Daniel Mafe : Grandiflora II

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Daniel Mafe Grandiflora II

3 September – 4 October

Grandiflora I work with and against a broad range of cultural references such as contemporary abstract painting, gestural and colour field, Chinese ink painting, and the decorative excesses of the rococo, oriental carpets and chintz.

My paintings are cyphers to this inclusivity where a gestural exploration of the surface and paint is combined with an understanding of the painterly 'field' as a field sensitive to the allusive, that is the poetic, and the discursive, the conceptual.

I work this dynamic conception of the field with figurative and abstract elements that shape and twist themselves into expressions of lyrical promise.

This “lyric� grows out of a marriage between the materiality of paint and preexisting floral images, where they together coalesce within of the very activity of painting itself.

Daniel Mafe 23 August 2014

Grandiflora I (2014) acrylic on canvas 75 x 60 cm $1,100

Grandiflora II (2014) acrylic on canvas 75 x 60 cm $1,100

Grandiflora III (2014) acrylic on canvas 75 x 60 cm $1,100

Grandiflora IV (2014) acrylic on canvas 75 x 60 cm $1,100

Grandiflora V (2014) acrylic on canvas 75 x 60 cm $1,100

Grandiflora VI (2014) acrylic on canvas 75 x 60 cm $1,100

Grandiflora VII (2014) acrylic on canvas 75 x 60 cm $1,100

Grandiflora VIII (2014) acrylic on canvas 30 X 25 cm $700

Grandiflora IX (2014) acrylic on canvas 30 X 25 cm $700

Grandiflora X (2014) acrylic on canvas 30 X 25 cm $700

Grandiflora XI (2014) acrylic on canvas 30 X 25 cm $700

Grandiflora XII (2014) acrylic on canvas 30 X 30 cm $750

Grandiflora XIII (2014) acrylic on canvas 30 X 25 cm $750

Grandiflora XIV (2014) acrylic on canvas 40.5 x 30 cm $990

Grandiflora XV (2014) acrylic on canvas 50 x 40 cm $1,100

Grandiflora XVI (2014) acrylic on canvas 105 x 90 cm $2,200

Grandiflora XVII (2014) acrylic on canvas 105 x 180 cm $9,900

Grandiflora XVII (detail) (2014) acrylic on canvas 105 x 180 cm $9,900

Grandiflora XVIII (2014) acrylic on canvas 210 x 150 cm $12,000

Grandiflora XVIII (detail) (2014) acrylic on canvas 210 x 150 cm $12,000

Curriculum Vitae

Employment History 2007-­‐12 Senior Lecturer Creative Industries Faculty Queensland University of Technology 1990-­‐2008 Lecturer B (Permanent appointment) Creative Industries Faculty Queensland University of Technology Academic qualifications 2010 PhD Queensland University of Technology 1986 Graduate Diploma (Painting) Royal Academy Schools, London 1983 Diploma (Painting) City and Guilds of London School of Art, London

Grants/Scholarships/Awards 2011 New Works Grant, Visual Arts and Craft Board of the Australia Council 2010 Outstanding Thesis Award 2010, QUT, Australia 2005 Milan Studio, Visual Arts and Craft Board of the Australia Council 2002 Atrium Floor, Royal Brisbane Herston Hospitals Art Built-­‐in Project, Brisbane 1999 QUT Creative Works in the Arts and Design Grant 1996 Greene Street Studio, New York, Visual Arts and Craft Board of the Australia Council 1994 Painting Residency, Canberra Institute of the Arts 1986-­‐87 Painting Fellowship, Gloucestershire College of Art & Technology,

Cheltenham 1987 John Moores, Liverpool (prizewinner) 1987 South Bank Picture Show, London (prizewinner) 1986 Europe Prize for Painting, Ostende, Belgium (prizewinner) 1985 Royal Academy Summer Show, London (prizewinner)

Exhibitions Solo Exhibitions

2012 Affecting Interference, Metro Arts (Allies Program with Andrew Brown

2012 Grandiflora, Jan Manton Art, Brisbane

2009 Site of Abstraction, Diagrams of Need, QUT Art Museum, Brisbane

2009 Site of Abstraction, Diagrams of Need, the Block, QUT Cultural Precinct, Brisbane

2008 PorchSongs II, Jan Manton Art, Brisbane

2007 PorchSongs, Museum of Brisbane, Brisbane

2007 World, Unplace Project, Brisbane (with Andrew Brown)

2006 PeerPressureI, Jan Manton Art, Brisbane

2006 PeerPressureII, Esa Jaske Gallery, Sydney

2005 FieldWork, Esa Jaske Gallery, Sydney 2005 ScreenPlay, the Block, QUT Cultural Precinct, Brisbane (with Andrew Brown) 2004 Phrasing, Tom Heath Gallery, QUT Art Museum, Brisbane (with Andrew Brown)

2004 First Love, Jan Manton Art, Brisbane

2004 Esa Jaske Gallery, Sydney

2003 Palace Gallery, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane

2001 RedbackArt Gallery, Brisbane

2000 RedbackArt Gallery, Brisbane

1999 RedbackArt Gallery, Brisbane 1998 Full Circle, RedbackArt Gallery, Brisbane (formerly Savode Gallery) 1997 Shadowplay, University of Queensland Art Gallery and Museum, Brisbane

1997 Savode Gallery, Brisbane 1996 Savode Gallery, Brisbane 1994 Savode Gallery, Brisbane 1994 Empty Rooms, Photospace, Canberra Institute of Art 1993 Resemblance, Savode Gallery Brisbane 1993 Relente, Pinacotheca Gallery, Melbourne 1992 Savode Gallery, Brisbane 1991 Syme-­‐Dodson Gallery, Sydney 1991 Pinacotheca Gallery, Melbourne

1991 Savode Gallery, Brisbane 1990 Sandra Higgins Fine Art, London 1989 Syme-­‐Dodson Gallery, Sydney 1988 Towards the Mountain, Gardner Centre Gallery, University of Sussex, England 1988 Lanchester Gallery, Coventry Polytechnic, Coventry, England 1987 Oxford Gallery, England Selected Group Exhibitions 2011 Drawn to Abstraction, Jan Manton Art, Brisbane 2011 60x60, QUT Post-­‐Datum, Metro Arts, Brisbane 2011 Fast Friends, Nona Gallery, BIA, Brisbane 2008 Small Works, Jan Manton Art, Brisbane 2008 Ignite08, the Block, QUT Precincts, Brisbane 2005 Beijing Film Academy New Media Festival, Today Gallery, Beijing, China (curated by Stephen Danzig) 2005 jOurney, the Block, QUT Cultural Precinct, Brisbane (with Andrew Brown) 2004 Abstracting the Collection, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Victoria 2004 Summer Show, Esa Jaske Gallery, Sydney 2000 Central Queensland Art Purchase, Rockhampton Art Gallery 1999 ExitGenres & the Experience of Reading, Soapbox Gallery, Brisbane 1998 Recent Acquisitions, Brisbane City Gallery, Town Hall, Brisbane 1998 Shop 49B, Brisbane 1997 30 Years of Cheltenham Fine Art Fellows 1967 – 1997, CGCHE, Cheltenham, England 1997 ExitGenre, Palace Gallery, Brisbane (curated by Daniel Mafe) 1996 ACAF5 (Australian Contemporary Art Fair) Melbourne 1995 Have a Look, Queensland University Art Museum 1994 Recognitions, Savode Gallery, Brisbane (curated by Daniel Mafe) 1994 Reference Points III, The Immediate Past, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane 1994 Myer-­‐Bailleau Collection -­‐ The 80’s, Museum of Modern Art, Heide Park, Melbourne 1993 Homage, Brisbane 1992 Chamois Phantome, Performance Collaboration, Woodward Theatre, QUT Brisbane 1991 Laboratory, Installation/Collaboration, Palace Gallery, QUT 1991 Choke Hold, Installation/Collaboration, IMA, Brisbane 1991 Drawing Show, Syme-­‐Dodson Gallery, Sydney 1990 Aberdare Art Prize, Ipswich City Council Regional Art Gallery 1990 British Abstraction, The Oscar Friedl Gallery, Chicago, USA 1989 Sandra Higgins Fine Art, London 1988 British Narrative Painting, Castlefield Gallery, Manchester 1988 Australian Bicentennial Commemorative Show, Fischer Fine Art, London 1987 John Moores, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool 1987 Art for the City, Lloyds of London 1987 South Bank Picture Show, London 1986 New Contemporaries, ICA, London 1986 New Faces at the Warwick, Warwick Arts Trust, London 1986 Europe Prize for Painting, Ostende, Belgium 1985 Whitworth Young Contemporaries, Manchester 1985 Royal Academy Summer Show 1984 London Group

Collections Artbank, Sydney Bailleau-­‐Myer Collection, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Victoria Brisbane City Gallery Brisbane Grammar School Griffith University Collection Museum of Fine Art, Ostende, Belgium New Parliament House Collection, Canberra

Queensland Health Skills Development Centre Brisbane Queensland University of Technology Queensland Art Gallery Queensland University Art Gallery and Museum Rockhampton Art Gallery and Museum Royal Brisbane Women’s Hopsital

Bibliography Wes Hill, Daniel Mafe: Approaching the Silence, Art Monthly Australia, Issue 238, April 2011 Louise Martin-­‐Chew, Journey from the Known to the Unknown: Recent Paintings by Daniel Mafe, Eyeline: Contemporary Visual Arts, No. 72, 2010 Phil Brown, Blots and Spots, Brisbane News, July 9-­‐15 issue 693, 2008 p25 Porchsongs, The Courier-­‐Mail, p57, November 5 2007 Paintings of the porch, accessed October 31, 2007 http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/story/0,23739,22679054-­‐5003423,00.html Daniel Mafe, PeerPressure I, Jan Manton Art, Brisbane (cat.) 2006 Cloe Flynn, Optical Illusions, State of the Arts, http://www.stateart.com.au/sota/hit-­‐ list/default.asp?fid=2903, accessed 9 September 2004 Phil Brown, Simply Seductive, Brisbane News, 15-­‐21 September, 2004 Artnotes, Art Monthly Issue 174, October, 2004 Alison Kubler, Daniel Mafe: Recent Painting, Eyeline: Contemporary Visual Arts, No. 53, 2003-­‐2004 artbank, issue 7, 2003 Daniel Mafe Working Spaces: Art Practice in Progress, Eyeline Publishing, 2002 Michelle Helmrich, The Sky and the Earth Below: The Limits of Nothingness in the Paintings of Daniel Mafe, Eyeline, Summer 2000/2001 Peter Anderson, Most Unwanted, Courier Mail, June 26, 1999 Phil Brown, Piece of Quiet, Brisbane News, 16-­‐22 June, 1999 Urszula Szulakowska, Experimental Art in Queensland 1975-­‐1995, Griffith University, 1998 R. Ballantyne, J. Bain and J.Packer, Reflecting on University Teaching: Academic’s Stories, Committee for University teaching and Staff Development, DEETYA,1997 Sue Smith, Amos accolade long overdue, Galleries, The Courier Mail, Nov 1, 1997 Leonie Stanford, Shifting Veils, The Review, Oct, 1997 30 Years of Cheltenham Fine Art Fellows 1967 – 1997, Cheltenham and Gloucester College of Higher Education, 1997, (catalogue) Leonie Stanford, Veils of Light and Air, The Review, Sept, 1996 Sue Smith, Cool, Calm and Creative, Courier Mail, Feb 16, 1996 Exhibition Commentary, Art and Australia, Vol 32, no. 4, 1995 Louise Martin-­‐Chew, Have a Look, Art and Australia, Vol 33 no. 2 , Summer, 1995 Michelle Helmrich, Have a Look, University Art Museum, Uni. Queensland, 1995, (catalogue) Louise Martin-­‐Chew, Shifting Perceptions: Daniel Mafe’s Recent Paintings, Eyeline, Summer 1995 Daniel Mafe, Recognitions, Savode Gallery, 1994 Julie Romaniuk, Recognitions, Eyeline Spring, 1994 Louise Martin-­‐Chew, An Idea will Suffice, Broadsheet Vol.23 No. 3, 1994 George Petelin, In Brisbane, The Australian, Dec. 23, 1994 Robert Lindsay, Baillieu Myer Collection of the 80’s, the Museum of Modern Art at Heide, Melbourne, 1994, (catalogue) Merilyn Fairskye, Empty Rooms, Bench Press, Sydney, 1994, (catalogue) Exhibition Commentary, Art and Australia, Vol 29 no. 3, 1992 Elwyn Lynn, Running rings around reality, The Weekend Australian, June 1-­‐2, 1991 Christopher Heathcote, The gentle art of an artist who has learnt to efface the self, The Age, June 26, 1991 Marco Livingstone, In Every Dream Home a Heartache, Art&Design, Vol 4 No.9/10, 1988 Peter McCarthy, Recent Paintings, Lanchester Gallery, Warwick University, Coventry, 1988, (catalogue) Judith Higgins, Painted Dreams, Artnews, Feb. 1988 Emma Clery, Towards the Mountain, Gardner Centre Gallery, Uni. Sussex, Brighton, 1988, (catalogue) Narrative Painting, Castlefield Gallery, Manchester, 1988, (catalogue) David Lovely, Narrative Painting, Arts Review, Vol 40, No. 10, London, 1988 Australian Bicentennial Exhibition, Fischer Fine Art Ltd., London, 1988, (catalogue)

John Moores Liverpool Exhibition 15, Walker Art Gallery, 1987, (catalogue) Charles Harrison, John Moores Exhibition: The ABC of British Art, Artscribe International, May, 1987 Paul Rosenbloom, Six Artists, Studio International, Vol.200, no 1018, 1987 New Faces at the Warwick, Warwick Arts Trust, London, 1986, (catalogue) Europe Prize for Painting, Museum of Fine Art, Ostende, 1986, (catalogue) Australian Artist Aug, Brisbane artist wins Daler-­‐Rowney award at London’s Royal Academy, 1985 Jill Rowbotham, Young Brisbane artist scores double in London, Courier Mail, June 5, 1985

Publications

2012 ‘Of things in the dark, remembered.’ From the catalogue Wigwam for a Goose's Bridle, Judy-­‐Ann Moule 2011 ‘Of repetition and of song’ From the catalogue moth song by Allyson Reynolds, artHIVES 2011 ‘A Material Reverie’ i From the catalogue soil and stone by Allyson Reynolds, artHIVES 2010 ‘Noise as Abstraction: Enhancing the Poetic.’ New Imaging: Transdisciplinary strategies for art beyond the new media: Conference Proceedings. Edited by Su Baker and Paul Thomas, Transdisciplinary Imaging Conference 2010: Sydney. http://blogs.unsw.edu.au/tiic/files/2011/04/TIICproceedings.pdf 2009 Introducing the Interdisciplinary: The Foundations Year and the Open Studio. With Mark Webb.

From Proceedings, Studio Teaching Forum: enriching creative arts learning. http://www.studioteaching.org/?page=download&file=CaseStudy_Forum_Mafe_Webb 2009 Theoretical critique of the work of art : co-­‐producers in research. In Woodrow, Ross (Ed.) ACUADS 2009 Conference Interventions in the Public Domain, ACUADS, Queensland College of Art, Griffith

University. http://www.acuads.com.au/conf2009/papers/mafe.pdf 2009 Picture. This. From the catalogue Comforter by Judith Kentish, Metro Arts 2009 Art and the Sublime: the Paradox of Indeterminacy Unknowing and (Dis)orientation in the Presentation of the Unpresentable, eJournalist, Volume 9, Number 1, http://ejournalist.com.au 2009 “Acquiring Know-­‐How: Research Training for Practice-­‐led Researchers” Daniel Mafe and Brad Haseman in Practice-­‐led Research, Research-­‐led Practice in the Creative Arts edited by Hazel Smith and Roger Dean, Edinburgh University Press 2006 Pontormo, Umberg and the End of the World: Painting and Lacan’s das Ding, International Journal of the Humanities, Volume 2, Number 3 • www.Humanities-­‐Journal.com 2006 Emergent Matters: Reflections on Collaborative Practice-­‐led Research, Daniel Mafe and Andrew Brown, for Speculation and Innovation: Applying Practice led research in the Creative Industries, http://www.speculation2005.qut.edu.au/papers/Mafe_Brown.pdf 2006 PeerPressure I, Jan Manton Art, Brisbane (cat.)

2005 Intimate Transactions 3:2005, Artlink vol.25 no.3 2004 ‘Incidental Infinity: In Words Only’, from the catalogue Incidental Infinity by Ali Verban, Institute of Modern Art 2002 Working Spaces: Art Practice in Progress, Eyeline Publishing 2000 ‘Object-­‐Painting,’ from the catalogue Object-­‐Painting (No angles for the Wind) by Catherine Brown, Metro Arts, Brisbane 1998/99 Mourning Practice, Eyeline no.38, Summer 1995 ‘Positions on Stage’, from the catalogue Seven-­‐ness, by Domenico de Clario and Judith Wright, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane 1998 ‘Abstracted Stagings’, from the catalogue Veil, by Judith Wright, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane 1994 ‘Ash’, from the catalogue Strange Devotions, by Majena Storn, Kingston Arts Space, Canberra 1994 ‘Critical Dreams’, from the catalogue Smoke, by Merilyn Fairskye, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane 1994 ‘Recognitions’, from the catalogue Recognitions, curated by Daniel Mafe, Savode Gallery 1994 ‘Silent Speech’, from the catalogue Breath of Silence by Judith Wright, Gallery FineArte, Nagoya 1993 ‘Shaded Site’, from the catalogue Silence echoes in the hollow of the hand by Judith Wright, Gallery Lunami, Tokyo,

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