Title

Damon Kowarsky CV

Author

Kowarsky, Damon

Details

2009

Publication date

2009

Type

CV

Language

English

Country of context

Australia

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Education

2000 Bachelor of Fine Art [Honours] Victorian College of the Arts

1998 International student exchange Glasgow School of Art, Scotland

External study unit RMIT University

Advanced Figure Drawing with Godwin Bradbeer

 

Professional Experience

2009 Artist in Residence Townhouse Gallery Cairo

Artist in Residence Can Serrat International Art Centre

2008 Tutor, Printmaking Workshops Firestation Print Studio

2007/8 Tutor, Bookbinding Workshops ArtPlay, City of Melbourne

2007 Artist in Residence/ Visiting Faculty Beaconhouse National University, Lahore

Supported by The Ian Potter Cultural Trust and WorldNomads

Printmaker in Residence Megalo Access Arts, Canberra

2006/7 RMIT Project Space/ Visual Arts Printmaking Summer Residency

2006 Taller Para Artesanos - papel maché Museo de Arte Popular, Mexico City

workshop in techniques of traditional Mexican Art

2005 Substation Balston St, St Kilda

collaborative public art project with David M Saunders, Architect, S2 Design

2004 Australian Print Workshop Collie Print Trust Emerging Victorian Printmakers Scholarship

2003 Artist in Residence Townhouse Gallery Cairo

2002 Archaeological Illustrator Dakhleh Oasis Project, Egypt

supported by The Ian Potter Cultural Trust and organised through Monash University

City of Port Phillip Mentoring Program participant in program to team young artists with established practitioners

2001-2 Scientific Illustrator Museum Victoria drawing invertebrate specimens for cd-rom database

2001 Studio Access Chisholm Institute of TAFE access to print studio arranged by David Salter

2000-1 Courtroom Illustrator GTV Nine Melbourne drawings for nightly news service

2000-1 Tutor, Printmaking Workshop Brighton Artist's Society

teaching relief and monoprint techniques to small groups of adults

 

Solo Exhibitions

2008 Sur Dickerson Gallery Melbourne

Under a Jaguar Sun Impressions on Paper Gallery, Canberra

2007 Home and Away Alhamra Art Gallery, Lahore, Pakistan

From the Empty Quarter Joshua McClelland Print Room

Travels Dickerson Gallery

2006 Etchings Intrude Contemporary Art

2005 New Works Joshua McClelland Print Room

Stranger in a Strange Land Angela Robarts-Bird Gallery

 

Two Person Exhibitions

2007 Kelvin Mann and Damon Kowarsky Solander Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand

Fabled Angela Robarts-Bird Gallery

2006 Revenants Impressions on Paper Gallery

 

Selected Group Exhibitions

2009 New Figuration James Makin Gallery

40x40x40 Dickerson Gallery

2nd Bangkok International Print Triennale Silpakorn University, Thailand

Burnie Print Prize Burnie Regional Art Gallery Tasmania

2008 Deck the Walls Solander Gallery

Group Therapy Immersion Therapy

Compact Prints Umbrella Studio, Townsville, QLD

New Prints International Print Center New York

Mask Angela Robarts-Bird Gallery

Pressing Matters JennyPort Gallery

Printing Figuratively Port Jackson Press

100 Works on Paper Kentler Gallery, New York

Six Ply Megalo Print Studios, Canberra

Fresh Cream Alhamra Art Gallery

Contemporary Mini Prints Roennebaeksholm Arts Center, Denmark

Compact Prints Touring Exhibition Castlemaine Phee Broadway Theatre

2007 The Body RMIT Project Space/ Spare Room

Australian Prints Joshua McClelland Print Room

5 Printmakers PaperGraphica, Christchurch, New Zealand

50 Geelong Art Gallery

Gifted Charles Darwin University

Printmaking JennyPort Gallery

By the Light of the Moon Impressions on Paper Gallery

Inky & Scratchy Solander Gallery

2006 International Print Exhibition Tohane-i Amire Gallery, İstanbul

Arrivals Solander Gallery

Compact Prints Umbrella Studio

Expo Art Interactive School, Mexico City

Beasties Port Jackson Press

Postcards from Tomorrow Toyota Community Spirit Gallery

The Young and the Collectable Port Jackson Press

2005 Transit Australian Print Workshop

Group Show Axes Art Space

books.05 Noosa Regional Gallery

He – Who Inspires Walker Street Gallery

Chiaroscuro Chiara Goya Gallery

New Works Australian Print Workshop

Linden Postcard Show Linden Art Gallery

2004 A4Art West Space

Impressions 2004 Australian Print Workshop

2003 Linden Postcard Show Linden Art Gallery

2002 Grafinnova 2002 Ostrobothnian Museum, Vaasa, Finland

Compact Prints Umbrella Studio

Emerging Artist Program Mira Fine Art

2000 Canson Art Prize Monash University Gallery

Scale 21 George Paton Gallery

1999 The Tool Show 69 Smith St Gallery

Six and Nine 69 Smith St Gallery

1998 Bestiary Newbery Gallery, Glasgow

Smallgoods Fitzroy Gallery

1997 Proof Old Treasury Building

Folios and Print Exchanges

2007 50 curated by Rona Green

MiniPrint#5 Josephine Severn

2006 By the Light of the Moon Rona Green

Print Exchange II Robert Viana, Florida, USA

2005 Beasties Rona Green

2000 Scale 21 Felicity Thomson

 

Grants and Awards

2008 Toyota Community Spirit Artist Travel Award

2007 Ian Potter Cultural Trust Grant

Megalo Printmaker in Residence – Visiting Interstate Artist

WorldNomads sponsorship program

2006 RMIT Project Space/ Visual Arts Printmaking Summer Residency

2005 'He – Who Inspires' Intrude Contemporary Art Award

2004 Australian Print Workshop Collie Print Trust Emerging Victorian Printmakers Scholarship

NAVA Visual and Craft Artists' Grant

2002 ABC Radio National Message Stick e-card competition. Joint winner

Ian Potter Cultural Trust Grant
 

Last Updated

13 Aug 2012