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Themes of life, mortality, routine and work are explored in Mark Threadgold's paintings. Multiple interpretations are often discovered in his work where subjects are carefully constructed and allegories are formed. Threadgold's work has been exhibited throughout Australia as well as the UK since 1998. His work is held in public collections in Australia and in private collections around the world. He has been selected as a finalist in numerous national art awards around Australia, including his selection, for three consecutive years, in the prestigious Metro 5 Art Award. In 2008 he won the Corangamarah Art Prize.
“Mark Threadgold’s affinity with past masters is evident in his technical expertise. Traces of Caravaggesque naturalism and moody romanticism, combined with the textural invention of the artist, situate his work at the end of a linear history of painting. However, Threadgold also manages to dispossess tradition of the sole rights to painterly representation. He directs the formal techniques which were once employed to represent social and cultural icons to more subjective ends. His pun on the ‘Speak no evil’ epigram, for example, conceals an existential despair which modifies clarity and defies the critical language of conventional art history. Content is personal rather than social; repressive rather than communicable. Threadgold impregnates his work with a relentless subjectivity which repossesses his medium from the strict control of tradition” James McGregor, lecturer in History of Art and Architecture
MARK THREADGOLD Born: 1977 Lives: Melbourne Educational Qualifications 1999 Graduate Diploma of Education, University of Melbourne 1996-1998 Bachelor of Art (Visual Arts) Deakin University
Solo Exhibitions 2008 Twice A Day Every Day For the Rest of Your Life, Metro 5 Gallery, Melbourne 2003 New Paintings, Intrude Gallery , Melbourne 2002 Mark Threadgold, St Lawrences , Norwich, England 2001 Mark Threadgold, Preview Gallery , Melbourne
Selected Group Exhibitions 2009 Introducing Michael Johnson & Group Show, Metro Gallery, Melbourne 2009 Prometheus Art Award, Gold Coast, Queensland 2008 Small Gems, Metro 5 Gallery, Melbourne 2008 Exquisite Pallete, St Luke Artist Colourmen, Melbourne 2008 Corangamarah Art Prize, Otway Estate Winery & Brewery, Victoria 2007 Metro 5 Art Award, Benalla Art Gallery, Victoria 2007 Metro 5 Art Award, Metro 5 Gallery, Melbourne 2006 Metro 5 Art Award, Metro 5 Gallery, Melbourne 2005 Lloyd Rees Memorial Art Prize, Lane Cove, Sydney 2005 Melbourne, Jackman Gallery, Melbourne 2005 Metro 5 Art Award, Metro 5 Gallery, Melbourne 2005 Roberts McCubbin Art Prize, Box Hill, Melbourne 2003 Urban Life, Jackman Gallery, Melbourne 2003 Blue, Jackman Gallery, Melbourne 2003 Samples, Intrude Gallery, Melbourne 2002 Emerging Artists Program, Mira Fine Art Gallery, Melbourne 1999 National Graduate Show, Perth Institute of Contemporary Art, Western Australia 1999 Liquid: Beyond the City Limit New Art From Geelong, Geelong Art Gallery 1998 Graduate Exhibition, Warrnambool Art Gallery, Victoria 1998 Group Show, Sherwood Gallery Deakin University, Warrnambool, Victoria 1998 Group Show, Alan Lane Gallery, Warrnambool Art Gallery, Victoria
Selected Publications 2010 March, Whitehorse Leader Newspaper 2010 March, City of Whitehorse News 2008 August, Colac Herald 2007 High Five For Artists, by Jeff Makin, February 25th, Herald Sun Newspaper 2007 Art Award, February 21st, Melbourne Leader Newspaper 2006 Creative Types Climb Stairway to Artistic Freedom, January 9th, MX Newspaper 2006 Artist Interview, by Deon Archibald, Art Quotes.Com 2001 Facing Up to an Altering Facial Dimension, February 26th, Leader Newspaper 2000 Cover Story, Education Age, May 31st, The Age Newspaper 1999 Liquid: Beyond the City Limit New Art From Geelong, Catalogue Essay by James McGregor & Malcom Bywaters, Published by the Geelong Art Gallery 1999 Youthful Vision, Higher Education, June 2nd, The Australian Newspaper 1998 Grind TV, Optus Television
Awards 2009 Prometheus Art Award, Finalist 2008 Corangamarah Art Prize, Winner 2007 Metro 5 Art Award, Finalist 2006 Metro 5 Art Award, Finalist 2005 Lloyd Rees Memorial Art Prize, Finalist 2005 Metro 5 Art Award, Finalist 1998 Darian Art Prize Deakin University, Winner
Collections City of Whitehorse Deakin University Art Collection Colac Area Health Private Collections throughout Australia, New Zealand, Europe
Commissions Private Commissions in London, Melbourne, Sydney
Professional Positions Wayland College, England Koonung Secondary College, Australia
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