ALAN CONSTABLE
Born: Melbourne 1956
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2021 Recent Ceramics, Darren Knight Gallery, Sydney, Australia
2018 Alan Constable, Darren Knight Gallery, Sydney, Australia
2017 Action, Camera!, The Gallery of Everything, London, UK
2015 Alan Constable: Close –Up, Andrew Baker Art Dealer, Brisbane, Australia Alan Constable, Darren Knight Gallery, Sydney, Australia
2013 Alan Constable/Ten Cameras, South Willard, Los Angeles, USA
2011 viewfinder: Alan Constable Survey, Arts Project Australia Gallery, Melbourne, Australia Constable, Stills Gallery, Paddington, Sydney, Australia
2009 Alan Constable Clay Cameras, Helen Gory Galerie, Melbourne, Australia
SELECTED GROUP SHOWS
2021 Super Rough, Outsider Art Fair with Takashi Murakami, SoHo, New York City, USA. CERAMIX, Manly Art Gallery and Museum, Manly, Sydney. Semiotic Terrain: Art from Australia and New Zealand, Represented by DUTTON gallery, Salon 94 Freemans, Outsider Art Fair, New York Where the Art is, Arts Project Gallery, Collingwood Yards, Melbourne
2019 Why Take Pictures?, Centre of Contemporary Photography, Melbourne Still Life Part II curated by Adam Stone, Verge Gallery, Sydney Deakin University Contemporary Small Sculpture Award 2019, Deakin University Gallery, Melbourne
2018 Darren Knight Gallery at Spring 1883, Windsor Hotel, Melbourne 1 – 4 August 2018 The Horse, Darren Knight Gallery, Sydney, Australia Arts Project Australia, Robin Gibson Gallery: modern and contemporary, Sydney, Australia
2017 Darren Knight Gallery at Spring 1883, Room 55, The Establishment Hotel, Sydney, Australia Glazed turkeys and other treats from the Manningham Art Collection, Manningham Art Gallery, Melbourne, Australia The Museum of Everything, Museum of Old and New Art (MONA), Tasmania, Australia Victorian Craft Awards 2017, Craft, Melbourne, Australia Let’s dance, Arts Project Australia Gallery, Melbourne, Australia Home & the fabric of the familiar, Arts Project Australia Gallery, Melbourne, Australia ACTION, CAMERA!, The Gallery of Everything, London, UK
NADA New York, Dutton booth #3.04, New York, USA Luminous kinship, sentient kingdom, Arts Project Australia Gallery, Melbourne, Australia Media Hype, c3 Contemporary Art Space, Abbotsford Convent, Melbourne, Australia
2016 Annual Gala exhibition, Arts Project Australia, Melbourne, Australia, Australia Gold Coast International Ceramic Art Award, Gold Coast City Gallery, Australia Beautiful Obsolescence, Michael Crouch Innovation Centre, University of NSW, Australia Arts Project Australia CBD Pop-up Gallery, Collins Place, Melbourne, Australia Here and Now, Sofitel Melbourne on Collins, Melbourne, Australia Clay: it’s a matter of substance, Arts Project Australia Gallery, Melbourne, Australia Museum of Everything, Kunsthal Rotterdam, Netherlands Tell ‘em I’m dead, Arts Project Australia Gallery, Melbourne, Australia Exhibition #6, The Museum of Everything, Rotterdam, Netherlands
2015 Polaroid Project, Fleisher/Ollman, Philidelphia, USA Annual Gala Exhibition, Arts Project Australia Gallery, Melbourne, Australia The thing that feels, A MOP Projects show hosted by Galerie pompom, Sydney, Australia Group Show, Chapter House Lane, Melbourne, Australia It takes more than 140 characters to write a novel, Arts Project Australia, Melbourne, Australia Linden Postcard Show, 2015 Linden, St Kilda, Melbourne, Australia Victorian Craft Award, Craft, Melbourne, Australia The Salon, Scott Livesey Galleries, Melbourne, Australia Well Red, Robin Gibson Gallery, Sydney, Australia That’s Funny, Arts Project Australia Gallery, Melbourne, Australia Home, locations around Arts Centre Melbourne, the city and the surrounds, Australia
2014 Fleisher/Ollman at Outsider Art Fair, New York, USA Annual Gala Exhibition, Arts Project Australia Gallery, Melbourne, Australia Polaroid Project, Horsham Regional Art Gallery, Horsham, Australia Deakin University Contemporary Small Sculpture Award, Deakin University Art Gallery, Melbourne, Australia Small Universe, No Vacancy Gallery, Melbourne, Australia Melbourne Art Fair 2014, Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne, Australia Renegades: Outsider Art, Moree Plains Gallery, Australia Into the Vault and Out of the Box, Arts Project Australia Gallery, Melbourne, Australia Animal Magnetism, Arts Project Australia Gallery, Melbourne, Australia Renegades: Outsider Art, The Arts Centre Gold Coast, Australia Melbourne Now, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
2013 Annual Gala Exhibition, Arts Project Australia Gallery, Melbourne, Australia Melbourne Now, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia Supermarket, Craft, Melbourne, Australia Chicago Expo: Fleisher/Ollman Gallery, Chicago, USA By Women, Of Women, Queen Victoria Women’s Centre, Melbourne, Australia Nocturne, Arts Project Australia Gallery, Melbourne, Australia Manningham Victorian Ceramic Art Award, Manningham Art Gallery, Australia Modern + Traditional Auction, Leonard Joel Auction House, Melbourne, Australia Repeat. Restate… Reiterate, Arts Project Australia Gallery, Melbourne, Australia Renegades: Outsider Art, KickArts Contemporary Arts, Cairns, Australia Outsiderism, Fleisher/Ollman Gallery, Philadelphia, USA World In My Eyes, C3 Gallery, Abbotsford, Melbourne, Australia At the Table, Arts Project Australia Gallery, Melbourne, Australia Classic Albums, Tanks Art Centre, Cairns, Australia
2012 Annual Gala Exhibition, Arts Project Australia Gallery, Melbourne, Australia Walsh Bay Arts Table 2012, the Wharf – Pier 2, Sydney, Australia Error and Judgement, Arts Project Australia Gallery Melbourne, Australia Classic Albums, Arts Project Australia Gallery, Melbourne, Australia In the making, Arts Project Australia Gallery, Melbourne, Australia CBD Installation, Melbourne, Australia
2011 CBD Installation, Melbourne, Australia Annual Gala Exhibition, Arts Project Australia, Melbourne, Australia The Machine, Craft Victoria, Melbourne, Australia Exhibition #4, Museum of Everything, London, UK Moving Galleries, Flinders Street Station, Melbourne, Australia The Shilo Project, Gippsland Art Gallery, Sale, Australia This Sensual World, Arts Project Australia Gallery, Melbourne, Australia National Gallery of Victoria 150th event, Melbourne, Australia Unfiltered, Penola Visitor Information Centre, Penola, South Australia Art Through Other’s Eyes, Rymill Coonawarra, South Australia Subterranean, Arts Project Australia Gallery, Melbourne, Australia The Shilo Project, Wangaratta Exhibitions Gallery, Melbourne, Australia Colour My World, Arts Project Australia Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
2010 Annual Gala Exhibition, Arts Project Australia Gallery, Melbourne, Australia Human Nature, Alan Lane Community Gallery: Warnambool Art Gallery, Australia Third Dimension, Arts Project Australia Gallery, Melbourne, Australia The Shilo Project, Warrnambool Art Gallery, Australia Portrait Exchange, Arts Project Australia Gallery, Melbourne, Australia 27th Gold Coast International Ceramic Art Award, Gold Coast Arts Centre, Gold Coast, Australia Melbourne Art Fair 2010, Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne, Australia Twitcher; Melbourne Art Fair 2010, Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne, Australia Hobart Art Prize, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart, Australia The Shilo Project, SH Ervin Gallery, Sydney, Australia Australiana Arts Project Australia Gallery, Melbourne, Australia Pacifica, Gallery Impaire, Paris, France Fully Booked, Arts Project Australia Gallery, Melbourne, Australia The Shilo Project, Mildura Arts Centre, Mildura, Australia Captured, nine on seven, Rooftop Cinema, Curtin House, Melbourne, Australia Canvas Stock Exhibition, Arts Project Australia Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
2009 Annual Gala Exhibition, Arts Project Australia, Melbourne, Australia The Shilo Project-The Ian Potter Museum of Art, University of Melbourne, Australia Belle Arti - Chapman and Bailey Acquisitive 2009 Art Award, Chapman and Bailey Gallery, Melbourne, Australia AART.BOX 09, Mori Gallery, Sydney, Australia Banyule City Council Works on Paper Art Award, Banyule Arts Space, Ivanhoe, Australia By Hand, Arts Project Australia Gallery, Melbourne, Australia Snapshot, ACGA Gallery, Federation Square, Melbourne, Australia Connected 09: Black Box, Victorian Arts Centre, Melbourne, Australia 2009 Liberty Victoria Dinner and Voltaire Award, Windsor Hotel, Melbourne, Australia Pictures of You, Arts Project Australia Gallery, Melbourne, Australia Off the Edge: Ceramics Triennale, Chrissie Cotter Gallery, Sydney, Australia BloodLines: Art and the Horse, QUT Art Museum, Brisbane, Australia Alan Constable & Julian Martin, Australian Galleries, Melbourne, Australia BloodLines: Art and the Horse, Parramatta Heritage Centre, Parramatta, Australia Clay Cameras, Centre for Contemporary Photography, (CCP) Melbourne, Australia 17th Annual Outsider Art Fair, The Mart, New York, USA
2008 Annual Gala Show, Arts Project Australia Gallery, Melbourne, Australia BloodLines: Art and the Horse, Latrobe Regional Gallery, Morwell, Australia Melbourne Art Fair 2008, Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne, Australia Short Stories, Tall Tales and the Way They Wore Them, Arts Project Australia Gallery, Melbourne, Australia Detour: Northern Exposure 08, Northcote Town Hall, Melbourne, Australia BloodLines: Art and the Horse, Albury Regional Gallery, Tamworth Regional Gallery, Muswellbrook Regional Gallery, Western Plains Cultural Centre, Australia Pearls of Arts Project Australia: The Stuart Purves Collection, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, College of Fine Arts, UNSW Sydney, Australia Reaching Out, Waldron Hall, County Court of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia Arts Project Australia: Paintings, Prints & Sculptures, A Day on Earth, Brisbane , Australia
2007 Studio Days, Arts Project Australia Gallery, Melbourne, Australia The Dinner Party, Arts Project Australia Gallery, Melbourne, Australia Bloodlines: Art and the Horse, Hawkesbury Regional Gallery, , Australia Peter Fay presents, Gallery 9, Sydney, Australia Pearls of Arts Project Australia - Stuart Purves Collection, Penrith Regional Gallery & The Lewers Bequest, Penrith, Australia
2006 In Everyone’s Company, Arts Project Australia Gallery, Melbourne, Australia Yours, Mine and Ours: 50 Years of ABC TV, Penrith Regional Gallery & The Lewers Bequest, Australia Private and Confidential, Arts Project Australia Gallery, Melbourne, Australia Melbourne Art Fair 2006, Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne, Australia Skyscape, Arts Project Australia Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
2005 Wrapped: Selected Works from the Studio, Arts Project Australia Gallery, Melbourne, Australia Leo Cussen with Selected Artists, Australian Galleries, Melbourne, Australia South of the Border, Arts Project Australia Gallery, Melbourne, Australia Double Take, Arts Project Australia Gallery, Melbourne, Australia Outsider Art Fair, New York, USA Hosted by the Phyllis Kind Gallery, New York, USA Sydney Art on Paper Fair, Byron Kennedy Hall, Sydney, Australia S,M,L,XL, Arts Project Australia Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
2004 2nd Annual Intuit Show of Folk and Outsider Art, Chicago, USA Hosted by the Phyllis Kind Gallery, New York, USA Melbourne Art Fair 2004 - Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne, Australia Connected04, Arts Project Australia Gallery, Melbourne, Australia Christmas Survey, Arts Project Australia Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
2003 Connected, Goya Galleries, Melbourne, Australia A Sense of Place, Arts Project Australia Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
2002 Melbourne Contemporary Art Fair, Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne, Australia Face Up, Idiom Studio, New Zealand Arts of the Sacred Heart, Greenaway Art Gallery, Adelaide, Australia Annual Ecclectic Bonanza – 2002 Exhibition, Arts Project Australia Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
2001 Suburban Dreamers, Moore’s Building, Fremantle, Australia Christmas Show 2001, Arts Project Australia Gallery, Melbourne, Australia Face-Up, Idiom Studio, Wellington, New Zealand Art of the Sacred Heart, Greenaway Art Gallery, Adelaide, Australia
2000 Arterial - artists from Arts Project Australia, Paralympic Arts Festival, Sydney Opera House, Sydney, Australia 2000 National Works on Paper, Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, Australia Smorgon Steel Group Ltd Contemporary Art Prize, Williamstown Festival, Williamstown, Australia
1999 Pinacotheca Gallery, Melbourne, Australia Works on Paper, Australian Galleries, Sydney, Australia Connexions Particulières, MADMusée and Musée d’Art Moderne et d’Art Comtempora, Liège, Belgium Nine Artists from Arts Project Australia, Australian Galleries, Melbourne, Australia Connected, Geelong Art Gallery, Geelong, Australia Still Life, Arts Project Australia Gallery, Melbourne, Australia The Inner View, Arts Project Australia Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
1998 Bazaar, Pitspace, RMIT University, Bundoora, Australia Australian Contemporary Art Fair, Royal Exhibition Buildings, Melbourne, Australia
1997 Nexus, RMIT Project Space, Melbourne, Australia Prints & Artists’ Books, Arts Project Australia, Melbourne, Australia Canterbury Art Show (featured artist), Canterbury High Beam Festival, Adelaide, Australia Group Show, Arts Project Australia Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
1996 Pinacotheca Gallery, Melbourne, Australia Border Crossing, McClelland Regional Gallery, Langwarrin, Australia Drawing on Experience: Reflections on Popular Culture, National Touring Exhibition, Australia Wild Things, Arts Project Australia, Melbourne, Australia Word, Arts Project Australia Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
1995 Reversed Image, Arts Project Australia Gallery, Melbourne, Australia Chapman Gallery, Canberra, Australia MADMusée, Liège, Belgium Vita Gallery, Portland, Oregon, USA
1994 Pinacotheca Gallery, Melbourne, Australia Australian Contemporary Art Fair, Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne, Australia Beyond Words, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
1993 International Works on Paper Fair, Powerhouse Museum, Sydney, Australia Gone to PAC, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
1992 Inside Out/Outside In, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
1991 Arts Project, 200 Gertrude Street, Melbourne, Australia
AWARDS
2017 Victorian Craft Awards 2017, - Finalist, Craft, Melbourne
2015 Victorian Craft Awards 2015 –Finalist, Craft, Melbourne
2014 2014 Deakin University Contemporary Small Sculpture Award –Finalist Deakin University Art Gallery, Burwood Campus, Burwood, VIC
2010 27th Gold Coast International Ceramic Art Awards Hobart Art Prize-Finalist
2009 2009 Banyule City Council Works on Paper Art Award- Highly Commended
2000 Jacaranda Acquisitive Drawing Award – Finalist
1994 Outback Art Prize, Broken Hill Art Gallery, NSW – finalist
1993 VTU Art Awards, Melbourne – 2nd Prize Diamond Valley Invitation Art Award - finalist
COLLECTIONS
Queensland Art Gallery/GOMA, Brisbane, Australia Gold Coast City Gallery, AUS City of Melbourne, AUS Deakin University, AUS National Gallery of Victoria, AUS National Gallery of Victoria, as gifted by Stuart Purves The Museum of Everything, UK Broken Hill Regional Gallery Collection, AUS Orange Regional Gallery, AUS Manningham Art Gallery, AUS Private Collections
Bibliography Heinrich, Will. Outsider Art Fair, Smaller This Year, but a Model for the Future, review, New York Times, 28 January 2021, https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/28/arts/design/outsider-art-fair.html