Beyond the Ocean of Existence
1993, bronze and granite.
580 cm x 270 x 200 cm
Featured
For You My Friend (Artist seat)
Soon to come
The Crossing of the First Threshold
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The Crossing of the First Threshold
Soon to come
Within Three Worlds
1995, bronze.
Boats length: 60 cm
Child's height: 100 cm
Commissioned by the City of Melbourne, 1994 City of Melbourne Art and Heritage Collection.
In memory of Angela Jane Esdaile
19 Feb 1969 - 28 Dec 1993
Beyond the Ocean of Existence
1993, Bronze, granite.
580 cm x 270 x 200 cm
Commissioned for the Swanston Street Walk Public Art Project, 1992. City of Melbourne Art and Heritage Collection.
About
Solo Exhibitions
2014 Beyond Dreams Glen Eira City Council Gallery Caulfield Victoria
Guest Speaker, Associate Professor Kevin White, RMIT
2011 Silentium, Survey Exhibition 1989-2011 Glen Eira City Council Gallery Caulfield Victoria Guest speaker Ken Scarlet OAM
2008 Syconium Anita Traverso Gallery ATG Richmond Vic. Guest Speaker
Steve Cox, writer/artist
2008 Keeping Watch Over the Past Chalk Horse Surrey Hills NSW
2007 A Decade of Sculpture Loretta Quinn Stonington Stables MOA Deakin University Malvern Victoria Guest Speaker Geoffrey Bartlett, Sculptor
2004 Simulacra Gallery 101, 101 Collins St. Melbourne Vic.
Guest Speaker, Ken Scarlet, OAM
2004 Recent Sculpture MFA Project Space, Monash University, Caulfield
1998 Recent Sculpture - Tina Smirnios Gallery, Prahran, Victoria
1996 The Quiet Land, St Kilda Town Hall, St Kilda
1995 The Quiet Land, Meridian Gallery, Melbourne
1992 Recent Sculptures, Meridian Gallery, Melbourne
1989 Recent Sculptures The Art Gallery, Melbourne
1986 Survey of Sculpture, Glen Eira City Council Gallery Caulfield
1985 Recent Sculptures Pinacotheca Gallery, Melbourne
1985 Recent Sculptures, Performance Space, Sydney
1983 It ain’t no picnic, Christine Abrahams Gallery, Melbourne
1982 The Birthday, Roslyn Oxley 9 Gallery, Sydney
1981 Still Life, Anthill Theatre, Melbourne
Group Exhibitions
2019 Bonanza, Contemporary Sculptors Association, Yarra Sculpture Gallery
2018 Sculptural Selected works from the Port Phillip City Collection
Carlisle Street/ Arts Space St. Kilda Vic.
2016 Lorne Sculpture Biennale Vic.
2015 Cooee Maroondah Gallery, Ringwood Vic.
2014 The Great Mandala Toyota Community Spirit Gallery, Port Melbourne
2013 All Creatures Great and Small Toyota Community Spirit Gallery, Port Melbourne
2013 Toorak Village Sculpture Exhibition Toorak
2012 The Maquette Show, Mars Gallery, Port Melbourne
2011 From Public Figures To Public Sculpture City Gallery Melbourne
Town Hall, Swanston Street, Vic. Curated by Ken Scarlett OAM Art historian
2010 Arcana, RMIT School of Art Gallery Faculty of Art RMIT University, Melbourne Vic.
2009 ABL Sculpture Exhibition Collins Street Melbourne Vic.
2009 Hybrid, Toyota Community Spirit Gallery Port Melbourne Vic.
2009 Yering Station Sculpture Exhibition 09, Yering Station Yarra Valley Vic.
2009 Sculpture 09 Harrison Galleries, Paddington, and Sydney NSW
2008 The Mars Project, Project Space RMIT University Victoria
2007 Farewell to Stonington Stables: Toast, MOA Deakin University
2007 The Garden Path, Toyota Community Spirit Gallery, Port Melbourne
2007 The Inaugural Lorne Sculpture Exhibition, Lorne Victoria
2007 Ensemble RMIT Gallery Melbourne
2006 Arcane, Red Gallery North Fitzroy Victoria
2006 Toorak Village Festival of Sculpture National Private Bank
2005 Waterhouse Natural History Art Prize, South Australian Museum Adelaide
2004 Smoooth Project Space RMIT Melbourne
2004 Australian Contemporary Art Fair,Royal Exhibition Buildings, Carlton,
2004 Neighbors Glen Eira Town Hall Caulfield
2002 Towards a Free Tibet, Span Galleries, Melb.
Toorak Village Festival of Sculpture Saba Melbourne
Sculpture at Sea Winds Old Landscape: New Garden, Arthur’s Seat
2001 Leonard Joel’s Auction Rooms Summer Catalogue
2000-02 We are Australian Touring Exhibition Victorian Arts Centre
Volvo Gallery, Adelaide Festival Centre Geelong Art Gallery
Switchback Gallery, Monash University.
Volume and Form Singapore
The Art of Saving Lives Sotheby’s, Melbourne
1998 Concurrence and Contrast Alfred Nicholas Garden Dandenong Ranges
Curated by Ken Scarlett Art Historian OAM
1996 Sail Away Di Jackman Gallery, St Kilda
The Quiet Land St Kilda Town Hall, St Kilda
The Quiet Land A Sculpture Walk in the Botanical Gardens, Melbourne
Meridian Sculptors Sale Regional Gallery
1995 Little Horrors Philatelic Gallery, Australia Post, Melbourne
Sculpture Exhibition Gasworks, Port Melbourne
1994 ACAF4 Exhibition Buildings Melbourne
1993 The Ashcombe Maze Garden Group Sculpture Show
Excalibur Geelong Art Gallery
Gallery 101-Melbourne
Just Sculpture Fine Art Gallery Ballarat
1992 Group Sculpture Show Meridian Gallery, Melbourne
ACAF-3, Exhibition Buildings Melbourne
Christmas Show Meridian Gallery, Melbourne
1991 Graeme Sturgeon Memorial Trust Exhibition Powell Street Gallery, Melbourne
1990 Second Australian Contemporary Art Fair Royal Exhibition Buildings, Melbourne
Artists against Animal Experimentation Deutscher Art Gallery, Melbourne
Fourth Australian Sculpture Triennial Meat Market Melbourne
1990 The Refusniks Show The Art Gallery, Melbourne
Gold Coast City Art Prize Gold Coast City Art Gallery
Xmas Show Women’s Trust Building, Melbourne
Art Angels Blaxland Gallery, Myer, Melbourne
1989 St Kilda Acquisition Exhibition Linden House, Melbourne
1988 A New GenerationAustralian National Gallery, Canberra
Ideas and Concepts Ararat Regional Gallery
Bicentennial Traveling Show National Touring Exhibition
First Australian Contemporary Art Fair Royal Exhibition Buildings
1987 Chance Meeting Caulfield Arts Centre, Melbourne
Personal Views Westpac Gallery, Melbourne
1986 Gilding the Lily Gertrude Street Artist’s Spaces, Melbourne
Murdoch Traveling Exhibition VCA Gallery Melbourne
1985 Graven Images Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth
Recent Australian Sculpture South Australian School of Art Gallery, Adelaide
Ninth Mildura Sculpture Triennial Mildura Arts Centre, Mildura
Return to Sender School of Art University of Tasmania, Hobart
Australian Perspecta Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
St Kilda Acquisition Exhibition Linden House, St Kilda
1984 Second Australian Sculpture Triennial National Gallery of Victoria
1984 New Sculpture, New Sculptors Christine Abrahams Gallery, Melbourne
1983 Post-Graduate Show Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne
1981 Soma types Adelaide Festival Centre Gallery, Adelaide
1981 First Australian Sculpture Triennial Latrobe University, Melbourne
1980 Recent Tasmanian Sculpture and 3 Art
Queen Victoria Museum Launceston Fine Art Gallery, Launceston, Tasmania
1978-9 Graduate Show School of Art Gallery, Hobart
Painting & Sculpture Tasmanian Museum & Art Gallery, Launceston
Commissions
2010 Within Three Worlds sculpture commission (bronze) Princes Park
Carlton Victoria re commissioned by MCC Melbourne Victoria.
2001 Maquette for Wishing FountainMS Society and Rotary Club of South Yarra,
Commission
2000 Short listed/finalist with RMIT Public Art as Sculptor/Designer for Victorian
Police Memorial St. Kilda Road Victoria
1995 Within Three Worlds sculpture commission (bronze)
Princes Park Carlton Victoria commissioned by MCC Melbourne Victoria
1993 Beyond the Ocean of Existence sculpture commission (bronze) Swanston St.
Walk Project commissioned by MCC Melbourne Victoria
1993 Artist’s Seat (cement) Linden House, St. Kilda
1993 Shop M22 Southgate Melbourne Victoria
1993 The Crossing of the First Threshold sculpture commission (cement)
Southgate Melbourne Victoria
Professional Experience
2019 Teacher (Sculpture) Visual Arts School of VE, Media Art & Communication
RMIT University
1994-2018 Teacher (Sculpture) Visual Arts, Faculty of Art and Culture RMIT
University
2015 Guest Speaker Entendre Brighton Bay Arts Centre
2014 Guest speaker/Judge Annual Art Exhibition Firbank Grammar
2014 Teacher (Sculpture) Diploma & Advanced Diploma Visual Arts Coordinator, Certificate IV Visual Arts
2013 Mentor to 2nd year Visual Arts students
Public Art Commission, Queen Victoria Market
Mentor to 2nd year Visual Arts students
Chandelier Project, Queen Victoria Market
2012 Guest Speaker-Swinburne Senior Secondary College Annual Art Exhibition
2011 Mentor/teacher to 2nd year Diploma of Visual Arts students for Chandelier Project for F shed, Queen Victoria Market
2011 Teacher (Sculpture, sessional) Swinburne, Prahran campus
2007 Co Judge of Moreland Sculpture Award, Moreland Vic.
2007 Guest Speaker MLC Kew
2007 Guest Speaker VCA School Art Forum
2004-2006 Lecturer (Sculpture) Monash University Caulfield Vic.
2004 Research Travel Asia
1994 Artist’s Workshop, Billanook College, Victoria
1993 Lecturer (Sculpture) Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne
1992 Artist’s Workshops, New Arts Summer School, Linden House St Kilda
Lecturer (Sculpture) Institute of Education, University of Melbourne
Lecturer (Sculpture) Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne
Artists Workshop, Ruyton Girl’s School
1991 Lecturer (Sculpture) Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne
Artist’s Workshop, Ruyton Girl’s School
1990 Lecturer (Sculpture) Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne
1989 Artist-in-Residence, Wesley College, Glen Waverley Campus
1986-9 Lecturer (Sculpture) Victorian College of the Arts (Sculpture)
1986 Sculptor for Australia Council Moomba Float
1986/87/89 Visiting Lecturer- Warrnambool Art School
Phillip Institute of Technology
RMIT
Victorian College of the Arts
Launceston C.A.E.
Frankston College of TAFE
1985-6 Lecturer, Phillip Institute of Technology, Melbourne
Lecturer Ballarat College of Advanced Education Victoria.
1985 Lecturer, (Sculpture) Prahran College of TAFE,
1984 Australia Grant (Travel/Research Development) China, Mongolia, USSR, France, England, Ireland
1983 Travel (Research) Japan
1982 Sculpture/puppet maker for Festival of Sydney
Artist in Schools Phillip Island, Victoria
1981 Sculptor with the All Out Ensemble for the production Basket Weaving for Amateurs Adelaide
1980 Artist-in-Schools, Wynyard High School, Tasmania
1977 Puppeteer/Performer, Tasmanian Puppet Theatre, Hobart, Tasmania
Education
2019 TAEASS502, Certificate IV in Training Assessment, RMIT University, Melbourne
2018 TAELL411 Adult LLN Skills Certificate IV in Training Assessment, RMIT
University, Melbourne
2012 TAE40110, Certificate IV in Training Assessment, RMIT University, Melbourne
2004 Certificate IV in Assessment and Workplace Training RMIT Melbourne
2002-2004 Master of Fine Art MFA by Research, (Sculpture), Monash University, Caulfield
1982-83 Post-Graduate Diploma (Sculpture) Victorian College of the Arts
Melbourne, Australia
1979 Bachelor of Fine Art (Sculpture/Film & Set design) Tasmanian School of Art,
Hobart, Tasmania
Awards and Prizes
2005 Professional Development Grant
Mentor-ship Program
Australia Council
1989 Artist Development Grant Australia Council
1986 Visual Arts Board Project Grant Australia Council
1985 City of St Kilda Sculpture Acquisition
1984 Visual Arts Board Travel Grant Australia Council
1980 Tasmanian Arts Advisory Board Grant
Collections
Australian National Gallery, Canberra
University of Tasmania, Hobart
Australian Bicentennial Authority Victoria
John Sands Collection Victoria
Melbourne City Council Victoria
City of Port Phillip Victoria
Deakin University Victoria
The Rae Rothfield Collection
CBC, Christian Brother’s College, East St. Kilda Victoria
Private Collections National & International