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Hold Your Horses: Co-Artistic Directors
HOLD YOUR HORSES
Hold Your Horses is comprised of three interdisciplinary artists Thea Costantino, Tarryn Gill & Pilar Mata Dupont.
They have eight years experience working in performance media and are steadily building national profiles as visual artists.
The company facilitates collaboration between artists from a range of disciplines.
These interdisciplinary artists look to music theatre as an art form complementary to visual practices.
As producers, Hold your Horses are driven by the desire to harness music theatre as a medium for performative story telling, and aim to create an innovative work that is highly entertaining, deeply challenging, and stimulating in its relevance to contemporary Australian culture and identity.
Photographs: Kim Tran
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Curriculum Vitae
Pilar Mata Dupont & Tarryn Gill
Tarryn Gill and Pilar Mata Dupont are represented by Goddard de Fiddes Gallery gdef (at) goddarddefiddes.com.au or +61 8 93242460
ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS
2007- Certificate II Music Theatre, Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts (Pilar)
2001- Bachelor of Arts (Art) Curtin University of Technology
SOLO EXHIBITIONS/PERFORMANCES
2008- From the Heart of Gold Projects at Perth Centre for Photography
2003- Good Show Pony at The Bakery, Window Box. (Pilar).
2001- The Musical performance Central Park Gardens Perth
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS/PERFORMANCES
2010
-17th Biennale of Sydney. Director: David Elliot
-Basil Sellers Art Prize, Ian Potter Museum of Art, Melbourne. Director: Dr Chris McAuliffe
2009
-Summer, Goddard De Fiddes Gallery, Perth
-Heart of Gold, as part of Hold Your Horses at Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts
-Yellow Vest Syndrome Fremantle Arts Centre curated by Jasmin Stephens
2008
-Contemporary Australian Art - Optimism Gallery of Modern Art, Queensland, curated by Julie Ewington
-Primavera at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney curated by Hannah Mathews
-Linden 1968 at Linden Contemporary Arts Space, St. Kilda, curated by Hannah Mathews & Ben Riding
-SILVER- Artrage 25th Anniversary Exhibition, Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts
2007
-Oomph Canberra Contemporary Arts Space curated by Amita Kirpalani
-Economy Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts curated by Consuelo Cavaniglia
-Girl Parade Australian Centre for Photography (Sydney) curated by Bec Dean
2006
-De-Function curated by Anna Nazzari and Thea Costantino at the Moores Building,
-Crossfire dance festival as part of Artrage, design of set, costumes, choreography and production of intermission performance.
2005
-Flux2 curated by John Barrett-Lennard at the Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, Nedlands.
2004
-Coalesce micro festival curated by Carl Fraunschiel at the Breadbox Gallery 2003
-Putting on an Act '03 Perth Institute of Contemporary Art, Northbridge.
-Supermart '03 curated by Stuart Clipston and Tom Muller at the Breadbox Gallery
2002
-Screen, as part of the BEAP festival, curated by Pauline Williams, Midland.
-Hotel 6151 at the Rhodes Hotel, curated by Christian de Vietri, Ben Riding and Heather Webb, South Perth (Pilar).
RESIDENCIES
2010
-Residencias Del Sur, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
-Performance Space, Carriageworks, Sydney.
2006
-PICA Studio Residency, Perth
SELECTED GRANTS and AWARDS
2009
-Selected as finalists for the Basil Sellers Art Prize 2010
-Australia Council Visual Art New Work Grant for Heart of Gold
-DCA Arts Development Grant for 'Lament of the Argentine Military'
2008
-Finalists in William and Winifred Bowness Photography Prize, Monash Gallery, VIC
DCA Arts Development grant for Heart of Gold
2007
-Winners of City of Perth Art Award, Acquisitive Prize
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
2010- 'Bride of the North' 1/3 collected by the Art Gallery of Western Australia
2008- 'Heart of Gold Project 5 The All Australian Surf Lifesaver series' collected by Queensland Art Gallery
2007- 'So That Liberty Shall Not Perish From This Earth' from the 'Heart of Gold Project 3 Series' collected by the City of Perth
Various private collections
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Curriculum Vitae
Thea Costantino
TERTIARY EDUCATION
2005 - present: PhD Candidate (Art), Curtin University of Technology
2003 BA Art Honours (First Class), Curtin University of Technology
2003 BA Literary Studies, Curtin University of Technology
2001 BA Fine Arts, Curtin University of Technology
FICTION CREDITS
2009 Heart of Gold (theatre performance), PICA. Role: playwright/lyricist/ producer
2008 'Missing, St Kilda 1968' (short story), National Graphic, Linden1968 Catalogue, Ed. Hannah Matthews, Ben Riding and Tom Muller
2007 Heart of Gold Project 4: An excerpt from 'Le Triomphe de L'amour' (film) Role: co-writer
2002 Psychoarchitectural Pleasure Tours, Hotel6151, Artrage Festival (live performance) Role: writer and director
ARTICLES PUBLISHED
2008 Artlink, Volume 28, no. 1: Review of 'Economy'
2007 Photofile, Issue 80: Tarryn Gill and Pilar Mata Dupont: Heart of Gold
2006 Curve Magazine, Issue 11: Red Hummingbird
Curve Magazine, Issue 10: Andrew Nicholls
Curve Magazine, Issue 10: Tarryn Gill + Pilar Mata Dupont
2005 RealTime + OnScreen, #70: Cycles, overlaps, intersections
2002 Lucky Magazine, Issue 3: Hotel6151
CURATORIAL (FREELANCE)
2009 (upcoming) Revelations: contemporary visions of apocalypse, Fremantle Arts Centre
2007 Public House, Little Creatures Exhibition Space, Fremantle
2006 De-Function, co-curator Anna Nazzari. Moores Building Contemporary Art Gallery
2002-2003 microscope, co-curator Poppy van Oorde- Grainger. PICA and Transperth Trains
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2009 In Retrospect, Taylors Studio, Swan Valley
2002 minus monsters, PIAF / Mandurah Arts Centre. With Simon Pericich.
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2008 City of Joondalup Invitation Art Award, Lakeside Centre, Joondalup
SILVER ARTRAGE 25, PICA
Linden 1968, Linden Contemporary Art Gallery, St Kilda (VIC)
Engaging place(s) engaging space(s), Humanities Postgraduate Conference, Curtin
Staff Room, Moores Building Contemporary Art Gallery
2007 City of Perth Art Award, City of Perth Town Hall
2006 De-Function, Moores Building Contemporary Art Gallery
2005 Drawn Out, PICA
Land of the Giants, Moores Building Contemporary Art Gallery
2003 Curtin University Department of Fine Arts Postgraduate Exhibition John Curtin Gallery
City of Joondalup Invitation Art Award, Lakeside Centre, Joondalup
Wild Frontier, Downtown, Adelaide, and The Bank, Midland
Videohead, Midland Urban Edge festival and Artrage Mirage, PICA
2002 Appearance, Goddard de Fiddes Gallery
Hotel6151, Artrage Festival. Rhodes Hotel, South Perth
Hatched: Healthways National Graduate Show. PICA
Laundry at Polo. Polo Laundromat, Northbridge.
2001 Tactical Intervention Strategies, PICA
GRANTS
2008 WA Department of Culture and the Arts: presentation of Heart of Gold theatre work with Tarryn Gill + Pilar Mata Dupont: $32,379
Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts (PICA) BITE (Best of Innovation in Theatre Enterprise) program with Gill + Mata Dupont: $10,000
PICA ARCH (Artist Residency and Creative Hub) with Gill + Mata Dupont: $5,000
2007 ArtsWA Emerging Curator's Grant: Emerging Curator's Internship, Experimenta, Melbourne: travel costs and stipend: $7,600
2006 NAVA Grant Scheme presentation costs for De-Function: $550
ACQUISITIONS
City of Joondalup Collection
Numerous private collections
