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Adam Rish

SELECTED WORKS

 
1953Born, London, UK
 Travelled extensively through America, Europe and Asia, working at various periods in Indonesia, India, France, Italy, Papua New Guinea and Turkey. Worked as a professional artist, environment officer, medical practitioner, art teacher, film script writer and graphic artist.
 Lives and works in Sydney, Australia 
  
             www.adamrish.com
 B Med Sc, MB BS, Dip Sculpture, BA (Hons), MFA, MCPSAQ FFMACCS
  
1972-74Medicine, University of Tasmania 
1976-78 Medicine, University of Tasmania
1979, 1983Printmaking, East Sydney Technical College
1990-92Bronze Casting, East Sydney Technical College 
1985-91Fine Arts, Sydney University
1993-95 Master of Fine Arts, College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales

Solo Exhibitions

2010'A delicate balance', Australian Galleries, Melbourne
'NAGA', Australian Galleries, Sydney
2009Despard St Gallery, Hobart
Michael Nagy Fine Art, Sydney
2007Michael Nagy Fine Art, Sydney
2004Michael Nagy Fine Art, Sydney
2001Michael Nagy Fine Art, Sydney
2000Christine Abrahams Gallery, Melbourne
1999Michael Nagy Fine Art, Sydney
1998Christine Abrahams Gallery, Melbourne
1997Coo-ee Gallery, Sydney
1996Quadrivium, Sydney
1995Christine Abrahams Gallery Sydney
1994Michael Nagy Fine Art, Sydney
1992Michael Nagy Fine Art, Sydney
1991Christine Abrahams Gallery, Sydney
1990DC Art, Sydney
Solander Gallery, Canberra
BMG Fine Art, Adelaide
1989DC Art, Sydney
Christine Abrahams Gallery, Sydney
Despard St Gallery, Hobart
1987Solander Gallery, Canberra
Christine Abrahams Gallery, Sydney
1986Mori Gallery, Sydney
1984Mori Gallery, Sydney
1983Salamanca Place Gallery, Hobart
Christine Abrahams Gallery, Melbourne
1979Rex Irwin Art Dealer, Sydney
Powell St Gallery, Melbourne
Harrington St Gallery, Hobart
1978Bowerbank Mill Gallery, Deloraine, Tasmania
1977Saddlers Court Gallery, Richmond, Tasmania
Hunter Island Gallery, Hobart
1976Salamanca Place Gallery, Hobart
1975Secheron House Gallery, Hobart

Group Exhibitions

2009'A Sculpture by...', Australian Galleries, Melbourne
'Summer Show', Austraian Galleris, Roylston Street, Sydney
'Summer Show", Australian Galleries, Derby Street, Melbourne
‘Ceramics, Contemporary Australian artists in Ceramic’, Australian Galleries at Mary Place, Sydney, New South Wales
2008‘Garry Shead, Adam Rish, Stephen Roach & Greg Weight’, Australian Galleries, Glenmore Road, Sydney
City of Hobart Art Prize
2002Sir Hermann Black Gallery, University of Sydney
2001Geometry of the Earth, Orange Regional Gallery
1998Winner, City of Hobart Art Prize
1994Kalef-Jackson Gallery, Calgary, Canada
1992Tamworth Textile Biennale
Chicago Alternative Media Artfair
1989New York International Print Fair
1980‘Dyeing Fibre and Fabric’, Queensland Touring Exhibition
1977‘Tasmanian Artists’, Tasmania House, London

Bibliography

Filmography

‘From A Letter’, 16mm col 13 min, 1983; Melbourne Film Festival (1983), Adelaide Fringe Festival (1984)
‘The Corporate Choice’, 16 mm col 14 min, 1986
‘The Search For Meaning’, interview with Adam Rish, Review ABC TV, 19 September 1994
‘Immunisation: Telling the story’, video 15 min, 1996

Bibliography
"10th Tamworth Fibre/Textile Biennial 1992" catalogue p29, p48
"Adam Rish is a Sydney based painter..." Interior Architecture, Issue 32, Miscellanea, p44
Art and Australia, December 1979
Art and Australia, Summer 1984
Art and Australia, Winter 1989
Butler, Rex; "Adam Rish: Art as a Spaghetti Western," Tension, August 1989
Craft Australia, Spring 1979
Denholm, Michael; “Misanthropology – The Art of Adam Rish”, Art & Australia, September 2001, pp92-100
Germaine, Max; Artists of Australia and New Zealand, Craftsman House, Roseville NSW, 1990
Gibson, Emily; "Art for Neurotics," Sydney Morning Herald, Metro, 24 August 1990
Gibson, Emily; "Artist Finds Inspiration In Irons..." The Age, Entertainment Guide, 7 August 1989
Gibson, Emily; "Frame Games," Sydney Morning Herald, Metro, 13 November 1992 
Grishin, Sasha; “Australian Artists in Ceramics,” Journal of Australian Ceramics, July 2009, pp39-41
Helix, December 1980
Jackson, Beth; "From the Floor to the Wall," Object, Autumn, 1993, pp17-19
Jones, Deborah; “Cultural weft and warp,” The Australian, 1 January 1999, p16
King, Stephanie; “Reality forms a pattern in tapestry message rugs”, Financial Review, 8-9 November 1997
Lamb, Eve; “Doctor’s script for winning design,” The Mercury, December 30, 1998, p11
Leary, Amanda; "Fancy a toaster or car on your kilim," Sunday Tasmanian, 15 November 1989
Legett, Susan; "Easily led Tex and his history of modern art," The Mercury, 4 November
McCulloch, Susan; “Devil TV and other black arts,” The Weekend Australian, Feb 21-22 1998 p24
McDonald, John; "Of Devotion and determination", Sydney Morning Herald, December 8-9 2007, pp16-17
Mylchreest, Melissa; “Brush With Nature,” Australian House and Garden, December 2009, pp203-4
New Poetry, Vols 26-27
Rish, Adam; The Age Of Reason, RYZ Press, 1984
Rish, Adam; Historia Mundi Illustrata, RYZ Press, 1986
Rish, Adam; Misanthropology, MFA Thesis, University of New South Wales, 1995
Rish, Adam; "Objection: From the Floor to the Flaw”, Object, Spring 1993, p49
Rish, Adam; "Shona Wilson - a profile,” Object, 1998, pp36-37
Rish, Adam & Hessey, Ruth; "Very Crazy Tapa", Australian Art Review, Issue 5 Jul-Oct 2004, pp58-61
Rish, Adam & Shead, Garry; Vence Upon A Time, RYZ Press, 1982
Willer, Tex; "Artist Adam Rish and the khilims of Konya..." Vogue Living, May 1990
Williams, Antonia; “Nouveau Rish”, Sydney Morning Herald, Domain, 8 August 1996, p5
Zimmer, J & Rish, Adam (Eds); “Misanthropology,” Contemporary Craft Review 1, 1995, p92

Awards

1998               City of Hobart Art Prize
1997               Asialink Residency IKJ Jakarta
1992               Visual Arts Board Travel Grant
1984               Australian Film Commission, Comedy Fund Grant
                      Visual Arts Board Studio Residence, Besozzo, Italy
1981               Visual Arts Board Studio Residence, Karolyi Foundation, Vence, France
1979               Visual Arts Board Special purpose Grant

Collections

Artbank
Art Gallery of New South Wales
National Gallery of Australia
Burnie Art Gallery
Launceston Museum and Art Gallery
Queensland Art Gallery
Shepparton Art Gallery
Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery
University of Tasmania

Visual Arts Board of Tasmania collection