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EXHIBITIONS
13 Dialogues 2000-2008 13 - 30 August 2008
Sculpture 2002 - 2006 21 February - 10 March 2007
SELECTED WORKS
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CURRICULUM VITAE
1950 Born, Grenoble, France
1955 Arrived in Australia
Lives and works in Melbourne, Victoria
1994 Master of Fine Arts, Monash University.
1971 – 73 Diploma Fine Art – Sculpture, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2008 13 Dialogues 2000-2008, John Buckley Gallery, Melbourne
2007 Sculpture 2002-2007, John Buckley Gallery, Melbourne
2004 New Sculptures, Australian Art Resources, Melbourne
2004 Recent Sculpture, BMGART Adelaide
2003 Sculpture & Drawings 1983 – 2003, Geelong Gallery Victoria
2002 If Only Carl Knew Stonington Stables Museum of Art Deakin University
1999 Australian Galleries, Melbourne
1994 Australian Galleries, Melbourne
1997 Australian Galleries, Sydney
1993 Australian Galleries, Sydney
1990 Australian Galleries, Sydney
1993 Chicago International Art Exposition
1990 Pinacotheca Gallery, Melbourne
1988 Pinacotheca Gallery, Melbourne
1987 Pinacotheca Gallery, Melbourne
1986 Pinacotheca Gallery, Melbourne
1984 Pinacotheca Gallery, Melbourne
1982 Pinacotheca Gallery, Melbourne
1985 Macquarie Galleries, Sydney
1983 Macquarie Galleries, Sydney
Joint Exhibitions with Geoffrey Bartlett, and Anthony Pryor
1987 Recent Sculpture, Anima Gallery, Adelaide
1979 ‘The second and last 108 Gertrude Street Sculpture Show’
1978 Recent Sculpture, Watters Gallery, Sydney
1978 Made in Fitzroy’ Exhibition no. 3. Three Australian Sculptors, Regional Development Programme. Visual Arts Board, Hobart,
1977 RMIT Gallery, Melbourne
1975 ‘108 Gertrude Street Studio Show’, Fitzroy, Melbourne
1975 Realities Gallery, Melbourne
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2007 John Buckley Gallery, Melbourne
2006 Australian Galleries Melbourne
2005 ART OMI Australia Retrospective, Cell Block Theatre, National Art School Sydney NSW
2005 Contempora 2 Gallery NewQuay, Docklands Melbourne
2004 Open Air Sculpture Exhibition Qdos Arts Lorne Vic
2004 Precious Platters, Jewish Museum of Australia, Melbourne
2003 McClelland Survey & Award 2003 McClelland Gallery & Sculpture Park Langwarrin Vic
2003 Less is More BMGART Adelaide
2003 Against the Grain McCleelland Gallery & Sculpture Park
2003 Sculpture at RMIT during the Jomantas Years RMIT Gallery
2002 Focus on Sculpture 2002 Axia Modern Art, Armadale
2002 Central Goldfields Sculpture Prize and Exhibition Central Goldfields, Art Gallery Maryborough Victoria
2002 Festival of Sculpture Toorak Village, Curator Ken Scarlett
2001 Wall Constructions, Smyrnios Gallery, Australia
2001 Colour. Smyrnios Gallery Australia. Curator Prof. Jenny Zimmer
2001 Woollahra Sculpture Prize Sydney NSW
2000 Regeneration – Sculpture and Paintings from the Permanent Collection, McClelland Gallery Victoria
2000 Fine Paintings, Sculpture and Tapestry. Australian Galleries, Sydney.
2000 Easter 2000 Sculpture Show. Qdos Gallery Lorne. Victoria
2000 The Importance of Being Small. Defiance Gallery Sydney
2000 Paintings and Sculpture, Australian Galleries, Melbourne and Sydney
2000 Cinderella’s Gems: Art and the Intellectual Mission, 20th Century Australian Art from Nine University Collections in N.S.W Gallery
2000 We Are Australian, Victorian Art Centre
2000 Sculpture, Australian Galleries, Sydney
1997/98 Notations. Victoria University Gallery. Melbourne
1997 House and Garden. Sculpture Heidelberg Austin and Repatriation Medical Centre.
1997 Australian Galleries, Melbourne
1997 The Japan Inspiration’, Art Gallery of Western Australia
1996 Fifth Australian Contemporary Art Fair, Melbourne
1996 Tolarno Galleries in association with United Overseas Bank Ltd. Singapore
1996 Australian Galleries, Sydney
1996 Art Chicago 1996 at Navy Pier, Chicago Illinois, USA
1995 Australian Galleries, Melbourne
1995 S.O.F.A. Miami Exposition, Miami, USA
1993 Fifth Australian Contemporary Art Fair, Melbourne
1993 Art Chicago, ‘The New Pier Show’, Chicago Illinois, USA
1993 ‘Sight Regained’, Fred Hollows Foundation and Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney
1993 Art – Omi, New York
1993 Sur – Real with Les Kossatz, Monash Studios, Melbourne
1993 Just Sculpture, Ballarat Fine Art Gallery
1992 Third Australian Contemporary Art Fair, Melbourne
1992 A tribute to Anthony Pryor, Realities Gallery, Melbourne
1992 Hollows ‘Sight Regained’ Exhibition, Westpac Gallery, Melbourne
1992 Group Sculpture Show, Meridian / Australian Galleries, Melbourne
1990 Graeme Sturgeon Memorial Fund, Powell Street Gallery, Melbourne
1990 Eltham Art Awards
1990 Sculpture andDrawings, Australian Galleries, Melbourne
1990 Second Australian Contemporary Art Fair, Melbourne
1990 On – Site, Sculpture in City Spaces, City of Melbourne
1990 Gold Coast City Art Prize for Sculpture, Gold Coast City Art Gallery
1988 Mildura Sculpture Triennial
1988 Pinacotheca Group Show- Pinacotheca Gallery, Melbourne
1988 Episode 1 – Caulfield Arts Complex
1988 A Group Show, Melbourne
1987 Sculpture III, The Lewers Bequest and Penrith Regional Art Gallery
1986 Sculpture. Wollongong City Gallery
1986 Third Australian Sculpture Triennial, Heide Park, Melbourne
1985 Sculpture – Wollongong City Art Gallery
1985 Mixed Sculpture, La Trobe Valley Arts Centre
1985 Hugh Williamson Prize, Ballarat Art Gallery
1984 – 85 ‘Two Australian Sculptors’ with Anthony Pryor, Schema Gallery,Florence, Italy
1984 ‘Australian Sculpture Now’, National Gallery of Victoria
1984 Second Australian Sculpture Triennial, Melbourne
1984 ‘Sculptors as Craftsmen’ Meat Market, Melbourne
1981 ‘August Works’ Meat Market, Melbourne
1981 ‘Eighth Mildura Sculpture Triennial’
1981 ‘The Alice Prize’, Alice Springs
1981 ‘First Australian Sculpture Triennial’, La Trobe University,Melbourne
1981 ‘Ian Potter Commission’, National Gallery of Victoria
1980 ‘Some Contemporary Australian Sculpture, Newcastle Regional Art Gallery
1979 ‘Caulfield Invitation Sculpture’ Exhibition, Caulfield Arts Centre
1978 ‘Seventh Sculpture Triennial’, Mildura Arts Complex
COLLECTIONS
Australian National Gallery, Canberra
Australian National Korean War Memorial
Dept of Vet Affairs / Australian War Memorial
Burnie Art Gallery, Tasmania
Deakin University Art Collection
McClelland Gallery Victoria
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Parliament House, Canberra
State Bank of New South Wales
Swinburne University
University of New South Wales
Victorian Arts Centre, Melbourne
Western Australia Art Gallery, Perth
Arthur Andersen Chartered Accountants, Melbourne
Chifley Tower, Sydney
Collins Place, Melbourne
Conflict Management, Melbourne
Design Works Australia, Melbourne
Melbourne International Airport
Mercer, Melbourne
State Bank of NSW
Pacific Power, Sydney
Private Collections in Australia, Europe, U.S.A
COMMISSIONS
2004 Queens Plaza, Brisbane
2000 Deakin University Melbourne Campus Victoria
2000 Pacific Power Sydney
1997-2000 Australian National Korean War Memorial. Canberra with Les Kossatz, Sand Helsel and David Bullpitt.
1995 Melbourne International Airport
1981 University of New South Wales
1981 Ian Potter Sculpture, National Gallery of Victoria
AWARDS
1993 ART-OMI, New York
1996 John David Mooney Foundation, Chicago, U.S.A, Visual Arts Export Strategy 2001
1984 Visual Arts Board Studio, Tuscany, Italy
1982 The Alice Prize, Alice Springs
1979 & 1975 Australia Council, Visual Arts Board Grant
BIBLIOGRAPHY
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‘Dall’Ava delivers the knowledge’, in Network:Deakin University Newsletter, March 14, 2, p.1, 2001
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Scarlett, K. (Review) in Ikebana Ryusei No 318 October 1986
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‘Sight Regained’1992 Fred Hollows Foundation Westpac Gallery, Melbourne
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