Geoffrey Ricardo Resume
 

Born

1964 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

   

Education

2001- 04

Sessional Lecturer, The Victorian College of the Arts

1990 - 98

Sessional Lecturer, Monash University

1996

Guest Lecturer, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology

1995

Guest Lecturer, Victorian College of the Arts

1991

Travelled to England, France, Spain and United States (Winsor and Newton International Travelling Bursary, National Students Art Prize).  Worked in private studios in Gaucin, Spain (three months) and New York, N. Y. (two months)

1989 - 90 Graduate Diploma (Fine Art), Printmaking, Monash University
1987 - 89

Printing Assistant at Bill Young Studios, editioning intaglio prints

1988  

Full-time Studio Technician at Printmaking Department, Chisholm Institute of Technology

1984 – 1986

Bachelor of Art (Fine Art), Printmaking Chisholm Institute Of Technology

   
Solo Exhibitions

2004

BMG Art, Adelaide

2003

Australian  Galleries Melbourne
Australian Galleries Works on Paper Sydney
Cowarr Art Space

 

2002

The Rapunzel Suite,  Australian Galleries Works on Paper, Melbourne

2000

Strange Games, Australian Galleries Works on Paper, Sydney

1999

A Dark City Narrative, Australian Galleries, Sydney
A Dark City Narrative, Australian Galleries, Melbourne
1998 Cullity Gallery, School of Architecture and Fine Art, University
1997

Chapman Gallery, Canberra
Australian Galleries, Sydney
Australian Galleries, Melbourne
BMG Art, Adelaide

1996 Delaney Gallery, Perth
1995 Australian Galleries, Sydney
Australian Galleries, Melbourne
1994

“Wishful Thinking”, Prints and Sculptures, The Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, University of W.A. of Western Australia
Grahame Galleries and Editions, Brisbane

1992

Prints, sculptures and watercolours, Australian Galleries, Melbourne and Sydney

1990

Prints, paintings and sculptures, Australian Galleries, Melbourne

Selected Group Exhibitions

2004

Surface Tension- 21 Contemporary Australian Printmakers
The National Arts Club, New York City, U.S.A.
Contemporary Australian Prints, Art Gallery of N.S.W.

2003 ‘Paper Matters’ Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, U.W.A. Perth
2002

Fremantle Print Award, Fremantle W.A.
Sculpture 2002, Australian Galleries, Melbourne
The Hutchins Art Prize, Hobart ,Tasmania

2001 The Hutchins Art Prize, Hobart, Tasmania.
‘Celebration’  Victorian regional touring exhibition
‘Fantastic Art’ Orange Regional Gallery, Orange, N.S.W.
Fremantle Print Award, Fremantle, W.A.

2000 - 01

‘Workings of the Mind: Melbourne Prints of the 1960s to the 1990s’
Touring exhibition: Grafton Regional Gallery; Toowoomba Regional Art Gallery; Nolan Gallery Canberra; Bendigo Art Gallery; Perc Tucker
Regional Gallery Townsville.

2000

'Six Degrees of Collaboration’ RMIT Faculty of Art, Design and Communication Gallery International Print Triennial in Kangawa, Kanagawa, Japan
‘Reciprocal Moves’, Warrnambool Art Gallery, Warrnambool Fremantle Print Award, Fremantle
‘Dancing made a man out of me’, The Switchback Gallery Gippsland Campus

1999

‘Pleasure’, Australian Galleries, Melbourne Fremantle Print Award, Fremantle National Works on Paper, Mornington Peninsula Gallery, Victoria Rena Ellen Jones Memorial Print Award, Warrnambool Art Gallery, Victoria
‘We are Australian’, George Adams Gallery, Victorian Arts Centre

1998 - 99

Australian Prints’, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

1997

Woven Colour, The Art of Tapestry, Dr Earl Lu Gallery, Singapore KNOCK, KNOCK, Australian Galleries, Melbourne

1996

M.P.A.C. Print Award, Mornington, Victoria
Synergy, Lalit Kala Akademi, New Dehli; Jehangir Nicholson Gallery,
Bombay; Birla Academy of Art & Culture, Calcutta Contemporary
Australian Tapestry. 
Frederikshavn Kunstmuseum, Denmar

1995

“Circus Capers”, Caulfield Arts Complex, Victoria
“Interweave - Tapestry A Collaborative Art”, MOMA at Heide; Geelong Art Gallery, Victoria; Australia House, London Contemporary Australian Tapestry, Australian High Commission, Kuala Lumpur Contemporary Australian Tapestry, Australian High Commission, Singapore Contemporary Printmakers - La Trobe Regional Gallery, Morwell

1994

Australian Universities of Visual Art, Aust. High Commission, Singapore“Prints, Paintings and Sculpture”, BMG Art, Adelaide, SA
ACAF 4, Exhibition Building, Melbourne
Fremantle Print Award Exhibition, WA
 M.P.A.C. Print Award, Mornington, Victoria

1993 

Fremantle Print Award Exhibition, WA

1992

Transitional Times, Print Council of Australia Travelling Exhibition Fremantle Print Prize Travelling Exhibition
2nd Kochi International Triennial Exhibition of Prints, Japan

1991

“Art 91”, London Contemporary Art Fair, London, UK
“Table Top Sculpture”, Australian Galleries, Melbourne Fremantle Print Prize, Fremantle Art Gallery, WA
Henry Worland Memorial Print Prize, Warrnambool Regional Art Gallery, Warrnambool, Vic

1990

M.P.A.C. Print Prize, Mornington, Vic Fremantle Print Prize, Fremantle, WA
“Australian Contemporary Art”, AZ Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
“The Christmas Show”, Intaglio Printmaker, London, U K

1989

City of Doncaster Acquisitive Print Prize, Doncaster, Vic
National Student Art Prize, Bathurst, NSW
“Affiliations”, Monash University Gallery, Vic
Fremantle Print Prize, Fremantle Art Gallery, WA

1988

M.P.A.C. Acquisitive Print Prize, Mornington, Victoria
Henry Worland Memorial Print Prize, Warrnambool Regional Art Gallery, Victoria

1987

Fluxus Art Flow, Melbourne
“The Comedy Show”, Print Guild, Melbourne

1986

Mornington Peninsula Arts Council Acquisitive Print Prize, Mornington, Victoria
C.I.T. Graduating Students Exhibition


 

Awards

1994

Mornington Peninsula Arts Council Prints Acquisitive Exhibition

1989

Linbrook International First Prize for Printmaking
Windsor and Newton International Travelling Bursary


 

Residencies and Workshops

2003 Residency-Bairnsdale Regional Hospital
Advanced Intaglio Workshop- Firestation Print Studio, Armadale Vic.May; July

2002

Advaced Etching Workshop- Firestation Print Studio, Armadale Vic.February

1998

Residency – School of Architecture & Fine Art, University of Western Australia, Perth

1997

Residency – La Salle/Fia, College of the Arts, Singapore

1996

Artist-in-residence, Victorian Tapestry Workshop

1993

Reduction Aquatint Workshop & Residency, Graphic Investigation Department, Canberra School of Art, Sept 1993


 

Commisions

1999 Tapestry design, ‘Emblem’ Victorian Tapestry Workshop
1995 St.Kilda Festival Poster
“A Night of Infectious Laughter” Poster
1994 Tapestry design “Elephant Gingham” which was woven at the Victorian
Tapestry Workshop, Melbourne and displayed at ACAF 4
1993 Tapestry design for the Festival of Perth Official Poster (tapestry woven by the Victorian Tapestry Workshop, Melbourne)


Collections

National Gallery of Victoria
Latrobe Regional Gallery
Art Gallery of NSW
National Gallery of Australia
City of Whitehorse
Mornington Peninsula Arts Council Collection
Warrnambool Regional Art Gallery, Victoria
City of Box Hill, Victoria
Monash University, Victoria
Helensvale High School, Queensland
Gold Coast City Art Gallery, Queensland
Star of the Sea College, Victoria
The Melbourne Club, Victoria
Shire of Diamond Valley, Victoria
Geelong Grammar School, Victoria
University of Central Queensland
University of Technology, Sydney
Canson Australia Pty Ltd, Victoria
Queen Victoria Museum & Art Gallery, Tasmania
Parliament House Art Collection, Canberra
Print Council of Australia
Holmes A’Court Collection, Western Australia
Queensland Art Gallery
Griffith University (Gold Coast Campus)
Downlands College, Toowoomba
Queensland University of Technology, Queensland
Wagga Wagga Regional Art Gallery
Various private collections in Australia, Switzerland,
U.S.A, U.K., Singapore, Germany, Japan, Malaysia.,
Holland

   
Bibliography - Reviews
  “Ricardo’s great leap forward”, by Robert Nelson, The Age, February 19 2003
“Revealed: Mother Nature’s vulgar past”, by Robert Nelson, The Age, September 6, 2000
“Darkness visible” by Peter McMillan, ‘The Age’, September 11, 1999
“Riddled with hidden meaning”, by Robert Nelson, ‘The Age,’ September 8, 1999
“Dream Weavers” by Robert Nelson, The Age, June 3, 1995
“The Collaborative Spirit” by Anna Clabburn in “Australian Tapestries: Victorian Tapestry Workshop”, 1995, p.37
“Dreams of hope and menace” by John McDonald, The Sydney Morning Herald, March 18, 1995
“Circuses can be curated, but not cured” by Robert Nelson, The Age, January 18, 1995
“Visual arts at the Festival of Perth” by Ted Snell, Art Monthly, April, 1994
“The Festival that could have been” by Dorothy Erickson, The Bulletin, March, 1994
“Art” by Ted Snell, The Australian, February 18, 1994
“Festival taps weaver’s art”, The West Australian, February 11, 1994
“Ricardo makes poster splash”, by Alison Farmer, Sunday Times, Entertainment Extra, September 19, 1993
   
Bibliography - Periodicals
  “Geoff Ricardo: emerging from darkness” by Peter Timms, ARTMONTHLY, Issue 140, June 2001
“A Dark City Narrative” by John Jenkins, IMPRINT, Vol 34, No 4, 1999
“AQ” Journal of Contemporary Analysis, Vol.71, Issue 7, April, 1999
“AQ” Journal of Contemporary Analysis, Vol. 70, Issue 6, November-December, 1998
“AQ” Journal of Contemporary Analysis, Vol. 70, Issue 4, July-August, 1998
“Quadrant”, October, 1995
“Quadrant”, April, 1995
“Quadrant”, Jan/Feb, 1995
“Quadrant”, November, 1994
“Fables and Foibles” by Anna Clabburn, Art Monthly, September, 1994
“Paen To Ricardo” by Robert Nelson, IMPRINT, Vol.29.No.1, April, 1994
   
Bibliography - Books & Catalogues
  “Fantastic Art” by the Orange Regional Gallery, 2001
“Workings of the Mind : Melbourne Prints of the 1960s to the 1990s” by the
Queensland University of Technology Art Museum, 2000
ISBN 1 86435 493 3
“A Dark City Narrative” Australian Galleries Publications
“Modern Australian Tapestries” by the Victorian Tapestry Workshop, 2000
ISBN 0 646 40446 6
“Australian Identities in Printmaking” by the Wagga Wagga Regional Art Gallery, 2000
ISBN 1875247157
“Australian Prints” by the Art Gallery of New South Wales, 1998,
ISBN 0 73 13 8912 3.
“Australian Printmaking in the 1990’s” by Sasha Grishin, 1997 Craftsman House
ISBN 90 5703 39 17
“Framed” photographs of Australian Artists by Michel Lawrence, 1998
ISBN 1 86498 017 6