Standing, Marc
Marc Standing
born 1976, Zimbabwe, Harare
2002 – 2003, spent time in Lesotho
2004 - 2005, study tour, Geneva, Switzerland.
2005, immigrated to Australia.
Education: BA Fine Arts Hon. Degree, Cape Town University, Cape Town, SouthAfrica.
Major in painting.
Represented by Brenda May Gallery, Sydney
South Coast Gallery, Wellington
solo exhibitions :
2008 Brenda May Gallery, Sydney
2007 new painting, Brenda May Gallery, Sydney
2006 waking dreams; an Australian portrait, Noosa Regional Gallery, Noosa, Qld
2004 the human wreckage, Gallery Wawana, Maastricht, Holland
2003 metamorphia, Gallery Wawana, Maastricht, Holland
2002 a post apocalyptic independence, Gallery Wawana, Maastricht, Holland
Gerontophobia, Association for the Visual Arts, Cape Town, South Africa
2001 Psychosis, Gallery Delta, Harare, Zimbabwe
Selected Group Exhibitions
2008 Touring Blake Prize 07, finalist
2007 Brenda May Birthday Show.
Shelf Life, Delmar Gallery.
Fisher Ghost Art Prize 07, finalist.
Blake Prize for Religious Art, NAS Gallery, Sydney, finalist.
Mosman Art Prize 07, Mosman Art Gallery, finalist
I’m as mad as hell, Brenda May Gallery, Sydney
Melbourne 07, Pivotal galleries, Melbourne.
Pivotal Galleries, Group Show, Melbourne
2006 Pivotal Galleries, Melbourne.
new breed exhibition, Global gallery, Sydney
regional art awards, Pinnacles Gallery, Thuringowa/ Raw Space, Brisbane
churchie emerging art award, Brisbane
Cooper Gallery, Noosa, Qld
linden postcard show, Melbourne
2005 regional art award, Longreach/ Brisbane, Qld
2003 artists for Zimbabwe, Gallery 27, Cork Street, London
2002 Zimbabwe now, Academy of the Arts, The Hague, Holland
2001 business as usual, Harare International Arts Festival [HIFA], National
Gallery, Harare, Zimbabwe.
Collections in South Africa, New York, Holland, Scandinavia, Canada, Belgium, Australia.
Awards
2005 Regional Art Awards, Viewer’s Choice
Publications
‘smart art’, sunshine coast daily revive magazine, 29/04/06, pg6-8, Gail Arnold
onzewereld, april 2002, pg 50/51, anno van der Heide
Limburgs Dagblad Newspaper, 9 march 2002, pg 37
‘altered states’, Gallery delta magazine, December 2001, Frances Marks
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