Trained in collaborative, interdisciplinary arts practice at the School of Arts, Griffith University, Sarah-Mace Dennis is an artist, and writer whose work utilizes traditional and emerging technologies in its exploration of issues related to landscape, the built environment, memory, perception and place. She has produced work for exhibitions, conferences, screenings and performances throughout Australia, and her writing has been published in various Australian journals. Sarah-Mace has received funding from the Australia Council for the Arts, the Australian Network for Art and Technology, the National Association for the Visual Arts and Youth Arts QLD, and won the commendation prize in the New Technologies section of the Churchie Emerging Art Awards in 2001 and 2002. In 2007 she was one of twenty artists invited to participate in the exhibition Twenty Twenty – Twenty Years of the Churchie Emerging Art Award, held at the Museum of Brisbane. More recently, Sarah has collaborated with Svenja Kratz on a range of media arts projects exploring presence, absence and the passing of time. In 2004 they participated in Bathurst Regional Art Gallery’s Hill End Artist in Residence Program and in 2005 were selected for Marrickville City Council’s Local and National Artist in Residence Program. Funded by the Literature Board of the Australia Council for the Arts, their recent work, Diorama: Constructing a Virtual Memory was launched as part of Electro-online 2007. In the same year they were commissioned by Artworkers Alliance and the State Library of QLD to create Where Whispers Walk, an interactive video animation produced in collaboration with Archie Moore for the foyer of the State Library of Queensland. Sarah-Mace has taught in the areas of cultural studies, media studies and contemporary visual art at Griffith University Gold Coast, University of Technology Sydney and Charles Sturt University Bathurst. From 2004 – 2005 she was the Arts and Cultural Development Officer for Parramatta City Council and from 2005 – 2007 was Manager of the Australian Fossil and Mineral Museum in Bathurst.

Websites

Website url: http://www.sarahmacedennis.com
Blog url: http://reimagininginspiritedgeographies.blogspot.com/

Areas of Practice

Artist, Educator, Writer

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