JOHN NICHOLSON
Born 1970 Australia
Education
1992 - 1994 Bachelor of Fine Arts, College of Fine Arts, UNSW.
Solo Exhibitions
2010 Evolved High Speed Packet Access, Ryan Renshaw, Brisbane
2009 Connection is Solid, Sophie Gannon Gallery
2009 All That it Is, Sarah Cottier Gallery, Sydney
2007 Outside the Vacuum, Sophie Gannon Gallery, Melbourne
2007 Irregular Readings, Sarah Cottier Gallery, Sydney
2007 Tectonic, Ryan Renshaw, Brisbane
2006 Anomalies in the Bandwidth, Neon Parc, Melbourne
2006 Strip Light, Harrison Galleries, Sydney.
2005 Light Machines, Sherman Galleries, Two Cubed, Sydney
2004 Hypervoid, Brian Moore Gallery, Sydney
2004 Luxcorp, Canberra Contemporary Art Space. (collaboration with Dr. Kathy Takayama)
2003 Arrival / Departure, Bus Gallery, Melbourne. (collaboration with Lara Merrett)
2002 Panorama, Scott Donovan Gallery, Sydney.
2000 Losing Focus, Rubyayre Gallery, Sydney.
1998 Airport, Level Gallery, Sydney.
1998 What’s Left, Particle Contemporary Art Space, Sydney.
1997 Going Nowhere, Global Contemporary Art Gallery, Sydney.
Group Exhibitions
2009 3D x 5, Bathurst Regional Gallery
2008 The Helen Lempriere National Sculpture Award, Melbourne.
2008 New, Queensland University Art Museum
2007 Lion, Sarah Cottier Gallery, Sydney
2007 To Be Confirmed, QUT Art Museum, Brisbane.
2006 Border, Goyang International Sculpture Survey Seoul, Sth Korea.
2006 Hardware, University of Technology Gallery, Sydney.
2006 ABN AMRO Emerging Artist Award, Sydney.
2006 Group show, Sophie Gannon Gallery, Melbourne
2006 Neo Minimalism, john Buckley Gallery, Melbourne
2005 Polyformalism, Dank Street Complex, Sydney, (curated Matthys Gerber and Giles Ryder)
2005 Group Show, Broadway Café, Sydney, (curated Matthys Gerber and Giles Ryder)
2005 Black Epiphanies, Virginia Wilson Art, Sydney (curated William Wright AM)
2005 McClelland Contemporary Sculpture Survey and Award, Melbourne
2005 Re/Thinking, Bus Gallery, Melbourne
2005 ABN AMRO Emerging Artist Award, Sydney
2005 Matter of Fact(s), MOP, Sydney (curated James Steele)
2005 Nature by Proxy, Brian Moore Gallery, Sydney (curated John Nicholson)
2004 The Helen Lempriere Travelling Art Scholarship, Sydney
2004 Sculpture 2004, Brian Moore Gallery, Sydney.
2003 The Helen Lempriere Travelling Art Scholarship, Sydney
2003 Future Projections, National Museum of Australia, Canberra.
2002 Giant Molecules and Carbon Copies, Penthouse and Pavement Gallery, Melbourne.
2002 Amphitheatre, First Draft Gallery, Sydney.
2002 The Helen Lempriere National Sculpture Award, Melbourne.
2001 Group Show, Asia - Australia Arts Centre, Sydney.
2001 Motel, Rubyayre Gallery, Sydney.
2001 Orange, Global Contemporary Art Gallery, Sydney.
2000 One Last Show, Herringbone Gallery, Sydney.
2000 Sculpture 2000, Access Contemporary Art Gallery, Sydney.
2000 Blue, Global Contemporary Art Gallery, Sydney.
2000 Make it up, Pioneer Studio, Sydney.
1999 Implant, Level Gallery, Sydney.
1999 Creation, Astro Gallery, Sydney.
1999 Sculpture by the Sea, Bondi Coastal Walk, Sydney.
1998 Twelve Red, Global Contemporary Art Gallery, Sydney.
1998 Sculpture by the Sea, Bondi Coastal Walk, Sydney.
1997 Diptych, Level Gallery, Sydney.
1995 The 20th Century Body, Polymorph Gallery, Sydney.
1994 Graduate Show, College of Fine Arts, Sydney.
Residencies
2007 Omi International Art Center, New York, USA
2004 Bundanon Trust Artist Centre. Arthur Boyd Estate.
Awards and Grants
2008 Australia Council New Work Grant.
2003 Australia Council Research and Development Grant. (NMAB)
2003 Pat Corrigan Artists Grant
2003 NSW Artists Marketing Grant
2003 U Committee Grant, University of New South Wales.
2002 Pat Corrigan Artists Grant.
2002 NSW Artists Marketing Grant.
2001 Australia Council New Work Grant. (VACB)
Public and Private Collections
University of Queensland.
Omi Foundation, New York USA.
Goyang City, Seoul, South Korea
Artbank
Deutsche Bank, Sydney
Mirvac Corporation
Zing Communications, Sydney
Private collections, Australia
Publications
Victoria Hymes, Making light of solid colour, Australian Art Review, Issue 22, 2010 pp.50 – 51.
Andrew Frost, 50 Most Collectable Artists 2008, Australian Art Collector, Issue 43, 2008, p 169.
Suzanna Clarke, Solo Bright Spark, The Courier Mail, ETC, May 19 2007, p.14
Gaynor Flynn, Follow the Light, Oyster, issue 71, 2007 pp. 28 - 29
Kerrie Davies, Young at Art,The Australian, Wish Magazine, March 2007,pp.45 - 50.
Ashley Crawford, 50 Most Collectable Artists 2007, Australian Art Collector, Issue 39 2007, pp.130 - 135.
Nigel Bartlett, Rainbow Warrior, B elle, Oct - Nov 2, 2006, pp. 87 - 88
Nigel Bartlett, On The Verge, Sunday Magazine, Sept. 3, p.14.
Jane Llewellyn, Australia’s Most Collectable Artists 2006, Australian Art Collector, Issue 35 2006 p.85.
Jo Roberts, ‘Gut reaction’ all important in $100,000 decision, The Age, November 12 2005, p.15
Robert Lindsay, Patterns of Intelligent Thought, McClelland Contemporary Sculpture Survey (catalogue), Oct 2005, pp 6-7
Sebastian Smee, McClelland Sculpture Survey, Weekend Australian,December 17 - 18 , 2006, pp.18 - 19
Tracey Clement, Critic’s Picks, Sydney Morning Herald, Metro, July 8 2005, p.23
Dominique Angeloro, Critic’s Picks, Sydney Morning Herald, Metro, July 8 2005, p.23
Lenny Ann Low, Sydney Morning Herald, Spectrum, April 9 2005, p.29
Tracey Clement, Exhibitions, Sydney Morning Herald, Metro, April 1 2005
Caroline Mansfield, White Heat, QANTAS Magazine, November, p. 158
John Nicholson: Hypervoid (catalogue), Essay by Tristian Koenig, Brian Moore Gallery, Nov 2004
Michael Ashcroft, 1017 Kelvin - pretty hot!! Metis: time04, Art Monthly, July 2004, pp. 21-23
Anna Sellah,, Bugs make furniture glow in the dark, ABC Online, May 20, 2004
Denise Knight, Beautiful Bacteria: The Art of Science Fiction, Uniken, June 2004, p.11
Carina Dennis, Living with Luminescence, Nature, Vol. 429, June 10, 2004, p. 607
John Stockdil, The Symbiotic Bacterial Light Project, Artlook Magazine, June 2004
Linda Cooper, In conversation with John Nicholson, Filter, issue 56, pp. 24 - 25
Tristian Karl-Koenig, Luxcorp: A means of culturally flattering delivery, Metis Catalogue, 2004, pp. 20 - 25.
Lenny Ann Low, Review, Sydney Morning Herald, Metropolitan, May 18, 2002
Roger Taylor, Tales Told, Secrets Revealed, World Sculpture News, Spring 2002, pp. 33 -39
Peter Harris, Review, World Sculpture News, Winter 2000, pp. 68 - 71
Bronwyn Watson, Sculptors embrace a touchy feely new Century, SMH, Spectrum, Jan 8, 2000, p.14
Sebastian Smee, Space Shuttle, SMH, Domain, May 6, 1999, p.5