John Eaton Artist CV 2026
Education
2008 BFA (Hons), Victorian College of The Arts, Melbourne.
2005-2007 BFA Drawing, Victorian College of The Arts, Melbourne.
Work held in public and private collections, including University of Melbourne and Zentrum für
Künstlerpublikationen, Weserburg Museum, Bremen.
Selected Exhibitions
2024 Artist's Bookworks #4, George Paton Gallery, Melbourne
2023 Collage, Artview Gallery, Cairns
2021 Deepen the Mystery, Artview Gallery, Cairns
2017 Lacuna, KickArts, Cairns Centre of Contemporary Art, Locus Pocus, Tanks Art Centre Cairns
2016 Suffer The Opposite, Arcade Gallery, Melbourne. With Marcel Feillafe
Disagreeable Tales, Crate59, Cairns. With Jane Heraghty
Artmart, Northern Centre for Contemporary Art, Darwin
2015 Less Rigor More Mortis, Canopy Art Centre, Cairns. With Mark Misic.
Club Stendhal FNQ, Collaboration with Mark Misic, Jane Heraghty and Hannah Parker, Crate 59, Cairns.
KickArts Members Show, KickArts, Cairns Centre of Contemporary Art.
2014 More Rigor Less Mortis, Canopy Art Centre, Cairns. With Mark Misic.
2013 WaoWao, Great Barrier Reef Hotel, Cairns. Blunt Edge of Portraiture, Pink Gallery, Cairns.
2012 25TRAINS:Collaborative Artist’s Book Project, KickArts Contemporary Art. Concept designer,
facilitator and artist.
The Art of Collecting, George Paton Gallery, Melbourne.
Best of Blunt, KickArts, Cairns Centre of Contemporary Art.
2011 Ambiguous Heritage, Crate 59, Cairns. With Sally Donald and Rosie Miller.
2010 Uncommon Destinations, KickArts, Cairns Centre of Contemporary Art.
2009 Exposicion Colectiva deArtistas Visuales Australianos, Museo de la Cuidad de Leon, Mexico.
2008 VCA Graduate Exhibition, Margaret Lawrence Gallery.
2007 Hatched 07: National Graduate Show, Perth Institute of Contemporary Art.
2006 Victims of Drawing, Victoria Park Gallery, Abbotsford. With Jess Johnson, Jordan Marani and Kate
Smith.
Public Art, Residencies, Collaborative Projects and Professional Development
Workshops
2014-2016 Club Stendhal FNQ, Collaborative Projects with Mark Misic, Jane Heraghty and Hannah Parker
2012 Ports North Public Artwork, Cairns: Foreshore Redevelopment: Text inlay and 90 metre path design.
With Rosie Miller.
2011-12 25TRAINS: Contemporary Artist’s Book Project, Cairns and regional secondary schools. Travelling
collaborative workshops culminating in a KickArts exhibition in September 2012. Designed and facilitated
with Rosie Miller and completed with 800 secondary students and their teachers from over 15 secondary
schools.
2006-2026 Contemporary workshops, residencies, and Professional Development across Queensland and
Darwin.
Selected Experimental Film Screenings
2004 Moving Image Coalition, Screening, Cinema Nova, Melbourne.2001 Experimenta 2001: Waste, A Puddle 400 Years Ago, Screening, Cinema Nova, Melbourne.
Also included in a showcase of Australian Experimental Cinema presented by Marcus Bergner at:
The Robert Beck Memorial Cinema: at The Collective Unconscious, Ludlow St. New York.
Millennium Filmworkshop. 66 East 4th St, NewYork, 10003, www.milleniumfilm.org
OFF OFF. Copenhagen, Denmark. offoff@artvideo.dk
Biograf Panora. Malmo, Sweden. Gertrudsgaten 4, Malmo.
Kino Kommunales. Freiburg, Urachstrabe 40, 79102. Germany
Das Kino, Kinemathek Karlsruhe e. V. Adlerstrasse 28, 76133, Karlsruhe. Germany.
Deutsches Filmmuseum, Frankfurt am Main, www.deutsches-filmmuseum.de
Gallerie 88, der verin fur kunst und kulture e.v. Clemens Schultz Str 88, Hamburg.
Blockbau, Stockmeyerstr 1, Hamburg, Germany.
Scratch Projection. Centre Wallonie Bruxelles, 46 rue Quincampoix, 75004, Paris.
Austria Filmmakers Cooperative, Vienna- filmcoop@tO.or.at
Scratch Cinema, Light Cone, 12 rue des Vignoles, 75020, Paris
Lux, Screening, London, www.lux.org.uk
Centre for Contemporary Art, Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland, http: //csw.art.pl/
2000 Direct Action, Infiniti Ragioni, Multimedia Installation and Sculpture Project, PB Gallery, Prahran. With
Dirk de Bruyn, Neil Taylor, Marcus Bergner, Paul Rodgers and Lee Smith
1999 Musika Paka 1999, Screening, Nova Paka, Czech Republic
1998 The Bridge: Construction in Process VI, Screenings, Footscray
Music-Other-Film, Screening, The Musicians Club, Windsor
1996 Scratch Film Festival, School of Architecture and Fine Arts, Perth.
