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Dr Steven Rendall
Research based on current painting discourse in relation to other fields such as genres (horror, science fiction).
Steven Rendall was born in the UK in 1969. He moved to Australia in 2000 where he currently lives and works.
Rendall completed a Bachelor of Visual Art (Honours) at DeMontfort University in Leicester, undertook post-graduate studies at the Royal Academy Schools in London and completed a PhD at Monash University in 2015.
Rendall's work is littered with references to technology, art history, horror movies and pop music. Materials, images and meanings are scavenged and rearranged in various ways. He works with discourses ranging across painting, video and sculpture. Rendall has worked on collaborative with Bryan Spier (as Rendall & Spier) and with Dr. Andrea Eckersly. He has also collaboratively curated numerous exhibitions including Collision Drive 1, 2 & 3 (with Benet Spencer); Incidents Above a Bar (with Lisa Young) and Worlds End/Future Perfect (with Meredith Turnbull).
Rendall has staged numerous exhibitions in Australia and the UK. His work is in various collections including The National Gallery of Victoria, The Monash University Collection, RMIT University Collection, Artbank, The City of Melbourne, Geelong Gallery, St. Vincent's Hospital, Melbourne and St. Helier Hospital, London.
- BA (Hons 1st class) Visual Art DeMontfort University, Leicester UK
- Master of Fine Art Royal Academy Schools, London UK
- PhD Monash University
- Represented by Niagara Galleries Melbourne
- Manager of John Street Studios Melbourne
- Collaborative curatorial projects
- Collaborative projects with other artists including Dr. Bryan Spier & Dr. Andrea Eckersley
Selected individual exhibitions
- 2021 Fragments, Excerpts and Categories, Niagara Galleries, Melbourne
- 2020 Disordered Things, Niagara Galleries, Melbourne
- 2018 18 Hours & 674 Days, Niagara Galleries, Melbourne
- 2016 Capture Loss, Niagara Galleries, Melbourne
- 2015 Research into Painting Discipline, PhD exhibition, MADA Gallery, Monash University
- 2014 Mirror-work, John Buckley Gallery, Melbourne
- 2012 Screen Violet Grey, John Buckley Gallery, Melbourne
- 2012 Television Project, The Substation, Newport
Selected group exhibitions
- 2021 Moreland Summer Show 2021, Counihan Gallery
- 2021 Microcosm, curated by Angela Rossitto and Mary Hackett at Clan Collective in the Craft Contemporary Festival
- 2021 The Space We Live The Air We Breathe, curated by Jan Duffy and Matthew Perkins at the Counihan Gallery
- 2020 McLelland Small Sculpture Prize shortlist, McLelland Gallery online
- 2020 The new (ab)normal, RMIT Gallery, Melbourne
- 2020 Paint vs colour, Five Walls, Footscray
- 2019 Collision Drive 3, RMIT Project Space, Melbourne
- 2019 Representative Artists, VCCA, Hanoi
- 2019 The Moon, Geelong Gallery, Geelong
- 2019 Collision Drive 2, Project Space Plus, Lincoln University, UK
- 2019 Collision Drive 1, Wimbledon College of Arts, London
- 2019 Bayside Art Prize Shortlist, The Gallery at BACC, Brighton
- 2018 Monochrome: Empty & Full, Margaret Lawrence Gallery, VCA, Melbourne
- 2018 The B-Side (with Andrea Eckersley), Blindside ARI, Melbourne
- 2017 Very Unco/Unco 2. Torrance Art Museum, California
- 2017 The B-Side. Blindside ARI, Melbourne
- 2017 Darebin Art Prize Shortlist, Bundoora Homestead
- 2017 20th Anniversary, Yarra Sculpture Galleries
- 2017 9 x 5 Now, Margaret Lawrence Galleries, VCA, Melbourne
- 2017 Museum of Lost Public Notice, George Paton Gallery, Melbourne University
- 2017 An Act of Showing/Blindside, Testing Grounds, Melbourne
- 2017 Technician's Choice, Bundoora Homestead Art Centre
- 2017 Bayside Art Prize Shortlist, The Gallery at BACC, Brighton
- 2017 Burning Light, Blindside/Play, Federation Square Screen
- 2016 Running Interference, Rubicon ARI, Melbourne
- 2016 Chain of Mountains, TCB, Melbourne
- 2016 Data Flow, Hawthorn Town Hall Gallery
- 2016 Bayside Art Prize, The Gallery at BACC, Brighton, (shortlisted)
- 2015 Transmission: Legacies of the Television Age, NGVi, Melbourne
Exhibition projects (catalogues available)
- 2019 Collision Drive 1, 2 & 3 (with Benet Spencer), London, Lincoln & Melbourne
- 2014 Incidents Above a Bar (with Lisa Young), Melbourne
- 2012 Museums in the Incident, Faculty Gallery, Monash University
- 2008 World’s End/Future Perfect (with Meredith Turnbull), Carlton Hotel & Studios,
- 2006 Life is Getting Longer, VCA Gallery Melbourne
2004 Life is Very Long, Yarra Sculpture Space, Melbourne
Collections
- St. Vincent’s Hospital, Melbourne
- DeMontfort University, Leicester, UK
- Royal Academy Libraries, London
- St. Helier Hospital Endoscopy Unit, London
- Monash University Collection
- City of Melbourne
- Artbank
- National Gallery of Victoria
- RMIT University Collection
- Rendall, S. (2023). Portfolio of sculptural works: Cascade (for Louise Nevelson); Sculpture with wall & aperture; and Proposal for a method of making relief sculpture using scavenged and discarded objects In: Various: The Sky is the Colour of a Dead Channel; Out of Office: The Origin of Images; and Merri-bek Summer Exhibition Naarm, Australia
- Rendall, S. (2023). Steven Rendall and Albert Tucker: Data for Future Paintings In: Steven Rendall and Albert Tucker: Data for Future Paintings Melbourne, Australia
- Rendall, S. (2022). Portfolio: What do Paintings Want? (3 paintings) In: Various: Geelong Contemporary Art Prize; The Len Fox Awards; Bayside Acquisitive Art Prize Geelong, Castlemaine, Brighton, Australia
- Rendall, S. (2021). The Thing in Between the Other Things In: The Space We Live, the Air We Breathe Brunswick, Australia
- Rendall, S. (2021). Thanks I Hate It (Thank You Inez) In: Moreland Summer Show 2021 (History and Heritage) Brunswick, Victoria
- Rendall, S. (2020). Order and Disorder In: McClelland National Small Sculpture Awards Langwarrin VIC
- Rendall, S. (2020). Silver Remains In: Paint vs. colour Footscray VIC
- Rendall, S. (2019). Nineteen Sixty Nine In: The Moon Geelong, Melbourne
- Rendall, S. (2019). Merely to breathe was enjoyment (right and left) In: Collision Drive London, UK
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