EVAN SALMON
Born
Studies
1989 - 91 Diploma of
Fine Arts
1996 -1998 Assisted Robert
Klippel with assembling and painting sculpture
1999 -2002 Master of Fine Arts MFA (College of
Fine Arts) University of New South Wales
1993 Paintings Legge
Gallery
1994 Paintings Legge
Gallery
1996 Paintings Legge
Gallery
1997 New Paintings Legge Gallery
Paintings
1998 Assemblages Legge
Gallery
1999 Collage Legge
Gallery
2000 New Work Legge
Gallery
2001 Collage Legge Gallery
2002 Master of Fine Arts Graduation Exhibition COFA
Exhibition and Performance Spaces, University of New South Wales, Sydney
New
Work Legge Gallery
2003 New Work Legge Gallery
2004 Squadron Legge Gallery
2005 Paintings and Prints Legge Gallery
2006 Dazzle Ship Wollongong City Gallery
2007 Honeymoon Suite Legge Gallery
Group Exhibitions
1991 Paint Space Ten Taylor Street, Sydney
Group Exhibition Juniper Hall, Sydney
Graduate Show Cellblock Theatre, Sydney
1992 Artist’s Eye Rex Irwin Art Dealer,
Sydney
Fischer's Ghost Art Prize Campbelltown City Art Gallery
1993 Tempest Legge
Gallery
1994 Fourth
Australian Contemporary Art Fair Royal
Exhibition Building, Melbourne
Artists
Don't Believe in Sanity Clause Legge Gallery
Alumni Cellblock Theatre, National Art School, Sydney
Waverly Art Prize Bondi, Sydney
Group Show Legge Gallery
1996 View Legge Gallery
Fifth Australian Contemporary Art Fair Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne
Theresa Byrnes Foundation Art Auction Westpac, Sydney
Mellow Down Easy Legge Gallery
Packsaddle New England Regional Art Museum, Armidale
1997 SCEGGS
Group Show Legge Gallery
Flipper Arthaus Gallery, Sydney
Packsaddle New England Regional Art Museum, Armidale
Sanguine Valediction Legge Gallery
Aloha - live from
Gallery 235 Nelson Street, Annandale, Sydney
Lloyd Rees Memorial Art Award Lane Cove Council Chambers, Sydney
Group Show Legge Gallery
Christmas Show Legge Gallery
1998 Aloha - live from
Gallery 235 Nelson Street, Annandale, Sydney
Lloyd Rees Memorial Art Award Lane Cove Council Chambers, Sydney
Group Show Legge Gallery
Christmas Show Legge Gallery
1999 Guitar
Shaped World Tamworth Regional Gallery
Evolution Legge Gallery
Hall Show College of Fine Arts, University
of New South Wales
10th Summer Exhibition Legge Gallery
2000 Ten Year Show Legge
Gallery
Seventh Australian Contemporary Art Fair Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne
Take Five Rocket Art Gallery, Newcastle
Summer Show Legge Gallery
Proposed Acquisitions Sir Hermann Black Gallery, Sydney University
2001
Redlands Westpac Art Prize Mosman Regional Gallery
Full Fathom Five Rocket Art Gallery,
Newcastle
Group Show Legge Gallery
2002 Master of Fine Arts
Graduation Exhibition Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney
The True History of the Kelly Gang First Draft Gallery, Sydney
The
Summer
Show Legge Gallery
2003 Pointlessness Wollongong University Gallery
Collage
Legge Gallery
Summer Show Legge Gallery
2004 Group Show Legge Gallery
Base Ten New Directions in Painting
Side-on Gallery, Sydney
Waverley Art Prize Bondi Beach Public
School, Sydney
Stock Show Legge Gallery
2005 Muswellbrook Open Art Prize Muswellbrook Regional Arts Centre
Hazelhurst Art on Paper Award Hazelhurst
Regional Gallery and Arts Centre
Legge Gallery at Big Star Gallery
Summer Show Legge Gallery
2006 Sulman Prize Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Ghosts of the Coast Gallery 4a,
Works on Paper Legge Gallery
Alavro Art Prize Berrima
Large Sculpture Legge Gallery
Urban Theme Legge Gallery
Summer Show Legge Gallery
2007 Art on Paper Hazelhurst Regional Gallery
and Arts Centre
Awards
2006 Highly Commended,
Winner, Alavro Art Prize, Berrima
Bibliography
Art & Australia exhibition commentary, Winter 1993
Clement, Tracey: 'Ghosts of the Coast',
Metro, The Sydney Morning Herald,
12-18/5/2006
Creagh, Sunanda: 'Ghost of the Coast', The Sydney Morning Herald, 6/5/2006
Dwyer, Carmel: ‘Consumed by Passion’, Australian
Art Collector, April-June 2004
Foster, Ernest: A Public of Individuals No.4
Feb-April 2003
Gibson, Prue: The Artist's
Apprentice, Australian Art Review, Issue 14, July-Oct 2007
Killmeny Adie: 'Art Beat', Illawarra
Mercury, 7/5/2005
Low, Lenny Ann: 'Size does matter', The Sydney Morning
Herald, 15/6/2002
Low, Lenny Ann: Spotlight, The
Sydney Morning Herald, 17/7/2001
Low, Lenny Ann: ‘Squadron’, The Sydney Morning Herald, 25/5/2004
Low, Lenny Ann: ‘Squadron’, The
Sydney Morning Herald, 5-6/6/2004
Lynn, Elwyn: The Australian,
review of The Artist’s Eye 3, Dec 1992
McDonald, John: Past Master, The
Sydney Morning Herald, 29/6/1996
Mendelssohn, Joanna: The Australian,
30/5/1997
Monteleone, John: Dazzle Ship: Evan Salmon, Wollongong
City Gallery 02/2006
SCEGGS Redlands Art Prize catalogue,
June 1997
Smee, Sebastian: 'It's a bird, it's a plane, it's a Salmon'
The Sydney Morning Herald,13/6/1997
Smee, Sebastian: 'Marco Polo, miaow? Yes', The Sydney Morning Herald, 9/10/1998
Smee, Sebastian: 'Supermodels', The Sydney Morning Herald, 11/1998
Smee, Sebastian: 'Art Starters', The Sydney Morning Herald, 17/2/1999
Smee, Sebastian: 'Hardly Riveting', The Sydney Morning Herald, 13/7/1999
Stowell, Jill: Newcastle
Herald July 2001
Stowell, Jill: 'Five of the
Best', Newcastle Herald June
2000
Veitch, Harriet: 'Dazzle Paint', The
Sydney Morning Herald , 4-5/3/2006
Collections
Liverpool TAFE
TAFE NSW
The Ergas Collection, ACT
University of Technology,
Wollongong City Gallery
Colin & Liz Laverty Collection,
Private Collections in
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