SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2022 | Sweet Dreams & Gut Reactions, Tactile Arts, Darwin, NT Australia |
2019 | P J Kool: Dissecting Culture, Cancer & Cloth, Xavier Art Space, St Vincent’s Hospital, Sydney, Australia |
2017 | P J Kool: Dissecting Culture, Cancer & Cloth, St Vincent’s Public Hospital Art Gallery, Melbourne, Australia |
2012 | Skinned, The Light Gallery, Centre for Creative Photography, Adelaide, South Australia |
2011 | A Private View – Skinned, Ballarat International Foto Biennale, The Brewery, Buninyong, Vic Australia |
2009 | Cooked, Horsham Regional Art Gallery, Horsham + Cowwar Art Space, Cowwar, Vic Australia |
2007 | Are YOU Being Served? ANCA Gallery, Canberra, Australia |
2005 | Hairball Café & Bare Essentials, Horsham Regional Art Gallery, Horsham, Vic Australia |
2004 | Hairball Café, fortyfivedownstairs Gallery, Melbourne, Australia |
2002 | Cooked & Hairball Café, Stills Gallery, Sydney, Australia |
2000 | Who Said Vinyl Is Dead? Centre for Creative Photography, Adelaide, South Australia |
1999 | Cooked, Melbourne Food & Wine Festival, Melbourne, Australia |
1998 | No Place Like Babylon, Stills Gallery, Sydney, Australia |
1997 | Who Said Vinyl Is Dead? 17 Creations Gallery, New York, USA |
1997 | No Place Like Babylon, Helen Schutt Access Gallery, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne, Australia |
1996 | Who Said Vinyl Is Dead? Blue Moon, Melbourne, Australia |
1988 | Portrayal of Women in Advertising Masonic Centre, Sydney, Australia |
1984 | Photographic Works, Darklight Photographic Gallery, Fremantle, Western Australia |
1981 | Colourscape, Exposure Photographic Gallery, Perth, Western Australia |
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2022 | Sydney Road Brunswick Association Exhibition, Spice Galore, Brunswick, Vic Australia – Judges Commendation |
2022 | Future Tense, Merri-bek Summer Show/Noel Counihan Commemorative Art Award Finalist, Counihan Gallery, Brunswick, Vic Australia |
2020 | Embedded 2020, Flux Gallery, Perth Western Australia |
2019 | Language & Liberty Finalist, Moreland Summer Show/Noel Counihan Commemorative Art Award, Counihan Gallery, Brunswick, Vic Australia Embedded, Noir Darkroom and Gallery, Coburg, Vic Australia |
2018 | Witnessing Cultural Identities – P J Kool, Head On Photo Festival, Articulate Project Space, Sydney, Australia |
2018 | Concepta, Magnet Galleries, Melbourne, Australia |
2018 | White Dress Narratives (Ventana Latin Fiesta), Frankston Arts Centre, Vic Australia |
2017 | Curtain Call, Stills Gallery, Sydney, Australia |
2011,16 | Head-On, Portrait Prize Exhibition (shortlisted), Australian Centre for Photography; Museum of Sydney, Australia |
2013 | Art in Science/Science in Art Award Exhibition, St Vincent’s Public Hospital Gallery, Melbourne, Australia |
2011 | Think Tank, Academy Gallery, School of Visual & Performing Arts, University of Tasmania, Launceston, Australia. |
2011 | St Michael’s Exhibition & Archangel Prize (shortlisted), St Michael’s Grammar School, Melbourne, Australia |
2009-11 | Window Frames, Sydney Road Brunswick Assoc, Melbourne Fringe Festival, Melbourne, Australia (Winner 2009; Judges commendation 2010) |
2006/07 | Soft To The Touch, Horsham Regional Art Gallery, Horsham, Vic Australia |
2006 | Surface Residue Adelaide Central Gallery, Adelaide, South Australia |
2003/05 | Julie Millowick Acquisitive Photographic Award Exhibition, Castlemaine, Vic Australia |
2000 | Bayagul: speaking up – Contemporary Indigenous Communication Powerhouse Museum, Sydney, Australia |
1999 | Seize Vic Health Access Gallery, National Gallery of Victoria (NGV), Melbourne, Australia |
1999 | Skin – Bare Essentials Stills Gallery, Sydney, Australia |
1998 | Body Object Steps Gallery, Melbourne, Australia |
1994-2000 | Summer Salon Exhibitions, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne, Australia (judges commendation 1996) |
1993/4 | The Car/The Road – Contemporary Attitudes, The Exhibitions Gallery, Wangaratta; Waverley City Gallery, Melbourne, Mornington Peninsula Arts Centre & touring regional Victoria, Australia |
1990/91 | Double Exposure, Artemis Gallery, Perth & touring regional Western Australia |
1990 | All That Flows Theatre Collaboration, The Performance Space, Sydney, Australia |
1988/89 | Blinded By The Light Theatre Collaboration, Western Australian Theatre Company, Perth, Western Australia |
1988 | Brush With The Lore, Praxis Gallery, Fremantle, Western Australia |
1987 | Among The Souvenirs, Festival of Perth Exhibition, Art Gallery of WA, Perth, Western Australia |
1986 | Praxis in Practice, Praxis Gallery, Fremantle, Western Australia |
1986 | Western Australian Photographers – 4, Art Gallery of WA, Perth, Western Australia |
1984/85 | Five From The West, Undercroft Gallery, University of Western Australia, Perth, Western Australia |
1982 | Foto-Fobia, Darklight Photographic Gallery, Fremantle, Western Australia |
TERTIARY QUALIFICATIONS
2012 | Diploma of Professional Writing & Editing, Victoria University, Melbourne, Australia |
2008 | Certificate IV in Small Business Management, Box Hill Institute, Vic, Australia |
2005 | Master of Arts – Photography, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia |
1979 | Certificate in Photography, Mt. Lawley Technical College, Perth, Western Australia |
GRANTS, AWARDS, COMMISSIONS & RESIDENCIES
2022 | Winner, People’s Choice Award, Merri-bek Summer Show, Counihan Gallery, Brunswick, Vic Australia |
2022 | City of Yarra Grant, Collingwood Neighbourhood House, Collingwood, Vic Australia |
2021 | Worn To Be Heard, bespoke hair textile commission for Mo-Hair Suit, Movember Campaign, (Movember+POLITIX Menswear, Bullfrog Media), Melbourne, Vic Australia |
2020 | City of Perth Grant, Embedded 2020 Exhibition, Perth, Western Australia |
2012-13 | Artist-In-Residence, Caritas Christi Hospice, St Vincent’s Hospital, Melbourne, Australia |
City of Melbourne – Docklands Grant for Nkumba Rumba multi-artform project, Melbourne, Australia | |
2009 | Winner Sculpture prize (shared), Window Frames Sydney Road Exhibition, Brunswick, Vic Australia |
Cultural Intersections Artist-in-Residence Grant, Multicultural Arts Vic, Ausdance & City of Yarra for Dance/Photography performance Congo Cuba Nkumba, Melbourne, Australia | |
2003 | Research Completion Scholarship, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia |
1998 | Shortlisted for Deacon, Graham & James/Arts 21 Award, Melbourne, Australia |
1997 | Pat Corrigan Individual Artist Grant, NAVA |
1990 | Creative Development Grant, WA Dept. for the Arts, Perth, Western Australia |
1988 | SNAP Grant, WA Dept. for the Arts, Perth, Western Australia |
1986 | Creative Development Grant, WA Dept. for the Arts, Perth, Western Australia |
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Cruthers Collection of Women’s Art, Perth, Western Australia |
St Vincent’s Hospital, Melbourne, Australia |
Horsham Regional Art Gallery, Horsham, Vic Australia |
State Library of Western Australia |
Guy Grey-Smith Memorial Collection, Art Gallery of Western Australia |
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
ABC TV National News, Sweet Dreams & Gut Reactions Interview, 19 June 2022 |
Sweet Dreams & Gut Reactions, Art Almanac July Issue 2022 |
Sweet Dreams & Gut Reactions, Off The Leash, Darwin 2022 |
Pilastro, Eleonora 18 March 2022, First ever suit made from moustache hair breaks fashion record, Guinness World Records online |
Official launch of Mo-Hair Suit Movember Campaign, Today Extra, Karl Stefanovic, presenter, Channel 9, 12 November 2021 |
On The Record, RTR fm, Perth, WA 25 November 2021 |
Life Matters Michael McKenzie, presenter, ABC Radio November 2021 |
Wales, Louisa 2020, A quiltessential companion, Time Out, Subiaco Post, 29 February p71 |
Embedded 2020 Catalogue, Flux Gallery, Perth, Western Australia 2020 |
Embedded Catalogue Essay, Noir Darkroom & Gallery, Coburg, Vic 2019 |
Weston, Gemma (Editor) 2018, Remembering Artemis, UWA Publishing, Perth Western Australia, pp61-70; 103-106; 123-125 |
Husband's cool style celebrated, Moreland Leader, cover/p9, 25 Sept, 2017 |
Kleemann, Pamela 2017, P J Kool: Culture, Cancer and Cloth RealTime 20 Sept |
Artists collaborate with researchers to create bold and vivid art piece The Font, St Vincent's Hospital Newsletter p8, April 2013 |
St Michael's Exhibition and Archangel Prize 2011 Catalogue |
Marsh, Anne 2010, LOOK Contemporary Australian Photography since 1980, McMillan, Melbourne, Australia |
Kleemann, Pam 2010, Splitting Hairs, Lambert Academic Publishing, Germany |
Hall, Bianca 2009, 'Winners thrive in the art of Brunswick' The Melbourne Times # 47, 25 November, p5 |
What's On In Canberra, 2007, 'Are YOU Being Served?' Capital Magazine, Issue 31 Nov-Dec |
Kelly, Philippa, 2007, Art Notes ACT, Art Monthly #205 November, p49 |
Streak, Diana 2007, 'Well-served by Kleemann' The Canberra Times (Panorama), November 3rd, p20 |
Mitchell, Lisa 2003, 'Questions for Pam Kleemann, Hair Enthusiast' Interview The Age, 13 August |
Glastonbury, Keri 2002, 'Liquid Light Hair', Review, RealTime #51, Oct/Nov |
McFarlane, Robert 2002, 'Face to Face With the Forces of Change', Review, Sydney Morning Herald, 8 July |
Harden, Michael 1999, 'Feast Your Eyes', Review, The Melbourne Times, March Issue |
Sowden, Tim 1998, 'Body Object' Catalogue Essay |
Freiberg, Freda 1997, 'No Place Like Babylon', Review, MetroArts, The Age, August |
Hennesey, Deborah 1997, 'No Place Like Babylon', Review, Like Art Magazine #4 |
Riley, Vikki 1997, 'Picturing Vinyl and Babylon', Interview, RealTime #19, June/July |