INFO@DARRENKNIGHTGALLERY.COM
1966
Born Mansfield, Victoria, Australia
Lives, Melbourne, Australia
EDUCATION
1986-88 - Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Faculty of Art, Design and Communication. Bachelor of Arts, Painting
1992-96 - Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Faculty of Art, Design and Communication. Masters of Arts, Painting
Currently lectures in School of Art and Culture at RMIT, Melbourne
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2009
Firestarter, Darren Knight Gallery, Sydney, Australia
2008
Secrets are for keeping, Darren Knight Gallery at Melbourne Art Fair, Melbourne, Australia
2007
Out of this world, Darren Knight Gallery, Sydney, Australia
2006
TAKING A CHANCE ON LOVE - Selected works 1990-2006, McClelland Gallery and Sculpture Park, Victoria, Australia
2005
NO SMALL WONDER, Darren Knight Gallery, Sydney, Australia
NO SMALL WONDER, Darren Knight Gallery at silvershot, Melbourne, Australia
2004
Australian Print Workshop Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
2003
Michael Lett, Auckland, New Zealand
TAKING A CHANCE ON LOVE, Darren Knight Gallery, Sydney, Australia
Moonlight Becomes You, City Gallery Wellington, New Zealand and Dunedin Public Art Gallery, Dunedin New Zealand
Louise Weaver selected works – 1999 to 2003, presented by Scanlan and Theodore, GPO Melbourne, Australia
2001
MAKE BELIEVE, Darren Knight Gallery, Sydney, Australia.
1999
Darren Knight Gallery, Sydney, Australia.
1997
Darren Knight Gallery, Sydney, Australia.
I have a small yellow bird in my ear that sings, 200 Gertrude Street, Melbourne, Australia.
1996
Stephen McLaughlan Gallery Melbourne, Australia.
Blossoms of the snow are always six-pointed, Faculty Gallery, RMIT, Melbourne, Australia.
1995
Westspace, Melbourne, Australia.
1993
The Open Studio, Studio exhibition, Greene Street, New York City, USA.
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2010
2010 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art: Before and After Science, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
Wilderness: Balnaves contemporary painting Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Magnetic Islands, RMIT Project Space / Spare Room, Melbourne, Australia
Almanac, the Gift of Ann Lewis AO, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia
Fully Booked, Arts Project Australia, Melbourne
Curious Colony – A twenty first century Wunderkammer, Newcastle Region Art Gallery, New South Wales, Australia
2009
Auckland Art Fair, Auckland, New Zealand
2008-2009
The enchanted forest – new gothic storytellers Geelong Gallery, Victoria, Australia and Touring
2008
Look! New Perspectives on the Contemporary Collection National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
Premonitions – Monash University Gallery Collection 1961-2007, McClelland Gallery and Sculpture Park, 2007
Fictions, presented by Switchback Gallery, Gippsland Centre for Art and Design, Monash University, Churchill, Australia
Secondary Sources, School of Art Gallery, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia
2007
Fondamenti Nove, Australian Print Workshop, Melbourne, Victoria
DE OVERKANT/DOWN-UNDER, The Hague Sculpture, The Netherlands
MCA Collection: New Acquisitions 2007, MCA, Sydney, Australia
Love Chief, Auckland Art Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
Voiceless – I feel therefore I am, Sherman Galleries, Sydney Australia
Australian Print Workshop: Impressions from Australia, Australian Ebassy, Washington, USA.
Group Exhibition, Darren Knight Gallery at Ryan Renshaw Gallery, Brisbane, Australia
2006
Yours, Mine & Ours, 50 years of ABC TV, Campbelltown Arts Centre, Sydney
High Tide, Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, Poland & the Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius, Lithuania
Artbank Celebrating 25 Years of Australian Art Touring exhibition, Australia
The Armory Show Art Fair, New York, USA
X Marks the Spot, RMIT School of Art Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
Animals as allegory, QUT Art Museum, Queensland, Australia
Multiplicity: Prints and Multiples, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney Australia and tour to regional Australian galleries
2005
Unstrung-the bead in contemporary art, Latrobe Regional Gallery, Victoria, Australia
The Grey Voice - contemporary Australian drawing, Tin Sheds Gallery, Sydney Australia
Where the Wild Things Are, UTS Gallery, Sydney, Australia
After Nature, Lake Macquarie City Gallery, Lake Macquarie, New South Wales, Australia
The Butterfly Effect, Australian Museum, Sydney
2004
Mind’s Eye, Hazelhurst Regional Gallery and Arts Centre, Sydney
2003-2004
Home Sweet Home: Works from the Peter Fay Collection, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, touring
Art Australia, touring Germany: Kunst:Raum Sylt-Quelle, Gallerie Seippel, Köln, Stätische Gallerie, Delmenhorst, Germany
Hothouse: the Flower in Contemporary Art, touring: State Library of Victoria; Geelong Art
Gallery; Gippsland Art Gallery; Victoria; McCelland Art Gallery, Victoria, Australia
Home and Away; Place and identity in recent Australian Art, touring: Shepparton Art Gallery, Vic; Newcastle Region Art Gallery, NSW; University of Queensland; Faculty Gallery, Faculty of Art & Design, Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne; Swan Hill Regional Art Gallery, Victoria
A Modelled World, McClelland Gallery + Sculpture Park, Victoria
2003
The future in every direction: Celebrating the Joan Clemenger Endowment for Contemporary Art, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
New 03, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, Australia
The Cicely and Colin Rigg Contemporary Design Award,The National Gallery of Victoria, The Ian Potter Centre, Federation Square, Melbourne, Australia
Fieldwork: Australian Art 1968-2002, The National Gallery of Victoria, The Ian Potter Centre, Federation Square, Melbourne, Australia
2002-2004
Material Witness, touring exhibition, Tamworth City Gallery, NSW, Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, VIC., QUT Cultural Precinct Art Museum, Brisbane, Campbelltown City Bicentennial Art Gallery, NSW, Port Pirie Regional Art Gallery, SA, Tweed River Regional Art Gallery, NSW, John Curtin Gallery, WA, Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, TAS, Australia
Many in One: Place and Identity in recent Australian art, Monash University Museum of art touring exhibition: Shepparton Art Gallery, Shepparton, Victoria, Newcastle Region Art Gallery, Newcastle, New South Wales, Queensland University Art Museum, Brisbane, Queensland, Faculty Gallery, Monash University, Swan Hill Regional Gallery, Swan Hill, Victoria
2002-2003
Gulliver’s Travels, touring exhibition, College of Fine Arts, Sydney; Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne; Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane; Canberra Contemporary Art Space, Canberra; Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia, Adelaide and Perth Institute of Contemporary Art, Perth.
2002
People, Places + Ideas, Celebrating Four Decades of the Monash University Collection, Monash University Museum of Art, Victoria, Australia
Wildlife, Australian Print Workshop Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
Bitter Sweet, Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney, Australia
Stitching: An Artisan Approach, Project Space and Spare Room, RMIT, Melbourne, Australia
Big Bang Theory; Recent Chartwell Acquisitions, Auckland Art Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
2001-2002
Australian Paper Art Awards, The George Adams Gallery, Melbourne; Artspace, Adelaide
Festival Centre; UTS Gallery, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia
2000- 2002
Wildlife - A Field Guide to the Post-Natural, Textile Museum of Canada, Toronto, London, Regional Art and Historical Museums, Dunlop Art Gallery, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canadian Craft Museum, Vancouver, British Columbia, Walter Phillips Gallery, Banff, Alberta, Canada.
2001
Black/White & Grey, Darren Knight Gallery, Sydney
The sparkling white wine sailor cat AND cormorant friend Leon, project space, RMIT, Melbourne, Australia
Low-down, recent acquisitions, Monash University Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
Our Place; issues of identity in recent Australian art, Monash Centre, Prato, Italy
Alive! Still Life into the twenty-first century, Adam Art Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand
2000-2001
Lightfingered, Plimsoll Gallery, Hobart and touring throughout regional Australia
2000
Liberty, RMIT Gallery, RMIT, Melbourne, Australia.
The Retrieved Object, Linden Arts & Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
Rent, Overgaden, Copenhagen, Denmark and ACCA, Melbourne, Australia.
The Crystal Chain Gang – prismatic geometry in recent art, Auckland Art Gallery, New Zealand.
Works on paper, Sung Shin Museum, Sung Shin University, Seoul, Korea.
The Exquisite Corpse, Bendigo Art Gallery, Bendigo, Australia.
All creatures great and small, Old Treasury Building, Melbourne, Australia.
1999
People, Places, Pastimes: Changing perspectives of Ipswich, Global Arts Link, Ipswich, Australia.
Emblematic, Smith and Stoneley, Brisbane, Australia.
Works on Paper by Contemporary Australian Artists, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea.
Contempora 5, The Ian Potter Museum of Art, The University of Melbourne, Australia.
1998
Eyedream, Grainger Museum, The University of Melbourne, Australia.
Unhomely, Art Sonje Center, Seoul, Korea.
Metamorphosis, Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, Victoria, Australia
Loop, touring exhibition, initiated by 200 Gertrude Street, Melbourne, Australia.
Ecologies of Place and Memory, University Gallery, University of Tasmania, Plimsoll Gallery, Centre for the Arts, Hobart, Tasmania.
National Works on Paper, Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, Australia.
Transformations, RMIT Gallery, Melbourne, Australia.
Taken, Project Space, RMIT, Melbourne, Australia.
1997
1997 Moet & Chandon Touring Exhibition, Queensland Art Gallery, National Gallery of Victoria, Art Gallery, of Western Australia, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Art Gallery of South Australia.
Deacon Graham and James/Arts 21 Award, Museum of Art, Melbourne University, Melbourne, Australia.
Australian Perspecta 1997; Between Art and Nature, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia.
Multiplication: The Multiple Object in Art, Monash University Gallery, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia.
Colloquy, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne, Australia.
1996
Rumble, Underground Photography, Center for Contemporary Photography,Melbourne, Australia.
Exactly, 200 Gertrude Street, Melbourne, Australia.
The Art of Collecting #2, Artists Photographs, Linden Gallery, Melbourne, Australia.
Working in Collaboration, Westspace, Melbourne, Australia.
1995
Decadence, Ten Years of Exhibitions, 200 Gertrude Street, Melbourne, Australia.
Steam, Salon Exhibition, Fringe Festival, Stop 22, St.Kilda, Melbourne, Australia.
5 days, 25 artists, Installation, 41 Gold Street, Melbourne, Australia
1994
Masters Exhibition, Faculty Gallery, RMIT, Melbourne, Australia.
Works on Paper, Australian Contemporary Artists, RMIT Gallery, Melbourne, Australia.
1992
Domino 1 (Exhibition of Collaborative Works), The Ian Potter Gallery of Contemporary Art, The
University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia.
Art-Tech, Next Wave Festival, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Sea and City, Blaxland Gallery, Melbourne, Australia.
Works on Paper, Australian Contemporary Artists, RMIT Gallery, Melbourne, Australia.
1991
Platform, Installation Space, Spencer Street Railway Station, Melbourne, Australia.
PAGE ART
Westpac Private Bank Insight, winter 2003, p. 12
Art & Australia, Vol. 44 No. 3, Autumn 2007, front cover and frontspiece
PUBLICATIONS
2003 - Louise Weaver selected works – 1999 to 2003 presented by Scanlan and Theodore, Published by Scanlan and Theodore, Melbourne, 2003
2005 - No Small Wonder, Darren Knight Gallery and Louise Weaver
2007 - Out of this World, Darren Knight Gallery and Louise Weaver
2008 - Secrets are for keeping, Melbourne Art Fair, Darren Knight Gallery and Louise Weaver
COMMISSIONS
1992-93
Commissioned by Monash University to contribute to a limited edition book of prints - Travasare 2 - a joint
project with the Australian Print Workshop for the Centre for the Development of Artists Books and Limited
editions (CDAB)
2007
Commissioned by Art & Australia to create a sculpture, limited edition hand-embroidered cover
and limited edition screen printed bag containing poster, collaborative zine and collaborative poster, to
accompany Art & Australia volume 44, number 3.
GRANTS & AWARDS
2009 - Australia Council Visual Arts Board, New York Studio Residency, USA
2009 - Australian Tapestry Workshop Studio Residency, Melbourne, Australia
2007 - Australian Print Workshop Venice Studio Residency, Italy
2003 - The Cicely and Colin Rigg Contemporary Design Award, Australia
2003 - Australian Print Workshop Collie Print Trust Inaugural Fellowship
1999 - Arts 21 International Export and Touring Program, Arts Victoria
1998 - Australia Council Visual Arts/Craft Fund Grant
COLLECTIONS
Art Gallery of New South Wales
Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Australia
Monash University Collection, Melbourne, Australia
Chartwell Collection, Auckland Art Gallery, New Zealand
Artbank, Sydney & Melbourne, Australia
Malaysian Institute of Management, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Dubbo Regional Art Gallery, Australia
Wollongong University Collection, Australia
The Michael Buxton Contemporary Australian Art Collection, Melbourne, Australia
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