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    Born Brisbane, Australia.

    UK Resident.

    Currently lives and works in London. 

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    SHORT FILMS

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    2015 

    Everyday Stories of Colossal Importance.

    PRODUCER, DIRECTOR, EDITOR (Premier Pro CC).

    Waltham Forest Council/ Scene Cinema, London.

    2011  

    Keys to Your Heart.  

    WRITER, DIRECTOR. 

    2009  

    Rebel Wessex.

    WRITER, DIRECTOR. 

    Metro Screen and Screen Australia (Raw Nerve Initiative)

     

    COMMERCIALS/ CAMPAIGNS

     

    2017

    Fast and the Furriest. (Promo)

    EDITOR (Premier Pro CC).

    Focus 24 (London).

    2016

    My Best Me. (Online commercial, unreleased)

    DIRECTOR, EDITOR (Premier Pro CC).

    Media Bounty (London).

    2015

    Right to Choose.

    DIRECTOR, EDITOR (Premier Pro CC).

    Raindown (London) for UK Government.

    2012

    Change a Life that Will Change the World.

    DIRECTOR, EDITOR (Final Cut Pro).

    Rebel Spirit Productions for Edmen Staffint Solutions.

    2014

    Being 65

    PRODUCER, DIRECTOR, EDITOR (Premier Pro CC).

    Mofilm/ Dennis and Bell.

     

    DOCUMENTARY/ COMMUNITY STORIES

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    2017 

    Inspiring Hearts.

    DIRECTOR.

    IManchester and Coventry, Aged Care Channel. 

    2016 - 2017

    Patient Journey Films. Canada,

    Italy, France, UK and Germany (5 films per

    country) Inspired films

    2015 

    Harvey.

    DIRECTOR, EDITOR, COLOURIST (Premier Pro CC/ Speedgrade).

    Waltham Forest Council/ Scene Cinema, London. 

    Nigel.  

    DIRECTOR, EDITOR, COLOURIST (Premier Pro CC/ Speedgrade).  

    Waltham Forest Council/ Scene Cinema, London.

    Kiechelle.

    DIRECTOR, EDITOR, (Premier Pro CC).  

    ​Waltham Forest Council/ Scene Cinema, London.   

    Silvana. 

    DIRECTOR, EDITOR, (Premier Pro CC).  

    ​Waltham Forest Council/ Scene Cinema, London.

    Shibaz. 

    DIRECTOR, EDITOR, (Premier Pro CC).  

    ​Waltham Forest Council/ Scene Cinema, London.

    Roger.

    DIRECTOR, EDITOR, (Premier Pro CC).  

    ​Waltham Forest Council/ Scene Cinema, London.

    2014   

    Tally Ho! A Place to Meet.

    DIRECTOR, EDITOR (Premier Pro CC).

    Artsdepot, North London. 

    2013   

    Sounds from the Emergent State.

    PRODUCER, DIRECTOR, EDITOR (Final Cut Pro).

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    MUSIC VIDEO

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    2012  

    Relapse.

    DIRECTOR, EDITOR, (Final Cut Pro). 

    Rebel Spirit Productions/ Pixelframe.

    2010  

    Tokyo.

    DIRECTOR.

    Edge of Colour. 

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    SELECTED COMMISSIONS/ PUBLIC ART

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    2015

    Everyday Stories of Colossal Importance.

    The Reel Walthamstow: Scene Moving Image Commission, London.

    2013

    Sounds from the Emergent State.

    Commissioned for State Library of QLD for Live! Queensland Band Culture.

    2012

    Drafting Season.

    Commissioned for Kick Off Contemporary Video Art Metricon Stadium/ Gold Coast Suns.

    2012

    Moving over the Shoreline.

    Commissioned for the new QLD Multicultural Centre.

    2010

    Mondo Ghillies.

    Dance film commissioned by NextWave festival for Private Dances.

    2007

    Where Whispers Walk.

    State Library of QLD

    2008

    Swimming Animistic.

    Temporary Public Art Commission (video) Portside Wharf.

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    VIDEO ART

    2015   

    Swallow.  

    DIRECTOR, EDITOR, VFX. (Premier Pro, After Effects CC).

    2014  

    We Own The Future.

    DIRECTOR, EDITOR, VFX. (Premier Pro, After Effects CC).

    2010 

    Mondo Ghillies.

    PRODUCER, DIRECTOR, EDITOR (Final Cut Pro).

    Next Wave Festival/ Private Dances. 

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    WRITING

     

    BOOKS

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    Dennis, Sarah-Mace (2016) I’m Not There: An Anti-ethnographic Account of Stillness, Plasticity and Becoming. (recently completed).

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    JOURNAL ARTICLES

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    Dennis, Sarah-Mace (2006) ‘Inward, In-ward: Madness and its Ghostly Echo.’ Published in TEXT: The Journal of Australian

    Postgraduate Writing Programs. http://www.textjournal.com.au/oct05/dennis.htm ISSN: 1327-9556.

     

    BOOK CHAPTERS

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    Dennis, Sarah-Mace (2016) ‘Resounding Neurological Ecologies: choreographing the body’s lost interactions with the world,’ in Manley, P and Evans, M (eds.) Movies, Moves and Music, the Sonic World of Dance Films.

     

    SCREEN WRITING

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    Everyday Stories of Colossal Importance. Short film (2015). 

    Being Sixty Five. Promo. (2014).

    Change a life that Will Change the World. Online Commercial. (2011). 

    Keys to Your Heart. Short Film. (2010).

    Rebel Wessex. Short Film. (2009).  

     

    CRITICISM

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    Dennis, Sarah-Mace (2012) ‘More than a shadowy impostor.’ Published in Real Time: Online edition, August 21.

    Dennis, Sarah-Mace (2013) Through the Microscope Glass: Re-imagining the Effect of Forgotten Bodies’ Commissioned Review for Svenja Kratz.

    CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

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    2011      

    'Recasting Unfinished Selves.' Lecture/ Performance presented at Camillo 2.0, Technology, Memory, Experience.

    Performance Studies International. May 25 - 29 Utrecht, the Netherlands.

    2010      

    'Thinking the brain through movement: choreographic the body’s lost interactions with the world.' Presented at In Time Together: World Dance Alliance Global Dance Event. July 12 –17. New York City.

    2009    

    'Reconfiguring Forgotten Ecologies: exploring the invisible spaces of perception.'  Presented at Creative Margins: Tenth Humanities Graduate Research conference.  Curtin University of Technology. 5th – 6th November 2009.

    2007    

    'Give Unto Ceasar – Arts Practice in an Academic Context.' Critical Animals Conference, Newcastle Town Hall, Friday September 28.

    2006  

    'Into the interfold:  Isolation, Historical Memory and the Reconstruction of Time.' Presented at Isolation: Disconnection, Solitude and seclusion in a connected world. Hosted by the Housing and Community Research Unit in the School of Sociology at the University of Tasmania (in collaboration with Svenja Kratz).

    2004    

    'Madness and its Ghostly Echo: images and traces of the dead.' Presented at Perceptual Difference, held as part of the Biennial of Electronic Arts, Perth, September 8 – 13, 2004.

    WORKSHOPS AND TEACHING

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    2016

    Workshop facilitator: By Our Selves. 2 day poetry and film program. Walthamstow School for Girls. 

    2014

    Workshop facilitator: Video and Performance Lab.

    Division of Fine Art at Northampton University.

    Workshop facilitator and mentor to a group of young

    people: Video Production and Editing. artsdepot, London.

    2013

    Guest lecturer and workshop facilitator: Professional

    Studies. Division Of Fine Art at Northampton University.

    2011

    Tutor: Advanced Media Issues, New Media,

    Cultural and Social Change. School of Arts and Media,

    University of New South Wales.

    2010

    Tutor: Media Literacies. School of Arts and Media,

    University of New South Wales

    Tutor: Design Futures, Creative Technologies. Faculty of Design, Architecture and Building, University of

    Technology, Sydney.

    2007

    Tutor: Rethinking Cultures. Faculty of Arts and

    Social Sciences. University of Technology, Sydney.

    Tutor: Media Audiences and Public Opinion. School of Communication and Creative Industries,

    Charles Sturt University.

    2004

    Associate Lecturer: Cyborgs and Shopping Malls. Griffith University, Gold Coast..

    Tutor: Contemporary Visual Arts. Griffith University, Gold Coast..

    Tutor: The Arts in Perspective 1 and 2. Griffith University, Gold Coast.

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    SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS AND SCREENINGS

     

    2015  

    Swallow (Prelude). à l’Œil de Poisson. Quebec, Canada. (exhibition).

    2014           

    Public Art Screens: Vitenfabrikken, Gosen Skole, Tou Scene, Kinokino – Norway. 

    2013            

    Sounds from the Emergent State. State Library of QLD. (exhibition).

    2012            

    Moving over the Shoreline. QLD Multicultural Centre (public projection).             

    Drafting Season. Metricon Stadium - home of the Gold Coast Suns (public projection)

    2011           

    Recasting Unfinished Selves. Performance Studies International. Centre for Visual Arts, Utrecht (lecture/ performance). 

    2009           

    Feeling at the Edge of Something. Gold Coast City Art Gallery, Gold Coast. (video installation)

    2008           

    Swimming Animistic. Portside Wharf (Brisbane), QLD. (public art)

    2007           

    (Colour Shade) I can be everything to everyone. Dubbo Regional Art Gallery, Western Plains Cultural Centre – Dubbo.

    Where Whispers Walk. Interactive public video work. State Library of QLD.

     

    SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS AND SCREENINGS

     

    2016          

    Mondo Ghillies. Bermondsey Shorts. Art Bermondsey Project Space, London (screening)   

    Trans-Ideology: Nostalgia. Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei (exhibition)

    2015          

    Everyday Stories of Colossal Importance. Dream Drafters. Underwire Film Festival, Hackney Picturehouse, London (screening).   

    Everyday Stories of Colossal Importance. The Smalls. Hoxton Arches, London (screening).         

    Kick Off – Boundaries Between Art and Sport. Kickarts, Cairns, Australia (exhibition).

    2014           

    Mondo Ghillies. Friday Night Shorts. Temporary Arts Project. Southend on Sea, United Kingdom. (screening).

    2013           

    Mondo Ghillies. Transart festival, Supermarkt, Berlin, Germany. August 5-9 (screening).

    2012           

    Span. Stockroom, Kyneton, Victoria. (exhibition).         

    Brain Art Project. Verge Gallery, Sydney (exhibition)         

    Keys to Your Heart.  International Short Film Festival, Detmold, Germany. (screening)

    2011           

    Rebel Wessex. International Short Film Festival, Detmold, Germany. (screening)

    2010       

    Mondo Ghillies. Private Dances, Next Wave Festival, Melbourne. (screening)

    2009           

    Rebel Wessex. Chauvel Cinema Paddington, Sydney. (screening)

    2007           

    Diorama: Constructing a Virtual Memory.  Electronline. Electrofringe Festival, Newcastle.  (online hypermedia)        

    20/20:  Twenty Aritsts, Twenty Years of the Churchie Emerging Art Award. Museum of Brisbane. (exhibition)

    2006           

    New Breed. Global Gallery, Sydney. (exhibition)          

    Off the Wall Art Sydney 06. RHI and Horden Pavillion, Sydney. (exhibition)        

    The 34th Alice Art Prize. Auraluen Centre, Alice Springs    Beyond the Blue – artists respond to the Blue Mountains experience. Cowra Regional Art Galley, Cowra (exhibition)          

    Frames of Reference. Bathurst Regional Art Gallery- Bathurst (exhibition)         

    Currency. Metro Arts Main Gallery- Brisbane. (exhibition)

    2005           

    Conrad Jupiters Art Prize. Gold Coast Arts Centre. Gold Coast. (exhibition)        

    Frames of Reference (in collaboration with Svenja Kratz) Bathurst Regional Art Gallery- Bathurst (exhibition)   

    Currency. Metro Arts Main Gallery- Brisbane. (exhibition)

    2004           

    Departure Lounge. Queensland Centre for Photography–Brisbane (exhibition)

    Interfold. Metro Arts Main Gallery, Brisbane (exhibition)  

    The 33rd Alice Art Prize. Auraluen Centre–Alice Springs (exhibition)

    SELECTED RESIDENCIES, GRANTS AND AWARDS

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    2014

    The Reel Walthamstow: Scene Moving Image Commission.

    Walthmstow, UK.

    2013        

    Selected artist, Warp Artist village, Belgium.

    2012         

    ArtsHub Awards. Winner, emerging artist category

    Brain Art Project: Winner, motion graphics and animation.

    2009         

    UNSW Research Excellence Award.

    Raw Nerve - Metro Screen and Screen Australia

    Artist in Residence, Murrays Cottage, Hill End

    2008         

    Visual Arts Benevolent Fund. National Association for the Visual Arts.

    Digital FX Scholarship. Metro Screen, Sydney.

    2007         

    Janet Homes a Court Grant. National Association for the Visual Arts

    2006         

    Professional Development Travel Grant. Australian Network for Art and Technology

    Write in Your Face. Literature Board, Australia Council for the Arts. (with Svenja Kratz)

    2005         

    Artist in Residence, Marrickville City Council. (in collaboration with Svenja Kratz).

    2004         

    Artist in Residence, Murrays Cottage, Hill End. Bathurst Regional Art Gallery

    Artworkers Alliance Emerging Artist Grant. Artworkers Alliance

    University Medal, Griffith University

     

    SELECTED PRESS AND CATALOGUES

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    2013

    Public Art Review. Moving Over the Shoreline, International Projects. VOL. 24 | NO. 2 | ISSUE 48, p 73.

    Priest, Gail. 'In Profile: Sarah-Mace Dennis.' Realtime Arts, Nov 20. http://www.realtimearts.net/feature/In_Profile/11396

    2011

    Leij Machteld. ‘Words as an Opinon Tools’ in Kunstbeeld, Netherlands. Issue 9, p 77.

    2007

    Fraser, Margie and McBride, Frank.  (2007)  Twenty Twenty: Twenty Artists, Twenty Years of the Churchie Emerging art exhibition.  Museum of Brisbane:  Brisbane.

    Fraser, Margie (ed)  ‘Smell the Roses: Portside Wharf’ in in Design Qld News: Architecture, Interior Design and Art. Issue 8, 2008.  Archived online at: http://203.145.50.198/idl/media/idlcom/pdf/IQ_issue_8_02_LR.pdf

    2005 

    Anderson, Judy  ‘Images of Life and Death’ in Paradise:  The Weekend Bulletin Magazine.  October 1-2 

    Bennett, Alison. Frames of Reference: Photographing Hill End.  Bathurst Regional Art Gallery: Bathurst.

    2004

    Foster, Alasdair.  Departure Lounge.  Catalogue Essay, Queensland Centre for Photography:  Brisbane.

    Low, Lenny Ann  ‘A Picture Spooks a Thousand Stories About a Town’s History,’  in The Sydney Morning Herald.  July 22: p4

    2003

    Keane, Jondi.  Interfold.  Catalogue Essay, Metro Arts: Brisbane.

    COLLECTIONS

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    Cromwells Art Prize collection

    Stadiums Queensland 

    Churchie Emerging Art Award collection

    Bathurst Regional Art Gallery collection

    Private Collections in Brisbane, Sydney and the Gold Coast

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    ADDITIONAL EXPERIENCE

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    May - June, 2016.

    Freelance Creative Researcher

    Lonely Leap (South London)

     

    June 2011 – June 2013.

    Creative Lead/ Researcher/ Director/ Editor.

    Rebel Spirit Productions.

     

    March 2005 - April 2007.

    Museums Manager.

    Bathurst Regional Council.

     

    June 2004 - February 2005.

    Arts and Cultural Development Officer. Temporary Contract.

    Bathurst Regional Council

     

    June 2002 - January 2004.

    Tutor/ Coordinator: Learning Assistance Unit.

    Griffith University, School of Arts, Gold Coast.

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    EDUCATION

     

    2013

    Master of Arts (Research) Film, Media, Theatre. Univeristy of New South Wales. 

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    2013

    Bachelor of Creative Arts (University Medal and 1st Class Honours). Griffith University.

     

    Majors: Contemporary Visual Arts, Creative Writing, Studies in the Arts and Creative Industries. 

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