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In 2001 there were approximately1.8 million Australians (9.6% of the population) reported having long-term mental or behavioural problems. I believe that my role as an artist is to promote a societal shift to a more positive way of thinking and living. My current work employs cognitive behavioural therapy as a form of combating mental illness.

If our brains are only able to have one conscious thought at a time, using a series of positive affirmations negates room for ego based negative thoughts. My canvasses provide positive statements that address the viewer as ‘I’ such as ‘I choose to live in the now and not hold the past against myself’ or ‘I am a beautiful soul’. There is no room in those moments of connecting with the canvas, for negative thought. Hopefully the viewer would leave the space having had some sort of psychological shift, conscious or not.
Curriculum Vitae
2008 Mar - Postcard Show - Linden Gallery - St. Kilda, Victoria
2008 Feb - Stock Room Show - BSG Gallery - Fitzroy, Victoria
2007 Dec - Final Show - Art Streams - Warrandyte, Victoria
2007 Sept - The Body Show - BSG - Fitzroy, Victoria
2007 Aug - The Way in Which I Think . . - Tony Smibert Gallery, Kangaroo Ground, Victoria
2007 Aug - Chapter one - Tony Smibert Gallery - Kangaroo Ground
2007 June - Melb5 - Bobcurtiz Movement - Berlin, Germany
2007 Mar - Glorious Trees - ArtStreams - Warrandyte, Victoria
2007 Feb - Finalist: That's Life, Shit Happens - Limestone Coast Award, Keith, SA
2007 Feb - The Artist and the Sea - VCOSS Gallery - Melbourne, Victoria
2007 Feb - Postcard Show - Linden Galery - St. Kilda, Victoria
2007 Jan - Out in the South - Kingston Art Centre, Kingston, Victoria2007 Aug - Chapter one - Tony Smibert Gallery - Kangaroo Ground
2006 Nov - Foot Square - Circus Gallery - Coburg
2006 Nov - Changing Nature - Gallery at Darling Park - Sydney
2006 Oct - 3Rooms - Fitzroy Gallery - Fitzroy
2006 Oct - 3Easels - 404 Gallery - Brunswick
2006 Sept - Monochrome II - Circus Gallery - Coburg
2006 Sept - Justice Denied - ArtStreams - Warrandyte
2006 Sept - Touch of Red - Blacksphere Gallery - Richmond
2006 Aug - Starving Artist - Circus Gallery - Coburg
2006 Aug - Nine x Five III - Art Streams - Warrandyte
2006 July - Portholes ProjectBrunswick Arts Space - Brunswick
2006 July - Social Justice - VCOSS Aquisitive Award - Southbank
2006 July - Consignment - Tusk Gallery - South Yarra - - 2006 July - Landed - Gasworks - Albert Park
2006 May - Femme6 - Circus Gallery - Coburg
2006 March - Inner City - Circus Gallery - Coburg
2006 Feb - Postcard Show - Linden Gallery - St. Kilda
2005 Dec - Little Gems - Without Pier - Sandringham
2005 Sept - Nine x Five II - ArtStreams - Warrandyte
2005 Feb - Postcard Show - Linden Gallery - St. Kilda
1992 Nov - Opening Show - Artefact - South Yarra
1989 Dec - Eight Views - Stuart Gerstman - Richmond
1989 - Graduation - Victorian College of the Arts BA Printmaking
1988 - Award Keith and Elisabeth Murdoch travelling fellowship
Biography
Tori Swedosh was born to English parents in Montreal Canada in 1968. After a stint in upstate New York, she spent her childhood years in Newfoundland Canada. Sick of shovelling snow the family immigrated to Melbourne, Australia in 1982. Tori graduated from the Victorian College of the Arts in 1989 as a printmaker. Not having access to a printing press, she started painting on paper with acrylic and oil pastels. She has travelled extensively through Europe and parts of the Middle East. Once again in Melbourne, with her husband, 2 children, and a cat after 8 years living in the UK she is happy to be ‘home’. Now experimenting with newer ideas in creating images, she has started exhibiting regularly with a view to creating a movement in ‘positivism’, changing viewers perceptions to a more affirming way of thinking and living.
Media
2007 Aug - Diamond Valley Leader - "A Positive Way to Convey Message"
2007 May - Astarte's MegaZine - "Cover Artist Profile"
2007 Apr - Astarte's MegaZine - "Spotlight"
2006 Sept - Heidelberg Times - "Three is a magic number"
2006 Aug 22 - Manningham Leader ‘Have a Cigar Box Day’
2006 May 16 - Moreland Community News ‘Brush with Fresh Side’ 2006
May 8 Moreland Leader ‘Good Vibes in Art’