Christopher Orchard Resume

2000

Panel Member VACB, Arts SA

Member, Strategic Planning Committee 2000-2005 the Arts, DETE, Arts SA

Council Member, CACSA

Guest Lecturer, National Art School, Sydney

1996 - 1999

Ruth Tuck Scholarship Committee

Artists in Schools Committee

Member, Organising committee for EVA (Emerging Visual Artist) Awards

1997

Invited to participate in the New York Studio School Drawing Marathon in New York

1995

Judge SANTOS Whyalla Award

Member of Selection Panel, Ruth Tuck Art Award

Judge EVA Art Award

Lecture in association with solo exhibition at Embassy of Australia, Washington D.C., U.S.A.

1994

Co-ordinator of the New York Studio School Drawing Marathon at Adelaide Central School of Art

1993 -

Head of School, Adelaide Central School of Art, Pty. Ltd.

1992

Invited guest lectures at Washington State University and University of Idaho Organising committee to establish New York Studio School Drawing Marathon in Adelaide

1990 - 1991

Tutor, Flinders University B.Ed. programme

1990

Director Adelaide Central School of Art Pty. Ltd.

1989 -

Senior Lecturer Adelaide Central School of Art. Adelaide, S.A.

1989

Designer/co-ordinator of opening event and outdoor programme for ComeOut Youth Arts Festival

1986

Guest Lecturer, London School of Printmaking

1985 - 1987

Lived and worked in London. Joined Space Studios, Berry Street London, UK.

1983

Joined Central Studios, Adelaide S.A.

Research and design of educational material for the National Tour of Leonardo Da Vinci's Anatomical Drawings exhibition.

1982

Commissioned by Jim Sharman (Artistic Director of '82 Adelaide Festival of Arts) to produce a participatory art event for young people of Australia for the Festival of Arts, Adelaide. S.A.

Member of Thai ceramics dating project, Sisatchenalai, Thailand

1980

Convenor of public forum on Arts funding and the Australia Council

1979

Founding member Art Workers Union, Adelaide. S.A.

1978 - 1984

Education Officer, Art Gallery of South Australia

1974

Established Matriculation Art Course at Plympton High School

Adviser to ABC Radio on History of Australian Art Series

1969 - 1973

Advanced Diploma. Fine Art. Sculpture. Painting. South Australian College of Arts and Education.

1950

Born, Australia.


Group Exhibitions

2000

ACSA Lecturers Exhibition, Adelaide Central Gallery

1999

ACSA Studios Show, Adelaide Central Gallery

1998

ACSA Staff Show’, Adelaide Central Gallery

 

‘Heavy Metal’, SATEP Touring Exhibition

 

The Art of Meaning’, SATEP Touring Exhibition

1997

‘Consider The Mark’, Adelaide Central Gallery

 

‘Still Life’, Adelaide Central Gallery

 

Three South Australians, Robin Gibson Galleries, Sydney

1996

'Manifest Exposure', Solarplate Prints, Adelaide Central Gallery and touring South Australia

1995

'Narrative Maps', Studio Members exhibition, Adelaide Central Gallery'Disclosure', John Dunn Gallery, Adelaide, S.A.

1994

'Central 3', Studio Members exhibition, Adelaide Central Gallery

1993

'Works on Paper' Adelaide Central Gallery, Adelaide S.A.

 

'Symbols and Metaphores'  Union Gallery, Adelaide S.A.

 

South Australian Touring Exhibition during 1993 Designer opening event, Come Out '93

1992

Cleveland (UK) International Drawing Bienale. Work selected to tour UK and European cities.

 

Qdos Fine Art, Lorne, Victoria.

1991

'Celebration'. Adelaide Central Gallery, Adelaide, S.A.

 

Prospect Gallery, Adelaide, S.A.

 

'16 Central Artists' Festival Exhibition, Adelaide Central Gallery.

1990

Reade Art, Adelaide S.A.

 

Alliance Francaise Group Exhibition, Adelaide S.A.

 

South Australian Drawing, Anima Gallery, Adelaide S.A.

 

'Homage to Vincent'. Vincent Gallery, Adelaide S.A.

 

Adelaide Vision. Art Images Gallery, Adelaide S.A.

 

'Body and Soul'. North Adelaide School of Art Gallery, Adelaide.

 

Exhibition in support of Chinese Democracy movement. Art Zone, Adelaide. S.A.

1989

Pure Pastel exhibition. Artzone Adelaide S.A.

 

Neuorc Collaborative exhibition Jam Factory Group Fig Gallery Adelaide S.A.

 

Collectives Survey exhibition College Gallery Underdale

 

Adelaide Artists in Japan Himeji exhibition

 

Co-ordinator/Designer Visual Arts opening event, Come Out '89

1986

Berry Street Open Studio exhibition. London UK.

 

Spring exhibition. Smiths Galleries,Covent Garden, London UK

 

International Contemporary Art Fair, Olympia, London, UK presented by London Galleries of Kensington.

1984

Artists of Central Studios exhibition for Festival of Arts. Adelaide.

 

Space Artists exhibition for British Petroleum. London UK.

1981

South Australian Paperworks, Survey exhibition. Art Gallery of South Australia.

 

Included in Travelling Exhibition of South Australian Paperworks

1979

Australian Print Council Exhibition. Melbourne, Victoria.

1978

Contemporary Art Society Exhibition. Adelaide. Flight Gallery, Adelaide, S.A.

1974

Young Contemporaries Group Exhibition. Royal Society for the Arts Gallery. Adelaide S.A.

1973

Young Contemporaries Group Exhibition. Royal Society for the Arts Gallery, Adelaide.S.A.

 

'Sculpturescape'. International Sculpture Triennial, Mildura, Victoria.

 

Queen Victoria Art Gallery Acquisition Exhibition, Launceston, Tasmania.


 
Solo Exhibitions

1999

'Sitings', Adelaide Central Gallery

1997

Greenhill Galleries, Perth

1996

'Ekstasis', Adelaide Central Gallery, Adelaide, S.A.

1995

'Ekstasis', Embassy of Australia, Washington D.C.

1994

'Running, Jumping, Standing Still' - Adelaide Central Gallery, Norwood, S.A.

1993

Adelaide Central Gallery, Adelaide, S.A.

1992

'Way Points'. Adelaide Central Gallery, Adelaide, S.A.

1991

'The Uncertainty of the Poet'. Reade Art Gallery, Adelaide S.A.

1988

'The Diary of the Tightrope Walker' Festival Centre, Adelaide

1987

Art Zone Gallery, Adelaide, S.A.

 

Reade Art Gallery, Adelaide, S.A.

1986

Cuts Gallery, London, UK.

 

International Art Fair, Olympia, London, UK

1984

Adelaide Festival Centre, Adelaide, S.A.

1976

Art Gallery of South Australia

1975

Liddums Gallery, Adelaide, S.A.


Collections

Government House, South Australia

Scotch College Art Collection

Adelaide University Collection

Benko Collection, South Australia

Art Gallery of South Australia Permanent Collection

        - Work purchased in 1981, 1992

Renmark City Art Collection

British Petroleum Collection, Brittania House, London

Art Bank

F H Faulding Collection

Santos Whyalla Art Award Winner, 1994 Acquisitive

Private collections in Australia, Britain, France, Germany, Kenya, U.S.A.

Flinders Medical Centre,SA.


 
Awards and Commissions

2000

Gunnery Studio Residency, Sydney, Funded by Arts SA

2000

Shortlisted for Dobell Drawing Prize Art Gallery of NSW

1996

Major work for FH Faulding new headquarters

1995

Commissioned to curate 'More Than A Look', SATEP touring exhibition (1995)

1994

Santos Whyalla Aquisitive Prize

1993

Patron Print, Dianne Longley The Print Studio, Adelaide S.A.

1990

Adelaide Casino


Publications

Mildura International Sculpturescape 1973

South Australian Paperworks. Art Gallery of South Australia publication, 1981

Art Forum Newsletter vol. 6 No 2 November 1986

Encyclopaedia of Australian Art by Alan McCulloch and Susan McCulloch

Cleveland U.K  Drawing Bienalle 1992

Symbol and Metaphor. Margot Osborne 1993

Business Review Weekly,July 1996

Adelaide Review