Ivan Durrant
9 Sep - 1 Oct 2023
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Ivan Durrant
Working as an artist for over forty-three years, Ivan Durrant has zig-zagged through a great diversity of subjects. These include farm life, cows, cattle markets, meat, horse-racing, shearing sheds, football, flooded landscapes and his own studio. As a performing artist, he is best known for his ‘happening’ – the slaughtered cow on the forecourt of the National Gallery of Victoria in 1975.
Much celebrated, his works are held in almost all public galleries in Australia, including the National Gallery of Victoria, the Australian National Gallery Canberra, the National Portrait Gallery Canberra, and the South Australian Art Gallery, to name just a few.
With this exhibition at & Gallery, Durrant explores his emotion-driven deep love of vibrant colours – those that surround him day and night in his studio: the palette, the ends of his brushes and tubes of paint, spatters on his clothes and chair. It’s his world to share where even a black and white cow is born of a rainbow––how uplifting is the world and life, viewed through such a kaleidoscope.
1. Sale Yard 2022
99 x 147cm
Acrylic on particle board
$45,000
2. Lake Makoan 2022
100 x 146cm
Acrylic on particle board
$45,000
3. White Face 2022
90 x 127cm
Acrylic on particle board
$45,000
4. Flood Benalla 2021
100 x 142cm
Acrylic on particle board. $45,000
5.
Sunset Spray Point Headland 2021
107 x 122cm
Acrylic on particle board.
$ 45,000
6. Red River Gums 2023
92 x 120cm
Acrylic on particle board
$45,000
7. Blue Tube 2022
97 x 148cm
Acrylic on particle board. $45,000
8. Red Ear Tag 2022
92 x 120cm
Acrylic on particle board
$45,000
9. Red Tube 2022
97 x 148cm
Acrylic on particle board. $45,000
10. Flood (Wannon River) 2023
92 x 120cm
Acrylic on particle board
$45,000
11. View from Bunyip Pub 2023
75 x 92cm
Acrylic on particle board.
$30,000
12. Cavendish 2023
92 x 122cm
Acrylic on particle board
$45,000
SELECTED INDIVIDUAL EXHIBITIONS
1970 Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne
1970 Salamanca Place Gallery, Hobart
1971 Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne
1972 Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne
1973 Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne
1974 Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne
1974 Hogarth Galleries, Sydney
1975 Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne
1978 Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne
1979 Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne
1979 Survey 8, National Gallery of Victoria
1981 Hogarth Galleries, Sydney
1981 Meat Works, Hawthorn City Art Gallery
1982 Meat Works, Meat for Art’s Steak? Hamilton City Art Gallery
1982 Ivan Durrant United Artists Gallery, Melbourne
Sheep Brain;
Gutted Rabbit; Knife and fork (pigs’ trotters) and plate (liver)
Sculptures: 2456
Uranium
Meltdown
1984 Uranium You’re Standing in it. United Artists Gallery, Mel bourne
Photographs of graffiti (made of meat);
Fuck art
Fuck Hawke etc
Pine Gap (the words made of slices of meat_
1985 Hogarth Galleries, Sydney
1986 United Artists Gallery, Melbourne
Oil paintings of deformed babies; cow’s head and
execution in the street of the Vietnamese man shot in head
Mollison bought one of the cow being shot for Canberra
The style was distortions of the shooting of the VietKong man by General Lian and mimicking of killing a cow the same way
Cow with human rib cage
1987 May be Short Memories, United Artists revisited b/w paintings of xerox copies of famous]photos bunk room in Auschwitz
Viet Kong shot in
Warsaw ghetto kid with arms in air ; Enola Gay
3 kids: boy and 2 girl running down the street napalm
Hiroshima
1988 White Light: Black Spaces: shed paintings tour: Benalla Art Gallery, Mildura Art Gallery, Ararat Art Gallery, Hamilton Art Gallery, Latrobe Valley Art Gallery. Big ones in this first foray
1989 Heads and Sheds:The Luba Bilu Gallery, Greville St. Melbourne (called The Art Gallery for ‘a day’.)
1991 Heads and Sheds: Ray Hughes Gallery, Sydney
1991 Realist Survey: Benalla Art Gallery; Shepparton Art Gallery
1991 War (–There are no artists, only arseholes with paint installation: United Artists Revisited (Galerie Chez Nous); Ray Hughes Gallery, Sydney
1992 Realist Survey: Westpac Gallery, Melbourne
1993 Shed Paintings & Installation: Benalla Art Gallery
1994 A Day at the Caulfield Races: Caulfield Arts Complex
1995 Sheds: Benalla Australia Felix Arts Festival
1999 The Great Shed Show: Benalla Art gallery
1999 The Great Shed Show: Shepparton Art Gallery
1999 The Great Shed Show: Mornington Regional Art Gallery
2000 The Great Shed Show: Ballarat Fine Art gallery
The Great Shed Show: Toowoomba Art Gallery
The Great Shed Show: Riddoch Art Gallery, Mt Gambier.
2000 The Great Shed Show: Albury Regional Art Gallery
2002 The Cow Show: Shepparton Art Gallery (paintings 1969-70)
2002 I'll Kill It – You Cook It: Ballarat Fine Art Gallery
2003 Rainbow Cowboy: Benalla Art Gallery
2003 Rainbow Cowboy: Riddoch Art Gallery, Mt Gambier
2004 Rainbow Cowboy: Artspace Mackay
2004 Paddock to Plate: Monash Gallery of Art, Melbourne
2004 Racing Paintings: Australian Racing Museum, Cham pions, Federation Square
2005 Rainbow Cowboy: Hamilton Art Gallery (DVD created by the Gallery)
2006 Paddock to Plate Ivan Durrant 1968-2004: Rockhamp ton Art Gallery
2007 Boundary Rider: Benalla Art Gallery
2007 Boundary Rider: Latrobe Regional Gallery
2008 Boundary Rider: Ballarat Art Gallery
2009 Boundary Rider: Wangaratta Art Gallery
2010 Boundary Rider:Ararat Art Gallery, Nov.4th–Dec. 12th
2011 Rainbow Cowboy: Performing Arts Centre,Wangarat ta Art Gallery
2011 Ivan Durrant: Landscapes and horses, Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery
2012 Fuzzy Reality: Benalla Art Gallery (27 October-Decem ber 12)
2015 Horsepower: Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery
2019 Colouring Lake Mokoan: Benalla Art Gallery
2020 Barrier Draw: Retrospective at National Gallery of Victoria.
SELECTED ART HAPPENINGS, PERFORMANCES, EVENTS
1975 Slaughtered Cow Happening: NGV Forecourt, (May) Melbourne
Severed Hand: media event, Melbourne and Sydney
1976 Pigeon Dinner film: Chopping Block: Melbourne
1978 Edible Art: cow auction, Warragul, Victoria
1982 Van Gogh Ear, hoax happening, Hamilton, Victoria
1983 Shop Front: live-in happening, Hawthorn, Victoria
1997 Emu Egg Dust: national and international media event.
1998 Four Women Menstruating: performance event, Benalla, Victoria
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
1969 Darnell de Gruchy Invitation Prize
1973 Georges Invitation Art Prize: Melbourne
New Generation Australian Painters: Mornington
1974 Georges Invitation Art Prize, Melbourne
The Cow: Geelong Art Gallery, Victoria
The Supernatural Image: (The film star; The jockey)
Victorian Regional Gallery Tour
1975 The John McCaughey Memorial Art Prize: Mel bourne
1976 Realist Summer Show: Louis Meisel Gallery, New York City
1997 The William Angliss Memorial Art Prize: Melbourne
1979 Still Life, Still Lives: Australian Gallery Tour
1981 Perspecta 1: Art Gallery of New South Wales
1984 Animal Imagery in Contemporary Art: Ballarat Fine Art Gallery, Bendigo Art Gallery, Woollongong City Gallery.
1982 Philip Morris Collection: Melville Hall, Canberra
1983 Recent Australian Painting: A Survey 1970-1983: Art Gallery of South Australia
1984 A Melbourne Mood – Cool Contemporary Art: Monash University Gallery, Melbourne
1988 A Horse Show: Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne
1988 Deutscher Gertrude Street: Humphrey Bogart painting.
1989 The Great Australian Art Exhibition: NGV and Aus
tralian Capitol City Tour
1989 Deutscher Gertrude Street: Jockey painting
1993 Nuclear [R] Age, The Nuclear The Bomb In Austra
lian Art: Monash University, Melbourne
1996 Charles Blackman Retrospective: Benalla Art Gallery, Victoria
1997 The Real Thing: Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne.
1998 Gullifer’s Travail: Ararat Art gallery (Judy Garland)
1999 Horses for Courses: Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery
1999, 2002, 2003
We Are Australian: Toured Nationally and Internationally 2001, 2002, 2003 – extended to 2005
Vietnam Voices: Casula Powerhouse Gallery, NSW, Mel bourne Museum,
Salamanca Arts Centre, Broken Hill City Art Gallery, Albury Regional Art Gallery, Newcastle Regional Museum, Tamworth City Art Gallery, Queensland Museum, Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory
2007 how now cow: Ballarat Fine Art Gallery
2007, 2008 Cuisine and Country:
Orange Regional Art Gallery, Lake Macquarie City Art Gal lery, Mornington
Peninsula Regional Gallery, Wagga Wagga Regional Art Gallery, Riddoch Art Gallery, Mt. Gambier SA., Broken Hill City Art Gallery, Manly Art Gallery & Museum, Cairns Regional Gallery Qld, Artspace Mackay Qld.
2007 Aspendale Beach: an artist’s haven: Mornington Regional Art Gallery.
2008 Basil Sellers Art Prize: Ian Potter Gallery, University of Melbourne.
2009 Awarded Sulman Prize: NSW Art Gallery
2009 Soft Sculpture: Australian National Gallery, Canberra.
2009 Shilo Project: Ian Potter Gallery, University of Melbourne (December)
2009, 2010
Master Landscapes of the Mornington Peninsula 1800 to the Present: Mornington Peninsula Regional Art Gallery (The caterpillar trees)
2011 Paintworks: Wangaratta Art Gallery
2012 Mornington Peninsula Regional Art Gallery Group Show: Controversy Five Pigs’ Heads sculpture from NGA and Short Memories Saigon - silk screen print
2013 Finalist, Doug Moran Art Prize: Damien Oliver
2014 Place and Practice: National Visual Arts Showcase 5/3/14 to 30/14 for Regional Arts Australia, Parliament House
2014 Finalist: Arthur Guy Memorial Painting Prize, Bendigo Art Gallery
2014 Finalist: Basil Sellers Art Prize, Ian Potter Gallery, University of Melbourne
2015 Finalist: Arthur Guy Memorial Painting Prize, Bendigo Art Gallery
2015 On the Beach: Mornington Peninsular Art Gallery
2016 Vista: Artists from the North East: Benalla Regional Art Gallery
FILMS, NOVEL
1976 Chopping Block: 16mm pigeon dinner event, shown MOMA & White St. Theatre, New York; Dendyfest, Dendy Cinema Brighton 4/th July
1977 Red Dog: 16mm, Alpine Dingoes
1980 Self Portrait Blood Red: 16mm, Meat landscape
1981 Self Portrait Blood Red: shown 28th Sydney Film festival.
1983 Horse: 16mm, surreal dream
1983 Self Portrait Blood Red: Australian National Gallery, 1995 The Insiders: autobiographical novel
COLLECTIONS
The National Gallery of Australia, Canberra; National Gallery of Victoria;The Butcher Shop
Art Gallery of South Australia; Art Gallery of Western Australia: Green Light 1988. Queensland University; Caulfield Arts Centre, Victoria;
Geelong Art Gallery, Victoria; Bendigo Gallery, Victoria; The Jockey 1973; Benalla Art Gallery, Victoria: Peppercorn tree 1989. Benalla shed 1998.
Latrobe Valley Art Gallery, Victoria; Hamilton Art Gallery, Victoria; Horsham Art Gallery, Victoria; Rockhampton Art Gallery, Queensland, ICI Corporate Collection, NAB Collection, (dispersed 2022)
British Museum Dept. Prints & Drawings.
Gippsland Art Gallery, Sale. Victoria: Short Memories (6 prints); Cow Head print.
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHICAL DETAILS
1947 Born Melbourne
1969 Graduated Monash University B.Ec.
1975 Special Effects for Mad Dog Morgan
Awarded Caulfield Acquisitive Art Prize
Awarded Maude Vizard-Wholohan Art Prize, Adelaide.
1977 Special Effects for Long Weekend
1975/6 Visited New York City
1980 Awarded AFI Best Experimental Film Self Portrait Blood Red.
1982 Member Immigration Review Panel
1994/5 Artistic Director Australia Felix Art Festival, Benalla,
2009 Awarded Sulman Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales
2014 Jump Mentoring Programme with Next Wave
2015 Mentoring Programme, University of Melbourne
PUBLICATIONS
1976 Quadrant front cover
1976 Arts Melbourne Vol.1. No.2. June 1976, David McNeil
– The Dead Hand of Art
1979 Survey 8 Catalogue, National Gallery of Vic, Robert Lindsay.
1981 Flash Art Milan No. 101, Jan/Feb, Jennifer Phipps
'Recent Artists -- Film in Australia'
1982 Australian Independent Film, Australian Film Commis sion, November 1982
1982 Educational Media — A History Of Australian Art (slides)
1982 Australian Independent Film, published by the Creative Development Branch of the Australian Film Commission, Sydney, Australia
1982 THE SEVENTIES: Australian paintings and Tapestries
From the Collection of National Australia bank.
1989 Outlines of Australian Art, Daniel Thomas, Macmillan
1993 A Story of Australian Painting, ICI Collection, Mary Eagle &John Jones, Pan Macmillan
1995 Australian Perspectives on Art, Melbourne: A.Mancini, Addison Wesley Longman
1998 Art Smart, Lou Chamberlin
1998 Australian Artlook, J &D Aland
2000 Australian Painting Now, Laura Murray Cree & Neville Drury (eds), Craftsman
House, Sydney Painting Now, Craftsman House
2001 We are Australian, poster representing 3rd World Con ference against Racism
2002 Australian Art in the National Gallery of Australia, Anne Gray, (editor),
2004 Eat Art, NGA
2004 Art Monthly front cover, Fleshly moralities: Ivan Durrant in Melbourne, Daniel Thomas
2005 Rainbow Cowboy DVD created by Hamilton Art Gallery
2011 Art & Australia: Vol. 48/3 Public understandings and private metaphor in Ivan Durrant's 'the cow’, Jacqui Durrant.
2011 Art link: volume 31#2, Landscape and Horses, Tom McCullough
2017 Parallel Realities: The Development of Performance Art in Australia by Neil Howe
2018 AGNSW: https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/prizes/sul man/2009/28832/
2020 Ivan Durrant: Barrier Draw. National Gallery of Victoria