IAN FRIEND CV
QUALIFICATIONS:
1973–75 Higher Diploma of Fine Art (Slade School of Fine Art, University College, London)
1970–73 Diploma in Art and Design (Birmingham College of Art)
1969–70 Pre Diploma Foundation Year (Exeter College of Art)
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
2012- Full-time practising artist
2008-12 Queensland College of Art, Griffith University, Lecturer, Drawing
1999–2003 Queensland College of Art, Griffith University, Lecturer, Painting
1998 Sunshine Coast University College, Lecturer, Drawing
1993–97 Tasmanian School of Art at Launceston, University of Tasmania, Lecturer/Coordinator, Drawing, Honours and Postgraduate Studies
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
2018 Blue Silence, Gallerysmith, Melbourne
2017 Angel Song, Gallerysmith, Melbourne; Musaeum: fragments of former worlds, Andrew Baker Art Dealer, Brisbane
2016 City ghosts, Gallerysmith, Melbourne
2015 Echo /Palimpsest, Gallerysmith, Melbourne
2014 A precipitation of fallen angels, Andrew Baker Art Dealer, Brisbane
2013 Ghost Milk, Gallerysmith, Melbourne
2012 Matter and memory, Andrew Baker Art Dealer, Brisbane; Ian Friend: On Whatman, ArtLab, Adelaide
2011 But these things also, Gallerysmith, Melbourne
2010 Tracing the paths of memory, Andrew Baker Art Dealer, Brisbane
2009 New works on paper, Gallerysmith, Melbourne
2008 Thirty Years of Works on Paper 1977-2007, QUT Art Museum, Brisbane; A voice of floating silence, Andrew Baker Art Dealer, Brisbane
2006 Queensland Performing Arts Centre, Brisbane; Stephen McLaughlan Gallery, Melbourne
2005 Tidal, Redcliffe City Gallery
2003 Joy at death itself, Andrew Baker Art Dealer, Brisbane; Helen Maxwell Gallery, Canberra
2002 Stephen McLaughlan Gallery, Melbourne; The oval window, Brisbane City Gallery, Brisbane
2000 Stephen McLaughlan Gallery, Melbourne
1995 Austral Gallery, St Louis, USA; une violente aventure sentimentale, Lawrence Wilson Gallery, University of Western Australia
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
2018 Come Close, University of the Sunshine Coast Art Gallery, Queensland
2017 Trace Biennial, West End, Brisbane; 15 Artists, Redcliffe Art Gallery
2015 GOMAQ: Contemporary Queensland Art, Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art
2013 Correspondences Art Gallery of South Australia; Homage, Andrew Baker Art Dealer, Brisbane
2010 The unusual suspects, Andrew Baker Art Dealer, Brisbane; Recent Acquisitions, UQ Art Museum
2009 New Works On Paper, Gallerysmith, Melbourne
2008 Good Friday: 15 years of MOCRA, Museum of Contemporary Religious Art, St Louis, USA
2007 The unusual suspects, Andrew Baker Art Dealer, Brisbane
2006 Stella Downer Fine Art, Sydney
2005 Moist: Australian watercolours, National Gallery of Australia and Australian tour
2003 The unusual suspects, Andrew Baker Art Dealer, Brisbane; Paper Matters, Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, Perth
2001 Paperworks, Queensland Art Gallery; High fidelity, SOApBOx Gallery, Brisbane
2000 QUT Art Museum, Brisbane
1999 The Drawing Room, Brisbane City Gallery; Austral Gallery, St Louis, USA
COLLABORATIVE WORK:
2009 QUT Billboard, when I leave the clouds (Art Bunker with light-trap press)
1993–94 Centre for Future Technologies (with architect Paul Lan and artists Sara Lindsay and Kevin Todd)
PUBLICATIONS:
The days run away, design by Inkahoots, published by ArtBunker 2021
Fine Arts Fire Ants: volume one eleven essays, published by ArtBunker 2017
‘A Bash in the Tunnel’, Ian Friend and Richard Humphreys, chapter in For the Future (Ian Brinton ed.), Shearsman Books 2016
On Paper, design by Inkahoots, published in conjunction with the exhibition Thirty Years of Works on Paper 1977-2007, QUT Art Museum, ArtBunker 2007
AWARDS:
2017 Winner, 15 Artists Award, Recliffe Art Gallery
2007 Arts Queensland Promotion and Presentation grant
2002 1st Prize Hutchins Prize
2001 Hutchins Prize Judges Award
2000 Hutchins Prize Judges Award
COLLECTIONS:
Artbank
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane
Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
The British Museum, London
Tate Gallery, London
Arts Council of Great Britain, London
Australian Embassy, Washington DC
Museum of Contemporary Religious Art, St Louis, USA
Griffith University, Queensland
University of Queensland, Brisbane
Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane
University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
University of Tasmania, Launceston
University of Western Australia, Perth
La Trobe University Gallery, Melbourne
Lake Macquarie City Art Gallery, NSW
Monash University Gallery, Melbourne
University College of Central Queensland, Rockhampton
New England Regional Art Museum, NSW
Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, Launceston
Redcliffe City Art Gallery, Queensland
Redland Art Gallery, Redland, Queensland
Robert Holmes à Court Collection, Perth
The Hutchins Foundation, Hobart
Brisbane Boys Grammar School, Brisbane
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Bellamy, Louise, ‘Abstractly Marked’, The Age, Melbourne, 27 April 2000
Butler, Sally, ‘The Oval Window’ Artlink, vol. 22, no. 3. 2002
Clabburn, Anna, ‘New light in broad spectrum’, The Age, Melbourne, 5 August 1998
Hall, Matt, ‘Past the curve of recall: a reading of JH Prynne’s Wound Response’, VLAK, vol. 1, no. 1, September 2010
Kirker, Anne (ed.), Ian Friend: on paper, Andrew Baker Art Dealer, 2008
Kirker, Anne, Drifting: Ian Friend’s encounter with Redcliffe, Redcliffe Art Gallery, 2006
Nelson, Robert, Epistle to Friend, 'une violente aventure sentimentale' catalogue essay for Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, UWA, Perth, WA, 1995
Print Australia (ed.), ‘Ian Friend’, Bellebyrd, 5 November 2005
Stranger, Lucy, ‘Ian Friend’, Artist Profile, #42, 2018, pp. 70-75
Welchman, John, ‘Abstraction, Representation, Figuration—Parts I & II’, Agenda, no. 25, 1992. Reprinted as exhibition catalogue for Austral Gallery at ACAF 3 1992, and as ‘Coda: The Protestant Affliction’, in Modernism Relocated, Allen and Unwin, 1995
Welchman, John, ‘Tondo: Terragni—The tree, the log, the stump, the section and the inscription’, Transition, no. 61/62, September 2000