News, Publications, Exhibitions and Talks:
School of the Living and the Dead. Solo exhibition of over 50 new works at Grafton Regional Gallery, September 2023.
ArtsNational Lecture Tour 2022/2023. Working from Life: Puppets, Lay Figures and Strange Studios: Brisbane, Gold Coast, Byron Bay, Noosa, Cairns, Rockhampton, Sunshine Coast, Toowoomba.
Just published: Drawing ex-studio: An eccentric case for correspondence courses in Art, Design & Communication in Higher Education21(2):159-172) DOI: https://doi.org/10.1386/drtp_00051_3
Drawing for Life at HOTA Home of the Arts, Gold Coast. Jan and Feb 2023. Drawing in the Dark — an exploration of magic lanterns with Dr Bill Platz.
Dark Drawing: Magic Lanterns and Phantasmagoria at GUAM Griffith University Art Museum, November 2023.
DRAW ALONG at QAGOMA: The Substance of Drawing. 21Oct 2022. Join Dr Bill Platz for an in-person workshop. Learn to mix and pack your own oil-based inks and gouaches, and draw from the permanent collection.
New Masquerade Life Drawing event series at QAGOMA July 2021: “Draw along with artist Dr Bill Platz in this evening life drawing workshop held in the heart of ‘European Masterpieces from The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York’. Drawing from live models, you’ll discover tips for approaching drawing and take inspiration from paintings in the exhibition. In this masquerade-themed session, you’ll be introduced to drawing materials favoured by the European masters and learn techniques that bridge the old and new, in a lively atmosphere of play and experimentation.”
Just published: Drawing with numb hands: Dexterity and draughtspuppets in Drawing: Research, Theory, Practice, Volume 6, Number 1, 1 April 2021, pp. 69-81(13), Intellect DOI: https://doi.org/10.1386/drtp_00051_3
Finalist in the 2020 Jacaranda Acquisitive Drawing Award (JADA) – a prize that seeks to encourage and promote innovation and excellence in Australian drawing practices. Grafton Regional Gallery NSW. OPening October.
Read more: http://regionalartsnsw.com.au/2020/02/entries-open-for-the-2020-jacaranda-acquisitive-drawing-award/#ixzz6XS8DjKDU
Virtual Life Drawing — Draw Along hosted by QAGOMA Virtual Events sponsored by HSBC August 2020: Yesterday’s Bodies; Sudden Bodies; Unruly Bodies.
https://news.griffith.edu.au/2020/06/17/art-lecturer-turns-zoom-superstar-during-lockdown/
Draw Along hosted by QAGOMA Virtual Events sponsored by HSBC June 2020: Bad Drawing; Extend Yourself; Mirror Likeness; Motion Drawing; ABC Radio Brisbane Interview 20 June 2020
See Weena’s Bad Shuttle and Acedia No2 in Pivot at Onespace Gallery Brisbane 2019. UPDATE: works acquired by the Queensland State Library Collection.
Just Published: ‘Spin Puppet Spin: Drawing Estrangement’ in VIS — The Nordic Journal for Artistic Research (Stockholm University of the Arts) 2019.
Awarded Distinction by Clare Gilman, Chief Curator: The Drawing Center, New York for Puppet Pool at Drawing Discourse 2019.
Keynote, workshop and panel discussions, JADA (Jacaranda Acquisitive Drawing Award), Grafton Regional Gallery, 2018.
Finalist, Lyn McCrae Memorial Drawing Prize, Noosa Regional Gallery, October 2018.
SpinPuppets at Characterized, Manifest Research Gallery and Drawing Centre, USA, 2018.
‘Can a drawing be rehearsed; Or, there’s no bowing in performance art’, Journal for Artistic Research, Issue 15, 2018, Zurich; Amsterdam.
Major Prize Winner. Marie Ellis OAM Drawing Prize 2017. An acquisitive award for Puppets with Charcoal, 2017.
Guest Editor, Special Drawing Research Issue of Studio Research Journal featuring articles by Deanna Petherbridge and Chris McAuliffe. 2017. Available now.
Old Water at Codex 2017, 6th Biennial International Book Fair and Symposium, Berkeley, Feb 2017.
Drawing Discourse exhibition at University of North Carolina, S. Tucker Cooke Gallery. Jan 2017.
GOMA Turns 10, Drawing workshops: sketching and erasure, Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, Jan/Feb 2017.
'A Gathering Dilemma: The Drawing International Brisbane Symposium' to be published in Drawing: Research, Theory, Practice; Intellect (UK), late 2016.
'Drawing Water' project: Tokyo-Brisbane. Dec 2016 - Mar 2017. Brisbane City Council Outdoor Galleries.
'Tullah and Tom: A Drawing Affair' at Woodford Folk Festival, Dec-Jan 2016/17.
Five 80-minute drawing performances in the Parlour Theatre, 27Dec, 28Dec, 29Dec, 30Dec, 1Jan.
Young Woman Yawning No. 1, recipient of one of two prizes at the Marie Ellis Drawing Prize, 2015, has been selected for INDA10, The International Drawing Annual published by Manifest Press, USA to be published late 2016.