Cara-Ann Simpson is a multidisciplinary artist with a focus on sculpture, sound, space and the participant. Cara-Ann is concerned with modes of listening/hearing in social situations and how people interact with sound. Simpson was born in Toowoomba and grew up in this regional area of Australia.
In 2011, Cara-Ann received a New Work (Media Arts) Music Board Grant from the Australia Council for the Arts and an International Program: Cultural Exchange Grant from Arts Victoria. She presented at Subtle Technologies Festival & Symposium in Toronto, Canada, and the International Symposium on Electronic Art (ISEA) 2011 in Istanbul, Turkey. Cara-Ann received a Young Artists’ Grant, City of Melbourne to support the exhibition of Geo Sound Helmets at Kings ARI in Melbourne, Australia.
In 2010 she received an ArtStart grant, Australia Council for the Arts, and presented at the IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo (ICME2010, Singapore) on an interactive sound installation. The Janet Holmes á Court Artists’ Grant Scheme supported the development of this installation in 2009.
She graduated with a Bachelor of Visual Arts First Class Honours from the University of Southern Queensland in 2008, and received the University of Southern Queensland Faculty of Art – Visual Arts medal in 2007. Simpson was the recipient of the Hobday and Hingston Bursary from the Queensland Art Gallery in 2007 for being the most promising undergraduate student from a Queensland tertiary art course. Cara-Ann also received the Asia-Pacific Golden Key International Honours Society Visual & Performing Arts Sculpture Award (2008).
Simpson has had a number of solo exhibitions, sound releases and been involved in numerous performances and group shows within Australia, New Zealand and the United Arab Emirates. Cara-Ann is the Co-Director & Co-Producer of Electrofringe Ltd (since 2011), a not-for-profit electronic arts organisation with year-round programming in Australia. She is currently working on several collaborative and solo projects in Melbourne, Australia. Cara-Ann is the curator for Bundoora Homestead Art Centre, the public art gallery of the City of Darebin, Melbourne (since 2012).
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- 2012
