IAN
de GRUCHY CV
PROJECTIONS -
SELECTED
2002
Surface
Projection installation
for the official opening of ACCA (Ngargee Centre), 2002, Melbourne.
Words
Collide, AbaF
Business Arts Partnership Awards, 2002, Melbourne.
2001
Speed
of Light civic
projection, Glass studio, Cube 37, Frankston Performing
Arts Centre.
1999-2000
Transformed - Melbourne Town Hall-
public projection event.
Concept, art direction and art production
with sound production by Chris Knowles and Dan Witton.
Six 7K PiGi scrolling projectors, video projection
sound.
1998
Vice's
Paradigm mixed
media installation, Remenence exhibition, curator
Maudie Palmer,
Old Magistrates Court and City Lock-up, Melbourne
Festival.
Projection
Installation for Nightclub, Australian
Centre for Contemporary Art (ACCA) and
Chunky Move at Revolver nightclub, Fringe,
Melbourne.
Defying Gravity Gravity's Room
, installation/projection, Linden Art Gallery, St Kilda, Melbourne.1996
Exhibition/Projection: High powered projectors
transform the Royal Exhibition Building into a night time
architectural theatre. Commissioned for the
5th Contemporary Art Fair, Melbourne. 1995
Camera
2 Projecting Space
installation, Centre for Contemporary Photography,Melbourne
Festival.
1994
City
Wall
Projection subversive billboard,
Swanston Street Walk, Experimenta '94.
Collected
Memory
multi-image programmed slide mural, Australian National Gallery,
Canberra.
Camera slide
installation - Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (ACCA),
Melbourne.
1992
State
Library of Victoria projection
as part of "fin de siecle?" opening, RMIT and the
Melbourne International Festival of the Arts.
1988
Adelaide Festival Projections outdoor projections on the
Adelaide Festival Centre building and
interior projections for the Fezbar, Adelaide
Festival Club.
1984
Politext slide
performance at The Kitchen, New York. a multi-image slide/sound
rap construction.
Subculture,
Subtext ambient
projection environment, Mazzo club, Amsterdam.
Energy
= Mass projection/
performance, Pyramid Club, New York.
1982
Double
Vision slide projection
event, Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide.
1981
Traveling
Slide Show ambient
projection, Australian Centre for Photography,
Sydney.
PERFORMANCE FOR PROJECTION - SELECTED
2003
Morning Star Concert with David Bridie, West
Papua Benefit, VAC Concert Hall, Melbourne.
2001-03
Barry
Meets Banjo by
Barry
Crocker, opened
Orange Festival, Orange Civic Theatre, Orange.
Merlyn Theatre, CUB Malthouse, Melbourne 2001
and Cremourne Theatre, QPAC, Brisbane, 2002.
1997
Like
Stars in My Hand by
Tim Conigraph, directed by David Bell, Playbox, CUB Malthouse,
Melbourne.
1995
Circuit, Danceworks
production, Greenmill Project, dance and technology. Merlyn
Theatre,
CUB Malthouse, Melbourne. Greenroom Award
nomination, dance/ design.
1993
Improvement:
Don Leaves Linda
by
Robert Ashley, directed by Douglas Horton,
Chamber Made Opera Melbourne International
Festival of the Arts.
Dazzle
of Shadow directed
by Peter King, ACTA, produced by Technisearch, RMIT.
Performed at 15th floor, Tivoli Building,
Melbourne.
1992
Mahony
Masques
directed Peter King, Going Through Stages and Peter King, Theatreworks,
Melbourne.
1991
Public
Lives, Private Space
with Danceworks public performance, Victorian Arts Centre and
National Gallery
Victoria. Melbourne International Festival
of the Arts.
1989
Transgressions
by
Chris Barnett, Universal Theatre, Melbourne.
1984
My Father Belonged To The FBI But I Was A
Soviet Spy by
David Zonzinsky, The Kitchen, New York.
1982
For a Dancer by
Jeanie Lewis, directed by Louis Nowra, Adelaide Festival.
1981
Suburban
Mysteries
by
Keith Gallash, Troupe Theatre, Adelaide
OTHER SOLO AND GROUP EXHIBITIONS- SELECTED
1999
Cafe
Edition solo exhibition,
inkjet prints , Marios Cafe. Brunswick Street, Melbourne.
1997
Pulse
Friction group
exhibition, curator Leigh Hobba, Plimsoll Gallery, University
of Tasmania, Hobart. Love
1996
Box
group
exhibition, curator Suzie Attiwell, Craft Victoria, Melbourne.
Lightbox
1995
Out
of the Analogue group
exhibition, curator Leigh Hobba, Plimsoll Gallery, University
of Tasmania, Hobart.
1984
Not
Just Any Pretty Picture
group show. Political
Art Documentation/Distribitution, P.S. 122, New York.
1983
Subculture group
show in the advertising spaces of the IRT subway trains, Group
Material, New York.
1982
South
Australian Paperworks
travelling
group show, Art Gallery of South Australia.
Adelaide
Wall Series solo
show, Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney.
1981
Photographs solo
show, Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide.
1978
Artists'
Book Show travelling
group show, Australia and the United States, organized by the
Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide and
Franklin Furnace, New York.
1977
PROJECT
18 - Recent Art in South Australia
group show, Art Gallery of New SouthWales, Sydney.
1976
Details solo show / installation,
Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide.
MAJOR EVENTS
2001-
2002
Australia
Business Arts Foundation, projections
for AbaF Arts Partnerships Awards events.
Australian
Technology Park, Sydney, 2001 and Flemington Grandstand, Melbourne,
2002.
2000
Royal
Australasian College of Surgeons, Annual Scientific Congress. Body Image a
large screen
multi-media
presentation for opening event. Batman Theatre, World Congress
Centre, Melbourne.
1999
49th
International Astronautical Congress . Created
and presented Pixelated Worlds a large screen
multi-media
presentation for opening event. The project
incorporated digitally edited video projection
with
multi-image slide projection onto a specially designed 14 x
6 meter modular screen.
Batman
Theatre, World Congress Centre, Melbourne.
1998
New
Media Arts Fund Launch guest
artist, presented curved space
project, Australia
Council launch,
Open
Channel, Melbourne.
1997
Cinemedia
Launch, designed
and produced a multi-media environment for the launch.
Sir
Redman Barry Room, Collins Street, Melbourne.
1996
Science
Works '96 and the 8th Australasian Remote Sensing Conference opening
event.
Pixelated
Worlds. Royal Theatre, National
Convention Centre Canberra.
Sing Sing Papua
New Guinea, Torres Straight Islander, and Australian music,
dance
and visual art culture. Concept and musical direction David
Bridie and George Telek.
projections
for concert set onto specially designed scrims. Concert Hall,
Victorian Arts Centre,
Melbourne
and State Theatre, Sydney.
1994-96
Palais
Lights, public
projections on the back of the Palais Theatre for the St Kilda
Festival,
Melbourne.
Artists invited to collaborate include: Aleks Danko, Marie Sierra,
Richard Tipping,
Susan
Fereday, Alex Selenitsch and Berni Jannsen.
COLLABORATIONS
1996-2002
Barbara
Kruger - produced major projection
installation POWER, PLEASURE,
DESIRE, DISGUST
in
prepared architectural spaces. Museum of Modern Art at
Heide for the Melbourne Festival,
1996; Deitch Projects, New York,1997; MOCA,
Los Angeles, 1999; The Whitney, New York, 2000;
South London Gallery, London, 2001; Daros
Collection, Zurich 2001, 2002 and currently at
Palazzo delle Papasse, Siena, Italy, 2002.
1991-93
Jude
Walton projections
for No Hope, No Reason at
Deutcher Brunswick Street. Melbourne
Jude
Walton Eating Earth from Home at ACCA, Melbourne.
1982-89
Krzysztof
Wodiczko assisted with
and produced many of his public projections in Australia,
North America and Europe, including his projections
for the Sydney Biennale 1982,
AT&T Building projection, New York 1984,
The Venice Projections, Venice Biennale1986
and Exit Art, New York 1989.
1983
Tim
Burns A
Gap Between installation,
The Kitchen. New York.
1980
Leigh
Hobba. a collaborative
multi-media performance/installation M.I.X for
the Adelaide Festival.
Art Gallery of South Australia.
Freeways
a sound collage/performance, La Trobe University Sculpture Show,
Melbourne and Experimental Art Foundation,
Adelaide,1978.
AWARDS AND GRANTS
1997 Creative
Development Grant, New Media Arts Fund, Australia
Council.
1994 Arts
Victoria grant, through
the Centre for Contemporary Photography.
1993 Creative
Development Grant, Visual Art/Craft Board, Australia
Council.
1983 Dyson
Bequest, Art Gallery of New South Wales.
1982 Individual
Grant,
Visual Arts Board, Australia Council.
1976 Special
Projects Grant, Visual Arts Board, Australia Council.
1975 Channel
Ten Young Artists Award.
EDUCATION
1976
Diploma,
Fine Art (Sculpture) South
Australian School of Art.
1996
Master
of Arts Department
of Architecture and Design, Faculty of the Constructed Environment,
RMIT.
TEACHING/LECTURING AND OTHER RELATED EXPERIENCE
1990-2004
Lecturer: Communications course
Projection as Medium, Department of Architecture and
Design,
Faculty of the Constructed Environment, RMIT.
2001
Guest
presenter: Public Art Seminar, City
of Port Phillip and Victorian College of Art
Guest presenter:.Projection Workshop:
Terrapin Puppet Theatre, Hobart
1996-97
Lecturer: New Media Arts / Photography,
Department of Arts, Visual Art,
Swinburne University of Technology 1996/97
Melbourne.
1994-00
Lecturer: Design
Studios, lower pool, Department of Architecture and Design,
RMIT.
Guest
lectures: School
of Design, Swinburne University of Technology. Melbourne;
Victoria College of the Arts, Melbourne; Canberra
Art School; Faculty of Art and Design,
RMIT, Melbourne; Faculty of Architecture,
Melbourne University; Art School, Deakin University, Warnambool.
1995-97
Guest
presenter: Dance and Technology
Forums, Green Mill Dance Project. Malthouse, Melbourne;
Guest
presenter: "Fairground
Projections" forums, 5th Australian Contemporary Art Fair,
1996.
1976-78
Committee
member: Experimental
Art Foundation
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2003
Guilty Art
by Andrew Mackenzie, Broadsheet, vol 32 no 2, 2003.
Public Liability?
By Andrew Mackenzie, Architectural Review 83, 2003.
2002
Light Play with Critical Projections by Siobhan McNabb, Switch Magazine, issue 5, 2002.
2001
Frankston Art Centre Review 2000-2001, cover image, Speed of Light installation, glass studio, Cube 37.
2000
Futures,
Stephen Varaday interview with John Andrews, (inside)
interior review, No 20.
Image projecting space installation, Centre for Contemporary Photography, pp 063.
The appeal of the Temporal article
Richard Holt, features Transformed,
Artlink vol 20#4 Sculpture and Cities pp
59 - 61
I an de Gruchy's
Magic Screens and Digital Projections, cover and feature article by Anne Marsh,
eyeline contemporary
visual arts. No 43, Spring 2000. with b/w and colour photo
documentation pp 28 - 32
Light review by John Andrews
(inside) interior review special edition,
review. colour plates, pps 116 - 121
Painting the town
1/2 page colour photograph,Town Hall Transformed,
The Age, Melbourne,
1999
show that lights the way, feature and photograph, Town Hall
Transformed, The Age, Melbourne, Arts Today 3, December 21.
Throwing
Light on the Subject feature
article by Suzanne Brown The Age,
Melbourne, Today 3, November 5, 1999.
Projection as Medium
article with documentation images, Interior Cities pp 216 to 219 edited by Ross McLeod,
published by Department of Architecture and
Design, RMIT.
The Enduring Moment by
Catherine Murphy, Artlink, Going Public issue Vol 18 #2 July
pps 23/ 25
1997
For
a completely different experience...,
review of Defying Gravity installation
by Freda Freiberg,
Metro Arts, The Age, Melbourne, May 7, 1997.
A show full
of suspense
review of Defying Gravity installation by Anne
Marsh, The Herald Sun,
Arts and Entertainment, Melbourne, May 3,1997.
1996
Exhibition / Projection cover of November 1996 Edition of Art Monthly, Australia.
In search of continuity a
curated article by Linda Sprool, photographs,
Artlink Arts in the Electronic Landscape
issue Vol 16 Nos 2 &3 pps 63 &65
1995
Filling space
with images review of Camera 2 : Projecting Space at
Centre for Contemporary Photography by Anne Marsh,
The Herald Sun, Arts and Entertainment, Melbourne, October 3, 1995.
Projection artist at work, The
Courier-Mail, Brisbane, June 1, 1995.
1994
Off
the Wall, review of City Wall projection,
a 'public' projection, Swanston Street Walk by Anne Marsh,
The Herald Sun, Arts and Entertainment, Melbourne,
November 29, 1994.
The City Screen
Monument, Sydney,vol. 1 no. 2, 1994, pp. 64-65.
Public projections on Federation Enterprises
Building. Photograph and artist's statement.
City Screens review by Robert
Schubert, photograph. Art and Text , Sydney,
no. 47, Jan. 1994, pp. 79-80.
1993
Camera colour
photo, Art and Australia, Fine
Art Press, Sydney, vol. 31 no. 7, 1993, p. 95.
Mahony Masques
essay by Peter King, photographs of projections for Peter King's
Mahony Masques
The Interior, RMIT, Melbourne, vol.1
nos. 5+6, 1992-1993, p. 52.
No Hope No Reason reference to slide installation for Jude
Walton's performance piece. Photograph,
Body and Self, Performance Art in Australia
1969-1992, Oxford
University Press, Australia, 1993, p. 205-206.
Hi-Tech and the
Sixties Revisited review by Roger Palmer, Camera Installation.
The Melburnian, Melbourne, June 1993,
pp. 33-35.
1992
No Hope No Reason
review Jackie Dunn and installation photographs.
Writings on Dance Victoria,
winter 1992, p44-57
Eating
Earth from Home
photographs and review ---by Jackie Dunn.
Slide installation for Jude Walton's performance
Eating Earth from Home.
Eyeline, East-Coast Contemporary Visual Arts,
Artworkers' Alliance,
Brisbane no. 20 1992, p. 39
1991
Projecting Space
features Through the Centre
and No Hope No Reason. Interview
by Andrew Stacey,
photographs.The Interior,
RMIT, Melbourne, Vol. 1 no. 2, Nov. 1991, pp. 11-12
No Hope No Reason review by Jackie Dunn, Photographs
of slide installation for Jude Walton performance
No Hope No Reason. Eyeline, East
Coast Contemporary Visual Arts, Queensland Art Workers' Alliance,
Brisbane, no. 17, 1991, pp. 32 and 33.
1990
Slide Knight
photograph/feature, The Age Good Weekend, Sydney, November 17, 90, p.6.
1987
Enough is Enough review of Sound Performance Installation Video and Slides night-The EAF. Adelaide.
Commentary by Stephanie Britton on South Australian
art. Adelaide Commentary,
Australian and International ART Monthly,
Fine Arts Press, Sydney, no 3, August 1987, pp. 12-14.
1982
Teletext
and Satellites illustrations for Communications Australia, November pp. 16+36, Sydney 1982,.
Frame of Reference catalogue, George
Paton Gallery, Melbourne University, 1981-1982, pp. 12-13.
Photographs and artist's statement.
1981
Suburban Mysteries
cover featuring projections
for Keith Gallasch's play Suburban Mysteries.
Artlink vol. 1 no. 5, November 1981.
Adelaide Wall series
photographs Photo-Discourse,
Sydney College of the Arts, 1981, pp. 96-97.
Sound Sculpture artists book for
exhibition Sound Sculpture, Adelaide Festival Centre
Gallery.
Leigh Hobba with Ian de Gruchy, Jim Barbour
and Jenny Snodgrass. Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide,
1979.
1978
Freeways artists'
book by
Leigh Hobba and Ian de Gruchy for the Latrobe University Sculpture
Show,
June/July 1978. Self published.
1976
Blocks artist's book by Ian
de Gruchy, 11-25 July 1976 for Details installation,
The Experimental Art Foundation. Self published.
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