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CURRICULUM VITAE

Born 1962 in Middlesbrough, England, of Australian parents

Home address:

Ballarat, Victoria 3350,  Australia


Qualifications

Bachelor of Arts in Fine Art (Painting) with Honours (RMIT University, 1993)

Bachelor of Veterinary Science with Honours (University of Melbourne, 1985)

Tim Craker is an installation-artist, sculptor and painter, now living in Ballarat. He has exhibited extensively in Melbourne and Malaysia in both solo and group shows, and continues to do so. Please message via this site for enquiries, including sales, and commissions.

Following an Honours Degree in Fine Art at RMIT (graduating in 1993), Tim Craker's earliest body of work was based on language and text, exploring both its meanings and its appearance. He held solo exhibitions Out of Print at Nellie Castan Gallery in 2004, and Transcript at Monash University's Gippsland campus Switchback Gallery in 2005.

An artist's residency in Malaysia in 2006 saw a significant change in direction in Tim Craker's work, in both subject matter and materials. The residency led directly to the exhibition dot-net-dot-my in Melbourne in 2007, and to a touring exhibition dot-net-dot-au in Malaysia and Singapore in 2008 (supported by the Australian High Commission in Kuala Lumpur). Both exhibitions were held jointly with Melbourne artist Louise Saxton

Tim Craker has been represented in Melbourne by Jackman Gallery (2010 -2012), by Gallery 101 (2009) and Nellie Castan Gallery (2003 -2006), and in Sydney by Maunsell Wickes at Barry Stern Galleries (2004 - 2007).

After moving to Malaysia in 2012, Tim Craker held solo exhibitions in the 2013 and 2014 George Town Festivals, was commissioned to make several sculptures for the Tropical Spice Garden in Penang, and was included in group exhibitions in George Town, Kuala Lumpur and Taiwan.

In Malaysia, Tim Craker established and managed an international artists' residency called cherrycake studios, which opened in 2012 and closed at the end of 2015. cherrycake studios provided accommodation and a studio to visiting artists for periods of a month or longer, for the purposes of art research, art-making, play, collaboration and social and artistic interaction.

Tim Craker returned to Melbourne to live at the beginning of 2016, and moved to Ballarat at the end of 2017. He is exhibiting next in "Pages From A Lockdown Dairy" with Carole Wilson, at the Ararat Regional Gallery from March to June, 2022.

Tim Craker is available for commissions and sales via this website - please send a message or enquiry! 

Martina Copley article, 2010
Solo Exhibitions

2017

DISHRACK MISCHIEF Loop Project Space, Melbourne 3000

2015

BY A STRING Run Amok Gallery, George Town, Penang, Malaysia

2014

String of Pearls, installation for the George Town Festival, Penang, Malaysia

2013

commissioned sculptures Syzygy, Three Tetrahedra and Growth for The Tropical Spice Garden, Penang, Malaysia.

2013

DOMESTIC EVOLUTION, George Town Festival, Penang, Malaysia Born 1962 in Middlesbrough, England, of Australian parents

2013

commissioned installation Twig for the Castlemaine State Festival, Victoria 3450

2011

commissioned installation Permeable Barrier Series for City of Moreland, Oak Park 3046

2010

commissioned installation for the foyer of The Substation Newport 3015 (July-October)

2010

TEN-PART NET TRAP Jackman Gallery St Kilda 3182

2009

TAKE(N) AWAY The Substation Newport 3015

2006

SURVEY EXHIBITION 1992-2005 Beaumaris Library Beaumaris 3193

2005

TRANSCRIPT Switchback Gallery Monash University, Churchill Campus 3842

2004

OUT OF PRINT Nellie Castan Gallery South Yarra 3141

2001

CODE Latrobe Street Gallery Melbourne 3000

1995

SIGN West Space Footscray 3011
SUBWAYTEXT Platform (Spencer Street Station subway) Melbourne 3000

International Group Exhibitions
2014(Im)materiality, Interpr8 Art Space, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
2014Eating Wind VT Artsalon, Taipei, Taiwan
2013Eating Wind Run Amok Gallery, George Town, Penang, Malaysia
2008dot net dot au (with Louise Saxton) The Substation, Singapore
2008dot net dot au (with Louise Saxton) The Annexe, Kuala Lumpur , Malaysia
2006Feed Me! Art for Nature 2006 Rimbun Dahan, Kuang, Selangor, Malaysia
2000Works on Paper: Contemporary Australian Artists from the Department of Fine Art, RMIT, Sungshin Museum, Seoul, South Korea
hi/lo exotico Espacio Alterno, Bogota, Colombia
1999Works on Paper: Contemporary Australian Artists from the Department of Fine Art, RMIT, Seoul National University Cultural Centre, Seoul, South Korea
hi/lo exotico Centro Alzate Avendano, Bogota, Colombia
Selected Group Exhibitions (Australia)

2022

Pages From A Lockdown Diary (with Carole Wilson), Ararat Regional Gallery, Ararat 3377 (proposed)

2021

Pink, Midsumma Festival at Tacit Galleries, Collingwood 3066

2020

20[2020], Tacit Galleries, Collingwood 3066

2020

Pink, Midsumma Festival at Tacit Galleries, Collingwood 3066

2019

Yering Station Sculpture Exhibition and Awards (juried prize exhibition), Yering Station vineyard, Yarra Glen 3775

2019

Bleached, Alliance Française, St Kilda 3182, as part of Climarte: ART+CLIMATE=CHANGE 2019

2019

Syzygy, included in Pink, Midsumma Festival at Tacit Galleries, Collingwood 3066

2018

Yering Station Sculpture Exhibition and Awards (juried prize exhibition), Yering Station vineyard, Yarra Glen 3775

2018

Toorak Village Sculpture Exhibition, Toorak 3142

2018

Elevating the Everyday Town Hall Gallery, Hawthorn 3122 (with Elizabeth Gower, Jesse Marlow, Honor Freeman and Leslie O’Gorman)

2010

Hang-Ups Midsumma Festival Gasworks Theatre Foyer Albert Park 3206

2010

Of Snowflakes and Spacetime : Toyota Indoor-Outdoor Sculpture Show (juried
exhibition) Toyota Community Spirit Gallery Port Melbourne 3209

2010

Adaptation (curated entry) Seven Thousand Oaks Festival Guildford Lane
Gallery Melbourne 3000

2009

Parking Big West Festival, Footscray 3011

2009

Hybrid : Toyota Indoor-Outdoor Sculpture Show (juried exhibition) Toyota
Community Spirit Gallery Port Melbourne 3209

2009

Moreland Sculpture Show (commissioned entry) Bridges Reserve Coburg 3058

2009

aRtECYCLE (juried prize exhibition) Incinerator Arts Complex Moonee Ponds 3039

2009

Williamstown Festival Contemporary Art Prize (juried prize exhibition)
The Substation, Newport 3015

2009

Queer City (curated entry) Midsumma Festival Guildford Lane Gallery,
Melbourne 3000

2008

Yering Station Sculpture Exhibition, (juried prize exhibition) Yering Station, Yarra
Glen 2775

2008

Arnold Bloch Liebler Sculpture Exhibition, Melbourne 3000 (concurrent with the
Yering Station Sculpture Exhibition)

2008

aRtECYCLE (juried prize exhibition) Incinerator Arts Complex Moonee Ponds 3039

2008

Queer City Midsumma Festival Fortyfive Downstairs, Melbourne 3000

2007

dot net dot my (with Louise Saxton) Red Gallery, Fitzroy North 3068

2006

The Postcard Show Linden St Kilda 3182

2004

Floranova Nellie Castan Gallery South Yarra 3141

2003

Red Spot Special Nellie Castan Gallery South Yarra 3141
Artists’ Wallpaper Platform (Spencer Street Station subway) Melbourne 3000
Queer Street Poster Project (with Heather Saltmarsh) Midsumma Festival,
Manchester Lane, Melbourne 3000

2002

– South {Sur} Canberra Contemporary Art Space Manuka ACT 2603

2001

Colloquium (with Louise Haselton, Rose Nolan & Brandt McCook )
Linden St Kilda 3182

2001

The Third Darebin-Latrobe Acquisitive Art Prize (juried prize exhibition)
Bundoora Park Homestead, Bundoora 3083
take a look @ (Midsumma Festival collaboration with Mark McDean)
Allans Walk Artist Run Space, Bendigo 3350

2000

2000 National Works on Paper Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, Mornington
The Exquisite Corpse Bendigo Art Gallery, Bendigo 3350 (touring Victoria in 2001)
New Q 2000 (Midsumma Festival) Linden Gallery, St.Kilda 3182

1999

Out of Place (Melbourne International Festival) Federation Square, Swanston Street,
Melbourne 3000
The Darebin- La Trobe Acquisitive Art Prize (juried prize exhibition)
Bundoora Park Homestead, Bundoora 3083
Artzine Spencer Street Art Gallery, West Melbourne 3003

1998

hi/lo exotico (Melbourne Fringe Festival) Stop 22 St.Kilda 3182
fill this space (Next Wave Festival collaboration with Victoria Cattoni, Tim Horn
and Gabrielle Martin) Townhall Hotel North Melbourne 3051
Up in Smoke (collaboration with Victoria Cattoni) Moonee Valley Festival
The Walter Burley Griffin Incinerator, Moonee Ponds 3039
New Q (Midsumma Festival) Vic.Health Access Gallery, National Gallery of Victoria

1997

off-cuts collaborative installations with Victoria Cattoni Townhall Hotel North Melbourne 3051
Station pro Forma (Melbourne Fringe Festival) Stop 22 St.Kilda 3182 The First Darebin- La Trobe Acquisitive Prize (juried prize exhibition) Darebin Arts and Entertainment Centre Preston 3072

1997

Outsex Shorts (Melbourne Queer Film and Video Festival) State Film Theatre
Melbourne 3000

1996

See Spot Run (Next Wave Festival) Temple Studio Prahran 3181
Working in Collaboration (Next Wave Festival) West Space Footscray 3011
Swan Street Spectacle shopfronts in Swan Street Richmond 3121

1995

Artworkz Seven (juried prize exhibition) Gallery 101 Melbourne 3000
Public Address Errol Street verandah rooftops North Melbourne 3051
Rupert Bunny Foundation Launch Exhibition St.Kilda Town Hall St.Kilda 3182
Save Albert Park 9 x 5 Invitation Exhibition Robert Lindsay Gallery Melbourne 3000
Sculpture for Heidelberg curated by Ken Scarlett Heidelberg Repatriation Hospital 1994 Gasworks Outdoor Sculpture Exhibition Gasworks Park South Melbourne 3205

1995

Artworkz Six (juried prize exhibition) Gallery 101 Melbourne 3000
Blaxland Gallery Myer Melbourne 3000

1993

Young Melbourne Artists (auction) Leonard Joel St.Kilda 3182
Artworkz Five (juried prize exhibition) Gallery 101 Melbourne 3000

1992

Six of One Linden Gallery St.Kilda 3182
Words Caught in Your Eyes Alliance Francaise Gallery St.Kilda 3182

References
  • Chen May Yee “Old colonial city becomes a stage” International New York Times 1 Aug 2014
  • Denielle Leong “Artistic Attractions” The Star 2 (Malayisia) 9 June 2013    
  • “Festival to Amaze and Delight the Senses” The Star Metro (Malaysia) 6 June 2013
  • Anthea Cannon “He’s hanging on to a dream” Maribyrnong Leader 18 January, 2011
  • Of Snowflakes and Spacetime 2010 exhibition catalogue for Toyota Indoor-Outdoor Sculpture exhibition
  • Linh Ly “Fennel Web Spider Maze” Maribyrnong Leader 6 July, 2010
  • Seven Thousand Oaks Festival catalogue for Adaptation, June 2010
  • Hybrid 2009 exhibition catalogue for Toyota Indoor-Outdoor Sculpture exhibition
  • Allyson Fonseca “Throwaways reveal their artistic side” The Mail 29 July, 2009
  • Helen Jacobs “Not just any old plastic” Maribyrnong Leader 21 July, 2009
  • SUB12 2009 exhibition catalogue for TAKE(N) AWAY
  • Williamstown Festival Contemporary Art Prize 2009 exhibition catalogue
  • Gina Fairley review of dot-net-dot-au, Asian Art News Vol 18 No.6 Nov-Dec 2008 
  • Yering Station Sculpture Exhibition catalogue 2008 
  • Dr Caroline Jordan, La Trobe University dot-net-dot-au travelling exhibition catalogue essay, July 2008 ISBN 978-0-646-49308-4
  • Midsumma Visual Arts Catalogue 2008
  • David Wilson “From animals…to art” The Age 17 November 2007
  • Dr Caroline Jordan, Research Fellow, The Australia Centre, University of Melbourne dot-net-dot-my exhibition essay October 2007
  • Chris Jackson “Craker of an exhibit” The Bayside Leader 7 February 2006
  • Lily Fermer “Art forVet’s Sake” The Veterinarian September 2005
  • Lisa Chivers “Space Mission” The Sunday Age 15 August 2004
  • Chris Beck “Taking Letters Out of the Box” The Age 19 June 2004
  • The Darebin- La Trobe Acquisitive Art Prize exhibition catalogue 2001
  • Anna Clabburn “Bendigo’s Wild and Witty Hybrids” The Australian 7 August 2000
  • New Q 2000 exhibition catalogue, Midsumma Festival 2000
  • Out of Place exhibition catalogue, Melbourne International Festival 1999
  • The Darebin- La Trobe Acquisitive Art Prize exhibition catalogue 1999
  • Suzanne Spunner “Dumped by the Next Wave and still standing” Art Monthly Australia  July 1998 
  • Next Wave Festival catalogue 1998
  • Myfanwy Warhurst “A Sense of Place” EG The Age 8 May 1998
  • New Q catalogue 1998
  • Station pro Forma exhibition catalogue 1997 
  • The First Darebin- La Trobe Acquisitive Prize exhibition catalogue 1997
  • David Cross “Catching the Sixth Next Wave” Real Time 11 August - Sept 1996
  • See Spot Run exhibition catalogue 1996
  • Andrew Masterson “The Art of Recall” EG The Age 24 May 1996
  • Visual Next Wave Festival 1996 Visual Arts Program catalogue
  • Artworkz Seven exhibition catalogue 1995 
  • Ken Scarlett “A Democratic Showcase”  Art Monthly Australia November 1994
  • Artworkz Six exhibition catalogue 1994
  • Artworkz Five exhibition catalogue 1993
  • Marcus O’Donnell, review of Six of One Melbourne Star Observer October 16 1992
     
Grants, Awards & Residencies
  • Artist’s residency at the Hotel Penaga, Penang, Malaysia throughout July 2011
  • Artist’s residency at Caravansarai, Istanbul throughout June 2011 
  • Artist-in-residence, Victoria University, Melbourne throughout January 2011
  • Featured (cover) artist for Victoria’s 2010-2011 Cultural Guide 
  • Shortlisted for the Toyota Community Spirit Artist Travel Award in 2009 and 2010 
  • Judge’s commendation, Moreland Sculpture Show 2009 
  • Sponsorship of dot-net-dot-au travelling exhibition by the Australian High Commission, Malaysia, July 2008 
  • Residency at Rimbun Dahan, Kuang, Selangor, Malaysia August-November 2006
  • Radio National Fringe Festival Award for Visual Art for Public Address October 1995   
  • Pat Corrigan artist grants June 1995, May 1996 and May 1998 
     
Collections
  • Tropical Spice Garden, Penang, Malaysia
  • island6 Art Centre collection, Shanghai 
  • Victoria University, Melbourne
  • Angela and Hijjas Kasturi
  • Rimbun Dahan, Selangor, Malaysia
  • Private collections in Australia, Asia and Europe
Professional Experience

2012-2015

Founder, owner and manager of cherrycake studios artists’ residency, George
Town, Penang, Malaysia. cherrycake studios closed at the end of 2015.

2000

Teacher of Drawing and Mixed Media, Latrobe Street College of Art and New Media,
Melbourne

1999

2000 Tutor in Painting (1st year undergraduate, Painting) RMIT University, Melbourne

1998

Tutor in Painting (1st and 2nd year undergraduate, Painting) RMIT University, Melbourne

1997

Tutor in Painting (1st year undergraduate, Painting) RMIT University, Melbourne
Teacher of General Drawing (1st and 3rd year undergraduate, Fashion and Textile
Design) RMIT University, Melbourne

1996

Teacher of Life and General Drawing (2nd year undergraduate, Painting) RMIT
University, Melbourne

1995

Teacher of Life Drawing (1st year undergraduate, Painting) RMIT University, Melbourne
Tutor in Painting RMIT University Summer School

Representation

Tim Craker is currently unrepresented by a gallery.

 

Previous Representation

2015

a2 Gallery
27 Bangkok Lane
10250 Penang, Malaysia

2010-2011

Jackman Gallery
60 Inkerman Street
St. Kilda VIC 3182
Phone 9534 2147

2009

Gallery 101
101 Collins Street
Melbourne VIC 3000

2004-2007

Maunsell Wickes at Barry Stern Galleries 19 Glenmore Road Paddington NSW 2021

2003-2006

Nellie Castan Gallery, Level 1 / 12 River street, South Yarra VIC 3141