Gavin Bell, Jarrah de Kuijer & Simon McGlinn
Education (Applicable to all)
2008 Bachelor of Fine Art, Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne
2005 Diploma of Visual Arts, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology
Forthcoming exhibitions
West Space 2019 Fundraiser, Melbourne
2019
Group exhibitions
Carny, Neon Park Brunswick, Melbourne
2018
Solo exhibitions
Open Window, WestSpace, Melbourne
Entertainment is like friendship, Gertrude Contemporary Glasshouse, Melbourne
Viewer Abandonment, TRIPLA, Bologna (IT)
Group exhibitions
Gertrude Studios 2018, Gertrude Contemporary, Melbourne
Charm School, Neon Parc Brunswick, Melbourne
2017
Group exhibitions
WestSpace 2017 Fundraiser, WestSpace, Melbourne
Gertrude Studios 2017, Gertrude Contemporary, Melbourne
Voodoo Gods, Station, Melbourne
La Peggiore condizione, TRIPLA, Bologna (IT)
9X5NOW, Margaret Lawrence Gallery, Melbourne
Carlina on Stage, NESXT Independent Art Festival, presented by TRIPLA, Piazza Carlo Emanuele II, Turin (IT)
Traces, Adds Donna, Chicago (US)
2016
Solo exhibitions
Hell's Flags, Hell's Kitchen, Melbourne
Group exhibitions
Officeworks, Online
Octopus 16: Antiques Roadshow, Gertrude Contemporary, Melbourne
The Number You Have Reached, Success, Fremantle
West Space 2016 Fundraiser, Melbourne
2015
Solo exhibitions
Open Window, Limited edition print commissioned by Design Store, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Group exhibitions
Technologism, Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne
Lurid Beauty: Australian Surrealism and its Echoes, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
TCB Fundraiser 2015, TCB art inc., Melbourne
ARStronomy, La Casa Encendida, Madrid (ES)
Creative Suite, Te Tuhi, Auckland (NZ)
Towards Excomposition, Skylab, Columbus (US)
2014
Solo exhibitions
Idle Resources, Tristian Keonig, Melbourne
Group exhibitions
Creative Suite, Horsham Regional Art Gallery
Put up a signal, MES 56, Jogja (ID)
Don't Kurt Cobain, Slopes, Melbourne
The Office, ACL Partners, Paris (FR)
Man & Play, Brennan & Griffin, New York (US)
¯\_(ツ)_/¯, Bus Projects, Melbourne
Das Boot Artist Fair, Arts House (Meat Market) Car Park, Next Wave Festival 2014, Melbourne
Dusty Chair, George Paton Gallery, Melbourne
Put up a signal, Bus Projects, Melbourne
Creative Suite, City Gallery, Wellington (NZ)
2013
Solo exhibitions
Untitled, The Projects, Melbourne
Group exhibitions
Video Arte Australia y Nueva Zelanda, Matucana 100, Santiago, (CL)
Melbourne Now, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Slide, Gertrude Contemporary, Melbourne
Reinventing the Wheel: the Readymade Century, Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne
Video Contemporary, Sydney Contemporary, Sydney
West Space 20th Anniversary Annual Fundraiser, West Space, Melbourne
Third/fourth (Melbourne artist facilitated Biennial), Margaret Lawrence Gallery, Melbourne
Group Exhibition: Artwork Documentation, Gertrude Contemporary, Melbourne
FX, Centre of Contemporary Photography, Melbourne
The Projects Flash Night, Kings ARI, Melbourne
BYOB 2013 (Bring Your Own Beamer) RMIT Design Hub, Melbourne
2012
Solo exhibitions
International Waters: Sleep Hygiene, Box Copy, Brisbane
Content Aware, TCB Art Inc. Melbourne
Untitled, Myers Place, Melbourne
de Facto Standard, West Space, Melbourne
Group exhibitions
Fury Road, Appendix, Portland (US)
Menage a trois, XYZ Collective, Tokyo (JP)
'The Churchie' National Emerging Art Award and Exhibition, Griffith University Art Gallery, Brisbane
or either silver lining, TCB Art Inc, Melbourne
2011
Solo exhibitions
twincandles.net, website
Group exhibitions
BYOB Melbourne, Tristian Koenig, Melbourne
NEW 11, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne
Keith and Elisabeth Murdoch Traveling Fellowship, Margaret Lawrence Gallery, Melbourne
2010
Solo exhibitions
New Basic, The Narrows, Melbourne
Faux Thrills, Centre of Contemporary Photography, Melbourne
Group exhibitions
Dot, dot, dot, Lismore Reginal Art Gallery, Lismore
Super Market, Gertrude Contemporary, Melbourne
Structural Integrity, Next Wave Festival, Meat Market, Melbourne
Dot, dot, dot Peloton, Sydney
Monochromes (multiples/offset), The Narrows, Melbourne
Canadian Pharmacy, Neon Parc, Melbourne
2009
Solo exhibitions
Keep It Together, TCB Art Inc., Melbourne
TACOCAT, West Space, Melbourne
Group exhibitions
Magic Eye, curated by the Platform Team, Platform, Melbourne
Room Service, The Carlton Hotel, Melbourne
Recent Videos from Melbourne, M16 Gallery, Canberra
The Invisible Generation, devised by Per Huttner & Daniele Balit, Margaret Lawrence Gallery, Melbourne (Special Guests)
Dot dot dot, Hell Gallery, Melbourne
DLAP 09 – (Darebin La Trobe Art Prize), Bundoora Homestead Art Centre, Melbourne
Hatched 09, Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts, Perth
Boyd School Studios Launch, Boyd School Studio, Melbourne
Bibliography
Review - Carny, Memo Review, by Audrey Schmidt, Feb 2019
Review - Open Window, Art Guide Australia, by Zara Sigglekow, Jan/Feb, 2019
Review - Open Window, The Saturday Paper, by Lisa Radford, Edition No. 227 - Oct 20 – 26, 2018
Interview - Open Window catalogue, Patrice Sharkey, 2018
Review - Technologism, Broadsheet Journal 45.1 by Paris Lettau, 2015
Review - Technologism, Art Guide Australia, by Dylan Rainforth, Nov 2015
Catalogue - Lurid Beauty: Australian Surrealism and it’s Echoes, Catalogue, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 2015
Catalogue - Technologism, Monash University Museum of Art, 2015
Catalogue - Put Up a Signal, MES 56 (ID) and Bus projects, 2014
Catalogue - Dusty Chair, Alana Kingston and Brennan Olver, 2014
Review & interview - Idle Resources, Primer, by Maura Edmond, Feb, 2014
Review - Idle Resources, The Age, Your Weekend: In the Galleries by Dan Rule, Feb 22, 2014
Article - Two heads are better than one, Art Guide Australia, Tracey Clement, 2013
Catalogue - Melbourne Now, NGV, Published by National Gallery of Victoria, 2013
Catalogue - Reinventing the Wheel: the Readymade Century, MUMA , Published by Monash University Museum of Art, 2013
Media coverage for solo exhibition De Facto Standard: LA Times, LA Times Business, TIME, Fox news, Fox business, Yahoo news, Herald Sun, Desktop Magazine, NBC New York, NBC LA, USA Today, The Huffington Post, Washington Post, Daily Style, Gizmodo, Daily mail, the age, cnet, Macworld, Art info, ABC, abc news, abc World News Now, Virtual Strategy The Roast, The Project (ten), Sydney Morning Herald, SBS world news, MX, Grazia Magazine, the conversation, Stamm, Don't Panic magazine, Examiner, the Guardian
Interview, Scent of Apple, MacWorld, 27 April, 2012
Catalogue - NEW11, text by Raimundas Malasauskas, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, 2011
Review - Iceman becomes a cool attraction, The Herald Sun, May 13, 2011
Review - New11 at ACCA, Broadsheet, by Dan Rule, April 6, 2011
Review - What is New11, Runway, by Dylan Rainforth, 2011
Article - Undiscovered Page: 146 - 147, ART COLLECTOR Magazine Issue 52. Text by Mark Feary April - June, 2010.
Article - Light & Colour, Acclaim Magazine issue 22, 2010
Article - Artistic Differences: Ascetic Aesthetic Vs Opportunistic Good Times, Un Magazine article, Issue 3.2 written by Kelly Fliedner 2009
Review - Around the galleries, exhibition review by Dan Rule, The Age A2, July 24, 2010
Review - exhibition review by Penny Modra, The Age, M Sunday Age, July 18, 2010
Review - Faux Thrills, Dead Hare Melbourne Art review blog, June 4, 2010
Catalogue - Hatched 09, Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts, Perth, 2009
Catalogue - The Invisible Generation, Per Huttner & Daniele Balit, 2009
Review - Around the galleries, exhibition review by Dan Rule, The Age A2, June 27, 2009
Catalogue - DLAP 09, Bundoora Homestead Art centre 2009
Related Activities
Gertrude Contemporary studio residency program (2017-2019)
Works in the permanent collection of The National Gallery of Victoria, Monash University Museum of Art and private collections.
Artist Talk - Writing and Concepts, National Gallery of Victoria: Ian Potter Centre, 2018
Artist Talk - Victorian College of the Arts, 2016
Limited edition print Open Window (2015) commissioned by National Gallery of Victoria, sold in design stores and online, 2015
Artist Talk - MES 56, Yogyakarta, Indonesia, 2014
Residency at MES 56, Yogyakarta, Indonesia, 2014
Artist Talk - Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, 2012
Churchie National emerging art prize finalists, 2012
Participated in the making of 'Mahogany', a work by artist Jesse Jones, Gertrude Contemporary artist in residence. Coober Pedy, South Australia 2009
Worked with visiting artist/curator Per Huttner and curator Daniele Balit to interpret and present the project; The Invisible Generation, Margaret Lawrence Gallery, Melbourne 2009. Organized by: Vision Forum in collaboration with VCA Margaret Lawrence Gallery and Satellite in Melbourne, Les Kurbas Centre in Kiev, CPU 798 in Beijing and OCAT in Shenzhen
'Magazine' work shown as part of DAMP's instalation in the Asian Pacific Trianelle at GOMA in 2009
Publications
Exquisite Corpse, Art Guide Australia Sept/Oct edition, 2010
‘um ad’, Un Magazine Issue 3.2, contributed artwork 2009
‘Magazine’, a printed 2D work/publication/magazine for ‘Keep it Together’ a solo exhibition at TCB Art Inc, with contributions by: Dan Moyinhan, Masato Takasaka, Brendan Barnett, Lisa Radford, Kate Smith, Ace Wagstaff, DAMP, Sam George, Matthew Griffin, Ashleigh Kendrick, Alex Baker, Ross Coulter, Phip Murray, Luzminda Kingston & Zogdor Trumpf
Education (Applicable to all)
2008 Bachelor of Fine Art, Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne
2005 Diploma of Visual Arts, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology
Forthcoming exhibitions
West Space 2019 Fundraiser, Melbourne
2019
Group exhibitions
Carny, Neon Park Brunswick, Melbourne
2018
Solo exhibitions
Open Window, WestSpace, Melbourne
Entertainment is like friendship, Gertrude Contemporary Glasshouse, Melbourne
Viewer Abandonment, TRIPLA, Bologna (IT)
Group exhibitions
Gertrude Studios 2018, Gertrude Contemporary, Melbourne
Charm School, Neon Parc Brunswick, Melbourne
2017
Group exhibitions
WestSpace 2017 Fundraiser, WestSpace, Melbourne
Gertrude Studios 2017, Gertrude Contemporary, Melbourne
Voodoo Gods, Station, Melbourne
La Peggiore condizione, TRIPLA, Bologna (IT)
9X5NOW, Margaret Lawrence Gallery, Melbourne
Carlina on Stage, NESXT Independent Art Festival, presented by TRIPLA, Piazza Carlo Emanuele II, Turin (IT)
Traces, Adds Donna, Chicago (US)
2016
Solo exhibitions
Hell's Flags, Hell's Kitchen, Melbourne
Group exhibitions
Officeworks, Online
Octopus 16: Antiques Roadshow, Gertrude Contemporary, Melbourne
The Number You Have Reached, Success, Fremantle
West Space 2016 Fundraiser, Melbourne
2015
Solo exhibitions
Open Window, Limited edition print commissioned by Design Store, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Group exhibitions
Technologism, Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne
Lurid Beauty: Australian Surrealism and its Echoes, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
TCB Fundraiser 2015, TCB art inc., Melbourne
ARStronomy, La Casa Encendida, Madrid (ES)
Creative Suite, Te Tuhi, Auckland (NZ)
Towards Excomposition, Skylab, Columbus (US)
2014
Solo exhibitions
Idle Resources, Tristian Keonig, Melbourne
Group exhibitions
Creative Suite, Horsham Regional Art Gallery
Put up a signal, MES 56, Jogja (ID)
Don't Kurt Cobain, Slopes, Melbourne
The Office, ACL Partners, Paris (FR)
Man & Play, Brennan & Griffin, New York (US)
¯\_(ツ)_/¯, Bus Projects, Melbourne
Das Boot Artist Fair, Arts House (Meat Market) Car Park, Next Wave Festival 2014, Melbourne
Dusty Chair, George Paton Gallery, Melbourne
Put up a signal, Bus Projects, Melbourne
Creative Suite, City Gallery, Wellington (NZ)
2013
Solo exhibitions
Untitled, The Projects, Melbourne
Group exhibitions
Video Arte Australia y Nueva Zelanda, Matucana 100, Santiago, (CL)
Melbourne Now, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Slide, Gertrude Contemporary, Melbourne
Reinventing the Wheel: the Readymade Century, Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne
Video Contemporary, Sydney Contemporary, Sydney
West Space 20th Anniversary Annual Fundraiser, West Space, Melbourne
Third/fourth (Melbourne artist facilitated Biennial), Margaret Lawrence Gallery, Melbourne
Group Exhibition: Artwork Documentation, Gertrude Contemporary, Melbourne
FX, Centre of Contemporary Photography, Melbourne
The Projects Flash Night, Kings ARI, Melbourne
BYOB 2013 (Bring Your Own Beamer) RMIT Design Hub, Melbourne
2012
Solo exhibitions
International Waters: Sleep Hygiene, Box Copy, Brisbane
Content Aware, TCB Art Inc. Melbourne
Untitled, Myers Place, Melbourne
de Facto Standard, West Space, Melbourne
Group exhibitions
Fury Road, Appendix, Portland (US)
Menage a trois, XYZ Collective, Tokyo (JP)
'The Churchie' National Emerging Art Award and Exhibition, Griffith University Art Gallery, Brisbane
or either silver lining, TCB Art Inc, Melbourne
2011
Solo exhibitions
twincandles.net, website
Group exhibitions
BYOB Melbourne, Tristian Koenig, Melbourne
NEW 11, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne
Keith and Elisabeth Murdoch Traveling Fellowship, Margaret Lawrence Gallery, Melbourne
2010
Solo exhibitions
New Basic, The Narrows, Melbourne
Faux Thrills, Centre of Contemporary Photography, Melbourne
Group exhibitions
Dot, dot, dot, Lismore Reginal Art Gallery, Lismore
Super Market, Gertrude Contemporary, Melbourne
Structural Integrity, Next Wave Festival, Meat Market, Melbourne
Dot, dot, dot Peloton, Sydney
Monochromes (multiples/offset), The Narrows, Melbourne
Canadian Pharmacy, Neon Parc, Melbourne
2009
Solo exhibitions
Keep It Together, TCB Art Inc., Melbourne
TACOCAT, West Space, Melbourne
Group exhibitions
Magic Eye, curated by the Platform Team, Platform, Melbourne
Room Service, The Carlton Hotel, Melbourne
Recent Videos from Melbourne, M16 Gallery, Canberra
The Invisible Generation, devised by Per Huttner & Daniele Balit, Margaret Lawrence Gallery, Melbourne (Special Guests)
Dot dot dot, Hell Gallery, Melbourne
DLAP 09 – (Darebin La Trobe Art Prize), Bundoora Homestead Art Centre, Melbourne
Hatched 09, Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts, Perth
Boyd School Studios Launch, Boyd School Studio, Melbourne
Bibliography
Review - Carny, Memo Review, by Audrey Schmidt, Feb 2019
Review - Open Window, Art Guide Australia, by Zara Sigglekow, Jan/Feb, 2019
Review - Open Window, The Saturday Paper, by Lisa Radford, Edition No. 227 - Oct 20 – 26, 2018
Interview - Open Window catalogue, Patrice Sharkey, 2018
Review - Technologism, Broadsheet Journal 45.1 by Paris Lettau, 2015
Review - Technologism, Art Guide Australia, by Dylan Rainforth, Nov 2015
Catalogue - Lurid Beauty: Australian Surrealism and it’s Echoes, Catalogue, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 2015
Catalogue - Technologism, Monash University Museum of Art, 2015
Catalogue - Put Up a Signal, MES 56 (ID) and Bus projects, 2014
Catalogue - Dusty Chair, Alana Kingston and Brennan Olver, 2014
Review & interview - Idle Resources, Primer, by Maura Edmond, Feb, 2014
Review - Idle Resources, The Age, Your Weekend: In the Galleries by Dan Rule, Feb 22, 2014
Article - Two heads are better than one, Art Guide Australia, Tracey Clement, 2013
Catalogue - Melbourne Now, NGV, Published by National Gallery of Victoria, 2013
Catalogue - Reinventing the Wheel: the Readymade Century, MUMA , Published by Monash University Museum of Art, 2013
Media coverage for solo exhibition De Facto Standard: LA Times, LA Times Business, TIME, Fox news, Fox business, Yahoo news, Herald Sun, Desktop Magazine, NBC New York, NBC LA, USA Today, The Huffington Post, Washington Post, Daily Style, Gizmodo, Daily mail, the age, cnet, Macworld, Art info, ABC, abc news, abc World News Now, Virtual Strategy The Roast, The Project (ten), Sydney Morning Herald, SBS world news, MX, Grazia Magazine, the conversation, Stamm, Don't Panic magazine, Examiner, the Guardian
Interview, Scent of Apple, MacWorld, 27 April, 2012
Catalogue - NEW11, text by Raimundas Malasauskas, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, 2011
Review - Iceman becomes a cool attraction, The Herald Sun, May 13, 2011
Review - New11 at ACCA, Broadsheet, by Dan Rule, April 6, 2011
Review - What is New11, Runway, by Dylan Rainforth, 2011
Article - Undiscovered Page: 146 - 147, ART COLLECTOR Magazine Issue 52. Text by Mark Feary April - June, 2010.
Article - Light & Colour, Acclaim Magazine issue 22, 2010
Article - Artistic Differences: Ascetic Aesthetic Vs Opportunistic Good Times, Un Magazine article, Issue 3.2 written by Kelly Fliedner 2009
Review - Around the galleries, exhibition review by Dan Rule, The Age A2, July 24, 2010
Review - exhibition review by Penny Modra, The Age, M Sunday Age, July 18, 2010
Review - Faux Thrills, Dead Hare Melbourne Art review blog, June 4, 2010
Catalogue - Hatched 09, Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts, Perth, 2009
Catalogue - The Invisible Generation, Per Huttner & Daniele Balit, 2009
Review - Around the galleries, exhibition review by Dan Rule, The Age A2, June 27, 2009
Catalogue - DLAP 09, Bundoora Homestead Art centre 2009
Related Activities
Gertrude Contemporary studio residency program (2017-2019)
Works in the permanent collection of The National Gallery of Victoria, Monash University Museum of Art and private collections.
Artist Talk - Writing and Concepts, National Gallery of Victoria: Ian Potter Centre, 2018
Artist Talk - Victorian College of the Arts, 2016
Limited edition print Open Window (2015) commissioned by National Gallery of Victoria, sold in design stores and online, 2015
Artist Talk - MES 56, Yogyakarta, Indonesia, 2014
Residency at MES 56, Yogyakarta, Indonesia, 2014
Artist Talk - Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, 2012
Churchie National emerging art prize finalists, 2012
Participated in the making of 'Mahogany', a work by artist Jesse Jones, Gertrude Contemporary artist in residence. Coober Pedy, South Australia 2009
Worked with visiting artist/curator Per Huttner and curator Daniele Balit to interpret and present the project; The Invisible Generation, Margaret Lawrence Gallery, Melbourne 2009. Organized by: Vision Forum in collaboration with VCA Margaret Lawrence Gallery and Satellite in Melbourne, Les Kurbas Centre in Kiev, CPU 798 in Beijing and OCAT in Shenzhen
'Magazine' work shown as part of DAMP's instalation in the Asian Pacific Trianelle at GOMA in 2009
Publications
Exquisite Corpse, Art Guide Australia Sept/Oct edition, 2010
‘um ad’, Un Magazine Issue 3.2, contributed artwork 2009
‘Magazine’, a printed 2D work/publication/magazine for ‘Keep it Together’ a solo exhibition at TCB Art Inc, with contributions by: Dan Moyinhan, Masato Takasaka, Brendan Barnett, Lisa Radford, Kate Smith, Ace Wagstaff, DAMP, Sam George, Matthew Griffin, Ashleigh Kendrick, Alex Baker, Ross Coulter, Phip Murray, Luzminda Kingston & Zogdor Trumpf
