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Artist Statement:
As you can see on my website:
http://www.johndahlsen.com , I
make my art from found
objects, mainly plastics,
sometimes driftwood and
rubber, which I find on the
beaches of the eastern
Australian seaboard.
My recent work has resulted in
assemblage wall works,
sculpture, installations,
photography, painting and
public art projects.
The work has an equally strong
environmental and purely
aesthetic concern and is a
direct reflection of
contemporary society.
I show through my work the
value of beauty, the need for
environmental awareness and
the amazing capacity we all
have to experience deep shifts
in our perception.
My creative medium shifted
from painting to working with
found objects as a result of
an artistic accident during
the mid 1990’s. I was
collecting driftwood, on a
remote Victorian Coastline,
with the intention of making
furniture and stumbled upon
vast amounts of plastic ocean
debris. This whole new palette
of colour and shape revealing
itself to me immediately
affected me; I’d never seen
such hues and forms before.
Since then for approximately
10 years, I scoured Australian
beaches for found objects,
much of which I found as
washed up ‘ocean litter’. I
have since discovered this is
a ...
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Artist Exhibitions:
John Dahlsen is based in Byron
Bay Australia. He won the
prestigious Wynne prize at the
Art Gallery of New South
Wales in 2000 and was again a
finalist in 2003 and 2004. In
2006 he was also a finalist in
the Sulman award at the Art
Gallery of NSW...
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Artist Galleries:
John Dahlsen is represented
by various commercial
galleries within Australia.
He regularly exhibits his work
in public institutions and
within the regional gallery
network....
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Artist Reviews:
Selected Bibliography:
John Dahlsen - Book - "Art
Insights" Book - Volume 1 2009
Fantastic Recycled Plastic -
Book - Lark Books publication
Autumn 2009
Gold Coast Bulletin - 12
September 2009
The Northern Star - 12
September 2009
Gold Coast Bulletin - 10
September 2009
Canberra Times 9 August 2009
Sublime Magazine - Mid
September Feature article
"John ...
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Commissions:
Nationally regarded in
Australia, as an award winning
artist, John Dahlsen won the
prestigious Wynne prize at the
Art Gallery of NSW in 2000 and
was selected as a finalist in
2003 and again in 2004. In
2006 he was a finalist in the
Sulman Award at the Art
Gallery...
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Collections for John Dahlsen:
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Represented:
Powerhouse Museum, Sydney, Australia.
Victorian College of the Arts Collection.
Artbank, Sydney Australia.
Miniature Museum of Contemporary Art - Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
University of Western Australia
Curtin University, Western Australia.
Myer/Bailleiu collection.
Kerry Stokes collection.
de Rothschild Collection.
Thomas & Esther Van Vliet collection.
Wesfarmers Collection.
Tweed River Regional Art Gallery Collection
Lismore Regional Art Gallery Collection
Pochter Collection
Soil Test Australia
Southwest Minnesota State University Art Museum
Pat Corrigan Collection
Spectrum Satellite Communications
Burswood Casino collection Perth Western Australia.
Gold Coast City Art Gallery
Brisbane City Council
John Cornell & Delvene Delaney Collection
DBI Architects QLD
Xavier College Collection Melbourne
Townsville Convention Centre
Logan Regional Gallery Collection
Paul Hogan and Linda Koswalski Collection
Novatel Hotels Australia
Red Balloon Collection
Sheraton Hotels Australia
George Negus Collection
Whipple Gallery Minnesota
Jefferson City Collection Missouri USA
Mark Bouris Collection
Dr Alice Wexler Collection New York
Oneness University - Chennai - Andrah Pradesh, India
Absolut Collection Sweden
Various private collections in Australia, Britain, India, Germany, The Netherlands,
Switzerland, USA and Japan
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