Mark Ryan Possession
June 15 - July 7 2024
Mark Ryan
Mark Ryan is a conceptual artist based in Sydney Australia. He is currently a PhD candidate in Fine Art at the University of Newcastle on Vice-Chancellor’s scholarship and also holds a master’s degree in Fine Art from the Kyoto City University of Arts, Japan. Ryan has held numerous solo and group exhibitions in Australia and Japan.
These abstract landscapes from his ‘Possession’ series have a overhead perspective to revealing a palimpsest of uses, functions and ownership of their locations. They have been informed by satellite images, geographical maps, both modern and ancient and rendered in the raw materials from the locations (clays oxides and pigments) or found architectural components used on the landscape (plywood, reflective tape and bitumen). The works continues his investigations of power, property and impermanent ownership: ’What was yours, is now mine’ and vice versa. Furthermore, what was once no-one’s can become anyone’s. And how all rights can be obliterated by new laws, aggression, obsolesce or the passage of time.
Sales:
Julie Collins - Director gallery@djprojects.net
0417324 795
Free delivery and installation within Victoria.
Shipping arranged interstate and Overseas.
21 Morce Ave Sorrento, Victoria, Australia
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1. Broken Hill, you’re always bringing up the past.
3M
120 x 90 x 4 cm
$2,800.00
reflective tape, bitumen, black iron oxide, red iron oxide, yellow ochre and China clay on plywood.
2. Menindee Lakes, don’t be so sensitive.
3M reflective tape, bitumen, black iron oxide, red iron oxide, yellow ochre and China clay on plywood.
120 x 90 x 4 cm
$2,800.00
120
$2,800.00
3. Cadia Hill, I’m sorry you feel that way.
3M reflective tape, bitumen, black iron oxide, red iron oxide, yellow ochre and China clay on plywood.
x 90 x 9 cm
3M
120 x 90 x 9 cm
$2,800.00
4. Cadia Hill, it’s too late now. reflective tape, bitumen, black iron oxide, red iron oxide, yellow ochre and China clay on plywood.
5. ‘Croajingolong, I guess I owe you an apology?’
Carbon, wax and tape on plywood.
70x50x5 cm approx.
$1,250
70x70x5 cm approx.
$1,350
6. ‘Mount Buckle, show some steel’. Carbon, wax and tape on plywood.
Carbon, wax and tape on plywood.
70x50x5 cm approx.
$1,250
7. ‘Croajingolong, I regret that you felt upset.’
8. Cessnock, I regret to inform you.
Bitumen and oil on plywood.
120 x 90 x 5 cm
$2,800.00
MARK RYAN | ARTIST CV
EXHIBITIONS
2024 POSSESSION, & Gallery Australia, Sorrento June 15 - July 7
2023 POSSESSION, Red Gallery Fitzroy, Melbourne, 4 October – 16 October
Solo Installation: Bitumen, oxides, clay, ink, 3M reflective tape and oil on suede or plywood.
2023 SCULPTURES@SCRATCHLEY, Fort Scratchley Newcastle, 9 May – 30 May
One Billion Tonnes of Coal: Coal, Miners Pick and Shovel, Day Glo Orange paint.
2023 UNFRAMED, Newcastle Art Space, Newcastle, 3 March – 19 March
Reverence and Exploitation - A Dialogue of Values. Giclée print on paper.
2022 THEORY OF COLOURS, Articulate Project Space, Leichhardt, 22 October – 6 November Ranger 12°41′S 132°55′E: Rolled steel, Chromed steel tube, Neodymium magnets, Day Glo Orange paint.
2022 BLOT, Articulate Project Space, Leichhardt, 20 August – 4 September
Delineate: 3M reflective tape installation.
2022 OVERLAP, Articulate Project Space, Leichhardt, 18 March – 4 April, Solo Installation: Bitumen, aluminium, clay, ink, paper and oil on leather and wood.
2022 BRUNSWICK STREET GALLERY PRIZE, Fitzroy, 7 – 21 January, Property rights N70: Ink and oil on wood.
2020 MUSWELLBROOK ART PRIZE, Muswellbrook, 21 March – 8 May, AlbertRoyFrancis: Bitumen, aluminium, clay, ink, paraffin, artificial grass and charcoal on leather.
2020 JOHN VILLIERS OUTBACK ART PRIZE, Winton Qld, 8 March – 8 May, 4 backpackers in new kit standing around a hole, texting: Bitumen, aluminium, clay on leather.
1994 ARTISTS BACK STAGE, Sydney Theatre Company, 1 – 7 October, Desire: Oil on canvas on wood
1991 NOW AND NEW, Akiyama Gallery, Tokyo Japan, 11 – 22 February,
Solo Installation: Oil on canvas. Stoneware resin, Wallpaper on wood. screen print on canvas.
1989 ZERO, Nara Prefectural Cultural Hall, Nara Japan, 13 – 18 June, Solo Installation: Plaster resin, Bitumen, graphite, sulphur and cement on wood. Earthenware and oil.
1989 NEW WORK, Gallery Haku, Osaka Japan, 13 – 18 February, Solo Installation: Stoneware resin, industrial paint gold onglaze. Lead. Salt and steel.
1986 MARK RYAN, Hogarth Galleries, Sydney, 12 April – 7 May,
Solo Installation: Stoneware, earthenware under and over glazes. Graphite on paper
RESIDENCIES
2023 Lighthouse Arts, Newcastle
2021 Broken Hill Art Exchange EDUCATION
2020 PhD candidate University of Newcastle, NSW
1991 Master of Art in 3D Visual Art, Kyoto City University Arts, Japan
1987 Certificate in Japanese Language Osaka University of Foreign Studies, Japan
1980 Diploma Visual Arts University of Newcastle, NSW AWARDS
2020 Vice Chancellor Scholarship. University of Newcastle.
1988 Monbusho Scholarship. Japanese Government.
1986 The Australia Council, Project Grant.