'Janelle Evans is an Australian visual artist and filmmaker of Aboriginal (Dharug/Bundjalung), Swedish, German, and Anglo-Celtic descent. Her work explores issues of female gender, ethnicity, and identity within an Australian post-colonial context. She is a recent graduate of the Queensland College of Art where she was awarded a Bachelor of Contemporary Australian Indigenous Art. In 2012 she graduated from Sydney College of the Arts with a Bachelor of Visual Arts (Honours Class 1) and exhibited in Paris in the same year. In 2008 Janelle attended a residency at Tokyo Geidai University of Fine Arts and exhibited at the Ueno Town Museum, Tokyo.'
'Janelle’s art practice has incorporated printmaking, painting and video performance
pieces, as well as writing and directing for theatre, film, television and radio in Australia and Europe. Her short films have screened in cinemas and festivals in
Australia. She has completed several master classes at the Australian Film Television and Radio School and was selected in 2006 to be a recipient of the Macquarie Bank’s Indigenous Scholarship for professional development at the School. She has participated in a number of group and solo exhibitions in Australia and produced a short film titled Phoenix for Dacchi Dang which screened at the Sydney Festival in 2011 and an animated short film titled Captain van Dang which screened at the Sydney Festival in 2012.' (Source: Janelle Evans 2013).
Exhibitions
'Medicine Bottles' from the series 'Upon the Place of the Blood - Peel Island' - 2009
'Upon the Place of the Blood' Kurilpa Gallery, Brisbane - 2010
Group Exhibitions
'Le Point de Papunya : Créations autour de l’art aborigène (Beyond the Papunya Dot: New Works by Australian Artists)', Atelier, Musée de Montparnasse, Paris - 2012
Remembering Teerk Roo-Ra, POP Gallery, Woolloongabba, - 2011.
The Babel Projekt: Bosch Tower, Woodford Festival - 2011
Shelf Life, Delmar Gallery, Sydney - 2010
South East Queensland Aboriginal Artists, QUT Touring Exhibition - 2010
The Other APT, online exhibition - 2009
Hashi Hashi, The Galleria, Brisbane - 2009
Box Box, Taito Museum, Ueno, Tokyo, Japan - 2008
Planet Ueno, Taito Museum, Ueno, Tokyo, Japan - 2008
Legal and Addictive, 7th Edition, White Box Gallery, South Bank Brisbane - 2007
Awards
Robert Flloyd Marshall & Essen Marshall Scholarship, University of Sydney - 2012
Commonwealth Scholarship - 2007- 2009
Governor of Queensland Award for Excellence, Dead-line Project - 2007
Macquarie Bank Indigenous Scholarship for Professional Development, (Australian Film Television Radio School) - 2006
Literary Works
'Blak is the New Black: Authenticity, Identity and Representation in Contemporary Australian Urban Indigenous Art' - 2013 (to be Published)
Short Films
Captain van Dang Explores the Great Southern Land, (for artist Dacchi Dang and commissioned by and screened at the Sydney Festival) - 2012
Phoenix (produced for artist Dacchi Dang and commissioned by and screened at the Sydney Festival) - 2010
Golden Angel, (short film script) - 2008
One Day in Ueno - 2008
Deadline - 2007
Going Home, (A Silver Halide film) - 2005
Remembering Paul - 2004
Feature Films
Snake, (Feature Film script) - 2007
Princess Crocodile, (Script developed with the assistance of PFTC)
Television
Bloke Art with Richard Bell, (mini series) in Development with the assistance of NITV
Merchant of Dreams, (documentary) co-produced with Colosimo Films
Theatre
Tchaikovsky's Letters, performed at The Powerhouse, Brisbane - 2004
Paul and Vincent, (adapted by Janelle Evans from a dramatic poem written by David R. Reiter and performed at the 4MBS Performance Studio, Brisbane - 2004
The Music of Jane Austen, (adapted by Janelle Evans from The Music of Jane Austen radio broadcast), performed at 4MBS Performance Studio - 2004-2005.
Radio Drama
The Music of Jane Austen (6x30mins), broadcasted on 4MBS - 2004-2005.
