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CV Marisa Allen b.1977 Australia
Selected Performance ~ Bremen Town Musician
2018 Upper Partialism , Common House, Fortitude Valley Brisbane
2017 Solo- Butter Factory Cooroy – Noosa District High School Year12 Final year Exhibiton,
Mental health Week Exhibiton
Solo- Wandin In Gallery, Eumundi
Solo – A quiet place Pomona St
Guest Poet – Kurilpa Poets, West End Brisbane
Tony Irving Marisa Allen Duo – Boom Vacuum, Junk Bar, Brisbane
2014 TRACEY (drums and Percussion - tour, The Tote, Make it up club, Upper Cannon, Tape Projects,
Melbourne
2013 The Wonderfuls Tour, Melbourne (The Tote, The Gaso,)
2012 Queensland Poetry Festival 2012, Judith Wright Center, Brisbane
New Improvised Music Series, Three Violins ( in collaboration with Josh Watson, Sky McNicol) Brisbane
New Improvised Music Series (in collaboration with Tony Irving), Paddington Substation, Brisbane
2011 ‘A Three Hotel City’ in collaboration with Joel Stern Under The Radar, Metro Arts, Brisbane Festival QLD
Queensland Poetry festival 2011, Judith wright Center, Brisbane
2010 Tokyo International Music market, virtually represented through delegates of AUSTRADE, Tokyo Japan
City and The City 4, Under the William Jolly Bridge, Southbank, Brisbane
City and The City 3, Under the William Jolly Bridge, Southbank, Brisbane
Disembraining Machine 14, Tidy Space , Alchemix Studios, Woolloongabba, Australia
Sunday Acoustics, Brisbane Square Library, Brisbane Australia
The Step Inn, The Valley, Brisbane
Air For the Birds, w/ Brotherhood of the Wordless and Ghostboy, QLD State Library, Brisbane
Sedition Barber shop, Difficult Music Festival, the Now Now, Darlinghurst , Sydney
2009 Queensland Poetry festival, Bremen Town Musician, Judith Wright Center, The Valley, Brisbane
The Queensland Writers Fringe Festival, The Fox Hotel, Brisbane
The Zoo, The Valley, Brisbane
Rics Bar, The Valley, Brisbane
2008 Album launch The Troubadour, Brisbane
2008 Violinist/Composer “The Red Dancing Shoes” Puppet Palace - The Garden, Adelaide Fringe Festival, SA
2007 9 date tour of United States (Seattle – New York) as guest to American/Icelandic band The Foghorns
Collaborative performance with Seszu ensemble Queensland Poetry Festival, Judith Wright Centre for
Performing Arts, Brisbane
Bremen Town Musician and Ghostboy (Performance Poet) The Village Festival, Yeppoon
2006 Bremen Town Musician and the Sunshine Boys concert at Smekkleysa Bad Taste Records, Reykjavik
Iceland
Foghorns CD launch Sirkus Bar, Reykjavik Iceland
Bremen Town Musician, Spuni (improvisation collective) concert, Nordic House, University of Iceland
Bremen Town Musician, Spuni at City Hall, Reykjavik, Iceland
Bremen Town Musician, QLD Poetry Festival/Outsiders, solo performance, Alfresco Cafe, Doonan
2005 Graupan concert, opening of architectural exhibition at Reykjavik City Hall
Bremen Town Musician (solo) Babalu Kaffihus, Hjolmalind Kaffihus Reykjavik
Regular performer at Outsiders Inc (spoken word, performance poetry nexus) Doonan, Australia
1996 Submits a series of drawings to electro artist Barry Schwarz. Works on Electronsoinc Interference w/ Bastiaan Maris and Barry Schwarz Brisbane Powerhouse 2001
1997– cont Street Musician - Australia, England, Iceland
Exhibitions
2015 Waterwheel- Video, curated by Leah Barclay
2012 EXIST Zierle&Carter opening performance installation POP Gallery, Wooloongabba, Brisbane
Video Ezy, curated by Sarah Byrne, Leo Castelli Gallery , Paddington Brisbane QLD
In the light of Small Things, curated by Ross Barber, Installation in glass cases at Brisbane Square Library,
QLD
2011 Art From the Margins, Brisbane festival, Brisbane Instiute of Art
2010 Air for the Birds, selected drawings to accompany spoken word by Brotherhood of the Wordless, QLD State
Library, Brisbane
2009 Art From the Margins, Brisbane festival, Wesley House/ Uniting Church hall, Brisbane, Queensland
View Finder group photographic exhibition, nine lives gallery, Brisbane
2008 Access Arts – Crossing Divides Exhibition , Metro Arts, Brisbane Queensland
2007 Books ’07, group exhibition ‘The search for the impossible’, artists books, Noosa Regional
Gallery
2006 Books ’06 group exhibition ‘10+Beyond’, artists books Noosa Regional Gallery
2005 Book ‘05,group exhibition artist books installation, ‘it’s so hard to read these days, things just
rush by so fast these days’,Noosa Regional Gallery
Awards
2014 4ZZZ No 3 album for 2 weeks ‘Echo Dust Is All That’s Left” of Us” – Bremen Town Musician
2012 4ZZZ Top 100 nomination Peaceful Music I, Brisbane Australia
2010 Queensland Music Awards ,Q song 2010 song writing awards finalist dance/electronica category,
Queensland
Publications
2013 Inclusion in Wise Enough limited edition Zine, Brisbane
2012 Queensland Poetry Festival 2012 Anthology, Australia
2011 Queensland Poetry Festival 2011 Anthology, Australia
Cottonmouth, Poetry and Art anthology, May Issue, Perth
Speedpoets poetry zine, May and November Issue, Brisbane
2010 Speedpoets Zine June ’10 and July ’10, Brisbane
2009 Going Down Swinging 29, Melbourne
2008 Cottonmouth zine, Perth
2006 Silent Arrows CD review by Sindri Eldon in The Reykjavik Grapevine, Reykjavik Iceland
2006 –05 Vol.4, Vol. 8 anthology Sunshine Coast based Outsiders monthly zine
2004 –1996 Inclusion in Tsunami street press poetry section
Masterclasses
2012 Field Recording Masterclass with Liz Harris (Grouper) and Lawrence English, Brisbane, Queensland
2011 Masterclasses with Alan Lamb, Dave Burraston and Sarah last, WiredLab, Cootamundra, New South Wales
Works
2017 Audiowings – field recording compilation issued from Australian Wildlife sound recording group
Tony irving and Marisa Allen duo – “Substation” free noise jazz improv album release
2015 Audiowings – field recording compilation issued from Australian Wildlife Sound Recording Group
2014 Bremen Town Musician ‘Echo Dust Is All That’s Left of Us’ album with 12 videos
Floodlight poetry Book (Walleah Press)
2013 New Weird Australia ‘Sixes and Twelves’ compilation inclusion
Jez Riley French ‘A quiet position’ engraved glass compilation inclusion for ‘Souvenir’ recorded at Wiredlab
Cootamundra NSW
2011 Peaceful Music I – VIII – 8 track album independently recorded, and produced by Marisa Allen
‘Sitting in the Dunes’ Inclusion in Stephen Vitiellio sound recording compilation, Kaldor Public Arts, Sydney
2008 Releases second independent album “No One is Holding A Gun To Your Head (Songs to run To)’
2007 Fire in the Head (selected works 1995 –2006) Poetry chapbook
2006 – (cont)Musique Sans Frontiers – site specific improvised responses on violin (Iceland, Denmark)
2005 ‘Silent Arrows’ solo CD recorded and produced by Bremen Town Musician
Self Published handmade limited edition art book (20) ‘6 degrees of Separation’ featuring 12 images/short
story
1996 After researching the work of Nicola Tesla and Marconi, design’s series of installation instruments and
sends these drawings to LA based electro installation artist Barry Schwarz. This correspondence is realized
in 2001 when Barry is invited to install/perform his series of works/performance at the Brisbane Powerhouse
Formal Education
2016 - cont Bachelor of Art Fine Art and Visual Culture, Curtin University (distance education)
2014 - cont Graduate Diploma Information and Library Studies, Curtin University (distance education)
2004 Bachelor Communications Griffith University
1997 Sound Engineering 2XX Radio, Canberra
1995 Foundation year Bachelor Creative Arts, Griffith University
1983 - 2004 Violin classes
Short Courses and Professional Development
2017 Art For Wellness, Lisa Davis, Wallace House Noosa Heads
2012 Voice Classes with Stephanie Taylor, Queensland Conservatorium, Brisbane
Violin classes with Natalie Low, Browning Street Studios, Brisbane
2010 Qmusic – Women In Music seminar
2006 Level One Icelandic Language, Reykjavik
2005 Voice Lessons Sue Bond
Volunteer
2018 – Sunshine Coast Riding for the Disabled
2012 Institute of Modern Art, Fortitude Valley, Brisbane
2007 Noosa Regional Art Gallery, Noosa Heads