EDUCATION
Bachelor of Arts Degree (Psychology, Philosophy), Melbourne University.
Trained Secondary Teacher's Certificate, Melbourne University.
Diploma of Arts (Professional Writing + Editing) Holmesglen Institute.
BA with Distinction, Fine Art Photography, RMIT University.
Master of Contemporary Art, Victorian College of Arts.
PUBLICATIONS (TEXT)
ARTICLES:
The Age, The Canberra Times, The Sydney Morning Herald, Courier Mail, The Adelaide Advertiser, The Australian Jewish News, Jewish Museum Journal, Herald Weekly Times, Geo Australia, Metro Magazine, Generation Journal, Oyster Fashion Magazine, Better Photography, Australian Photography, D!SSENT Magazine, Qantas In-flight magazine.
POETRY:
Best Australian Poems (2005, 2012), Quadrant, Overland, Westerly, Southerly, Verandah, The Australian Writer, Famous Reporter, Generation Journal, on Melbourne trains, Yellow Moon Anthology, Cordite, Jewish Museum Journal, Heinemann (Harcourt Education) Poetry 2 Anthology, Newcastle Poetry Prize Anthology, Poetry Monash, Federation Square display, illuminated road signs in West Melbourne, projected poems on the walls of buildings in Poland, Polish literary magazines - ‘Odra’ and ‘Topos’, Lightness of Being magazine (Poetica Christi), Cordite Poetry Review, ‘Ask No Questions’ verse memoir published by Puncher and Wattmann Press, 2022,
PUBLICATIONS (PHOTOGRAPHY)
Canberra Times, The Age, Brisbane Courier Mail, Geo Australia, Metropolitan News Australian Photography, Commercial Photography; Australian Camera, Better Photography, Oyster World Fashion, Meanjin magazine, ‘ Awesome! Australian Art for Contemporary Kids’ Art + Australia (book), Reflecting on Melbourne book, 'Stolica' Warsaw monthly illustrated magazine, Art+Australia (magazine),
ABC Radio National Conversations interview (1 December 2022).
LITERARY AWARDS
ABC Radio National Poetry Competition Short List, In the Foothills of the Dandenongs, Commendation, Deakin University Literary Awards, Honourable Mention, Australian Institute of Polish Affairs Commendation, FAW National Literary Awards Highly Commended
Group Submission FAW National Literary Awards Commended
Group Submission, FAW National Literary John Shaw Neilson Poetry Award,
Highly Commended, FAW National Literary Awards, John Shaw Neilson Poetry
Highly Commended, Melbourne Poets Union International Poetry Competition
Highly Commended Commended Ada Cambridge Award
Recipient of the City of Melbourne Grant to publish a verse memoir
Mary Gilmore Highly Commended for first book of poetry (Ask No Questions, 2023)
The Children’s Book Council of Australia, 2023 Book of the Year, Older Readers -shortlisted as Notable Book (Ask No Questions)
Prime Minister’s Literary Awards Shortlist for Young Adult Literature (Ask No Questions)
Interview ABC Radio National ‘Conversation’ (Ask No Questions, 1 December 2022), 3RC Radio Interview ‘Published or Not’ (Ask No Questions, September 2023)
PHOTOGRAPHY AWARDS
Winner - Australian Institute of Professional Photographers: Silver and Silver with Distinction Awards 1998, 1999, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2007, 2008,
Winner - Best Fine Print Award, Center for Contemporary Photography, 2000, 2002, 2010
Winner - Provincial Hotel Year 2000 Calendar
Finalist - Wyndham City Award, 2002, 2003, 2022
Winner - The Inaugural Nikon Award, Centre of Contemporary Photography, 2005
Finalist - Julie Millowick Acquisitive Photographic Award, 2005
Winner - International Aperture Photography Competition: 3 Silver Awards 2009.
Winner - International Loupe Awards, Silver Award 2009, 2013,
Finalist Italian Institute of Culture Photography Awards,
Finalist - Olive Cotton Portraiture Prize, 2015, 2017,
Finalist - Moran Contemporary Photo Award, 2016
Finalist - Award for Outstanding Print - Centre of Contemporary Photography, 2015
Winner - Newer Award for video work, Trocadero Gallery, 2016
Finalist - Head On International Photography Festival, Sydney, Landscape and Portrait Section, 2017, 2019, 2021, 2023.
Finalist - Featured Exhibiting Artist ('Howl' video), Head On Photography Festival, 2017
Finalist - Associate Exhibiting Artist ('Tango' video), Head On Photography Festival, 2017
Semi Finalist - Moran Art Prize, 2017
Representing RMIT School of Art - the 'Hatched', graduate exhibition at PICA, the National School of Art Festival, Perth, 2017,
Finalist - National Photography Portrait Prize, 2018,
Finalist - Percival Art Prize, 2018,
Finalist - Stanthorpe Art Prize, 2018
EXHIBITIONS
Photographic Imaging College Student Shows: 1996 - 2005
Photographers' Gallery, 2000.
Gallery 101, 'Figures in the Landscape' group exhibition, 2000
Melbourne Museum, 2001
Nellie Castan Gallery 'White and Black' group exhibition, 2002
Metropolis Gallery, 2003
Lab X Gallery, 2004
Smyrnios Gallery, 2005
Monash Gallery of Art, solo exhibition, 2007
Obscura Gallery of Fine Art, 2011
Artman Gallery, 2012
Edmund Pearce, March 2014
Italian Institute of Culture, Photography Competition, 2014
RMIT School of Art Galleries, Lights-cape Project 6, Melbourne Central light box display, 2014
Tweed Regional Gallery, NSW 2015
RMIT First Site Gallery, 2017
TROCADERO Gallery, 2017
National Portrait Gallery 2018,
Creative Spaces, Southbank, 2019
Mars Gallery, 2019
Buxton Contemporary Gallery, 2019
COLLECTIONS
National Portrait Gallery of Australia, Canberra - 3 portraits.
City of Yarra - Mayoral Office - 2000, 2003
City of Port Phillip, 2013
State Library of Victoria, Vali Myers Archive, 2021
Nellie Castan Gallery Collection Private Collections, Melbourne, London, Warsaw.
FILM FESTIVALS
Howl, Tango and Innocence were screened as finalists at the following film festivals: Chicago Arthouse International, New York International, Polish International,
American Documentary and Animation, Venice Shorts, Montreal International, Paris International, Beverly Hills Arthouse, Cannes International Shorts Festival and Head On Sydney festivals.
Howl was awarded Best Performance Film at the Berlin Underground Film Festival (2020) and Innocence awarded Best Animation Film at the Polish International Film Festival (2020).
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Australian Camera, 1999,
Portfolio – Eva Collins; Australian Photography, 2000
Eva Collins, ‘The Series Image’, The Australian Writer, 2001
On Writing and Photography, and interview with Eva Collins Art and Australia, 2002
’Awesome! Australian Art for Contemporary Kids’, edited by Laura Murray Cree,
Eva Collins, ‘Captivating Images’, Better Photography, 2002
Eva Collins, ’Captivating Patterns’, Better Photography, 2005
Repetition – ‘Eva Collins keeps her eye out for patterns’,
’Inside the Dream Palace: The Life and Times of the Chelsea Hotel’, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (USA) and Simon & Schuster (UK), 2013
Art + Australia, June and December 2019