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About Stephen HaleyBACK 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…BACKGROUND INFORMATION
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.
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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.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, AustraliaReunion, 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, Australia2003 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, ChurchillA-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, AustraliaWork, 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