Tiffaney Bishop – Bio & Curriculum Vitae (Abridged)
Tiffaney Bishop is an artist-researcher-educator-worker with a background in marketing, project management, community engagement, youth arts and photography. She has a Bachelor of Arts in Communications, a Master's Degree in photography and a PhD in fine art. Thirteen years ago, Tiffaney co-founded a youth-driven, adult and peer-mentored artist-run initiative called tbC. The artistic methods, governance strategies, studio-based learning and community engagement practices developed within this collaborative space are bold and inspiring and have supported over 100 young artists and their creative pathways. These modes of operation also represent dynamic workplace strategies for other communities, especially those interested in supporting similar creative collaborations and pathways. Alongside her work with tbC, Tiffaney works part-time as a lecturer in arts education at the University of Melbourne's International Graduate School of Education, teaching Master of Education and Master of Teaching students. Members of tbC often participate in team-teaching sessions during these classes. tbC artists have just won the opportunity to co-write a book chapter for the second edition of The Relationship is the Project which dovetails with tbC’s collaborative ethos and Tiffaney’s ongoing interest in working with young artists.
Current Employment
2008 Co-founder tbC arts, Melbourne, Australia.
A youth-driven, adult and peer-mentored artist-run initiative. tbC has supported more than 100 young artists over its more than decade-long operation. It has developed artistic partnerships with local Councils and communities across Melbourne (including Hobsons Bay, Maroondah, Cardinia and Casey) and connected with youth arts projects in the United Kingdom (London’s Exposure magazine), Ireland (Dublin’s Rialto Youth Project) and the United States of America (New York City’s Tim Rollins and the Kids of Survival). tbC also wins regular industry commissions. For example, two public art projects funded by Yarra Water and the Department of Environment and Primary Industries. Over the past decade, tbC has secured multiple small local and national funding grants totalling more than $100,000 – including an Australia Council for the Arts ArtStart grant. tbC’s Hoodie Mag was shortlisted in the 60th Annual Australian Publisher Association's Book Design Awards and was a finalist in Express Media’s Literary Awards, Best New Publication for/by young people. Hoodie Mag was also selected for a youth arts research project at the Department of Premier and Cabinet, funded by Arts Victoria. tbC was a research partner and exhibitor for the Australian Research Council’s Spectres of Evaluation: Rethinking Art, Community, Value. This international arts research project and conference were coordinated and presented by The Centre for Cultural Partnerships at the University of Melbourne’s Victorian College of the Arts in partnership with the Footscray Community Arts Centre, Australia.
2018 Contract Lecturer, Graduate School of Education at the University of Melbourne, Australia.
Master of Teaching and Education arts lecturing.
Education
2021 PhD, Victorian College of the Arts (APA Scholarship), University of Melbourne, Australia.
2012 Master of Fine Arts, Photo Media, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia.
2005 Bachelor of Media Arts (First Class Honours) RMIT, Melbourne, Australia.
2002 Advanced Diploma Illustrative Photography, Photography Studies College, Melbourne, Australia.
1988 Bachelor of Arts, Communications (Public Relations) RMIT, Melbourne, Australia.
1984 HSC, Sacred Heart College, Geelong, Australia.
Solo Exhibitions
2012 Masters Exhibition, Monash University, Caufield, Australia.
(Liminality, in-betweenness and becoming: Young people, train stations and the social life of art).
2008 War and Peace – A Woman’s Perspective, Burrinja, Upwey, Australia.
2008 War and Peace – A Woman’s Perspective, The Shrine of Remembrance, Melbourne, Australia.
2007 War and Peace – A Woman’s Perspective, fortyfive downstairs, Melbourne, Australia.
2006 War and Peace – A Woman’s Perspective, Yering Station Gallery, Yarra Valley, Australia.
2005 War and Peace – A Woman’s Perspective, Dandenong Ranges Open Studios, Upwey, Australia.
Group Exhibitions
2021 Cut: 10 Years of the Stencil Art Prize, Book Contributor (tbC), edited by Jacinta Fintan.
2017 The Art of Conversation (tbC), International Stencil Art Prize, Noosa Regional Art Gallery.
(A colloquial and visual dialogue about the arts, community, collectivity and what it’s like to be young).
2017 The Art of Conversation (tbC), International Stencil Art Prize, Muswellbrook Regional Art Centre.
2017 The Art of Conversation (tbC), International Stencil Art Prize, Stirrup Gallery, Sydney Fringe Festival.
2017 Hoodie Mag (tbC), Melbourne Fringe Festival, Testing Grounds, Melbourne, Australia.
2017 Peace not War: Art that Takes a Stand, Library at the Dock, Melbourne, Australia.
(Curated by American artist William Kelly, City of Melbourne and Monash Art Design & Architecture).
2017 The Art of Conversation (tbC), fortyfive downstairs, Melbourne, Australia.
2014 Spectres of Evaluation: Rethinking Art, Community, Value.
2013 The Art of Conversation (tbC), (e)merge Art Fair Washington DC, United States of America.
2013 The Circle (tbC), Belgrave, Australia.
2013 Beauty (tbC), Belgrave, Australia.
2013 Open Studio (tbC), Belgrave, Australia.
2012 War and Peace – A Woman’s Perspective, Shrine of Remembrance, Melbourne, Australia.
2012 Episodic (tbC), Belgrave, Australia.
2010 Station Rats & other Scumbags, tiffaney bishop & the SCUMPUPS, Burrinja, Upwey, Australia.
(A photographic exhibition exploring community tensions surrounding young people and train stations).
2010 Human Rights Art & Film Festival: Compassion & Commitment, Collingwood Gallery, Australia.
2010 We’re Afraid of the Daylight, Toyota Emerging Art Award, Port Melbourne, Australia.
(Liminality, in-betweenness and becoming: Young people, train stations and the social life of art).
2009 War and Peace – A Woman’s Perspective, SUB12: Inaugural Emerging Artist Award
(Exhibiting leading contemporary Australian artists in partnership with Hobsons Bay City Council, Newport, Australia).
2009 We’re afraid of the daylight, tiffaney bishop & the SCUMPUPS, Burrinja, Upwey, Australia.
(A photographic exhibition exploring community tensions surrounding young people and train stations).
2006 Open Studio, Group Show, Burrinja, Upwey, Australia.
2005 Open Studio, Group Show, Burrinja, Upwey, Australia.
2004 RMIT School of Art & Culture, Smyrnios Gallery, Prahran, Australia.
2003 Media Arts Graduation Show, RMIT School of Art and Culture, The Artery, Melbourne, Australia.
2001 CCP Summer Salon, Fitzroy, Australia.
1999 CCP Summer Salon, Fitzroy, Australia.
1998 William Heimerman Collection, The Photographers Gallery, Melbourne, Australia.
1997 The Photographers Gallery Group Show, Linden Art Gallery, St.Kilda, Australia.
Collections
2014 War and Peace – A Woman’s Perspective, The Shrine of Remembrance, Melbourne, Australia.
2008 War and Peace – A Woman’s Perspective, The Archive of Humanist Art, International.
(Artworks by artists from all over the world addressing humanist concerns, curated by William Kelly).
2006 War and Peace – A Woman’s Perspective, De Bortoli, Yarra Valley, Australia.
2006 War and Peace – A Woman’s Perspective, Beaconhills College, Pakenham, Australia.
1998 War and Peace – A Woman’s Perspective, The Photographers Gallery, Contemporary Australian Artists, William Heimerman Collection, Melbourne, Australia.
Various Private Collections - Australia, UK, USA and Europe.
Previous Employment
Arts Access, Photography Workshop Leader
Contract Positions Burrinja Community Arts Centre, Upwey - Photography Workshop Leader
City of Knox Council, Arts and Culture Department, Project Officer
National Marketing Manager Billiecart Clothing
Community Events Manager Royal Melbourne Show and Royal Easter Show, Sydney
PR Manager Regent Hotel (now Sofitel)
References
Available on request
Contact
0414 620 637
tiffaneybishop@gmail.com
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