ERIN CROUCH
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b.1984
Lives and works in Naarm/Melbourne, Australia

Erin Crouch is a visual artist who works with moving image to create video and film installations. Her works often tease out surface tensions built up in history, exploring the way these histories exist presently and manifest in individual and collective psyches. She holds a Master of Fine Art from Monash University and is currently on the board of un Projects.

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EDUCATION
2018 / Master of Fine Art, MADA, Monash University
2015 / Bachelor of Fine Art (Honours) MADA, Monash University
2013 / Bachelor of Fine Art, RMIT University & Aalto University School of Art Design and Architecture, Helsinki, Finland
2010 / Diploma of Visual Arts, RMIT TAFE

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS AND SCREENINGS
2021 / My Father, My Father, Friday Night, Savage Garden, Melbourne
2019 / Clean Up Efforts Underway, recess, Online
2018 / Then Daddy Takes His Place in an Australian Landscape, SCREENING: Treasury Theatre, Melbourne
2017 / Under the Jumpers, TCB Art Inc., Melbourne
2014 / Feast, with Kalinda Vary, Knight Street Art Space, Melbourne
2012 / Karionkatu One, House Show with Claudia Pagès, Helsinki, Finland.
2010 / Someone Else’s House, with Rylie James Thomas, Blindside, Melbourne

SELECTED GROUP SHOWS
2023 / Melbourne Now, NGV X RECESS: ARTIST FILM PROGRAM, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
2021 / Folie à Deux, screened with But I awoke happy, purely animal by Olivia Koh, AAAB Gallery, Melbourne
2019 / Tomorrow in three stanzas, Cinema One, HOBIENNALE, Hobart
2019 / A message in the collar, HOBIENNALE, Hobart
2019 / False Feeling, Constance ARI, Hobart
2019 / Black_Box, recess, Kings ARI, Melbourne
2018 / THERE IS A PAIN - SO UTTER, Gertrude Contemporary Glasshouse, Melbourne
2017 / Loosen, TCB art Inc., Melbourne
2016 / Disinterment, MADA Gallery, Monash University, Melbourne
2013 / Nothing Abides, Nothing Remains, Kings ARI, Melbourne

GRANTS, AWARDS, SCHOLARSHIPS
2020 / National Assistance Program for the Arts, Grant, Myer Foundation
2016 / Australian Postgraduate Award, MFA Research Scholarship, Monash University
2015 / Honours Award, Monash University
2013 / Link Arts, Research Grant (awarded with Rylie Thomas & Claudia Pagès), RMIT University
2012 / Northcote Trust Scholarship, RMIT University

COLLECTIVES, WORKSHOPS, COLLABORATIONS, PERFORMANCES
2022 / un Projects, Board Member (Treasurer), 2022 - Ongoing, Melbourne
2018 / TCB Art Inc, Board Member 2018 - 2021, Melbourne
2021 / SAFE, Workshop facilitated by Höflich with Bus Projects, Melbourne
2019 / FILM PERFORMANCE (Act 3): reprise, Performance, Fiona Macdonald, Neon Parc, Melbourne
2018 / Film Performance (Act 3), Performance, Fiona Macdonald. MUMA, Monash University
2017 / IN TREATMENT, Performance, Fiona Macdonald. Westspace, Melbourne
2016 / Opening Act, Performance, Fiona Macdonald, Westspace, Melbourne
2017 / Our Future Networks - workshop and performance salon with Alex Martinis Roe, The National 2017, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

PUBLICATIONS
2022 / SAFE: Rearranging the Library, facilitated by Ruth Höflich with Michael Bojkowski, Erin Crouch, Georgie Flood, H.A. Halpert, Christiane Huber, Olivia Koh, Hen Vaughan, Briony Galligan and Pip Wallis, Bus Projects and Melbourne Art Book Fair.
2015 / Nellie Reinhard, Louis Mason and Carolyn Lim (ed). X Texts: A collection of texts presented at Knight St Art Space, Melbourne, Australia
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