Marcus Canning
QUALIFICATIONS1997 Bachelor of Fine Arts, Hons (First Class),
School of Architecture, Landscape Architecture and Fine Arts,
University of Western Australia, WA, Australia.
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS & COMMISSIONS
2009 Wienie Collapse, Goddard de Fiddes Gallery, Perth.
St. George Sculpture Commission - Winner (collaboration with Christian DeVietri),
St. Georges Cathedral Perth.
2008 Primavera, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
Linden1968, Linden Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne
SILVER: ARTRAGE 25, Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts, Perth.
Vida Telefonica (with The Tissue Culture & Art Project), ARCO, Madrid.
2007 New disorder, Old Berlin, Perth
BioTechnique (with TC&A), YBCA Galleries, San Francisco
Still living: Biennale of Electronic Arts Perth (with TC&A), breadbox, Perth.
2006 Winners are grinners, Meat Market, Melbourne and PICA.
2005 Supermart, breadbox, Perth.
2003 Wild frontier, The Bank, Perth and Downtown Art Space, Adelaide.
2001 Urbane Dream Capsule, Perth Fringe Festival. Jacksue Gallery, Perth.
2000 Drive By , 7 window screenings in Perth CBD.
1999 A View to the Sea, Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, Perth.
Anemone Program, Film and Television Institute, Fremantle
Regional tour - Albany, Esperence, Geraldton and York.
1998 A View to the Sea, University of Santo Tomas Gallery, Manila, Philippines.
The Maze, Jacksue Gallery, Perth.
1997 Home, Awesome International Arts Festival for Young People, Perth.
Mis-Happenings, Cullity Gallery, Perth.
Hatched, National Graduate Show, Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts, Perth
Goggleflush, Jacksue Gallery, Perth.
Aherns Installations Festival, Perth
Choice (dark), Jacksue Gallery, Perth
phooey, Jacksue Gallery, Perth
Funktbear, Jacksue Gallery, Perth.
1996 Python Stretching in North Yorkshire, Jacksue Gallery, Perth.
Dr X and his Amazing 7 Deadly Skins, Artrage Festival, Jacksue Gallery, Perth.
Fresh, Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts, Perth.
Dive, Jacksue Gallery, Perth.
Launch, Jacksue Gallery, Perth.
Undefeeted, Cullity Gallery, Perth.
1995 Screen to the Dream, Artrage Festival, Boans Warehouse, Perth.
Crocodile to Crocodile, Australia Centre Manila, Phillipines.
Cat Flap, Cullity Gallery, Perth.
Putting on an Act, Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts, Perth.
City of Perth Photographic Awards, Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts, Perth.
Sculpture Survey, Gomboc Galleries, Middleswan, Perth.
Cohn Award, National Gallery, Canberra.
Urban Freak Show, Hellenic Centre, Perth.
Dust Eats Carpet 6, Hellenic Centre, Perth.
Site III (smokestack I), Artrage Festival, Perth
PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS
2002 Present Executive Director, CEO, ARTRAGE Inc. Perth.
2008 Co-Curator, SILVER: ARTRAGE 25, Perth Institute of Contemporary Art, Perth.
2007 Curator, Adultshop.com Erotic Art Prize Exhibition, Breadbox Gallery, Perth.
2005 Curator, SEX: Adultshop.com Erotic Art Prize Exhibition, Breadbox Gallery, Perth.
Curator, Wild Frontier, Bank Gallery, Midland.
2004 Mentor, SPARK National Mentor Program, Brisbane.
2003 Mentor, Love Tester, Artist Foundation Young and Emerging Curators Project, Perth.
Coordinator and Community facilitator, Flex Flix 2, Stretch Festival, Mandurah.
Curator, Now You See It, Bank Gallery, Midland.
Designer, Bog Lap, Bizircus, Perth International Arts Festival, Perth.
Mentor, SPARK National Mentor Program, Brisbane.
2002 Designer, Swan Song, Perth International Arts Festival, Perth.
Designer / Community Facilitator, Shishka-Car, Adelaide International Arts Festival.
Director / Designer, ECU Futures Floats, Joondalup Festival, Joondalup.
Curator, Tactical Intervention Strategies, Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts, Perth.
Set Designer and Video Artist, The Cave, Buzz Dance Theatre, King Street Arts Centre.
Coordinator and Community facilitator, Flex Flix, Stretch Festival, Mandurah.
2001 Designer / Community Facilitator, Start Now Billboard Project, Rewind Festival,
DADAWA (Disabled in the Arts, Disadvantaged in the Arts, Western Australia)
Video Artist / Community Facilitator, Exile, Rewind Festival,
DADAWA (Disabled in the Arts, Disadvantaged in the Arts, Western Australia)
Multimedia Artist / Community Facilitator, Smarter than Smoking TABLEAUX Project
AWESOME Arts Australia. Shark Bay, Carnarvon.
Designer / Community Facilitator, Joondalup Festival - A Kaleidoscope of Colour
2000 the TABLEAUX Project - Creative Director / Artist Facilitator
AWESOME Perth International Arts Festival for Young People, Perth.
Bunbury, Carnarvon, Esperance, Kalumburu, Kununurra, Kwinana, Moore River, Newman, Ravensthorpe, Yallingup.
1998 - 99 Creative Director. Awesome Regional Program,
AWESOME Perth International Arts Festival for Young People, Perth.
Kalumburu, Kununurra, Kwinana, Moore River, Narrogin, Newman, Ravensthorpe, Roebourne, Tom Price, Yallingup.
1995 - 97 Manager, UWA Out-of-School Care, Perth.
AWARDS & OTHER APPOINTMENTS
2009 Friends of the Art Gallery of WA Committee, Perth.
Brisbane Festival, Curatorial Committee, Perth.
Western Australian Theatre Development Initiative Committee, Perth.
2008 pvi Board of Directors, Perth.
Peer, Australia Council Theatre Board, Sydney.
2007 City of Perth Award. WA Business News 40 under 40 Awards.
2002 - 07 Chair, Festivals Australia Committee,
Department of Culture, Information, Technology and the Arts, Canberra.
2002 - 05 Australia Council New Media Arts Boar, Sydney.
2002 - 03 Healthway Arts Advisory Panel, Perth.
ArtsWA, Peer Assesment Panel, Perth.
2000 - 01 Western Australian Ministry for Culture and the Arts, Perth.
ArtsWA, Young People and the Arts Panel, Perth.
1996 - 01 Jacksue Gallery co-founder and committee member, Perth.
1998 Artrage Festival Board of Management, Perth.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
AWESOME The Book of Tableaux
December 2000
Bromfield David "Rats behind the Glass" The West Australian. BIG WEEKEND Saturday February 17, 2001
Bonney Tony "5 down 1 to go...." duck. X Press Fringe Supplement
February 2001
Keenan Amanda "Eye on Chicken crossing street" THE AUSTRALIAN. Friday, April 28, 2000
Bromfield David "Corporate cannibalism lives on" The West Australian. TODAY Tuesday April 18, 2000
Cook Robert "Windows reflect artistic drive" The West Australian. TODAY Tuesday April 18, 2000
Bromfield David "A View from the Sea" A View from the Sea. UWA Press. 1998
Carroll Helen "The City of Dreams" WESTERLY NO 4. Summer 1998 UWA Press
Gaynor Andrew "What to do with the Winnings" Realtime, May/June 1998
Bromfield David "Gallery guide to art pride" The West Australian Big Weekend.
Saturday September 27, 1997
Bromfield David "Fun with a pun and a rhyme" The West Australian Big Weekend.
Saturday October 25, 1997
Bromfield David "Cullinane's travels" The West Australian Big Weekend
Saturday June 28, 1997
Snell Ted "Gloom cast aside with artistic flourish" The Australian June 1997
Bromfield David "Spectacle rules as Faustus comes back to life" The West Australian Friday September 27 1996
Gorman Garreth "DR X AND THE SEVEN DEADLY SKINS Come In, Your Time Is Up" X-Press
Bromfield David. "Delights in Diversity" "Big Weekend" The West Australian
Saturday May 11 1996
SITUATION VACANT 1996 c. the verge incorporated.
Meeter, John. "From the Mouths of Demigods" BROADSHEET Vol 25 No 2 Winter 1996
"FRESH Feel It" X-Press Issue # 476 28 March 1996
Banks Ron "Fresh opens space for young talent" The West Australian
March 1996
Pedersen Annette
Bell Clarissa "FRESH" pp 47-48 PHOTOFILE 48, August 1996.
Australian Centre for Photography
Bromfield David "Challenges emerge from works of Fresh young talent" "Big Weekend" The West Australian Saturday April 6 1996
Lavers Katie "Intrigued and Anxious" RealTime 9 October-November 1995
"Marcus' Photo wins by a head" Post July 15 1995
Bromfield David "Smoke Lifts on Canning message" "Big Weekend"
The West Australian October 21 1995