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Stephen Haley
BACK TO THE FUTURE The Australian artist Stephen Haley bridges the discoveries of the Renaissance with the twenty-first century. The concept of the vanishing point and thus central perspective was… Read more
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Vanishing II
Mirror Land
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Vanishing II
Mirror Land
€ 3,889
After Hours
Mirror Land
from € 699
After Hours
Mirror Land
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Overview
Mirror Land
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Overview
Mirror Land
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Screen Time
Mirror Land
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Screen Time
Mirror Land
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Viewpoint I
Mirror Land
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Viewpoint I
Mirror Land
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Intra-space I
Mirror Land
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Intra-space I
Mirror Land
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Background Information about Stephen Haley
Introduction
BACK TO THE FUTURE
The Australian artist Stephen Haley bridges the discoveries of the Renaissance with the twenty-first century. The concept of the vanishing point and thus central perspective was the beginning of the development of the modern, technology-dominated world of imagery. In early Renaissance vedute, the buildings of spatially well-ordered cities were viewed with a sober gaze. Haley constructs a congenial image of the strictly ordered structures of the worlds in which we live and work today. With the help of 3D technology he is able to create seductive illusions, which he simultaneously interrupts with repetitions and insertions of real urban panoramas. It is the visual art of interstice that allows the modern world to appear in well organized basic themes. Haley’s works, which he calls “virtual photographs,” are scientifically based, visual commentary on current and future developments.
Haley has a doctoral degree from the University of Melbourne, where he teaches art history. In his academic work he has dealt extensively with the concepts of society and reflection. His ideas and designs today assume a network that encompasses the internet and other networks and dependencies of modern man: “As the mesh envelops us all, it has the capacity to restrict but also to connect us all within its net. It is capable of oppression as well as giddying beauty – it depends on the operator.”
True space is, in Haley’s words, increasingly designed according to models in virtual space. “The mirror has become the metasign for our age. We occupy a historical point where the real has vanished into simulation.” The scholar’s theses find their congenial correlation in his almost unsettlingly beautiful images of a determined future.
Horst Klöver
The Australian artist Stephen Haley bridges the discoveries of the Renaissance with the twenty-first century. The concept of the vanishing point and thus central perspective was the beginning of the development of the modern, technology-dominated world of imagery. In early Renaissance vedute, the buildings of spatially well-ordered cities were viewed with a sober gaze. Haley constructs a congenial image of the strictly ordered structures of the worlds in which we live and work today. With the help of 3D technology he is able to create seductive illusions, which he simultaneously interrupts with repetitions and insertions of real urban panoramas. It is the visual art of interstice that allows the modern world to appear in well organized basic themes. Haley’s works, which he calls “virtual photographs,” are scientifically based, visual commentary on current and future developments.
Haley has a doctoral degree from the University of Melbourne, where he teaches art history. In his academic work he has dealt extensively with the concepts of society and reflection. His ideas and designs today assume a network that encompasses the internet and other networks and dependencies of modern man: “As the mesh envelops us all, it has the capacity to restrict but also to connect us all within its net. It is capable of oppression as well as giddying beauty – it depends on the operator.”
True space is, in Haley’s words, increasingly designed according to models in virtual space. “The mirror has become the metasign for our age. We occupy a historical point where the real has vanished into simulation.” The scholar’s theses find their congenial correlation in his almost unsettlingly beautiful images of a determined future.
Horst Klöver
Bio
Stephan Haley was born in Melbourne, Australia in 1961. He studied art, history, and philosophy at the Victorian College of Arts and at the University of Melbourne, where he also received his doctoral degree for the work Mirror as Metasign: Contemporary Culture and the Mirror Land.
Awards
2006 | Australia Council Visual Arts Board Overseas Studio Residency, Los Angeles, USA |
R & M McGivern Acquisitive Prize for Painting | |
2004 | ANZ Visual Art Scholarship |
1998 | Deacons Graham and James/Arts 21 Award |
1996 | Pat Corrigan Award, NAVA/Australia Council |
1995 | Pat Corrigan Award, NAVA/Australia Council |
1993 | Christine Abrahams Award for Painting, VCA |
Exhibitions
Solo Exhibitions
2008 | Projected Worlds, Academy Gallery, School of Visual and Performing Arts, University of Tasmania, Australia |
Place into Space, Nellie Castan Gallery, Melbourne, Australia | |
2007 | Selected Video Works: Stephen Haley, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia |
2006 | Mesh, Nellie Castan Gallery, Melbourne, Australia |
Projector, 18th Street Arts Centre, Los Angeles, USA | |
2005 | After Reflection, VCA Gallery, Melbourne, Australia |
Metamorph, Michael Carr Gallery, Sydney, Australia | |
2004 | Reverb, Nellie Castan Gallery, Melbourne, Australia |
2003 | Super Natural, Michael Carr Gallery, Sydney, Australia |
2002 | New Estate & Nature Strips, Nellie Castan Gallery, Melbourne, Australia |
2000 | Echolalia, Level 11 Gallery, Ashton, Raggat and MacDougall, Melbourne, Australia |
1998 | We Don’t Live Here, La Trobe Street Gallery, Melbourne, Australia |
1997 | Echo, La Trobe Street Gallery, Melbourne, Australia |
1995 | West Space, Westspace Gallery, Footscray, Melbourne, Australia |
1994 | Residua, Linden Gallery, St. Kilda, Melbourne, Australia |
Group Exhibitions
2008 | Fletcher Jones Art Prize, Geelong Art Gallery, Geelong, Australia |
Macarthur Cook Painting Prize, FortyFiveDownstairs Gallery, Melbourne, Australia | |
When I think about Art, George Paton Gallery, University of Melbourne, Australia | |
2007 | Penelope Davis, Stephen Haley, Joyce Khol, Artcore Brewery Annex, Los Angeles, USA |
The Director’s Lounge 2007 Contemporary Art and Media, Berlin, Germany | |
U-Turn, Glendale Art College Gallery, Glendale, Los Angeles, USA | |
The Arthur Guy Memorial Painting Prize, Bendigo Art Gallery, Bendigo, VIC | |
Maroondah City Council Collection Highlights, Maroondah Art Gallery, VIC | |
Macarthur Cook Painting Prize, 45 Downstairs, Melbourne, Australia | |
Living Elvis, RMIT Gallery, Melbourne, Australia | |
2006 | Random Access, curated by Robert Lindsay, McClelland Gallery and Sculpture Park, Langwarrin, Victoria |
Resistance is Futile, VCA Gallery, Victoria Melbourne Reign, Michael Carr Gallery, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia | |
Reunion, Westspace Gallery, Melbourne, Australia | |
2005 | The Arthur Guy Memorial Painting Prize, Bendigo Art Gallery, Bendigo, Victoria |
World Year of Physics Art Prize, Macquarie University, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia | |
Savage Club Invitation Prize, Savage Club, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia | |
Industrial Strength, Horsham Regional Art Gallery, Victoria, Australia | |
2004 | The Spirit of Football, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia |
Sigraph, Super Computing Conference, Pittsburgh, USA | |
ANZ Visual Art Fellowship, ANZ Bank Gallery, Melbourne, Australia | |
Young Collectors, Michael Carr Art Gallery, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia | |
Spring, Michael Carr Art Gallery, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia | |
FloraNova, Nellie Castan Gallery, Melbourne, Victoria Boogie, Jive and Bop, Curator Malcom Bywaters, Plimsoll Gallery, Centre for the Arts, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia | |
2003 | The Arthur Guy Memorial Painting Prize, Bendigo Art Gallery, Bendigo, VIC |
Glacier, Curators Darren Wardle and Suzanne Davies, Benalla Art Gallery, Benalla, Victoria | |
Newcastle Regional Art Gallery, Newcastle, New South Wales | |
Queensland Art Museum, Queensland University of Technology, Queensland | |
Boogie, Jive and Bop, Curator Malcom Bywaters, Launceston Academy Gallery, University of Tasmania, Launceston, Tasmania | |
Hobart School of Art, Hobart, Tasmania | |
Red Spot Special, Nellie Castan Gallery, Melbourne, Australia | |
Hallelujah, Michael Carr Gallery, Sydney | |
2002 | Suburban Echo (Stephen Haley, Howard Arkley, Alex Danko, Darren Wardle; Curator Robert Lindsay), McClellan Regional Gallery, Mornington |
Home Front, Canberra Contemporary Art Space, Canberra, Australia | |
Third Nature, Michael Carr Art Gallery, Sydney, Australia | |
John Leslie Art Prize, Gippsland Art Gallery, Sale, Victoria | |
Recent Acquisitions 1999 – 2002, Horsham Regional Art Gallery, Horsham, Victoria | |
Clear Seeing, UMPA Art Prize Exhibition, Span Galleries, Melbourne, Australia | |
Innovation Exhibition, Innovation: Arts-Media-Design National Symposium Part 2, The VCA Gallery, Melbourne, Australia | |
2001 | Glacier, RMIT Gallery, Melbourne, Australia |
Here There Elsewhere: Suburban Themes, Maroondah Art Gallery, Melbourne, Australia | |
Office of Utopic Procedures, Westspace Gallery, Melbourne, Australia | |
A4 Art, Westspace Gallery, Melbourne, Australia | |
2000 | A Brush With Death, La Trobe Street Gallery, Melbourne, Australia |
1999 | The Keith and Elizabeth Murdoch Travelling Fellowship 1999, VCA Gallery, Melbourne, Australia |
A Four Art, Westspace, Melbourne, Australia | |
1998 | Deacons Graham and James/ Arts 21 Award, Museum of Art, The Ian Potter Museum of Art, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia |
Stable, La Trobe Street Gallery, Melbourne Diversity, Switchback Gallery, Gippsland Centre of Art and Design, Churchill | |
A-4 Art, Westspace Gallery, Footscray, Melbourne, Australia | |
Talk Artists Run Space, Melbourne, Australia | |
Pinoak Gallery, Melbourne, Australia | |
1997 | Deacons Graham and James/ Arts 21 Award, Museum of Art, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia |
Whim: Humour in Art, Linden Gallery, Melbourne, Australia | |
Autumn Show, La Trobe St. Gallery, Melbourne. Christ I’m Pissed Off, Stop 22 Gallery, Fringe Arts, Melbourne, Australia | |
Work, Westspace Gallery, Footscray, Melbourne, Australia | |
A-4 Art, Westspace Gallery, Footscray, Melbourne, Australia | |
1996 | See Spot Run, Next Wave Festival, Temple Studios, Melbourne, Australia |
Shifting Ground: Moonee Valley Invitation Art Prize, City of Moonee Ponds, Melbourne, Australia | |
100 Years of Footy, The Artist’s Garden, Melbourne, Australia | |
A-4 Art, Westspace Gallery, Footscray, Melbourne, Australia | |
1995 | Destinazione - Arte: Platform Artists Exchange Exhibition, Villa Spinola, Genova, Italy |
Rupert Bunny Foundation Selected Artists Exhibition, City of Port Phillip, Melbourne, Australia | |
Save Albert Park Nine by Five Invitation Exhibition, Robert Lindsay Gallery, Melbourne | |
ArtWorkz 7, 101 Collins St Gallery, Melbourne, Australia | |
A-4 Art, Westspace Gallery, Footscray, Melbourne, Australia | |
1994 | Power and Site, Next Wave Festival, Gallery Gecko, Fitzroy, Melbourne, Australia |
Out West, Westspace Gallery, Footscray, Melbourne, Australia | |
Endangered Species, Linden Gallery, St.Kilda, Melbourne, Australia | |
The Room Outside, Argyle St. Studios Gallery, St. Kilda, Melbourne, Australia | |
A-4 Art, Westspace Gallery, Footscray, Melbourne, Australia | |
1993 | Slide, Gertrude St Gallery, 200 Gertrude St, Fitzroy, Melbourne, Australia |
Small Works, Fitzroy St. Gallery, St.Kilda, Melbourne, Australia | |
Young Melbourne Artists, Leonard Joel’s’ Auctions, Melbourne, Australia | |
1992 | ArtWorkz Four, 101 Collins St Gallery, Melbourne, Australia |
Mass Hang, Deutscher Gallery, Fitzroy, Melbourne, Australia | |
Daventry Art Prize, Monash Studios, Collingwood, Melbourne, Australia | |
1991 | All Stock Must Go, Swanston St. Gallery, RMIT, Melbourne, Australia |
First National Student Art and Design Show, Exhibition Buildings, Melbourne, Australia | |
RMIT Graduate Show, RMIT, Melbourne, Australia | |
1990 | Verisimilitudes, Swanston St Gallery, RMIT, Melbourne, Australia |
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