m: 0409 41 2000 h: (+61) 03 9670 9778 e : sao@hotmail.com
Born 1977, Melbourne
Lives and works in Melbourne
E d u c a t i o n
2008 Master of Fine Art (research candidate), Faculty of Art & Design, Monash University, Melbourne
2005 Architecture Studies, School of Architecture & Design, RMIT, Melbourne
1999 Bachelor of Fine Art (Honours), Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne
1996-98 Bachelor of Fine Art – Drawing, Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne
1995 Certificate of Art & Design, Brighton Bay Art, Design & Photography, Melbourne
S e l e c t e d S o l o E x h i b i t i o n s
2008 /I like my old stuff better than your new stuff, Ryan Renshaw Gallery, Brisbane
2007 I like my old stuff better than your new stuff, USQ Arts Gallery, University of Southern Queensland
I like my old stuff better than your new stuff
(More prog rock sculptures from the 5th dimension), Ocular Lab, Melbourne
Structural Jam; Its All Lead Guitar when prog rock ruled the Earth, The Narrows, Melbourne
2006 Nouveou Baroque Metal Symphony, SNO, Sydney
2004 Abstract Studio, The Cage Project, Drawing Department, Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne
2003 An Outdoor Abstract Painting, 24Seven, Melbourne
2002 19 Drawings (abstract plastic), Studio 12, Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne
Floor Show, 1st Floor Artists and Writers Space, Melbourne
2001 Productopia, 1st Floor Artists and Writers Space, Melbourne
2000 *Window Shopping, Penthouse & Pavement, Melbourne
1999 10% More Meaning!/ Everything Zen, TCB inc. Art, Melbourne
S e l e c t e d G r o u p E x h i b i t i o n s
2008 Morphed: contemporary responses to architecture, Sophie Gannon Gallery, Melbourne
20/20?, curated by Ash Keating, Part of the Next Wave Festival, Arts House, Meat Markets, Melbourne
Revolving Doors, Uplands Gallery, Melbourne
2007 Elsewhere, curated by Olivia Poloni, Nellie Castan Gallery, Melbourne
Constructive Propositions, curated by Giles Ryder, Peloton, Sydney
Inverted Topology/#30, SNO, Sydney
Abstraction/ Architecture/ Space, curated by Justin Andrews, RMIT Project Space, Melbourne
Inverted Topology/ All is well that begins well and has no end, 80WSE Gallery, NYU, New York
ABN AMRO Emerging Artist Award, 367 Collins Street, Melbourne
THEN AO, curated by Warren Taylor, Peloton, Sydney
Criteria, Galeria Perdida, Mexico @ Schulter, Berlin
Cut n’ Paste, curated by Giles Ryder, Peloton, Sydney
Inverted Topology, Ocular Lab, Melbourne
2006 Structural Jam, w/ Rob McHaffie, Studio 6, Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne
New Work, curated by Danny Lacy, Ocular Lab, Melbourne
The Collective Monochrome Project, Factory 49, Sydney
Greetings, curated by Nick Selenitsch, Ocular Lab, Melbourne
The Packet Agency, Storage, Vancouver, Canada
The Drawingames Project co- ordinated by Michelle Ussher, PB Gallery, Melbourne
Lexicon, curated by Martina Copley, City Library Gallery, Melbourne
Selekta 06, West Space Inc, Melbourne
Four Walls Falling, curated by Kezia Geddes & Tristian Koenig, Spacement, Melbourne
Inverted Topology /+Plus Factors, curated by Juliana Engberg, ACCA, Melbourne
2005 A Portable Model Of…, curated by Tristian Koenig, Latrobe Regional Gallery, Morwell
A Short Ride In A Fast Machine, Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne
A Portable Model Of…, curated by Tristian Koenig, Plimsoll Gallery, Hobart
New Painting Heroes, curated by Viv Miller, Downtown Artspace, Adelaide
Justin Andrews, Stephen Bram, Masato Takasaka, PB Gallery, Swinburne University, Melbourne
Inverted Topology, curated by Danny Lacy, Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne
2004 mMa(multiple Miscellaneous alliances], CLUBS Project Inc., Melbourne
An Architecture of Hope, curated by Martina Copley, Gallery 101, Melbourne
Work In Progress, curated by Hannah Mathews, Part of the Next Wave Festival, Spacement, Melbourne
Compendium, curated by Martina Copley, Icon Museum of Art, Deakin University, Melbourne
2003 Gertrude Studios 2003, Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne
M.A.P (w/ Justin Andrews), Studio 12, Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne
Common Vernacular Workshop, Conical Inc., Melbourne
Inverted Topology (w/ Matt Hinkley), curated by Danny Lacy, First Draft Gallery, Sydney
Not The Block Show (w/ Matthew Griffin & Nick Mangan), 22 Miller Street, West Melbourne
PrintROOM, CLUBS Project Inc., Melbourne
Home Loan, curated by Larissa Hjorth & Kate Shaw, Delfin Warehouses, Caroline Springs, Victoria
2002 Gertrude Studios 2002, Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne
Inverted Topology (w/ Matt Hinkley), curated by Danny Lacy, BUS Gallery, Melbourne
Fresh Cut, Ben Grady Gallery, Canberra
Only the Lonely, curated by Clare Firth-Smith, BLOCK, Sydney
Gloss, Magazine/ exhibition project, Australia/Japan cultural exchange touring to NADiff Gallery, Tokyo, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne, Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia, Adelaide
Value Added Capital ( w/ Mark Hilton & Selina Ou), West Space Inc., Melbourne & Gallery 4a, Sydney
2001 mixed bag ( w/ Bianca Hester & Nick Mangan), Ocular Lab, Melbourne
Office of Utopic Procedures, West Space Inc., Melbourne
Rubik #13 artist book launch, Sarah Cottier Gallery, Sydney
Love and other abstract things…, Penthouse & Pavement, Melbourne
2000 Paintings are Ace, curated by Clare Firth-Smith, Linden Gallery, Melbourne
Setting Up – five emerging artists, Sutton Gallery, Melbourne
1999 Gendai, curated by David O’Halloran, Glen Eira City Gallery, Melbourne
VCA Honours Graduate Exhibition, Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne
C u r a t o r i a l P r o j e c t s
2004 Drawing Show, (curated with Danny Lacy and Anton Marin), five artists, mir11, Melbourne
2003 Common Vernacular Workshop, (curated with Katherine Huang),twelve artists, Conical Inc., Melbourne
2001 Love and other abstract things…,, five artists, Penthouse & Pavement, Melbourne
1999 Who’s afraid of the avant-garde? Who cares?, thirty-three artists, TCB inc. Art, Melbourne
A w a r d s a n d C o m m i s s i o n s
2008 Commissioned artwork (book cover),’Varieties of Capitalism’, Melbourne University Press
2007 Commissioned artwork (wall mural), Order and Progress, Melbourne
2004 Shortlisted (finalist), Public Art Sculpture Commission, World Square, Sydney
2003 Commissioned artwork in collaboration with architectural firm, Ashton Ragatt McDougall
1997 Brochure illustration for Melbourne City Council
1996 Dr. Joseph Brown Award
P r o f e s s i o n a l E x p e r i e n c e
2008 sessional lecturer, Interior Design, School of Architecture and Design, RMIT, Melbourne
2008 collaborative drawing workshop (w/ Michelle Ussher), Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne
2007 visiting lecturer, School of Creative Arts, University of Southern Queensland
2007 studio artist residency, School of Creative Arts, University of Southern Queensland
2007 founding member of Primer Artist Co-operative, Melbourne
2007 sessional lecturer, Interior Design, School of Architecture and Design, RMIT, Melbourne
2004-05 co-director, mir11 artist run gallery in collaboration with architectural firm, Ashton Ragatt McDougall
2004 studio artist residency, Drawing Department, School of Art, Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne
2004 sessional lecturer, Drawing Department, School of Art, Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne
2004 sessional teacher, Department of Arts, Swinburne University of Technology TAFE division, Prahran, Vic.
2003 sessional lecturer, Drawing Department, School of Art, Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne
2003 sessional teacher, Department of Arts, Swinburne University of Technology TAFE division, Prahran, Vic.
2002-03 studio artist residency, Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne
2002 studio artist representative, studio selection committee, Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne
2002-08 founding member of Inverted Topology, a collaborative art group based in Melbourne
2002 travelled to Tokyo, for Gloss, Melbourne-Tokyo cultural exchange
2001 sessional lecturer, Drawing Department, School of Art, Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne
2001-03 member of DAMP, a collaborative art group based in Melbourne
1999 installation volunteer, Signs Of Life, Melbourne International Biennial