CHRIS LANGLOIS
ARRANGEMENTS AND VARIATIONS
15 MARCH- 5 APRIL 2025
I was wondering a little while ago, why I kept returning to painting the sea. It’s basically the same subject matter, same composition and so on. What sustains my interest in it?
I took some time to come to a conclusion, but what became very clear to me after a while was music. I sometimes have this experience with my paintings - an experience in that I can hear them in a musical way; just like how some music you can see, music thats visual, in the way that Debussys’ La Mar puts you way out to sea.
The sea is like one of those loved classic compositions - open to interpretation and variation, new arrangements and complete recompositions. Each new painting offers an opportunity for a new interpretation, a new variation, a chance to play with the execution and performance. The sea can be fugue-like, shamelessly romantic, minimalistic, or abstract and it’s what draws me to paint this subject time and time again.
Chris Langlois has held over 35 solo exhibitions throughout Australia; curated into numerous group exhibitions and a finalist in many art prizes including the Wynne Prize at the Art Gallery of New South Wales.
Opposite: Littoral Zone 1, 2024, oil on linen, 153 x 183 cm
Left (top): Wenonah Head, 2024, oil on board, 25 x 65 cm
Left (below): Valla 1, 2024 oil on board, 25 x 65 cm
Above: Tasman 10, 2023 oil on linen, 153 x 137 cm
1969 Born, Gosford NSW
1990 BA Visual Arts (Painitng and Drawing) The University of Newcastle
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2025 Scott Livesey, Melbourne
2024 Musical Variations on the Theme of the Sea, Olsen, Sydney
2023 Ocean Songs, Gould Creative, Melbourne Ocean and Earth, Olsen Annex, Sydney
2022 Where Land Ends, Olsen, Sydney
2021 Headland, Olsen Annex, Sydney
2021 Deep Blue Sea, Gould Creative, Melbourne
2020 Littoral Zone, Olsen, Sydney
2019 1066 Miles on Paper, Olsen Annex, Sydney
2018 1066 Miles, Olsen, Sydney
2017 Of Land, of Sea, Gould Galleries, Melbourne
2016 Scapes, Olsen Irwin Gallery, Sydney Atmospheres, Heiser Gallery, Brisbane
2015 Chris Langlois, Glasshouse Regional Gallery, Port Macquarie On the Nature of Air and Light, Gould Galleries, Melbourne
2014 Chris Langlois Points in Time, Manly Art Gallery and Museum and Gippsland
Art Gallery Touring Exhibition, Gippsland Art Gallery, Hamilton Art Gallery, Lake Macquarie City Art Gallery, Gold Coast City Gallery, Orange Regional Gallery.
Weather Systems, OlsenIrwin, Sydney
2013 Chris Langlois Points in Time, Manly Art Gallery and Museum and Gippsland
Art Gallery Touring Exhibition
Close Space, Gould Galleries, Melbourne Sketches, Heiser Gallery, Brisbane
2012 Waterfield, Rex Irwin Art Dealer, Sydney
2011 Another Place, Gould Galleries, Melbourne Darkwood, Heiser Gallery, Brisbane
2010 Quietude, Rex Irwin Art Dealer, Sydney
2009 Heiser Gallery, Brisbane Michael Reid, Murrurundi
2008 Rex Irwin Art Dealer, Sydney
2007 Rex Irwin Art Dealer, Sydney Moree Plains Art Gallery, Moree
2006 Winter Weather, Martin Browne Fine Art at Silvershot Gallery, Melbourne
2005 Landscape Variations, Martin Browne Fine Art at the Yellow House, Sydney
2004 Vanishing Point, Martin Browne Fine Art at the Yellow House, Sydney Variations, Martin Browne Fine Art at Fortyfivedownstairs, Melbourne
2003 Half light, Martin Browne Fine Art, Sydney
2002 Everything and Nothing, Chris Langlois’ Landscape Paintings, Newcastle Regional Art Gallery
Imperfect Isolation, Doggett Street Studios, Brisbane
2001 Land sea sky, Metro Arts, Brisbane Fading to Nought, Martin Brown Fine Art, Sydney Nick Mitzevitch Gallery, Newcastle
2000 Melancholy, Legge Gallery, Sydney
1999 A Point In Time, Legge Gallery, Sydney
1998 Landscape and Memory, Legge Gallery, Sydney
1997 Autumn Park, Legge Gallery, Sydney
1996 Detached Shadows, Legge Gallery, Sydney
Rocket Gallery, Newcastle
1995 Legge Gallery, Sydney
1994 Legge Gallery, Sydney
1993 Newcastle Region Art Gallery
Legge Gallery, Sydney
1992 Legge Gallery, Sydney
1991 Veiw Factory, Newcastle
1990 Watt Space, The University of Newcastle
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023 Upriver Downriver, Maitland Regional Art Gallery
Winter, Gippsland Art Gallery, Sale
2022 Life, Still, Maitland Regional Art Gallery
A Little Further North, Milton Gallery, Mackay
Postcode 5730, Blinman South Australia
2021 Postcode 5730, Blinman South Australia
2021 Crepuscule, Olsen Annex, Sydney
2020 Collectivus, A Summer Group Show, Olsen, Sydney
Northern Beaches Art Prize, Sydney
2019 Oratunga and Back, Adelaide Fringe Festival
Recent Acquisitions, Manly Art Gallery and Museum
Nillumbik Art Prize, Melbourne
Tattersall’s Club Landscape Art Prize, Brisbane
Kings School Art Prize,Sydney
2018 2 x 2, Olsen Gallery, Sydney
2017 North Head Project, Manly Art Gallery and Museum
2016 Geelong Contemporary Art Prize, Geelong Gallery
2015 Signature, Newcastle University
Keeping Company: Saltwater, Manly Art Gallery and Museum
Directors Choice 2015, Celebrating 35 years, Gould Gallery, Melbourne
Sydney Contemporary, Sydney
2014 The Gold Award, Rockhampton Art Gallery, Rockhampton, Queensland
Sublime Points, Hazelhurst Regional Gallery & Arts Centre
John Leslie Art Prize, Gippsland Art Gallery, Sale Victoria
Tattersalls Landscape Art Prize, Brisbane
Watt Space 25th Year Anniversary, Watt Space, The University of Newcastle
2013 Summer Show, Chris LANGLOIS, Hyojin PARK, Konstantin BESSMERTNY, LIU XiaoFang, Amelia Johnson Contemporary, Hong Kong
2013 Fleurieu Art Prize, South Australia
Tattersall’s Club Landscape Art Prize, Brisbane
2012 Within Sight of Land, Newcastle Art Gallery
Landscape + the Urbane Environment, Marian Drew, Koon Wai Bong, Chris
Langlois, Ho-Yeol Ryu, Davis Smith, Amelia Johnson Contemporary, Hong Kong
Directors Choice 2012, Gould Galleries, Melbourne
Reflective Dialogues, Chris Capper, Andy Divine, Chris Langlois, Peter Tilley, The University Gallery, Newcastle University, Newcastle
Winter Warmers, Gould Galleries, Melbourne
Kings School Art Prize, Sydney
Tattersalls Landscape Art Prize, Brisbane
2011
Water Memory, Glasshouse Regional Gallery, Port Macquarie
Stan & Maureen Duke Gold Coast Art Prize, Gold Coast Art Gallery
New Romantics, Gippsland Art Gallery, Sale
Black & White, Rex Irwin Art Dealer, Sydney
Tattersall’s Club Landscape Art Prize, Brisbane
Kings Art Prize, Sydney
Keeping Company Manly Art Gallery and Museum, Sydney
Allsorts Gould Gallery, Melboune
Salon Des Refuses, S.H Irvin Gallery, Syd
BIG/small, Rex Irwin Art Dealer, Sydney
30 to collect, Arthouse Gallery, Sydney
2010 Wynne Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales
Silent Spaces, Macquarie University Art Gallery, Sydney
Zoo Artists in Residence, The University Gallery, The University of Newcastle
2009 In Paradise: Artist of the Northern Beaches, Manly Arts Festival, Manly Art Gallery and Museum
Heads, Rex Irwin Art Dealer, Sydney
2008 Chris Langlois, Luke Pither, Paul Spencer, and Camilla Tadich, Sophie Gannon
Gallery, Melbourne
Painting the Land, Newcastle Region Art Gallery, Newcastle
Salon des Refuses, S.H. Irvin Gallery, Sydney
Salon des Refuses, Tweed River Art Gallery, Murwillumbah
2007 ‘The University Collection: Evolution’, Newcastle University Gallery, Newcastle
Wynne Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales
2006 Tainted Love, Contemporary developments in Landscape, Bendigo Art Gallery
Wynne Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales
2005 The Sea, Rex Irwin Art Dealer, Sydney.
2004 Great Escapes: romantic landscape in the 21st century, Curated by Meryl Ryan, Lake Macquarie City Art Gallery
State of Art: Peace, touring exhibition, curated by Katherine Roberts, Manly
Art Gallery
2003 Depth of Field, Curated by Karen Hall & Louise Tegart, Shepparton Regional
Art Gallery
Depth of Field, Monash University Museum of Art
2001 Volunteered Images, Campbelltown City Bicentennial Art Gallery
Horizon, Newcastle Region Art Gallery
Well Connected: Dobell + Company, Lake Macquarie City Art Gallery
New Aquisitions, Campbelltown City Bicentennial Art Gallery
University of Newcastle Art Collection, Recent Acquisitions, The University of Newcastle
2000 Watt Decade, The University of Newcastle Travelling Exhibition, Broken Hill
Regional Art Gallery
1999 Contemporary, a selection from the collection of Allen, Allen and Hemsley
UTS Gallery, Sydney Velocity, Evan Salmon, Niki Savvas & Chris Langlois, Newspace, Sydney Col lege of the Arts
Watt Decade, Ten Year Anniversary, Watt Space, The University of Newcastle People and Places from Hunter-Manning Regional Collections, Manning Regional Gallery, Taree
1998 The Four Elements, A Journey Across The Land, Newcastle Region Art Gallery
Recent Acquisitions, Newcastle Region Art Gallery
Salon des Refuses, S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney
Steel Works, Lake Macquarie City Art Gallery
The Horizon Line, King Street Gallery, Sydney
CATALOGUES and PUBLICATIONS
2013 J. Beaumont, F. Fenner, J. McDonald, The Land and its Psyche, the Macquarie Group Collection, NewSouth Publishing
2013 Katherine Roberts, Simon Gregg, Chris Langlois Points in Time, Manly Art Gallery and Museum and Gippsland Art Gallry
2012 Relective Dialogue, Chris Capper, Andy Divine, Chris Langlois, Peter Tilley, The University of Newcastle
2011 Simon Gregg, New Romantics Darkness and light in Australian Art, Australian Scholarly Publishing
2010 Silent Spaces, Macquarie University Art Gallery, Sydney,
2009 In Paradise, Artists of the Northern Beaches, Manly Art Gallery & Museum
2008 Chris Langlois, Paintings, exhibition catalogue, Rex Irwin Art Dealer
2007 Chris Langlois, exhibition catalogue, Moree Plains Art Gallery. Rex Irwin Art Dealer
2006 Winter Weather, exhibition catalogue, Martin Browne Fine Art
2005 Great Escapes, Lake Macquarie City Art Gallery
2003 Depth of Field, Exhibition catalogue, Karen Hall, Louise Tegart & Rex Butler, Shepparton Art Gallery
2001 Land Sea Sky, Chris Langlois, essay by Rosemary Hawker, Metro Arts
2001 Fading to Nought, Chris Langlois, essay by John Murphy, Martin Browne Fine Art & SEL
COLLECTIONS
Bendigo Art Gallery
Campbelltown City Bicentennial Art Gallery
Newcastle Region Art Gallery
Manly Art Gallery and Museum
Maitland City Art Gallery
New England Regional Art Gallery
Gold Coast City Art Gallery
Glasshouse Regional Gallery, Port Macquarie
The University of Newcastle University of Technology, Sydney Parliament House, Canberra Artbank
Sydney Children’s Hospital
Allen, Aurthur, Robinson NRMA
Macquarie Bank
B.T. Funds Management
AMP
The University and Schools Club, Sydney
Gippsland Art Gallery
CAMIE LYONS
I AM THE WATER
3 - 24 MAY 2025
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023 Undulation, Scott Livesey Galleries, Melbourne
2022 Bush Calligraphy Australian Galleries, Sydney
2020 Making Meaning, Scott Livesey Galleries, Melbourne
2020 A Physical Response Australian Galleries, Sydney
2019 A Physical Response Bathurst Regional Art Gallery, NSW
2019 Humming Space’ Jan Murphy Gallery, Brisbane
2018 Untethered,Scott Livesey Galleries, Melbourne
2017 Out on a Limb, Olsen Gallery, Sydney
2017 At Bull Bay, Residency Artist at Delmar Gallery, Hobart
2016 Spirit Recovered, Scott Livesey Galleries, Melbourne
2016 Tenderness and Tenacity, Cat Street Gallery, Hong Kong
2015 Rural Romance, Olsen Irwin Gallery, Sydney
2015 The Sinuous Line, Scott Livesey Galleries, Melbourne
2015 At Bull Bay, Residency Artist at Delmar Gallery, Hobart
2014 Finding Beauty, Solo exhibition at the Olsen Irwin Gallery, Sydney
2012 Butterfly Effect, sculpture, drawings and paintings, Cat Street Gallery, Hong Kong
2011 Wallflower, sculpture and drawings, Tim Olsen Gallery, Sydney
2009 In the Zone, sculpture and drawings, Cat Street Gallery, Hong Kong
2008 Lyrical, sculpture and drawings, Richard Martin Art, Sydney
2006 Falling, sculpture and drawings, Richard Martin Art, Sydney
2005 Casting Into Space Sculpture and drawings, Kudos Gallery, Paddington
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2022 6 x 6 x 6 Miniature Sculpture Show 2022, Defiance Gallery, Sydney
2022 Artists at Home: Book Launch 2022, Olsen Gallery, Sydney`
2022 Sculpture by the Sea, Bondi, Sydney
2022 Sculpture Inside, Bondi, Sydney
2022 Lake Art Prize, Museum of Art and Culture, Booragul, NSW
2021 Sculpture at Scenic World 2021, Scenic World, Katoomba, NSW
2021 Sculpture Other, Katoomba Cultural Centre, Booragul, NSW
2020 Sydney Contemporary Presents 2020, Sydney Contemporary Art Fair (online)
2020 Winter Salon, Scott Livesey Galleries, Melbourne
2020 Persona, gallery HZ, Hong Kong
2020 Sculpture by the Sea, Bondi Sydney
2020 Navigating the Line (online exhibition) Australian Galleries
2020 Ravenswood Australian Women’s Art Prize, Ravenswood School for Girls, Sydney
2020 Live in Art 2020 (Highly Commended) Live in Art Gallery, Sydney
GROUP EXHIBITIONS (Continued...)
2020 Sculpture at Scenic World 2020, Blue Mountains, NSW (postponed 2021)
2020 Scupture Other, Katoomba Cultural Center, Blue Mountains, NSW
2019 Sydney Contemporary Works on Paper, Australian Galleries, NSW
2017 ‘At Bull Bay’, Delmar Gallery, Hobart
2015 ‘At Bull Bay’, Delmar Gallery, Hobart
2014 Twenty Fourteen, Scott Livesey Galleries, Melbourne
2013 Loaded: The Ned Kelly Exhibition at the Australian High Commission, Singapore
2013 Grounded, the Australian High Commission, Singapore
2013 Sydney Contemporary, Olsen Irwin Gallery, Australia
2012 Just This Moment, sculpture and drawings, Australasian Art Projects, Singapore
2012 Melbourne Art Fair, Tim Olsen Gallery, Sydney
2011 Wattle: A Survey of Contemporary Australian Art, Cat Street Gallery, Hong Kong
2010 Dobell Drawing Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
2010 Sculpture 2010, Tim Olsen Gallery, Sydney
2010 Signal 8 (Summer Show), Cat Street Gallery, Hong Kong
2010 Melbourne Art Fair, Tim Olsen Gallery
2009 Hong Kong Art Fair, Cat Street Gallery, Hong Kong
2007 Signal8, sculpture, Cat Street Gallery, Hong Kong
2007 Ionosphere, sculpture, Cat Street Gallery, Hong Kong
2006 Friend Lyons Petrie, collection of sculpture, Stella Downer Fine Art, Waterloo
2006 Sculpture 2006, Heavy Metal Ballet series, Global Gallery, Paddington
2005 Ned & Bob Exhibition of works at Hungerford & Edmunds Architects, Camperdown
2004 e:Motion Exhibition of new sculpture and paintings, Spence & Lyda, Surry Hills, Sydney
2004 Art In The Park Exhibition to launch Outdoor gallery at Maundrell Park, Marrickville Council
2004 Without Reason, Biennale of Sydney, COFA Exhibition Space, UNSW
2004 Push Hard, Cut Deep, Collection of granite sculptures displayed at Avja yards, Sweden
2003 Granite Plays Granite, sculptures and earth drawings, Hunnebostrand, Sweden
2002 Urban Pods Bronze and steel installation, foyer of Bouverie Close, Melbourne Apartments
2002 Breath Becton Sculpture Biennale, bronze and steel sculpture, Gasworks Art Park, Melbourne
2002 Working Drawings Series of drawings on canvas, Gasworks Art Park, Melbourne
2001 Local Branches Bronze, public sculpture installed for Waverley Council, Bondi Junction, NSW
2001 ARCA Bronze dance studies, Australia Council for the Arts, Surry Hills, Sydney
2000 Earth Cycle Concrete and steel, public sculpture installed in Gothenburg City Gardens, Sweden
2000 Moebius Dance Bronze sculpture, Artbox, Sherman Galleries, Paddington, Sydney
1999 Emerge, Multiply Work featured in Sydney Design Week by Spence and Lyda, Sydney
GRANTS, AWARDS AND RESIDENCIES
2022 Finalist in the Lake Art Prize, Museum of Art and Culture, Booragul, NSW
2022 Finalist in the North Sydney Art Prize 2022, The Coal Loader Cenre for Sustainability, Sydney
2021 Residency at Umbi Gumbi, Cutagee, NSW
2021 Winner of Sculpture at Scenic World Award, Scenic World, Katoomba, NSW
2021 Winner of Blue Mountains Cultural Centre Award, Katoomba, NSW
2021 Commission by the Langham Group, Major Foyer Bronze, Gold Coast, QLD
2020 Highly Commended Award for the Live in Art 2020 Invitational Art Prize, Zobon Group, Sydney/China
2020 Selected artist to attend the Artist Residency at BigCi Australia, funded by Scenic World
Blue Mountains
2020 Finalist for SXS 2020, Bondi
2020 Received the Umbi Gumbi Creative Residency, June 2020, Cuttagee NSW
2019 ‘Symbols of Endearment’ 4 large drawings commissioned by Tiffany & Co
2019 For Sydney Flagship Store, permanent display
2018 Hill End Residency, Bathurst Regional Gallery, NSW
2017 Bull Bay Artist in Residency, Bruny Island, Tasmania
2016 Natures Waltz, Kerry Hotel foyer sculptures, Hong Kong
2014 Bull Bay Artist in Residency, Bruny Island, Tasmania, Australia
2011 True Project’ sculpture commission for Phuket, Thailand
2009 Many Leaps Towards You’ wall installation, Pullman Project, Homebush Bay, Australia
2008 Public sculpture commission, Hoi Ha Wan National Marine Reserve, Hong Kong
2006 Public sculpture commission for Sydney City Council, Bedford Place Park, Surry Hills, Australia
2005 Awarded Research Grant, College of Fine Arts, University of NSW
2004 Guest Artist, Stone Academy Hunnebostrand Sweden
2003 Chalmers University Sweden- Artist in Residence, stone sculpting course
2001 Scholarship to attend Butoh and Laban Techniques in Sofia, Bulgaria, Soros Foundation
2000 Winner of the Baron Edson Public Art Commission, Waverly Council, Bondi Junction, Australia
Artist in Residence at Chalmers University Sweden, attended concrete sculpting course
1999 Finalist in the Green Square Sculpture Commission, City of Sydney
1997 RMIT Arts Union Grant, project funding
RMIT Student Union Grant - performance funding
1996 Ella Donald Fine Art Scholarship, Department of Education
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