CURRICULUM VITAE
I completed a Master of Art at Chelsea School of Art and Design, London in 1994 as a recipient of a Samstag International Visual Art Scholarship in 1993. I was awarded Australia Council for the Arts new work grants in 1995 and 2000. and the Helsinki studio residency in 2015-16. My work has been exhibited extensively in Australia, London, Liverpool UK, New York and Helsinki and is held in a number of public collections including Artbank, University of Western Sydney and BHP Biliton.
I have held 22 solo exhibitions and participated in over 70 group exhibitions. I was a finalist in the Dobell Prize for Drawing at AGNSW in 2009 and 2010, and at National Art School in 2019. I was a finalist in the Paul Guest Prize 2010 & 2020, Bendigo Art Gallery, Victoria and the Rick Amor Drawing Prize, Art Gallery of Ballarat, Victoria in 2010 and 2014, Arthur Guy Memorial Painting Prize, Bendigo Art Gallery in 2021, Len Fox Painting Prize, Castlemaine Art Museum in 2022, and was awarded the People's Choice Award in Art on paper, Hazelhurst Regional Gallery, Sydney, 2009 and the People's Choice Award in the Adelaide Perry Drawing Prize PLC, Sydney in 2009.
Represented by Wagner Contemporary, Sydney.
EDUCATION
1994 Master of Art, Chelsea School of Art and Design, London.
1987 Graduate Diploma in Professional Art Studies, City Art Institute, UNSW
1986 Bachelor of Arts, City Art Institute, UNSW
AWARDS
2020 Australia Council for the Arts, Resilience Fund
2015 Australia Council for the Arts, Studio Residency, Helsinki
2009 People’s choice award, Art on paper, Hazelhurst Regional Gallery, Sydney
2009 People’s choice award, Adelaide Perry drawing prize, PLC, Sydney
2000 Australia Council for the Arts, New Work grant
1999 NAVA marketing promotional grant
1995 Australia Council for the Arts, New Work grant
1993 Samstag International Visual Art Scholarship
1987 National Student Art Award
1987 Douglass Student Art Award
1987 University Medal, UNSW
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023 The Warp Speed Legacy, Void_Melbourne
2022 A painting of everything that ever was, Void_Melbourne
2021 Sydney Contemporary 2021, Wagner Contemporary
2020 Sydney Contemporary 2020 (online)
2020 The social limits to growth, Occasional Space, Melbourne
2020 Ghost flowers and zombie plants, Wagner Contemporary
2016 No maps for us, Helsinki International Artist Project (HIAP) Residency exhibition, Helsinki
2012 The Inbetween, Michael Reid Gallery, Sydney
2011 Its about time, Death Be Kind, Melbourne
2010 Drawing, Sophie Gannon Gallery, Melbourne
2009 Mark Hislop, James Dorahy Project Space, Sydney
2008 Mark Hislop, James Dorahy Project Space, Sydney
2006 Mark Hislop, James Dorahy Project Space, Sydney
2001 Gallery 4A, Sydney
2000 Elastic, Sydney
1999 First Floor, Melbourne
1999 151 Gallery, Sydney
1998 151 Gallery, Sydney
1998 Side-On Gallery, Sydney
1997 Firstdraft, Sydney
1996 Foyer Gallery, University of Western Sydney.
1992 Mark Hislop - New work, Irving Galleries, Sydney
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023 Black, Void_Melbourne
2022 Len Fox Painting Prize, Castlemaine Art Museum
Vernissage, Void_Melbourne
2021 Arthur Guy Memorial Painting Prize, Bendigo Art Gallery
Autumn Collection, James Makin Gallery, Melbourne
40 x 40, Wagner Contemporary, Sydney
2020 Paul Guest Art Prize, Bendigo Art Gallery
2019 The essayist, Curated by Jasmin Stephens, The Cross Art Project, Sydney
Dobell Prize for Drawing, National Art School, Sydney
Summer exhibition: Gallery artists, Wagner Contemporary, Sydney
2018 National Works on Paper, Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery
Pulp fiction, Galerie Pompom, Sydney;
Painted black, Wagner Contemporary, Sydney
2017 Still life and impetuous objects, Wagner Contemporary, Sydney
Sleeper The Alderman, Melbourne
40 x 40 Wagner Contemporary, Sydney
2016 National Works on Paper, Mornington Regional Art Gallery
40 x 40 Wagner Contemporary, Sydney
2015 Direction 1 Wagner Contemporary, Sydney
Grand Visions 40 x 40 Wagner Contemporary, Sydney
Group grope Incidents above a bar, Melbourne
2014 40 x 40 Wagner Art Gallery, Sydney
Rick Amor Drawing Prize Art Gallery of Ballarat, Victoria
Drawing: A fundamental liberation 4 Wagner Art Gallery, Sydney
2013 Art on paper Hazelhurst Regional Gallery, Sydney
2011 Platform. Melbourne curated by Nat Thomas
Deck the halls MIchael Reid, Sydney
2010 Dobell Prize for Drawing AGNSW
Private Room: Australian Art from Private Collections Michael Reid, Sydney
Paul Guest Prize 2010 Bendigo Art Gallery, Victoria
Rick Amor Drawing Prize Art Gallery of Ballarat, Victoria
2009 Dobell Prize for Drawing, AGNSW
Art on paper, Hazelhurst Regional Gallery, Sydney
Hobart Art Prize, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery
Adelaide Perry Drawing Prize, PLC, Sydney
Colouring-in, James Dorahy Project Space, Sydney
2008 9 shades of white, James Dorahy Project Space, Sydney
Monobrow, Hell Gallery, Melbourne
Postcard show, Linden Arts Centre, Melbourne
2007 Colouring the landscape, James Dorahy Project Space, Sydney
Paper, James Dorahy Project Space, Sydney
2006 Lucky 7, James Dorahy Project Space, Sydney
2005 The year in art 2005, SH Irvin Gallery, Sydney
Elastic: The Archive Project, Cross Art Projects, Sydney.
Marking Time Scott Donovan Gallery, Sydney
Invitation Only Sir Herman Black Gallery, Sydney
Deep Purple, Manning Clarke House, Canberra
Pheonix Prize for Spiritual Art, School of Art Gallery, ANU, Canberra
Popcorn, Canberra Contemporary Art Space, Canberra
2004 Elastic Book Launch and Exhibition, Elastic Residence, London,UK.
2003 Word Egizio’s Project, New York, NY.
New York Calling, Australian studio, PS1 Centre of Contemporary Art, New York, NY.
2002 Mondo Cane II, Leroy Neiman Gallery, New York, NY.
Escape, Egizio’s Project, New York, NY.
Attention Span, Freespace, Sydney.
2001 Caravan, Freespace, Sydney.
OK Computer, Leroy Neiman Gallery, New York, NY.
2000 Pixel, Elastic Gallery, Sydney.
Group Show, Side-On Gallery, Sydney.
Sulman Prize, AGNSW, Sydney
1999 Helen Lempierre Scholarship, Artspace, Sydney
Silver 25th Anniversary Exhibition, College of Fine Arts, Sydney.
Mannerism, Smith & Stoneley, Brisbane.
‘69’, Side-On Gallery, Sydney.
Love Letters to John Macdonald, 151 Gallery, Sydney.
Group Show, Herringbone Gallery, Sydney.
1998 Mondo Cane, Herringbone Gallery, Sydney.
Shorn, Temple Studio, Melbourne
One-Hour Photo, First Floor, Melbourne.
1997 Collector, Firstdraft, Sydney
Triptych, Level Gallery, Sydney.
1996 System Error – Biennale of Sydney Satellite Exhibition Firstdraft, Sydney.
1995 Past the Post, Grand Hall Gallery, Liverpool, UK.
1994 Past the Post, Clove 2 Gallery, London, UK.
Out of The 90’s, Mall Galleries, London, UK.
1993 Samstag Exhibition, University of South Australia Art Museum, Adelaide.
Site Regained, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney.
Sulman Prize, AGNSW, Sydney
29 Ways West, Campbelltown City Art Gallery.
1991 The Artists Eye, Rex Irwin Art Dealer, Sydney
Blake Prize, Blaxland Gallery, Sydney
REVIEWS AND ARTICLES
2022 Julie McLaren, A motley painting of everything that ever was, Catalogue essay, Void_Melbourne, March
2020 Pippa Milne, Ghost flowers and zombie plants, Catalogue essay Wagner Contemporary March
Nicole Elphick, Best of the week, Sydney Morning Herald, 29 March
2019 Melinda Reid The essayist Running Dog http://rundog.art/the-essayist-jasmin-stephens/ Sept
2019 Naomi Riddle Pulp fiction Catalogue essay Galerie Pompom Sydney March
2018 Mary O’Brien Artists put their passions to paper in race for $50,000 prize The Age https://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/artists-put-their-passions-to-paper-in-race-for-50000-prize-20180705-h12a38.html
2018 Kyla MacFarlane National works on paper Catalogue essay Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery
2012 Carrie Kibbler Someone to watch over you Portrait, National Portrait Gallery magazine, issue 43 Jun-Aug.
2012 Carrie Miller The Inbetween http://www.theartlife.com.au/2012/the-inbetween/ The Artlife, July 20
2011 James Cockington Treasure trove of talent The Age 16 Nov, p12
2010 Artbank calendar Mark Hislop, November
2010 Dr Marcus Bunyan Mark Hislop, Drawings Artblart, March
2010 Penny Webb Galleries: Mark Hislop The Age, Melbourne Magazine, p95, March
2010 Paintergirl Turning your back The Vine 26 February
2010 Eugene Barilo v. Reisberg, Snapshot of exhibitions in Albert Street, Richmond http://artsdiary365.wordpress.com/2010/03/21/snapshot-of-exhibitions-in-albert-street-richmond/ 21 March
2010 Dan Rule Around the galleries The Age, 13 March
2010 Dylan Rainforth The Arts The Age, 9 March
2010 Valerie Kabov Why art? March 2010 newsletter March
2010 Christopher Allen To express what only drawing will allow The Australian 14 December
2009 John Matthews, Artkritque blog, December
2008 Amita Kirpalani, Mark Hislop ArtWorld, issue 1, pp100-103, February
2008 Tracey Clement, Sydney Morning Herald, Metro, 13 June
2008 Valerie Kabov, Art Matter March 2008
2008 Valerie Kabov, Art Matter June 2008
2007 Felix Radcliff, First anniverary (Paper), The program, August
2006 Sun Herald, April
2006 Greg Moore, Off the wall, Realtime 73, June/July
2005 Artlife http://artlife.blogspot.com/2005_04_01_archive.html
2005 Artrave Artlink, Vol 25 no1
2004 Anne Finegan Elastic- Printed Project 2002 Eyeline November
2002 Liz Pulie, Interview- Australian Artists Overseas, Lives of the Artists #2
2001 Alex Gawronski, Now you see it, Review, Broadsheet, pp19, January
2001 Leah McLeod, Elastic Review, Globe E Journal.
2000 Courtney Kidd, Australian Art Collector, April
1999 Jacqueline Millner, Designer Drugs, Article, Art & Text 64, pp36-38
1998 Bruce James, The Shows that Time Forgot, Sydney Morning Herald, August
1996 Bruce James, Galleries, Sydney Morning Herald, 2 August
1996 Jacqueline Millner, Formalism Revisited, Artlink Vol 17, No 4, pp33-35
1996 Alex Gawronski, Mark Hislop/Elvis Richardson, Review, Art & Text 61, pp97-98
1994 David Ryan, 4 Essays Catalogue, Clove 2 Gallery, London, May
1994 Elvis Richardson, Go-On Catalogue Essay, Liverpool, UK
1993 Ken Bolton, Samstag Exhibition, Art Monthly, July pp31-32
1992 Celia Winter-Irving, Mindscapes-Mark Hislop, Crafts Arts International #26, pp49-51
1992 Elwyn Lynn, Cringe Theory Gives Way to Admiration, The Australian, 4 March
1992 Lynette Fern, Potency of the banal as a Fitting Object, Sydney Morning Herald, 14 March
1992 Ross Wolfe Catalogue Essay. Samstag International Visual Art Scholarship University of South Australia Art Museum, May
1990 Lynette Fern, Casting An Eye on newly Emerging Talent, Sydney Morning Herald, 12 October
1990 Jacques Delaruelle, The Artists Eye, The Sydney Review, November
COLLECTIONS
Artbank
University of Western Sydney
BHP Biliton
Private collections in Australia, UK, USA and New Zealand