SONIA LEBER & DAVID CHESWORTH
Both artists live and work in Naarm/Melbourne, Australia
Artist website www.leberandchesworth.com
SOLO EXHIBITIONS AND COMMISSIONS
| 2024 | Shapes of Listening, exhibition organised by Umbrella Studio Contemporary Arts, Townsville, Australia |
| 2023 | Serving Suggestions, Linden New Art and Alfred Health commission for Alfred Hospital, Melbourne, Australia |
| Where Lakes Once Had Water, CDU Art Gallery, Darwin, Australia | |
| 2022 | Where Lakes Once Had Water, TarraWarra Museum of Art, Healesville, Australia |
| Where Lakes Once Had Water, Drill Hall Gallery, Canberra Australia | |
| 2021 | What Listening Knows, Messums Wiltshire, UK |
| 2019 | Architecture Makes Us: Cinematic Visions of Sonia Leber and David Chesworth, UNSW Galleries, Sydney, Australia |
| Architecture Makes Us: Cinematic Visions of Sonia Leber and David Chesworth, Griffith University Art Museum, Brisbane, Australia | |
| 2018 | Architecture Makes Us: Cinematic Visions of Sonia Leber and David Chesworth, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne, Australia |
| 2014 | Zaum Tractor, exhibition at Fehily Contemporary, Melbourne, Australia |
| 2013 | Zaum Tractor, Gridchinhall Art Centre, Moscow, parallel event of the 5th Moscow Biennale, Russia |
| 2012 | The Way You Move Me, exhibition at Fehily Contemporary, Melbourne, Australia |
| Richter/Meinhof-Opera, performances at Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney | |
| Space-Shifter, exhibition at Detached/MONA FOMA, Hobart, Australia | |
| Oceanography/Peron Station, exhibition at CAST, Hobart, Australia (Chesworth) | |
| All Who Occupy This Great Space, West Space, Melbourne (Chesworth with Katie Lee) | |
| 2011 | We, The Masters, installation in City Square, commissioned by Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne |
| Space-Shifter, exhibition at Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts, Perth, Australia | |
| 2010 | Richter/Meinhof-Opera, performances at Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, Australia |
| Field Formation, commission for AAMI Park, Melbourne, Australia | |
| 2009 | Space-Shifter, exhibition at Conical, Melbourne, Australia |
| Rewards of Silence, commission for Port Arthur Prison Chapel, Australia | |
| Landing Place, commission for Botany Bay National Park, Sydney, Australia | |
| 2008 | Almost Always Everywhere Apparent, exhibition at Mildura Arts Centre, Australia |
| 2007 | Almost Always Everywhere Apparent, exhibition at Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Helen Macpherson Smith Commission, Melbourne, Australia |
| Oceanic Endless, public art commission for Cardinia Council (with Simeon Nelson), Melbourne, Australia | |
| 2006 | Proximities, Commonwealth Games public art commission for William Barak Bridge (with Simeon Nelson), Melbourne, Australia |
| 2004 | The Gordon Assumption, installation in Gordon Reserve for Melbourne Festival Visual Arts Program, Melbourne, Australia |
| Cosmonaut, composition of multimedia opera, Melbourne International Arts Festival premiere, Melbourne | |
| 2003 | The Persuaders, exhibition at Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Melbourne |
| 5000 Calls, installation along Shoemaker's Footbridge, organised by Cankarjev Dom, Ljubljana, Slovenia | |
| 2002 | Polymerous, Sydney Olympic Park commission, Sydney, Australia |
| 5000 Calls, installation along Millennium Riverwalk, presented by Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff, Wales | |
| 2001 | The Master's Voice, ACT Government public art commission, Canberra, Australia |
| 2000 | 5000 Calls, Sydney Olympic Park public art commission, Sydney, Australia |
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
| 2024 | Darebin Art Prize, Bundoora Homestead Art Centre, Melbourne | |
| 2023 | Ecosystem Assembly, Casino Luxembourg Forum d'art Contemporain, Luxembourg | |
| Melbourne Now, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne | ||
| 2022 | Who’s Afraid of Public Space?, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne | |
| Rencontres Internationales, Paris and Berlin | ||
| Towards Deep Time, University of Wollongong Gallery | ||
| 2021 | Freedom of Sleep, Fondation Fiminco, Paris | |
| Site & Sound, Sonic art as ecological practice, McClelland Sculpture Park+Gallery | ||
| Fisher’s Ghost Art Award, Campbelltown Arts Centre, Sydney (finalist) | ||
| HOTA Collection Highlights, HOTA Gallery, Gold Coast | ||
| Stimulus Package, Billboard for Darebin Fuse Festival, Melbourne | ||
| 2020 | Nuit Blanche, Fondation Fiminco, Paris | |
| Performing the Archive: An Act of Listening, West Space, Melbourne, online (Chesworth) | ||
| 2019 | Ventriloquy performance program, presented by Gertrude Contemporary and Liquid Architecture, Melbourne | |
| 2018 | The Last Reader, annex M, Megaron, Athens | |
| The State We Are In: Collection of the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, Galeria Labirynt, Lublin, Poland | ||
| And Tomorrow And, Index–The Swedish Contemporary Art Foundation, Stockholm | ||
| Rencontres Internationales, Paris/Berlin | ||
| Incinerator Art Award: Art for Social Change, Incinerator Gallery, Melbourne | ||
| Synthesizers: Sound of the Future, Grainger Museum, Melbourne (Chesworth) | ||
| 2017 | The Score, Ian Potter Museum of Art, Melbourne | |
| Looking at me through you, Campbelltown Arts Centre, Sydney | ||
| I don't want to be there when it happens, 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art, Sydney | ||
| Call of the Avant-Garde: Constructivism and Australian Art, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne | ||
| This is a Voice, Museum of Applied Arts & Sciences, Sydney | ||
| The Real and Other Places, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne, at Photo Shanghai, China | ||
| I don't want to be there when it happens, PICA Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts, Perth, Australia | ||
| Actions of Light, Mildura Arts Centre, Mildura, Australia | ||
| The Long Take, MADA Gallery, Monash University, Melbourne (Chesworth, PhD candidature exhibition) | ||
| 2016 | Borders, Barriers, Walls, MUMA Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne | |
| The Documentary Take, CCP Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne | ||
| Substation Contemporary Art Prize 2016, The Substation, Melbourne (winner) | ||
| 64th Blake Prize, Casula Powerhouse, Sydney | ||
| Incinerator Art Award, Incinerator Gallery, Melbourne | ||
| 2015 | 56th Biennale of Venice: All the World's Futures, Italy | |
| Josephine Ulrick and Win Schubert Photography Award, Gold Coast City Gallery, Surfers Paradise, Australia | ||
| Hazelhurst Art on Paper Award, Hazelhurst Gallery, Sydney, Australia |
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| 2014 | 19th Biennale of Sydney: You Imagine What You Desire, Australia | |
| Gold Coast Art Prize, Gold Coast City Gallery, Surfers Paradise, Australia (winner) | ||
| Screengrab6 International Media Arts Award, Pinnacles Gallery, Townsville, Australia (winner) | ||
| Animal Ark, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, Australia | ||
| Melbourne Art Fair Video Program, Melbourne, Australia | ||
| 2013 | Melbourne Now, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne | |
| Cooperation Territory, 16thLine Gallery and Makaronka Art Center, Rostov-on-Don, Russia | ||
| Sound Bites City, RMIT Gallery, Melbourne | ||
| Mix Tape 1980s, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne (Chesworth) | ||
| 2012 | Spaced: Art Out of Place, Fremantle Arts Centre, Fremantle, Australia | |
| Animal/Human, UQ Art Museum, Brisbane, Australia | ||
| The Social Life of Things, MADA Gallery, Monash University, Melbourne | ||
| 2011 | Melbourne Prize for Urban Sculpture, finalist exhibition, Melbourne | |
| Stealing the Senses, Govett-Brewster Gallery, New Plymouth, New Zealand | ||
| In camera and in public, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne | ||
| 2008 | Melbourne International Biennial of Exploratory Music, Melbourne | |
| Klang und Raum, organised by Liquid Architecture, Melbourne | ||
| 2007 | Madrid Abierto, soundworks program, Madrid, Spain | |
| 2006 | Plus Factors, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne | |
| 2002 | 2002AD exhibition program, Adelaide University, Australia | |
| 2001 | Sound Practice, Dartington College, Devon, UK | |
| 1999 | Process Philosophies, First Iteration, Monash University, Melbourne | |
| Totally Huge New Music Festival, Perth, Australia (Chesworth) | ||
| 1998 | Madrid Week of Experimental Cinema, Madrid, Spain (Leber) | |
| 1996 | Flower Show, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne (Chesworth) | |
| 1995 | Sound In Space, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney (Leber) | |
| 1994 | Earwitness: Excursions In Sound, curated by Sonia Leber, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art and other places, Melbourne (Leber) | |
| Madrid Week of Experimental Cinema, Spain (Leber) | ||
| 1993 | Wit's End, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney (Leber) | |
| Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria (Chesworth) | ||
| Meridian, Xebec Hall, Kobe, Japan | ||
| 1992 | Experimenta National Tour, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane and other galleries (Leber) | |
| 1991 | Oberhausen International Film Festival, Germany (Leber) | |
| Sound Culture, Performance Space, Sydney (Chesworth) | ||
| Aurora Australis, Presentation House Gallery, Vancouver; Winnipeg Art Gallery; Nickle Arts Museum, Calgary; Windsor Art Gallery, Ontario, Canada (Leber) | ||
| 1989 | Australian Perspecta, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney (Chesworth, also Leber) |
AWARDS
| 2024 | Darebin Art Prize, Bundoora Homestead Art Centre, Melbourne, finalist |
| 2023 | BigCi Environmental Award, winner |
| 2021 | Fisher’s Ghost Art Award, Campbelltown Arts Centre, finalist |
| 2019 | Mollie Holman Medal, best doctoral thesis in Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture, Monash Univeristy (Chesworth) |
| 2018 | Incinerator Art Award, Incinerator Gallery, Melbourne, finalist |
| 2016 | Substation Contemporary Art Prize, winner |
| 64th Blake Prize, Casula Powerhouse, Sydney, finalist | |
| Incinerator Art Award, Incinerator Gallery, Melbourne, finalist | |
| 2015 | Josephine Ulrick and Win Schubert Photography Award, finalist |
| Hazelhurst Art on Paper Award, finalist | |
| 2014 | Gold Coast Art Prize, winner |
| Screengrab6 International Media Arts Award, winner | |
| 2011 | Melbourne Prize for Urban Sculpture, finalist |
| 2007 | Helen Macpherson Smith Commission, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, Australia |
| 2006 | Australian Classical Music Awards, Instrumental Work of the Year for Panopticon (Chesworth) |
| 2002 | National Association for Women in Construction (NAWIC), Outstanding Achievement in Design for The Master's Voice (Leber) |
| 2000 | Age Performing Arts Award, for The Two Executioners (Chesworth and Horton) |
| NAWIC, Outstanding Achievement in Design for 5000 Calls (Leber) | |
| Green Room Awards, Best Music for Life After George (Chesworth) | |
| 1997 | Churchill Fellowship (Chesworth) |
| 1994 | International Paris Rostrum, Australian representative, Paris (Chesworth) |
| ARIA Awards, Best Classical CD nomination for Exotica Suite (Chesworth) | |
| ATOM Awards, Most Innovative Film for Insatiable (Chesworth) | |
| ATOM Awards, finalist for Earwitness (Leber) | |
| 1993 | Prix Ars Electronica, Honorary Mention for Southgate, Linz, Austria (Chesworth) |
| 1991 | Oberhausen International Film Festival, History Takes Place in competition, Germany (Leber) |
GRANTS
2019 VicArts grant, Creative Victoria
2017 NAVA Visual Arts Fellowship, Copyright Agency
2016 New Work grant, Australia Council
2015 VicArts Grant, Arts Victoria
2014 Presentation Grant, Australia Council
2012 Arts Development grant, Australia Council
2012 Arts Development grant, Arts Victoria
2011 Touring Grant, Australia Council
2010 Project Grant, Art Victoria
2009 New Work grant, Australia Council
2009 Creative Development grant, Arts Victoria
2007 Project Fellowship, Australia Council
2007 DFAT Travel Grant, Australian Government
2004 Project Grant, Art Victoria
2003 Travel Grant, Arts Victoria
2003 International Touring Grant, Arts Victoria
2002 Presentation Grant, Arts Victoria
2001 DFAT Travel Grant, Australian Government
2001 Touring Grant, Playing Australia
2001 Travel Grant, Australia Council
RESIDENCIES
2024 BigCi, Bilpin, Australia
2024 Umbrella Studio Contemporary Arts, Townsville, Australia
2019 Messums Wiltshire, UK
2017 HIAP, Helsinki, Australia Council studio
2017 MESS Melbourne Electronic Sound Studio (Chesworth)
2013 16th Line Gallery, Rostov-on-Don, Russia; Arts Victoria, Australia Council
2012 MONA FOMA, Hobart; Artist in Residence (Chesworth)
2011 Spaced: Art out of Place, IAS International Art Space, Western Australia
2009 Hearing Voices Unit, Alfred Hospital; Australia Council
Plus other projects and commissions in specific communities
COLLECTIONS
Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw, Poland
National Gallery of Victoria, Australia
Art Gallery of Western Australia
Australian Centre for the Moving Image
McClelland Sculpture Park+Gallery
RMIT Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
Gold Coast City Gallery
Mildura Arts Centre
ISPT Art Collection
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
Honorary fellows in the School of Art at RMIT University, Melbourne (Leber and Chesworth)
Screen and Sound Cultures research group, RMIT University (Leber)
Sound Art and Auditory Culture lab, RMIT University (Leber and Chesworth)
Vice-Chancellor's Postdoctoral Research Fellow 2020-2022, School of Art, RMIT University (Chesworth)
Visiting Research Fellows, Museum of Arts and Applied Sciences, Sydney 2022 (Leber and Chesworth)
Associate Investigators, Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Australian Biodiversity and Heritage 2018-2022 (Leber and Chesworth)
Liquid Architecture board member (Chesworth)
Australia Council registered peer (Chesworth)
SHORT BIBLIOGRAPHY
2023
Briony Downes, 'Two artists capture different sides of the Australian landscape', feature essay, Art Guide Australia, May 2023
Sonia Leber, 'Unruly Elements: Sonia Leber and David Chesworth's Space-Shifter', Garland Magazine, G31, May 2023
David Chesworth, 'Sound Before Sound I: One and Three Scores', Garland Magazine, G31, May 2023
2022
Tristen Harwood, 'Healing the Earth', exhibition review, Saturday Paper, Australia, 6 August 2022
Vicki Renner, Exhibition Review: Where Lakes Once Had Water, ArtsHub, 11 Oct 2022
ABC TV, 'Art Works' series 2, ep 33, October 2022
2021
'Sonia Leber and David Chesworth: Where Lakes Once Had Water', catalogue/monograph published by Bundanon Trust, with essays by Sophie Knezic, Fiona Gruber, Tim Flannery and Michael-Shawn Fletcher, 2021
'Site & Sound, Sonic art as ecological practice', catalogue, McClelland Sculpture Park+Gallery, 2021
Andrew Stephens, 'Artists wander in British woods...', arts feature, Sydney Morning Herald/The Age, Melbourne, 2021
Gary Cook, 'Hear Here', arts feature, Resurgence and Ecologist, UK, July 2021
2020
Matthew Perkins, 'We Are Printers Too' in 'HOTA Collects', exhibition catalogue, Home of the Arts, Gold Coast, Australia, 2020
2019
Joel Stern, 'Ventriloquy' catalogue, Gertrude Contemporary, Melbourne, 2019
2018
'Architecture Makes Us: Cinematic Visions of Sonia Leber & David Chesworth', catalogue, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne, with essays by Naomi Cass, Giles Fielke, Amelia Winata, Fiona Gruber, Pippa Milne, Kate Warren and Nikos Papastergiadis, 2018
Sophie Knezic, 'Critic’s Guide to Melbourne Art Week', Frieze, July 2018
Monica Westin, Review: And Tomorrow And, Critics' Picks Stockholm, Artforum, October 2018
Anna Dunnill, 'Review: Architecture Makes Us', Art Guide Australia, August 2018
Hester Lyon, 'Review: Architecture Makes Us at Centre for Contemporary Photography', Memo Review, 2 September, 2018
Andrew Goodman, 'Gathering Ecologies: Thinking Beyond Interactivity', Open Humanities Press, London, 2018
2017
Sue Cramer & Lesley Harding, ‘Call of the Avant-Garde: Constructivism and Australian Art’, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne, 2017
Jacqueline Doughty, 'The Score' catalogue, Ian Potter Museum of Art, Melbourne, 2017
Norie Neumark, ‘Voicetracks: Attuning to the voice in media and the arts’, MIT Press, Cambridge, 2017
Kate Warren, 'A non-site implication: Leber & Chesworth's Earthwork', 4A Papers, Issue 3, 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art, 2017
2016
Francis E Parker, 'Borders, Barriers, Walls' catalogue, MUMA Melbourne, 2016
Jared Davis, 'Space-Shifter', in 'un Anthology 2004 - 2014 : a decade of art and ideas', Ulanda Blair, Rosemary Forde & Phip Murray (eds), 2016
2015
Tim Roerig, ‘56th Biennale of Venice: All the World’s Futures’ catalogue, 2015
Norie Neumark in Thomaidis & Macpherson, eds, Voice Studies: Critical Approaches..., Routledge, 2015
2014
Robert Nelson, 'Zaum Tractor: Diving Into a Brave New World', The Age, Melbourne, 5 February, 2014
Janelle Carrigan, 'Sydney Biennale', The New York Times, 8 April, 2014
Toni Ross, 19th Biennale of Sydney, Artforum, New York, Summer 2014
Juliana Engberg, You Imagine What You Desire: 19th Biennale of Sydney catalogue, 2014
Anthony Byrt, 'Water's Edge', Artforum, 24 March, 2014
Dan Rule, 'In The Galleries', The Age, Melbourne, 8 February, 2014
Dylan Rainforth, ‘Around The Galleries’, The Age, Melbourne, 29 January, 2014
Andrew Taylor and Fiona Gruber, ‘Biennale artists Sonia Leber and David Chesworth use their art…’ Sydney Morning Herald, 13 March, 2014
2013
Dylan Rainforth, 'David Chesworth and Sonia Leber' (artist feature), Art Guide Australia, Issue 85, Sep, 2013
Max Delany, 'Metro-Cosmo-Polis' in Melbourne Now catalogue, National Gallery of Victoria, 2013
Simon Maidment, 'Memory and Modernity' in Melbourne Now catalogue, National Gallery of Victoria, 2013
2012
Dan Rule, ‘You Herd it Here First’, The Age, Melbourne, March 7, 2012
Sarah Miller, 'The Artist in Residence', RealTime No.108 April 2012
Jared Davis, 'Circle Work' in Spaced: Art Out of Place exhibition catalogue, IASKA, Perth, 2012
Helen Hughes, 'All Who Occupy This Great Space' catalogue essay, West Space, 2012
2011
John Hurrell, 'Immersing the Body in Art and Architecture', EyeContact, New Zealand, April 2011
Melbourne Prize for Urban Sculpture, exhibition catalogue, 2011
'In Camera and in Public', exhibition catalogue, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne, 2011
2010
Fiona Gruber, 'Terrorists on the Opera Stage', The Australian, 14 October, 2010
Kylie Northover, 'Terrorist Art', The Age, 13 October, 2010
Cameron Woodhead, 'An erudite, disorienting interrogation of art's process', The Age, 19 October, 2010
2009
Chris Reid, 'Mind-reading in the 21st Century', RealTime Magazine No. 92, Sydney, August 2009
Jared Davis, 'Review: Space-Shifter', un Magazine 3.2, December 2009
2008
Nikos Papastergiadis, 'Confined Abyss', in Almost Always Everywhere Apparent catalogue, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, 2008
Juliana Engberg, introduction in Almost Always Everywhere Apparent catalogue, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, 2008
Jorge Diez, ed, Madrid Abierto 2004-2008, Associacion Cultural Madrid Abierto, 2008
LONG BIBLIOGRAPHY
2023
Briony Downes, 'Two artists capture different sides of the Australian landscape', feature essay, Art Guide Australia, May 2023
Sonia Leber, 'Unruly Elements: Sonia Leber and David Chesworth's Space-Shifter', Garland Magazine, G31, May 2023
David Chesworth, 'Sound Before Sound I: One and Three Scores', Garland Magazine, G31, May 2023
2022
Tristen Harwood, 'Healing the Earth', exhibition review, Saturday Paper, Australia, 6 August 2022
Vicki Renner, Exhibition Review: Where Lakes Once Had Water, ArtsHub, 11 Oct 2022
ABC TV, 'Art Works' series 2, ep 33, October 2022
2021
'Sonia Leber and David Chesworth: Where Lakes Once Had Water', catalogue/monograph published by Bundanon Trust, with essays by Sophie Knezic, Fiona Gruber, Tim Flannery and Michael-Shawn Fletcher, 2021
'Site & Sound, Sonic art as ecological practice', catalogue, McClelland Sculpture Park+Gallery, 2021
Andrew Stephens, 'Artists wander in British woods...', arts feature, Sydney Morning Herald/The Age, Melbourne, 2021
Gary Cook, 'Hear Here', arts feature, Resurgence and Ecologist, UK, July 2021
2020
Matthew Perkins, ‘We Are Printers Too’ in ‘HOTA Collects’, exhibition catalogue, Home of the Arts, Gold Coast, Australia, 2020
2019
Joel Stern, 'Ventriloquy' catalogue, Gertrude Contemporary, Melbourne, 2019
2018
'Architecture Makes Us: Cinematic Visions of Sonia Leber & David Chesworth', catalogue, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne, with essays by Naomi Cass, Giles Fielke, Amelia Winata, Fiona Gruber, Pippa Milne, Kate Warren and Nikos Papastergiadis, 2018
Sophie Knezic, 'Critic’s Guide to Melbourne Art Week', Frieze, July 2018
Monica Westin, Review: And Tomorrow And, Critics' Picks Stockholm, Artforum, October 2018
Anna Dunnill, 'Review: Architecture Makes Us', Art Guide Australia, August 2018
Hester Lyon, 'Review: Architecture Makes Us at Centre for Contemporary Photography', Memo Review, 2 September, 2018
Andrew Goodman, 'Gathering Ecologies: Thinking Beyond Interactivity', Open Humanities Press, London, 2018
2017
Norie Neumark, ‘Voicetracks: Attuning to the voice in media and the arts’, MIT Press, Cambridge, 2017
Jacqueline Doughty, 'The Score' catalogue, Ian Potter Museum of Art, Melbourne, 2017
Sue Cramer & Lesley Harding, ‘Call of the Avant-Garde: Constructivism and Australian Art’, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne, 2017
Kate Warren, 'A non-site implication: Leber & Chesworth's Earthwork', 4A Papers, Issue 3, 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art, 2017
Alana Hunt, ‘I don’t want to be there when it happens’ at PICA, Artlink, Australia, 2017
2016
Francis E Parker, 'Borders, Barriers, Walls' catalogue, MUMA Melbourne, 2016
Jared Davis, 'Space-Shifter', in 'un Anthology 2004 - 2014', Ulanda Blair, Rosemary Forde & Phip Murray (eds), 2016
2015
Tim Roerig, ‘56th Biennale of Venice: All the World’s Futures’ catalogue, 2015
Norie Neumark in Thomaidis & Macpherson, eds, Voice Studies: Critical Approaches..., Routledge, 2015
2014
Robert Nelson, 'Zaum Tractor: Diving Into a Brave New World', The Age, Melbourne, 5 February, 2014
Janelle Carrigan, 'Sydney Biennale', The New York Times, 8 April, 2014
Toni Ross, 19th Biennale of Sydney, Artforum, New York, Summer 2014
Juliana Engberg, You Imagine What You Desire: 19th Biennale of Sydney catalogue, 2014
Anthony Byrt, 'Water's Edge', Artforum, 24 March, 2014
Dan Rule, 'In The Galleries', The Age, Melbourne, 8 February, 2014
Dylan Rainforth, ‘Around The Galleries’, The Age, Melbourne, 29 January, 2014
Andrew Taylor and Fiona Gruber, ‘Biennale artists Sonia Leber and David Chesworth use their art…’ Sydney Morning Herald, 13 March, 2014
2013
Dylan Rainforth, 'David Chesworth and Sonia Leber' (artist feature), Art Guide Australia, Issue 85, Sep, 2013
Max Delany, 'Metro-Cosmo-Polis' in Melbourne Now catalogue, National Gallery of Victoria, 2013
Simon Maidment, 'Memory and Modernity' in Melbourne Now catalogue, National Gallery of Victoria, 2013
2012
Dan Rule, ‘You Herd it Here First’, The Age, Melbourne, March 7, 2012
Sarah Miller, 'The Artist in Residence', RealTime No.108 April 2012
Jared Davis, 'Circle Work' in Spaced: Art Out of Place exhibition catalogue, IASKA, Perth, 2012
Helen Hughes, 'All Who Occupy This Great Space' catalogue essay, West Space, 2012
Gavin Findlay, 'The Sweet Music of Art-Driven Tasmania', RealTime Magazine No.108 April 2012
Darren Jorgensen, Spaced review, The West Australian, 25 Feb 2012
2011
John Hurrell, 'Immersing the Body in Art and Architecture', EyeContact, New Zealand, April 2011
Melbourne Prize for Urban Sculpture, exhibition catalogue, 2011
'In Camera and in Public', exhibition catalogue, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne, 2011
2010
Fiona Gruber, 'Terrorists on the Opera Stage', The Australian, 14 October, 2010
Kylie Northover, 'Terrorist Art', The Age, 13 October, 2010
Cameron Woodhead, 'An erudite, disorienting interrogation of art's process', The Age, 19 October, 2010
2009
Chris Reid, 'Mind-reading in the 21st Century', RealTime Magazine No. 92, Sydney, August 2009
Jared Davis, 'Review: Space-Shifter', un Magazine 3.2, December 2009
Dan Rule, 'Around the Galleries', The Age, Melbourne, 6 June 2009
Linda Kouvaras, 'Toilets, Tears and Transcendence' in Transforming Cultures, Vol 4, No 1, UTS, Sydney
Jonathan Marshall, 'Flatness, Ornamentality and the Sonic Image..’, in Sound Scripts 2, Perth, 2009
2008
Nikos Papastergiadis, 'Confined Abyss', in Almost Always Everywhere Apparent catalogue, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, 2008
Juliana Engberg, introduction in Almost Always Everywhere Apparent catalogue, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, 2008
Jorge Diez, ed, Madrid Abierto 2004-2008, Associacion Cultural Madrid Abierto, 2008
David Bennett, Sounding Postmodernism: Sampling Australian Composers, Sound-artists and Music Critics, Australian Music Centre, Sydney, 2008
Jennifer Brown, 'Blitz: Discursive bombardments in "the war on terror"', PhD dissertation, Southern Cross University, NSW, 2008
2007
Robert Nelson, 'The Year in Review: Visual Art', The Age, Melbourne, 26 December 2007
Amy Marjoram, 'Between Heaven and Hell', RealTime Magazine No. 81, October 2007
Robert Nelson, 'In claustrophobia and freeze-frame movement meaning lies between the gaps', The Age, Melbourne, 22 August 2007
Martin Ball, 'Now see, hear', The Age, Melbourne, 18 August 2007
Fiona Scott-Norman, 'Giving Voice to Their Art', The Age, Melbourne, 10 August 2007
2006
Jon Dale, 'Once Upon a Time in Melbourne' in The Wire no 272, London, October 2006
Juliana Engberg, 'My Chicken is Missing' in +Plus Factors exhibition catalogue, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, 2006
2005
Darren Tofts, Interzone: Media Arts in Australia, Craftsman House, 2005
Matthew Westwood, 'Super Sonic Trespasser' in The Australian, August 4 2005
Sunanda Creagh, 'Reviving the Crackle...', in The Sydney Morning Herald, July 27 2005
2004
Edward Colless, 'Lucid Screams to Stir the Nation's Soul' in The Australian, October 25 2004
Peter King, '"I'll Drown My Book": the Caves of The Gordon Assumption', Melbourne International Arts Festival, Visual Arts Program catalogue, Melbourne 2004
A Ivanova, A Cavallaro, 'Unnatural Selection', Ars Electronica exhibition catalogue, Novamedia, 2004
Jonathan Marshall, 'The voice in and beyond history' in Real Time, No 64, Sydney, December 2004
Ross Gibson, 'Sounds Like Art' in lab.3000 Digital Design Biennale catalogue, Melbourne 2004
Jo Roberts, 'For your convenience…' in The Age, Melbourne, October 5 2004
Jeff Kahn, 'Under the cover of night' in Real Time No. 64, Sydney, December 2004
John Slavin, 'Emotions Soar to the Stars' in The Age, Melbourne, October 23 2004
Daniel Palmer, 'Seeing voices' in Real Time No. 64, Sydney, December 2004
'Best of the Fest' in The Age, October 3 2004
Simon Plant, 'Opera Out of This World' in The Herald Sun, Melbourne, October 22 2004
Jo Roberts, 'No Longer Stranded in Space' in The Age, Melbourne, October 21 2004
2003
Ross Gibson, 'Sounds Like Art' in POL Oxygen, No. 5, 2003
Bleddyn Butcher, 'Cross Platform: Sound in Other Media' The Wire, No. 233, London, July 2003
Tony MacGregor, The Persuaders exhibition catalogue essay, Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Melbourne, April 2003
2002
'5000 Calls' in Chapter Arts Centre magazine, Cardiff, October 2002
'Chorus of Approval' in 24 Hours, Sydney, March 2002
2001
Mitchell Whitelaw, 'Sit, Ubu, Sit. Good dog' in Real Time, No. 46, Sydney, December 2001
Bruce James, 'The Master's Voice' interview on Arts Today, ABC Radio National, 1 November, 2001
'5000 Calls' in Earshot soundscape journal, UK, December 2001
Felicity Fenner, 'Ground Work' in Art in America, May 2001
2000
Philipe Regnier, 'Art and the Olympics' in The Art Newspaper, No. 105, London, July 2000
Alex Gawronski, 'Game Over? The Olympics Arts Commissions' in Real Time No. 40, Sydney, Dec, 2000
'5000 Calls' in Sydney Olympic Park, Public Arts Program catalogue, Sydney, June 2000
Paul Brown, 'Breaking the Art and Science Standoff' in Real Time, No. 36, Sydney, April 2000
1999
Suzy Freeman-Greene, 'The Sounds of Human Effort' in The Age, Melbourne, September 25, 1999
Anne Susskind, 'Public Intimacy' in The Bulletin, Sydney, May 4 1999
Brigid Smyth, '5000 Calls' in Patrick Bingham-Hall, Olympic Architecture, Watermark Press, Sydney 1999
‘Sound in Museums' in Insite, Melbourne, December 1999
'Electronic Observatory' in Interior Cities, School of Architecture, RMIT University, Melbourne 1999
1998
Ross Gibson, 'Something Strange Disturbing Us…’, Week of Experimental Cinema catalogue, Madrid, 1998
Matthew Moore, 'Forest with More than the Sounds of Silence' in The Sydney Morning Herald, July 17 1998
Anne Susskind, 'Creating a Bridge Over Troubled Water' in The Sydney Morning Herald, March 23 1998
Gary Barker, 'A Sense of Space and Movement' in The Age, Melbourne, November 6 1998
1994
Sonia Leber, 'Earwitness: Excursions in Sound' in Experimenta '94 catalogue, Melbourne, October 1994
Sonia Leber, 'Earwitness: Excursions in Sound' in Mesh, No. 4, Melbourne, 1994
Megan Backhouse, 'Sounds Like…' in The Age, November 11 1994
Anna Clabburn, 'Wherefore Art Thou Genre' in Storm, Melbourne, November 1994
Marie Sierra-Hughes, 'Lending an Ear to Sound' in The Herald Sun, December 2 1994
AnnMarie Johnson, 'Earwitness News' in RealTime No. 3, October 1994
1991
Sonia Leber, 'Watching Films, Making Films' in Cantrills Filmnotes, No. 65, Melbourne October 1991
'Doubtful Invitation' in Oberhausen International KurzFilmTage catalogue, April 1991
1990
Ann Pollock Berecry, 'Open Eyes are a Dream' in Aurora Australis catalogue, Presentation House Gallery, Vancouver, Canada, 1990
1989
'History Takes Place' in Australian Perspecta catalogue, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 1989