David Chesworth - CV

Born 1958, Stoke, UK

David Chesworth is represented by Fehily Contemporary Melbourne

Education 1979 BA. Hons (Music) LaTrobe University

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS AND COMMISSIONS - ART (with Sonia Leber)

2012
- The Way You Move Me, exhibition at Fehily Contemporary, Melbourne, Australia
- Richter/Meinhof-Opera, performances at Art Gallery of New South Wales, Australia
- Space-Shifter, exhibition at Detached, in association with MONA FOMA, Hobart, Australia
- Oceanography/Peron Station, exhibition at CAST, Hobart

2011
- We, The Masters, installation in City Square, Melbourne, commissioned by Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne
- Space-Shifter, exhibition at Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts, Australia

2010
- Richter/Meinhof-Opera, performances at Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne Festival, Australia
- Field Formation, commission for AAMI Park, Melbourne, Australia

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

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

2002
- Polymerous, Sydney Olympic Park commission, Sydney, Australia
- 5000 Calls, 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)

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

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS - ART

2012 
- IASKA Spaced: Art Out of Place, Fremantle Arts Centre
- Animal/Human, UQ Art Museum, Brisbane
- The Social Life of Things, Faculty Gallery, Monash University

2011   
- Melbourne Prize for Urban Sculpture, finalist exhibition
- Stealing the Senses, Govett-Brewster Gallery, New Plymouth, New Zealand
- In camera and in public, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne

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)

1996
- Flower Show, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne

1993
- Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria
- Meridian, Xebec Hall, Kobe, Japan

1991
- Sound Culture, Performance Space, Sydney

1989
- Australian Perspecta, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

1983
- Paris Autumn Festival

1982
- POPISM, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
- Vision in Disbelief, Biennale of Sydney, Sydney

AWARDS

2011 Melbourne Prize for Urban Sculpture, finalist
2007 Helen Macpherson Smith Commission, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, Australia
2006 Australian Classical Music Awards, Instrumental Work of the Year for Panopticon
2000 Age Performing Arts Award, for The Two Executioners
2000 Green Room Awards, Best Music for Life After George
1997 Churchill Fellowship
1994 International Paris Rostrum, Australian representative
1994 ARIA Awards, Best Classical CD nomination for Exotica Suite
1994 ATOM Awards, Most Innovative Film for Insatiable
1993 Prix Ars Electronica, Honorary Mention for Southgate

GRANTS & RESIDENCIES

2012 Australia Council, Arts Development grant
2011 IASKA/Spaced residency
2011 Australia Council, Touring Grant
2010 Arts Victoria, Project Grant
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 (with Sonia Leber)
2012
- Dan Rule, The Age, Melbourne, March 7, 2012
- Sarah Miller, 'The Artist in Residence', RealTime No.108 April 2012
- Jared Davis, 'Circle Work', Spaced: Art Out of Place exhibition catalogue, IASKA, 2012
- Gavin Findlay, 'The Sweet Music of Art-Driven Tasmania', RealTime Magazine No.108 April 2012
- Darren Jorgensen, Spaced review, The West Australian, 25 Feb 2012

2011
- John Hurrell, 'Immersing the Body in Art and Architecture', EyeContact, New Zealand, April 2011
- Melbourne Prize for Urban Sculpture, exhibition catalogue, 2011
- 'In Camera and in Public', exhibition catalogue, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne, 2011

2010
- Fiona Gruber, 'Terrorists on the Opera Stage', The Australian, 14 October, 2010
- Kylie Northover, 'Terrorist Art', The Age, 13 October, 2010
- Cameron Woodhead, 'An erudite, disorienting interrogation of art's process', The Age, 19 October, 2010

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,

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, October 21 2004
- John Slavin, 'Emotions Soar to the Stars' in The Age, Melbourne, October 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

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

Commissioned soundscapes for museums

2012
- Wonders of Ancient Mesoptamia, exhibition soundscapes, Museum Victoria, Melbourne
- Virtual Warrane II: Sacred Tracks of Warrane, exhibition soundscapes, Customs House, Sydney

2011
- Identity, exhibition soundscapes, Immigration Museum, Melbourne
- Never Enough Grass, sound design for interactive, National Museum of Australia, Canberra

2010
- Volcanic 3D, sound design for 360-degree fully immersive and interactive AVIE 3D projection space, Museum Victoria, Melbourne (American Association of Museums Gold MUSE award)
- 600 Million Years, exhibition soundscapes, Museum Victoria, Melbourne
- Best of the Best, sound design for multimedia, Bradman Museum, Bowral

2009
- Wild, exhibition soundscapes, Museum Victoria, Melbourne (Best Installation Design, 2010 Australian Interior Design Awards)
- Creation Stories, sound design for interactive, Koori Heritage Trust, Melbourne

2008  
- Separate Prison, sound installation, Port Arthur Historic Site, Tasmania
- Surviving Australia, exhibition soundscapes, Australian Museum, Sydney
- Melbourne Story, exhibition soundscapes, Museum Victoria, Melbourne
- Green Void by LAVA, exhibition soundscape, Customs House, Sydney

2007
- Black Holes, music and 5.1 sound design, Melbourne Planetarium

2006  
- The Problem With Pluto, music and 5.1 sound design, Melbourne Planetarium
- Soundscapes for Pinnacles Desert Centre, via Cervantes, Western Australia
- Press Gallery, soundscapes, Old Parliament House, Canberra

2005   
- Exhibition soundscapes, Shark Bay World Heritage Centre, Western Australia
- Brickpit Ring Walk, soundscapes, Sydney Olympic park

2004   
- Digital Design Biennale, sound installation, Lab.3000, Museum Victoria, Melbourne
- Extremes, exhibition soundscapes, National Museum of Australia, Canberra
- Petrov soundscapes, Old Parliament House, Canberra

2003 
- Soundscapes for Fairfield Museum Historical Village, Sydney

2002
- Ngarinyin Pathways Dulwan, exhibition soundscapes, ACMI, Melbourne
- Life in the House soundscapes, Old Parliament House, Canberra

2001 
- Watermarks, exhibition soundscapes, Australian National Maritime Museum,Sydney
- Keepers, soundscape, Smoky Cape Lighthouse, via Kempsey, New South Wales
- Life on the River, exhibition soundscape, Brisbane Naval Stores
- Recollection Room soundscapes for Mary McKillop Museum, Sydney

2000
- Eternity, exhibition sound design, National Museum of Australia, Canberra
- Deep Time, sound design for video, National Museum of Australia, Canberra

1999
- Protest, sound installation, Old Parliament House, Canberra

1998
- Boat Walkthrough voice components, Immigration Museum, Melbourne

1994 
- Environment Videowall, soundscape, Museum of Sydney

1991  
- Southgate, soundscape for opening event, Melbourne (Ars Electronica Awards,Honorary Mention)

SELECTED MUSIC WORKS

2010
- Richter/Meinhof-Opera, installation artwork

2009
-Vanishing Tekopia, composer of full-length musical work for 11-piece ensemble

2004  
- Cosmonaut, composer and co-producer of multimedia opera, Melbourne International Arts Festival, Melbourne

2001      
- Towards Time, commission and performance, Adelaide Symphony Orchestra

1994      
- The Two Executioners, composer of chamber opera, Chamber Made Opera, Melbourne (Age Performing Arts Award)

1992      
- Lacuna, composer of chamber opera, Chamber Made Opera, Melbourne

1991      
- Ouch!, writer/composer of performance project, SoundCulture, Sydney

1990      
- Sabat Jesus, composer of music theatre work, Melbourne International Arts Festival (selected for the 1994 International Paris Rostrum)

1989      
- Recital, composer of chamber opera, Chamber Made Opera, Melbourne, toured to Caracas festival, Venezuela; Covent Garden, London; Edinburgh Festival, Scotland and other cities (1989-2004)

1986      
- Insatiable, writer/composer of chamber opera, Melbourne (film version ATOM awards winner)

CD DISCOGRAPHY

Vanishing Tekopia, Wax Sound Media, David Chesworth Ensemble 2012
Music To See Through, WMinc, David Chesworth Ensemble 2006
Wicked Voice, ABC Classics, David Chesworth 2001
Badlands, WMinc, David Chesworth Ensemble 1998
Exotica Suite, Warner Music, David Chesworth Ensemble (ARIA award nomination) 1993
Risky Business, Natural Symphonies, David Chesworth 1990

LP/EP DISCOGRAPHY

No Particular Place, Rampant, David Chesworth 1986
Skippy Knows, Whadya Want?, Hot/Rough Trade 1985
Palimpsest, Innocent Records, Essendon Airport 1983
Spiral Rebound, Innocent Records, David Chesworth 1982
Layer on Layer, Innocent Records, David Chesworth 1982
Sonic Investigations Of The Trivial, Innocent Records ,Essendon Airport 1979
50 Synthesiser Greats, Innocent Records, David Chesworth 1978

Selected Music for Film and Theatre

2009
- The Colours, music for theatre, Melbourne Theatre Company

2008
- Liquid Stone, music for documentary, directed by Polly Watkins, Circe Films

2007
- Hope, music for film, directed by Steve Thomas  
- Entertaining Mr Sloane, music for theatre, Melbourne Theatre Company           

2006  
-The Female of the Species, music for theatre, Melbourne Theatre Company

2005   
- Satellite, sound design for independent feature film, directed by Ben Speth

2004   
- Wild Thing, sound design for short film, directed by Eleni Arbus
- Forever, sound design for independent feature film, directed by Ben Speth
- The Glass Menagerie, music for theatre, Melbourne Theatre Company

2003 
- AFI Awards, composer of music for TV broadcast, Australian Film Institute Awards, Melbourne

2002
-The Light Room, music for multimedia performance, Company In Space, Melbourne International Arts Festival

2001 
- Rainbow Bird and Monster Man, music for film, directed by Dennis Smith
- Music for opening of International Conference on Aids in Asia Pacific, Melbourne
- Gypsy Boy composer of music theatre work, Theatre of Image, Sydney

2000
- Life After George, music for theatre, Melbourne Theatre Company (Green Room Award for music)
- The Chairs, music for theatre, Melbourne Theatre Company
- Trapped, music for short film, directed by Trudy Hellier

1999
- The Ninth Moon, Keane/Taylor Project, Melbourne Festival Dir. Ariette Taylor.

1998
- Stolen, music for theatre, Playbox Theatre, Melbourne

1996
- Two Lies, music for dance, Lucy Guerin Company; Mikhail Baryshnikov’s White Oak Dance Project, NYC, USA
- SPITFIRE 1,2,3  1996, Lonsdale St Power Station, Melbourne. Dir. Lyndal Jones.

1994  
- Harold, music for film, directed by Steve Thomas
- Disturbing the Dust, music for theatre, Adelaide Festival

1993  
- The Web: Panda, music for short film, directed by Lucinda Clutterbuck

1992  
- Life Forms, music for short film, directed by Georgia Wallace Crabbe