Kevin Mortensen Artists CV

Born 1939, Melbourne, Australia

1957-60 Diploma of Education, Melbourne State College

1961-71 Teacher, Secondary Art & Craft

1962-65 Diploma of Art (Sculpture), Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology

1971-75 Lecturer in Sculpture, Burwood State College

1975-83 Lecturer in Sculpture and Drawing, RMIT

2008 Hon, visiting research fellow, Monash University, Caulfield, VICm description

2023 ‘Fans in a stream’, Australian Galleries, Melbourne

2018 ‘The Alchemist’, Gippsland Art Gallery, Sale, VIC

‘Sculpture, paintings, drawings and prints’, Australian Galleries, Melbourne

2016 ‘Catharsis’, Australian Galleries, Melbourne

‘SERIOUS PLAY: The Art of Kevin Mortensen’, book launch accompanied by an exhibition of selected works, Australian Galleries, Melbourne

‘Transmitter’, exhibition and book launch, Gecko Studio Gallery, Fishcreek, VIC

2014 ‘Sculpture & Drawing’, Australian Galleries, Roylston Street, Sydney

2013 ‘Sculpture & Drawings’, Australian Galleries, Derby Street, Melbourne

2010 ‘Serious play’, Australian Galleries, Glenmore Road, Sydney

2009 ‘Back to the sea from which I came’, Australian Galleries, Smith Street, Melbourne

2007 ‘World View’, Australian Galleries Painting & Sculpture, Melbourne

2006 ‘Bronze Sculpture, Jewellery, Drawings & Etchings’, Australian Galleries, Melbourne

2003 ‘Like a Dog with a Bone’, Australian Galleries, Melbourne

2001 ‘What the Raven Saw (Thought and Memory)’, Australian Galleries, Melbourne

1998 ‘Man and the Bird – Man and the Sea’, Australian Galleries, Melbourne

1997 ‘Inside the Bower: Kevin Mortensen’, Latrobe Regional Gallery, VIC

Canberra School of Art Gallery, Australian National University, ACT

Benalla Art Gallery, VIC

1996 Australian Galleries, Sydney

1994 Australian Galleries, Melbourne

1992 Sale Regional Art Gallery, VIC

Powell Street Gallery, Melbourne

1991 Powell Street Graphics, Melbourne

1986 Ray Hughes Gallery, Sydney

1981 Ray Hughes Gallery, Brisbane Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane

1979 Watters Gallery, Sydney

1975 ‘Shards from a cave-carters backyard’, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne

1974 Pinacotheca Gallery, Melbourne

1971 Pinacotheca Gallery, Melbourne

1967 Argus Gallery, Melbourne

2019 ‘Australian Galleries: The Purves Family Business. The First Four Decades’, Book Launch and Group Exhibition, Australian Galleries, Melbourne

‘papermade’, Australian Galleries, Melbourne

2018 ‘Yering Station Sculpture Award and Exhibition, Yering Station, Yarra Glen, VIC

2017 ‘Yering Station Sculpture Award and Exhibition, Yering Station, Yarra Glen, VIC

‘Sculpture: medium and small scale – Mixed Sculptors’, Australian Galleries, Sydney

2014 ‘one of each’, Australian Galleries, Derby Street, Melbourne

2011 ‘large exhibition of small works’, Australian Galleries, Roylston Street, Sydney

‘large exhibition of small works’, Australian Galleries, Derby Street, Melbourne

2010 ‘Summer stock show’, Australian Galleries, Smith Street, Melbourne

‘Artists’ Prints made with Integrity I’, Australian Galleries, Smith Street, Melbourne

2009-10 ‘Summer Stock Show’, Australian Galleries, Derby Street, Melbourne

2008 ‘Off the point’, Celia Rosser Gallery, Fish Creek, VIC

‘Who let the dogs out’, Lake Macquarie City Art Gallery, NSW

2007 ‘Summer Stock Show’, Australian Galleries Works on Paper, Melbourne

‘Small Pleasures’, Australian Galleries Painting & Sculpture, Melbourne

2006 ‘Stock Show’, Australian Galleries Painting & Sculpture, Melbourne

ANL Maritime Art Prize, Melbourne

‘50th Anniversary Exhibition’, 5th June, Australian Galleries, Melbourne

2005 ‘Notes from the Natural World’, Australian Galleries, Melbourne

2004 ‘Species’, Australian Galleries, Melbourne

‘The Australian Print Workshop Archive 2’, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

2003-04 ‘A Modelled World’, McClelland Gallery & Sculpture Park, Langwarrin, VIC

2003 ‘This was the Future’, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne

‘The Jomantis Years’, RMIT, Melbourne

‘The sea, the sea’, Horsham Regional Art Gallery, Horsham, VIC (touring)

1995 ‘Illuminaries’, Monash University Gallery, Melbourne

1994-95 ‘25 Years of Australian Performance Art’, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney; Australian tour

1993 ‘Dame Edna Regrets She is Unable to Attend’, Latrobe Valley Arts Centre, VIC

Barwon Wetlands Art Project, Geelong Art Gallery, VIC

1991 ‘Off the Wall in the Air: Art of the Seventies’, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art and Monash University Gallery, Melbourne

1990-92 ‘Contemporary Gippsland Artists’, Latrobe Valley Arts Centre, VIC, touring exhibition

1989 ‘Prints and Australia, Pre-settlement to Present’, Australian National Gallery, Canberra

‘Three Days of Performance’, Monash University, Melbourne

Fourth Australian Sculpture Triennial, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne

1988 ‘Drawing in Australia 1970s-1980s’, Australian National Gallery, Canberra

1987 ‘Why People Go To Traffic Accidents’, Theatre Works, Melbourne

‘Gravity’s Angels’, Wangaratta Artspace, VIC

1985 ‘Works from the Monash Collection’, Monash University Gallery, Melbourne

1984 Second Australian Sculpture Triennial, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne

1983 ‘Continuum’, Awajicho Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

1982 ‘Eureka! Artists from Australia’, ICA, London

1981 ‘Australian Perspecta’, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

First Australian Sculpture Triennial, Latrobe University, Melbourne

‘Anzart’, The Boiler House, Christchurch, New Zealand

‘Animals and Animism in Australian Art’, RMIT Gallery, Melbourne

1980 Adelaide Festival of Art, Performance Week, Adelaide

Venice Biennale, Australian Pavilion, Italy

1978 ‘Act 1’ Performance Festival, Australian National University, Canberra

‘Lost and Found: Objects and Images’, Ewing and George Paton Gallery,

The University of Melbourne Union, Melbourne

1976 Biennale of Sydney, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

‘Link Exhibition’, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide

1975 ‘Artist’s Artists’, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne

Mildura Sculpture Triennial, VIC

1973 Mildura Sculpture Triennial, VI

1972 Group Exhibition, Pinacotheca Gallery, Melbourne

1970 Mildura Sculpture Triennial, VIC

1968 ‘24 Point Plug Show’, Argus Gallery, Melbourne

‘Alcorso-Sekers’, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne

2008 ‘Flying the Ornithopter’, Celia Rosser Gallery, Fish Creek, VIC, with Greta Mortensen

2007 ‘Woman in the window’, Australian Galleries Painting & Sculpture, Melbourne

2003 ‘Like a Dog with a Bone’, Australian Galleries, Melbourne

2000 ‘Limnophilous Longirostral’, Noosa, Queensland, with Greta Mortensen

1998 ‘Display of the Bird King’, Lake Burley Griffin, Canberra

1993 ‘The Ibis and the Song’, 18 September, with Pat Freeman (singer), Kevin Alder (second birdman), Mark Althorpe (sound), Barwon Wetlands Project, Hospital Swamp, Lake Connewarre wetlands, Geelong Art Gallery

1989 ‘Self Portrait as the Seagull Salesman’, Three Days of Performance, Lecture Theatre, Visual Arts Department, Monash University, Melbourne

1987 ‘Why People go to Traffic Accidents’, performance/theatre, with Peter Sommerfeld, Theatre Works, Melbourne

1986 ‘Kinetic Sunrise’, The Performance Space, Sydney

1985 ‘Kinetic Sunrise’, Alexander Theatre, Monash University, Melbourne

1982 ‘60 Ways to Fool a Trout’, Eureka! Artists From Australia, ICA and Serpentine Gallery, London

1981 ‘Camp Atavism’, Preston Institute of Technology, First Australian Sculpture Triennial, Melbourne

‘We Point the Bone: Bone the Bomb’, in collaboration with Tony Coleing, Ray Hughes Gallery, Brisbane

1980 ‘Even the hairs on your forearm grow in the same direction as their feathers’, Venice Biennale, Italy

1979-80 ‘The Rowing’, in collaboration with Steve Turpie, Bruce Lamrock, Peter Hopcraft, Murdoch Court, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne

‘The Rowing’, Carclew House, Adelaide Festival of Art, Adelaide

1979 ‘The Rocking’, Watters Gallery, Sydney

1978 ‘The Rocking’, with Kevin Alder, ACT 1 Performance Festival, Australian National University, Canberra

1975 ‘The Delicatessen’, environment at Mildura, VIC

Sculpture Triennial, Actor: Eddie Rosser

1973 ‘St. Paul’s performance’, with John Davis, Spring Festival, St Paul’s Cathedral, Melbourne

1972 ‘The Opening Leg Show Party Bizarre’, Happening with Mike Brown and Russell Dreever, Pinacotheca, Melbourne

1971 ‘The Seagull Salesman; his stock & visitors, or Figures of Identification’, Pinacotheca, Melbourne

Art Gallery of New South Wales

Art Gallery of South Australia

Art Gallery of Western Australia

Burwood State College

City of Ballarat Fine Art Gallery

Deakin Univeristy Art Collection

Gippsland Art Gallery, Sale

Grafton Regional Gallery

Latrobe Regional Gallery, Morwell

Monash University

National Gallery of Australia

National Gallery of Victoria

Parliament House Art Collection

Private collections

Tasmanian Museum & Art Gallery

University of Queensland

Davies, Suzanne; “Venice Biennale ‘80”, Art Network, No. 2, Spring, 1981

Davies, Suzanne; La Biennale: Visual Arts 80 – General Catalogue, Visual Arts Board, Australia Council and Biennale di Venezia, 1980

Eureka! Artists from Australia, exhibition catalogue, ICA Arts Council of Great Britain, London, 1982

Gates, Merryn; ‘Time and Tide; Daniel Thomas, ‘Birdman from Venus Bay’, Inside the Bower, exhibition catalogue, Canberra School of Art Gallery, Australian National University, Canberra, 1997

Green, Charles; “Pinacotheca: A private art history”, Art and Australia, Vol 34:4, 1997

Green, Charles; Peripheral Vision: Contemporary Australian Art 1970-1994, Craftsman House, 1995

Hansen, David; ‘Kevin Mortensen’, Contemporary Gippsland Artists, exhibition catalogue, Latrobe Valley Arts Centre, Victoria, 1990

Haysom, Rob; Serious Play: The Art of Kevin Mortensen, Thames & Hudson, 2015

Marsh, Anne; “Australian Performance Art – 1970s”, Art and Australia, Autumn, 1989, p 412-418

Marsh, Anne; Body and Self: Performance art in Australia 1969-92, Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1993

Mind and Matter, exhibition catalogue, Sale Regional Art Gallery, Victoria, 1992

Scarlett, Ken; Australian Sculptors, Nelson, Melbourne, 1980

Silvermann, Lynne; “Recent International Forms in Art”, Arts Melbourne & Art Almanac, Vol. 14, December 1976

Sturgeon, Graeme; The Development of Australian Sculpture 1788-1975, Thames & Hudson, London, 1978

Sturgeon, Graeme; “Kevin Mortensen, Icons and Images”, Art and Australia, Vol. 17:1, September 1979, p 66-71

Sturgeon, Graeme; Sculpture at Mildura 1961-1982, by Mildura City Council, Victoria

Taylor, Paul ed.; “Anything Goes: Art in Australia 1970-1980”, Art & Text, Melbourne, 1984

Thomas, Daniel; “Birdman from Venus Bay”, Art and Australia, Vol. 33:3, Autumn 1996, p 370-375

Waterlow, Nick; 25 Years of Australian Performance Art, exhibition catalogue, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney, 1995

Williams, Donald; In Our Image, The Story of Australian Art, McGraw Hill, 1987

Zimmer, Jenny ed.; Animals and Animism in Australian Art, RMIT Gallery, Melbourne 1981