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M YTHOLOGY OF MY LAND
37 Ocean Street
Woollahra, Sydney, NSW 2025
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M YTHOLOGY OF MY LAND
Examining the religious and cultural traditions of ones own land through myths, stories and creation.
In order to imagine a community and unique national identity, cultures need to
weave a web of mythologies around origin, arrival and belonging. The expression and
development of non-Aboriginal Australian identity has been inextricably bound to
constructions of land and landscapes for over 230 years. In the context of this culture
making and myth creation in Australia, nothing has been more significant than the
land and climate; ‘Australian-ness’ has been constructed largely around stories and
representations of the land and landscapes. It is the land, for example, that forged the
myth of the independent, resilient, practical and laconic bushman, capable of surviving
in harsh conditions and always ready to help a mate in need, which then evolved into the
enduring symbol of the Australian soldier of ANZAC legend who exhibited the very same
characteristics and values. Without the unforgiving land that demanded this response,
massive parts of Australia’s national identity would have to be found elsewhere. The
ongoing modern discourse of humans conquering and subduing the land occurs again
and again in Australian culture: civilising a contrary and dry land for agriculture, banding
together in mateship to battle the natural disasters and difficulties spawned by the
land, confronting the immense and sublime vistas, and withstanding the overwhelming
and alienating ‘tyranny of distance’, both within Australia, and between its shores and
Europe. The land may also, in turn, endow its qualities upon the people that live upon it.
Thus the rugged and dry Australian land becomes the rugged reliability and dry humour
of the Australian citizen. This idea is based on the assumption that the land contains
inherent truths, when in fact nature’s characteristics are cultural constructions created
by people searching for an enduring national and social identity.
The call for artists to develop representations of Australian land was made as early as
1886: the National Gallery of Victoria urged artists to contribute ‘rude life that must
have and did exist in the early days of the colony’.¹ Against the backdrop of increasing
nationalistic sentiment and debates around federation in the late 19th century, artists
were being called upon to provide a visual representation of Australian mythology for
the country. To represent Australian ‘true rude life’, artists (for example those of the
Heidelberg School) painted landscapes ‘en plein air’ that strove to capture the harsh,
glaring light of the sun, the enormous and seemingly endless bush vistas and the bonedry arid landscape that could communicate to the viewer the everyday challenges that
confronted the settlers of such land. The artists were being called upon to tell the story
of Australian life to Australians, asserting and entrenching the primary role played by the
idiosyncrasies of the land within a developing Australian national identity and culture.
The artists in this exhibition continue this long tradition of connecting culture and
identity with land and mythology. The Australia they are engaging with is vastly different
to the Australia of over two centuries ago; an enormous influx of immigrants that have
introduced new value systems to Australia, the advent of globalisation and a local
Asian region with much greater geopolitical clout mean that contemporary concepts of
Australian-ness are at once broader and more fragmented than in the past. The artists
here are using both traditional and experimental media to add nuance, argument
and substance to this modern Australian identity. The backdrop of the Australian land
endures impassively, while systems of meaning and cultural representation are built,
torn down and rebuilt upon it over and over again.
By Andrew Giles
ADAM CUSAC
ADAM CUSACK
Adam Cusack is an artist whose practice explores
ideas of authenticity and identity in popular culture.
Using a process of conceptual development,
photography then drawing or painting to realize
the artwork, Adam is interested in showing real
things in provocative ways; assembling unrelated
objects together to bring about relationships that
challenge the perception of the original items. His
creative approach honors the traditional picture plane
utilising simple methods, applying charcoal or pigment
on the prepared surface.
‘The act of making something to ‘look real’ is not
what’s necessarily important to the work. However,
I have found that spending time on rendering the
subject gives value to the idea, which in turn allows
the audience to consider it’s ‘unrealism’ and engage
with my practice’ - 2014
Adam Cusack
Steady Ground, 2015
medium. graphite on paper
90 x 70 cm
ADAM CUSACK
EXHIBITIONS & SHOWS
2015
2014
2014
2013
2013
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2013 2013
2009
2007
2006
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Memories In Motion .M Contemporary - Woollahra, New South Wales
Paul Guest Drawing Prize - Group Show. Bendigo Art Gallery, Bendigo, Vic. Knock Knock Contemporary - Group Show. Tanks Art Centre - Cairns, (FNQ) Qld.
The flight collective The Stockroom Gallery - Kyenton, Victoria
Diamonds in a Paintbox - Group Show, The Art Cabriolet Charity (Fund Raiser) Luminare, Victoria
Studio 9 and The Art Cabriolet (with Godfrey Street Community House) Kingston Art Gallery, Victoria
Sub 150, Knock Knock Contemporary - Group Show Cairns. (FNQ) Qld
‘Robots vs Art’ A play by Travis Cotton - Group Show on set La Mama Theatre, Victoria
Melbourne Affordable Art Show - Solo Exhibition Melbourne Exhibition Buildings, Victoria
Melbourne Affordable Art Show - Group Show Represented by Lethbridge Gallery Melbourne Exhibition Buildings, Victoria
Thought Paroxysms - Solo Exhibition Catanach’s Gallery 5th May - High St Malven, Victoria
Thought Paroxysms - Solo Exhibition Cobalt Gallery Toorak Rd Toorak, Victoria
Cobalt Gallery Opening - Group Show Cobalt Gallery Toorak Rd Toorak, Victoria
Melbourne Affordable Art Show - Group Show Represented by Lethbridge Gallery - Melbourne Exhibition Buildings, Victoria
Abused Child Trust Art Exhibition Group Exhibition Waterfront Place Brisbane, Qld
Thought Paroxysms - Solo Exhibition Doggett Street Studios, Brisbane, Qld
Works on paper - Solo Exhibition Hilton International - Cairns, Qld
Queensland College of Art Graduating Exhibition - Group Show Griffith University - Brisbane, Qld
Thought Paroxysms - Group Exhibition Shonelle Gallery - Brisbane, Qld
C.A.D. Graduating Exhibition - Group Show Cairns, Qld
C.A.D. Works on paper - Group Show Cairns, Qld
AWARDS & PRIZES
2014
2011
Finalist - Paul Guest Drawing Prize. Bendigo Art Gallery, Bendigo Vic. Finalist - Lethbridge 10,000. Lethbridge Gallery, Brisbane, Qld
ALEX KARACONJ
ALEX KARACONJI
Alex Karaconji’s interests lie, almost exclusively,
in drawing. Recently, he has been working with
stop-motion animation. His materials range from
charcoal to L.E.D blackboards, to sand. In addition
to making animations, Alex also reuses the drawings
that were made for his animation by tearing them
up and rearranging them into interior scenes.
In his most recent work, No Fixed Address, Alex
creates an unassuming document of his daily life.
The narrative at the centre of this animation is the
sale of his family home. This overarching narrative
manages to house a variety of themes including
grief, identity, and the passing of time.
Alex Karaconji
Athol, Clarke Street (After Russell Drysdale), 2015
Aquatint
Unique print
39 x 55 cm
ALEX KARACONJI
EDUCATION
2008-2011
2012- 2014
Bachelor of Arts
Bachelor of Fine Arts, National Art School
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2015
2013
Life I Motion, .M Contemporary, Woollahra, Sydney NSW
Landscape Exhibition, Project Space, National Art School
AWARDS
2013
2013
2014
2014
Finalist in the John Olsen Drawing Prize
Two works acquired by the National Art School Student Collection
Jocelyn Maughan Sketchbook Prize
Parkers Sydney Fine Art Drawing Award
The text in this work, which was adapted from
Herbert Reid, was chosen by my Grandfather
to be read at his funeral in the winter of 2013.
Being deeply moved when hearing these words,
I photographed an oak tree that stands on the
land where both I was born and my grandfather
passed away in West Sussex, England. While I have
lived most of my life in Australia, I have always felt
a profound connection to this land, a connection
shared by my father and his father before him.
BENJAMIN STONE-HERBERT
BENJAMIN STONE-HERBERT
Benjamin Stone-Herbert
Untitled (Oak), 2015,
Silver gelatin print on 300gsm cotton rag with lettered with cyanotype
chemistry.
510mm x 605mm
cyanotype photograms on 20gsm mulberry paper
140mm x 167mm (approximately)
BENJAMIN STONE-HERBERT
EDUCATION
2014 Bachelor of Visual Arts (Honours), Sydney College of the Arts, Rozelle, NSW
2013 Completed Bachelor of Visual Arts, (Photography) Sydney College of the Arts, Rozelle, NSW
2013 Exchange program with Universität der Künste (The University of Arts) Berlin, Germany
2010 Certificate IV in Photoimaging, Sydney Institute of Technology, Ultimo, NSW
2007-2008
Various photographic workshops, Australian Centre for Photography, Paddington NSW
2003 Higher School Certificate, Gleanaeon Rudolf Steiner School, Middle Cove, NSW
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2014
2011
Nature’s Pencil. Gaffa, Sydney NSW
Angophora Obscura. Australian Centre for Photography, Paddington NSW
2010
Views of the World. Gallery East, Clovelly NSW
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2014
2014
2013
2013
2013
2013
2013
2012
2012
2012
2011
2011
2011
2010
2010
2010
2010
2010
Undergraduate Exhibition. Sydney College of the Arts, Rozelle, NSW
Slowness/Pastness. Joint exhibition with Michael Waite, Australian Centre for Photography, Paddington, NSW
Human Taxonomies. Bondi Pavilion, Bondi, NSW
Undergraduate Exhibition. Sydney College of the Arts, Rozelle, NSW
Glenaeon Art Show. Glenaeon Rudulf Steiner School, Castlecrag, NSW
Rundgang 2013. Universität der Künste, Berlin, Germany
Libidinal Net. Heit, Berlin, Germany
Capturing and Creating Realities. Gallery Lane, Leura NSW
8x8. Casula Powerhouse in conjunction with the Biennale of Sydney and Museum of Contemporary Art
5th Annual International Juried Plastic Camera Show. Rayko Photo Centre, San Fransisco, CA
Glenaeon Art Show. Glenaeon Rudulf Steiner School, Castlecrag NSW
Glebe Art Show. Benledi. Glebe
Captured: Most accomplished graduates of Sydney Institute of the last 60 years, Sydney Institute of Technology, Ultimo NSW
A Shot in the Dark. Cricketers Arms, Surry Hills NSW
The Hole Thing. Tap Gallery, Darlinghurst NSW
Glebe Art Show. Benledi, Glebe NSW
Simple Pleasures. Cricketers Arms, Surry Hills NSW
3rd Annual International Juried Plastic Camera Show
2010
Rayko Photo Centre, San Francisco CA
PRIZES, SCHOLARSHIPS
2013
Exchange Scholarship. University of Sydney.
2010
Peoples’ Choice Award. Glebe Art Show, Benledi, Glebe NSW
SPECIALIST AREAS IN PHOTOGRAPHY
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Black and white film processing and proofing
Silver gelatin printing
Large format photography
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Pinhole photography
Printing with liquid emulsion on various substrates
Salt printing
•Cyanotypes
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Polaroid type emulsion lifts and transfers
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Book binding
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Reversal processing (B&W slide film and direct paper positive processes)
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Dry plate photography (glass negatives and ambrotypes)
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Silver bromide emulsion making
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2014
2014
2014
2014
2014
2013
Captured Shadows: photogram workshops in conjunction with Anne Ferran’s retrospective, ‘Shadowland’,
Australian Centre for Photography
Large format photography, Sydney College of the Arts.
Pinhole and plastic camera photography, B&W processing and printing workshop for Mariah College.
Australian Centre for Photography. (Lab Assistant)
Pinhole photography. Australian Centre for Photography’s open day.
Kid’s pinhole photography workshop. Australian Centre for Photography. (Lab Assistant)
Large format photography in conjunction with ‘Photography from the mountains to the sea’,
Ansel Adams exhibition at the Australian Maritime Museum, Darling Harbour. (Teacher’s Assistant)
2012 8x8 mentor program in conjunction with the 19th Biennale of Sydney and MCA at Casula Powerjouse
WORK
CurrentTechnical Assistant, Darkroom Coordinator, Lab Assistant and Tutor,
Australian Centre for Photography, Paddington, NSW
2010-2013
Workshop Assistant and Teacher’s Assistant. Australian Centre for Photography, Paddington, NSW
2010-2011
Photographic Assistant to Greg Weight
2008-2009
Printer. Snappy Snaps photo lab, London, UK
2007-2008
Volunteer. Australian Centre for Photography, Paddington, NSW
2007-2008
Manager. Kodak Express photo lab, Neutral Bay, NSW
2004-2006
Bindery Hand. Worldwide Print, Mascot NSW
Christina Lucia Giuffrida works primarily with ceramics, steel and
glass in a practice that employs a Romantic occult-like symbolism.
The alchemic properties of Guiffida’s chosen materials signal a
shift away from rational logic, to the intuitive and the ritualistic.
Giuffrida’s work combines geometric architecture and minimalist
colour palettes, which tempers the inherent drama of her Neo
Gothic attention to detail and form. From this aesthetic emerge
‘tragically sublime’ psychodramas that reflect her observations of
social and cultural realities
Why You Do This? (2015) is a series of sculptures presented
collectively as an alter, memorialising a mythical tale. Giuffrida
utilises religious iconography to investigate the notions and
ramifications of shame within contemporary Western culture.
Focusing predominantly on the affective experiences of shattered
trust (not only others but also of ourselves), vulnerability, fear of
intimacy and isolation. Her finely detailed Southern Ice porcelain
figures have been marked with a dark stain, the examination of
which is key to understanding the narrative at hand.
CHRISTINA LUCIA GIUFFRIDA
CHRISTINA LUCIA GIUFFRIDA
Christina Lucia Giuffrida
Untitled 2, 2015
from the series Why You Do This?
Southern Ice Porcelain, Steel
115 × 115mm
CHRISTINA LUCIA GIUFFRIDA
EDUCATION AND TRAINING
2011- 2014
Bachelor of Visual Arts (Honours – Class I ), Sydney College of the Arts, The University of Sydney
RESIDENCIES
2015- 2016
Sculpture Space NYC, Queens, New York City, USA
Dual Exhibitions
2014
Human Rites, Scratch Art Space, Marrickville, Sydney
Group Exhibitions
2011
2013
2014
Performance Evening (Sydney Underground Festival Special Event), Paper Planes Gallery, Rozelle, Sydney
Queering The Body, Verge Gallery, Sydney
Dani, Home@735 Gallery, Redfern, Sydney
SELECTED PERFORMANCES
2010- 2012
2010- 2011
2011
2011
2012
2012
Queer Central, The Sly Fox, Sydney
The Pussycat Club, The Oxford, Sydney
Enchanted Lips; Mardi Gras, The Vanguard, Sydney
The Sydney Underground Film Festival, The Factory Theatre, Sydney
Pretty Peepers Cabaret, The Imperial, Sydney
The Sequined Menace, The Imperial, Sydney
VOLUNTEER AND CURATORIAL POSITIONS
2012
2013
The Sydney Underground Film Festival (Closing night Host and Performance Curator), The Factory Theatre, Sydney
The Underbelly Arts Festival, (Festival Volunteer), Cockatoo Island, Sydney
CONRAD BOTE
CONRAD BOTES
“It is this disturbing content and subject matter that is
at the essence of my work; that is why I often choose
biblical themes as vehicles for political allegories. The
story of Cain and Abel, Judas, the idea of temptation,
the tree of knowledge, the 10 commandments and
heaven and hell are all depictions of stories that I
wish to tell. Another theme that I explore in my works
is violence and its disturbing relationship between
race and gender, growing up during Apartheid South
Africa this theme holds the potential for exploring
the intricacies of guilt and complicity while still being
a fundamental issue in today’s society.
I am mainly drawn towards the allegory and it’s
ability to seduce the viewer into the narrative. I am
fascinated by the subversive qualities an image can
possess, where the formal aspects and the physical
beauty of a work can draw the viewer in and seduce
while simultaneously being confronted by disturbing
content and subject matter.”
Conrad Botes
Pieta III, 2014
Reverse glass painting
60 x 60 cm
CONRAD BOTES
b. 1969 Ladismith, Western Cape
Lives and works in Cape Town
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2014
2013
2011
2010
2010
2009
2009
2009
2007
2005
2005
2005
2004
2004
2003
2003
On Earth as it is in Heaven, .M Contemporary, Woollahra, Sydney
Zombie Babylon, Stevenson, Johannesburg
The Temptation to Exist, Stevenson, Cape Town
On Earth as It Is in Heaven, KZNSA Gallery, Durban
House of Judas, Fred, London
Crime and Punishment, Brodie/Stevenson, Johannesburg
Hostile Territory, Aardklop arts festival, Potchefstroom
Cain and Abel, Michael Stevenson, Cape Town
Satan’s Choir at the Gates of Heaven, Michael Stevenson, Cape Town
Conrad Botes, ABSA Gallery, Johannesburg
Notes from Underground, Gallery Momo, Johannesburg
Devil’s Bullets, Erdmann Contemporary, Cape Town
Forensic Theatre, Gallery Momo, Johannesburg
Conrad Botes, Johannesburg Art Gallery, Johannesburg
The Big White Sleep, The Scene Gallery, New York City
The Big White Sleep, Galleria L’Ariete, Bologna, Italy
2002
Conrad Botes, Studio d’Arte Raffaelli, Trento, Italy
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2013
2013
2013
2013
2013
2012
2011
2011
2011
2010
2010
2010
2010
2010
2010
2010
2009
2009
2009
2009
2008
2007
2007
A Sculptural Premise, Stevenson, Cape Town
Festival Cyclone BD, Saint-Denis, Reunion
Pop Goes the Revolution, The New Church, Cape Town
Sharp Sharp Johannesburg, Gaite Lyrique, Paris, France
The Loom of the Land, Stevenson, Johannesburg
Bitterkomix: Contemporary Comics from South Africa, Llotja del Cànem, Seu de la Ciutat a Universitat
Jaume I, Castelló de la Plana, Spain
Victims and Martyrs, Gothenburg Kunsthalle, Sweden
Contemporary South African Artists, Turner Galleries, Perth, Australia
Impressions from South Africa, 1965 to Now, Museum of Modern Art, New York
Glanzlichter: Reverse glass paintings in contemporary art, Museum Villa Rot, Burgrieden-Rot, Germany
PEEKABOO - Current South Africa, Tennis Palace Art Museum, Helsinki
Ti Piment festival, Nancy, France
Rio Loco festival, Tolouse, France
... for those who live in it: Pop culture, politics and strong voices, MU Eindhoven, The Netherlands
The Beauty of Distance: Songs of survival in a precarious age, 17th Biennale of Sydney, Australia
The Graphic Unconscious, Philagrafika 2010, Philadelphia, USA
Cyclone BD international comics festival, Reunion
Self/Not-self, Brodie/Stevenson, Johannesburg
Conrad Botes, Anton Kannemeyer & Henning Wagenbreth: Recent prints and drawings,
Gallery AOP, Johannesburg
Bitterkomix: Un certain regard sur l’Afrique du Sud, Angoulême International Comics Festival, France
Farewell to Post-Colonialism, Third Guangzhou Triennial, China
Apartheid: The South African Mirror, Centre de Cultura Contemporania de Barcelona, Spain
South African Art: Modern art and cultural development in a changing society, Danubiana Meulensteen
Art Museum, Bratislava, Slovakia
2007
2007
2006
2006
2006
2006
2004
2004
2004
2003
2002
2002
2002
2002
2001
2001
Turbulence, Hangart-7 (air & art) Edition 6, Germany
South African Art Now, Michael Stevenson, Cape Town
Africa Comics, Studio Museum, Harlem, New York
Bitterkomix, Michael Stevenson, Cape Town
Ninth Havana Biennale, Havana, Cuba
New Painting, KZNSA Gallery, Durban; Johannesburg Art Gallery, Johannesburg
Diaries and Dreams, Ursula Blickle Stiftung, Frankfurt, Germany
+Positive, Biennale of Merano, Italy
Africa Screams; the return of Evil in African Art and Cinema, Iwalewa Haus, Afrikazentrum der Universitat
Bayreuth, Germany
Mlungu in Africa, Michael Stevenson Gallery, Cape Town
Fuori Uso, 12th International exhibition, Pescara, Italy
Dopo Buzzati. Artisti tra pittura e fumetto, Galleria d’Arte Moderna Carlo Rizzarda, Feltre, Italy
Passport to South Africa, Centro Culturale Trevi, Bolzano, Italy
Shelf Life, Spike Island Gallery, Bristol, UK
Shelf Life, Gasworks, London
In Fumo, Galleria d’Arte Moderna, Bergamo, Italy
2000
Towards-Transit, Pro-Helvitia, Lowenbrau. Zurich, Switzerland
AWARDS & RESIDENCIES
2011
2005
2004
Artist in residence, Turner Galleries, Perth, Australia
Artists Residency, Cite International des Arts, Paris
Winner of the ABSA L’Atelier Competition, South Africa
2003
Art Omi International Artists Residency, New York
ELOISE CAT
ELOISE CATO
Working within the realm of the remnant, Cato
dismantles landscapes. Using existing parallels and
polarities shared with art contexts and language to
consider the notion of natural disasters as natural
abstractions. By the method of burning, her monochromatic work becomes not only the remains of a
brutal force but the embodiment of an art medium.
Eloise Cato
Sheet! (Paper Bark), 2015
14,000 volts, ink and plywood
93x193cm
ELOISE CATO
b: 1990 Sydney, Australia
EDUCATION
2013
Bachelor of Fine Arts, National Arts School, NSW
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2014
Chasm Gallery, Chippendale (September)
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2014
2014
2014
2014
2013
2013
2013
Saatchi & Saatchi Exhibition, Saatchi & Saatchi, The Rocks
MCA Staff Exhibition, The Rocks, Sydney (Upcoming)
Embers of Empathy, George Patterson and Young, Sydney
A Dialogue on Blue, Verge Galleries, Newtown
Young Artists Initiative, .M Contemporary, Woollahra
Graduation Show, National Art School, Sydney
In Grid We Trust, National Art School, Sydney
2013
Interplay, MCA Staff Exhibition, 107 Projects, Redfern
CURATORIAL PROJECTS
2014
2013
Contemporary’s Contemporaries, The Rocks, Sydney (Upcoming)
In Grid We Trust, National Art School, Sydney, Chairman and Designer/Creator of website
2012
Interplay, MCA Staff exhibition, 107 Projects, Redfern
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2014
2012-2014 Philanthropy Intern, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
Gallery Officer for Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
2013-2014 Administrator, Vickers and Hoad Fine Art and Antiques Auctioneers
JACQUELINE BAL
JACQUELINE BALL
“This image is part of a new body of work that is the
most honest I’ve ever made. In the past, most things
I made (in the form of photographed constructions)
were sublimations of a desire for a more viscerally
involved relationship with the people and spaces
around me. However, I’m now crafting force, desire
and more intense realities in my daily life. A part of
this shift has been a rethinking of my own history in
photos, and of what the camera and its images mean
to me, and how they have shaped me.”
Jacqueline Ball
Wind Chill, 2015
Photographic print
90 x 56 cm
JACQUELINE BALL
Born 1986 Sydney Australia
EDUCATION
2013
2012
PhD (Art) Candidate, Curtin University (currently undertaking)
Masters of Fine Art, RMIT University
2009
Bachelor of Arts (Art) (Honours), First Class, Curtin University
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2015
2013
2012
2010
2009
Room Service, Turner Galleries, Perth, Western Australia.
Surveyor, Turner Galleries, Perth, Western Australia.
A Collection of Organised Spaces Part Three, Edmund Pearce, Melbourne, Victoria.
A Collection of Organised Spaces Part Two, Gallery Central, Perth, Western Australia.
A Collection of Organised Spaces, Free Range Gallery, Perth, Western Australia.
Rotunda, Brunswick Street Gallery, Melbourne, Victoria.
Inside Room, Perth Centre for Photography, Perth, Western Australia.
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2014
2013
2012
2011
Melbourne Art Fair, showing with Turner Galleries, Victoria.
PICA Salon 2014, Perth Institute of Contemporary Art, Western Australia.
Dusk to Dark, Curated by Maurice Ortega, Queensland Centre for Photography, Brisbane, and Toowoomba
Regional Art Gallery, Queensland.
Primavera 2013, Curated by Robert Cook, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, New South Wales.
Bliss, New Video Project, Curated by Sally Quin & Ted Snell, PRO/JECT SPACE, Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, Perth,
Western Australia.
Bottom Drawer, Monster Valley Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand.
RMIT Graduate Exhibition, RMIT University MFA Studios, Melbourne, Victoria.
Shared Spaces, First Site gallery, Melbourne, Victoria.
The Joondalup Invitation Art Awards, Ellenbrook Arts, Western Australia.
Remix, WA Contemporary Art, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Curated by Jenepher Duncan, Perth, Western Australia.
Pingyao International Photography Festival, Curated by Rebecca Dagnall, Pingyao, China.
SIM Artist in Residence Exhibition, SIM gallery, Reykjavik, Iceland.
The Joondalup Invitation Art Awards, Joondalup, Western Australia.
COLLECTIONS
Art Gallery of New South Wales
The Art Gallery of Western Australia
Kerry Stokes Collection
The University of Western Australia
Artbank
RESIDENCIES
2013
2011
PICA Studio Residency, Perth, Western Australia.
SIM, The association of Icelandic visual artists, Reykjavik, Iceland.
Sillanpää Art Residency, Varistaipale, Finland.
SELECTED GRANTS, AWARDS & COMMISSIONS
2014
2013
2012
2010
Artflight grant, Department of Culture and the Arts.
William and Winifred Bowness Photography Prize Finalist, Monash Gallery of Art, Victoria.
Bliss, New Video Project, Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery and Department of Culture and the Arts commission.
Australian Postgraduate Award and Curtin Research Scholarship.
RMIT Outstanding Academic Achievement Award and Vice Chancellor’s List Award.
Qantas Spirit of the Youth Awards Visual Arts National Finalist.
RMIT link Arts Funding recipient for the Bottom Drawer exhibition, Monster Valley Gallery, NZ.
Young People and the Arts Development Grant, Department of Culture and the Arts.
PUBLICATIONS + MEDIA
2014
2013
2012
2011
2010
Platform profile, Curated by Jasmin Stephens, written by Lucy Rees, ARTAND Australia, 51, No 4.
Dusk to Dark, Catalogue essay by Maurice Ortega, Director of the Queensland Centre for Photography.
Primavera 2013, Young Australian Artists, Introduction essay by Robert Cook and Catalogue essay by Ivá
Muñiz Reed, September 2013.
Primavera Posse, by Amanda Woodard, Art Collector, July-Sept 2013, Issue 65.
Puzzles offer food for mind, by Laetitia Wilson, The West Australian, 2-3 March 2013.
The Great Unknowns, by Robert Cook, curator of Modern and Contemporary Photography and Design, Art
Gallery of WA, Scoop Homes and Art Magazine, Spring 2012, Edition 34.
Remix catalogue essay by Jenepher Duncan, curator of Contemporary Art, Art Gallery of WA.
A Collection Of Organised Spaces Part Two, Catalogue essay. Set up- Filmic Theatre and the Photographs of
Jacqueline Ball by Dr Ric Spencer, Curator of Fremantle Arts Centre.
JAMES R. FOR
JAMES R. FORD
In D​on’t Tell The Priest​Ford creates his own neopagan ritual, based on existing
May Day/Beltane traditions and folklore, and mixing in his own contemporary
references. The title comes from a poem by Rudyard Kipling, where he speaks
of the sexual naughtiness that occurs in the woods on and around May Day,
associated with Spring fertility rites. For this work Ford is curating from afar,
providing only the costume and a set of instructions. Performed in the gallery
space, away from contextualising festivities, and with most people now unaware
of the related histories, the act takes on darker side and the spectacle becomes
absurd and nonsensical.
James R Ford’s reflections on existential living, use of everyday materials, and
modes of presentation, reveal a fascination with process and the filling in of time.
Contemplating​our human needs and wants, the perils of choice, and the value
of things and nothings in art and life. Mostly a creator of text-based works, well
considered objects, and deadpan videos, Ford provides us with scenarios that
have us pondering over the mundane or acting out the absurd as he invites us to
look deeper into his works and what is taking place around us.
Ford (b. 1980, UK) studied at Goldsmiths College in London and currently lives
and works in Wellington. He has exhibited widely throughout New Zealand and
overseas and in 2013 was winner of the inaugural Tui McLauchlan Emerging
Artist’s Award from the New Zealand Academy of Fine Arts. In 2014 Ford published
a book of selected works, with accompanying texts, interviews and essays from
2008-2013, entitled ​Fail Better,​and was a finalist in the Parkin Drawing Prize, the
National Contemporary Art Award and The Wallace Art Awards.
James R Ford
Don’t Tell The Priest (performed by Lachlan Herd), 2015
Performance and prop installation
Dimensions variable
JAMES R FORD
b: 1980, Frimley (UK)
Currently based in Wellington (NZ)
EDUCATION
2004 – 2005
1999 – 2002
Goldsmiths College, London, UK
Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham, UK
1998 – 1999
Winchester School of Art, Winchester, UK
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2015
2014
2013
2013
2013
2012
2012
2012
2011
2011
2009
2009
Jeopardy, PaulNache Gallery, Gisborne, NZ
Lollygag, PaulNache Gallery, Gisborne, NZ
Redbush and Milk, Sanderson Contemporary Art, Auckland, NZ
Loopy, The Pah Homestead, TSB Bank Wallace Arts Centre, Auckland, NZ
Status Quo, 120 Courtenay Place, Wellington, NZ
Infinite Monkey Syndrome, Square2, City Gallery Wellington, Wellington, NZ
Snake Pis, Blue Oyster Gallery, Dunedin, NZ
Tongue-Tied and Tired, {Suite} Gallery, Wellington, NZ
Air of the Irrational, Christian Ferreira at the Wapping Project, London, UK
Zero Expectations, Peloton Gallery, Sydney, Australia
Too Orangey For Crows, Enjoy Gallery, Wellington, NZ
Only Boring People Get Bored, Ferreira Projects, London, UK
2008
Duchamp Played Chess; I Made Cranes, Ferreira Projects, London, UK
TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2013
2003
Content Missing, with Samin Son, JJ Morgan & Co / Development AIR, Auckland, NZ
Crème Brulee: The Art of House Gymnastics, with Spencer Harrison, Northern Lights Gallery, Bristol,
UK; Brahm Gallery, Leeds, UK
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2015
2015
2015
2015
2015
2014
2014
2014
2014
2014
2014
2014
2014
2014
2014
2014
2013
2013
2013
2013
The Emperor’s New Clothes, Pilot Gallery, Hamilton, NZ (upcoming)
The Emperor’s New Clothes, .M Contemporary, Sydney, Australia (upcoming)
Mythology of My Land, .M Contemporary, Sydney, Australia (upcoming)
The Emperor’s New Clothes, PaulNache Gallery, Gisborne, NZ (upcoming)
Cut + Paste: The Practice of Collage, The Dowse Art Museum, Wellington, NZ (upcoming)
Evolve, .M Contemporary, Sydney, Australia
Tools of the Trade, The Wandering Room, Brisbane, Australia
The Wallace Art Awards 2014, The Pah Homestead, TSB Bank Wallace Arts Centre, Auckland, NZ
Lying in Space, 30 Upstairs, Wellington, NZ
Melbourne Art Fair (PaulNache Gallery), Melbourne, Australia
Parkin Drawing Prize 2014, NZ Academy of Fine Arts, Wellington, NZ
National Contemporary Art Award 2014, Waikato Museum, Hamilton, NZ
Whakaora, Whakatane Museum, Whakatane, NZ
Nothing but precious, Elbowroom Gallery, Wellington, NZ
Tools of the Trade, PaulNache Gallery, Gisborne, NZ
Odd Peer Nexus, The Young, Wellington, NZ
Saloon des Ferari 2, Ferari Space, Auckland, NZ
Auckland Art Fair (PaulNache Gallery), Auckland, NZ
Recent Acquisitions: Emerging and Established Artists, TSB Bank Wallace Arts Centre, Auckland, NZ
Studio Raids, Sanderson Contemporary Art, Auckland, NZ
2013
2013
2012
2012
2012
2012
2012
2012
2012
2012
2012
2012
2011
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2004
2004
2003
2003
2003
2003
2002
Wellington Underground Film Festival 2013, Wellington, NZ
Remake: Emerging Artists, NZ Academy of Fine Arts, Wellington, NZ
Advent 2012, Sanderson Contemporary Art, Auckland, NZ
Never Mind the Pollocks, St Paul Street Gallery, Auckland, NZ
Creep, Sanderson Contemporary Art, Auckland, NZ
Proposals, Ryan Renshaw Gallery Window, Brisbane, Australia
Gordon’s Walters Prize, Snake Pit, Auckland, NZ
Too Little Too Late, Snake Pit, Auckland, NZ
At Play 2012, South Hill Park, Berkshire, UK; Ovada, Oxford, UK
Never Mind the Pollocks, PaulNache Gallery, Gisborne, NZ
Welcome, Satellite Gallery, Auckland, NZ
Never Mind the Pollocks, curated by James R Ford, {Suite} Gallery, Wellington, NZ
Two Sides of the Same Coin, The Russian Frost Farmers, Wellington, NZ
Emergence, Auckland Art Week, Auckland, NZ
Bold Horizon National Contemporary Art Award 2011, Waikato Museum, Hamilton, NZ
Airline, ABC Gallery, Christchurch, NZ
Cliftons Art Prize 2011, The Majestic Centre, Wellington, NZ
Recent Acquisitions: Part II, TSB Bank Wallace Arts Centre, Auckland, NZ
Geometry Is Never Wrong, W+K, London, UK
At Play 2, South Hill Park, Bracknell, UK
Spreading Blankets on the Beach, JJ Morgan & Co, Wellington, NZ
Summer Group Show, Antoinette Godkin Gallery, Auckland, NZ
Encounters with Scale, Portman Gallery, London, UK
Sale, The Royal Standard, Liverpool, UK
Irregular Pulse, curated by James R Ford, Ferreira Projects, London, UK
PURE_drawing+illustration, Ferreira Projects, London, UK
Designersblock @ 100% Design Tokyo, Jingu Gaien, Tokyo, Japan
Stick*Stamp*Fly, Gasworks, London, UK
4C: SightSeeing Tour, GUM Factory, Saatchi & Saatchi, London, UK
Driven, Fieldgate Gallery, London, UK
Extreme Crafts, Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius, Lithuania
Feel Good Feel Bad Boys and Girls, Lange Gasse 28, Ausberg, Germany
GIFT, Museum MAN, Liverpool, UK
Your Gallery@The Guardian, The Guardian Newsroom Gallery, London, UK
Objects in Waiting, End Gallery, Sheffield, UK
Knock Down Ginger, MyHouse Gallery, Nottingham, UK
Kitson Kaleidoscope, Kitson Road, London, UK
Terrible Toy Fair III, CBGB Art Gallery, New York, USA
Another Product – Britishness, Cornerhouse, Manchester, UK
Never Finished, Always Ready, 75 Brushfield Street, London, UK
Bound_less, The Stenersen Museum, Oslo, Norway
Pictoplasma Conference, Cafe Moskau, Berlin, Germany
Exhibit.001 (Nth-Art), Ols $ Co Gallery, London, UK
Re-Form, The Art Exchange Gallery, Nottingham, UK
Trailing Cables, PEA Gallery & 291 Gallery, London, UK
Disposable Generation, Bridlesmith Gate Gallery, Nottingham, UK
Made@Home, Aspex Gallery, Portsmouth, UK
Blueprint, Surface Gallery, Nottingham, UK
2001
Starbucks, Sex and Space Invaders, Surface Gallery, Nottingham, UK
2001
Curried Trout, The Art Exchange Gallery, Nottingham, UK
PRIZES AND AWARDS
Finalist, The Wallace Art Awards 2014, The Pah Homestead, TSB Bank Wallace Arts Centre, Auckland, NZ
Finalist, National Contemporary Art Award 2014, Waikato Museum, Hamilton, NZ
Finalist, Parkin Drawing Prize 2014, NZ Academy of Fine Arts, Wellington, NZ
2013Winner, Tui McLauchlan Emerging Artist’s Award, New Zealand Academy of Fine Arts, Wellington, NZ
2011 Finalist, Bold Horizon National Contemporary Art Award, Waikato Museum, Hamilton, NZ
Finalist, Cliftons Art Prize, The Majestic Centre, Wellington, NZ
2014
2003Winner, Net Art Category, Third Place Gallery/Sony Playstation2 Award
BOOKS AND CATALOGUES
2014
2012
2011
2010
2008
2007
2006
2004
Fail Better, James R Ford selected works 2008-2013, text by Mark Amery, Jeremy Booth,
Rudi Christian Ferreira, Matilda Fraser, Russell Herron, Justin Jade Morgan and Reuben Schrader
Never Mind the Pollocks, exhibition catalogue, {Suite} Gallery, Wellington, Paul Nache Gallery, Gisborne, St Paul
Street Gallery, Auckland, NZ
OVER UNDER AND AROUND, Enjoy Public Art Gallery, Wellington, NZ
Bold Horizon National Contemporary Art Award 2011, exhibition catalogue, Waikato Museum, Hamilton, NZ
Airline: an international drawing show, exhibition catalogue, ABC Gallery, Christchurch, NZ
Zero Expectations, exhibition catalogue, Peloton Gallery, Sydney, Australia
The Second Enjoy Five Year Retrospective Catalogue, Enjoy Public Art Gallery, Wellington, NZ
Duchamp Played Chess; I Made Cranes, exhibition catalogue, Ferreira Projects, London, UK
4C: SightSeeing Tour, exhibition catalogue, GUM Factory, London, UK
GROK: An Introduction to New Media Art, Interactive CD-ROM, Rhizome.org
House Gymnastics, Random House/Ebury Press, London, UK
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
2015
2014
2013
2012
2011
2010
2009
Walsh, K., The game of art…, The Gisborne Herald (NZ), 05 February 2015
Cardy, T., Starting from scratch, The Dominion Post (NZ), 10 December 2014
Patrick, M., Work, rest and play, Art Collector, Issue 69, July – September 2014
Walsh, K., The artist’s playground, The Gisborne Herald (NZ), 03 July 2014
Galleria, Threaded Magazine, Issue 16, 2014
Amery, M., Thinking well outside the box, The Dominion Post (NZ), 26 February 2014
Powell, K., Art in action, Waikato Times (NZ), 29 August 2013
Have a nice cup of tea, Art News New Zealand, Spring 2013
Stewart, M., Nausea nets artist emerging award, The Dominion Post (NZ), 11 February 2013
Hurrell, J., Is It Right to Laugh at Men Painting?, EyeContact, 7th December 2012
Men’s Business, Art News New Zealand, Winter 2012
Walsh, K., Deft touch reveals a different side to the contemporary ‘bloke’ artist, The Gisborne Herald (NZ), 03 May 2012
Amery, M., Pick and Mix, The Dominion Post (NZ), 19 January
Gardiner, S., NZ Wrap, 06 Never Mind the Pollocks, Australian Art Collector, January – March 2012
Amery, M., Unusual Wellington Collective, EyeContact, published online 11 November
Godfrey, A., Body Fluid Artists, Bizarre Magazine, Issue no.178, August 2011
Feeney, W., Examining Drawing, EyeContact, published online 13 July
Amery, M., Smashing Up, The Dominion Post (NZ), 22 July
Meehan, P., Ones to Watch: James R Ford, Jotta Magazine, 20 July
Pulverised car as art, The Dominion Post (NZ), 19 July
Fox, M., Bertos keen to join in on revenge demolition of car, The Dominion Post (NZ), 06 July
Culture Check, The Dominion Post (NZ), 26 August
Hunter, A., REVIEW: Only Boring People Get Bored, Art Journal Online, 4 March
Essential things to see and do this month, Grafik, Issue no.171, March
Recommended exhibitions this month, Art World, UK/Int’l Edition – Issue 9, Feb / Mar
News in Pictures, Design Week, 22 January
2008
2007
2006
2005
2004
2003
London for Free: James R Ford, Metro (London), 24 April
Essential things to see and do this month, Grafik, Issue no.161, April
Pick of the Month – 4C: SightSeeing Tour, Creative Review, August
Maynard, G., I stuck 4,342 toy cars on my old motor, Daily Express, 27 November
Phillips, A., From Ford Capri to General Lee, Southwark News, 7 September
Denes, M., Curate your own exhibition, The Guardian (G2), 6 September
Wilson, J., The art of smoking, LeftLion Magazine, Issue no.10, Spring
Eisele, K., Mex sport: House Gymnastics, Mex magazine (Switzerland), April
Pepper, T., Making their own breaks, Newsweek International, 26 Sep – 3 Oct
Marchen, J., Hjemmefitness, Berlingske Tidende newspaper (Denmark), 9 April
Hughes, G., Bogey Ball, Bizarre Magazine, Issue no.89, August
Perbos, L., Blanco, S., Latherrade, F., Do it Yourself, Buy-Sellf, Issue no.4 (France), May
Hearn, K., Chocolate starfish goes online, BBC-i Beds, Herts and Bucks (www.bbc.co.uk), published online 18 March
Poulson, A., But is it art?: General Carbuncle, Dazed&Confused, March
Adams, T., Tips for a happy new you, The Observer, 28 December
Shields, A., Frothy table reading, Time Out London, 10-17 December
Eyre, H., How extreme is your house?, The Independent on Sunday, 07 December
The Most Remarkable things in Culture this Month, Esquire Magazine, December
The World in Pictures, Hello! Magazine, Issue no.784, 30 September
Moore, C., The Spectator’s Notes, The Spectator, 13 September
Wood, L., How to muscle in at home, Metro Newspaper, 19 August
Zweifel, P., Don’t try this at home: Jackass in the Living room, 20 Minuten Newspaper, Basel, Switzerland, 7 May
Kwok, D., Inside the World of House Gymnastics, Tablet Newspaper, Seattle, USA, Issue no.66, April
Jenkins, W., Driving me up the wall, Dazed&Confused, February
RESIDENCIES
2009
2008
Artist in Residence, 33 things to do before you’re 10, Ferreira Projects, London, UK
Artist in Residence, Duchamp Played Chess; I Made Cranes, Ferreira Projects, London, UK
2004
PVA LabCulture, ArtSway, New Forest, Hampshire, UK
JAN SMIT
JAN SMITH
THE SCHOOLS OF PRIPYAT, UKRAINE
Pripyat was built in 1970 to accommodate the workers at the Chernobyl power plant.
A darling of Soviet urban planning, it was a beautiful and prosperous city that grew
to 50,000 residents. Over 700 children were born or settled in Pripyat each year, and
particular attention was given to schools. In 1986, Pripyat had fifteen K-5 schools, five
upper schools, four libraries, a bookstore, and a branch of the Kuibyshev National
Technical College. Another four schools and one college were planned for 1988.
Talented artisans decorated the schools, but after the evacuation, liquidator-crews
disposed of radioactive furniture and fixings. Items were thrown out windows for the
sake of efficiency. Most schools in Pripyat then suffered at the hands of marauders
and visitors. In other schools rooms are burned, toys wear gasmasks (as props),
and recently entire wings are crumbling. Nusery #14 is different. It is secluded, and
barricaded behind a door, the toys lie where they were left twenty-five years ago.
Igrushka means “toy” in Russian. This project is an explo- ration of the Chernobyl
accident through the forsaken toys of a very particular nursery in the abandoned city
of Pripyat. I discovered them in January after I climbed through a bro- ken window
and cleared the rubble from in front of a door with a painted parrot on it. Small text
on a bird-house in the painting identified the nursery as “Group 14”.
The nursery had toys from East Germany, reflecting Pripy- at’s affluence. Murals with
fairytales and fables were based on the stories of Sergey Kozlov, and both Alexsey
and Leo Tolstoy. The plethora of forsaken toy rabbits, geese, bears, and foxes showed
the germane influence of the forest and farm on Ukrainian society and education.
Many toys are particular to Soviet and Russian culture. Toy cosmonauts were a
traditional teachers’ gift to children on their birthday. In Pripyat, Burantino, elsewhere
known as Pinocchio, is proud of his nose and likes being a puppet.
This type of playing changed after the accident. In Pripyat the toys were abandoned,
but gradually the fall of the Soviet regime meant the arrival of new toys and influences
to all schools. I was curious how adults today recalled that time and what their
first impressions of Chernobyl were. Information regarding the event was never
forthcoming in the USSR; what percolated to a young child, must have seemed
doubly obscure and far away.
The memories shared with me include stories about favorite toys, family, and small
moments that marked child- hood. They add depth to the stories I researched and
found on open pages in the nursery. No toy was moved to create an image.
-Jan Smith, Kiev, April 2011
Jan Smith
Vlad Remembers,
JAN SMITH
INDIVIDUAL SHOWS
2010
2009
2008
2007
Nouadhibou, Keller Williams Space, Miami
Pop. Density, Galería Epson México D.F.
Nouadhibou, Galeria Mesa Fine Art, Dominican Republic
Pop. Density, Espacio AF Polanco, México D.F.
Ausencia y Abandono, Galeria Eduardo Fernandes, São Paulo
Gunkanjima, Patio de la Fototeca, Zacatecas, México.
Gunkanjima, Galeria Bateau Mouche, Toluca, México.
Gunkanjima, Galeria Ibero, Puebla, México.
Gunkanjima, Espacio Cultural Japón, México D.F.
Pop. Density, Galería Nina Menocal, México D.F.
Nouadhibou, Galería Conejo Blanco, Mexico D.F.
Nouadhibou, Galería Piso 51, México D.F.
Ausencia y Abandono, Galería Uno, México D.F.
GROUP SHOWS
2010
2009
2008
2005
Zihuatlali, Casa Francia, México D.F.
Mexico Vivo, Museo Arte Moderno, México D.F.
SP-Arte, São Paulo
Collective, Galeria Conejo Blanco, México D.F.
Japan Collective, Galería Epson, México D.F.
Collective, Burn Gallery, New York
Collective, Sema Topaloglu Studio, Istanbul
PX3, Espace Dupon, Paris
Collective, Casa Cor, São Paulo, Brazil
Collective, Atelier Art Gallery, Miami
Collective, Club Fotográfico Mexicano, México D.F.
RECOGNITIONS
2011Winner “Places”, Onelife (PDN/Artist Wanted)
2010 Nominated Best Exhibition, PhotoImagen Caribe 2010
Selected as a showcase exhibit for Mexico-Japon 400 Years
2009 Honorable Mention, Photographer’s Forum
Excellence Award, Color Magazine
First Place Fine Art, Prix de la Photographie Paris
INTERNATIONAL PHOTOGRAPHY AWARDS
2009
2007
2006
Second Place, People
Third Place, Aerial
First Place, Aerial
Second Place, Historic
Honorable Mention, International Color Awards
Black & White Spider Awards
Honorable Mention Abstract
Honor of Distinction Architecture
2005
Best Emerging Photographer, Club Fotográfico Mexicano
BREEDING GROUND
With an instinctual affinity for abandoned spaces, Jasmine
Poole captures the ephemeral nature of the built world with
her photography and installation series Breeding Ground.
Created in Germany, Poland and Australia, the work offers an
exploration into the redefinition of abandoned and soon to be
demolished or renewed sites
Stemming from an interest in urban exploration and a concern
with the process of gentrification, the images were conceived as
a way of highlighting the artistic, cultural and historical values
of spaces against a paradigm that assesses their value only as
future development sites.
From a former GDR national broadcasting centre in Berlin, to a
suburban Sydney backyard set for demolition; Poole responds
to the ambiguity of these spaces through the creation of
luminescent site-specific installations. Their phantasmagoric
forms depict an impermanence that is hauntingly compelling.
Created in camera, these acts of incursion exist only in photographic
documentation. The series aims to interrogate the current
privileging of profit over community in the built environment by
offering up imagined and alternative realities.
JASMINE POOL
JASMINE POOLE
Jasmine Poole
Bleeding Ground, 2015
photographic print
edition of 3
JASMINE POOLE
EDUCATION
Current
Certificate IV in Arts Administration - Community Cultural Development: Southern Sydney Institute of TAFE
2004-2005 Bachelor Of Fine Arts with Distinction (Majoring in Photomedia) University of New South Wales, College Of Fine Arts
2001-2003 Advanced Diploma of Fine Arts (Majoring in Photography) Southern Sydney Institute of TAFE
RESIDENCIES AND ARTIST COLLECTIVES
2013
2012
2006
Co-Founder and Member of Unconscious Collective
Hello Collective Summer Residency, Poland
Co-Founder and Member of International Noise A.R.I
SOLO SHOWS
2014
2013
Breeding Ground, Gaffa Gallery (Head On Photo Festival)
Breeding Ground, BSG Gallery
SELECTED GROUP SHOWS
2014
2013
2012
2011
2010
2009
2008
2006
Beams Arts Festival Chippendale Creative Precinct
In the Night Garden Tortuga Studios/Sydney Fringe Festival
Site Specific Installation JAM Gallery, Bangkok, Thailand
These Glass Eyes, Salmagundi Studios
Sprawl, ‘In the Night Garden’ Arts Festival/Tortuga Studios
Hello Collective Summer Residency Show, Poland
First World Problems, Liebig 12, Berlin
Berlin Unhinged, SO36 Berlin
Flight, Salmagundi Studios
Captured, Muse Gallery
Copycats III, (International Noise A.R.I)
Salmagundi Grand Opening, Salmagundi Studios
Art & About Sydney Life, Hyde Park City Of Sydney
9x5” (International Noise A.R.I), Gallery inside the back of a truck parked outside the front of the AGNSW,
Dank Street Depot and ACP for 3 weeks
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
100 Years Of Solitude, Sydney Institute TAFE
Untitled, Southern Sydney Institute
PRIZES AND AWARDS
2012
2010
2008
2005
2003
2001
Finalist, BSG Picture This Prize
Finalist, Olive Cotton Portraiture Prize
Finalist, Captured TAFE past graduate show
Semi-Finalist, Moran Photographic Prize
Semi-Finalist, Moran Photographic Prize
Finalist, Head On Portraiture Prize
Winner of People’s Choice, Art and About Sydney Life
Winner, COFA Annual Fuji Film Photomedia Award
Winner, TAFE Best In Graduating Show
Winner, Southern Institute Award in Photography
MEDIA
2014
2013
2012
2008
Artlife Article Jasmine Poole: Breeding Ground
Timeout Online Article Jasmine Poole: Breeding Ground
Artwrite Magazine Issue 53 pp. 36-43 ‘Never As It Seems: An interview with Jasmine Poole in three parts’
Pachinko Magazine Issue 1, Featured Artist
Sydney Media, Article on Sunday Life
Inner West Courier, Interview for Sunday Life
JOE WILSO
JOE WILSON
In the 70’s Rosalind Krauss, when writing on PostMinimalism, criticised the preceding Abstract
Expressionists for cultivating private myth in the
artist; what she liked in the new art of the time was
the prestige transfer to the viewer. Just as beauty is
in the eye of the beholder, who else but the viewer
can make art, it is there in the minds eye where an
artwork comes to life.
Central to my work has been an examination of the
domains that distinguish painting and art; how these
practices occupy a distinct and privileged conceptual
space that has been challenged in contemporary
art but also maintained by dominant and persisting
conventions. By engaging in a discourse on art, my
practice has become increasingly aware of systems
of art exterior to the work itself. The frame for
instance, the wall a painting may hang on, and the
venue it occupies are outside forces that shape how
art is perceived and valued.
Joe Wilson
Interior Landscape, 2015
Acrylic on ployester
160 x 160cm
JOE WILSON
EDUCATION
2015 2014
2006-2009 Masters of Fine Art, National Art School (current)
Bachelor of Fine Arts (Hons), National Art School
Short Course, “Colours in Pastel” with Rudy Kistler, Waverley College
Bachelor of Fine Arts, National Art School
2007 Short Course, “Painting II” with David Eastwood, National Art School
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2012 Landscapes, St. Vincents Hospital, Sydney
Building 25, National Art School, Sydney
Studio 2 Brand X, Central Park, Sydney
Studio Mils Gallery, Sydney
Playing the Game, Soldiers Rd Gallery, Sydney
2011 Guardian/Child, Mils Gallery, Sydney
2015
2014
2013 SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 2008
Bang, Pier 2/3, Sydney
Feral 5, Articulate Gallery, Sydney
St George Bank National Art School Post-graduate Exhibition, Sydney
Head Gear 4, Mils Gallery, Sydney
17.07.14, Home@735, Sydney
Constructed Images, Mils Gallery, with BENNETT, Sydney
Maximus Minimus, Defiance Gallery, Sydney
Echo Chamber (Curator), Rex-Livingston Art Dealer, Sydney
New Lines (Curator), Rex-Livingston Projects, Sydney
Under A Grand 2, Rex-Livingston Art Dealer, Sydney
Colour and Landscape, Rex-Livingston Art Dealer, Sydney
Cardboard City, Soldiers Rd Gallery, Sydney
Spring Up, Studio of James Powditch, Sydney
Under a Grand, Rex-Livingston Art Dealer, Sydney
Two, with Eva Troyeur-Gibson, Mils Gallery, Sydney
Worlds A P A R T, Soldiers Rd, Sydney
16th Annual Miniature Show, Defiance Gallery, Sydney
Pop Up, Studio of James Powditch, Sydney
Chris Bennett, (Featured Collaborative), Coleville Gallery, Hobart,
ABRIDGE, Installation, Mils Gallery, Sydney,
Fragments, Mils Gallery, Sydney
Focus, with Joe Purtle, Mils Gallery, Sydney
Degree Show, National Art School, Sydney
PRIZES
2013 2012 Finalist, Mount Eyre Art Prize, Rex-Livingston Art Dealer, Sydney
Finalist, Mount Eyre Art Prize, Rex-Livingston Art Dealer, Sydney
Finalist, Toyota Young and Free Art Prize, Toyota Community
Spirit Gallery, Melbourne
COLLECTIONS
Allens Art Collection, Melbourne
St Vincent’s Art Collection, Sydney
Joel Crosswell uses biographical stories and events
to connect with wider themes relating to spirituality,
existence and the human condition. Through his drawings
and sculptural works, Croswell weaves together personal
experience with cultural and religious references in
such a way that subtly evokes mythology without overtly
referencing it. He sources influence from a wide range
of contemporary life including cinema, the environment,
cultural beliefs, ritual, surrealism, pop culture and the
renaissance period.
His series Galaxias takes inspiration from the endangered
Galaxias trout found in Tasmania. In each drawing, Crosswell
morphed fish and human to create a mythological creature
connected to both the sea and the land examining a
concern for ecology and the environment in terms of
the demise of the figure. Crosswell, speaking of his work
says, “It’s an endangered species and in a weird way it’s a
reflection of my own self and humanity in general”.
J
JOEL CROSSWELL
Joel Crosswell
Death of a Galaxias 2, 2014
Pen on paper
42 x 54 cm framed
JOEL CROSSWELL
b: 1983 Hobart, Tasmania
EDUCATION
2008 Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree, University of Tasmania, TAS
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2014
2013
2012
2012 2012
2011
2011
Perry’s Realm, Bett Gallery Hobart, TAS
Beyond the Thunderdome, M.O.P Projects, Sydney, NSW
Shotgun, CAST in partnership with Detached Cultural organization, TAS
Realm, Michael Reid at Elizabeth Bay, Sydney, NSW
After Midnight, Sawtooth Gallery, Launceston, TAS
Ashes to Ashes, Inflight Gallery, Hobart, TAS
The Little Show of Existence, Bett Gallery Hobart, TAS
2009 Wounds and Stiches, Bett Gallery Hobart, TAS
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
The Skullbone Experiment: A Paradigm of Art and Nature, Touring Exhibition: Queen Victorian Museum
and Art Gallery, Launceston, TAS and University of New South Wales College of Fine Arts, Sydney, NSW
2013 Macquarie Group Emerging Art Prize, Macquarie group building, Sydney, NSW
2013 Sydney Contemporary Art Fair, Represented by Constance ARI, Sydney, NSW
2013 Marrickville Garage’s Inaugural Show, Marrickville, Sydney, NSW
2012 Clean Living, Contemporary Art Services Tasmania, Hobart, TAS
2011 City of Hobart Art Prize, Hobart, TAS
2011 Unnatural, Plimsoll Gallery, University of Tasmania, Hobart, TAS
2011 I Am Satan, Hell Gallery, Melbourne, VIC
2011 Preview Exhibition and Honours Award Exhibition, Bett Gallery Hobart, TAS
2010 Lets Make The Water Turn Black, Inflight Gallery, Hobart, TAS
2009 Lust for Life, Contemporary Art Services Tasmania, Hobart, TAS
2014
2007 Accommodation Acquisitive Art Exhibition, University of Tasmania, Hobart, TAS
AWARDS
2011 MONA Prize within the Hobart City Art Prize, Hobart, TAS
2007 Highly Commended Award for Sculptural piece ‘It Only Comes Out At Night,’ Accommodation Acquisitive
Art Exhibition, University of Tasmania, Hobart, TAS
RESIDENCY
2013
Skullbone Plains, Tasmania. Curated by Catherine and Philip Wolfhagen.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Pearce, Melissa, New Kids on the Block: Tasmania’s Top 5 Artists, Qantas Traveller Insider, 04 December 2012
Crawford, Ashley, Triumph of the Line, Art Collector, Issue 59, January – March 2012
O’Sullivan, Jane, Tas Wrap, Art Collector, Issue 58, October – December 2011
Tudor, Bec, Lets Make the Water Turn Black, Artlink, Volume 30, No 3, 2010
Griffiths, Angela, Artist Profile, Art Monthly Australia, March 2009
JOY IVIL
JOY IVILL
Joy’s art is profoundly confessional, at times
amusing but simultaneously emanating an
intensely emotional and vulnerable side. Her
works raw openness, immediacy and sexually
provocative witty attitude fascinates the viewer.
She reveals intimate details of her life in a powerful
way. For her, art making is a cathartic process that
exorcises her pain; she has exhibited throughout
Australia and Asia, and is presently preparing for a
mixed exhibition in Berlin, Germany.
Joy Ivill
Untitled,
Embroidery on french linen
69 x 53 cm
JOY IVILL
EDUCATION
1978-80 Ku-ring-gai College of Advanced Education
Bachelor of Fine Arts, (First Class Honours) College of Fine Arts (COFA), University of New South Wales, Sydney.
Australia
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
2014 UNSW ART-DESIGN Annual Exhibition at UNSW Galleries, Paddington.
2014 Finalist in Kudos Awards, Kudos Gallery, Paddington. October
2014 Evoke, M Contemporary Gallery, Woollahra 2, August - October
2014 Tim Olsen Drawing Prize, Kudos Gallery, October
2014 Stitched, Janet Clayton Gallery, Sydney curated by Professor Michael Esson
2014 Young Artists Initiative (YAI), M Contemporary Gallery, Sydney
2014 Engage, M Contemporary Gallery, Sydney.
2014 Refining, Kudos Gallery, Sydney
2013 Kudos Emerging Artist Award, Kudos Gallery, Sydney
2013 COFA Annual Exhibition, UNSW College of Fine Arts, Sydney
2012 SPI in Disguise, COFA Space, Sydney
2012 Leeches and Beaches, Kudos Gallery, Sydney
2012 Mad Object, Kudos Gallery, Sydney
2012 Half a Desk, Kudos Gallery, Sydney
2012 Bamboo City, 791 Design Precinct, Beijing Design Week, Beijing
2011 Torpid Décor, Kudos Gallery, Sydney
2011 Object Fou, COFA Space, Sydney
RESIDENCIES
2012 Porosity Studio, Tsing Hua University + 798 Art Zone, Beijing, China.
2012 The Green House Residency, UNSW Fowlers Gap Remote Research Station, Far Western NSW (Broken Hill)
2015 Takt Residency Berlin, three months (there at present)
2015 Venice Printmaking Studio Residency (forthcoming)
2015 Accepted invitation to Camac Art Centre, Marnay-sur-Seine, France (forthcoming September -October)
2015 Red Gate Residency Beijing, China (forthcoming)
COMMISSIONS
2014 The Bearded Tit, ArtBar, Redfern
2014 Nikki Townsend, Michael Reid Gallery
PRIZES
2015 Grant from Camac Artists residency, Marnac-sur-Seine, France.
2014 Deans List Award for academic excellence, College of Fine Arts (COFA) UNSW, Sydney, Australia.
2014 Finalist in Kudos Awards, Kudos Gallery, Paddington, Sydney.
2013 Winner: COFA Sculpture, Performance and Installation Prize for Excellence at COFA Annual Exhibition
2013 Finalist in Kudos Emerging Artist Award, Kudos Gallery, Sydney
PUBLICATIONS
See ‘News’ page for linkshttp://www.joyivill.com/news.html
UNSW NEWSROOM “The Art of Love Explored” 24th November, 2014
2014 YAI Y ‘Young Artists Initiative” M Contemporary Gallery, Sydney catalogue, online & local newspaper
2014 Stitched Catalogue& online Janet Clayton Gallery, Sydney curated by Professor Michael Esson
2013 “Manifesto”, UNSW COFA Magazine
2014 “Engage” Exhibition for emerging artists and artists talk by Joy Ivill, M Contemporary Gallery/Facebook
2014 “Evoke - Australian Emerging Artists, M Contemporary Gallery, Sydney catalogue and online
2014 “Wentworth Courier” Eastern Suburbs of Sydney local newspaper: Joy Ivill “Going Places” Young artists exhibit
fine eclectic wares”
South African born artist Laura Ellenberger completed
her Honors at the National Art School in Sydney
before relocating to her current base in London. Her
veiled drawing series explores the human condition,
people’s thoughts and the fact that we never really
know what happens below the surface. At the same
time she responds to the surface and how it feels, and
her drawings engage with both - the physical and the
psychological. Ellenberger’s latest works return to her
photographic roots and play use historical techniques
to illustrate todays land. Her work is temporal and
meditative, offering a contrast to the sometimes
frenetic world we live in.
LAURA ELLENBERGER
LAURA ELLENBERGER
Laura Ellenberger
Hazza’s Studio, Oberon, 2015
Tin type
LAURA ELLENBERGER
EDUCATION
2008-2011 1986 1982-1984 BA Honours, National Art School Sydney Australia
Higher Diploma in Photography, Pretoria South Africa
Diploma in Photography, Pretoria South Africa
WORK
1991-1997 1986-1990 1984- Décor Photographer Style Magazine Cape Town South Africa
Head photographer for Style Magazine Johannesburg South Africa
Freelance photography for The Star Newspaper Johannesburg, Nationale Pers,
Republican Press, Caxton Press, Camera Press London
AWARDS
1989 1985-1989 1984 Finalist for SAPPI (South African Paper and Pulp Industry) Awards for a published body of work, Photography
Numerous ILFORD Photographic awards
Ivan Solomon Gallery solo exhibition award for outstanding student
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
1985 1985 Ivan Solomon Gallery Pretoria - Photography
The Market Gallery Johannesburg - Photography
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2015 Group Show, Memories In Motion, .M Contemoporary, Woollahra, NSW
2012 Group Show, Hill End, NSW
2012 Group Show comprising four ‘Best Honours Students’ at At The Vanishing Point Gallery, Newtown, Sydney
2011 Group show, Drawing, Stairwell Gallery NAS
2010 Group Show, painting, building 25 NAS
2010 The Stairwell Gallery NAS - Bronze casting
2009 Landscape exhibition building 25 NAS
2006, 2007 Mosman Festival Mosman Art Gallery – Painting
2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 1010 Artists of Mosman – Painting
2006 Finalist Mosman Art Prize
2005 The Mall Galleries London – Painting
PUBLICATIONS – BOOKS
2011 2010 1993 1993 1993 1990 NAS Degree Show Catalogue
NAS Degree Show Catalogue
Photography for ‘Historic schools of South Africa’ Pachyderm Press
Photography for ART, DESIGN, ARCHITECTURE Magazine, South Africa
Décor photograph for ‘Terence Conran Kitchen Book’ Conran Octopus
Photography for ‘Malunde – The Street Children of Hillbrow’, Witwatersrand University Press
CHARITY WORK
2007 – 2010 1988 -1990 Fund raising for SCIC (Sydney Cochlear Implant Centre)
Street children in Johannesburg and Boys Town
RECENT WORKSHOPS
2014 Royal Drawing School, London – Portraiture today
LAURA E. KENNED
LAURA E. KENNEDY
Laura E. Kennedy’s work combines realistic
coloured pencil drawings with a conceptual agenda
that seeks to subvert the associated expectations
with the status and presentation of her illustrative
medium. Rather than aspiring for photo-realism,
Kennedy is driven by a desire to produce exquisite
surfaces and mark making to draw the viewer
closer to inspect and savour her drawings. Laura E. Kennedy
Fairy Wren Embedded in Fractured Ricochet, 2015
Coloured pencil and acrylic on laser cut panels
14.5 x 18.5 cm
LAURA E. KENNEDY
EDUCATION
2007-2008
Bachelor of Visual Arts (Printmedia), University of Sydney, Sydney College of the Arts, Rozelle
2005 1st year of study completed: Bachelor of Fine Arts, National Art School, Darlinghurst NSW
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2013-2014 2012-2014 2013 Visitor Services Officer, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart
Framing Designer at Wagner Framemakers, Hobart
Administrative Assistant, Arts Tasmania, Hobart
2010-2012 Framing Designer at Framing Matters, Manuka ACT
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2015 Pretty Ugly, Penny Contemporary, Hobart
2013 Fowl + Flamingo, Penny Contemporary, Hobart
AWARDS & PRIZES
2014 2014
2012 2011 2010 Finalist, Bay of Fires Art Prize, Tidal Waters Resort, St Helens, Tasmania
Finalist, Rick Amor Drawing Prize, Art Gallery of Ballarat
Finalist, RACT Youth Portraiture Prize, Long Gallery, Salamanca Hobart
Winner, National Framing Design Competition, Profile Magazine
Finalist, Capital Chemist Art Award, Tuggeranong Art Centre
2004 Highly Commended, St George Portrait Prize, University of Newcastle
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2014
2013 2013
2012 2012
2012
2011 2010 2010
2010
2009 2009
2009
2008 2007 2006 Engage, M Contemporary, Sydney
Annual Member’s Exhibition, Contemporary Art Tasmania, North Hobart
Glenorchy Open, Moonah Arts Centre, Moonah, Tasmania
RACT Youth Portraiture Prize, Long Gallery, Salamanca, Sawtooth Gallery, Launceston,
Devonport Regional Gallery, Devonport, Tasmania
Ongoing Installation, Lovett Gallery, Cygnet, Tasmania
Ongoing Installation, Framing Matters, Manuka, Canberra
A Little Bit of Summer, Christmas Show, Breathing Colours Gallery, Balmain
Capital Chemist Art Award, Tuggeranong Art Centre, Canberra
From Within, Framing Matters, Manuka, Canberra
A Little Bit of Red, Christmas Show, Breathing Colours Gallery, Balmain
Imagined Spaces, Breathing Colours Gallery, Balmain
Friends of Breathing Colours, First Anniversary Show, Breathing Colours Gallery, Balmain
Degree Show, Sydney College of the Arts, Rozelle
First Call, The Last Bastion of Civilisation, Surry Hills
Technobiography, Field Contemporary Art Space, Newcastle
2004 St George Portrait Prize, University of Newcastle
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2013 Clyde Selby: “Courage follows animals instincts”, Mercury Saturday Magazine, September 28, 2013, pp.22-23
2013 Fowl + Flamingo, Australian Animal Studies Group Bulletin, September, 2013, p.58
2012 Clyde Selby: “Gallery Watch: Our fascinating faces”, Mercury Saturday Magazine, September 8, 2012, pp.22-23
FIGURE IN A DARK LANDSCAPE
In a dark land, a mysterious figure interacts with positioned
beams of light. Human, creature and yet goddess like, the viewer
is offered fleeting glimpses of the body as it moves across a
morphing and darkened landscape. Filmed in a small theatre
space and presented as video, the moments of temporary
darkness functions both as theatre blackout and cinematic cut.
Here we have explored the body’s interaction with the space it
inhabits and the role of illusion in art.
Figure in a Dark Landscape is part of an ongoing collaboration
between Laura Turner and Joseph Florio exploring video, the
moving body and space. We aim to create work that blends
art forms in an experimental, theatrical and highly visual way.
In this work we have also collaborated with dance artist Cloé
Fournier as performer.
LAURA TURNER & JOE FLORI
LAURA TURNER & JOE FLORIO
Figure in a Dark Landscape, 2015
Single Channel video
Edition of 5
LAURA TURNER
EDUCATION
2011-2014
2014
2009
Bachelor of Fine Arts/Bachelor of Arts, UNSW Art & Design
Undergraduate Exchange, Concordia University, School of Fine Arts, Montreal
Impact Ensemble, PACT Centre for Emerging Artists, Sydney
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
Young Artists Initiative .M Contemporary Gallery
Double- D Scape dLUX Media Arts
Is This Art? dLUX Media Arts
Annual 14 UNSW Galleries
2015
2015
2014
2014
PERFORMANCE, THEATRE AND VIDEO
AV Design Artefact (upcoming) Place to Play, Leichhardt Site and Sound Festival
AV Design The Trolleys (upcoming) Australian Theatre For Young People
Videoscape Designer Kinski and I Old 505 Theatre and Adelaide Fringe (Winner Sydney Fringe Theatre Award)
AV Design Luke Lloyd: Alienoid ATYP (Sydney Morning Heralds top five critics’ picks 2014)
Assistant Director Medea Belvoir St Theatre (Best Mainstage Production, Sydney Theatre Awards 2012)
2015
2015
2014
2014
2012
JOSEPH FLORIO
EDUCATION
2015
Bachelor of Fine Arts (Honours) UNSW Art & Design (current)
2011
Diploma of Screen and Media, Randwick TAFE
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2015 Young Artists Initiative, .M Contemporary Gallery
2015 The Art of Innovation, MCA Sydney
2014 BEAMS Festival
2014 Kudos Emerging Artist & Designer Award Kudos Gallery
2014 Annual 14 UNSW Galleries
LEE SANG HYU
LEE SANG HYUN
This is somewhere between the Yalu River and Duman River.
The Beatles of Liverpool, UK are playing their hit song Here There
and Everywhere. Regardless of the Beatles reference, Here There
and Everywhere is a very oriental idea. To be everywhere is to
be nowhere, I think it reminds us of the British Empire, which
was everywhere, but it does not give any bad impressions. Lady
Diana comes across our mind for the first time instead.
At first glance a wanderer on a donkey seen with a background
of mountain with no grass or trees. A tower of ruined temple is
my work. Butterflies in yellow, blue and pink are dancing with
the music. With no human history the world is beautiful and
peaceful like this. However, it is sorrowful scenery with history.
Lee Sang Hyun
Road to Joseon, 2008
Digital C Print Diasec
70 x 125cm
Edition 2/5
LEE SANG HYUN
EDUCATION
HoschÜle der Kunst (Tajiri Class), Berlin
MeisterschÜler (bei Rebbeca Horn)
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2013
2012
2012
2011
2010
2009 2009
2009
2008 2008
2007 2007
2007
2005
2000
1995
Broken Blossom, .M Contemporary, Sydney
A Scholar in Hanyang a tiger at Mt Inwang, Seoul Local Government Pavillion, Seoul
Museum of art, Expo 2012 Yeosu Korea
The Story of an Ectatic Voyage to Pubyok Pavillon, Gallery Sun Contemporary, Seoul
Past & Present: An Awkward Reunion, Amelia Johnson Gallery, Hong Kong
Joseon, Another Paradise, Dr. Park Gallery, Korea
The Solo Project, Basel, Switzerland
3000 Court Ladies, Gallery Sun Contemporary, Seoul
Empire and Joseon, The Museum of Photography, Seoul
The Mirror of Korea, Art & Research, Korea National Institute of Science & Technology, Seoul
Nine Clouds Dream, Gallery Sun Contemporary, Seoul
Nine Clouds Dream, Stone Museum, Jeju Island
The Great General Junghae Honey Honey Honey, Window, Gallery Hyundai, Seoul
The Self-Meditated Portrait of Korean Historical Epic, Chosun Gallery, Seoul
The History of Salt Dessert & Telematic Nomad, Gana Insa Art Center, Seoul
The Earth-Moon Rising, Galerie J&J Donguy, Paris
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2013
2012
2012
2012
2011
2011
2011
2011
2011
2011
2011
2011
2011
2011
2011
2010
2009
2009
2009
2009
2009
2009
2009
2009
2009
2009
2009
2009
2009
2008
2008
2008
2008
2008
Art 13 London, London
Kwang Ju Video Art Festival
New York Big Screen Plaza, 6th Avenue and 29th Street, LLC New York
Hong Kong Art Fair, Amelia Johnson Contemporary Gallery
“The Downfall of Joseon” AFA in New York
Flash Art KIAF
Art Kwang Ju Double Project Projection
“The Downfall of Joseon Dynasty”, Korean Rhapsody, Samsung
Leeum, Museum of Art, Seoul
Seoul, City Exploration, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul
Gallery Seoul 11, The Raum, Seoul
Hong Kong Art Fair. Amelia Johnson Contemporary Gallery
Gallery Adeiana Suarez, Madrid Spain
Gallery Paris Beijing, Beijing
Korean Art Show, New York
Art Dubai 2010, Dubai
Magnetic Power, Asian Contemporary Media Art Project, Asian-Korea Centre
Ulsan International Photo Festival, Ulsan, South Korea
Body Language, Touch Art Gallery, Paju, South Korea
Problem, Dr. Park Gallery, Yangpyeong, South Korea
Seoul Photo Fair, COEX, Seoul, South Korea
Magic Moment Korean Express, Hanover Messe, Germany
Art Dubai 2009, Dubai
Pulse, Miami, USA
Korea International Art Fair, COEX, Seoul
Seoul International Print Photo Art Fair, Seoul
Solo Project, Basel, Switzerland
Christies, London, England
Miami Pulse, USA
Diary of Earth Exploration, National Science Museum, Gwacheon, South Korea
Artists, What is science for you? KAIST, Daejeon, South Korea
Mediations Biennale in old printing factory, Poznan, Poland
60 years of Korean Photography History, The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, South Korea
A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Grau Gallery, Seoul, South Korea
2008
2008
2008
2008
2008
2008
2008
2008
2008
2007
2007
2007
2007
2007
2007
2007
2006
2006
2006
2006
2006
2006
2006
2006
2006
2006
2005
2005
2005
2005
2004
2004
2004
2004
2004
2000
2000
2000
2000
2000
2000
2000
1994
1994
1988
1987
1987
1987
1987
El Punto del Compás, Sala de Arte publico Siqeiros Mexico, Fundation Ludwig de, Cuba
Scope Basel, Basel, Switzerland New acquisitions-collection reconstructed, Gyeonggido Museum of Art, Gyeonggi, South Korea
Peripatetic Amusement, Pre-Yangpyeong Eco Art Festival, Yangpyeong
Photo Photo, Gallery Sun Contemporary, Seoul, South Korea
KIAF, Seoul
Auction Byul, Seoul
Art Singapore, Singapore
Seoul International Print Photo Art Fair, Seoul
Thermocline of Art-New Asian Waves, ZKM Karlsruhe, Germany
Artur Nikodem Gallery, Austria
Parody@Beijing Complex 798 Art Festival, Dimensions Art Centre, Beijing
The Voyage of Forgotten Combatant, 40 years of Performance History in Korea, The National Museum
of Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, Korea
The Edge of Sensation-a Slight Movement, Simon Gallery, Seoul, Korea
The Painting of Hermit Riding on the Cow, Gyeonggido Museum of Art, Gyeonggi, South Korea
Sh Contemporary 07, Shanghai International Art Fair, China
Wake Up Andy Warhol, Ssamzie, Seoul, South Korea
Daegu 1st International Photo Biennale, Daegu, Korea
Seoul International Print Photo Art Fair, Hangaram Museum, Seoul, Korea
Seoul International Photo Biennale, Seoul, Korea
Memorial Exhibition of Sechoong Kim’s Sculptor Prize, Sungkok Museum, Seoul
Laser-Multimedia Project ‘Fantashia Corea’ National Assembly Building, Seoul
Melbourne Art Fair, Australia
Light & Art, World Expo, China
Korea Fantasy-Image Theatre, Coreana Art Museum, Seoul
Little Siddhartha-Paradise, Gana Art Centre, Seoul
Nine Party, Gana Residency, Seoul
Kult Fablik White Box, Munchen, Germany
Pocheon Asian Art Festival, Pocheon, Korea
From the Fall of Berlin to DMZ, Olympic Art Museum, Seoul
Inaugural exhibition, K-Art Space, Seoul
Light-Environment, Seoul Broadcasting System, Seoul
Alice in my heart, Ssamzi Art Walfare, Seoul
Self Secession, Gana Art Gallery, Seoul
Open Studio, Gana Residency, Seoul
Red, Gana Art Gallery, Seoul
Melbourne Art Fair, Australia
The History of Sault Desert and Telematic Nomad, Gana Art Gallery, Seoul
Origin and Myth of Fire, The Museum of Modern Art, Saitama, Japan
Korea International Art Fair (KIAF), COEX, Seoul
Contemplation, Joongang Biennale Special Exhibition, Hoam Art Museum, Seoul
Arles Photo Festival, France
Star Way, Laser Projection, Seoul
Rebel Against Space, 95 year Fine Art, Ministry of Culture, Korea
Museum of Hankook, Gallery Sae, Museum of Hanlim, Sunjae Art Museum, Seoul
Gallery Horst Dietrich Berlin, Obere Gallery Berlin, Montrouge France
The Encounter of Goddess of Andromedae. The Total Art Museum, Seoul
Dream Summer-Night Orient, Galerie HÖrst Dietrich, Berlin
Murdered Fish, Obere Gallery Haus am Lutzof Platz, Berlin
AWARDS AND RESIDENCIES
1st The Hanmi Photography Award, Seoul
5th Kim, Sae-Jung Young Sculptor Prize, Seoul
ISCP, New York
Jangheung Residency, Korea
International Residency, Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art, Korea
U-Kyung Art & Culture Foundation, Seoul
Hanmi Foundation of Art and Culture
The Korean Council of Art and Culture
Seoul Foundation of Art and Culture
Gana Residency, Seoul
Cite International des Arts, Paris
Waldenser Atelier, Berlin
Yellow Messenger (Selected one of 10 outdoor sculptures) by Seoul City
FILMOGRAPHY, ACTING AND SCREEN PLAY
2011
2011
2010
2010
2009
2009
2009
2009
2009
2008
2008
2008
2007
2007
2007
2007
2007
2006
2006
2003
2002
The Part Where Ex-Hyundai Asan President Chung Ju Young visits his 2011 Hometown with Cow 5min
Pyong Yang Times 3min
New York Tomes 3min
Day of Flowers and Butterfly 3min
Symphony Nr. 9 Dream Wander in Peach blossom paradise, 7.02min
One thousand hands, 3min
M Butterfly, 3min
Tears of fallen blossoms, 3min
3000 Court Ladies, 3.30min
Dancing in Paradise 25.3min
Gabrielle d’Esteree’s Nirvana, 6.58min
Venus of Joseon, 5.09min
Sleep, 8hours
Warhol and Me, 27min
Orient Express, 4.07min
The painting of Hermit riding on the Cow, 14.50min
Nostalgia, 11.12min
The Downfall of Joseon Dynasty, 114min
Korea Fantasy, 10.37min
Dragon Warrior
Happy Die (science fiction screen play)
2001
1998
1987
Peach Blossom & Spring Dream (film noire screen play),
Main actor Lies, Acted as a cameo or supporting actor in several films
Dream Summer-night Orient, Galerie HÖrst Dietrich, Berlin
1987
Murdered Fish, Obere Gallery Haus am Lutzof Platz, Berlin
SELECTED PERFORMANCE
2007
2007
2006
2000
1988
1987
1987
The Painting of Hermit riding on the Cow, Gyeonggi Museum of Art, Korea
The Voyage forgotten Combatant, The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Korea
Little Siddhartha, Gana Art Gallery, Seoul
The History of Sault desert and Telematic Nomad, Gana Art Gallery, Seoul
The Encounter of Goddess of Andromedae. The Total Art Museum, Seoul
Dream Summer-night Orient, Galerie HÖrst Dietrich, Berlin
Murdered Fish, Obere Gallery Haus am Lutzof Platz, Berlin
FILM SCREENING
2011
2011
2010
2010
2009
2009
2008
2008
2008
2007
2007
2006
2006
Anthology Film Archives in New York
Sam Sung Ree Um Museum of Art
G20 Seoul Summit
iscp, New York
KBS TV, Korea
Magnetic Power Asian Media Art Project, Asian Korean Center, Seoul
“The Painting of Hermit riding on the cow”
Mediations Biennale Old Printing Factory, Poznan, Poland
Korea National Institute of Science and Technology, Seoul
“The Downfall of Joseon” ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany
Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art, Korea
The Museum of Photography, Seoul
“Wahol and me” Ssamzi-gil, Seoul
Using the camera as a visual research tool as well as
a way to stop time and capture the all-encompassing
feelings of being out in remote Australia, Lola’s
photographic work explores remoteness, closeness,
memory and light. Through her human rights work in
remote Australia, Lola has had the opportunity to get
to know Indigenous communities and document this
life, landscape and spirit that they have shared with her
- very different from her city existence. From portraits
and self-portraits to landscapes and tactic light works,
Lola’s photographic practice is about capturing the
mysterious force of the Australian landscape and her
place in it. Lola’s photographs tell a story sideways;
capture the conversation between momentum and
stillness; and examine the concept of ‘bearing witness’
and feelings of both loss and reclamation.
LOLA ALEXANDE
LOLA ALEXANDER
Lola Alexander
Dog, 2015
60 x 100 cm
Edition of 5 + AP
LOLA ALEXANDER
EDUCATION
2013-2014
2009-2011
2007 2002-2007 Master of Human Rights, University of Sydney, Australia
Bachelor of Socio-Legal Studies (French Studies),University of Sydney.
Entertainment Industry (Venues & Events) Certificate III, TVET,
TAFE Randwick Technical & Further Education College, Sydney.
Rosebay Secondary College - Sydney, Australia
EXHIBITIONS, AWARDS, AND PERFORMANCES
2011
2011
2005-07 2004
2002 2000
Head On Portrait Prize, semi-finalist photographer,
Australian Centre of Photography, Sydney.
Moran Arts Foundation Photographic Prize, semi-finalist photographer
Mitchell State Library, NSW.
Actress, backstage, set design: ‘Spurboard’; ‘Into the woods’;‘The Crucible’.
Zonta woman’s film prize, First Prize for short film ‘Woops’;
Editor, camera operator, director, producer of film.
Soho short film festival, LONDON - ‘Mirror’ selected for best new film.
‘Mirror’- short film- playing Lead role with Zoë Carides and Geoff Morrell
Directed by Nicky Moss and Sophie Alstergren/ Written Sally Swartz
LUKE THURGATE
LUKE THURGATE
My practice tests physical, emotional and
psychological processes of creation and
destruction. Through interactivity, ephemerality
and collaboration my work explores notions of
romance, sex, masculinity and death.
For Mythology of my Land, I have referred to
urban myths from Newcastle’s postwar period.
The work is inspired by the story of Keith
Robinson, a menswear storeowner, who was
prosecuted in 1952 for “abominable offences”
involving homosexuality. They play up the
perceived perversion and monstrosity of the
men involved and the yellow accessories that
were believed to be a codified call to action for
the “Yellow Sox Gang”.
Luke Thurgate
Yellow Face of Doom, 2015,
oil on linen,
97cm x 71cm
LUKE THURGATE
EDUCATION
2006
Bachelor of Fine Art, University of Newcastle
SELECTED EXHIBITION HISTORY
2015 2014 2013 2010
2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 Adorn, Adelaide Central Gallery, Adelaide
Cover Up, Fontanelle Gallery, Adelaide
Transformation, The School of Fine Art Gallery, University of Newcastle
Gematria, Adelaide Central Gallery, Adelaide
Salon de mechanic, Mechanical Gallery, Adelaide
How to Draw the Luke Thurgate Way, Firstdraft, Sydney
Labelled Queer, Maitland Regional Art Gallery, Maitland
Steel City Boys, Mop Project Space, Sydney
Little Death, John Miller Gallery, Newcastle
Black and White, The School of Fine Art Gallery, University of Newcastle
Safari, Mop Project Space, Sydney
Open Foundation, Watt Space Gallery, Newcastle
18 Takes, Watt Space Gallery, Newcastle
Yellow Socks Brigade, Watt Space Gallery, Newcastle
High School Major Work, Rocket Art, Newcastle
We love Symmetry II, Watt Space Gallery, Newcastle
Art 100, Watt Space Gallery, Newcastle
Toys and Games of 87, John Paynter Gallery, Newcastle
SELECTED AWARDS AND PRIZES
2010 Redlands Westpac Art Prize, finalist, Mosman Gallery, Sydney
2007 The Brian and Rohma Cummins Award, finalist, The School of Fine Art Gallery, University of Newcastle
RESIDENCIES
2015 Artlab Australia, Adelaide
2006 Drawing on the Walls, Wallsend Regional Library, Newcastle
2005 Rocket Art, Newcastle
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
2009
Runway, Issue 13, Dead
Runway, Issue 12, Make believe
2006
Hunter Lifestyle Magazine, Issue 1
photograph of ‘Yellow Face Of Doom’ taken by Saul Steed.
Meaghan Potter is an Australian artist, who recently
completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Ceramics) prior
to an Honours in Fine Arts (Drawing Major). Her
work is about taking familiar elements of art and
nature and revealing their complexities. Using
animals, specifically felines and canines as subject
matter, she explores their fur colour and pattern as
a means to an abstract language in art. The patterns
are representative of both a complex biological
evolution and the pareidolia effect in the human
brain; that is the ability to envisage a familiar image
within an environment where it does not exist.
Her approach has been one of material and conceptual
exploration. Potter has linked artistic and scientific
thought with this work in an attempt to encourage interdisciplinary activity. Her grand aspiration is to become
part of a humanistic art field uniting art with the
burgeoning technological and scientific progression
present in the modern world.
MEAGHAN POTTER
MEAGHAN POTTER
Meaghan Potter
Flora Bansksia Pod, 2015
Coloured ink, pastel on paper
114cm x 135cm
MEAGHAN POTTER
EDUCATION
2013
2012
Bachelor of Fine Arts Honours (Drawing), National Art School
Bachelor of Fine Arts (Ceramics), National Art School
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2015
2015
2015
2014
2014 2014
2014
2014
2014
2014
2013
2013
2013
2012
2011
2011
2010
Art Central, .M Contemporary Booth C4, Central Harbour Front, Hong Kong
Scientia, Art Est. Art School, Liechhardt, Sydney
Hell-O Multi-arts Festival, Projects 107, Redfern, Sydney
Summer Exhibition, .M Contemporary, Woollahra, Sydney
Evolve, .M Contemporary, Woollahra, Sydney
USELESS by The Corner, The Studio, Marrickville, Sydney
Peculiar Compendiums 24.7.14 - 4.8.14, Gaffa, Sydney
Strung, Drawn and Quartered, Jean Ballette Gallery, Hill End, Bathurst
Drawn Out, Art Est. Art School, Leichhardt, Sydney
The Intimate Whole: Chapter II-Closer Than You Thought, The Corner Cooperative, Chippendale
Don’t allow the lucid moment to dissolve, Gallery Eight, Millers Point, Sydney
Emporio Armani National Art School Postgraduate Exhibition, NAS, Sydney
C3, Library Stairwell Gallery, NAS, Sydney
National Art School Graduate Exhibition, NAS, Sydney
Dirt People, Building 5 NAS, Sydney
Cockatoo Island Drawing Week Exhibition, Building 25 NAS, Sydney
Showcase Exhibition, Building 24 NAS, Sydney
RESIDENCIES
2015
UPCOMING Bilpin International Ground for Creative Initiatives (BigCi), Bilpin, Blue Mountains, December
COMMUNITY AND PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2014
2013
2013
2013
2013
2012
2011
2011
Wondermountain and Mud Maps, Penrith Regional Gallery, Penrith
Holiday + Memory, Penrith Regional Gallery, Penrith
Birds, Lewers Learning Centre, Penrith Regional Gallery, Penrith
NOISE-an exhibition of new music, Penrith Regional Gallery, Penrith
Kare Sansui-Japanese raked garden; Lewers Learning Centre; Birds in the Garden and From the Collection:
AsianConnections, Penrith Regional Gallery, Penrith
Graduate Exhibition, National Art School, Sydney
Graduate Exhibition, National Art School, Sydney
Post-Graduate Exhibition, National Art School, Sydney
PUBLICATIONS
http://issue.com/paperfinger/docs/the_hunger_issue
http://www.artnewsblog.com/meaghan-potter-cat-studies/
http://www.10magazine.com.au/blog/emporio-armani-national-art-school-graduate-show/
MEG LEVINGSTO
MEG LEVINGSTON
Meg Levingston is an emerging artist living and
working in Sydney, Australia. Levingston graduated
with a BFA from The College of Fine Arts in 2014.
Serving as a conduit between past, present and
future, Levingston’s works represent a longing for an
unknown; real yet unreal, exploring the places where
the actual and the imagined overlap. In pursuit of
the unattainable, she has photographed physical
locations and subtly manipulated them to create
reflections of the irrevocable, places that exist only
within the image. Levingston works across both
analogue and digital platforms, combining traditional
processes with modern techniques.
Meg Levingston
Untitled landscape, 2015
Photographic print
Edition 3 + 1AP
46 x 61 cm
MEG LEVINGSTON
EDUCATION
2014
Bachelor of Fine Arts, UNSW Art and Design
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2015
2014
Mythology of My Land, M Contemporary, Sydney, Australia
The Printers Print, Blanco Negro Darkroom, Sydney, Australia
Young Artists Initiative, M Contemporary, Sydney, Australia
Paula do Prado is a Sydney based artist working with a
range of media including textiles, photography, collage,
text, painting and object/installation.
Her art practice explores identity in relation to questions
of authenticity, privilege and belonging. Conceptually
driven, her work attempts to tease out the politics of
experience in connection to race, gender and cultural
identity. Paula’s work is strongly influenced by her
Australian sense of identity and mixed African and
Latin heritage, readily featuring ‘dichos’ or colloquial
expressions in both Spanish and English.
She is currently developing new work for a collaborative
exhibition to be held October 2011 and as a Master
of Fine Art candidate is in the process of conducting
research for her thesis and next major solo show in
early 2012. Paula recently presented a paper Writing
from the margin: letters of resistance in the UK and
has been selected to exhibit as part of the inaugural
Tamworth Textile Triennial to tour Australia nationally
from September 2011.
PAULA DO PRAD
PAULA DO PRADO
Paula do Prado
Miss Tacuarembo, 2015
Fabric, acrylic, gesso, crochet coiled cotton yarn and paper
twine,couched poly string, poly fill
PAULA GABRIELA DO PRADO
b:1979, Montevideo, Uruguay
Arrived Australia 1986, lives and works in Sydney
EDUCATION
Current Lectures School of Design Studies (Textiles) COFA Sydney
2012-2010
Master of Fine Arts by Research candidate, COFA
2009-2005
Bachelor of Fine Arts (Honours Class I) Textiles, COFA
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2010
2009
2008
Where Yah From?, Gallerysmith, Melbourne
It’s a (bloody) good time to be Black, Gallerysmith, Melbourne
Textiles, Gallerysmith, Melbourne
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2011
2011
2011
2011
2011
2010
2010
2009
2009
2009
2009
2009
2009
2008
2008
2007
2007
Postcards and Letters Beyond Text Conference Exhibition, Brighton, UK
Play, Textile Arts Centre Brooklyn, New York
IV International Biennial of Contemporary Textile Art, Mexico
Selected for the 2011 Tamworth Textile Triennial
Cross Art Projects, Adiafa/Diyafa: Gifts of Exchange
330 Group show, Gallerysmith, Melbourne
Live Red Art Awards, Marrickville Community Centre, Sydney
COFA Annual, Graduate show, Sydney
Landscapes: A Journey Home in textiles, Kudos Gallery, Sydney
Kudos Award, Kudos Gallery, Sydney
Half Way House, COFAspace, Sydney
Linden Postcard Show, Melbourne
Starving Artist, Carriageworks, Sydney
Re-birth, Gallerysmith, Melbourne
SmARTarts Space, Pine St Gallery, Chippendale, Sydney
COFA Annual Graduate show, Sydney
Dissonance, Kudos Gallery, Sydney
AWARDS/PRIZES
2012-2010
2009 2009 Australian Postgraduate Award (APA) scholarship recipient
TAFTA (The Australian Forum for Textile Arts Ltd) Workshop Award
Kudos Award, Shortlisted, Kudos Gallery
PUBLICATIONS
Textile Fibre Forum, No.97, February 2010 issue, p.24
Where Yah From ? 2009 Self-published 20 page, soft cover artist book in colour ISBN: [978-0-646-52078-0]
Carsley, G (ed), Half Way House, Vol II 2009: An Honours reader at the halfway mark, compiled by Gary Carsley and
Andrew Frost, p.9-10, ISBN: [978-0-9805218-2-5]
Thread Alert, Art & Events, Vogue Living, March/April 2009, p.65-66
Tharunka, UNSW Student Voice, Issue 04, Edition 54, p. 19
Xodó (2008), Visual narrative based on the concept of the Mulatta. Self published, 20 page soft cover artist book in colour
Face to Face (2007-2008), Collection of self-portraits. Self-published 40 page, soft cover artist book in colour.
CONFERENCES/PAPERS
Writing from the margin: Letters of Resistance presented at the Picture This: Postcards and Letters Beyond text conference at the University of Sussex, Brighton, UK. 25-26 March 2011. www.postcards-letters.org.uk
COLLECTIONS
Private collections in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Tasmania.
Feral, 2015
feral, adjective
1. ferine. (of animals and plants) existing in a wild or uncultivated
state, esp after being domestic or cultivated
2. ferine. savage; brutal
“Feral” aims to critique the romantic mythology of the union
of human with the natural world, a myth which conflicts with
our exploitative and destructive relationship with the natural
environment. Feral explores the notion of the hybrid as a
response to how animals adapt (or die) as a result of human
interference. Borrowing from fables and cultural touchstones
the work highlights the fact that our alliance with nature is
fraught and uncomfortable. Ultimately, “Feral’, with its chimeric
mingling of human and non-human, native and introduced
species, serves as a poignant reminder that as humans, we are
not only in conflict with the natural environment but critically
ourselves, increasingly more vulnerable to the impact of our
self destructive actions.
PECULIAR ANNE
PECULIAR ANNES
Peculiar Anne’s
Feral, 2015
Ceramics, paper, felt, fur, plastic, textile and leather.
PECULIAR ANNE’S
JANET PARKER-SMITH
SELECTED RECENT CAREER ARTIST HIGHLIGHTS
2015 Work purchase by the AGNSW and NGV
2015 Questionable Intentions, Brenda May Gallery, Waterloo Sydney.
2014 Beastarium, Dubbo Regional Gallery
2014 Print Council of Australia 2014 Print Commission
2014 Crossing Boundaries. Taylor Jenson Fine Arts, Pamerston North, New Zealand
2013 “Small Wonders” Brenda May Gallery, Waterloo, Sydney
2013 Mighty Small, Brenda May Gallery, Sydney
2013 Corporeal, Geelong Regional Gallery, Vic
2012 Hello Dollies, Penrith Regional Gallery, NSW
2012 Familiar Unfamiliar, Tweed River Regional Art Gallery, NSW
2011 Freak of Nature, Monash University, Gippsland Centre for Art & Design, victoria
2011 “Still Alive & Still Well”, Brenda May Gallery, Waterloo, Sydney
2011 Fremantle Print Award, Fremantle Arts Centre.
2010 “Alive & Well”, Horus & Deloris Gallery, Pyrmont, Sydney
2009 Print Council of Australia 2009 Print Commision
CLAUDE JONES
SELECTED RECENT ARTIST CAREER HIGHLIGHS
2013
2013
2013
2013
2013
2012
2012
2012
2012
2012
2011
2011
Oma Rapiti, NOPX editions gallery, Turin, Italy (Solo exhibition)
Culture & Animals Foundation Grant, North Carolina, USA ( Grant)
Sunday Morning@EKWC, Hertogenbosch, Netherlands ( 3 month artist residency)
Anthropocentrap, Artunit, Harleem, Netherlands (Solo exhibition)
Ceramic Research Residency, Sydney College of the Arts, Sydney university ( 3 month artist studio residency)
Winner, Its Liquid International Art Prize, Painting and Drawing, Italy (Award)
Ian Potter Cultural Trust Grant, Ian Potter Foundation, Melbourne (Grant)
The Sulman Art Prize, AGNSW, Sydney ( Art award finalist exhibition)
Creative Industries Grant, Copyright Agency, Sydney (Grant)
Fundacion Gruber Jez, Merida, Yucatan, Mexico ( 2 month artist residency)
Winner, Moreton Bay Art Prize, 1st Place, Brisbane (Award)
Chimera, Gippsland Art Gallery, Sale, Victoria (Solo exhibition)
2011
Monkey Business, Artereal Gallery, Sydney (Solo exhibition)
CLEO GARDINER
SELECTED RECENT ARTIST CAREER HIGHLIGHTS
2015 Carlton Project Space - Central Park, Class/if/y, Chippendale New World Art Prize, finalist.
2015 Cross Arts Books, Unbecoming-Becoming, Notes to a Future Feminist.
2015 Club Kooky, Shrine of Receptivity.
2015 M Contemporary, Sensibilities, New Artists Initiative.
2014 Sydney University Medal for Honours Thesis and Artwork
2014 Dean’s Prize – Print Media for work XX-Class/if/y
2014 Museum of Contemporary Art, Feminam Circulum, collaboration with Kelli Jean Drinkwater.
2014 Woollahra Council, Seraph, Janet Parker-Smith and Claude Jones (The Peculiar Annes) Woollahra Small Sculpture (finalist).
2014 Petty Cash, Salvation, Patti, Gough, Frida, solo show
2013 Red Rattler, Marrickville – Sydney, Artist Residency (6 Months)
Dichotomies like mind/body, rationality/irrationality
and micro/macro are reoccurring themes in my work.
Through renegotiating and juxtaposing basic forms
and textures I try to explore and question the sets of
hierarchical relationships that govern our perception of
reality. Ultimately, my suggestion is that the core of any
world-view is subjective or arbitrary. To paraphrase the
early 20th century British geneticist J.B.S. Haldane: My
suspicion is that the universe is not only stranger than
we suppose, but also stranger than we can suppose.
The freedom and power is only matched by the despair.
PHILIP WEISS TORNE
PHILIP WEISS TORNES
Philipe Weiss Tornes
Wall Composition of;
We Find More Answers, We Find More Questions, 2015 Intergalactic Cooperation, 2015
Ink on paper, wood
Clay, varnish, wood.
25.5 x 25.5 x 5 cm
25.5 x 25.5 x 20 cm
Back To Nature, 2015
Bronze, wood
25.5 x 25.5 x 12 cm
Physical Reality Is Redundant, 2015
Bronze, wood
25.5 x 25.5 x 19 cm
The Singularity, 2015
Clay, shards of hard-disk drive containing
all the artists files, wood
25.5 x 25.5 x 25.5 cm
Climate Catastrophe, 2015
Cork, resin, wood
25.5 x 25.5 x 20 cm
Leaving Earth Behind, 2015
Brass, wood
25.5 x 25.5 x 25.5 cm
War, 2015
Paint, varnish, wood
25.5 x 25.5 x 40 cm
We Live Forever, 2015
Mirror, acrylic, ink, glue
25.5 x 25.5 x 25.5 cm
PHILIP WEISS TORNES
b. Stavanger, Norway
Currently lives and works in Sydney, Australia.
EDUCATION
2014
2014
2010
Bachelor of Fine Arts (Photomedia) at UNSW Art&Design (COFA). Sydney, Australia
Exchange semester at Willem de Kooning Academy. Rotterdam, Netherlands
Advanced Craft certificate, Photography. Stavanger, Norway
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2015
2014
2014
2013
YAI - Young Artists Initiative, M Contemporary, Sydney
Annual 14, UNSW Art & Design, Sydney
A B.A.D Social Club, Foundation B.A.D, Rotterdam
Kudos Award Finalist Show, Kudos Gallery, Sydney
2013
Out of PLACE, Q-station, Sydney
Rebecca Gallo is an explorer, compiler and gatherer.
Incorporating found objects into her sculptures,
Gallo changes and manipulates the meanings of
the objects and constructs new definitions for them.
The components are often found within a particular
locality, then bound together meaningfully by Gallo’s
aesthetic and intent. This process produces an
artefact that transcends the sum of its parts. The
process of meaning making, or meaning re-making,
from junk to treasure, from meaning-less to meaningfull, characterises Gallo’s artistic process.
The works in Mythology of My Land were created
following a residency at Fowlers Gap in far western
New South Wales. Gallo’s process of collecting and
compiling was dictated by the landscape in this semiarid region, where the usual city flotsam gave way
to rocks, bones and abandoned farm machinery. A
depression is registered in the dirt each time an item
is removed – a visual clue to what was; a marker of
displacement; a symbol and an elegy for lost and
forgotten histories.
REBECCA GALL
REBECCA GALLO
Rebecca Gallo
Give and Take, 2014/15
Plywood, rocks, earth, display device, video file
REBECCA GALLO
EDUCATION
2013 - present
Master of Art, Sculpture, Performance and Installation, UNSW Art & Design
2004 - 2006
Bachelor of Fine Arts, Photography, National Art School
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2015
Mythology of My Land, .M Contemporary, Sydney
2015
Redfern Biennale, Sydney
2014
ICAA 2014, Archive_ ARI, Sydney
2014
Hidden: Rookwood Cemetery Sculpture Walk, Sydney
2014
WILL TO KEEP, 107 Projects, Sydney
2014
1200K West, COFAspace, Sydney
2014
Redfern Biennale, Damien Minton Gallery, Sydney
2013
Grey Matter, fbi social, Sydney
2013
Private Lives/Public Spaces, Art & About, Customs House Library, Sydney
2013
Ephemera, COFAspace, Sydney
2013
Linden Postcard Show, Linden Centre for Contemporary Arts, Melbourne
2012
Print, Stitch, Staple, Gallery Lane Cove, Sydney
AWARDS, GRANTS AND RESIDENCIES
2014
Highly Commended – Tony Albert Studio Prize, The Kudos Emerging Artist & Designer Awards
2014
Hill End Artists in Residence Program, NSW
2014
Arc @ COFA Green House Residency, Fowlers Gap, NSW
2013
Finalist, The Kudos Emerging Artist & Designer Awards
2013
COFA Art & Design Grant
2013
Highly Commended, NOW Contemporary Art Prize, Shoalhaven Arts Centre, NSW
PUBLICATIONS
Clarke, Madeleine, Framed :: Rebecca Gallo, fbi flog, 22 October 2013, http://fbiradio.com/framed-rebecca-gallo/
White, Maria, Rebecca Gallo (interview),
Cofatopia, October 2014 issue, http://www.arc.unsw.edu.au/media/178668/cft_8_14_lowres.pdf
Zuill, Catherine, Grand Plan is Heartfelt: Artist’s Link to Family, Inner West Courier, Wednesday 10 September 2014
Rhiannon Hopley’s work explores the often disconnected
relationship between nature, the urban landscape and
the human condition. She photographs abandoned
and forgotten urban sites, documenting the effects of
nature and the elements on these places over time.
While her work is often absent of a person or figure,
there is an emotional human undertone as she tries
to convey the deep emotional state of nostalgia and
the profound melancholy associated with longing for
someone, or something. The locations and shadowy
scenes correlate with our emotional selves, mirroring
feelings of isolation, emptiness and sorrow through
absence and stillness.
Drawing on humanity’s fascination and obsession with
apocalyptic theory and mythology, Hopley captures
these abandoned urban sites as poetic symbols of a
hypothetical post-apocalyptic wasteland. All that remains
in these worlds is a vague trace of human existence and
a picturesque melancholia that stays with the viewer long
after leaving the gallery.
RHIANNON HOPLE
RHIANNON HOPLEY
Rhiannon Hopley
Domicile, 2015
Photographic print on Moab Entrada bright,
fine art cotton rag paper
Edition of 3 + 2 AP
120 x 80 cm
RHIANNON HOPLEY
EDUCATION
2012
Graphic Design and Communication Advanced Diploma, Northern Sydney Institute of Tafe
2010 - 2011 Graphic Design and Communication Diploma,Northern Sydney Institute of Tafe
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2015
2005
Discoving Locations : Location by Numbers - upcoming, Chrissie Cottage Gallery, Camperdown, Aug
Sonic Explosion - Revive the city with art, Youth Week, Gosford, April
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2015
2015
2014
2014
2014
2013
2013
2013
2013
2012
2012-2010
2005
2005
1999
Mythology of My Land - upcoming, M Contemporary, Woollahra, May
We Get By, Cooks Hill Gallery, Cooks Hill Newcastle, March
The Accredited,10x8 Gallery, Chippendale, Aug
Marrickville ‘Urban Photography’ Finalists, Marrickville Town Hall, Marrickville, May
One for the Books Travelling Exhibition, East Coast, Feb- Mar
First Prize Gorsford Art Prize - Photography Category Gosford Regional Art Gallery, Nov
The Young & The Restless Create Collective, Gosford, July - Aug
Head On Photo Festival ‘Nudes on Tap’, Tap Gallery, Darlinghurst, June
One for the Books, Ballarat International Foto Biennale
Arty Party, Create Collective, Dec
North Sydney Institute Exhibition, The Gallery, Dec
Art Expressed, Ku-ring-gai Art Centre, July
Annual Art Exhibition, Ku-ring-gai Ctreative Arts, Dec
Annual Art Exhibition, Ku-ring-gai Ctreative Arts, Dec
AWARDS & SELECTED GRANTS
2014
2014
2013
2013
2012
2012
2006
2004
Chrissie Cotter Gallery Program Grant 2015, Marrickville Council
Finalist Marrickville Urban Photography Competition, Marrickville Council
First Prize Gorsford Art Prize - Photography Category Gosford Regional Art Gallery
Finalist Ballarat International Foto Biennale, One for the Books, Ballarat
First Place, with Distinctions Graphic Design & Communication Advanced Diploma, Hornsby Tafe
Second Place, Graphic Design & Communication Diploma, Hornsby Tafe
First Place, The Magnificent Seven, FujiFilm Competition
Excellence in Photography, Ku-ring-gai Creative Arts
PUBLICATIONS & MEDIA
2014
2014-13
2012
2012
2005
Express Advocate, Published works and article, Aug
Numerous online publications with Loud Online Magazine
Discovering Locations, Rhiannon Hopley, Self Published, Released Nov
The Elf that Flew, written by Lindy Mitchell, Peek-a-boo Publishing, Released Aug
Express Advocate, Front page and feature article, April
Robbie Harmsworth is a multi-disciplinary artist based in
Melbourne. She completed a Diploma in Fine Art at RMIT
in 1977 and a Masters of Fine Art at Monash University
in 2008. Her practice is an intense study of the power of
myth and its universal message, and takes in ceramics,
drawing, painting and assemblage. She was a finalist in
the Paul Guest Drawing Prize in 2012 and 2014, and the
2014 Kedumba Drawing Award.
Robbie’s work is represented in the collections of
Shepparton Art Gallery and the National Gallery of Victoria.
ROBBIE HARMSWORTH
ROBBIE HARMSWORTH
Robbie Harmsworth
As it is Above, So it is Below, 2015
collage, etching, drawing, encaustic on Kozo paper
98 x 66 cm
ROBBIE HARMSWORTH
EDUCATION
2008
1977
Masters of Fine Art, Monash University, Caulfield, Victoria
Diploma of Fine Art/ Ceramics, RMIT
1967
Diploma of Interior Design, RMIT, Melbourne
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2014
2012
2010
2008
2002
1996
Inanna’s Descent, Gallerysmith, Melbourne
Arcadia, Gallerysmith, Melbourne
Psyche: Transcending the Abyss, Gallerysmith, Melbourne
A Palimpsest: Persephone and the Underworld, 45 Downstairs, Melbourne
Underworld: The Persephone Myth Explored, Craft Victoria, Melbourne, Victoria
Dual Images, Picollo Gallery, Melbourne, Victoria
1996
Gothic Images, The Convent Gallery, Daylesford, Victoria
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2007
2004
2003
2000
2000
1998
Landscape Site Lines - 5 Ways, Clement Meadmore Gallery, Australian Academy of Design, Vic
Celebrating the Master, Skepsi on Swanston Gallery, Melbourne
Changing Surfaces, Shepparton Art Gallery, Victoria
Millennium Platter Exhibition, The Ceramic Art Gallery, N.S.W
Group Show, Northcote Pottery Gallery, Victoria
Candelabra, Picollo Gallery, Victoria
1997
1996
1995
The Platter Exhibition, Crowded House Design, Victoria
The Bowl Exhibition, Crowded House Design, Victoria
9 x 5, Robert Lindsay Gallery, Victoria
1974
Arts & Crafts Australia, National Gallery of Victoria, Victoria
AWARDS AND PRIZES
2014
2014
2012
2003
Finalist, Paul Guest Drawing Prize, Bendigo Art Gallery
Kedumba Drawing Prize, Orange Art Gallery, NSW
Finalist, Paul Guest Drawing Prize, Bendigo Art Gallery
Finalist, Sydney Myer Fund International Ceramics Award, Shepparton Art Gallery, Victoria
1978
WINNER, Kelvin Art Award, RMIT
COLLECTIONS
Shepparton Art Gallery (2003)
Shepparton Art Gallery (2002)
National Gallery of Victoria (1978)
Private Collections: Australia, France, U.K, USA, Germany and Japan
SERA WATER
SERA WATERS
From early on settler diaries recorded regions in Australia as
comparable to an English ‘Gentlemen’s park’. They noted sparsely
set trees in fields of green grass, spacious (and ‘unoccupied’)
enough to not only make home but house golf courses for the
‘gentlemen’s’ pursuit of leisure. My family consists of generations
of these golfers (and settlers). Mount Braddock and Gentlemen’s
Park: Back Nine (Cadell conquers the river) explore the ways in
which settlement in Australia has claimed, cleared, renamed and
repurposed places (sometimes for golf courses). What is often
not acknowledged though is how places, and their layered pasts,
refigure their human inhabitants.
Sera Waters
Gentlemen’s Park: Back Nine (Cadell conquers the river), 2015
Linen, beads, cotton, trim, hand-made beads and sequins,
felt, card, stuffing
25 x 35 cm
SERA WATERS
EDUCATION
2014
2006
2003-2006
1997-2000
PhD candidature, South Australian School of Art, Uni SA
Embroidery Summer School courses, Royal School of Needlework, Surrey, UK
Masters of Arts in Art History, Adelaide University
Bachelor of Visual Arts (First Class Honours), SASA, University of SA
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2009
2009
upcoming- March, Skin Off Our Time, Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia, Adelaide, SA
upcoming – March. Slipstitch, curated by Belinda VonMengersen, Ararat Regional Gallery (and touring), Vic
upcoming - May, The Mythology of my Land, .M Contemporary, Woollahra, NSW
135th Meridian East, curated by Andre Lawrence, aeaf, Adelaide SA
The Extreme Climate of Nicholas Folland, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide SA
Art House: the local ghost laboratory, curated by Brigid Noone, Stall 61,
Adelaide Central Markets, Adelaide, SA
Ghostscapes, Fontanelle Gallery, Adelaide, SA
RendezVOODOO (art writing in response to work of Ben Leslie and Oscar Perry), Fontanelle Gallery, Adelaide SA
Not just a pretty face, Adelaide Town Hall, curator Carollyn Kavanagh, Adelaide SA
Dark Portals, Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, University of Western Australia, Perth WA
Life, Stitching, curators: Linda Marie Walker & Pam Hale, Riddoch Art Gallery, Mount Gambier, SA
Crystal Palace, curator: Lisa Harms, Flinders University Gallery, Adelaide SA
Beyonce is a feminist, Fontanelle Gallery, Adelaide SA
See Unseen, Adelaide Central Gallery, Adelaide SA
End of the World, curator: Bigid Noone, Fontanelle Gallery, Adelaide SA
Nadlewerk, Galerie Handwerk,Curator: Elisabeth Bosch, Munich, Germany
Sensation Seekers, Fontanelle Gallery,Curators: Brigid Noone & Ben Leslie, Adelaide SA
Objectified, SASA Gallery, curator: Karen Paris, Adelaide SA
...build me a city, AEAF, curated by Vivonne Thwaites, Adelaide SA
Life, Stitching, Hawke Building (SALA), curators: Linda Marie Walker & Pam Hale, Adelaide SA
CavernLight, Lowrise Projects, Melbourne VIC
Sensorial Loop, Tamworth Textile Triennial, curated by Patrick Snelling, Tamworth, NSW (+ touring)
Flocked, Inside SAM’s Place residency, SA Museum (with Craftsouth), Adelaide SA
artroom5, Adelaide SA
Imagining Interiors, curated by Wendy Walker, Jam Factory, Adelaide, SA
Home Stories, Adelaide Central Gallery + Migration Museum, curated by VivonneThwaites, Adelaide SA
Covet, Adelaide Central Gallery, Adelaide SA
Flyblown, FELTspace, Adelaide SA
Moving Wounded (ongoing participatory project): http://littleweeds.conservatory.org.au/theMovingWounded.html
Consumed, Adelaide Central Gallery, Adelaide SA
Little Weeds, online (littleweeds.conservatory.org.au) + Peel Street exhibition space (with Format Festival) + Seedling
Art Space, curated by Lisa Harms, Adelaide SA
Nell Pearson, Sera Waters, Claude Jones & Beci Orpin, Edwina Corlette Gallery, Brisbane Qld
Just Is, Max Dawn Gallery, curated by Bev Southcott, Adelaide SA
2009
2009
2009
2009
2008
2007
2007
Craft’n Disaster, The Project Space, Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia, Adelaide SA
Wangaratta Contemporary Textile Award, Wangaratta Vic
artroom5, Adelaide SA
Talente 2009, International Trade Fair, Munich, Germany
artroom5, Adelaide SA
Spirited Away, Adelaide Central Gallery, Adelaide, SA
Quiet Hands, Gaff Gallery, curated by Rayleen Forrester, Port Adelaide SA
2015
2015
2015
2014
2014
2014
2014
2014
2014
2014
2013
2013
2013
2013
2013
2012
2012
2012
2012
2012
2012
2011
2011
2011
2011
2011
2011
2011
2010
2010
2010
2010
2007
2006
2001
Hedgemaze, Light Square Gallery, Adelaide SA
Crooks & Nannies, downtown art space, Adelaide SA
Hatched, National Graduate Show, Perth Institute of Contemporary Art, Perth WA
SELECTED GRANTS & AWARDS
2014
2013
2013
2010
2005
2005
2002
NAVA travel bursary (SA) to attend Future/Forward
New work - Mid-career Grant, Australia council for the Arts
Project Grant, Arts SA
Project & Development Grant, Arts SA
AJA Roy Terrill Prize, Japanese Art History Essay Prize, Adelaide University
Ruth Tuck Scholarship, South Australian Youth Arts Board
Artists-in-studios, South Australian Youth Arts Board
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
Adams, Jude, ‘Three Artists- in the world: Anne Kay, Irmina Van Niele, Sera Waters’, Artlink, vol 29, no 2, 2009
Benson, Garry, ‘Sera Waters: Danger and Domesticity’, Textile Fibre Forum, Vol 30, Issue 3, no 103, 2011, pp. 32-35.
Clifton, Catherine, ‘All Stitched up’, Adelaide Matters, issue 107, February 2009, pp. 28-29.
Dunt, Nerina, ‘Craft’n Disaster: Sera Waters’, Object, issue 59, October 2009, p. 58.
Harms, Lisa, ‘Sera Waters’, FELTspace GOLD, 2011, pp. 116-119.
Harris, Samela, ‘Huge Appetite for Arts’, Adelaide Advertiser, 21 April 2010
Hart, Jenny, ‘Sera Waters’, Embroidery as Art blog, Jan 12, 2010, http://embroideryasart.blogspot.com/
Hemmings, Dr Jessica, ‘The Dark Side’, embroidery (UK), vol. 60, Sept/Oct 2009, pp. 24-27.
Kemp, Jemima, ‘During the South Australian Living Artists Festival’, Point Blank, Point 3, 09/08.
Neylon, John, ‘Flights of Fancy’, The Adelaide Review, April 2011
Neylon, John, ‘Sparks in the Dark’, The Adelaide Review, November 2012, http://www.adelaidereview.com.au/article/1873
Nunn, Louise, ‘The Birds up there’, The Advertiser, July 7 2011
Radok, Stephanie, ‘Filling an extraordinary space’, The Adelaide Review, no 253, Sept 28, 2004, pp 20-21
Zeplin, Dr Pamela, ‘Sera Waters: Crooks & Nannies’, Craft Culture online, Craft Victoria, http://www.craftculture.org/Review/pzeplin1.htm, 2007
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2010-current Studio member of The Incinerator, Thebarton, SA
2005-current Committee Member on Adelaide Visual Arts Critic Circle, since Nov 2005
2005-current Lecturing and tutoring in Art History at Adelaide University, Adelaide Central School of Art and South Australian School of Art (University of South Australia).
2013-2014
Visual arts representative, Project and Development Advisory Committee, Carclew Youth Arts Board
2011-2012
Contemporary Embroidery workshops, Art Gallery of South Australia
2004-current Arts writer for various local and national publications and catalogues
2010
AAANZ conference, presenter in Relational Craft session + Chair, Post Graduate Symposium
2010
Artistspeak, University of South Australia
2007-2009
Peer Assessment Panel, Arts SA
2007
Key note speaker, SALA Festival, Art Gallery of South Australia
2005-2009
Studio member of Hedgemaze, Port Adelaide, SA
2005
Project Assistant, Tatsuo Miyajima residency, Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia
COLLECTIONS
The Cruthers Collection of Women’s Art
University of Western Australia
Art Gallery of South Australia
Private Collections in South Australia and New South Wales, Australia
photograph of ‘Gentlemen’s Park: Back Nine (Cadell conquers the river)’ taken by Grant Hancock.
WILL COLE
WILL COLES
“The bizarrest stories & myths are started about who
I am, why I do what I do, all that.” – Will Coles, 2011 in
Knock Knock Magazine, Issue 1, pp. 136-143.
Will Coles has become somewhat of an enigmatic myth in
his own right, with his uncommissioned and anonymous
works scattered all across the streets of suburban
Sydney. Most people have come across a Will Coles work
without even realising it, quite literally stumbling onto it
while walking to work.
His tongue in cheek cast sculptural works explore
a diverse range of issues relating to contemporary
culture such as rampant consumerism, war, violence
and corporate greed. Whether on the street or in the
gallery, Coles work demands a thoughtful and critical
engagement, forcing the viewer to question the meaning.
As Coles says, “basically the motivation behind my work
is to make people think, like “what is that?”, “What is that
shit?”, “What does it mean?”, “Does it mean...?””.
Will Coles
fiction, 2012
Cold cast cement
Edition 7 of 10
15 x 10 cm
WILL COLES
EDUCATION
1995
Bachelor of Arts (Hons) Fine Art (Sculpture), Wimbledon & Glasgow Schools of Art
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2014 Art Equity Gallery, Sydney
2013
2012
2011 2010
2009
2007
‘Death Wish, Brenda May Gallery, Sydney
‘I fucking <3 love Melbourne’, Dark Horse Experiment, Melbourne
‘Nihilist Archaeology’, Brenda May Gallery, Sydney
‘Tom of Blokeland’, Wilson Street Gallery, Sydney
Brenda May Gallery, Sydney
Brenda May Gallery, Sydney
“Buy More Art”, New View Gallery, Newtown, Sydney
“A Hater’s Guide to Art”, Buzzzbar, Newtown, Sydney
1997
151 Gallery, Chippendale, Sydney
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2014
2013 2012 2011 2010 2009 ‘Heist’ Juddy Roller, Melbourne
Melbourne Art Fair, Melbourne
‘Subject to ruin’ Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre, Sydney
‘Monuments to the frontier wars’ Damien Minton Gallery, Sydney
‘From the streets’ M Contemporary, Sydney
“Solidarity for Love” Monkey-Wrenching Art Center, Kaohsiung City, Taiwan
‘Artisans in the Gardens’, Botanic Gardens, Sydney
Metro Gallery, Melbourne
Singapore Art Fair, Singapore
‘Sculpture 2013’, Brenda May Gallery, Sydney
‘Hidden’, Rookwood Cemetery, Sydney
‘Hello dollies’, Penrith Regional Art Gallery, Sydney
‘Sculpture 2012’, Brenda May Gallery, Sydney
‘Outpost’, Cockatoo Island, Sydney
‘A cabinet of curiosities’, NG Art gallery, Sydney
‘Hidden’, Rookwood Cemetery, Sydney
‘subtext’, CarriageWorks, Sydney
‘New Sculpture’, Brenda May Gallery, Sydney
‘Sculpture 2011’ Global Gallery, Sydney
‘Urban Intervention’ Yarra Sculpture Gallery, Melbourne
‘Sculpture by the Sea’ Sydney
Swell Sculpture Festival, Currumbin, Queensland
‘Little acts of disobedience’, Australian Centre of Photography, Sydney Mays Lane Street Art Retrospective, CarriageWorks, Sydney
2008 Melbourne Art fair
‘Memento Mori’, Brenda May Gallery, Sydney
‘Small Works 08’, Brunswick Street Gallery, Melbourne
2007
‘Shades of Grey’, Wilson Street Gallery, Sydney
‘Introducing..’, Brenda May Gallery, Sydney
‘Sculpture 2008 – In the elements’, Brenda May Gallery, Sydney
‘I’m mad as hell…’ – a group of angry artists, Brenda May Gallery, Sydney
May Lane ‘street artists’ exhibition, Sydney
‘Lunamorph’, The CarriageWorks, Sydney
PRIZES
2014
2014 2014
2013 2013
2012
2012
2012 2011 2011
2011 2011
2010 2010
2010
2010 2010
2009
2009
2009
2009
2008
2008 2008 2008 2007
2007
short-listed for Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize, Sydney
short-listed for Sculpture at Sawmillers, Sydney
short-listed for McClelland Sculpture Survey, Melbourne
short-listed for Lethbridge Small Sculpture Prize, Brisbane
short-listed for Fishers Ghost Prize, Campbelltown
short listed for Sculpture by the Sea Award, Sydney
short-listed for NSW Government Art prize, Sydney
short-listed for UWS Sculpture Prize, Sydney
short-listed for Substation Sculpture Prize, Melbourne
short-listed for Prometheus Art Prize, Queensland
short-listed for Marrickville Art prize, Sydney
short listed for Kooindah Acquisitive Sculpture Prize, NSW
short listed for Gold Coast Art Prize, Gold Coast Gallery
short listed for Flanagan Art Prize, Victoria
short listed for ‘Sculpture at Sawmiller’ McMahons Point, Sydney
short listed for Blacktown City Art Prize, Sydney
short listed for Stanthorpe Art Prize, Queensland
short listed for Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize, Sydney
short listed for Sculpture by the Sea Award, Sydney
short listed for Prometheus Award, Queensland
winner of the Musique Art Magazine Sculpture category, Sydney .
short listed for Gosford Art Prize, NSW
short listed for Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize, Sydney
short listed for Toowoomba Sculpture Prize exhibition, Queensland .
short listed for New Social Commentary 08, Warrnambool, Victoria .
short listed for Gold Coast Art Prize, Gold Coast Gallery
short listed for Marrickville Contemporary Art Prize, ATVP, Sydney
OTHER AUSTRALIAN MIXED EXHIBITIONS
2014
2014 2014 2014
2013
2012
2012
2011 2011
2011 2011 2011 2011 2011
2011
2010 2010 2010 2010
2010
2010
2010 ‘Does humour belong in art’ Orange Regional Gallery, NSW
The Lab, Sydney
‘Idea Bombing’, Object Gallery, Sydney
Redfern Biennale, (Damien Minton Gallery), Sydney
‘Mighty Small’, Brenda May Gallery, Sydney
‘In the mirror’, Brenda May Gallery, Sydney
‘Pictura Australiana’, Tortuga Studios, Sydney
‘Body language’, Brenda May Gallery, Sydney
‘Art + humour me’, Brenda May Gallery, Sydney
Mosman Insitu, Sydney
Bellingen Art Prize, Bellingen, NSW
‘Sculpture in the Vineyards’, Woollumbi, NSW
‘Speak easy’, Tortuga Studios gallery, Sydney
‘Small Works 11’, Brunswick Street Gallery, Melbourne
‘ESP Gallery (twice), Sydney
unofficial entrant in Sculpture by the Sea, Sydney
ST2K Street Art Festival, Sydney
Sculpture in the Vineyards, Woollombi, NSW
‘Irreverence’, Tortuga Studio gallery, Sydney
Mays Lane, St Peters, Sydney
‘Underground Arts Festival’, Brunswick, Melbourne
‘Road trip’, Tortuga Studio gallery, Sydney
2010
2010
2010
2009 2009 2009
2009 2009 2009 2009
2009
2009
2009 2009 2009 2008 2008 2008
2008 2008
2008
2008 2008
2008 2007
2007
2007
2007
2007
2007
2006
Polymorph Gallery (four shows), Sydney
Mori Gallery, Sydney
ESP Gallery (two shows), Sydney
unofficial entrant in Sculpture by the Sea, Sydney
MOP Gallery, Sydney
‘Animal Farm’, Brenda May Gallery, Sydney
‘New World Revolution’, Urban Uprising Gallery, Sydney
‘Hard cover no jacket’ Oh Really Gallery, Sydney
‘Balance’, Tortuga Studios gallery, Sydney
Sculpture in the Vineyards, Wollombi, NSW
Sculpture by the Lakes, Macquarie Lakes, NSW
ESP Gallery, Sydney
‘Remote Control’, Tortuga Studios Gallery, Sydney
Polymorph Gallery (twice), Sydney
Erotic Art Show, Brookvale Gallery, Sydney
unofficial entrant in Sculpture by the Sea, Sydney
Street Art Show, Pine Street Gallery, Sydney
Sculpture in the Vineyards, Woollumbi, NSW (joint with Regard Gallery, Newtown)
Under the Blue Moon Festival (Buzzzbar & Little Fish Gallery), Newtown, Sydney
‘2042’ Art Festival, Newtown, Sydney
‘Still Life”, Brenda May Gallery, Sydney
Urban Uprising Gallery opening show, Sydney
Sculpture by the Brook, Hawkesbury
‘My body my business’, ATVP Gallery, Sydney
unofficial entrant in Sculpture by the Sea, Sydney
Mays presents @ MTV, East Sydney
‘Dead still’ art show, New View Gallery (also curated) Sydney
Aurora Gallery, Sydney Leather Pride
‘Lips & Tits’ Newtown Hotel, Sydney
Sculptors Society Darling Park exhibition, Fairfax Building, Sydney
Under the Blue Moon Art Show, New View Gallery (also curated) Sydney
2005+
Various ‘guerrilla art’ projects around Sydney
BRITAIN
1996
1996+
1994
‘Disturbance Value’ East End Gallery (curated by Malcolm Poynter)
Slimelight Club (ongoing)
‘ Something to look at’, Shad Thames Gallery, Butlers Wharf
OTHER BRITISH SHOWS
Canizaro Park (various)
The Gap Gallery
Wimbledon Library (various)
Glasgow School of Art
Wimbledon School of Art (various)
Eye Art Show (various)
Cooltan Art Gallery
Ravensbourne College of Art show
PUBLIC & PRIVATE COLLECTIONS
1995
2007
2007 2007
2012
2012
2013
Hintlesham Hall (commission)
Artbank (‘numb’ & ‘ANZAC’)
Patrick Corrigan
Lithuanian Consulate, Sydney
Museum of Erotica, Paris
Bathurst Regional Gallery
Goulburn Regional Gallery
2013 Albany Regional Gallery
MEDIA
Books included in:
‘Street Art of Sydney’s Inner West’ by Melinda Vassallo
‘Dean Sunshine’s Land of Sunshine’
‘Street Art Melbourne’ by Lou Chamberlin
‘The world atlas of Street Art & Graffiti’ by Rafael Schacter
Radio interviews on 2SER, 2DAY FM (Hot 30), Triple M (Sydney), FBi (Sydney)
TV interviews on Channel 9, Chatterbox (Aurora)
Print media interviews for Daily Telegraph (Sydney), Drum Media, MX (Sydney), MX (Melbourne), Inner West
Courier, Fiend magazine
Contemporary is a gallery space that aims to create
a cross cultural conversation through showing and
supporting emerging and established artists from
around the world. We aim to foster a strong appreciation
in Australian audiences for a new generation of foreign and domestic artists
and to expose both novice and established collectors to these works.
By curating interactive exhibitions .M Contemporary aims to serve as a
platform that introduces all mediums of art ranging from traditional to
digital video art, interactive and immersive installations, showcasing the
skill, creativity and concepts of artists within these mediums from around
the world. .M Contemporary has a strong focus on supporting these artists
ongoing presence through regular exhibitions, complemented by industry
expert panel discussions, artist talks, social events and more.
Recognising the need for broader participation and exposure to art,
.M Contemporary is also opening up itself to schools, universities and other
parties as a platform for education where an appreciation for global and
local contemporary art is inspired and nourished.
37 Ocean Street
Woollahra, Sydney, NSW 2025
(02) 9328 0922
mcontemp.com