Christopher Orchard Explained

Christopher Orchard
Birth Name:Christopher Orchard
Birth Place:South Australia
Nationality:Australian
Field:Drawing
Training:South Australia College of Advanced Education
Awards:SALA Festival Featured Artist 2017
Website:Personal website

Christopher Robin Orchard is a South Australian artist and arts educator who began as a sculptor but subsequently specialised in drawing. His character, the Bald Man, is a recurrent motif. Orchard is Associate Professor at Adelaide Central School of Art and was the subject of the 2017 SALA Festival monograph, Christopher Orchard: The Uncertainty of the Poet.[1] He is also the subject of the 2013 short documentary film Everyperson, by Jasper Button and Patrick Zoerner.[2] [3]

Biography

Orchard was born in South Australia in 1950.[4] Orchard's full name is Christopher Robin Orchard.[5] He completed an Advanced Diploma in fine Art, Sculpture and Painting at the South Australia College of Advanced Education.[1] He is a founding member of the Art Workers’ Union in 1979 and joined Central Studios in 1982.[6] From 1985-1987 he was a member of Air and Space Studios, London.[1] He joined the teaching staff of Adelaide Central School of Art in 1989.[1] In 2005, he was appointed Adjunct Associate Professor at Flinders University.[1] Orchard held his first solo exhibition in Adelaide in 1975.[1] In 1986, he presented his first British solo exhibition in London.[1] In 2011, he presented his first American solo exhibition in New York.[1]

Artistic style and subject

Orchard began as a sculptor but came to specialise in drawing.[6] His works feature an avatar known as the Bald Man who emerged from Orchard’s “fight with the figure”[7] and who, according to Orchard, represents ”the entire history of what it means to be human”.[8]

Awards/Prizes/Residency

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Notes and References

  1. Book: Goldsworthy . Peter . Osborne . Margot . Ananda . Roy . Robinson . Julia . Taylor . Rod . Christopher Orchard: The Uncertainty of the Poet . 2017 . Wakefield Press . Mile End, South Australia . 9781743054925 . English.
  2. Web site: DocWeek 2014 Program Guide . Issuu . 3 September 2018 . 22 . en.
  3. Web site: Button . Jasper . Zoerner . Patrick . Everyperson . Vimeo . 3 September 2018 . en . 2013.
  4. Book: Goldsworthy . Peter . Osborne . Margot . Ananda . Roy . Robinson . Julia . Taylor . Rod . Christopher Orchard : the uncertainty of the poet . 2017 . Wakefield Press . Mile End, South Australia . 9781743054925 . English.
  5. Book: McCulloch . Alan . McCulloch . Susan . McCulloch Childs . Emily . The new McCulloch's encyclopedia of Australian art . 2006 . Australian Art Editions and The Miegunyah Press . Melbourne, Vic. . 052285317X . 748 . Fourth.
  6. Book: Goldsworthy . Peter . Osborne . Margot . Ananda . Roy . Robinson . Julia . Taylor . Rod . Christopher Orchard: The Uncertainty of the Poet . 2017 . Wakefield Press . Mile End, south Australia . 9781743054925 . English.
  7. Web site: Neylon . John . Appreciating Christopher Orchard's Hiss and Growl - The Adelaide Review . The Adelaide Review . 3 September 2018 . 28 July 2017.
  8. Web site: Croall . Fiona . Christopher Orchard creator of the Bald Man . Radio National . Australian Broadcasting Commission . 3 September 2018 . en-AU . 7 December 2017.
  9. Book: Goldsworthy . Peter . Osborne . Margot . Ananda . Roy . Robinson . Julia . Taylor . Rod . Christopher Orchard: The Uncertainty of the Poet . 2017 . Wakefield Press . Mile End South Australia . 9781743054925 . English.
  10. Web site: Dobell Prize for Drawing (discontinued) finalists 2000 :: Art Gallery NSW . Art Gallery of New South Wales . 3 September 2018.
  11. Web site: Dobell Prize for Drawing (discontinued) finalists 2001 :: Art Gallery NSW . Art Gallery of New South Wales . 3 September 2018.
  12. Web site: Dobell Prize for Drawing (discontinued) finalists 2005 :: Art Gallery NSW . Art Gallery of New South Wales.
  13. Web site: Dobell Prize for Drawing (discontinued) finalists 2006 :: Art Gallery NSW . Art Gallery of New South Wales . 3 September 2018.
  14. Web site: 2015 Kedumba Drawing Award – The Kedumba Collection of Australian Drawings . The Kedumba Collection of Australian Drawings . 3 September 2018 . en-AU.
  15. Web site: Paul Guest Finalists 2016 . Bendigo Art Gallery . 3 September 2018 . en.
  16. Web site: Christopher Orchard named 2017 SALA featured artist . SALA Festival . 3 September 2018 . en.

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