EXHIBITIONS
RESIDENCIES
2006 Asialink Resident at Echigo Tsumari Triennial, Japan
2005 Resident in Australia Council for the Arts studio , Barcelona
1999-2001 Resident at 200 Gertrude Street Gallery and Artists space
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2018 Stairway to Empathy, Ballarat, Victoria as part of the Biennale of Australian Art
2017 Fieldwork II, The Colonies (As part of Intercambio as part of the 2019 Havana Biennale), Melbourne
2015/16 Get Sunflowered, 12 Assorted sites, South Gippsland
2014/15 Get Sunflowered, 8 Assorted sites, Moe, Traralgon, Morwell
2013/14 Fieldwork, 59 Alfred St, Kensington
2005 Burnout 2004, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane
2004 Burnout, Gertrude Street Contemporary Art Space, Melbourne, Australia
2003 Façade, Cnr Smith &Gertrude St, Fitzroy
2002 six24seven, Flinders St, Melbourne, Victoria.
2000 Featurism, 200 Gertrude Street, Fitzroy, Victoria
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2019 Havana Biennial Fieldwork III – Havana, Casa de Asia, , Cuba
2018 BOAA, Bienale of Australian Art, Deakin Place, Ballarat, Victoria
2013 Vroom, Perc Tucker Regional Gallery, Townsville, QLD
2011 Lorne Sculpture Prize, Lorne foreshore, Lorne, Victoria, curated by Julie Collins
2011 Afterglow, Monash Gallery of Art, Melbourne, curated by Stephen Zagala
2008 Depot, Grenda Bus Depot intervention, City of Dandenong
2007/8 The Vernacular Terrain, IDA Projects, QUT Art Museum, Brisbane,Songzhuang Art Museum, Beijing
2007
PX - A Purposeless Production/ A Necessary Praxis , St Pauls Gallery, Auckland UTS, Auckland, New Zealand
Burning Rubber, St Mary’s University Gallery, Halifax, Canada
Supercharged, Touring Regional Galleries, curated Vanessa Mc Rae, IMA, Brisbane M Chine, St Pauls Galley, Auckland UTS, Auckland, New Zealand
M Chine, St Pauls Galley, Auckland UTS, Auckland, New Zealand
2006
Echigo Tsumari Triennial, Nigata Prefecture, Japan
A Mans World, Brisbane Museum, Queensland
Artbank, Celebrating 25 Years, Touring regional galleries
Driving Passion, Ipswich Art Gallery, Queensland
2005
Melbourne Urban Art Prize, Federation square, Melbourne
On Demand, The Centre of Attention, London, curated by Pierre Coinde
2004
Friendly Fire, Gus Fisher Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
Friendly Fire, Pfalzgalerie, Kaiserslautern, Germany, curated by Leonhard Emmerling
New Drawing, UTS Gallery, Sydney, Australia, curated by Tara De Cruz
2003
Friendly Fire, The Shed,Frauenfeld, Switzerland, curated by Leonhard Emmerling
Home Loan, Caroline Springs, Victoria, Australia curated by Larissa Hjorth
Love Letter to China, Shanghai, Beijing, China, curated by Peter Hill
2002
Experimenta-Prototype, Burnout 2001 Part II The Game,Arts Center, Melbourne
Click, Burnout2001, Part II The Game, regional touring show, curated DanielPalmer
2001
Tougher than Art, First Floor Gallery, Fitzroy, Victoria
Touching the Parabolica, La Trobe Street Gallery,Melbourne, Victoria
2000 Gertrude Street Studio Artists, 200 Gertrude Street, Fitzroy
1999 Make it Yourself, Gertrude Street Contemporary Art Space, Fitzroy, Victoria
1998
Dogs Breakfast, Myers Gallery, Melbourne, Victoria
One hour photo, First Floor gallery, Fitzroy, Victoria
1997
Site and Scale, Yarra Sculpture Space, Victoria
Moet and Chandon, Touring Exhibition, State Galleries throughout Australia.
1996 Spatial Polarities, Stripp, Fitzroy, Victoria
1995
Unnatural Selection, Grand Central Gallery,Lend Lease Bdg, Victoria
Five Days, 25 Artists, 41 Gold Street, Collingwood, Victoria.
1994
VO=4711, Gallery Napier, Fitzroy, Victoria, 1994 Fringe Festival event.
Extension, Ether Ohnetitel, Fitzroy, Victoria.
Logos, Arts Victoria Building, South Melbourne.Victoria
Urban Junksters, McClelland Gallery, Langwarrin, Victoria.
Aggregation, Ether Ohnetitel, Fitzroy, Victoria.
SELECTED SITE WORK
2014/15 Get Sunflowered, 8 Assorted sites, Moe, Traralgon, Morwell
2013/14 Fieldwork, 59 Alfred St, Kensington
2008 Whitewash, Depot, Grendas Bus Depot, Dandenong
2006 Burnout 2006, Echigo Tsumari Radio Controlled, Matsdudai Croquet Center, Nigata Prefecture, Japan
2004 Burnout 2004, Sutton Rd Training pad, Canberra, Australia
2003 Façade, Cnr Smith & Gertrude Streets, Fitzroy, Victoria
2001 Burnout 2001, Melbourne Docklands, Victoria, Australia
2000 Reflex, 206-220 Johnston Street,Fitzroy.Victoria
1998 Logos, Memorial Drive, 20th Adelaide Festival, South Australia with Danius Kesminas
1996 Hot Property, Avondale Heights, Victoria with Danius Kesminas
1995 Forgetting, Stanley, Launceston, Hobart, Tasmania with Danius Kesminas.
1994 Cum On Feel The Noize, Livid Festival, Brisbane,Queenslsnd, with Danius Kesminas and Andrius Lipsys.
1994 Blow Out, Trance-Plant Festival, Brisbane with Danius Kesminas and Andrius Lipsys.
1994 Irruption, Royal Park, Melbourne,Victoria with Danius Kesminas.
1993 Resistance, Fifth Australian Sculpture Triennial, Museum Of Modern Art-Heide,Vic with Danius Kesminas.
AWARDS / GRANTS
2006 Asialink – Japan Residency, Echigo Tsumari Triennial
2005 Australia Council for the Arts – Visual Arts Fund, Barcelona Studio
2003 Arts Victoria – Export and Development Fund for Burnout 2001.Part II The Game
2002 Australia Council for the Arts – Visual Arts Fund (New Work) for Facade
2002 Cinemedia, Digital Media Fund - Burnout2001 Part II The Game
2000 Australia Council for the Arts – New Media (New Work) for Burnout 2001
2000 City of Yarra,- Local Arts Grant for Reflex
1995 Australian Network for Art and Technology Research Grant for ‘Hot Property’
COLLECTIONS
Mercer Resources, Artbank, Australian Center for Moving Image, International Drawing Institute, Monash Gallery of Art, Private collections
PUBLICATIONS
2014 At the limits of Not, Architecture Australia, July 2014, Callum Morton, Nigel Bertram
2014 Sunflowers seeding a change of art, The Age Feb 8th, Megan Backhouse
2011 Thoughts on Painting, Jan Bryant, Leonhard Emmerling, CloudsPublishing
2008 Grendas goes back to the drawing board, The Age, April 12 review Penny Webb
2007
We can work it out, Artlink Vol27 #24, Georgia Sedgewick
Art and Petrol Heads, Australian Art Review#13 Juliana Doupe
10, The Age, October 28 review Penny Webb
2005
Home is where the art is, The Times, Aug 25 review Rachell Cambell-Johnston
Fluid City, UNSW Press, Kim Dovey
On Demand, Freize, Nov. review Kim Dhillon
Gertrude Artists 20 Years, Blackinc books Edited by Charlotte Day
2004
Custom car comunique, The Age, Oct 6, review Robert Nelson
24/7 II, Public art isn’t a hero on a horse anymore, essay by Lisa Byrne
Flatness packed, Artlink, Vol 24 #2, Alex Taylor
2003
Friendly Fire, Kerber Verlag, Bielefeld, Leonhard Emmerling
Versatiles, Broadsheet, September, review, Larissa Hjorth
2002
Prototypes, Real Time, October issue, review, Lisa Gye
The generosity of a light touch, Artlink,Vol 22#4, Shiralee Saul
2001
Ready-made Bugger, Broadsheet, October, by Larissa Hjorth
Burnout, Freize, Sept. review, Daniel Palmer
Largest abstract drawing by tyre marks, Guiness Book of World Records
Burnout, Like, Winter review, Simon Huppatz
2000
Reflex, Real Time, February review, Esther Milne
Featurism, Herald Sun review by Alison Barclay 23.6.00
1999 Make it yourself, catalogue essay by Max Delaney
1998 Logos, catalogue essay by Mark Pennings
1997
Moet & Chandon 1997 Touring Exhibition, catalogue essay by Anna Clabburn
An installation of Authority, review by Robert Nelson, The Age 16.4.97
1996
Beauty in pipes, review by Robert Nelson, The Age 27.11.96
Art Monthly, Victoria notes, July issue
Spatial Polarities, catalogue essay by Kate Shaw
1994
Logos/Word, catalogue essay by Rachel Kent
Extension, catalogue essay by Rachel Kent
The Culture Of Landscape Architecture, edited by Harriet Edquist and Vanessa Bird. Essay, "Resistance" by Simon Cooper.
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