Artist Information:
John Dahlsen
Byron Bay,
Australia
Member Since: Jun 2001
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Artist Statement:
As you can see on my website:
http://www.johndahlsen.com , I
make my art from found
objects, mainly plastics,
sometimes driftwood and
rubber, which I find on the
beaches of the eastern
Australian seaboard.
My recent work has resulted in
assemblage wall works,
sculpture, installations,
photography, painting and
public art projects.
The work has an equally strong
environmental and purely
aesthetic concern and is a
direct reflection of
contemporary society.
I show through my work the
value of beauty, the need for
environmental awareness and
the amazing capacity we all
have to experience deep shifts
in our perception.
My creative medium shifted
from painting to working with
found objects as a result of
an artistic accident during
the mid 1990’s. I was
collecting driftwood, on a
remote Victorian Coastline,
with the intention of making
furniture and stumbled upon
vast amounts of plastic ocean
debris. This whole new palette
of colour and shape revealing
itself to me immediately
affected me; I’d never seen
such hues and forms before.
Since then for approximately
10 years, I scoured Australian
beaches for found objects,
much of which I found as
washed up ‘ocean litter’. I
have since discovered this is
a ...
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Artist Exhibitions:
John Dahlsen is based in Byron
Bay Australia. He won the
prestigious Wynne prize at the
Art Gallery of New South
Wales in 2000 and was again a
finalist in 2003 and 2004. In
2006 he was also a finalist in
the Sulman award at the Art
Gallery of NSW...
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Artist Galleries:
John Dahlsen is represented
by various commercial
galleries within Australia.
He regularly exhibits his work
in public institutions and
within the regional gallery
network....
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Artist Reviews:
Selected Bibliography:
John Dahlsen - Book - "Art
Insights" Book - Volume 1 2009
Fantastic Recycled Plastic -
Book - Lark Books publication
Autumn 2009
Gold Coast Bulletin - 12
September 2009
The Northern Star - 12
September 2009
Gold Coast Bulletin - 10
September 2009
Canberra Times 9 August 2009
Sublime Magazine - Mid
September Feature article
"John ...
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Collections:
Represented:
Powerhouse Museum, Sydney,
Australia.
Victorian College of the Arts
Collection.
Artbank, Sydney Australia.
Miniature Museum of
Contemporary Art - Amsterdam,
The Netherlands.
University of Western
Australia
Curtin University, Western
Australia.
Myer/Bailleiu collection.
Kerry Stokes collection.
de Rothschild Collection.
Thomas & Esther Van Vliet
collection.
Wesfarmers Collection.
Tweed River Regional Art ...
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Commissions:
Nationally regarded in
Australia, as an award winning
artist, John Dahlsen won the
prestigious Wynne prize at the
Art Gallery of NSW in 2000 and
was selected as a finalist in
2003 and again in 2004. In
2006 he was a finalist in the
Sulman Award at the Art
Gallery...
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John Dahlsen's Free Artist Portfolio
Welcome to John Dahlsen's Portfolio.
As you can see on my website: http://www.johndahlsen.com , I make my art from found objects, mainly plastics, sometimes driftwood and rubber, which I find on the beaches of the eastern Australian seaboard.
My recent work has resulted in assemblage wall works, sculpture, installations, photography, painting and public art projects.
The work has an equally strong environmental and purely aesthetic concern and is a direct reflection of contemporary society.
I show through my work the value of beauty, the need for environmental awareness and the amazing capacity we all have to experience deep shifts in our perception.
My creative medium shifted from painting to working with found objects as a result of an artistic accident during the mid 1990’s. I was collecting driftwood, on a remote Victorian Coastline, with the intention of making furniture and stumbled upon vast amounts of plastic ocean debris. This whole new palette of colour and shape revealing itself to me immediately affected me; I’d never seen such hues and forms before.
Since then for approximately 10 years, I scoured Australian beaches for found objects, much of which I found as washed up ‘ocean litter’. I have since discovered this is a ... |
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