CHRISTIAN LOCK

b. 1969

Lives and works in Adelaide, Australia.

Christian Lock was born in 1969. He completed an Advanced Diploma of Art, Applied & Visual, North Adelaide School of Art, Adelaide (1999); Bachelor Visual Arts, SA School of Art, University of South Australia, Adelaide (2000); Honours, Bachelor Visual Arts, SA School of Art, University of South Australia, Adelaide (2001); Masters Visual Arts, SA School of Art, University of South Australia, Adelaide (2006). Exhibitions include The Substation Contemporary Art Prize, The Substation Centre for Art & Culture, Victoria (2011); CACSA Contemporary 2010: THE NEW NEW, Contemporary Art Centre of SA, Adelaide (2010); Wynne Prize for landscape painting, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney (2008). Collections include Artbank, Sydney; Art Gallery of South Australia & private collections.

'To describe Christian Lock's work as a painting does not quite encompass the nature of this practice. He works with painting, interrogating its components and parts, examining their roles and possibilities before pulling them back together in the final object. The impulse to push past the traditional limits of painting draws a lineage from Contemporary Abstract painting to the ideas of late 1960's Modernist Abstraction and "Light and Space; art of Californian Minimalism". Referred to as "Finish Fetish: artists they aligned their aesthetics with Californian car and surf culture, appropriating new innovative industrial materials such as resins, plastics and auto enamels; the resulting reflective forms acknowledged light and space as integral considerations working to remove the boundaries between painting, sculpture and architecture.

His recent work employs a range of novel analogue and digital painting methods in combination with industrial substrates, plastics and resins, testing their gestural and spatializing qualities and their potential to break free from a two- dimensional plane while reassessing painting's physicality.

Sampling and repurposing a diverse range of forms, motifs and strategies from Modernism, the industrial processes and materiality of minimalism and hybrid language of Post Modernism and Pop Culture, the paintings become 'remixes'; creating new tracks from fragments of old songs, full of quiet nods to the history of painting whilst exploring its possibilities and suggesting its potential future.'

ARTIST INFORMATION

BIOGRAPHY

1969	Born
1996	Certificate in Art Applied and Visual, Onkaparinga Institute of TAFE, Adelaide
1999	Advanced Diploma of Art Applied and Visual, North Adelaide School of Art
2000	Bachelor Visual Arts, SA School of Art, University of South Australia
2001	Honours Bachelor Visual Arts, SA School of Art, University of South Australia
2006	Masters Visual Arts, SA School of Art, University of South Australia
Currently	Head of painting, SA School of Art, Architecture & Design, University of South Australia, Adelaide

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2018	Space Junky, GAGPROJECTS, Adelaide
2017	Blackflag, ACE OPEN, Adelaide
2015	GAGPROJECTS, Adelaide
2014	CHASM Gallery, New York Ryan Renshaw Gallery, QLD
2013	GAGPROJECTS/Greenaway Art Gallery, Adelaide SA
2011	Greenaway Art Gallery, Adelaide SA
2010	John Buckley Gallery, Richmond VIC
2009	Greenaway Art Gallery, Adelaide SA
2008	John Buckley Gallery, Richmond VIC

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2019	13th Cairo Biennale, Egypt
2016	Quicksilver: 25 Years of Samstag Scholarship, Samstag Museum, Adelaide
2015	DO IT, Samstag Museum, Adelaide Cloudburst: Christian Lock and Claire Pendrigh, Chasm Gallery, New York
2014	Art Dubai, Dubai (GAGPROJECTS) SALA: EIGHT, Adelaide Town Hall New Work, Greenaway Gallery, South Australia Revealed, Samstag Gallery, South Australia
2012	Deep Space, Art Gallery of South Australia Endless Summer, Nexus Centre
2011	The Substation Contemporary Art Prize,The Substation Centre for Art & Culture, Victoria
2010	CACSA Contemporary 2010: THE NEW NEW,Contemporary Art Centre of SA, Adelaide The Stan & Maureen Duke Gold Coast Art Prize, Gold Coast City Gallery, Gold Coast
2009	Hits From The Wand,FELTspace, Adelaide
2008	Road Movies,Contemporary Art Centre of SA, Adelaide Wynne Prize for landscape painting, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
2007	Mentor Mentored, Contemporary Art Centre of SA, Adelaide
2006	Snapshot: Contemporary South Australian Art, Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide John Buckley Gallery, Richmond Vic Selected Works, Greenaway Art Gallery, Adelaide SA The Colour of Music, Adelaide Central Gallery, Adelaide SA
2005	Art Year Zero SA School of Art, Adelaide SA shimmer Artspace Adelaide Festival Centre, Adelaide SA
2004	Melbourne Affordable Art Fair Greenaway Art Gallery, Melbourne VIC
2002	Hatched National Graduate Exhibition Perth Institute of Contemporary Art, Perth WA Money Shot Adelaide Fringe Festival, Miller Anderson Building, Adelaide SA Helpmann Academy Graduate Exhibition Miller Anderson Building, Adelaide SA Reverb Uni SA Graduate Exhibition, Adelaide SA
2001	Helpmann Academy Graduate Exhibition Miller Anderson Building, Adelaide SA
2000	Uni SA graduate Exhibition, Adelaide SA Coursework selected students work SA Public Library, Adelaide SA
1999	Helpmann Academy Graduate Exhibition Gerard & Goodman Building Adelaide, SA Robert Steel Gallery Malcolm Reid Building, Adelaide SA EVA Exhibition Pultney Grammar School, Adelaide SA
1998	Pulchella Port Dock Gallery, Port Adelaide SA EVA Exhibition Pultney Grammar School, Adelaide SA

AWARDS & GRANTS

2012	Anne and Gordon Samstag International Visual Art Scholarship
2006	Oscart Awards, Painting
2005	Australian Council for the Arts, New Work Grant
2002	Oscart Awards Rising Star Award, Painting Adelaide Visual Arts Critics Circle, Emerging Artists Award Runner up Helpmann Academy Grant PICA Hatched Graduate Exhibition
2001	Uni SA Library Acquisition Prize Masters Scholarship Uni SA Inducted into Golden Key International Honor Society Chancellors Award List for Academic Achievement Uni SA Deans Merit Award for Academic Achievement Uni SA
2000	John Christie Memorial Painting Prize Uni SA
1999	EVA Emerging Visual Artists Award Major Painting Prize
1998	Helpmann Academy Graduate Exhibition Major Prize Hill Smith / Malaysia Airlines Travel Award
1997	Prize for “Excellence in Visual Art” Onkaparinga Institute

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

Best, A. 'Christian Lock New Work', Greenaway Art Gallery Catalogue Essay, 2011
Bilske, M & Newall, M. 'A New Gesture', Christain Lock Greenaway Art Gallery Catalogue Essay, 2002
Bolton, K. 'Weird or What - to go Bodiddley', 2011, http://aeaf.org.au/events/critical-writing.html
Bolton, K. 'Mentor Mentored 3', Exhibition Catalogue CACSA, 2007
Frost, A. 'Christian Lock 2013 Samstag Scholars, 2012
Harms, L. 'Christain Lock, Greenaway Art Gallery', Artlink Vol 27 No 4, 2007
Hosseini, V. 'Christian Lock, Greenaway Art Gallery', Australian Art Collector, July-Sept, Issue 33, 2005
Hosseini, V. 'Schizophrenic Venture', Exhibition Catalogue Greenaway Art Gallery, 2005
Lock - Weir, T. & Freak, E. 'Deep Space' - New Acquisitions from the Australian Art Collection, Articulate Magazine, Autumn, 2012
Lock, C. Exhibition Catalogue Essay, Greenaway Art Gallery, 2008
McKay, P. Exhibition Catalogue Essay, THE NEW NEW, CACSA, 2010
Neylon, J. 'Standing on the Outside Looking In', Adelaide Review, January, 2005
Raddock, S. 'Push Me Pull You', Christian Lock, Light Square Gallery, Adelaide Review, June, 2002
Raddock, S. 'Spacey', Adelaide Review, October, 2011
Sanders, C. 'Locked in', Adelaide Review, November, 2012
Smee, S. 'Disoriented in the Great Outdoors', The Wynne Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, The Australian, March, 2008
Walker, W. 'Christian Lock', Exhibition Catalogue, John Buckley Gallery, June, 2008
Walker, W. 'Some Digressions on Ornament, Abstraction and the Stowaway, Artlink, Vol 20, No. 2, 2008
Woodburn, J. 'All that Shimmers', Real Time, April - May, No. 66, 2005

COLLECTIONS

Art Gallery of South Australia
Artbank
Private collections in Australia

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