KIERON BROADHURST
b.1990, Margaret River, Western Australia
Lives and works in Boorloo (Perth), Western Australia
email: kieronbroadhurst@gmail.com
phone: 0424658354
insta: @kieronbroadhurst
ABOUT
Kieron Broadhurst is an artist based in Boorloo (Perth), WA. Through a variety of media he investigates the speculative potential of fiction within contemporary art practice.
EDUCATION
2015 – 2020 Doctorate of Philosophy (Art), Curtin University, WA
2013 BA (Art) First Class Honours. Curtin University, WA
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2023:
Rock Pool, Old Customs House, Fremantle WA
2021:
The Planet From Outer Space, Joondalup Invitation Art Prize, Perth WA
2019:
Higher Degrees, John Curtin Gallery, Perth WA
Excession, Cool Change Contemporary, Perth WA
2018:
Staffroom, Edwin Miller House, Perth WA
2017
Earth Coincidence Control Office (ECCO), FELTspace, Adelaide SA
2016
An Event, Success, Fremantle WA
The Island, Moana Project Space, Perth WA
An Event, some.center, online art space: http://some.center/
2015
Portable Domains, Firstdraft, Sydney NSW.
The Young Explorers Club Destroy the World, Daphne, Perth WA
Paper Mountain Art Auction 2015, Paper Montain, Perth WA
Cactus Journal Launch, Free Range Gallery, Perth WA
2014
The Martin Kippenberger Appreciation Society Presents: 21cm Underground (X-ray), Perth International Arts Festival, Subiaco WA
Shareparty (book launch), Fremantle Arts Centre, Fremantle WA
Infinite/Impossible, Free Range Gallery, Perth WA
Five Forts, Paper Mountain, Perth WA
Love Hotel, Free Range Gallery, Perth WA
2013
3rd iVision Helmet (performance), APPLECROSS, Perth WA
Hatched 2013, National Graduates Exhibition, Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts, Perth WA
Misc. - a collection of proposed ideas for exhibition in a two-person office space, Bankwest Tower, Perth WA
ARTIST BOOKS
2014
Proposals For Impossible Artworks, manufactured in collaboration with Danni McGrath, self-published.
2013
Shareparty, published with support from Artsource and the Constantine Family Foundation Emerging Artist Program.
WRITING
2021
FOI RELEASE E8519879184698619856, catalogue essay for The Burning of Vision by Ash Tower, Floating Goose Studios, Adelaide SA
2020
Untitled (Catalogue Essay for ‘Beside Still Waters’ by Fiona Harman), catalogue essay for Beside Still Waters, exhibition by Fiona Harman , Pig Melon, Perth WA
2017
Return to the Sea, catalogue essay for The Pool, exhibition by Fiona Harman and Steve Paraskos, Smart Casual, Fremantle WA
2016
Breathe in Deep, catalogue essay for Totem in Tribute, exhibition by Sam Bloor and Trevor Bly, Spectrum Gallery Space, Edinburgh UK
Cult of Genius, catalogue essay for New Works, exhibition by Alex Maciver at Buratti Fine Art, Subiaco, Western Australia.
Pour Iain, Pour Iain, catalogue essay for What is Error?, exhibition by Iain Dean at Wellington Street Projects, Sydney NSW.
03-100-402, catalogue essay for Trouble at Times, exhibition by Jack Wansbrough and Maria Paris, Free Range Gallery, Perth WA
Culture and Value, catalogue essay for Alternative Australian Currency by Oliver Hull, Seventh Gallery, Melbourne VIC
Post-post-post Irony, catalogue essay for exhibition of the same title by James Cooper and Iain Dean, Daphne, Perth WA
2015
The Inglewood Man, or how I felt when I found out I was featured on The Worst of Perth, essay for Cactus Journal, Issue One: On Negativity, Perth WA
2014
The difference between looking in and looking out, catalogue essay for Suburban Similes, exhibition by Dave Attwood, Firstdraft, Sydney NSW
2013
Spooky Action at a Distance, catalogue essay for Hypotheticals II exhibition, Free Range Gallery, Northbridge, Perth WA
They All Die/Causality and Casualty in Fiction, text for The Death of Star Wars publication for Institute of Jamaisvu at Basic space, Dublin, Ireland UK
RESIDENCIES
2015
Firstdraft, Sydney NSW
2013
Shareparty 1.0, Fremantle Arts Centre, Fremantle WA
Shareparty 2.0, Fremantle Arts Centre, Fremantle WA