CARL SCRASE

Carl Scrase is a perfect example of an artist marking the turn of a tide. At this distinct ebb of the ravenous, rampant seas of consumption and production we‘ve been surfing for the past couple of hundred years and with the onset of the new flow, towards the riptide of Mayan prophesies of fast approaching 2012, Carl is on it, or should I say in it. And he’s splashing around.

CARL SCRASE - CURRICULUM VITAE

2011 Committee member of Bus Gallery, Melbourne
2010 Founding member of the Wemakeus Collective
2008 Founding member of Oprojects Gallery, Melbourne
2007 BFA (Painting), Monash University
2006 Committee member, Runt Space, Monash University
2003 Visual Art Diploma, Box Hill Tafe, Melbourne

Solo exhibitions
2010 Edinburgh Sculpture workshop, Edinburgh
2010 Splendour in the Grass, QLD
2010 Platform, Melbourne
2010 Art Month, Sydney
2009 Gear Box Gallery, Melbourne
2009 Linden Center for Contemporary Arts, Melbourne
2009 SYMMETRICAL SPIRIT GUIDES AND FRACTAL ALCHEMY, John Buckley Gallery, Melbourne
2008 Distorted, Slide Gallery, Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne
2008 House Project, Next Wave Festival, Melbourne
2007 Hallucinatory façade, Tcb Inc., Melbourne
2007 Op-Pop, Link Space, Monash University
2006 Co-Existence Is Improbable: A Micro Dystopia, Runt Space, Monash University

Selected Group shows
2010 Sub12, The Sub Station, Melbourne
2010 Sport Club, MCG, Next Wave, Melbourne
2010 MFWF, A Westspace initiative, Melbourne
2009 BFF art show, Melbourne
2009 Hide and Seek, TINA, Newcastle
2009 Glen Eira Show, Glen Eira Gallery, Melbourne
2009 Toorak Village Sculpture Prize, Melbourne
2009 Debut V, Blindside ARI, Melbourne
2008 Our World Writ Large, Federation Square, Melbourne
2008 Neo Pop, John Buckley Gallery, Melbourne
2008 The Craft Exchange, Fringe Festival, Melbourne
2008 Olah Cohn Memorial Sculpture Prize, City Library, Melbourne
2008 Fatal Attraction, Shifted, Melbourne
2008 Objects In Space, Next Wave Festival
2008 Mixed tape, Seventh Gallery, Melbourne
2008 The Contemporary Collage, John Buckley Gallery, Melbourne
2008 In praise of blandness, Monash Faculty Gallery, Melbourne
2007 Floats like a brick doesn’t, Bus Gallery, Making Space Festival, Melbourne
2007 Repetition Repetition, Runt Space, Monash University
2007 I’m not looking forward to the future very much, Runt Space, Monash University
2006 Free range, Monash University
2003 Expanding inwards, 4cats Gallery, Melbourne

Commission Public Artworks, Interventions and Performances
2011 Generative Power of Opposites, Perth Cultural Centre, in partnership with Splendid W.A
2010 Generative Power of Opposites, Splendour in the Grass, in partnership with Splendid QLD
2010 Flower Explosion, Art Month, Sydney
2010 Flower Explosion, MFWF, A West Space initiative, Melbourne
2010 SOS, Sports Club Project, MCG, Next Wave, Melbourne

Awards, Grants and Residencies
2010 Contemporary Art Exchange residency, Edinburgh
2010 Archangle Prize
2010 Commissioned by Splendid Arts Lab
2010 Presentation grant, city of Melbourne
2009 New work grant, Australia Council for the Arts
2009 Splendid Arts Lab, Lismore, NSW
2008 Prato Residency, Italy (Monash University)

Reviews, essays and publications
Das Super Paper, Harrell Fletcher, Alex Baker and Carl Scrase in Conversation issue 17 2011
Scrase, Carl, The Nothing www.das500.com 2010
www.dailybrink.com 2010
Patt Abboud, JJJ TV 2010
Splendid TV, Episode 10 2010
Dylan Rainforth, Artlink, A Public Spectacle: Next Wave Risks All, Vol30 no3, 2010
Splendid TV, Episode 8, 2009
Dan Rule, Around the Galleries, The Age, 29th August 2009
Robert Nelson, Pop Art’s Fetishism Inverted, The Age, 10 December 2008
Kathy Temin, Floats Like A Brick Doesn’t, catalogue essay, 22 May 2007