Rebecca Swan Personal details

D.O.B September 1st 1968
Phone ++64 21 129 6579 (Mobile)
rebecca@rebeccaswan.com

Publishing record

Books

2004 Photographer and Author of "Assume Nothing", a book exploring the personal experience of gender through photographic portraits and interviews.
2002 "Mein Lesbisches Auge." Contributer to anthology of writing and photography published by Konkursbuch Verlag Germany.
1997 Photographer and Author of "The Big C, my experience with cancer" launched in Australia with an exhibition at the Melbourne National Art Gallery.
1996 Photographer and Author of "The Big C" published in New Zealand by Hodder Moa Beckett. This is a book of self portraits and diary extracts narrating my diagnosis, treatment and recovery of cancer. The book was launched with a solo exhibition.

Awards

1994 The Government Print Design Award, New Zealand. Best Book for "The Big C".

Selected articles, features
and reviews

Feb 2005
Sep 2004
Sep 2004
Sept 2004
Aug 2004
Aug 2004
Aug 2004
Dec 2000
Feb 2000
Feb 2000
Nov1999
Jun 1998
Nov1997
Sep 1997
Sep 1997
Sep 1997
Sep 1996
Aug 1996
Aug1996
Feb 1995
Sep 1994

DIVA, magazine, book review.
Photofile , book review.
Blue , magazine, Australia , portfolio.
Sydney Star Observer, feature.
Otago Daily Times , article.
The New Zealand Herald , book review.
Photographer's Mail , book review.
Changing Room , Routledge press, book cover.
Sydney Morning Herald , Australia , exhibition review.
Capital Weekly , Australia , exhibition review.
DIVA , magazine, England , portfolio and cover.
Marie Claire magazine, Italy , article.
Blue , magazine, Australia , portfolio.
Who , magazine, Australia , article.
Sydney Morning Herald , Australia , article.
The Melbourne Age , Australia , article.
The Listener, magazine, New Zealand , article.
Sunday Star , New Zealand , article.
The Press , New Zealand , article.
Hero , magazine, New Zealand , portfolio and cover.
DAM , magazine, England , portfolio and article.


Collections

Wallace Arts Trust

Exhibition record

Solo exhibitions

2004


2004

2001

1999

1997

1996


1996

1995

1995


1990

Assume Nothing
Exhibition and book launch
The Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney
Desires
Ardor Gallery, Auckland
Married Life
Arch Hill Gallery, Auckland
Assume Nothing
George Fraser Gallery, Auckland
Exposure
Sinners, Auckland
The Big C
Exhibition and book launch
Lopdell House Gallery, Auckland
Gorker
Legends, Auckland
Proud
Atlas, Auckland
The Big C
Watershed Media Centre
Bristol , England
New Moon Gallery, Wellington
(Sponsored by QEII Arts Council)

  Group exhibitions

2004

2002

2000

2000


1997- 1999



1998

1994


1994

Drag King Festival
V.C.A. gallery, Melbourne
Go Drag
Kunsthaus Tacheles , Berlin , Germany
The Supreme Photography Show
Judith Anderson Gallery, Auckland
Mobile
Australian Center for Photography
Sydney , Australia
Cancer the journey
Exhibition and book launch
National Gallery of Melbourne
Toured Nationally throughout Australia
Blender
Artstation, Auckland
Our Bodies, Ourselves
Out of the Blue Gallery
Edinburgh , Scotland
Our Bodies, Ourselves
Nottingham Castle Museum and Art Gallery
Nottingham , England

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