Christopher Orchard
Born
Christopher Orchard

1950 (age 73–74)
South Australia
NationalityAustralian
EducationSouth Australia College of Advanced Education
Known forDrawing
AwardsSALA Festival Featured Artist 2017
WebsitePersonal website

Christopher Robin Orchard is a South Australian artist and arts educator who began as a sculptor but subsequently specialised in drawing. His character, the Bald Man, is a recurrent motif. Orchard is Associate Professor at Adelaide Central School of Art and was the subject of the 2017 SALA Festival monograph, Christopher Orchard: The Uncertainty of the Poet.[1] He is also the subject of the 2013 short documentary film Everyperson, by Jasper Button and Patrick Zoerner.[2][3]

Biography

Orchard was born in South Australia in 1950.[4] Orchard's full name is Christopher Robin Orchard.[5] He completed an Advanced Diploma in fine Art, Sculpture and Painting at the South Australia College of Advanced Education.[1] He is a founding member of the Art Workers’ Union in 1979 and joined Central Studios in 1982.[6] From 1985-1987 he was a member of Air and Space Studios, London.[1] He joined the teaching staff of Adelaide Central School of Art in 1989.[1] In 2005, he was appointed Adjunct Associate Professor at Flinders University.[1] Orchard held his first solo exhibition in Adelaide in 1975.[1] In 1986, he presented his first British solo exhibition in London.[1] In 2011, he presented his first American solo exhibition in New York.[1]

Artistic style and subject

Orchard began as a sculptor but came to specialise in drawing.[6] His works feature an avatar known as the Bald Man who emerged from Orchard’s “fight with the figure”[7] and who, according to Orchard, represents ”the entire history of what it means to be human”.[8]

Awards/Prizes/Residency

  • 1985-1986: Berry Street Studios Residency[9]
  • 2000: Gunnery Space[1]
  • 2000: Finalist, Dobell Drawing Prize[10]
  • 2001: Finalist, Dobell Drawing Prize[11]
  • 2005: Finalist, Dobell Drawing Prize[12]
  • 2006: Finalist, Dobell Drawing Prize[13]
  • 2015: Invited Artist, Kedumba Drawing Award[14]
  • 2016: Finalist, Paul Guest Prize[15]
  • 2017: SALA Festival Featured Artist[16]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Goldsworthy, Peter; Osborne, Margot; Ananda, Roy; Robinson, Julia; Taylor, Rod (2017). Christopher Orchard: The Uncertainty of the Poet. Mile End, South Australia: Wakefield Press. ISBN 9781743054925.
  2. ↑ "DocWeek 2014 Program Guide". Issuu. p. 22. Retrieved 3 September 2018.
  3. ↑ Button, Jasper; Zoerner, Patrick (2013). "Everyperson". Vimeo. Retrieved 3 September 2018.
  4. ↑ Goldsworthy, Peter; Osborne, Margot; Ananda, Roy; Robinson, Julia; Taylor, Rod (2017). Christopher Orchard : the uncertainty of the poet. Mile End, South Australia: Wakefield Press. ISBN 9781743054925.
  5. ↑ McCulloch, Alan; McCulloch, Susan; McCulloch Childs, Emily (2006). The new McCulloch's encyclopedia of Australian art (Fourth ed.). Melbourne, Vic.: Australian Art Editions and The Miegunyah Press. p. 748. ISBN 052285317X.
  6. 1 2 Goldsworthy, Peter; Osborne, Margot; Ananda, Roy; Robinson, Julia; Taylor, Rod (2017). Christopher Orchard: The Uncertainty of the Poet. Mile End, south Australia: Wakefield Press. ISBN 9781743054925.
  7. ↑ Neylon, John (28 July 2017). "Appreciating Christopher Orchard's Hiss and Growl - The Adelaide Review". The Adelaide Review. Retrieved 3 September 2018.
  8. ↑ Croall, Fiona (7 December 2017). "Christopher Orchard creator of the Bald Man". Radio National. Australian Broadcasting Commission. Retrieved 3 September 2018.
  9. ↑ Goldsworthy, Peter; Osborne, Margot; Ananda, Roy; Robinson, Julia; Taylor, Rod (2017). Christopher Orchard: The Uncertainty of the Poet. Mile End South Australia: Wakefield Press. ISBN 9781743054925.
  10. ↑ "Dobell Prize for Drawing (discontinued) finalists 2000 :: Art Gallery NSW". Art Gallery of New South Wales. Retrieved 3 September 2018.
  11. ↑ "Dobell Prize for Drawing (discontinued) finalists 2001 :: Art Gallery NSW". Art Gallery of New South Wales. Retrieved 3 September 2018.
  12. ↑ "Dobell Prize for Drawing (discontinued) finalists 2005 :: Art Gallery NSW". Art Gallery of New South Wales.
  13. ↑ "Dobell Prize for Drawing (discontinued) finalists 2006 :: Art Gallery NSW". Art Gallery of New South Wales. Retrieved 3 September 2018.
  14. ↑ "2015 Kedumba Drawing Award – The Kedumba Collection of Australian Drawings". The Kedumba Collection of Australian Drawings. Retrieved 3 September 2018.
  15. ↑ "Paul Guest Finalists 2016". Bendigo Art Gallery. Retrieved 3 September 2018.
  16. ↑ "Christopher Orchard named 2017 SALA featured artist". SALA Festival. Retrieved 3 September 2018.
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