Yellow-Blue 2002-03
Oil on canvas
171 x 230cm
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Selected Exhibitions (Solo and Group)
2007 Sssh! Boutwell Draper Gallery
Auckland Art Fair, Boutwell Draper Gallery in Auckland, NZ
Still Life, Tarrawarra Museum of Art , Yarra Valley, Vic.
Insect in Art, Natural History Museum and Art Gallery, Innsbruck, Austria
The Story of Australian Printmaking, National Gallery of Australia, ACT.
United Spectres, Australian Print workshop, Melbourne, Vic.
A complete set of six etchings, 1995-6 collie Print Trust Fellowship.
2006 Asia Pacific Triennial, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane (One of six Australian artists invited to participate in this major international event)
Social Capital, Canberra Contemporary Art Space
Contemporary Commonwealth, The Ian Potter Centre, National Gallery of Victoria (Federation Square), Melbourne
2005 Moist – Australian Watercolours, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
Future Tense, Griffith University, Brisbane
Contemporary Australian Drawing, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Charm School, Boutwell Draper Gallery, Sydney
2004 The Nature Machine - Contemporary Art, nature and technology, Queensland Art Gallery
2004: The Year in Art, S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney
Masters and Slaves, Boutwell Draper Gallery, Sydney
The Spirit of Football, Ian Potter Gallery, NGV, Victoria, Curator: Jason Smith
eX de Medici@MPRG, Mornington Peninsula Art Gallery, Victoria, Curator: Roger Leong
Theater of Insects, National Library of Australia, A.C.T., Curator: eX de Medici
Making Portraits, National Portrait Gallery, A.C.T., Curator: Andrew Sayers
New Acquisitions, National Gallery of Australia, A.C.T.
2003 Soft Steel, Heidi Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne, Victoria
Drawings, Paintings and Photographs, Curator: Kelly Gellatly
By George, Barry Stern Galleries, Sydney, NSW, Drawings
2002 Dobell Prize for Drawing, Art Gallery N.S.W.
National Works on Paper Prize, Mornington Peninsula Museum and Gallery, Victoria, Painting
Contemporary Australian Portraits. National Portrait Gallery, A.C.T, Painting, Curator: Andrew Sayers
Art of Victoria, Gold Treasury Building, Melbourne, Victoria, Painting
2001 So You Wanna Be A Rock Star, National Portrait Gallery, A.C.T, Painting, Curator: Magdalene Keaney
Sp., Helen Maxwell Gallery, A.C.T., Watercolours on Paper
Secret Life of Plants, Australian Academy of Science, A.C.T., Installation with Christine James
Curator: Leanne Cris.
2000 The Car in Australian Art and Culture, Heidi Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne, Victoria
Photographs, Curator: Dr. Ted Gott
Mirror With a Memory. National Portrait Gallery, A.C.T, Photographs, Curator: Helen Ennis
Vainglorious, Canberra City Museum and Gallery, A.C.T, Paintings, with Eve Sullivan.
1998-9 Close Quarters, Touring Exhibition. Origin: Monash University Gallery, Victoria, Billboard Photographs on Vinyl
1998 Fotofeis. Survey of International Photography. Glasgow, Scotland, U.K., Photographs
Curator: Alisdair Foster
1997-9 60 Heads, Touring Exhibition Origin: Canberra Contemporary Art Space, A.C.T, Photocopies
Curators: Jane Barney, Trevor smith, Jenny MacFarlane
1998 New Acquisitions, National Gallery of Australia, A.C.T, Drawing
1997 Indelible, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, Victoria, Installation of Swabs, Photographs and Drawings, Curators: Dr. Ted Gott and Jim Logan
1996 Adelaide Biennial, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, S.A., Swabs and Photographs,
Curator: Christopher Chapman
1995 Art in the Age of Aids, National Gallery of Australia, A.C.T, Photographs, Curator: Dr.Ted Gott
1994 Scratching,Australian Girls Own Gallery, A.C.T., Drawings, Photographs and Installed work
1990 Adelaide Biennial, Inaugural. Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, S.A., Photographs,
Curator: Mary Eagle.
10 Years of Acquisitions., National Gallery of Australia, A.C.T.
1989 More Scenes From the Ivory Tower, Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney, N.S.W.
1988 Scenes From The Ivory Tower, Canberra Contemporary Art Space, A.C.T., Paintings
1987 ARX’87, Inaugural event, Perth WA, installed public photographic (Computer driven) works
1985 ANZART’85 Auckland, New Zealand, Performance and Installation
National Gallery of Victoria; Mornington Peninsula Museum and Gallery, VIC; National Gallery of Australia, ACT
National Portrait Gallery, ACT (Commission: Midnight Oil); Monash University Gallery, VIC;
Griffith University Gallery, QLD ; Canberra Museum and Gallery, ACT; Australian National Insect Collection, C.S.I.R.O, ACT; Australian High Commission, Bejing, China; Queensland Art Gallery, QLD. numerous private collections in Australia and overseas
Selected Prizes/Grants
2002 National Works on Paper Prize. Mornington Peninsula Museum and Gallery
2002 Selected finalist, Dobell Prize for Drawing, Art Gallery of New South Wales
2001 Professional Development Grant. VACB, Australia Council
1995 Critics Circle Award for Visual Arts, Canberra ACT
1988 Professional Development Grant, VACB, Australia Council
Residencies
2003-04 Artist Fellow, CSIRO Entomology, (Taxonomy), Black Mountain Facility, A.C.T.
1999-02 CSIRO Entomology Division, (Taxonomy ) Black Mountain Facility, A.C.T.
2001 Dunedin Museum and Gallery, New Zealand
2000 Norfolk Island Museums Trust, Norfolk Island
1998 University of Tasmania. Hobart Campus
1997 Trongate studios, Glasgow, Scotland
1987 Claremont School of Art, Perth W.A.
1986-88 Canon Australia. Sydney, Melbourne, Perth and Canberra
Selected Publications
1990 “Disposable Icons” by eX de Medici. Artlink Vol 12 #4, Publisher: Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide
1994 “The Illustrated Woman” by Michael Desmond. World Art Vol.1 #1. pp72-75.
1995 “60 Heads” exhibition catalogue. Essays by Gordon Bull and Jenny
MacFarlane.5: Publisher: Canberra Contemporary Art Space, A.C.T.
1999 “The scandal of eX de Medici” by Gordon Bull. Photofile #56, May
1999. pp12-17.Publisher: Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney, N.S.W.
2000 “The Car in Australian Art” by Dr. Ted Gott. Exhibition catalogue (extract). Heidi Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne Vic. pp 22 –24.
2001 “Seduce and Destroy” by Magdalene Keaney. Portrait #2. Publisher: National Portrait Gallery, A.C.T.
“Nothing’s as Precious as a Hole in the Ground” by eX de Medici.
Entry for “So you Wanna Be a Rock Star” catalogue. Text and photographs. National Portrait Gallery, A.C.T.
2002 “An Epic Journey on a Lilliputian Scale” by Dr. Ted Gott. Art and Australia, Vol. 40 #1.
2004 “Sex, Death and Fascism”, by Sarah Thomas. Art Monthly, June
2004. eXdeMedici@MPRG, exhibition website, Essay:Roger Leong