Sonia Leber
Born 1959, Melbourne, Australia

David Chesworth
Born 1958, Stoke, UK


SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS AND COMMISSIONS

2009
- Space-Shifter, exhibition at Conical, Melbourne, Australia
- Rewards of Silence, commission for Port Arthur Prison Chapel, Australia
- Landing Place, commission for Botany Bay National Park, Sydney, Australia

2008
- Almost Always Everywhere Apparent, exhibition at Mildura Arts Centre, Victoria, Australia
- Dyad, in collaboration with Simeon Nelson, shortlisted proposal for London Olympic Park bridges art commission, UK
- Shrike, in collaboration with Alexander Knox, public art project for Adelaide City Council, Australia (concept and feasibility study)

2007
- Almost Always Everywhere Apparent, Helen Macpherson Smith Commission for 2007, exhibition at Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, Australia
- Oceanic Endless, in collaboration with Simeon Nelson, Cardinia Council public art commission, Cardinia Life Aquatic Centre, Melbourne, Australia

2006
- Proximities: Local histories/Global entanglements, 2006 Commonwealth Games public art commission, in collaboration with Simeon Nelson, William Barak Bridge, Melbourne, Australia

2004
- The Gordon Assumption, Melbourne International Arts Festival Visual Arts Program, installation in Gordon Reserve, Melbourne
- Cosmonaut, composition of multimedia opera, Melbourne International Arts Festival premiere, Melbourne, Australia

2003
- The Persuaders, solo exhibition at Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Melbourne
- 5000 Calls, temporary public art installation along Shoemaker's Footbridge, organised by Cankarjev Dom, Ljubljana, Slovenia

2002
- Polymerous, Sydney Olympic Park commission, Sydney, Australia
- 5000 Calls, temporary public art installation along Millennium Riverwalk, presented by Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff, Wales

2001
- The Master's Voice, ACT Government public art commission, City Walk, Canberra (2002 NAWIC Award)

1999
- Regeneration, shortlisted proposal for Cairns Esplanade Public Art Program, Australia

1998-00
- 5000 Calls, Sydney Olympic Park public art commission, surrounding Stadium Australia, Sydney, Australia (2000 NAWIC Award)


SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2008
- Melbourne International Biennial of Exploratory Music, Melbourne
- Klang und Raum, organised by Liquid Architecture, Melbourne

2007
- Madrid Abierto, soundworks program, Madrid, Spain

2006
- +Plus Factors, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne

2002
- 2002AD exhibition program, Adelaide University, Australia

2001
- Sound Practice, Dartington College, Devon, UK

1999
- Process Philosophies, First Iteration, Monash University, Melbourne
- Totally Huge New Music festival, Perth (Chesworth)

1998
- Madrid Week of Experimental Cinema, Spain (Leber)

1996
- Flower Show, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne (Chesworth)

1995
- Sound In Space, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, 1995 (Leber)

1994
- Earwitness: Excursions In Sound, curated by Sonia Leber, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art and other places, Melbourne, 1994 (Leber)
- Madrid Week of Experimental Cinema, Spain (Leber)

1993
- Wit's End, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney (Leber)
- Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria (Chesworth)
- Meridian, Xebec Hall, Kobe, Japan

1992
- Experimenta National Tour, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane and other galleries (Leber)

1991
- Oberhausen International Film Festival, Germany (Leber)
- Sound Culture, Performance Space, Sydney (Chesworth)

1990-1
- Aurora Australis, Presentation House Gallery, Vancouver; Winnipeg Art Gallery; Nickle Arts Museum, Calgary; Windsor Art Gallery, Ontario, Canada (Leber)

1989
- Australian Perspecta, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney (Chesworth, also Leber)


AWARDS

2007 Helen Macpherson Smith Commission, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, Australia (Leber and Chesworth)
2006 Australian Classical Music Awards, Instrumental Work of the Year for Panopticon (Chesworth)
2002 National Association for Women in Construction (NAWIC), Outstanding Achievement in Design for The Master's Voice (Leber)
2000 Age Performing Arts Award, for The Two Executioners (Chesworth/Horton)
2000 NAWIC, Outstanding Achievement in Design for 5000 Calls (Leber)
2000 Green Room Awards, Best Music for Life After George (Chesworth)
1997 Churchill Fellowship (Chesworth)
1994 International Paris Rostrum, Australian representative (Chesworth)
1994 ARIA Awards, Best Classical CD nomination for Exotica Suite (Chesworth)
1994 ATOM Awards, Most Innovative Film for Insatiable (Chesworth)
1994 ATOM Awards, Finalist for Earwitness (Leber)
1991 Prix Ars Electronica, Honorable Mention for Southgate (Chesworth)
1991 Oberhausen International Film Festival, History Takes Place in competition (Leber)

GRANTS

2009 Australia Council, Inter-Arts Residency
2009 Australia Council, New Work grant
2009 Arts Victoria, Creative Development grant
2007 Australia Council, Project Fellowship
2007 Australian Government, DFAT Travel Grant
2004 Arts Victoria, Project Grant
2003 Arts Victoria, Travel Grant
2003 Arts Victoria, International Touring Grant
2002 Australia Council, Presentation Grant
2001 Australian Government, DFAT Travel Grant
2001 Playing Australia, Touring Grant
2001 Australia Council, Travel Grant


SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

2009
- Chris Reid, 'Mind-reading in the 21st Century', RealTime Magazine No. 92, Sydney, August 2009
- Jared Davis, 'Review: Space-Shifter', un Magazine 3.2, December 2009
- Dan Rule, 'Around the Galleries', The Age, Melbourne, 6 June 2009
- Linda Kouvaras, 'Toilets, Tears and Transcendence' in Transforming Cultures, Vol 4, No 1, University of Technology, Sydney, 2009
- Jonathan Marshall, 'Flatness, Ornamentality and the Sonic Image: Puncturing flânerie at Proximities', in Sound Scripts 2, Perth, 2009


2008
- Nikos Papastergiadis, 'Confined Abyss', in Almost Always Everywhere Apparent catalogue, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, 2008
- Juliana Engberg, introduction essay in Almost Always Everywhere Apparent catalogue, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, 2008
- Jorge Diez, ed, Madrid Abierto 2004-2008, Associacion Cultural Madrid Abierto, 2008
- David Bennett, Sounding Postmodernism: Sampling Australian Composers, Sound-artists and Music Critics, Australian Music Centre, Sydney, 2008
- Jennifer Brown, 'Blitz: Discursive bombardments in "the war on terror"', PhD dissertation, Southern Cross University, NSW, 2008

2007
- Robert Nelson, 'The Year in Review: Visual Art', The Age, Melbourne, 26 December 2007
- Amy Marjoram, 'Between Heaven and Hell', RealTime Magazine No. 81, October 2007
- Robert Nelson, 'In claustrophobia and freeze-frame movement meaning lies between the gaps', The Age, Melbourne, 22 August 2007
- Martin Ball, 'Now see, hear', The Age, Melbourne, 18 August 2007
- Fiona Scott-Norman, 'Giving Voice to Their Art', The Age, Melbourne, 10 August 2007

2006
- Jon Dale, 'Once Upon a Time in Melbourne' in The Wire no 272, London, October 2006
- Juliana Engberg, 'My Chicken is Missing' in +Plus Factors exhibition catalogue, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, 2006

2005
- Darren Tofts, Interzone: Media Arts in Australia, Craftsman House, 2005
- Matthew Westwood, 'Super Sonic Trespasser' in The Australian, August 4 2005
- Sunanda Creagh, 'Reviving the Crackle...', in The Sydney Morning Herald, July 27
2005

2004
- Edward Colless, 'Lucid Screams to Stir the Nation's Soul' in The Australian, October 25 2004
- Peter King, '"I'll Drown My Book": the Caves of The Gordon Assumption', Melbourne International Arts Festival, Visual Arts Program catalogue, Melbourne 2004
- A Ivanova, A Cavallaro, 'Unnatural Selection', Ars Electronica exhibition catalogue, Novamedia, Melbourne, 2004
- Jonathan Marshall, 'The voice in and beyond history' in Real Time, No 64, Sydney, December 2004
- Ross Gibson, 'Sounds Like Art' in lab.3000 Digital Design Biennale catalogue, Melbourne 2004
- Jo Roberts, 'For your convenience…' in The Age, Melbourne, October 5 2004
- Jeff Kahn, 'Under the cover of night' in Real Time No. 64, Sydney, December 2004
- Daniel Palmer, 'Seeing voices' in Real Time No. 64, Sydney, December 2004
- 'Best of the Fest' in The Age, October 3 2004
- Simon Plant, 'Opera Out of This World' in The Herald Sun, Melbourne, October 22 2004
- Jo Roberts, 'No Longer Stranded in Space' in The Age, Melbourne, 0ctober 21 2004
- John Slavin, 'Emotions Soar to the Stars' in The Age, Melbourne, 0ctober 23 2004

2003
- Ross Gibson, 'Sounds Like Art' in POL Oxygen, No. 5, 2003
- Bleddyn Butcher, 'Cross Platform: Sound in Other Media' The Wire, No. 233, London, July 2003
- Tony MacGregor, The Persuaders exhibition catalogue essay, Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Melbourne, April 2003

2002
- '5000 Calls' in Chapter Arts Centre magazine, Cardiff, October 2002
- 'Chorus of Approval' in 24 Hours, Sydney, March 2002

2001
- Mitchell Whitelaw, 'Sit, Ubu, Sit. Good dog' in Real Time, No. 46, Sydney, December 2001
- Bruce James, 'The Master's Voice' interview on Arts Today, ABC Radio National, November 1 2001
- Sonia Leber & David Chesworth, '5000 Calls' in Earshot soundscape journal, UK, December 2001
- Felicity Fenner, 'Ground Work' in Art in America, May 2001

2000
- Philipe Regnier, 'Art and the Olympics' in The Art Newspaper, No. 105, London, July 2000
- Alex Gawronski, 'Game Over? The Olympics Arts Commissions' in Real Time No. 40, Sydney, December 2000
- '5000 Calls' in Sydney Olympic Park, Public Arts Program catalogue, Sydney, June 2000
- Paul Brown, 'Breaking the Art and Science Standoff' in Real Time, No. 36, Sydney, April 2000

1999
- Suzy Freeman-Greene, 'The Sounds of Human Effort' in The Age, Melbourne, September 25, 1999
- Anne Susskind, 'Public Intimacy' in The Bulletin, Sydney, May 4 1999
-Brigid Smyth, '5000 Calls' in Patrick Bingham-Hall, Olympic Architecture, Watermark Press, Sydney 1999
- 'Sound in Museums' in Insite, Melbourne, December 1999
- Sonia Leber, 'Electronic Observatory' in Interior Cities, School of Architecture and Design, RMIT University, Melbourne 1999

1998
- Ross Gibson, 'Something Strange Disturbing Us Every Day' Week of Experimental Cinema catalogue, Madrid, 1998
- Matthew Moore, 'Forest with More than the Sounds of Silence' in The Sydney Morning Herald, July 17 1998
- Anne Susskind, 'Creating a Bridge Over Troubled Water' in The Sydney Morning Herald, March 23 1998
- Gary Barker, 'A Sense of Space and Movement' in The Age, Melbourne, November 6 1998

1994
- Sonia Leber, 'Earwitness: Excursions in Sound' in Experimenta '94 catalogue, Melbourne, October 1994
- Sonia Leber, 'Earwitness: Excursions in Sound' in Mesh, No. 4, Melbourne, 1994
- Backhouse, Megan 'Sounds Like…' in The Age, November 11 1994
- Anna Clabburn, 'Wherefore Art Thou Genre' in Storm, Melbourne, November 1994
- Marie Sierra-Hughes, 'Lending an Ear to Sound' in The Herald Sun, December 2 1994
- AnnMarie Johnson, 'Earwitness News' in RealTime No. 3, October 1994

1991
- Sonia Leber, 'Watching Films, Making Films' in Cantrills Filmnotes, No. 65, Melbourne October 1991
- 'Doubtful Invitation' in Oberhausen International KurzFilmTage catalogue, April 1991

1990
- Ann Pollock Berecry, 'Open Eyes are a Dream' in Aurora Australis catalogue, Presentation House Gallery, Vancouver 1990

1989
- 'History Takes Place' in Australian Perspecta catalogue, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 1989