Vivienne Lang ~ Photographic Artist and Author
Vivienne Lang (nee Kelly) has been celebrating sea life and the plant world through her
photography for over two decades.
Since graduating in 2006 from Queensland
College of Art, Griffith University with First Class Honours, Lang’s photographic artworks have been recognised in multiple publications including the Australian Photography and Gallery
Compendium and international contemporary photography portfolio magazine Silvershotz. Her
works have been exhibited nationally and internationally and acquired for collections such as the Daryl Hewson Collection and the Mater Mothers’ Hospital Art Collection, Brisbane,
Queensland.
Early influences in life led to Lang’s deep appreciation for the ocean and plants. Lang comments: “My sisters and I were blessed with extraordinary parents, both igniting curiosity
and creativity in us.
My father, Dr Grahame Kelly, is a plant physiologist specialising in photosynthesis. I can remember clearly travelling with him to the CSIRO marine laboratories in Hobart, Tasmania, and witnessing the iridescent green algae that was growing in beakers that were slowly rotating on great silver shelves, and then sitting in front of a large screen with my father’s colleague, internationally recognised marine microalgae specialist, Emeritus Professor Gustaaf Hallegraeff, who was photographing microplankton using an electron microscope, something he continues to do.”
Lang creates photographic images that express the relationship between plants, light and photography, always with a focus on and inspiration from life in the sea.
VIVIENNE LANG (KELLY)
EDUCATION
2016 Graduate Diploma of Teaching (Primary), Swinburne University of Technology
2006 Bachelor of Photography with First Class Honours, Queensland College of Art, Griffith University.
2005 Bachelor of Photography, Queensland College of Art, Griffith University.
PUBLICATIONS
2014 Photo Compendium Australia II
2011 Australian Photography and Gallery Compendium
2010 Artist Feature – Silvershotz International Photography Magazine, Ed. Jan 2010.
2010 MX Magazine
2010 Noosa News, Sept. '10
2006 Seagate, 2006, Eyeline, edition No. 61
ACQUISITIONS
2011 Daryl Hewson Collection
2011 Paul Spiro Collection
2010 Clayton Utz Lawyers
2010 Noosa Regional Art Gallery
2008 Clayton Utz Lawyers
2007 Mater Mothers’ Hospital
2006 Gadens Lawyers
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2011 Hadal's Archives, Spiro Grace Art Rooms (SGAR) Spring Hill, Qld.
2010 Stirring Nocturnal Waters, Queensland Centre for Photography
2007-2008 The Red Tide, Joel Fine Art, Brisbane – Queensland Festival of Photography
Starters Space exhibit, Watermall Café, Queensland Art Gallery
2007 Photomorphogenesis, Queensland Centre for Photography
Seagate, N&A, The Ark Atelier, Spring Hill, Qld.
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2011 Daryl Hewson Collection.
2011 Collectibles – Spiro Grace Art Rooms, Spring Hill, Qld.
2011 Synchronicity Qld.Contemporary Photography – Grafton Reg. Gallery
2010 Stirring Nocturnal Waters Queensland Centre for Photography
2010 Sharing' Muzeum Narodowe Ziemi Przemyskiej – Exhibit 4 /5 – Poland.
2010 Throwing Shadows' Noosa Regional Gallery, Tewantin.
2010 Contrast, Brisbane Grammar School Annual Art Show 2010.
2010 Launch – Clayton Utz Art Award 2010.
2010 Synchronicity Qld.Contemporary Photography - Redcliffe City Art Gallery.
2010 Silvershotz' The International Journal of Fine Art Photography Vol.6 Ed.3.
2010 Untamed Gardens- The Wandering Room, Queensland Festival of Photography.
2009 New Order – RedcliffeGallery.
2009 Sharing – Wespol, Poland.
2009 New Skin – Queensland Centre for Photography.
Queensland Centre For Photography Collection, QCP.
Warsaw Academy of Fine Art – Poland.
2008-2009 Illuminata Carnivale – Woodford Folk Festival.
2008 Clayton Utz – Launch, Metro Arts.
2008 Kiln Gallery, Brisbane.
2007 Gadens Top Ten, Gadens Lawyers, Brisbane.
Mater Mothers Collection, Metro Arts.
2006 Hot Pool, Honours Graduation Show–Queensland College of Art Griffith University.
Neo Eco, Redland Art Gallery, part of the Queensland Festival of Photography.
Extract-Environments: Real and Imagined, Metro Arts.
2004 56, Bachelor of Photography Graduating Exhibition, Queensland College Of Art.
2003 Superb Moonchips, Queensland College of Art.
AWARDS
2010 CIWEM’s Environmental Photographer of the Year 2010 – Finalist.
2006 The Theiss Prize – Finalist, Dell Gallery, Queensland College of Art.
The Artworkers Awards – Finalist, Raw Space Galleries, Brisbane.
EXPERIENCE
2014 Artist Talk/Workshop - The Gap State High School – Year 10’s
2010 Artist Talk/workshop - The Gap State High School year 9’s and11’s – Mt Nebo.
2008 Artist Talk – Joel Fine Art.
Artist Talk – Queensland Art Gallery.
2007 Plant – Shadow – Light with Vivienne Kelly. Five artist workshops for Children
(photography) commissioned by the Gallery of Modern Art. Event: 'Sunday at the Gallery' / 'Smith Family' / 'Members Morning' / 'Foundations'.
Assistant in artist workshops -
Flight – with Alfredo and Isabel Aquilizan, Gallery of Modern Art .
Photographic Gardens – with Renata Buziak, Gallery of Modern Art.
Drawing – with Maureen Hansen, Queensland Art Gallery.
Collage – with Davina Kelly, Gallery of Modern Art.
Asia Pacific Triennial - Activity assistant supervisor, Childrens Art Centre,
Queensland Art Gallery and Gallery of Modern Art.
2004 Under 8's activity week – Cyanotypes, photography workshop, QAG.
2003 Fieldwork placement with the photography department at the
Queensland Art Gallery.