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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, Eastbourne, England |
| Nationality | Australian/British |
Solo Exhibitions
| 2010 | Tracing the Paths of Memory, Andrew Baker Art Dealer, Brisbane |
| 2009 | Ian Friend, Gallerysmith, Melbourne |
| 2008 | A
voice of floating silence, Andrew Baker Art Dealer, Brisbane
Thirty Years of Works on Paper 1977–2007, QUT Art Museum, Brisbane Ian Friend, Queensland Performing Arts Centre, Brisbane |
| 2006 | Ian
Friend, Stella Downer Fine Art, Sydney
Ian Friend, Stephen McLaughlan Gallery, Melbourne |
| 2005 | Tidal, Redcliffe City Gallery, Brisbane |
| 2004 | Biting the Air, Esa Jäske Gallery, Sydney |
| 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
| 2009 | Space for Yearning, QUT Art Museum, Brisbane |
| 2007 | The Unusual Suspects III, Andrew Baker Art Dealer, Brisbane |
| 2005–07 | Moist: Australian watercolours, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra; Araluen Art Centre, Alice Springs, Northern Territory; Perc Tucker Regional Gallery, Townsville, Queensland; Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, Victoria; Riddoch Art Gallery, Mount Gambier, South Australia |
| 2004 | The Unusual Suspects II, Andrew Baker Art Dealer, Brisbane |
| 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 |
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
| 2008– | Queensland College of Art, Griffith University (Lecturer, Drawing) |
| 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) |
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, 1 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, 27 April 2000 Brinton, Ian. Contemporary Poetry: Poets and Poetry since 1990, Cambrige University Press: Cambridge Contexts in Literature, 2008 Castro, Jan. ‘Good Friends’, Riverfront Times, St Louis, Missouri, USA, 31 May 1995 Clabburn, Anna. ‘New light in broad spectrum’, The Age, Melbourne, 5 August 1998 Daniel, Jeff. ‘All the art that’s fit for Prints’, St Louis Post—Dispatch, St Louis, Missouri, USA, 9 April 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, 1 June 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, England, 1985 Harding, Lesley. Australian Paper Art Awards [ex. cat.], George Adams Gallery, Melbourne, 2001 Harris, Paul. ‘Australian Landscape Influences Abstract Works’, St Louis Post—Dispatch, St Louis, Missouri, USA, 17 October 1991 Humphreys, Richard. E.11 [ex. cat.], William Morris Gallery, London, 1985 King, Peter. ‘Going Through Stages’, Antithesis, issue 42, 1991 Knowles, Elizabeth. L'Inghilterra ha piu facce [ex. cat.], Grafica Internazionale Palazzo dei Leonie, Messina, Sicily, 1985 McLean, Ian. WORKS 1986–88 [ex. cat.], 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, 6 May 1990 Nelson, Robert. ‘Epistle to Friend’, une violente aventure sentimentale [ex. cat.], Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, UWA, Perth, WA, 1995 Nelson, Robert. ‘Thanks for the Membrane’, The Age, Melbourne, 25 May 2002 Pos, Margaretta, ‘Positively Speaking’, Weekend Arts, Sunday Mercury, Hobart, 8 May 1993 Pos, Margaretta. ‘Joining art and architecture’, Saturday Mercury, Hobart, 5 March 1994 Pos, Margaretta. ‘$5,000 prize makes paper work worth it’, The Mercury, Hobart, 22 October 2002 Rankin-Reid, Jane. ‘Cuddle up to unfamiliar views’, The Sunday Tasmanian, Hobart, 27 October 2002 Rice, Nancy. ‘Vision Illuminates Artist's Vision’, St Louis Post—Dispatch, St Louis, Missouri, USA, 1 June 1990 Rooney, Robert. ‘Stains, smudges ... and sketches’, The Australian, 31 July 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 White, Anthony. ‘Ian Friend: Cryptic Architecture’, Ian Friend: A voice of floating silence, [ex. cat.], Andrew Baker Art Dealer, Brisbane, 2008 |
Collections
| The
British Museum, London, England
Tate Gallery, London, England Arts Council of Great Britain, London, England Middlesborough Institute of Modern Art, Cleveland, England Museum of Contemporary Religious Art, St Louis, USA National Gallery of Australia, Canberra Australian Embassy, Washington DC Artbank, Sydney Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne Queensland Art Gallery/Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, Launceston Bathurst Regional Art Gallery, New South Wales New England Regional Art Museum, Armidale, New South Wales Redland Art Gallery, Queensland Deakin University Library, Melbourne Griffith University, Brisbane La Trobe University, Melbourne Monash University, Melbourne Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane Redcliffe City Art Gallery, Queensland University College of Central Queensland, Rockhampton University of Tasmania, Launceston University of Western Australia, Perth Geelong Grammar School, Victoria The Hutchins Foundation, Hobart Australian Paper, Melbourne Robert Holmes à Court Collection, Perth |