GLENN WALLS

My practice develops, explores and reveals various outcomes and shifts in position, relating to domestic architecture by extending the key ideas of sixties English architectural group Archigram. Archigram believed that English architecture maintained ‘a continuing European tradition of well-mannered, but gutless architecture that had absorbed the label “Modern” but had betrayed most of the philosophies of the earliest ‘Modern’” (Archigram 2007). Archigram ‘refused to be shackled by the past’ (Archigram 2007); rejecting modernism and its minimal approach to architecture preferring to embrace technology and consumer choice that they believed would provide people with a sense of freedom. My practice extends Archigram’s philosophies by producing works, through a DIY aesthetic, that are playful, pop-inspired vision of a technocratic future with no links to past architectural styles. I take my inspiration from consumer goods and organic forms found in the environment. These art pieces note our embracing of technology, which extends my practice to produce works that comment on mass consumption and sustainability.

 

GLENN WALLS - CURRICULUM VITAE

 

STUDIES

 

PhD (Fine Art), RMIT University, Australia

Master of Art (Fine Art), RMIT University, Australia

 

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

 

2010“Projects for Total Urbanisation”, John Buckley Gallery, Melbourne

2009“The Duel Meaning of Things” Westspace Inc, Melbourne, Australia

2009“Projects for Total Urbanisation” Project Space, Gossard, RMIT University

2008“How to avoid Modernism” Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces (slide), Melbourne, Australia

2007“Superlost” Seventh Gallery, Melbourne, Australia

2006“Men” Curator: Simon Gregg, City Museum, Melbourne, Australia

2005Spacement Gallery, Melbourne, Australia

2005“Men” West Space Inc, Melbourne, Australia

2005Urban Arts Summer Tramstops, Melbourne, Australia

2004TCB Inc, Melbourne, Australia

22004“International Boundaries” RMIT Project Space & Spare Room, Melbourne

 

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

 

2010“Secret Files from the Working Men's College”, curator Stephen Gallagher, RMIT Project Space, Melbourne

2009“Siemans-RMIT Fine Art Scholarship Award”, RMIT Gallery, Melbourne

2009“John Buckley Gallery presents Glenn Walls, Emma van Leest and Peter D Cole”, ACGA Gallery, Fed Square, Melb

2009 “A4 Art 2009”. Westsapce, Melbourne

2008“Broke”, Carlton Hotel and Studios, Melbourne, Australia

2008“The Sparky Show”, Project Space at Schroeder Romero / Winkleman Gallery, New York, USA

2008“Team Australia”, Curator Veronica Tello, Carlton Hotel and Studios, Melbourne, Australia

2008“Neo Pop”, John Buckley Gallery, Melbourne

2008“Siemans-RMIT Fine Art Scholarship Award”, RMIT Gallery, Melbourne

2007“The Building Show”, Curator: Papo Colo, Exit Art, New York, USA

2006“Behind the Scenes at the Museum”, Curator: Christine Morrow, Yarra Park Sculpture Gallery,

2006“Text Me”, Curator: Glenn Walls, Spacement Gallery, Melbourne, Australia

2005“Transitions: Space & Perceptions”, Curator: Edwina Bartlem, Counihan Gallery, Melbourne

2005“Group Show”, Federico Luger Gallery, Milan, Italy

2004“Modeling Space”,Curator: Joy Hirst, RMIT Project Space & Spare Room, Melbourne

2004“Odd”, RMIT First Site Gallery, Melbourne

2002“Hey You Need This,’ RMIT First Site Gallery, Melbourne

2002“Take it Away”, Seventh Gallery, Melbourne

 

AWARDS

 

Australian Post Graduate Award

Roche Contemporary Art Award

 

CURATORIAL PROJECTS

 

2006, Text Me, Spacement Gallery

Glenn Walls, Curator

Artists: Gabrielle de Vietri, Danielle Freakley, Sanne Mestrom, Rose Nolan, Pandarosa, Glenn Walls

 

 

COLLECTIONS

 

National Gallery of Australia

Grafton Regional Gallery

University of Sydney

RMIT University

Private collections in Australia, UK and USA

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

 

Monument Magazine. Create-A-Date Project. Issue 98, August/September 2010

Nelson, Robert. Unsettling the old scores. The Age, May 26, 2010

Rule, Dan. Around the Galleries. The Age, May 10, 2010

Tello, Veronica, Team Australia, Catalogue, 2008

Nelson, Robert. Neo Pop, The Age, December 10, 2008

Feary, Mark. Lost and Found Department. 2009. Eyeline Number 67, Illustration

Coates, Rebecca. Broke. Catalogue 2008, Illustration

Gregg, Simon. Behind The Scenes At The Museum. Eyeline. Winter 2007. Illustration

Morrow, Christine. Text Me. Eyeline. Spring 2006. Illustration

Gregg, Simon. Re:Built Environment. Catalogue 2006. Illustration

Cininas, Jazmina. Modeling Space. Artlink, Vol 23 no 4. Illustration

Heagney, Din, UN Magazine, August 2004, illustration

Widdicombe, Ben. Australian Art Collector, June 1998

Widdicombe, Ben. Australian Art Collector, May 2000

Gill, Harbant. Herald/Sun, May 2001

Timms, Peter. Art Monthly, May 2001, illustration

Widdicombe, Ben. Australian Art Collector, May 2000