BRAD DARKSON
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EXHIBITIONS
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
RESIDENCIES
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 and 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
School of Education, Flinders University, South Australia
2015 — 2019
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
2019: Acquisition by City of Adelaide – found object I
2017: Degree – Master of Fine Art and Design, UTAS, Hobart TAS
2017: Recipient, Riawunna Postgraduate Scholarship, Hobart TAS
2016-infinity: Public Artwork Commission (Melville Street UTAS Accommodation), Hobart TAS
2011-2015: Degree – Bachelor of Visual Arts (Painting Specialisation), UniSA, Adelaide SA
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