Artists

The following biographies were written in July 2001 for the original installation and performances of Full at Glass Street Gallery. They are no longer current.

Elizabeth Boyce (design & photography)

Simon Ellis (choreography & performance)

Jacqueline Grenfell (sound design)

Alycia Hevey (lighting design)

Richard Manning (curation & set design)

Kath Papas (production manager)

Elizabeth Boyce (design & photography)
Elizabeth Boyce is a visual artist, whose practice incorporates site-specific installation, object making and photography as well as design and installation for dance theatre. She has a particular concern for audience and has focused on site-specific installation in public spaces such as the windows of travel agencies, the Platform exhibition space at Spencer Street Station and the a dvertising space in transport shelters. She often uses text as a tool to elicit engagement with an audience and as a means of addressing contemporary concerns that are embedded in language. Labour, work and leisure are also themes that recur in her work. She is currently working in Castlemaine as part of the Castlemaine Contemporary Artists' Initiative's Federation Residency Program. She has previously worked collaboratively with Simon Ellis on the photography and design for his work, Semi-detached (poss. 2nd bdrm).

Simon Ellis (choreography & performance)
Simon is an independent dancer, choreographer and teacher in Australia and New Zealand. His choreography reflects an abiding interest in the everyday, and in particular, the memories with which we make sense of the world. He is influenced by dancetheatre traditions, and also by visual design and installation-based art. Simon has trained as an injury prevention kinesiologist at the University of Otago in New Zealand, and is also a graduate of the Victorian College of the Arts School of Dance, where he is currently a sessional teacher in Contemporary technique.

In 1998, Simon designed and created Touch, which featured the voice of Christine Sullivan and light by Gabby O'Conner. He has also performed, taught and choreographed for Big Fish Dance/Dance Compass Melbourne (1997-98), and in Shona McCullagh's Quick for the NZ International Festival of the Arts (1998). In 1999, Simon performed in the New Zealand Made to Move seasons of Michael Parmenter's Jerusalem, and Shona McCullagh's Mad Angels, and created Semi-detached (poss. 2nd bdrm.), which was performed as part of Anna Smith's co.motion season of Bloodwood. He recently performed in a national tour of Daniel Belton's Soundings (2000).

In Melbourne he has been involved in the development and performance of Don Asker's movement research project, Fully Immersed (1998-99), and in Shaun McLeod's Cowboy Songs (1997), and Chamber (2001). He also choreographed and developed the sound design for undone years - a work involving 25 dance students that was commissioned by the VCA School of Dance. He is currently developing and organising the full length work Indelible and has also been commissioned to make Lying with students at the VCA.

The movement in Full is a celebration of a young body, as well as a door into the internal world of an elderly woman. Ellis includes both improvised and choreographed movement in his work, and in Full, the movement vocabulary is heavily influenced by the physical parameters of the original performing space at Glass Street Gallery.

Jacqueline Grenfell (sound design)
Jacqueline Grenfell is a sound designer with a strong interest in hybrid and collaborative art practises. Although trained formally as an acoustic musician, Jacqueline has developed and performed a diverse range of interdisciplinary work. She draws strongly on influences from Chinese, Tibetan and the wider Asian cultures. Language and text are highly valued elements in her compositions. New technologies are her primary compositional vehicle. Jacqueline's sound score for Full will be generated from the work's text, examining the themes of time and remembering. The sound scape will consider the properties of two voices; those of an elderly woman and a young girl. Through the manipulation of their voices, the score intends to both support and challenge the central themes as well as the visual aspects of the work. Jacqueline is currently completing a Graduate Diploma in Sound Design in Dramatic Art through Victorian College of the Arts.

Alycia Hevey (lighting design)
Alycia is currently in her final year at the Victorian College of the Arts School of Production, where she is focusing on designing light for movement. She has recently returned from Tasmania where she worked as assistant to the Production Manager for the inaugural 10 Days on the Island Festival. Alycia has previously collaborated with Simon Ellis on undone years (2000). The lighting design for Full has been constrained by the lack of three phase power in the Glass Street Gallery space. Alycia has used this apparent limitation as a strength in her design, and the sudden on/off cues, tightly focused dichromatic lamps, and painted text illuminated via handheld blacklight combine to innervate the performer's journey through and about the gallery space.

Richard Manning (curation & set design)
Richard Manning was born in Melbourne in 1955. He has worked in a diverse variety of occupations and completed a Diploma of Fine Art at the Chisholm Institute of Technology in 1984. Richard is a practicing artist who has a major interest in painting and drawing. He has recently developed his practice into other visual arts mediums including video; computer generated digital imagery and site specific installation. His art practice is based around personal environmental issues that explore location and narrative. He is currently undertaking an Advanced Diploma in Electronic Design and Interactive Media at RMIT. Richard has exhibited his work widely having had six solo exhibitions and participated in many group exhibitions. His work is collected privately and forms part of the collection of a number of public organisations. He initiated Glass Street Gallery with co-director Mary-Ann Skehill in 1999.

Kath Papas (production manager)
Kath Papas is an arts administrator and performer. Her work in administration includes her ongoing position as Administrative Officer of Ausdance Victoria, and occasional work on independent productions, notably Elektra a.d. (La Mama at Carlton Courthouse, March 2000). In 2000 she completed the Foundation Year at the VCA School of Drama, and appeared as an actor in Telia Nevile's 'Perfume Shopping'. So far this year she has performed at La Mama in Emma Newman's Synchronised Drowning as part of the Explorations season, and in a reading of Graham Henderson's Afterimage, directed by David Branson. Kath is also a teacher and performer of Raqs Sharqi, or Egyptian Dance. Raqs Sharqi is a dynamic dance form based on grounding, flow and connection to the music. Since 1995 Kath has studied with London-based master teacher and performer Suraya Hilal, who has led the modern development of this dance form, and with other teachers of the Hilal school. Kath is currently studying contemporary dance at Rusden (Deakin University), and continuing her study of the Alexander Technique.