Derek Hart works as a visual artist with digital video, mixed media and installation. His art practice is informed by the non-narrative traditions of experimental film and video, exploring a formalist approach to screen-based and the projected moving image. His work also engages with site-specificity and the agency of found objects.

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Born UK 1964. Derek Hart studied at Maidstone College of Art, the University of Westminster and Chelsea College of Art & Design. In August 2000 he moved to Brazil where he was invited to work for two years with N-Imagem research group at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, and was mentored by the curator of the Museum of Modern Art, Rio de Janeiro, Sr. Fernando Cocchiarale. In 2004 he relocated to Australia where he has participated in exhibitions locally and nationally, undertaken casual teaching at tertiary level at the School of Art, University of Tasmania, and received funding for temporary site-specific works and for the development of curatorial projects. In 2009 he was awarded an Australia Council for the Arts 'Connections' Residency Grant to undertake a residency with hydro-electric power generation company Hydro Tasmania. His art practice features in Art Monthly Australia (issue 230, June 2010), RealTime (issue 94, Dec 2009 - Jan 2010) and Photofile (issue 85, Dec 2008 - Mar 2009). His curatorial project Room (2007) was reviewed in Artlink (vol 27 no 3, Sept 2007) and Art & Australia (vol 45 no 1, 2007).

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