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Diane Mantzaris




 

STUDIES:

1982 
BA Bachelor of Fine Art, Degree 
School of Art, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology

SELECT GROUP AND SOLO EXHIBITIONS

1982 –83 A Girl for all Seasons, film and art performance by Diane Mantzaris, alongside various musicians/artists (INX, Sacred Cowboys, Birthday Party, Nick Cave, John Campbell, Steve Cox) various Melbourne music and experimental art venues

1987 Modern Legends 200 Gertrude Street Gallery, Melbourne, Victoria (CG Lithographs solo show)

1988 The First International Symposium of Electronic Art Jarsburg Congress Centre, Utrecht, The Netherlands

1988-1990 Encounters1 College Gallery, SA School of Art, South Australia. (curated by Stephanie Britton) with artists Banduk Marika and Kate Breaky (toured SA Regional Galleries, Tasmania, Queensland)

1989 Bharat Bhavan International Biennal of Prints Roopankar Museum of Fine Arts, Bhopal, India

1990 Tokyo Connection Australian artists exhibition and symposium in Tokyo, Heinekan Village, Harajiku, Tokyo, Japan

1990 Crime and Punishment  Solo Show Grahame Galleries, Brisbane, Australia

1990 Impressions in Print, Toowoomba Art Gallery, QLD Touring Qld Regional Galleries.

1991 CIPE’ 91 Union of Artists and Writers from Cuba (UNEAC) Cuba

1991 ‘Windows (on the World’  Prints and Constructions.) One Person show. Powell Street Graphics Gallery.) Melbourne Victoria.

1991 The Great Australian Science Show Mantzaris and Stelarc, World Congress Centre,
Melbourne, Victoria

1991 Recent Acquisitions: Diane Mantzaris Gallery 2, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia

1991 Technology Assisted Art Monash University Studios Collingwood, Victoria

1991-92 Reference Points: A New Perspective Gallery 4, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia

1992 Unfamiliar Territory The Adelaide Biennale, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia
1992 Electric Visions One Person Show, Grahame Galleries, Brisbane, Australia

1992 Savage Art Prize Melbourne International festival, Melbourne, Australia

1992 Conrad Jupiter’s Art Prize (Awarded) Gold Coast City Art Gallery, Construction Assemblage exhibition, Surfers Paradise, Queensland

1992-95 My Head is a Map Curated by Roger Butler. Australian National Gallery, ACT, Touring Nationally coinciding with

The Second Australian Print Symposium: artist talk/paper by Diane Mantzaris: My Electric Visions, Australian National Gallery, Canberra, ACT

1992-93 6 x 6 (Six Contemporary Australian Printmakers) Curated by Anne Kirker (Australia) and Somporn Rodboon (Thailand)
Silpakorn University Bangkok, Khon Khaen and Chiang Mai University Galleries THAILAND, and concluding at the Queensland Art Gallery

1992 Diversity- Australia’s greatest printmakers Curated by Sharon Maslem, Access Contemporary Art gallery, NSW (touring nationally)

1993 Margaret Stewart Endowment Collection Ground floor Raynor Gallery, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia

1993 Secrets from Siam, work from Bangkok, One Person Show Verity Street Gallery. Melbourne, Australia

1994 Clashing Fragments Curated by Sara Lindsay, University of Tasmania, touring regional galleries nationally Australia

1992 Diane Mantzaris New works, Michael Wardell Gallery, 13 Verity Street, Melbourne Australia

1994 A.C.A.F.4 Fourth Australian Contemporary Art Fair, Michael Wardell Gallery selection Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne, Australia

1995 Technothelylogia Women and Technology Monash University Gallery curated by Zara Stanhope, Melbourne, Australia

1995 NON: artists against nuclear testing Greenpeace Artists Fundraiser, Ether Ohnetitel Gallery, Melbourne, Australia

1997 Photography in Print Michael Wardell at 2a Waltham Street Richmond Group Show, Melbourne Australia

1997 Landline to the Past Diane Mantzaris Michael Wardell at 2a Waltham Street Melbourne Australia

1999 Hana: prints in glass. Front and chef windows of Japanese udon and sushi bar, Melbourne, Australia

2000-04  Two Public Artworks - Freeway Interventions
 Accelerated Billboard with Print installation:
1/ ‘Working Class Heroes’ (billboard print and 9 piece art installation on the heroism and struggle of the working class, Westgate freeway, relocated 14 times, shelved after 4 yrs)
 2/House in the Sky-The Great Australian delusion’ Melways Ref:40 D12 (Steel fabricated house suspension with lighting
over major freeway interchange in Melbourne, Australia) In association with BM architects, Pride of Place program (Victorian State Government) and Images of the West (Western Metropolitan Region Councils)

2002 Mythologies, (series Time Immemorial) Ho HA Gallery Exhibition and Collaboration between 6 female artists, 3 in Athens and 3 Greek artists from Melbourne, Co-ordinated by host gallery director and artist Dora Haralambaki
2003  Mythologies: (series Time Immemorial)  Span Gallery, Melbourne Australia

2006-07 Marks and Motifs Print Council of Australia touring exhibition curated by Stephen Rainbird Touring Nationally Australia.

2010-11 The Human Oddity series, various venues, Online viewing

2011 Save Art from RMIT, Diane Mantzaris and Steve Cox, Occupy RMIT and Melbourne, exhibition at RMIT grounds 1000 people.

2011 Exposure 2011  international photography exhibition, celebrating the power of the image. New York, USA

2011 Errorartist, art performance for Who wants to be a *errorist  film ‘Launch at Revolt, Melbourne, Australia

2011-2012 Fountain of Eve, fountain series, Online viewing

2012 The Human Clay, Diane Mantzaris and Guest artist Vasan Sitthiket , Number 1 Gallery Bangkok. Thailand

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY See Australian National Gallery, Canberra
http://www.printsandprintmaking.gov.au/catalogues/bibliography/624564/mantzaris-diane-diane-mantzaris-cv.aspx

AWARDS

1985 Project Grant, Visual Arts/ Craft Board of the Australia Council (Computer Generated Lithographs)

1987 Overseas Studio, Residency in the Australia Council Studio, Tokyo Japan

1990 Australian Network for Art and Technology Research and Development Grant

1992-1993  Asialink residency at Silpakorn University, Bangkok, Thailand

1996 Development grant, Visual Arts/Craft Board of the Australia Council

2002 City of Melbourne and Multicultural Arts Victoria, Ho HA Gallery Athens, residency and collaboration and exhibition in Athens,Greece 

 

COLLECTIONS National Gallery of Victoria
Queensland Art Gallery
Australian National Gallery
Art Gallery of South Australia
Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery
State Library of Victoria
Queen Victoria Museum/ Art Gallery, Launceston
University of Tasmania, Launceston
Shepparton Art Gallery, Warnabambool Art Gallery,
Ballaarat Fine Art Gallery,
Naracoote Art Gallery SA,
Brisbane City Hall Art Gallery,
University of Central Queensland
Queensland, University of Technology
University Art Museum, Queensland
Gold Coast City Art Gallery
Flinders University SA
Gordon Technical College, Victoria
Macrobertson Girls High School, Victoria
Ruyton Girls School, Victoria
Norwood Secondary College, Victoria
Fintona Girls College, Victoria
St Kilda Council, Victoria
Print Council of Australia
Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology
BHP,
Canson Australia Pty Ltd
Parliament House Collection, Canberra
Monash University
The Melbourne Club
Janet Holmes a Court Collection
Artbank,
Gramercy Ventures,
Corporate and Private Collections, Australia, India, Cuba, Japan, USA, Greece, Thailand.
 


Exhibitions :

Go to The Human Clay

The Human Clay

by Diane Mantzaris

February 22nd – March 3rd, 2012


Artworks :

Fountain of Eve (7 feet tall), Diane Mantzaris, 2011, Photograph, 113x250cm
Fountain of Eve (7 feet tall), Diane Mantzaris, 2011
Photograph,
113x250cm
Fountain of Venus, Diane Mantzaris, 2011, Photograph, 100x150cm
Fountain of Venus, Diane Mantzaris, 2011
Photograph,
100x150cm
Circassian Beauty, Poodle Exhibit, Diane Mantzaris, 2011, Photograph, 120x145cm
Circassian Beauty, Poodle Exhibit, Diane Mantzaris, 2011
Photograph,
120x145cm
Terras Australis Incognita: Constellation, Diane Mantzaris, 2011, Photograph, 176x120cm
Terras Australis Incognita: Constellation, Diane Mantzaris, 2011
Photograph,
176x120cm
Circassian Beauty, Poodle Exhibit with Unzie the Australian Albino Apollo, Diane Mantzaris, 2011, Photograph, 176x120cm
Circassian Beauty, Poodle Exhibit with Unzie the Australian Albino Apollo, Diane Mantzaris, 2011
Photograph,
176x120cm
Garden of Eve: the Ages of In humanity, Diane Mantzaris, 2012, Photograph, 120x206cm
Garden of Eve: the Ages of In humanity, Diane Mantzaris, 2012
Photograph,
120x206cm
Refugee: Slaves of State, Diane Mantzaris, 2012, Photograph, 120x206cm
Refugee: Slaves of State, Diane Mantzaris, 2012
Photograph,
120x206cm
Life identity MYTH, Vasan Sitthiket, 2012, Tempera - Pastel on Canvas, 190x107cm
Life identity MYTH, Vasan Sitthiket, 2012
Tempera - Pastel on Canvas,
190x107cm
เกิดมาทำไมให้รกโลก, Vasan Sitthiket, 2012, Tempera - Pastel on Canvas, 193x107cm
เกิดมาทำไมให้รกโลก, Vasan Sitthiket, 2012
Tempera - Pastel on Canvas,
193x107cm
People can do no wrong, Vasan Sitthiket, 2012, Tempera - Pastel on Canvas, 196x107cm
People can do no wrong, Vasan Sitthiket, 2012
Tempera - Pastel on Canvas,
196x107cm
อตฺตนาหิ อตฺตโน นาโถ, intrend smart, Vasan Sitthiket, 2012, Tempera - Pastel on Canvas, 185x107cm
อตฺตนาหิ อตฺตโน นาโถ, intrend smart, Vasan Sitthiket, 2012
Tempera - Pastel on Canvas,
185x107cm
โลภา ปรมา ลาภา, My greed never enough, Vasan Sitthiket, 2012, Tempera - Pastel on Canvas, 196x107cm
โลภา ปรมา ลาภา, My greed never enough, Vasan Sitthiket, 2012
Tempera - Pastel on Canvas,
196x107cm
อกฺโกสโก จ อกฺโกสํ, Modern Cool, Vasan Sitthiket, 2012, Tempera - Pastel on Canvas, 190x107cm
อกฺโกสโก จ อกฺโกสํ, Modern Cool, Vasan Sitthiket, 2012
Tempera - Pastel on Canvas,
190x107cm
Taste Easy Culture, Vasan Sitthiket, 2012, Tempera - Pastel on Canvas, 186x107cm
Taste Easy Culture, Vasan Sitthiket, 2012
Tempera - Pastel on Canvas,
186x107cm
Mother earth in blues, Vasan Sitthiket, 2012, Tempera - Pastel on Canvas, 193x107cm
Mother earth in blues, Vasan Sitthiket, 2012
Tempera - Pastel on Canvas,
193x107cm