'Pharos at Sea' by George Matoulas
Born:
Melbourne 1966
Qualifications
1985/87 - Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology. Degree in Fine Arts
Painting/Printmaking
1994 - Centro del Bel Libro. Ascona, Switzerland. Course in advanced
book conservation
Employment
1988-91 - York Street Print Workshop
1988-91 - York Street Gallery
1988 - Coordinator Melbourne Fringe Festival City of Melbourne Visual
Art Precinct
1988 - Curator Visual Art Maverick Event
Self employed bookbinder and restorer
Bookbinding workshops for Institutions and private groups
2009 - Gallery Smith, “Pharos” Melbourne
2006 - Lancaster Gallery, HIS WAYWARD HAND, Melbourne
2003 - Dickerson Gallery, Melbourne
2001 - Dickerson Gallery, Sydney
2001 - Dickerson Gallery, Melbourne
2000 - Mass Gallery “Casa del Silenzio”
2000 - 38A Ovens St. “JOURNEY Ο ΓΥΡΙΣΜΟΣ”
1995 - Gallery Irascible “Tall Poppy”
1994 - Arcimboldo Gallery, La Spezia Italy
1994 - Teatro Variete, Ascona Switzerland
1989 - York Street Gallery
2009
Geelong Gallery “Books crossing” from
the Deakin University Artist’s Book Collection
2008
PROJECT SPACE/SPARE ROOM RMIT
University “Visual Word”
2007
Stonington Stables Museum of Art Deakin
University, “Under the Southern Cross’’ - collaborative exhibition
2006-07
Artist Books exhibitions 2006 – 2007
Australian Galleries, Port Jackson Press and Melbourne University
2004
Counihan Gallery “PRACTICE IN PROGRESS”
2002
Dickerson Gallery, Sydney “SUB 500”
Stonington Stables Museum of Art Deakin University, “making pages”
2001
MASS Gallery, “SCRIPT”
RMIT Gallery, Storey Hall “Little Treasures”
The George Adams Gallery, Victorian Arts Centre, Australian Paper Awards
2000
Yarra Sculpture Space, Fundere Sculpture Prize
Dickerson Gallery,Melbourne, Gallery Artists
Fremantle Arts Centre, Fremantle Print Prize
1999
Circolo Culturale “Il Gabbiano”
“ATTACCAR BOTTONE” La Spezia Italy
1998
VicHealth Access Gallery, National Gallery of
Victoria “The Cask-an Aussie icon”
Circolo Culturale “Il Gabbiano” “RELIQUIARIO” La
Spezia Italy
Victoria Vista Hotel, Maverick Production “The Ladder” 1998 Studio
Gennai “Arte in scatola” Pisa Italy
West Space “Porta” (with Maryanne Nairn) - collaborative exhibition
1997
Leviathan Building “Made in Cuba”
(Melbourne Fringe Festival) Museo Nouva Era “prod8 * garantito involucri
d’arte” Bari Italy
1996
Australian Print Workshop “Artists Books”
101 Collins Street “Neophytes V” (Antipodes festival)
1995
Circolo Culturale “Il Gabbiano”
“Libretto Digitale” La Spezia Italy
1993
1993 SNZ Print Exhibition Tokyo Japan 1993, 108 Moor Street “House”
1992
Australian Print Workshop “108 Moor Street”
James Street Gallery “Urban Images”
1991
VicHealth Access Gallery, National Gallery of
Victoria “Tradition and Cosmopolitanism”
York Street Gallery “York Street Printmakers”
1990
Mornington Peninsula Arts Centre Print Exhibition
1988
Mornington Peninsula Arts Centre Print Exhibition
York Street Gallery, “Established and Emerging Printmakers”
Awards
2003 - Dust jacket for Patrick White Bibliography,
Quiddlers Press
1996 - Fringe festival poster
Art Bank
Australian Paper Company
Deakin University
Melbourne University
Monash University
Mornington Peninsula Arts Centre
State Library of Queensland James Hardie Collection
State Library of VictoriaState Library of New South Wales