Blair Trethowan

Biography

Born 1974 Melbourne

Died 2006 Melbourne

Education

1998

• Bachelor of Fine Art (Painting), Victorian College of the Arts

1995

• Associate Diploma of Visual Art (Painting), Western Metropolitan College of TAFE

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2004

• Thanks Mum, Paintings by Anne Kearney, Uplands Gallery, Melbourne
• The Big Issue, Our Spot, Sydney

2003

• How High Can You Ollie, How Long Have You Been Skating, Are You a Man or a Teenager? Clubs, Melbourne

2002

• Don’t Steal Music, Uplands Gallery, Melbourne

2001

• Products That Educate, Inspire and Delight, 200 Gertrude Street Gallery, Fitzroy

2000

• Society's Use for Art, Project Wall, Australian Centre of Photography, Sydney

1999

• The Finishing Touch, TCB Art Inc, Melbourne

Selected Group Exhibitions

2004

• Urban/Exurban, Tarrawarra Museum of Art, Tarrawarra
• A Level of Trust: After Kurt Cobain, MFIT, Torino, Italy

2003

• Fair Game, National Gallery of Victoria Australian Art, Melbourne
• Seventies Extention, Albert Street, Melbourne
• The Beetles, GBK gallery, Sydney

2002

• Posture Say What? Albert Street, Melbourne
• Team Show, Uplands Gallery, Melbourne

2001

• Fresh from Paris (curated by Ingrid Braun & Clare Frith Smith), Centre of Contemporary Photography, Fitzroy
• Jon Campbell’s Rock The Boat, Uplands Gallery, Melbourne
• Primavera, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
• Charley (co-ordinated by Maurizio Cattelan), PS1, New York, USA

2000

• Paintings Are Ace, Linden Gallery, St Kilda
• Scientific Dirt, This Is Not a Gig, Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne
• Fascination, Centre of Contemporary Photography, Fitzroy
• Family Romance, 1st Floor Gallery, Fitzroy & Rubyayre Gallery, Sydney

1999

• Who’s Afraid of the Avant Garde? Who Cares? TCB art Inc, Melbourne
• Don’t Have to Sell My Soul He’s Already in Me, TCB Art Inc, Melbourne

1998

• Crack of Noon, Everybody Knows, Lo Sanno Tutti, Spazio d’art Contemporaena, Milan, Italy

Publications

• Charley, New York, 2002
• Like Magazine, Autumn, Melbourne, 2000
• Rubik 4, Melbourne, 1999

Selected Bibliography

Coslovich, Gabriella, Gallery duo still taking care of business, Today section, The Age, Sept 5, 2001.

Coslovich, Gabriella, Art emerges in unlikely places, Today section, The Age, April 19, 2002.

Day, Charlotte, Making it Up, Wide Awake, Next Wave Catalogue, Melbourne, 2000.

Hastings, Gail, The Blind Spots We Sometimes See, Primavera catalogue, Sydney, 2001.

Koenig, Tristan, Rebecca Chew, Sample catalogue, Centre of Contemporary Photography, Melbourne, 2001.

Lowe, Geoff, Riva, Jacqueline, Don’t Steal Music, Catalogue, Slam magazine, Issue 67, p77.

Loxely, Anne, Blind spots that make the mind work, review, Arts & Entertainment, Sydney Morning Herald, Sept 09, pg 15, 2001.

Lynch, James, The Finishing Touch, catalogue, TCB Art Inc, 1999.

Koop, Stuart, The Finishing Touch, review, Art & Text, 69, 2000.

Koop, Stuart, Lynch, James, Radford, Lisa, Products That Educate, Inspire and Delight, catalogue essay, Melbourne. 2001.

Nelson, Robert, Fairs and Prizes Enhance Art’s Allure, Geelong Contemporary Art Prize, review, Today section, The Age, 2000.

Verghis, Sharon, Modern art you can understand, even if that bloke is of his trolley, The Sydney Morning Herald, News, Sept 03, p5, 2001.

Webb, Carolyn, The Hot Young Collectables, Today section, The Age, Oct 02, pg.1, 2001.