Debbie Harman Qadri

M: 0424479475

E: debbieqadri@hotmail.com

ARTIST:   working in Ceramics, Mosaic, Paint, Cartooning, public and community art

Currently works at Mother of God Catholic School Ardeer, as the art teacher and continues to work as a community artists and independant researcher.

Professional Practice as an artist

Debbie exhibits professionally under the name of Debbie Harman, which is her maiden name. She has continued to produce artworks, to exhibit and engage with the arts community since completing her Degree in Fine Arts at Tasmania University. Her recent artworks utilise a wide range of mediums and formats including  artist books, a graphics/cartoons and the combination of clay, steel, paint and fabric.

Community Arts and Art in Public Space

Debbie is also a well-known local Community Artist who works in schools and local community groups to produce artworks where community members are participants in the making. Over the past eighteen years she has worked in the Western suburbs of Melbourne creating collaborative murals and outdoor artworks with communities.  She has also facilitated many community art projects for councils, community groups and schools using a range of mediums.  In her community art practice Debbie is known by her married name – Debbie Qadri.

Some useful Websites:

Main website:                        http://debbieharmanqadri.com

Ceramic mural projects                  http://mosaicprojectsbydebbieqadri.blogspot.com.au/

Online cartoon                                 http://ayearofenvelopes.wordpress.com/

Moonambel Poets Project            http://moonambelpoets.wordpress.com/

Sages of Sunshine Project             http://sagesofsunshine.wordpress.com/

Personal artwork website             https://www.blogger.com/profile/00650328029103392278

Personal Public art practice          http://ceramictextart.wordpress.com/

Artists in schools project 2013    http://ardeermysuburbmystories.wordpress.com/

Education

2019
PhD (Permanent public art made by community members)
Victoria University

2014
Masters of Fine Art (Art in Public Space)
RMIT

2010
Certificate 3 in Training and Assessment
Goldmark College

1997 Bachelor of Arts
Victoria University
(Professional writing, Literature, editing and layout)

1991
Graduate Diploma of Education
Victoria College

1989
Bachelor of Fine Art, University of Tasmania

1986
Certificate of Art and Design, Devonport Technical College

Awards

2019 Vice Chancellors Citation for excellence in Research, Victoria University

2019 Victoria University Medal for Excellence in Research Training.

2015 Brimbank City Council Australia Day Award for Cultural Achievement

Artist in Residence and Community Projects

Little Say of Sunshine, as Yesterday’s Creatures, with Gallery Sunshine Everywhere.

Glow, Hobsons Bay City Council

The Circle Book of Childhood Stories
(With assistance of Brimbank City Council Grant)

The Centenary Seat, Mont Albert Primary School 2017

The Kororoit Creek Wurundjeri Acknowledgement Project, (volunteer project with four local schools, The Wurundjeri Land, Compensation and Cultural Heritage Council, and local community members.  (With assistance of Brimbank City Council Grant) 2015.

Celebrating the value of Education Mural, Camberwell Girls Grammar School, 2015.

Cochrane Reserve artworks with South Preston Primary School, Lindy De wijn (co-ordinator) and Nick Hackett (Blacksmith), 2015

Bunjil mural and acknowledgement, with the students of St Theresas Primary School Albion, 2015.

Staff mural at Overnewton Anglican Community College, Taylors Lakes Campus, Artist/Consultant  2015.

Tree Mural at Essendon North Pre-school, 2015.

Year 6 gift to the school ceramic mural at Mont Albert Primary School, 2015.

Drawing the library, community project with Sunshine Library, funded by Brimbank City Council, 2015.

The Deer Park History Mural, (Ceramics and mosaic, with 640 participants from three local schools and local community members) artist and facilitator, Gallery Sunshine Everywhere and Brimbank Council, 2014.

Indigenous Acknowledgement Art Project, outdoor ceramic artwork, at Mother of God School, Ardeer, 2014.

Footprints of the Planet, Glen Katherine Primary School, ceramic and mosaic murals, 2014.

Memories in Motion, Sunshine Primary School, ephemeral public art project with grade four students, Dr Karen Charman  (Community historian) and Nigel Gillies (local resident and photographer). 2014

Facilitating the Brimming out of the Frame Project, Gallery Sunshine Everywhere, 2014

Moonee Ponds Creek Mural, St Vincent de Paul Primary School Strathmore. 2013

My Suburb, My Stories, An art in public space project with Ardeer Primary School and Mother of God School, 2013. Artist in Schools Residency (Arts Victoria). Artworks for public space were devised by a masterclass of 21 students, and the making of the artworks involved all children in two schools as well as two local community groups.

Australian Noah’s Ark, Ceramic and Mosaic Mural at Overnewton College, 36 square metres, 2013.

Reflections of St John’s, Murals of the history of St John’s Primary School West Footscray, ceramics and mosaic murals made by the children and parents of the school. 2013

Artist for the Ephemeral Artwork at the Djerriwarrh Festival, Melton, Melton Council. 2012

Two year residency at Deer Park Artspaces – Brimbank Council, 2012 – 2014

Future Knox Community Arts Project – artist and workshop facilitator, (Six Community artworks made with eight community groups) Knox City Council, 2012.

Exquisite Me, Arts and writing project with Gallery Sunshine Everywhere 2012. Facilitated Workshops and exhibitions of artwork made with participants at Sunshine Library, AMES, Marian College, Sunshine College, Ardeer Primary School and Mother of God Primary School.

Moonambel Poets Project, with the Moonambel Art and History Group .Worked with the local community to write poetry using ceramics, which is permanently installed at the Moonambel Common. 2012

Australian Animal Storytelling Wall, Strathmore Community Kindergarten Ceramic mural made with kindergarten children with Wurrundjeri animal names from the stories of Murrindindi. 2011

Ceramic Garden Project , Croxton Special School. Workshops and art teacher mentorship. Project supported by The CASS Foundation. 2011

Overnewton Anglican Community College – Artist in Residence, working with a group of Year 8 students to produce five ceramic and mosaic murals inspired by Alice in Wonderland. 2011 and 2010

Bird Garden Project – Lincolnville Kindergarten, Ceramic and mosaic totem poles, pavers and birdbath. 2011

Caulfield Grammar School, Wheelers Hill Campus – Ceramic Dragon Mural made with year 7 and 8 students. 2011

Australian Animals Ceramic Mural, Ceramic mural made with children and parents of Bellevue Hill Preschool –2010- 2011

St Bernard’s Primary School, Coburg – Made16 Ceramic Totem Poles to celebrate the school’s birthday, 2010

Private and Corporate Commissions, Collections

The Scarlett Bar, Burnley St. Richmond 2008 – Mosaic on outside of building and interior walls.

Painted Mural commissioned for private residence in Launceston 2001

Painted Murals for Taco Villa Mexican Restaurant, Elsternwick. 1999

The Victoria University Women’s Collective -Paintings commissioned 1998

Painted Murals –at Victoria University, Footscray, 1997 -8

Painted Murals – Visycare Youth Centre, Dandenong, 1998

Painted Murals – Youth at Risk Offices, Frankston, 1998

Painted Murals for Taco Villa Mexican Restaurant, Glenhuntly 1996

University of Sydney – Paintings purchased 1998

Victoria College, (Deakin University) purchased The Bride, artist’s book 1991

Devonport Art Gallery – painting purchased 1987

Painted Mural – Native Birds of Tasmania, Sheffield, Tasmania 1989

Paintings in Private Collections, Tasmania, NSW and Victoria, Canada, New Zealand.

Publications

The Backsmiths’ Tree, 2019

The Great Wall of St Kilda, 2019

‘Inclusion, Emotion and Voice: Permanent Public Art made by Community Members’, (PhD), Victoria University
http://inclusionemotionandvoice.blogspot.com/

‘Lawrence-Lightfoot, Rancière and Gemma: Reconciling the Subject Matter with Research Processes and Outcomes’, Journal of Public Pedagogies, Number 2, 2017
http://www.publicpedagogies.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/QadriD2017.pdf

‘What does Public Art teach us? Public Art, public pedagogy and community participation in making’, Journal of Public Pedagogies Journal, Number 1, 2016.
http://www.publicpedagogies.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/QuardiD.pdf

‘Memories in Motion: learning, process, history and art in public space’, Australian Journal of Adult Learning, Vol 55, no.3, November 2015.

Rabbithole, published online, 2015

Drawing the Library, 2015
I Don’t think You Know Who I am!: An Approach to making a career/living as an artist. 2014

A Year of Envelopes: Artist’s Faves 2014

Putting personal text into public space: Research (publication of Masters) 2014

Putting personal text into public space: projects (Publication of Masters) 2014

The Gregory Family Tree, (Editing and layout) Collated and written by Eileen Harman. 2012
A Year of Envelopes, online cartoon series – http://ayearofenvelopes.wordpress.com/ 2011 -15
Alice in Tartland, self-published and hand assembled book, 100pps, edition of 150, 2009

Also online: http://aliceintartland.blogspot.com.au/
The Gardam Family Tree, (Editing and layout) Collated and written by Eileen Harman. 2007
Bad Mother, self-published book of cartoons, edition of 1000, 100pps, 2004

Also online: http://badmothercartoons.blogspot.com.au/
Cartoons published in The Australian Women’s Book Review, 2002
Cartoons published in Hecate 2002
Photo spread of 8 artworks in St. Art Issue 2. 2001
Cartoons published in Write On, April 2001, May 2001
Cartoons published in The Dawn, Issue 44, 2001
Cartoons illustrating Surviving the Postgraduate Wave, a postgraduate handbook at Victoria University 2000.
Cartoons published in Overland no.157, 1999
Editor – Wild Skirts and Dangerous Divas 1999
Cartoons published in Hecate XXV/I 1999
Review of Lost in Space, Judy Horacek 1998 selected work short story, 1999

Cover by Debbie Harman Qadri. Volume 18.1 2006.

Cover by Debbie Harman Qadri. Volume 17.1 2005

cartoons in The Australian Women’s Book Review, , vol. 11 no. 1999; (p. 46-47)  1999
Cartoons for Mentoring with Emily (Mentoring guide for Emily’s List Australia)
The F-word, a zine series of 9 issues 1999
The Diamond Hunters by Wilbur Smith, a poem published in & (ed. Adam Ford)
Covers of 2 issues of “SEED’ student paper of Victoria University 1998 – 99
Cartoons published in Catalyst (RMIT student paper) 1998 and 1999
Assistant Editor of Clanging Aprons and Wild Skirts 1998
Challenging Representations of Women through Arts Practice
Conference paper given at the Network of Women Students Annual Conference, Nepean, Sydney 1998
Cover Design and cartoons in Hecate 1998
Betrayal, poem published in &, 1998 (ed. Adam Ford)
Cover Design and cartoons in The Australian Women’s Book Review 1998
Botanical Gardens, book of poetry, self-published 1991

Solo Exhibitions

2019  Underwater, Wilderness Gallery, Cradle Mountain

2018 Drawing the Thesis, VU at Metrowest

2016  Abandoned Selves Re-imagined, Altona Meadows learning centre

2015  Clay and Metal, Art Gallery Mt Macedon
2014 Abandoned Selves, The Huntclub Community Arts Centre

2012 Alive and Smiling, The Huntclub Community Arts Centre
2011 FOMO – Featured Artist at SMALLpieces, Northcote Pottery Brunswick
2009 Alice in Tartland – 69 Smith St. Gallery, Fitzroy
2001 The Loaded Apron -The Commercial Hotel
2001 A Most Uncivil Appropriation of the Apron -The Marquis of Lorne
2001 Bad Mother – The Commercial Hotel

Selected Group Exhibitions

2018 Come Together: an exhibition celebrating women’s creative contributions to VU at MetroWest, VU at Metrowest

2014 Thanks for the Fish, D11 Gallery, Melbourne.

2014 Drawing Showcase, D11 Gallery, Melbourne

2013 Faith, Sunshine Artspaces Gallery, Brimbank City Council.

2013 D11 Supporters Show, D11 Gallery, Melbourne

2013 Synergism, The Front, Docklands Melbourne. (Artful Dodgers, The Rudder Exchange Visual Arts Mentoring Partnerships)

2012 Wear art thou, 2nd collective, RMIT wearable art exhibition

2011 Unconformity: A House Project, curated by Anabelle Lacroix, December 2011

2011 “EMPTY” installation in The Moreart Public Art Show

Showing with the Moonambel Art and History Group for several years
Curated Exhibitions

Swap Across the Strait, Gallery Sunshine Everywhere and Devonport Regional Gallery, 2019

Portal 2019, Devonport Regional Gallery 2019

Click of the West, Photographs by Desmond Johnston, Sunshine ArtSpaces, Sunshine, for the Brimbank Readers and Writers Festival 2014.

Brimming Out of the Frame, Project for Gallery Sunshine Everywhere, artworks exhibited at St Albans library, Gallery Sunshine Everywhere, and Sunshine Library.

Exquisite Me, works from the project at Gallery Sunshine Everywhere, Phoenix Youth Centre, and Sunshine Library 2013.

Feminist Art, Art about Women,  (for the National Organisation of Women Students Conference, First Site Gallery, STEPS Gallery, The Queen Victoria Women’s Trust Centre, Tivoli Artspace, Swanston Artspace, RMIT Central Library, Storey Hall), 1998.

 

Memberships

Regional Arts Victoria

Western Youth Arts Network

Public Pedagogies Institute

Australian Blacksmiths Association

Blacksmith Doris

Web and Blog sites

Exquisite Me Project
http://exquisiteme2012.blogspot.com.au/

ceramics class: a resource for ceramics teaching:
http://ceramicsclass.wikispaces.com/

blogs of the personal public art practice of Debbie Harman
http://ceramictextart.wordpress.com/

https://www.blogger.com/profile/00650328029103392278

A year of envelopes
http://ayearofenvelopes.wordpress.com/

filling the cracks with conversation
Recent project as part of Fringe Festival
http://fillingthecrackswithconversation.wordpress.com/

Moonambel poetry Project
http://moonambelpoets.wordpress.com/

Debbie Qadri – blog of ceramic murals and related projects

https://www.blogger.com/profile/00650328029103392278

Debbie Harman – blog of selected projects

http://mosaicprojectsbydebbieqadri.blogspot.com.au/

Speaking

‘The Story of the Disability Pride Mural in Footscray’, with Larissa MacFarlane, Public Pedagogy Institute Annual Conference, 2018.

‘Unwelcome Paradoxes: The compulsion to reconcile the subject matter of my research with the vehicle that’s carrying it’, at the Public Pedagogy Institute Annual Conference, Turning Learning Back to Front: Learning and teaching beyond the Classroom, 2016.

‘Words and Pictures’, Victoria University’s Diamond Series at Sunshine Library, 2016

‘Public Art and Public Pedagogy’, Paper presented in Public space, November 2015,  Public Pedagogies Institute, Conference, 2015.

Opening Address for Art Week at Ivanhoe Girl’s Grammar School, 2015.

Artist Books, as part of Victoria University’s Diamond Series at 100 Story Building Footscray, 2015.

‘Beyond words: Drawing as Autoethnography,’ paper presented, Critical Autoethnography Conference, April 2015, Melbourne.

‘Art, Community and Learning,’ Paper presented at the Public Pedagogies Day, Victoria University, 2014.

‘Community art processes’, guest speaker for the Catholic Education Office, Community Arts Grant information Sessions. 2013

Drawing the self, Critical Autoethnography Conference, State Library of Victoria, 2015

Guest speaker at the Launch of Art week at Ivanhoe Girls Grammar School, 2015

Artist Books, as part of Victoria University’s Diamond Series at 100 Story Building Footscray, 2015

Art, Community and Learning, Public Pedagogies Day, Victoria University,. 2014

Community art processes, guest speaker for the Catholic Education Office, Community Arts Grant information Sessions, 2013

Victoria University Women in Leadership Seminar Series,  Seminar Host in role as Postgraduate Women’s Officer, 1996-1997

Feminism in Cartooning, National Organisation of Women Students Conference, Nepean University, 1998

Challenging Hierarchies in arts Culture, Cultural Studies Association Conference, Sydney, 1998