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ROB MCHAFFIE
1978
Born Melbourne, Australia
2021
Masters of Fine Art, Victorian College of the Arts
2005
Studio Artist, Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne
2004
Graduate Diploma in Teaching (Visual Art) Melbourne University
2002
Bachelor of Fine Arts (Drawing), Victorian College of the Arts
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024
We Are Family, Bendigo Art Gallery, Victoria.
2023
Feathers in the Wind, Bendigo Law Courts, Bendigo, Victoria.
2021
The World as Our natural Habitat, Masters of Fine Art Exhibition, Victorian College of Arts, Melbourne.
A cuddle is understood universally, Darren Knight Gallery, Sydney.
2020
Homebody, Brett McDowell Gallery, New Zealand.
2018
This is Living, Bayside Arts and Cultural Centre, Melbourne.
Sea breeze, Darren Knight Gallery, Sydney
2017
Art Basel Hong Kong 2017, Darren Knight Gallery, booth 1c43
2016
After hours, Darren Knight Gallery, Sydney
2015
Busts, Brett McDowell Gallery, New Zealand
2014
Family Album, Long Division Gallery, Schoolhouse Studios, Melbourne.
I can still remember how to speak, Darren Knight Gallery, Sydney
2013
Farang Mak, Brett McDowell Gallery, Dunedin New Zealand
2012
Let’s see how we go, Darren Knight Gallery, Sydney
2010
Hope for the Disheveled Seeker, Brett McDowell Gallery, Dunedin, New Zealand
2009
Step out of character, become yourself, Darren Knight Gallery, Sydney, Australia
2008
Slow me down, USQ Arts Gallery, Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia
Small triumph, Darren Knight Gallery, Sydney, Australia
2007
Painting, Gardening and Hiding, Darren Knight Gallery at Silvershot, Melbourne
2006
All the trappings, Darren Knight Gallery, Sydney, Australia
2005
Still lives, Spacement Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
2004
Crumpled Date Paintings, MOP Project Space, Sydney, Australia
A date with half beautiful, TCB Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023
Darren Knight Gallery at Sydney Contemporary, Carraigeworks, Sydney.
50 years of the Friends of the Hamilton Gallery, Hamilton Gallery, Victoria
Introduced Pieces, Kyneton Ridge Art Space, Victoria.
2022
CUT, MurrayWhite Room at Temperance Hall, Melbourne
Len Fox Painting Prize, Castlemaine Art Museum, Victoria.
2021
Spring 1883, Darren Knight Gallery, Melbourne
A Portrait of Place, Brighton Arts and Cultural Centre, Melbourne
2019
Arthur Guy Memorial Painting Prize, Bendigo Art Gallery, Bendigo
Hot Mess, Bowerbank Ninow, Auckland, NZ
MODEL, Murray White Room, Melbourne
2018
Darren Knight Gallery at Spring 1883, Windsor Hotel, Melbourne 1 – 4 August 2018
The Horse, Darren Knight Gallery, Sydney, Australia
Bayside Acquisitive Art Prize, The Gallery at Bayside Arts and Cultural Centre, Melbourne
Sunshine Coast Art Prize, Caloundra Regional Art Gallery, Caloundra, QLD
2017
Unproductive Thinking, curated by James Lynch, Deakin University Art Gallery, Melbourne
Gippsland Print Award, Gippsland Art Gallery, Australia
Julia Gorman, Rob McHaffie, Noriko Nakamura, Caves Gallery, Melbourne,
Darren Knight Gallery at Spring 1883, Room 55, The Establishment Hotel, Sydney
Drawing, Darren Knight Gallery, Sydney
A small show of imperfect paintings, curated by Chris Bond, Trocadero Art Space, Melbourne
The Sunshine Suite (Jon Campbell, Nadine Christensen, Tony Garifalakis, Rob McHaffie, Fiona McMonagle and Richard Lewer) An exhibiition of prints from Sunshine Editions, Melbourne. A collaborative exhibition project between Darren Knight Gallery, Sydney and Hugo Michel Gallery, Adelaide
2016
From the Studio: Bayside Artists in Residence, The Gallery at Bayside Arts and Cultural Centre, Victoria
Sirens (I Heard Voices In The Night), Gertrude Glasshouse, Melbourne
2015
Spring 1883, with Darren Knight Gallery, Sydney
Beg Borrow Steal, Incinerator Gallery, Victoria, Australia
2015 Bayside Acquisitive Art Prize, Melbourne, Australia
The Dices, curated by Rhys Lee, Nicholas Thompson Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
2014
Incidents Above A Bar (part 3): I Probably Don’t Like You, The Alderman, Melbourne
Flowers, St Heliers Street Gallery, Abbotsford Convent Melbourne.
Basil Sellers Art Prize, Ian Potter Museum of Art.
Geelong Contemporary Art Prize, Geelong Art Gallery
Darren Knight Gallery at Spring 1883 Fair, Hotel Windsor, Melbourne
2013
Speculative Spaces, Robin Gibson Gallery, Sydney
10 out of 10, MOP Gallery, Sydney.
2012
Art & Australia Collection, MOP Projects, Sydney, Australia
Paintings of Steve’s Paintings, St Heliers St Gallery, Melbourne
Volume One: MCA Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
2011
Jon Campbell, Jennifer Mills, Rob McHaffie, Robert Rooney, Hugo Michell Gallery, Adelaide, Australia
Model Pictures: James Lynch, Amanda Marburg, Rob McHaffie, Moya McKenna, Ian Potter Museum of Art, University of Melbourne.
Art for Nature, Rimbun Dahan Gallery, Selangor, Malaysia
2010
The Painting Group, Utopian Slumps, Melbourne, Australia
TCB Art Inc, Melbourne Art Fair, Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne
The Shiloh Project, S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney
Nobody Knows: Simon Mee, Rob McHaffie, Anne Wallace, Gold Coast City Gallery, Queensland, Australia
Portrait exchange, Arts Project Australia, Melbourne
2009
Visage, curated by Felix Ratcliff, First Draft Gallery, Sydney
Darren Knight Gallery at Auckland Art Fair, Auckland, New Zealand
2008
Little Deaths, Apartment, Melbourne, Australia
Darren Knight Gallery at NEXT - The Invitational Fair of Emerging Art, Chicago USA
2007
Relentless Optimism The Carlton Hotel, Melbourne, Australia
This Crazy Love, Linden Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, Australia
2006
Gertrude Studios 2006, Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne Australia
Primavera 06 - Exhibition of Young Australian Artists, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia
The Armory Show Art Fair, New York, USA
AWARDS
2021 - Peter Redlich Memorial Art Prize, for research Masters, VCA, Melbourne.
2016- Bayside Aquisitive Art Prize, Local Art Prize winner.
2014 - Geelong Contemporary Art Prize (winner).
- Basil Sellers Art Prize (finalist)
2013 – Doug Moran Portrait Prize (finalist)
2012 - Art & Australia / Credit Suisse Private Banking Contemporary Art Award
2011 – Asialink Residency, Rimbun Dahan, Malaysia
2007 – Australia Council Residency, Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris
2003 - Linden Postcard Award
2002 - VCA Contemporary Drawing Prize
COLLECTIONS
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney.
Bendigo Art Gallery, Victoria.
Bendigo Law Courts, Bendigo, Victoria.
Hamilton Gallery, Victoria.
Monash University Museum of Art, (MUMA) Melbourne.
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne.
Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney.
Ian Potter Museum of Art, The University of Melbourne.
Geelong Art Gallery, Victoria.
Bayside Arts and Cultural Centre, Melbourne.
Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne
Queensland Art Gallery / Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane.
Australia India Institute, Melbourne.
Michael Buxton Collection, Melbourne.
Artbank, Australia.
Stonnington Council, Melbourne.
Gippsland Art Gallery, Victoria.
Deakin University, Melbourne.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Allen Shea, Joseph. Let’s see how we go in Broadsheet, http://www.broadsheet.com.au/sydney/arts-and-entertainment/article/lets-see-how-we-go, 7 September 2012
Backhouse, M. More to boot The Age Review, 2 July 2005
Bland, M. Nobody Knows in Art & Australia, Vol. 48 No. 2, p. 351
Barkley, G. Overlapping Worlds, Art & Australia, Vol. 48, No.2.2011, p.718
Bogajev, S. A Cuddle is Understood Universally- The work of Rob McHaffie, Juxtapoz Magazine (online), May, 2021.
Bosse, J. Bayside: Portrait of Place, exhibition catalogue 2021, p. 54, 57.
Brophy, P. CUT, Memo Review (online) Dec, 2022
Clement, T. Suburban Mayhem The Sydney Morning Herald Metro 20-26 October 2006, p 23
Cormick, L. A Date with Half Beautiful, exhibition catalogue, TCB Gallery, Melbourne
Crawford, A. Smart art: Rob McHaffie Australia Art Collector Magazine, Issue 37 – July-September 2006 p.167
Crawford, A. 50 Most Collectable Artists in Australian Art Collector Issue 43, Jan – March 2008, p. 162 – 165
Cresswell, E. Zipper in Relentless optimism catalogue, The Carlton Hotel and Studios, 2007 p. 44
Creagh, S. Spring loaded: Primavera celebrates young art guns Sydney Morning Herald 28 July 2006
Day, C. A short ride in a fast machine cover image, printed by Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces
Day, C. Critical Mass, Art and Australia, 2006
Ed. Rob McHaffie, Artist, The Nice Niche, http://us6.campaign-archive2.com/?u=813d0778f368ec26eaa122502&id=1974bfc1aa&e=112397f090
Ed. Profiles Art Almanac, September 2004
Ed. 2011 Acquisitions – Purchases in The Ian Potter Museum of Art - Art+Events+Ideas, pub. Uni of Melbourne, January 2012, pp.25-26
Frost, A, Let's see how we go, The Art Life, 13 September 2012
Gibson, P. Busy benefactors Australian Art Collector Oct-Dec 2005
Kiely, A. Draw on inspiration, Vogue Living, January/February 2009, p. 54
Koenig, T. A portable model of…., Plimsoll Galley, Tasmania
Lacy, D. Surreal compositions in The Journal of Australian Ceramics, 50/3 November 2011, pp.34-36
Low, L.A. Crumpled Date Paintings, Spectrum, Sydney Morning Herald, 11-12, September, 2004
Lynch, J. Unproductive Thinking, catalogue essay, Deakin University Art Gallery 2017
Malor, D. Sticks and stones exhibition catalogue, University of Tasmania, 2004
McHaffie, R. Make vibes not things: Caroline Anderson A.K.A. Crystal Diamond in Stamm, http://www.stamm.com.au/make-vibes-not-things-caroline-anderson-a-k-a-crystal-diamond/, accessed 10/04/12
Power, L. Still lives The Age Metro, Tuesday 21 June 2005
Radford, L. Dress Sexy in Relentless optimism catalogue, The Carlton Hotel and Studios, 2007 p. 45
Radford, L. Still lives, exhibition catalogue, Spacement Gallery, Melbourne
Seeto, A. Rob McHaffie, interview, exhibition catalogue, Primavera 06, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney. 2006
Sorensen, R. Stories hint at a past, capture a present, and leave the rest to us, The Australian, 22 July 2010
Stephens, A. Buxton Contemporary, pp.13. 3010 Melbourne University Magazine. The University of Melbourne, 2018.
Stephens, A. While the rest of us bake, artists are making sense of COVID, The Age, June, 2021.
Strickland, K. Being contemporary starts to pay off The Weekend Australian Financial Review 22-26 December 2006, pp 40-41
Sullivan, L. This is Living, Exhibition Catalogue, pp 4-7. Bayside Arts and Cultural Centre, 2018
Taylor, R. Sydney artists look to the east The Sydney Morning Herald Arts Guide pp. 22-23
Triguboff, E. The Art & Australia Contemporary Art Award: Looking Back to the Future, Art & Australia, Vol 47, Autumn 2010. p.422
Vasiliou, L. Review: Rob McHaffie, ACCA MAG 5, www.accaonline,org.au/accamag
Rubik 14, Uplands Gallery, Melbourne
ARTIST WRITINGS
Comfort room forms / Matlok Griffiths, Introductory text by Rob McHaffie. PubPublishing 2015.
Stamm online art reviews, Contributing writer Rob McHaffie, 10 articles http://stamm.com.au/category/rob-mchaffie/ Stamm, 2012.
Universal Drawings by Samraing Chea, Exhibition catalogue text by Rob McHaffie http://www.areadingroom.com/exhibitions/universal-drawings/ Reading Room, 2018.