Gavin Malone Visual Artist & Cultural Geographer

Selected Exhibitions

2015  6th Solar Art Prize RSASA Gallery, Adelaide
2013  Fleurieu Art Prize Sculpt13 Signal Point,  Goolwa
2012  Kumangka Gallery M, City of Marion
2011  Fleurieu Art Prize Invitational Sculpture Exhibition Signal Point , Goolwa
2011  Intangibles in Terra Australis Flinders University Art Museum, Adelaide
2010  10th Xuntanza International Workshop of the Plastic Arts Museo Municipal Ramon Aller, Lalin, Spain
2010  Intangibles in Terra Australis Gallery Kubo-Kuxta, San Sebastian, Spain
2010, 12  Palmer Sculpture Biennial Palmer, South Australia
2009  Bare Footed – Bare Hearted Celtica, Port Adelaide
2008-09  Hinterland Palmer Sculpture Biennial Touring Exhibition, Regional South Australia
2009  Adaptation Murray Darling Palimpsest, Palmer, South Australia
2008  Towards the Land Artspace, Adelaide Festival Centre
2008  Terra Spiritalis Regional Gallery, Murray Bridge (Curators-Karen Zadra, Gavin Malone, Greg Johns)
2008, 10, 12  Heysen Sculpture Biennial The Cedars, Hahndorf
2007  Ways of Belonging Tandanya – National Aboriginal Cultural Institute, Adelaide
2007  Towards the Land Regional Gallery, Murray Bridge
2006  The French Connection: Landscape, Colonisation, Degradation Bella Cosa Sculpture Park, McLaren Flat (Curator-Gavin Malone)
2004, 06  Sculpture in the Bush The Grampians (Geriwerd), Victoria
2004, 06, 09  Sculpture on the Cliffs Elliston, South Australia
2006  Mungo Festival Murray Darling Palimpsest, Lake Mungo National Park, NSW
2006  Winter Landscape Murray Darling Palimpsest: Palmer, South Australia (Curators-Gavin Malone & Greg Johns)
2005-07  In the Footsteps of Stuart South Australian Museum; W A Regional Gallery-Geraldton, Port Pirie Regional Gallery & Murray Bridge Regional Gallery
2004,06,08  Palmer Sculpture Biennial Palmer, South Australia
2003-04  Dislocation (with Georgina Williams) Living Kaurna Cultural Centre, Marion
2003  Inside Out Sydney Fong Gallery, Geraldton
2003  Visions of Land Watch This Space, Alice Springs
2002  Dislocation (with Georgina Williams) South Australian Museum, Adelaide
2000  Country – Visions of Land Regional Art Gallery, Port Pirie
1999, 2003  Prospect Portrait Prize Prospect Gallery, Adelaide
1997  As You Are Anima Gallery, Adelaide
1995-98  Look/Don’t Look Traffic Light Installation, Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney, Naracoorte, Marion
1996  Gasworks Sculpture Exhibition Gasworks Park, Melbourne
1995  Materials North Adelaide School of Art, Adelaide
1995  Helpmann Academy Exhibition Artspace, Festival Centre, Adelaide
1995  Product of Norway University of the Northern Territory, Darwin
1994  National Tertiary Art Prize Long Gallery, Hobart
1994  Looking at the Billboard Forestville, Adelaide

Lake Eyre South, South Australia

Selected Public Space Art and Design Projects

2013  Tjrin Tjrins The Messengers, Pennington Gardens Reserve. City of Charles Sturt (with Karl Telfer)
2012  Pilyapilya/Butterfly Kaurna Meyunna Artwork, concept development. City of Salisbury (with Karl Telfer)
2012  Community Tree Public artwork community consultation and concept design. Barkly Arts, Tennant Creek, Northern Territory
2011  Kaurna Meyunna Cultural Presentation, Old Port (Port Misery), Landscape design & sculpture. City of Charles Sturt (with Karl Telfer)
2011  Kaurna Meyunna and Aboriginal Recognition, Art & design features. Flinders Centre for Innovation in Cancer (with Karl Telfer)
2010  Trees of Peace Upgrade of 1988 Bicentennial Marker. City of Charles Sturt (with Karl Telfer)
2009  Bulto Ityangga Traces Acknowledgment of Kaurna custodianship of country. Lochiel Park Green Village, Campbelltown (with Karl Telfer and Greg Johns)
2004  Yitpi Tukkutya Parrundaiendi The Dancing Spirits Acknowledgment of Kaurna custodianship of Country. Flinders Medical Centre (with Karl Telfer)
2005  Marino Public Art Project, Marion Coast Park, Concept proposal for coastal interpretive artwork. City of Marion (with Karl Telfer and Greg Johns)
2001  Adelaide’s Western Gateway Concept proposal for major artwork entrance to Adelaide. Minister for the Arts (with Steve Davidson, Sue and Trevor Rodwell, Georgina Williams)
2001  Hahndorf Pioneer Women’s Walking Trail / Entranceway / Rotunda Concept designs for walking trail interpretive markers, Onkaparinga River footbridge and village entranceway. Hahndorf Community Assoc. Concept design village rotunda. Mount Barker District Council (with Lothar Brasse)
1999  Angaston Town Centre Arts Development Identification of public art and design opportunities and themes. Barossa Council
1999  Angaston Creek Rehabilitation and Flood Mitigation Visual and ecological amenity design input for creek reconstruction. Barossa Council
1999  Queen’s Theatre Full-scale ‘architectural drawing’ c1850 of the former Theatre and Supreme Court building. City of Adelaide, Heritage SA (with Lothar Brasse)
1999  The Elements at Play A three component artwork to engage the light, wind and water, Brighton Jetty. City of Holdfast Bay (with Margaret Worth)
1998  Karra Kundo Concept proposals for the ecological rehabilitation and Kaurna and European cultural interpretation of a reach of the River Torrens/Karrawirraparri, Thebarton. Friends of Karra Kundo
1998  Warriparinga Wetlands Weir Design of environmentally sensitive weir and bank stabilisation, Sturt River/Warriparri. Patawalonga Catchment Water Management Board (with Margaret Worth)
1997  Waikerie Interpretive Park Concept proposals utilising landform and artworks to address regional ecological and cultural issues. District Council of Loxton Waikerie (for and with Margaret Worth, Cielens and Partners)
1997  Tjirbruki Narna arra Tjirbruki Gateway Entrance to Kaurna Dreaming narrative, Warriparinga, City of Marion (with Sherry Rankine and Margaret Worth)
1994-95   Looking at the Billboard Joint Coordinator with Lee Salomone of a fifteen month art project utilising two 6m by 3m billboards, Forestville, Adelaide

A favourite River Redgum, Flinders Ranges, South Australia

Selected Cultural Research and Cultural Presentation Projects

2013 Kaurna Culture Web Pages Development of Kaurna Meyunna web content for City of Charles Sturt web-site (with Karl Telfer)
2013  The Tjilbruke Track Markers, South Australian Jubilee 150, 1986 Report on the history and significance of the Tjilbruke Track Markers. City of Onkaparinga (with Karl Telfer)
2012  Kaurna Cultural Presentation, First Creek Wetlands Review and develop the form, siting and content of Kaurna cultural presentation, First Creek wetlands. Adelaide Botanic Garden (with Karl Telfer)
2012  Victoria Square/Tarndanyangga Cultural Markers: A Bi-cultural Perspective, Aboriginal and non–Aboriginal. Provide cultural content and design advice for the treatment of cultural markers (statues, monuments, memorials etc.), a fifty page report. Adelaide City Council (with Karl Telfer)
2012  Waterproofing the West Identification of Kaurna inclusion opportunities. City of Charles Sturt (with Karl Telfer)
2011  Kaurna Meyunna Cultural Mapping Research and documentation of the Kaurna cultural landscape, pre and post colonisation, a one hundred page report. City of Charles Sturt (with Karl Telfer)
2011  Riverbank Precinct Masterplan, Adelaide Kaurna recognition and inclusion. ARM Architecture, Urban Design, Masterplanning (with Karl Telfer)
2011  Kaurna Meyunna Cultural Mapping Research and documentation of the Kaurna cultural landscape, Old Port (Port Misery) historic area. City of Charles Sturt (with Karl Telfer)
2011  Kaurna Public Space Recognition and Inclusion Report. City of Charles Sturt (with Karl Telfer)
2010-11  Mullabakka, Victoria Square/Tarndanyangga Urban Regeneration Project Development of Kaurna civic and symbolic inclusion, and cultural research and presentation, Taylor, Cullity, Lethlean (with Karl Telfer)
2002  Living Kaurna Cultural Centre, Warriparinga Development of Interpretive Gallery (with Georgina Williams and David Kerr) and arts opportunities (with Sherry Rankine). City of Marion

Brindabella Range near Canberra

Selected Articles and Reviews

2011  Boots and All Craftsouth Artist Profile, Craftsouth Wesite
2010  Pilono, la Aldea de Los Artistas  Miercoles, 14 July, Galicia, Spain
2009  A Circular Stillness November, Adelaide Review
2007  Contested Spaces Vol 13, No 3, World Sculpture News
2007  Response and Reconciliation Vol 17, No 4, Asian Art News
2006  Positioning Statements No 111, Landscape Australia
2006  Field Of Dreams 11 March, The Advertiser Review
2005  Remediation as Art: Is caring for the environment a kind of artwork?, Vol 25, No 4, Artlink
2005  A Cultural Landscape 9 June, Geraldton Mid West Mail
2003  Comeback of a Spiritual People 4 October, The Advertiser
2003  Dislocation of the Kaurna People 1 October, Guardian Messenger
2000  The Elements at Play-Transformation…. No 88, Landscape Australia
1999  Sea Sight Sound / You dream of going. You cannot go Vol 28, No3, Broadsheet
1997  From the Engaging to the Ironic 11 March, Advertiser
1996  Artist Defends ‘Offensive’ Work 27 November, Hobart Mercury
1995  Adelaide (private and public) October, Realtime
1995  Green Republic – Materials September, Adelaide Review
1995  Material Builds Bold Images 15 August, Advertiser
1995  Helpmann Artists Display… in Jogyakarta, 13 August, Jakarta Post
1995  Interpreting the Billboard, Vol 24, No 1, Broadsheet

Selected Writing

2012  Phases of Aboriginal Inclusion in the Public Space in Adelaide, South Australia, since Colonisation PhD Thesis
2009  Agriculture, Culture, Sculpture, Exhibition Essay, Sculpture on the Cliffs, Elliston
2007  Ways of Belonging: Reconciliation and Adelaide’s Public Space, Geographical Research, Vol 45, No 2
2006  Intimate Topographies and Global Catastrophes, Exhibition Essay, Winter Landscape, Palmer
2005  Why are we being taught by a naked artist? (with K Bartsch), 2005 Aust. Architectural Educ. Conf.
2002  Dilemmas of Listing Public Art, 2001 Australia ICOMOS National Conference
2001  Sharing the Fires at Warriparinga (with N. Koch), No 10, Kerb, Jnl. of Landscape Arch.
2000  Country-Visions of Land, Exhibition Essay, Port Pirie Regional Gallery
1998  The Ecology of Art or Art as Ecology, Vol 27, No 4, Broadsheet
1997  Going Public… Doin’ It in the Street, Vol 17, No 4, Artlink
1997  Structural Issues, Vol 26, No 3, Broadsheet
1997  Lounge Room of Ideas, Vol 17, No 1, Artlink
1997  Structural Issues, Vol 26, No 3, Broadsheet
1994 Looking at the Billboard (with Lee Salomone), Vol 14, No 2, Artlink

Snow Country, Great Dividing Range, Victoria

Selected Tertiary Teaching

University of Adelaide
2012-14  Guest Lecture, School of Architecture and Built Environment (with Karl Telfer)
2011  First Year Student Workshop, School of Architecture, Landscape Architecture & Urban Design
2004-10  Co-ordinator & Lecturer, Landscape Narratives, School of Architecture, Landscape Architecture & Urban Design
2003  Tutor, Graduate Studies in Australian Indigenous Art, History Department

University of South Australia
2014  Guest Lecture Master of Social Work – Human Rights and Community Development (with Karl Telfer)
2009-14  Guest Lecture (with Karl Telfer), School of Management
2006-12  Guest Lecture, South Australian School of Art
2010  Aboriginal Adelaide, Field Trip (with Karl Telfer), School of Psychology, Social Work and Social Policy
2008-10  Guest Lecture (with Karl Telfer), School of Psychology, Social Work and Social Policy
1997  Tutor, Visual Culture and the Individual, South Australian School of Art
1997  Tutor, History and Theory of Art and Design, South Australian School of Art
1996  Tutor, Visual Art Theory, South Australian School of Art
1996  Tutor, Towards the Twenty First Century, South Australian School of Art
1995  Technical Officer, First Year Studies, South Australian School of Art
1995  Artist/Tutor in Residence, Sculpture Department, South Australian School of Art

Flinders University
2013  Guest lecture, School of Social and Policy Studies
2008-10  Guest lecture, School of Geography, Population and Environmental Management

For the University of Calgary, Canada
2012-14 Co-ordinator & Lecturer, Wodli ngundarta – What’s behind a House Design and Build Studio, Adelaide Master of Architecture Studio, Aldinga Arts Eco Village (with Karl Telfer), Faculty of Environmental Design
2011  Guest Lecture, Adelaide Master of Architecture Studio (with Karl Telfer), Faculty of Environmental Design

Adelaide Centre for the Arts
2001-08  Lecturer, Issues in Contemporary Art Practice
2003-04  Lecturer, Concept Development
2001-03  Lecturer, Professional Practice
2000  Lecturer, Product Presentation

Dawn, Coffin Bay National Park, Eyre Peninsula

Selected Professional Experience

2010  International Art & Cultural Geography Study Tour: Spain, Germany, Holland, Greece
2010  Tenth Xuntanza International Workshop of Plastic Arts, Foundation Casa Museo, Galicia, Spain
2008  International Public Spaces Study Tour: Tunis, Rome, Paris, London, Berlin, Dublin, Zurich
2007  Jury Member, Australian Institute of Landscape Architects (SA Branch) Awards

Selected Conferences, Talks, Forums

2008  Geographies that Matter Royal Geographical Society International Conference, London, England
2008  Visiting Speakers Seminar Programme Department of Geography, Durham University, England
2008  Building Together Our Territories International Geographical Union World Congress, Tunis, Tunisia
2008  Hearts and Minds Interpretation Australia National Conference, Adelaide
2008  Changing Places: Changing Lives State History Conference, Adelaide
2007  Ways of Belonging: Reconciliation and the Public Space Public Forum, Tandanya, Adelaide
2006  International Geographic Union Regional Conference Brisbane
2006  After the Flood Murray Darling Palimpsest Artists Forum, La Trobe University, Mildura
2006  Artists’ Forum Sculpture on the Cliffs, Elliston
2006  The Fleurieu: Landscape or Habitat? Artist Talk, Fleurieu Peninsula Biennale, McLaren Vale
2005  Cross Cultural Collaborations Geraldton Arts Festival, Geraldton, Western Australia
2004  (mis)Representations of Indigeneity in Public Spaces Institute Australian Geographers, Cultural Geography Group, Hobart
2001  Indigenous Landscapes Aust. Inst. Landscape Architects Seminar, (with Georgina Williams), Adelaide
2001  20th Century Heritage International Council of Monuments & Sites Conference, Adelaide

Selected Awards and Recognition
2014  Achievements in History History Council of South Australia (with Karl Telfer)
2008  Postgraduate International Travel Award, Institute Australian Geographers
2008  Postgraduate Award for Services to Professional & Uni. Communities, School of Geography, Population and Environmental       Management, Flinders University
2007  Postgraduate Publication Award, Institute Australian Geographers
2007  Postgraduate Award for Public Research Output, School of Geography, Population and Environmental Management, Flinders University
2006  Palmer Biennial: Excellence and Innovation in Visual Arts (with G. Johns), Festival Fringe
2004  Australian Postgraduate Award, Doctoral Research, Flinders University
1995  University of South Australia Medal, Outstanding Academic Achievement:, Faculty of Art, Architecture and Design
1995  Certificate of Achievement, University of South Australia Alumni Association
1995  Commendation, Civic Trust of South Australia, Gouger Street Revitalisation

Blanche Cup Mound Spring, Oodnadatta Track, South Australia

Selected Grants

2010  Independent Makers, Professional Development (International Exhibition), Arts SA
2001  Leadership Grant, Creative Development Assistance, Arts SA
1996  Look/Don’t Look Traffic Light Installation, Visions of Australia Touring Grant
1995  Sculpture 95, City of Adelaide Community Development Fund

Tertiary Education

2004-12  Doctor of Philosophy, School of the Environmental, Flinders University
1991-94  Bachelor of Visual Arts (First Class Honours), South Australian School of Art, University of South Australia

Previous Career (Public sector administration)

1981-90 Administrator, Botanic Gardens of Adelaide and State Herbarium
1978-81 Inaugural Secretary, South Australian Heritage Committee
. Acting Secretary, Environmental Protection Authority
. Acting Secretary, Aboriginal and Historic Relics Advisory Board
1969-78 Administrative positions (various), Department of Agriculture