Objects to Live by: The Art of John Meade

Curator: Zara Stanhope

11 September - 24 October 2010
Central Galleries

JOHN MEADE
Born, Ballarat, 1956: currently lives and works Melbourne, Australia

Selected Recent Solo Exhibitions:
2005: Aftermath, Sutton Galley, Melbourne; Incident in the Museum 2, Monash University Museum of Art, Clayton: 2004: Dreamer, Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne: 2001: Propulsion, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne and the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney.

Selected Recent Group Exhibitions:
2006: 21st Century Modern, Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art, AGSA; 2005: Melbourne Prize for Urban Sculpture (finalist), Federation Square, Melbourne; 2003: This was the future...Australian Sculpture of the 1950s, 60s, 70s and Today, Heide Museum of Modern Art; Orifice, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, curated by Juliana Engberg

Awards and commissions include: Aqualung, Victoria Harbour, Melbourne, installed 2006; 2004 recipient of the Anne and Gordon Samstag Award, completing a year of study in New York City; Asialink residency, India, 1998-99, and Mean Yellow, Victorian Arts Centre forecourt, commissioned by the Melbourne Festival, 2000.

Selected Collections
Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne; Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne; Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney; National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne; and private collections

John Meade is represented in Australia by Sutton Gallery, Melbourne, Australia