:: SARAH-MACE DENNIS :: Biography ::

Trained in collaborative, interdisciplinary arts practice at the School of Arts, Griffith University, Sarah-Mace Dennis graduated from the Bachelor of Creative Arts with first class honours and the University Medal in 2004.  Working as an artist, writer and theorist her practice utilizes traditional and emerging technologies in its exploration of issues related to landscape, the built environment, memory, perception, consciousness, place and space.  She has produced work for exhibitions, conferences, screenings and public readings throughout Australia, and her creative and critical writing has been published in various Australian journals.  Sarah-Mace has received funding from the Australia Council for the Arts, the Australian Network for Art and Technology, the National Association for the Visual Arts and Youth Arts QLD. In 2001 she recieved runner up in the National Undergraduate Writing Awards as well as highly commended in the State Library of QLD Young Writers Award.  In 2007 she was commissioned by Artworkers Alliance and Portside Wharf to create a new temporary video installation for the Wharf. This project launched in November 2008.

More recently, Sarah has collaborated with Svenja Kratz on a range of media arts projects exploring presence, absence and the passing of time.  As Dennis Kratz they participated in Bathurst Regional Art Gallery’s Hill End Artist in Residence Program in 2004 and in 2005 were selected for Marrickville City Council’s Local and National Artist in Residence Program.  Funded by the Literature Board of the Australia Council for the Arts, their recent work, Diorama:  Constructing a Virtual Memory was launched as part of Electro-online 2007.  In the same year they were commissioned by Artworkers Alliance and the State Library of QLD to create Where Whispers Walk, an interactive video animation produced in collaboration with Archie Moore for the foyer of the State Library of Queensland.