painting, sculpture, installation, artist, Melbourne, Tim Craker
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Tim Craker is a Melbourne painter, sculptor and installation-artist living in Seddon, an inner western suburb of Melbourne.
Following an Honours Degree in Fine Art at RMIT (graduating in 1993) he has exhibited extensively in Melbourne in both group and solo shows.
Tim Craker's earlier work was based on language and text - both its meaning and appearance.
Tim held solo exhibitions Out of Print at Nellie Castan Gallery in 2004, and Transcript at Monash University's Gippsland campus Switchback Gallery in 2005.
An artist's residency in Malaysia in 2006 saw a significant change in direction in Tim Craker's work, in both subject matter and materials. The residency led directly to the exhibition dot-net-dot-my in Melbourne in 2007, and to a touring exhibition dot-net-dot-au in Malaysia and Singapore in 2008. Both exhibitions were held jointly with Melbourne artist Louise Saxton. The touring exhibition was supported by the Australian High Commission in Kuala Lumpur.
Tim Craker is represented by Gallery 101, 101 Collins Street, Melbourne. The gallery phone number is (+613) 9654 6886.
Current and forthcoming exhibitions include:
Parking, Big West Festival, Footscray 3011. November 2009 Gallery 101, 101 Collins Street, Melbourne. July 2010Born June 23, 1962 in Middlesbrough, England, of Australian parents
QUALIFICATIONS:
Bachelor of Arts in Fine Art (painting) with Honours (RMIT University 1993)Bachelor of Veterinary Science with Honours (University of Melbourne 1985)SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
2010 - Gallery 101, Melbourne 3000 (July 28 - August 14)
2009 - POD at The Incinerator Arts Complex Moonee Ponds 3039
2009 - TAKEN AWAY The Substation Newport 3015
2006 - SURVEY EXHIBITION 1992-2005 Beaumaris Library, Beaumaris 3193
2005 - TRANSCRIPTSwitchback Gallery, Monash University, Churchill Campus 3842
2004 - OUT OF PRINTNellie Castan Gallery South Yarra 3141
2001 - CODELatrobe Street Gallery Melbourne 3000
1995 - SIGN West Space Footscray 3011
- SUBWAYTEXTPlatform (Spencer Street Station subway) Melbourne 3000
INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITIONS:
2008 - dot net dot au (with Louise Saxton) The Substation, Singapore
2008 - dot net dot au (with Louise Saxton) The Annexe, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
2006 - Feed Me! Art for Nature 2006Rimbun Dahan, Kuang, Selangor, Malaysia
2000 - Works on Paper: Contemporary Australian Artists from the Department of Fine Art, RMIT, Sungshin Museum, Seoul, South Korea
1999 - Works on Paper: Contemporary Australian Artists from the Department of Fine Art, RMIT, Seoul National University Cultural Centre, Seoul, South Korea
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
2009 - Parking Big West Festival, Footscray 3011
2009 - Hybrid Sculpture 2009 (juried exhibition) Toyota Community Spirit Gallery Port Melbourne 3205
2009 - Moreland Sculpture Show (commissioned entry) Bridges Reserve Coburg 3058
2009 - aRtECYCLE (juried prize exhibtion)The Incinerator Arts Complex Moonee Ponds 3039
2009 - Williamstown Festival Contemporary Art Prize (juried prize exhibition) The Substation, Newport 3015
2009 - Queer City, Midsumma Festival Guildford Lane Gallery, Melbourne 3000
2008 - Yering Station Sculpture Exhibition (juried prize exhibition) Yering Station, Yarra Glen 3775
2008 - Arnold Bloch Liebler Sculpture Exhibition, Melbourne 3000 (concurrent with the Yering Station Sculpture Exhibition)
2008 - aRtECYCLE (juried prize exhibition) The Incinerator Arts Complex Moonee Ponds 3039
2008 - Queer City, Midsumma Festival Fortyfive Downstairs, Melbourne 3000
2007 - dot net dot my (with Louise Saxton) Red Gallery, Fitzroy North 3068
2006 - The Postcard Show Linden St Kilda 3182
2004 - FloranovaNellie Castan Gallery South Yarra 3141
2003 - Red Spot Special Nellie Castan Gallery South Yarra 3141
- Artists’ Wallpaper Platform (Spencer Street Station subway) Melbourne 3000
- Queer Street Poster Project (with Heather Saltmarsh) Midsumma Festival, Manchester Lane, Melbourne 3000
2001 - Colloquium (with Louise Haselton, Rose Nolan, Brandt McCook )
Linden St Kilda 3182
- The Third Darebin-Latrobe Acquisitive Art Prize (juried prize exhibition) Bundoora Park Homestead, Bundoora 3083
- take a look @ (Midsumma Festival collaboration with Mark McDean) Allans Walk Artist-Run Space, Bendigo 3350
2000 - 2000 National Works on Paper Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, Mornington
- The Exquisite Corpse Bendigo Art Gallery, Bendigo 3350 (touring Victoria in 2001)
- New Q 2000 (Midsumma Festival) Linden Gallery, St.Kilda 3182
1999 -Out of Place (Melbourne International Festival) Federation Square, Swanston Street, Melbourne 3000
- The Darebin-La Trobe Acquisitive Art Prize (juried prize exhibition) Bundoora Park Homestead, Bundoora 3083
- Artzine Spencer Street Art Gallery, West Melbourne 3003
1998 - hi/lo exotico (Melbourne Fringe Festival) Stop 22 St.Kilda 3182
- fill this space (Next Wave Festival - collaboration with Victoria Cattoni, Tim Horn and Gabrielle Martin) Townhall Hotel North Melbourne 3051
- Up in Smoke (collaboration with Victoria Cattoni) Moonee Valley Festival The Walter Burley Griffin Incinerator, Moonee Ponds 3039
- New Q (Midsumma Festival) Vic.Health Access Gallery, National Gallery of Victoria
1997 - off-cuts collaborative installations with Victoria Cattoni Townhall Hotel North Melbourne 3051
- Station Pro Forma (Melbourne Fringe Festival) Stop 22 St.Kilda 3182
- The First Darebin-La Trobe Acquisitive Prize (juried prize exhibition) Darebin Arts and Entertainment Centre Preston 3072
- Outsex Shorts (Melbourne Queer Film and Video Festival) State Film Theatre Melbourne 3000
1996 - See Spot Run (Next Wave Festival) Temple Studio Prahran 3181
- Working in Collaboration (Next Wave Festival) West Space Footscray 3011
- Swan Street Spectacle shopfronts in Swan Street Richmond 3121
1995 - Artworkz Seven (juried prize exhibition) Gallery 101 Melbourne 3000
- Public Address Errol Street verandah rooftops North Melbourne 3051
- Rupert Bunny Foundation Launch ExhibitionSt.Kilda Town Hall St.Kilda 3182
- Save Albert Park 9 x 5 Invitation Exhibition Robert Lindsay Gallery Melbourne 3000
- Sculpture for Heidelberg curated by Ken Scarlett Heidelberg Repatriation Hospital Heidelberg
1994 - Gasworks Outdoor Sculpture Exhibition Gasworks Park South Melbourne 3205
- Artworkz Six (juried prize exhibition) Gallery 101 Melbourne 3000
- Blaxland GalleryMyer Melbourne 3000
1993 -Young Melbourne Artists (auction) Leonard Joel St.Kilda 3182
- Artworkz Five (juried prize exhibition) Gallery 101 Melbourne 3000
1992 - Six of One Linden Gallery St.Kilda 3182
- Words Caught in Your Eyes Alliance Francaise Gallery St.Kilda 3182
REFERENCES:
- Hybrid Sculpture 2009 exhibition catalogue
- Williamstown Festival Contemporary Art Prize 2009 exhibition catalogue
- Gina Fairley review of dot-net-dot-au, Asian Art News Vol 18 No.6 Nov-Dec 2008
- Yering Station Sculpture Exhibition catalogue 2008
- Dr Caroline Jordan, La Trobe University dot-net-dot-au travelling exhibition catalogue essay, July 2008 ISBN 978-0-646-49308-4
- Midsumma Visual Arts Catalogue 2008
- David Wilson “From animals…to art” The Age 17 November 2007
- Dr Caroline Jordan, Research Fellow, The Australia Centre, University of Melbourne dot-net-dot-my exhibition essay October 2007
- Chris Jackson “Craker of an exhibit” The Bayside Leader 7 February 2006
- Lily Fermer “Art for Vet’s Sake” The Veterinarian September 2005
- Lisa Chivers “Space Mission” The Sunday Age 15 August 2004
- Chris Beck “Taking Letters Out of the Box” The Age 19 June 2004
- The Darebin- La Trobe Acquisitive Art Prize exhibition catalogue 2001
- Anna Clabburn “Bendigo’s Wild and Witty Hybrids” The Australian 7 August 2000
- New Q 2000 exhibition catalogue, Midsumma Festival 2000
- Out of Place exhibition catalogue, Melbourne International Festival 1999
- The Darebin- La Trobe Acquisitive Art Prize exhibition catalogue 1999
- Suzanne Spunner “Dumped by the Next Wave and still standing” Art Monthly Australia July 1998
- Next Wave Festival catalogue 1998
- Myfanwy Warhurst “A Sense of Place” EG The Age 8 May 1998
- New Q catalogue 1998
- Station pro Forma exhibition catalogue 1997
- The First Darebin- La Trobe Acquisitive Prize exhibition catalogue 1997
- David Cross “Catching the Sixth Next Wave” Real Time 11 August - Sept 1996
- See Spot Run exhibition catalogue 1996
- Andrew Masterson “The Art of Recall” EG The Age 24 May 1996
- Visual Next Wave Festival 1996 Visual Arts Program catalogue
- Artworkz Seven exhibition catalogue 1995
- Ken Scarlett “A Democratic Showcase” Art Monthly Australia November 1994
- Artworkz Six exhibition catalogue 1994
- Artworkz Five exhibition catalogue 1993
- Marcus O’Donnell, review of Six of One Melbourne Star Observer October 16 1992
GRANTS, AWARDS & RESIDENCIES:
Shortlisted for the Toyota Community Spirit Artist Travel Award 2009Judge's commendation, Moreland Sculpture Show 2009Sponsorship of dot-net-dot-au travelling exhibition by the Australian High Commission, Malaysia, July 2008 Residency at Rimbun Dahan, Kuang, Selangor, Malaysia August-November 2006Radio National Fringe Festival Award for Visual Art for Public Address October 1995 Pat Corrigan artist grants June 1995, May 1996 and May 1998COLLECTIONS:
Angela and Hijjas Kasturi, Rimbun Dahan, Selangor, Malaysia
Private collections in Australia and Europe
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
2001 - Teacher of Drawing and Mixed Media, Latrobe Street College of Art and New Media, Melbourne
1999, 2000 - Tutor in Painting (1st year undergraduate, Painting) RMIT University, Melbourne
1998 - Tutor in Painting (1st and 2nd year undergraduate, Painting) RMIT University, Melbourne
1997 - Tutor in Painting (1st year undergraduate, Painting) RMIT University, Melbourne
- Teacher of General Drawing (1st and 3rd year undergraduate, Fashion and Textile Design) RMIT University, Melbourne
1996 - Teacher of Life and General Drawing (2nd year undergraduate, Painting) RMIT University, Melbourne
1995 - Teacher of Life Drawing (1st year undergraduate, Painting) RMIT University, Melbourne
- Tutor in Painting RMIT University Summer School
REPRESENTATION:
Tim Craker is represented by
Gallery 101
101 Collins Street
Melbourne VIC 3000
Ph (+613) 9654 6886
Representation 2003-2006 by:
Nellie Castan Gallery
Level 1 / 12 River street
South Yarra VIC 3141
Ph (+613) 9804 7366
Representation 2004-2007 by:
Maunsell Wickes at Barry Stern Galleries
19 Glenmore Road
Paddington NSW 2021
Ph (+612) 9331 4676
Current and forthcoming exhibitions include:
GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
Parking, Big West Festival, Footscray 3011. November 2009SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
Gallery 101, 101 Collins Street, Melbourne. July 2010 Free Portfolio Website | Online Gallery Website | Build an Online Photo Album | Get a Photography Website Template | Build a Photo Portfolio Website | Build an Artist Portfolio Website
