| | | 1953 | Born, 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 | | | | | 1972-74 | Medicine, University of Tasmania | | 1976-78 | Medicine, University of Tasmania | | 1979, 1983 | Printmaking, East Sydney Technical College | | 1990-92 | Bronze Casting, East Sydney Technical College | | 1985-91 | Fine 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 | | 2009 | Despard St Gallery, Hobart
| | Michael Nagy Fine Art, Sydney
| | 2007 | Michael Nagy Fine Art, Sydney
| | 2004 | Michael Nagy Fine Art, Sydney
| | 2001 | Michael Nagy Fine Art, Sydney
| | 2000 | Christine Abrahams Gallery, Melbourne
| | 1999 | Michael Nagy Fine Art, Sydney
| | 1998 | Christine Abrahams Gallery, Melbourne
| | 1997 | Coo-ee Gallery, Sydney
| | 1996 | Quadrivium, Sydney
| | 1995 | Christine Abrahams Gallery Sydney
| | 1994 | Michael Nagy Fine Art, Sydney
| | 1992 | Michael Nagy Fine Art, Sydney
| | 1991 | Christine Abrahams Gallery, Sydney
| | 1990 | DC Art, Sydney
| | Solander Gallery, Canberra
| | BMG Fine Art, Adelaide
| | 1989 | DC Art, Sydney
| | Christine Abrahams Gallery, Sydney
| | Despard St Gallery, Hobart
| | 1987 | Solander Gallery, Canberra
| | Christine Abrahams Gallery, Sydney
| | 1986 | Mori Gallery, Sydney
| | 1984 | Mori Gallery, Sydney
| | 1983 | Salamanca Place Gallery, Hobart
| | Christine Abrahams Gallery, Melbourne
| | 1979 | Rex Irwin Art Dealer, Sydney
| | Powell St Gallery, Melbourne
| | Harrington St Gallery, Hobart
| | 1978 | Bowerbank Mill Gallery, Deloraine, Tasmania
| | 1977 | Saddlers Court Gallery, Richmond, Tasmania
| | Hunter Island Gallery, Hobart
| | 1976 | Salamanca Place Gallery, Hobart
| | 1975 | Secheron 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
| | 2002 | Sir Hermann Black Gallery, University of Sydney
| | 2001 | Geometry of the Earth, Orange Regional Gallery
| | 1998 | Winner, City of Hobart Art Prize
| | 1994 | Kalef-Jackson Gallery, Calgary, Canada
| | 1992 | Tamworth Textile Biennale
| | Chicago Alternative Media Artfair
| | 1989 | New York International Print Fair
| | 1980 | ‘Dyeing Fibre and Fabric’, Queensland Touring Exhibition
| | 1977 | ‘Tasmanian Artists’, Tasmania House, London |
BibliographyFilmography
‘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
Awards1998 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 CollectionsArtbank 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
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