An Accidental Environmental Artist

De: John Dahlsen

Narrado por: Virtual Voice

Learn about the evolution of John Dahlsen, from birth to present. Follow the many paths he has traveled and learn how he became the Internationally acclaimed Accidental Environmental Artist. John Dahlsen is an Australian environmental artist. He studied in Melbourne at the Victorian College of the Arts and did his teachers training at the Melbourne College of Advanced Education. In 2014 John is currently lecturing in Art at Charles Darwin University, where he is also doing his PhD in environmental art. He was awarded a Churchill Fellowship in 2014 from the Winston Churchill Foundation. He won Australia’s oldest art award, the prestigious Wynne Prize, at the Art Gallery of NSW in 2000 and was again a finalist in 2003 and 2004. In 2006 he was a finalist in the Sulman Award at the Art Gallery of NSW. He has won other significant acquisitive and non-acquisitive art awards, including a mixed/new media award at the 2003 Florence Biennial. He was awarded the Geraldton Art Prize. Dahlsen is a regular on the international public speaking circuit. He has lectured at various universities and secondary schools both in Australia and internationally from 1980 – 2011. He has been an invited speaker at architectural and environmental symposiums in Australia and internationally, including the Australian Embassy Washington DC in 2009, which coincided with an exhibition of his work. For 25 years he has had regular solo and group exhibitions in Australia, in both commercial and regional galleries and internationally, in USA and Europe, where he is also represented in major public and private collections. Galleries represent him in Australia, as well as in New York, Milan, Belgium and Amsterdam. The main context of this book description was extracted from Jade Wildy's Appendix found in "An Artist's Guide To A Successful Career: Strategies For Financial And Critical Success" Published in December 2013 by Common Ground Publishing.