Upcoming Exhibitions

2011 Making Sense, Craft Victoria, Melbourne

2011 Arrivals / Departures, Trocadero Art Space, Footscray

Solo Exhibitions

2010 June Profits/Populations - It's all Numbers, 2010, Urban Screen, Federation Square Melbourne.

2009 November World Species Market (2009 Red List Update), International Urban Screens Association - Global Urban Screen Exhibition.

2009 June World Species Market, Urban Screen, Federation Square. World Environment Day - June 5th till the 4th of July 2009.

Group Exhibitions    

2011 Albury Digital Art Outdoor Gallery, QEII Square, Albury, NSW.

2010 Williamstown Festival Contemporary Art Prize, Finalist, The Substation, Williamstown, VIC.

2009 Losing the Unique, exhibiting partner Jasmine Targett, Shifted Gallery, Richmond, VIC.

2009 Inside the realm of invisible spheres, exhibiting partner Jasmine Targett, C3 Contemporary Art Space, Abbotsford Convent, Abbotsford, VIC.

2009 Linden Postcard Show, Linden Centre for Contemporary Arts, St Kilda, VIC.

2008 The Secret Life of Numbers – The 2008 Ellen Mileo Contemporary Art Prize – Finalist. 69 Smith Street Gallery, Collingwood, VIC.

2008 30x30x30 Staff & Students of the Faculty of Art & Design, Monash University Faculty Gallery, Caulfield East, VIC.

2006 & 2007 Lighthouse Foundation Charity Auction & Exhibition, The Cherry Tree Hotel, Richmond, VIC.

2005 Lighthouse Foundation Charity Auction & Exhibition, Blu Pols Café, Prahran, VIC.

1992 Graduate Exhibition, Victoria College of the Arts, Melbourne, VIC.

1990 Prahran Painters Exhibition,Linden Centre for Contemporary Art, St Kilda, VIC.

1988 Box Hill Graduate Exhibition, Box Hill TAFE Gallery, Box Hill, VIC.

Professional Related Experience

2010 Tipping Point Participant - Melbourne

2010 International Conference - Environmental Change - Cultural Change, University of Bath. Paper presented.

2007 & 2006 Project assisted for the Lighthouse Foundation Gallery Auction.

Selected Bibliography

2011 Artabase, Debbie Symons uses video art to highlight endangered animal species, Artabase Blog, January 31.

2010 SymbioticA - Adapation, Biodiversity Art Online Showcase - Debbie Symons, Adaptation Blog, November 21.

2010 Artlink, Changing Climates, Ed Stephanie Britton. Vol 29 No4

2009 ‘The bell tolls for species around the globe and the terrible truth can be charted at Fed Square’. Dr. Robert Nelson, The Age, Melbourne 10.06.2009

2009 Melbourne Jeweller, Losing the Unique at Shifted, K.Thompson, September 18.

2009 Melbourne Jeweller, Inside the Realm of Invisible Spheres at c3 Contemporary Art Space, K.Thompson, July 16.

2008 Monash University Art & Design Postgraduate Course Catalogue – Student Profiles           

Awards & Grants

2010 Australian Postgraduate Scholarship Award, Monash University

2010 Monash University Travel Grant

2009 Grant recipient from the Visual Arts Board of the Australia Council for the Arts – New Work Emerging Artist         

2009 Grant recipient from Monash University Art & Design Faculty – Research Publications Grant.

2008 Letter of Commendation from the Board of Examiners, Faculty of Art and Design, Monash University

Education

July 2008 Currently completing a PhD – Faculty of Art and Design, Monash University.

Feb  2008 Graduate Certificate in Visual Arts – Monash University.

1990 - 1992 Bachelor of Fine Arts – Painting, Victoria College Prahran.

1988 - 1989 Advanced Certificate of Art and Design, Box Hill College of Technical and Further Education.