GREENAWAY ART GALLERY  

 

DARREN SIWES   work cv essay  

 

BIOGRAPHY

 
1968
Born
1992 Studies at Adelaide Central School of Art , South Australia
1996
B.A. Visual Arts (Honours), University of South Australia, Adelaide, South Australia
1997 Graduate Diploma of Education, University of South Australia, Adelaide, South Australia
1997-2001 Senior Lecturer in Painting and Drawing, Tauondi Incorporated
2002 Anne & Gordon Samstag International Visual Arts Scholarship
2003 MA in Fine Art, Chelsea School of Art , London
2007 Winner, Redlands Westpac Art Prize
 
SOLO EXHIBITIONS  
2008 OZ OMNIUM REX ET REGINA, Greenaway Art Gallery, Adelaide, Australia
Mum, I want to be Brown, Turner Galleries, Perth, WA
Mum, I want to be Brown, Magnan Projects, New York
2007 Mum, I want to be Brown, Nellie Castan Gallery, Melbourne
2006

Mum, I want to be Brown, Greenaway Art Gallery, Adelaide, Australia
Selected works from Mum, I want to be Brown, Project Space CIRCA 06 (Greenaway Art Gallery), Puerto Rico

2005 Just Is, Nellie Castan Gallery, Melbourne
Just Is, 24HR Art, Darwin
2004

Just is, Greenaway Art Gallery, Adelaide
Just Is, Church Gallery, Perth
Born Of A Lexicon, Government House, Adelaide

2002 Mis/Perceptions, Garage Regium, Madrid, Spain
2001 Mis/Perceptions, Greenaway Art Gallery, Adelaide
Mis/Perceptions, Nellie Castan Gallery, Melbourne
 
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS  
2008 Shadowplay, Lake Macquarie City Art Gallery, NSW
2007 Redlands Westpac Art Prize, Sydney, Australia
Identity: Portrait and Place - document or insight?, Flinders University Art Museum, Adelaide
2006 nEUclear reactions, Centro de Arte Caja de Burgos, CAB, Spain
Concord2, South Australian School of Art Gallery, Adelaide
Prism: Contemporary Australian Art, Bridgestone Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan
Where Angels Tread, Contemporary Art Centre for SA, Adelaide
2005 Concord, South Australian School of Art Gallery, Adelaide
Prague Biennale, National Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic,
Urbanismo Sintetico, Photo Espana 05, Fernando Pradilla Galeria, Madrid
Preposession, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney; Golden Thread Gallery, Belfast
2004 Supernatural Artificial, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum, Of Photography, Tokyo, Japan
Theatricality, Art Summit Indonesia, Jakarta, Indonesia
Spirit and Vision, Essl Museum, Vienna, Austria
Images - Hedendaagse foto's door Aboriginal Kunstenaars, Aboriginal Art Museum, Utrecht, Netherlands
Adelaide Biennial of Art, Art Gallery of South Australia
2003 Face-up, Nationale galerie im Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin
Second Sight, Brisbane City Gallery, Brisbane
New view- Indigenous Photographic Perspectives, Monash Gallery of Art, Melbourne, Australia (touring)
2002 Recent Acquisitions, Adelaide Festival Centre
(The World May Be) Fantastic, Biennale of Sydney, Sydney
Kaurna Reconciliation Public Artwork, a collaborative work with 3 artists, Adelaide Festival Centre forecourt, Adelaide
2001 ARCO, International Art Fair, Madrid, Spain (Greenaway Art Gallery stand)
2000 Beyond the Pale: Contemporary Indigenous Art, Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art, Art Gallery of South Australia , Adelaide
Chemistry: Art in South Australia 1990-2000, Art Gallery of South Australia
1999 Living Here Now: Art and Politics, Australian Perspecta, Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney
1998-99 Three Views of Kaurna Territory Now, Artspace, Adelaide Festival Centre, Adelaide
Telstra 15th National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards, Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin and touring
1996 Guddhabungan, Jabal Centre, ANU, Canberra
96 Degrees, South Australian School of Art Graduate Exhibition, Adelaide
1994 10%, Artzone Gallery, Adelaide
 
BIBLIOGRAPHY  
2001 Jim Moss ŒA Ghost In The Machine‚ Broadsheet, Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia Inc., Vol 30 no 3, Adelaide, Australia, Sept Oct Nov 2001, Pg. 15.
2000 Chemistry - Art in South Australia 1990-2000, The Faulding Exhibition, Art Gallery of S.A., Adelaide, South Australia, 2000, pp 79-80.

Art Gallery of S.A. , ŒDarren Siwes‚, Beyond The Pale: Contemporary Indigenous Art : 2000 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art. Art Gallery of S.A. , Adelaide , South Australia , 2000, pp 79-81.

Museum & Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, ŒTransitions -17 Years of The National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award- Museum & Art Gallery of the Northern Territory Travelling Exhibition 2000‚, Morph Publishing Service, Darwin, Northern Territory, 2000, Pg. 20, 22.

Art Gallery of NSW, Australian Perspecta 1999 : Living Here & Now - Art and Politics‚, Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney, NSW, 1999,

Australian National University - Canberra School Of Art, ŒAcross‚, Canberra School Of Art Gallery . 2000, Canberra , ACT, Pg 6.

1999 Nikos Papastergiadis. Who Are We & Where We Live, Now‚ Photofile-Strange, Australian Centre for Photography, Vol. 57, Sydney , Australia , October 1999, Pg. 50.
1998 Museum & Art Gallery of the Northern Territory , 15th National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Awards
 
COLLECTIONS  

Art Gallery of South Australia
Artbank
Flinders University Collection
Art Gallery of Western Australia
Adelaide Festival Centre, South Australia
City of Monash , Melbourne
Art Gallery of Queensland
National Gallery of Australia
Horsham Regional Art Gallery, Victoria
Reina Sofia Madrid, Spain
Redlands Collection, NSW