art practice
Abe has been a practicing visual artist since 1994 and it was all an accident, a happy one. In his first artwork, Abe used a broken bicycle wheel and turned it into a bird, which still lives in an avid art collector's lounge room in Perth, WA. Abe uses discarded materials to create the most fascinating pieces, but he also has been painting and drawing. His drawn self-portraiture shows his funny and irreverent take on Art. Here below is a list of his achievements over the past twenty years.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2018 Selfie, Noir Darkroom, Coburg, Melbourne
2013 Melbourne City Library, Trashed- wall projection
2011 The Quod Project, film video “Wardong Wadjemup” Heatcote Museum, Applecross, WA
2009 Why did July to me? Lick Art Space, Fremantle
2007 Double Trouble, with Walter Wiilson Ramirez
COLLIDE, (with Tania Ferrier) Fremantle Arts Centre
2004 Exhibitionist, South of the Border Shop, South Fremantle
2001 FIB, Platform 1, Curator’s Space, Melbourne
¡YO!, Fremantle Arts Centre, Fremantle
1998 AD 98, Artplace, Perth
1996 Schlock Treatment, Artplace, Perth
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2016 Frankston Art Gallery, Murga video.
2015 Nyistor Gallery, SCENE, Perth
Linden Gallery, Postcard show, Melbourne
2014 Mine Own Executioner, Mundaring Arts Centre, Perth, WA
Linden Gallery, Postcard show, Melbourne
Melbourne City Library, Concrete Poetry Art
2012 Geraldton Arts Centre, The Quod Project- film “Rottnest Crow”
Albany Arts Centre, the Quod Project- Film “Rottnest Crow”
2011 Fremantle Jail, The Quod Project (Collaboration with Tania Ferrier)
Heathcote Museum, Applecross, the Quod Project- “Rottnest Crow” Film- “Rottnest Crow”
2010 Nyistor Gallery, Melville, Scultpture show
2009 Open Hearts, open minds exhibition, Alma Street Centre, Fremantle
Minawarra Art awards, Armadale
2008 Open Minds, Open Hearts, DADDA
Town of Vincent Art Awards, collaboration with Ron Nyistor.
2007 Brazen Gallery Auction, Turn pre-loved into be-loved, South Fremantle
Duck Auction, DADDA (Disability and the Arts) fundraiser, North Fremantle
City of Melville Art Award, Melville
Town Of Vincent Art Award, North Perth
Arte Latino, Tresillian Gallery, Nedlands
2006 Brazen Gallery, South Fremantle, Inaugural Group Show
Dorchester Festival Exhibition, Dorchester, UK
2005 Illuminations Charity Show, Fremantle
Arte Latino, Tresillian Community Centre, Nedlands
2004 Town of Vincent Art award
City of Melville Sculpture Award, Heathcote
Tibetan Support Program exhibition and auction
2003 ART03, Artfair, Fremantle Passenger Terminal
Retablo Exhibition, Fremantle Arts Centre
Melville Artt Award, Melville
Free The Bears Foundation Fundraiser, Kings Park
2002 Love your Work, 30 Years of Fremantle Arts Centre, Fremantle Arts Centre
Melville Art Award Exhibition, Heathcote
Kurb, Re-opening of the old Verge Gallery, Northbridge
Art of Refuge, Fundraiser for Refugees, Moores Building, Fremantle
Town of Vincent Art Award, Town of Vincent Building
City of Stirling Art Award, Karrinyup Civic Centre
2001 The Vanishing Meat Eater (a celebration of Bromfield’s sacking), Verge Gallery
City of Melville Art Award
Open Minds, Open Doors, Alma Street Centre, Fremantle Hospital
City of Stirling Art Award, Karrinyup Civic Centre, Karrinyup
DADDA, Mainly Miniatures, fundraiser
Town of Vincent Art Award, Town of Vincent Building, North Perth
2000 PICA Members’ Show, Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts, Perth
Latin Perspective 2000, Moores Building, Fremantle
Deckchair Theatre Auction 2000, Deckchair Theatre, Fremantle
Mainly Miniatures, Holmes a Court Gallery, East Perth
City Of Stirling Art Award, Karrinyup Community Centre, Karrinyup
Free the Bears Fundraising Exhibition, Kings Park Function Centre
2000 Town Of Vincent Art Award, Town of Vincent Building, Nth Perth
Collage2000Artex, East Amphitheatre, Highgate
White/Craft, Fremantle Arts Centre, Fremantle
1999 Artplace Christmas Show, Claremont
Shaky Ground, Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts, Perth
Open Minds, Open Doors, Alma Street Centre, Fremantle Hospital, Fremantle
Free the Bears Fund Raising Exhibition, Kings Park Function Centre
Artrage Poster Competition, Carillion Arcade, Perth
Latin Perspective 99, Moores Building, Fremantle
1999 Town of Vincent Art Award, Town of Vincent Building, Nth Perth
Atwell Portrait Prize, Atwell Gallery, Melville
East Kimberley Art Award, Kununurra
1998 Killerby Wines, Chair! exhibition, Art Gallery of WA,Perth
Old Customs House 10 Year Show, Moores Building, Fremantle
Latin Perspective 98, Moores Building, Fremantle
Wine 98, Melbourne Wine Expo, Melbourne
Artists Against Racism, Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts, Perth
Salek Minc Annual Art Exhibition, Jewish Centre, Dianella
1997 Stiletto, Helenic Museum, Perth
Latin Perspective 97 , Fremantle Jail, Fremantle
PMH Exhibition, Moores Building, Fremantle
Through Latin American Eyes, Moores Building, Fremantle
Five Years Artplace, Artplace, Perth
Censorship Show, Artplace, Perth
1996 Latin Perspective 96, Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts, Perth
Salek Minc Art Exhibition, Jewish Centre, Dianella
Edge of Sacred - Art in Aid of Justice, Old Boans Warehouse, East Perth
1995 Homage to Dr. Harold Schenberg, Artplace, Perth
HMT Exhibition, His Majesty’s Theatre, Perth
DADAA Fundraising, Fremantle Arts Centre, Fremantle
Woman Subject/Object, Sir Charles Gardner Hospital, Ann. Exh., Nedlands
Hale School Annual Exhibition, Wembley Downs
Bizartisans 4th Annual Exhibition, Presence, Cottesloe
The Nude, The Hat, Newcomers Gallery, Fremantle
Salec Minc Art Exhibition, Jewish Centre, Dianella
Whale Art, A competition with a conscience, Scitech, West Perth
ART PRIZES AND AWARDS
2008 DADDA award, Open hearts, open minds exhibition, Fremantle Hospital
2003 Voice News Award (oil painting), Town of Vincent Art Awards
2001 City of Melville Art Award, Highly Commended, Oil Painting
ArtsWA, Art flight grant
1999 Aherns Installation Art 99, with Rodney Glick
1998 City of Perth Christmas Decoration Project for the Hay Street Mall
1995 Greenpeace Whale Art Competition, Highly Commended, Sculpture
COMMISSIONS
2013 Artwork for TV series “House husbands”
2004 Parallax, TV series, Barron Films, junk sculptures and oil paintings
2001 Uglieland hoarding (Fremantle Festival)
Schools of Isolated Education, wire sculpture video/broadcast workshop
2000 Kidogo Arts House, Fremantle, outside sculpture
1999 Hanson’s Restaurant, Henley Valley, garden sculpture and candle holders
PUBLICATIONS
2001 Judith Mc Grath, Visual Arts, Duck! Thursday 1 Feb
David Bromfield “Keeping up with the you know whos”, The West Australian,Sat 27th Jan
“Arts”, The West Australian, Wed 22nd Jan
2000 “It’s Vaudeville Again”, The Herald, Fri June 9
David Bromfield, “A matter of Local Knowledge”, The West Australian, Sat June 10
Judith Mc Grath, “Fringe Visual Arts: A Whiter Shade of Pale “
X-Press Magazine, Jan 27
Evi Ferrier, “Trash and Treasure”, Perth Weekly, Jan 26
1999 David Bromfield, “The Boldness of Balidu”, The West Australian, Sat. Nov. 20
1998 Robert Cook, “Shop front for whimsy”, The West Australian, Wed 16 June
Evi Ferrier, “The Pain and the Pleasure”, Perth Weekly, Oct. 28
Robert Cook, “Forest of Inspiration”, The West Australian, Wed. Nov. 4
Robert Cook, “Colour me Beige”, The West Australian, Wed. Sept. 23
1997 Dorothy Erickson, “Shooting Stars- Brigitte Braun’s Artplace”, Artlink, 17:3
Evi Ferrier, “The new Outsiders”, Perth Weekly, 3-9 December
Julia Berney, “Trash Decisions”, Homes and Living
1996 David Bromfield, “On Show”, The West Australian, Sat. Sept. 21
Nikki Miller, “Art Circuit”, The West Australian, Wed. Sept. 11
Michael Wearne, “The way Dunovits Does it”, Herald, Sat. Aug.31
“Innovative work at Artplace”, The Post, August 31
X-Press Magazine, August 22
David Bromfield, “On Show”, The West Australian, Sat. Jan. 27
1995 The Post, December 26
“Christmas Gifts”, The West Australian, Monday Dec. 18
Judith McGrath, “New Look At Newcomers”, The Western Review, August
“Wiry whale a rare type”, The West Australian, p.50, Sat. May 27
“Inspired by whales”, News Chronicle, p. 16, May 24
COLLECTIONS WA Ministry for the Arts, Fremantle Hospital, John Stringer.
