Domenico de Clario is an interdisciplinary artist, academic, writer and musician. He was born in Trieste, Italy, in 1947 and migrated to Australia in 1956. He studied architecture and town planning at Melbourne University, painting at Milan’s Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera and lithography at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Urbino. In 1998 he was awarded an MA and in 2001 a PhD in performance studies from Melbourne’s Victoria University.  He taught in the art school at RMIT from 1973 until 1996 and from 1998 both at the Centre for Ideas at VCA and at Victoria University. He was head of the School of Contemporary Arts at Perth’s ECU from 2001 to 2006, head of the School of Fine Arts at Monash University from 2006 to 2009 and director of Adelaide’s Australian Experimental Art Foundation from 2009 until 2012. From 2008 until 2013 he was adjunct professor at the University of South Australia.

Since 1966 Domenico has presented more than 300 solo and group exhibitions, installations and performances and has published a number of books and CDs. He has been the recipient of numerous national and international residencies and grants, including the Australia Council Fellowship. His work is represented in major public and private collections both in Australia and worldwide.

 

 


DOMENICO DE CLARIO – CURRICULUM VITAE
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Domenico de Clario was born in Trieste, Italy, in 1947 and migrated to Australia with his family in 1956.

EDUCATION

1966-69 Bachelor of Architecture, Bachelor of Town Planning, Melbourne University

1967-68 Painting Diploma, Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera, Milan, Italy

1968 Lithography Diploma, Accademia di Belle Arti di Urbino, Italy

1973-75 Diploma of Art, Preston Institute of Technology, Melbourne

1996-98 Master of Arts, Victoria University, Faculty of Human Movement

1998-2001 PhD, Performance Studies, Faculty of Human Movement, Victoria University, Melbourne

 

ACADEMIC POSITIONS/EMPLOYMENT

1973-1996
Undergraduate and postgraduate teaching, supervision and administration at the Art School of the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology

1996-1998
Teaching Performance Studies, Victoria University; teaching at Victorian College of the Arts (Centre for Ideas)

2001-2006
Head of the School of Contemporary Art; and Associate Dean, Research and Development, Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts, Edith Cowan University, Perth, West Australia.

2006-2009
Head of Department of Fine Arts, Faculty of Art, Architecture and Design, Monash University, Melbourne.

2009-2012
Artistic and Managing Director, Australian Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide.

2010-
Adjunct Professor, School of Art, Design and Architecture, University of South Australia, Adelaide

2014 – 2016
Chair, Mildura Palimpsest Biennale Committee

2016 – 2023
Chair, Arts Mildura

2016 –
Co-ordinator, museum of innocence Mildura

 

AWARDS AND RESIDENCIES

2024
st genest residency, vincent van gogh project, arles france

2020
Commission, Shepparton Arts Festival, Dookie Silo Project

2019
Commissioned for two all-night improvised keyboard and voice performances for ‘Floating Land’, Noosa Regional Arts Gallery

2018
Creative Victoria, Artist Grant, reciproco/RECIPROCAL
City of Melbourne Artist Grant, reciproco/RECIPROCAL Artist Residency, Fremantle Arts Centre

2015
Creative Victoria, Artists in Schools Grant: Dharma School, Daylesford, Victoria

2013
La Trobe University, Bendigo; Visual Arts Centre Residency, October 2012-January 2013

2012
Residency at the British Academy, Rome

2011
University of Queensland Museum, National Artists’ Self-Portrait Award Australia Council for the Arts Residency at the British Academy, Rome

2010
Visual Arts Board of the Australia Council for the Arts: Rome Studio Residency, British Academy, Rome
Art Vault Residency, Mildura

2009
Darebin City Council Arts Research Grant
Invited Finalist, Clemenger Art Prize, National Gallery of Victoria

2007
Monash University Research Grant

2003
Victoria University Post Graduate Excellence Award for Best Postgraduate Thesis
Victoria University Professional Achievement Award

1999
Victoria University best Post-Graduate Thesis
Faculty of Human Development, VU, best Post Graduate Thesis

1998
Inaugural Italia Community Arts Award, Melbourne
ASIALINK Residency, Silkaporn University, Bangkok
Artist Residency, Govett-Brewster Gallery, New Plymouth, New Zealand

1997
Artist Residency, Visiting Fellow, University of Western Sydney
Artist Residency, Penny McCall Foundation Grant (New York, USA)

1996-98
Australia Council, Visual Arts/Crafts Board Fellowship
Victoria University Postgraduate Research Scholarship

1996
Artist Residency, Sabbathday Lake, Maine, USA; The Quiet In the Land: Everyday
Life, Contemporary Art and the Shakers

1993
Visual Arts/Crafts Board Bridging Fellowship (inaugural)

1991
Visual Arts/Crafts Board Residency, Greene Street, New York, U.S.A

1987
Visual Arts/Craft Board, Half-standard Grant
University of N.S.W. Acquisitive Prize; judged by Katrina Rumley & Barry Pearce

1986
Eltham Art Award, Myer Foundation Grant to make prints at the Victorian Print Workshop

1985
Diamond Valley Acquisitive Art Prize (Drawing); judged by Jan Senbergs

1984
Visual Arts/Craft Board Residency, Paretaio, Italy

1982
Diamond Valley Acquisitive Prize (Painting); judged by Betty Churcher
Alice Springs Acquisitive Prize; judged by Elwynn Lynn

1981
Visual Arts/Craft Board Travel Grant to Christchurch, New Zealand to participate in ANZART Performance Festival

1975
Mildura Non-Permanent Sculpture Prize; judged by Noel Sheridan

1973
Perth International Drawing Prize, AGWA; judged by William Scott
Corio Prize for Painting, Geelong Art Gallery; judged by Ron Appleyard
Mildura Non-Permanent Sculpture Prize; judged by Patrick McCaughey & John Bayly
Minnie Crouch Drawing Prize, Ballarat Art Gallery

1971
Perth International Drawing Prize; judged by Anthony Caro

1969
Italia Prize for Painting; judged by Alan McCulloch

1967
Italian Government Scholarship to study at Brera Academy, Milan and Urbino Academy, Urbino

1966
Tasmanian Timber House Award (for a house design entirely in timber), judged by Robin Boyd

PUBLISHED COMPACT DISCS & BOOKS

between 2011 and 2024 published over 450 readings and music videos both on Youtube channel, Instagram and Linkedin

2011
2047 (the immortal), improvised piano CD

2010
journey to the surface of the earth (the idea of love and light), 4CD set of improvised collaborative performances, with Stephen Whittington, Tony Yap and Janette Hoe

2009
the idea of silence (as plants never born), with Graziella de Clario, poems, essay and illustrations
triestement, CD, improvised piano compositions

2008
A Calvinian Architecture, translations/short stories, Monash University Press
A Tertiary World, short stories, Monash University Press

2002
Shaker Road, CD, nonplace records, Cologne, Germany

2001
te awatea, Double CD, live performance recorded at TSB Stadium, New Plymouth, NZ

1998
love songs for lost sheep, Double CD, Voice/piano recorded at University of Western Sydney

1997
Let’s Face the Music and Dance, double CD, Voice/piano recorded at University of Western Sydney
The Intertwining, CD, compact disc and publication (collaborations with Liza Lim), IMA, Brisbane
Shaker Road, Double CD recorded at Sabbath Day Lake, Shaker Village, Maine, USA

1995
From The Opaque, CD, Solstice piano performance recorded at Threadwaxing Space, New York
As Plants Never Born (translations of Graziella de Clario’s poems) NGV

1994
Lighthouse (with Emma de Clario) poems and drawings

1981
Reading to the Monkey, poems, PIT Press

 

CONVENED CONFERENCES

2019
reciproco/ reciprocal Italian museum, carlton, victoria

2010
to give time to time, AEAF, Adelaide and mildura

2003
seven beauties, ECU, Albany WA

2004
now beauty: cover or remix? ECU, Perth

2005
ACUADS, ECU, Perth

2006
ACUADS, Monash University, Melbourne

2008
Out of Bounds: Art, Faith and Religiosity, Monash University

2010
Ephemeros: (to) give time to time, Two-day Symposium and a series of installation/performances, in collaboration with Mildura Palimpsest Festival, Latrobe University and Rio Vista Park, Mildura

2019
Reciprocity in cultural exchanges between Australia and Italy; Italian Museum Melbourne, reciproco/RECIPROCAL project

 

MEMBERSHIP OF BOARDS OF MANAGEMENT

Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney (Artists’ Advisory Group); 2008 – 2012

International Art Space Kellerberrin Australia (IASKA); now Perth International

Biennale (SPACED), 2003-2009

Biennale of Electronic Arts Perth (BEAP) 2001-2008

Australian Council of Art and Design Schools (ACUADS) 2001-2008

Edith Cowan University Faculty Board (2001-2006)

Perth Institute of Contemporary Art (PICA) 2002-2007

South Project International, Melbourne 2003-2007

Faculty Board, Faculty of Art, Architecture and Design, Monash University, 2006-2008

Council of the Australian Experimental Art Foundation, Council, 2008-2012

Council of the School of Art, Design and Architecture, University of South Australia, 2009-2012

Italian Institute of Culture, Melbourne, Cultural Committee, 2009- 12

Executive Committee, Arts Industry Council of South Australia, 2010 -12

Executive Committee, West End Association, Adelaide, 2010-12

Chair, Executive Committee, Mildura Palimpsest Biennale; 2012 –2016

Chair, Arts Mildura, 2016-2023

Chair, Mildura Contemporary Practice Committee, 2016-2022

Chair, Food Next Door Co-Op, Mildura, 2023-

 

 CURATED EXHIBITIONS

1976
drawing: some definitions Ewing and George Paton Galleries, Melbourne University

1977
east coast drawing IMA, Brisbane

1981-1996
various projects as co-ordinator of Pitspace, RMIT, Bundoora Campus

2002-2006
various projects including soundspectrum and the round ball game, spECtrUGallery, Perth

2007
odradek, collaborative sound works, Faculty Gallery, Monash University, Melbourne

2008
in praise of blandness, Faculty Gallery, Monash University, Melbourne

2009 – 2012
Curated various projects at the Australian Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide, including ‘gone in no time gone in no time’, ‘duetto’ and ‘(to) give time to time’ (also at Mildura Arts Centre).

2012
Room with Animals and Humans, MARS Gallery, Melbourne

2013
arte magra: from the opaque, AEAF, Adelaide

2016
various projects at museum of innocence mildura

2017
weep for painting, Mars Gallery, Melbourne

2018
Wes Walters: The Art Of The Precursor, Mildura Arts Centre and museum of innocence, Mildura

2019
reciprocal /RECIPROCO
A series of five collaborations between Italian artists and Australian artists of Italian background, each sited in an iconic Carlton location (Creative Victoria funding).

 

 SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS/PERFORMANCES

2026
Invisibles / sculpture commissioned by Fondation Vincent Van Gogh as a memorial/monument to honour both Van Gogh and the Maison Jaune, permanently installed opposite its former location in Place Lamartine, Arles, France
turbulence / rising falling / drawing installation / Arles Festival du Dessin / Arles / April-May
chidovequandocome / installation / Magazzini dell’Arte Contemporanea / Trapani, Italy
seven songs for john / voice and keyboard performance / Heide Museum of Modern Art / Melbourne

 2025
cypress music / performance and found objects installation / Bengtsson Fine Art Arles France
vaasa arts festival painting installation and seven un-named performances / Vaasa University, Vaasa Finland
the entropic space: a selection painting installation, Bengtsson Fine Art Arles, France
luna (16 moon songs) voice and keyboard performance / Beau Belle Gallery, Arles, France
France / painting installation and performance / 1 rue du Cloistre / Arles, France

2024
cypress music installation of carvings on found wood and marble, Bengtsson Fine Art, Arles, France
the entropic space painting installation St Genest Church, Arles, France
moonrise over the rhone / arles and auvers-sur-oise painting installation, Bengtsson Fine Art, Arles, France
a field of yellow flowers keyboard performance, St Genest, Arles, France
al-jabr (the reunion of broken parts) paintings, Mars Gallery, Melbourne
al-jabr (the reunion of broken parts) paintings, workplace 3496 Red Cliffs
gift (serenade) installation and performance Cecil Street Project, Melbourne

2023
Eleven Sons, installation and performance Cecil Street Project Melbourne
al-jabr, paining installation, Italian Festa, Exhibition Building, Melbourne
journey to the surface of the moon, solstice performance / installation with Raka Supriatna, Skygarden, Irymple, Victoria
MAP pavilion, month-long series of collaborative performances at the Pavilion, Fitzroy Gardens, Melbourne
dumb-as-me collaborative performance with raka supriatna and ayako fujii, Apax Apace, Preston Melbourne
eight love songs Make-it-up-Club Melbourne

2022
i’ve made up my mind to give myself to you, sound / voice performance installation Occasional Space, Melbourne
ulysses (tua mare grega), 24 hour reading / keyboard performance of James Joyce’s ‘Ulysses’, at Mildura Arts Hub, Mildura, for Bloomsday 2022
heart is land, collaborative performance at Mpavilion, Melbourne
songs for albert, sound performance and installation at tempo rubato, Melbourne, with Raka Supriatna and Jonathan Sinatra
situate (the immortal 2047), painting installation at Mildura Arts Hub
flowers for lorne / seven chairs, three site-specific sound performance / installations and solo reading, Lorne Sculpture Biennale, Lorne (with Raka Supriatna and Tony Yap)

2021
letter to danila (what you hoped for through your lifetime), paintings and text, Mars Gallery Melbourne
yet to be imagined, performance and paintings, Victorian Artists Society, East Melbourne
gift (serenade), 16 live performances / light + sound installation, Priceline Warehouse, Mildura
you said, all-night summer solstice sound performance / installation in Mildura Arts hub

2020
small mercies, live benefit performance, westspace, West Melbourne
all-night summer solstice performance museum of innocence Mildura with Don Mayne

2019
tomba installation in Melbourne General Cemetery, collaborative performance with Laura Cionci for reciproco /reciprocal
Songs for Albert; performance in QDOS gallery Lorne, with Carmen Chan, Lucca de Clario-Davis and Gene DuVetrier
Tonglen, painting installation, Mars Gallery, Melbourne
Songs for Albert, all night performance at Dookie Shire Hall, Dookie

2018
eleven sons, PSAS Fremantle, collaborative performance with eleven invited Perth artists all-night solstice performance museum of innocence Mildura

2017
songs for albert, installation and performance, Melaka Art and Performance Festival, Melaka, Malaysia
songs for albert, installation and performance, White Night, Mpavilion, Melbourne
songs for albert, installation and performance, Fryerstone Mechanics’ Institute, Castlemaine State Festival
songs for albert, installation and performance, museum of innocence Mildura
triestement, painting installation, gallery 27 Mildura and museum of innocence Mildura
to love: breathing for biagio walking, site-speficic all night performance at Fremantle Roundhouse, Hightide Fremantle Biennale

2016
tonglen (from the opaque); installation and three performances, May-November, Irymple (Mildura)
seven sunset songs, seven performance/installations, museum of innocence Mildura
seven songs for albert; voice and keyboard performance Newcastle Art Gallery, Newcastle
suono di sogno installation and performance ADFA Mildura
walking slowly downhill at MAC; installation and performance, Mildura Arts Centre Sculpture Park, Mildura
walking slowly downhill (posidonia); installation and performance, Gallery 5, Rio Vista, Mildura Arts Centre, Mildura
richiamo (longing); installation, Stefano’s Cellar Restaurant, Mildura

2015
walking slowly downhill; four-month walking performance, Murray River (from Mt Kosciuszko to Goolwa)
seven as the reasoning of numbers (sleep), painting installation and performance, MARS gallery, Windsor, Melbourne
as plants never born, Piers Festival, Princes Pier, Melbourne
gift (tall the gorgeous nothings), ongoing installation and sound performance, May-September 2015, ex-Reject Shop, Pier Street, Dromana

2014
the last resort, installation and all-night sound performance, The Walls, Gold Coast, Queensland
gift, installation and performance, Lorne Pier and St Andrews Uniting Church, Lorne Sculpture Biennale
drawing out, installation and performance, NGV Federation Square, Melbourne Now

2013
duet for two voices, installation and all-night voice and keyboard performance, for Dark MOFO, GASP (Glenorchy art and sculpture park), Hobart, Tasmania
the butterflies are out (it only takes a little light), installation and a set of 24 performances, The Substation Art Centre, Newport, Melbourne
tonglen* (for you always, for all intensive purposes on the occasion of my passing) installation and performance, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
from the opaque; the question of the archive, installation and residency, Latrobe University Visual arts Centre, Bendigo
white night: triestement songs (le lapin agile – snow coming), performance and installation, White Night, National Gallery of Victoria, Ian Potter Gallery, Melbourne
tonglen: duet for two voices, Ten Days Round the Island festival, Kelly Steps, Hobart
meditations on nightingales (seven sensitive men/seven aspects of self), painting installation, Yuill | Crowley Gallery, Sydney
meditations on nightingales / seven sensitive men / twenty-one songs, voice and keyboard performance/installation, Yuill | Crowley Gallery, Sydney
solo sound performance, Collingwood gallery, Melbourne
if i can dream (duet for one voice: the duino elegies and other songs), Palimpsest Mildura Biennale, confluence of Murray and Darling rivers, Wentworth, New South Wales, from 8.58 pm     (moonset*) October 6 2013 to 7.01 am (sunrise) October 7

2012
foreverforeverforever, all night improvised keyboard performance and installation, Banyule Arts Centre, Melbourne
five corner sky, installation, British School at Rome, Italy
duet for two voices (the listened world), sound performance/installation, Room No 7, Appin Motel, Appin, New South Wales
duet for two voices (the listened world), drawing installation and four keyboard performances, John Buckley Gallery, Melbourne
me/you/us, installation and performance (with Sam Burke) Melaka Visual and Performing Arts Festival, Melaka, Malaysia
tutto e’ gia’ qui’, sound performance/installation, 188 Grenfell Street, Adelaide

2011
Artisti Italiani nel Mondo, Italian Pavilion, 54th Biennale di Venezia
2047 (the immortal), painting installation and performance, John Buckley Gallery, Melbourne
conversazione con les estrellas, installation and performance, Latrobe University Gallery, Bendigo, Victoria

2010
learning to be dead (for azizam), 12-hour sound performance/installation, seedling art space, Adelaide
cathedral, blindfold piano performance, Clemenger Prize, National Gallery of Victoria (Ian Potter), Melbourne
settevoltecieco, lithographs and monotypes, Art Vault Gallery, Mildura
lardethac (wendloeht = dloweneht), two-week installation/performance, 20 Westbury Street, Hackney, Adelaide
who says words with my mouth, all-night solstice performance/installation, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne
triestement (more-is-u-thrill-o), painting installation and performance, John Buckley Gallery, Melbourne
machine-for-contacting-the-dead, installation and performance, Cottee’s Factory, Palimpsest Festival, Mildura, Victoria

2009
cathedral, blindfold piano performance/installation, Clemenger Prize, National Gallery of Victoria (Ian Potter), Melbourne
cache, blindfold piano performance (for Nick Waterlow), Viscopy, Sydney
the idea of silence, installation and collaboration with Graziella de Clario, Post Office Gallery, University of Ballarat
the idea of light and love, all-night blindfold keyboard performance, Domain House, Botanical Gardens, Melbourne
fountain (four windows), text and light installation, MARS Gallery, Melbourne
seven nests, seven installations and performances for Robyn Archer’s Light in Winter
tonglen (solstice), Federation Square, Melbourne; sunset to sunrise blindfold piano performance at BMW Edge, Federation Square
eyton road, multimedia performance, La Mama, Melbourne
memory palace (machine-for-contacting-the-dead), Murray-Darling Palimpsest, Mildura, installation and all-night blindfold piano performance, Cottee’s Factory, Mildura
triestement (more-is u-thrill-o), painting installation, text and sound CD, blindfold piano performance, John Buckley Gallery, Melbourne

2008
memoriam, all-night improvised keyboard performance and light installation, shearing shed, Tallarook, Victoria
line drawing, all-night improvised keyboard performance and light installation, UNISA Gallery, Adelaide
suono, segno, sonno, sogno, blindfolded keyboard performance, UNISA Gallery, Adelaide
the meaning of flowers, all night sound performance and light installation, VCA School of Music, VCA, Melbourne
hide, installation/performance, MARS Gallery, Melbourne
vehicle, site-specific light installation, Helen/Herbert Streets, Northcote, Melbourne

2007
that time, installation/text, Arc One Gallery, Melbourne
the colours of odradek, sound performance/installation, Faculty Gallery, Monash University
the book of questions, sound performance, la sebastiana, Valparaiso, Chile
meditations on seven sensitive men, sound performance, CARNI, Melbourne
a tertiary world, video performances, installation and texts, MARS Gallery, Melbourne
the book of questions, sound performance/installation, Fremantle Arts Centre, Fremantle

2006
twenty-two paintings (breathing for biagio walking), Arc One Gallery, Melbourne
towards morning (for n.s.), site-specific all night sound performance, East Point Gun Turret, Darwin, commissioned by 24-Hour Art, Darwin
the round-ball game, collaborative all-night sound performance, spectrum project space, Perth

2005
cares of a family man (philomela and odradek), sound performance, Adam Art Gallery, Wellington N.Z.
rice and celery (tonglen), sound performance, Perth Institute for Contemporary Arts, Perth
a second simplicity, installation/performance, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne
seven live horses from uqbar, all-night sound performance, Breadbox, Perth
philomela, all-night sound performance, Perth Institute for Contemporary Art, Perth
tonglen (co-dependent arising), all-night sound performance, NRLA, Midland Railway Workshops, Perth
the universe as mirror, installation/performance, Artspace, Sydney
seven times thank you, paintings/text, Arc One Gallery, Melbourne

2004
let it, sound performance, Club Zho, Perth, with Burnt Friedman/Hayden Chisholm
seven times thank you, paintings/text, Goddard de Fiddes Gallery, Perth
home on the range, sound performance at the breadbox, Perth
prosthetic head, performance with Stelarc, Lindsay Vickery, Cat Hope, PICA Perth
random selection; pattern, order and chaos, installation, Holmes a’Court Gallery, Perth

2003
floating land, sound performance, Noosa Regional Gallery project, Tewantin, Queensland
the householders’s concern, sound performance on Stuart Grand Piano, Tasmanian Conservatorium of Music, Hobart
plea to my mother, all-night sound performance, West Australian Academy of Performing Arts, Perth
seven beauties, installation/texts, Spectrum Project Space, Perth
on learning to be dead, performance/text, Quaranup Quarantine Centre, Albany, Western Australia
borges e io’, sound performance, Link, Bologna, Italy
eleven sons, installation/texts, Albany Wind Farm, Albany, W.A.
the blue room and the coloured room, installation, texts and sound performance, Spectrum Project Space, Perth
the householder’s concern, sound performance and installation, Kurb Gallery, Perth

2002
amplification circle, seven performances in seven Adelaide churches, Adelaide Festival of Arts, Adelaide
spectrum at spectrum, collaborative performance, Spectrum Project Space, Perth
church, sound performance with Eugene Carchesio, Spectrum Project Space, Perth
now, sound performance with Eugene Carchesio at Bellas Gallery, Brisbane
tonglen (the infinite lawn), installation, Artspace, Sydney
a project, with Janine Antoni and Paul Ramirez, Jonas Atlantic Center for the Arts, Florida, United States
borges and i, sound performance, Midland Railway Workshop, Perth
edipo re, sound performance/projection, Hotel 6151, Perth
december 12 raga (rain), sound performance/projection, Velvet Lounge, Perth

2001
the infinite lawn, all-night sound performance, Deer Acres, Acadia, Maine, U.S.A.
pietre parlanti’, sound performance, Corte del Teatro Malibran, Venice, Italy
detritus, seven sound performances/installations, Belconnen Landfill, Canberra
a calvinian architecture, 56 sound performances/installations, Northcote, Melbourne

2000
the albino gorilla, installation, Southbank, Brisbane, for Monochromes
il prato infinito, sound performance, Via Croce 3 Gorizia, Italy
rice and celery; or the pronunciation of commas, sound performance/projection of Fritz Lang’s ‘Metropolis’, Biblioteca Statale Isontina, Gorizia, Italy
the seedbed of desire, collaborative performance with 49 children, Axe’ Foundation, Museum of Contemporary Art, Salvador, Brazil
haft peikar, 13 sound performances, Mass Gallery, Melbourne
7 invisible conversations between Marco Polo and Kublai Khan, Venice Carnevale, Venice, Italy
tongleN (7 conversazioni with les estrellas), performance/installation, Artspace, Sydney

1999
tongleN (conversazioni with les estrellas), all-night sound performance, Herring Island Sculpture Park, Melbourne
tongleN (13 conversazioni with les estrellas), 13 sound performances, Liverpool Biennale, Liverpool, UK
tongleN (conversazioni with les estrellas), sound performance, Silpakorn Arts Centre, Silpakorn University, Bangkok
breathe this, all-night sound performance, Brazil Salvador Museum of Contemporary Art, Salvador de Bahia, Brazil
seedbed of desire, all-night sound performance, About Studios, Bangkok Silpakorn Arts Centre, all-night sound performance, Silpakorn University, Bangkok

1998
Billabong Formulas, paintings/installations, Michael Milburn Gallery, Brisbane
Eudosia, 7 performances/installations, Linienstrasse Gallery, Berlin
Love Songs for Lost Sheep, all-night sound performance, Construction in Process VI: The Bridge Living Museum of the West Melbourne
The Bridge, all-night sound performance, Polly Woodside (Eufemia), Melbourne
My Own Particular Anxiety (Eudosia), seven performances on Sydney ferries and installation, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
The awakening, seven sound performances and installation, Govett-Brewster Gallery, New Plymouth, New Zealand

1997*

Songs for the Unborn Mori Gallery, paintings/installations, Mori Galleries, Sydney

Hourglass (Possible Laudomias), sound performance, Mori Gallery, Sydney

The Meadow of the Low Sage, sound performance, Haus-am-Waldsee, Berlin,

Germany

eudosia / seven performances on Berlin U-bahn (underground rail system) / light

installation and summer all-night solstice blindfolded performance / improvised

keyboard / Haus-am-Waldsee, Berlin, Germany

the diver’s clothes lying empty: Domenico de Clario: A Survey 1966–

1996, Monash University Gallery, Melbourne

Advantage of Seven, Squash performance, Monash University Sports Centre,

Melbourne

1996

KATEDRL, seven installations, 141 West 22nd Street, New York

KATEDRL (Cathedral), installation, Mori Gallery, Sydney

KATEDRL (apokalypsis: 1993 – 1996) seven installations, Michael Wardell Gallery,

Melbourne

The Second Simplicity, sound performance, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art,

Melbourne

1995

Instructions for the Other Self, installation, Michael Wardell Gallery, Melbourne,

Seveness: sub-lunar, seven performances, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne

From the Opaque, installation, Michael Wardell Gallery, Melbourne

Who Says Words With My Mouth? Drawings, Michael Wardell Gallery, Melbourne

Who Says Words With My Mouth? Sound performance, University of Western

Australia, Music School, Perth

From the Opaque (Solstice), sound performance and installation, Thread Waxing

Space, New York,

1994

Solstice: The Seventh Loneliness, sound performance, Auburn Uniting Church,

Hawthorn

From the Opaque, sound performance, Summer Solstice Princes Pier, Melbourne

1993

Components of an Expression Machine, three site-specific installations/texts, 342

Brunswick Street, Fitzroy; 35 Smith Street, Fitzroy; Bradken Foundry, Pascoe Vale,

Melbourne

The Trees (Visible, Invisible: Indivisible), seven installations, Australian Centre for

Contemporary Art, Fourth Australian Sculpture Triennial, Melbourne

Afterward (from a tower), site-specific installation and performance, 25 Helen Street,

Northcote, Melbourne

The Seventh Arit: Elemental Landscapes, seven site-specific installations, Murdoch

Court, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne

1992

A Message from the Emperor, site-specific installation, ADA Basement, Fitzroy,

Melbourne

Eleven Sons, site-specific installation/texts, Mori Gallery, Sydney

Eleven Sons, site-specific installation, Ian Potter Gallery, University of Melbourne

Museum of Art

Eleven Sons, site-specific installation, Muranushi Lederman Gallery, New York

1991

Machine for Contacting the Dead, site-specific installation, Institute of Modern Art,

Brisbane

Memory Palace, site-specific installation, Cable House, Melbourne

The Mendicant of Naples and Other Stories, installations, Mori Gallery, Sydney

Memory Palace, site-specific installation, Dooley Le Cappellaine Gallery, New York

The Next Village, paintings, Muranushi Lederman Gallery, New York

Excursion into the Mountains, site-specific installation, 252 La Fayette Street, New

York

Cathedral, site-specific installation, 252 La Fayette Street, New York

1990

Uncertainty Principle, paintings, Powell Street Gallery, Melbourne

Memory Palace, paintings, Mori Gallery, Sydney

Machine for Contacting the Dead, installation, Wollongong City Gallery, Wollongong

1989

Paintings, Macquarie Galleries, Sydney

Installation, Popular Front, Coolaroo, Melbourne

Recent Work, Powell Street Gallery, Melbourne

1988

Painting Survey 1968 – 1988, Qdos Gallery, Lorne,

Drawing Survey 1968 – 1988, Macquarie Galleries, Sydney

Tabula Rasa, paintings, Powell Street Gallery, Melbourne

1987

Paintings, Macquarie Galleries, Sydney

1986

Paintings, Macquarie Galleries, Sydney

Piano Performance and Installation, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (ACCA),

Melbourne

Paintings, Powell Street Gallery, Melbourne

1985

Paintings, Galleria Lillo, Venice, Italy

Piano Performance, Il Paretaio, Pisa, Italy

Paintings, Macquarie Galleries, Sydney

Drawings, Powell Street Gallery, Melbourne

1984

Paintings, United Artists, Melbourne

Paintings, Galleria Lillo, Venice, Italy

Sound performance, Il Paretaio, Pisa, Italy

1983

Installation, Pinacotheca, Melbourne

1982

Piano Performance, Open Stage, Melbourne State College

1981

The Five Kilometre Series, watercolours and drawings, Pinacotheca, Melbourne

In Seven Keys, Anzart, 7-day Piano Performance, Christchurch, New Zealand

Advantage of Seven, Anzart, Performance, Squash Court #1, Christchurch University

Sports Centre

1980

untitled Site-specific Installation, Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide

In Seven Keys, Piano Performance and painting installation, La Mama, Melbourne

Thank You Wind He Said, improvised piano performance, Elder Park, Adelaide

Festival of the Arts, Adelaide

1979

Untitled Installation, Pinacotheca, Melbourne

1978

Untitled Installation, Pinacotheca, Melbourne

1977

Untitled Installation, Pinacotheca, Melbourne

Me, Piano, Sound performance, Organ Factory, Clifton Hill, Melbourne

1976

Untitled Installation, Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide

Untitled Installation, Pinacotheca, Melbourne

1975

Elemental Landscapes, site-specific installation, Artists’ Artists Series, National

Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne

Spare Room, site-specific installation, Pinacotheca, Melbourne

1974

Boot, site-specific installation, Pinacotheca, Melbourne

1973

One Hundred and Twenty Choices in Ten Days, site-specific installation,

Pinacotheca, Melbourne

1972

Seven Structures, site-specific installation, Osborne & Polak, Melbourne

1971

Australias, Painting and drawing Installation, Osborne & Polak, Melbourne

1970

Paintings, Strines Gallery, Melbourne

1969

Site-specific installation, St. Peter’s Hall, East Melbourne

Watercolours, Hamilton Regional Art Gallery

1968

Installation, Salone Annunciata, Milan, Italy

Lithographs, Casa Santi, Urbino, Italy

1966

Athenaeum Gallery, paintings, Melbourne

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS/PERFORMANCES

2023

piano (in seven parts) authored play script for reading al La Mama, Melbourne

flowers for lorne season of improvised sound performance homaging D. H. Lawrence

and Rudyard Kipling at La Mama / with Raka Supriatna, Ayako Fujii and Tony Yap

journey to the surface of the moon solstice performance / installation with raka

supriatna, skygarde, irymple, victoria

MAP pavilion month-long series of collaborative performances at the pavilion, fitzroy

gardens, melbourne

dumb-as-me collaborative performance with raka supriatna and ayako fujii, apax

space, preston, melbourne

eleven sons: installation residency at Banco, Windsor

2022

heart is.land collaborative performance at Mpavilion, Melbourne

songs for albert, sound performance and installation at tempo rubato, Melbourne,

with Raka Supriatna and Jonathan Sinatra

situate (the immortal 2047) painting installation at Mildura Arts Hub

flowers for lorne / seven chairs three site-specific sound performance / installations

and solo reading, Lorne Sculpture Biennale, Lorne (with Raka Supriatna and Tony

Yap)

2021

Lorne Sculpture Biennale, Lorne

Victorian Artists Society, East Melbourne

2019

Collaborative performances, reciproco/RECIPROCAL, international collaborations,

Melbourne

Final exhibition, Mars Gallery, Melbourne

2018

Songs for Albert, Rainbow Performing Arts Festival

Blossom, testing grounds, Melbourne

A Message from the Emperor, museum of innocence, Mildura

2017

kalopsia (with Laura Cionci), museum of innocence, Mildura

songs for albert (with Don Mayne), museum of innocence, Mildura

to love: breathing for biagio walking, Fremantle Hightide Biennale, Fremantle

weep for painting, MARS Gallery, Melbourne

2016

sevenness (sublunar), installation and sunset to sunrise improvised collaborative

sound performance, Mpavilion, Botanical Gardens, Melbourne

seven melbourne artists, Victorian Artists Society, Melbourne

tonglen (from the opaque); sunset to sunrise (full moon/solstice) collaborative

improvised sound performance, with Tony Yap, Lella Cariddi, Ren Walters, Juana

Beltran, Irymple (Mildura)

tonglen (from the opaque); collaborative improvised equinox sound performance,

with Carmen Chan, Irymple (Mildura)

richiamo (longing); light installation and performance, throatchakra club, Mildura

Brewery, Mildura (with Adam Simmons)

2015

counting bone, Cross Art Books 33 Roslyn Street, King’s Cross, Sydney, April 22 to May 29

mildura palimpsest biennale, Mildura

seven songs, improvised sound performance with Gelareh Pour, MARS Gallery, Windsor,

Melbourne

2014

the conference of the birds, collaborative sound performance, La Mama, Carlton

the gorgeous nothings, collaborative installation and sound performance, Cecil Street

Studios, Fitzroy, Melbourne

general assembly of interested parties, collaborative sound performance and

installation, Testing Ground, Melbourne

animal kingdom, collaborative painting and sculpture, Collingwood Gallery,

Melbourne

the gorgeous nothings (gaip@aka), collaborative sound and installation performance,

AKA Studio, Melbourne

flying over, drawings, City of Fremantle Art Collection, Fremantle Art Gallery,

Fremantle

2013

crystal city, installation, sound performance and residency, Flinders University,

Adelaide

freedom, paintings and objects, Collingwood Gallery, Melbourne

2012

Tonglen Solstice, installation and perfomance, Banyule Arts Centre, Ivanhoe; with

Tony Yap, Janette Hoe and David Palliser

Generous and Brave: a decade of contemporary Australian art, National Gallery of

Victoria, Melbourne

Paradise in Spinoza’s Cabinet, 188 Grenfell Street, Adelaide

Melaka Festival of Visual and Performing Arts, Melaka, Malaysia

Contemporary Australian Drawing 2, University of the Arts, London, UK

Small Room with Animals and Humans, installation (with Sam Burke), MARS Gallery,

Melbourne

in the doghouse, (Small Room with Animals and Humans) performance, MARS

Gallery, Melbourne, with Sam Burke, Lotte & Toots

from the opaque: salutations to the sun, all night- improvised keyboard performance,

Light in Winter Festival, BMW Edge, Federation Square, Melbourne

International festival of Literatures, Ideas and Translation, with Graziella de Clario,

Federation Square, Melbourne

Contemporary Australian Drawing 2, Langford@120 Gallery, Melbourne

Winter Selection, John Buckley Gallery, Melbourne

Schumann’s Kreiserliana, painting performance in collaboration with pianist Cedric

Tiberghien, Salon, Dame Elizabeth Murdoch Recital Centre, Melbourne

2011

‘Forever Young: 30 Years of the Heide Collection’ Heide Museum of Modern Art,

Melbourne

‘forestories’, Sight Lines, installation/performance, with Sam Burke, Langford@120

Gallery, Melbourne

samadifference; Generations, installation/performance, with Sam Burke, Wollongong

Art Gallery, Wollongong

‘forestories’, with Sam Burke, Melaka Arts Festival, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

metanoia, improvised sound/performance, with Tony Yap and Emma Bathhouse,

Federation Square, Melbourne; Light in Winter Festival

‘forestories’, performance/installation, British School at Rome Gallery, in

collaboration with Sam Burke

re-visitations, installation/performance, Bendigo Art Gallery, with Tony Yap

from the opaque 3, installation/performance, Federation Square, Melbourne, for the

Light in Winter Festival, with Janette Hoe, Mark Minchinton and David Palliser

New Hang, National Gallery of Victoria, Ian Potter Gallery, Federation Square

Monash University Museum of Art

National Biennale, Artists’ Self Portrait Prize, University of Queensland Museum (by

invitation)

it’s all I ever want to do, performance/installation, with Tony Yap, Banyule Arts

Centre, Melbourne

2010

I feel the need for a deeper baptism, improvised blindfolded piano performance, with

Eugene Carchesio, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne

free forms in space, poetry and music performance, Elder Theatre, University of

Adelaide, Adelaide

io, pier paolo, poeta, performance with Mimmo Mangione and Anna Sciavilla, Higher

Ground Theatre, Adelaide and Italian Institute of Culture, Melbourne

freehand; recent australian drawing Heide Museum of Modern Art,

Melbourne

lithographs and monotypes, John Buckley Gallery Stand, Melbourne International Art

Fair

winter selection: monotypes, John Buckley Gallery, Melbourne

global mind, sound performance, Federation Square, Melbourne (with Stelarc, Jill Orr

and Karen Casey)

from the opaque (the light in winter), collaborative sound performance with David

Palliser and Janette Hoe, BMW Edge Theatre, Federation Square, Melbourne

duetto, sound performance with Stephen Whittington, Queens Theatre, Adelaide

futbol real, performance/installation, ‘(to) give time to time’, Queen’s Theatre,

Adelaide

journey to the surface of the earth, collaborative sound performance with Stephen

Whittington, Tony Yap and Janette Hoe, Madley Studios, University of Adelaide

it’s all i ever want to do collaborative sound/dance performance with Janette Ho,

Lella Cariddi and Tony Yap, Dancehouse, Carlton, Melbourne

‘that time’, improvised sound/installation performance, with Eugene Carchesio, ‘(to)

give time to time’, Avoca River Steamer, Mildura

it’s all I ever want to do full moon/equinox performance with Janette Hoe and Tony

Yap, Northcote Uniting Church, Northcote, Melbourne

futbol, Bianca Hester Project, ACCA, Melbourne

Deepening the Cut, lithographs, John Buckley Gallery, Melbourne

(to) give time to time, lithographs, gallery 25, Mildura

quit existing, collaborative installation with Emma de Clario, MARS Gallery,

Melbourne

2009

contemporary encounters, Ian Potter (NGV) Federation Square, Melbourne open,

improvised blindfold piano performance with Jason Sweeney, Australian

Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide, Australia

the eye the moon, blindfold improvised site-specific piano performance with dancer

Paula Lay, High Street, Northcote, Melbourne

cache, paintings, opening exhibition at Viscopy, Sydney

it’s all i want to do, collaborative live performance with Tony Yap, Janette Hoe and

Lella Cariddi, Masonic Hall, Box Hill, Melbourne

silenzio, collaborative live performance, Fitzroy Town Hall, with Janette Hoe, Tony

Yap and Mark Minchinton

Writers and Music, improvised piano performance with Italian poet Rosaria Lo Russo

and Prof Chris Wallace-Crabbe, Italian Institute of Culture, Melbourne

The Book of Ecclesiastes (Vanity, vanity: all is vanity), collaborative performance with

Vincenzo Cerami, ACMI, Melbourne Writers’ Festival, Federation Square, Melbourne

cathedral, performance installation for The Sixth Clemenger Prize (by invitation) The

Ian Potter Gallery, National Gallery of Victoria, Federation Square, Melbourne

On the line, video installation, ‘a tertiary world’, Centre for Contemporary

Photography, Melbourne

Drought, installation, Post Office Gallery, University of Ballarat

Palimpsest, site-specific performances and installations, various sites, Mildura

The light in winter, six performances by invited cultural music groups in site-specific

installations, including a seventh all night piano performance at BMW Edge,

Federation Square, Melbourne

2008

in praise of blandness, Monash University Faculty Gallery, Melbourne (curator and

participant)

line drawing, University of South Australia Gallery, Adelaide

drawn encounters, Wimbledon School of Art Gallery, University of the Arts, London

Drawing Survey, John Buckley Gallery, Melbourne

the cabinet of dr caligari, collaborative sound performance and video screening with

‘the donkey’s tail’, Faculty of Art and Design, Monash University, Melbourne

2007

Stranger Geography, Palazzo Vaj, Prato, Italy

An Answer For The Parts Only Itinerant Parts Can Fathom, Victoria Park Gallery,

Melbourne

odradek, series of sound performances, Monash University Faculty Gallery,

Melbourne (curator and participant)

2006

21st Century Modern 2006 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art, A.G.S.A. Adelaide

Making the Strange Familiar, Zoo Gallery, Melbourne

2004

geometer 2, Monash University, Melbourne

2003

ersilia, installation, review of Australian sculpture, Heide Museum of Modern Art,

Melbourne

geometer 1, Monash University, Melbourne

2002

7 solo piano performances Adelaide Festival of the Arts, Adelaide

2001

Monochromes, Queensland University of Art Gallery, Artspace and Southbank,

Brisbane

2000

La Quietudine de Terra, (The Quiet in the Land), Museum of Contemporary Art,

Salvador

1999

Ways of Seeing, Regional Galleries throughout Australia

Word, Museum of Modern Art, Sydney

Installation & video, Liverpool Biennale of Contemporary Art, Liverpool, UK,

Water Festival Piano Performance, Moomba Festival, Melbourne

1998

The Quiet in the Land: Everyday Life, Contemporary Art and the Shakers, Institute of

Contemporary Art, Boston, USA

1997

McCaughey Invitation Prize, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne

Australian Works on Paper, Galerie Titanium, Athens, Greece

On Dialogue, Haus-Am-Waudsee, Berlin

The Quiet in the Land: Everyday Life, Contemporary Art and the Shakers, Portland

Museum of Art, Maine, USA

1996

Blast, Thread Waxing Space, New York, March

Inaugural Group Show, Michael Wardell Gallery, Melbourne

The Cauldron – Fusion of the 5 Elements with Liza Lim, Deborah Kayser, Chris

Lockhart Smith, Kirsten Boerema, Carl Rosman.

The Quiet in the Land: Everyday Life, Contemporary Art and the Shakers,

Sabbathday Lake, Maine, U.S.A

The Cauldron – Fusion of the 5 Elements, with Liza Lim. Institute of Modern Art,

Fortitude Valley, Brisbane,

1995

Bardo Thos’ Grol, with Liza Lim and performed by members of Elision Contemporary

Music Ensemble, Perth

Seven-ness, with Judith Wright, IMA, Brisbane

Our Parent’s Children, National Gallery of Victoria, Access Gallery, Melbourne

1994

Contemporary Australian Drawing, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne

Recent Acquisitions, Monash University Gallery, Melbourne

Afterward: From a Tower (with Liza Lim) Auburn Uniting Church, Hawthorn

Australian Sculpture Triennial, ACCA, Melbourne

Bardo Thos’ Grol, Hillside Auto Dismantlers & Summerland Demolitions,

Lismore, with Liza Lim, and performed by members of Elision Contemporary Music

Ensemble

600,000 Hours (Mortality), Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide

Reliquary, Contemporary Music and Circuitry, Theatreworks, St. Kilda

1993

Sight Regained: Ivan Dougherty Gallery, University of New South Wales, Sydney

Death: Ivan Dougherty Gallery, University of New South Wales, Sydney

Please Allow Me to Introduce Myself, Video Installation, Contemporary Centre for

Photography, Melbourne

Luminaries, Monash University Gallery, Melbourne

City Screens, Projections on City Buildings: Melbourne International Festival

Collective Space, Monash University Gallery, Melbourne

1992

The Angelic Space, a commemoration of Piero Della Francesca’s 500th birthday,

Monash University Gallery, Melbourne

Next Wave Festival, Melbourne, International Installation Survey

Sweet Life, Dooley Le Cappellaine Gallery, New York

Blast, Mori Gallery, Sydney

Rediscovery, Australian Artists in Europe 1981 – 1991, Seville, Spain; Paris;

Amsterdam; Berlin

1992

Psychosoma, Plimsoll Gallery, University of Tasmania, Hobart

Sight Regained, Westpace Gallery, Victorian Arts Centre, Melbourne

The Phallus and its Functions, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, University of New South

Wales, Sydney

1991

Off the Wall, In the Air – A Seventies Selection, Australian Centre for Contemporary

Art, Melbourne

Chicago International Art Fair, Chicago

90% Space 90 Degrees, Dooley Le Cappellaine Gallery, New York

House of Value: Blum-Helman, New York

Microcosm, Garry Anderson, Sydney

Rules – For – Drawing, Mori Gallery, Sydney

Architecture of Light, Mori Gallery, Sydney

Liberation, Deutscher Brunswick Street, Melbourne

1989

New Work, Powell Street Gallery, Melbourne

Scotchmans Hills Invitation Prize, Geelong Art Gallery, Geelong

Inner Visions – 5 Contemporary Printmakers, Australian Printmaking Council,

Melbourne

Ten to Ten – Works on Paper, Powell Street Gallery, Melbourne

1988

Four Painters: Macquarie Galleries, Sydney

Strangways to Yandoit: Installation at Girgis & Klym Gallery, Melbourne

1987

Works on Paper: Powell Street Gallery, Melbourne

Invitation Drawing Prize: Heide Park Gallery, Melbourne

1986

New Work: Powell Street Gallery, Melbourne

Australijana – Contemporary Australian Painting: National Gallery of Yugoslavia,

Belgrade, Yugoslavia

1985

Current Australian Art: Galleria Lillo, Venice, Italy

Isolaustralia – 13 Australian Artists: Fondazione Bevilacqua, La Masa, Venice, Italy

1982

Pinacotheca at Watters: Watters Gallery, Sydney

Preston to Phillip: Reconaissance Gallery, Melbourne

1981

La Mama Performance Festival, Melbourne

Australian Sculpture Triennial: Phillip Institute of Technology & La Trobe University,

Melbourne

Self-Portrait, Self-Image: Curated by Janine Burke: National Gallery of Victoria

1979

Informal Sculpture: Melbourne University

Boxes: Ewing Gallery, Melbourne University

1978

Mildura Sculpture Triennial, Mildura

Lost and Found: Ewing Gallery, Melbourne University

Caltex Invitation Prize: Ballarat Art Gallery

1978

Curated: Drawing; Some Definitions: Ewing and George Paton Galleries, Melbourne

University

Curated: East Coast Drawing: Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane

1975

Mildura Sculpture Triennial, Mildura

Artist’s Artists: National Gallery of Victoria

Sculpture 75, Canberra

1974

Contemporary Outdoor Sculpture, Melbourne University

1973

Mildura Sculpture Triennial, Mildura

Contemporary Australian Paintings Cairnmillar Institute, Georges Gallery, Melbourne

Corio Invitation Prize: Geelong Art Gallery (Winner)

Minnie Crouch Invitation Prize: Ballarat Art Gallery (Winner)

Concepture: Ballarat Art Gallery

Perth International Drawing Prize, Art Gallery of Western Australia (Overall Winner)

1972

Australian Graphics: toured South America, Israel & Europe

Contemporary Australian Painting & Sculpture, toured New Zealand

1971

Perth International Drawing Prize, Art Gallery of Western Australia (Best Australian

Entry)

COLLECTIONS

Art Gallery of NSW

Art Gallery of Western Australia

Ballarat Fine Art Gallery

Queensland Art Gallery

City of Banyule Art Collection

City of Fremantle Art Collection

Geelong Art Gallery

Hamilton Art Gallery

Heide Museum of Modern Art

Mildura Art Gallery / MAC

Monash University Collection

Museum of Modern Art, New York

National Bank Collection

National Gallery of Australia

National Gallery of Victoria

Phillip Institute of Technology Collection (now RMIT, Bundoora Campus)

Robert Holmes a Court Collection

Smorgon Family Collection

Sturt University Gallery Collection

University of New South Wales Art Gallery

University of Melbourne Art Gallery

School of Architecture, University of Melbourne

University of Western Australia Art Collection

University of Queensland Art Museum

Venice Biennale Committee Collection

Nillumbik Shire Council Art Collection

Victor and Loti Smorgon Collection

and private collections in Australia, Europe and USA

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

A Second Simplicity, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, 2007

Books, Articles and catalogues:

Burke, J. (1984) “Collaboration: Artists working collectively”, in P.Taylor (Ed),

Anything Goes: Art in

Australia 1970 – 1980, South Yarra, pp. 123-125

Chanin, E. (1990) Contemporary Australian Painting, Roseville, p. 115 & 159

Green, C. (1996) Peripheral Vision

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McKean, M. Australian Painting 1967 – 1972

Sturgeon, G. (1978) The Development of Australian Sculpture 1788- 1975, London,

  1. 213 & pp. 232-3

Sturgeon, G. (?) The Story of the Mildura Sculpture Triennial, pp. 58 & 7

Art & Aust.(1993) “Eleven Sons, Mori Gallery” Exhibition commentary, Art &

Australia, Summer

Allen, T. (1996) “Sevenness” (review), Art/Asia Pacific, January

Brennan, K. (1993) “Please Allow me to Introduce Myself”, Agenda, Iss.33,

September, p. 11

Broker, D. (1995) “600,000 Hours (Mortality)”, Art & Text, No. 50

Camhi, L. (1997) “The Quiet in the Land”, Village Voice, September 7, New York

Cass, N. (1992) (in) Agenda, July

Catalano, G. (1988) “Artist’s varied skills create puzzling features in painting”, The

Age, Melb., 3.8.88, p. 14

Catalano, G. (1990) “Two Hemispheres form well-knit world”, The Age, May

Cripps, P. (1991) “The Art Zoo & Other Museum Models”, Broadsheet, Vol. 20, 3rd

Sept., p. 9

Cross, E. (1986) “de Clario Drawings”, Art Network, Summer/Autumn 1986

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de Clario, D. (1998) “The Spiritual in Art”, Artlink, March

de Clario, D. (1992) “Success, failure and art critics”, (letter to the editor), The Age,

September

de Clario, D. (1996) “Art School before 1990”, Artfan, Summer #6, 1996

de Lutiis, J. (1993) “Components of an Expression Machine”, Agenda, Iss. 33,

September, p. 10

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Green, C. (1992) “Lost and Found: The Empire of Death”, Binocular

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Green, C. (1993) “Bleak City”, Art & Australia, Summer 1993

Green, C (1994) “Elemental Landscapes”, ArtForum, Summer, 1994

Healey, C. (1994) “Elemental”, Art Monthly, March 1994

Heathcote, C. (1992) “Exhibition puts a satirical spotlight on local installation art”,

The Age, Sept.

Hirsch, F. (1991) “Domenico de Clario”, Arts Magazine, Vol.?, p. 67

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Larson, K. (1997) “A Month in Shaker Country”, New York Times, 10.8.97

Lynn, E. (1990) (Review) Weekend Australian, 25-6.8.90, p. 11

McCullough, T. (1993) “Mildura’s Sculpture Heritage”, Artlink, Vol. 13, No. 2, June-

Aug., pp. 21-25

McKenzie, R. (1995) “Sevenness at Heide”, The Age, arts review

Morgan, R. (1991) (in) Cover Magazine, New York

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Plant, M. (1992) (in) Art and Text

Rooney, R. (1989) “Subtleties of Silence”, The Weekend Australian, 25-6.11.89

Rooney, R. (1990) “Is an artist’s stature based largely on size?”, The Weekend

Australian, 26-7.5.90

Scarlett, K. (1980) (in) Australian Sculptors, Melbourne, pp. 167-9

Schubert, R. (1994) “City Screens”, Art & Text, January 1994

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(1992) Sculpture Magazine, New York

Sheridan, N. (1993) “How the old canons were destabilised in Mildura in 1975”,

Artlink, Vol. 13, No. 2, June-Aug., pp. 16-19

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Seville Expo, Spain, 1992 & Australian Embassy, Paris, France, 1992

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– 24 May, 1997

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ex.cat., Macquarie Galleries, Sydney, 3 – 21.5.88

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Centre for Contemporary Art

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23.11.89

de Clario (1992) Message from the Emperor, ADA Building, Fitzroy, Melbourne,

March

de Clario (1992) Mandorla, for the Angelic Space exhibition, Monash University

Gallery, Melbourne, October

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340-342 Brunswick St.,Fitzroy, 21.2.93 – 14.3.93

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cat., 35 Smith Street, Fitzroy, 15 – 27.3.93

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Contemporary Art, Melbourne, 10.9.93 – 17.10.93

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Hawthorn

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