Andrea Breen she/her is a multimedia artist with interests ranging across performance improvisation, music/noise, collaborative processes, writing, dance, experimental sound research, philosophy, feminism, activism, queer community, ecology & therapeutic encounter. She creates acoustic art while researching generative & interactive processes & performances in sound, word, image & dance/movement. She is dedicated to right-action & furthering understanding through dialogue, art & imagination.
SOVEREIGNTY WAS NEVER CEDED
It was, is, & always will be, Aboriginal land.
I acknowledge the Palawa custodians of Lutruwita/Tasmania where I work & live. I pay my respects to First Nations people, in particular to the Muwinina people of Nipaluna Country, to their elders and to their community, past, present & emerging.
PROJECTS
IMPROVISATION PRACTICE CONTINUES in 2026 SOHO Arts Community Hall, Weld Street, South Hobart Last FRIDAY of the month, 6-8 pm PAY WHAT YOU CAN AFFORDAn opportunity to discover your improvising self in a supporting, inclusive culture. If you are a seasoned improviser, it’s an invitation to meet with others and develop your practice.&
WOMEN’S IMPROVISATION FESTIVAL Hobart, Tasmania. Easter 4,5,6 April 2026, guest facilitators from Melbourne and Hobart LISTENING bandcamp & Soundcloud (Soundcloud tag:'bird_bluerobin') RESIDENCIES 2026EXTRASENSORY (Vic) residency & performances with Bec Varcoe (electronics) & Gianni Posadas-Sen (flute and objects) 2026Improvisation development, OMEO DANCE, Orbost Victoria, with Andrew Morrish & Ros Crisp 2026 PERFORMANCES 2026Altar Bar with Tim Panaretos, September 3, 2026Hobart Improv Orchestra, GOOD GRIEF Gallery, Hobart, opening at exhibitions (Sally Rees, Dylan Sheridan et al), with Twigstop, 2025, 2026Greenwood Instruments DARK MOFO Winter Feast: Karlin Love (Mountain Harp), June 2026RARE CHORDS, Kick Start Arts, February 2026Lutruwita Arts Orchestra, Eco Cave work-in-process Beaker Street Festival, August 2026Nelipot Collective, Our Last Tree LaMama, Melbourne, September. see: nelipot collective page & nelipot websitePAST
Palimpsest-as-Process. Installation, Side Space Gallery, Salamanca Arts Centre. August 20-25, 2025. Paintings & sound.No Future: musician for work-in-progess performance at Second Echo Residency with Leo Canales and Pepe José Inostroza. Artist Residency All That We Are, Tasmania, June 2025.Lutruwita Art Orchestra, development and performance projects.Nelipot Collective: development towards THE LAST TREE, LAMAMAIRELAND: Workshops/Performances: Residency BCA Ireland,October 2023 Commissioned film score for HERSELF (celebrating St Brigid), screening 4 February 2023, Gort Co Galway. Sound installations: The Dark Edge of Europe (2019); Adjusting; Not Over Yet; Mail art & Cahoots: collaborative A4-post-art. KAVA artists’ collective, Kinvara, Co Galway: 2020 & 2021 & 2022.t[w]o islands: solo bricolage installation, drawn from 5 years of collecting & responding to place in Ireland & Tasmania: Side Space Salamanca. Sound, paintings, text & improvisation performances with invited guests (14-25 July 2021). ARTIST RESIDENCIES at Burren College of Art, County Clare (2017, 2018, 2023) (see blog) IMPROVISATION & PERFORMANCESGood Grief Studios: with Kim Kerze & Josten Myburgh, 2025.MIECAT Open Studio, 31 May, 2025 with Edwina Entwistle.Support solo for William Basinski Ian Potter Hall, 24 Jan 2025Alaexandra Battery acoustic improvisations: Hobart artistsPerformances Ireland, Sept-October 2023: Gort, Ennis, Newton Castle MONA Music, solo 19 January, 2023; solo performance at opening of Sally Rees exhibition, MONA 2021; Precipice 2022,2023,2024,2025 Canberra: National Improvisation Summit Performance Studies Network Surrey University UK: Lecture Recital Junction Arts Festival 2021: live broadcast with Sisters Acoustica Launceston Music Improvisation Alliance 2021, 2022: with Karlin Love Performances with Creek Road Art Orchestra (viola) 2021, 2022 continuing as Lutruwita Art Orchestra, LAO 2023/2024/2025/2026 (Board Member)Clarence Jazz Festival band, 2023/2024:'mulaka milaythina' (composer-lyrics: Louise Denson & Nunami Sculthorpe-Green)Sound Hub Hobart, house concerts Alexandra Battery (curating/performing) NYE 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022; Hobart improvisation collective performance weekends & random collaborations & events Continuing research & development in improvised performance practice (mentor Andrew Morrish – ongoing) Improvisation classes 2022/23/24 SOHO Community Arts Hall Hobart MIECAT Public Program, Improvisation tutor, 2022 Workshops/Performances: Residency#3, BCA Ireland,October 2023
COLLABORATIONSNelipot Collective founder/composer: 2016-2023. Composer for 'Vital' at Goddess festival, Forth Tas, 2023. Composer for Glow and Flare work-in-progress, Tarkine-in-Motion exhibition (2019) & AMSA Conference (2019) Composer: seasons&reasons(2016)Tasmania Performs 2016 with choreographer Tullia Chung-Tilley. Performances of Adrift (2018) Regional ArtsTas Grant for Winter Arts Festival, St Helens (June 2017 & Hobart (September 2017); snippets at Nayri Niara Good Sprits Festival, Bruny Island, January 2019 & Seafarers' festival (2019).Festival of Voices, husshh...hearing takayna (2016) with Anne Norman (shakuhachi) & Emily Sheppard (violin); BBF exhibitions Long Gallery, Tasmania 2015-2022;Designer/composer/performer: 'dancemusic' with choreographer Glen Murray (Adelaide Fringe 2015) & John Rohig, Jugglers, Brisbane 2015;Composer: Of Loss: Grief's Transitions: CoreDance Contemporary, New York, 2014;Composer: 'Small Daily Showings', MIECAT Gallery, Melbourne, 2013.sound installations
t[w]o islands: loop installations, paintings, daily performances: Sidespace Gallery, Hobart, 2021Celestial Listening with Arwen Dyer, Sidespace, 2014 Res/pond/ing with John Rohig, Jugglers, Brisbane, 2010.film (composer)
'HERSELF', Gort Ireland, St Brigid Day, 4 February 2023...epi/sode...: with Jutta Pryor, Stranger with My Face International Festival, Hobart 2016;'being seen' with Edwina Entwistle, International Alliance of Women in Music Festival, 2015;'Shellfishers' with Russell Hawkins 2016; 'Fire' with Arwen Dyer 2016.
WRITING
blog: days now days to come;Fish Publishing: long list Flash Fiction Ireland, 2021;children in therapy (2012); Feminism and Anti-racism (2001); Journals: Religion Literature and the Arts conference literature; Women Church;Arts, poetry and music reviewer: Island Magazine, the Mercury, The Australian (1998-2006); PhD: Creating a Place: Women Land and Improvisation, University of Tasmania (2000). Publications & Poetry collection 't[wo] islands'recent courses in sound & text
CAMP: Sustained Sound, Generative Music & Drone, 2026
Irish Writers’ Centre: Climate Change Writing, Open Day Dublin classes, Miracle Machine; DROP (Mary Kay Zeeb, Hannah Rakestraw); GRANTA Nature Writing; Fish Publishing: Memoir; WRITING SLANT poetry writing; Publishing Training Centre (UK): Essential Copy Editing; KYD: Sensitivity Writing; Literary Speed Dating
older work
'Will the real Australia please stand up' with Sue Moss, Julie Hunt and Cath Barcan: commissioned by the University of Tasmania Gallery 1996 & Contemporary Art Space Tasmania 1997.CD 'improvisation-image-voice' 1999 with Tasmanian poets Sue Moss, Sarah Day, Margaret Scott & Angela Rockel: ABC Improvisation Awards, ABCFM Radio, 1999Hobart Fringe Festival: 'Conundrum' 2001 &. Hobart Fringe Festival: 'Clown Pieces' 2002Hobart improvisation collective, 2002-2026 National annual improvisation summit, Precipice 2009, 2017, 2022, 2023, 2024Broadcasts on Sound Quality, 'the listening room' etc, & Edge community radio(Hobart) Listening online: bandcamp & Soundcloud (Soundcloud tag:'bird_bluerobin')training and teachers
Teachers in improvisation: Andrew Morrish (continuing), Al Wunder, Peter Trotman, Ruth Zaporah & Justus NeumannComposition: Don Kay (University of Tasmania); Ann Ghandar & Peter McNamara (University of New England);Violin & viola: Elizabeth Morgan,John Curro, Simon Oswell, Stella Nemetqualifications
PhD (UTas) Creating a place: women, land & improvisationBA (Hons) (Deakin & UTas/Conservatorium)BMus (Hons Composition & Performance) (UNE)AMusA (violin)Dip Teaching (Prim) (Deakin/Burwood Teachers' Coll)Grad Dip Creative Arts Therapy (MIECAT)Grad Cert Gestalt Therapy (GTA)memberships & representations
Represented associate artist: Australian Music CentreAccredited therapist & supervisor: PACFAExternal higher degrees supervisor & HREC member: MIECATFreelance educator, therapist and supervisor