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Christian Capurro, b. Western Australia, 1968

 

Born 1968 in Dampier, Western Australia, and resides in Melbourne.

Individual Exhibitions

2004

Another Misspent Portrait of Etienne de Silhouette, multiple venues in Melbourne throughout the year.

2003

Gorgonia, Studio 12 Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Fitzroy.

2000

White Breath, West Space Inc., Melbourne.

1999

Trying to keep more than one thing in your head at any one time (Viva Timor Leste, Aug. 30 1999), West Space Inc., Footscray.
After the deluge, corrections, Temple Studio, Prahran.
Works-off-paper, cityartpublicspace transport shelters, Melbourne.

1998

engorge(o)us, Stripp, Fitzroy.

1997

Cicatrix, Gallery 106 Lt. Lonsdale St., Melbourne.
Garnish (a suite of graftings), Linden, St. Kilda.

Selected Group Exhibitions

2004

Cycle tracks will abound in utopia, Australian Centre of Contemporary Art, Melbourne.
Performance Anxiety, Ocular Lab, West Brunswick.

2003

West Space Goes Downtown, Downtown Art Space, Adelaide.
Gertrude Studios 2003, Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Fitzroy.
PrintROOM, CLUBS project inc., Fitzroy.

2002

Capurro, Ellis, Hutchison and Parsons, 1ST. Floor, Fitzroy.

1999

Raw Hin; Christian Capurro, Choi Sung Youn and Soyoug Kang, Gallery Kobo Chika, Tokyo.

Awards

2004

City of Yarra Arts Development Grant.

2003

Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces Studio Residency.

1998

Pat Corrigan Artist Grant, National Association for the Visual Arts.

1996

U.W.S. Macarthur National Printmedia Acquisitive Prize.

Selected References

After Images, Meanjin vol.62 #2, 2003.

DiPietro, M.......... Printmakers in the raw, Asahi Evening News, Tokyo, 23rd September 1999.

The John McBride Collection (Tokyo/Melbourne) archive catalogue(s), National Library of Australia, Canberra.

Dialogue #12 Civic, August 1999 (pp 90-93).

Bragge, A.......... engorge(o)us review, Herald Sun, 25th July 1998.

Nicholson, T.......... 'Garnish (a suite of graftings), Linden', review, LIKE, art magazine #4, Spring 1997.

Collections

University of Western Sydney, Macarthur.

Private collections in Australia, Japan, Europe and the U.S.A.

Studies

2003

R.M.I.T. Media Arts, Digital Imaging (single subjects).

1993-5

Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne University - B.F.A. (Printmaking).

1994

Melbourne University Italian Language School, Summer School.

1987-9

Australian College of Photography Art and Communication, Melbourne
Diploma of Photography (Fine Art).

1986

Photographic Studies College, Melbourne.

Selected Professional Experience

2003/4

Lecturer/tutor in Photomedia, Faculty of Multimedia and Digital Arts, Monash University.
Visiting artist, Media Arts dept., R.M.I.T. University.

2002 - present

Committee member, West Space Inc., Melbourne.

2002

Printmaking lecturer/tutor and Visiting artist, Northern Metropolitan TAFE.

2002/1999/1996

Assistant Printmaker/Archivist, Australian Print Workshop, Fitzroy.

1999

Drawing tutor, Printmaking dept., Victorian College of the Arts.

1996-7

Lecturer/tutor in Photography, College of Art and Design,
Monash University

1993 - present

Freelance photographer.