STEVEN RENDALL

Steven Rendall was born in Salisbury, England in 1969 and moved to Australia in 2000. Since then he has held numerous exhibitions in Australia and the UK, most recently at Hell Gallery, (Melbourne, 2008), and in Reconstructing the Old House at The Ruskin Gallery (Cambridge, UK, 2009) – he was also a finalist in the 2009 Arthur Guy Memorial Painting Prize. His work is present in many notable private and public collections in Melbourne and the UK. Recent work has been purchased by the Monash University Museum of Art.

Selected Works

2010 Infinite Archives, White Street Projects, Frankston

2009 How the Dead Live, Conical, Melbourne

2008 The Red Lion, O Projects, Melbourne
2008 The Essay, West Space Inc., Melbourne
2003 Respond Grey, CCAS Manuka, Canberra, ACT

Selected group exhibitions

2010 Redlands Westpac Art Prize, Mosman Gallery, Sydney

2009 Reconstructing the Old House, The Nunnery Gallery, London & Ruskin Gallery, Cambridge, UK
2009 Arthur Guy Memorial Painting Prize 2009, Bendigo Art Gallery
2009 The Winter Collectors' Exhibition 2009, John Buckley Gallery, Melbourne
2009 Some Recent Painting: The Director's Cut, John Buckley Gallery, Melbourne
2006 Behind the Scenes at the Museum, Yarra Sculpture Space, Melbourne
2006 10th Planet, Tower Bridge Business Complex, London
2006 Five Minutes to Midnight, Victoria Park Gallery, Melbourne
2006 Sustainable Living Festival, Federation Square, Melbourne
2005 Still, Yarra Sculpture Space, Melbourne
2005 Superstructure, West Space, Melbourne
2005 A re-Constructed World, Linden St Kilda Centre for Contemporary Arts, Melbourne
2004 Veneer, Blindside, Melbourne
2004 An Architecture of Hope, Gallery 101, Melbourne

2003 22cm2 (with Jon Jones) Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery, Birmingham, UK
2002 & 2004 The John Leslie Art Prize, Gippsland Art Gallery, Sale
2003/2004 Compendium, Platform and Deakin University, Melbourne
2001 Kunst – Darm, Henry Peacock Gallery, London
1999 Working Drawings, Henry Peacock Gallery, London

Curatorial ventures

2012 Museums in the Incident, Faculty Gallery, Monash University

2008 World’s End (with Meredith Turnbull), Carlton Hotel & Studios, Melbourne
2006 Life is Getting Longer, VCA Gallery Melbourne
2004 Life is very long, Yarra Sculpture Space, Melbourne

Awards, prizes & residencies

2004 Melbourne City Funding: Life is Getting Longer

2003/04 St. Vincent’s Hospital: residency

1996 The Sir Brinsley Ford Award: travelling scholarship to Madrid, Spain

Selected bibliography
Robert Nelson, Odd Objects of Desire (exhib. review), The Age, April 14^th, 2010, p. 20

Simon Gregg, ’Life is Getting Longer’, (exhib. review), Artlink, vol. 26, no. 4, 2006

Justine Khamara, ‘A re-Constructed World’, (exhib. review), un Magazine, Issue 6, Autumn 2006.

Ashley Crawford, ‘Life is Getting Longer’, Preview, The Age, 11 June 2006, p. 23

Christine Morrow, ‘Behind the Scenes at the Museum’ (cat. essay), 2006
Meredith Turnbull, ‘Life is Getting Longer’ (cat. essay), 2006

Chris Burtt, ‘Life is very long’, (exhib. review) Artlink, volume 25, no. 1, March 2005
Jazmina Cininas, ‘Life is very long’ (exhib.review), ACCAmag, Issue 08, 2005 Australian Centre for Contemporary Arts, www.accaonline.org.au
Martina Copley, ‘Veneer’, (exhib. review) un Magazine, Issue 3, Autumn 2005.

Ashley Crawford, ‘A re-Constructed World’, (exhib. review), The Sunday Age, June 26 2005, p. 22.

Christine Morrow, ‘Superstructure’ (cat. essay), 2005
Christine Morrow, ‘Veneer’ (cat. essay), Blindside Editions, Melbourne 2004

Collections

St. Vincent’s Hospital, Melbourne
DeMontfort University, Leicester, UK
Royal Academy Libraries, London
St. Helier Hospital Endoscopy Unit, London
Monash University Collection

City of Melbourne
Artbank