Exhibitions Richard Blackwell Solo Exhibition 6th August 2024 - 24th August 2024

Richard Blackwell continues his interdisciplinary pursuit of creating geometric abstractions that ride the trajectory of technology. Attempting to make the digital physical, and opening a lens into the infinite realities of the future, Blackwell is concurrently thinking about the definition of Printmaking and Drawing, its place in society and his art school origins.

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ARTIST PROFILE:
Richard Blackwell is an Australian artist based in Sydney, where he holds the position of Advanced Manufacturing Lab Coordinator and Built Environment Tutor at the University of NSW Design Futures Lab. He also runs Studio Studio, a collective studio in Canberra ACT. Blackwell was employed as the Assistant Professor of the Foundation Woodshop and Digital Lab at VCU Arts in Qatar from 2016-2019.

Having received a Fulbright Scholarship in 2012, Blackwell completed his Masters in Fine Art at the School of Art Institute of Chicago in 2014 and practised extensively in the USA until his appointment as Assistant Professor, Foundation Woodshop and Digital Lab at Virginia Commonwealth University Arts in Qatar in 2016. In 2011 Blackwell exhibited a major series GROTTO, an exhibition in 3 volumes, which was shown in Canberra, Melbourne and Chicago, supported through the Australia Council of the Arts. He has exhibited widely, facilitated artist residency programs and set up various artist run initiatives in Australia, USA, and the Middle East.

Richard Blackwell's work has been collected for ACT Legislative Assembly, Artbank, NAB Collection and the Justin Art House Museum and he has undertaken several public commissions including the Mayfare Apartments, Canberra, 65 Mary Street, Brisbane and the NEXUS M+A Laneway Project, Brisbane, both undertaken with Urban Art Projects.

RICHARD BLACKWELL PROFILE
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Richard Blackwell 2024

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