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Michael Bryant
Background
Born>>>
Sydney, Australia 1951
Artistic Experience>>> Michael began writing short stories and verse
at age 15. Self~taught guitar and piano at age 18 with supplementary studies
with Don Andrews school of Guitar, music theory at Sydney Conservatorium of
Music and in later years, Richard Holland's Jazz Piano and theory course.
He began drawing
as a conscious effort to replicate ideas in 1970 on the interior walls of
a rented house accompanied by random verse and continues to explore creative
avenues of expression writing stories, songs and verse.
Voluntary Positions
2001 With some
Tafe associates and his daughter Vanessa, he pursued an idea to form a core
Art group/art movement, based somewhere near Kingscliff NSW.
2001 In May the Curious Art minus zero no limits Co-Operative Ltd was officially
registered and opened its retail gallery at nearby Chinderah Bay by the Tweed
River in September 2001.
He has been the Manager and one of the Directors , since the formation of
the Co-operative until the present time.
Exhibitions
1998 Caldera
Restaurant Kingscliff Tafe NSW
1998 Art, Food & Jazz Festival Kingscliff, NSW
1999 Tweed River Regional Gallery Murillumbah NSW. A Tafe group exhibition,
featuring an interactive artspace “Brain, the bottle and eyes”
by the artist.
2000 Flying Colours Gallery, Fingal, NSW
2001 " " " "
2002/2004 Art Food & Jazz Kingscliff NSW
2002 Choiux Box Cafe Kingscliff NSW
2002/2003 Tyalgum Classical Music Festival as visual artists in residence
(curious art group) and exhibition at Literary Institute Hall and 11:11 Tyalgum
Café Gallery
2003 Collaborative exhibition with Vanessa Bryant “A Bridge Across”
at Curious Art Gallery
2004 Josephine Ulrich Photography Prize Entrant Tweed River Regional Gallery
2005 Border Art Prize Tweed River Regional Gallery
Continuous representation with Curious Art Gallery Exhibitions from 2001 to the present time.
Professional work
He teaches
one on one lessons in Creative Digital Media and Website Design.
Freelance graphic design and manages several websites.
Solo Exhibitions
2005 Solo exhibition “North by North East” at Curious Art Gallery
2007 Solo exhibition InVerse at the Curious Art Gallery, March/April 2007.
Book releases
2007 Release of Inverse, a 25 page book of imagery and verse
2007 Release of A Stone's throw from Paradise, a 25 page book of imagery and verse
Current projects
A short film in collaboration with Ness and Clare Bryant. They will hopefully have it shot, edited and ready for showing by Spetember 2009 for the 8th anniversary exhibition of Curious Art.
Due for Release Dec 2008 : 3 points North - The conclusion to the trilogy of North by North East books.
In progress : A third 25 page book of photography and verse.
Michael is among
the many Kingscliff artists,
writers and photographers working within the Tweed.