Curriculum Vitae
@artist_not
NOT is an installation artist working primarily in glass and ceramic. He has held solo shows at Mais Wright Gallery (VETRO ROTTO, 2024), Madeleine Gordon Gallery Launceston (Hunterston B, 2024), 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 and 2023), 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, and petrichor (2024) for Sabbia Gallery
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
| 2024/5 | VETRO ROTTO, MAIS WRIGHT, East Sydney NSW Hunterston B, Madeline Gordon Gallery, Launceston TAS |
| 2024 | 지붕위에서 (up on the roof), Korean Cultural Centre Australia, Sydney NSW |
| 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
| 2025 | SABBIA GALLERY – 20th Anniversary Exhibition, SABBIA Gallery, Redfern NSW |
| 2024/5 | IMMORTAL, Saint Cloche Gallery, Paddington NSW |
| 2024 | Showing now!, Beaver Galleries, Deacon ACT The immersive power of light, Macquarie University Art Gallery, Macquarie University, NSW Inside-Outside, Raglan Gallery and Cultural Centre, Cooma NSW The China syndrome, Libreria Rupture Arts & Books Venezia, Giudecca ITALIA CHARD, SHAC – Southern Highlands Artisans Collective, Robertson NSW New Year Display, Beaver Galleries, Deacon ACT |
| 2023 | Small works exhibition, Beaver Galleries, Deacon ACT Mum’s Kitchen, Madeline Gordon Gallery, Launceston TAS CHARD, The Memo, Healesville VIC CAPO 40th anniversary Gala Auction, Manuka, ACT STILL: National Still Life Award, Yarrila Arts and Museum (YAM), Coffs Harbour NSW Cruel Optimism, Tributary Projects, Braddon ACT Outside-Inside, Raglan Gallery and Cultural Centre, Cooma NSW Nationalism in the Wake of COVID, Cowra Regional Art Gallery, Cowra NSW In delirium walking through the neon lights, de de ce, Darlinghurst NSW |
| 2022 | Directors choice exhibition, Linton & Kay Galleries, Perth WA 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 & 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
| 2024/5 | petrichor, SABBIA Gallery, Redfern NSW |
| 2023 | OЯA, East Sydney, NSW |
| 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
| 2024 | Create NSW: Small Project Grant to produce new work on Murano (Venice) ITALY |
| 2023 | Finalist, STILL: National Still Life Award, Yarrila Arts & Museum, (YAM) Coffs Harbour NSW |
| 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 |
REPRESENTATION
2016 – present, MAIS WRIGHT, East Sydney NSW
2023 – present, Madeline Gordon Gallery TAS
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
Mordant Collection Highlights, hardback book, Oct. 2024, p. 290
‘CHARD on display at The Memo – talented artists of the Canberra Glassworks’, Star Mail, 24 Oct. 2023
‘Raglan Gallery shows Outside Inside Glass art’, The Monaro Post, 9 August 2023
‘Glass exhibition opens at Raglan’, The Monaro Post, 26 July 2023
Aimee Frodsham, ‘Editor’s letter’, Art Monthly Australasia, ‘Glass Now’, Summer 2022–23, pp. 13-14
Kirsty Francis, ‘NOT: Backlight’, Art Almanac, November 2022, pp. 26-29
NOT, Mechanical botanical, artist book, Kronenberg Mais Wright, Sydney, 2022
Gina Fairley, ‘Rethinking nationalism in the wake of COVID’, Arts Hub, 18 August 2022: 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 & 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 Street Gallery, Sydney, 2020
‘Triennale sculpture’, The Journal of Australian Ceramics, vol. 58, no. 2, July 2019, pp. 58–59
Michael Fitzgerald, ‘NOT TV screen Buddha’, Garland, June 2019: https://garlandmag.com/loop/not-不/
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
Peterborough Technical College, Peterborough England; Whitehouse School of Design, Sydney NSW; and TAFE Gymea NSW. 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 bending)
COLLECTIONS
Shepparton Art Museum, Coffs Harbour Regional Gallery, in private collections; UK, EU and Australia
Annette Blair Somchai Charoen, Roberto Beltrami, Jacqui Butterworth, David Cooper, Matthew Crawford, Mark Elliott, Shaun Hayes, Katie-Ann Houghton, Jacqueline Knight, Alex Kosmas, Benjamin Lintell, Peter Nilsson, Cherie Peyton, Kirstie Rea, Luna Ryan Claire Tennant and Bryden Williams
Artwork photography: Richard Glover, Ian Hobbs, Dominic Lorrimer, Bob Newman, Traianos Pakioufakis and Greg Piper.
Framing: Graphic Art Mount, Jim Croft Studios and Mount Framing