group exhibitions collections bibliography awards
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023
When the smoke clears, This Is No Fantasy, Melbourne
2022
When the smoke clears, The Barracks, Derwent Valley Arts, New Norfolk
2020
Migratory Aesthetics, Pastiche and Painting: an Exploration of Migratory Experience, PhD exhibition, Plimsoll Gallery, Hobart
The Painters Guild of Hobart Presents: Hackable Animals, Good Grief Gallery, Hobart (collaboration with Megan Walch and Robert O’Connor
2019
the shore, the race, the other place, Bett Gallery, Hobart
2017
anecdote / shift / mirror, Bett Gallery, Hobart
2016
New Work, This Is No Fantasy, Melbourne
2014
from a scrap of paper, studio exhibition, Hobart
2013
the hunter, back burn, opera, Bett Gallery, Hobart
anecdote Dianne Tanzer Gallery, Melbourne
2012
the black mirror, the studio, the hunter, the basement, Inflight A.R.I, Hobart
2011
Neil Haddon, Dianne Tanzer Gallery, Melbourne
2010
The Good Listener, Criterion Gallery, Hobart
Counter Works, Rex Irwin Gallery, Sydney
2009
Stranded, MOP Gallery, Sydney
Broken, Dianne Tanzer Gallery, Melbourne
2008
Broken, Criterion Gallery, Hobart
2007
Stranded, Criterion Gallery, Hobart
Dianne Tanzer Gallery, Melbourne
2006
New Work, Dianne Tanzer Gallery, Melbourne
2005
Glister, Criterion Gallery, Hobart
2004
Wear 04, Criterion Gallery, Hobart
Pitch 041, CAST Gallery, Hobart
Pitch 042, Dianne Tanzer Gallery, Melbourne
2002
Wear 02, Dianne Tanzer Gallery
More Minimal Conditions, Plimsoll Gallery, Hobart
1999
Nihil Sub Sole Novum, LSSp, Hobart
1996
Purblind, Dianne Tanzer Gallery
Purblind, Gallery Dunce, Hobart
Artspace/Workplace, Moonah Arts Centre
1995
Galeria Carles Poy, Barcelona, Spain
1994
The British Council, Barcelona
1992
Galeria Carles Poy, Barcelona, Spain
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2022
Water[shed], Bett Gallery, Hobart
The Sulman Prize, AGNSW, Sydney
The Hadleys Art Prize, Hobart
2021
D I S A P P E A R I N G, Bett Gallery, Hobart
2020
Regathering, Benalla Art Gallery, Benalla
2019
Art of the Body: Health, Beauty and Desire, MONA FOMA 2019, Academy Gallery, Launceston, curated by Malcolm Bywaters.
2018
Beyond The Field (still), curated by Anne Mestitz, Contemporary Art Tasmania, Hobart
Speed: mobility, exchange, Academy Gallery, Launceston, curated by Malcolm Bywaters.
The Hadley's Art Prize Exhibition, Hobart
The Sunshine Coast Art Prize Exhibition, Sunshine Coast
2017
Strange Trees, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, curated by Jane Stewart
Seventeen17, Galerie PomPom, Sydney
Remanence, a Ten Days on the Island arts festival exhibition, curated by Svenja Kratz
Imagining Food, a Ten Days on the Island arts festival exhibition, curated by Malcolm Bywaters and Jeff Malpas
The Glover Prize, Evandale
2016
Contemporary Art Tasmania, Members Show
The Wynne Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
The Glover Prize, Evandale
2015
wormholes, Bett Gallery, Hobart
New Makings, Plimsoll Gallery, TCotA, Hobart
The Wynne Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
The Glover Prize, Evandale
The Arthur Guy Memorial Prize, Bendigo Art Gallery, Bendigo
2014
This is No Fantasy, Dianne Tanzer Gallery, Melbourne
The Wynne Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
The Glover Prize, Evandale
2013
The Wynne Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
The Glover Prize, Evandale
2012
Theatre of the World, MONA, Berridale and La Maison Rouge, Paris, curated by Jean-Hubert Martin
LA Platform, Los Angeles, USA
The Wynne Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
The Glover Prize, Evandale
2011
Near and Far, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart
The Wynne Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
2010
Contemporary Encounters, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Group Action 7, Criterion Gallery, Hobart
In the era of ERA, Plimsoll Gallery, Tasmanian School of Art, UTAS, Hobart
In Partnership, The Academy Gallery, School of Visual and Performing Arts, UTAS, Launceston
Seeing Double, The Plimsoll Gallery, Tasmanian School of Art, UTAS, Hobart
Primed – New Painting in Tasmania, The Academy Gallery, School of Visual and Performing Arts, UTAS, Launceston
2009
The Shilo Project, The Ian Potter Museum of Art, University of Melbourne, curated by Dr. Chris McAuliffe
The Arthur Guy Memorial Art Prize, Bedigo Art Gallery
The City of Whyalla Art Prize, Whyalla (winning entry)
2008
Ecchymosis, Criterion Gallery, Hobart
In Progress, The Plimsoll Gallery, Tasmanian School of Art, University of Tasmania
The Fleurieu Biennale, McLaren Vale, South Australia
The Glover Prize 2008, Evandale, Tasmania (winning entry)
2007
The Arthur Guy Memorial Art Prize, Bendigo Art Gallery
Collecting For Tasmania II, Devonport Regional Gallery
The Fisher’s Ghost Art Award, Campbell Town Art Galley
2006
Tidal, The City of Devonport Art Award, Devonport Regional Gallery (winning entry)
The Conrad Jupiters Art Prize, Gold Coast Arts Centre, Surfers Paradise (work acquired)
2005
Poimena Art Award, Poimena Gallery, Launceston (winning entry)
And Then Some…, Inflight Inc, Hobart
Letitia Street Studios, Plimsoll Gallery, Tasmanian School of Art, University of Tasmania
City of Perth Art Award, PICA, Western Australia
The Conrad Jupiter Art Award, Gold Coast City Art Gallery, Surfer’s Paradise
Rhapsody 21C, Academy Gallery, Launceston
Island Art Prize, Stanley
City of Hobart Art Prize, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart
2004
Disorientation, Plimsoll Gallery, Centre for the Arts, University of Tas
Group Material, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart
IXL Art, Plimsoll Gallery
US, Inflight art, Hobart
Tidal, City of Devonport Art Prize, Devonport Regional Gallery
2003
Wish You Were Here and Painting the Home, Inflight, Hobart
HWY 1 (Ten Days On The Island), Kempton
Bodybag and Carnegie Gallery, Hobart
There, Plimsoll Gallery, Hobart
2002
LSS@Arts@Work, Arts At Work, Hobart
Pattern as Subject, CAST, Hobart
Conrad Jupiter's Art Prize
2001
Fisher’s Ghost Art Prize Exhibition, Campbelltown City Gallery
CAST Member’s show
The Hutchin’s Prize Exhibition, The Long Gallery, Hobart
2000
Square, Circle, Rectangle, Entrepot Galleries, Hobart
Cache, Glen Eira City Gallery
Artfair 2000, Melbourne, with Bett Gallery
Buffalo, Letitia St Studios, Hobart
Shifting Axis, Bett Gallery
CAST Members Show
2000
Cache, CAST
Warp – Neil Haddon, Philip Watkins and John Vella, curated by David Hansen, CAST and touring
The City of Hobart Art Prize Exhibition, Carnegie Gallery, Hobart
The Hutchins Prize Exhibition, The Long Gallery
1998
Upbeat and Lively, Bett Galley
Sixth Australian Contemporary Artfair, Melbourne, with Dianne Tanzer Gallery
Trust Bank Art Award Exhibition, Launceston (highly commended)
Making Waves, Dianne Tanzer Gallery, Melbourne
1997
Poets and Painters, Dick Bett Gallery, Hobart
Trust Bank Art Award Exhibition
Logan City Art Prize Exhibition
The Hutchins Prize Exhibition, The Long Gallery
1997
ARCO, Madrid, Spain, with Galeria Carles Poy
Toowoomba Regional Art Prize Exhibition
Logan City Art Prize Exhibition
1996
La Pintura Considerada Como Una de las Bellas Artes, Galeria Carles Poy, Barcelona, Spain
Por Al Buit/ Medio Al Vacio, Galeria Carles Poy
1990
Young Painters, James Hockey Gallery, Farnham, England
AWARDS, COMMISSIONS AND PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATION
2020
Arts Tasmania, for Hackable Animals with Robert O’Connor and Megan Walch
2018
The Hadley’s Art Prize, Hobart
2014
Australia Council for the Arts, New York Studio
2011
‘New Work’ Grant, Visual Arts Board, Australia Council
Judge, the City of Whyalla Art Prize
2010
Chair of Board, Contemporary Art Tasmania
Judge, Tidal – Devonport Regional Gallery Art Prize
2009
Judge, Poimena Art Prize
The City of Whyalla Art Prize, Whyalla
2008
The Glover Prize 2008, Evandale, Tasmania
2006-08
Panel member Arts Tasmania, Assistance to Individuals Grant Program
Panel member Arts Tasmania, University of Tasmania Rosamund McCulloch Paris Studio
2006
Commission: Level 2 Carruthers Building, Department of Health and Human Services, St. John’s Park, North Hobart
Tidal, The City of Devonport Art Award, Devonport Regional Gallery
2005
‘New Work’ Grant, Visual Arts and Craft Board, Australia Council
2004
Selection panel member, Australian Antarctic Division Humanities Program.
Commission: Oatlands District High School, Oatlands, Tasmania
2003
Committee Chair, Inflight Artist Run Gallery, Hobart
Commission: Prospect High School, Launceston, Tasmania
2002
Collaboration: Happy Birthday, Aleksandra Mir, Gavin Brown's enterprise, NYC & Greengrassi gallery, London, Publishers
2002-03 Member of Artist’s Development Grant Panel, Arts Tasmania
COLLECTIONS
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart
Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, Launceston
University of Tasmania Fine Art Collection
Devonport Regional Gallery
Gold Coast Arts Centre Gallery, Surfers Paradise
Artbank, Sydney.
Coleccion Sunyol, Barcelona, Spain
The British Council, Barcelona, Spain
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