Biography

 

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Geoff Ireland

 

Born: Sydney Australia

 

Exhibitions: Over 80 exhibitions 1974 to present... 13 Solo Shows (see CV for details)

 

Education:

 

1987-89 Master of Arts  (Visual Arts) CAI UNSW (2yrs)

1967-70 Dip Art Ed. National Art School and Alexander Mackie Teachers College (4yrs)

1983      Certificate Johnson Atelier Princeton NJ USA

 

Awards and Grants:

 

2022 Guest Artist Sculpture in the Vineyards , 2017 Tarana Art Prize for Portraiture, Hill End Residency Bathurst Regional Gallery 2016. Tetsuya Wakuda Sculpture Prize, Australian Government Tertiary Grant, inaugural Project Fellowship Grant (TAFE overseas study grant), Johnson Atelier Graduate Assistant Grant, ), 2 Federal Government Visual Art Board Grants, Dyson Bequest (AGNSW) NAS Research Grant, NSW Government Art Teachers Scholarship (4yrs)

 

 

Lecturing and  Administration Experience:

 

Guest Lecturer: University of Sydney, University of NSW, Johnson Atelier NJ, USA,

                      Alfred University NY State USA, Haverford College Pennsylvania, USA

 

 

1971-76  Teacher Cronulla High School

1977       Art Master Canterbury Girls High School

1978-9    Part Time teacher of  Sculpture, Drawing, Painting- TAFE Colleges

              Gymea, St George and Wollongong

1979-93  Teacher of Sculpture East Sydney Technical College School of Art and Design

1994       Acting Senior Head Teacher National Art School

1995-96  Acting Head Teacher  National Art School

1997       Inaugural Head of Sculpture at 'new' National Art School

1998-2002

              Acting Head of Studies National Art School

May 2002 - 2008

              Head of Studies National Art School

2009 -2011

              Teacher Training stationed at Warsaw Poland

2013        P/T Lecturer in Sculpture National Art School