ART PRACTICE – SELECTED PROJECTS AND COLLABORATIONS
2024: SIGNIFICANT TREES Barrett House, Randwick Council
2015: COSMIC LOVE WONDERLUST with Imperial Slacks Collective, Campbelltown Regional Gallery & SCA
2012: 22° HALO Gallery 9
2011: GREENWASH Eastern Bloc
2010: AFTER THE DUST STORM Gallery 9
2010: EVERYTHING MUST GO MOP Projects
2009: SALAD DAYS National Art School Gallery
2008: IMPOSSIBLE IS NOTHING Platform China Studios (Beijing)
2006: SOFT OPENING Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces with Vanila Netto
2004: WORK, REST, PLAY (ESCAPE) Artspace with Imperial Slacks Collective
2003: NOW OR NEVER Gallery Barry Keldoulis
2003: ARCADIA Kudos Gallery
2002: GOLDEN DREAM Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre
2001: VENEER Imperial Slacks Gallery
COLLECTIONS
I have work in the following art collections as well as private collections:
MACQUARIE BANK COLLECTION
ARTBANK
CASULA POWERHOUSE COLLECTION
AWARDS
2024 BARRETT HOUSE Art Studio Residency, Randwick Council
2012/2013 Undergraduate Scholar Award, Landscape Architecture, UNSW
2008 ASIALINK Visual Arts Residency, Platform China Contemporary Art Institute, BEIJING
2008 Visiting Artist, Drawing Department, National Art School Darlinghurst
2006 NSW Ministry for the Arts Gunnery Studio (Artspace)
2004 Highly Commended, Helen Lempriere Scholarship
2004 NAVA Marketing Grant
2002 Freedman Foundation Scholarship, 2 month residency, construction experience at experimental architectural project ARCOSANTI, Arizona.
2001 & 2002 Australia Council Artist Run Initiative Grant (for Imperial Slacks)
1999 – 2001 Australian Postgraduate Award (for Master of Fine Arts, UNSW)
1998 The William Fletcher Trust Grant
REFERENCES
A super piece of writing from artist and writer Anthony Springford FOR 22° HALO
Melody Willis – artist interview
COSMIC LOVE WONDER LUST – THE IMPERIAL SLACKS PROJECT
Campbelltown Regional Gallery & Sydney College of the Arts Gallery 2015
Andrew Frost – Guardian review
SOCIAL PROJECTS
2005 – 2009: “SYDNEY” with Mickie Quick, Hana Shimada and Jim Singline, Surry Hills, Sydney. Formerly a restaurant in the Lebanese quarter of Cleveland St, Surry Hills, SYDNEY was established as a venue for art events and music.
2002: ARCOSANTI Arizona, USA. A residential workshop at Paolo Soleri’s prototype architectural experiment in the Sonoran Desert, Arizona. I stayed at Arcosanti and worked full-time on the construction site.
2000 – 2002: IMPERIAL SLACKS GALLERY & COLLECTIVE, Surry Hills. Gallery and artist collective with residential studios.
SELECTED GROUP SHOWS
2015: COSMIC LOVE WONDER LUST – THE IMPERIAL SLACKS PROJECT
curated by Nick Tsoutas and Michael Dagostino Sydney College of the Arts, Campbelltown Arts Centre
2015: BLACK PARROT EDITIONS POP UP, The Rocks, curated by Anthony Springford
2013: SHE LED HER, Sydney, curate by mural artist Aki Siew
2011: Group Show, Gallery 9
2008: LOVE³ 733 Art Factory, Chengdu
888 China Heights, curated by Mark Gerada
2007: I, ME, MINE, Horus and Deloris
2005: THE DECEMBER GROUP, Gallery Barry Keldoulis,
2001, 2002, 2004: Artspace, Helen Lempriere Exhibition (2004 highly commended)
2003: Sir Hermann Black Gallery, Freedman Foundation Scholarship Exhibition
THE STONEVILLA INC. Chrissie Cotter Stonevilla artists in residence
2002: HISTORY OF THINGS TO COME Casula Powerhouse curated by Michael Dagostino
SLACKING OFF Forever Changes installation with Gustavo Böke, Imperial Slacks
CHILDHOOD, First Draft curated by Jessie Cacchillo
DESKJOB, Mori Gallery curated by Fiona Lowry & Piers Greville.
POSITIVE OVERKILL, Imperial Slacks, Imperial Slacks Collective
2001: BOX, Wren curated by Robert Wellington and Nick Kelly
PERIOD, Blaugrau Imperial Slacks Collective
IMPERIAL ALLIANCE, Imperial Slacks Gallery
2000: AUSTRALIAN PAINTERS AT THE MILLENNIUM, Imperial Slacks Gallery
painting & video project with Shaun Gladwell, David Griggs & Oscar Yanez.
THE PALACE OF EXAGGERATION… Grey Matter curated by Ian Geraghty
EIGHTEEN IS ENOUGH Herringbone Gallery Artists in Residence, group show.
DEPARTURE LOUNGE Kudos Gallery curated by Fiona Greenway
1999: LUMEN National Solar Architecture Research Lab curated Katrina Pym, Allan Giddy, Rob Largent
AL EISEN & FRIENDS, curated Michael Dagostino & Michael Lindemann, Herringbone Gallery