Artist's statement
I primarily work with the moving image and installation. Currently undertaking an Australia Council for the Arts residency hosted by Hydro Tasmania, projects in development are based on processes and technologies used to control and monitor environmental flow at sites across Tasmania, experimenting with the situation of the camera and the structural possibilities of the movement of water for media installation.
Recent projects include site-specific installations using found objects - ceramic hand basins - situated in urban and rural settings, structured by tidal water, exploring questions of agency, context, and the experiential nature of viewing work outdoors. Gallery-based installations then develop from a more reflexive investigation of these objects and their video documentation in-situ.
Another body of work, ongoing since 2000 and engaging with narrative, explores the digital manipulation of the moving image: incidental moments from found footage are isolated from their original narrative context and perpetuated using forward and reverse motion, both suspending and amplifying action, re-investing a scene or shot from a film with new meaning. Through their placement videos may implicate the viewer, engaging with concerns of installation art.
My work is informed by the international traditions of experimental film and video as art practice. Recent work aligns with issues relating to the natural environment, in particular notions of species and habitat, and also resurgence in discourse surrounding aesthetics.

Biography
Born 1964, UK. Derek Hart studied Time-Based Media at the Kent Institute of Art and Design and Mixed Media Art at the University of Westminster, gaining BA (Hons) first-class (1998). He received an MA in Fine Art from Chelsea College of Art and Design (2000). From 2000 - 2002 he worked with N-Imagem Art & Technology Research Group based at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. In 2004 he relocated to Australia where he has participated in exhibitions in Hobart and Melbourne, received funding for temporary site-specific works and for the development of curatorial projects, and undertaken casual teaching at tertiary level at the School of Art, University of Tasmania. Derek is currently undertaking an Australia Council for the Arts residency hosted by Hydro Tasmania (July 2009 - June 2010), and has forthcoming exhibitions in Hobart and Brisbane in 2010.

Curriculum Vitae
Art Education
2000 MA Fine Art, Chelsea College of Art, London.
1998 BA(Hons) Mixed Media Art, 1st Class, University of Westminster, London.
1996 Diploma in Time-Based Media, Kent Institute of Art and Design.
1994 Art & Design Foundation Studies, Waltham Forest College, London.

Solo Exhibitions
2009 Film Stills, The Long Gallery, Salamanca Arts Centre, Hobart, 28 Aug – 6 Sept 2009, supported by the Tasmanian          Museum & Art Gallery (TMAG) and Screen Tasmania. www.salarts.org.au
2008 Fro-and-to, The Design Centre, Launceston, supported by the TMAG. www.designcentre.com.au
2008 In Flow Motion, The Sidespace Gallery, Salamanca Arts Centre, Hobart.

Group Exhibitions
2008 Contempora Sculpture Award Docklands Precinct, Melbourne. www.contempora2.com.auu
2007 Shine Poimena Art Award, Poimena Gallery, Launceston.
2006 Remote The Plimsoll Gallery, Hobart. www.remoteexhibition.com
2006 Contingency Plan CAST Gallery, Hobart. www.castgallery.org
2006 Come with me Royal Tasmanian Botanical Gardens, Hobart.
2005 Dockworks, co-ordinated by CAST Gallery, Sullivan's Cove Hobart.
2005 Resonator The Long Gallery, Salamanca Arts Centre, Hobart.
2002 1st International PLUS Art Prize PLUS Gallery, Düsseldorf.
2001 Rio Trajetórias Palácio Gustavo Capanema, Rio de Janeiro.
2001 And then there was the bad weather David Lusk Gallery, Memphis.
2000 And then there was the bad weather 70–72 Kingsland Rd, London.
2000 Uptight Outta Sight PLUS Gallery, Düsseldorf.
1999 Brainstorm Goldsmiths Curating Space, Goldsmiths College, London.
1998 Zone Festival Cornhill Exchange, Maidstone.
1998 Colosseum IV Foundry Gallery, London.
1997 Colosseum II The Colosseum Theatre, London.

Curatorial Projects
2008 Down to Earth Academy Gallery, Launceston 8 Feb - 14 March.
2007 Room CAST Gallery, Hobart, 26 May – 17 June.
2007 Room Burnie Regional Gallery, 14 Dec – 20 Jan.
2005 Resonator The Long Gallery, Salamanca Arts Centre, Hobart, 25 Aug – 11 Sept.

Grants / Awards
2009 'Connections' Residency Program Grant - Australia Council for the Arts.
2008 Assistance to Individuals Grant - Arts Tasmania for the Minister for Tourism, Arts and the Environment.
2007 Tasmanian Emerging Curator Fund - CAST Gallery, Hobart, supported by Arts Tasmania.
2005 Exhibition Development Fund - CAST Gallery, Hobart.
1999 Postgraduate Award - The British Academy, UK.
1998 National Bursary - ISEA Revolution, UK.

Articles / Exhibition Reviews
2009 RealTime issue 94 Dec09-Jan10 'Temporal Oscillator', Philip Watkins.
2008 Invisible Culture (USA), 'Networked spatial practice as applied to the art of exhibition', Vince Dziekan.
2008 Photofile issue 85 Dec 08 - Mar 09 Australian Centre for Photography, 'Fro-and-to', Seán Kelly.
2007 Artlink Contemporary Art Quarterly Vol.27 No.3 (AU), 'Room', Seán Kelly.
2007 Art & Australia Vol.45 No.1 Spring 2007 (AU), 'Room', Bec Tudor.
2007 The Mercury newspaper 2nd June, 'Room', Joerg Andersch.
2006 Photofile issue 78 Spring 2006 - Australian Centre for Photography, 'Contingency Plan', Briony Downes.
2005 UN Magazine Vol.1 issue 6 (AU), 'Resonator', Colin Langridge.
2001 Art Papers Vol.25 No.4 (USA), 'And then there was the bad weather', Christina Huntington.

Related Professional Experience
2009-10 Australia Council for the Arts 'Connections' Residency Program.
2007 Residency hosted by the School of Visual and Performing Arts, University of Tasmania, Launceston.
2006 Co-ordinator, Biennial Mountain Festival Sculpture Trail, Hobart.
2005-06 Casual teaching, Tasmanian School of Art, University of Tasmania, Hobart.
2000-02 N-Imagem Art & Technology Research Group, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

© Derek Hart 2009