PATRICK GRIEVE the epic secret life of the mundane
PATRICK GRIEVE
the epic secret life of the mundane 27 NOVEMBER - 23 DECEMBER 2015
My Work has always been concerned with describing a sense of place and producing objects that have their own life and can exist outside the constraints of a label, such as landscape painting. They are not direct representations of places that I visit and see every day, nor are they abstract. The most successful of my paintings have an uneasy edge between that of the figurative scene and the pure pattern or colour. I have always lived amongst farmland and have known the people that make a living from it, since I was a child. My paintings are worked and laboured over just as the soil and crops have been worked and plotted. They are scraped back or layered, constantly evolving and never really completed. The ones that work are kept and the others are pushed into shape or removed. The exhibition title, the epic secret life of the mundane, comes from a line from a Bruce Dawe poem. Most things go unnoticed and happen every moment, they are the mundane events of life that we all live through. They are what makes up each day. A pattern in a field, the colour of a crop and the tyre marks in a paddock are all mundane but at the same time epic. Patrick Grieve
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Golden Field, Valley Field Road, Macquarie River 2014 oil on linen 112 x 198cm $5,900
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Golden Field, Valley Field Road, Macquarie River II oil on linen 112 x 198cm $5,900
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Table Cape Iris Field, Late Spring Sky oil on linen 112 x 198cm $5,900
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Banded Field, Sassafras Spring II 2015 oil on linen 152 x 152cm $5,900
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Banded Field, Sassafras Spring III 2015 oil on linen 152 x 152cm $5,900
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Table Cape Farm 2015 oil on linen 152 x 152cm $5,900
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Michael’s Flowers 2015 oil on linen 120 x 120cm $4,800
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Red Velvet Landscape EH 2015 oil on board 120 x 120cm $4,800
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Red Velvet Landscape KH 2015 oil on board 120 x 120cm $4,800
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Edge of Two Fields 2015 oil on linen 120 x 120cm $4,800
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Hawley Farm Valley, Late Evening 2015 oil on linen 90 x 90cm $3,600
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Yellow Field, Midlands Farm III 2015 oil on linen 120 x 60cm $3,300
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Worked Farm Field, Forth River Valley 2015 oil on linen 120 x 60cm $3,300
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Meander Valley, Contrasting Light 2015 oil on linen 120 x 60cm $3,300
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Trevor’s Farm, Sassafras Autumn 2015 oil on linen 120 x 60cm $3,300
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Heavy Ground 2015 oil on linen 60 x 60cm $2,200
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Heavy Ground Study 2015 oil on linen 30 x 30cm $1,250
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Heavy Ground Study II 2015 oil on linen 30 x 30cm $1,250
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Nowhere Else Study 2015 oil on board 20 x 30cm $850
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Nowhere Else Study II 2015 oil on board 20 x 30cm $850
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Atmospheric Study 2015 oil on board 20 x 20cm $550
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Atmospheric Study II 2015 oil on board 20 x 20cm $550
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Atmospheric Study III 2015 oil on board 20 x 20cm $550
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Atmospheric Study VI 2015 oil on board 20 x 20cm $550
Detail: Nowhere Else Study 2015
Patrick Grieve Lives and works in Burnie, Tasmania Education and background 2004-2008
Panel member. Individual Grant Program, Arts Tasmania
1992-2004
Art Teacher, various Tasmanian High Schools and Colleges
1991
Bachelor of Arts in Visual Arts, Diploma of Teaching, University of Tasmania, Launceston
Solo Exhibitions 2015
the epic secret of the mundane, Bett Gallery
2013
Immeasurably Distant, Bett Gallery
2012
Smeared with Toil, Bett Gallery
2009
On the edge of an open landscape, Bett Gallery Hobart, Tasmania
2008
Folded land and memories, Academy Gallery, University of Tasmania, Launceston, New work, Barrick Gallery, Sydney, New South Wales
2006
First Sights from May, Bett Gallery Hobart, Tasmania Recent work, Burnie Regional Art Gallery, Tasmania
2005
Paintings, Barrick Gallery, Sydney, New South Wales
2004
A Wider View, Bett Gallery Hobart, Hobart, Tasmania Paintings, Poimena Gallery, Launceston, Tasmania A Wider View, Burnie Regional Art Gallery, Burnie, Tasmania
1996
Paintings, Art Space, Burnie, Tasmania
1995
Recent Work, Art Space, Burnie, Tasmania
1994
Drawings, Cucina Simpatica CafĂŠ, Launceston, Tasmania
1993
Recent Work & Visitors, Art Space, Burnie, Tasmania
1992
Dark Rooms, Arthouse, Ritchie’s Mill Art Centre, Launceston, Tasmania
Selected Group Exhibitions 2015
Beyond the Classroom. Academy Gallery UTAS Launceston Stand Back. Moonah Arts Centre The John Glover Art Prize. Evandale Under Kunanyi, Bett Gallery
2014
Tasmanian Landscape. Academy Gallery UTAS Launceston
2013
Tasmania Today. Academy Gallery UTAS Launceston
2011
The Hutchins Art Prize. Long Gallery Hobart The John Glover Art Prize. Evandale
2010
Stanthorpe Art Prize, Queensland
2008
The John Glover Art Prize, Evandale, Tasmania Stanthorpe Art Prize, Queensland
2007
Tasmanian group show, Libby Edwards Gallery, Melbourne, Tasmania Prometheus Art Exhibition, Queensland Collecting for Tasmania II, Devonport Regional Gallery, Tasmania
2006
Salon, Bett Gallery Hobart, Tasmania The Esk Collection. Five years of connoisseurship, Design Centre, Tasmania The John Glover Prize, Evandale, Tasmania
2005
City of Hobart Art Prize, Carnegie Gallery, Hobart, Tasmania City of Whyalla Art Prize, Whyalla, South Australia The Hutchins Prize, Long Gallery, Hobart, Tasmania Conrad Jupiters Art Prize, Gold Coast Art Gallery, Surfers Paradise, Queensland Island Art Prize, Stanley, Tasmania The John Glover Prize, Evandale, Tasmania Rhapsody 21C:, Tasmanian Contemporary Art Academy Gallery, Launceston, Tasmania
2004
Tidal, Devonport Regional Art Gallery, Devonport, Tasmania Sticks and Stones, Academy Gallery, Launceston, Tasmania The John Glover Prize, Evandale, Tasmania
2003
RNAPS Art Prize, Academy Gallery, Launceston, Tasmania Painting, Tasmanian Landscape Plimsoll Gallery, Hobart, Tasmania The Hutchins Art Prize, Long Gallery, Salamanca Arts Centre, Hobart, Tasmania Island Art Prize, Stanley, Tasmania
2002
Alumni, Academy Gallery, School of Visual & Performing Arts, Launceston, Tasmania
2001
Island Art Prize, Stanley, Tasmania The Hutchins Art Prize, Long Gallery, Salamanca Arts Centre, Hobart, Tasmania Microcosm, Burnie Regional Art Gallery, Burnie, Tasmania Microcosm, Carnegie Gallery, Hobart, Tasmania Microcosm, University of Tasmania, North West Campus, Burnie, Tasmania
1999
Seeing & Remembering Launceston Church Grammar School, Launceston, Tasmania Aberrant Visions, University Gallery, University of Tasmania, Launceston, Tasmania
1998
Burnie Painters, Long Gallery, Salamanca Arts Centre, Hobart, Tasmania G4, University of Tasmania, North West Campus, Burnie, Tasmania
1996
Pulp, Burnie Regional Art Gallery, Burnie, Tasmania
1994
What’s Worth Showing, Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, Launceston, Tasmania
Awards and Grants 2006
TasArt Burnie City Council Art Prize
2000
TasArt Burnie City Council Art Prize Arts Tasmania, Exhibition funding for Microcosm
1999
Trust Bank Art Award
1997
Arts Tasmania, Professional Development Grant
1996
Open Abstract Trust Bank Award
Collections Parliament House, Canberra The Macquarie Group Derwent Collection Devonport Regional Art Gallery Tasmanian Rural Fire Department University of Tasmania, North West Campus Henry Jones Art Hotel, Hobart Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery The Esk Collection Art Bank Burnie Regional Art Gallery Queen Victoria Museum & Art Gallery, Launceston Ulverstone High School
Bibliography 2012
The Land and its Psyche, The Macquarie Group Collection
2011
Looking At Landscape. Through The Lens of the Glover Prize
2009
Regrowth/On the Edge of an Open Landscape, The Mercury Magazine, 23 May
2005
Conrad Jupiters Art Prize Catalogue Rhapsody 21C, catalogue
2004
Arts, Weekend Australian, 4-5 September Perspective, Sunday Tasmanian, 29 August A wider view catalogue
2003
Painting Tasmanian Landscape, catalogue
2001
Microcosm, catalogue
1999
Aberrant Visions, catalogue
1996
Pulp, catalogue