about me
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES
| 2002 | Ph.D, Murdoch University. |
| 1995 | Masters of Arts (Art) with Distinctions, Curtin University. |
| 1991 | Bachelor of Arts (Visual Arts), Edith Cowan University. |
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
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2007 |
All that is solid melts into air, McCulloch Galleries Melbourne. |
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2004 |
Art Beyond Representation, fortyfivedownstairs, Melbourne. |
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2002 |
The Techno-sublime, Noosa Regional Gallery, Queensland. |
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1997 |
Shedding Light, New Collectables, Fremantle. |
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1995 |
Cleavage, The Door Gallery, Fremantle. |
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1995 |
Excessive Practice - Portraiture as Performance, Fremantle Arts Centre. |
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1994 |
On Reflections, New Collectables Gallery, Fremantle. |
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1993 |
Rumplestiltskin, Fremantle Arts Centre, Fremantle. |
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
| 2003 | Paper Matters, Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, Perth. |
| 2003 | Women’s Work: Aspects of Female Art Practice in Twentieth Century Australia, Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, Perth. |
| 2003 | Heat, Noosa Regional Gallery, Noosa. |
| 2003 | Pixels and Paint, University of Sunshine Coast Art Gallery, Sunshine Coast. |
| 2002 | Ordering the Body, Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, Perth. |
| 2001 | Finalist, Warrnambool Environmental Art Prize, Warrnambool Regional Gallery, Warrnambool. |
| 1999 | Technics Touring Exhibition, Western Australia. |
| 1998 | Technics, Craftswest Gallery, Festival of Perth Exhibition. |
| 1996 | Finalist, Portia Geach Portrait Prize, SH Ervin Gallery, Sydney. |
| 1996 | Out of the Frame, Tin Sheds Gallery, Sydney. |
| 1995 | Finalist, Portia Geach Portrait Prize, SH Ervin Gallery, Sydney. |
| 1995 | Women and the Law, Lawrence Wilson Gallery, 1995 Festival of Perth Exhibition. |
| 1995 | Practice/Theory as Situated Knowledge, Exhibition/Forum, New Collectables Gallery Corp/o/realities, Court Hotel - assisted with a grant from The W.A. Department for the Arts. |
| 1995 | Finalist, Mark Howlett Drawing Prize, Perth. |
| 1992 | Feminisms, Perth Institute of Contemporary Art. |
| 1991 | Finalist, Portia Geach Portrait Prize. |
| 1991 | Finalist, Alice Prize. |
| 1991 | Winner - Open, Drawing, and Landscape sections, Kalgoorlie/Boulder Art Prize, Kalgoorlie. |
| 1987 | Fremantle Drawing Prize, Fremantle Arts Centre |
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
| 2007 | Barrett, E. and Bolt, B. (Eds.) Practice as Research: Approaches to Creative Arts Enquiry, London: I.B.Tauris. |
| 2004 | Bolt, B. Art Beyond Representation: The Performative Power of the Image, I.B.Tauris, London |
| 2006 | Bolt, B. ‘Rhythm and the performative power of the index: lessons from Kathleen Petyarre’s Paintings’ in Cultural Studies Review, Vol 12, No 1: 57-64. |
| 2004 | Bolt, B. (2004) ‘Painting is not a representational practice’ Unframed: The Practices and Politics of Women’s Painting, R. Betterton (ed.) I.B.Tauris, London. |
| 2000 | Bolt, B. ‘Working hot: materialising practices’, Differential Aesthetics: Art Practices and Philosophies: Towards New Feminist Understandings, P. Florence and N. Foster (eds) Ashgate Press, Aldershot: 315 – 332. |
| 2000 | Bolt, B. ‘Shedding light for the matter, Women’s Philosophical Review, Special Issue on Aesthetics, No 25: 86-107. |
| 1997 | Bolt, B. ‘Im/pulsive practices: painting and the logic of sensation' in Social Semiotics, Vol 7, Issue 3, December 1997: 261-268. |
COLLECTIONS
Artbank, Fremantle City Council, Woodside Petroleum, Joondalup Development Corporation, Kalgoorlie College, Central Metropolitan campus of TAFE, Murdoch University, Lawrence Wilson Gallery UWA, Curtin University of Technology, Edith Cowan University, University of Sunshine Coast.