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Curriculum Vitae

Membership
Design Institute of Australia – Victorian Councillor
Exhibition and Display Design Practice Group Co-ordinator 2000-2003

Grants and Awards
Victorian College of the Arts
- Sarah Levi Scholarship for Drawing 1976

Australia Council
- Designer Development Grant 1982

Design Institute of Australia Design Awards
- Finalist, Grant and Mary Featherston Award 1996
- Finalist, Interior Design Major Award 1999

Teaching
RMIT University
- Lecturer – Exhibition Design 1994-98 Faculty of Environmental Design and Construction

Overseas Positions
Museum of New Zealand, Te Papa Tongarewa
- Acting Head of Design 1993-94 (Head of Design position declined)

Overseas Study Tours
Theatres, Museums and Galleries
1969, 1970, 1971, 1979, 1988, 1989, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996

Overseas Exhibition Design Work
Desmond Freeman Associates (Desmond Freeman, previously with DFA and now Freeman Design Partners).
- National Maritime Museum, London, ‘Mutiny on the Bounty’ 1989 – Project Designer

Australia Post
- 'Capex 96' – Toronto, Canada – 1996

Selected Exhibition Design Work
(See also Overseas Exhibition Design Work)

Victorian Government Department of Major Projects
- ‘Victoria Week', Parliament House 1985

Desmond Freeman Associates 1988
(Desmond Freeman, previously with DFA and now Freeman Design Partners)
- ‘Vatican Collection' World Expo 88 – Project Designer
- ‘First State ’88’ Darling Harbour – Project Designer, (eight installations)
- 'The Artist and the Patron’ Art Gallery of New South Wales – Project Designer

Department of Conservation and Natural Resources
- Brambuk Living Cultural Centre 1991

Australian National Parks and Wildlife Service
- Bowali Visitor Centre – Kakadu National Park – 3D Concept, 1992-93

Warradjan Aboriginal Cultural Centre – Kakadu National Park – 3D Concept,1992-93

Department of Conservation and Natural Resources
- Toolangi Forest Discovery Centre 1993

National Library and Australian Archives
- ‘An Ideal City? The 1912 Competition to Design Canberra’ 1994

Photomation
- Taurus Car Launch Concept 1995

Australian Archives and John Curtin Prime Ministerial Library
- ‘Curtin, a Man of Peace, a Time of War’ 1995-97

Australia Post
- ‘A Show of Puppets’ 1994
- ‘Colonial Alphabet’ 1994
- ‘Sightseeing – Views, Tourists, Souvenirs’ 1995
- ‘Little Horrors’ 1995
- Gallery Fitout 1995
- ‘Beam Me Up Spotty’ 1995
- ‘Mangrove Creek’ 1996
- ‘Best Design’ 1996
- ‘Spot the Ball’ 1996
- ‘Cover Up’ from the National Museum (Melbourne only) 1996
- ‘Stamp Fictions’ 1996
- ‘National Postures – the Changing Face of the Kangaroo’ 1996
- ‘Polish Posters’ 1997
- ‘Australia 99 World Stamp Expo’ 1996-99

KLCK Architects
- Promotional Stand 1996

Jewish Museum of Australia
- ‘Blessed Be the Work’ 1999
- ‘The Romance of Judaica’ 2000

Department of Sustainability and Environment Exhibition
- Royal Melbourne Show 2000

Dorrigo National Park
- Interpretation Plan and Signage Furniture (with Nuttshell Graphics) – 2001-2002

Winemakers of Rutherglen and Indigo Shire Council
- Rutherglen Wine Experience 2002

Royal Melbourne Show
- Design Consultant (six venues) 2002

Installation Design Work
Australia Post
- ‘International Year of the Family’ 1994
- ‘Endangered Species’ 1994
- ‘The World Down Under’ 1995
- ‘Atlanta Olympics’ 1996

Melbourne International Festival of the Arts
- Festival Club 1994

Melbourne International Garden and Flower Show 1996-97

Selected Stage Design Work
Mushroom Troupe
- ‘Flying Heroes’ 1981

Mummy's Little Darlings and Australian Dance Theatre
- ‘Fatal Johnny’ 1982

La Mama Theatre
- ‘If Only They Would Look After Themselves’ 1982

Playbox Theatre Company
- ‘Can Give You a Good Time’ 1982

Human Veins Dance Theatre
- ‘From the South Seas Museum’ 1983

Danceworks
- ‘Four Wend Ways’ 1984

Kinselas Theatre Restaurant
- ‘Gentlemen Only’ 1984

Selected Costume Design Work
Desmond Freeman Associates
- ‘First State 88’

Mushroom Troupe
- ‘Flying Heroes’ 1981

Mummy’s Little Darlings and Australian Dance Theatre
- ‘Fatal Johnny’ 1982

Playbox Theatre Company
- ‘I Can Give You a Good Time’ 1982

Human Veins Dance Theatre
- ‘From the South Seas Museum’ 1983

Danceworks
- ‘Four Wend Ways’ 1984

Jubilee 150 th Youth Music Festival SA 1986
- ‘Matilda Mine’ 1986

Werribee Park Mansion 1992

Dance and Choreography
Modern Dance Ensemble
- Member 1973-1980
[ Director: Margaret Lasica

Training
Dance
- Australia, London, New York, Paris

Art
- Camden Art Centre, London
- Victorian College of the Arts, School of Art

Design Residencies
Rusden State College 1980

Australia Council
- Artists In Schools Project 1984

St Martins Youth Arts Centre 1985

National Playwright's Conference 1986

Victorian Ministry for the Arts
- Artists In Schools Project 1983 and 1995

Exhibition Participation
The Designer’s Association in the Performing Arts
- ‘Australian Stage Design 1979 - 1983’

Performing Arts Museum Melbourne
- ‘Victorian Stage Designers’

Reviews, Articles, Lectures and Papers
Australian Museum Associations Conference
- ‘ Presenting Australia’s Heritage – An Exhibition Designer’s Perspective’ 1990

Design Institute of Australia
- ‘Framing Objects’ 1992

RMIT University
- ‘Project Management in Exhibitions’ 1992

Australian Museum Associations Conference
- ‘Exhibiting Aboriginal Culture’ 1993

Architectural and Interior Specifier Vol. 3 No. 3, 1994
- ‘A Forest Centre of Discovery – The Exhibition’

Australian Museum Associations Conference
- ‘The Audience, the Object, the Client and the Designer’ 1996

Insite Museums Australia Victorian Newsletter
- ‘Blessed be the Work’ October 1999

'Insite' Museums Australia Victorian Website
- Eureka Stockade Visitor’s Centre Sound Installation Review 1999

'Curve' Volume Six
- 'Against All Odds' 2004

Forums
Design Institute of Australia
‘Can Design Make a Museum? An examination of the role exhibition designer plays in the shaping of the public profile of a museum.’ 2003

Articles on, and Interviews with, Rosemary Simons
The Age ‘Curtain Calls’
- Interview by Jennifer Byrne 18 July 1973

Australian Feminist Arts Journal ‘Lip’
- ‘Working the Community Circuit’
- Compiled by Jeanette Fenelon, Carolyn Lewens and Helen Sangina
- Interview with Rosemary Simons 1984

The Age – ‘Inspiration’
- ‘Snakes and Snails and Convict Sails’
- Article by Jenny Brown 23 July 1994

Miscellaneous Projects
Scenic Studios
- Management consultation and office layout 2001

Rosemary Simons Design
- 'Native Plants in Northcote Gardens' Cards 2001
- Photographic Survey of Native Plants in Northcote 1999-2001