ARTISTS | Stephen Pleban
Stephen Pleban‘s heavily textured paintings depict saturated scenes of interconnection between humans, animals and pseudo-landscapes. Pleban explores the uncertainty of our altered relationship with the natural world and in dream-like depictions, examines the imaginative interplay between light and dark, night and day, and our desire to discover new ways of sensing, learning and being. His images are other-worldly but grounded in behaviours, gestures and relationships that enable connection. Drawing inspiration from imagery sourced from the internet, music, documentaries, and his personal collections, Pleban composes montages to create his compositions.
Exhibitions:
GOLD CHIP | one-night-only exhibition
Gallerysmith closes the 2023 curtain on December 12 with the annual exhibition, GOLD CHIP. At this one-night-only event, the gallery presents…
Sydney Contemporary 2023
Kind of World | Stephen Pleban
XV: PAST PRESENT FUTURE
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STEPHEN PLEBAN
born 1965, lives Ballarat
Education
2003 University of Ballarat, Master of Fine Art (incomplete)
1995 Academie Van Beeldende Kunsten, Rotterdam, Postgraduate
1986 Victorian College of the Arts, Bachelor of Fine Art
Solo Exhibitions
2023 Kind of World, Gallerysmith, Melbourne
2023 Half the Day is Night, Martin Browne Contemporary, Sydney
2022 Thinking of a Place, &Gallery Australia, Sorrento
2021 Thinking of a Place, Project Gallery 90, Sydney
2018 In Search, Biennale of Australian Art, St Andrews Hall, Ballarat
2011 Lake Surfaces, The Art Gallery of Ballarat, Ballarat
2004 In Vivo, Span Gallery, Melbourne
2003 In Vivo, Post Office Gallery, Ballarat
1995 De Kooning Academie Rotterdam, Netherlands
1994 West Space, Footscray
Group and Prize Exhibitions
2023 Sydney Contemporary Art Fair, presented by Gallerysmith, Carriageworks, Sydney
2023 Winter Group Exhibition, Martin Browne Contemporary, Sydney
2023 XV: PAST PRESENT FUTURE, Gallerysmith, Melbourne
2022 Resistance! Paintings as Provisional Realities, M16 Artspace, Australian Capital Territory
2022 Summer Group Exhibition, Martin Browne Contemporary, Sydney
2021 The Nude Exhibition, Project Gallery 90, Sydney
2021 Finalist, Tatiara Art Prize, Walkway Gallery, South Australia
2021 OMNIA Art Prize (formerly St Kevin’s Art Award), Toorak
2020 1.5 Degrees, fortyfivedownstairs, Melbourne
2020 Finalist, Glover Art Prize, Tasmania
2019 Finalist, Len Fox Art Award, Castlemaine Art Museum, Castlemaine
2019 Finalist, Kilgour Art Prize, Newcastle Art Gallery, New South Wales
2019 Finalist, Kennedy Art Award, Adelaide
2017 Finalist, Kennedy Art Prize, Adelaide
2017 What’s in the box?, BOAA, Melbourne
2016 Belle Art Prize, Bailey Gallery, Abbotsford
2016 Miniature Immensities, Kingston Art Centre, Moorabbin
2016 Finalist, Paddington Art Prize, Sydney
2015 Belle Art Prize, Bailey Gallery Abbotsford
2015 Flanagan Contemporary Art Prize, Ballarat
2014 Rick Amor Drawing Prize, Ballarat Fine Art Gallery, Ballarat
2014 Finalist, Calleen Art Award, Cowra Regional Art Gallery, New South Wales
2013 Flanagan Contemporary Art Prize, Ballarat
2012 Unicorn Art Space, Ballarat
2011 Orbit, Space 22, Ballarat
2011 Flanagan Contemporary Art Prize, Ballarat
2010 Williamstown Contemporary Art Prize, Williamstown, Victoria
2010 Weather Project, Space 22, Ballarat
2009 Williamstown Contemporary Art Prize, Williamstown, Victoria
2009 Flanagan Contemporary Art Prize, Ballarat
2008 John Leslie Art Prize, Sale Art Gallery, Gippsland
2008 Art Deco Postcard Exhibition, Post Office Gallery, Ballarat
2005 Art for Science, Nellie Castan Gallery, South Yarra
2004 Masters/PhD Exhibition, Post Office Gallery, Ballarat
2003 Post card exhibition, Linden Gallery, St. Kilda
2002 Masters/PhD Exhibition, Post Office Gallery, Ballarat
1998 City of Moonee Valley Contemporary Art Prize, Moonee Ponds
1998 Coalesce, Diane Tanzer Gallery, Fitzroy
1997 Shell Art Prize, Williamstown, Victoria
1997 City of Moonee Valley Contemporary Art Prize, Moonee Ponds
1996 Gesprek met Vermeer, Museum Prinsenhof, Delft, Netherlands
1995 Gallerie Maurits van der Laar, Den Haag, Netherlands
1995 Contemporary Art Fair, Belgium
1989 Three-person exhibition, Judith Pugh Gallery, Melbourne
1989 Second Contemporary Art Fair, Royal Exhibition Buildings, Melbourne
1988 Ten New Artists, 70 Arden Street, North Melbourne
1988 Le Quattro Stagioni (Four Artists, Four Approaches, Four Mediums), The Warehouse, Melbourne
1987 Murdoch Travelling Fellowship, Mornington Art Gallery, Mornington
Prizes
2014 Highly Commended, Calleen Art Award NSW
1999 City of Moonee Valley Art Prize
1991 National Art Prize, The Australian newspaper
1990 VTU Art Prize, Caulfield Art Gallery
1983 Winner, Sarah Levy Painting Prize, Victorian College of the Arts
Collections
Art Gallery of Ballarat; City of Moonee Valley; Victorian Teachers Union; Clarendon College Ballarat; St John of God Health Care Art Collection, Private Collections in Australia and Europe
