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David Harley

Education and Qualifications

PhD, Faculty of VCA & MCM, 2015, University of Melbourne

Masters of Fine Art, 1995, RMIT University

Post Graduate Diploma in Art Curatorial Studies, 1991, University of Melbourne

Bachelor in Fine Arts, Painting and Printmaking, 1985, RMIT, Melbourne

Solo Exhibitions

2020 • David Harley: Select paintings from the 80s-00s, Charles Nodrum Gallery,

Melbourne

2018 • Drawing Wall # 31, Shepparton Art Museum, curated by Anna Briers

2017 • David Harley Free Form Propositions #2, Charles Nodrum Gallery,

Melbourne

2016 • David Harley Free Form Propositions, Crawford Galley, Sydney

• Contained, (installation of a series of moving painting projections),

The Pavilion, Tillde New Music Festival, Testing Grounds, Melbourne

2015 • Beforegreen, PhD completion exhibition, Margaret Lawrence Gallery,

Melbourne

2011 • Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne.

2009 • David Harley File_eu, In-Situ, Städtische Bühnen, Münster

2008 • Fill...2, ACCA @ MIrka Curated by Juliana Engberg, St Kilda, Victoria

• David Harley/Painting Works curated by Ulrike Hampl, Felicitas Reusch

& Lisa Solomine,, Nassauischer Kunstverein, Wiesbaden

2007 • Face Value Computer and Non-Computer Paintings 1996-2006 Curated by

Victor Griss & Dr Sheridan Palmer, Deakin University Museum of Art

2006 • Felicitas Reusch, Schöne Aussicht 7, Wiesbaden

2004 • Michael Carr Art Dealer, Sydney

• Fill... VCA Gallery Melbourne

2002 • Smyrnios Gallery Australia, Melbourne

• Michael Carr Art Dealer, Sydney

2001 • Smyrnios Gallery Australia, Melbourne

2000 • Divertimento, Spare Room, Project Space, RMIT, Melbourne

• WestSpace (gallery 1), Melbourne

• Mass Gallery (gallery 2), Melbourne

1998, 1995, 1993 • Crawford Gallery, Sydney

1998, 1995, 1993 & 1990 • Pinacotheca, Melbourne

Group Exhibitions

2020 • Drawing on the Wall, Julia Gorman, David Harley, Kenny Pittock

& Kerrie Poliness. curated by James Lynch, Deakin University

2019 • Ten (almost) Monochromes, Charles Nodrum Gallery

2017 • Works on Paper, Charles Nodrum Gallery

• The Colour, The Shape, NKN Gallery, Richmond, curated by Peter

Westward

• Coney Island, Counihan Gallery Melbourne curated by Jane O'Neil

• 9x5 NOW, Margaret Lawrence Gallery, Melbourne

• 131, SNO, Contemporary Art Spaces, Sydney

2015 • The Kaleidoscopic Turn, NGV Australia, Melbourne

2014 • We Survived the Magistrale, Kjubh Kunstverein, Cologne

• 30th Anniversary Group Show, Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne

2013 • Charles Nodrum Gallery stand, Sydney Contemporary (Art Fair)

2013 • Avoca Project, Avoca, Victoria (2 person exhibition)

2012 • You Give Good Colour, Curated by Claudia Damichi, Sophie Gannon Gallery

• Abstraction xi, Charles Nodrum Gallery

• mes amis, mes amies, sammlung Michael Jäger, Atelier Dorrit Nebe,

Cologne

2010 • A Tradigital Survey, Curated by G. Kalabishis & Kirsten Rann Victoria

University

• Constellations: A Large number of Small drawings, RMIT Gallery Storey Hall,

RMIT

• Erscheinung der Farbe, Kirche Mariae Heimsuchung, Wiesbaden

2009 • Für das Abstrakte gibt es keinen Ersatz Curated by Michael Bause, Gallerie

oqbo, Berlin

• Energetic Frieda, (in collaboration with Michael Jaeger) Project Space RMIT

2008 • Drawing the Line – New perspectives in Australian Abstract Painting,

Curated by Damian Smith, Maroondah Art Gallery

• Abstraction 7, Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne

2006 • Against the Amnesia Lifestyle Showroom curated by A. Glass & J. Khan,

Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne

• EuropaAffekt, AtelierFrankurt, Frankfurt am Main

• Open Doors, AtelierFrankurt Rundgang, Frankfurt am Main

2005 • Ninjas and Turtles, Pankow Kusnthalle, Berlin

• Gastatelier exhibition & film Program Animation Screening, AtelierFrankurt

Rundgang, Frankfurt am Main

• Animation screenings: Launch of the Contemporary Art Library Project,

Pristina, Kosovo

2003 • Pen to Pixel 200 Years of Australian Prints and Drawing, National Gallery of

Victoria

• Project 1 (co-ordinated by J.Neeson) VCA Gallery, Melbourne

• X Melbourne, Curated by Gary Willis, Canberra Contemporary Arts Space &

S C A Gallery, Sydney

2002 • Geelong Contemporary Art Prize Exhibition, Geelong Art Gallery

• Cassandra Fahey and Digital Prints by David Harley, Chapman & Bailey

2001 • Fresh from Paris, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne

curated by C Firth-Smith

• Glazier, Storey Hall Gallery, RMIT Curated by Darren Wardle & Suzanne

Davies

2000 • Geelong Contemporary Art Prize Exhibition, Geelong Art Gallery

• Painting is Ace, curated by C. Firth Smith, Linden, St Kilda

• National Works on Paper, Mornington Peninsular Regional Gallery

• Australian Works on Paper, curated by P. Ellis, Women's Museum, Seoul,

South Korea

1999 • Lightfingered, curated by L. Duxbury, National Touring Exhibition

• Australian Paper Art Awards 1999, Curated by T. Humphries & L. Harding,

National Touring Exhibition

• Works on Paper- by Contemporary Australian Artists, curated by P. Ellis,

Seoul ,National University, South Korea

• Music- Working Title, curated by G. Matoulous, Maverick Arts Festival,

Melbourne

• Alice Prize, The Araluen Center, Alice Springs (acquired)

• National Works on Paper, Mornington Peninsular Regional Gallery

1998 • Transformations Australia: The Fine Art Print and the Computer,

Storey Hall Gallery, RMIT

• National Works on Paper, Mornington Regional Gallery

• Conrad Jupitars, Gold Coast City Art Gallery (acquired)

• New Acquisitions, Sir Hermann Black Gallery, University of Sydney

1995 • Salon of Gallery Artists, Pinacotheca

• Valediction Exhibition, MFA exhibition, 330 Collins Street, Melbourne

1994 • Crawford Gallery stand, International Art Fair, Exhibition Building, Melbourne

1992 • Moet and Chandon Touring Exhibition (NGA, AGNSW, etc.)

1990 • Greenpiece Exhibition, Linden, Melbourne

1989 • Fringe Festival, Melbourne

1985 • Collective Gallery RMIT (2 person with Tiffany McNab)

1983 • Trinity College University of Melbourne. (2 person with Tiffany McNab)

• Fringe Festival, Carinbush Library, Melbourne

Awards

2013 • Faculty Small Grant, VCA & MCM, University of Melbourne

2010 • Australian Postgraduate Award

2008 • Skills and Arts Development Grant, Visual Arts Board, Australia Council

• International Program Grant – Export and Touring Grant, Arts Victoria

2004 • New Work Grant, Arts Victoria

• New Work Grant from the Visual Arts Board, Australia Council

Collaborations, Residencies and Commissions

2020 • Art in Buildings Acquisitive Commission, RMIT University

2014 • Art in Buildings Acquisitive Commission, hallway work) Deakin University

2013 • Art in Buildings Acquisitive Commission, 2 wall works, Deakin University

• Art in Buildings Acquisitive Commission, 6 metre high, light column, NAB,

docklands

• Art in Buildings Collaborative Commission, Schwarzwald-Baar-Klinikums,

Villingen-Schwenningen Collaboration with artists: Michael Jäger

Volker Saul & Jürgen Palmtag

2008 -2009 • Collaboration with Michael Jäger (Cologne) exhibited at Project Space

RMIT University

2008 • Residency – International Artist in Residence (AIR) Program, RMIT.

• Residency Atelierfrankfurt, Frankfurt am Main. second residency)

2007 • The Melbourne Town Hall Organ Project. (commission involving the

development of animations for a concert of new and historic music related

to the Town Hall Organ)

2005 • International Gästkunstler (Guest Artist), Atelierfrankfurt, Frankfurt am Main

2003 • Artist in Residence, Victorian College of the Arts (CLab sponsored by Epson)

• Animation Collaboration with composer Andrew Blackburn for Sound

Sculpture animation performed and presented in a Hutes series concert in

Richmond, Victoria

2001 • Collaboration with Tom P. Ashe RMIT Master of Applied Science Project: Six

Degrees of Collaboration (Exhibited in the Faculty Gallery RMIT)

1998 • Commissioned by the Melbourne Chorale to make a series of images related

to their concert program

1997 • Residency, The Camberwell College of Art, London (see research project

bellow)

Affiliations

2009 • Invited Judge Proud Exhibition VCA and Music

2003 • Invited Juror International Digital Art Awards

2002 & 2001• Mass Gallery Board Member

Exhibitions Co-ordinated

2006 • EuropaAffekt, AtelierFrankurt, Frankfurt am Main

2001 • Mediations, Group Exhibition, Mass Galley, Melbourne

Research Projects

1999 • Invited Artist, RMIT, Dept of Fine Art: Research Project: The Computer and the Art Object

1997 • Invited Artist, Camberwell College of Art, The London Insitute, Research Project:

The Fine Art Print and the Computer

Selected Collections

Atelierfrankfurt; National Gallery of Victoria; Trinity college (University of Melbourne); University of Sydney (Student Union); NAB Deakin University; Alice Springs Art foundation; & Art Bank, Xavier College Melbourne, RMIT university

Selected Reviews and Catalogues

Esquist, E. & Eckett, J. (Ed), Melbourne Modern - European Art & Design at RMIT

since 1945, RMIT University, 2019

• Dr Sheridan Palmer, Structured Electicism, RMIT Painting Department

1945-Today, 2019

Deakin University, Deakin University art Collection a selection of Works, Deakin

University, Burwood, 2017, ISBN 9780994402585

Bell, Gerry David Harley: Freeform Propositions #2 Melbourne Art Seen (Blog) 2017

Laffer, J. & Harley, D. Unplugged Live, (public and live streamed interview) NGV,

6/9/2015

Renn, W. & Seidel, M. Majistrale - David Harley, Michael Jäger, Jürgen Palmtag

& Volker Saul, Verlag

Kettler, Cologne, 2013.ISBN 978-3-86206-329-1

• Wendelin Renn. Zur Architektur die Kunst, 2013

• Dr. Martin Seidel, Balance of Power –Power of Balance Jäger,Harley,Palmtag,

Saul im Schwarzwald-Baar Klinikum in Villingen-Schwenningen

Walter, T. The Rapturous and the ephemeral, Australian Art Review, Issue 30, 12/11

Kalabishis & Rann, A Tradigital Survey, Exhibition Catalogue, Victoria University,

Melbourne, 2010. Isbn 9781862726918

Button, J. Reviews - A Tradigital Survery, Art Link, Vol. 30 No 3, 2010

Coates, R. “Point and Counterpoint: David Harley and Michael Jäger”, un Magazine,

Issue 3.1, Melbourne, June, 2009

Tsitas, E. “A Moment in Time”, RMIT University Alumni Newsletter, May, 2009

(iInside), (illus) Interior Review Magazine, Melbourne, April, 2009

Kock, G., “David Harley”, Westfälische Nachrichten TV, Münster, 20/1/2009

Solomine, L (ed.), David Harley, Catalogue, Nassauischer Kunstverein,

Wiesbaden, 2008, Isbn: 9783940099044

• Zylvia Auerbach: Hyperrealistische Abstraktioner/Abstractions in Hyperreality

Frankfurt 2008

• Dr Stephen Haley, David Harley Moving Pictures, Melbourne 2007

• Felicitas Reusch, Ecke oder Corner, Bild oder Wandmalerei/ Ecke or Corner,

Picture or Wall Painting (Corner Works von David Harley seit 2003).

Wiesbaden 2008

Schütte, C. ‘Lust am Verschwinden’. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Frankfurt,

12/02/08

Lamparth, B. Auf der Suche nach dem Ich, Rhien Main Presse. Wiesbaden,

212/01/08

Griss, V. (cur.), David Harley: Face Value, exhibition catalogue, Deakin University,

2007, Isbn 9781741560770

• Dr. Sheridan Palmer. David Harley: in conversation

Schütte, C. ‘Die Maus den Pinsel verdrängt’. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung,

Frankfurt, 23/02/06

‘Austellungen, Benfield/Harley/Slee, EuropaAffekt’. Journal Frankfurt, 03/06

McCulloch, Susan (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Australan Art Australian Art Editions, 2006

Schütte, C. ‘Pinsel, Farbe und ein einarmiger Gitarrist: Der Rundgang im

Atelierfrankfurt’. Franfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Frankfurt, 12/6/2005

Herrschaft, F. ‘EuropaAffekt: Austerllung derei Australische. Radio X interview,

podcast, 2005

Anderson P., Art & Australia: Debate, Dollars & Delusions, (cov Illus) Pandora Press,

Sydney, 2005

David Harley Fill..., Catalogue, Gulag Publishing, Isbn 975213016, Melbourne,2004

• Stephen Haley, Cyberlyric

Grant, K. & Leahy, C. On Paper: Australian Prints and Drawings in the National

Gallery of Victoria, Isbn 9780724102181, NGV Melbourne, 2003.

• Kirsty Grant, Australian Works on Paper in the National Gallery of Victoria

Neeson, J. R (co.), Projects One , exhibition catalogue, Melbourne, 2003

• Dr John R. Neeson South Bank Bivouac

Frost, A. Revelation Space, Exhibition Essay, Michael Carr Gallery, Sydney, 2002.

Nelson, R. ‘A Gaze into the Abyss of Contemporary Aesthetics’. The Age, 1/12/01

Nelson, R. ‘The Death of Painting a Little Premature’. Visual Arts, The Age, 22/9/01

Davies, S. Glacier, exhibition catalogue, RMIT Gallery Storey Hall, Melbourne 2001

Palmer, S. ‘Recent Works of David Harley’. Imprint, Spring 2001

Firth-Smith, C. curator. ‘Before and After and Painting Now’, Artist Insert (ILUS) Like

Art Magazine no.11, August, 2000

Smee, S. ‘New media is all very well but lets see it on paper’, Sydney Morning

Herald S12, 1/3/00

Nelson, R. ‘Visual Arts’, The Age, 1/3/00

Interview. Stateline, ABC TV, NT, 7.30pm, 5/11/99

Nelson, R. ‘Visual Art’. The Age, 29/9/99

Humphries & Harding. ‘The Australian Paper Art Awards’, exhibition catalogue, 1999

Errey, Dr. S. ‘Lightfingered’, exhibition catalogue, 1999

Smee, S. ‘Virtual Abstract’, Sydney Morning Herald, 20/10/98

Clabbum A. ‘Visual Art’, The Age, 16/9/98

Humphries, T. (Ed). Transformations Australia, exhibition catalogue, Melbourne,

1998

Palmer S., Transformations Australia, Imprint, Vol. 33, 2, Melbourne, Winter 1998

Lecouter G., The Age, Melbourne, 19/8/1995

Exhibition Commentary (ills), Art and Australia, Spring, 1994

Carol A. , Moet and Chandon, Touring Exhibition Catalogue, 1992

Mendelssoln J., Champagne Selection, The Bulletin, 14/7/1992

Zimmer J. Visual Art,The Sunday Herald, Melbourne, 18/2/1990

Millar R., Visual Art, The Herald, Melbourne, 13/2/1990

Sessional Lecturing Appointments

2006-2009 RMIT University, Melbourne, School of Creative Media/ Bachelor of

Design (Games Graphics Programming).

2009 Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne, Art School, Winter School -

Digital Imaging Workshop.

2007 Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne, Art School, Department of

Sculpture and Spatial Practice.

2003&2004 Monash University, Melbourne, Department of Art & Design.

2002 Victorian College of the Arts, Drawing Department.

2000-2002 Victorian University of Technology, Melbourne, Computer Mediated Art.

1995-2000 RMIT University, Department. of Fine Art (painting).