curriculum vitae
education
2007
2004 MASTERCLASS EXPERIMENTAL NARRATIVE
2000
1994 BA (Visual)
University of
1985
performance and voice pieces
2005 voice as sound piece I and 11 Milan Studio
2004 voice as California State University Fresno
2002 Lost
1999 Voice Performance Piece Soapbox
1998 Opera for Morse Code Canberra University Gallery
1997 Black Face Canberra University Gallery
Written on the Body Contemporary Art Space
international exhibitions
2007 Fast Women Film Festival (unplacements between)
2007 We are all Photographers Now Musée de l'Elysée
2004
1989 Bulletin/MUMM Gordon Rouge Photographic Award Group
exhibition-traveled nationally and then to
solo exhibitions
2007 Thats all I've got, The Mary Tyler Moore Cunt Show
UNPLACE Project Brisbane
2007 Cabinet of Curiosity Brisbane Square Library Brisbane
2007 Cabinet of Curiosity Chermside Library Brisbane
2007 p.s.s. Pleasure Seeking Syndrome 123TV Tape Project
Melbourne
2007 p.s.s. Pleasure Seeking Syndrome Noosa Regional Gallery
2006 cactus milk (unplacements between) Metro Arts2005 written on Studio Brisbane
2004 threaded silence Studio Brisbane
2002 undoin’ Studio
2001 grammar of the body Studio Brisbane
1999 Flesh Maps I Palace Gallery
Flesh Maps II H Block Gallery
1997 Draw Sheets Palace Gallery
1994 STRANGE Devotion Spiral Arm Gallery
1993 Childhood a
1991 Theatre of Plants Tilley Devine Gallery
1988 Women Tilley Devine Gallery
1987 Canvases Tilley Devine Gallery
selected group shows
2007 A Moment of Friendship Evolution Gallery
2006 10+Beyond Noosa Regional Gallery Noosa
2003 inside outside Gallery Nona Brisbane
2000 doll-a-doll Gallery Nona Brisbane
1999 exit genres Soapbox Brisbane
1999 seething Palace Gallery Brisbane
1996 Show H Block
1996 Drawing Show H Block
1995 THIS SORT OF THING H Block
1994 G Exhibition School Of
1994 Breathing under
1994
1993 Narrative Drawings with
1993 Art Tart with
1991 Women's Photographic Exhibition Art Place Gallery Bega
1991 Do Up PhotoAccess Exhibition Theatre Space
1991 Sister Trust Women's Art Exhibition Gorman House
1990 The Hand-Colored Proofs PhotoAccess Gallery
1990 Undone Photographic Exhibition Theatre Gallery
1989 Photographers on Photographers Photo Bizarre
1989 Women's Summer School Photographic Exhibition Tilley
Devine Gallery
1989 Two to do Photographic Exhibition Theatre Gallery
1988 Unearthing Kelley Street Gallery
Sydney Morning Herald Art Award Exhibition
1987 Sister Trust Women's Art Exhibition Gorman House
1986 Women's Summer School Photographic Exhibition Tilley
Devine Gallery
1984
1983 Rites of Passage School of
collections
Bulletin/MUMM Gordon Rouge Photographic and Art Collection
National Library
bibliography
EYELINE Magazine Summer 2007
Experimental writer takes her writing overseas, Courier Mail 2004
Strange Devotion. Kerry-Anne Cousins. Muse number 135. October 1994
Happy Things at Megalo. Paul Peisley. Artefacts. Autumn 1993
Helles Belles Process.
vol. 1 no 4
Flashes of Passion Mumm Cordon Rouge Photographic Awards The
Bulletin. October 1989
Women’s Summer School 1984-89. Susan Ferrari. Against the Grain.
Winter 1989
Filtered Images of Imagists. Garry Raphael.
Magazine. November 1989
Women’s Exhibit. Brian Oakes.
Sensitive and Perceptive. Gary Rafael.
Photos Against The Grain. Susan Ferrari. Spring - Summer 1986
Photographic Images of Woman: Essay. Diane Cook. Wimmin’s News.
November 1984
publishing
2007 Cabinet of Curiosities 2007 Cowgirls and Monsters
2007 Writing as text – numerous self published texts
2007 Artists Catalogue Essay - Gael Donnelly
2005 Gargoyle Journal
2005 Artist’s Catalogue Essay – Hannah Bloom
2004 Shampoo Journal of Experimental Writing
2004 Artist’s Catalogue Essay - Rachael Haynes
2004 Artist’s Catalogue Essay - Daniel Mafe
Manifesting Literary Feminisms Conference: Drafts, Grafts, Nexus and Faultlines. Monash University 2007. (individual speaker and seminar )
Speculation and Innovation (SPIN)Conference Innovation and Creativity
as Research.
Experimental Writing Conference California USA 2004
overseas residencies
2005- 2006 Six months in Europe, London Paris, Berlin and
2004 Experimental
1998
1995
www.majenamafe.com
www.unplacementsbetween.com
collaborations
Unplacements Between with Susan Buret
http://www.unplacementsbetween.com
Dispatx http://www.dispatx.com
South Project http://www.southproject
biography
2007 Completed Masters of Philosophy (Creative Writing) University of Queensland Brisbane
2006 Collaboration team Unplacements Between formed with Susan Buret
Cactus Milk, exhibition at Metro Arts with Susan Buret
Body of work on text insults and the obscene begun
Working on Walled Words - as bodies without mouths
Submitted Masters of Philosophy to UQ for assessment
Begins research into outsider artist’s use of text in imagery
Returned in March from 3 months traveling overseas, plus 3 month residency in
2005 Overseas for 4 months, Venice Biennale, Arco Art Fair,
Working on Objects for Pronunciating Sounded Sounds
Conducted artmilk art tour-Italy
Launched ‘artmilk’, an innovative independent art school
Finished experimental novel, ‘Sounding of the Other Light … a biography’
Finished thesis paper on ‘SOUNDING THE INEFFABLE’ The pre-Socratic notion of Subtle Light, Mystical Testimonies and the Brilliance in Gertrude Stein
Starts up artists book collective
Began making artist text books
Drawing sound traces with the throat.
Starts up a group for women artist’s working with ideas of the body
Written piece…’pintuckers’ published by Gargoyle
Doll as Chronicle exhibition
Began text painting, focusing on sentence structure, grammar and the absurd
Began research into glossolalia
2004 Performance piece presented at Cal-Arts California
Traveled to
Awarded grant by Arts Queensland
Receives grant from
Wins Scholarship to attend Master Writing Class in
Working on Word Events, Performance Pieces and Machine Generated Texts
Teaching at the Brisbane Institute of Art
2003 Enrolled in
Begins experimental text work
Working on Machine Generated Texts
Begins research into the Sound of Language
Teaching at the BIA and QUT
2002 Began large gouaches focusing on mark making as a type of trace of the full and empty spaces in the thorax- image as text
Creative member of team starting Creativity Unit at Queensland University of Technology lecturing weekly to 400 students
Teaching at the BIA and QUT
2001 Travelled extensively with the
stations teaching art
Completed Master of Fine Art in Visual Arts
Wrote ‘6 steps in the making…’ major text on making work. Self published.
Introduced advanced classes at the BIA
Introduced professional practice classes at the BIA
Teaching at the BIA and QUT
2000 Performance piece, using voice, with Jondi Keane at Soapbox, directed by Vanessa Mafe-Keane
Teaching at the BIA and QUT
1998 Europe tour – to study outsider art and research first hand cathedral architecture,
Began study of cathedral architecture, and early English literature and mystical testimony
Teaching at QUT
1997
Teaching at QUT
1996 Residency in
Begins novel on light as perception
Begins research into light as lux, ideas of perception in philosophy and the middle ages, the testimonies of the medieval mystics and feminist perspectives on language
Working on cloth figures as The Silent as un-Movies.
Studies begin in philosophy ancient Greek to contemporary French feminist
Teaching at QUT
1995 Begins Master of Visual Arts at
Teaching at QUT