Bibi Viro

My artwork is imagined and created using visual skills and the computer, a well establish tool now used in many creative professions including architecture and industrial design.

The electronic pencil and coloured brush I use are very similar to traditional artists tools.

To say the work is ‘generated’ by the computer is to misunderstand the whole creative process. In fact all a computer generates are ‘0s’ and ‘1s’. To illustrate, when you are writing a letter, a short story or a poem using the computer, does the computer ‘generate’ the writing for you? Who considers what to say and how to say it? The writer does. And the process is always a challenge.

The final images, printed using an archival inkjet printer, are not reproductions. They are all original limited edition prints on Fine Art paper. And they are printed in Melbourne Australia by master printer Kim Stonehouse.

Bachelor Of Arts (Fine Arts), Monash University
Graduate Diploma Of Education, Melbourne University
Diploma In Art And Design, Monash University

Group Exhibitions
2017 Wyndham Art Prize
2016 ROI Art Prize
2016 Alice Prize
2013 Banyule City Council Works On Paper Art Award
2013 Hutchins Art Prize, Tasmania
2013 Flanagan Art Prize, Vic
2009 Stan + Maureen Duke Gold Coast Art Prize
2008 Stan + Maureen Duke Gold Coast Art Prize
2008 Williamstown Festival Contemporary Art Prize
2007 Stan + Maureen Duke Gold Coast Art Prize
2007 Banyule City Council Works On Paper Art Award
2007 MLC Annual Acquisitive Art Exhibition
2007 Geelong Acquisitive Print Awards
2007 Art Melbourne
2005 Hazelhurst Art Award, Nsw
2005 Darebin-La Trobe Acquisitive Art Prize
2004 Shell Fremantle Print Award, Perth
2004 Flash Photobition Digital Wallpaper Design - Finalist
2003 Walkom Manning Art Prize
2003 Hazelhurst Art Award, Nsw
2003 Darebin-La Trobe Acquisitive Art Prize
2003 Wyndham City Contemporary Art Prize
2003 Hybrid Objects, Melbourne Museum, Carlton Gardens Melbourne
2002 Hybrid Objects, Tokyo Designers Block, Tokyo
2002 Hutchins Art Prize, Tasmania
2002 Wyndham City Contemporary Art Prize

Collections
Artbank, MLC, Private Collections In Australia, China, New Zealand