Education
2003-07 Doctor of Philosophy (Monash University, Melbourne)
1995-98 Master of Fine Arts (Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne University)
1993-94 Postgraduate Diploma (Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne University)
1990-92 Bachelor of Fine Arts (Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne University)
1983 Bachelor of Education (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München)
1979-83 Microbiology Studies (Technische Universität München). Theology Studies (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München)
1976-79 Biology Studies (Universität Würzburg and Technische Universität München)
Selected Solo Exhibitions /Performances / Projects (Recent)
2023
sea.liquid.sensation.flux.space, MPRG, Mornington sensaflux Sophie Gannon Gallery Melbourne
2022
marinesque, Philip Bacon Galleries, Brisbane
Liquidarium, SAM, Shepparton
2020
Aquaflorelle, Sophie Gannon Gallery, Melbourne
2019
A Thousand Tides, Bunjil Place Gallery, Narre Warren
2017
Ahead of all Parting, Sophie Gannon Gallery, Melbourne
Slow Indigo, Sophie Gannon Gallery, Melbourne
2015
Below Low, Turner Galleries, Perth
Slow Indigo, Philip Bacon Gallery, Brisbane
2013
Liquilumber, Sophie Gannon Gallery, Melbourne
Fringeflux, OlsenIrwin, Sydney
2012
Pearlbush, Philip Bacon Galleries, Brisbane
2011
Solopinks and Monoeyes: Fictional hybrids, Simon Cooper Gallery, Christchurch University Gallery, Canterbury, UK
2010
Darkrooming, Fremantle Art Centre, Fremantle
Out There, Tim Olsen Gallery, Sydney
2009
Nocturnalians and Shadow Eaters, Sophie Gannon Gallery, Melbourne
Neomorphics (Neugemüse), La Trobe University Museum of Art, Melbourne
2008
Nethergreens, Philip Bacon Galleries, Brisbane
Prototopia, Tim Olsen Gallery, Sydney
2007
Darkrooming, Monash University Faculty Gallery, Melbourne
2006
The Softmachines, Philip Bacon Galleries, Brisbane
2005
The Softmachines, Sutton Gallery, Melbourne
Public Art / Architectural / Design Projects
2019
Dapple, Glass Ceiling Design, The Glen, with NH Architecture + UAP Brisbane
2018
Point Grey Lorne Redevelopment, Design Competition.
NMBW Architecture Studio, Architecture Associates, GLAS Urban, Dr. Vera Möller - EOI Finalist
The Dragonettes, Shell Cove Public Art Commission Winner with UAP Brisbane
Selected Group Exhibition / Performances / Projects
2022
Still Life, Buxton Contemporary, Melbourne
Submarine Gardens, FRONTBEACHBACKBEACH, MPRG and Public Art Projects DEAKIN, Flinders
2021
Art is in Our Nature, Silverleaf Art Box, Merricks
2020
Water, GOMA, Brisbane
MPRG:50, MPRG, Mornington
NWOP, National Works on Paper, Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, Mornington
2019
The Sublime Sea, Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, Mornington
2017
Human/Animal/Artist, McClelland Sculpture Park+Gallery
2015
Warhol Now, Jewish Museum, Melbourne
2014
The Skullbone Experiment, QVMAG, Launceston and COFA, Sydney
Warhol Now, Jewish Museum, Melbourne
Deakin University Contemporary Sculpture Award Exhibition, Deakin University, Melbourne
2013
Reforest, Stour Valley Arts, Elwick House, Ashford, Kent, UK
2009
Deakin University Contemporary Sculpture Award Exhibition, Deakin University, Melbourne
2008
The Ecologies Project, Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne
Tidal 08, City of Devonport Art Award, Devonport Regional Gallery, Devonport
Bal Tashchit: Thou Shalt Not Destroy: the Environment in Biblical and Rabbinic Sources, The Jewish Museum of Australia
2007
Snap Freeze, TarraWarra Museum of Art, Healesville
Into Abstract, Hawkesbury Regional Gallery, Hawkesbury
Curious Forms, La Trobe University Art Museum, Melbourne
2006
Before the Body-matter, Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne
Army Brats, The Shrine of Remembrance, Melbourne
Tidal 06, City of Devonport Art Award, Devonport Regional Gallery, Devonport
Imagine…the Creativity Shaping our Culture, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne
2005
Papermoon, Devonport Regional Gallery (Touring: Toowoomba Regional Art Gallery, Orange Regional Art Gallery, Maroondah Art Gallery, Gippsland Art Gallery, Plimsoll Art Gallery)
Recent Acquisitions - City of Port Phillip, Linden St Kilda Centre for Contemporary Arts
Imaging the Apple (Touring: Geelong Art Gallery, Noosa Regional Art Gallery, War Memorial Art Gallery, University of Sydney, Camperdown Campus, Sydney, McClelland Gallery, Langwarrin)
2004
The Spirit of Football, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Echo, Tarrawarra Museum of Art, Tarrawarra
Imaging the Apple (Touring: Ballarat Fine Art Gallery, Ballarat, Plimsoll Gallery, Centre for the Arts, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Latrobe Regional Gallery, Morwell, RMIT Project Space, Melbourne, Geelong Art Gallery, Geelong)
Material Witness, The 15th Tamworth Textile Fibre Biennial (Touring: John Curtin Gallery, Curtin University of Technology, Perth, Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery at Royal Park, Launceston, Tasmania
2002
Good Vibrations, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne
Crossing, University of Art and Design Helsinki UIAH, Finland
Hybrid Objects, Australian Embassy, Tokyo
Tamworth Textile Fibre Biennial, Tamworth
National Works on Paper, Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery
Noxious Laughing Gas, Curated by Merrin Eirth, VCA Gallery, Melbourne
2003
Cicely and Colin Rigg Contemporary Design Award, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
A Modelled World, McClelland Gallery, Langwarrin
Robert Jacks Drawing Prize, Bendigo Art Gallery
North, Bundoora Homestead, Latrobe University, Melbourne
Helen Lempriere National Sculpture Award, Werribee Park, Werribee
Hybrid Objects, Melbourne Museum, Science and Life Gallery, Melbourne
Material Witness, The 15th Tamworth Textile Fibre Biennial (Touring: Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, QUT Cultural Precinct, Art Museum, Port Pirie Regional Art Gallery Campbelltown City Bicentennial Art Gallery)
Stitching, Projectspace, RMIT, Melbourne
2001
Utopic Procedures, Westspace, Melbourne
Something for the Ladies…, Penthouse & Pavement, Melbourne
Spacecraft 0701, Monash Museum of Art, Melbourne
Low Down, recent acquisitions, Monash Museum of Art, Melbourne
2000
The Formguide, RMIT Project Space, Melbourne
The Retrieved Object, Linden New Art, Melbourne
National Works on Paper, Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery
1999
Material & Beyond (Touring: Brisbane, Queensland, Western Australia and New Zealand (1999-2002)
Natural Disasters/Disasters Unnatural, Monash University Gallery, Melbourne
Bill Posters Will Not Be Prosecuted, Federation Square Hoardings Project (Curated and administered by ACCA, CCP and 200 Gertrude Street, Melbourne)
Emblematic, Smith + Stoneley, Brisbane
Grants / Awards / Scholarships / Residencies / Prizes
2016
Deakin University Contemporary Sculpture Award, Deakin University, Melbourne - Finalist
Shell Cove Public Art Commission Competition - Winner
2015
Deakin Sculpture Prize - Finalist
2014
Geelong Contemporary Art Prize, Geelong Gallery, Geelong - Finalist
2013
Residency at the Heron Island Research Station on the Great Barrier Reef (University of Queensland) on invitation by the Great Barrier Reef Foundation
Artists Retreat at Skullbone Plains, Tasmanian Land Conservancy Trust, Tasmania
2011
Solo Exhibition, Christchurch University Canterbury, Kent, UK.
Travel and Export Grant, Arts Victoria
2009
King’s Wood Residency, Stourvalley Arts, Kent, England, Arts Victoria in conjunction with Heide MOMA
Arts Victoria Grant
2008
Mollie Holman Doctoral Gold Medal, Monash University, Melbourne
2003-07
Australian Postgraduate Award, Monash University, Melbourne
2002
Stonnington Sculpture Prize Exhibition, Melbourne - Winner
2002
Paris Studio Residency and Stipend, Australia Council Grant
Development Grant, Arts Victoria
John Leslie Art Prize - Winner
Art refers to the Environment Gippsland Art Gallery, Sale
Bundanon Residency, Shoalhaven, New South Wales
Cranlana Programme Participant, The Myer Foundation, Melbourne
2001
Australia Council Grant
2003
Stonnington Sculpture Prize, Melbourne
Research Grant, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Melbourne
1999
Geelong Contemporary Painting Prize, Geelong Art Gallery, Geelong
1997
Keith and Elizabeth Murdoch Travelling Fellowship, (Japan, Germany, USA)
Australia Council Grant
1993
Sir Ian Potter Foundation Award, Victorian College of the Arts
1992
City of Prahran, Acquisitive Award, Victorian College of the Arts
Collections
National Gallery of Victoria
Australian National Museum
Monash University Collection
Latrobe University Collection
Victoria University
Great Barrier Reef Foundation
Artbank
Macquarie Bank
BHP Billiton
Victorian College of the Arts
City of Port Phillip
Stour Valley Arts Collection, Ashford, England
Royal Sydney Golf Club
John McBride Collection
James Mollison Collection
Sir Jonathan Mills, Edinburgh, Scotland
Michelle Garnaut Collection, Shanghai
Private Collections in Australia, China, Japan, UK, USA and Germany
Selected Publications / Catalogues /Reviews / Writings
Caroline Baum, ‘Artists have designs on jazzing up CD’s’, The Sunday Herald, Melbourne, 1.10.1989
Anne Marsh, ’Focus on Show’, The Herald Sun, Melbourne, 4.10.94.
Various authors, ‘Decadence’, 10 Years of 200 Gertrude Street, Melbourne, 1995
Natalie King, ‘Alluring’, Catalogue, Projectspace, RMIT, Melbourne, 1996
Stephen O’Connell, ‘Dermartology’, Catalogue, 200 Gertrude Street, Melbourne, 1996
Claire Doherty, ‘Shapeshift’, Catalogue, ACCA, Melbourne,1996
Charlotte Day, ‘Wannabe’, Catalogue, Melbourne, 1997
Benjamin Haslem, ‘Sculptor’s prize bloomers just the ticket.’ The Australian,16.4.97
Alison Barkley,’ Vera’s Prized Ego’. The Herald Sun2.5.97
Ross Bowden, ‘Plagiarism in the Pacific’, The Age, Melbourne, 26.7.97
Linda Michael, ‘natural selection’, in Australian Perspecta: between art & nature, Catalogue,1997
Joanna Mendelssohn, ‘Creativity as a matter of Perspecta’, The Australian, 8.8.1997
John McDonald, ‘Sowing the Seed of a New Vision’, Sydney Morning Herald, 23.8.1997
Andrew McNamara, ‘Filling the Void’, Realtime 20, September 1997
Melissa Chiu, ‘Ordered Environments’, Broadsheet Vol. 26, No.4, Adelaide. Summer 97/98
Paul McGillick, ’Packaging the Theme’, Art and Australia, Vol. 35 No. 3, 1998
Jeff Gibson, ‘Australian Perspecta 1997’, Art & Text, No.59 , November 1997-January 1998
Justin Clemens, ‘the jungle out there - where is Tarzan?, in the jungle out there, Catalogue, February 1999
Robert Rooney, ‘Calm tribute to a topsy-turvy world’, The Australian, 25.6.1999
Ihor Holubizky, ’Vera Möller the jungle out there’, Art & Text No.66, August-October 1999
Suzie Attiwill, ‘birdhouse’, Catalogue, 200 Gertrude Street, September 1999
Robyn Daw, ‘An Aberrant Urge’, eyeline, no.40, Spring 1999
Peter Timms, ‘Geelong Contemporary Art Prize, The Age, 9.9.1999
Robert Nelson, ‘Art of Bafflement and Meaning’, The Age, 16.9.1999
Peter King, ‘Editorial’, Transition, No. 62/63 2000 RMIT School of Architecture, Melbourne, 1.5. 2000
Robert Nelson, ‘Review’. The Age, 3.5.2000
Robert Nelson, ‘Revealed: Mother Nature’s Vulgar Past’. The Age, 6.9.2000
Sasha Grishin, ‘Curious, refined hybrids of nature’, Canberra Times,17.10.2000
Suzie Attiwill, ‘Congrescences’, LIKE, No.13. Summer 2000
Juliana Engberg, low -down, recent acquisitions, Monash University Collection, Catalogue, Monash University Museum of Art, March 2001
Robert Nelson, ‘Volume and Space’, The Age, Melbourne, 7.3.2001
Robert Nelson, ‘Spacecraft’, The Age, Melbourne, 4.8.2001
Colin Shingleton, ‘The Midwich Cuckoos’, Art Monthly, No.143. September 2001
Patrick McCaughey, ‘Gallery Notes’, Australian Book Review No.234 September 2001
Robert Nelson, ‘Fashion sasheys into visual arts’ , The Age, 19.3.2002
Natasha Bullock, ‘Artlab’, Catalogue, CCP, Melbourne, 2002
Ted Gott, ‘2002 National Works on Paper’, Catalogue, Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, 2002
Julie Copeland, ‘Meet the Maker’, ABC Radio National, 15.9.2002 (audio on demand: www.abc.net.au)
Megan Backhouse, ‘Editorial’, The Age, Melbourne, 15 July 2002
Tristian Keonig, ‘labland’, Eyeline # 49, Brisbane, Spring 2002.
Ross Mcleod and Veronica Saunders, ‘Hybid Objects’, (Inside), Melbourne, November 2002
Zara Stanhope, ‘Good Vibrations’, Catalogue, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne, 2002
'The Office of Utopic Procedures', introductory texts by Brett Jones, Bernhard Sachs, Sean Loughrey and Tom Nicholson, WestSpace Publications, Melbourne 2002
Robert Nelson, ‘Good vibrations to test the retina’, The Age, 16.11.2002
Max Delaney, ‘Skeletons in the closet: from the monumental to the model – sculpture in the collection', in Monash University Collection – Four decades of Collecting, 2002
Holly Lloyd-McDonald, ‘Artist did it all for love’, The Herald Sun, 7.3.2003
Penny Webb, 'Weaver's world: red in tooth and claw', The Age, 25.03.2003
Ashley Crawford, ‘Spatial Relations’, Melbourne, March 2003
Ashley Crawford, ‘Science and Art caught in an otherworldly embrace’, The Age, 26.3.2003
The Helen Lempriere National Sculpture Award, Catalogue, Melbourne, March 2003
Katie Somerville, ‘Introduction’, Colin and Cicely Rigg Contemporary Design Award, Catalogue, National Gallery of Victoria, March 2003
Susan McCullough, ‘The Devine Essentials’, The Weekend Australian, 29-30.3.2003
Robert Nelson, ‘Mixing Perception with Space’, The Age, 26.3.2003
Simon Plant, ‘Looking to the true north’, The Herald Sun, 24.6.2003
Ashley Crawford, 'A Modelled World/McClelland Survey', The Sunday Age, 28.12.2003
Robert Nelson, 'Paramor puts the boot in', The Age, 25.8.2004
Geoff Slattery ( ed.), 'Australian Football – A Quarterly Journal of Essays, Ideas, Commentary and Illustration. National Gallery of Victoria: Ian Potter Centre, Federation Square, August 2004
Sarah Thomas, 'A philanthropic Milestone: TarraWarra Museum of Art in the Yarra Valley, Victoria', Art Monthly No. 174 October 2004
Ihab Hassan, 'Painting a Continent - or Nothing: A Personal Essay on a Theme in Contemporary Australian Art', in Religion and the Arts, Brill Academic Publishers Inc., Boston, 8:2 (2004) pp. 159-173
Annemarie Kiely, 'Coral Relief', Belle, May/June 2005
Ashley Crawford, 'Vera Möller: the softmachines', The Sunday Age, 22.5.2005
Jeff Makin, 'Critic's Choice: Vera Möller The Softmachines', The Herald Sun, 25.5.2005
Megan Backhouse, 'Artist earns her Stripes', The Age, 28.5.2005
Natalie King, Vera Möller, Visual Arts Reviews - Sunday Morning, Radio National, 29.5.2005
Dr. Ellie Ray, Paper Moon, Catalogue, Devonport Regional Gallery, 2005
'A Short Ride in a Fast Machine: Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces 1985 - 2005', Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne, 2005
Chris McAuliffe, Recent Acquisitions - City of Port Phillip, Catalogue essay, Linden New Arts, 2005
Natalie King, the softmachines, Catalogue, Brisbane, 2006
Anna King Murdoch, 'Biology of the artist', The Courier Mail, Brisbane, 28.2.2006
Liesl Pfeffer, 'Going Soft', Time Off, Brisbane, 1.3.2006
Frances Atkinson, 'what I've learnt', The Age,1.7.2006
Sheridan Palmer, 'Imagine...', Australian Art Review, Nov. 06 - Feb 07, p. 96
Jeff Makin, 'Go seek the new Heide', The Herald Sun, 24 August 2006
Catherine Bell, Army Brats, Catalogue, Monash University Gallery, Art & Design, Shrine of Remembrance, Melbourne, 2006
Tidal. 06, Catalogue, City of Devonport Art Award, Devonport Regional Gallery, 2006
Geraldine Barlow and Dr. Kyla McFarlane, Before the Body - Matter. Catalogue, Monash Museum of Art, 2006
John Mc Donald, 'Pathways to other worlds', Sydney Morning Herald, 01.09.2007
Sophie Knezic, 'Snap Freeze', Artlink, vol 27 no 3, 2007
Robert Nelson, 'Visions of Ecological Destruction', The Age, 28 May 2008
Virginia Fraser, 'Wading into Scripture: Bal Tashchit, Melbourne' , Art Monthly Issue 210, June, 2008
Tonya Turner, 'Planting New Ideas', Brisbane Courier Mail, 25.6.08
'The Ecologies Project', Julie Copeland in conversation with Geraldine Barlow, Kyla Mc Farlane, Susan Jacobs, 'Artworks', ABC Radio National 28.9.2008
Jo Bertini, ‘Vera Möller: hybrids’, The Australian Art Review, February-April 2009
Vera Möller, Vera Möller, Fictional Hybrids, Stourvalley Arts, Ashford, UK, 2011
Justin Clemens, Vera Möller. Fictional Hybrids. Stourvalley Arts, Ashford, UK, 2011
Laurie Duggan, Vera Möller, Fictional Hybrids, Stourvalley Arts, Ashford, UK, 2011
Peter Vujacovic, Vera Möller, Fictional Hybrids, Stourvalley Arts, Ashford, UK, 2011
Ian Bride, Vera Möller. Fictional Hybrids, Stourvalley Arts, Ashford, UK, 2011
Dan Rule, ‘Vera Möller LIQUILUMBER,’ The Age,11.05.2103
Justin Burke, ‘Möller sets mind to underwater wonders’, The Australian, 11.10.2013
Peter Hay, ‘Nature, Culture: merging principles on Skullbone Plains, in The Skullbone Experiment, The Tasmanian Land Conservancy, Hobart, pp.6-9, 2014
Fiona Gruber, ‘Tasmanian Wilderness Camp plants an artistic seed’, The Age and the Sydney Morning Herald, 4.4.2014
Christopher Allen, ‘Encounters with nature: Skullbone Experiment and Richard Wilson’, The Australian, 16.08.2014
Jane O’Sullivan, ‘Vera Möller’, Artist Profile, Issue 31 2015, pp. 52-55
Fiona Purdon, ‘Seduced by the Reef’, U on Sunday, Courier Mail, April26, 2015, p.30
Sharne Wolff, ‘Vera Möller’s Slow Indigo: Radiant, transporting and quietly political’, 15 April 15 2015
Lyn DiCiero, ‘Talking to the world beneath’, The Western Australian, 12.08.2015
Gabriella Coslovich, ‘Human/Animal/Artist: Janine Burke's exhibition explores the lines in between’, The Sydney Morning Herald, November 15, 2016
Fiona Gruber, ‘Vera Möller’ in A Thousand Tides, Bunjil Place Gallery, pp. 8-10, 2019
Penny Teale, ‘Somewhere in between’, in A Thousand Tides, Bunjil Place Gallery, pp. 14-16, 2019
David Tutchener, ‘The Significance of Western Port to the Bunurong People, in A Thousand Tides, Bunjil Place Gallery, pp. 40-41, 2019
GaryC.B.Poore PhD, ‘Biology and Art in Western Port’, in A Thousand Tides, Bunjil Place Gallery, pp. 42-45, 2019
Geraldine Kirrihi Barlow, ‘Vera Möller’, curatorial essay, in WATER, QAGOMA Brisbane, pp.132-133, 2019
Peter Godfrey-Smith, ‘The medium of feeling’, in WATER, QAGOMA Brisbane, pp. 47-51, 2019
Andrew Stephens, ‘Into the deep’, The Age, 30 November 2019
Penny Teale, in Art +Climate= Change, eds. Bronwyn Johnson and Kelly Gelatly, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, pp. 68-73, 2022
Janine Burke, ‘Body of Woman, Body of Water, Body of Earth: Women Artists in the MPRG Collection’, in Women Artists, Mornington, pp. 6–16, 2022
TV
2010
‘Vera Möller', ABC Sunday Arts, Episode 34 (14 min.)
2014
‘Skullbone Plains’. Produced by Kath Symmons and Steve Thomas, Roar Films.
Radio Feature Interviews
2003
Julie Copeland, 'Meet the Maker', Feature Interview, ABC Radio National. Sunday Morning - 05/01/2003
2006
Judith Hug, 'Australienjournal', SBS German Radio, 14.03.2006 (11 am)
2012
‘Vera Möller’s Studio, interview with Fiona Gruber, Books and Arts Daily, ABC Radio National, 11.04 2012
2014
‘Tasmania’s Skullbone Experiment’, interviews with Fiona Gruber, Books and Arts Daily, ABC Radio National, 10.04.2014
2019
Interview with Cathy van Extall on ‘RN Breakfast’. 2 Dec 2019
Interview with with Kate Feeney on ‘Afternoons’, 612 ABC Radio Brisbane