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2012 Finalist in 2012 Adelaide Perry Drawing Prize The drawing "Shipwrecked" has been short-listed for the Adelaide Perry Prize. The judge is renowned art critic John McDonald. The exhibition is on show 24th Feb to 24th March.
********************************************************************************************************************************** 2012 Solo Exhibition "The Curiosity Cabinet" Selected visions of the afterlife and other realities. Wedge Gallery, Books Kinokuniya in Sydney, 7th-20th March 2012
********************************************************************************************************************************** 2011 Finalist in 2011 Lethbridge 10000 Small works Art Prize The painting "Introspection 2011" was shortlisted for the Lethbridge Gallery small works prize in Brisbane. The exhibition ran 4th June until 26th June.
********************************************************************************************************************************** Invited to participate in two Group shows in Seoul, Korea. "After hours" is part of the group show “Together in Harmony for 50 Years,” with art works by 106 Australian artists. To celebrate 50 years of friendship between Australia and Korea, the Australian Embassy in Seoul and the Korea Women’s Art Society in Sydney (Kwass) have organized this art exhibit which is at the Noori and Arum Gallery, Korea Foundation Culture Centre. The painting "Vertigo" is one of 30 works in the sequel exhibition at the Bom Gallery in Chongdamdong, Seoul's most prominent art precinct. The Bom gallery show opens on the 3rd May 2011.
*********************************************************************************************************** The painting "Tethered 2008" was recently selected to illustrate the 2011 edition of the magazine Words and Images published by University of Maine, USA. *********************************************************************************************************** Finalist in 2011 Prometheus Art Award The painting "The Killers" (2009) has been shortlisted for the Prometheus art prize on the Gold coast. The exhibition runs from 27th May to 1st June.
************************************************************************************************************ Finalist in 2011 Adelaide Perry Drawing Prize The large pencil drawing of "Insomnia" (2011) was shortlisted for a major national art prize, The Adelaide Perry Drawing Prize held in Sydney Feb-March.
********************************************************************************************************************************* 2010 I had some recent Sideshow paintings published in the Spanish independent online art journal Carpaccio magazine Issue 21, check it out at http://www.issuu.com/carpacciomagazine/docs/issue21/1 ************************************************************************************************************* Finalist in 2010 St George Art Award One of my recent paintings "Anticipation" (below) was short-listed for the inaugural St George Art Prize held at the Hurstville Museum in Sydney.
******************************************************************************************* I was a finalist in the 2010 Tiger Beer art contest "TigerTranslate" ******************************************************************************************* 2010 Solo Show "Everlasting Dream" Selected visions and dreamscapes. Wedge Gallery, Books Kinokuniya in Sydney, 21 July - 3 August 2010
************************************************************************************************************************************* 2010 Solo Show "Dangerous Dreams" Saturday 6th February until 27th March 2010 Hurstville City Museum and Gallery, 14 Macmahon St, Hurstville, Sydney This was a large retrospective show of my works spanning the past decade. The show featured my paintings prominently in the main gallery of the regional museum and was complemented by ceramic art sculpture from local artists. Thanks to curators Serena Manwaring and Jessica Allen and museum staff for helping to make this show a success.
The artist at the entrance to the museum (photograph by Cindy Zielinski)
Photos from Opening night (Sat 6th Feb, 2010). People, music, food, chatter and art.
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Museum interview with the artist
*********************************************************************************** Press coverage of Dangerous Dreams 2010
*********************************************************************************** 2009 2009 Solo Show "Sideshow!" Monday 7th Dec 2009 to Saturday 30th January 2010
The Arthouse Hotel, 275 Pitt Street, Sydney A nice selection of Sideshow paintings were on display and for sale in the Gallery bar at the Arthouse Hotel in Pitt Street Sydney (next to the Hilton hotel). This was a truly unique venue.
The mermaid and her double. Photo from Arthouse Hotel 2009. *********************************************************************************** 2009 Solo Show "Worlds of Wonder" at Hurstville Museum and Gallery March 2009 Walls filled with pictures of glamorous women trapped within the sideshow or of men seeking a higher consciousness or falling to their doom. The different carnival inspired works came together nicely. Thanks to Serena Manwaring, curator of the museum for support.
Photos from 2009 March Opening at Hurstville City Museum, Sydney Australia
Artist statement about "Sideshow" project
I have always been fascinated by carnivals. This current series of surrealistic works explores the darker side of carnival life. The spiritual and otherworldly essence of carnival nocturnes has appeared in the mass media sporadically over past decades, and my initial exposure to this microcosm was courtesy of Ray Bradbury’s novel Something Wicked This Way Comes, mental images of which still haunt me after many years. Coupled with a fascination of all things Victorian, the old world Sideshow has now been distilled into a series of drawings and paintings that use an ever-changing carnival backdrop to depict images of isolation, uncertainty, experimentation and entrapment. These are recurring themes in my work, for reasons perhaps most humans can relate to. The world depicted in my drawings could be seen as a window into my own psyche, in that they derive from spontaneous mental images. The Victorian era feel to the work and the sense of simultaneous entrapment and release are integral elements in these compositions, where all parts are carefully balanced. I see the carnival as a metaphor for that tainted paradise most humans crave, a universe that tempts us by stimulating all our senses and yet one which is ready to swallow us whole. The sequence of temptation, experience, bewilderment and restraint can either provoke our release or incur our demise. In this world, the surface glitter clearly masks darker happenings behind closed doors. Perhaps not so different to urban existence after all. *********************************************************************************** 2006 2006 Solo Show "Searching for Enlightenment" Wallspace Gallery, 25-27 Brisbane St., Surry Hills in Sydney. This was Beric's third solo exhibition and included a range of new surrealistic works. September 9-30. Official opening 9th September at 3pm. 2006 Group Show "Originals" Wallspace Gallery. Featuring the work of ten artists: Michael Burfield, Nikolaus Dorrer, Beric Henderson, Zig Jaworowski, Imogen Joy, Keith lane, Luis Martinez, Catherine O'Donnell, Leslie Rice and Li Wenmin. May 26-June 17. Opening night May 25 from 6pm. Photos from the 2006 September Opening of my Solo Show at Wallspace Gallery. Film Director and Gallery Owner Alex Proyas was in attendance.
*********************************************************************************** 2005 2005 Solo Show Beric's second solo exhibition, "Pulp Surrealism and other Visions", was held at the St. George Regional Museum in Hurstville, Sydney from 1 Oct to 12 Nov 2005. The event was covered by the local press, with a brief report in a national art magazine.
Press Reports (2005)
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