Australian Landscape: Present in the Now, Berlin September 2013

Australian Landscape: Present in the Now Noel McKenna | Nathan Taylor | Marian Drew Nici Cumpston | Rex Dupain | Joseph McGlennon Christopher Pease | Freddie Timms | Christian Thompson Catherine Nelson | Jason Benjamin

Australian Landscape: Present in the Now Noel McKenna | Nathan Taylor | Marian Drew Nici Cumpston | Rex Dupain | Joseph McGlennon Christopher Pease | Freddie Timms | Christian Thompson Catherine Nelson | Jason Benjamin

September 2013

Australian Landscape: Present in the Now Including work by Noel McKenna + Nathan Taylor + Marian Drew + Nici Cumpston + Rex Dupain Joseph McGlennon + Chris Pease + Freddie Timms + Christian Thompson Catherine Nelson + Jason Benjamin For more than two hundred and twenty-five years the Western view of the Australian landscape has seesawed between a fertile utopia of great promise and a scary, rugged land with a ruthlessly unforgiving interior. Australia’s indigenous people have seen their country in a parallel - and altogether more pragmatic - light as a place to traverse and from which to gather food; a world to be accepted just as it is, thrown into being by Ancestors.

Without doubt all these widespread attributes - from the ideological to the practical - can be drawn from the Australian landscape. But what distinguishes our current reading from those of previous eras is that today no one single interpretation prevails.

Australia is an enormous land, still relatively isolated and with the majority of its population based in the urban centres that hug the coastline. Our visual past has reflected the dominant opinion of each age - the colonial administration promulgating free settler propaganda; pastoralists and miners giving thanks for a land

that continues to give; and, more recently, the 20th century homage to sun, sea and surf. But today collective opinion no longer directs our view of the land or the art that it inspires.

The Australian landscape of Now manifests itself in a matrix of ways, through the eyes of many artists reading their landscape, in their own way, just for them. It’s a personal thing.

Michael Reid

Noel McKenna Noel McKenna is not one for crowds and he’s not one for clutter. His pared back, haunting works celebrate the ordinary by stripping scenes down to their elements - a fox crossing a deserted moonlit street; a solitary man walking away from a tree on a hillside; a sign, advertising Chinese takeaway, leaning against a shop wall.

McKenna’s use of composition and colour encourages the viewer of his work to look with fresh eyes on the commonplace. In Domestic pet: cat on railing (2012) an impossibly blue cat stares out from its very ordinary setting, and there are no distractions in The piano of my brother (2012) where a spartan room contains only a piano, piano stool, a picture and a curtained window. McKenna’s method of isolating his subject reaches an apex in his series of earthenware tiles, From the studio and From the kitchen, which separate everyday items - such as a tube of paint, a hammer, a box of Maldon salt and a teapot - from their usual places amongst the clutter of everyday life. “That’s the thing – to make something ordinary appear to be something else other than just ordinary,” McKenna says.

Elsewhere in his work information proliferates. In large schematic works such as ♂ Public Toilets Sydney CBD (2012), Public Swimming Pools of Australia (2012) and Butterflies of Australia (2010) McKenna carefully draws maps then annotates them with information painstakingly collected over months. Centennial Park (2012) – a finalist in the 2013 Wynne Prize – is a large (160 x 160 cm) map to which McKenna has added snippets of historical and botanical detail. It was inspired by

bicycle rides in the Sydney parkland taken early in the morning so as to avoid cars.

For the non-driver McKenna these rides are one of life’s great joys and come top of his ‘Likes’ in the list work Things that I like about today’s world (2012). Unsurprisingly ‘4 WD in the City’ topped the (longer) companion list, Things that bug me about today’s world (2012).

Noel McKenna Church, Coastal Town, New South Wales, Australia / 2013 Oil on plywood / Signed & titled on reverse 49.5 x 57.0 cm

Noel McKenna Church, Coastal Town, New South Wales, Australia, Early Evening / 2013 Oil on plywood / Signed & titled on reverse 49.5 x 57.0 cm

Nathan Taylor Nathan Taylor documents our time. His photorealist works draw attention to the objects that form an important part of our everyday lives and routines yet which we forget or discard without a thought: the petrol bowser, a kettle callously thrown out after years of service, an electric fan with rusting blades that sits on the ledge of a boarded up window, an abandoned shopping trolley.

Taylor’s more recent works expand on ideas of consumerism and waste by moving from domestic scenes to more communal areas. In his landscapes cigarette butts and crushed, empty drinks cans litter the streets and bins, such as the one in Dead to the world (2010), overflow with packaging and half consumed food and drink.

Each work takes Taylor between six and eight weeks to complete. Using tiny brushes and rollers he manages to recreate the exact sheen of the metal edge of a bubbler (complete with scratches to its polished surface and the reflection it throws off), the bubbles of condensation misting up the neck of a plastic water bottle, an apple core or the inside of a banana skin browning in the sun, the exact lettering and design of fast food packaging.

Baudelaire wrote, “it is much easier to decide outright that everything [about modern life] is absolutely ugly than to devote oneself to the task of distilling from it the mysterious element of beauty that it may contain.” Taylor’s ability to recreate in paint the most minute detail of the humdrum elicits exactly this “mysterious

element of beauty”. Through his extraordinary technique and careful composition he forces us to reconsider what we unthinkingly cast aside.

Since 2000 Taylor has held an impressive nine solo exhibitions and has been a finalist in numerous art awards. He has been awarded a Janet Holmes à Court Artists’ Grant and a Marten Bequest Travelling Scholarship and in 2012 won the Eutick Memorial Still Life Award.

A monograph, Nathan Taylor: the poetics of excess (Emily Cloney and Michael Reid, 2012) is available at http://au.blurb.com/b/3437119-nathan-taylor-the-poetics-of-excess

Nathan Taylor Bite your tongue / 2013
 Acrylic on board / Signed verso 30.0 x 60.0 cm

Nathan Taylor Settle for less / 2013 Acrylic on board / Signed verso 30.0 x 60.0 cm

Marian Drew In Marian Drew’s Australiana/Still Life series, starched white tablecloths, carefully chosen utensils and artfully positioned fruits bring to mind 17th century Dutch still life paintings or Spanish bodegones. But not for long. The central subject of a possum, quoll, bandicoot, wallaby or rosella - usually roadkill collected by Drew identifies them as unmistakably Australian. Nor are they oil on canvas works but instead photographs for which Drew has used a 10-minute exposure and, with the studio lights turned off, applied paintbrush-like strokes of light with a torch.

Drew‘s practice is characterized by innovation and exploration of photo media. In 2006 she was commissioned to create a work for an apartment block in Brisbane’s CBD. She used photo-sensitive emulsion to make the initial artwork of ripples moving across the surface of water. Waterography - Writing in Light with Water was then digitized, enlarged, laminated and integrated into the building’s façade.

Since Drew was chosen to represent Australia in the First Asia Pacific Triennial at the Queensland Art Gallery in 1992, she has held over 20 solo shows across Australia, United States, France and Germany. Her work is held in many major public and private collections across Australia including the Australian National Gallery, Queensland Art Gallery, South Australian Art Gallery and the J. Paul Getty Museum in the USA. A survey of her work, Marian Drew – Photographs + Video works, was published in 2006. Drew is currently an Associate Professor at Queensland College of Art, Griffith University.

Marian Drew Kingfisher with Strawberries and Chinese Cloth / 2009 Giclee print on archival cotton paper / Edition of 10 90.0 x 110.0 cm

Marian Drew Penguin with Enamel Jug / 2009 Giclee print on archival cotton paper / Edition of 10 90.0 x 110.0 cm

Nici Cumpston It may have been during the eight years that she spent working in the Photographic department of the South Australia Police that Nici Cumpston learned how to sift through evidence and piece it together to recreate a crime scene. Certainly her 2008 series Attesting is a haunting record of the aftermath of a pillaged landscape. Cumpston’s hand-coloured photographs show tree stumps – created by ring barking – hovering above silty land, raised on pedestals of tangled, exposed roots; and fallen branches writhing beside bare tree trunks that tenaciously grip to the original waterline. Her work bears witness to a time when the Nookamka people camped and fished at the edge of Lake Bonney, before locks and weirs caused the level of the lake to rise, its waters closing over thousands of years of human and natural history.

In the early twentieth century hand-colouring of photographs was used to heighten their realism but Cumpston uses watercolours and pencils to communicate how she feels about her subjects rather than trying to recreate them exactly. Because of their large scale her works are experienced physically. Moving from canvas to canvas is like going on a waterside walk on which the full force – and the full beauty – of a ravaged and drowned landscape is revealed.

And Cumpston is a knowledgeable guide to that landscape. Since returning from Canada at the age of 13 she has immersed herself in learning about her mother’s Afghan-Aboriginal heritage, exploring her cultural identity to find ‘a comfortable

place [for herself] in the living history of Australia.’ She has travelled extensively, photographing not only the landscape but also indigenous people for collaborative projects such as Weaving the Murray and Nakkondi/Look – Indigenous Australians 1999-2000, a series of portraits revealing their sitters’ individual stories.

Cumpston’s most prominent commission, Flooded Gum and Eckert’s Creek, Murray River National Park (2005), is displayed in the foyer of the Commonwealth Law Court in Adelaide - previously the site of South Australia Police Commission where she started her working life. Formerly a Lecturer and now an Associate Curator at the Art Gallery of South Australia, Cumpston’s knowledge of Indigenous art and culture art constantly informs and enriches her artistic practice. Since 2000 her photographs have featured nine times in the prestigious National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award and are included in the 2013 landmark exhibition Australia at the Royal Academy of Arts, London.

Nici Cumpston Winter III, Nookamka Lake / 2010 Archival inkjet print on canvas, hand coloured with watercolour and pencil / Edition #3/5 75.0 x 205.0 cm

Nici Cumpston
 Tree Stumps, Lake Bonney / 2010
 Archival inkjet print on canvas, hand coloured with watercolour and pencil / Edition #3/10 75.0 x 205.0 cm

Rex Dupain When the photographer Max Dupain took a photograph of his 4 year-old son Rex, the small boy reciprocated, using his small Kodak instamatic to take a photograph of his father. This was to be a rare occasion. Although it turned out that father and son’s photographic careers did not overlap in time, their subject matter did, and for many Australians the images defining their nation’s identity – and Sydney’s in particular - have become the domain of the Dupain lens.

As a boy Rex showed enormous promise in photography, winning both first and second prizes in the Royal Easter Show Photographic Award at just 14. Then he put his camera down and did not pick it up again for two decades. He decided to focus instead on his art lecturing and on painting where he enjoyed a successful exhibiting career and reached the finals of the Archibald, Wynne and Sulman Prizes.

In 1995, three years after his father’s death, Rex very suddenly decided to revisit photography as a medium and, like his father, found that Sydney threw up a rich variety of subject matter. It’s naturally a different Sydney to that pictured in his father’s work. The passage of time has wrought its changes on the scenery and the locals - and fear of litigation now means that a photographer’s spontaneous shot must immediately be followed by a ‘model release’ request. Although there are similarities with Max Dupain’s Beach Symmetry (1940), Rex’s 2006 Sand series shows a painter’s eye finding a splash of colour or a moment of activity that transforms the great human variety of the beach scene into a more homogenous

backdrop. His lens focuses on a girl stretching out her red beach towel; another with arms raised waiting to catch a large beach-ball; the suited man, incongruous in the midst of so many semi-clad sunbathers, striding back from the water’s edge. For Rex the camera is a tool, another means of making the pictures he once created with his brush.

For Rex the satisfaction in seeing a final image hanging on the wall is shortlived. A completed work prompts him to get outside again, hungry to find his next subject. In addition to hugely popular photographic exhibitions, his work has been compiled into several books including The Colour of Bondi (2006) and Australia: 150 Photographs (2010).

Rex Dupain Girl With The Red Towel (Sand series) / 2005/2009 Digital c-type Lambda photograph / Signed, dated and numbered lower right, ‘Rex Dupain’05 8/10 / Editioned 8/10 107.0 x 107.0 cm

Image photographed on film and converted to digital format for printing. llustrated in Dupain, The Colour of Bondi, 2006, p77.

Rex Dupain Walking Man with Suit (Sand series) / 2005/2009 Digital c-type Lambda photograph / Signed, dated and numbered lower right, ‘Rex Dupain’ 08 3/10 / Editioned 3/10 107.0 x 107.0 cm

Image photographed on film and converted to digital format for printing.

Illustrated in Dupain, The Colour of Bondi, 2006, p77.

Joseph McGlennon Joseph McGlennon burst onto the Australian contemporary art scene in 2011 with his first – and sell-out – solo exhibition Strange Voyage, a suite of photographs of taxidermied kangaroos standing proudly and incongruously in front of idealised English landscapes.

McGlennon’s photographs take us back in time to experience the astonishment and incredulity evoked by the first sightings of Australia’s most famous mammal. As Joseph Banks wrote: ‘what to liken him to I could not tell, nothing certainly that I have seen at all resembles him’. Back in England curious visitors flocked to see George Stubbs’ The Kongouro from New Holland at the Royal Academy to get their first glimpse (although Stubbs had not actually seen a kangaroo and had based his famous painting on verbal accounts and a rather haphazard inflating of a preserved kangaroo skin). It is the bewilderment of the eighteenth century British public as it grappled to absorb and contextualize this strange new animal that McGlennon’s photographs so powerfully conjures.

In his second solo exhibition in as many years, McGlennon reflected on how Australian art and folklore abounds with stories of bushrangers but their adversaries, the troopers or mounted police, are largely neglected. To create Troopers (2012) McGlennon visited the New South Wales Mounted Police at their Sydney headquarters as they celebrated their 150th anniversary. He photographed real horses and their riders in ceremonial dress against mottled brown backdrops and, back in

the studio, added layers of detail and symbols to create a series of imposing images that reflect the authority and importance of the force and reposition it in Australian visual history.

Before starting his career as an artist McGlennon worked all over the world in corporate branding and advertising. A finalist in the 2011 Moran Contemporary Photographic Prize Open Competition, his work is held in many public and private collections including the Art Gallery of South Australia, the Hyatt Hotel Singapore and Marco Polo Developments.

Joseph McGlennon Thylacine Study Number 3 / 2013 Giclee print on archival Hahnemuhle Fine Art Paper / Photographed on location in Van Dieman‘s Land / Edition of 8 & 2 Artist Proofs 100.0 x 120.0 cm

Joseph McGlennon Thylacine Study Number 5 / 2013 Giclee print on archival Hahnemuhle Fine Art Paper / Photographed on location in Van Dieman‘s Land / Edition of 8 & 2 Artist Proofs 100.0 x 120.0 cm

Christopher Pease Christopher Pease’s shared French and Nyoongar ancestry – he is descended from the Western Australian Minang people of the Nyoongar nation – ideally positions him to investigate the collision of aboriginal and European cultures.

His large canvases, often derived from 19th century colonial artwork, show the interaction of Europeans and Indigenous people. By including motifs – such as a target, the Wagyl serpent and even Tenniel’s White Rabbit from Alice in Wonderland – Pease shows how both the creation of work by the artist and its interpretation by the viewer depend on their particular cultural references. Pease’s graphic design training is evident in the layers of different elements in his work. Some of his 2012 works show Aboriginal people sandwiched between a background of traditional Western wallpaper and the sketched lines of house floor plans, emphasizing their continuing disenfranchisement.

Pease’s work brings traditional Aboriginal visual language into the midst of contemporary urban culture. This is most powerfully demonstrated by his eighteen metre long mural of the Wagyl serpent, the central ancestral being of his Nyoongar people, which dominates the foyer at the Perth Convention and Exhibition Centre.

In 2002 Pease won the Telstra NATSIA General Painting Award and four of his works were included in the inaugural Indigenous Art Triennial, Culture Warriors (2007). In 2010 he exhibited in the 17th Biennale of Sydney.

Christopher Pease Noble Savage One / 2013 Oil on canvas 100.0 x 65.0 cm

Christopher Pease Noble Savage Two / 2013 Oil on canvas 100.0 x 65.0 cm

Christopher Pease’s Noble Savage diptych is a ferociously comical investigation of the 18th to early 20th century European notion of the idealised, uncivilised Aboriginal.

For centuries Indigenous people across the world were considered to be of no greater significance than livestock. By picturing his aboriginal subjects sitting astride cattle, Pease echoes the mid 18th and early 19th century fashion for stylized portraits of prize animals. The inclusion of a reproduction of Stubbs’ famous kangaroo, exhibited in London in 1773, further emphasizes the view of the indigenous population as a new species to be marvelled at by an English public keen to see curiosities discovered on the other side of the globe.

The aboriginal men and kangaroos in Noble Savage share the landscape with cattle and rabbits reflecting the rapidly changing natural environment following colonisation.

The five rabbits brought over on the First Fleet multiplied at a furious

rate, and in just seven years six cattle that had escaped from what is now Sydney’s Domain became a wild herd of more than 100, discovered grazing on land across the Nepean River. The expedition – led by Governor John Hunter - to track down the livestock confirmed fertile soils ripe for cultivation in today’s Camden, assured the Colony’s expansion and sealed the fate of the indigenous population.

Still in place as late as 1971 in Western Australia, the Native (Citizenship Rights) Act 1944 stated that Aboriginal people had to apply to become citizens in their own land. They had to prove that they had severed all ties with extended family and

friends, were free from disease, could speak English, had been ‘civilised’ in behaviour for two years, could manage their affairs and were industrious in their habits.

These two paintings show Wardandi men choosing to reject citizenship. Instead they ride, proud and kinglike through their country.

SOURCES & LITERATURE · Brenda L. Croft, Janda Gooding: Indigenous Art from South Western Australia 1833-2002, Art Gallery of Western Australia, 2003

· Ter Ellingson: The Myth of the Noble Savage, University of California Press, 2001 · Anna Haebich: For Their Own Good, Aborigines and Government in the South West of Western Australia 1900-1940, University of Western Australia Press, 1992

· First Fleet Cattle. The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW: 1842 - 1954) 13 Aug 1932: 9. Web: 19 Jul 2013 http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article16889435

· Andrew Jewell: Livestock in Art, catalogue essay for English Rural Life’s major exhibition on livestock painting, Portraits of Animals, 1964

Freddie Timms On Freddie Timms’ expansive canvases, the curving contours of Horse Creek, Fish Hole, Ant River, Crab Creek, Pelican Hole and Mabel Downs are depicted in earth pigments delineated by delicate borders of white dots. “I remember the places where I used to go mustering and I follow them up with my painting,” he says. It’s as well that he has been able to recall and record in paint his country as the damming of the Ord River in the 1970s meant that many of these places have disappeared under the water of the huge, manmade Lake Argyle.

Timms didn’t start to paint until he was 43, after he and his family had moved to Warmun (Turkey Creek). He followed in the footsteps of others - such as his father-in-law Paddy Jampinji and Jack Britten - who had also been stockmen before they became artists. Timms helped to paint the boards for the Gurirr-Gurirr, the ceremony revealed to Rover Thomas that energized painting in Warmun, but his favourite subject for his own paintings was the topography of the land surrounding his birthplace Ngarrmaliny, the Gija name he shares.

Timms has frequently been at the forefront of new developments in the protection and promotion of Aboriginal art. In 1998, together with the Melbourne gallerist Tony Oliver, he formed the self-funding collective Jirrawun Arts, which assured that its artists would not, as had happened to Timms, spend a month painting only to be paid $300 by an unscrupulous dealer. For over a decade Jirrawun was held up as a model for Aboriginal-run art centres across the nation. In 2008 Timms’

Wunubi Springs (2008) was used to trial a new system developed by the University of Western Australia, aimed at safeguarding artworks against forgery by giving each paint colour its own unique chemical fingerprint.

Timms’ paintings have been shown in Germany, Japan, the United States, France and New Zealand. His work Lissadell (2010) has been enlarged on a series of panels for the foyer ceiling of the Ark development in North Sydney.

Freddie Timms Barramundi Hole (Diptych) / 2008 Ochres and pigments with acrylic binder on Belgian linen / Provenance: Jirrawun Arts, WA cat. no. FT200801291 80.0 x 200.0 cm

Christian Thompson For six weeks in early 2013 the formal portraits that usually hang in the Hall of Trinity College, Oxford were taken down and replaced with photographic works

by Christian Thompson. It was the first time in over 450 years that a student’s work had been exhibited there and unsurprisingly it was Thompson – an artist whose work centres on unexpected combinations and collisions – who had forged the way.

At the same time, and only a short distance away, there was another exhibition of Thompson’s work, We Bury Our Own, a series created in response to the Pitt Rivers Museum’s archival collection of photographs of Aboriginal Australians. As is typical of Thompson’s work, the images use a variety of costumes and props including votive objects – candles, flowers, butterflies and crystals – to perform a spiritual repatriation of the collection. The photographs are, as Thompson puts it, ‘setting something free, providing a platform or a new gateway…a departure point from the archive into the contemporary’.

Although Thompson himself features in the majority of his work – which includes videos and performance works – paradoxically he aims to disappear. By totally or partially obscuring his face – with a colour-saturated hoody cascading with pearls in the King Billy series (2010) or a model ship in Invaded Dreams (2012) – Thompson allows the viewer of his work to imbue it with their own meanings and narrative.

Thompson is regularly on the move. He has undertaken residencies in the UK, USA, the Netherlands, Singapore, Australia and Canada and is currently studying for a doctorate in Fine Art at Oxford University where he is one of the first two recipients of a Charlie Perkins scholarship. His work is held in the National Gallery, the Art Gallery of New South Wales, the National Gallery of Victoria and the Queensland Art Gallery.

Christian Thompson Danger Will Come / 2012 C-type print on Fuji Pearl Metallic paper / Edition of 10 100.0 x 100.0 cm

Catherine Nelson Catherine Nelson’s work distils the world into a series of beautiful orbs. She takes hundreds of photographs and then seamlessly pieces them together to give the viewer a bird’s eye view of a floating world – a pond, densely packed with water-lilies and bordered by hedgerows; leaf-bare trees framing a reflection of ashen winter skies; seagulls thronging over a disc of sandy beach encircled by a thin band of ocean. By showing us a familiar scene from an unfamiliarly distant viewpoint, Nelson encourages us to look more closely at each ‘greater heaven in an heaven less’.1 There’s an emphasis on the transitory – on the change of light during the day, the moment before the thunderclouds break, the change of season as winter unfurls into spring. In Source (2010) you can almost hear the flapping of wings as a flock of birds, perhaps hearing an unexpected noise, suddenly disperses from a central point. At the centre of many of Nelson’s microcosms water acts as a mirror or lens so that the viewer is able to see what is above them and beyond the picture plane.

1 On a Drop of Dew, Andrew Marvell

As Nelson says: When I embraced the medium of photography, I felt that taking a picture that represented only what was within the frame of the lens wasn‘t expressing my personal and inner experience of the world around me. With the eye and training of a painter and with years of experience behind me in film visual effects, I began to take my photographs to another level.

Born in Sydney, Nelson completed her art education at the College of Fine Arts in Sydney and then moved quickly into the world of film and television, creating visual effects for films such as Moulin Rouge, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, 300 and Australia. Her profession has taken her throughout Australia and around the world to Milan, London, Rome, Reykjavik, Bratislava and Brussels. In 2008 she returned to her studio and began to dedicate her time to her own art practice.

Catherine Nelson Mission II / 2012 Pigment print from digital photograph / Edition of 7 100.0 x 100.0 cm / 150.0 x 150.0 cm

Catherine Nelson Sydney Spring / 2013 Pigment print from digital photograph / Edition of 7 100.0 x 100.0 cm / 150.0 x 150.0 cm

Jason Benjamin Jason Benjamin’s work freezes moments in time – the flower just about to drop a petal; portentous clouds on the point of releasing their burden of rain; the last blush of the sun as it sets. His large oil on canvas landscapes and more intimate works on paper show the rocky outcrops, stark vegetation and ever-changing skies of the Monaro Plain. But, since they are rarely topographical, his works also feel outside of time and unrestricted by place. Aided by Benjamin’s enigmatic titles, they propel the viewer into their own thoughts and memories.

Benjamin does not limit himself as to genre, undertaking with the same emotional charge still lifes, landscapes and portraits – he has twice been a finalist in the Archibald Prize at the Art Gallery of New South Wales and won the Packing Room Prize in 2005. A recent residency at the Australian Museum in Sydney saw his use of pencil and watercolour breathe life into its taxidermied exhibits to create Yes said the sky, a series of vivid pencil and watercolour works of the animals that might inhabit one of his landscapes.

Benjamin has an extraordinary exhibiting history in Australia, Japan, Hong Kong and Italy. 2013 sees him undertake a residency at the Red Gate Gallery in Beijing and the start of a two-year touring survey exhibition of his work to regional art galleries around New South Wales. Benjamin’s work is represented in many important collections including the Australian National Gallery, Canberra, the National Portrait Gallery, Canberra and the National Gallery of Victoria.

Jason Benjamin Leichhardt Healing (3) / 2013 Oil on linen 120.0 x 120.0 cm

Jason Benjamin Blue Water A Clear Path (1) / 2012 Oil on linen 120.0 x 120.0 cm

Noel McKenna Born 1956, Brisbane Lives and works in Sydney Education 1974-1975 Architecture, University of Queensland 1976-1978 Brisbane College of Art, Brisbane 1981

Alexander Mackie College, Sydney

Solo Exhibitions 2011

Noel McKenna –All That Heaven Allows, Greenaway Art Gallery, Adelaide

Noel McKenna – homes 4 sale nz, Niagara Galleries, Melbourne

Noel McKenna – Works on Paper, Michael Reid, Murrurundi, New South Wales

2010

Noel McKenna, Michael Reid, Murrurundi, New South Wales

Noel McKenna – 29 Centremeters Closer, Brett

McDowell Gallery, Dunedin, New Zealand

2009

News of the swimmer reaches shore, Niagara Galleries, Melbourne

Google Series, Men Smoking Pipes, Autumn, Men

Fishing, Cats etc., Greenaway Art Gallery, Adelaide

2008

Northland, mother’s tankstation, Dublin, Ireland

The Weekly Bus-Rail Ticket: The Return Journey, Darren Knight Gallery, Sydney

The Weekly Bus-Rail Ticket: Noel McKenna, National Art School Gallery, Sydney

2007 The democratic potter, Niagara Galleries, Melbourne 2006

From Watson’s Bay to Waterloo, Darren Knight Gallery, Sydney

2005

Merrylands, Niagara Galleries, Melbourne

Somewhere in the City, Queensland University of Technology Art Museum, Brisbane

Ceramics 1993-2005, Darren Knight Gallery, Sydney

Noel McKenna, Greenaway Art Gallery, Adelaide

2004

Australia II including the Queensland Room,

Darren Knight Gallery, Sydney

Noel McKenna: Animal Works 1977-2003, touring exhibition,

including St. George Regional Museum, Sydney

2003

Australia, Niagara Galleries, Melbourne

Recent work 2003, Greenaway Art Gallery, Adelaide

2003 Hermans Art Award, Quadrivium Gallery, Sydney

2002

DARREN KNIGHT GALLERY, Sydney

2001

Found and Lost, Niagara Galleries, Melbourne

Hong Kong, John Batten Gallery, Hong Kong

SMH Watercolours 1997-2001, Darren Knight Gallery, Sydney

Greenaway Art Gallery, Adelaide

2000

Southland, Darren Knight Gallery, Sydney

1999

Greenaway Art Gallery, Adelaide

Niagara Galleries, Melbourne

1998

Darren Knight Gallery, Sydney

Bowen Galleries, Wellington, New Zealand

1997

Niagara Galleries, Melbourne

Greenaway Art Gallery, Adelaide

1996

Roslyn Oxley9, Sydney

Niagara Galleries, Melbourne

1995

Greenaway Art Gallery, Adelaide Niagara Galleries, Melbourne

1994

Roslyn Oxley9, Sydney Niagara Galleries, Melbourne

Dick Bett Gallery, Hobart

1993

Greenaway Art Gallery, Adelaide

Niagara Galleries, Melbourne

1992

Dick Bett Gallery, Hobart !Niagara Galleries, Melbourne

ARS Multiplicata, Sydney

1991

12 Sturt Street, Sydney

Niagara Galleries, Melbourne

1985

Niagara Galleries, Melbourne

Garry Anderson Gallery, Sydney

1983

Garry Anderson Gallery, Sydney

Group Exhibitions 2013

South of No North: Laurence Aberhart, William

Eggleston, Noel McKenna, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney

Twelve old, twelve new, Niagara Galleries, Melbourne

2012

Volume One: MCA Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney

understated 2012 – NSW Parliament Collection,

Fountain Court, New South Wales Parliament, Sydney

Walking with Alice, South Australian School of Art Gallery, Adelaide

Revealed 1: Inside the private collections of South Australia,

Samstag Museum, Adelaide

2011

Cicada Press: Collaboration and Connection,

The Incinerator Art Space, Sydney

Kedumbla Drawing Award, Kedumbla Gallery, Wentworth Falls, New South Wales

Fleurieu Art Prize, Hardy’s Winery, McLaren Vale, South Australia

2010

Fully Booked, Arts Project Australia, Melbourne

Basil Sellers Art Prize 2010, Ian Potter Museum of Art, University of Melbourne

The Ipswich House, Ipswich Art Gallery, Queensland

2009

New Australian Art, Deloitte, Sydney

Twelve Degrees of Latitude, Regional Gallery and

University Art Collections in Queensland, Perc Tucker

Regional Gallery, Townsville, QLD

Minding Animals, John Paynter Gallery, Newcastle, New South Wales

the non-grand, an exploration of intimacy in contemporary art,

Wollongong City Art Gallery, Wollongong,

avoiding myth & message: Australian artists and the literary world,

Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney

Blue Chip XI, The Collectors’ Exhibition, Niagara Galleries, Melbourne

Darren Knight Gallery at Auckland Art Fair, Auckland, New Zealand

2008

Who let the dogs out – the dog in contemporary Australian art,

Lake Macquarie City Art Gallery and Hazelhurst Regional Gallery & Arts Centre,

New South Wales

Look out, Wembley Arena MOP, Sydney

2007

BloodLines – Art and the Horse, Hawkesbury Regional Gallery,

Windsor, New South Wales Australia

Snap Freeze: Still Life Now, TarraWarra Museum of Art, Healesville, Victoria

De Overkant/Down Under, Den Haag Sculptuur/The Hague Sculpture,

The Hague, The Netherlands

Art + Humor Too, Brenda May Gallery, Sydney

Life is sweet: contemporary Australian watercolours,

Gippsland Art Gallery, Sale, Victoria

Artists’ ink: printmaking from the Warrnambool Art

Gallery Collection, 1970 - 2001 Warrnambool Art Gallery, Victoria

2006-2007 Yours, mine and ours: 50 years of ABC TV, Penrith

Regional Gallery and the Lewers Bequest, Sydney

Moist, Australian Watercolours, Araluen Galleries,

N.T., Perc Tucker Regional Art Gallery, QLD,

Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, VIC; Riddoch Gallery, S.A.

2006

2006 The Year in Art, SH Ervin Gallery, Sydney

Getting on Mother’s Nerves, Mother’s Tankstation, Dublin, Ireland

2005

We are all animals, La Trobe University, Bendigo, Victoria

MCA Collection: New acquisitions in context, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney

The Sound of Painting, The Arts Centre, George Adams Gallery, Victoria,

Wynne Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

UnAustralian, Anna Bibby Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand

Art + Humour, Brenda May Gallery, Sydney

2004

2004 National Works on Paper, Mornington Peninsula, Regional Gallery, Victoria

The Year in Art, S H Ervin Gallery, Sydney

National Small Sculpture Prize, Woollahra Municipal, Council, Sydney

The Visibility of Practice, National Art School, Sydney

Mind’s Eye, Hazelhurst Regional Gallery and Arts Centre, Sydney

Gambling in Australia: Thrills, Spills and Social Ills, Powerhouse Museum, Sydney

2003-2004 Home Sweet Home: Works from the Peter Fay Collection,

touring National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Fair Game. Art + Sport, NGV Response Gallery, Melbourne Sport: More than heroes

and legends, Powerhouse Museum, Sydney A Modelled World, McClelland Gallery +

Sculpture Park, Victoria,

2003

National Sculpture Prize & Exhibition 2003, National

Gallery of Australia, Canberra Art & About, College and George Streets, City of Sydney

2002

The Year in Art, S H Ervin Gallery, Sydney

Briefcase 50, Boutwell Draper Gallery, Sydney

Nocturne, images from night and darkness from colonial

to contemporary, Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, Victoria

2001

Black/White & Grey, Darren Knight Gallery, Sydney

The Gambling Show, John Batten Gallery, Hong Kong

Wynne Prize for Watercolour, Wynne Prize and Sulman

Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

The Melbourne Savage Club Art Prize, Dickerson Gallery, Melbourne

A Century of Collecting 1902 –2001, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, College of Fine Arts, Sydney

2000

Parihaka – The Art of Passive Resistance, The City Gallery,

Wellington, New Zealand Small Tapestries and Works on Paper,

Victorian Tapestry Workshop, Melbourne Pets, Prey & Predators –

Introduced Animals in Recent Australian Art, Dubbo Regional Art

Gallery, Campbelltown City Bicentennial Art Gallery, New South Wales, Sulman Prize,

Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney Dobell Drawing Prize, Art Gallery of

New South Wales, Sydney The Dog Show, King Street Gallery on Burton, Sydney Re/

Brand?, Wollongong City Gallery and Wollongong University,

1999-2000 On The Road – The Car in Australian Art, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne 1999

Pets, Prey & Predators – Introduced Animals in Recent Australian Art,

Mosman Art Gallery, Sydney

Wynne Prize for Watercolour, Art Gallery of New South Wales

Persuasive Humours, Mosman Region Art Gallery, Sydney

1997-1999 Cartoons and Caricature in Contemporary Art, touring exhibition,

Geelong Art Gallery, Hamilton Art Gallery, Waverley City Gallery,

Gippsland Art Gallery, Mornington Peninsula Art Gallery,

Latrobe Regional Gallery, Victoria

1998

Metamorphosis, Mornington Peninsula Regional

Gallery, Mornington, Australian Contemporary Art,

Total Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea

Sulman Prize, Wynne Prize and Watercolour Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

1997

A face in the crowd, National Portrait Gallery, Canberra

1995

Muswellbrook Acquisitive Prize, Muswellbrook Regional Gallery, New South Wales

1994

Sulman Prize and Dobell Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

Paint on the tracks, Australian artists and the railway, S.H.Ervin Gallery, Sydney

1993

Death, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney

On the other hand, S.H.Ervin Gallery, Sydney

Wynne Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

1992

The New Metaphysics, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney

1991

Moet & Chandon Touring Exhibition, national tour

Correspondences, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane

Her story - images of domestic labour in Australian art, S.H.Ervin Gallery, Sydney

1990

Wynne Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

1989

Scotchmans Hill Vineyard Art Prize, Geelong Art Gallery, Victoria

Wynne Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

1987

Aberdare Art Prize for Landscape, Ipswich City Art Gallery, Queensland

1986

Fremantle Print Award, Fremantle Arts Centre, Western Australia

Sulman Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

1985

Fremantle Print Award, Fremantle Arts Centre, Western Australia

Wynne Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

Fremantle Print Award, Fremantle Arts Centre, Western Australia

1983

Sulman Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

1982

Wynne Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

1980

L.H. Harvey memorial prize for drawing, Queensland

Art Gallery, Brisbane

Awards 2011

2011 NSW Parliament Plein Air Art Prize

2006

The Fleurieu Peninsula Vistas Prize 2006, Fleurieu Peninsula Biennale, South Australia,

2005

Wynne Prize for Watercolour, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

2003

Mosman Art Prize, Sydney

Finalist, National Gallery of Australia’s 2003 National

Sculpture Prize and Exhibition, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra.

2002

Wynne Prize for Watercolour, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

2001

Wynne Prize for Watercolour, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

Melbourne Savage Club 2001 Art Prize for Painting, Melbourne

1999

Wynne Prize for Watercolour, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

1997

Wynne Prize for Watercolour, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

1995

Muswellbrook Acquisitive Prize, Muswellbrook Regional Gallery

1994

Sulman Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

Collections · Allen Arthur Robertson Collection, Sydney · Art Bank, · Art Gallery of New South Wales, Australia · Art Gallery of South Australia · Brisbane City Council, Queensland · Campbelltown City Art Gallery, New South Wales · Chartwell Collection, New Zealand

· Dubbo Regional Art Gallery, New South Wales · Gold Coast City Council, Queensland · Grafton Regional Gallery, New South Wales · Ipswich City Council Art Gallery, Queensland · Joseph Brown Collection, Melbourne · La Trobe Valley Arts Centre, Victoria · Logan TAFE, Brisbane · Manly Shire Council, Sydney · Macquarie Bank, Sydney · Mornington Peninsula Regional Art Gallery, Victoria · Muswellbrook Regional Gallery, New South Wales · National Gallery of Australia, Canberra · National Gallery of Victoria · Parliament House, Canberra · Rockhampton Art Gallery, Queensland · Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane · Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane · Southern Cross University Artists Book Collection · State Library of Queensland, Brisbane · Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart · University of Tasmania · University of Western Australia · University of Wollongong, New South Wales · Wagga Wagga Regional Art Gallery, New South Wales · Warrnambool Art Gallery, Victoria · Western Mining Collection · Wollongong City Art Gallery, New South Wales

Nathan Taylor Born 1979, Hobart Lives and works in Hobart Education 1998 - 2006 Bachelor of Fine Arts,

(Dean’s Honour Roll), University of Tasmania – Centre for the Arts

Solo Exhibitions 2012

Loved to death, Michael Reid, Sydney

2010

Dead to the world, Michael Reid, Sydney

2009

Homesick, Mossgreen Gallery, Melbourne

2008 Six New Works, Despard Gallery, Hobart

Culture made easy, Linden: Centre for Contemporary Arts, Melbourne

2007

The suburban vernacular, Mossgreen Gallery, Melbourne

Portrait: New drawings by Nathan Taylor, Despard Gallery, Hobart 2005

Recent Paintings, Brian Moore Gallery, Sydney

2003

Love & Concrete, Despard Gallery, Hobart

2000

Photographic Memory, Foyer Installation Gallery, Hobart

Reminiscence, Little Space Gallery, Hobart College, Hobart

Group Exhibitions 2012

murr-ma: Uncovering Aboriginal & Australian Contemporary art,

Halle am Wasser and Preview Berlin, Michael Reid, Berlin

Linden Postcard Show, Linden Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne

2011

Red, Despard Gallery, Hobart

2010

Melbourne Art Fair Preview Show, Michael Reid, Sydney

Kodak Salon, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne

Artist Stable Group Show, Mossgreen Gallery, Melbourne

2009

ArtSale@TMAG, Tasmanian Museum & Art Gallery, Hobart

Here/Now, Mossgreen Gallery, Melbourne

2008

21st Annual Summer Show, Despard Gallery, Hobart

Metro 5 Art Award, Benalla Regional Gallery, Benalla, Victoria

2007

20th Annual Summer Show, Despard Gallery, Hobart

New Gallery Launch, Mossgreen Gallery, Melbourne

What ever I like.. Despard Gallery Anniversary exhibition, Hobart

2006

Summer Group Show, Mossgreen Gallery, Melbourne

Melbourne Art Fair, Despard Gallery, Hobart

2005

Artist Stable Launch, Mossgreen Gallery, Melbourne

2004

Melbourne Art Fair, Despard Gallery, Hobart

Salon, Tasmanian Group Exhibition, Peter Lane Gallery, Sydney

2003

16th Annual Summer Show, Despard Gallery, Hobart

2002

A Baroque Christmas, 15th Annual Christmas Exhibition, Despard Gallery, Hobart

Off the Rack Exhibition, Despard Gallery, Hobart

2001

14th Annual Christmas Exhibition, Despard Gallery, Hobart

Emerging Artist Exhibition, Despard Gallery, Hobart

To be Announced ... Little Space Gallery, Hobart College, Hobart

Raw, Long Gallery, Salamanca, Hobart

2000

Salsa, 13th Annual Christmas Exhibition, Despard Gallery,Hobart

1999

Palate to Palette, Elizabeth Street, Hobart

1998

The Summer Show, Entrepot Gallery, Hobart

1997

Art Rage, Queen Victoria Museum Launceston

1996

Art Rage, Queen Victoria Museum Launceston & Hobart Museum and Art Gallery

Commissions 2011

Portrait of His Excellency The Honourable Peter Underwood AC & Mrs Underwood

2002

Mural for the Tasmanian Aboriginal Land Council Education Centre

Awards 2012

Winner, Eutick Memorial Still Life Award, Coffs Harbour

Regional Gallery Finalist, Geelong Contemporary Art Prize, Geelong Gallery, Victoria

Finalist, John Fries Memorial Prize, Sydney

Finalist, City of Hobart Art Prize, Hobart

2011 Finalist, John Fries Memorial Prize, Sydney

Finalist, Corangamarah Art Prize, Victoria

Finalist, Mount Eyre Vineyard Art Prize, Sydney

2010

Nominated for Redlands Westpac Art Prize, Sydney – Highly Commended

Finalist, Brett Whiteley Travelling Art Scholarship

Finalist, Fletcher Jones Art Prize, Geelong Gallery, Victoria

Finalist, CLIP Award, Perth Centre for Photography, Western Australia

Finalist, Mount Eyre Vineyard Art Prize, Sydney

2009

Finalist, City of Hobart Art Prize, Hobart

2008

Finalist, The Corangamarah Art Prize, Victoria

Finalist, METRO 5 Art Award, Melbourne

Finalist in the inaugural Tasmanian Youth Portraiture Prize

2007

Recipient Janet Holmes à Court Artists’ Grant

Finalist, RIPE Art & Australia / ANZ Private Bank Contemporary

Art Award 2006

Recipient Marten Bequest Travelling Scholarship

2003

Artist Development Grant, Arts Tasmania

Industry Development Grant, Arts Tasmania

Finalist, The Hutchins Art Prize, Hobart

2002

Finalist, inaugural annual METRO 5 Art Award, Melbourne

1997

Awarded Art Production Prize, Hobart

Awarded Ian McDonald Memorial Prize, Hobart

Collections 路 Coffs Harbour Regional Gallery 路 Maatsuyker Collection 路 Private collections

Marian Drew Born 1960, Bundaberg, Queensland Lives and works in Brisbane Education 2006-2010 Associate Professor/Convenor of Photography

Programmes, Queensland College of Art, Griffith University

1986-2007 Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Photography, Queensland

College of Art, Griffith University

1988-1987 Diploma of Teaching, Mount Gravatt College of Advance Education, Brisbane 1984-1985 Post graduate study, Kassel University, Germany 1980-1984 Bachelor of Visual Art (with Letter of Merit), Canberra School of Art Solo Exhibitions (selected) 2013

Gallery Singapore Art Fair, Dianne Tanzer

2012

Body and Grace, Michael Reid, Sydney

2010

Illuminated Landscapes, Robin Gibson Gallery, Sydney

Dianne Tanzer Gallery, Melbourne

2009

Birds, Queensland Centre for Photography

Birds, Dianne Tanzer Gallery, Melbourne

LA Photo presented by Hous Projects New York and Queensland Centre for Photography

Turner Gallery, Perth

2008

Every Living Thing, Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney

Every Living Thing, Fremantle Art Centre, Perth

Every Living Thing, Hill Smith Gallery, Adelaide

2007

Every Living Thing, Hous Projects, New York

2006

Melbourne Art Fair, Dianne Tanzer Gallery, Melbourne

2005

Still Life and Landscape, Robin Gibson, Sydney

Australiana, Dianne Tanzer Gallery, Melbourne

2004

Australiana, Robin Gibson Gallery, Sydney

2003

Australiana, Gallery 482, Brisbane

2000

Photographs Opening - Inaugural Exhibition, Brisbane

Powerhouse Performing Arts Complex

1999

This is what I think, Gallery 482, Brisbane Woman/Fountain

1998

Black and White, Gallery 482, Brisbane

1997

Marian Drew - A Retrospective, Bundaberg City Art, Gallery, Queensland

1996

Persistent Blindness, Brisbane City Art Gallery

1994

Things Past, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne

1993

Sommerville House, Artist in Residence Exhibition

Group Exhibitions (selected) 2012

murr-ma: Uncovering Aboriginal & Australian Contemporary art,

Halle am Wasser and Preview, Berlin, Michael Reid, Berlin

Antipodean Bestiary, RMIT University Project Space, Spare Room

Beneath the Surface, Kick Arts Centre for Contemporary Art, Cairns, Queensland

PHOTO Los Angeles – the 16th International

Photographic Exposition, Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, USA

Lorikeet Island Collaboration with Alana Hampton

Sound Video Installation Gold Coast City Art Gallery

2011

Photo Biennale, MusĂŠe du Quai Branly, Paris

Sara Lee Gallery and Photo LA, Los Angeles

Australia Beyond Landscape, Jorge Deustua and Marian Drew,

Peru Ministry for Foreign Affairs, Lima

The Birds are Flying Low, International Studio and Curatorial Program Brooklyn Gallery

2010

In Focus: Still Life, Getty Museum, Los Angeles

Pingyao International Photography Festival, China

Twelve degrees of Latitude, Regional Gallery and University

Art Collections in Queensland, travelling to 17 Queensland Regional Galleries

Colour Blind Contemporary Black and White Photography,

Art Factory Gallery, Brisbane

Suburbia Redcliffe City Art Gallery, Queensland

The state we’re in, Contemporary Queensland,

University of Queensland Art Museum, St Lucia, Queensland

Synchronicity - Queensland Contemporary

Photography, Redcliffe City Art Gallery, Queenlsand

2009

Still Life 1930s –present Gold Coast Arts Centre, Gold Coast, Queensland

Exposure Metro Arts Brisbane, curator Chris Bennie

2007

The Body, Robin Gibson Gallery, Sydney

Human, Hous Projects, New York

Grey Water, InstituteVideo Installation, Moreton Street

Spare Room Project, Brisbane

Boom! Taiwan Australia New Media Arts Festival,

Taipei University and Taiwan University

Snap Freeze: Still Life Now, Tarrawarra Museum of Art, Victoria

Twenty artists Twenty years, Museum of Brisbane

2006

Other Dimensions – Contemporary Photomedia from Australia,

China and Japan, Rockhampton Art Gallery, Queensland

The Idea of the Animal, RMIT Art Gallery, Melbourne

International Arts festival

2005

Chance Encounters, Queensland College of Art Gallery, Brisbane

2004

Scribble Art +Architecture South Bank, Simon Laws & Marian Drew

Southbank Parklands

Back to Kassel- part 3- Photographie, Kassel, Kunstverein, Germany

Camera-less – Another View point,

Queensland Centre for Photography, Brisbane

2002

Awake/Asleep -Double exposures, Thomas Bachler/Marian Drew,

Australia Centre, Berlin

2001

Styx-Projektionen Video Art, European Kunst Akadamie, Trier, Germany

Buried in Cotton, Gallery 482, Brisbane

1999

Spatial Eclipse/Temporal Anchorings: Changing Notions of Time

and Space, Queensland College of Art, Gallery, Brisbane

1998

Signature Works - 25 Years of Australian Photography,

Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney

Sculpture by the Sea, Olympic Arts Festival, Collaborative site specific

installation with Bruce Reynolds, Rex Roubin

Agfa Photographic Award Exhibition, Albury Regional Art Gallery, New South Wales

1996

A Matter of Making, Canberra School of Art Gallery

The Power to Move, Queensland Art Gallery

5 Photographers, Gallery 482, Brisbane

1994

Mad and Bad Women, Queensland Art Gallery, touring Queensland

Eidectic Experience, Contemporary Queensland

Photography, Travelling Exhibition

1993

First Asia-Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, Queensland Art Gallery

Awards 2010

Australia Council , six month studio and stipend,

International Studio and Curatorial Program, New York

2005

Arts Queensland major grant to produce a monograph,

DVD and 20 year survey exhibition of photography and video work

2005

Australian Visual Arts and Craft Board grant

1995-1996 Australian Council Visual Arts Craft Board grant to an established

individual to develop new work in Los Angeles and Australia

1993

Creative Development Grant, Queensland Government Art Division

1991

Suncorp Art Prize (Open Category) and Award

1989

Australia Council Visual Arts Craft Board 3 month Studio and Stipend

at Greene Street, New York.

1988 Suncorp Art Award

Drawing Prize (Open Section), Caloundra Art Competition

Commissions 2007

Portrait of Ian Frazer, Australian of the Year 2006 for the

National Portrait Gallery of Australia

2006-07

9 x 1m landscape built in artwork, South Bank Institute of Technology new campus

2006-07

Waterography - Writing in light with water, exterior wall of

128 Charlotte Street Towers, Brisbane

2006

Environmental Protection Agency, National Parks and Wildlife Queensland,

Heritage National Parks.

2004

Scribble, Collaboration with Simon Laws - Water Sculpture,

Brisbane River Festival, Southbank, Brisbane

2004

Video Installation for the opening night of the Brisbane River

Festival, Queensland College of Art

2003-04

Brisbane Magistrates Court

2003

Queensland Academy of Sport

1998

Brisbane Powerhouse Performing Arts Complex

1988

Noosa Regional Art Gallery

Collections · Getty Museum USA · Australian National Gallery · Brisbane City Council · Queensland University of Technology · Art Gallery of South Australia · Queensland Art Gallery · Power House Arts Complex · Monash University · Murdoch University West Australia · Griffith University Collection · Suncorp Collection · University of South East Queensland · Waverley City Council Art Collection, Melbourne · Fonds National D’Art Contemporain (FNAC), Paris · Toowoomba Regional Art Gallery · Stanthorpe Regional Art Gallery · Australian Institute of Sport, Melbourne · Artbank

Nici Cumpston Barkindji (Paakantji) Born 1963, Adelaide Lives and works in Adelaide Education 1989

Diploma in Applied and Visual Arts,

North Adelaide School of Art

1994

Advanced Diploma in Applied and Visual Arts,

North Adelaide School of Art

2001

Bachelor of Visual Arts, University of South Australia

2004

Bachelor of Visual Arts (Honours) Photography,

University of South Australia

Solo Exhibitions 2011

having-been-there: Nici Cumpston, Gallerysmith, Melbourne, Victoria

2009

Attesting - Nici Cumpston, Gallerysmith, Melbourne

Group Exhibitions 2013

Making change, College of Fine Art Galleries, University of

New South Wales & Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney

30th National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award,

Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin

unDisclosed National Indigenous Art Triennial,

National Tour - Samstag Art Museum, Adelaide, Cairns Regional Gallery

Australia, curated by National Gallery of Australia, Royal Academy of Arts, London

2012

Build me a city, Australian Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide

Making change, National Art Museum of China, Beijing

UnDisclosed – 2nd National Indigenous Art Triennial,

National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

29th National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award,

Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin

Melbourne Art Fair, Melbourne

2010

Stormy Weather – Contemporary Landscape Photography,

National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne

In the Balance – Art for a Changing World, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney

The Challenged Landscape, University of Technology, Sydney

The Alice Prize, Araluen Art Centre, Alice Springs, Northern Territory

2009

Making Tracks, Tandanya, National Aboriginal Cultural Institute,

Adelaide, South Australia

Western Australian Indigenous Art Award, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth

26th National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award,

Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin

2008

Shards with Judy Watson, Yhonnie Scarce & Nici Cumpston,

South Australian School of Art Gallery, University of South Australia

25th National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award,

Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin

The Haunted and the Bad, Linden Gallery of Contemporary Art, St Kilda

Redlands Westpac Art Prize 2008, Mosman Art Gallery, Sydney

2007

Power and beauty, Indigenous Art Now, Heide Museum of Modern Art

24th National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award,

Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin

Hobart City Art Prize, Tasmania Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart

Scotch College Fine Art Exhibition curated by Paul Greenaway

Scotch College, Adelaide

River Murray Art Prize, ‘The Culture of the River Murray’

People’s Choice Award, Waikerie Institute

2006

Xstrata Coal Emerging Indigenous Artist Award, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane

2006-2008 The Murray Cod: much more than just the biggest fish in the River,

National Tour NETS Victoria, Melbourne Museum

Stories: Country Spirit Knowledge & Politics, Lake Macquarie City Art Gallery

Emerging Talent, Shoalhaven City Arts Centre

2004-2005 Holy Holy Holy, Flinders University Art Museum, Adelaide Festival

of Arts 2004 (National Tour 2004 – 2005)

2004

21st National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award,

Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin

2003

20th National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award,

Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin (National Tour 2004)

2002

Reflections, Tandanya, National Aboriginal Cultural Institute, Adelaide, South Australia

Nakkondi / Look – Indigenous Australians, The Kluge Ruhe

Aboriginal Art Collection of the University of Virginia, USA

Indigenous Australians: 1873 – 2001, Nici Cumpston,

Andrew Dunbar, Stephanie Flack, Mellissa McCord, John Ogden,

J.W. Lindt The Embassy of Australia, Washington D.C., USA

2001

18th National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award,

Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin

2000

Nakkondi/Look - Indigenous Australians 1999-2000 Collaboration

with Andrew Dunbar, State Library of South Australia, 2000 Adelaide

8th Pacific Festival of the Arts Bernnheim Library - Noumea, New Caledonia

17th National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award,

Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin

1998

Three Views of Kaurna Territory Now, Artspace - Adelaide Festival Centre

Employment 2011-

Associate Curator – Australian Paintings, Sculpture and Indigenous

Art, Art Gallery of South Australia

2008-2011 Assistant Curator – Australian Paintings, Sculpture and Indigenous

Art, Art Gallery of South Australia

2006-2008 Lecturer - Photography and Indigenous Arts, Cultures and Design,

University of South Australia

1996-2006 Lecturer – Photography, Tauondi Aboriginal Community College 2004-2010 Panel Member, Selection Committee Art in Public Places, Arts South Australia 2007-2010 National Indigenous Arts Reference Group

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Arts Board, Australia Council

2009-2012 Board Member, Tandanya, National Aboriginal Cultural Institute, Adelaide Curated Exhibitions 2013

HEARTLAND curated with Lisa Slade Art Gallery of South Australia

2010

Desert Country

Art Gallery of South Australia,

Adelaide touring nationally 2011 – 2013

2007

Indigenous Responses to Colonialism – Another Story,

Curated with Maggie Fletcher and Nerina Dunt.

Artspace, Adelaide Festival Centre

Awards 2014

Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Artist Residency, University of Virginia,

Charlottesville, Virginia, Australia Council

2011

Residency, Fowlers Gap Research Station, New South Wales College

of Fine Art, University of New South Wales

2007

River Murray Art Prize - The Culture of the River Murray, People’s Choice Award

2005

Emerging Artists Residency, Bundanon, Shoalhaven Bay, NSW

2002

Assisting Kate Breakey, Returning Artist Residency, Helpmann Academy

Artist-In-Residence, Wilderness School, Adelaide

2001

USA Tour of Nakkondi/Look (collaboration with Andrew Dunbar),

ArtsSA Government of South Australia

Commissions 2013

Shepparton Art Museum, Shepparton, Victoria

2007

Department of Health, Citi Centre Foyer,

Government of South Australia

2005

Commonwealth Law Courts Foyer, Adelaide

2002

Weaving The Murray, Centenary of Federation collaborative weaving

project Kay Lawrence, Rhonda Agius, Chrissie Houston,

Karen Russell, Kirsty Darlaston, Sandy Elverd, Nici Cumpston.

Art Gallery of South Australia, Regional Tour - Country Arts SA

1999

Black Diamond Public Art Commission, Tauondi College Art

Department staff, students and Trevor Wren

Collections · Art Gallery of South Australia · National Gallery of Victoria · Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection, University of Virginia, USA · Mortlock Library of South Australiana, State Library of South Australia, Adelaide · Cruthers Art Foundation, University of Western Australia, Perth · Commonwealth Law Courts, Adelaide · Adelaide Festival Centre Foundation · Department of Health, Adelaide · Flinders University Art Museum · Wilderness School, Medindie, South Australia · Private Collections

Rex Dupain Born 1954, Sydney Lives and works in Sydney Education 1973-1976

National Art School, Sydney, Dip. Art (painting)

1985-1992 Taught painting and drawing at National Art School, and exhibited 1989-1992 University of NSW, Master of Fine Arts (painting) Solo exhibitions (selected) 2010

The Colour of Bondi, Galerie Lucie Weill & Seligmann, Paris,

2010

Recent Work and book launch, Tim Olsen Gallery, Sydney

2007

The Colour of Bondi, National Trust, S.H. Ervin, Sydney

2004

Max and Rex Dupain’s Sydney, Museum of Sydney:

2003-2005 Bathers and Bondi Colour, Rex Irwin Art Dealer, Sydney 2001

Selected Works, Byron Mapp Gallery, Sydney

1998

Bondi to Broken Hill, Australian Embassy, Paris

1998

Bondi to Broken Hill, Byron Mapp Gallery, Sydney

Group exhibitions (selected) 2012

Australian and International Photography- from Real to Surreal,

Josef Lebovic Gallery, Sydney

2011

Australian and International Photography, Josef Lebovic Gallery, Sydney

2010

Australian and International Photography, Josef Lebovic Gallery, Sydney

2009

Australian Photography, Josef Lebovic Gallery, Sydney

2008

Industrial Photography: International and Australian, Josef Lebovic Gallery, Sydney

2007

Association of International Photography Art Dealers, The Armory,

New York: The Photography Show

2007

Focus on Women, Josef Lebovic Gallery, Sydney

2006

People in Photography, Josef Lebovic Gallery, Sydney

2005

Australian Photography, Landscape & Cityscape,

Josef Lebovic Gallery, Sydney

2004

Josef Lebovic Gallery: Australian Photography,

Josef Lebovic Gallery, Sydney

2002-2003 Cole Classic, State Library of New South Wales 2001-2007 Important Works on Paper, Rex Irwin Art Dealer, Sydney 2000

Federation: Australian Art and Society, 1901-2001, National Gallery of Australia

2000

Fine Photography, Josef Lebovic Gallery, Sydney

1998

Light and Shadow, Josef Lebovic Gallery, Sydney

1997

20th Anniversary Photo Show, Josef Lebovic Gallery, Sydney

Awards 1969

1st and 2nd prize, Royal Easter Show Photographic Award

1982

Finalist, Archibald Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales

1986

Finalist, Sulman Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales

1991-92

Finalist, Wynne Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales

2003

Finalist, Photographic Portrait Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales

2009

Artist in residence, Taronga Zoo, Sydney

Collections · National Portrait Gallery, Canberra, Australia · National Library of Australia · Lisbon University, Portugal · Royal Society of London, UK · Qantas Airways Australia · Sydney City Council, Australia · Historic Houses Trust, Australia · The Pat Corrigan Collection · The Kirby Collection · Malcolm Turnbull MP · The Kerry Packer Collection · The Robert Hughes Collection · Sir Elton John Photographic Collection · The James Fairfax Collection · The Edmund Capon Collection · The Baz Luhrmann Collection

Joseph McGlennon Born 1958 Lives and works in Sydney and Singapore Education · Postgraduate degree in Education, University of South Australia · Bachelor of Arts, University of South Australia Career Career · Joseph has over 30 years’ experience in corporate branding and advertising and has worked in London, Amsterdam, South East Asia and Australia on accounts including Audi, Nokia, Sony, Sing Tel, Asia Pacific, Breweries, Ericssson and The Taj Hotels, India. He was Design Director at Landor Design Singapore, Regional Creative Director at Young & Rubicam and Creative Director at Bates Asia.

Solo exhibitions 2013

Tasmanian Tigers, Michael Reid, Sydney

2012

Troopers, Michael Reid, Sydney

2011

Strange Voyage, Michael Reid, Sydney

Group exhibitions 2012

murr-ma: Uncovering Aboriginal & Australian Contemporary art,

Halle am Wasser and Preview Berlin, Michael Reid, Berlin

Awards 2011

Finalist, Moran Contemporary Photographic Prize Open Competition

Collections · Art Gallery of South Australia · Capital Land Art Bank · DBS Land · Marco Polo Developments · Far East Organisation · MCL Land · Wheelock Properties · SC Global · Grand Hyatt Singapore · Regent Singapore · Carlton Singapore

Christopher Pease Born 1969, Western Australia Lives and works in Dunsborough, Western Australia Education 路 Graduate Diploma in Art and Design Solo Exhibitions 2012

Welcome to Country, Gallerysmith, North Melbourne

2009

Goddard de Fiddes, Perth

2008

Goddard de Fiddes, Perth

2005

Goddard de Fiddes, Perth

2003

Goddard de Fiddes, Perth

2000

Goddard de Fiddes, Perth

Group Exhibitions 2012

murr-ma: Uncovering Aboriginal & Australian Contemporary art,

Halle am Wasser and Preview Berlin, Michael Reid, Berlin

2010

17th Biennale of Sydney, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney

2009

Western Australian Indigenous Art Awards, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth

2009

Cultural Warriors, Katzen Centre, Washington DC, USA

2008

Melbourne Art Fair

Cultural Warriors, National Indigenous Art Triennial:

Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth; Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide

2007

Cultural Warriors, National Indigenous Art Triennial:

National Gallery of Australia

Contemporary Nyoongar Painting, Goddard de Fiddes, Perth

Gallery Artists Exhibition, Goddard de Fiddes, Perth

2006

Melbourne Art Fair

Right Here / Right Now. National Gallery of Australia

Bunbury Regional Gallery, Western Australia

Ellenbrook Gallery, Western Australia

2005

22nd Telstra National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award,

Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin

2004

Melbourne Art Fair, Goddard de Fiddes, Perth

Works from the Collection, John Curtin Art Gallery

2002

Group show with Ben Pushman and Sandra Hill, Goddard de Fiddes, Perth

19th Telstra National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award,

Museum & Art Gallery of the Northern Territory

2001

Mine Own Executioner, Mundaring Art Centre

Wide Open, Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery

Awards 2002

19th Telstra National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander

Art Award General Painting Award

Commissions 2006 Royal Netherlands Embassy Aboriginal Project 2004

Perth Convention Centre

Collections · National Gallery of Australia · National Gallery of Victoria · Art Gallery of Western Australia · Queensland Art Gallery · Parliament House, Canberra · City of Perth Art Collection · Museum of Contemporary Aboriginal Art, Utrecht, The Netherlands · Wesfarmers · Edith Cowan University · Holmes à Court Collection · Kerry Stokes Collection · Artbank · Perth Convention Centre · BHP Billiton Art Collection · Murdoch University · Curtin University · Private Collections

Freddie Timms Ngarrmaliny Janama Gija Born c.1946 Lives and works in the East Kimberley, Western Australia Solo Exhibitions 2011

Freddie Timms, Michael Reid, Sydney

2004

Freddie Timms, Gould Galleries, Melbourne Art Fair

2003

Freddie Timms, Gould Galleries, Sydney

2002

Freddie Timms, Gould Galleries, South Yarra, Victoria

1999

Recent Paintings, Gow Langford Gallery, Auckland

Recent Paintings, Watters Gallery, Sydney

1998

My Country, William Mora Galleries, Melbourne

1997

Recent Paintings, Watters Gallery, Sydney

Group Exhibitions 2012

murr-ma: Uncovering Aboriginal & Australian Contemporary art,

Halle am Wasser and Preview Berlin, Michael Reid, Berlin

2010

East Kimberley Painting Revisited: Rover Thomas,

Freddie Timms, Rusty Peters, Jack Britten (an Art Month event), Michael Reid, Sydney

Melbourne Art Fair, Michael Reid, Sydney

2008

Jirrawun Colour, Raft Artspace, Darwin

Last Tango in Wyndham, Raft Artspace, Darwin

Living Black, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

2007

One Sun One Moon, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

2006

Jirrawun Artists, Melbourne Art Fair 2006,

William Mora Galleries, Melbourne, in Association with Jirrawun Arts

2005

Jirrawun in the House: A Contemporary Experience from

the East Kimberley, Parliament House, Canberra

Interesting Times: Focus on Contemporary Australian Art,

Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney

Beyond the Frontier, Sherman Galleries, Sydney

2004

Terra Alterius: Land of Another, Ivan Dougherty Gallery,

University of New South Wales College of Fine Arts, Sydney

2003

True Stories: Art of the East Kimberley, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

Kelly Culture: Reconstructing Ned Kelly, State Library of Victoria, Melbourne

Jirrawun Jazz, Raft Artspace, Darwin

2002

Blood on the Spinifex, the Ian Potter Museum of Art, University of Melbourne

Rhapsodies in Country, GrantPirrie at Art Miami, USA

Jirrawun Artists, William Mora Galleries, Melbourne

2001

Four Men, Four Paintings, Raft Artspace Darwin

Ochre, Short Street Gallery, Broome, Western Australia

A Century of Collecting 1901-2001, Ivan Dougherty Gallery,

University of New South Wales College of Fine Arts, Sydney

The 18th National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander

Art Award Exhibition, Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin

2000

Land Mark: Mirror Mark, Mal Nairn Auditorium, Northern Territory University, Darwin;

Columbus State University, Georgia, US; the Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection,

University of Virginia, Charlottesville, US; Drill Hall Gallery,

Australian National University, Canberra

The 17th National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander

Art Award Exhibition, Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin

Opening 2000, William Mora Galleries, Melbourne

From Appreciation to Appropriation: Indigenous, Influences and Images in Austra

lian Visual Art, Flinders University Art Museum City Gallery, Adelaide

Summer Exhibition, Watters Gallery, Sydney

Mapping Our Countries, Djamu Gallery, Australian Museum, Sydney

1999

Painting Country, William Mora Galleries, Melbourne

My Country, Northern Territory University Gallery Darwin, Northern Territory

The 16th National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award

Exhibition Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin

1998

A Thousand journeys: Aboriginal Art from North Western Australia,

Tin Sheds, Sydney; then touring regional galleries in Tamworth,

New castle, Albury, Mornington Peninsula, Ballarat, Mildura

1998

The Laverty Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney

Freddie Timms, Ken Whisson: Landscape Paintings,Watters Gallery, Sydney

Jirrawun Aboriginal Artists, Martin Browne Fine Art, Sydney

Jirrawun Artists from Crocodile Hole, Jemma Stowe, Perth

Summer Exhibition, Watters Gallery, Sydney

1997

Summer Exhibition, Watters Gallery, Sydney

Pallingjang-Saltwater, Wollongong City Gallery, Wollongong

1996

Art Chicago, Chicago, USA

Galerie Baudoin Lebon, Paris

FIAC, Paris

Utopia Art, Sydney

1995

Turkey Creek Artists, William Mora Galleries, Melbourne

1993

Images of Power: Aboriginal Art of the Kimberley - 1993-94, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne ARATJARRA: Art of the First Australians, Touring: Kunstammlung Nordtheim-Westfalen, Kรถln, Dusseldorf, Germany; Hayward Gallery London; Louisiana Museum; Humlebaek, Denmark

1992

The 9th National Aboriginal Art Award Exhibition, Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin

1991

Hogarth Galleries, Sydney Lindsay Street Gallery, Darwin The 8th National Aboriginal Art Award Exhibition, Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin

1990

The 7th National Aboriginal Art Award Exhibition, Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin Dreamtime Gallery, Perth, Western Australia

1989

Turkey Creek Recent Work, Deutscher, Gertrude Street, Melbourne

Commissions 2009

Investa ceiling commission, North Sydney

2006

Blackfella Creek 2006 3 panel ceiling for UBS Bank,

Exhibition Street, Melbourne

Collections · National Gallery of Victoria · National Gallery of Australia · Art Gallery of Western Australia · Art Gallery of South Australia · Art Gallery of New South Wales · Artbank · Holmes à Court Collection, Perth · Wollongong City Gallery · Laverty Collection · Museum of Contemporary Aboriginal Art, Utrecht, The Netherlands · UBS Bank, Melbourne

Christian Thompson Bidjara Born 1978, Gawler, South Australia Lives and works in Australia and Oxford Education 1996

Bachelor of Visual Arts in Fine Art, University of Southern Queensland

1999

Bachelor of Visual Arts in Fine Art (Honors), Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology

2004

Masters of Fine Art, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology!

2008

Dasarts Advanced Studies in Performing Arts, Amsterdam

2010

Matriculated Trinity College to study for DPhil in Fine

Art at the Ruskin School of Fine Art, University of Oxford

Solo Exhibition 2013

Survey Exhibition 2003-2010, Trinity College, Oxford

2012

We Bury Our Own, The Long Gallery, Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford

2009

Lost Together, Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne

2008

Australian Graffiti, Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne!

2007

The Sixth Mile, Chalk Horse Gallery, Sydney!

2006

The Sixth Mile, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne

Vote Yes – An Aboriginal Thompson Project, Westspace, Melbourne

Ethnoaerobics, State Library of Victoria, Melbourne

2004

The Gates of Tambo, Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne

2003

Emotional Striptease, Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi,Melbourne

2002

Show Me the Way to Go Home, George Adams Gallery, Melbourne

Blaks Palace, Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne

Group Exhibitions 2012

HIJACKED III: Contemporary Photography from

Australia and the UK, Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts and QUAD Gallery, Derby, UK

murr-ma: Uncovering Aboriginal & Australian

Contemporary art, Halle am Wasser and Preview Berlin, Michael Reid, Berlin

Close Encounters: The Next 500 Years, Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art,

Winnipeg, Canada

2011

Solo, Modern Art, Oxford, UK

Tell Me Tell Me: Australian and Korean Art 1976-2011,

Museum of Contemporary Art at the National Art School Gallery, Darlinghurst, Sydney

2010

The Beauty of Distance: Songs of Survival in a Precarious Age, 17th Biennale of Sydney

2009

Hybrid Arts Fest Australia, Radialsystem V, Berlin, Germany

2007

Andy and OZ: Parallel Visions, The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, USA

Culture Warriors – National Indigenous Art Triennial, National Gallery of Australia,

Canberra, Gertrude Studio Artists, Gertrude Street Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne

Workin Down Under, Wood Street Galleries, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA

Eye to “I”, Ballarat Regional Art Gallery, Ballarat

Raised by Wolves, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth

Apropos: Human Rights in Contemporary Art, BUS Gallery, Melbourne

I Spy (The Start of Something), Westspace, Melbourne!

2006

Terra Incognita, Gertrude Street Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne

2004

Skin, Salamanca Arts Centre, Hobart

Sguardi Australiani, Camogli, Italy

A Matter of Time, Tamworth Textile Biennale, Tamworth, New South Wales

Spirit and Vision, Kunst der Gegenwart Sammlung Essl, Vienna

IMAGE - Contemporary Aboriginal Art, Aboriginal Art Museum Utrecht, Netherlands

The Space Between, Curtin University, Perth

A Matter of Time, Tamworth Textile Biennale, Tamworth, New South Wales

Art Paris, The Louvre, Paris

MAAP Gravity, Multimedia Arts Asia Pacific, Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts, Singapore

2003

Drama is Conflict, Linden Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne

Australians, Perth Institute for Contemporary Art, Perth

Tactility 200 Years of Indigenous Textiles, National Gallery of Australia!, Canberra

TRAFFIC, Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney

Emotional Striptease, 24 hour art, Darwin

Drama is Conflict, Linden Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne

2002

Crossing (New Australian Art), ATSKI Gallery, Helsinki, Finland

2001

LUMO Intohimo, Photographic Triennial of Finland, Helsinki

Message Sticks, Sydney Opera House

2000

Use By, Contemporary Centre for Photography and 200 Gertrude Street, Melbourne

Biennale of Contemporary Art, Noumea, New Caledonia

Curated Exhibitions 2007

No Fun Without You, Mahoney Galleries, Melbourne

2006

A lot of Love Goin’ Around, Project Space, Melbourne

2005

Contemporary Commonwealth 06, ACMI and National Gallery of Victoria

Intern – Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Melbourne

2004

If You Only Knew, City Gallery, Melbourne

White Hot – New Art from Different Places, Hush Hush

Gallery and City Lights, Melbourne

2003

High Tide – Contemporary Indigenous Photography,

Linden Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne

2002

What’s Love Got To Do With It? RMIT Gallery, Melbourne

2000

Beyond the Pale, Adelaide Biennale of Contemporary Australian Art,

Adelaide Assistant to Curator Brenda L. Croft, Adelaide

Awards 2010

Inaugural Charlie Perkins Scholarship for study at Oxford University

Residency, Blast Theory, Brighton, UK

Residency, Green Street Studio, New York, USA

2008

Residency, Dasarts, Advanced Studies in performing Arts, Amsterdam

2007

Australian Post Graduate Award! RIPE Art & Australia /

ANZ Private Bank Contemporary Art Award (Highly Commended)

2006

Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces Studio Artist 2006–2008

Residency, ARTPLAY, Cherbourg State Primary School, Melbourne

Centre Contemporary Photography, Kodak Summer Salon,

Best Portrait for ‘In Search of the International Look’

City of Melbourne, Arts and Culture Grant

2005

Curatorial Internship at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image

Creative Fellow State Library of Victoria

Visual arts and Crafts Grant, Australia Council for the Arts Residency,

RAWSPACE, Brisbane

New Media Arts Grant, Australia Council for the Arts

2004

New Media Arts grant, Australia Council for the Arts MAAP online Residency, Singapore

2003

City of Melbourne Arts and Culture Grant Australia Council for the Arts,

Emerging Artist Grant Residency, Banff Centre for the Arts, Alberta, Canada

2002

City of Melbourne Arts and Culture Grant

2001

Residency, Project 304, Bangkok, Thailand

2000

Alchemy Master Class for Artists, Powerhouse, Brisbane

Collections · National Gallery of Australia · Art Gallery of New South Wales · National Gallery of Victoria! · Queensland Art Gallery · Peter Klein Collection, Eberdingen, Germany · Myer Collection, Melbourne · City of Melbourne Collection · Latrobe Regional Gallery, Morwell · Aboriginal Art Museum, Utrecht, The Netherlands · Private Collections

Catherine Nelson Born 1970, Sydney Lives and works in Sydney Education 1996

Graduated from the New South Wales College of Fine Arts Career

1996-2008 Digital Artist in the film industry from 1996 -2008 including Moulin Rouge (2001),

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004), Troy (2004), Australia (2008)

For full listing of film credits see imdb

Solo Exhibitions 2013

Other Worlds, Michael Reid, Sydney

Other Worlds, Michael Reid, Berlin

2012

Other Worlds, Gallerynow, Seoul, South Korea

2011

Future Memories, Galerie Paris-Beijing, Beijing

Future Memories, Gallerysmith, Melbourne

Future Memories, Dominik Mersch Gallery, Sydney

Future Memories, Galerie Paris-Beijing, Paris

Creation, Australian Centre of Photography, Sydney

Group Exhibitions 2013

Preview, Gallerysmith, Melbourne, Australia

Digital Generation, Galerie Paris-Beijing, Brussels

Korean Galleries Art Fair

Art Stage Singapore Photo LA 2012

Heysen Prize for Interpretation of Place, Hahndorf Academy, South Australia

murr-ma: Uncovering Aboriginal & Australian Contemporary art,

Halle am Wasser and Preview Berlin, Michael Reid, Berlin

Terra Cognita, Photography Festival, Groningen, Holland

Space Oddity S Cube Gallery, Laguna Beach, California, USA

Legends La Trobe Regional Gallery, Victoria

Digital Darkroom Slideshow event, The Annenberg Space for Photography, Los Angeles, USA

South of the Border, Queensland Centre of Photography, Brisbane

Out of the Darkness, Gallerysmith, Melbourne

Flipside: Australian Photography Project A7, Sarah Lee Artworks ad Projects,

Los Angeles, USA

Miami Context

KIAF, Korean International Art Fair

Melbourne Art Fair

FotoFever, Brussels

Photo LA, USA

Art Stage Singapore 2011

Royal Bank of Scotland Emerging Artist Award Exhibition, Sydney

Bowness Photography Prize Finalist Exhibition, Melbourne

New Worlds, Hanmi Photography Museum, Seoul, Korea

Hyper Realistic, Dominik Mersch Gallery, Sydney

Magic Spaces, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China

Plus One, Dominik Mersch Gallery, Sydney

Art Paris 2011

Auckland Art Fair, New Zealand

Slick 11, Paris, France

2010

Lake, Lake Macquarie Regional Gallery, New South Wales

Royal Bank of Scotland, Finalist exhibition for Emerging Artist Award, Australia

Blake Director’s Cut Exhibition, Australia

2009

Future Artist, Nikon Next online exhibition, Japan

Awards 2012

Winner, Gallery NOW Artist Award, Seoul, South Korea

Finalist, Heysen Prize for Interpretation of Place, Hahndorf Academy, South Australia

2011

Winner, Eclectica 2011, Frensham Fellowship Art Prize, Mittagong, New South Wales

Finalist, Bowness Photography Prize , Melbourne

Finalist, Royal Bank of Scotland Emerging Artist Award, Sydney

2010

Winner, Royal Bank of Scotland Emerging Artist Client Choice Award, Australia

Collections 路 Artbank 路 The Australian Club 路 Daryl Hewson Collection 路 Private collections in Europe, Asia and Australia

Jason Benjamin Born 1971, Melbourne Lives and works in Sydney Education 1989-1990 Pratt Institute, New York City, USA Solo Exhibitions 2013-2014 Everyone Is Here survey exhibition touring New South Wales:

Wagga Regional Art Gallery, Griffith Regional Art Gallery,

Dubbo Arts Centre, Cowra Regional Gallery, Bathurst

Regional Art Gallery, Blue Mountains Cultural Centre,

Hazelhurst Regional Art Gallery

2013

Artist in Residence, A Clear Path, Red Gate Gallery, Beijing

Great Adventures, Jan Murphy Gallery, Brisbane

2012

Post History, Scott Livesey Galleries, Melbourne

Artist in Residence, The Australian Museum, Sydney

2011

The Floating World, Michael Reid, Sydney

The Waiting Garden, Greenhill Galleries, Perth

Drawings, Michael Reid, Sydney

I thought you’d always be here, BMG ART, Adelaide

Artist in Residence, Australian Museum, Sydney

2010

We Built Cities, Jan Murphy Gallery, Brisbane

Shelter, Michael Reid, Sydney

Melbourne Art Fair, Michael Reid, Sydney

2008

Written on Land, Michael Reid at Elizabeth Bay, Sydney

Who you’re supposed to be, Hirokazu Degawa, Hillside Forum, Tokyo

Have you become my body?, Jan Murphy Gallery, Brisbane

Melbourne Art Fair, Michael Reid, Sydney

Sum of us, Michael Reid, Sydney

2007

There is so much more, Michael Reid, Sydney

Set yourself free, Metro 5 Gallery, Melbourne

Seven paths to her heart, Hirokazu Degawa, Tokyo

If the air could speak, Galleria Tondinelli, Rome

2006

Where dreams go, BMG ART, Adelaide

Borderland, Greenhill Galleries, Perth

2005

There is a place, Metro 5 Art Gallery, Melbourne

Because of you I see a light, Metro 5 Gallery, Sydney Art Fair

2004

Lost time, Jan Murphy Gallery, Brisbane

In a heartbeat, Metro 5 Gallery, Melbourne

2003

Don’t look down, Nicola Townsend and Hirokazu Degawa, Daikenyama, Tokyo

The Clearing, Greenhill Galleries, Perth

2002

Lifting up the sun, Tim Olsen Gallery, Sydney

Unbound, Jan Murphy Gallery, Brisbane

This is love, Metro 5 Gallery, Melbourne

2001

I found the world so new, Tim Olsen Gallery & Amanda Wolfe-Daimpre, Hong Kong

Stronger than you think, Charlotte Street Gallery, London

Make it home, Nellie Castan Gallery, Melbourne

Good Luck, Greenhill Galleries, Perth

2000

Belong, Tim Olsen Gallery, Sydney

Hold, Jan Murphy Gallery, Brisbane

The hand upon your back, Greenhill Galleries, Perth

1999

First came joy, Tim Olsen Gallery, Sydney

1998

There are things you don’t see coming, Olsen Carr Art Dealers, Sydney

Hopeful Prey, Greenhill Galleries, Perth

1997

Ghosts amongst the Angels, Olsen Carr Art Dealers, Sydney

1996

Covered by the Rushes, Olsen Carr Art Dealers, Sydney

1993

The apple trees, Crawford Gallery, Sydney

1990

Trinity College, Dallas

Group Exhibitions (selected) 2012

murr-ma: Uncovering Aboriginal & Australian Contemporary art,

Halle am Wasser and Preview Berlin, Michael Reid, Berlin

Gold Award, Rockhampton, Queensland

Tattersall’s Landscape Prize, Brisbane

2011

Archibald Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

Tattersall’s Landscape Prize, Brisbane

2010

Tattersall’s Landscape Prize, Brisbane

Doug Moran National Portrait Prize, Sydney

Jan Murphy Gallery, Brisbane

Greenhill Galleries, Perth

2005

Archibald Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

2004

Post-Modern and Contemporary Australian Art, Savill Galleries, Sydney

Archibald Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

2003

William Creek and Beyond, Ballarat Fine Art Gallery

touring exhibition: Shepparton Art Gallery, Tamworth City Gallery,

New England Regional Art Museum, Noosa

Regional Art Gallery, Gold Coast City Gallery, Gladstone

Regional Art Gallery Museum, The Drill Hall Gallery,Canberra, Cowra Art Gallery

Savill Contemporary, Melbourne

Art Miami, Rebecca Hossack Gallery, Miami, USA

2002

Bunkamura Gallery, in conjunction with Nicola Townsend and Hirokazu Degawa, Tokyo

4x4, Jan Murphy Gallery, Brisbane

Art London 2002, UK

Doug Moran National Portrait Prize, Sydney

First Birthday Exhibition, Metro 5 Gallery, Melbourne2001

Art London 2001

Rebecca Hossack Gallery, London

Nicola Townsend, Tokyo, Japan

Landscape Painting, Metro 5 Gallery, Melbourne

Hills Grammar Art Award, Sydney

2000

Meet 2 x 2, Tim Olsen Gallery, Sydney

Ten Australian Artists, Australian High Commission Singapore

Nicola Townsend, Tokyo

Kings School Art Prize, Sydney

Norvill Landscape Prize, Murrurundi

Conrad Jupiter Art Prize, Brisbane

Fleurieu Landscape Prize, South Australia

Tattersall’s Landscape Prize, Sydney

Awards 2013

Finalist, Archibald Prize

2012

Finalist, Gold Award, Rockhampton

Finalist, Tattersall’s Landscape Prize

2011

Finalist, Archibald Prize

Finalist, Tattersall’s Landscape Prize

Finalist, Albany Art Prize

2010

Finalist, Tattersall’s Landscape Prize

2006

Finalist, Doug Moran National Portrait Prize

2005

Packing Room Prize, Archibald Prize

2004

Finalist, Archibald Prize

2002

Finalist, Doug Moran National Portrait Prize

Commissions 2004

Unfinished Journey, overseas project, exhibition and publication

2003

Sixteen paintings for the cruise ship Queen Mary II, London

2002

William Creek and Beyond, collaborative project

2001

Lake Eyre and Beyond, collaborative project

2001

Burswood Hotel, Perth

2000

Chanel, Australia

Collections · Australian National Gallery · National Gallery of Victoria · National Portrait Gallery · Rockhampton Region Art Gallery · Christ Church Grammar School · Derwent Collection · Tweed River Regional Art Gallery · Bendigo Art Gallery · Macquarie Bank · Ballarat Art Gallery · Shepparton Art Gallery · Gold Coast City Gallery · Mornington Peninsular Regional Gallery · Artspace Mackay · Castlemaine Regional Art Gallery · Parliament House Art Collection · Artbank

Australian Landscape: Present in the Now Noel McKenna | Nathan Taylor | Marian Drew Nici Cumpston | Rex Dupain | Joseph McGlennon Christopher Pease | Freddie Timms | Christian Thompson Catherine Nelson | Jason Benjamin

September 2013