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"SONGLINES :EXHIBITING TO SEPTEMBER 24"
by WALANGARI KARNTAWARRA
20-09-2008 - 24-09-2008

"ABSTRACT SCULPTURE"
by TREVOR BERRY
21-09-2008 - 30-10-2008

"CONTEMPORARY BRONZE"
by ANDREW ROGERS
24-09-2008 - 23-10-2008

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" PRIMARY MATERIAL"
by
JOHN WORTH

20-03-2007 - 18-04-2007

JW LATE NIGHT CALL
( JOHN WORTH)

Exhibition Comments:

JOHN WORTH

Born Wiluna, Western Australia

1965 - Left Australia, travelled to Europe.

EDUCATION AND QUALIFICATIONS

1966 - 67 Munchen Mal und Zeichnen Schule, Munich

1967 - 68 Guildford College of Art, Surrey, England - One year pre - diploma course

1968 - 71 City and Guilds of London, Diploma in Sculpture

1971 - Returned to Australia

SELECT SOLO AND GROUP EXHIBITIONS

1973 - Joint exhibition with Stanislav Rapotec at Lister Gallery, Perth

1973 - Sculpture at Launceston Gallery, Tasmania

1973 - Small bronzes, Holdsworth Gallery, Sydney

1974 - Returned to Europe

1974 - Australian Representative, Sculpture Symposium Lindabrunn, Austria

1974 - Mixed group exhibition, Die Kleine Galerie,Vienna

1975 - Returned to Australia

1975 - Exhibition of bronze and steel sculptures, Lister Gallery, Perth

1981 - Large scale steel sculpture, small bronzes and drawings, Pinacotheca, Melbourne

1984 - Small bronzes, Towen Mount Gallery, Sunshine Coast, Qld.

1994 - Large steel sculpture. Cooroy Butter Factory, Sunshine Coast

1995 - Bronze sculptures and drawing, Gomboc Gallery, Western Australia

1997 - Sculpture, painting and drawing, Gilchrist Gallery, Brisbane

1998 - Sculpture, painting and drawing. Watling Gallery, Southport Qld.

2000- Small bronze sculptures, Helen Gorry Gallery, Melbourne.

2003 - Transition - Exhibition of Painting, Bruce Watling Gallery, Brisbane

2005 – Transformed – Exhibition of recent painting at Watling Gallery, Brisbane

2005 – Exhibition of painting at Watling Gallery, Southport Qld.

2006 – Exhibition of painting, University Gallery, University of Sunshine Coast Qld.

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

1971 - Royal Exchange London Students invitation exhibition

1973 - Western Australian Institute of Technology, Perth, Invitation Exhibition

1974 - WA Artists Festival of Perth exhibition, WA Art Gallery

1976 - Inaugural Cityscape Exhibition, WA Sculptors Assn.

1976/77 - Several shows with 'Praxis group, Praxis Gallery, Perth Foundation member

1980 - Inaugural National Sculpture Triennial, La Trobe University, Melbourne

1984 - Caloundra Arts Festival

1997 - Sunshine Coast Sculptors, Maleny Qld

1998 - First prize sculpture, Caloundra Arts Festival

1999 - 'Heads', - Group sculpture show at 10 Arts Space Gallery, Sunshine Coast Qld

COMMISSIONS

1969 - Large stone carving, Surrey, England

1973 - Large ferro-cement sculpture, Hale School Perth

1974/75 - City of Vienna, marble carving at International Garden Show, Austria

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

Hale school, Perth

Edith Cowan University, Perth

City of Vienna, Austria

Landesregierung Nieder Oesterreich,Austria

Melbourne University

Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne

McClelland Regional Gallery, Victoria

WA State Gallery, two pieces.

TEACHING

1977/79 Sculpture and drawing, Fremantle Technical College

1997/98 Tutoring in sculpture, Sunshine Coast University Qld.

Various summer schools and ongoing private drawing classes

OTHER ACTIVITIES

1972 - Began bronze casting foundry, Fremantle

1985 - Founded Amamoor Pottery, specialising in complex mold making

1987 - Began working in bronze again - designer for Australian Fine Arts Foundry

1988 - Began casting again in own foundry, 'Studio Bronze Casting'

Artist Statement:

INNOVATIVE CONTEMPORARY PAINTINGS

After working for many years as a sculptor, I find I still carry through from that earlier discipline a strong preoccupation with surface, texture. I am not concerned with making pictures with a story.

The paint, the primary material, is paramount as I manipulate it to harmonize and tune the various elements of the work. I hope to provoke response from the viewer that is not literal; I seek deeper reactions, these are not verbal communications.

I do not attempt to provide explanations, as I do not myself ‘understand’ these paintings. For me. a painting succeeds if it works, it is in tune with itself, and finally, it offers me glimpses of mystery. I do not need to seek some explanation, nevertheless eventually, a title comes to mind which seems to fit, to be apposite. These titles are mostly not descriptions, merely access keys.

I often use musical terms in talking about my work. There are great similarities in the underlying thinking of these different art forms; they both use such concepts as tonal values, high or low key etc. In explaining my work I like to say that while some music is accompanied by lyrics, other music is purely instrumental. As a painter, I would say that I lean towards the latter.

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