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Alan Young - Curriculum Vitae






Born 1980, Aberdeen, Scotland 
                   
Tertiary Study:                            
2005                    Master of Fine Art (Research)           
2002                    Bachelor of Fine Arts (Hons)
1999-2001          Bachelor of Fine Arts
                             All undertaken at University of Tasmania (Hobart)    
Awards/prizes:
2007                    Residency St Vincents Hospital Melbourne
2006                    Finalist Brett Whiteley Travelling Scholarship
                             Finalist Fletcher Jones Contemporary Art Prize
2005 -2006         Moorilla Estate Scholarship winner
2005                    Finalist City of Hobart Art Prize   
1998                    Product Dynamic, Visual Art Prize
       
Solo Exhibitions:
2007                    Nobody’s Perfect, Despard Gallery Hobart
2006                    Wine, Dance, Song, Bond Store, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery       
2005                    MFA, Submission, Plimsoll Gallery
                             Lazenby’s on Liverpool, Hobart
2004                    Malidini’s Restaurant, Hobart
2003                    Drawings, Entrepot Gallery, Hobart
                             New Paintings, Red Wall Gallery, Hobart
                                                      
Group Exhibitions:                                              
2007                    Collecting For Tasmania 11 Devonport Regional Gallery
                             Art Melbourne, Despard Gallery, Stand M301, Royal Exhibition Centre, Vic
2006                    Fletcher Jones Contemporary Art Prize, Finalist Exhibition, Geelong   
                             Gallery,Victoria
                             Brett Whiteley Travelling Scholarship, Finalist Exhibition, NSW Gallery,
                             Sydney
                             Winter Stock Show, Despard Gallery
                             Red Wall Gallery Launch, Republic Bar, Hobart
2005                    City of Hobart Art Prize-Finalist Exhibition, TMAG,                        
2004                    Propinquity and Distance-Self-Portraiture in Contemporary Painting
                             Practice, Carnegie Gallery Hobart           
2003                    Living Artists Week-North Hobart Medical Centre
2002                    Tangent, Honours Graduate Show, Plimsoll Gallery,Hobart
2001                    Raw, Long Gallery, Hobart
                             Transistor, Entrepot
                             University Sculpture Society, Botanical Gardens
                             Red, Fine Art Gallery, University of Tasmania
                             Surface;Presence, Fine Arts Gallery, University of Tasmania
2000                    University Painting Society, Sidespace Gallery
                             2nd Year Printmaking Society exhibition, Entrepot
                             2nd Year Painting Exhibition, Entrepot Lounge
1998                    Art Rage, Queen Victoria Museum Launceston
                             Moonah Art Centre Exhibition Hobart
1997                    Art Rage, Queen Victoria Museum Launceston

Collections:               
                    Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery
                    Devonport Regional Art gallery
                    Moorilla Museum Tasmania
                    Elizabeth College Hobart
                    Private collections nationally

Bibliography:        
2007                     Peter Timms, Nobody’s Perfect, catalogue
2006                    Joerg Andersch, Mercury, review, March 18th                       
                             Anna Phillips, Wine, Dance, Song, catalogue       
2004                    Mary Pridmore, Propinquity and Distance, Self - Portraiture in Contemporary
                             Painting Practice, catalogue
2003                    Crafts International No 58, Page 70




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