CV

Curriculum Vitae. Anthony Raoul Sawrey
EDUCATION: 2008-09. Masters of Fine Art (research) Victoria College of the Arts, Melbourne University. Melbourne
2004-07. Bachelor of Visual Art (Honours) Sydney College of the Arts, Sydney University. NSW

Recent Exhibitions 2011 to 2024

2024

‘Am I Mute Like Stone? ‘ Sculpture by the Sea, Sydney NSW

‘Personal Space Elevator’ SWELL Sculpture Festival 2024: Currumbin QLD

‘Animal Tracks’ ‘Pink Burnout’ Radical Fields Arts Program: Central Highlands, Victoria, Australia

2023:

‘Forest Fail’ Wombat State Forest: Victoria Australia

‘Urgent Star’ Sculpture by the Sea Cottesloe Beach, Western Australia

2022:

‘Re-integration’ Beechworth Contemporary Art Prize, Beechworth, VIC
‘Safe Place’ SWELL Sculpture Festival, Currumbin QLD
Percival Portrait Painting Prize, Perc Tucker Regional Gallery, Townsville QLD

2021:

Radius Photography Prize and Exhibition. Radius Gallery, Hepburn.

2017:

‘Imaginary Cities 2’ Sculpture by the Sea Cottesloe Beach, Western Australia

2016:

‘Imaginary Cities’ City of Melbourne Test Sites Program Birrarung Marr parklands Melbourne, Victoria
‘Remnants of an Inland Sea’
Alberrie Creek Station, South Australia

‘Color Shadow’ Lorne Sculpture Biennial
‘Several Variations on a Crooked Line’ video work Lorne Sculpture biennial maquette exhibition
Lorne, Victoria

2015:

‘Coloured Word’ installation Bendigo Writers Festival

Bendigo, Victoria
‘Dayvan Cowboy’ Let Them Eat Cake Festival Werribee Park Mansion, Victoria

2014:

‘Arcs’ Sculpture in the Vineyards Woolombi, New South Wales
‘No Tree’ MoreArt Sculpture Prize Moreland, Victoria

‘Quadrangle Circlework’ Abbotsford Convent Arts Precinct

Melbourne, Victoria
‘Level Check’ Lorne Sculpture Biennial Lorne, Victoria

2013:
‘King tide’ Sculpture by the Sea
Sydney, New South Wales
‘Picture Plane’ Sculpture in the Vineyards
Wollombi, New South Wales
Environment Painting documentation works Artefacts Group Exhibition Chinese Museum, Melbourne.
‘Safety Space’ MoreArt Sculpture Prize
Melbourne, Victoria

2012:
‘Rough Diamonds’ Burnout Festival Alberrie Creek station, South Australia ‘Hopscotch’ Sculpture in the Vineyards Wollombi, New South Wales

2011:
‘Weaving In and Out’ Big West Festival
Melbourne, Victoria
Wodonga Contemporary Art Prize: Wodonga, Vic.
Contested Territories: At The Vanishing Point Gallery Sydney.

2010:
Blues for the Red Sun: Longreach QLD
Peat’s Ridge Festival: NSW: Text installation. “Word Candy” Not a Christmas Show: Melbourne Art Rooms Melbourne. Fear of a Tech Planet: c3 Contemporary Art Melbourne
The Brunswick Show: Donkey Wheel House Melbourne

Contested Territories: At The Vanishing Point Gallery Sydney BSG arts prize: Brunswick Street Gallery Melbourne

2009:

Sawrey To sawrey: Stockmans Hall of fame, Longreach Queensland MFA Show: Victoria College of the Arts, Melbourne
Balance: Tortuga Studios, Sydney
Breathing Space: Hawksbury Regional Gallery, Windsor

Someone Draws a Flower on a Wall Beside a Bed: School of Arts and Aesthetics Galleries, Jawaharlal Nehru University Delhi, India

Order/Disorder: C3 Contemporary Arts Space, Abbotsford Convent Arts Complex,Melbourne

Star Gazing: At the Vanishing Point Gallery, Sydney Bushwacked: At the Vanishing Point Gallery, Sydney

2008:
Secret Content, Public Space: Experimental Art Space, Melbourne University Re-stArt:

Re-C Art Space, Chengdu, China
Underbelly: Wilson St Carriage Works, Sydney

MFA works: Victoria college of the Arts, Melbourne 2007:

House Fires: Archetype Gallery, Sydney
D/A Converter: Pontifica Universidad Catolica de Chile, Santiago, Chile SCA undergraduate show: Sydney College of the Arts
Trajectories of dissent: Tooth Gallery, Sydney
Open Trajectory: Archetype Gallery, Sydney
Absurdity: Horus and Delorus Contemporary Art Space, Sydney

2006:

Heroes of a Brief Moment in Time: Archetype Gallery, Sydney
Never Arrived Almost Gone: Installation Sydney College of the Arts
SCA undergraduate show; Sydney College of the Arts
Barely Touching the Earth: Newspace Gallery, Sydney
Persephones Paradox: Arts & Psychology in Dialogue Conference, School of African and

Oriental Studies London, U.K

Web:

• City of Melbourne: Melbourne Test Sites Artists 2016 http://www.melbourne.vic.gov.au/arts-and-culture/art-outdoors/public-art- melbourne/test-sites/artists-archive/Pages/anthony-sawrey.aspx

• The Guardian 2016 https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2016/mar/22/larger-than- life-artworks-at-the-lorne-sculpture-biennale-in-pictures

• Bendigo Advertiser 2015 http://www.bendigoadvertiser.com.au/story/3262464/grass-art-draws-eye-to- librarys-festival/

• Abbotsford Convent: what’s on 2015 http://abbotsfordconvent.com.au/whats-on/events-exhibitions/quadrangle- circlework

• Arts Hub Review: Artefacts. Chinese Museum 2014 http://visual.artshub.com.au/news-article/reviews/visual-arts/chinese-museum- artefacts-243362

• Press clippings – John McDonald Review: Sculpture by the Sea 2013 http://johnmcdonald.net.au/tag/sculpture-by-the-sea/

Publications/catalogues

Sculpture by the Sea Catalogue 2023
Beechworth Contemporary Art Award Catalogue 2022
Swell Sculpture Catalogue 2022
Sculpture by the Sea Catalogue 2017
Lorne Sculpture Prize Catalogue 2016
Lorne Sculpture Prize Catalogue 2014
Sculpture in the Vineyards, Wollombi NSW 2013
Sculpture in the Vineyards, Wollombi NSW 2012
Masters Exhibition Catalogue: Victoria College of the Arts, Melbourne 2008
Wissenschaftpoesie: Lucas Pawlik, Verlag Presshaus Sonnenberg, Austria
2008 Love3: Exhibition Catalogue, Restart Arts, Chengdu, China 2008
Sydney College of the Arts: Degree show catalog 2007,
Sydney College of the Arts: Degree show catalog 2006
Patterns:Journal of the American Society of Cybernetics: ‘The happy accident’, A dialog with Lukas Pawlik. 2005.
Grants/scholarships/commissions

Rise funding as part of Sculpture by the Sea Cottlesloe 2023
Catalyst Innovative Arts Grant as part of Sculpture by the Sea Cottesloe
City of Melbourne Test sites grant
MoreArt outdoor commissions 2014
Abbotsford Convent Foundation Commission 2014
Moreland outdoor sculpture commissions 2013
QLD Regional Development Artists Grant: Mural project: Kogan Arts Festival,Queensland 2007
Fauvette Loureiro Traveling scholarship: awarded for exchange semester in, Santiago Chile 2006
Sir Frank Packer Bursary: Sydney College of the Arts, Academic distinction award 2005