BIO
Zoe Anika is a multimedia contemporary artist with a current focus on printmaking and drawing. Anika recently graduated with both a Bachelor of Visual Arts in Printmedia and Drawing and a Bachelor of Design. She has exhibited both locally and internationally and was the recipient of multiple awards through the Emerging Artist Support Scheme alongside spending a semester abroad studying in Dundee, Scotland in 2019. Bilston works at the National Gallery of Australia while maintaining her personal practice and exploring new creative endeavours. Her current work explores how the onset of the COVID19 pandemic, and the myriad societal shifts it has prompted, are changing the way we think about travel and freedom of mobility.
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Education
2020, Bachelor of Visual Arts, Printmedia & Drawing, Australian National University School of Art & Design
2021, Bachelor of Design, Australian National University School of Art & Design
2019, Exchange program at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design, University of Dundee, Scotland.
Awards & Grants
2020 ANU School of Art & Design Emerging Artist Support Scheme Awards
Max Hawk Travelling Scholarship,
Megalo Print Studio + Gallery Residency Award,
Altenburg & Co Gallery Exhibition Award
Solo Exhibitions
2021
are you going to keep that? pt. 2, Altenburg & Co, Braidwood
are you going to keep that?, gaffa gallery, Sydney
2020
Viral, Chutespace at M16 Artspace, Canberra
Group Exhibitions
2021
Multiply, curated by Bea Buckland-Willis, Online via Sydney
Edition Two, More Than Reproduction, White Rhino Artspace as part of Art Month Sydney 2021, Sydney
2020
amplified together, Grad Show, ANU School of Art and Design, Canberra
M16 Drawing Prize (Finalist), M16 Artspace, Canberra
ANU Drawing Prize (Finalist), ANU School of Art and Design, Canberra
Print In Isolation, More Than Reproduction, Online via Sydney
2018
Shirty Science, National Science Week, Doughnut Department, Canberra
Exquisite Corpse, Australian National University, Canberra
Micro Macro, CSIRO, Canberra
2017
Alt-Route, Design Canberra Festival, Prompt Gallery, Canberra
2016
Graduating Exhibition, Narrabundah College, Canberra