PETER HENNESSEY

b. 1968, Sydney

Lives and works in Melbourne, Australia.

Peter Hennessey was born in 1968 in Sydney, Australia. He completed a Bachelor of Architecture (First Class Honours), RMIT in 1995. Exhibitions and collaborations include My Hell’s Gate, Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne (2010); My NSAT-110, Kandada, Tokyo (2007); My Voyager, PICA, Perth (2005); Anne Landa Award, Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney (2004); TerrUrbanism, Australia Centre, Manila, The Philippines (with Patricia Piccinini) (1995); De Overkant, Den Haag Sculptuur, The Hague (2007).

Trained as an architect, Hennessey has established an international profile for his physically imposing, conceptually rigorous sculptures. He is inspired by the science of space exploration and comparable technological advances, and scours the Internet and other publicly available information to produce his work. The resulting sculptures are ‘re-enactments’ of objects that allow people to encounter in three-dimensions what they would otherwise only see in reproduction, or on the Web. In recreating these structures, Hennessey explores the ‘space between images and experience’ and expounds on related social, political and economic imperatives.

http://www.peterhennessey.net/

“For the past two years, the art of Peter Hennessey has powerfully examined the media-saturated events and phenomena that have inscribed themselves upon his (and our) memories and dreams. Deploying the most commonplace of materials (plywood, galvanised steel hinge, canvas), Hennessey has produced bold, arresting and intricate sculptures based on subject matter which is familiar, even infamous, but physically inaccessible...“

(excerpt from Space Voyagers and Neonatal Nightmares: an odyssey into the Art of Peter Hennessey by Varga Hosseini, 2006

ARTIST INFORMATION

BIOGRAPHY

1968	Born Sydney. Lives and works in Melbourne.
1990-95	Bachelor of Architecture (First Class Honours), RMIT
2000-04	Australia Council New Media Arts Board Member

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2016	Alone with the gods, GAGPROJECTS \| Greenaway Art Gallery, Adelaide (with Patricia Piccinini)
2015	Making it real, University of Queensland Art Museum, Brisbane The Shadows Calling, Detached, Old Mercury Building, Dark MOFO, Hobart (with Patricia Piccinini)
2014	Here be dragons / Hic sunt dracones, Tolarno Galleries
2010	My Hell's Gate, Gertrude Contemporary Art Space, Melbourne
2008	My Burnt Frost, Greenaway Art Gallery, Adelaide Two Projects (Sea and Sky), Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne
2007	My NSAT-110, Kandada, Tokyo
2006	My NICU, Greenaway Art Gallery, Adelaide My Ejector Seat, Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne Art Fair
2005	My Moon Landing, Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne My Voyager, PICA, Perth
2004	Repercussions, Greenaway Art Gallery, Adelaide; (with Patricia Piccinini) Closer (in collaboration with Chunky Move), Perth Festival
2003	Closer, ACMI, Melbourne Booth, ACMI, Melbourne
1996	ICU, The Basement Project, Melbourne
1995	TerrUrbanism, Australia Centre, Manila, The Philippines; (with Patricia Piccinini) PathL, The Basement Project, Melbourne
1994	TerrUrbanism, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne; (with Patricia Piccinini) MPath, The Basement Project, Melbourne
1993	Two Hertz, Temple Studios, Melbourne; (with Peter Zellner)
1991	Heretical Gestures At The Birth Of Enlightenment, Swanston Street Gallery, Melbourne Recent Works and Collaborations, Charles Williams Gallery, Melbourne

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2016	New Romance, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
2015		Outer Space, Casula Powerhouse, Sydney
2011			Star Voyager, Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Melbourne
2010			The Beauty of Distance, 17th Biennale of Sydney
2007			De Overkant, Den Haag Sculptuur, The Hague
2006			Greenaway Art Gallery at ARCO, Madrid
2004			Anne Landa Award, Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney Proof, ACMI, Melbourne
2002			Akiharbara TV, Tokyo, Japan Click, Bendigo Art Gallery, Geelong Art Gallery, Latrobe Regional Gallery, Mildura Arts Centre Gallery and Swan Hill Regional Art Gallery.
2001			LumpCD, CCP, Melbourne
2000			LumpCD, Impact Festival, Utrecht, Netherlands
1999			LumpCD, Spiral TV, Tokyo, Japan.
1997			Protein Lattice Remix screened at SIGGRAPH 97, Los Angeles, USA. pH2, Interact Multimedia Expo, Melbourne. PathL, screened as part of ArtRage on ABC-TV and at SA Stage Gallery, Adelaide
1996			Vert, Experimenta TV commercial project, TEN 10 Basement, Test Strip Gallery, Aukland, NZ Full Stop, Basement Gallery, Melbourne Robotica, curated by Shiralee Saul, Melbourne Town Hall
1995			RMIT Department of Architecture Major Project Exhibition, RMIT Gallery, Storey Hall, Melbourne Since The Accident, Basement, Melbourne Arts & Industry Design 95, The Arts & Industry Gallery, Melbourne
1994			Critical Mass, Arts Victoria Gallery, Melbourne; Humanetics, New Media Network, Southgate, Melbourne; Scission, The Basement Project, Melbourne; (exhibitor & curator)
1993			ity Screens, Melbourne International Festival Projections; Pure Cinema, Charles Williams Gallery, RMIT, Melbourne; Vitae, RMIT Gallery, Melbourne; Deliquescence, 200 Gertrude St Gallery, Melbourne; (curator) Deliquescence, Canberra Contemporary Art Space; (curator)
1992			Deliquescence, First Draft West, Sydney; (curator) SuperMart, Blaxland Gallery, Melbourne
1991			The OverExposed City, Swanston Street Gallery, Melbourne; CMAA Competition Touring Exhibition, Australia

COLLECTIONS

Horsham Regional Art Gallery, Vic

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