JASPER KNIGHT The ten year storm
AU S T R A L I A N GA L L E R I E S
First published by Australian Galleries and Jasper Knight 2015 Australian Galleries Publishing PO BOX 1183 Collingwood Victoria 3066 T + 61 3 8415 1524 publications@australiangalleries.com.au australiangalleries.com.au This book is copyright. Apart from any fair dealing for the purpose of private study, research, criticism or review, as permitted under the Copyright Act, no part may be reproduced by any other process without written permission. Design: Stephanie Hall Printing: Adams Print Photography: Greg Weight National Library of Australia Cataloguing-in-Publication entry: Author: Knight, Jasper Title: Jasper Knight: The ten year storm ISBN: 978 0 9805765 7 3 (pbk.) Subjects: Knight, Jasper - Exhibitions Artists - Australia - Exhibitions Painting, Australian - 21st century - Exhibitions Art, Modern - 21st century - Exhibitions 759.994 All works reproduced in the catalogue are Š Jasper Knight and are reproduced with his permission.
Front cover: West Wedding Cake (detail) 2015 enamel, acrylic, masonite, perspex and plywood on board 120 x 90 cm Back cover: The right stuff (detail) 2014 enamel and acrylic on board 60 x 60 cm 2-3 Jasper Knight studio photograph by Greg Weight, 2015 4-5, 36, 42: Jasper Knight studio photographs by Erin Stapleton, 2015 40-41: The Boxtrolls (detail) 2015 enamel and acrylic on conservation card 102 x 76 cm 44: The ten year storm (detail) 2015 enamel, acrylic, masonite, perspex and metal signs on board 200 x 900 cm
JASPER KNIGHT The ten year storm
SYDNEY 26 May - 14 June 2015
AU S T R A L I A N GA L L E R I E S
CONTENTS
Jasper Knight Paintings
5 6 - 31
Works on paper
32 - 35
Biography
37 - 41
Acknowledgements 42 List of works
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JASPER KNIGHT
In mid-2013 Jasper Knight moved back into what was his original studio. A second floor warehouse on William Street, Sydney facing the Art Gallery of New South Wales. It is there that this exhibition was made. It includes Knight’s largest work to date a nine metre painting depicting his beloved childhood memories of Sydney Harbour. It’s edges, it’s steps, it’s pylons.
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1 The ten year storm 2015 enamel, acrylic, masonite, perspex and metal signs on board 200 x 900 cm (detail previous spread)
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2 Summer of ’78 2015 enamel, masonite, perspex and metal petrol station numbers on board 200 x 150 cm (detail previous spread) 13
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3 City of Bankstown 2015 enamel, masonite, perspex and metal signs on board 150 x 150 cm (detail previous spread) 17
4 Reko Rennie 2014 enamel, masonite, perspex and metal sign on board 150 x 150 cm 19
5 East Wedding Cake 2015 enamel, masonite and perspex on board 120 x 90 cm
6 West Wedding Cake 2015 enamel, acrylic, masonite, perspex and plywood on board 120 x 90 cm 21
7 Fifty shades of grey 2014 enamel, masonite and perspex on board 120 x 90 cm 23
8 Bradleys Head Lighthouse 2015 enamel on aluminium 102 x 76 cm
9 Hornby Lighthouse, North Head 2015 enamel on aluminium 102 x 76 cm 25
10 The right stuff 2014 enamel and acrylic on board 60 x 60 cm 27
11 Rhumb Melba 2015 enamel on perspex 60 x 60 cm
12 Oodles of O’s 1991 2015 enamel on perspex 60 x 60 cm 29
13 Daniel Morse 2015 enamel on perspex 60 x 60 cm
14 Dean Brown 2015 enamel on perspex 60 x 60 cm 31
15 (left) JS study 1 2014 enamel and acrylic on conservation card 150 x 102 cm 16 (right) AC study 1 2014 enamel and acrylic on conservation card 150 x 102 cm
17 Carpentaria Lightship CLS4 2015 enamel and acrylic on conservation card 102 x 76 cm 33
18 The Boxtrolls 2015 enamel and acrylic on conservation card 102 x 76 cm
19 (left) Julian Meagher study 2015 enamel and acrylic on conservation card 102 x 76 cm 20 (right) Abdul Abdullah study 2015 enamel and acrylic on conservation card 102 x 76 cm 35
JASPER KNIGHT BIOGRAPHY Born 1978, Sydney, Australia Lives and works in Sydney 1999 2003
Bachelor of Visual Arts, Electronic and Temporal Arts, Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney, Sydney Master of Arts, Majoring in Painting and Drawing, College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales, Sydney
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009 2008
‘The ten year storm’, Australian Galleries, Roylston Street, Sydney ‘The Red Show’, Gallery Ecosse, Exeter, NSW ‘Western Union’, Gallows Gallery, Perth ‘Kurilpa Bridge’, Edwina Corlette Gallery, Brisbane Sydney Contemporary Booth D142, Australian Galleries, Sydney ‘One piece at a time’, Autodromo di Modena, Italy ‘Curb your enthusiasm’, Australian Galleries, Derby Street, Melbourne ‘Know your enemy’, Gallery Ecosse, Exeter, NSW ‘Total Recall’, Australian Galleries, Roylston Street, Sydney ‘Survey show 2003-2012’, Goulburn Regional Art Gallery, Goulburn, NSW ‘Recent Work’, Australian High Commission, Singapore ‘North by Northwest’, Greenhill Galleries, Perth ‘Roll-on Roll-off’, Metro Gallery, Melbourne ‘Metal on Metal’, Gallery Ecosse, Exeter, NSW ‘Sydney Boat Show’, Chalk Horse, Sydney ‘The Fast and the Furious’, Muk Muk Fine Art, Alice Springs, NT ‘There’s a Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow’, Chalk Horse, Sydney ‘Lost Highway’, Greenhill Galleries, Perth ‘Road Trip’, BMGArt, Adelaide ‘Spring Rockers’, Chalk Horse, Sydney ‘Hunters & Gatherers: Works on Paper, Prints & Collages’, Cosa Gallery, London, UK ‘It Takes a Thief to Catch a Thief’, Metro Gallery, Melbourne ‘Apache’, Newcastle Region Art Gallery, Newcastle, NSW ‘Interior Disasters’, Greenhill Galleries, Perth 37
2007 2006 2005 2004 2003
‘Apache’, Chalk Horse, Sydney ‘Skytrain’, BMGArt, Adelaide Metro 5 Gallery, Melbourne ‘Plattenbau’, Greenhill Galleries, Perth ‘Tidemark/Thames Series’, Cosa Gallery, London, UK ‘Dashanzi’, Chalk Horse, Sydney ‘An Island in the Sun’, Cosa Gallery, London, UK ‘Primary’, Metro 5 Gallery, Melbourne ‘One to One’, Phatspace, Sydney ‘There were three in the bed and the little one said’, Sherman Artbox, Sherman Galleries, Sydney ‘Driftwood’, MOP Projects, Sydney ‘Autumn, mk17 Window Boxes’, NSW Government Architect’s Office, Sydney ‘Inner Sydney’, The Australia Centre, Australian Consulate, Manila, Philippines
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2014 2013 2012-13 2012 2011 2010
‘Melbourne Art Fair’, Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne ‘Cars = My Automolove’, Caboolture Regional Art Gallery, Caboolture, QLD Paddington Art Prize (Winner, ‘COFA Limited Edition Print Prize’), National Council of Jewish Woman’s Hall, Sydney Doug Moran National Portrait Prize, Juniper Hall, Sydney ‘Salon des Refusés’, S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney ‘one of each’, Australian Galleries, Derby Street, Melbourne ‘Australia Day 2014 Celebratory Exhibition’, Australian Galleries, Derby Street, Melbourne ‘Australia Day 2014 Celebratory Exhibition’, Australian Galleries, Roylston Street, Sydney ‘Australian Galleries exhibition’, Manning Regional Art Gallery, Taree, NSW ‘Australian Galleries at Gallows Gallery’, Gallows Gallery, Perth Mosman Art Prize, Mosman Art Gallery, Sydney ‘Location, location, location’, Trevor Victor Harvey Gallery, Sydney Archibald Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney Sir John Sulman Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney ‘Summer Stock Show’, Australian Galleries, Derby Street, Melbourne ‘Art in Unusual Places’, Art and About, Sydney Doug Moran National Portrait Prize, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney Wynne Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney ‘Reload – Contemporary Landscape’, Gallery Ecosse, Exeter, NSW ‘large exhibition of small works’, Australian Galleries, Roylston Street, Sydney ‘large exhibition of small works’, Australian Galleries, Derby Street, Melbourne Wynne Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney ‘Chalk Reindeer’, Chalk Horse, Sydney ‘Opening Show’, Gallery Ecosse, Exeter, NSW
2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002
Archibald Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney ‘Shanghart’, Shanghai Art Fair, Shanghai, China Melbourne Art Fair, Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne ‘Chalk Reindeer’, Chalk Horse, Sydney ‘Salon des Refusés’, S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney Archibald Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney ‘Smoking Guns’, Cat Street Gallery, Hong Kong, China ‘Chalk Reindeer’, Chalk Horse, Sydney ‘Salon des Refusés’, S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney Mosman Art Prize (Winner), Mosman Art Gallery, Sydney Archibald Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney ‘Abundant Australia’, Australian Pavilion, Venice Architecture Biennale, Venice, Italy Art Sydney: Sydney’s Affordable Art Fair, Royal Hall of Industries, Sydney ‘Memento Mori’, Blk/Mrkt Gallery, Brisbane ‘Underscore’, Josetti Hoffe Gallery, Berlin, Germany Mosman Art Prize, Mosman Art Gallery, Sydney Archibald Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney ‘Freedman Foundation Show’, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney ‘Art and About’, Customs House Forecourt, Sydney ‘No Direction Home’, Pickled Art Centre, Beijing, China Redlands Westpac Art Prize, Mosman Art Gallery, Sydney Wynne Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney Mosman Art Prize, Mosman Art Gallery, Sydney Archibald Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney ‘Cutting Fields: Collage in the 21st Century’, First Draft, Sydney ‘The Year in Art’, S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney The Brett Whiteley Travelling Scholarship, Brett Whitley Studio, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney Art on the Rocks Prize (Winner), Rocks Visitors Centre, Sydney Wynne Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney Mosman Art Prize, Mosman Art Gallery, Sydney Archibald Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney ‘One of (Festivus)’, Sherman Galleries, Sydney ABN-AMRO Emerging Artist Prize, Aurora Place, Sydney ‘Christmas Show’, MOP Projects, Sydney Helen Lempriere Travelling Art Scholarship, Artspace, Sydney Blake Prize, Sir Herman Black Gallery, Sydney ‘Slacking Off’, Imperial Slacks Gallery, Sydney
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AWARDS & PRIZES 2014 2008 2006 2005 2004 2003
Paddington Art Prize (Winner, ‘COFA Limited Edition Print Prize’), National Council of Jewish Woman’s Hall, Sydney Mosman Art Prize (Winner), Mosman Art Gallery, Sydney National Association for Visual Arts (NAVA) Marketing Grant, Sydney Freedman Foundation Scholarship for Emerging Artists (Winner), Sydney The Brett Whiteley Travelling Scholarship, Brett Whitley Studio, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney Art on the Rocks Prize (Winner), Rocks Visitors Centre, Sydney National Association for Visual Arts (NAVA) Marketing Grant, Sydney Australia Council for the Arts (OZCO), New Work Grant (Painting), Sydney Helen Lempriere Travelling Art Scholarship, Artspace, Sydney
RESIDENCIES & PROJECTS 2009 2007 2006
The IKEA Home Project, The Klippan Sofa, Sydney Residency at Josetti Höfe Studios, Berlin, Germany Residency at Red Gate Gallery Studios, Beijing, China
COLLECTIONS Artbank, Sydney Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney Australian Consulate, Makati, Manila, Philippines Australian Consulate, Singapore Baker and Mckenzie, Sydney Gold Coast City Art Gallery, Surfers Paradise, QLD Goulburn Regional Gallery, Goulburn, NSW Hawkesbury Regional Gallery, Windsor, NSW Maitland Regional Art Gallery, Maitland, NSW National Gallery of Australia, Canberra Newcastle Region Gallery, Newcastle, NSW New South Wales State Government, Sydney Shoalhaven Arts Centre, Nowra, NSW Sydney Port Authority, Sydney
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THANKS TO:
Isabelle Toland Ziggy & Iris Knight Dom, Linsay & John Knight Divya Rajagopalan Dean Brown Danny Morse James Kerr Oliver Watts Julian Meagher Emma Young Andre De Borde Stuart Purves Erin Stapleton Stephanie Hall Greg Weight
LIST OF WORKS 1
The ten year storm
2015
enamel, acrylic, masonite, perspex and metal signs on board
200 x 900 cm
2
Summer of ’78
2015
enamel, masonite, perspex and metal petrol station numbers on board
200 x 150 cm
3
City of Bankstown
2015
enamel, masonite, perspex and metal signs on board
150 x 150 cm
4
Reko Rennie
2014
enamel, masonite, perspex and metal sign on board
150 x 150 cm
5
East Wedding Cake
2015
enamel, masonite and perspex on board
120 x 90 cm
6
West Wedding Cake
2015
enamel, acrylic, masonite, perspex and plywood on board
120 x 90 cm
7
Fifty shades of grey
2014
enamel, masonite and perspex on board
120 x 90 cm
8
Bradleys Head Lighthouse
2015
enamel on aluminium
102 x 76 cm
9
Hornby Lighthouse, North Head
2015
enamel on aluminium
102 x 76 cm
10 The right stuff
2014
enamel and acrylic on board
60 x 60 cm
11 Rhumb Melba
2015
enamel on perspex
60 x 60 cm
12 Oodles of O’s 1991
2015
enamel on perspex
60 x 60 cm
13 Daniel Morse
2015
enamel on perspex
60 x 60 cm
14 Dean Brown
2015
enamel on perspex
60 x 60 cm
15 JS study 1
2014
enamel and acrylic on conservation card
150 x 102 cm
16 AC study 1
2014
enamel and acrylic on conservation card
150 x 102 cm
17 Carpentaria Lightship CLS4
2015
enamel and acrylic on conservation card
102 x 76 cm
18 The Boxtrolls
2015
enamel and acrylic on conservation card
102 x 76 cm
19 Julian Meagher study
2015
enamel and acrylic on conservation card
102 x 76 cm
20 Abdul Abdullah study
2015
enamel and acrylic on conservation card
102 x 76 cm
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