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James Powditch

SELECTED WORKS

 James Powditch
1966Born, Sydney NSW
1989-01Construction and prop building for Sydney Dance Company, Sydney Theatre Company and the Australian Museum, Sydney
 


Solo Exhibitions

2010'Adaptation: New Work from Novel and Screen', Australian Galleries, Sydney
'Adaptation: New Works from Novel and Screen', Australian Galleries, Melbourne
2009'Superpower', Australian Galleries, Sydney
2007‘It’s the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine), Flinders Street Gallery, Sydney
‘Enjoy Civilization’, at the Seymour Centre presented by Defiance Gallery, Sydney
2005‘Boo!’, Ray Hughes Gallery, Sydney
2003‘Spaghetti Western’, at The Clock Restaurant presented by Ray Hughes Gallery, Sydney
‘The Powditch & Powditch Show’ with Peter Powditch, Ray Hughes Gallery, Sydney
2001‘Cinemascope’, Dickerson Gallery, Melbourne
‘Technicolor’, Dickerson Gallery, Sydney
2000‘Widescreen’, Dickerson Gallery, Sydney
1999‘Slab!’, Level 2 Gallery, Sydney
'Sculpture', Dickerson Gallery, Sydney
1998'Sculpture', Level 2 Gallery, Sydney
1997'Sculpture', TAP Gallery, Sydney
'Sculpture', TAP Gallery, Sydney

Group Exhibitions

2011'large exhibition of small works', Australian Galleries, Derby Street, Melbourne
'large exhibition of small works', Australian Galleries, Roylston Street, Sydney
‘Salon des Refusés’, SH Ervin Gallery, The Rocks, Sydney
Wynne Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
'Summer Exhibition', Australian Galleries, Roylston Street, Sydney
2010Gallipoli Art Prize, Gallipoli Club, Sydney
'Art of Music', Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
'Zoo Air', University Gallery, The University of Newcastle, Newcastle, NSW
Sulman Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
2009'A Sculpture by...', Australian Galleries, Melbourne
2009-10 Dobell Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Archibald Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Wynne Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
‘The Newtown Diaries’, Delmar Gallery, Trinity Grammar School, Sydney
2008‘The Woollahra Sculpture Prize Exhibition’, Woollahra Municipal Council, Sydney
‘13th Annual 6” Miniature Sculpture Show’, Defiance Gallery, Sydney
‘Food for Thought’, NG Art Gallery, Sydney
‘Wish You Were Here’, Tweed River Art Gallery, Murwillumbah, NSW
‘Art of Music’, Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney
‘The Coloured Digger’, Damien Minton Gallery, Sydney
Archibald Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Wynne Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Sulman Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
2007Paddington Art Prize Exhibition, Mary Place Gallery, Sydney
‘The Year in Art’, S H Ervin Gallery, Sydney
‘12th Annual 6”Miniature Sculpture Show’, Defiance Gallery, Sydney
Dobell Prize for Drawing, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Mosman Art Prize, (Winner) Mosman Art Gallery, Sydney
‘The Coloured Digger’, Damien Minton Gallery, Sydney
People Renault New Generation Art, (People's Choice Winner) Art Melbourne, Melbourne
‘Salon des Refuses’, SH Ervin Gallery, Sydney
Sulman Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
‘The Last Decade of Collecting at NERAM’, New England Regional Art Museum, Armidale, NSW
‘Sculpture 2007’, Defiance Gallery, Sydney
2006‘11th Annual 6” Miniature Sculpture Show’, Defiance Gallery, Sydney
‘Salon des Refuses’, SH Ervin Gallery, Sydney
Wynne Prize Exhibition, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
2005ABN AMRO Emerging Artist Award, ABN Amro Tower, Sydney
54th Blake Prize for Religious Art (Co-Winner), Sir Hermann Black Gallery, Sydney
‘2005: The Year in Art’, SH Ervin Gallery, Sydney
‘10th Annual 6” Miniature Sculpture Show’, Defiance Gallery, Sydney
‘Salon des Refuses’, SH Ervin Gallery, Sydney
Wynne Prize Exhibition, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
200453rd Blake Prize for Religious Art, Sir Hermann Black Gallery, Sydney
‘9th Annual 6” Miniature Sculpture Show’, Defiance Gallery, Sydney
‘Salon des Refuses’, SH Ervin Gallery, Sydney
Sulman Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
2003‘2003: The Year in Art’, SH Ervin Gallery, Sydney
‘8th Annual 6” Miniature Sculpture Show’, Defiance Gallery, Sydney
‘Mosman Art Prize’, Mosman Art Gallery, Sydney
Sulman Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
‘Sculpture 2003, Ray Hughes Gallery, Sydney
2002‘Sculpture by the Sea’, Bondi to Tamarama coastal walk, Sydney
‘Sculpture Inside’, Bondi Pavilion Gallery, Sydney
‘7th Annual 6” Miniature Sculpture Show’, Defiance Gallery, Sydney
Sulman Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
2001‘The Woollahra Sculpture Prize Exhibition’, Woollahra Municipal Council, Sydney
2000‘5th Annual 6” Miniature Sculpture Show’, Defiance Gallery, Sydney
‘Walking the Streets’, Newtown Festival, Sydney
‘Things of Wood’, King Street Gallery, Sydney
1999‘4th Annual 6” Miniature Sculpture Show’, Defiance Gallery, Sydney
‘Item’, Level Gallery, Sydney
‘Still Life’, King Street Gallery, Sydney
‘Little Gems’ (10th Birthday Show) ,Tap Gallery, Sydney
‘Implant’, Level Gallery, Sydney
1998‘Crickart’, Bat & Ball Hotel, Sydney
‘3rd Annual 6” Miniature Sculpture Show’, Defiance Gallery, Sydney
‘Walking the Streets’, Newtown Festival, Sydney
‘Figure in the Landscape’, King Street Gallery, Sydney
‘Why Not?’, TAP Gallery, Sydney
‘Guitar Shaped World’, Tamworth Sydney Art Gallery, Tamworth, NSW
1997‘2nd Annual 6” Miniature Sculpture Show’, Defiance Gallery, Sydney
‘Art for East Timor’, Sydney Fringe Festival, Bondi Pavilion, Sydney
1994‘Walking the Streets’, Newtown Festival, Sydney
1993‘Walking the Streets’, Newtown Festival, Sydney
1992‘Artists Behind the Scenes’, Sydney Theatre Company, Sydney
‘Art in Shopfronts’, Oxford Street, Paddington, Sydney
1989‘Artist Behind the Scenes’, Sydney Theatre Company, Sydney

Bibliography

News, usyd.edu.au, "Politaical comment on mediative celebration - winners  and finalists of the 2005 Blake Prize", 2005
Australian Art Review, ‘Two Up: Peter and James Powditch’, November 2004 - January 2005
Bloom, Elly; ‘Architectural Fragments’, Monument, October/November 1999
Cheng, Saxon; ‘Designs on Debris’, The Daily Telegraph, 31 July 1998
Clements, Tracey; ‘Exhibitions’, The Sydney Morning Herald (Metro), 26 August 2005
Creagh, Sandra; ‘A Work of Devotion – Though Not Necessarily to
Crumlin, Rosemary; “The Spirit Within Australian Contemporary Art” 2009
Religion’, The Sydney Morning Herald, 18 November 2005
Ellis, Shaun; ‘Intelligent Design’, Wentworth Courier, 23 November 2005
Fortescue, Elizabeth; ‘Reaping Rewards of Arty Recycling’, The Daily Telegraph, 18 November 2005
Fortescue, Elizabeth; ‘Winning Climate’, The Daily Telegraph, 20 August 2007
Higson, Rosalie; ‘A Creative ‘Rant’ on Creationism’, The Australian, 18 November 2005
Hynes, Victoria; ‘Exhibitions’, The Sydney Morning Herald (Metro), 26 October 2001
Hynes, Victoria; ‘Exhibitions’, The Sydney Morning Herald (Metro), 12 April 2001
James, Bruce; ‘The Galleries’, The Sydney Morning Herald, 14 November 1997
Johnston, Lorna, "09 Archibald Exhibition", artsbigpicture.com, 2007
Low, Lenny Ann; ‘Exhibitions’, The Sydney Morning Herald, 12 July 2003
McDonald, John; ‘A world in flux’, The Sydney Morning Herald (Spectrum), 7 September 2007
McCulluch, Alan & Susan, McCulloch Childs, Emily; The New McCulloch's Encyclopedia of Australian Art, AUS Arts Editions, 2006 
McDonald, John; ‘Father and son, Chip off the old block’, The Australian Financial Review (Arts), 10 July 2003
Mcdonald, John, "Modern Master of Reinvention", The Sydney Morning Herald (Spectrum), 30 October 2010
McDonald, John; ‘Warm the Spirit, Tickle the Eye’, The Sydney Morning Herald (Spectrum), 20 August 2005
Molitorisz, Sacha; ‘The Beat Goes On’, The Sydney Morning Herald (Insight), 7 September 2005
Schwartzkoff, Louise; ‘Inspiration out of the box’, The Sydney Morning Herald, 28-29 July 2007
Smee, Sebastian; ‘Exhibitions’, The Sydney Morning Herald, 14 July 2000
Smee, Sebastian; ‘Space Shuttles’, The Sydney Morning Herald, 6 May 1999
Smee, Sebastian; The Galleries’, The Sydney Morning Herald, 6 July 1999
Wyndham, Susan; ‘Artists in Residence’, The Sydney Morning Herald (Domain), 28 April 2005
Wyndham, Susan; “Adaptation” Catalogue Essay, Australian Galleries, 2010

Awards

2007 Winner, Mosman Art Prize, Mosman Art Gallery, Sydney
2007 Winner Renault New Generation Art People’s Choice Award, Art Melbourne
2005 Co-winner, 54th Blake Prize for Religious Art, Sir Hermann Black Gallery, Sydney
1999 Guggenheim II, commissioned by AON Worldwide Insurance, Sydney

Collections

AON Worlwide Insurance, Sydney
Artbank, Sydney
Audi, Sydney
Ballarat Regional Art Gallery, Ballarat, Victoria
Mosman Art Gallery, Sydney
New England Regional Art Gallery, Armidale
Societé Generale, Sydney
Suncorp-Metway, Sydney
Tweed River Art Gallery, Murwillumbah