Ian Friend 
Joy at Death Itself: Breath (2002-07) 
Indian ink, gouache and crayon on paper 
152 x 204 cm

Biography
Born 1 June 1951, United Kingdom
Nationality Australian/British

Qualifications
1973–75 Higher Diploma of Fine Art (Slade School of Fine Art, University College, London)
1970–73 Diploma in Art and Design (Birmingham College of Art)
1969–70 Pre Diploma Foundation Year (Exeter College of Art)

Professional Experience
2001 Queensland University of Technology (Tutor, Architecture)
1999–2003 Queensland College of Art, Griffith University (Lecturer, Painting)
1998 Sunshine Coast University College (Lecturer, Drawing)
Queensland College of Art, Griffith University (External Assessor, Postgraduate Studies)
1993–97 Tasmanian School of Art at Launceston, University of Tasmania (Lecturer/Coordinator, Drawing, Honours and Postgraduate Studies)
1990–92 Ballarat University College (Lecturer/Coordinator Painting and Postgraduate Studies)
1987–89 Victoria College, Prahran (Visiting Lecturer, Painting and Drawing)
1985–87 Victorian College of the Arts (Lecturer, Painting, Sculpture, Printmaking and Postgraduate Studies)
1983–85 City and Guilds of London School of Art (Visiting Lecturer, Art History)
1978–85 Tate Gallery, London (Assistant Curator, Print Collection)
1975–78 Chelsea School of Art (Visiting Lecturer, Painting)
1974–84 Portsmouth Polytechnic (Visiting Lecturer, Sculpture and Printmaking)

Residencies/Lectures
2001 Queensland Art Gallery Artist Lecture, Prone and Speechless Dialect
1998 Queensland Art Gallery Artist Lecture, The Untroubled Mind
1997 Sunshine Coast University College, Queensland (Art Forum Lecture)
1994 Centre for the Arts, University of Tasmania, Hobart (Art Forum Lecture)
1993 Embassy of Australia, Washington D. C. (Smithsonian Institute Resident Associate Lecture Program)
1991 School of Art, Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts, Edith Cowan University (Art Forum Lecture)
1988 Tasmanian State Institute of Technology, Launceston (Artist in Residence, Printmedia)

Solo Exhibitions
2003 Joy at Death Itself, Andrew Baker Art Dealer, Brisbane
Stephen McLaughlan Gallery, Melbourne
Helen Maxwell Gallery, Canberra
2002 Stephen McLaughlan Gallery, Melbourne
The Oval Window, Brisbane City Gallery, Brisbane
2000 Stephen McLaughlan Gallery, Melbourne
1995 Austral Gallery, St Louis, USA
The Protestant Affliction, Museum of Contemporary Religious Art, St Louis, USA
une violente aventure sentimentale, Lawrence Wilson Gallery, University of Western Australia, Perth
1993 Austral Gallery, St Louis, USA
Embassy of Australia, Washington DC, USA
1992 Austral Gallery at the Third Australian Contemporary Art Fair, Melbourne
1991 Austral Gallery, St Louis, USA
1990 Austral Gallery, St Louis, USA
Christine Abrahams Gallery, Melbourne
Macquarie Galleries, Sydney
1989 Christine Abrahams Gallery, Melbourne
Macquarie Galleries, Sydney
1988 The Institute Gallery, TSIT, Launceston, Tasmania
1986 70 Arden Street, Melbourne
Cockatoo Gallery, Launceston, Tasmania
1978 House, London

Selected Group Exhibitions
2003 The Unusual Suspects, Andrew Baker Art Dealer, Brisbane
Paper Matters, Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, University of Western Australia, Perth
Imperceptible, SOApBOx Gallery, Brisbane
2002 Works on Paper, Stephen McLaughlan Gallery, Melbourne
Hutchins Prize, Hobart
2001 Australian Paper Art Awards
Hutchins Prize, Hobart
Paperworks, Queensland Art Gallery
High Fidelity, SOApBOx Gallery, Brisbane
Australian Paper Art Awards, George Adams Gallery, Victorian Arts Centre
2000 Hutchins Prize, Hobart
QUT Art Museum, Brisbane
Stephen McLaughlan Gallery at the Seventh Australian Contemporary Art Fair, Melbourne
Presentation, SOApBOx Gallery, Brisbane
National Works on Paper Award, Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, Victoria
1999 The Drawing Room, Brisbane City Gallery
Kedumba Drawing Award, NSW
National Works on Paper Award, Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, Victoria
Austral Gallery, St Louis, USA
Akky van Ogtrop Fine Arts at Kunstrai, Amsterdam
Akky van Ogtrop Fine Arts at International Works on Paper Fair, Sydney
Nillumbik Art Award, Victoria
1998 Austral Gallery at Art Miami 98
PULP, SOApBOx Gallery, Brisbane
Graphic, Monash University Gallery
National Works on Paper Award, Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, Victoria
1998 Alice Prize, Araluen Arts Centre, Alice Springs
MOCRA: The First Five Years, Museum of Contemporary Religious Art, St Louis, USA
Jacaranda Drawing Prize Exhibition, Grafton Regional Gallery, NSW
Conrad Jupiters Art Prize, Gold Coast Arts Centre, Queensland
The BIG small print show, Grahame Galleries and Editions, Brisbane
1997 Austral Gallery at Art Chicago 97
13th Biennial Spring Festival of Drawing, Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, Victoria
Blot, SOApBOx Gallery, Brisbane
1996 Austral Gallery at Art Chicago 96
Jacaranda Drawing Prize Exhibition, Grafton Regional Gallery, NSW
1994 Austral Gallery at SOFA Chicago
Jacaranda Drawing Prize Exhibition, Grafton Regional Gallery, NSW
First Impressions, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney College of the Arts
1992 Interior Spaces, Cecille R. Hunt Gallery, Webster University, St Louis, USA
1991 Macquarie Galleries, Sydney
1990 USA Festival of the Arts, South Central Bell Gallery, Birmingham, Alabama
Scotchman's Hill Art Prize, Geelong Art Gallery
Monash University Gallery
Something Visionary, Macquarie Galleries, Sydney
1988 Print in Context, Print Council of Australia, Melbourne
Christine Abrahams Gallery, Melbourne
The New Generation, Australian National Gallery
Death: Contemporary Visions, Kettle's Yard, Cambridge, UK
1987 8th British International Drawing Biennale, Cleveland, UK
1986 European Print Biennale, Baden-Baden, Germany
International Print Exhibition, Palazzo dei Leonie, Messina, Sicily, Italy
E.11 Works on Paper, William Morris Gallery, London, UK
1984 From the Figure, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, UK
Curwen Gallery 25th Anniversary Exhibition, University College, London
1983 Whitechapel Open, Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK
Diversities, Ulster Polytechnic, Belfast
Contemporary Printmaking, AIR Gallery, London, UK
Bronze, Nigel Greenwood Gallery, London, UK
1982 Hayward Annual, Hayward Gallery, London, UK
1980 Summer Show 1, Serpentine Gallery, London, UK
1979 House, London
1977 3rd British International Drawing Biennale, Cleveland, UK
1975 Courtauld Institute of Art, London, UK

Collaborative Work
1993–94 Centre for Future Technologies (architectural design with architect Paul Lan, and artists Sara Lindsay and Kevin Todd)
1991 Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, Lines in the Desert (with director Peter King, co-designer Peter Corrigan and performance group Going Through Stages)
1990 Anthill Theatre, Melbourne, Axes Edge (with director Peter King, co-designers Peter Corrigan, Rohan Storey and Matthew Jones and performance group Going Through Stages)
1989 6x3 (CD) with Paul Grabowsky (and Victor Meertens, Terry Taylor, Mark Chapman, Vera Möller and Phillip Hunter)

Awards
2002 1st Prize Hutchins Prize
2001 Hutchins Prize Judges Award
2000 Hutchins Prize Judges Award
1987 2nd Prize, 8th British International Drawing Biennale
1982 Greater London Arts Association Award
1981 Thornton Bequest (Arts Council of Great Britain)
1976 Arts Council of Great Britain Award
1975 Boise Travelling Fellowship (Slade School of Fine Art)

Bibliography
Anderson, Michael, Mirror Image, Mirage Error, The Interior, vol. 1 no. 2, August 1990
Baum, Caroline, Artists have designs on jazzing up CDs, Sunday Herald, Melbourne, 1st October 1989
Beaumont, Mary Rose, E.11 Works on Paper, Arts Review, London, vol. XXXVII no. 9, 1985
Blakeston, Oswell, Ian Friend, Arts Review, London, vol. XXX no. 7, 1978
Bellamy, Louise, Abstractly Marked, The Age, Melbourne, 27th April 2000
Castro, Jan, Good Friends, Riverfront Times, St Louis, Missouri, USA, May 31st 1995
Clabburn, Anna, New light in broad spectrum, The Age, Melbourne, August 5th 1998
Daniel, Jeff, All the art that’s fit for Prints, St Louis Post—Dispatch, St Louis, Missouri, USA, April 9th 1997
Daw, Robyn, formidabilis abysis, catalogue essay for Museum of Contemporary Religious Art, St Louis, USA, 1995
Ferring Shepley, Carol, Abstractions of the Spiritual, St Louis Post—Dispatch, St Louis, Missouri, USA, June 1st 1995
Gott, Ted, Ian Friend, Art and Australia, vol. 28 no. 2, 1990
Gott, Ted, Ian Friend: Works on Paper, 1977–93, catalogue essay for Austral Gallery, St Louis, Missouri, USA ,1993. Reprinted in Journal of the Print World, Spring 1993 
Gresty, Hilary (ed.), Death—Contemporary Visions, Kettle's Yard, Cambridge, UK, 1985
Harding, Lesley, Australian Paper Art Awards, catalogue essay for George Adams Gallery, Melbourne, 2001
Harris, Paul, Australian Landscape Influences Abstract Works, St Louis Post—Dispatch, St Louis, Missouri, USA, October 17th, 1991
Humphreys, Richard, E.11, catalogue essay for William Morris Gallery, London, 1985
King, Peter, Going Through Stages, Antithesis, issue 42, 1991
Knowles, Elizabeth, L'Inghilterra ha piu facce, catalogue essay for Grafica Internazionale Palazzo dei Leonie, Messina, Sicily, 1985
McLean, Ian, WORKS 1986–88, catalogue essay for the Institute Gallery, TSIT, Launceston, Tasmania, 1988
McLean, Ian, An Englishman Abroad: Ian Friend's Australian Work, Imprint, vol. 24 no. 2, October 1989
McLean, Ian, Building with Bits, Artlink Vol. 15 No. 2 & 3 1997
Nelson, James R., Artists reveal strikingly different views of Australia, Birmingham News, Birmingham, Alabama, USA, May 6th 1990
Nelson, Robert, Epistle to Friend, 'une violente aventure sentimentale' catalogue essay for Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, UWA, Perth, WA , 1995
Nelson, Robert, Thanks for the Membrane, The Age, Melbourne, May 25th 2002
Pos, Margaretta, Positively Speaking, Weekend Arts, Sunday Mercury, Hobart, May 8th 1993 
Pos, Margaretta, Joining art and architecture, Saturday Mercury, Hobart, March 5th 1994
Pos, Margaretta, $5,000 prize makes paper work worth it, The Mercury, Hobart, October 22nd 2002
Rankin-Reid, Jane, Cuddle up to unfamiliar views, The Sunday Tasmanian, Hobart, October 27th 2002
Rice, Nancy, Vision Illuminates Artist's Vision, St Louis Post—Dispatch, St Louis, Missouri, USA, June 1st 1990
Rooney, Robert, Stains, smudges ... and sketches, The Australian, July 31st 1998
Welchman, John, Lines in the Desert, Artforum, September 1991
Welchman, John, On Axes Edge, Transition, no. 35, 1991
Welchman, John, Abstraction, Representation, Figuration—Parts I & II, Agenda, no. 25, 1992. Reprinted as exhibition catalogue for Austral Gallery at ACAF 3 1992, and as Coda: The Protestant Affliction, in Modernism Relocated,  Allen and Unwin, 1995
Welchman, John, Tondo: Terragni—The tree, the log, the stump, the section and the inscription, Transition, no. 61/62 September 2000

Collections
The British Museum, London
Tate Gallery, London
Arts Council of Great Britain, London
Cleveland Museums Service, UK
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
Australian War Memorial, Canberra
Australian Embassy, Washington DC
Artbank, Sydney
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane
Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, Launceston
Robert Holmes à Court Collection, Perth
Bathurst Regional Art Gallery, NSW
New England Regional Art Museum, NSW
Deakin University Library, Melbourne
La Trobe University Gallery, Melbourne
Monash University Gallery, Melbourne
Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane
University College of Central Queensland, Rockhampton
University of Tasmania, Hobart
University of Western Australia, Perth
Geelong Grammar School, Victoria
The Hutchins Foundation, Hobart
Australian Paper