Steven Rendall

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.

Industry experience includes:

Represented by Niagara Galleries Melbourne: https://niagaragalleries.com.au/steven-rendall/
Manager of John Street Studios Melbourne: https://www.johnstreetstudios.net/
Collaborative curatorial projects
Collaborative projects with Dr. Bryan Spier, Dr. Andrea Eckersley, Dr. Michael Graeve and Danica Chappell

Selected individual exhibitions:

2023 Data For Future Paintings, (with Albert Tucker), Heide Museum of Modern Art
2023 Mud & Clarity (with Michael Graeve), Five Walls
2023 Clarity & Mud (with Michael Graeve), Blindside
2023 What do paintings see? Niagara Galleries, Melbourne

2021/2022/2023 Moreland Summer Show, Counihan Gallery Brunswick
2022 The far-away faint glimmer of a consciousness more acute (with Andrea Eckersley), Sarah Scout Presents

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:

2024 Geelong Contemporary Art Prize finalist, Geelong Gallery

2024 Stepping on snails in socks. CbOne, Melb
2023 SCREEN CHAIN GRID SHELF: Collaborative experimental structures, Mejia
2023 Origin of Images, Fitzroy Gardens Pavilion 
2023 A Sky the Colour of a Dead Channel, Brunswick Temporary
2022 Microcosms, Clan Collective
2022 Bayside Art Prize, The Gallery at BACC, Brighton, (shortlisted)
2022 Len Fox Award, Castlemaine Art Museum (shortlisted)
2021/2022/2023 Moreland Summer Show, Counihan Gallery Brunswick

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