Samuel Condon
~DREAM CITY : FORTYFIVEdownstairs 13-18december ~
Samuel Condon’s Dream City is about memory, dreams, and imagination. It is the world of shifting buildings, places and people, where one image shifts between the real and dream.
Structures have taken on impossible forms, bend to impossible nature, ripple through memories of the real, stretch and mould to the imagination. The characters that inhabit dream city are all very poetic in their own purpose, existing with meaning and poise.
The dream city flows like a warm winter, always raining yet balmy. Memories of places distort and conjoin with personal narrative to create the artist’s escape, a world away from here, a place to remember and hope. This is Dream City.
Education
Master of Fine Arts, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) 2009
Bachelor of Fine Arts, Victorian College of the Arts (V.C.A) 2007
Exhibitions
Solo;
2011 Dream City , December 13-18 FORTYFIVEdownstairs
Group;
2011
Brett Whiteley Travelling Schollarship
‘What If’, Art & About Sydney from 23 September to 23 October 2011
Space Invaders, RMIT Gallery, Melbourne VIC
Noosa Travelling Scholarship Awards, Noosa QLD
Space Invaders, UQ Art Museum, Brisbane QLD
Eutick Memorial Still Life Award Travelling Exhibition, New England Regional Art Museum, Muswellbrook Regional Art Centre, Manning Regional Art Gallery.
Space Invaders, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra ACT
2010
Eutick Memorial Still Life Award, Coffs Harbour Regional Gallery
2009
Siemens RMIT Fine Art Scholarship Awards RMIT Gallery, Storey Hall, Melbourne
RMIT Master of Fine Art Graduate Exhibition 2009, Guilford Lane Gallery, Melbourne
2007
V.C.A. Graduate Exhibition, VCA
‘DO IT’ VCA
2004
Top Arts, National Gallery of Victoria, Federation Square Melbourne
Awards/Publications
2011; Brett Whiteley Schollarship (Finalist)
Noosa Travelling Scholarship, Noosa QLD (Finalist)
2010Eutick Memorial Still Life Award, Coffs Harbour Regional Gallery NSW (Finalist)
2009; Siemens RMIT Fine Art Scholarship Awards RMIT Gallery, Storey Hall, Melbourne (Finalist)
2007; Saint Kilda Artist Supplies Award, VCA
Collections;
National Gallery of Australia
The State Library of Victoria
