Curriculum Vitae NOT 不
Lives and works in Sydney NSW and Canberra ACT
NOT is an installation artist working primarily in glass and ceramic. He has held solo shows at Kronenberg Mais Wright (‘Backlight’, 2022, ‘Invisible hand’, 2020; ‘Song dynasty’, 2018), a solo presentation at Woollahra Gallery at Redleaf (‘Forensic anthropology’, 2022), and has been included in group exhibitions at Canberra Glassworks (‘Confluence’, 2018), Casula Powerhouse (‘The 66th Blake Prize’, 2021), Coffs Harbour Regional Gallery (‘STILL: National Still Life Award 2019’), Hazelhurst Regional Gallery (‘Glazed & Confused’, 2014–15), Macquarie University Art Gallery (‘Nationalism in the Wake of Covid’, 2022), Shepparton Art Museum (SAM, 2019), S.H. Ervin Gallery (‘River on the Brink’, 2019), Toyama Glass Art Museum (‘The Hindmarsh Prize 2018’), and Wollongong Art Gallery (‘Birds & Language’, 2022). Shortlisted for the Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize in 2017 and 2019, NOT’s work was included in ‘Manifest’ for the 2019 Australian Ceramics Triennale, ‘REVERB’ for Visual Arts Scotland in March–April 2022, and is held in important private and public collections, including Coffs Harbour Regional Gallery and SAM. As a curator, he has presented S-MILE (2016), Sgraffito and Layered (both 2018), and Electric Dreams (2022) for Saint Cloche Gallery, and The White Room (2017) and séance (2020) for Stanley Street Gallery.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
| 2022 | Backlight, Kronenberg Mais Wright, East Sydney NSW Forensic anthropology, Woollahra Gallery at Redleaf, Double Bay NSW |
| 2020 | Invisible hand, Kronenberg Mais Wright, East Sydney NSW |
| 2018 | Song dynasty, Kronenberg Mais Wright, East Sydney NSW |
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
| 2023 | Nationalism in the Wake of COVID, Cowra Regional Art Gallery, Cowra NSW |
| 2022 | Small Works exhibition, Beaver Galleries, Deacon ACT Nurture, Craft ACT: Craft + Design Centre, Canberra ACT CLAY, The Bondi Pavilion, Bondi Beach NSW The Sydney Teapot Show, Kerrie Lowe Gallery, Newtown NSW Nationalism in the Wake of COVID, Macquarie University Art Gallery, Macquarie University, NSW Northern Beaches Environmental Art & Design Prize, MAG&M, Manly NSW REFERB, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh SCOTLAND The Hum & The Buzz, Neolite Gallery, St.Peters NSW Birds and Language, Wollongong Art Gallery, Wollongong NSW |
| 2021 | Transformation – 2021, Craft ACT: Craft + Design Centre, Canberra ACT By George Biennial Art Prize, Foundation for Hellenic Studies, Adelaide SA The 66th Blake Prize, Casula Power House Art Centre, Casula NSW |
| 2020 | The Salon, M16 ARTSPACE, Griffith ACT |
| 2019 | At home with art, S.H. Ervin Gallery, The Rocks NSW River on the Brink: inside the Murray-Darling Basin, S.H. Ervin Gallery, The Rocks NSW Still: National Still Life Award, Coffs Harbour Regional Gallery, Coffs Harbour NSW The Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize, Woollahra Municipal Council Chambers, Woollahra Manifest, Australian Ceramics Triennale, Hobart TAS |
| 2018 | Toyama Glass Art Museum, Toyama City, Toyama JAPAN Hindmarsh Prize, Fitters Workshop, Kingston ACT Confluence, Canberra Glassworks, Kingston ACT Group Exhibition 2018, Kronenberg Mais Wright, East Sydney NSW |
| 2017 | The Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize, Woollahra Municipal Council Chambers, Woollahra Little Things Art Prize, Saint Cloche Gallery, Paddington NSW |
| 2016 | Group Exhibition 2016, Kronenberg Mais Wright, East Sydney NSW Form | Surface | Structure, Kerrie Lowe Gallery, Newtown NSW |
| 2015 | Christmas 2015, Kerrie Lowe Gallery, Newtown NSW A Time For Gifts, Stanley Street Gallery, Darlinghurst NSW Art Month: Material Thought: Artists Working with Clay, Kerrie Lowe Gallery, Newtown NSW |
| 2014 | Glazed & Confused — ceramics in contemporary art practice, Hazelhurst Regional Gallery & Arts Centre, Gymea NSW Christmas 2014, Kerrie Lowe Gallery, Newtown NSW claypool group show, Dickerson Gallery, Woollahra NSW Small group exhibition, Home @735 Gallery, Redfern NSW Contemporary Porcelain, Kerrie Lowe Gallery, Newtown NSW |
SELECTED CURATED SHOWS
| 2022 | Electric Dreams, Saint Cloche Gallery, Paddington NSW |
| 2020 | Art Month: séance (fade to black), Stanley St. Gallery, Darlinghurst NSW |
| 2018 | Sgraffito, Saint Cloche Gallery, Paddington NSW Lifeblood, Grace Cossington Smith Gallery, Wahroonga NSW Layered, Saint Cloche Gallery, Paddington NSW |
| 2017 | Chaos or Control, Stella Downer Fine Art, Waterloo NSW 269d, Former Mansfield Gallery, Darlinghurst NSW Art Month: The White Room (contemporary ceramics), Stanley St. Gallery, Darlinghurst NSW |
| 2016 | S-MILE, Saint Cloche Gallery, Paddington NSW SQ1@ARO, ARO Gallery, East Sydney NSW In Residence, Danks Street Depot, Waterloo NSW |
RESIDENCIES
| 2019 | Workshop presented/work displayed, Shepparton Art Museum, Shepparton NSW |
| 2014 | Ceramic Design Studio – TAFE Sydney Institute, Gymea NSW |
AWARDS & PRIZES
| 2022 | Finalist: Northern Beaches Environmental Art & Design Prize MAG&M, Manly NSW |
| 2021 | Winner, By George Biennial Art Prize, Foundation for Hellenic Studies, Adelaide SA Finalist, The 66th Blake Prize, Casula Power House Art Centre, Casula NSW |
| 2020 | Highly commended, Visual Art Open 2020 UK & International Emerging Artist Awards. |
| 2019 | Finalist, Still: National Still Life Award, Coffs Harbour Regional Gallery, Coffs Harbour NSW Finalist, The Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize, Woollahra NSW |
| 2018 | Finalist, Hindmarsh Prize, Kingston ACT / Toyama Glass Art Museum, Toyama JAPAN |
| 2017 | Finalist, The Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize, Woollahra NSW Finalist, Little Things Art Prize, Paddington NSW |
JUDGING
Having originally trained as an interior designer, now an artist, collector, curator and Director of Square One Studios in Alexandria. Not was a speaker for the 2015 panel on collecting video art for dLux Media Arts, and has been a judge for Wollombi’s ‘Sculpture in the Vineyards’ award exhibition also The Sydney Teapot Exhibition, Clayworkers Gallery Glebe, and two years of Flickering Stone part of Rookwood’s HIDDEN Sculpture Exhibition
REPRESENTATION
2016 – present, KRONENBERG MAIS WRIGHT, East Sydney NSW
2022 – present, Beaver Galleries, Deakin ACT
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
NOT, Mechanical botanical, artist book, Kronenberg Mais Wright, Sydney, 2022
Gina Fairley, ‘Rethinking nationalism in the wake of COVID’ Arts Hub, https://www.artshub.com.au/news/
features/rethinking-nationalism-in-the-wake-of-covid-2571750/
Eva Czernis-Ryl, ‘Glass and the pandemic: Shining light through the blackness’, Fuse Glass Prize, exhibition
catalogue, JamFactory, Adelaide, 2022, p. 36
Nationalism in the Wake of COVID, exhibition catalogue, Macquarie University Art Gallery, Macquarie
University, Sydney, 2022
Birds and Language, exhibition catalogue, Wollongong Art Gallery, Wollongong, 2022
‘The New Silk Road’, The Journal of Australian Ceramics, vol. 60, no. 1, April 2021, pp. 90–91
Merran Esson, A Life of Collecting, 2021
NOT, Invisible hand, artist book, Kronenberg Mais Wright, Sydney, 2020
Séance — fade to black, exhibition catalogue, Stanley St. Gallery, Sydney, 2020
‘Triennale sculpture’, The Journal of Australian Ceramics, vol. 58, no. 2, July 2019, pp. 58–9
Michael Fitzgerald, ‘NOT TV screen Buddha’, Garland, June 2019: https://garlandmag.com/loop/not-!/
Manifest, Australian Ceramics Triennale, exhibition catalogue, Princes Wharf, Hobart, 2019
Hindmarsh Prize 2018, exhibition catalogue, Canberra Glassworks/Toyama Glass Art Museum, 2018
NOT, Song dynasty, artist book, Kronenberg Mais Wright, Sydney, 2018
Kon Gouriotis, ‘Preview: NOT’, Artist Profile, no. 43, Winter 2018, pp. 128–30
Kerry-Anne Cousins, ‘A striking collection of creative partnerships in glass’, Canberra Times, 9 July 2018
EDUCATION
Whitehouse School of Design Sydney and Gymea TAFE. Training/workshops: Somchai Charoen and Luna
Ryan (mould making); Deb Taylor (wheel throwing); Cherie Peyton (fine porcelain); Cath Fogarty, Jenny
Orchard and Ramesh Mario Nithiyendran (hand building); Peter Nilsson and Luna Ryan (glass work):
Richard William Wheater and David Cooper (neon)
COLLECTIONS
Shepparton Art Museum, Coffs Harbour Regional Gallery, in private collections; UK, EU and Australia
N.B. Even solo shows rely on many others. I would like to acknowledge the inspiration of Stella Downer, the encouragement of Simeon Kronenberg and Hilarie Mais, and help from the following artists: Somchai Charoen, Jacqui Butterworth, David Cooper, Matthew Crawford, Shaun Hayes, Jacqueline Knight, Alex Kosmas, Peter Nilsson, Cherie Peyton, Luna Ryan and Claire Tennant. Artwork photography: Ian Hobbs, Dom Lorrimer, Bob Newman and Traianos Pakioufakis. Framing: Graphic Art Mount and Jim Croft Studios.