John Dahlsen

John Dahlsen - Abbreviated Biography

John Dahlsen is based in Byron Bay Australia. He studied in Melbourne at the Victorian College of the Arts and at the Melbourne College of Advanced Education.

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 media/new media award at the 2003 Florence Biennial. He was also awarded the Geraldton Art Prize.

John has lectured at various universities and secondary schools from 1980 – 2007. He has been an invited speaker at architectural and environmental symposiums in Australia and internationally, including at the Australian Embassy in Washington DC, which coincided with an exhibition of his work there in 1999.

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.

In August 2004, Dahlsen represented Australia at the Athens Olympics of Visual Arts and in October 2004, he became the first Australian artist, (he joins such renowned artists as Andy Warhol, Keith Haring, Francesco Clemente and Damien Hirst) to be commissioned by global vodka producer Absolut, to create a major public artwork “Absolut Dahlsen”, which was unveiled at Sculpture by the Sea, 2004. (This work is now located outside the Gold Coast City Art Gallery).

John’s art has been written about in major Australian and international newspapers. His work has been featured in many magazines and in international art publications. Television includes coverage on all Australian channels and many international programmes. He currently has a major presentation and interview on ABC online.

John was successfully commissioned to create the public artwork titled “The Guardian” situated at the gateway to Story Bridge at Kangaroo Point by The Brisbane City Council, in 2003.

He had a major solo exhibition of his work at the Tweed Regional Art Gallery in February 2005 and his sculpture “Pink Shard” made from fused toughened glass panels with a plastic interlayer bearing image won him another award, at the 2005 Thursday Plantation East Coast Sculpture Show. During June 2006, he had a solo exhibition at parliament house in Sydney.

Later in 2005, he curated as well as participated in an exhibition at the Samuel Dorsky Museum, in New York State in the USA; he also took up an artist in residence position in Jefferson City Missouri, USA in September 2005, where he made a public artwork for their sculpture walk.

John has also been approached, by a Museum director in the USA, to have a solo exhibition of his work in a major USA museum in Minnesota in 2008 and will be involved in an environmental art exhibition in Barcelona also during 2008.

In December 2006, John was awarded the runner up prize in Australia’s newest, and now the richest art award, The Signature of Sydney Art Prize.

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Artist Statement
John Dahlsen February 2006

My creative medium shifted from painting to working with found objects as a result of an artistic accident during the mid 1990’s. I was collecting driftwood, on a remote Victorian Coastline, with the intention of making furniture and stumbled upon vast amounts of plastic ocean debris. This whole new palette of colour and shape revealing itself to me immediately affected me; I had never seen such hues and forms before.

Since then for approximately 10 years, I scoured Australian beaches for found objects, much of which I found as washed up ‘ocean litter’. I have since discovered this is a worldwide phenomenon, affecting beaches on a global level.

I bought these plastics back to my studio to sift, sort, and colour-code for my assemblages, sculptures and installations. As I worked with these objects, I became even more fascinated by the way they had been modified and weathered by the ocean and nature’s elements. My challenge as an artist was to take these found objects, which might on first meeting have no apparent dialogue, and to work with them until they speak and tell their story, which included those underlying environmental messages inherent in the use of this kind of medium.

My work is in a constant state of evolution. I see this largely as alchemical. It is the process of nature’s elements redefining the man-made that creates the initial alchemy in working with these found objects, taking the objects beyond the mundane. The second step was achieved through the transportation of these plastics to my studio and the process of sorting and assembling. A further and more vital transformation took place as I assembled them. These found objects then started to tell their story and become transformed into artworks. Most importantly for me, the assembled objects brought to life my commitment as an artist to express contemporary social, spiritual and environmental concerns.

Comments are regularly made to me about people’s consciousness, while walking the beach, being awakened after seeing my found plastic object artworks. With this in mind, I have trusted leaving the final alchemy of the work to the viewer with the possibility they may experience deep perceptual shifts as they interact with my art.

I also developed new works in 2003 using recycled plastic bags as the primary medium, “Blue River” is one of my most well known works using this medium. This work was a finalist in the 2003 Wynne prize at the Art Gallery of NSW Australia. My recycled plastic bag artwork is a departure from the more recognizable assemblage works in which I used plastics and other detritus collected from the Eastern seaboard, “Thong Totems” which won the Wynne Prize in 2000 being a good example. With this recycled plastic bag work, apart from wishing to express obvious environmental messages, I have been particularly interested in the brilliance of the colours and textures available to me in working with this medium.

I am constantly surprised to see the variations in these plastics, very much like how I am intrigued by the beach found objects I have collected over the years. The most recent example of my working in this medium was in 2005, when I was artist in residence at Jefferson City Missouri, USA. Here I made a series of totemic installations with thousands of plastic bags in clear acrylic tubes for their sculpture walk.

I imagine these plastic bags, which mostly have a lifespan of up to 450 years, are possibly facing extinction, as governments are beginning to impose deterrents to people using them. In the mean time I am able as a contemporary visual artist, to use these recycled materials, to create artworks which, I hope express a certain beauty, as well as containing their own unique environmental messages.

My foray into working with driftwood assemblages, began in 1998 and continued until 2004. An article described the driftwood assemblages, which I exhibited in a solo show at the John Gordon Gallery Coffs Harbour in early 2004 as follows:

“John Dahlsen isn’t your average artist. A bold statement to make but appropriate after you realize the sheer depth and determination which goes into the work this man has produced over the past seven years. Although he has been within art circles for much longer than that, it is only in the most recent years, which have seen Dahlsen create a different form of art with environmental messages and strong statements. It is ‘found’ object art, be that organic or inorganic.
He would be seen scavenging beaches in search of plastics, specific colours and sizes. He is also known for venturing along the edge of Victoria alone in search of driftwood. Boat trips, four-wheel-drive tours and scaling 40 meter-high cliffs, were all part of the process for this driftwood exhibition and Dahlsen admits at times there were death-defying moments grabbing the perfect piece of wood.”

The work on show in the 2004 Wynne Prize as a finalist, at the Art Gallery of NSW, titled “Driftwood Assemblage # 1” was a diptych from this series.

The other focus of my artistic activity over the past few years, is in the area of large-scale prints and paintings on canvas and paper. This exploration into prints was first initiated in 1999 and developed into my incorporating both screen print, digital print technology and painting in my work. It satisfied my concerns with advances in technology where I could begin to incorporate various images of the found plastics.

In 1999 I developed a series of Cibachrome photographs taken from above – a birds eye view of the found plastics and then developed these into complex high resolution large scale works on canvas, utilising contemporary computer and screen printing advances. The development of these works immediately followed the construction of my web site, during which I was to also learn the scope of possibilities within digital media. As well as embracing the digital and screen-printing arena, it also heralded my return to painting which was my main chosen medium for many years.

The central concerns of my work are with contemporary art practice. I have for many years been working with found and recycled objects, most hand-picked by myself from somewhere along the Australian Coastline. In fact it literally amazes me to think how many times I have bent over to pick up the many thousands of pieces of plastic debris that made up that aspect of my art, each piece jostled around for who knows how long by sand, sun and ocean, their form faded and rounded by the elements.

The unabated dumping of thousands of tonnes of plastics has been expressed in my assemblages, installations, totems, digital prints and public artworks. And yet, despite my outrage at this environmental vandalism, I returned to the beach daily to find more pieces for my artist’s palette. In an uncanny way, these plastics, as I sorted them and arranged them in my studio took on an unspeakable, indefinable and quite a magical beauty, which always fascinated me.

Now, during the latter part of 2005 and into 2006, I am creating a new body of work, a series of Synthetic Polymer paintings on Belgian linen, based on the subject matter of plastic "purges" - plastic fabricator machine end waste.
This work and my work in general now, considers cycles and recycling. I have begun re-presenting paintings of sculptures that are inherently plastic fabricator machine end waste. The use of plastic materials and their place in the evolutionary motions of recycling are important to me in constructing these images.

I am making this new series of work, exploring the mechanics of how an object is put together, what place it occupies in a cycle of life; organic or man-made. My choice of materials having as much prominence as the end product.
This present work concentrates on cycles, momentum and the multiple. In this new series of work, I paint non-recyclable purged plastic objects. These objects are by products of everything plastic, they are the plastic run before or after a hairbrush, juice bottle or chair is made. They represent everything and nothing. The plastic in its petroleum state has undergone millions of years of evolution to get to this stage. And then, it is discarded as a by-product of societal needs.

Essentially I am exploring the duality of meaning and perception and the illusion that is created in between. I am presenting an image of a non-object, in a painting of an informal Formalist sculpture. My paintings will create the profile of a solid sculpture, moulded and plied to present the essence of formalism. The subject of the paintings, exhibit abstract geometrical imagery and constructivist diagramming of space that is playfully organic and blob-like.

The present direction in my work which also incorporates sculpture and assemblage, is a natural evolution for me and further consolidates my return to painting, which was my main medium for many years, prior to my working for over 8 years with found objects; making sculptures and assemblages from beach found plastic litter, which were largely based upon environmental themes, taking society's discarded objects of the everyday and transforming them into formal compositions.

John Dahlsen February/March 2006

Major Mediums: Sculpture, Assemblage, Installation, Public Art, Digital Printing, Found Object Art,
Painting, Drawing, Photography, Printmaking.
Education: 1983 Melbourne College of Advanced Education, Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne

Awards:
2005 Awarded Senate Proclamation, Jefferson City, State of Missouri, USA .
2005 Regional Artist Award: East Coast Sculpture Show - Thursday Plantation, NSW.
2005 Export Market Development Grant. Australian Government 'Austrade'
2004 Awarded role as Cultural Embassador for Australia at the Athens "Olympics Of Visual Art Artiade Exhibition".
2004 Export Market Development Grant. Australian Government 'Austrade’
2004 Finalist: Wynne Prize for Sculpture & Landscape AG NSW
2003 Florence Biennial of Contemporary Art Italy - Award for mixed media/new media.
2003 Finalist: Wynne Prize for Sculpture & Landscape AG NSW
2003 Earth Champion Nominee: Athena Foundation
2001 Highly Commended: East Coast Sculpture Show Thursday Plantation, NSW.
2000 Winner of the Wynne Prize for Sculpture & Landscape AG NSW
2000 Appointed "Official Artist of the New Millennium" for the Environmental organizations 'Clean Up Australia' & "Clean up the World"
2000 N.S.W. Ministry for the Arts grant
1998 Highly Commended: East Coast Sculpture Show Thursday Plantation, NSW.
1991 Artrage Festival Subsidy Funding
1991 Pat Corrigan artist grant
1991 Winner of the Geraldton-Greenough Aquisitive Art Award
1990 WA Department for the Arts Grant
1976 Cann River Open Art Prize, Gippsland, Victoria, Xavier College Art Award, Melbourne, Victoria.

Teaching/Lecturing:
2005 State University of New York New Paltz, visiting lecturer
2005 William Woods University Fulton Missouri, visiting lecturer
2004 Southern Cross University, Lismore, visiting lecturer
2003 James Cook University, Townsville, Visiting Lecturer
2003 School For International Training, Visiting Lecturer
2002 School For International Training, Visiting Lecturer
2001 School For International Training, Visiting Lecturer
2000 Royal Australian Institute of Architects, Visiting Lecturer
2000 School For International Training, Visiting Lecturer
1999 Australian Embassy, Washington D.C. Environmental Symposium
1991 School of Architecture, The University of Western Australia
1990 School of Visual Arts, Curtin University of Technology
1990 School of Architecture, University of WA, Visiting Fine Arts Lecturer
1989 Part-time Art Teacher, Gosnells High School, Perth
1988 Painting/Drawing in various secondary schools, Perth
1983-4 Painting /Drawing in various secondary schools, Melbourne
1983 Mature Age, Life Drawing, Melbourne College of Advanced Education

Solo Exhibitions:
2005 Artspace Mackay: "Detritus" - works by John Dahlsen 2nd September - 16th October 2005
2005 "From Floor to Wall " installations and assemblages by John Dahlsen Tweed River Regional Art Gallery.
2004 "New Work - John Dahlsen " D'Ars Contemporary Art Space Milano Italy
2004 "John Dahlsen in Byron Bay" Byron Fine Art Gallery NSW.
2004 "New Assemblages and Prints" John Gordon Gallery Coffs Harbour NSW
2004 "Renewed" Gallery 49 New York USA
2003 "Found Plastics" Umbrella Studios Townsville QLD.
2003 “Renewed” Australian Art Resources, Melbourne, VIC.
2003 “Rubbish/ Art” Coffs Harbour City Gallery, NSW.
2003 “Recycled” Grafton Regional Gallery, NSW.
2003 “Art/Rubbish” Lake Russell Gallery Coffs Harbour NSW.
2002 "Survey" Fox Galleries Brisbane,QLD., "Full Circle" Gold Coast City Art Gallery QLD., Recent work Fox Galleries Brisbane QLD.
2000 John Dahlsen, Fox Galleries, Brisbane QLD.
2000 "Totem", Arthouse Gallery, Sydney, NSW.
1999 Australian Embassy, Washington DC. USA
1999 Contemporary Landscapes, Fox Galleries, Brisbane QLD.
1996 The Avatar Series, Orlando Resort Florida, USA, Works on Paper and Canvas - 'The Orient' Byron Bay NSW.
1995 Painting & Drawing Soho Galleries, Sydney NSW.
1994 Works on Paper, 'Byronian' Byron Bay, NSW.
1993 John Dahlsen - Paintings, Cape Gallery - Big Space, Byron Bay, NSW.
1992 Recent works on paper from Amsterdam, Artplace, Perth,WA.
1991 John Dahlsen - Painting + Drawing, Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery UWA
1990 John Dahlsen Paintings, Old Papa's, Fremantle, WA.
1990 John Dahlsen Recent Paintings, Gore Street Gallery, Melbourne, VIC.
1990 Recent Works and Works in Progress, Studio Show, Fremantle, WA.
1990 John Dahlsen Recent Works, Old Papa's, Fremantle, WA.
1989 Recent Works on Paper - John Dahlsen, A Shed, Fremantle, WA
1989 John Dahlsen Paintings, Delaney Galleries, Perth, WA, Colour and Transparency, Prism Gallery Fremantle, WA
1981 John Dahlsen, Johnathan Sweet Gallery, Melbourne, VIC.
1980 Studio Works, Artist's London Studio, England.

Group Exhibitions:
2006 Parliament House Sydney "Recycled Materials As Art" June 2006
2006 2 March - 22 April - Lismore Regional Art Gallery "Oceans 11"
2006 Powerhouse Museum Sydney : "Ecologic" : Creating a Sustainable Future
2006 Miniature Museum of Contemporary Art: - Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
2006 East Coast Sculpture Show - Thursday Plantation Ballina Sept 05 -Jan 06
2005 "Recycled Revisited" July - Sept. Samuel Dorsky Museum N.Y. USA
2005 "Art Inside the Park" - September Jefferson City Missouri USA
2005 Paddington Art Award - Finalists exhibition Marlene Antico Art Gallery Sydney 30th Nov – 22 Dec 05
2005 "Small & Precious" - C.A.S.E. Mullumbimby NSW 6th Sept - 3rd Oct
2005 East Coast Sculpture Show - Thursday Plantation Ballina Sept 05 -Jan 06
2005 artsCape: the Nature of Sculpture: Byron Bay NSW Australia
2005 Recent Acquisitions: Whipple Art Gallery Minnesotta USA
2005 Southern Cross University Next Gallery Lismore NSW "Mans Best Friend"
2005 Powerhouse Museum Sydney NSW: "Ecologic" : Creating a Sustainable Future
2005 Miniature Museum of Contemporary Art: - Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
2005 Byron Fine Art Gallery: Jan -Feb '05" Summer Show" Byron Bay Australia.
2005 Conrad Jupiters Art Prize - Gold Coast City Art Gallery Nov '04 - Jan'05
2004 Athens Olympics Artiade 2004 Exhibition Representing Australia August- October
2004 Sculpture By The Sea, Sydney October/November
2004 Holiday Group Show: Gallery@49 New York USA
2004 Piece Gallery summer Show Mullumbimby NSW
2004 Wagga Wagga Art Gallery: Country Energy Art Award 10/9 - 20/10 NSW.
2004 Conrad Jupiters Art Prize - Gold Coast City Art Gallery 20th Nov 2004 - 23rd Jan 2005
2004 The Alice Prize: 6 - 28 Nov. Araluen Centre Alice Springs NT.
2004 MLC: Aquisitive Art Exhibition Melbourne August VIC
2004 San Francisco Gensler, art exhibition ‘Sustainability’ July USA
2004 "Art From Detritius" Synagogue For The Arts, Tribeca, New York USA
2004 Wynne Prize Exhibition Art Gallery of NSW
2004 Casuarina Sculpture Walk Invitation Exhibition NSW
2004 University of SA Art Museum "6ft + Clean Surf & Art" SA
2004 “All That Glitters” Contemporary visions of the Gold Coast. Gold Coast City Art Gallery
2004 "Bricolage" May '04 Gold Coast City Art Gallery QLD
2004 Professional Artists Network: Easter Art Exhibition, Byron Bay NSW
2004 "Collage and The Found Object" Piece Gallery Mullumbimby NSW
2004 Byron Fine Art Gallery summer show Byron Bay NSW
2004 "Recycling as Art" Global Arts Link Ipswich QLD
2004 “Ecologic” Powerhouse Museum, Sydney, NSW.
2004 Miniature Museum of Contemporary Art - Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
2004 Xavier College Invitation Art Exhibition Melbourne VIC
2004 "Flood Sign" Lismore Regional Art Gallery NSW
2003 Florence Biennale Of Contemporary Art, Italy - Representing Australia.
2003 Art Gallery of NSW: Archibald, Wynne, Sulman Prize Exhibition. Sydney, NSW.
2003 “Ecologic” Powerhouse Museum, Sydney, NSW.
2003 Miniature Museum of Contemporary Art - Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
2003 Dahlsen/deCouvreur Fox Galleries, Brisbane, QLD.
2003 Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery.
2003 Xavier College Invitation Art Exhibition Melbourne VIC
2003 John Gordon Gallery summer show Coffs Harbour, NSW
2003 “Flood Sign” Lismore Regional Gallery
2003 Manly Art Gallery and Museum.
2003 Currumbin Sculpture Festival QLD.
2003 Coffs Harbour City Art Gallery, NSW.
2003 Global Arts Link. Ipswich, QLD.
2003 Perc Tucker Regional Gallery, Townsville QLD.
2003 Rockhampton Art Gallery, QLD
2003 “6ft + Clean: Surf + Art” Noosa Regional Gallery, QLD., Powerhouse museum Sydney, N.S.W., Alice Prize Alice Springs, N.T.
2002 6ft+ Clean Gold Coast City Art Gallery, QLD.
2002 Evolution Art Award Brisbane, QLD.
2002 Lake Russell Gallery, NSW
2002 Byron Fine Art Gallery, NSW
2002 Xavier College Invitation Art Exhibition Melbourne VIC
2002 Thornquest Gallery, Southport QLD
2001 Schubert Galleries, Gold Coast QLD
2001 "Eco-Logic" Powerhouse Museum Sydney, NSW
2001 Thursday Plantation Sculpture Show Ballina, NSW
2000 Art Gallery of NSW -Archibald, Sulman, Wynne Prize Exhibition, Sydney, NSW
2000 National Arts Club New York
2000 Melbourne Art Fair 2000 Melbourne VIC.
2000 Sculpture by the Sea- Bondi 2000 Sydney, NSW
2000 East Coast Sculpture Show Thursday Plantation, Ballina, NSW
2000 Autumn exhibition, Arthouse gallery, Sydney, NSW
1999 Fox Galleries, Brisbane, QLD.
1999 Kenthurst Galleries, Sydney, NSW.
1998 Thursday Plantation Sculpture Show, Ballina, NSW.
1997 Frame Slaves Gallery, Sydney, NSW.
1996 Frame Slaves Gallery, Sydney, NSW.
1994 Frankfurt Art Fair - Germany, represented by 'Ronen Kunst Imports'
1993 Frankfurt Art Fair - Germany, represented by 'Ronen Kunst Imports'
1993 Stokholm Artfair - Sweden, represented by 'Ronen Kunst Art Imports'
1993 London Art Expo: Britain, represented by 'Ronen Kunst Art Imports'
1992 ‘Printessentials’ Geraldton Regional Gallery, WA.
1992 Albany Art prize Exhibition, WA.
1992 Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery - University of Western Australia."Acquisions” Perth, WA.
1992 Artbank Exhibition, Artbank Gallery, Hyatt Regency Hotel, Perth, WA.
1992 Illberry Barblett Collection Exhibition, Perth, WA.
1991 Gore Street Gallery Summer Show, Melbourne, VIC.
1991 'Sense of Presence', Gallery at the Carillon, Perth, WA.
1991 Treissilian Annual Works on Paper Exhibition, Perth, WA.
1991 Katanning Art Prize Exhibition, Katanning, WA.
1991 SECWA/ Fremantle City Council 1991 Art Prize Exhibition, WA.
1991 Designer/Makers & Printessentials Exhibition, Fremantle, WA.
1991 Guest Artist Exhibition, Parliament House, Perth, WA.
1991 'Artspace' Fremantle Arts Foundation, Opening Exhibition, Perth, WA.
1990 Summer Exhibition, Delaney Galleries, Perth, WA.
1990 Gallery Artists, Gore Street Gallery, Melbourne, VIC.
1990 Royal Perth Hospital Art Exhibition, Perth, WA.
1989 Opening Group Show, A Shed, Fremantle, WA.
1989 Salek Minc Art Show Perth, WA.
1989 'Past & Present' Artists of 33 Pakenham St, Spiral Gallery, Fremantle, WA.
1989 High Street Gallery Mixed Exhibition, Fremantle, WA.
1988 Christmas Show, Delaney Galleries, Perth, WA.
1987-88 Summer Exhibition, Moores Building, Fremantle, WA.
1987 Future Perspectives, Editions Gallery, Fremantle, WA.
1986 Artists as Visionaries, Prism Gallery, Fremantle, WA.
1986 Opening Group Show, Black Swan Gallery, Fremantle, WA.
1982 Art in Fitzroy, Brunswick St, Melbourne, VIC.
1980 Keith and Elizabeth Murdoch Travelling Fellowship, VCA. Melbourne, VIC., Victorian College of the Arts Graduates, VCA Gallery, Melbourne, VIC.

Represented:
Powerhouse Museum, Sydney.
Victorian College of the Arts Collection.
Artbank, Sydney.
Miniature Museum of Contemporary Art - Amsterdam
University of Western Australia
Curtin University, WA.
DBI Architects QLD
Myer/Bailleiu Collection.
Kerry Stokes Collection.
Pat Corrigan Collection
Thomas & Esther Van Vliet Collection.
Wesfarmers Collection.
Spectrum Satellite Communications
Soil Test Australia Collection.
Burswood Casino Collection Perth.
Gold Coast City Art Gallery
Brisbane City Council
Xavier College Collection Melbourne
Townsville Convention Centre
Novatel Hotels Australia
Sheraton Hotels Australia
Jefferson City Collection Missouri USA
Dr Alice Wexler Collection New York
Whipple Gallery Minnesota
Absolut Collection Sweden
Various private collections in Australia, Britain, India, Germany, The Netherlands,
Switzerland, USA and Japan.

Artist in Residence:
2005 Jefferson City Missouri USA.
1999 Couran Cove Resort, QLD.
1986 Prism Gallery, Fremantle, WA.

Selected Bibliography:
Artlink magazine – Volume 25, number 4 2005
Aura Magazine - Oct/Nov 05
Jefferson City News Tribune - July 31st 2005
The Byron News - August 25th 2005
Pulse - New Paltz NY - Sept 15 - 21 2005
Palo Alto weekly - Rebecca Wallace Oct 14th 2005
The Daily Mercury - Mackay Friday Sept 2nd 2005
The Daily Mercury - Mackay Saturday Sept 3rd 2005
The Catscill Guide NY - August Issue 2005
Byron Shire Echo - May 24th 2005
Byron Shire Echo - April 5th 2005
The Byron News - 14th April 2005
The Byron News - 23rd June 2005
Black+White - Issue 77 Summer 2005
Dallas Morning News - Sunday 24th April
Daily News - 26th March 2005
Tweed Mail - 24th /3 /05
Daily News - 16 March 2005
Byron Shire Echo - 15 March 2005
Daily News - 14 March 2005
Queensland Homes - Autumn 2005
Daily News - Thurs Feb 10 2005
Daily News - Wed Feb 9 2005
Gold Coast Bulletin - 5/2/05
The Weekly - 6/2/05
Daily News - Thursday March 3rd 2005
Uki News - March 2005
Daily News - Wednesday March 2nd 2005
Byron Shire Echo - Tues Feb 8th. 2005
Interiors - Feb/March 2005
The Sun UK - Wed 22nd Jan 2005
GQ - Thailand Dec 2004
ABSOLUT REFLECTIONS - Number 4 Dec 2004
The Independent. Marshall, Minnesotta USA. - Dec. 2004
Architecture+ - Volume 1 No 7 04/05
Vogue Australia - January 2005
Byron News - December 2 2004
Northern Star - November 27 2004
Gold Coast Bulletin - Tues Nov 23 2004
Where Magazine Sydney - November 2004
Byron Shire Echo - Nov 23th 2004
Byron Shire Echo - Sept 28th 2004
Sun Herald - October 31st 2004
Byron News - Sept 30th 2004
Byron Shire Echo - Sept 21st 2004
Coast Living Magazine - Spring 2004
Artworkers Alliance Queensland Newsletter – Spring 2004
Byron Shire Echo - Sept 14th 2004
Byron News - Sept 9th 2004
Sydney Morning Herald - 23 Aug 2004 - Victoria Kyriakopoulos in Athens
The Age - Mon August 23 2004
Art & Antiques - John T Spike ‘Closer Look’ Summer Edition 2004
The Courier Mail - Tanya Box 25th June 2004
Ecolife Australia - Featured Artist June 2004
Byron Shire Echo - June 8 2004
Northern Star -Sat. June 5 2004
Northern Star -Fri June 4 2004
The Advocate -Wed 17th March 2004
The Advocate -Jeni Faulkner Thursday 18th March 2004
The Echo - 16/03/04
Byron News - March 18th
Coast Living - Autumn 2004
The New York Sun - Wed Feb 4th 2004
Art News USA - Feb/March 2004
The Clinton Chronicle New York - Feb 2004
House and Garden Magazine - January 2004
Florence Biennial of Contemporary Art Catalogue. Dec 2003
The Townsville Bulletin - 5/09 2003 Review
The Townsville Bulletin - 16/08 2003 Weekender feature
Plancton Magazine - 1/ 07 2003 – London - Feature Article
The Byron Shire Echo - 22/07/2003
Byron Shire Echo - 6/05/03/03
The Courier Mail - 1/05/03
City News Brisbane - 1/05/03
The Age - 29-30/3/03 weekender feature
Coffs Harbour Advocate - 22/3/03
Byron Beauty Book 2003
The Australian - 20/03/03
The Daily Examiner - 15/03/03 – Susi Muddiman
The Daily Examiner - 22/03/03 – Jude McBean
Byron News - 20/03/03
The Byron Shire Echo - 18/03/03
Coffs Harbour Advocate - 18/3/03
The Age - 15/3/03
Coffs Harbour Advocate - 13/3/03
Byron Shire Echo - 11/3/03
Coffs Harbour Advocate - 6/3/03
Coffs Harbour Advocate - 7/3/03
Herald / Sun - 1/3/03
Courier Mail -13/12/02 Heidi Maier
Gold Coast Bulletin -29/30 June 2002
Weekend Australian - October 19th.- 20th. 2002 (Michael Reid)
Brisbane News -October 9th.- 15th. 2002
Courier Mail - October 9th. 2002
Byron Shire Echo - October 1st. 2002
Vogue Living - Jan 2002
Northern Star -August 7 2002
Byron Shire Echo -Aqugust 6 2002
N.A.V.A. Newsletter -September issue 2002
Weekend Star - Hannah Ross, Oct. 13th. 2001
Gold Coast Weekender -March 10-11 2001
Courier Mail - March 1, 2001
Gold Coast Bulletin - March 6, 2001
Antiques & Art in QLD. - March - July 2001
Celebrating Arts Philanthropy -N.A.V.A. 10 Yrs of the Pat Corrigan Artists Grant
Vogue Living - Oct/Nov 2000
O.T.I. International -Autumn 2000
Daily Telegraph - August 14, 2000
Courier Mail - June 1, 2000
Courier Mail - June 10, 2000
Brisbane News - June 7-13, 2000
Sun Herald - 5 March, 2000
Sydney Morning Herald - Good Weekend Magazine, 4March 2000
Sydney Morning Herald - Critics Pick, Sebastian Smee, 4 March 2000
Daily Telegraph - Ian Gerard, 2 March 2000
Byron Shire Echo - 21 March 2000
Byron News - 22 March 2000
Gold Coast Bulletin -18 March 2000
Northern Star - Hannah Ross, 18 March 2000
Sydney Morning Herald - Spectrum Arts, Sebastian Smee, 25 March 2000
The Weekend Australian - Giles Auty Arts Review, 25-26 March 2000
Australian Financial Review - Julie Macken, 18-19 March 2000
Byron Shire Echo - Michael McDonald, 14 March 2000
Weekend Australian - Susan McCulloch-Uehlin, 18 - 19 March 2000
Daily Telegraph - Mary Machen, 18 March 2000
Sun Herald - 19 March 2000
The Byron News - Gary Chigwidden, 6 January 2000
Byron Shire Echo - Kate Green 23 November 1999
Scene Brisbane - Marlay Brinsley, 26 May 1999
Courier Mail - Peter Anderson, 29 May 1999
Australian Home Beautiful - January 1999
Interiors Magazine - Feb-March, 1998
Art and Australia - Vol, 29, No. 4, Winter 1992 - Ted Snell
West Australian - 9 November 1991
The Australian - Ted Snell, 29 October 1991
West Australian - David Bromfield, 26 October 1991
The Australian - Entertainment and the Arts, 25 October 1991
Artists & Galleries of Australia - Max Germaine, 1991
West Australian - David Bromfield, 29 June 1991
Fremantle Herald - Philip McNamara, 16 August 1990
West Australian - Mike van Niekerk, 7 November 1989
West Australian - David Bromfield, 15 June 1989
Times of the West - Skip Watkins, 'Cast an Eye Over This', 30/10 1986
Daily News - Pam Nixon, 'The Painting on the Wall',Sept 1986
West Australian - David Bromfield, 6 January 1986

Radio, TV, Film, Online:
2005 - ABC Radio Gold Coast 30th August 2005
2005 - ABC Tro[pical North Mackay 2nd Sept 2005
2005 - Bay FM - 23rd June 2005
2004 - Asia News Focus TV - Nov. 2004
2004 - Channel 9 TV - Nov. 2004
2004 - Channel 10 TV - Nov. 2004
2004 - Channel 7 TV - Nov. 2004
2004 - CV TV TV - Nov. 2004
2004 - Chinese Channel CCTV Nov - Dec 2004
2004 - Prime Television – Friday 24th September 2004
2005 - Bay FM - 23rd June 2005
2004 - Chinese Channel CCTV Nov - Dec 2004
2004 - Greece National Television 12th/13th August 2004
2004 - ABC Radio Darwin and the Northern Territory- Interview 8/6/04
2004 - ABC Radio North Coast NSW Justine Frazer Interview 7/6/04
2004 - Channel 7 Prime news 1st April 2004
2004 - ABC Radio Victoria Sunday 8/2/04 Peter Carke Interview Live from New York
2004 - Bay FM Community Radio Byron Bay. Interview with Mandy Nolan 8/3/04
2003 - Italian Sky Channel. Interview. Leonardo Arts Programme Dec 21, 22, 23.
2003 - Florence Biennial of Contemporary art. DVD featured interview.
2003 - John Dahlsen “Renewed” DVD Production
2003 - FBI Community Radio Sydney Nov 2003
2003 - Channel 9 win news NQ 22/8/2003
2003 - ABC radio Townsville NQ - interview 13/8/2003
2003 - Channel 9 NBN 7/3/03
2003 - ABC radio Graeme Robinson live to air 7/3/03
2003 - 3AW radio Denis Walters 23/2/03
2003 - RRR Radio Arts Show 11/3/03
2003 - ABC Radio Victoria Jayne Dullard 16/03/03
2003 - ABC Radio National Sunday Arts Program Julie Copeland
2003 - The Hellenic Radio - News In Greek 21/01/03
2002 - ABC - Online Regional Arts Features - From October 18th. 2002
2002 - Channel 7 "The Great Outdoors" 21 May
2002 - Bay FM 28th. March
2001 - ABC 2BL 28 Nov
2001 - Channel 9 Gold Coast 20 sept.
2001 - ABC National TV Coast to Coast 22 July
2001 - ABC TV Stateline 13 July
2001 - Channel 9 Extra 2 March
2000 - ABC TV State Line, Late Line, Art Review, July
2000 - ABC Radio National Michael Cathcart 20th March
2000 - Channel 7 News, 18 March
2000 - Channel 9 News, 18 March
2000 - A Current Affair, Channel 9, 10 March
2000 - Triple J Morning Show, Matt Eaton, 2 March
2000 - ABC 2BL, 29 February
2000 - ABC 2BL, Tracey Chester, 18 February
2000 - ABC TV 10.30 Slot, 3 March
2000 - Channel 7 News, 29 February
1999 - ABC RADIO, 6 Dec 2NR
1999 - ABC TV, 21 May
1999 - Channel 9 TV, 23 Apr, Brisbane
1986 - Radio GNR, 19 Oct, Ruth Morgan

Public lectures and appearances:
2005 - Samuel Dorsky Museum Guest Artist/Curator lecture
2005 - Tweed Regionasl Art Gallery public programmes lectures
2005 - FEVHA 48 Hrs of Visual arts Guest speaker
2004 - FEVHA 48 Hrs of Visual arts Guest speaker
2003 - Coffs Harbour Regional Art Gallery Invitation Panel Discussion on Found Object Art
2001 - Gold Coast City Art Gallery- Official opening lecture- "Energies "
2001 - Piece Gallery Northern NSW -Official gallery opening lecture
2000 - Manly Art Gallery - Official opening lecture- "Reclaimed Exhibition"
2000 - Architecture 2000 R.A.I.A. Sydney -"Artistically interpreting science"
1999 - Australian Embassy, Washington DC, USA "Art and the Environment"
1990-2005 - Lectured and appeared at various secondary and tertiary institutions as well as giving artist talks in Australian

Regional Galleries as invited artist.

Commissions:
2000 - Powerhouse Museum Sydney
2000 - Belongil Totems commission
2002/03 - Story Bridge Public Art Project Brisbane
2004 - “Absolut Dahlsen” commission by Absolut of Sweden for Sculpturre By The Sea. Sydney

John Dahlsen

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