Artist's CV

SOLO  EXHIBITIONS
2013
Masters Resting, KALIMANRAWLINS, Melbourne

2012    
Bass Principles, BREENSPACE, Sydney
Blue Period, with Matthew Tumbers, curated by Susan Gibb, Society, Waterloo
Piano Removalist, Boxcopy, Brisbane

2010
Man Rose, BREENSPACE, Sydney

2008    
Written & recorded by Ringo Starr, BREENSPACE, Sydney
Slow dancing, Locksmith Project Space, Sydney
Hey, hey, hey, my, my, my, gone, gone, gone, MOP Projects, Sydney

2007    
Want my pants ripped off by someone wild, MOP Projects, Sydney

2006    
We got the bright lights shining on our backs, Firstdraft, Sydney
Re-establish something of a bond (with Nana Ohnesorge), MOP Projects, Sydney

GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2013
Relationshippal: Mitch Cairns, Susan Jacobs, Tim Silver, BREENSPACE, Sydney

2012    
Cool World, Alaska, Sydney Group Show, OK Gallery, Perth

2010    
Redheads and Other Power Chicks & Men Who Sew, curated by Barbara Flynn, Deloitte Building, Sydney BREENSPACE, Melbourne Art Fair 2010, Royal Exhibition Hall, Melbourne
Alpha Romeo, curated by Matthys Gerber, Peloton, Sydney
They call them Pirates out here, curated by David Elliot, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
Group Show, BREENSPACE, Sydney
20/Twenty, UTS Gallery, University of Technology, Sydney & Dubbo Regional Gallery, NSW
In Temperance, curated by Mark Titmarsh, City of Sydney Laneways project,

2009    
What I think of when I think about dancing, Campbelltown Arts Centre,
Sydney Adam, Adam, Mitch, Nigel & Ron – Big Painting, Fraser Studios, Sydney Reality Check, curated by Daniel Mudie Cunningham, Hazelhurst Regional Gallery
Video Time (curated by Abigail Moncreiff), MOP Projects, Sydney
Colleagues & Peers (hokey–pokey), The Cosmic Battle for your Heart, Sydney

2008    
Locksmith Annual, Locksmith Project Space, Sydney
30th Anniversary Exhibition, Wollongong City Gallery, Wollongong
Downtown, curated by Firstdraft, City of Sydney Laneways Project, Sydney
Rimbaud/Rambo, Neon Parc, Melbourne
Rookie Show, curated by Barbara Flynn, Deloitte Building, Sydney
Stupid Little Dreamer, Inflight, Hobart, Tasmania
I am a Good Boy, curated by Elise Routledge, Firstdraft, Sydney

2007    
Victory! Triumph!, performance with Agatha Gothe-Snape, Firstdraft 21st Anniversary, Firstdraft, Sydney
Smash Hits, Parramatta Artist’s Studios, Sydney
Deck, MOP Projects, Sydney 2006    The Year in Art, S.H Ervin Gallery, Sydney
Plastic Myth, curated by James Steele, Firstdraft, Sydney
Drawcard 06, National Art School, Sydney
Cones of Zontact, Loose Projects, Sydney Post-it, Peloton, Sydney
Six, Mary Place Gallery, Sydney

2005    
Graduate show, National Art School, Sydney
Punch, MOP Projects, Sydney
Last show of the year, King Street Gallery on Burton, Sydney

2004    
Art on the Rocks, ASN Gallery, The Rocks
Salon de Refuses, S.H Ervin Gallery, Wynne Prize, Sydney

AWARDS AND PRIZES
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Finalist, Doug Moran National Portrait Prize, Juniper Hall, Paddington, Sydney

2012
Winner The Brett Whiteley Travelling Art Scholarship

2010    
Finalist, Doug Moran National Portrait Prize, State Library of NSW, Sydney
Finalist, Redlands Westpac Art Prize, Mosman Art Gallery, Sydney (selected by artist, Nell)

2009   
Finalist, Helen Lempriere Travelling Art Scholarship, Artspace, Sydney

2008    
Finalist, Redlands Westpac Art Prize, Mosman Art Gallery, Sydney

2007    
Finalist, Helen Lempriere Travelling Art Scholarship, Artspace, Sydney
Finalist, SOYA Art Prize
Finalist, Redlands Westpac Art Prize, Mosman Art Gallery, Sydney

2006    
Finalist, Helen Lempriere Travelling Art Scholarship, Artspace, Sydney
Finalist, ABN AMRO Emerging Art Award, Sydney
Winner, Waverley Art Prize, Sydney

2005    
Winner, Clitheroe Foundation Painting Scholarship, Sydney
Finalist, John Olsen Drawing Prize, Sydney

2004    
Highly Commended, Gruner Landscape Prize, Art Gallery of New South
Wales, Sydney

2003    
Winner, Gruner Landscape Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

COLLECTIONS
Artbank Deloitte Collection
Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Sydney
Wollongong University Private collections

BIBLIOGRAPHY
Susan Gibb, 'Collector’s Love', Art Collector, no. 63, 2013
Rachel Fuller, 'Piano Removalist', catalogue essay, BOXCOPY, Brisbane 2012
Danny Ford, 'Heavy Lifting: Piano Removalist', BOXCOPY, Brisbane, 2012
Susan Gibb, 'Sensitive Art', Bass Principles, catalogue essay, BREENSPACE, 2012
Owen Craven, 'Emerge: Mitch Cairns', Artist Profile, no. 22, 2013
Nicholas Forrest, 'Mitch Cairns wins the 2012 Brett Whiteley Travelling Art Scholarship', Blouin Artinfo, 17 September 2012
Tim Douglas, 'Young artist's win inspired by Whiteley', The Australian, 14 September 2012
Andrew Taylor, 'Whiteley scholarship grants artist a Paris odyssey', Sydney Morning Herald, 14 September 2012
André Hemer, ʻBass Principles: Reviewʼ, eyecontact.com, New Zealand, 2012
Erik Jensen, ʻReview: Mitch Cairns and Matthew Tumbersʼ, Runway issue 15, 2012 
Rachel Fuller, 'Bass Principles', Concrete Playground, blog, 2012 
Rachel Fuller, 'The Drawing Room', Concrete Playground, blog, 2012
Agatha Gothe-Snape and Shane Haseman, 'MAN ROSE', catalogue essay, BREENSPACE, 2010 
Kerrie Davies, ‘New Work’, Art World Magazine, no. 1, February/March, 2008 
Anneke Jaspers, Guest editor, 'Real life with maracas (get rhythm)', Runway issue 11: Conversation, 2008
Shane Haseman, Written & Recorded by Ringo Starr, BREENSPACE, Sydney, 2008 
James Steele, ‘TwentyLove’, Firstdraft 20th Anniversary, Firstdraft, Sydney, 2006 
Annemarie Lopez, ‘Artists of Tomorrow’, Australian Art Review, no. 10, March –June, 2006