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Pam Kleemann is a photographer and conceptual artist with a career spanning more than 25 years. Kleemann uses different techniques to free her images and give them a more three-dimensional feel. She doesn't create standard photographic prints on paper. In the past her photographs have appeared on hospital beds, vinyl LP's and also been constructed into product ranges. In her more recent projects, she has served her artwork to the public as sumptuous cafés and banquet feasts, with the photographs on platters, cake-stands, cookware, tablecloths and napkins. Her focus is the human body and a growing sense of humanity being commodified, consumed and de-valued, the disadvantaged akin to leftovers.
See Pam Kleemann's business website: Tokolonga ImagEnation / Tokolonga Dance & Music.
Currently rehearsal photographer for the Melbourne Theatre Company, sessional teacher, Photography for Writers, Victoria University, and CATC Design School (Melbourne Campus), and small business owner – Tokolonga ImagEnation Professional Photography/Tokolonga Dance & Music
Pam lives and works in Melbourne, Australia.
| SOLO EXHIBITIONS | |
| 2011 | A Private View – Skinned Ballarat International Foto Biennale Fringe Program, The Brewery, Buninyong, Vic, Australia. |
| 2009 | Cooked, 'Art is… Tasty' Festival, Horsham Regional Art Gallery, Horsham, and Cowwar Art Space, Cowwar, Vic, Australia. |
| 2007 | Are YOU Being Served? ANCA Gallery, Canberra, ACT, Australia. |
| 2005 | Hairball Café & Bare Essentials Horsham Regional Art Gallery, Horsham, Vic. Australia. |
| 2004 | Hairball Café fortyfivedownstairs Gallery, Melbourne, Vic. Australia. |
| 2002 | Cooked & Hairball Café Stills Gallery, Sydney, NSW, Australia. |
| 2000 | Who Said Vinyl Is Dead? Centre for Creative Photography, Adelaide, SA, Australia. |
| 1999 | Cooked Melbourne Food & Wine Festival, Melbourne, Vic. Australia. |
| 1998 | No Place Like Babylon Stills Gallery, Sydney, NSW, Australia. |
| 1997 | Who Said Vinyl Is Dead? 17 Creations Gallery, New York, USA. |
| No Place Like Babylon Helen Schutt Access Gallery, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne, Vic. Australia. | |
| 1996 | Who Said Vinyl Is Dead? Blue Moon, Melbourne, Vic. Australia. |
| 1988 | Portrayal of Women in Advertising Masonic Centre, Sydney, NSW, Australia. |
| 1984 | Photographic Works Darklight Photographic Gallery, Fremantle, WA, Australia. |
| 1981 | Colourscape Exposure Photographic Gallery, Perth, WA, Australia. |
| SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS | |
| 2012 | Linden Postcard Show, Linden Contemporary Art Space, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. |
| 2011 | Think Tank, Academy Gallery, School of Visual & Performing Arts, University of Tasmania, Australia. |
| Head On Portrait Exhibition & Prize (shortlisted), Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney, Australia. | |
| St Michael's Exhibition & Archangel Prize (shortlisted), St Michael's Grammar School, Melbourne, Australia. | |
| 2009-11 | Window Frames, Sydney Road Brunswick Assoc, Melbourne Fringe Festival, Vic, Australia. (Winner 2009; Judges commendation 2010). |
| 2006/07 | Soft To The Touch, Horsham Regional Art Gallery, Horsham, Vic, Australia. |
| 2006 | Surface Residue Adelaide Central Gallery, Adelaide, SA, Australia. |
| 2003/05 | Julie Millowick Acquisitive Photographic Award Exhibition, Castlemaine, Vic. Australia. |
| 2000 | Bayagul: speaking up – Contemporary Indigenous Communication Powerhouse Museum, Sydney, NSW, Australia (permanent display). |
| 1999 | Seize Vic Health Access Gallery, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia. |
| Skin – Bare Essentials Stills Gallery, Sydney, NSW, Australia. | |
| 1998 | Body Object Steps Gallery, Melbourne, Vic. Australia. |
| 1994-2000 | Summer Salon Exhibitions, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne, Vic. Australia (judges commendation 1996). |
| 1993/4 | The Car/The Road – Contemporary Attitudes The Exhibitions Gallery, Wangaratta; Waverley City Gallery, Melbourne, Mornington Peninsula Arts Centre & touring regional Victoria. |
| 1990/91 | Double Exposure Artemis Gallery, Perth & touring regional Western Australia. |
| 1990 | All That Flows Theatre Collaboration, The Performance Space, Sydney, NSW, Australia. |
| 1988/89 | Blinded By The Light Theatre Collaboration, Western Australian Theatre Company, Perth, WA, Australia. |
| 1988 | Brush With The Lore Praxis Gallery, Fremantle, WA, Australia. |
| 1987 | Among The Souvenirs Festival of Perth Exhibition, Art Gallery of WA, Perth, WA, Australia. |
| 1986 | Praxis in Practice Praxis Gallery, Fremantle, WA, Australia. |
| Western Australian Photographers – 4 Art Gallery of WA, Perth, WA, Australia. | |
| 1984/85 | Five From The West Undercroft Gallery, University of Western Australia, Perth, WA, Australia. |
| 1982 | Foto-Fobia Darklight Photographic Gallery, Fremantle, WA, Australia. |
| TERTIARY QUALIFICATIONS | |
| 2008-11 | Currently completing Diploma of Professional Writing & Editing, Victoria University, Melbourne, Australia. |
| 2008 | Certificate IV in Small Business Management, Box Hill Institute, Vic, Australia. |
| 2005 | Master of Arts Degree – Photography, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia. |
| 2004 | Certificate IV Assessment & Workplace Training, Melbourne, Australia. |
| 1979 | Certificate in Photography, Mt. Lawley Technical College, Perth, WA, Australia. |
| GRANTS & AWARDS | |
| 2012-13 | Artist-In-Residence, Caritas Christi Hospice, St Vincent's Hospital, Melbourne, Vic. Aust |
| City of Melbourne – Docklands Grant for Nkumba Rumba multi-artform project, Melbourne, Australia. | |
| 2009 | Winner Sculpture prize (shared), Window Frames Sydney Road Exhibition, Brunswick, Vic. Australia. |
| Cultural Intersections Artist-in-Residence Grant, Multicultural Arts Vic, Ausdance & City of Yarra for Dance/Photography performance Congo Cuba Nkumba, Melbourne, Australia | |
| 2003 | Research Completion Scholarship, RMIT University, Melbourne, Vic, Australia |
| 1998 | Shortlisted for Deacon, Graham & James/Arts 21 Award, Melbourne, Vic, Australia. |
| 1997 | Pat Corrigan Individual Artist Grant, NAVA, Australia |
| 1990 | Creative Development Grant, WA Dept. for the Arts, Perth, Australia. |
| 1988 | SNAP Grant, WA Dept. for the Arts, Perth, Australia. |
| 1986 | Creative Development Grant, WA Dept. for the Arts, Perth, Australia. |
COLLECTIONS
Horsham Regional Art Gallery
State Library of Western
Australia
Guy Grey-Smith Memorial
Collection, Art Gallery of Western Australia
Private
collections in Australia, France and USA.
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
St Michael's Exhibition and Archangel Prize
2011 Catalogue
Marsh, Anne 2010, LOOK Contemporary Australian Photography since 1980, McMillan,
Melbourne, Australia.
Kleemann, Pam 2010, Splitting Hairs, Lambert Academic Publishing, Germany.
Hall, Bianca 2009, 'Winners thrive in the art
of Brunswick' The Melbourne Times #
47, 25 November, p5.
What's
On In Canberra, 2007, 'Are YOU Being Served?' Capital Magazine, Issue 31 Nov-Dec.
Kelly, Philippa,
2007, Art Notes ACT, Art Monthly #205
November, p49.
Streak, Diana 2007, 'Well-served
by Kleemann' The Canberra Times
(Panorama), November 3rd, p20.
Mitchell,
Lisa 2003, 'Questions for… Pam Kleemann, Hair Enthusiast' Interview The Age, 13 August.
Glastonbury,
Keri 2002, 'Liquid Light Hair', Review, RealTime
#51, Oct/Nov.
McFarlane, Robert 2002,
'Face to Face With the Forces of Change', Review, Sydney Morning Herald, 8
July.
Harden, Michael 1999, 'Feast
Your Eyes', Review, The Melbourne Times, March issue.
Sowden,
Tim 1998, 'Body Object' Catalogue Essay.
Freiberg,
Freda 1997, 'No Place Like
Babylon', Review, MetroArts, The Age, August.
Hennesey, Deborah 1997, 'No
Place Like Babylon', Review, Like Art
Magazine #4.
Riley,
Vikki 1997, 'Picturing Vinyl and Babylon', Interview, RealTime #19, June/July.