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Biography
Born in Melbourne in 1964, Geoff Ricardo studied printmaking at the Chisolm Institute of Technology from 1984 to 1986. In both 1986 and 1988 he was awarded the Mornington Peninsula Arts Council Aquisitive Print Prize, and in 1989, the City of Doncaster Aquisitive Print Prize. In the same year his work was selected for two other group exhibitions: "Affiliations" Monash University, Melbourne Victoria and the Fremantle Print prize, Fremantle Western Australia.
Ricardo graduated from Monash University in 1990, obtaining the Graduate Diploma in Fine Art Printmaking. This corresponded with his first solo exhibition in Melbourne at Australian Galleries, called "Prints, Paintings and Sculptures". His work, at this time, was also included in the exhibitions "Australian Contemporary Art" AZ Gallery Tokyo Japan; "The Christmas Show" Intaglio Printmaker, London England; "AA '91", the London Contemporary Art Fair, London England; and "Table Top Sculptures" at Australian Galleries in Melbourne.
On his return, Ricardo resumed work as a lecturer in Printmaking at Monash University. In 1992, he held his second one man show "Prints, Sculptures and Watercolours" at Australian Galleries in Melbourne and Sydney, and exhibited in three group shows: "Transitional Times", Print Council of Australia, Freemantle Print Prize, and the 2nd Kochi International Triennial Exhibition of Prints, Japan. In 1993, Ricardo was commissioned for a tapestry design for the Festival of Perth Official Poster - the tapestry being woven by the Australian Tapestry Workshop in Melbourne.
Ricardo has continued to exhibit regularly, having held annual solo exhibitions in Melbourne and Sydney since 1994, solo exhibitions in Perth in 1994 and 1996, as well as in Adelaide in 199 , and participating in numerous group shows throughout Australia. His paintings, prints and sculptures are represented at the Austrlaian National Gallery in Canberra, the Art Gallery of New South Wales, the Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery in Tasmania, the Holmes A'Court Collection in Wetern Australia, and other regional galleries and institutions. His work is also in Many private collections.
1964 Born Melbourne, Victoria
1989-90 Graduate Diploma (Fine Art), Printmaking, Monash University
1987-89 Printing Assistant at Bill Young Studios, editioning intaglio prints
1988 Full-time Studio Technician at Printmaking Department, Chisholm Institute of Technology
1984-86 Bachelor of Art (Fine Art), Printmaking, Chisholm Institute of Technology
1991 Travelled to England, France, Spain and United States (Winsor & Newton International Travelling Bursary, National Students Art Prize)
Worked in private studios in Gaucin, Spain and New York, USA
1995 Guest Lecturer, Victorian College of the Arts
1995 Travel to Europe and America
1996 Guest Lecturer, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology
1990-98 Sessional Lecturer, Monash University, Melbourne
1998 Travel to America and Mexico
2001-05 Sessional Lecturer, The Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne
2004 Travel to Europe, Mexico and Cuba
2005 Lecturer, National Art School (Summer School), Sydney
2005 Sessional Lecturer, Monash University, Melbourne
Solo Exhibitions
2004 ‘Recent work’, BMG Art, Adelaide
2003 ‘The Rapunzel Suite and Other New Works’, Australian Galleries Works on Paper, Sydney
‘Recent works’, Australian Galleries, Melbourne
‘Recent works’, Cowwarr Art Space, Cowwarr
2002 ‘The Rapunzel Suite’, Australian Galleries Works on Paper, Melbourne
‘Strange Games’, Australian Galleries Works on Paper, Sydney
1999 ‘A Dark City Narrative’, Australian Galleries, Sydney
‘A Dark City Narrative’, Australian Galleries, Melbourne
1998 Cullity Gallery, School of Architecture and Fine Art, University
1997 Delaney Gallery, Perth
Chapman Gallery, Canberra
BMG Art, Adelaide
Australian Galleries, Sydney
Australian Galleries, Melbourne
1995 Australian Galleries, Sydney
Australian Galleries, Melbourne
1994 University of W.A. of Western Australia
Grahame Galleries and Editions, Brisbane
‘Wishful Thinking’, Prints and Sculptures, The Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery,
1992 ‘Prints, sculptures and watercolours’, Australian Galleries, Melbourne and Sydney
1990 ‘Prints, paintings and sculptures’, Australian Galleries, Melbourne
Group Exhibitions
2005 Jacques Cadry Memorial Art Prize (finalist), Fox Studios and State Library of NSW, Sydney
‘Tales of the city’, Australian Galleries, Melbourne
‘A decade of collecting 1995-2005’, Cairns Regional Gallery, Cairns
‘Surface tension: 21 Contemporary Australian Printmakers’, University of Tasmania, Launceston
‘Neo-millenium’, Toyota Community Spirit Gallery, Melbourne
2004 ‘Artists for kids’, Annual Art Exhibition and Auction, Melbourne
‘Group exhibition’, Australian Galleries, Melbourne
‘Species’, Australian Galleries Works on Paper, Melbourne
‘In the presence of creatures great and small’, Australian Galleries Works on Paper, Sydney
‘Tapestries from the Victorian Tapestry Workshop’, Australian Galleries, Melbourne
‘Sculpture’, Australian Galleries, Sydney
‘Contemporary Australian Prints’, National Arts Club, New York;
‘Contemporary Australian Prints’, Gallery 101, Melbourne
‘Contemporary Australian Prints from the Collection’, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
‘Bridge’, Toyota Community Spirit Gallery, Melbourne
‘Vivid’, fortyfivedownstairs, Melbourne
Lake Gallery, Paynesville, Victoria
2003 ‘Paper matters’, Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, University of Western Australia, Perth
‘Artists for kids’, Annual Art Exhibition and Auction, Melbourne
‘Less is more’, BMG Art, Adelaide
‘The ink’s on me: Bill Young master printmaker’, Wangaratta Exhibitions Gallery, Wangaratta
‘Fantastic and Visionary Art’, touring Global Arts Link/ Ipswich Regional Gallery; Orange Regional Gallery; Manning Regional Gallery; TBC Paramatta Heritage Centre; Ballarat Regional Gallery
2002 Shell Fremantle Print Award, Fremantle, Western Australia
‘Artists for kids’, Annual Art Exhibition and Auction, Melbourne
2001 Fremantle Print Award, Fremantle, Western Australia
‘Six Degrees of Collaboration’, RMIT Faculty of Art, Design and Communication Gallery, Melbourne
‘Reciprocal Moves’, Warrnambool Art Gallery, Warrnambool
‘International Print Triennial’, Kanagawa, Japan.
‘Fantastic Art’, Orange Regional Gallery, Orange, New South Wales
‘Dancing made a man out of me’, The Switchback Gallery, Gippsland Campus
‘Artists for kids’, Annual Art Exhibition and Auction, Melbourne
‘Celebration’, Victorian regional touring exhibition
2000-01 ‘Workings of the Mind: Melbourne Prints of the 1960s to the 1990s’, Touring exhibition: Grafton Regional Gallery; Toowoomba Regional Art Gallery; Nolan Gallery, Canberra; Bendigo Art Gallery; Percy Tucker Regional Gallery, Townsville
2000 Fremantle Print Award, Fremantle, Western Australia
‘The Hutchins Art Prize’, Hobart, Tasmania
‘Artists for kids’, Annual Art Exhibition and Auction, Melbourne
1999 Fremantle Print Award, Fremantle, Western Australia
‘We are Australian’, George Adams Gallery, Victorian Arts Centre, Melbourne, touring exhibition
‘Rena Ellen Jones Memorial Print Award’, Warrnambool Art Gallery,Victoria
‘National Works on Paper’, Mornington Peninsula Gallery, Victoria
‘Artists for kids’, Annual Art Exhibition and Auction, Melbourne
‘Pleasure’, Australian Galleries, Melbourne
1998-99 ‘Australian Prints’, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
1997 ‘KNOCK, KNOCK’, Australian Galleries, Melbourne
‘Woven Colour, The Art of Tapestry’, Dr Earl Lu Gallery, Singapore
1996 M.P.A.C. Print Award, Mornington, Victoria
Academy of Art & Culture, Calcutta
‘Synergy’, Lalit Kala Akademi, New Dehli; Jehangir Nicholson Gallery, Bombay; Birla
‘Contemporary Australian Tapestry’, Frederikshavn Kunstmuseum, Denmark
1995 Art Gallery; Australia House, London
‘Interweave - Tapestry A Collaborative Art’, Heide Museum of Modern Art; Geelong
‘Contemporary Printmakers’, La Trobe Regional Gallery, Morwell
‘Contemporary Australian Tapestry’, Australian High Commission, Kuala Lumpur
‘Contemporary Australian Tapestry’, Australian High Commission, Singapore
‘Circus Capers’, Caulfield Arts Complex, Victoria
1994 M.P.A.C. Print Award, Mornington, Victoria
Fremantle Print Award Exhibition, Western Australia
Australian Universities of Visual Art, Australian High Commission, Singapore
‘Prints, Paintings and Sculpture’, BMG Art, Adelaide, South Australia
‘ACAF 4’, Exhibition Building, Melbourne
1993 Fremantle Print Award Exhibition, Western Australia
1992 Fremantle Print Prize Travelling Exhibition
‘Transitional Times’, Print Council of Australia Travelling Exhibition
‘Second Kochi International Triennial Exhibition of Prints’, Japan
1991 Henry Worland Memorial Print Prize, Warrnambool Regional Art Gallery, Warrnambool
Fremantle Print Prize, Fremantle Art Gallery, Western Australia
‘Table Top Sculpture’, Australian Galleries, Melbourne
‘Art 91’, London Contemporary Art Fair, London, UK
1990 M.P.A.C. Print Prize, Mornington, Victoria
Fremantle Print Prize, Fremantle, Western Australia
‘The Christmas Show’, Intaglio Printmaker, London, U K
‘Australian Contemporary Art’, AZ Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1989 National Student Art Prize, Bathurst, New South Wales
Fremantle Print Prize, Fremantle Art Gallery, Western Australia
City of Doncaster Acquisitive Print Prize, Doncaster, Victoria
‘Affiliations’, Monash University Gallery, Victoria
1988 M.P.A.C. Acquisitive Print Prize, Mornington, Victoria
Henry Worland Memorial Print Prize, Warrnambool Regional Art Gallery, Victoria
1987 ‘The Comedy Show’, Print Guild, Melbourne
‘Fluxus Art Flow’, Melbourne
1986 Mornington Peninsula Arts Council Acquisitive Print Prize, Mornington, Victoria
C.I.T. Graduating Students Exhibition
Awards
2005 Jacques Cadry Memorial Art Prize (finalist)
1994 Mornington Peninsula Arts Council Prints Acquisitive Exhibition
1989 Windsor and Newton International Travelling Bursary
1989 Linbrook International First Prize for Printmaking
Commissions
1993 Tapestry design for the Festival of Perth Official Poster (woven by the Victorian Tapestry Workshop, Melbourne)
1994 Tapestry design ‘Elephant Gingham’ (woven by the Victorian Tapestry Workshop, Melbourne)
1995 St.Kilda Festival Poster
‘A Night of Infectious Laughter’ Poster
1999 Tapestry design, ‘Emblem’ (woven by the Victorian Tapestry Workshop, Melbourne)
2005 Tapestry design for Bairnsdale Hospital (woven by the Victorian Tapestry Workshop, Melbourne)
Residencies
2003 Residency – Bairnsdale Regional Health Service, Bairnsdale
1998 Residency – School of Architecture & Fine Art, University of Western Australia, Perth
1997 Residency – La Salle/Fia, College of the Arts, Singapore
1996 Artist-in-residence, Victorian Tapestry Workshop
1993 Reduction Aquatint Workshop & Residency, Graphic Investigation Department, Canberra School of Art, Sept 1993
Collections
Art Gallery of NSW
Canson Australia Pty Ltd, Victoria
City of Box Hill, Victoria
City of Whitehorse
Downlands College, Toowoomba
Geelong Grammar School, Victoria
Gold Coast City Art Gallery, Queensland
Griffith University (Gold Coast Campus)
Helensvale High School, Queensland
Holmes A’Court Collection, Western Australia
Latrobe Regional Gallery
Monash University, Victoria
Mornington Peninsula Arts Council Collection
National Gallery of Australia
National Gallery of Victoria
Parliament House Art Collection, Canberra
Print Council of Australia
Private collections in Australia, Switzerland, USA, UK, Singapore, Germany, Japan, Malaysia, Holland
Queen Victoria Museum & Art Gallery, Tasmania
Queensland Art Gallery
Queensland University of Technology, Queensland
Shire of Diamond Valley, Victoria
Star of the Sea College, Victoria
The Melbourne Club, Victoria
University of Central Queensland
University of Technology, Sydney
Wagga Wagga Regional Art Gallery
Warrnambool Regional Art Gallery, Victoria
Bibliography
Periodicals
“Festival taps weaver’s art”, The West Australian, February 11, 1994
“Ricardo’s surreal works at gallery”, Times-Spectator, 25 July 2003, p.7
AQ Journal of Contemporary Analysis, Vol. 70, Issue 4, July-August, 1998
AQ Journal of Contemporary Analysis, Vol. 70, Issue 6, November-December, 1998
AQ Journal of Contemporary Analysis, Vol.71, Issue 7, April, 1999
Backhouse, Megan; “Going out of print and back to basics”, Age, February 2003
Clabburn, Anna; “Fables and Foibles”, Art Monthly, September, 1994
Dutkiewicz, Adam; “Edge of the sublime”, Advertiser, 1 December 2003 p.76
Erickson, Dorothy; “The Festival that could have been”, The Bulletin, March, 1994
Farmer, Alison; “Ricardo makes poster splash”, Sunday Times - Entertainment Extra, September 19, 1993
Fiasco (web-page), March 2003
Jenkins, John; “A Dark City Narrative”, Imprint, Vol. 34, No. 4, 1999
Manzana Arné, Josep; “De L’Ex-Libris a L’Ex-Webis: Ex-Libris a Internet”, Ex-Libris, Associació Catalana D’Exlibristes, Barcelona, No. 27, July-December 2002, p.11
McDonald, John; “Dreams of hope and menace” The Sydney Morning Herald, March 18, 1995
McMillan, Peter; “Darkness visible”, The Age, September 11, 1999
Nelson, Robert; “Circuses can be curated, but not cured”, The Age, January 18, 1995
Nelson, Robert; “Dream Weavers”, The Age, June 3, 1995
Nelson, Robert; “Paen To Ricardo”, Imprint, Vol. 29, No.1, April, 1994
Nelson, Robert; “Revealed: Mother Nature’s vulgar past”, The Age, September 6, 2000
Nelson, Robert; “Riddled with hidden meaning”, The Age, September 8, 1999
Quadrant, April, 1995
Quadrant, Jan/Feb, 1995
Quadrant, November, 1994
Quadrant, October, 1995
Snell, Ted; “Art”, The Australian, February 18, 1994
Snell, Ted; “Visual arts at the Festival of Perth”, Art Monthly, April, 1994
Timms, Peter; “Geoff Ricardo: emerging from darkness”, Art Monthly, Issue 140, June, 2001
Wallace, Carmel; “Ways of seeing Australia”, Asian Art News, May/June 2004
Books & Catalogues
A Dark City Narrative, Australian Galleries, Melbourne, 1999
Clabburn, Anna; “The Collaborative Spirit”, Australian Tapestries: Victorian Tapestry Workshop, 1995, p.37
Fantastic Art, Orange Regional Gallery, 2001
Grishin, Sasha; Australian Identities in Printmaking, Wagga Wagga Regional Art Gallery, 2000
Grishin, Sasha; Australian Printmaking in the 1990’s, Craftsman House, 1997
Kolenberg, Hendrik and Ryan, Anne; Australian Prints, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 1998
Lawrence, Michel; Framed; photographs of Australian Artists, 1998
Modern Australian Tapestries, Victorian Tapestry Workshop, 2000
The Rapunzel Suite, Australian Galleries, Melbourne, 2002
Wallace, Dr Carmel (essay); Surface Tension, Twenty One Contemporary Australian Printmakers, Gallery 101, Melbourne 2004
Workings of the Mind : Melbourne Prints of the 1960s to the 1990s, Queensland University of Technology Art Museum, 2000
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