EDUCATION
2002 University of Tasmania - BA (English)
2005 University of Tasmania – BFA Hons (Art Theory)
EXHIBITIONS
2012 This is what I do CAST (Curator Wes Hill)
2011 Shotgun CAST
Panoply (group show) Sawtooth ARI
Tasmania is an Anagram of I am Satan – HELL ARI, Victoria
Mr. Clevver (ongoing collaboration with Heather and Ivan Morrison, CAST)
Detournment – Art at The Brisbane Hotel
Evil Goat (sound collaboration with Scot Cotterrell) performance MONA
2010 The Flâneur Project: The Midlands Highway (7 day walking performance, installation ) part of Look Out (group show) jointly curated by TMAG and CAST
In the Hall Of The Mountain King Installation INFLIGHT A.R.I.
Mr. Clevver (ongoing collaboration with Heather and Ivan Morrison, CAST)
Art at The Brisbane Hotel (group show)
2009 Loop, performance (with Scot Cotterell), The Brisbane Hotel, Hobart & Hobart Summer festival
ONO project (artist and organiser)
ONALOG (group show, Plimsoll Gallery, Curator: John Vella)
Little Red Riding Hood (group show) INFLIGHT ARI
Real Good Drawer (group show)Six_A ARI
Return to sender (group show) Burnie Regional Gallery
POST (group show)10% pending homeless ARI
sound poem (performance) six_ARI – Amplified sound festival
Six_A sound and experimental music festival (curator, organiser)
2008 Battery Operated, Membrane, Next Wave Festival
Acrid, Performance installation Six_A ARI, Hobart
Guerrilla Gallery, 10% Pending ARI, This is Not Art Festival, Newcastle, NSW Taste of Tasmania, Hobart, Tasmania
ONO Project, Hobart,Tasmania. (organiser, artist, performer)
2007 A Thousand Pardons, video installation, Forepaw, Melbourne
A Thousand Pardons, performance installation, 3 into 1, CAST Gallery, Hobart
Piss (Light), video, Sex and the City, BUS Gallery (group show0, Melbourne
Piss (Light), digital prints, No. 1 (group show), Six_A ARI, Hobart
2006 Bad Fairy, performance, Forepaw, Melbourne
2005 Celluloid Curse Against the Current Government, Surface (curator Scott Cotterell), CAST Gallery
2004 Celluloid Curse Against the Current Government, Network Of Uncollectable Artists, (include in series of collector's cards)
2002 Celluloid Curse Against the Current Government, performance, This Is Not Art Festival
What the Fuck is Spoken Arts?, panellist, This Is Not Art Festival, Newcastle, NSW
White Words, performance, This Is Not Art Festival, Newcastle, NSW
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
Six_A Artist Run Initiative, founding board member
ONO Project, committee member
Hobart Underground, organiser and curator
Network of Uncollectable Artists, Australia’s 50 Most Uncollectable Artists, No. 25, Next Wave Festival, 2004.
PUBLICATIONS
2010 Andrew Harper, Attempting Alchemy — Using the critical strategy outlined in David Keenan’s ‘Childhoods’ End’ to expand on Amelia Douglas’ notion of ‘Pyschotropicalism’, UN magazine 4.2
Andrew Harper, MONA FOMA, Artlink Vol 30, No. 1
Andrew Harper, Looping and Shimmering, Realtime 96
2009 Andrew Harper, Deus Ex Machina (essay for Rob O'Connor at Bett Gallery)
Philip Watkins, Big Bad World, Artlink Vol 29, No. 2
Andrew Harper, Lust for Life, Catalogue Essay
Andrew Harper, God Listens to Slayer, Encoding Experience, TMAG catalogue essay
Andrew Harper, Of the moment and about time, Realtime 89
Andrew Harper, A Sudden Responsibility, A New Career, Realtime 88
Andrew Harper, Phone Magic, Realtime 88
2008 Andrew Harper, Tasmanian Horrors: Real and Mythic, Realtime 85
2007 Andrew Harper, The Art of Not Listening, Realtime 81
Andrew Harper, Your Call Is Important To Us…, Catalogue Essay
2006 Andrew Harper, review, What We Do Is Secret
2005 Felix Radcliff, Surface, Un Magazine, issue 5, p.55
RELATED EXPERIENCE
2012 Arts Writer for WARP Street press, regular column
2011 Arts writer for Warp Street press; regular column
Response Writer for Iteration:Again CAST
Opening Speaker Ashes to Ashes (Joel Crosswell, Inflight)
Opening Speaker Holy Hell / Core (Tom O'Hern & Rob O'Connor, Bett Gallery)
Opening Speaker Makeshift Tongue (Tim Panaretos, Top Gallery, Salamanca Arts Centre)
2010 MONA – curator for MONA sideshows
Kickstart Arts Inc, Artist and teaching
2009 Opening Speaker Deus Ex Machina (Robert O'Conner, Bett Gallery)
Kickstart Arts Inc, Artist and teaching
Real Time Magazine, Review writer
ABC Local Radio, Film Reviewer
2008 Right Angle Publishing, Advertising Copy Writer
Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Gallery Attendant
Salamanca Arts Centre, Theatre Technician, Data Entry
2007 Edge FM, Breakfast Radio presenter ( occasionally to 2010)
2006 Big Wig Youth theatre, theatre skills teacher
Hobart Comedy Festival, performer
Hobart Fringe Festival, Board member, artist