CURRICULUM VITAE

1969 Salisbury, England
2000 Arrived Australia

1996 MA, Royal Academy Schools, London, UK
1993 BA (Hons.) Visual Arts, Leicester Polytechnic, Leicester UK

SELECTED INDIVIDUAL EXHIBITIONS

2009 How the Dead Live, (as Rendall&Spier), Conical, Melbourne
2008 The Essay (as Rendall&Spier), West Space Inc., Melbourne
2008 Luxury, Serenity & Pleasure, Hell, Melbourne
2008 The Red Lion, O Projects, Melbourne
2004 Work in Progress, St. Vincent’s Hospital, Melbourne
2003 22cm (with Jon Jones) Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery, Birmingham, UK
2003 Respond Grey (with Bryan Spier) CCAS Manuka, Canberra, ACT
2002 Zombie Paintings, Mass Gallery, Melbourne
2002 The Last Paintings, West Space Inc., Melbourne
2001 In Every Dream Home a Heartache, Linden St. Kilda Centre for Contemporary Arts, Melbourne
2000 Abject Realisms, Linden St. Kilda Centre for Contemporary Arts, Melbourne
1999 We only have this excerpt, Henry Peacock Gallery, London
1997 think you’ve flown before, (with Benet Spencer) Proud Galleries, London

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2009 Reconstructing the Old House, The Nunnery Gallery, London & Ruskin Gallery, Cambridge, UK
2009 Arthur Guy Memorial Painting Prize 2009, Bendigo Art Gallery
2009 The Winter Collectors' Exhibition 2009, John Buckley Gallery, Melbourne
2009 Some recent Painting: The Director's Cut, John Buckley Gallery, Melbourne
2008 World’s End, Carlton Hotel & Studios, Melbourne
2006 Behind the Scenes at the Museum, Yarra Sculpture Space, Melbourne
2006 10th Planet, Tower Bridge Business Complex, London
2006 Life is Getting Longer, VCA Gallery Melbourne
2006 Five Minutes to Midnight, Victoria Park Gallery, Melbourne
2006 Sustainable Living Festival, Federation Square, Melbourne
2005 Still, Yarra Sculpture Space, Melbourne
2005 Superstructure, West Space, Melbourne
2005 A re-Constructed World, Linden St Kilda Centre for Contemporary Arts, Melbourne
2004 Veneer, Blindside, Melbourne
2004 Life is very long, Yarra Sculpture Space, Melbourne
2004 An Architecture of Hope, Gallery 101, Melbourne
2004 The John Leslie Art Prize, Gippsland Art Gallery, Sale
2004 Compendium, Deakin University, Melbourne
2003 Compendium, Platform, Melbourne
2002 Fundere Sculpture Prize Exhibition, Yarra Sculpture Space, Melbourne
2002 The John Leslie Art Prize, Gippsland Art Gallery, Sale
2002 Prospect Portrait Prize, Prospect Art gallery, Prospect, South Australia
2001 Kunst – Darm, Henry Peacock Gallery, London
1999 Working Drawings, Henry Peacock Gallery, London
1999 The Air Conditioned Nightmare, Rowe & Mawe, London
1998 Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy Gallery, London
1997 The Ice Station Installation, Kings Cross, London

AWARDS, PRIZES & RESIDENCIES

2003/04 St. Vincent’s Hospital, Melbourne
1996 The Sir Brinsley Ford Award, travelling scholarship to Madrid, Spain

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Chris Burtt, ‘Life is very long’, (exhib. review) Artlink, volume 25, no. 1, March 2005
Jazmina Cininas, ‘Life is very long’ (exhib.review), ACCAmag, Issue 08, 2005 Australian Centre for Contemporary Arts, www.accaonline.org.au
Martina Copley, ‘Veneer’, (exhib. review) un. Magazine, Issue 3 Autumn 2005.
Ashley Crawford, ‘Life is getting longer’ Preview, The Age, 11 June 2006, p. 23
Ashley Crawford, ‘A re-Constructed World’, (exhib. review), The Sunday Age, Preview, June 26 2005, p. 22.
Simon Gregg, ’Life is Getting Longer’, review, Artlink, vol. 26, no. 4
Christine Morrow, ‘Veneer’ (cat. essay), Blindside Editions, Melbourne 2004
Christine Morrow, ‘Superstructure’ (cat. essay)
Christine Morrow, ‘Behind the Scenes at the Museum’ (cat. essay)
Justine Khamara, ‘A re-Constructed World’, (exhib. review), un. Magazine, Issue 6 Autumn 2006.
Meredith Turnbull, ‘Life is Getting Longer’ (cat. essay)

PUBLIC AND CORPORATE COLLECTIONS

St. Vincent’s Hospital, Melbourne
DeMontfort University, Leicester, UK
Royal Academy Libraries, London
St. Helier Hospital Endoscopy Unit London
Monash University Museum of Art

Private Collections
UK and Australia