BRAD DARKSON
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EXHIBITIONS
2021: Water Rites (group exhibition) – ACE Open, Adelaide SA.
2021: to tamper with light is to tamper with reality (solo exhibition) – FELTspace, Adelaide SA.
2020: Experimenta Life Forms (group exhibition) – RMIT Gallery, Melbourne VIC.
2020: A//I Adelaide International (group exhibition) – Samstag Museum, Adelaide SA.
2020: VIETNAM - ONE IN, ALL IN (group exhibition) – Walkway Gallery, Bordertown SA.
2019: VIETNAM - ONE IN, ALL IN (group exhibition) – roxbylink Art Gallery, Roxby Downs SA.
2019: UNCEDED LAND, fine print TRANSCRIPTIONS 2, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide SA.
2019: ISEA 2019: Lux Aeterna (group international exhibition) – Gwangju, South Korea.
2019: VIETNAM - ONE IN, ALL IN (group exhibition) – Yarta Purtli Gallery, Port Augusta SA.
2019: Already Home (group exhibition) – City Library, Adelaide SA.
2019: VIETNAM - ONE IN, ALL IN (group exhibition) – Walter Nicholls Gallery, Port Lincoln SA.
2019: VIETNAM - ONE IN, ALL IN (group exhibition) – Tandanya NACI, Adelaide SA.
2019: Commons (group exhibition) – Adelaide Town Hall, Adelaide SA.
2018: The Return (group exhibition) – Dark Mofo 2018, Hobart TAS.
2018: standing still; looking back, looking forward (group exhibition) – Incinerator Gallery, Moonee Ponds VIC.
2017: to tamper with light is to tamper with reality (submitted for UTAS postgraduate exhibition) – Tasmanian College of the Arts, Hobart TAS.
2017: TALK BACK (group exhibition, HB17 Hobienalle Festival 2017) – Visual Bulk, Hobart TAS.
2017: LOSS. GAIN. REVERB. DELAY. (solo exhibition, TARNANTHI Festival 2017) – Vitalstatistix, Port Adelaide SA.
2017: Blak Mirror (group exhibition) – Gallery Lane Cove, Lane Cove NSW.
2016: Blak Mirror (group exhibition) – 107 Projects, Redfern NSW.
2016: Middle Distance (group exhibition) – Praxis Gallery, Adelaide SA.
2016: We Run Into the Fire (group exhibition) – Alaska Projects, Sydney NSW.
2016: Territorial Encounters (sound work for James Tylor solo exhibition) – CACSA Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia, Adelaide SA.
2016: Cultural Precinct (solo exhibition) – Art Pod, Adelaide Town Hall, Adelaide SA.
2015: PALM VALLEY (solo exhibition) – CACSA, Adelaide SA.
2014: found object II, (Our Mob Contemporary: Behind the Glass, group exhibition) – Adelaide Festival Centre, Adelaide SA.
2014: appropriate[d], University of South Australia, Adelaide SA.
2014: found object I, University of South Australia, Adelaide SA.
2014: Free Speech, University of South Australia, Adelaide SA.
ACHIEVEMENTS
2020 - current: Board member, Australian Network for Art and Technology, Adelaide SA.
2019: Acquisition by City of Adelaide – found object I
2018-2019: Artist Advisory board member Guildhouse, Adelaide SA.
2016-infinity: Public Artwork Commission (Melville Street UTAS Accommodation), Hobart TAS.
2016-2017: Masters degree in Fine Art and Design, UTAS.
2017: Recipient, Riawunna Postgraduate Scholarship.
2017: Resident Artist (TARNANTHI Festival 2017), Vitalstatistix.
2016: Artbank Social Club, Artist Flea Market, Sydney NSW.
2016: Resident Artist (Incubator Residency Program), Vitalstatistix.
2011-2015: Bachelor of Visual Arts (Painting Specialisation), UniSA.
2012-2014: Fellow (Wesfarmers Indigenous Arts Fellowship Program), National Gallery of Australia.
2011: Recipient, Wyatt Benevolent Fund Indigenous Student Scholarship.
2011: Participant (Wesfarmers Indigenous Arts Leadership Program), National Gallery of Australia.
INDUSTRY EXPERIENCE
Teacher - Specialisation, Painting and Studio Practice
School of Education, Flinders University, South Australia
2015 — 2019
Tutor - Fine Arts
Indigenous Tutorial Assistance Scheme, Yunggorendi, Flinders University, South Australia
July 2015 — November 2015
Indigenous Tutorial Assistance Scheme, Riawunna, University of Tasmania, South Australia
March 2017 — November 2017
Installation and Gallery Manager
The Australian Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide
February 2014 — July 2015
Traveling Exhibitions Installation Technician
The National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
December 2011 — February 2015
Casual Installation Technician
Contemporary Art Tasmania, North Hobart
Plimsoll Gallery, Hobart
Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
SAMSTAG Museum of Art, Adelaide
Tandanya National Aboriginal Cultural Institute, Adelaide
Nexus Arts, Adelaide
June 2011 — August 2017