BRAD DARKSON
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EXHIBITIONS
2025: Blue water rule, Crosscurrents (group exhibition) – Flinders University Museum of Art, Bedford Park SA
2025: waiting for kakirra, Between Waves (Yalingwa 3, group exhibition) – University of the Sunshine Coast Art Gallery, Sippy Downs QLD
2024: waiting for kakirra, Between Waves (Yalingwa 3, group exhibition) – Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre, Casula NSW
2024: banda-uri, OUR WORDS (defi-Nations, group exhibition) – Adelaide Festival Centre, Adelaide SA
2024: waiting for kakirra, Between Waves (Yalingwa 3, group exhibition) – Plimsoll Gallery, Hobart TAS
2024: found object I, Assembly: Unveiling the City of Adelaide Contemporary Art Collection (group exhibition) – Adelaide Town Hall, Adelaide SA
2024: songlines, Songs to uncover what is there (group exhibition) – FELTspace, Adelaide SA
2023: Treaty, Studios: 2023 (group exhibition) – Adelaide Contemporary Experimental (ACE), Adelaide SA
2023: Burn the log., Title TBC (group exhibition) – The Joinery, Adelaide SA
2023: Ruled Us, Ruled Us, Ruled Us (solo exhibition) – Adelaide Contemporary Experimental (ACE) & Museum of Economic Botany, Adelaide SA
2023: waiting for kakirra, Between Waves (Yalingwa 3, group exhibition) – Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (ACCA), Melbourne VIC
2023: Dream Job (solo exhibition) – Disclaimer (Liquid Architecture) & Sydney Opera House, online
2023: Never too hot, A Partnership for Uncertain Times (group exhibition) – Australian Network for Art & Technology (ANAT) and University of South Australia (UniSA), Newmarch Gallery, Prospect SA
2023: Burn the log., Presence (group exhibition) – Hahndorf Academy, Hahndorf SA
2022: Unceded Seeded (Ngampa), (permanent public artwork) – Guildhouse, Adelaide SA
2022: Right of way, shifting (group exhibition) – Centre for Creative Health, Dentons Fisher Jeffries, Adelaide SA
2022: Nharangga Mayi Guranna, First Nation Art Exhibition (group exhibition) – Edithburgh Hotel, SA
2022: Smart Object, Experimenta Life Forms (group exhibition) – Western Plains Cultural Centre, Dubbo NSW
2022: no, Who Let The Flies Out (group exhibition) – Good Bank Gallery, McLaren Vale SA
2022: Make Yourself Comfortable II, Neoteric (group exhibition) – Adelaide Railway Station, Adelaide SA
2022: Make Yourself Comfortable I (solo exhibition) – Post Office Projects, Port Adelaide SA
2021: Waiting to Return (collaborative exhibition with Mr Fox) – Flinders Medical Centre, SALA Resident, Bedford Park SA
2021: Smart Object, Experimenta Life Forms (group exhibition) – Tweed Regional Gallery, Murwillumbah NSW
2021: Smart Object, Experimenta Life Forms (group exhibition) – The Lock Up, Newcastle NSW
2021: Tremendously very very very beautiful (solo exhibition) – Yungondi exhibition program, Guildhouse, Adelaide SA
2021: Scar tree 1, ANAT 2021 NAIDOC Week (online exhibition) – Adelaide SA
2021: Smart Object, Experimenta Life Forms (group exhibition) – Plimsoll Gallery, Hobart TAS
2020: Hold Me, A//I Adelaide International (group exhibition) – Samstag Museum, Adelaide SA
2020: old light (refraction) (group exhibition)– Lot Fourteen, Adelaide SA
2020: UNCEDED LAND (solo event)– Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide SA
2020: Holiday Boy, VIETNAM - ONE IN, ALL IN (group exhibition) – Walkway Gallery, Bordertown SA
2019: Holiday Boy, VIETNAM - ONE IN, ALL IN (group exhibition) – roxbylink Art Gallery, Roxby Downs SA
2019: UNCEDED LAND (performance, fine print TRANSCRIPTIONS 2) – Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide SA
2019: old light (refraction), ISEA 2019: Lux Aeterna (international group exhibition) – Gwangju, South Korea
2019: Holiday Boy, VIETNAM - ONE IN, ALL IN (group exhibition) – Yarta Purtli Gallery, Port Augusta SA
2019: Home (series), Already Home (group exhibition) – City Library, Adelaide SA
2019: Holiday Boy, VIETNAM - ONE IN, ALL IN (group exhibition) – Walter Nicholls Gallery, Port Lincoln SA
2019: Holiday Boy, VIETNAM - ONE IN, ALL IN (group exhibition) – Tandanya NACI, Adelaide SA
2019: found object I, Commons (group exhibition) – Adelaide Town Hall, Adelaide SA
2018: to tamper with light is to tamper with reality, The Return (group exhibition) – Dark Mofo 2018, Hobart TAS
2018: old light (refraction), Enlightenment Festival (group exhibition) – Australian National University, Canberra ACT
2018: Tremendously very very very beautiful, standing still; looking back, looking forward (group exhibition) – Incinerator Gallery, Moonee Ponds VIC
2018: old light (refraction) (group exhibition) – ANAT/City of Adelaide, Adelaide SA
2017: to tamper with light is to tamper with reality (UTAS postgrad exhibition) – Tasmanian College of the Arts, Hobart TAS
2017: free speech, TALK BACK, HB17 Hobienalle Festival 2017 (group exhibition) – Visual Bulk, Hobart TAS
2017: LOSS. GAIN. REVERB. DELAY. (solo exhibition) – Vitalstatistix/TARNANTHI, Port Adelaide SA
2017: Avoirdupois, Blak Mirror (group exhibition) – Gallery Lane Cove, Lane Cove NSW
2017: Untitled (series), Blak Mirror (group exhibition) – Gallery Lane Cove, Lane Cove NSW
2017: old light (refraction), New Light (group exhibition) – ANAT/TARNANTHI, Adelaide SA
2016: Avoirdupois, Blak Mirror (group exhibition) – 107 Projects, Redfern NSW
2016: Untitled (series), Blak Mirror (group exhibition) – 107 Projects, Redfern NSW
2016: Avoirdupois, Middle Distance (group exhibition) – Praxis Gallery, Adelaide SA
2016: Truth Over Time, We Run Into the Fire (group exhibition) – Alaska Projects, Sydney NSW
2016: Territorial Encounters (sound work for James Tylor solo exhibition) – CACSA, 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
EDUCATION
PhD candidate – Doctor of Philosophy, Flinders University SA (Current)
Degree – Master of Fine Art and Design, UTAS, Hobart TAS (2017)
Degree – Bachelor of Visual Arts (Painting Specialisation), UniSA, Adelaide SA (2011-2015)
RESIDENCIES
2023-2024: Studio Artist, Adelaide Contemporary Experimental (ACE), Adelaide SA
2021: SALA Artist in Residence, Flinders Medical Centre, Bedford Park SA
2016: Resident Artist (Incubator Residency Program), Vitalstatistix, Port Adelaide SA
INDUSTRY EXPERIENCE
Current: Board member, Australian Network for Art & Technology, Adelaide SA
Current: Artist Advisory Group member, Guildhouse, Adelaide SA
Current: Peer Assessor, Arts South Australia, Adelaide SA
2021: Program presenter, Nebula, Country Arts SA
2021: Program artist, Wild Dog, Country Arts SA
2021: Panel assessor, ANAT, Adelaide SA
2020: Panel assessor, Country Arts SA, Port Adelaide SA
2020: Curator, NEO Full Moon, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide SA
2019: Panel assessor, Country Arts SA, Port Adelaide SA
2019: Panel Assessor, Guildhouse, Adelaide SA
2017: Workshop with Youth, NEO Deadly Halloween, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide SA
2016: Workshop (all ages), Artbank Social Club & Artist Flea Market, Artbank, Sydney NSW
2015: Artist Advisory board member, SASA Gallery, Adelaide SA
Topic Teacher - Visual Arts Specialisation A & B + Painting + and Studio Practice + Sculpture + Drawing
School of Education, Flinders University, South Australia
2015 — 2022
Tutor - Fine Arts
Indigenous Tutorial Assistance Scheme, Yunggorendi, Flinders University, South Australia
2015
Indigenous Tutorial Assistance Scheme, Riawunna, University of Tasmania, South Australia
2017
Installation and Gallery Manager
The Australian Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide
2014 — 2015
Traveling Exhibitions Installation Technician
The National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
2011 — 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
2011 — 2017
AWARDS / ACQUISITIONS
2023: Acquisition by the Australian War Memorial – Holiday Boy
2022: Acquisition by Guildhouse – Unceded Seeded (Ngampa)
2019: Acquisition by City of Adelaide – found object I
2017: Recipient, Riawunna Postgraduate Scholarship, Hobart TAS
2016-infinity: Public Artwork Commission (Melville Street UTAS Accommodation), Hobart TAS
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
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY & PUBLICATIONS
Bolton, Ken – 'TO BE 'WITH' BUT NOT 'OF' THE WEIRD', Form Guide 15.4, 29 October 2015
Burke, Eliza – 'Experimanta Life Forms', Artlink, 14 April 2021
Butler, Andy – 'Notes on measuring value, progress and productivity', Adelaide//International, Samstag Museum of Art, Exhibition, February 2020
Fairly, Gina – 'Is the myth of ‘sameness’ unwarranted across the emerging artist landscape?', Arts Hub, 2 August 2023
Falcinella, Marie – 'Brad Darkson: Ritual Space', Artlink, 1 June 2018
Guerrera, Dominic – 'Make Yourself Comfortable I', Post Office Projects Exhibition, February 2022
Howden, Belinda – 'Artists in focus: Brad Darkson', AGSA, 19 October 2021
Koch, Megan – 'Exhibition Review: Neoteric', Arts Hub, 5 April 2022
Llewelyn, Jane – 'Playing with fire: Artists respond to uncertain times', InReview, 30 June 2023
Llewelyn, Jane – 'Unearthing the stories of Aboriginal veterans and the Vietnam War', The Adelaide Review, 7 May 2019
Llewelyn, Jane – 'Brad Harkin's Cultural Precinct', The Adelaide Review, 25 July 2016
Luscombe, Liang – 'Dream Job', Disclaimer, 12 July 2023
Marsh, Walter – 'In the studio with Brad Darkson', InReview, 22 July 2022
Masi, Monte – 'Brad Harkin: Loss. Gain. Reverb. Delay', Artlink, 16 November 2017
Mills, Jennifer – 'A Partnership for Uncertain Times', Artlink, 29 June 2023
Shearn, Rohan – 'Between Waves opens at ACCA', Australian Arts Review, 30 June 2023
Skujins, Angela – 'Harvesting a 'cultural miracle'', CityMag, 18 January 2023
Sliuzas, Adelè – 'Brad Harkin: Cultural Precinct', Artlink, 30 June 2016
Sullivan, Eve – 'On hold in hard times', Artlink, 8 April 2020
Wilson, Vicky - 'Adelaide Festival Exhibition Series Explores How Architecture Influences Experience', habitusliving, 5 February 2020
Wolifson, Chloé – '2020 Adelaide//International', 29 March 2020
Wong, Serena – 'Against the Odds', Neoteric, Exhibition, March 2022
Wyld & Guerrera – 'The Rocks Remain: Blak Poetry and Story', published by Wakefield Press March 2024