1970 Ngunnawal Country (Canberra, Australia)
Doctor of Philosophy Photography and Media Arts | ANU School of Art and Design
Master of Fine Arts Degree School of Media Art/ Photo-media | College of Fine Arts: University of New South Wales
Bachelor of (Visual) Arts Degree with Honors (1st Class) Photo-media | Canberra School of Art, Australian National University
2022 Finalist: The 67th Blake Prize | Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre, Sydney
2017 Highly Commended: Olive Cotton Award for photographic Portraiture | Tweed Regional Gallery, Murwillumbah NSW
2016 Finalist: Josephine Ulrick & Win Schubert Photography Award | Gold Coast City Gallery, Queensland
2016 Finalist: Chippendale New World Art Prize | Old Rum Store, Chippendale, Sydney
2016 Finalist: The 64th Blake Prize | Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre, Sydney
2016 Finalist: National Photographic Portrait Prize; NPPP 2016 | National Portrait Gallery, Canberra
2013-16 Recipiant: Australian National University Research Scholarship | Australian National University, Canberra
2014 Highly Commended: Marrickville Urban Photography Competition and Exhibition | Marrickville Town Hall, Sydney
2013 Winner: People’s Choice Award, Olive Cotton Award for Photographic Portraiture 2013 | Tweed Regional Gallery, Murwillumbah NSW
2011 Finalist: Marrickville Contemporary Art Prize 2011 | Sydney
2010 Recipient: Australia Council for the Arts: New Work Grant for Emerging Artists | Australia Council for the Arts
2007 Highly Commended: Golden Ticket: 2007 Emerging Artists and Designer Award | College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales
2007 Highly Commended: Josephine Ulrick & Win Schubert Photography Award | Gold Coast City Art Gallery, Surfers Paradise, 12 May - 28 June
2007 Finalist: Willoughby Art Prize 2007 | Willoughby Civic Centre, Sydney, 7 – 16 September
2005-2007 Awarded: Australian Postgraduate Award Research Scholarship | University of New South Wales
2005 Finalist: QueerStills [Awards for short movie stills]
2003 Judge’s Shortlist: Energex Arbour Contemporary Art Prize for Hey Hetero!
2001 Winner: Special Festival Award Recipient for Hey Hetero! Sydney Gay & Lesbian Mardi Gras Arts Festival
2001 Recipient: Sydney Gay & Lesbian Mardi Gras Festival - Visual Arts Grant
1997 Recipient: Pat Corrigan Artist Grant
1997 Recipient: ACT Cultural Council [Equipment Grant]
1994 2nd Prize Winner: Photofocus Photography Competition | University of Canberra
1993 1st Prize Winner Photofocus Photography Competition | University of Canberra
2025 We Could Be Immortals | SLOTwindow, Sydney | 9 Feb - 15 Mar
2024 The Sweet Forever | Chrissie Cotter Gallery, Sydney | 05 - 21 April
2021 The Sweet Forever: How Photography in the Wake of Digital Transformation Might Inform a Re-imagining of Death | ANU School of Art & Design | 26 Mar - 08 Apr
2014 The Bell Tower Project | Gallery X88, Sydney | 1-11 May
2012 Grace | Queensland Centre for Photography| Brisbane | 22 Sept - 21 Oct
2012 Tina Fiveash: Selected Works | Platform 72, Sydney | 27 Jul – 15 Aug
2011 Tina Fiveash: Retrospective | Plump Gallery, Sydney | 11 – 13 Jun
2011 Grace | Kudos Gallery, Sydney | 23 February – 5 Mar
2007 Camera Mortuaria | Kudos Gallery, Sydney | 8 - 11 Aug
1997 Queer Love in the 50s | Lizard Lounge Artspace, Sydney | 18 February - 23 March & Tilley Devine’s Café Galley, Canberra, 1 – 30 Apr
1994 Pet Perversions | Tilley Devine’s Café GalleRy, Canberra | 5 Jun - 3 Jul
2025 Photo Sydney at Sydney Contemporary | Carriageworks, Sydney | 11-14 Sept
2024 Manipulated | Articulate Project Space, Sydney | 2-24 Nov
2023 7 Artists | Stirrup Gallery, Sydney 18 - 22 Oct
2023 Sydney Contemporary | Carriageworks, Sydney | 07-10 Sep
2023 Up and Go | UP Space | Sydney | 12-13 Aug
2023 Artists of Addi Road: In the Process | Stirrup Gallery, Sydney | 17-25 Jun
2022 7 Artists | Stirrup Gallery, Sydney | 6 - 11 Dec
2022 The Art of Protest | Newcastle Art Gallery, Newcastle | 30 Oct 2021 - 30 Jan
2021 Up For A Show | Ultimo Project Studios, Sydney | 4 - 31 Dec
2020 Sydney Contemporary | Australasia’s International Art Fair (online) | 1 -31 Oct
2019 Queer Nations | Project Space (RMIT), Melbourne | 26 Jul - 17 Aug
2018 40 Years of Queer Art: Rebellion and Subversion | Comber St Studios, Sydney | 21 Feb - 8 Mar
2017 Olive Cotton Award | Tweed Regional Gallery, Murwillumbah | 21 July - 8 Oct
2017 Ultimo Projects Group Exhibition | UP Space Gallery (Open Studio Trail), Marrickville | 13 - 21 May
2017 The Privileges of Membership | Castlemaine Art Museum, Victoria | 13 May - 25 Jun
2016 Earth | Belconnen Art Center, Canberra | 19 August - 11 Sep
2016 Josephine Ulrick & Win Schubert Photography Award | Gold Coast City Gallery, Queensland | 25 Jun - 21 Aug
2016 Chippendale New World Art Prize | Old Rum Store, Chippendale, Sydney | 2 Jun - 26 Jun
2016 National Photographic Portrait Prize; NPPP 2016 | National Portrait Gallery | 19 Mar - 26 June
2016 The 64th Blake Prize | Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre | 12 Feb - 24 Apr
2015 The 5th Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art: Make it New | Thessalonki, Greece | 23 Jun – 30 Sept
2015 Protest | Gallery M16, Griffith, Canberra | 27 Mar – 12 Apr
2014 14th Pingyao International Photography Festival | Pingyao, Shanxi province, China | 13 -28 Sept
2013 Sacred | Gallery M16, Griffith, Canberra | 14 Nov– 1 Dec
2013 Olive Cotton Award for Photographic Portraiture | Tweed Regional Gallery, Murwillumbah NSW | 09 Aug - 29 Sept
2013 Got the Message? 50 Years of Political Posters | Art Gallery of Ballarat, Victoria | 2 Mar - 14 Apr
2012 Emergence | Quirk-ability Gallery, Sydney, Australia | 17 - 26 May
2012 Head On Photo Festival | Platform 72, Sydney Australia | 1 – 7 May and 15 – 21 May
2012 International Women’s Day Exhibition | Tap Gallery, Sydney, Australia | 6 – 11 Mar
2011 Sexe et Convenances III | Galerie Pascal Vanhoecke, Paris, France | 18 Oct – 2 Dec
2011 Marrickville Contemporary Art Prize 2011 Finalist’s Exhibition | Chrissie Cotter Gallery Sydney, Australia | 9 – 25 Sept
2011 Birth.Art | The Gallery ACU, Melbourne, Australia | 14 – 30 Jun
2011 What Things Look Like [Head On Photo Festival] | Index Gallery, Sydney, Australia | 7 – 21 May
2011 Gaypril | Harvey Mudd College, Claremont , California, USA | 1 – 30 Apr
2010 Love Never Dies | Form + Content Gallery, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA | 20 May – 27 Jun
2010 Love Never Dies | Traffic Zone Gallery, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA | 3 Jun – 16 Jul
2010 Women in Piracy | Kudos Gallery, Sydney, Australia | 30 Mar – 10 Apr
2010 Women on Tap Artfest | Tap Gallery, Sydney, Australia | 8-14 Mar
2009 Gender Rights! | ACT Legislative Assembly Exhibition Space, Canberra, Australia | 16 – 20 Nov
2009 Die Ideale Ausstellung [Kunstfest Weimar] | ACC Galerie Weimar, Germany | 23 Aug - 25 Oct
2009 Big Butch Billboard [commissioned photography] | Newcastle Regional Gallery, Newcastle, Australia | 15 Oct
2009 Big Butch Billboard [commissioned photography] | Contemporary Art Centre of SA INC. Australia | 12 Jun – 19 Jul
2009 Terra Nullius: Contemporary Art from Australia | Halle 14, Leipziger Baumwollspinnerei, Leipzig, Germany | 1 May - 26 Jul
2009 Terra Nullius: Contemporary Art from Australia | ACC Galerie, Weimar, Germany | 26 Jan - 22 Mar
2009 Big Butch Billboard [commissioned photography] | Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney, Australia | 30 Jan - 7 Mar
2008 Parade: Manufacturing Selves [Vivid National Photography Festival] | ANU School of Art Gallery, Canberra, Australia | 9 Jul - 2 Aug
2008 Fairy Tales | Mori Gallery, Sydney, Australia | 20 February – 1 Mar
2008 NeMe: Isolomania | Nicosia Arts Centre, Nicosia, Cyprus | 11 – 28 Jan
2007 Human Rights Arts and Film Festival |Bus Gallery, Melbourne | 28 Nov – 2 Dec
2007 Golden Ticket: 2007 Emerging Artists and Designer Award College of Fine Arts | Kudos Gallery, Sydney, Australia | 10 - 20 Oct
2007 Willoughby Art Prize 2007 | Willoughby Civic Centre, Sydney, Australia | 7 - 16 Sep
2007 Josephine Ulrick & Win Schubert Photography Award | Gold Coast City Art Gallery, Surfers Paradise, Australia | 12 May - 28 Jun
2007 Domestic Love | Kudos Gallery, Sydney, Australia | 6 -17 Feb
2007 Normal Love | Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany | 19 Jan – 3 Mar
2006 In Transition | Evagoras Lanitis Centre, Limassol, Cyprus | 4 – 15 Oct
2006 Reflux | Kudos Gallery, Sydney, Australia | 3 - 14 Oct
2006 Hey Hetero! [Glasgay Festiva] | Major visual arts headline project, Q Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland | Oct
2006 Hey Hetero! [Glasgay Festival] | Billboards in Glasgow Underground, Glasgow, Scotland | Sept
2006 Queering the Mardi Gras | MLC Gallery, Sydney, Australia | 4 - 27 Feb
2005 QueerStills | Giotto Art Café, Sydney, Australia | 8 Feb - 14 Mar
2005 Art Sydney ‘05 | Hordern Pavilion, Sydney Australia | 25 - 28 August
2004 Josephine Urlich National Photography Prize Exhibition | Tweed River Art Gallery, Murwillumbah, Australia | 7 Oct - 7 Nov
2003 Larzish [International Film Festival of Sexuality and Gender Pluality] | Bombay, India | Oct
2002 Re-identifications | Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney, Australia | 4 Oct - 10 Nov
2001 Hey Hetero! | Wellington, New Zealand, CBD on buses and in shops. Launched by the YWCA of NZ | Nov
2001 D’jest | Feast Festival, Adelaide | Nov
2001 Hey Hetero! | Major visual arts event for the Sydney Gay & Lesbian Mardi Gras Festival | Feb – Mar
2001 Hey Hetero! | [Midsummer Festival] Melbourne CBD Billboards for, Melbourne | 12 Jan – 3 Feb
1999 The Truth is Out There | Canberra Contemporary Art Space, Canberra, Australia | 31 Oct - 9 Nov
1997 Hearsay : New Photo Artists | Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney, Australia | 20 Dec 1996 - 25 Jan
1996 Out of the Frame | Tin Sheds Gallery, Sydney, Australia | 6 Feb - 2 Mar
2009 Big Butch Billboard [Commissioned photography for billboard by artist Deborah Kelly]
Big Butch Billboard is a bold public art project, which appeared at the Australian Centre for Photography and as a mobile billboard, which
toured Metro and Western Sydney as part of the 2009 Sydney Gay & Lesbian Mardi Gras Festival. A wry homage to the iconic 1989
billboard, Maria Kozic is Bitch, the new version features a local lesbian tomboy playing with the vexed issues of representation of women
and queer people. Funded by Arts NSW, ACON & Sydney Gay & Lesbian Mardi Gras Ltd.
2001 Hey, Hetero! [Collaborative public art project with artist Deborah Kelly]
Hey Hetero! invites heterosexuality into the public discourse in the form of simulated mainstream ‘advertisements’. The project's six pieces
have appeared throughout the world in illuminated public advertising spaces, CBD billboards, magazines, newspapers, television, bus ads,
Avant Cards, galleries, festivals, and online. Funded by the Sydney Gay & Lesbian Mardi Gras.
Artbank Collection, Australia
Art Gallery of Ballarat, Australia
City of Sydney, Australia
National Gallery of Australia
University of Canberra, Australia
Whitford Fine Art Gallery, London
2025 Inside the Gallery (Australia)—Photo Sydney @ Sydney Contemporary (Podcast episode). Link: https://insidethegallery.com.au/e/inside-the-gallery-australia-photo-sydney-sydney-contemporary/
2025 Art Collector [Sydney Contemporary 2025 Special Edition] “Photo Sydney” [p.16-17]
2024 Art / Edit [magazine] Edition #40. Published in Australia & New Zealand. “Gallery” section [p.153]
2024 Art / Edit [magazine] Edition #39. Published in Australia & New Zealand. “Best of Text” section [p.45]
2021 Marsh, Anne. ‘Doing Feminism: Women’s Art and Feminist Criticism in Australia’, The Miegunyah Press, Australia [p. 229]
2018 Mandryk, C. ‘Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras’, Art Almanac, 30 January. Available: https://www.art-almanac.com.au/sydney-gay-and-lesbian-mardi-gras/
2017 Shoebridge, J; Saunders, M; Turnbull, S, ‘Art controversy: hate-mail after grandmother's saliva wins $20,000 portrait prize’, ABC North Coast, 25 July. Available: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-07-25/olive-cotton/8741262
2016 ‘The 64th Blake Prize Finalists’, Sydney Morning Herald: Culture, Art & Design, 12 February. Available: https://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/art-and-design/the-64th-blake-prize-finalists-20160212-4agg5.html
2013 ‘Touching Image Wins People’s Choice Award at Olive Cotton Award’ in QT: The Queensland Times, 14 November. Available: https://www.qt.com.au/news/touching-image-wins-voters/2080147/
2013 Phillips, T. ‘Twin images captures Cotton Spirit’, Star Community, 6 November. Available: https://starcommunity.com.au/tweed-coast-weekly/06-11-2013/twin-images-captures-cotton-spirit/
2013 'Soul mate portrait wins People’s Choice at Tweed', Museums & Galleries of NSW, 5 November. Available: https://mgnsw.org.au/articles/soul-mate-portrait-wins-peoples-choice-tweed/
2013 Urszula Dawkins interview with Tina Fiveash ‘Queer Taboos and In-Betweens’ in Dirty Queer Magazine, [p. 50 – 55]
2012 Blair French & Mark Feary (Eds), Deborah Kelly &, Artspace Visual Arts Centre Ltd, Sydney, Australia [p.12, 19, 112-117]
2012 Margarethe Strandberg/Erna Boyum, ‘Forbudstid: Tina Fiveash’ in BLIKK [magazine], Norway, February 2012 [Front cover/p.36-39]
2012 Simone Veenstra, ‘Fotografien Von Tina Fiveash’ in L.MAG [magazine], Germany, January/February 2012 [p.44-47]
2011 Rosanna Beatrice Stevens, ‘Grace, An Exhibition, by Tina Fiveash’ Onya Magazine [online], 10 March Available :
http://www.onyamagazine.com/arts-culture/art/exhibition-reviews/art-grace-an-exhibition-by-tina-fiveash/
2010 Merryn Johns, ‘Twilight Lovers’ in Bound [magazine], Australia, Issue 11, Vol. 01 2010 [Feature Article p.44 – 46]
2009 ‘Bons Baisers D’Australie: Mes Photographies D’Humour Politique’ in Espace Lesbian: 6e Colloque International
D’Etudes Lesbiennes, Bagdam Edition No. 6 ‘L’Arme Du Rire’, Toulouse, France. [p. 103-116]
2009 Lucy Cousins, ‘Terra Nullius: Australian Art in Germany’ in Australian Aboriginal Art , Issue 2, June/July/August 2009 [p. 18-19]
2009 Merryn Johns & Deborah Kelly, ‘Bitch to Butch: Making a Statement About Gender’ in LOTL, Issue 229, Vol. 20, January 2009
[Front cover + cover story photography p. 29].
2008 Traudi Allen, Homesickness: Myths and Stereotypes in Australian Visual Culture, Macmillan Australia, Australia
2008 Special Features ‘Tina Fiveash: A Retrospective’, An Encyclopedia of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender & Queer
Culture, March [online] Available: http://www.glbtq.com/slideshows/slidesfiveash.html
2007 Tina Fiveash, The Enigma of Appearances: Photography of the Third Dimension, University of New South Wales:
Australian Digital Thesis Program, [online] Available: http://handle.unsw.edu.au/1959.4/44259
2007 Janis Lander, ‘Camera Mortuaria 2005 - 2007’, The College Voice, UNSW College of Fine Art, Volume 5, Issue 2, Summer 2007
2007 Tracy Cornish, ‘Metropics’, The Sydney Morning Herald: Metro Guide, 10-16 August, [P.21]
2007 ‘Signal To Noise’ The Art Life (online arts blog), 28 February, [online] Available: http://artlife.blogspot.com/2007_02_01_archive.html
2007 Liz Ashburn, ‘Photography in Pink Classrooms’ in International Journal of Art & Design Education, Vol. 26, Iss.1, February [p. 31]
2005 David Mills, ‘Still Life’ in (Not only) Blue, Studio Magazines, Australia, Issue 57, July, [p. 10]
2005 Russell Storer, Interesting Times: Focus on Contemporary Australian Art, Museum of Contemporary Art, Australia, [p. 93]
2004 Claude J. Summers (ed), The Queer Encyclopedia of the Visual Arts, Cleis Press Inc. USA, [p. 40, 255]
2004 Deborah Kelly, ‘Necessity: Mother of Intervention’ in Photofile, Australian Centre for Photography, Summer, [p. 41- 43]
2004 Katherine Cummings, ‘Tina Fiveash: Photographer & Artist’ in Polare, Australia, Issue 57, May-June, [p. 26-9]
2003 Nikki Sullivan, A Critical Introduction to Queer Theory, Edinburgh University Press, United Kingdom, [Front cover + p. 33-4]
2002 Robert McFarlane, ‘Front Row at Theatres of Sexuality’, The Sydney Morning Herald, 23 October, [p.18]
2001 Traudi Allen, Cross-Currents in Contemporary Australian Art, Fine Art Publishing, Sydney, Australia, [Front cover + p.135-6]
1998 William Hall, Extraordinary Talent: Portraits of Canberra Artists, Francesca Rendle-Short (ed), William Hall & The Federal Capital Press of Australia, [p. 10-11].
1998 ‘Snap Shot’ ABC Television, [1-minute television segment showcasing Tina Fiveash’s photography], 28 April
1997 Shane Bernard ‘Carving Palaces: Emerging Artists In Canberra’ in Artlink, Vol.17 (4) [p.72-74]
1997 Car Maintenance, Explosives and Love, Susan Hawthorne, Cathie Dunsford and Susan Sayer (eds), Spinifex Press, [Front cover]
1996 Elizabeth Ashburn, Lesbian Art: An Encounter with Power, Craftsman House, Australia, [p.14, 39-40, 52-53, 92-93]
1996 Sebastian Smee, ‘Out of Desire’ in The Sydney Morning Herald: Metro Guide, 16 February, [p.23]
1996 Vanessa Mcquarrie, ‘Naughty By Nature’ in (Not Only) Blue, Studio Magazines, Australia, Issue 4, May, [p.62-7]
2024 Interviewed by Ray Martin about the Death Letter Project for a 3-part documentary series titled Ray Martin: The Last Goodbye, produced by BBC Studios Production Australia for SBS TV. Further info: https://www.bbcstudios.com.au/news/bbc-studios-produce-ray-martin-last-goodbye-sbs.
2022 Presenter: Australian Doula College Retreat 2022 1-hr presentation about the Death Letter Project at Q Station, Manly | 19 Nov
2019 Panelist: Woollahra School of Philosophy: Death and Dying (moderated panel discussion facilitated by Michaela Kalowski)
Other panellists: Dr. Jane Mowll and Dr. Sohie McGilray | 6 Jun
2018 Conference presentation: 4th Symposium of the International Death Online Research Network | University of Hull, U.K. | 15-17 August
2015 Guest speaker | Death Dinner Party | Redfern, Sydney | 7th November
2009 Artist Seminar | Terra Nullius: Contemporary Art From Australia Halle 14 | Leipziger Baumwollspinnerei, Leipzig, Germany | 2 May
2009 Guest Speaker | 6e Colloque international d’Études lesbiennes de Toulouse [6th Toulouse International Lesbian Studies Conference], France |
[30-minute lecture/ visual presentation of photography] 11 April.
2008 Guest Speaker | 4th Annual Artfully Queer Exhibition | Hobart, Tasmania, [Official opening + 30-minute artist seminar] 19 September
2002 Guest Lecturer | Queer and Cultural Studies | Macquarie University, Sydney | May
2001 Guest Lecturer | Canberra School of Art | Canberra | May