-2001, University Art Museum, University of Queensland, Brisbane and Ian Potter Museum of Art, University of Melbourne
1997
- One location – Berlin 1992 1996, David Pestorius Gallery, Brisbane
1996
- Untitled (grey sheets), Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne
- Alphabetica, Konstakuten, Stockholm, Sweden
- Charlotte Moorman drawing series 1993-1995, Yuill/Crowley Gallery, Sydney
- Scum Tapes 68-96, Tower Studio, Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin
1994
- Janet Burchill/Jennifer McCamley, Lukas & Hoffmann, Cologne
1993
- Janet Burchill/Jennifer McCamley, James Van Damme Gallery, Antwerp
- Feld und Funktion, Volksbuhne am Rosa-Luxemberg Platz, Berlin
- Janet Burchill/Jennifer McCamley, Lukas & Hoffmann, Brussels
1992
- Janet Burchill/Jennifer McCamley, Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin
- Static Design for Interiors, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane
Selected Group Exhibitions
2011
- A Different Temporality: Aspects of Australian Feminist Art Practice 1975-1985, Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne
- Simone Weil: Decreation, West Space, Melbourne
- Seeing to a distance: Single Channel Video Work from Australia, Level 17, Artspace, Victoria University, Melbourne
- The Phantasm, Foxy Production, New York
2010
- Extreme Beauty: Approaches to the Real, Y3K, Melbourne
- Duetto, Experimental Art Space, Adelaide
2009
- WORD, Anna Schwartz Gallery, Sydney
- Bio-Box, wBST, Melbourne
- Drawing Folio, Block Projects, Melbourne
2008
- Wonderlust, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth
- The Ecologies Project, Monash Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne
- Pilot at Utopian Slumps, Utopian Slumps, Melbourne
2007
- Regarding Fear and Hope, Monash University Art Museum, Melbourne
- Devotee: the will to belong to the recent past, Cabinet, London
- Door Slamming festival, Neu Galerie, Berlin
- Raised by wolves, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth
2006
- New to the modern, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne
- Turrbal-Jagera, University Art Museum, Queensland University, Brisbane
- New social commentaries 06, Warrnambool Art Gallery, Warrnambool, Victoria
- 21st century modern, 2006 Adelaide Biennale of Australian Art, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
- Heart and mind, TarraWarra Museum of Art, Healesville, Victoria
2005
- There are no coincidences, David Pestorius Projects, Brisbane
- Slave, Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne
- Interesting times, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
- A short ride in a fast machine, Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne
2004
- Ed Kuepper’s music for Len Lye, Pestorius Sweeney House, Brisbane and toured internationally
- 1+ 1, Yuill/Crowley Gallery, Sydney
- This is not America, Queensland College of Art Gallery, Brisbane and Austellungen by Horst Schuler, Dusseldorf
2003
- Bethaniendamm, David Pestorius Art Projects, Art Forum, Berlin
2001
- Parallel structures, Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne and SouthBank, Brisbane
2001
- National Sculpture Prize and Exhibition, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
1998
- Graphic, Monash University Gallery, Melbourne
1997
- Power, corruption and lies, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane
1996
- Photography is dead, long live photography, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
- Poolshoogte, contemporary photography from Holland, Belgium and Germany, Nederland Foot Institute, Rotterdam
1995
- Burchill-McCamley, Duwenhogger-Hohn, Marfetti-Majerski, Wiensowski und Harbord, Berlin
- Oikos und eigenbau, Littenstrasse, Berlin
- Kine (Kunst) 95, International Festival of Art Films, Knokke, Belgium
1994
- Virtual reality, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
- Accrochage, Lukas & Hoffmann, Cologne 1993
- Building, dwelling, thinking, feeling, Rainer Borgemeister, Berlin
- Wit’s End, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
- ‘E’, Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin
- Unikat unlimitiert, Studio Bildende Kunst, Berlin
- Human alchemy, La Fabbrica di Seta-Arte Contemporanea, Arrezzo, Italy 1991 Banal art, Artspace, Sydney
1989
- Australian Perspecta 1989, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
- Experimental film by Australian artists, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane