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Kathryn Brimblecombe-Fox, Me ? and Me ?, Oil on linen, 56 x 56cm, 2024

EDUCATION

2023   PhD (Humanities), creative practice-lead research, Curtin University, Western Australia.

2017   Master of Philosophy (Art History, Cultural Studies), University of Queensland

Earlier:   B.A University of Queensland, Double major in Art History

2017 - Present: Honorary Research Fellow, School of Communication and Arts, University of Queensland, Australia.

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2025 DRONE: Ghosts and Shadows, University of Southern Queensland Art Gallery. A curated survey exhibition of the last decade of my practice.

2023 September/October PhD examination exhibition Drones, Signals and the Techno-Colonisation of Landscape, Curtin University, Western Australia

2019 Occupied Landscape: Evidence of Drones  POP Gallery, QCA, Brisbane, Australia.

2014 UNTETHERING LANDSCAPE  Graydon Gallery, Brisbane.
2013 COSMOLOGY Purgatory Artspace, Melbourne
2012 For Everyone FireWorks Gallery, Brisbane. 
2011 Paradise, Purgatory Artspace, Melbourne
2007 Prayers For The Planet: We are all the same. Doggett Street Gallery, Brisbane.
2006 Pulse: Throb Vibrate Quiver Thrill Rhythm = Sign of Life Doggett Street Studio, Brisbane
2006 Queensland Performing Arts Centre [QPAC]Directorate exhibition-By invitation
2005 Abu Dhabi Cultural Foundation, United Arab Emirates
2004 Green Art Gallery, Dubai, UAE
2003 Here Comes The Bride Soapbox Gallery, Brisbane
2002 Cut Lines Soapbox Gallery, Brisbane
2000 Look And See [Hopefully] Soapbox Gallery, Brisbane

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2022  Visualising Peace Virtual Peace Museum, University of St. Andrew’s, UK.
2022  Exhibition with two other PhD students, Curtin University, Western Australia.
2021  Inaugural Arts@ADC exhibition, Australian Defence College, Canberra. Two post on this blog here and here.

2020   TheWorld of Drone Art, curated by Dr. Beryl Pong for Being Human Festival, UK. Online (due to COVID). Included  James Bridle, Mahwish Chishty, Joseph DeLappe, elin o'Hara Slavick, Tomas van Houtryve, Addie Wagenknecht, Forensic Architecture. 

2020  Aster Risque at the 6^th Annual Space Traffic Management Conference, Uni of Austin, Texas, USA. The exhibition was presented via a digital display. Curated by Dr. Sarah Jane Pell.
2019 MyOptic Arteriet, Norway.
2010 B Aware St. John's Cathedral, Brisbane
2007 Gallery L, Seoul, Korea
2005 All My Friends Are Getting Married, Pine Rivers Regional Gallery
2003 Straticulation Soapbox Gallery, Brisbane
2002 Aesthetics Soapbox Gallery, Brisbane.

SELECTED AWARDS

2019 Finalist, Paddington Art Prize, Sydney, Australia.
2019,18,16,15,14,13,12,11,10,08,07 Finalist Tattersall's Landscape Art Award [by invitation], Brisbane.
2017 Ravenswood Australian Women's Art Award, Sydney

2016, 10, 06 Finalist Redland Art Award, Redland Regional Gallery.
2014, 10, 08 Finalist Stanthorpe Art Prize, Stanthorpe

2013 Finalist in SKA 'Seeing Stars' Art Award, Melbourne [SKA-Square Kilometre Array, the world's largest and most powerful telescope]

2012 Finalist Mandorla Art Prize, Perth
2012 Finalist Art and Environment Award, Scope Galleries Warrnambool, Victoria
2011 Blake Prize Directors' Cut online exhibition
2009 Finalist Manning Art Prize
2009, 08 Finalist Clayton Utz Arts Travelling Fellowship award.
2009, 07 Finalist Moreton Bay Art Award
2009, 07 Finalist Prometheus Art Award, Gold Coast
2008 Finalist Churchie Emerging Art Award
2008 Selected for Pine Rivers Art Award Exhibition

PRESENTATIONS, PODCASTS 

2026

· Invited Speaker AOC (Old Crows) Convention, Canberra (focus on electromagnetic capabilities). Presented What Does the Invisible Battlespace Look Like?

· Panellist: Representing Robots and AI in the Creative Arts Symposium, UQ.

2025

· Keynote speaker, Work in Progress conference, School of Communication and Arts, UQ

· AUSTS (Science and Technologies Studies) Conference, Melbourne.

· Digital Temporalities symposium, UQ.

· Visual Politics seminar, UQ.

2024

· Speaker + pop-up exhibition, Deakin Uni Law School’s launch of the Centre for Law as Protection

· International Studies Association (ISA) annual conference, San Francisco. 3 presentations.

2023

· Roundtable Visualising War, International Studies Association annual conference, Montreal.

· Panel Persistence, Imminence, and Remoteness in Contemporary War with a paper titled “The Electromagnetic Spectrum and Contemporary War”, International Studies Association annual conference, Montreal.

2022

· Presented at Drones in Society: New Visual Aesthetics, University of Sheffield, UK.

· Presented at Making Im/Mobilities Visible workshop, Griffith University, Australia. 

2021

· Presentation The Ethics of the Electromagnetic Spectrum in Military Contexts, Ethics Uplift workshop hosted by Trusted Autonomous Systems (TAS) and University of Queensland Law School, Law and the Future of War Research Group.

· Interviewed for The Dead Prussian podcast interview On Visualising War.

· Visualising War, St. Andrews University, UK. Podcast interview  Painting Invisible Threats

· Presentation on online roundtable Art and/of Military Afterlives, British International Studies Association annual conference.

· Presentation “War and the Electromagnetic Spectrum” at War & Culture Studies - What's next after What's Next? workshop for Journal of War and Culture Studies.

· Podcast interview with Paris-based Cecelia Poullain.

2020

· Presentation/paper at Aesthetics of Drone Warfare Conference, University of Sheffield, UK. Also, included a small exhibition with Joseph DeLappe

· Cancelled due to COVID-19 - I was to present about my paintings and research on a panel The Spaces Between War, War Preparedness and Militarism at the International Studies Association annual conference, Hawaii.

· Cancelled due to COVID-19 – I was to present about my paintings and research on a panel Art, Poetry, and Media in Social Change at the International Studies Association annual conference, Hawaii.

· Presentation at the World of Drones and Robotics Congress, Brisbane. Online content. Available on Congress Youtube  site.

· Drone Witnessing conference, University of New South Wales, Sydney. Available online on UNSW Media Futures Hub Youtube site

· Presented about my paintings and research on a panel Anticipating War and Violence: Constituting the Political-Military Divide at the 9^th Biennial Oceanic Conference on International Studies, ANU, Canberra.

2019

· Podcast interview with lead researcher, Dr. Beryl Pong, Aesthetics of Drone Warfare project, University of Sheffield, UK 

· Panel discussion Landscape and Computer Generated Imagery with Baden Pailthorpe, facilitated by curator Kyle Weise, Institute of Modern Art Brisbane.

· War, Art & Visual Culture international symposium in Sydney.

· War Preparedness roundtable, International Studies Association annual conference, Toronto, Canada.

2018

· Presentation about my paintings on panel War Art: Museums, Militarisation and Militantism, International Studies Association annual conference, San Francisco, USA.

· Invited to present a talk about my paintings and ‘drone vision’ at Goldsmiths, University of London.

· Invited to attend the Centre for the Study of Existential Risk [CSER], University of Cambridge annual conference. Invitation only conference

· Invited onto plenary panel for Art and Conflict workshop hosted by the University of Melbourne’s Victorian College of the Arts, and the Institute for International Law and the Humanities [Law School].

2017  

· Interview “Portfolio: Dronescapes by Kathryn Brimblecombe-Fox” - Centre for the Study of the Drone, Bard College, New York. https://dronecenter.bard.edu/portfolio-dronescapes-by-kathryn-brimblecombe-fox/

PEER REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS

Articles

· 2025 "Surrendering to "Too Powerful' Technologies: From the F-111 to the MQ-28 Ghost Bat Drone", in Media, War, and Conflict journal (open access)

· 2024 "Light-Speed, Contemporary War, and Australia's National Defence Strategic Review", Digital War (open access)

· 2022: “Night Vision, Ghosts and Data Proxies: Paintings by War Artist, Jon Cattapan”, Third Text: Critical Perspectives on Contemporary Art and Culture, (36:1 Feb 2022), 19-39.

· 2015/2016: “Airborne Weaponised Drones and the Tree-of-Life.” Australian Women’s Book Review 27, no. 1 and 2 (2015/2016): 59-64.

Book Chapters

· 2024: Visual essay “Imaginational Metaveillance: Revelations in the Drone Age” in Drone Aesthetics: War, Culture, Ecology, Open Humanities Press. Eds. Beryl Pong (Uni of Cambridge) and Michael Richardson (Uni of New South Wales) (open access).

· 2024: Visual essay “Imaginational Metaveillance, Creative Painting Practice, and the Airborne Drone” in Drones in Society: A New Visual Aesthetics, Palgrave Macmillan. Ed. Elisa Serafinelli (Manchester Metropolitan Uni, UK).

Book Review

·  2025: “Smartphones Shape War in a Hyperconnected World”, book review of Matthew Ford's War in the Smartphone Age: Conflict, Connectivity, and the Crisis at Our Fingertips (London: Hurst, 2025) in The Strategist, Australian Strategic Policy Institute, https://www.aspi.org.au/strategist-posts/bookshelf-smartphones-shape-war-in-hyperconnected-world/  (open access).

PUBLISHED REVIEWS OF EXHIBITIONS
2018 “Jon Cattapan: Future Constellations”, Eyeline: Contemporary Visual Arts 89 (2018), 91.
2018  “Yellow House Sydney 71 – Yellow House Jalalabad 17,” Eyeline: Contemporary Visual Arts 88 (2017), 91.
2017  “George Gittoes: Night Vision,” Eyeline: Contemporary Visual Arts 86 (2017): 79. 

ADDITIONAL SELECTED PRESENTATIONS, LECTURE AND SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS

2017  Paper presented at Visual Politics seminar, University of Queensland.

2016  Paper presented at “The Device Conference”, University of Queensland.

2016  Panel Space and Popular Culture panel. University of South Australia & International Space University, Strasbourg, France. In Adelaide at the University of South Australia. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJhkdDc6z28  [starts 13.40 mins]

2014  Presentation - Seeing Things: An OOO Symposium For Creative Researchers, QUT.

2012  Guest  speaker The Women’s College, University of Queensland, March formal dinner.

2009  Pecha Kucha Brisbane Powerhouse December presentation.

            2009  Guest speaker Kings College, University of Qld, Foundation business breakfast.

2009  Guest presentation Queensland Academy of Arts and Sciences co-hosted by QUT.

2008  Guest speaker July graduation ceremony University of Queensland, Faculties of Arts, & Behavioural& Social Sciences. http://omc.uq.edu.au/audio/graduation08/KBrimblecombeFox_160708.mp3

2007  Presentation - Art+Artists+Conversations=Peace Talks? Australian Centre Peace & Conflict Studies, University of Queensland.

2003-07 Various speaking engagements - government & non-government arts and trade organisations: Arts Queensland, DFAT, Austrade.