Curriculum Vitae
Josie Alexandra
AWARDS + PRIZES
Compass in Hand:
2024 Overall Winner prize in "the churchie" emerging art prize (AUD $30,000)
2024 Winner - Best Experimental Music Video, Cinematography & Photography Awards
2023 Winner - Best Cinematography, Multicultural Mental Health Film Festival
2023 Winner - Lift-Off Global Network - First Time Sessions Filmmaker awards
RESIDENCIES
2023 Hangar, Lisbon, Portugal (March 2023)
2023 ArteSumapaz, Colombia - (December 2022 - Feb 2023)
2022 Ionion Center for the Arts and Culture, Greece - (April-June 2022)
PROCUDING / ARTISTIC DIRECTION
2024 ’POWER IN FLUIDITY’ a group exhibition co-produced and co-curated with Bold Mellon Collective in partnership with Finsbury Park Picturehouse.
2023 Compass in Hand, director, producer, sound designer, editor, media & marketing {lead artist}
2018 REWORKED, a series of conversations for Unfinished Business at ACCA {co-creator}
ARTISTIC PROJECTS
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2024 Compass in Hand, @ BLINDSIDE, (online)
2024 What Energy Does, @The Front Gallery, (Canberra, ACT)
2020 dancing to non-dualist dynamics, Solo Painting Exhibition, (Sabato Place, Ascot Vale)
Selected Group Exhibitions
2024 ’POWER IN FLUIDITY’ @ Finsbury Park Picturehouse (October)
2024 “UP TO NO GOOD” @ Rich Mix (London) curated by Bold Mellon Collective
2022 Deprogrammed-Intimacy The Waiting Room Project, Sydney Sexual Health Centre, (November)
2020 raindance, curated by Sean Miles, (Grey Gardens Galley, Fitzroy)
2019 spring show, + fundraiser for Djap Wurrung Embassy, curated by Isabella Hone-Saunders
2018 “reaching, beyond the binary - room F214.” Intermission, curated by George Goodnow, (Collingwood Yards, Melbourne).
2017 Bent at an Angle, collaboration with Cara Best, (Testing Grounds, Melbourne Fringe Festival)
Poetry + Writing
2022 - 2025 Thistles Bloom Underground (currently an unpublished manuscript)
2022 grey zones accentuated, (self-published)
2019 - 2020 imprints of witness, poetry book: author, publicist, graphic designer, (self-published)
2019 like, badass grandma wisdom of 21’s, author, (published by Verve Zine)
2018 often, it’s more about conversations, (collection exhibited at Ruptures Gallery, Melbourne)
2018 bike lane poetry (collection exhibited at The Parlour, Melbourne)
Sound Work + Music (solo)
2023 AS THEY ARE THEY, part of Neural Networks VA compilation, commission by Guy Louis Faletolu
2023 Considered Dialogues, album (in progress)
2022 at’em-Hz, composer, producer, vocalist
2019 little iterations, installation, spoken-word, vocalist & production (VCA Grad Show)
Group Sound Work
2020 TRANSIT AEAEA spoken-word vocals, producer, & mixer. co-producer; Douglas McDowell
Performances
2022 HillScene Live Arts Festival (Nov 2022)
2022 Leaps & Bounds Music Festival, Grace Darling Hotel (Collingwood)
2022 Live Dreams: THRESHOLD Performance Space and Carriageworks (Sydney)
2022 X4NDR4 in Ithaca, Chorafaki Square - Skaki, (Vathi, Ithaca, Greece)
2022 Baby Queers, curated by George Criddle & Andrew Goodman, (HareHole)
2021 _S-P_I-N_E- performer & spoken word performance, (Tempo Rubato, Brunswick)
Film + Cinematography
2022 A test Prototyping digital sketch (in progress) {lead artist}
2020 VISUALA ~ LAPPING writer, producer, editor
2020 Aarti Juda Ensemble, Live at Radar, commissioned videographer & editor
2019 moving through these spaces #1 and #2, producer, videographer & editor
2017 Introducing the Lucy Jucy Crew
2016 The Coffin co-writer, producer, editor {co-creator}
GRANTS
2022 Australia Council for the Arts - Arts Projects For Individuals and Groups
2022 Creative Victoria - Creative Projects Fund
2022 Creative Victoria - Music Works
2022 Ian Potter Cultural Trust
2022 Regional Arts Victoria - Quick Response Grant
SELECTED DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMS
2023 Intern for Mia Schachter founder of Consent Wizardry (10 hr per month from April)
2023 Intern & training in The Iris Map methodology with Ann Papoulis (2022 - 2023)
2022 hsL 2022 Speculative Beginnings, Hill Scene Live (artist development & festival - four months)
2022 Digital Transformation for the Creative Industries, Australian Council for the Arts, (6 weeks)
2022 Consent & Communication Deep Dive with Lux Gypsum (6-week course feb-march 2022)
2021 Footscray Community Arts, AXIS - introduction to audio and lighting. (short course)
2021 Express Media - Left to Write - Poetry. (6 weeks)
2021 Express Media - Toolkits: Performance Poetry. (12 weeks)
2021 The Push - Electronic Music Accelerator. (8 weeks)
2021 School of Synthesis - Sound Design (Synthesis & Sampling). (8 weeks)
2021 Isobel Anderson & Female DIY Musician - Home Recording Academy. (10 weeks)
SELECTED TEACHING + PRESENTATIONS
2022 Parkville College, Parkville, Department of Education (2.5years)
2021 Artist Talk at VCA in CATS 5 (April 28th) invited by Andrew Goodman and George Criddle
2019 Panellist at a Senselab Event at La Trobe Art Institute Bendigo (“Neurodiversity & Creative Practice” & “Study” co-facilitator with Tessa Laird and Andrew Goodman)
CERTIFICATES + QUALIFICATIONS
2024 Raindance Film Producers' Foundation Certificate, Raindance Short Courses
2020 TAE4016 Certificate IV in Training and Assessment, Fortress Learning
2019 Bachelor of Fine Art (Honours), VCA, University of Melbourne
SELECTED PRESS
2023 V2: I5 - cartography of interiority Volume 2 Issue 5 of Gypsophila. Published May 31, 2023