ANDREW SULLIVAN
Andrew Sullivan is one of the original residents in the now famous Lennox Street Studios in Newtown, alongside artists like Tim Johnson. He has used the same studio since graduating from the National Art School in the early 1990s and his work reflects an extraordinarily patient, understated and meticulous craftsmanship.
Andrew's large scale, highly refined paintings take years to complete. The result is, of course, idiosyncratic, and demand time to unpick the complex allegories and narratives he weaves together. God, as they say, is in the details! The jewel-like surface of saturated colours, of even and precise detail, and carefully described movements of light are delightful, as are the flashes of humour. You need to be up-close to a painting like Self Reflected in Eye of Beast for quite some time before you finally find a minute self-portrait of Andrew at work in the pupil of this melancholy, oddly embracable, dinosaur.
His most recent work is part of a series called Survey into the Cretaceous, in which Andrew takes on the fantastic role of a naturalist with a time machine. He presents freshly killed specimens of long dead dinosaurs, painted in the language of Victorian scientific illustrations, Dutch still life and cabinets of curiosity. This is a commentary on the wonders of science and discovery, of the complex and contradictory histories that shape our contemporary culture of dinosaurs, and of the once initiate relationship between Art and Science in their shared journey into the imagination.
PRESS and Links
Andrew Sullivan's website
Paradise Dream, Video of Andrew Sullivan's exhibition of 2011
John Macdonald, Art Collector, Issue 29, July-Sept 2004
Clare Morgan writing for the Daily Telegraph, July 18, 2014
AGNSW Sulman Prize 2013
AGNSW Sulman Prize 2014
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Solo Exhibitions
2014 Mimes of the King's Court, Ginkgo Gallery, Sydney
2011 Paradise Dream, Flinders St Gallery, Sydney
2009 My Time with Birds, Flinders St Gallery, Sydney
2007 Small Landscapes, Australian Galleries, Sydney
2006 Recent Paintings, Australian Galleries, Sydney
2004 Portraits 2001-2004, Australian Galleries, Melbourne
2004 Portraits 2001-2004. Australian Galleries, Sydney
2002 Recent paintings, Australian Galleries, Melbourne
2001 Life, Australian Galleries, Sydney
2000 Recent Paintings, Australian Galleries, Melbourne
1999 Married to the Sea, Queen St Fine Art, Sydney
1998 Recent Paintings, Queen St fine Art, Sydney
1997 Recent Paintings, QueenSt Fine Art, Sydney
1996 Bugs, Queen St Fine Art, Sydney
Selected Group Exhibitions
2014 Sir John Sulman Prize, Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney
2013 Sir John Sulman Prize, Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney
2012 Mosman Art Prize, Mosman Art Gallery, Sydney
2011 Salon des Refuse, S.H.Ervin Gallery, Sydney
Composite, Flinders St Gallery, Sydney
2009 Newtown Diaries, Delmar Gallery, Sydney
Mosman Art Prize, Mosman Art Gallery, Sydney
2008 Salon des Refuse, S.H.Ervin Gallery, Sydney
2007 EMSLA, Coffs Harbour Regional Gallery, Coffs Harbour
The Blake Prize, The Gallery, National art School, Sydney
Small Pleasures, Australian Galleries, Melbourne
Salon des Refuse, S.H.Ervin Gallery, Sydney
2006 Summery, Australian Galleries, Sydney
The Blake Prize, The Gallery, National Art School, Sydney
50th Anniversary Exhibition, Australian Galleries, Melbourne
The Shirly Hannan National Portrait Prize, Bega Valley Regional Gallery, Bega
Doug Moran National Portrait Prize, State Library of NSW, Sydney
Salon des Refuse, S.H.Ervin Gallery, Sydney
2005 End of Year Group Exhibition, Australian Galleries, Sydney
Australian Contemporary Art, De Recourt /Australian Galleries, The Gallery in Cork St, London
Sir John Sulman Prize, Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney
Salon des Refuse, S.H.Ervin Gallery, Sydney
Small Important Works, Australian Galleries, Sydney
2004 Salon des Refuse, S.H.Ervin Gallery, Sydney
2003 Archibald Prize, Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney
New Work, Australian Galleries, Sydney
2002 Recent Works by Australian Galleries Artists, Australian Galleries, Sydney
Salon des Refuse, S.H.Ervin Gallery, Sydney
2001 Mosman Art Prize, Mosman Art Gallery, Sydney
The Kings School Art Prize, Kings School, Sydney
The Redlands Westpac Art Prize, Mosman Art Gallery, Sydney
Australian Painting and Sculpture, Australian Galleries, Sydney
2000 Lost in Space, the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
The Kings School Art Prize, The Kings School, Sydney
Melbourne Art Fair 2000, Australian Galleries, Melbourne
1999 The Kings School Art Prize, The Kings School, Sydney
1998 3 Visions, New England Art Museum, Armidale NSW
Alumni Show, Cell Block, National Art School, Sydney
Salon des Refuse, S.H.Ervin gallery, Sydney
Mosman Art Prize, Mosman Civic Centre, Sydney
Doug Moran National Portrait Prize, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
1997 Salon des Refuse, S.H.Ervin Gallery, Sydney
1996 Salon des Refuse, S.H.Gallery, Sydney
Alumination, Cell Block, National Art School, Sydney
Emerging Artist, Queen St Gallery, Sydney
Waverly Art Prize, Bondi Public School, Sydney
Inglis Art Award, Newmarket, Sydney
1995 The Graduate Show, Cell Block, National Art School, Sydney
Mosman Art Prize, Mosman Civic Centre, Sydney
1994 Graduates exhibition, Cell Block, National Art School, Sydney
Diesis, Cell Block, National Art School, Sydney
Painting Exhibition, Cell Block, National Art School, Sydney
1993 Salon des Refuse, S.H.Ervin gallery, Sydney
Many Ways of Seeing, Cell Block, National Art School, Sydney
Eclectic Halo, Private Residence, Sydney
1992 Works on Paper, Cell Block, National Art School, Sydney
Prizes
2014 Sir John Sulman Prize
Collections
Ballarat Regional Art Gallery
New England Regional Art Gallery
Polo Ralph Lauren
Societe General
National Art School Alumni Collection
Michael Buxton Contemporary Art Collection
Artbank