MARIAM ARCILLA CV
Born: Singapore
Lives and Works: Gold Coast and Brisbane, Australia
ABN: 62 625 720 988
EDUCATION
2006 Bachelor of Arts with Honours (First Class), Griffith University, Gold Coast
2004 Bachelor of Creative Arts, Griffith University, Gold Coast
INDUSTRY TRAINING
2011 Project Management Fundamentals, Australian Institute of Management, Brisbane
2011 Managing Projects, Australia Business Arts Foundation, Brisbane
2008 Navigation Arts Business Training, Accredited, Youth Arts Qld, Brisbane
2008 Young Artists Mentoring Program, Youth Arts Queensland, Brisbane
2000 Certificate in Public Relations, Griffith University, Gold Coast
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
11/2011-current Senior Arts Development Officer (part-time), Arts Queensland, Brisbane
05/2010-current Co-Founder and Co-Director, Rabbit + Cocoon Creative Industries Precinct, Gold Coast
12/2006-current Curator, Marketer, Consultant/Cultural researcher, Artswriter, Gold Coast/Brisbane
08/2010-09/2011 Cultural Development Project Officer, Gold Coast City Council
05/2008-07/2010 Co-Founder and Gallery Director, 19 KAREN Contemporary Artspace, Gold Coast
05/2007-11/2009 Co-Founder and Project Director, tinygold artist-run initiative, Gold Coast
CURATED PROJECTS
2011 Curator, Streetcube Street Art Project, Surfers Paradise Festival, Gold Coast
2011 Co-Curator, Nine Wives, Nine Lives Gallery, Brisbane
2008-2010 Co-Curator and Event Coordinator, Monthly Exhibitions and Professional Development programs, 19 KAREN Contemporary Artspace, Gold Coast
2010 Curator, Parkrise Live Street Art (renamed Streetcube), Oneway Project, Surfers Paradise Festival, Gold Coast
2007-2009 Co-Curator/Events Coordinator, Tales from the Cold Ghost III, tinygold artist-run initiative, Gold Coast
2009 Co-Events Coordinator, Semi-Permanent Exhibition by Nine Lives Gallery + 19 KAREN, Gold Coast/Brisbane
2008 Curator, Pap Spears, 19 KAREN, Gold Coast
OTHER EXPERIENCE
11/2008-12/2008 Co-Events Coordinator, Gold Coast Contemporary Art Crawl (December), Gold Coast
05/2006-05/2008 Gallery Assistant, George Petelin Gallery, Gold Coast
07-12/2006 Research Assistant, Centre for Cultural Research (Formerly Centre for Public Culture and Ideas), Griffith University, Gold Coast (Short-term research)
10/2005 Event Assistant, ARC Art, Design & Crafts Biennial, Brisbane City Hall, Brisbane
05/2005 Administrative Assistant, Brisbane Film Festival (BIFF), Brisbane
COMMISSIONED PUBLISHED WRITING
2011 Sustaining Artist-Run Initiatives, aqblog Policy and Practice in Arts and Culture, Brisbane
2011 When there’s a Will there’s a When: Re-imagining the Future, Now + When: Australian Urbanism, Gold Coast City Gallery, RealTime Australia Issue 103, Sydney
2011 Naked City-Guide: Uncovering the Gold Coast, Gold Coast Creative Issue 2, Gold Coast
2011 Abbey Mc Culloch: Little Women, Gold Coast Creative Issue 2, Gold Coast
2011 Art Notes Queensland, Art Monthly Australia, ACT (Acting: Jul-Aug)
2010 Creative Inhabitings: Making Space on the Gold Coast, Gold Coast Creative Issue 1, Gold Coast
2010 The Validity of Street Art: Uprise on a High-rise, Gold Coast Creative Issue 1, Gold Coast
2009 Guest Editor, Issue 105, The Thousands, Brisbane
2008 Interview with Amber Bignell, UV Magazine Online Issue 1, Australia
2007-2008 Catalogue Essay, tinygold presents Tales from the Cold Ghost I, Gold Coast
2007 Interview with Jemima Wyman, UV Magazine, Australia
2007 Interview with Operator Please, 802, online
AWARDS, FUNDING AND BURSARIES
(*indicates an award whereby the person was nominated by the community)
2012 Recipient, Cultural Achievement Award (for Rabbit+Cocoon), Gold Coast City Council Australia Day Awards*, Gold Coast
2012 Nominee, Cultural Achievement Award, Gold Coast City Council Australia Day Awards*
2011 Nominee, Young Alumnus Award, Griffith University Alumni Awards*, Brisbane
2011 Recipient, Arts Queensland and Flying Arts Travel Bursary, We Are Here: National Artist-Run Initiatives Symposium,
National Association for the Visual Arts and Firstdraft Gallery, Sydney
2011 Recipient, Regional Arts and Cultural Award*, Volunteering Award for outstanding contributions to a regional Queensland community, Arts Queensland, Queensland
2011 Artspoken Professional Development Bursary, Arts Queensland, Queensland
2011 Recipient, Ambassador Bursary, Creative3 Forum, Queensland University of Technology Creative Enterprise, Brisbane
2009-2010 Recipient, Creative Australians Inspiring our Communities, Gold Coast White Pages Phonebook Front Cover*, Australia
2010 Recipient, rabbit+cocoon, Regional Arts Development Fund, Gold Coast City Council and Arts Queensland, Gold Coast
2008 Recipient, tinygold, Regional Arts Development Fund, Gold Coast City Council and Arts Queensland, Gold Coast
2008 Recipient, Young Artists Mentoring Program (Mentee – mentored by Lorraine Pilgrim), Youth Arts Queensland, Brisbane
2005 Artist-run initiative research in Melbourne, Rapid Response Cultural Development Fund, Gold Coast City Council, Gold Coast
2005 Recipient, Griffith University Honours Scholarship and Educational Bursary, Gold Coast
2004 Griffith University Academic Excellence, Award, Gold Coast
INVITED PRESENTATIONS AND TALKS
2011 Speaker, Young Professionals, Q1 Sky Point, Gold Coast
2011 Speaker, Empty Spaces Coordinators Forum, University of Technology, Sydney
2011 Speaker, Memory Lane, Surfers Paradise Festival, Gold Coast
2011 Speaker, Visual Arts Speed-Dating /Artists & Gallery Directors, FEHVA Arts Festival, Bangalow
2009 Speaker, Getting Works on the Wall: Dealing with Galleries, Life After Uni series, Artworkers and
Queensland University of Technology Art Museum, Brisbane
2009 Speaker, Energies High School Exhibition, Gold Coast City Gallery, Gold Coast
2009 Speaker, Galleries and Spaces, Artworkers Networker Event, Brisbane
2009 Speaker, Navigation Arts and Business Training, Griffith University, Gold Coast
2009 Consultant, Art Growers Art Professionals Consultation, tinygold Gold Coast
Artist-Run Initiatives Panel, Brisbane Artist-Run Initiative Festival (BARI), Brisbane
2008 Speaker, ‘Alternative Artspaces’, Creative Juices, Gold Coast City Council, Gold Coast
2008 Speaker, Business Basics for Artists, Transit Lounge, Brisbane
PARTICIPATING EXHIBITIONS (AS ARTIST)
2011 Standard Service, Nine Lives Gallery, Brisbane
2010 Exquisite Corpse – A Homage to David (Attenborough that is), Jugglers Artspace, Brisbane
2010 Desperate Spaces, PS Gallery, Gold Coast
2010 Decksabition, Oneway Project, Surfers Paradise Festival, Gold Coast
2010 Under 3 Hundy, Reap N’ Sow, Gold Coast
2010 Digiquarium New Media project – Streets and building digital projections, Surfers Paradise Festival, Gold Coast
2009 Painted Lady, Shopfront, Judith Wright Centre of Contemporary Arts, Brisbane
2008 We Make Good Pets, Metro Arts Gallery, Brisbane
2008 Crash Paper Music For Robots with Svenja Kratz + Cristina Smart, IgNITE 08, QUT, Brisbane
2008 Young Artists Mentoring Program Showcase, Judith Wright Centre for the Contemporary Arts, Brisbane
2008 Milk Leech goes to the Pharm, Bowerbird IV, Sub-station, Brisbane
2007 Boupei, tinygold: Tales from the Cold Ghost I, black+neon, Gold Coast
2007 Gladly Safe, Civic Playhouse Theatre, Electrofringe New Media Festival, Newcastle
2006 Sneezing with the Room, Circle Gallery, Brisbane (solo)
2005 ‘O’ Metro Arts Gallery, Brisbane
2005 Trekabulary (with Jason Nelson), Pixelstorm Award, Switzerland
2005 Tissues But not For Tears, Swinging Safari, Gold Coast
2004 Rapunzels Nightmare, Electrofringe New Media Festival, Newcastle
2004 Domestelogen, WhiteBOX Gallery, Gold Coast
PRESS
2012 The Case for Creativity- Arts Advocacy (film), ArtsLink, Queensland (forthcoming)
2012 License, J. Kicking off the White Shoes (film), Gold Coast (forthcoming)
2012 Willoughby, S. Grassroots is Key to a Cultural Hub, Gold Coast Bulletin, Gold Coast
2012 Marshall C. ‘Cultural Achievement Award: rabbit+cocoon’ ABC Gold Coast 91.7FM and Online
2011 Willoughby, S. Our City Needs a Living Cultural Heart: Turning Point Exclusive, Gold Coast Bulletin
2011 King, R. and Flowers, P. Young Things on Top of It, Gold Coast Bulletin, Gold Coast 2011 Profiles: Naked City Guide Website, Online
2011 Cultivating Creativity on the Coast, Griffith News Now, Brisbane/Gold Coast
2011 Lund, J. Gold Coast arts and culture in Naked City-Guide, Getaway, Channel Nine, Australia
2011 A Can-Do Artitude, Coast Confidential, Gold Coast Bulletin, Gold Coast
2011 Marshall, C. Gold Coast Arts Community Celebrates New Home, ABC Gold Coast 91.7FM and Online
2011 Falla, D., Artist-run Initiatives, Gold Coast Creative Issue 2, Gold Coast
2011 Windsor, H., Blank Canvas, Precinct Magazine, Gold Coast
2011 Stringer, H., The Nine Wives of Nine, Time-Off, Brisbane
2010 Hicks, S., Street Art in Surfers’ Heart, Art Nation, ABC TV /612 ABC AM /91.7FM, Australia
2010 Doherty, D. ‘Laneway becomes focus of Surfers cultural event’ Gold Coast Sun, Gold Coast
2010 Rigney, V., Cultural Context and Art Practice on the Gold Coast 2000-2010’ in Flying Colours: QCA celebrates 10 years of Gold Coast Alumni, Gold Coast
2010 Lightmares interview, ABC 91.7FM, Gold Coast
2010 O’ Riordan, Art+Community, Art Monthly Australia, ACT
2010 Mitchell-Smith K., 19 Mood Swings, Art and About, ABC 91.7FM, Gold Coast
2010 Lewis, M. Feast of Culture,Gold Coast Sun, Gold Coast
2010 Willoughby, S., Mural Highlights Funky Alley Festival, Gold Coast Bulletin, Gold Coast
2010 19 KAREN, Pedestrian TV, Australia
2010 Burke K, 19 KAREN, Issue 14, Monster Children, Sydney
2010 19 KAREN, Naked City Guide, Gold Coast
2009 Featured Community Cultural Developer, Young People Creating Queensland book, Brisbane
2009 Creative Gold Coaster on the cover of White Pages, 612 ABC, Brisbane
2009 Eltham, B. An ‘island culture’ for the Gold Coast?, Cultural Policy Blog, Melbourne
2009 Jones, G. 19 KAREN is not an escort agency, The Vine, Melbourne
2009 Wakeling, E, Tuloch I.,Williams, J.Tales from the Cold Ghost III, Emerging Artwriters Program, Artworkers: Writing for Art Edition, Queensland
2009 Strebe, S. Mariam Arcilla wears art on leave, Gold Coast Bulletin, Gold Coast
2009 Robinson, P., Interview – Curator: Creator or Dictator, Feature story in Artworkers, Queensland
2009-2010 Creative Australians Inspiring Our Communities – Inside Article Page White Pages Gold Coast
2009 ‘Interview’ ABC Gold Coast 91.7FM, Gold Coast
2009 Mariam Uncovered, Coast Confidential, Gold Coast Bulletin, Gold Coast
2009 News: Tales from the Cold Ghost 3 Exhibition – It All Starts with V (V Energy Drink) – online
2009 Anderson, J., Tales from the Cold Ghost III, Catalogue Essay, Gold Coast
2009 Bannister, L. 19 KAREN, Frankie Magazine online, Australia
2009 Wurkmeister S. Hungry like the Wolf, Look review, fourthousand, Brisbane
2008 Hicks, S. Artists Creating a Cultural Coast 612 ABC Radio/ 91.7FM Radio and ABC.net.au Brisbane/Gold Coast
2008 Burke, K., Tinygold’s labour of love, Epoch Times, Australia
2008 St. Martin, M. Ghost of a Chance, Feature story in The Weekend Bulletin, Gold Coast
2008 Potts, A. Local Artist Paints Grim Picture, Gold Coast SUN, Gold Coast
2008 Arman, T. tinygold Planet Radio, Brisbane
2008 St. Martin, M. Paper-Artsy, Feature story in The Weekend Bulletin, Gold Coast
2008 Surgeoner, R. Pap Spears, fourthousand, Brisbane
2008 Barker, L. See it! Pap Spears Tuesday Magazine, Gold Coast
2008 Brown, S. Tales from the Cold Ghost II ,Yen Magazine.net Australia
2007 Hogg, V. The Gold Coast Art Scene Triple J Arts Australia
2007 Saint-Martin, M. Fighting Invisibility, Feature story in The Weekend Bulletin Gold Coast
2007 Duggal, S. Artists Showing Initiative, Feature story in Gold Coast SUN Gold Coast
2007 Watson, S. Cold Ghost Tuesday Magazine, Gold Coast Bulletin, Gold Coast
2006 Broker, D. and Chapman, J. Art to Lunch, 4ZZZ, Brisbane
2006 Tacon, P. C Sneezing with the Room Catalogue Essay
2005 Griffin, G. The Story of O, Catalogue Essay at Metro Arts, Brisbane
2005 Articulate Radio interview, Gold Coast
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
National Association for the Visual Arts
ArtsHUB
Queensland Art Gallery / Gallery of Modern Art
ArtsLAW
Australian Graphic Design Association
Sydney Arts Managers Advisory Group
Americans for the Arts
Expanded CV is available by request.