Mark Threadgold

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Themes of life, mortality, routine and work are explored in Mark Threadgold’s paintings. Multiple interpretations are often discovered in his work where subjects are carefully constructed and allegories are formed.

Threadgold’s work has been exhibited throughout Australia as well as the UK since 1998. His work is held in public collections in Australia and in private collections around the world. He has been selected as a finalist in numerous national art awards around Australia, including his selection, for three consecutive years, in the prestigious Metro 5 Art Award. In 2008 he won the Corangamarah Art Prize.

“Mark Threadgold’s affinity with past masters is evident in his technical expertise. Traces of Caravaggesque naturalism and moody romanticism, combined with the textural invention of the artist, situate his work at the end of a linear history of painting. However, Threadgold also manages to dispossess tradition of the sole rights to painterly representation. He directs the formal techniques which were once employed to represent social and cultural icons to more subjective ends. Content is personal rather than social; repressive rather than communicable. Threadgold impregnates his work with a relentless subjectivity which repossesses his medium from the strict control of tradition.”

James McGregor,

lecturer in History of Art and Architecture

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MARK THREADGOLD
Born: 1977
Lives: Melbourne
Educational Qualifications

1999 Graduate Diploma of Education, University of Melbourne
1996-1998 Bachelor of Art (Visual Arts) Deakin University

Solo Exhibitions

2008 Twice A Day Every Day For the Rest of Your Life, Metro 5 Gallery, Melbourne
2003 New Paintings, Intrude Gallery, Melbourne
2002 Mark Threadgold, St Lawrences, Norwich, England
2001 Mark Threadgold, Preview Gallery, Melbourne

Selected Group Exhibitions

2010 Art For Sharks, Charity Art Auction, 27 Gipps Street Gallery, Melbourne
2010 The Exquisite Palette, St Luke Artist Colourmen, Melbourne
2009 Introducing Michael Johnson & Group Show, Metro Gallery, Melbourne
2009 Prometheus Art Award, Gold Coast, Queensland
2008 Small Gems, Metro 5 Gallery, Melbourne
2008 Exquisite Pallete, St Luke Artist Colourmen, Melbourne
2008 Corangamarah Art Prize, Otway Estate Winery & Brewery, Victoria
2007 Metro 5 Art Award, Benalla Art Gallery, Victoria
2007 Metro 5 Art Award, Metro 5 Gallery, Melbourne
2006 Metro 5 Art Award, Metro 5 Gallery, Melbourne
2005 Lloyd Rees Memorial Art Prize, Lane Cove, Sydney
2005 Melbourne, Jackman Gallery, Melbourne
2005 Metro 5 Art Award, Metro 5 Gallery, Melbourne
2005 Roberts McCubbin Art Prize, Box Hill, Melbourne
2003 Urban Life, Jackman Gallery, Melbourne
2003 Blue, Jackman Gallery, Melbourne
2003 Samples, Intrude Gallery, Melbourne
2002 Emerging Artists Program, Mira Fine Art Gallery, Melbourne
1999 National Graduate Show, Perth Institute of Contemporary Art, Western Australia
1999 Liquid: Beyond the City Limit New Art From Geelong, Geelong Art Gallery
1998 Graduate Exhibition, Warrnambool Art Gallery, Victoria
1998 Group Show, Sherwood Gallery Deakin University, Warrnambool, Victoria
1998 Group Show, Alan Lane Gallery, Warrnambool Art Gallery, Victoria

Publications

2010 2010 Exhibition Catalogue Essay by Ashley Crawford
2010 Artist Profile magazine, Issue 12
2010 The Age newspaper, 48 Hours Critical Guide, Darren Levin, July 17
2010 NGV Gallery magazine, July
2010 Art Almanac, August
2010 Art Almanac, July
2010 Australian Teacher Magazine, Feature Article, April
2010 Whitehorse Leader Newspaper, March 10
2010 City of Whitehorse News, March
2008 Australian Art Collector, Artist Milestones, August
2008 Colac Herald, August
2008 Australian Art Collector magazine, issue 43
2007 Herald Sun , High Five For Artists, by Jeff Makin, February 25
2007 Melbourne Leader Newspaper , Art Award, February 21
2006 MX Newspaper, Creative Types Climb Stairway to Artistic Freedom, January 9
2006 Art Quotes.Com , Artist Interview, by Deon Archibald
2001 Leader Newspaper , Facing Up to an Altering Facial Dimension, February 26
2000 The Age Newspaper , Cover Story, Education Age, May 31
1999 Liquid: Beyond the City Limit New Art From Geelong, Catalogue Essay by James McGregor & Malcom Bywaters, Published by the Geelong Art Gallery
1999 The Australian newspaper , Youthful Vision, Higher Education, June 2
1998 Grind TV, Optus Television

Awards

2009 Prometheus Art Award, Finalist
2008 Corangamarah Art Prize, Winner
2007 Metro 5 Art Award, Finalist
2006 Metro 5 Art Award, Finalist
2005 Lloyd Rees Memorial Art Prize, Finalist
2005 Metro 5 Art Award, Finalist
1998 Darian Art Prize Deakin University, Winner

Collections

City of Whitehorse
Deakin University Art Collection
Colac Area Health
Private Collections throughout Australia, New Zealand, Europe

Commissions

Private Commissions in London, Melbourne, Sydney