Qualifications

• PhD Practice-led Research, University of South Australia 
• Master of Visual Art by Research, University of South Australia 
• Postgraduate Diploma of Fine Art, Glasgow School of Art, (Anne & Gordon Samstag Scholarship Research Master's Program), Glasgow University 
• Bachelor of Visual Art (Honours 1st class), University of South Australia 
• Certificate in Higher Education with Full Spectrum Scholarship, University SA 
• Diploma of Education, ECE
• Enrico Cecchetti Classical Ballet Advanced Honours, D. Noye Dance Academy

Areas of interest

• Art as socially engaged work, inventive change for an ecology of practices 
• Material ontologies, vital materialism in art and art as assemblage 
• Digital and analogue art practices as a post-digital approach  
• Media archaeologies, the distribution of artwork and the artist as eccentric archivist 
• Expanded art practice, interdisciplinary practice, art and science 
• Creativity by thinking through making and ‘not knowing’ or pragmatic philosophies

Grants

• Reed Henderson, Julie. 2016–2017 Adelaide City Council Art and Culture Grant cross disciplinary performance ($9,000) 
• Vital Statistix and Reed Henderson, Julie. 2015 Australia Council Grant for Climate Century ($5,000) 
• Reed Henderson, Julie. 2014 Helpmann Academy Grant for Liveness: Spaces of Perform ABILITY: Inter-disciplinary master classes in sound & movement with music dance visual art participants from four SA University Art Schools with Alex Danko, Jude Walton and Christopher Williams. ($15,000) 
• Reed Henderson, Julie. 2012 Arts SA Independent Makers and Presenters ($10,000) 
• Reed Henderson, Julie. 2009 Helpmann Academy travel grant ($5,000) 
• Felber Joe; Reed Henderson, Julie. 2001 Australian New Media Grant for 25 Songs . . . with Joe Felber ($20,000) 
• Reed Henderson, Julie.2001 Arts SA Project Grant for 25 Songs ($5,000) 
• Reed Henderson, Farmer, C & Walton, A. 2000 Arts SA Project Grant for High Rise outdoor video projections ($9,000) 
• Reed Henderson, Julie. 2000 Arts SA Project Grant for performance and writing collaboration with Experimental Art Foundation and Scottish Artist K Henderson Dundee ($3,000) 
• Reed Henderson, Julie. 1999. University of SA Travel Scholarship for Baguio City Philippines installation Stumla ($1,500) 
• Reed Henderson, Julie. Farmer, C 1997–8 Australia Council Emerging Artist Grant for Hindsite ($20,000) 
• Reed Henderson, Julie. Farmer, C, Walton A. 1997–8 Arts SA Project Grant Hindsite performance and installation ($5,000) 
• Reed Henderson, Julie. 1997 Helpmann Academy solo exhibition duende Experimental Art Foundation ($3,000) 

Awards

• 2014: Student-nominated Teaching Award, for Sculpture, Honours and HE supervision, University of South Australia 
• 2009–2011: University of SA Post Graduate Award for PhD research ($29,000/annum) 
• 2009–2011: Full Spectrum Higher Education Teaching Award concurrently with PhD ($3,000/annum) 
• 2004–5: Anne & Gordon Samstag Scholarship Academic/ Art Research in Glasgow University. (international academic fees, travel and living stipend ($100,000 USD) 
• 2003: Pat Corrigan Award for Video installation ($3000) 
• 2002–2003: APA Australian Postgraduate Award for Master of Visual Art ($29,000/annum) 

Current

• Master’s student, Federation University, ‘Book maps and icon creation: secular art for a modern Camino’, principal supervisor.
• Master’s student, Federation University, ‘Layers of Lineage: Exploring Spiritual Connection to Nature through Artistic Responses to Louisa Anne Meredith’, associate supervisor.

Past

• PhD student, University of South Australia (now Adelaide University), ‘INSIDE OUT: The Holding. A study of the holding capacities of (the hand–eye relationship) visual arts practice’, associate supervisor.
• Master’s student, University of South Australia (now Adelaide University), ‘Fragmenting Infinity: the limitless potential of artistic forms’, principal supervisor.
• Master’s student, University of South Australia (now Adelaide University), ‘Hidden in Plain Sight: an investigation of the walked landscape and desire lines’, associate supervisor.
• Master’s student, University of South Australia (now Adelaide University), ‘Performative Encounters: making conversations with local worlds’, principal supervisor.
• PhD student, University of South Australia (now Adelaide University), ‘Follow any path from A until B: “useless” gardens: gifted ecologies’, principal supervisor.
• PhD student, University of South Australia (now Adelaide University), ‘Settling Ghosts’, associate supervisor.
• Master’s student, University of South Australia (now Adelaide University), ‘Mirroring echo: exploring the (im)possibility of wholeness and integration of personality’, associate supervisor.
• Master’s student, University of South Australia (now Adelaide University), ‘Connecting the diamantes: a practice-led investigation of jewellery networks’, principal supervisor.
• PhD student, University of South Australia (now Adelaide University), ‘Potato-fish-car: exploring the metamorphic qualities of glass to create comic narratives’, principal supervisor.
• Master’s student, University of South Australia (now Adelaide University), ‘I wash my steps in butter: a journey into the space in between’, principal supervisor.
• PhD student, University of South Australia (now Adelaide University), ‘Inside – outside – passing – through: queer passages in a contemporary sculpture-based practice’, principal supervisor.

• Visual art studio spatial practice 
• Visual culture 
• Contemporary Australian art 
• Visual art studio painting/drawing 
• Visual art studio research 
• Research methods 
• Visual art professional practice  
• Visual art audience engagement  

Specialist roles

• State government grant and commission peer selection panels  
• Local state government grant and commission peer selection panels 
• Research project officer, University of South Australia 
• Higher degree research examiner, Victoria, Tasmania and South Australia 
• Supporting actor, television series, BBC Glasgow 
• Curator of artwork for SA government premises  
• Artist Run Initiative (ARI) leader and associated studio coordinator  
• Makeup artist and costume detailer for national contemporary dance company  
• Adelaide Festival of Art respondent for guest speaker 

Professional association memberships

• National Association of visual Arts NAVA 
• Arts hub 
• Latrobe Regional Gallery Advisory Board 
• Gippsland Art Network, Sale 
• Public Art Network, Adelaide 
• West Gallery Thebarton, Adelaide 
• City of Adelaide Public Art grant selection panels 
• Norwood / St Peters Public Art selection panels 
• Arts SA Govt grant selection panels and panel convenor 

Books and catalogue essays 

• 2018 Catalogue essay – Reciprocal art taking part, making place Sofie Corso Sister Artist run initiative – Adelaide 
• 2016 Catalogue essay – Valley of Labours and Joys, Essay for Exhibition Landscape and Dissonance, Format Collective Adelaide City 
• 2011 Archival Drift: Attention, Performance and Affective Ecologies in Spatial Art Practice, doctoral thesis. (unpublished) 
• 2011–12 Catalogue essay: the fake the take and the time of the artist, essay for Full Spectrum and Kontaktraum exhibition Joe Felber, Zurich 

Journals and online publications 

• 2016 Review of Peter Kennedy exhibition Resistance at AEAF for fine print art reviews online 
• 2011 ‘Errand Workshop’ review, Artlink: Contemporary Art of Australia and the Asia-Pacific, 31:4, 92. 

Exhibitions 

• 2026 Fight Take: Complex unities for the world-wide player, video/sound installation 1:52 continuous loop, Post Office Gallery Ballarat 
• 2024-here forever here, curatorial project and exhibition in collaboration with Gunnai Kurnai elders Switchback Gallery Federation University Arts Academy Gippsland 
• 2023 Lo-res Life (Editioned series) inkjet pints on paper and assemblage in vitrine, mixed media, dimensions variable, Switchback Gallery, Gippsland 
• 2023 Lo-res stammer (exquisite Chemistry) Lo-res Life Series SCOPE23, mixed media assemblage, Post Office Gallery, Ballarat 
• 2022- Buffer, mixed media assemblage, in the shape as a pocket, Switchback Gallery, Gippsland 2022 Buffer (into the breach) bricolage triptych SCOPE22 PO Gallery, Ballarat 
• 2018 Public Art Commission Leigh St, Adelaide City Council 
• 2016 2017 ONE 7 IOTA – Trans-disciplinary performance- new movement, sound and objects Lion Arts Centre precinct-public performance direction and choreography with dancers & visual artists in collaboration Adelaide City Art & Culture Grant 
• 2015 Strange Attractors in Climate Century with Vitalstatistix theatre company, supported Australia Council for the Arts 7 artists and consultant scientists, futurists and ecologists from Melbourne and Adelaide 
• 2015 Felt Public – Thunderer -Ephemeral Public Art project -Whitmore Square, Adelaide, Feltspace ARI 
• 2015 . . . dot in Do it publication, curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist and Gillian Brown, Samstag Museum Adelaide 
• 2013 Lean to /Line Made by Leaving, in Arte Magra, performance collaboration with Jude Walton & Aleks Danko Adelaide Botanical Gardens, Curator: Domenico de Clario, October 7/8, Australian Experimental Art Foundation 
• 2013 until it looks like you in provisional states Contemporary Art Centre SA, Curator Logan McDonald 
• 2013 the extent of the colony in Crystal Palace Flinders University City Gallery exhibition, Curator Lisa Harms 
• 2012 Solo exhibition a universe of small truths Australian Experimental Art Foundation Curator Domenico de Clario 
• 2012 Suspender in SafARI exhibition coinciding with Sydney Biennale, The Rocks, Curators Danielle Hobson & Nina Stromqvist 
• 2011 notations for an unknown room installation, kinetic assemblage 2nd floor Malcolm Reid Building, Rundle St Adelaide – Doctoral project 
• 2011 the slight surprise of action installation kinetic assemblage Liverpool Street Gallery, Hindley St Adelaide Doctoral project 
• 2010...and this applied to rocks New New, CACSA survey show 200 Curators: Peter McKay & Alan Cruikshank 
• 2010 Solo exhibition the slight surprise of action DVD, sound & installation assemblage, Light Square Gallery Curator: Yasmin Grass 
• 2010 Air conditioner, sound, installation, small acts of tenderness & violence, Focus, Peel St Adelaide, Curator Lisa Harms 
• 2010 having nothing to do with savagery installation in Heartlines Adelaide Festival Curator: Mary Knights 
• 2007 Continuous wave: Forms for a dialogue – suite of 4 DVD, CD sound & performance works in There forever ephemeral public art Port Adelaide, Curators Dr Linda Marie Walker and Dr Steven Loo with 7 artists/writers 

Exhibitions and performances 

• 2005 Hype Man & illuminati, Glasgow School of Art MFA Show, Mackintosh Gallery, Glasgow UK 
• 2005 Syncopations – Great Britain Art Now, Wetterling Gallery Stockholm, Curators Eveline Bernasconi, Ellen Wettmark 
• 2003 Spin, DVD projection in Art Gallery of SA, Adelaide International Film Festival, Curator: Sarah Thomas 
• 2002 Shortfall photographic print, in Installation Stills, Contemporary Centre for Photography, Melbourne & CACSA Adelaide  
• 2001 25 Songs Choreography and 5 dance performances in Graz, Austria and Shanghai, China: collaboration with Swiss/Australian artist, Joe Felber & Sydney composer, Elliot Gyger. 
• 2000 Between the Eyes Evil Shaved, Series of 6 collaborative performances with Kevin Henderson of Dundee, at Experimental Art Foundation, Telstra Adelaide Festival, Curator Christopher Chapman 
• 2000 stumla, sound installation, 5th Baguio International Art Festival, Philippines, Curator: Santiago Bosé 

Refereed conference proceedings

• 2015 so far still, still there: attention, performance, making, in Australian Experimental Art Foundation Performance Symposium curation Ann Marsh, Victorian College of the Arts Melbourne University and Nick Tsoutas. 
• 2009 Making Small Talk-Interdisciplinary Art Practice and the 'Compulsive Unlikely' conference paper presentation in Expanded Spatial Practices Uni SA with Jane Rendell Bartlett School of Architecture University College, London 
• 2009 Possibility over time- conference paper, Loughborough University, Leicestershire UK