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Russell Craig

Biography

DipAd Caulfield IT DipEd State Coll Vic FRMIT Tamarind Master Printer USA MVA Griff 

Craig's work has been exhibited widely both nationally and internationally, and is included in the collections of the Queensland Art Gallery, Darwin Museums and Art Galleries board - permanent collection, Australian Embassy art Collection, Vietnam; Central Academy of Fine Arts art collection, Beijing; Griffith University art collection and the Brisbane Civic Art Gallery and Museum collection, as well as a numerous regional galleries in Queensland. 

He is an art educator teaching as a Senior Lecturer in Fine Art at the Queensland College of Art, Griffith University. His teaching experience has covered tertiary undergraduate and post-graduate supervision. 

Craig commenced his art training in the early 1970's in Melbourne at the Caulfield Institute of Technology and a postgraduate fellowship year in painting at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology. Directly after his RMIT training he completed a postgraduate Diploma of Education at the State College of Victoria, Hawthorn. In the early 1980's he receive a Queensland Government SARAS postgraduate scholarship that enabled him to study a master printer qualification at the prestigious Tamarind Institute, University of New Mexico, USA. 
In 2003 he completed a Masters in Visual Art qualification at Griffith University.

Artist residencies in New Caledonia, China, Vietnam and Japan assisted in the research theme of 'cultural appropriation' and presenting solo exhibitions in Australia during this period. Over the past ten years he has visited Japan five times and as a result assisted in the several collaborative art & educational projects between Griffith University and various Japanese art universities. Craig's most recent solo exhibitions include Mana, held at the Brisbane Powerhouse in October 2009; Objects of Navigation, Fortyfivedownstairs Gallery, Melbourne, 2010 and Altered States, at the Redcliffe City Art Gallery in December, 2011. This latest exhibition is a survey show featuring prints and drawings completed over the past 30 years of his art practice. Many of his most recent works were inspired by trips to America, Morocco, France, Laos, Cambodia,Thailand and Japan. 

In October 2011, Craig was invited to participate in a residency with the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts (Geidai). At the conclusion of the residency, he exhibited his work in a group exhibition at the esprit GST sightseeing Art Project hosted by Geidai at the Sumida Riverside Gallery, Tokyo. 

  

WORKS FROM THE EARLY 70’S

SERIES OF COLOURED DRAWINGS INSPIRED BY PAUL KLEE

Clive Parry Gallery Beaumaris , Melbourne

ARTWORKS COMPLETED DURING A FELLOWSHIP YEAR AT THE ROYAL MELBOURNE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (RMIT) 1974

Works from the late 70’s Early 80’s

PRINTS, DRAWINGS AND WORKS ON PAPER

PAPERWORKS COMPLETED DURING A RESIDENCY AT THE JABBERWOCK CUSTOM PAPERMAKING WORKSHOP, TASMANIAN SCHOOL OF ART 1980.

ALL WORKS WERE EXHIBITED IN A SOLO EXHIBITION ENTITLED ‘WALLS SOMETIME SPEAK’ AT THE QUEENSLAND COLLEGE OF ART FOYER GALLERY, 1980.

WORKS FROM THE 90’S

WORKS COMPLETED BEFORE, DURING AND AFTER A RESIDENCY IN NEW CALEDONIA 1997

MANY OF THE WORKS WERE EXHIBITED IN A SOLO EXHIBITION ENTITLED ‘CICATRICE’ AT GALLERY 482 , BRISBANE 28TH MAY TO 16 JUNE 1999

WORKS COMPLETED BEFORE, DURING AND AFTER A SIX WEEK RESIDENCY IN HANOI, VIETNAM

MANY OF THE WORKS WERE EXHIBITED IN A SOLO EXHIBITION ENTITLED ‘ VIETNAM’ AT THE DOGGETT STREET STUDIO GALLERY, BRISBANE 27TH SEPTEMBER TO 15 OCTOBER 1996

Works from the Mid and late 80’s

ARTWORKS COMPLETED DURING AND AFTER A ONE AND HALF YEAR TRAINING MASTER PRINTER COURSE AT THE TAMARIND INSTITUTE, UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO, USA.

ARTWORKS COMPLETED BEFORE, DURING AND AFTER A RESIDENCY IN BEIJING, CHINA 1999

SOLO EXHIBITION ‘RUSSELL CRAIG’ . SPACE PLENTITUDE , BRISBANE 24TH JULY TO 15TH AUGUST 1992

Untitled (Diptych) left side 1992 Conte crayon on rag paper 70 x 100 cm - Griffith Artworks collection

Untitled (Diptych) right side 1992 Conte crayon on rag paper 70 x 100 cm - Griffith Artworks collection

Glasshouse mountains series - from the Early 1990’s to 2015

A large number of one day drawing excursions were organised with Queensland College of Art students. These excursions always afforded an opportunity of drawing the Glass House Mountains and other famous Queensland sites. All drawings were completed ‘in situ’.

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