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BIOGRAPHY
Hobie Porter has an Honours Degree in Visual Arts, a Diploma of Education and is a Henry Lawson Scholar. Originally born in Sydney, Hobie has lived the majority of his life in the Tweed Valley.
He seeks out microelements, and places them within macrocosmic landscapes. His macro-scapes are sublime vistas, really large things, painted with a delicate smallness. 'The large and the small are interconnected in the world around us. This is my point'. His paintings suggest signs of human impact, human presence on both scales. They are characteristically iconic, almost Dali-esque emblems to connectivity, magic, change and mortality.
He was recently selected as a finalist for the Brett Whiteley Travelling Art Scholarship and included in the prestigious Conrad Jupiters Art Prize in 2006. He is represented by Arthouse Gallery, Sydney, and regularly shows in northern NSW and southern Qld.
EDUCATION
2002 Graduate Diploma of Education, Southern Cross University, Lismore
1998 Honours, Contemporary Arts, Southern Cross University
1997 Bachelor of Arts, Visual Arts, Southern Cross University/Pratt Institute, New York
SCHOLARSHIPS
1996 Vice Chancellor’s travel grant, America
1994 Henry Lawson $10 000 Tertiary study scholarship
EXHIBITIONS
2009___'Dry Rain' Travelling Solo, Tweed River Art Gallery and Arthouse Gallery
________'Exsquisite: Small Landscapes' Group, Gold Coast City Art Gallery
________'Innocence? Capturing the wrongly convicted' Group, Nyst Gallery in association with Lorraine Pilgrim, Southport
2008 __'Suspension' Solo, Arthouse Gallery, Rushcutters Bay
________'Wish You Were Here' Group, Tweed River Art Gallery, Murwillumbah
2007 ‘Exodus’ Solo, Arthouse Gallery, Rushcutters Bay
2006 ‘Conrad Jupiters Art Award’ Group, Gold Coast City Arts Centre, Surfers Paradise
‘Brett Whiteley Travelling Art Scholarship 2006 Finalists’, Group, Brett Whiteley Studio, Sydney
‘Hobie Porter - New Work’, Solo, Arthouse Gallery, Sydney
‘Local Art’, Group, Lismore Regional Art Gallery in association with the Byron Bay Writers
Festival, Byron Bay
‘Relationships Australia’, Group, Lismore Regional Art Gallery, Lismore
2005 ‘Urgent Calm’ Solo, Tweed River Art Gallery, Murwillumbah [click here for online PDF catalogue]
‘Reflex-ions’, Group , Lismore Regional Art Gallery, Lismore
2001 ‘ANTI-MATTER’, Group, Tweed River Regional Art Gallery, Murwillumbah
2000 ‘Hobie Porter - Paintings’, Solo, Byronian café, Byron Bay
1999 ‘PAINT’, Group, Astro Gallery, Sydney
1998 ‘Inner Spaces’, Solo, Southern Cross University Museum, Lismore
1997 ‘21st Annual Student Art show’, Representing Pratt Institute, Group, National Arts Club,
Grammercy Park, NYC
‘EXIT’ Graduation Show, Southern Cross University, Group Lismore
1995 ‘HP‘, Solo, CPM, Murwillumbah
AWARDS/ACQUISITIONS
2006 Second, Border Art Prize, Tweed River Art Gallery & Gold Coast City Art Gallery
1997 Australia Day South Arm Citizen of the Year for Youth Award, Australia Council
1996 Community Printmakers Murwillumbah Student Encouragement Award, Murwillumbah
1995 Tweed Valley Art Prize Acquisitive, Tweed Shire Council
Tweed Valley Art Prize, Colin Thomas Popular Vote Award
Youth Week Art Award, Murwillumbah
PUBLICATIONS
2009 __Muddiman, S. 'Catalogue Essay', Dry Rain, Exhibition Catalogue, Tweed River Art Gallery and Arthouse Gallery
2008 Wheeler, E. 'Meet the Artist: Hobie Porter', Tweed Artifacts newsletter, vol.9, no.2, June 2008
2007 Kennedy, R. ‘Hobie Porter Exhibition-Exodus’, Art Interview,
http://www.artinterview.com.au/event-articles/ exodus-robbie-porter/
2006 ABC Television. ‘Painting Australia’, episode 6
Anderson, J. ‘A Breath of Fresh Art’, Gold Coast Bulletin
1998 ‘Art & Design Education’ Design Graphics Resource Guide
TEACHING
2008-09 Painting Teacher, Murwillumbah Tafe.
2004-05 Drawing Tutor, Southern Cross University, Lismore.
2004 Visual Arts Teacher, Tweed River High School, Tweed Heads.
2003 Visual Arts Teacher, Young and Powerful School, Lismore.
2002-03 Visual Arts Teacher, Kadina High School, Lismore.
COLLECTIONS
Mosman Art Gallery
Tweed Shire Council
Tweed River Art Gallery
Park Road Group
