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Janelle Evans Janelle Evans i(6035705 works by)
Born: Established: 1960 Innisfail, Innisfail area, Cardwell - Tully - Innisfail area, Ingham - Cairns area, Queensland, ;
Gender: Female
Heritage: Aboriginal Bundjalung ; Swedish ; German ; Aboriginal Dharug / Daruk / Darug ; Aboriginal
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BiographyHistory

'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.

Most Referenced Works

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