MARK STONER CURRICULUM VITAE

Email: mark@markstoner.com.au

Academic Qualifications

1973 Bachelor of Economics, Australian National University.
1979 Bachelor of Education, Art and Craft, Melbourne State College.
1981 Graduate Diploma of Fine Art, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology.

Solo Exhibitions

1980 Axiom Gallery, Melbourne.
1983 Devise Gallery, Melbourne.
1984 Devise Gallery, Melbourne.
1988 Powell Street Gallery, Melbourne.
1991 Powell Street Gallery, Melbourne.
1995 Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne.
1997 Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne.
1997 “Concentricity” RMIT Gallery, Storey Hall, Melbourne.
1997 “Concentricity” Sale Regional Gallery,Sale.
1998 “Complicity ; A theorem and its corollary”. Victoria University Gallery
1998 Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne.
Selected Group Exhibitions.1977 Diamond Valley Art Awards.
1978 Gryphon Gallery, Ceramics by Mark Stoner and Ben Whippy.
1980 38th Concorso International Della Ceramic D’arte, Faenza, Italy.
1982 Gryphon Gallery, “ A Decade of Diversity”.
1983 Canberra School of Art Gallery, “ Contemporary Viewpoints”.
1985 43rd Concorso International Della Ceramic D’arte, Faenza, Italy.
1988 First International Ceramic Symposium and Exhibition, Canberra School of Art.
1989 Sara Weis Sculpture Award, National Gallery of Victoria.
1990 Powell Street Gallery, Group Exhibition
1992 C.I.N.A.F.E. Chicago, Represented by Powell Street Gallery.
1993 51st Concorso International Della Ceramic D’arte, Faenza, Italy.
1995 Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, Spring Festival of Drawing.
1996 Sydney Myer Ceramic Award Exhibition, Shepparton Art Gallery.
1996 A Sculpture Walk, Royal Botanic Gardens, Melbourne.
1996 Sculpture Now ‘96, Castelmaine State Festival.
1997 “Homebrand” Contemporary Australian Ceramics, Casula Powerhouse, Sydney.
1997 ART/OMI Studio Exhibition, Omi, N.Y., U.S.A.
1997 “Notations”, Victoria University Gallery, Melbourne.
1998 Construction in Process: The Bridge. Melbourne.
2001 The Brick Show, Monash Gallery of Art
2003 The Helen Lempriere National Sculpture Award

Awards and Prizes.

1979 Diamond Valley Art Award.
1980 Visual Arts/Craft Board Grant.
1981 First Prize “Ceramics ‘81”, Gladstone Art Gallery.
1986 Visual Arts/Craft Board Grant.
1993 Residency, Visual Arts/Craft Board Studio, Tuscany, Italy.
1997 ART/OMI International Artists Residency, Omi, N.Y., U.S.A.
2002 Residency, Visual Arts/Craft Board Studio, Barcelona, Spain
Commissions.
1994 “Passage”, Sculpture/Monument for Queen Victoria Market, Melbourne.
2000 “Earth Wall”, Forrest Gallery, Melbourne Museum.
2000 “Key”, Alfred Nicholas Gardens, Parks Victoria, Sherbrooke.
2000 “Blade”, Neometro Urban Redevelopment, 28 Tanner Street, Richmond.
2000 “North”, Steampacket Quay, Geelong Foreshore, City of Greater Geelong.

Current Projects

2003-2004 West Gate Bridge Memorial Park
“Ephemeral Lake”, Royal Botanic Gardens, Cranbourne.
“South”, International Olympic Park of Ceramic Sculpture, Athens, Greece

Collections.

National Gallery of Australia.
National Gallery of Victoria.
Art Gallery of Western Australia.
Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, Launceston.
Shepparton Art Gallery.
Orange Regional Art Gallery
Geelong Art Gallery
Perc Tucker Regional Art Gallery, Townsville.
Box Hill City Art Collection.
Caulfield City Art Collection
Diamond Valley Award Collection
Victorian Ministry for the Arts.
ART/OMI , New York, U.S.A.
Private Collections in Australia, France, Italy, Canada, and U.S.A.

International Travel/Experience.

1984 Travelled UK, France, Italy - spent 3 months working in the studio of Nino Caruso in Rome.
1993 Travelled UK, France, Italy, Czech Republic and Netherlands.
Received Australia Council grant for 4 month residency at Verdaccio Studio, Italy.
1996 Travelled Portugal, France, Italy.
1997 Invited participant International Art Residency at Omi, in upstate
New York,.July 1997.
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Murray, Kevin., “ The New Stone Age”, Art Monthly, Oct, 1995.
Gregory, John., Monument, Issue No 13, May, 1996.
Scarlett, Ken., Catalogue Essay, “ A Sculpture Walk in the Royal Botanic
Gardens”, 1996.
Crafti, Stephen., Shaping the Land, The Age, 13 December 2001.
Macgowan,Tempe.,Down by the Water, Monument, Issue No 47, April 2002.