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'Corridor' by Graeme Drendel

 

Graeme Drendel

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Bibliography

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Bio

1953 - Born Ouyen, Victoria
1974 - Diploma of Teaching Art/Craft, Melbourne State College
1984 - Travelled to Italy
1987 - Travelled to Italy, England, United States
2001 - Artist in residence at Bundanoon - former residence of artist Arthur Boyd now owned by State Government acting as Bundanoon Trust
2004 - Currently painting and teaching at Box Hill TAFE, Melbourne
2004 - Travelled to Italy
 
Graeme Drendel's website is
www.graemedrendel.com.au

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Solo Exhibitions           

2010
'The passage', Australian Galleries, Melbourne

2009
'The female nude', Australian Galleries, Melbourne

2008
'Graeme Drendel' , Australian Galleries, Sydney

2007
'States of Undress', Australian Galleries, Melbourne
Jan Murphy Galleries, Brisbane

2006
'Channelling', Australian Galleries, Melbourne

2004
'Dancers in the dark', Australian Galleries – Painting & Sculpture, Melbourne

2003
'The Market Street Paintings', Australian Galleries – Works on Paper, Melbourne
'Small pictures', Australian Galleries – Painting & Sculpture, Sydney
'Trophy Hunters', Australian Galleries - Painting * Sculpture, Sydney

2002
'The bridge', Australian Galleries – Painting & Sculpture, Sydney

2001
'The brisge', Australian Galleries – Painting & Sculpture, Melbourne

2000
'Tourists', Australian Galleries – Painting & Sculpture, Sydney

1999
'Recent paintings 1999', Australian Galleries – Painting & Sculpture, Melbourne
'Recent gouaches', Australian Galleries – Works on Paper, Sydney

1998
'Recent paintings', Australian Galleries – Painting & Sculpture, Sydney

1997
'Paintings', Australian Galleries – Painting & Sculpture, Melbourne

1995
Mallee Tourist Association, Ouyen

1991
Mildura Regional Gallery, Mildura

1990
York Street Gallery, Melbourne

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Group Exhibitions

2010
'Artists' prints made with integrity', Australian Galleries, Melbourne
'Narrative Realism: A world observed, Australian Galleries, Sydney

2009
'Salon de Refusés', S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney

 2008
'Kilgour Prize', Newcastle Regional Gallery, NSW
'Step right up, the Circus in Australian Art', Albury City Gallery, VIC
'Inside Out', works from the Anthony/ Bell Collection, Albury Regional Gallery, NSW
‘Who let the dogs out’, Lake Macquarie City Art Gallery, NSW

2007
'Small Pleasures: Painting and Sculpture', Australian Galleries, Melbourne
'Stock Show', Australian Galleries, Melbourne

2006
'Summery', Australian Galleries, Sydney
'Stock Show', Australian Galleries, Melbourne
'Summer Stock Show', Australian Galleries, Melbourne
'50th Anniversary Exhibition', Australian Galleries, Melbourne
'Group Exhibition', Australian Galleries, Melbourne
'New Year Group Exhibition', Australian Galleries, Melbourne
‘The 55th Blake Prize for Religious Art’, Blake Society at The Gallery, National Art School, Sydney
Sulman Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

2005
'Contemporary Works on Paper', Australian Galleries Works on Paper, Melbourne
'End of Year Group Exhibition', Australian Galleries Painting and Sculpture, Sydney
'Australian Contemporary Art’, De Récourt Art in association with Australian Galleries at The Gallery in Cork Street, London
‘33’, Port Jackson Press, Melbourne
‘Desire’, Newcastle Region Art Gallery, NSW
‘Small important works’, Australian Galleries, Sydney

2004
‘A Humble Gesture’, Stephen McLaughlan Gallery, Melbourne
‘Group exhibition’, Australian Galleries, Melbourne
Fleurieu Peninsula Biennale’, McLaren Vale, SA
‘A Freudian Slip’, BMG Art, Adelaide
‘A Bundanoon Exhibition’, Shoalhaven City Arts Centre, Nowra, NSW

2003
‘North: Art from the other side of the Yarra’, Bundoora Homestead Art Centre, Melbourne
‘Traditional, Modern & Contemporary’, Savill Galleries, Melbourne
‘Sleeps with Angels – Sex And Death’, Stephen McLaughlan Gallery, Melbourne
‘Heat’, Noosa Regional Gallery, Noosa, QLD

2002
‘You Thought You Knew’, Cube Contemporary Art, Adelaide
‘Conrad Jupiters Art Prize’, Gold Coast, QLD
‘Melbourne Art Fair’, Melbourne
Sulman Prize’, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
‘Ten Significant Artists from Victoria’, Galerie Aniela, Kangaroo Valley, NSW

2001
‘Landscape and Environment’, Australian Galleries – Works on Paper, Melbourne
‘Contemporary Australian Works on Paper’, Australian Galleries – Works on Paper, Sydney

2000
‘Conrad Jupiters Art Prize’, Gold Coast
‘Melbourne Art Fair’, Melbourne
‘Prints, Drawings and Watercolours’, Australian Galleries – Works on Paper, Melbourne

1999
‘Work On Paper’, Australian Galleries (Smith & Stoneley), Brisbane
‘Contemporary Works On Paper’, Australian Galleries – Works on Paper, Sydney
‘Acquisitions Exhibition’, Newcastle Regional Art Gallery, Newcastle
‘Pleasure’, Australian Galleries – Works on Paper, Sydney
‘Visy Board Art Prize’, Tanumba

1998
‘Australian Art Fair’, Melbourne
‘Thirteen Artists’, Australian Galleries – Work on Paper, Melbourne
‘Magic Realism’, Australian Galleries, Melbourne

1997
‘Knock Knock’, Australian Galleries – Works on Paper, Melbourne

1994
‘Williamstown Summer Festival Art Prize’
MLC Invitation / Acquisitive Exhibition (work acquired)

1993
MLC Invitation / Acquisitive Exhibition

1991
MLC Invitation / Acquisitive Exhibition

1990
Artzwick Two’ - BP Acquisitive Exhibition
MLC Invitation / Acquisitive Exhibition (work acquired)
Artzwick One’ - Brunswick (work acquired), VIC

1986
Alice Prize, NT

1985
Alice Prize, NT

1984
Mornington Festival of Drawing, VIC

1983
Faber Castell Drawing Exhibition

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Bibliography

Books
Burrows, Dr Graham; catalogue essay, Australian Galleries, Melbourne, October 1999
Field, Caroline; Quests for Companionship, catalogue essay, Australian Galleries, Melbourne, June 2004
Heathcote, Christopher; Not in Front of the Children, catalogue essay, Australian Galleries, Melbourne,
May 2003
Heathcote, Christopher; catalogue essay, Australian Galleries, Melbourne, December 2001
Heathcote, Christopher; catalogue essay, Australian Galleries, Melbourne, July 1999
Melbourne Art Fair Catalogue, October 2000
Smith, Bernard et al.; Australian Painting 1788-2000, Oxford University Press, 2001
Wallace-Crabbe, Christopher; catalogue essay, Australian Galleries, Melbourne, June 2000

Periodicals
ABC Arts, Coast to Coast, 10 February 2002
Arts 21, Vol 4 No 3, 1998
Auty, Giles; The Australian, 22 May 1999
Ballamy, Louise; “Visual Arts”, The Age, 24 May 2000
Blue Magazine, October 1998
Brown, Phil; Brisbane News, 12-18 May 1999
“Chair Tops Auction”, Moreland Courier, 25 October 1999
Frost, Andrew; Australian Art Collector, Issue 10, October 1999
Hill, Peter; “Critics Picks”, Sydney Morning Herald, 9 May 2003
Johnston, Christopher, “People Power”, The Age, 3 July 2004
Low, Lenny Ann; “Wonderworld”, Sydney Morning Herald, 10-11 May 2003
Makin, Jeff; “Critic’s Choice”, Herald Sun, 5 July 2004
Michaels, Damian; “Magic Realism”, Arts Visionary Magazine, November 1999
“Mixed Media”, Black & White, Issue 58, December 2001
“Money & Investment”, The Age, 2 October 2000
Nelson, Robert; Review, The Age, 14 May 1997
Nelson, Robert; Review, The Age, 24 November 1999
Nelson, Robert; Review, The Age, 15 December 2001
Topsfield, Jewel; Melbourne Times, 5-11 October 2000
Topsfield, Jewel; The City Weekly, 5-11 October 2000
Smee, Sebastian; Pointy Things”, Sydney Morning Herald, 27 July 1999
Smith, Sue; “Tried Techniques Sustain Shock of the New Talent”, Courier Mail, Brisbane, 13 May 1999

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Collections

Artbank, Sydney
Bundanon Trust, NSW
BHP Billiton
City of Moreland, Melbourne
Darwin Museum and Art Gallery, NT
Department of Education, VIC
Deakin University, ACT
Methodist Ladies College, Melbourne
Newcastle Regional Museum, Newcastle
New England Regional Art Museum, Armidale, NSW
Private collections in Australia and overseas

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