PAT FOSTER & JEN BEREAN

Education

Pat Foster

2002-2005 Bachelor Fine Art, Honors, Victorian College of the Arts

Jen Berean

1999-2001 Bachelor of Fine Art, RMIT

2002-2006 Bachelor of Architecture, RMIT

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2008 ‘Low Expectations,’ Murray White Room, Melbourne

‘The Public are the Police, The Police are the Public,’ Studio 12, Gertrude Contemporary

Art Space

‘The Library Project,’ White Street Projects, Frankston City Library

2007 ‘One Thing After Another,’ Firstdraft, Sydney

2006 ‘New Solutions,’ TCB Art Inc. Melbourne

‘Incident in the Museum 3,’ Monash Museum of Art

2005 ‘The Office Project,’ Margaret Lawrence Gallery, VCA

‘An Ideal for Living,’ TCB Art Inc. Melbourne

2004 ‘No-nonsense Return Policy,’ Bus Gallery, Melbourne

2003 ‘Elsewhere,’ Bus Gallery, Melbourne

Selected Group Exhibitions

2008 ‘Gertrude Studio Artists Exhibition,’ Gertrude Contemporary Art Space

‘Y2k’ TCB Art Inc. Melbourne

‘SCAPE Christchurch Biennial’, Christchurch Art Gallery, Christchurch, NZ

‘Group 01’, Murray White Room, Melbourne

‘Structural Decline’, Curated by Mark Feary, Melbourne Art Fair 2008

‘Neo Goth,’ University of Queensland Art Museum, Queensland

‘Preview ‘08’, Murray White Room, Melbourne

‘Revolving Doors’, Uplands Gallery, Melbourne

‘The Group Group Show’. Margaret Lawrence Gallery, VCA, Melbourne

2007 ‘Gertrude Street Studio Artists Exhibition’, Gertrude Contemporary Art Space

‘Relentless Optimism’ Curated by Mark Feary, The Carlton Hotel & Studios, Melbourne

2006 ‘Use More Durable Coffee Mugs,’ Melbourne Arts Festival

2005 ‘Drawing Symposium,’ Monash Gallery, Melbourne

‘Selekta,’ Westspace Gallery, Melbourne

‘Don't Hate the Player Hate the Game,’ Bus Gallery, Melbourne

‘Private Collections’ Bus Gallery, Melbourne

‘AsIs,’ with Kain Picken, Clubs Project Space, Melbourne

2004 ‘The Common Vernacular,’ Conical Gallery, Melbourne

Residencies

2007(current) Gertrude Contemporary Art Space

Selected Bibliography

Leon Goh, “The Public are the Police, The Police are the Public”, GCAS catalogue essay,

August, 2008

“Pat Foster and Jen Berean”, Bulletin of Christchurch Art Gallery, Spring, 2008, p.12

Max Delany, “Melbourne City Report”, Frieze, Issue 115, May 2008

“Pat Foster and Jen Berean in Conversation with Max Delany and Vikki Mcinnes”,

Evergreen Terrace, Issue 01, 2008,

“Conflict, Hierarchy and Hard Work”, un magazine, vol2, no1, March 2008 p.25

Rob Mckenzie,‘Towards an Ethical Art After Post-Structuralism’ Relentless Optimism

Catalogue 2007, p.24-27

Robert Nelson, ‘Relentless Optimism’, The Age, Saturday, Febuary 17, 2007, p. 19

Penny Webb, ‘Relentless Optimism’, The Age, Wednesday, Febuary 14, 2007 p. 20

Alex Taylor, "Flatness Packed,” Artlink vol24 no2 2004, p. 22-25