
The Macfarlane Fund 2018, group exhibition
JOSEPHINE MEAD
Ocular Looking Devices, 2018
Stockroom Kyneton, gallery one
10 November / 02 December 2018
JOSEPHINE MEAD
The Macfarlane Fund 2018, group exhibition
Josephine Mead is a visual artist and writer, who is interested in investigating personal notions of support. Through her practice, she works through photography, sculpture, installation and text.
Josephine completed a Bachelor Degree of Fine Art (Expanded Studio Practice) at RMIT in 2014 and completed her Honours Degree in Fine Art at Monash University in 2017, for which she was awarded First Class Honours.
She has exhibited widely at a range of venues including Bus Projects, Seventh, Craft Victoria, Blindside, Kings Artist-Run, Blue Oyster Space and the RMIT and Monash faculty galleries. In 2018 she was shortlisted for the John Fries Award; undertook research in the Juan C Mendez Photographic Archive through the Arquetopia Foundation Residency; participated in the Kings Emerging Writers Program.
She has recently been published by Art + Australia and un.
As a recent graduate student, Josephine Mead is one of the three recipients of The Macfarlane Fund 2018 alongside Harry Zed Hughes and Angela Chauvin, culminating to a group exhibition held at Stockroom.
The Macfarlane Fund was established with the primary focus to offer financial support across the career span of artists with three main funding streams at graduate, mid-career and senior levels.
JOSEPHINE MEAD
Ocular Looking Devices, 2018
JOSEPHINE MEAD
Ocular Looking Device (brass), 2018
brass
220 x 73 x 63 cm
JOSEPHINE MEAD
Ocular Looking Device (copper), 2018
copper
202 x 113 x 53 cm
JOSEPHINE MEAD
Ocular Looking Device (steel), 2018
steel
231 x 145 x 65 cm