Curriculum Vitae

Abbreviated Curriculum Vitae
 Name:                         Adriano Gemelli
Mailing Address           PO Box 135
                                    Hastings Vic 3915

Telephone:                   0419 544 588

Email:                           adriano@adriangemelli.com.au
Web:                            www.adriangemelli.com.au

 Solo Exhibitions

•        2022 – Your land, My land, Our world! at Kelly & Gemelli – Art & Design, San Remo
•         2021 – “Time x Time (squared)” Kelly & Gemelli – Art & Design, San Remo
•        2019 – 2020  ‘Folding space & particle phixits’ – Kelly & Gemelli – Art & Design
•         2017 ‘Faceless, who nose who?! perpetual change in the looking glass’  – Kelly & Gemelli – Art & Design
•           2015-2016  “Flat Sculptures – For those that don’t have the room” – Kelly & Gemelli – Art & Design
•           2014  “Ocean Views for the Aesthetic Traveller” – Kelly & Gemelli – Art & Design
•           2013 – ‘Remind me, or 999 Lost Thoughts, or Don’t Ask me I Don’t have a Clue” – Kelly & Gemelli – Art & Design
•           2013 – ‘Before & After” Kelly & Gemelli – Art & Design
  
•           2013 – Established ‘Kelly & Gemelli – Art & Design, San Remo Victoria
•           2012 – Frankston Arts Centre “Remind me, or 999 lost thoughts or don’t ask me I haven’t got a clue”
•           2010 – Frankston Arts Centre – selected works from “20 Knot winds” and “Storm Birds”
•           2007 – McGees Gallery, Mornington – “Winter in Hastings”
•           2007 – Frankson Arts Centre – “Salt”
•           2005/6 – Frankston Arts Centre  – Selected works from “Whitewater”, “Loose ends & beginnings”, “Drawings” & “Sea and Water series”
•            2005 – Artists Studio Hastings – ”Whitewater series”
•            2003 – STEPS Gallery Carlton – works from “Loose ends … Beginnings”
•            2002  – 126 Dryburgh St – “Selected Drawings”
•           2001 – 126 Dryburgh St – “Select works”
•           2001 – Charles Smith Gallery – Works showing evolution of holospectral technique.
•           2000 – Charles Smith Gallery – Holographic Works – “Sea & Water” series.
•            1999 – Charles Smith Gallery – Selected Exploratory Works (holospectral) Sea & Water series.
•           Selected drawings, State Bank of Victoria
•          University Club, Melbourne
•            Ulmarra Galleries, Ulmarra, NSW
•          Downs Gallery, Toowoomba QLD
•           Ulmarra Galleries, Ulmarra, NSW
•            Dunmoochin Cottles Bridge Victoria
•            Cameron Galleries, Melbourne
•           Arlington Gallery, Sydney
•           Aquinada Gallery, Melbourne
•           Victorian Artists Society, Melbourne
•            Victorian Artists Society, Melbourne

 Group Exhibitions

18 Group exhibitions including:

•            Salon De Refuges, Monsalvat 2002 – 2003
•            Invited by Triton Foundation to exhibit selection of Holospectral art works at Innovations@257, Collins St Melbourne 2002
•            6 major Holospectral art works, exhibited in Italiafest, Crown Casino 2000 (by invitation)
•            First Australian Sculpture Triennial, Melbourne 1981 (Invitation)
•            ‘Works on Paper’ Mornington Regional Gallery
•           Glass in Public Spaces, Westpac Gallery, The Theatres, Victorian Arts Centre, Melbourne 1987
•            National Gallery of Victoria, 1992 – Invited, with other Australian Italian artists, to exhibit selected pieces in conjunction with the Rubens and Italian Renaissance exhibition.
•           The Art of Gold 1997-98, Ballarat Fine Art Gallery
•           1996 & 1997 selected in “Works on Paper” Mornington Regional Gallery

 

Works in Collections

•            Works in both public and private collections (please contact the artist for extended CV)

 

Commissions

•          Commemorative sculpture commissioned by DL Design Group for the foyer area of Dandenong RSL.
•           2 Major glass murals. Combining oxidised metals and holographic material, Village Green Supersite, constructed by Thiess Contractors Pty Ltd, commissioned by Wilkinson Fincher, Architects 1998.
•           Hanging glass and acrylic sculpture, St Francis Xavier Primary School, Frankston, commissioned by Edmond & Corrigan, Architects.
•           War Memorial, Frankston, commissioned by the City of Frankston in conjunction with the Frankston RSL.  Sited outside the Civic Centre in Davey St, Frankston it includes 4 relief murals in Cold Cast Bronze – in collaboration with Stephen Glassborow.
•           Carved glass logo and portraiture of prominent American financiers for Indelible Link, St Kilda.
•           Portrait of Mr Ron Finemore, Director of Finemore Holdings Ltd, commissioned by the Board of Directors
•           Suspended sculpture, stainless steel and glass, for Mr Peter Nelson, commissioned by John Herniman & Assoc Architects.

 Awards

•            Tina Wencher Prize for sculpture (second).
•            Manyung Art Gallery, Mt Eliza.
•           Wirreanda Prize, Marysville.
•           Diamond Valley Art Awards.

 Grants

2020 – Regional Arts Victoria. Grant to support the production of “Time x Time (Squared)” series of works

3 Grants including “Artists in the Schools” program: A joint project of the Victorian Ministry for the Arts and the Education Department to design and construct a glass mural wall at Glendonald School for Deaf Children, Marshall Avenue, Kew, June 1982, 14 x 5.6m (Details is of other grants available on extended CV).

 Studies

•           1970 to 1976 – Residency at Dunmoochin with Clifton Pugh and Frank Hogkinson.  Studied S. W. Hayter’s method of colour and relief etching.
•           1977 Private studies travel in Europe.
•           1977 to 1980 Commercial printing, graphic design, bookbinding and commercial camera operation, Melbourne College of Printing and Graphic Arts.

 Publications & Documentation

Extensive publication and documentation including:

•           Italy Down Under magazine Autumn 2002
•           Domain, The Age newspaper, 20th October 1999
•           The Sun Herald newspaper, 18th October 1999
•            Profile in Art Almanac, November 1999
•            Snapshot, ABC TV, 20th October 1999
•          House & Garden magazine November 1999
•            New Home Magazine, 10^th March 2001
•           Invitation from National Library of Australia to include website in PANDORA project, archiving print and online publications considered to be of “national significance”. 14^th August 2001

 Research & work to date

•            2012 – Ongoing research using reflective hologram and combining mixed media.
•            2001 – Studies into computer manipulated images to be used in conjunction with holospectral medium.
•            1996 to date – Research with holographic medium to achieve the properties of animation on 2 and 3 dimensional static grounds with multiple points of viewing, where line and form use spectral colour in the presence of white light i.e. spotlight. In 1998 a patent on the process (no. 695839) was granted.
•            Series of works – Sea & Water – using holographic and mixed media 1996-2001.
•           1998 – 1999 Commercial glass tile development using holographic medium, in conjunction with gold, silver and oxidised metals.