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DARREN B PORTER
 
monica adams 
kylie baudino

Tubes, Ropes, Wires.

"My practice explores the notions of relationships between our psychological and material surrounds. This involves the taut and tame balancing act required to understand place and belonging in an increasingly detached social network. The paintings deal with the idea that the more we are encroached upon by events, stuff and technology, the more we become the pocket-sized person confronted by unlimited intervals. In the picture frame something has occurred that not even I am aware of, the figures are for the most part helpless but not totally distressed. Connected by ropes, wires and tubes with the machine as family, we freefall into the future.

It’s a global concern, and the geographical locations in the titles suggest this. They are places I’ve had contact with. Through travel, where friends reside, or a story or photo I’ve come across that has forced a response.
The figures I use come from various sources - my own photographs, newspapers and magazines. I also use the Internet because it has a random quality about it, depending on what you type into the search engine to get a result. By displacing the figures into a different context, the paintings have an abnormal transience, a kind of unsteady reality.

I paint for the mystery of it, locating something where there was nothing - the mathematics of it is not that complicated - I think you can chase it down. You just have to focus. You just have to go after it."


Darren B Porter - October 2011


 
leonard benson
michael chavez
geoff coleman
keith cowlam
tim craker
david disher
sue gill
rosi griffin
michael harris
peter harris  

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2009 Jackman Gallery, Melbourne
2007 Jackman Gallery, Melbourne
2005 Mind and Counter Mind, Brightspace Gallery, Melbourne
2000 The Eraser Triangle, Flying Rhino, London
1996 Sound-giant, RMIT Gallery, Tolarno’s, St Kilda, Melbourne

SELECTED GROUP SHOWS
2011 Drawing Connections, Sienna Art Institute, Italy
2007 6 Degree Prize, Frankston Arts Centre
2004 I-Candy, North Melbourne Town Hall, Melbourne
1999 Forged Eclipse, TIP, London
1998 Blank Fever, Who’s What, Oslo, Norway
1997 Five Quiet Years, St Kilda Town Hall, Melbourne
1996 Re-productions, RMIT Gallery, Tolarno’s, St Kilda, Melbourne
1995 Ink Splashes, Tattoo Pete’s, Amsterdam
1994 Little People, Fiona James, London
1990 Gippsland Art Prize
1989 The Brush and the Hammer, Spoleto Fringe Gallery, Fitzroy

AWARDS
2011 Finalist - Stan & Maureen Duke Prize
2009 Finalist - Country Energy Art Prize
2006 Monash University, Board of Examiners Commendation
2005 Monash University, Postgraduate Academic Merit Scholarship
2002 Australia Council for the Arts, New Work Development Grant
1999 Artist in Residence, Flying Rhino Studio, London
1990 Gippsland Art Prize, Local Environments Award
1988 National Gallery Society Award
1986 George Hicks Award

COLLECTIONS
London Royal Academy of Arts; Oslo Academy; Burton Collection (U.K.); City of Port Phillip, Melbourne; Private Collections – Australia, Europe, India & U.S.A.

peter horak
corinne lewis
martin mcinerney


TUNGUSKA, RUSSIA (AMPLIFIER) 

david mellows
tom mutch
darren b porter
gary rance
dennis ropar
tomek sikora
jane sinclair
ross tamlin
yifeng tan
peter tankey
gillian warden
oleh witer
dan withey
 

STANDARD DECISION

A MOTH TO LIGHT


SLEEPER


AVILES, SPAIN (INDICATOR)

RONNOFORS, SWEDEN (SEPARATOR)

EASTERN DESERT, LYBIA (IRON FLOWERS)

 


 

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