Veronica Charmont
Born 1998, Melbourne, Victoria. Lives and works in Melbourne.
Education
2022 Bachelor of Fine Arts (Visual Arts) Honours, Victorian College of the Arts
2019 Bachelor of Fine Arts (Visual Arts), Victorian College of the Arts
Awards and Commissions
2019 The Majlis Travelling Scholarship
2019 Stella Dilger Encouragement Award
2018 Signal Screen Commission
Solo Exhibitions
2023 Stray Voltage: Juliette, Kings Artist-Run, Melbourne
Select Group Exhibitions
2023 it’s not you, it’s me, Fiona and Sidney Myer Gallery, Melbourne
2022 VCA Graduate Exhibition, Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne
2022 Underleaf Garth, curated by Skye Malu Baker, Sawtooth Ari, Launceston
2021 Cycles, curated by Mara Schwerdtfeger, Sheffer Gallery, Sydney
2020 SIX P.M. on a Wednesday, Blindside, Melbourne
2019 VCA Graduate Exhibition, Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne
2019 The Majlis Travelling Scholarship, curated by David Sequeira, Margaret Lawrence Gallery, Melbourne
2019 FIX003, Buxton Contemporary, Melbourne
2018 FIX002, MPavilion, Melbourne
2018 Signal Screen Commissions, Melbourne
2018 Second Nature, City Structures, VCA Artspace, Melborune
2017 Painting & the Vernacular, VCA Artspace, Melbourne
Screenings
2023 Nicholas, Opening Night for Building the Palace, Blindside, Melbourne
Residencies
2021 (Online) Temporary Position
Publications
2021 foreshadow
Curation
2022 A Fluctuating Metropolis: Films from the VCA FTV Digital Archive, Victorian College of the Arts
2022 Milk Cinema (with Lola Hewison) Milk Gallery, Collingwood
2020 VODmilk: Eclectic Visions (with Lola Hewison), Dogmilk Films
Cinematography
2022 How to Build a Forest, directed by Jenn Tran. Selected for Sydney & Adelaide Film Festival Program 2023.
2021 The Formation of a Cloud, directed by Jenn Tran.
Charmont’s practice documents the intricate nature of memory, time, history and geography through images. By utilising film, photography, research, and walking, Charmont explores the coincidences and connections that emerge from being alive.
I acknowledge the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin nations as the Traditional Custodians of the unceded land that I live and work on. I pay my respects to their Elders past, present and emerging.