EDUCATION

2022

Doctor of Philosophy, School of Art, RMIT University, Melbourne.

2015

Bachelor of Arts (Fine Art), Honours (First Class), Sculpture, Sound and Spatial Practice, RMIT University, Melbourne.

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS & AWARDS

2023

• Art in the Vines, Looking down looking up (2017), Hanging Rock Winery Sculpture Exhibition, October-March 2024.·
• The Texture of Memory, T-collective, Withholding, Maroondah Federation Estate Gallery, Maroondah, September-November.

2022

• Writing in the Expanded Field: Touching, Feeling, Writing, Volume IV, Between Yore’s Self and Mine, performance and digital publication, ACCA, Melbourne, November 2022, February 2023.
• Archives of Feeling: Trauma, Knowledge, Empathy, Love is in the bag, T-collective, RMIT Gallery, Melbourne, September-December.
• Agent Bodies, RMIT Gallery and Capitol Theatre, Melbourne; screening of Just Breathe, June.
• Just Breathe, Magdalen Laundry, Abbotsford Convent, Collingwood, Melbourne (solo), June.
• No Holding Back: A Dialogue Between Four Artists, T-collective, Assembly Point, Creative Melbourne, Southbank, Everything of which I was once conscious but have now forgotten, swift-flow + depth, March-April.
• Even More Beautiful IRL, Incinerator Gallery, Moonee Ponds; gone, The Colour of Time (Sous Entendu), April and CASPA, Castlemaine, November
• Yarra City Arts Grant, for the Just Breathe exhibition and publication of Mig Dann: The Intimacy of Scrutiny.
• The Intimacy of Scrutiny, Counihan Gallery, Brunswick, Melbourne (solo), February-March.

2021

• City of Melbourne Arts Grant, for the production of Just Breathe, the film.
• Just Breathe, Queen Victoria Women’s Centre Exhibition Space (solo), April.

2020

• The new (ab)normal, The past comes back to haunt, RMIT Gallery, June-August (online).
• Future Histories, Midsumma, Hatch Contemporary Art Space, Doppelgangster, Everything of which I was once conscious but have now forgotten, Language of dreams, Ivanhoe, January-February.
• T-collective, King’s ARI, Melbourne, March (cancelled).

2019

• Bauhaus Now, Lantern parade, Buxton Contemporary, Melbourne, July-October.
• The distance., NightSky / I remember, St. Heliers Gallery, Abbotsford Convent, June.

2018

• One Night Only Project, The Colour of Time (video), Black Cat Gallery, Collingwood, July.
• The Colour of Time / I Remember …, BroadCAST Microsite, RMIT, Melbourne (solo) March–April.
• Looking forward looking back (not dead yet), Maldon Art Network, Castlemaine Arts Festival, March.

2017

• From Nature, Looking down looking up, Gasworks Art Park, South Melbourne, November.
• Lothlorien (reclaimed), private commission, Marysville, Victoria.
• Dis/location III, Maldon Sculpture Walk, Castlemaine Arts Festival, March.

2016

• Sehnsucht, Commission for Skulpturenpark Wesenberg, Mecklenburg, Germany, June-ongoing.
• Residency, Skulpturenpark Wesenberg, Mecklenburg, Germany, June–August.

CONFERENCES

2023

Critical Autoethnography Conference, ‘Love is an Action’, RMIT University. Presentation: Dreaming Outloud: Poems of loss and longing.

2021

Performing Dress Lab: Costume in Focus, RMIT Melbourne, University of the Arts, London, and Aalto University, Helsinki (online), http://www.performingdresslab.com. Video presentation of  research, Just Breathe
Critical Autoethnography Conference, Creative Agency Research Lab (online) Paper: Little Alleluias: bubbles aren’t meant to last

2019

Deakin University, ‘Body of Knowledge’. Paper: The insights of encounter: exploring memory and trauma through the intersection of creative practice and psychological enquiry.

PUBLISHING

2023

Jewel Topsfield, ‘Women show old age is for doing,’ The Age, March 19, 2023,10-11, https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/the-women-proving-old-age-isn-t-a- dreaded-tragedy-20230316-p5cstw.html
Mig Dann, ‘A Call to Art’, in Time of Our Lives: Celebrating Older Women, Maggie Kirkman (Melbourne: Monash University Publishing, 2023), 13-24.
Writing in the Expanded Field: Touching, Feeling, Writing, Volume IV, ‘Between Yore’s self and Mine’, digital publication, ACCA, Melbourne, February. https://touchingfeeling.acca.melbourne/

2022

Mig Dann, ‘The Elusive Encounter: an exploration of memory and trauma through expanded spatial practice’, PhD diss. (RMIT University, 2022).
Mead, Josephine (ed.), Mig Dann: The Intimacy of Scrutiny, Bambra Press, Melbourne.

2020

Dann, Mig, ‘Everything of which I was once conscious but have now forgotten: Encounters with Memory’, IDEA Journal 17, no. 2 (2020): 248–64, DOI: 10.37113/ij.v17i02.388.
Dann, Mig, Laura Fulton, Christine Rogers and Anne Harris, ‘Why Can’t Orphans Play Baseball? Writing into the Primal Wound’, Qualitative Inquiry 27, nos 3–4 (2020): 465–72, DOI:10.1177/1077800420934136.

TEACHING
2023-2024
Supervision, Studio Art, Bachelor of Fine Arts (Honours), RMIT University

NEWS / PROGRAMS / REVIEWS

2021

A review of Just Breathe by Professor Dan Harris. (click to view)

2020

TRACTION series, Prime, from a suite of conversation videos as an online public program for Blindside Gallery, Melbourne. https://blindside.org.au/program/traction

2018

Sadie Harrison is a UK-based, award-winning composer who has published the composition, Sehnsucht, a piece for violin and piano, composed in response to the eponymous work at Skulpturenpark Wesenberg, Germany.  www.sadieharrisoncomposer.co.uk