Alma Studholme is a multidisciplinary artist working
across ceramics, sculpture, installation, performance and video.
Her work draws on her scholarly background in philosophy and
religious studies.
She holds a doctoral degree in Arts and Social Sciences from the
University of Sydney, Australia, for her interdisciplinary research
in cognitive sciences, neuroscience, contemplative religious
traditions and art practice.
Recently she also completed a fine art doctoral specialisation in
ceramics at the National Art School in Sydney.
When working on video projects she regularly collaborates with
video artist and photographer Brett Studholme, and they exhibit
as a collaborative duo A+B Studholme.
Selected Exhibitions, Projects & Awards
2024 Selected (with Brett Studholme), Moving Waters: Artist Moving Image Programme, curated by A Sometimes Project,
19 October, Plymouth Arts Cinema, UK
2024 Finalist, 14th GreenWay Art Prize, White Bay Power Station, Sydney, Australia
20 -22 September: GreenWay Art Prize Exhibition & Power Up Festival
2024 Finalist (with Brett Studholme), Burwood Art Prize, Burwood, Australia
2024 Video Art Screening Opposite Flow, 2nd edition (with Brett Studholme), IFOD, Izmir, Turkiye
2024 Selected (A+B Studholme), Solo Exhibition North Sydney Vignettes, Ridge Street Window Gallery,
Arts & Culture North Sydney, Australia
2023 Selected (with Brett Studholme), Opposite Flow Screening Programme, International Short Film, Video and
Photography Symposium, Kadiköy Baris Manco Cultural Center, Istanbul, Turkiye
2023 Invited, Group Exhibition Belonging - In celebration of diversity and social inclusion, Willoughby City Library,
Sydney, Australia
2023 Invited, Civic Park Inside Outside Sculpture, Ted Mack Civic Park, North Sydney, Australia
2023 Editor of Pamela Leung's Film Why does God allow these things happen to us? Exhibition Entwined Within,
Art Space on The Concourse, Willoughby, Australia
2023/2024 Recipient of North Sydney Creative Grant (with Brett Studholme), Arts & Culture North Sydney, Australia
2023 Finalist (with Brett Studholme), Burwood Art Prize, Burwood, Australia
2023 Finalist, Muswellbrook Art Prize, Muswellbrook Regional Arts Centre, Muswellbrook, Australia
2022 Recipient of N.E. Pethebridge Award, National Art School, Sydney, Australia
2022 Group Exhibition The Postgrad Show, National Art School Gallery, Sydney, Australia
2022 Invited, Group Exhibition Le Petit Salon de Sculpture, Q Station, Manly, Sydney, Australia
2022 Solo Exhibition Lunar Landscapes of a Poetic Mind, Rayner Hoff Project Space, National Art School, Sydney, Australia
2022 Finalist, North Sydney Art Prize, Arts & Culture North Sydney, The Coal Loader, Sydney, Australia
2022 Editor of Pamela Leung's Film Red Line Story, Exhibition Parallel Wanderings 双行游
Chatswood Year of the Tiger Festival, Willoughby City Council, The Concourse Urban Screen + Art Space on
The Concourse, Sydney, Australia
2021 Selected, Group Exhibition Contrasts, Millepiani, Rome, Italy
2021 Invited, Group Exhibition Project 2060: Homeward Bound, Arts & Culture North Sydney, Sydney, Australia
2020 Joint Exhibition (A+B Studholme with Terhi Hakola) Tears of Things, Incinerator Art Space, Sydney, Australia
2020 Invited (with Brett Studholme), Group Exhibition Retracing, Art Space on The Concourse, Sydney, Australia
2020 Selected (with Brett Studholme), Onirica Film Festival, La Spezia, Italy
2020 Selected (with Brett Studholme), Group Exhibition The Sensation of Home, FaB Festival, Bath, UK
2020 Selected (with Brett Studholme), Group Exhibition BEAUTY/?, K.L.8 Exhibition Space, Brussels, Belgium
2020 Finalist (with Brett Studholme), Artists of Mosman: 2088, Mosman Art Gallery, Sydney, Australia
2020 Finalist, Muswellbrook Art Prize, Muswellbrook Regional Arts Centre, Muswellbrook, Australia
2019 Finalist, Blacktown City Art Prize, The Leo Kelly Blacktown Arts Centre, Sydney, Australia
2019 Finalist, Fisher's Ghost Art Award, Campbelltown Arts Centre, Sydney, Australia
2019 Finalist (with Brett Studholme), The Willoughby Visual Arts Biennial: The Tenacious Realm, Sydney, Australia
2019 Finalist, North Sydney Art Prize, Arts & Culture North Sydney, The Coal Loader, Sydney, Australia
2018 Invited, Group Exhibition The Red Project, Arts & Culture North Sydney, The Coal Loader, Sydney, Australia
2017 Solo Exhibition A Year at the Coal Loader, Coal Loader Art Studio, Sydney, Australia
2017 Group Exhibition Share House, Byron School of Art Project Space, Mullumbimby, Australia
2017 Solo Exhibition Self-Portrait as a Landscape, TWT Creative Precinct, Sydney, Australia
2017 Finalist, Hunters Hill Art Exhibition, Sydney, Australia
2017 Finalist, Artists of Mosman: 2088, Mosman Art Gallery, Sydney, Australia
2017 Finalist, Harbour Sculpture, Indoor Selection, Sydney, Australia
2017 Finalist, Harbour Sculpture, Outdoor Selection, Sydney, Australia
2017 Narrative & Voice in Claudia Núñez-Pacheco's Installation Storytelling the Felt-sense: SOUL, Sydney, Australia
2017 Finalist, North Sydney Art Prize, Arts & Culture North Sydney, The Coal Loader, Sydney, Australia
2016 Finalist, Mandorla Art Award, Linton & Kay Galleries, Perth, Australia
2016 Finalist, Hidden Sculpture Walk, Rookwood Cemetery, Sydney, Australia
2016 Finalist, Tom Bass Prize for Figurative Sculpture, Sydney, Australia
2016 Solo Exhibition Accreation II: Ontological Transmutations, Verge Gallery, Sydney, Australia
2015 Finalist, Verge Awards, Verge Gallery, Sydney, Australia
2015 Group Exhibition Accreation: Un-becoming and the Surface as Sight, Verge Gallery, Sydney, Australia
2012 Group Exhibition All Fired Up, Space Gallery, Lismore, Australia
2012 Best Student Award - North Coast Technical College, Lismore, Australia
2012 Invited, Group Exhibition Tandem 10, Space Gallery, Lismore, Australia
2012 Art Acquisitive Exhibition, Space Gallery, Lismore, Australia
2011 Group Exhibition Ouvre - A Substantial Body of Work, Lismore Technical College, Lismore, Australia
2011 Best in Show Award (with Belinda Simone) - Ouvre, Lismore Technical College, Lismore, Australia
2010 Group Exhibition Works in Ceramics, Space Gallery, Lismore. Australia
Lecturing, Residencies, Conferences & Workshops
2024 Ceramics Lecturer (Sessional), National Art School, Sydney, Australia
2023/2024 Ceramics Tutor, Redlands Senior Campus, Cremorne, Sydney, Australia
2023 Selected, Art Residency (with Brett Studholme), Bundanon Trust, Shoalhaven, Australia, Bundanon Website Link
2023 Commissioned Art Mentorship for 2023 Hexad Project, Artist in Residence Program, Bradfield Senior College,
St Leonards, Sydney, Australia
2017 Extended Art Residency, The Coal Loader, Sydney, Australia
2016 Selected, Art Residency, The Coal Loader, Sydney, Australia
2016 Speaker, Postgraduate History Conference Historical Identities, University of Sydney, Australia
2015 Selected, Art Residency, Brand X, TWT Visual Arts Studio, St Leonards, Sydney, Australia
2015 Speaker, 2nd Conference on Aesthetics and the Embodied Mind, Birkbeck College, London, UK
Writing & Publications
2022 Wonderings of a Poetic Mind: Tracing Patterns of Sense, Non-sense and Meaning in an Art Practice Informed
by Cognitive Sciences and Affect Theories, DFA exegesis, National Art School
2022 Lunar Reflections, Catalogue Essay, p. 5, Pamela Leung: Longing for Home, 6 April - 14 May, Galley Lane Cove
2022 Oceans in a tea cup, Garland Magazine, Issue G26, Objecthood: Why we still need things, 1 March
2022 Pamela Leung's Red Line Story, Garland Magazine, Loop, 1 February
2019 Ceramics: Art + Perception/Technical, Issue 110, pp. 74-77, Geng Xue's Sensuous Worlds in Porcelain and Clay
2018 Being Fragmented and Being Whole: Explorations in Cognitive Sciences, Religious Contemplative Traditions,
and Art Practice, PhD dissertation, Arts & Social Sciences, University of Sydney
2018 Aesthetic Experience in Art-Practice: a Pre-Linguistic Felt Quality in A. Scarinzi (ed.),
Recasting Aesthetic Experience: Emotions and the 'Continuity Principle', Göttingen, Cuvillier, pp. 155-195
2017 Ceramics: Art + Perception/Technical, Issue 105, pp. 18-23, Homo Ludens: Michael Hallam
2017 The Journal of Australian Ceramics, Vol. 56, No. 1, pp. 37-41, A Circle: Being Fragmented and Being Whole
2016 The Journal of Australian Ceramics, Vol. 55, No. 2, pp. 10-13, A Permanent Mark: Remembering Michael Hallam
2014 Ceramics: Art & Perception, No. 94, pp. 84-87, Axis of Passion - Creative World of Amanda Bromfield
2013 Ceramics: Technical No. 36, pp. 32-35, Sacred Art of Lena Logan
Education
2023 Doctor of Fine Art (Ceramics), National Art School, Sydney, Australia
2020 PhD in Arts & Social Sciences, University of Sydney, Australia
2012 Diploma of Ceramics, Lismore Technical College, Lismore, Australia
2011 Certificate IV in Ceramics, Lismore Technical College, Lismore, Australia
2010 Certificate III in Ceramics, Lismore Technical College, Lismore, Australia
2008 Master's Degree in the Interdisciplinary Field of Humanistic Sciences, University of Zagreb,
Jesuit Faculty of Philosophy, Croatia
2001 Bachelor's Degree (Hons) in Philosophy & Religious Studies, University of Zagreb,
Jesuit Faculty of Philosophy, Croatia
Acquisitions
2024 North Sydney Council
2024 North Sydney Heritage Centre
Salt Mandala Performance, photo by Brett Studholme
Salt Mandala Performance, photo by Brett Studholme
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