JUSTIN ANDREWS
Born 1973
Melbourne, Australia 
www.justin-andrews.info

Education

2003                  Master of Philosophy (Visual Art), NITA School of Art, ANU, Canberra

2000                  Bachelor of Visual Art (Hons), NITA School of Art, ANU, Canberra

1996                  Diploma of Art, Northern Melbourne Institute of TAFE

Related Experience

2010 Group Member, SNO, Sydney

2008 Installation Assistant, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (ACCA), Melbourne

2008 Lecturer, Drawing, Grenadi School of Design, Melbourne

2008 Studio Assistant (to Stephen Bram)

2008 Studio Assistant (to John Nixon)

2007 Committee Member, Primer Artist-Run Initiative, Melbourne

2006 Studio Assistant (to Stephen Bram)

2005-8 Lecturer, Visual Art/Art History, La Trobe University / Sunraysia Institute of TAFE

2004-5 Committee Member, MIR11 Artist Run Initiative, Melbourne

2004 Installation Technician, Goddard de Fiddes Gallery (Perth), Melbourne Art Fair

2004 Transcription Assistant (to John Nixon)

2004 Guest Presenter, Public Programs, ACCA

2004 Installation Technician, Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne

2003 Installation Technician, Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne

2001-2 Art Forum Writer, ANU National Institute of the Arts, Canberra

2000-3 Installation Technician, ANU Drill Hall Gallery, Canberra

Solo Exhibitions

2010 Materials, Ryan Renshaw Gallery, Brisbane

2010 Special Project, (w/ Jan van der Ploeg), Karlusic House, Melbourne

2009 Analogue Shift, Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne

2008 MID AIR, KONSORTIUM, Dusseldorf, Germany

To the Centre, PS, Amsterdam, Holland

Discursive Geometry, CCNOA Project Room, Brussels, Belgium

2007 Surface Tension, Gallery 25, Mildura

2006 Of This Space, (w/ Karin Van Roosmalen), SHOW, Wellington, New Zealand

No. 22, SNO, Sydney

WALL DRAWINGS, (w/ Stephen Bram), Room103, Auckland, New Zealand

Colour and Form, (w/ Kyle Jenkins), Canary Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand

Six New Paintings, 874 (Mildura)

2005 Planar Constructions, Department Of The Exterior (Canberra)

2004 Complex Structures, MOP Projects (Sydney), Seventh Gallery (Melbourne)

2003 M.A.P., (w/ Masato Takasaka), Studio12, Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne

Sequence, WestSpace Gallery, Melbourne

2002 Technician, Canberra Contemporary Art Space, Canberra

Selected Group Exhibitions

2010 Trio, Conical Inc., Melbourne

No. 57, SNO, Sydney

In Order Out, (Inverted Topology), Anna Pappas Gallery, Melbourne

2009 Cubism and Australian Art, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne 

Reductive, ACGA Gallery @ Federation Square, Melbourne

Gold, SCA Gallery, Sydney

Open House for Butterflies, MINUS SPACE project space, Brooklyn, NY

Flatfiles, MINUS SPACE project space, Brooklyn, NY

re: working space, (Inverted Toplology), White Street Project, Frankston 

PS 1999-2009, PS (Amsterdam) / Kunstruimte09 (Groningen), The Netherlands 

Drawing Folio, Block Projects, Melbourne

Legacies, University of Southern Queensland Art Gallery, Toowoomba

Fundraiser, The Narrows, Melbourne

2008 MINUS SPACE, (Inverted Topology), P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, NY

Advance /Retreat: three experiments in transdisciplinary collaboration, (Inverted   Topology), West Space, Melbourne

Gegenstandslos, Gesellschaft für Kunst und Gestaltung e.V., Bonn, Germany

Upside Down, MINUS SPACE project space, Brooklyn, NY

Yo Mo Modernism II, CCNOA, Brussels, Belgium

Under the Surface, RC de Ruimte, Ijmuiden, Holland

My Eyes Keep me in Trouble, SCA Gallery (Sydney, Australia), Physics Room (Christchurch, NZ)

2020?, 2008 Next Wave Festival, (Inverted Topology), Meat Market, Melbourne

2007 Australian Contemporary Non-Objective Art, Kunsthalle Dominikanerkirche (Osnabrück),   Museum im Kulturspeicher (Würzburg), RAUM2810 / Gesellschaft für Kunst und Gestaltung   e.V. (Bonn), Germany

UND Jetzt, IS / Galerie Le Petit Port (Leiden), The Netherlands

ABSTRACTION 6, Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne

All is well that begins well and has no end, (Inverted Topology) 80WSE Gallery, NYU, New York

ABSTRACTION ARCHITECTURE SPACE, RMIT Project Space + Spare Room, Melbourne

No. 32, (Inverted Topology), SNO, Sydney

2006 New Work – Unpacked and Expanded, CCP, Melbourne

New Work, George Paton Gallery, Melbourne University

Picture This, School of Art Gallery, ANU National Institute of the Arts (Canberra),SCA Gallery   (Sydney), VCA Gallery (Melbourne)

Inverted Topology, ‘+Plus Factors’, ACCA, Melbourne

Palimpsest #6, Rio Vista House/Mildura Arts Centre, Mildura

TAKE OFF, Hebel_121, Basel, Switzerland

Early Fabricated, CCNOA (Brussels), Belgium, Tracer Projects (Toowoomba), Peloton Gallery   (Sydney), Ocular Lab (Melbourne)

Awkward Balance, Blindside, Melbourne

Ambient Abstraction, SNO, Sydney

2005 No. 2, SNO, Sydney

No. 9, SNO, Sydney

Andrews / Bram / Takasaka, PB Gallery, Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne

MIR11, Artist-Run-Initiative Stall, Melbourne Affordable Art Fair, Melbourne

Dimensions Variable, Canberra Contemporary Art Space, Canberra

Inverted Topology, Main Gallery / Studio12, Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne

Inverted Topology, Gallery 2, Artspace, Sydney

2004 Abstract Realities, MOP Projects, Sydney

The Armoury Show (w/ RAID projects), New York City, USA

Constructed Colour, Artspace, Sydney

Mixed Business, Seventh Gallery Inc., Melbourne

2003 Clash of the Titans, Gallery Wren, Sydney

New No York, Tonic (March event), (w/ Dion Workman), New York City, USA

Skylounge 2003, National Museum of Australia, Canberra

2002 Pause, idSpace, Melbourne

Snap, School of Art Gallery, National Institute of the Arts, ANU

2001 A4, WestSpace, Melbourne

Coincidence, Spiral Arm Gallery, Canberra

Hatched, Perth Institute of Contemporary Art, Perth

Selected Citations

C Easton “Opinion: ANALOGUE SHIFT”, ARTINFO (http://artinfo.com.au), November 2009

S Cramer “Cubism and Australian Art” (ex. cat.), The Miegunyah Press, MUP, November 2009

C Barnes “Cubism and Australian Art” (ex. cat.), The Miegunyah Press, MUP, November 2009

C Barnes “Analogue Shift”, (ex. cat.), August 2009G Kodde                                    

G Kodde “Letter”, (ex. cat), 15 February 2008

P Webb “Abstraction 6”, p.30, Sunday Age, 12 November 2007

G Newton “Abstraction/Architecture/Space”, SPEECH, September 2007

A Allen ibid

M Turnbull ibid

C Barnes “ABSTRACTION / ARCHITECTURE / SPACE” (ex. cat.), August 2007

K Burns “Site Drawing” (ACCA +Plus Factors ex. cat.), March 2006

C Clark “Dimensions Variable” EYELINE issue #58 Spring 2005

C Kyongfa “Inverted Topology”, Artit Magazine Spring/Summer 2005

A Memishi “Awkward Balance” (ex. cat), July 2005

D Clarke/L Byrne “Dimensions Variable” (ex.cat), July 2005

R Nelson “Walk Right Through” The Age, 8 April 2005

H Walter “+Plus Factors”, SPEECH (http://speech2012.blogspot.com), March 2006

D Lacy "Inverted Topology" (ex. cat), April/July 2005, March 2006

M Kidd "Melbourne Finishing School" Natural Selection no.3 (online journal), January 2005

C Easton "What Sort Of Business Do You Think You Are Running Here?" (ex.cat), October 2004

K Jenkins "Constructed Colour" (ex.cat.) Artspace, Sydney, September 2004

D Lacy "A Process Of Abstraction" (ex. cat.), May/August 2004

D Morison "M.A.P.i.", Natural Selections no.1 (online journal), February 2004

R Waller "Snap", (ex. cat.) School of Art Gallery, National Institute of the Arts, ANU, September 2002

Curatorial

2010                  Trio, Conical Inc., Melbourne

2009                  Drawing Folio (with John Nixon), Block Projects, Melbourne

2007                  ABSTRACTION / ARCHITECTURE / SPACE, RMIT Project Space + Spare Room, Melbourne

2004                  Mixed Business, Seventh Gallery Inc., Melbourne

2002                  Snap, School of Art Gallery, National Institute of the Arts, ANU


Awards

2009                  shortlisted, RBS Emerging Artist Award 2009, RBS Tower, Sydney

2008                  shortlisted, Westpac Redlands Art Prize, Mosman Art Gallery, Sydney

2000                  Academic Medal, Australian National University, Canberra


Residencies

2008                  Australia Council Skills and Arts Development Grant - Tokyo Studio

2000                  UMAP Overseas Study Scholarship, LasalleSIA School of Fine Art, Singapore

Text & Publications

“International counterpoint” PS 1999/2009 ex/cat, PS (Amsterdam) / Kunstruimte09 (Groningen), The Netherlands

“More Modernsim?” Yo Mo Modernism II ex/cat, CCNOA, Brussels

“Free Colour” Tilman ex/cat text, Australia, 2008

“Visual Democracy” Jan Maarten Voskuil ex/cat text, Dum Umeni, Tjech Republic, 2008

“Arranging instead of Making” Masato Takasaka ex/cat text, ‘I LIKE MY OLD STUFF BETTER THAN YOUR NEW STUFF (MORE PROG ROCK SCULPTURES FROM THE 5TH DIMENSION)’, Ocular Lab, Melbourne 2007

“Tracing Hidden Lines Whilst Standing In Peripheral Fields” Stephen Bram ex/cat text, Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne, 2006

“Inverted Topology” exhibition poster, ACCA ‘+Plus Factors’, Melbourne, 2006

"EPW 2004" (John Nixon ex/rev, ACCA, Melbourne) Broadsheet Vol.33 no.33, September 2004

"ANNEX" (2) Artist book project (assistant to Stephen Bram), Melbourne, 2004

"ANNEX" (1) ibid, 2003

“M.A.P.” self-published ex/cat (with Masato Takasaka), ed. of 200, Studio12, GCAS, Melbourne

"Interview" (with Stephen Bram), ed. of 50, 2002

"Reflection" (David Thomas ex/rev, Ben Grady Gallery, Canberra) Muse, no. 219, July 2002

Collections

Chartwell Collection, Auckland Art Gallery, New Zealand

Mildura Arts Centre, Victoria

ANU National Institute of the Arts, Canberra

Curtin University, Perth

Private collections in Melbourne, Sydney, Canberra, Perth, Mildura, Haarlem, Amsterdam, Dusseldorf, Bonn, Basel, New York, Los Angeles, Singapore, Hong Kong