LOCUST JONES Born Christchurch, New Zealand. Lives and works in the Blue Mountains, NSW EDUCATION 1991 – 1993 Bachelor of Visual Arts, Sydney College of the Arts, Sydney SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 2001 1999 1996 1994 1993 Brainfog, Karen Woodbury Gallery, Melbourne A week in the life of the world, Blue Mountains Art Gallery, Katoomba Burn Free, David Krut Projects, NY, USA Made in Johannesburg, Solander, Wellington Leaners and Lifters, Bett Gallery, Hobart Galerie Patrick Ebensperger, Berlin, Germany 24 Hour News Feed, Christchurch Art Gallery Fauvette Laurio Travelling Art Scholarship Exhibition, Sydney College of the Arts, Sydney Boycott, Isolate, Sabotage, Whitespace, Auckland Locust Jones: Some mistakes were perhaps made, Bathurst Regional Gallery, Bathurst Top Dead, Kunstraum Dusseldorf, Dusseldorf, Germany REVOLT, Dominik Mersch Gallery, Sydney Elevating a Disastrous Situation into a Catastrophe, MOP Projects, Sydney Locust Jones, Karen Woodbury Gallery, Melbourne Hitchhiking in the Donut of Death, Gallery 9, Sydney Back-Handed Bullets, Whitespace, Auckland What a Way, To Go, Solander Works on Paper Gallery, Wellington Ride it ‘til it dies, Rear View Gallery, Melbourne I’ll burn that bridge when I come to it, Until Never, Melbourne Final Notice, Centre of Contemporary Art, Christchurch Loke Time, The Godley Hotel, Lake Tekapo The Bird Agents, Tin Sheds Gallery, University of Sydney, Sydney Clearing Station, Centre of Contemporary Art, Christchurch Delta Park, Sheffer Gallery, Sydney Oh the tangled web…, Damien Minton Gallery, Sydney Spin Cycle, Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai Live by the Sword, Mahara Gallery, Wellington Poverty Jet Set, Espace SD Gallerie, Beirut Amnesia Beyrouth, Riviera Gallery, Brooklyn, New York Patterns of Behaviour, Grodentz Gallery, Wellington Lunchtime @ the helicopter gunship training facility, Centre of Contemporary Art, Christchurch Fantasies, Monsters & Self Portraits, Fresh Gallery, Christchurch Ghost Train, Boutwell Draper Gallery, Sydney Deep in the Woods, Mary Place Gallery, Sydney The Green Line, Beirut, Herringbone Gallery (Imperial Slacks), Sydney Untitled Paintings, Kas Gallery, Sydney Car Smash, Post Gallery, Sydney Hunt Me Down & Kill Me, Airspace, Sydney Selected Group Exhibitions 2015 Burnie Print Prize, Burnie Regional Gallery, Tasmania Modern Art Projects, Everglades Gardens, Leura Giving Voice, (travelling exhibition), Gosford Regional Gallery Galerie Patrick Ebensperger, Vienna, Austria th 2014 Open Studio, 18 Street Art Centre, California Jacaranda Drawing Award, Grafton Regional Gallery Redlands Art Award, Sydney Giving Voice, (travelling exhibition) Salamanca Arts Centre, Hobart Nature Nurture, Karen Woodbury Gallery, Melbourne A General Map of Caves, Hawkesbury Regional Art Gallery, Sydney 2013 Galerie Patrick Ebensperger, Berlin, Germany Down to the line, Bett Gallery, Hobart Fremantle Print Award, Fremantle Unsettled: Recent Acquisitions of Contemporary Art, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide Fauvette Laurio Travelling Art Scholarship, SCA, Sydney University, Sydney 2012 The Lookout, National Art School Gallery, Sydney Excavation, The Armory, Sydney Olympic Park, Sydney Drawing the Line, Whitespace, Auckland Through your eyes, Korean Cultural Foundation, Sydney 2011 5x3, Kunstraum Dusseldorf, Germany Subtext: Art for Literacy, CarriageWorks, Sydney Basic Instinct, Karen Woodbury Gallery, Melbourne 2010/11 Freehand: Recent Australia Drawing, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne 2010 Paul Guest Prize Bendigo Art Gallery, Victoria Bold Horizon National Contemporary Art Award, Waikato Museum, New Zealand Lozenge of Dawn, 24HR ART Northern Territory Centre for Contemporary Art, Darwin The Navigators, Karen Woodbury Gallery, Melbourne NO RIGHT TURN - WESTERN SYDNEY DRAWING SHOW, Penrith Regional Gallery, Penrith 2009 Hazelhurst Art Award, Hazelhurst Regional Gallery, Sydney Geelong Print Prize, Geelong Gallery, Geelong th The 58 Blake Prize, National Arts School Gallery, Sydney I Walk The Line New Australian Drawing, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney To whom it may concern: The written word in contemporary art, Karen Woodbury Gallery, Melbourne The June Fourth Incident, Serial Space, Sydney Something I said, Helen Gory Galerie, Melbourne 888Exhibition, China Heights Gallery, Sydney 2007 Riviera Real Estate, Riviera Gallery, Brooklyn, New York 2005 Diversity 1, Sulkin Secant Gallery, Santa Monica, California 1999 Sydney Beirut - Beirut Sydney, Espace SD Gallery, Beirut Awards 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007 2005 th 18 Street Art Centre, Santa Monica, California Kulturwerk, Berlin, Germany Fremantle Print Award, WA (finalist) Fremantle Print Award, Fremantle (finalist) Jacaranda Drawing Award, Grafton Regional Gallery (finalist) Wallace Art Awards, Auckland National Works on Paper Prize, MPRG, Victoria Paul Guest Drawing Prize, Bendigo Art Gallery, Victoria Alice Springs Art Prize (finalist) Fishers Ghost Art Award, Campbelltown Art Gallery (winner) Kedumba Contemporary Drawing Award, Wentworth Falls Adelaide Perry Prize for Drawing (finalist) Hazelhurst Works on Paper Award (finalist) Bold Horizon National Contemporary Art Ward (winner) The Hazelhurst Works on Paper Award (winner) th The 58 Blake Prize (finalist) The Geelong Print Prize (finalist) The Fremantle Print Award (finalist) The Kedumba Drawing Award (finalist) The Fremantle Print Award (finalist) The Hazelhurst Works on Paper Award (finalist) The Hazelhurst Works on Paper Award (finalist) The Fremantle Print Award (finalist) Grants & Residencies 2014 2012 2011 2010 2004 2003 Big C, Artist in Residence, Bilpin, NSW New Work Grant, Australia Council for the Arts Artist in Residence, David Krut Projects, Johannesburg, South Africa Hill End Artist Residency, Hill End Asialink Residency, Seoul Korea Penrith Regional Gallery, Sydney Artist in Residence, Espace SD Gallerie, Beirut Lower East Side Print Workshop Residency, New York Public Collections Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide Art Bank Bathurst Regional Art Gallery Centre of Contemporary Arts, Christchurch Grafton Regional Gallery James Wallace Trust Collection, Auckland Kedumba Contemporary Drawing Collection Kunstwerk Museum, Germany Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, New Zealand Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne Shepparton Art Museum, Shepparton Tweed River Regional Gallery University of Wollongong Selected Bibliography 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009 2009 2008 2007 2005 Selby, C; ‘Holding up a mirror to society’, Hobart Mercury, July 19 Rule, D; ‘In the galleries’, The Age, February 22 ‘Pinteresting: New York’, Review of Burn Freeze at David Krut Projects, April Milburn, Felicity; Christchurch Art Gallery Bulletin Magazine, September – November Sydney Magazine, Sydney Morning Herald, August McNamara, TJ; The New Zealand Herald Crawford, Ashley, ‘Locust Jones: 50 of Australia’s Most Collectable Artists 2011’, Australian Art Collector, Issue 55, January – March, p.194 Rule, D., ‘ Locust Jones’, Artist Profile, Issue 15, pp.44 - 47 Nelson, R., ‘Exploring drawing’s possibilities’, The Age, Visual Arts, January 19, p.14 Boyce, Roger ‘Locust Jones, MOP Projects’, Art in America, June / July 2010, pp.174-175 ‘NSW Wrap: Locust Jones’, Australian Art Collector, Issue 51, January-March, p.232 ‘Art & Events: Calendar’, Vogue Living, Jan/Feb, p.60 Keens, L; ‘Right Now Art: Top Draw’, Belle, Feb/Mar, p.52 Morrow, C; I Walk the Line: New Australian Drawing, exhibition catalogue, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney Rule, D; ‘Around the Galleries’, A2, The Age, 25 July, p.20 McDonald, J; ‘On their marks, get set, go’, Arts & Entertainment, Sydney Morning Herald, 9 -10 May pp.16-17 Kernebone, F; Interview, ABC Sunday Arts MacDonald, C; ‘Exhibition Review’, Imprint Magazine Clement, T; ‘Pulp friction’, Metro Art, The Sydney Morning Herald, 17-23 July, p.14 Browne, V; ‘Searching for the Bird Agent’, exhibition catalogue, University of Sydney Hanton, J; ‘Large-scale comment on life’, The Christchurch Press, New Zealand Clement, T; ‘The end is nigh - Locust Jones draws a world slowly going to hell’, Metro, Sydney Morning Herald, 18 May, p. 27 Amery, M; ‘Live by the sword’, The Dominion Post, New Zealand
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