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Artist and musician Mark Siebert works with drawing, painting, performance and recording. He is based in London and has shown across the UK, Asia and Australia with recent exhibitions including the John Moores Painting Prize at the Walker Arts Centre (Liverpool), Pop and Drop at Seventeen Gallery (London), If a Double Decker Bus at Kingsgate Workshops (London), The Kiss or Poison Boyfriend… at Intercession Gallery (Northampton) and Project 78 (St Leonards), Video Platform at the Singapore Art Fair, and held solo exhibitions at Passen-gers (London), Greenaway Art Gallery (Adelaide, Australia) and on the streets of Homerton, London.
Selected Solo Exhibitions:
Upcoming 2024: Screens, Five Years, London, UK
2016: Our Apocalypse, Passen-gers Gallery, part of Art Licks Weekend Festival, London, UK
2014: Pavement, ASC Project Space, London, UK
2014: Losers Walking Tour, Artlicks Weekend Festival, Hackney, London, UK
2013: Losers, Greenaway Art Gallery, Adelaide, Australia
2011: Poetry and Paydays, Greenaway Art Gallery, Adelaide, Australia
2009: Forever 27, The Australian Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide, Australia [catalogue]
2008: Apples, Greenaway Art Gallery, Adelaide, Australia [catalogue]
2007: Fan Letters, Downtown Art Space, Adelaide, Australia
2006: Gertrude St Slide Box, Melbourne, Australia
2005: Astro, Firstdraft Gallery, Sydney, Australia
2005: Out of Circulation, Downtown Art Space, Adelaide, Australia
2005: Is This IT? The Project Space, Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia [catalogue]
2004: Top 50, Bank Gallery, University of South Australia, Underdale Campus, Australia
Selected Group Exhibitions:
2021: Your Foot in My Face and other tectonic strategies, Kingsgate Project Space, London,
UK
2019: Pop and Drop, Seventeen Gallery, London, UK
2017: Creekside Open, APT Gallery, London, UK
2017: The Kiss… Intercession Gallery, Northampton, UK + Project 78, St Leonards on Sea, UK
2017: Multiplex, Passen-gers Gallery, London, UK
2017: And if a Double Decker Bus, Kingsgate Project Space, London, UK
2015: Middlesex Filter Beds Guerilla Sculpture Park, Tremolo Projects / Art Licks Weekend,
London, UK
2015: Video Platform, Singapore Art Fair, Singapore
2015: Pop Living, Schwartz Gallery, London, UK
2014: John Moores Painting Prize, Walker Art Centre, Liverpool, UK
2014: Summer Show, The Florence Trust, London, UK
2014: Winter Open, The Florence Trust, London, UK
2013: The Poster Show, The Mayor’s Parlour, London, UK
2012: Plus Art Projects, The Mayor’s Parlour, London, UK
2012: Artworkers Open, Barbican Arts Group Trust, London, UK
2010: The New New, The Gallerie, Adelaide, Australia [catalogue]
2010: Songzhuang Art Festival, Beijing Studio Centre, Beijing, China
2008: Flipside, Substation, Singapore [catalogue]
2008: The Art of Correspondence, Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Melbourne, Australia
2008: Plastic Theory, Peloton, Sydney, Australia
2007: Lee Marvin Readings, De La Catessant, Adelaide, Australia
2007: Other Worlds / Other News, Starkwhite, Auckland, New Zealand [catalogue]
2007: The Heavier We Get, Rawspace, Brisbane, Australia
2007: Late Nights, Greenaway Art Gallery, Adelaide, Australia
2007: As It Is, As It Can Be, Bus Gallery, Melbourne, Australia [catalogue]
2007: Audio Visual, Downtown Art Space, Adelaide, Australia [catalogue]
2006: Local Video and Performance Nights, with Peter McKay, Downtown Art Space, Adelaide, Australia
2006: Mentor/Mentored II, Contemporary Art Centre of SA, Adelaide, Australia [catalogue]
2006: Snapshot: Contemporary South Australian Art, Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide, Australia [catalogue]
2006: The Drawing Show II, G & A Studios, Sydney, Australia
2005: Laura, Mark & Jack, Carclew Youth Arts Centre, Adelaide, Australia [catalogue]
2005: The End, Soapbox Gallery, Brisbane, Australia
2005: Uncommon Ground, Soapbox Gallery, Brisbane, Australia
2005: Helpmann Academy Graduate Exhibition, Adelaide, Australia [catalogue]
2004: Interior, N Gallery, Underdale, Australia [catalogue]
2004: Painting, SEAS Gallery, Adelaide, Australia
2003: To Alexandre Demoule New York, November 26, 1984, at Flightpath
Gallery, Adelaide, Australia
Awards / Grants:
2014: Finalist, John Moores Painting Prize
2013: Florence Trust Residency, London, UK
2012: Australia Council New Work Grant
2010: Asialink Residency to Beijing, China
2010: Arts SA Project Assistance Grant
2008: Adelaide Critics Circle Emerging Visual Artist Award winner
2008: Redlands Art Award Finalist, Sydney, Australia
2005 – 2008: Studio recipient at the Experimental Art Foundation, Australia
2005: Helpmann Academy Project Grant
2005: South Australian Youth Arts Board Quick Response Grant
2003: Winner: JC Wright Memorial Art prize
Selected Reviews:
Bolton, K. 2013, ‘GAME-ON’, in Form Guide, vol 13. – Issue 1, AEAF, Australia
Radok, S. 2009, ‘Forever 27,’ in The Adelaide Review, Issue 352, pg 32
Tomczak, L. 2009, ‘Forever 27,’ in DB Magazine, issue 468, pg 36
Neylon, J. 2008, ‘Spin,’ in The Adelaide Review, issue 342, August, pg 28
Pakula, K. 2008, Plastic Theory’ in The Sydney Morning Herald, February 23-24
Currie, B. 2006, ‘Video/ Performance Nights at Downtown’, in ed. Britton, S. Artlink Magazine, vol 26 no 4
Chapman, C. 2006, ‘Snapshot: Contemporary South Australian Art,’ Art Monthly Australia, October # 194
McKay, P. 2006, ‘Out of Circulation’, Photofile,no 77 Autumn
Radock, S. 2005, ‘Out of Circulation,’ Artlink vol 25 no 4 pg 89
Bolton, K. 2005 ‘Adelaide – Recent Art, Recent History,’ Broadsheet vol 34 no 4 pp 212-215
Kenneally, C. 2005, ‘Burn,’Artnotes, Art Monthly Australia, # 184
Radock, S. 2005, Drawing on Memories, in ed. Sly, S. The Adelaide Review, #275
Waters, S. 2005 Is This It?, in dB Magazine, March Edition, # 354
Neylon, J. 2005, A Graphic Way With Words, in ed. Sly, S. The Adelaide Review, # 264,
Radock, S. 2004, Interior, the Adelaide Review, September Edition, # 253
Publications:
Hill, J. and Gauld Architecture, 2020, Uncertain Ruins, Petrel Publishing, London, UK
Hill, J. 2018, Passen-gers, Petrel Publishing, London,UK
Siebert, M. 2014, Losers Annual: 2014, 24 Hours in the Sky, London, UK
Bayley, P. 2014, Florence Trust, the Florence Trust, London, UK
Goers, P. 2013 The Art of Penmanship is Given the Last Rights, in The Advertiser, September 7, Adelaide, Australia
Siebert, M. 2012, Losers: 2011 Annual, 24 Hours in the Sky, artist edition of 25, London /
Siebert, M. 2011, Poetry and Paydays, 24 Hours in the Sky, artist edition of 100, London / Adelaide
Siebert, M. 2011, Remembering the Simpsons, 24 Hours in the Sky, artist edition of 100, London / Adelaide
Bolton, K. 2009 Art Writing; Art in Adelaide in the 1990s and 2000s, Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia, Adelaide, Pp20, 24-30, 55, 57, 58
Radok, S. 2009, Mark Siebert: New Work, Artlink Magazine, vol 29 no 2, pg 76 – 77
Fan Letters – Sycophantism, October 19, 2008, Radio National
Tripe R Radio, October 29 2008, Melbourne
Siebert, M. 2008, 30 Gigs, artist edition of 5, Adelaide
Siebert, M. 2007, Fan Letters, artist edition of 100, Adelaide
Currie, B. 2007, ‘Mark Siebert,’ in ed. Llewellyn, J. Australian Art Collector, Issue 40, pp 184 – 185