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Infinite Entanglement: Plotting the Urban Forest
Learning to work with mycelium, a living, breathing biomaterial
Testing ideas for installation on a Marquette 
Members of Entanglement are also Dirt Witches.  Below they are seen in Dirt Witch performances, Spelling Seeds & Spells for Weather, by Janet Laurence.
Belinda Piggott, Visual Artist          Curriculum Vitae

BA (Sydney University) Art History Major 
Cert III Ceramics 
Solo Exhibitions:
2023 (upcoming) All that Twinkles, Linden New Art, St Kilda, Vic
2022 Stilled, Woollahra Gallery, Double Bay, NSW
2018 Constructed Forest, Laneway Art Space, St Kilda, Vic 
Collaborations:
2022 Message in a Bottle, (Mary van den Berk)
2021 (ongoing) Carbon Credits, (Helen Earl)
2021 Sea Worriers, (Mary van den Berk)
2019 Intersecta, Ewart Gallery, Willoughby, NSW, (Penny Coss)
2012 Conversations, Kaleidoscope Gallery, Darlinghurst 
2012 Breath, Yuga Gallery, Glebe

Selected Art Awards
2022 Deakin Small Sculpture Award, Finalist, Deakin University, Victoria
2022 Gosford Art Prize, Finalist, Finalist, Gosford Regional Art Museum, Gosford
2022 Environmental Art & Design Award, Finalist, Manly Art Gallery & Museum, NSW 2022 Remagine, Finalist, Wallarobba Arts and Cultural Centre, Hornsby 
2022 North Sydney Art Prize, Finalist, Waverton Coal Loader
2021 Winner, Northern Beaches Environmental Art and Design Award, sculpture (collaboration with Helen Earl), Manly Art Gallery & Museum
2021, 2020 & 2019 Greenway Art Award, Cooks River Small Sculpture, Finalist, NSW 
2021 Byron Art Magazine Art Prize, Finalist,
2021 Siliceous Award for Ceramic Excellence, Finalist, Cooroy, Queensland
2021 Gosford Art Prize, Ceramics, Finalist, Gosford NSW
2021 Georges River Art Prize, Finalist, Hurstville, NSW
2021 Klytie Pate Award, Finalist, Mansfield, Vic
2020 Highly Commended, Little Things Art Prize, Saint Cloche, Finalist, Paddington, NSW
2019 North Sydney Art Prize, Finalist, Waverton Coal Loader, NSW
2019 Georges River Art Prize, Finalist, Hurstville, NSW
2018 Emerging Artists, Finalist, Clay Gulgong, NSW 
 
Group Exhibitions Include:
2023 Composing Earth and Sky, Barometer Gallery, Paddington, NSW
2022-23 Eden Unearthed, (collaboration with Mary van den Berk), Eden Gardens, Macquarie Park, NSW
2021 Sculpture Society 70th Anniversary Exhibition, Chatswood, NSW
2020 1 O’Connell St, Inaugural exhibition, Sydney
2020 Form 20, Chatswood Chase, NSW
2020 Realist to Abstract, Incinerator Art Space, Willoughby, NSW
2019 From Concept to Object, Ewart Gallery, Willoughby, NSW
2019 Monday Monday, Ewart Gallery, Willoughby, NSW
2019 Sculpture Society Exhibition, The Concourse, Chatswood, NSW
2018 Form, Surface, Structure, Kerrie Lowe Gallery, Newtown, NSW 
2018 Sculpture Today, Watchhouse, Balmain, NSW 
2018 Sculpture Society exhibition, Darling Park, Sydney, NSW 
2018 Artists of Mosman, Mosman Gallery, NSW 
2018 Paint, Light, Clay, Balmain, NSW
2017 Down the Rabbit Hole, Ewart Gallery, Willoughby, NSW 
2015 Art on the Line, Hong Kong 
2014 Pottery Workshop Gallery, Hong Kong 
2011 Members Exhibition, 4A Gallery, Haymarket, NSW 
Curation:
2022 The Art of Yoga: The Yoga of Art, Redfern Yoga Space, Redfern, NSW
2021 C2Zero Art, World’s first carbon negative gallery, https://www.c2zero.net/art/home 
2019 Intersecta, Ewart Gallery, Willoughby, NSW
2017 Paint, Light, Clay, Balmain House Gallery, NSW
2015 Nurturing Creativity, Friends of Chinese University of Hong Kong 35th Anniversary exhibition, The Rotunda, Exchange Square, Hong Kong
2012 Breath, Yuga, Glebe, NSW
Press:
​2022.  Artist Interview, Stilled exhibition.  Woollahra Gallery.  https://vimeo.com/778649806 
2022.  Artist Interview, Eden Unearthed,Eden Gardens https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dr4-Zb3cf1Q 
2022.  Fairly, G, Environmental Art Prize with a Global Impact.  In Arts Hub, 24 January.  https://www.artshub.com.au/news/sponsored-content/environmental-art-prize-with-global-impact-2523173/ 
2021.  Gurr, R.  Continuity, Collaboration and Recomposition in Australian Journal of Ceramics, Vol 60, No2 
2021.  Bambridge, Vivienne (ed), Belinda Piggott in The Sculptors Society 70th Anniversary Publication  
2020.  Lightbody, L, The Seen and Unseen: creating, celebrating, grieving and embracing change, Coexisting podcast, Season 2, Ep15. https://coexisting.libsyn.com/sydney-australia-the-seen-and-unseen-creating-celebrating-grieving-and-embracing-change-i-ep15 
2019 Work featured on back cover of The Sculptors Society Bulletin, Jan-Mar. 

Harding Miller Collection of Australian Women’s Art
Justin Art House Museum Collection
Dinah Taprell, Visual Artist.               Curriculum Vitae
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SELECTED STUDY
2022 Horticulture Cert III, Ryde Tafe
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2011 - Master of Art (Printmaking), COFA, UNSW 
1995/6 Certificate IV Fine Arts- Seaforth Tafe 
1985 - Bachelor of Architecture (Hons) UNSW 

EXHIBITIONS
2017  Earth, Braemar Gallery, Springwood, solo exhibition- Paintings
2016  Sydney Printmakers Celebrating 55 Years, Art Vault, Mildura
2016  Sydney Printmakers Celebrating 55 Years, Artsite Gallery, Camperdown
2015  Fun and Games, Gallery Lane Cove (Sydney Printmakers)
2015  Sydney Contemporary, Paper Contemporary (Sydney Printmakers)
2014  Freedom Art Prize for Human Rights, Tap Gallery, Darlinghurst
2013  Moon, Kaleidoscope Gallery, Chippendale, solo exhibition
2012  Plus One, Art Est Gallery, Leichhardt, group exhibition
2011  COFA Annual Exhibition, UNSW
2011  Proven, Beowulf Galleries, Woollahra, group exhibition
2011  1200K West, COFA Space, UNSW, group exhibition 
2008 Warringah Printmakers Studio Annual Exhibition 
2006  Through Australian Eyes, Guangzhou, China, group exhibition 
2006 Warringah Printmakers Studio Annual Exhibition 

AWARDS
2017 Paddington Art Prize, Finalist
2014 Waverley Art Prize, Finalist, Acrylic Painting
2014 Waverley Art Prize, Finalist, Works on Paper

MEMBERSHIPS
Sydney Printmakers
Warringah Printmakers
Jane Lush, Visual Artist                      Curriculum Vitae

Art/Horticulture Education:
2022 Horticulture Cert III, Ryde Tafe
2012 Bachelor of Fine Arts, COFA (University of Art & Design) Sydney (Distinction)
2009 Advanced Diploma of Fine Art: The Sydney Gallery School, Meadowbank Tafe
2003 Diploma in Fine Arts: The Sydney Gallery School, Meadowbank Tafe
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Prizes:
2011: Deans Award (Deans List Semester 1 and Semester 2) COFA (University of Art & Design)
2009: Matisse Derivan Painting Prize
2001: Meadowbank College Association, Acquisitive Art Award (2nd year painting) Award: Highly Commended Painting
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Exhibitions & Performances:
2023  Spells for Weather, Bundanon – performance as a member of the Dirt Witches, directed by Janet Laurence
2022  Spelling Seeds , Eucalyptusdom, Powerhouse Museum – performance as a member of the Dirt Witches, directed by Janet Laurence
2020  Requiem, Sydney Festival – performance as a member of the Dirt Witches, directed and curated by Jane Laurence
2018:  Revisiting the Corpse: A Year in Drawing, STACKS Projects
2014: Conny Dietzschold Gallery Backstage – co curated the Christmas Group Show with Conny Dietzschold http://www.artnet.com/galleries/conny-dietzschold-gallery/christmas-calendar-backstage-project-space/
2012: COFA Annual
2010: Sydney Fringe Festival; Open Studios Start Studio ArtFest Medium Vinyl; Hardware Gallery Launch 2009, See Street Gallery Rockin’ the Boat;  At the Vanishing Point
2009: Fracture, Mary Place Gallery
Group Show, final year painting students, The Gallery School (Exhibiting artist and Joint Curator)
2008: A Very Uneasy Balance, See Street Gallery, Meadowbank (Joint Curator - exhibition of selected works by the late Arthur McIntyre)
2008: In the End the Beginning, BrushFarm House, October 23 – 5 November 2008 Group Show by The Gallery School 3rd Year Painters
2002: Nobodys Somebodys, Café Blue, Newtown, 28 May – 2 Jun 02 Group Show by Meadowbank Tafe Printmaking students
2001: Litmus, The Tap Gallery, Oct 22 – 28 Group Show, Meadowbank Tafe, Professional Practice students
2001: Meadowbank College Association, Acquisitive Art Award
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