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EXHIBITIONS


Smorgasbord
26 September - 13 October 2007
Neo Minimalism and some antecedents
11 October - 4 November 2006
The Christmas Collectors Exhibition
29 November - 22 December 2006
Snapshot - The inaugural exhibition
26 April - 13 May 2006


SELECTED WORKS


Mark Galea

1969 born Melbourne, Victoria

STUDIED

1986 - 87 Foundation years, Art and Design, Moorabbin College of TAFE, Moorabbin
1988 - 90 Bachelor of Arts (Fine Arts), Victoria College, Prahran

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2007 Smorgasbord, John Buckley Gallery, Melbourne
2005 Recent Works, Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne
2000 Model, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, South Yarra
1999 John Buckley Fine Art, Prahran
1999 Elusive Engineering, Blu Pols café bar and restaurant Prahran         
1993 Gore Street Gallery, Fitzroy
1991 Gore Street Gallery, Fitzroy

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2007 Arthur Guy Memorial Painting Prize, Bendigo Art Gallery
2006 Neo minimalism and some antecedents, John Buckley Gallery
2006 Snapshot, John Buckley Gallery, Melbourne
2005 Abstraction, Charles Nodrum Gallery
2005 The Launch, Melbourne Art Rooms
2005 Arthur Guy Memorial Painting Prize, Bendigo Art Gallery
2004 The Spirit of Football, National Gallery of Victoria
2004 National Works on Paper, Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery
2003 Arthur Guy Memorial Painting Prize, Bendigo Art Gallery
2003 This Was The Future...Australian Sculpture of the 1950s, 60s, 70s and Today, Curator: Zara Stanhope, Museum of Modern Art at Heide
2003 Robert Jacks Drawing Prize Exhibition, Bendigo Art Gallery
2003 Urban Spaces, Curator: Robert Lindsay, McClelland Regional Gallery
2002 Towards Colour, Curator: Robert Lindsay, McClelland Gallery, Vic
2002 Abstraction, Charles Nodrum Gallery, Richmond
2002 Crime Scenes, Curators: Jane Scott & Derham Groves, Monash Gallery of Art
2002 National Works on Paper, Mornington Peninsula Regional Art Gallery
2001 Glacier, Curators : Suzanne Davies and Darren Wardle Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology
2001 Look See: Five Contemporary Painters, Curators : Sarah Bond & Natasha Bullock, Monash University Gallery
2001 The Exquisite Corpse, Monash Gallery of Art, Wheelers Hill, Vic.
2000 Recent Geometric Abstraction-Robert Jacks and Beyond, John Buckley Fine Art, Prahran
2000 On The Brink ; Abstraction of the 90's, curator : Kelly Gellatly, Heide Museum of Modern Art
2000 The Exquisite Corpse, Curator : Anonda Bell, Bendigo Art Gallery
2000 National Works on Paper, Mornington Peninsula Regional Art Gallery         
1999 Soft Geometry, 72 Napier St. Fitzroy (formerly Stripp)
1999 The 1999 Hutchins Art Prize Finalists' Exhibition, The Purple Wall Gallery, Sandy Bay, Tasmania
1999 Moet & Chandon Australian Art Foundation, touring exhibition. Art Gallery of South Australia, Art Gallery of New South Wales,
1999 National Gallery of Australia, ACT; R.M.I.T. Gallery Storey Hall, Melbourne 1999 - 2001
1999 We Are Australian, touring exhibition, national and international
1998 Moet & Chandon Australian Art Foundation, touring exhibition. National Gallery of Australia, ACT; National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne; Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney; Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane
1997 Multiplication, curator : Zara Stanhope, Monash University Gallery, Monash
1997 Rupert Bunny Foundation, selected applicants exhibition, Linden, St Kilda         
1996 A Small Survey Of Boxes, curator : Rachel Young, Basement, Melbourne
1996 Focus, curator : Robert Lindsay, Swan Hill Regional Art Gallery, Swan Hill
1996 Abstraction Now, curators : Simeon Kronenberg and Wendy Rogers, Geelong Art Gallery, Geelong - touring exhibition 1996 -98
1995 Focus #1, curator : Robert Lindsay, Robert Lindsay Gallery, Melbourne
1995 Tricks, curator : Michael Bullock, Stop 22, St Kilda
1995 Spatial Perceptions - Perceptual Spaces, curator : Kirsten Rann, Robert Lindsay Gallery, Melbourne
1994 Intermission, curator : Ben Curnow, Panorama, Fitzroy
1993 Collective Space, curator : Zara Stanhope, Monash University Gallery, Clayton
1992 Review, curator : Kirsten Rann, Gore St Gallery, Fitzroy
1992 Small Scale Works, Gore Street Gallery, Fitzroy
1992 Selected Works from the Margaret Stewart Endowment, National Gallery of  Victoria
1991 New Australian Rooms (Margaret Stewart Endowment), National Gallery of Victoria
1990 Prahran Painters, Linden - St Kilda Arts Centre, St Kilda, Melbourne

AWARDS, COMMISSIONS and INVITATIONAL LECTURES

1998 New Work, Visual Arts / Craft Fund (Australia Council for the Arts)
1994 Professional Development of Artists and Crafts People, Project Grant Program (Australia Council for the Arts)
1990 Artworkz Acquisitive Prize
1989 Victoria College, Works on Paper Prize

SELECTED COLLECTIONS

National Gallery of Victoria
Monash University Museum of Art
Monash Gallery of Art
Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery
Hamilton Art Gallery
Horsham Regional Art Gallery
Price Waterhouse Coopers, Melbourne
Grange Securities, Melbourne
Government Superannuation Office, Melbourne
Wagstaff Piling, Queensland
Western Mining Corporation

COMMISSIONS

2000 Kitchen floor design and installation private residence - St. Kilda, Victoria
1996 Bathroom floor design and installation private residence - Malvern, Victoria

REVIEWS, ARTICLES and ESSAYS

2003 This was the Future...Sculpture of the 1950s, 60s, 70s and Today, Museum of Modern Art at Heide, exhibition catalogue.
2002  Gott, Dr Ted. 2002 National Works on Paper, Mornington Peninsula Regional Art Gallery, exhibition catalogue.
2002 McClelland Gallery; Towards Colour - exhibition brochure, June 2002
2002 Groves, Derham. Crime Scenes, Monash Gallery of Art, exhibition catalogue.
2001 Glacier, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, catalogue
2001 Monash University Gallery; Look See: Five Contemporary Painters -  catalogue, March 2001
2001 Hill, Peter. Deconstructing Deconstruction, Art Monthly Australia, June 2000, no.130
2001 Bullock, Natasha. Perceptual motion, abstraction and the art of Mark Galea, Australian Centre For Contemporary Art, cat essay
2001 Nelson, Robert. Absence makes the art grow fonder, The Age - review
2000 Hill, Peter; Deconstructing Deconstruction, Art Monthly Australia, June 2000, no. 130.
2000 Bullock, Natasha; Perceptual motion, abstraction and the art of Mark Galea, Australian Centre For Contemporary Art - catalogue essay
2000 Nelson, Robert; Absence makes the art grow fonder, The Age - review         
1999 Moet & Chandon, Moet & Chandon Australian Art Foundation, touring exhibition catalogue
1998 Moet & Chandon, Moet & Chandon Australian Art Foundation, touring exhibition catalogue
1997 Monash University Gallery; Multiplication: the Multiple Object in Art - catalogue - Sept.
1997 McKenzie, Robyn; Mass and Multiple Choice, The Age, 12/9/97
1997 Rooney, Robert; Robert Rooney on Art - Abstraction Now, The Australian, 7/2/97
1997 Geelong Art Gallery; Abstraction Now - catalogue - July 1997
1995 Sierra-Hughes, Marie; Focus #1, The Herald Sun, Melbourne, 15/2/95         
1993 King Murdoch, Anna; A Portrait of Three Artists As Young People, The Age, Melbourne, 23/4/93
1992 Heathcote, Christopher; A Show at the Cutting Edge, The Age, Melbourne, 1/7/92
1992 Rooney, Robert; Reductive Geometry In Many Colorful Guises, The Australian, The Weekend Review, 4-5/7/92

 

 

Mark Galea
Humid 2005
Acrylic on linen
60.8 x 60.9 cm
Humid
Mark Galea
Pleasure Ground - Sequel 2006
Acrylic on linen
167 x 167 cm
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