DAVID NIXON EDUCATION 2008 First Class Honours, Queensland College of Art, Griffith University, Australia Griffith Award for Academic Excellence for studies in the Bachelor of Fine Art 2006 Bachelor of Fine Art, Printmaking, Queensland College of Art, Griffith University, Australia 2004 Griffith Award for Academic Excellence for studies in the Bachelor of Fine Art 1991 Bachelor of Arts, English Literature and History, University of Queensland, Australia SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2014 Conundrum, Print Gallery, Vic., Australia 2012 Energy, Ryan Renshaw Art Gallery, Qld, Australia 2011 Approaching Stillness, Print Gallery, Vic., Australia Surrender, Woolloongabba Art Gallery, Qld, Australia 2010 Passage, IE Independent Exhibitions, TCB Building, Qld, Australia 2008 Flow, Woolloongabba Art Gallery, Qld, Australia A Quiet Immanence, Museum of Brisbane, Qld, Australia 2007 David Nixon, Miskin Art Gallery, Qld, Australia Being, The Project Gallery, Qld, Australia David Nixon, Brisbane Institute of Art, Qld, Australia SELECTED EXHIBITIONS 2014 Fremantle Print Award, Fremantle Arts Centre, Fremantle, W.A., Australia Miniature Postcard Exchange, Kurukshetra University, Haryana, India Vario Plus, Impress Gallery, Kedron, Qld, Australia 2013 Satellite Night, ikono On Air Festival, Berlin, Germany, ikono.org/onairfestival/ Channels: The Australian Video Art Festival, Video Visions: Sensory Drive + Media Mash-ups, The Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Vic., Australia Greatest Hits, touring Queensland regional galleries, Qld, Australia The Printed Image, Kerrie Lowe Gallery, N.S.W., Australia Impressions 7, Brisbane Institute of Art, Qld, Australia Vario Plus, Bribie Island Regional Art Gallery, Qld, Australia Christmas 2013, Kerrie Lowe Gallery, N.S.W., Australia 2012 Freshcuts, Institute of Modern Art, Qld, Australia
Greatest Hits, Institute of Modern Art, Qld, Australia CCP Declares, Contemporary Centre for Photography, Vic, Australia An Architect s Eye, Noosa Regional Art Gallery, Qld, Australia Oh Video, Queensland College of Art, Griffith University, Qld, Australia Transferring the Image, Kerrie Lowe Gallery, N.S.W., Australia Christmas 2012, Kerrie Lowe Gallery, N.S.W., Australia Water Portraits, Pop Gallery, Qld, Australia Intuition, Brisbane Institute of Art staff exhibition, 2012 Art for Eva, Ryan Renshaw Art Gallery, Qld, Australia 2011 CPM National Print Awards, Tweed River Art Gallery, N.S.W., Australia Syncronicity: Queensland Contemporary Photography, Grafton Regional Gallery, N.S.W., Australia Transferring the Image, Kerrie Lowe Gallery, N.S.W., Australia Closer, The Wandering Room, New Farm Park, Qld, Australia Eclectic Mix 2, Baboa Gallery, Qld, Australia Xmas Show, Kerrie Lowe Gallery, N.S.W., Australia The Young Collectors, Ryan Renshaw Gallery, Qld, Australia Brah-voh, Brisbane Institute of Art staff exhibition, Qld Water Portraits, Warren G. Flowers Gallery, Montreal, Quebec, Canada 2010 Objectophilia, Laneway exhibitions, Brisbane, Australia Awkward, The Wandering Room, Raw Space, Qld, Australia Synchronicity, Qld Contemporary Photography, Redcliffe City Art Gallery, Qld, Australia Ten Printmakers, Brunswick Street Gallery, Vic., Australia Impressions 5, Impress Printmakers Studio Brisbane, Qld, Australia Four Elements, Kerrie Lowe Gallery, N.S.W., Australia On Paper, The Project Gallery, Brisbane, Australia The Curious Collector, The Project Gallery, Brisbane, Australia St. Sebastian s Art Award, Brisbane, Qld, Australia B Aware, St. John s Anglican Cathedral, Brisbane, Qld, Australia Bad Pixel, King George Square, Brisbane, Qld, Australia Eclectic Mix Show, Baboa Gallery, Qld, Australia Who That?, Woolloongabba Art Gallery, Qld, Australia Xmas Show, Kerrie Lowe Gallery, N.S.W., Australia Printmaking 10B, Brunswick Street Gallery, Vic., Australia Small Works Prize, Brunswick Street Gallery, Vic., Australia Sharing, Museum Sztuki Wspolczesnej, Przemysl, Poland 2009 New Skin, Contemporary Qld Photo-Media, Qld Centre for Photography, Qld, Australia Space for Yearning, Queensland University of Technology, Qld, Australia Twenty-three Degrees, Woolloongabba Art Gallery, Qld, Australia Port Jackson Press Graduate Printmaking Award, Port Jackson Centre for Australian Printmaking, Vic., Australia Moreton Bay 09, Pine Rivers Art Gallery, Qld, Australia Beat, Bleeding Heart Gallery, Brisbane, Qld, Australia Brisbane Rotary Art Spectacular, Rotary International, Qld, Australia Impressions 4, Impress Printmakers Studio Brisbane, Qld, Australia Silk Cut Award for linocut prints, Glen Eira Gallery, Melbourne, Vic., Australia Sharing, Aula, Academy of Fine Arts, Warsaw, Poland; Chatka Zaka, Maria Curie-Sklodowki University, Lublin, Poland; Kolegium, College of Fine Art, Kazimierz Dolny, Poland; Schron Sztuki, Rzeszow, Poland; The National Museum, Przemysl, Poland 2008 Stanthorpe Art Prize 08, Stanthorpe Regional Art Gallery, Qld., Australia Four Elements, Kerrie Lowe Gallery, N.S.W., Australia Gas, Dell Gallery, Brisbane, Qld, Australia
QCA Alumni Network Art Prize 08, QCA College Gallery, Qld, Australia Churchie Emerging Art Award, Church of England Grammar School, Qld, Australia Sea, Sand, Water,Wind, Baboa Gallery, Qld, Australia Impressions 3, Impress Printmakers Studio Brisbane, Qld, Australia 2007 Print Council of Australia national touring exhibition, Australia Burnie Print Prize, Burnie Regional Art Gallery, Burnie, Tas., Australia Yokohama Mama, Bankokubashi Gallery, Yokohama, Japan Artists X HMAS Diamantina, Queensland Maritime Museum, Brisbane, Qld, Australia Churchie Emerging Art Award, Church of England Grammar School, Qld, Australia St. Bernards Artprize 2007, The Centre, Beaudesert Regional Gallery, Qld, Australia Impressions 2, Impress Printmakers Studio Brisbane, Qld, Australia 2006 Important Works on Paper and Sculpture, Rex Irwin Gallery, Sydney, N.S. W., Australia Art Sydney 06, Hordern Pavilion, Sydney, N.S.W., Australia Fremantle Print Award, Fremantle Arts Centre, Fremantle, W.A., Australia Silk Cut Award for linocut prints, Glen Eira Gallery, Melbourne, Vic., Australia Conrad Jupiters Art Prize, Gold Coast City Art Gallery, Gold Coast, Qld, Australia Comalco Martin Hanson Memorial Award, Gladstone Regional Gallery, Gladstone, Qld, Australia Artworkers Award 06, Brisbane, Qld., Australia St. Sebastian s Art Award, Brisbane, Qld., Australia Red, the power of print, Redcliffe City Regional Gallery, Brisbane, Qld, Australia Transferring the Image, Mura Clay Gallery, Sydney, Australia Christmas Exhibition Group Show, Mura Clay Gallery, N.S.W., Australia Insects, Critters and Bipeds, The Art Factory, Brisbane, Australia Distinct Voices, The Project Gallery, Brisbane, Australia The Theiss Art Prize, Dell Gallery, Brisbane, Australia 2005 Important Works on Paper and Sculpture, Rex Irwin Gallery, Sydney, N.S.W., Australia Art Sydney 05, Hordern Pavilion, Sydney, N.S.W., Australia On a Roll, The Art Factory, Brisbane, Qld, Australia Christmas Exhibition Group Show, Mura Clay Gallery, N.S.W., Australia 2002 Jacaranda Acquisitive Drawing Award, Grafton Regional Gallery, Grafton, N.S.W., Australia PRIZES AND AWARDS 2014 First Prize, Diversity in Print, Royal Queensland Art Society, Qld 2009 Barbara Carroll Award (Social-political comment), CPM National Print Award, N.S.W. 2008 The LauraLou Jay Memorial Award, Works on Paper, Martin Hanson Memorial Art Award, Qld. Acquisition, Pine Rivers Art Award, Qld. Finalist, St. Sebastian s Art Award, Brisbane, Qld. 2007 First Prize, Landscape Category, Ipswich Art Award, Qld. The LauraLou Jay Memorial Award, Works on Paper, Martin Hanson Memorial Art Award, Qld. Acquisition, St. Bernards Art Award, Qld. Finalist, Queensland Villages Art Prize 2007, Qld. 2006 First Prize, Works on Paper, Ipswich Art Award, Qld. First Prize, Royal Brisbane Women s Hospital Art Award, Qld.
Finalist, St. Sebastian s Art Award, Qld. 2005 First Prize, Arts Award, Prints category, Australian Decorative and Fine Arts Society, Qld. First Prize, Drawing, Bentley Art Prize, N.S.W. Highly Commended, Drawing, Coraki Art Prize, N.S.W. 2004 First Prize, Drawing, Southern Cross Arts and Craft Festival, N.S.W. Highly Commended, Bentley Art Prize, N.S.W. 2003 First Prize, Drawing, Coraki Art Prize, N.S.W. Highly Commended, Drawing, Brunswick Heads Art Prize, N.S.W. RESIDENCIES, GRANTS AND COMMISSIONS 2014 Arts Queensland, Individuals Fund, grant for Residency with Master Lithographer Satoru Itazu Itazu Litho-Grafik Studio, Residency with Master Lithographer Satoru Itazu, Chofu, Tokyo 2008-2010 Viridian, John Mainwaring Architects, Noosa, Qld, Australia 2007 Print Council of Australia 2007 Print Commissions, Vic., Australia COLLECTIONS Works on Paper, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, A.C.T., Australia Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, S.A., Australia Grafton Regional Art Gallery, Grafton, N.S.W., Australia Bathurst Regional Art Gallery, Bathurst, N.S.W., Australia Gladstone Regional Art Gallery, Gladstone, Qld, Australia Moreton Bay Regional Council Art Collection, Qld, Australia The Centre, Beaudesert Regional Art Gallery, Beaudesert, Qld, Australia Print Council of Australia, Melbourne, Vic., Australia Customs House Gallery Griffith Art Works, Dell Gallery, Brisbane, Qld, Australia QUT Art Museum, Brisbane, Qld, Australia University of the Sunshine Coast, Qld, Australia University of Ballarat, Ballarat, N.S.W., Australia Monash University Gippsland, Vic., Australia Presbyterian Ladies College Westbourne Grammar School City Of Whitehorse Royal Brisbane Women s Hospital, Brisbane, Qld, Australia Royal Perth Hospital, Perth, W.A., Australia Suncorp, Brisbane, Qld, Australia Sealy Australia, Brisbane, Qld, Australia Arjo Wiggins/Canson Australia Pty Ltd
EMPLOYMENT 2007-2014 Printmaking Teacher, Brisbane Institute of Art, Australia 2006-2014 Tutor, Griffith University, Queensland College of Art, Australia 2014 Tutor, Queensland University of Technology, Oodgeroo Unit, Australia 2004-2013 Install Work, Griffith University, Queensland College of Art, Australia 2007-2011 Sessional Lecturer in Fine Art and Design, Griffith University, Queensland College of Art, Australia 2009-2011 Sessional Lecturer in Fine Art and Design, Queensland Institute of Business and Technology, Australia 2006-2009 Drawing Teacher, Griffith University, Contemporary Australian Indigenous Art, Queensland College of Art, Australia PUBLICATIONS Art, Life and Beyond, interview by Dhana Merritt, Independent Press #2, Spring, 2010 Fresh and Fantastic, Sally Browne, Sunday Mail, Brisbane, June 17th, 2012 Catalogue Surrender by Emma Cain, 2011 Catalogue CCP Declares by Ulanda Blair, 2012