Artist CV

 

Solo Exhibitions

 

2013 Rome-Desert-Ornament, West Gippsland Arts Centre, Warragul.

2012 Seas of Time, LaTrobe Regional Gallery, Morwell.

2008 Across Time, The Highway Gallery, Melbourne.

2007 The Heart’s Frontiers, LaTrobe Regional Gallery, Morwell.

2004 Infinite Echoes, 69 Smith Street, Melbourne.

2003 Resonances, LaTrobe Regional Gallery, Morwell.

2002 Masters Examination, Switchback Gallery, Monash University, Gippsland Campus, Churchill.

2001 Neo-Orientalism Middle Eastern Visions, Gammaspace, Melbourne.

 

Group Exhibitions

 

2013 Bluethumb (online art gallery) ‘Pop Up’ exhibitions, Adelaide.

2009 Hidden Narratives (with Janine Good), Kingston Arts Centre, Melbourne.

2009 Synthesis, Walker Street Gallery, Dandenong.

2000 McIvor Lu Elkington, Cowawarr Art Space, Cowwarr.

1999 EXHIBITIONISM: An exhibition of works by emerging artists in support of UNICEF, Lounge, Melbourne.

1998 IMPACT: Art for a world identity, Monash University Gallery, Clayton Campus.

1998 Final Year Students, Switchback Gallery, Monash University Gallery, Gippsland Campus.

1998 Flow, LaTrobe Regional Gallery, Morwell.

1997 Collected Visions, canteen space, Monash University, Gippsland Campus.

 

Art Prizes Entered

 

2013 Herald Sun Camberwell Rotary Art Show, Melbourne.

2013 'Small Works', Brunswick Street Gallery, Melbourne.

2012 The Flanagan Art Prize, St.Patrick's College, Ballarat.

2012 Mirboo North Annual Art Show

2011 100 Years Art On The Hill, Warragul

- Winner: First Prize (Open Award – Acquisitive)

2011 Agendo 2011, Melbourne.

2011 ‘Small Works’, Brunswick Street Gallery Melbourne.

2011 Mirboo North Annual Art Show

- Winner: Best Exhibit

- Winner: Best Work in Oils

2011 Herald Sun Camberwell Rotary Art Show, Melbourne

2010 Inaugural Traralgon Apex Art Exhibition

- Winner: Two-Dimensional Award

2010 Herald Sun Camberwell Rotary Art Show, Melbourne

2009 Herald Sun Camberwell Rotary Art Show, Melbourne

- Winner: Best Australian Landscape (acquisitive prize)

2008 The 2008 John Leslie Art Prize, Gippsland Art Gallery, Sale.

2008 6degree Art Prize, Frankston Arts Centre, Melbourne.

2008 Herald Sun Camberwell Rotary Art Show, Melbourne.

2005 Herald Sun Camberwell Rotary Art Show, Melbourne.

2004 The 2004 John Leslie Art Prize, Gippsland Art Gallery, Sale.

2003 Tyers Art Show, Tyers.

2000-05 Mirboo North Annual Art Show

- 2005 Winner: Best Work in Acrylic or Oil.

- 2003 Winner: Best Work in Acrylic or Oil.

- 2000 Winner: Best Work in Pastel of Drawing.

2000 The Victorian Campus Art Prize & Exhibition, George Paton Gallery, Melbourne.

1999 Tyers Art Show, Tyers.

 

Work exhibited at the following:

 

March 2012 - Golden Plains Arts Trail, Golden Plains Shire (near Ballarat)

October 2002 - current: Town & Country Gallery, Yarragon.

November 2010 – June 2012 : Thistledown Gallery, Traralgon.

April 2011: Golden Plains Arts Trail, Golden Plains Shire.

November - December 2000: Gippsland Water Board office, Traralgon.

February 2003 - May 2004: Australian Wildlife Gallery, Munro.

August 2004 - March 2006: Asti & Gold (Sahara Bar), Melbourne.

Nov. 2004 - October 2005: 4cats Gallery stockroom, Melbourne.

January - November 2006: Impressions gallery, Traralgon.

 

Collections

Private Collections throughout Australia.

 

Media/Publications

 

Master’s thesis: A Studio Investigation: Approaching the Sublime Through the Musical, the Exotic and "the Perfect", 358 pages. Published by Monash University Gippsland, 2002. (Google Books)

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Website: www.jeremyelkington.weebly.com

 

www.bluethumb.com.au/jeremyelkington

www.australianartgalleries.com

facebook

www.deviantart.com

 

Education

 

St.Anne’s & Gippsland Grammar School 1983 - 1995

 

East Gippsland Institute of TAFE, Fulham Campus.

One term in Drawing 1 (Associate Diploma of Arts-Studio Textiles) 1995

 

Bachelor of Arts (Visual Arts). Monash University, Gippsland Campus.

Graduated May 8th, 1999

 

Received Membership into the Golden Key National Honour Society 1999

 

Graduate Diploma of Arts (Visual Arts). Monash University, Gippsland Campus.

Graduated 14th Oct., 2000

 

Masters of Arts (By Research). Monash University, Gippsland Campus. Thesis title: A Studio Investigation: Approaching the sublime through the musical, the exotic and “the perfect”.

Graduated 15th March, 2003

 

Graduate Diploma of Education (Secondary). Monash University, Gippsland Campus.

Graduated 2005

  

Statement

 

Important to my work is the unfolding of past and present hidden narratives or dramas married with a sense of the archaic. From this, possible scenarios as well as echoes of history and the resonances of past lives, relationships and tragedies permeate the supposed emptiness of the desert landscape and we are left to contemplate on the themes of love, hope, loss, isolation, ecstasy, tragedy, celebration, melancholy, euphoria and reflection.

Overall, my main concerns, in respect to the landscape, is to smoothly marry it with the various abstract, surreal, ‘modern’, ‘futuristic’ and historically based ornamental and architectural forms so that each emphasizes the other and that the archaic, the musical, the sublime, euphoria and other emotions are intensified and effectively emitted. Trying to create or capture ‘sensations’, a sense of mystery and something greater than ourselves, beyond our comprehension as well as the monumental stage for intimate and romantic feelings, sensations and hidden narratives to be played out.

While the Arabic elements of past work will continue to play a part (alluded to within my large paintings; more strongly in small work), as well as the ancient Egyptian elements, it is now ancient Rome that will play a strong role within my paintings, situated within the Middle Eastern desert landscape. These will be combined with various wild-life (vultures, eagles, cobras, hyenas, locusts), floral elements (rose petals, leaves), natural elements (burning logs, dust storms etc.)

Ancient Roman history, particularly the Roman Army and the last century of the Roman Republic, have held my fascination since I was a child. The current aim with my work is to create a far greater and potent allusion to drama and to evoke the epic nature and beauty found within the ancient world. This is embodied in the presence of coloured Roman busts and statues as well as Roman armour, ornament, weapons, architectural elements and ornament in marriage with the desert landscape.