The ‘Living in the clouds’ series forms a personal allegory for
the artist’s life in the
Blue Mountains, west of Sydney, Austrtalia. He uses a wide range of media
including photography, sandstone, silver, gold leaf, copper, acrylic, and
wood.
Name: Ian Chamberlain
Email: ian@ianchamberlain.com
Website: www.ianchamberlain.com
Telephone: +612 4782 1791
Nationality: Australian resident
Born: Year of the rabbit
Biography: For over thirty years Ian has been involved in the arts, and his
work can
be found in private collections around the world. Ian uses any medium that
seems
right for a given idea. He enjoys experimenting with space and colour, sound
and
form, rather than the technical aspects of any one medium. Often, his aim
is to
challenge accepted thought forms, while uplifting and inspiring the observer.
Education: left school early with the firm belief that society, as we know
it, had but a
short time left to run - still not sure. Commenced formal art training (DNF);
Commenced formal art training again (DNF); Studied jazz at The Conservatorium
of
Music, Sydney; Studied graphic design at the School of Graphic Arts, Sydney;
Studied digital imaging and multimedia, TAFE of Western Sydney
Memberships: Current member National Association for the Visual Arts (NAVA);
Founding Member of the Society of Advertising, Commercial and Magazine
Photographers (ACMP) 1993; Founding Member of the Australian Graphic Designers
Association (AGDA) 1988
Career experience in alphabetical order: assembly line worker; automotive
spare
parts manager; ayur-vedic therapist; bin tally man; cabinet maker; car detailer;
composer; copy writer; courier; farm hand; fine artist; fruit picker; gardener;
graphic
designer; guitar teacher; handyman; health centre manager; house husband;
labourer; musical instrument demonstrator; musician; office manager;
owner/manager of graphic design and commercial photography studio; painter
and
decorator; photographer; picture framer; storeman; truck driver; waiter
Future exhibitions: 'Contemporary Art for Christmas' The Lloyd Gill Gallery,
Weston -
Super – Mare, Somerset UK
Past exhibitions: 2007: Art in Mind, Brick Lane Gallery, London UK;The Art
Makers
Exhibition, Balmain Watch House, Sydney; 2006: LGA exhibition, Leura;
'Photographic Portrait Prize', Wollongong City Gallery, Australia; 'Beyond
the Blue',
Cowra Regional Gallery, Australia; 'Cowra Festival', Cowra Regional Gallery,
Australia; 2005: Major prize winner: Painting and Mixed Media, The Artspace,
Katoomba, Australia; 'Digital Soup', Braemar Gallery, Springwood, Australia;
'Emerge', The Artspace, Katoomba, Australia; 1995 'Fruit Update', The Watchhouse
Gallery, Balmain, Sydney, Australia; 'Doubly Gifted', Bondi, Sydney, Australia;
1995
'The Seven Deadly Things', The Watchhouse Gallery, Balmain, Sydney, Australia;
1994: 'The Love of Money', The Watchhouse Gallery, Balmain, Sydney, Australia;
1993: 'Views', The Watchhouse Gallery, Balmain, Sydney, Australia; 'Doubly
Gifted',
Bondi, Sydney, Australia; The Paper House Stationery Design Competition finalist,
Sydney, Australia; 'Views', Stanton Library, North Sydney, Australia; Work
featured in
Professional Photography magazine; 1992: Finalist Hasselblad Masters Exhibition,
touring exhibition of capital cities, Australia
Likes: family and friends; hot showers and dry clothes after walks in the
wilderness;
good vegetarian food; solitude; company; The Goons; running along forest paths;
my
Dyson vacuum cleaner; weather; Hasselblad cameras; paradox
Dislikes: isms and movements; cruelty; fashion (when taken seriously); a totally
intellectual approach to anything; the senseless destruction of the planet;
not owning
a Hasselblad; paradox
Favourite artists: Geritt Dou; Pablo Picasso; Jeffrey Smart
Favourite musicians: John Scofield; JS Bach; Larry Carlton; Yann Tiersen;
the two
buskers I saw in Leicester Square
TV favourites: Black Books; Spaced; Seinfeld; Coupling
Film favourites: Woody Allen's Love and Death; Amélie; Dr Strangelove;
everything
by Jacques Tati; Peter Cook and Dudley Moore’s Bedazzled