PAUL BATT

1977 - Born Melbourne, Victoria, Australia


EDUCATION

2008 - Doctor of Philosophy (PhD Candidate) Fine Art (Photography) Monash
University,
2007 - Master of Fine Art- Research semester, Fachhochschule Darmstadt,
Hessen, Germany (under Prof. Kris Scholz)
2006 - Master of Fine Art- Research (Photography) Monash University.
(Transferred to PhD 2008)
2002 - Bachelor of Arts, Honours (Photography) Royal Melbourne Institute of
Technology, RMIT
1997 - Bachelor of Fine Arts (Photography), Victorian College of the Arts (VCA),
The University of Melbourne


PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS

2015-17 - Sessional Photography Lecturer, RMIT School of Art, Melbourne,
Australia.
2016 - Sessional Photography Lecturer, Photographic Studies Collage (PSC)
Melbourne, Australia.
2014 - Curatorial Advisor, Wallflower Photomedia Gallery, Mildura, Victoria,
Australia.
2008-12 - Sessional Photography Lecturer, Monash University, Art, Design and
Architecture, Caulfield. Australia
2010-12 - Committee Member, Trocadero Arts Space, Melbourne, Australia
2001-04 Gallery Assistant, The Centre for Contemporary Photography, (CCP)
Melbourne, Australia


SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2019 - ‘Brunswick Surfaces’, Motor Works Gallery, Melbourne (with Kristian
Haggblom)
2018 - ‘Service Station Portraits’, Auckland Festival of Photography, New
Zealand.
2013 - ‘A Single Line’, Edmund Pearce Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
2013 - ‘China’, Hum Salon, Auckland Festival of Photography, Auckland, New
Zealand (with Fernando Montiel Klint)
2012 - ‘Untitled (Escalator Portraits 2011)’, The Queensland Centre for
Photography (QCP) Brisbane, Australia
2009 - ‘Mountain Portraits 2007-09’’ Shifted Gallery, Melbourne
2008 - ‘Service Station Portraits 2006-08’’ Shifted Gallery, Melbourne
2006 - ‘Untitled (Journals 2005)’ Trocadero Arts space, Melbourne, Australia
2004 - ‘Mixed Business’, Kings Artist Run Initiative, Melbourne, Australia
2003 - ‘Untitled Spaces’, The Centre for Contemporary Photography (CCP)
Melbourne, Australia


SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2023 - ‘Speculative Horizons’ Contemporary Art Platform - (CAP Kuwait) Dr.
Saad Alsharrah & Dr. Kristian Haggblom. Kuwait
2017 - ‘An Unorthodox Flow of Images’ Centre for Contemporary Photography
(CCP) Melbourne
2015 - ‘Other Side’ Counihan Gallery, Melbourne, Australia. (co-curated)
‘Dark & Kooky’, Strange Neighbour, Melbourne, Australia.
‘Allot’ Trocadero Arts Space, Melbourne Australia.
2014 - ‘Either Side’, James Makin Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
‘China’, Paul Batt & Fernando Montiel Klint, Wallflower Photomedia
Gallery, Mildura, Australia
‘Josephine Ulrick and Win Schubert Photography Award 2014’,
Gold Coast City Art Gallery, Queensland, Australia ‘Formality’
Trocadero Arts Space.
2013 - ‘Slide Night #2’ Rae & Bennett/Westspace, Melbourne, Australia
‘Circle Work,’ Trocadero Arts Space, Melbourne, Australia ‘
‘Static Shift’, James Makin Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
‘CLIP Award’, The Perth Centre for Photography (PCP) Perth, Australia
2012 - ’Pingyao International Photography Festival’ (PIP) Pingyao, China
‘Territory’, Edmund Pearce Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
’On This Site’ at Wallflower Photomedia Gallery, Mildura, Australia
’The Underdog’, Five Walls Projects, Melbourne, Australia
‘FutureGen 2012’, John Curtin Gallery, Perth
‘Us and Them’, Dark Horse Experiment, Melbourne
‘Collective’, Perth Centre for Photography, (PCP) Perth
2011 - ‘Trocadero Fundraising Exhibition and Auction’, Trocadero Arts Space,
Melbourne, Australia
2010 - ‘Negotiating Space’ ACGA Gallery, Federation Square, Melbourne,
Australia
‘Josephine Ulrick & Win Schubert Photography Award 2010’ Gold
Coast City Art Gallery, Queensland
‘The Outsider’, Trocadero Arts Space, Melbourne, Australia 2009
‘CCP Documentary-Photography Award’ The Centre for Contemporary
Photography, Melbourne ‘
‘Photofigure’ Michael Koro Galleries, Melbourne
‘Josephine Ulrick & Win Schubert Photography Award 2009’ Gold
Coast City Art Gallery, Queensland
‘11th Annual Fundraising Exhibition and Auction’ Monash Gallery of Art
(MGA), Melbourne
2008 - ‘Wallpaper 08’ Trocadero Arts Space, Melbourne,
Australia ‘William and Winifred Bowness Photography Prize 2008’
Monash Gallery of Art, Melbourne
‘The Collection’, Shifted Gallery, Melbourne 2007
‘Display Model* Actually Product May Vary’, Shifted Gallery, Melbourne
‘Vote 4 Art’ Fund Raising Auction, Trocadero Arts Space, Melbourne,
Australia
2005 - ‘Exposure’ Trocadero Arts Space, Melbourne, Australia
The Josephine Aulrick photography Prize, the Gold coast City Art
Gallery, Queensland
‘Why Are You Showing Here’ Trocadero Arts space, Melbourne,
Australia
2004 - ‘Fair Game: Art and Sport’ the National Gallery of Victoria (NGV)
Melbourne
‘Two points In Time’, Smyrnios Gallery, Melbourne PIC Alumni
Exhibition
2003 - ‘Nikon Summer Salon’ The Centre for Contemporary Photography,
Melbourne
‘Multi Grammy Award Winning’ TCB/Uplands Gallery, Melbourne
‘Bong On 03’ Bus Gallery Melbourne
‘Stellar’ CCP Fundraising Auction, The Centre for Contemporary
Photography, Melbourne
2002 - ‘Viewing The Unseen’, RMIT Graduate Exhibition First Site Gallery RMIT,
Melbourne
‘Summer Salon’ The Centre for Contemporary Photography,
Melbourne
2000 - ‘Photo Technica New Australian Photo-Artist Awards’, Australian Centre
For Photography (ACP) Sydney
‘Blink’ the Australian Centre For Contemporary Art, Melbourne
‘Mediums & Dimensions’ VCA Graduate Exhibition Span Gallery
Melbourne
‘Proud 2000’, VCA gallery/University of Melbourne
1999 - ‘YouthPix Photographic Award,’ The City Of Glen Eire Arts Complex,
Melbourne


AWARDS & GRANTS

2014 - ‘Josephine Ulrick and Win Schubert Photography Award 2014’. Gold
Coast City Art Gallery, (Finalist)
2013 - ‘CLIP Award’, The Perth Centre for Photography (PCP) Perth, Australia
(Finalist)
2012 -‘FutureGen 2012’ Award John Curtin Gallery (FotoFreo) Perth, Australia (Winner)

2010
‘Josephine Ulrick & Win Schubert Photography Award (Finalist)
‘Gold Coast City Art Gallery, Queensland (Finalist)

2009 - ‘CCP Documentary-Photography Award’ The Centre for Contemporary
Photography, Melbourne (Finalist)
2009 - ‘Josephine Ulrick & Win Schubert Photography Award (Finalist)
2009 - ‘Gold Coast City Art Gallery, Queensland (Finalist)
2008 - ‘William and Winifred Bowness Photography Prize (Finalist)
2008 - ‘Monash Gallery of Art, Melbourne (Finalist)
2007 - Monash University Research Travel Grant (Photography) Art, Design and
Architecture, Monash University
2007 - Tuition Grant from the Fachhochschule Darmstadt, Germany
2005 - ‘Josephine Ulrick & Win Schubert Photography Award Gold Coast City
Art Gallery, Queensland (Finalist)
2003 - ‘Nikon Summer Salon’, Centre for Contemporary Photography,
Melbourne (Winner)
2002 - ‘Artistcare Prize’, Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne (Winner)
1999 - ‘YouthPix Photographic Award,’ The City Of Glen Eire Arts Complex,
Melbourne (Winner)


SELECTED PUBLICATIONS & REFERENCES

Dan Rule “Your Weekend: In the Galleries”, The Age, Life & Style p.5
31/08/2013
Amy Margoram “Excerpt Magazine” p.3, 66-68 & 92 Issue 5 2013
Victoria Garnons-Williams “Queensland Centre for Photography -
Exhibition Catalogue” p.6 & cover, Sept-Oct, 2012
Caroline von Courten (editor) “Foam International Photography
Magazine-’What’s Next?” Supplement p.6, 4/4 2011
Anne Marsh “Surveillance Art: Genre and Political Action” Artlink-Art &
Surveillance issue p.55-57, Vol 31 no. 3 2011
Anne Marsh “LOOK: Contemporary Australian Photography Since
1980” Book, p.12, 231 & index 2010
Naomi Cass “CCP Documentary Photography Award 2009” Exhibition
Catalogue, p.2, 8, 9 & 30. 2009
Ashley Crawford “Everyone Is a Suspect” Photofile #86, p.54-59
March-June 2009
Robert Nelson “A Small Measure of Menace” The Age, p.19 07/05/08
Brendan Lee (issue editor) “Don’t Flick That Switch” Photofile no.74
p.4 & cover image (with B. Lee) Winter 2005
John Walsh & Alistair Foster “Josephine Ulrick & Win Schubert
Photography Award 2005” Exhibition Cat. p.2 2005
Robert Nelson “Even Losers Win”, The Age, Arts. p.8 23/07/2004
Lily Hibberd & Brendan Lee, “Un. Magazine (Un Projects) Cover Photo,
Issue 1 & p.1, 2004
Lou Weis, “Hard Waste” Cat Magazine. no.105 p.33 2004
Anonda Bell “Fair Game, Art + Sport” Exhibition Catalogue, National
Gallery of Victoria (NGV) p.5, 11 & 12 2003-04
Janice McCulloch (editor) “Profiles” Art Almanac p.129 June 2003
Tessa Dwyer “Director’s Report” Flash, p.2, 4 & cover image Feb –
May 2003
Lucinda Strahan, “The List”, Melbourne. no.007 p.110 May 2003
Felicity Allen “Snappers Out in Force” Herald-Sun p.54 11/02/2003
Larissa Hjorth, “About The CD-Rom” Gloss, no.3 p.16 & on
accompanying CD 2002
Felicity Loughrey “Batt Mobile” Black & White, no. 51 p.10 April 2001
Alexi Glass “Photo Technica Award” Photofile, #62 p.59 April 2001
Charlotte Day & Francisco Fisher “Photo Technica Award, New
Australian Photo-Artists 2000”
Exhibition Catalogue, Australian Centre For Photography (ACP) p.3 & 6



ARTIST TALKS & GUEST LECTURES

- National Gallery of Victoria (NGV)
- Westspace
- Photographic Studies Collage (PSC)
- Auckland Festival of Photography, New Zealand
- Pingyao International Photography Festival, China (PIP)
- John Curtin Gallery, Curtin University, Western Australia.
- Fachhochschule Darmstadt, Hessen, Germany.
- Edmund Pearce Gallery
- Monash University
- Australian Centre for Photography (ACP)
- The Centre for Contemporary Photography (CCP)
- Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT)
- Victorian University of Technology (VUT)
- Photographic Imaging Collage (PIC)


COLLECTIONS

- Museum of Australian Photography (MAPh) Melbourne, Australia
- Melbourne Grammar School Art Collection. Melbourne, Australia.
- Collection of the Merri-Bek City Council (Counihan Gallery)
Melbourne, Australia
- La Trobe Art Institue (LAI), La Trobe University, Bendigo, Victoria,
Australia
- The Queensland Centre for Photography (QCP) Brisbane, Australia
- Footscray Community Arts Centre, Melbourne, Australia
- Numerous Private Collections in Australia & Internationally.