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CHRIS
CHARSTONE
Curriculum Vitae
Nationality:
English/Australian - currently resident in
Wales, UK
Email: charstone@hotmail.com
EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATIONS:
| 2002 | Graduate Certificate in Teaching English as a Second Language, Deakin University, Victoria, Australia |
| 1994 |
Graduate Diploma (French), La Trobe University, Victoria, Australia |
| 1989 | B.A. Fine Arts. Phillip Institute of Technology, (now RMIT), Victoria, Australia. (Ceramic Sculpture and Art Theory) |
| 1972 | Diploma of Architectural Drafting. Leederville College, Perth, Western Australia |
PROFESSIONAL
EXPERIENCE:
| 1989-2013 | Practicing and exhibiting artist. |
| 2000-02 | Committee member and then Secretary of 69 Smith Street, an ARI (artist-rune-initiative) |
| 1997-1998 | Secretary of the Mosaic Art Group Incorporated (Australia) |
| 1997 | Primary Member of VISCOPY the Visual Arts Copyright Collecting Agency in Australia. |
| 1995 | Set design and construction for the Melbourne French Theatre company production of Jean-Paul Sartre's - Huis clos. |
| 1994-1998 | Member of Craft Victoria (Australia). |
| 1994.1998 | Board Member of the Arts Industry Council (Victoria , Australia). |
| 1993-1997 | Committee Member of the National Association for the Visual Arts in Victoria, Australia. |
| 1992 | Artist-in-School at Rosebud Secondary College, Rosebud, Victoria, Australia. |
| 1990-1991 | Tutor of ceramics and pottery at Wyreena Community Arts Centre, Croydon, Victoria, Australia. |
| 1990 | Designed and performed The Lyrebird in the, Most Original Entry awarded, Friends of the Earth float, Moomba Parade, Melbourne, Australia. |
| 1989 | Commissioned by the Coburg City Council to create the Victoria Street Mall Mosaics, Coburg, Victoria, Australia. |
| 1971-1974 |
Architectural draftsperson. |
SOLO EXHIBITIONS and MAJOR INSTALLATIONS:
| October 2011 | "Les Jardins Perdus de Château Ferney Voltaire" installtion of black and white photos of the Voltaire's château gardens held inside his château at Ferney-Voltaire, France |
| July - Sept 2011 | Exhibition of New Assemblages at L’Archipel des Mots, Gex, France |
| Oct 2010 | "Me and Me" Exhibition of digital photo montages and sculpture, Galerie Racines, Prevessin, France. |
| Dec 2007 | "And the Number Is:-" Internet published exhibition at: http://andthenumberis.chrischarstone.com |
| Feb 2005 | "Orgasm" Internet published exhibition at http://orgasm.chrischarstone.com |
| 2004-2008 | "The Book of Today" Internet published exhibition at: http://TheBookOfToday.chrischarstone.com |
| Nov 2000 | GENEVA, a 3 storey stairwell installation. Part of @ GLOBAL CITY, an exhibition linking international artists in 40 cities world wide, in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia |
| July 2000 | @where&and?why, two room sculptural installation, 69 Smith Street, Fitzroy, Victoria, Australia |
| Nov 1998 | A HUMAN DREAMING, sculptural installation, 69 Smith Street, Fitzroy, Victoria, Australia |
| May 1995 | "On Second Thoughts...!" installation, part of THE TRANSPARENT BOX event , Grand Central Gallery, Bourke St., Melbourne, Australia |
| Jan/Feb 1992 | TEMPLE’ ceramic and mosaic sculptural installation, Blackwood Street Gallery, North Melbourne, Australia |
GROUP
EXHIBITIONS:
| July - Sept 2012 | "The Watchers in the Woods", installation of boxed sculptures, part of the 3rd Art en Compagne outdoor exhibition of sculptures on a 6 km pathway leading across the Swiss and French borders, on the theme of "Rêveries du Promeneur Solitaire" by Rousseau. |
| Jan. 2011 | "Sans Papiers Dans Une Humanité Sans Frontières?", exhibition and debat on the theme of people without papers in France. |
| Sept 2010 | Australian Festival, participated in exhibition part of a festival looking at Australian culture, held in Gex, France. |
| June 2010 | "Older & Exposed", curated and participated in group exhibition addressing older women and self image, at 69 Smith Street A.R.I. (Artist Run Initiative), Fitzroy, Victoria, Australia |
| Oct 2009 |
"Sea Level". Invited to participate in the exhibition dedicated to the 20th anniversary of Art Center “Pushkinska, in St Petersburg, Russia. Published at: http://GirtBySea.chrischarstone.com |
| Oct 2001 | "Euroart 2001". Invited to participate in international art fair, 4th - 6th October 2002, in Barcelona, Spain. |
| Feb 1999 |
REPLICA, exhibition focusing on photocopy processes, 69 Smith
Street, (A.R.I), Fitzroy, Victoria, Australia. |
| May 1998 | Sampler, inaugural exhibition at 69 Smith Street, Fitzroy, Victoria, Australia |
| Nov 1997 |
11th Annual Kangaroo Awards for Sculpture exhibition, Kangaroo
Grounds, Victoria, Australia |
| May 1997 | MOSAIC EQUATIONS exhibition, State Craft Gallery, Meat Market Craft Centre, Melbourne, Australia |
| April 1997 | World in a Matchbox `97 exhibition, Grand Central Gallery, Melbourne, Australia |
| Dec 1995 | 9th Annual Kangaroo Awards for Sculpture exhibition, Kangaroo Grounds, Victoria, Australia |
| Nov 1995 | MOSAIC `95 group exhibition, The Artists Garden, Fitzroy, Victoria., Australia |
| Aug 1995 | Reclaim the Night Exhibition, The Women's Gallery, Fitzroy, Victoria, Australia |
| March 1995 | Sculpture
‘Goddess of a Maligned Species’, at Grand Central Gallery,
550 Bourke Street, Melbourne, Australia |
| Feb 1995 | SUITCASE exhibition, Moomba City Discovery Day, Town hall Plaza, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia |
| April/May 1994 |
Sculpture and photocopy
installation at ‘Art 4 show’, 189, Collins Street,
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. |
| Dec 1993 | 7th Annual Kangaroo Awards for Sculpture exhibition, Kangaroo Grounds, Victoria, Australia |
| April 1993 | NAVA
Exhibition at Arts Victoria Foyer, Melbourne, launching the 1993
NO VACANCY temporary galleries, in Melbourne, Australia |
| Jan/Feb1993 | Sculptural Installation at ‘No Vacancy’, City Square, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia |
| Jan 1993 | Sidney Myer Fund - Australia Day Ceramics Awards, Shepparton Art Gallery, Victoria, Australia |
| Dec 1992 | 6th Annual Kangaroo Awards for Sculpture exhibition, Kangaroo Grounds, Victoria, Australia |
| Nov/Dec 1992 |
'Street Art/Gallery
Art', exhibition at the Mornington Peninsular Art Centre, Mornington, Victoria, Australia. |
| Mar&June1992 | Group Exhibitions, The Artists Garden, Fitzroy, Victoria, Australia |
| 1986 to 1991 | Participated in various group exhibitions |
COLLECTIONS:
Private collections in Australia, France and Switzerland.
GRANTS:
1992
& 1998 Awarded
Pat Corrigan Artist Grants.
TRAVEL:
| 2003-2012 | Travelled all through Europe and to China, USA and Egypt, exploring landscape, architecture and people, seeking images and ideas for my exhibitions. |
| 2002 |
Became a resident in Gex, France near the Swiss, Geneva boarder. |
| 2000 | Travelled to Geneva, Switzerland, in April to carry out preliminary photographic work for the installation GENEVA. |
| 1999 | Trip to Venice, Switzerland and Wales visiting art galleries and sites of architectural interest. |
| 1997 | Visited England, France and Spain looking at art galleries and church architecture. |
| 1995 | Trip to England and Switzerland exploring Roman and Medieval architecture. |
| 1991 | Researched religious art and architecture in Indonesia. |
SELECTED
PUBLICATIONS:
| Nov 2006 | Featured artist of the month on the National Association of the Visual Arts (NAVA), website at: www.visualarts.net.au/gallery/chrischarstone |
| Oct 2001 | "Euroart 2001" catalogue. |
| Nov 1999 | Listed in the Contemporary Sculptors Association (CSA) directory in Australia. |
| Jan 1996 | "On Second Thoughts....!", Current Document, Issue No.3, University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. |
| April 1993 | "Chris Charstone-Artist Profile", Pottery in Australia, Vol. 32 no. 1 Autumn 1993. |
| March 1992 | "Paying Homage to the Temple", Craft Victoria, Vol. 22 no. 213. |
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