CURRICULUM VITAE - DANIEL MAFE

 

 

 

EDUCATION

 

2004-          PhD. Candidate, Creative Industries Faculty, Queensland University of Technology      

1983-86      Royal Academy Schools, London, (Post-Grad. Diploma in Painting)

1980-83      City and Guilds School of Art, London, (Diploma in Painting)

 

 

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

 

2009    Sites of Abstract: diagrams of need, Tom Heath Gallery & the Block, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane

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

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

 

2005    Beijing Film Academy New Media Festival, Today Gallery, Beijing, China (curated by    

            Stephen Danzig)

2005    jOurney, the Block, QUT Cultural Precinct, Brisbane

2004    Abstracting the Collection, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Victoria

2004    Summer Show, Esa Jaske Gallery, Sydney

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, London

1984    London Group

                                                                                   

 

AWARDS, GRANTS, RESIDENCIES, COMMISSIONS

 

2005    Milan Studio, New York, 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, Ostend, Belgium, (prizewinner)

1985    Royal Academy Summer Show, London, (prizewinner)

 

 

 

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 University of Technology

Queensland Art Gallery

Queensland University Art Gallery and Museum

Rockhampton Art Gallery and Museum

 

 

BIBLIOGRAPHY

 

·        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: Contemproary 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

 

·        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  Dan Mafe.Andrew Brown, for Speculation and Innovation: Applying Practice led research in the Creative Industries, 2006

·        PeerPressure I, Jan Manton Art, Brisbane (cat.) 2006

·        Intimate Transactions 3:2005, Artlink vol.25 no.3, 2005

·        Incidental Infinity: In Words Only, from the catalogue Incidental Infinity by Ali Verban, Institute of Modern Art, 2004

·        Working  Spaces: Art Practice in Progress, Eyeline Publishing, 2002

·        Object-Painting, from the catalogue Object-Painting (No angles for the Wind) by Catherine Brown, Metro Arts, Brisbane, 2000

·        Mourning Practice, Eyeline no.38, Summer 1998/99

·        Positions on Stage, from the catalogue Seven-ness, by Domenico de Clario and Judith Wright, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, 1995

·        Abstracted Stagings, from the catalogue Veil, by Judith Wright, institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, 1998

·        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, 1994

·        Shaded Site, from the catalogue Silence echoes in the hollow of the hand by Judith Wright, Gallery Lunami, Tokyo, 1993

 

 

CONFERENCES PAPERS:

 

2005    The Paradox of Concrete Abstraction and the Presentation of the Unpresentable: The Thing about Franz Erhard Walther and Gunter Umberg  Sensorium:  Philosophy and Aesthetics, Melbourne School of Continental Philosophy (in association with the Department of Philosophy, University of Melbourne. (pub.)

 

2005    Emergent Matters  Daniel Mafe and Andrew Brown, Speculation and Innovation Conference: Applying Practice-led Research in the Creative Industries, Queensland University of Technology, Australia Retrieved 23, October, 2006 from the World Wide Web:  http://www.speculation2005.net (pub.)

 

2004   The Repeating Monochrome: blank mirror and working space. Culture and the     Unconscious II, University of London

 

2004    Pontormo, the Monochrome and the End of the World: Painting and Lacan's das Ding. The Second International Conference on New Directions in the Humanities Conference, Prato, Italy

 

 

TALKS AND PANELS:

 

2006           Residencies -  Art after Art School, QUT Art Museum, Brisbane

2006      Working Colour, Queensland Art Gallery

2005            White Light/White Heat: Questions about Minimalism and the Minimal, Queensland Art Gallery

2005      Painting for the Real World, Journey the Block, QUT Cultural Precinct

2005      Panel: the End of Painting? University  of Queensland Art Museum

2004      Questions in Contemporary Art? How the Visual Speaks  BGGS, Brisbane

2004      Panel: Is painting still relevant? QUT Art Museum, Brisbane

2000      Painting talk, Queensland Art Gallery

 

 

 

 

 

COMMITTEES (selected)

 

2003-       QUT Precincts Exhibitions Committee

2004-5     Art Minister's Awards for Excellence, Steering Committee

2005         Co-convener, Speculation and Innovation Conference: Applying Practice-

                  led Research in the Creative Industries (SPIN), Queensland University of

                  Technology, Australia

2005          Peer Review Committee, Speculation and Innovation Conference:  Applying Practice-led Research in the Creative Industries, Queensland University of

                  Technology, Australia http://www.speculation2005.net

2005          Management Committee, Conference Organization Committee,

                  Speculation and Innovation Conference                   

2002-3      Art Minister's Awards for Excellence, Management Committee

2001          Art Minister's Awards for Excellence, Regional Judge

1999 -2000  Coordinator's Committee, Creative Industries Faculty