Michael Berry - Artist
Scientific illustrator, writer, sculptor and painter.
One Man Shows
1979 Barry Newton Gallery, Adelaide (stone sculpture)
1980 Distelfink Gallery, Melbourne (sculpture and drawings)
1982 Horsham Regional Gallery, Victoria (sculpture and drawings)
1984 Irving Sculpture Gallery, Sydney "IMAGO" (assemblages sculpture drawings)
1985 Hamilton Regional Gallery, Victoria (assemblages and paintings)
1986 Mildura Regional Gallery, Victoria (paintings and sculpture)
1987 Martha and Mario's, Bellingen, N.S.W. (paintings)
2002 Red Hill Gallery 141, Victoria (paintings and drawings)
2002/03/04/05 Whitecliffs, Rye, Victoria (paintings)
2004 (July/Aug) Frankston Art Centre, Victoria (paintings and drawings)
2004 (Nov/Dec) Frankston Art Centre (major installation)
2007 (Aug/Sept) Glen Eira City Hall Galley/Jenny Pihan Fine Art (paintings/sculpture)
Group Exhibitions
1977 Kenneth Graham Sculpture Gallery, Melbourne (sculpture)
1977-79 Abercrombie Gallery, Melbourne (sculpture)
1983 Antares Gallery, Sydney (drawings)
1984 Irving Sculpture Gallery, Sydney "2D x 3D" (collages)
1984 Images, Sydney (collages)
1985 Ninth Mildura Sculpture Triennial
1987 Third Australian Sculpture Triennial, National Gallery of Victoria
1990 Inaugural John Olsen Drawing Award, Bathurst, N.S.W.
1996 The Lodge Gallery, Bellingen, N.S.W. (drawings)
1997 The Lodge Gallery, Bellingen, N.S.W. (paintings)
1997 Centre for Contemporary Craft, Victoria "Fire in the Heart" (enamel collaboration with Allan Heywood)
1993-2000 Represented by Sweetwater Gallery, Bellingen, N.S.W.
1997 Centre for Contemporary Art, Sydney (collaboration designs)
1999 Soho Gallery, Sydney (paintings and drawings)
2000 Manyung Gallery, Mount Eliza, Victoria (paintings)
2000 Monash Gallery - Masterpiece in a Day (painting)
2000 Richmond Gallery, Melbourne (paintings)
2001 Richmond Gallery, Melbourne (paintings)
2001 Delshan Gallery, Melbourne (paintings)
2002 (Jan) Jeffery Malesa Gallery, Sorrento, Victoria (29 paintings)
2002 (April) Jeffery Malesa Gallery, Sorrento, Victoria (paintings and assemblages)
2002 (June/July) Aspects Gallery, Blairgowrie, Victoria (painting)
2002 (August) Jeffery Malesa Gallery, Sorrento, Victoria (paintings)
2002/2003 (Nov/Dec/Jan) Jeffery Malesa Gallery, Sorrento, Victoria (paintings)
2002 (from December) Permanently represented by Jenny Pihan Fine Art
2003 (Australia Day Weekend) Morning Star Chapel Gallery Exhibition mounted by Jenny Pihan Fine Art. Mount Eliza, Victoria (paintings)
2003 (March) Exhibition at the Frankston International Guitar Festival at Cube 37's Federation Gallery, Victoria
2003 (July) Eltham Wiregrass Gallery, Victoria
2003 (June/July) Aspects Gallery, Blairgowrie, Victoria
2003 (August) Launch of 'Selected Contemporary Artists of Australia' - Exhibition at Manyung Gallery, Victoria
2003 (Sept/Oct) Jeffery Malesa Gallery, Sorrento, Victoria
2003 (Oct/Nov) Culture Creep Exhibition at Cube 37, Frankston, Victoria
2003 (Nov/Dec) a5minus Exhibition - Little Malop Gallery, Geelong, Victoria
2004 (March) Rhythm of Life Exhibition - International Guitar Festival, Cube 37, Frankston
2004 (April) Affordable Art Show - Royal Exhibition Building, Carlton, Victoria
2004 (June/July) Aspects Gallery, Blairgowrie. Victoria
2004 (Oct/Nov) Gardiner Contemporary Art - Hawthorn East, Victoria
2005 (March) Almost but not a Guitar Exhibition, International Guitar Festival, Cube 37, Frankston
2005 (April) Affordable Art Show - Royal Exhibition Building, Carlton, Victoria
2005 (April) Guest Artist at Camberwell Rotary Art show
2005 (Oct/Nov) Steps Gallery, Carlton South, Victoria
2006 (April) Melbourne Art Show - Royal Exhibition Building, Carlton Victoria
2007 (April) Melbourne Art show - Royal Exhibition Building, Carlton Victoria
2007 (ongoing) Permanent representation at Jenny Pihan Fine Art Frankston/Sorrento
2007 (Nov/Dec) 12th Guangzhou International Art Fair, China
BERRY-KEEN EXHIBITIONS
1991 Northern Territory Craft Award, Darwin
1991-92 Fletcher Challenge Ceramic Award, New Zealand
1991 Tenth National Gold Coast Ceramic Art Award
1992 Possum Brush Gallery, Nabiac, N.S.W.
1993 Beaver Gallery, Canberra
1991-92 Shepparton Art and Craft Exhibition, Victoria
1993 Glenaeon Art and Craft Expo, Sydney
1992-96 Phillips & Company, Sydney
1993-2000 Sweetwater Gallery, Bellingen, N.S.W.
Commissions
1985 "Phoenix Rising" - Monumental Sculpture - Artist in Residence
Hamilton Technical College, Victoria
1985 "Triangle of Sun" - Monumental Sculpture - Next Wave Festival
Hamilton Lake, Victoria
1985 "Ts’ui" - Monumental Sculpture - Redcliffs High School,
Mildura, Victoria
1986 One of five finalists, National Gallery of Victoria Sculpture Commission for entrance to Gallery
2004 "Entropy of Individuality" - Commissioned by Frankston Arts Centre Glass Gallery
2007 Three large paintings - "Sunset Sea", "Time and Tide" and "Ocean Rhapsody" (diptych) - Commissioned by One 15 Marina, Sentosa Cove, Singapore
Other private and corporate commissions
Collections
Hamilton Regional Gallery
Many corporate and private collections
Prizes and Awards
2006 Premio Art Award - Italy - Finalist
2006 Art Periscope - Poland - Finalist
2006 MIAD Venado Tuerto - Argentina - Fourth Prize
2007 Art Periscope - Poland - Third Prize
2007 Fine Art Originals - Finalist
Publications
- Craft arts, 1 and 8
- Craft arts International, 28
- Issue 1, 'P' Magazine, Japan, 1984
- National Gallery of Victoria Sculpture Triennial Catalogue 1987
- Mildura Sculpture Triennial Catalogue 1985
- 'Artifuss' for Bellinger Courier Sun and Seaboard Star 1993-99
- 'Artifuss' For Southern Peninsula Local, Rosebud 2001
- Cartoons published in Courier Sun 1993-2000 and Southern Peninsula Local 2001-02
- Arts Editor for 'Views' Magazine, Mornington Peninsula
- "Selected Contemporary Artists of Australia" Commissioned book written by Michael Berry featuring seventy-three artists. Publication July 2003 - launch August 2003
- Arts Writer for Mornington Peninsula Visitors Magazine and Good Life 03/04/05/06/07
- Australian Artist N253 - 2005 re Camberwell judging
- "FAMOUS - 100 Contemporary Artists" - Stockholm/London 2007 - International distribution
- "Art and Creativity" published 2006
- "Reality Rocks" - Book of cartoons currently in compilation for publication in 2007
- "Artists and Illustrators" London - Featured article June/July 2007
- Many artists’ biographies privately commissioned
- Scientific illustrator at Melbourne University 1972-77, and Sydney University 1980-84
Michael Berry has convened many public meetings and is regularly invited to officially open solo exhibitions and speak publicly on the universal language of art. In 2005 he was invited to be chief judge of the Camberwell Rotary Art Show and the Undine Award for the Victorian Artists Society, and the Glen Waverly Art show in 2007 - among others.
You are invited to visit Michael’s website at - www.michaelberry.com.au