John Eaton Artist CV 2024
Exhibitions
Exhibitions
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, Collaborative Project with Mark Misic, Jane Heraghty and Hannah Parker, Crate 59, 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, Collaborative Project 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, Cairns Centre of 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 de Artistas 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.
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, Cairns Centre of 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 de Artistas 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.
2000 Direct Action, Infiniti Ragioni, Altered Film/Installation Project, PB Gallery Prahran. With Marcus Bergner, Dirk de Bruyn, Paul Rodgers, Lee Smith and Neil Taylor.
Film Screenings
2004 Moving Image Coalition, Cinema Nova, Melbourne.
2001 Experimenta 2001:Waste, A Puddle 400 Years Ago, Cinema Nova Melbourne.
The Robert Beck Memorial Cinema, New York. Millennium Filmworkshop, New York.
OFF OFF, Copenhagen. Biograf Panora, Malmo. Kino Kommunales, Freiburg.
Das Kino Kinemathek, Karlsruhe. Deutsches Filmmuseum, Frankfurt am Main.
Gallerie 88, Hamburg. Blockbau, Hamburg. Scratch Projection, Centre Wallonie Bruxelles, Paris.
Scratch Cinema, Light Cone, Paris. Austrian Filmmakers Cooperative, Vienna. Lux, London. Centre for Contemporary Art, Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw.
1999 Musika Paka 1999, Nova Paka, Czech Republic. 1998 The Bridge: Construction in Process VI, Melbourne. Music-Other-Film, The Musicians Club, Melbourne.
1997-98 Multiple Screenings, Cine Bohemio, Melbourne
1996 Scratch Film Festival, School of Architecture and Fine Arts, Perth.
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. 2010 Peninsula Arts Educators Association, Project 10 Professional Development
Contemporary Art and Theory Workshops held at Trinity Bay High School.
REACH Master classes, Trinity Bay High School, Cairns. Artist in Residence.
2006-ongoing Printmaking, sculpture, drawing, book-making/alteration, and drawing-machine workshops with students, the
public and Professional Development across Queensland and Darwin.
2009-ongoing Artist Residencies in FNQ secondary schools. Includes Bentley Park College, Cairns School of Distance Education,
Trinity Bay SHS, Kirwan State High School, Mossman State High School, Ryan Catholic College Townsville. 2000 Direct Action, Infiniti Ragioni, Altered Film/Installation Project, PB Gallery Prahran.
With Marcus Bergner, Dirk de Bruyn, Paul Rodgers, Lee Smith and Neil Taylor.
1997-2009 Collaborative constructions, murals, sculptures, paintings and screenings at Fitzroy Adventure Playground, Melbourne 1991-2007 President Westgarth Film Society; an artist-filmmakers group dedicated to the promotion and
support of local and international avant-garde and experimental film programmes.
Bibliography
DeBruyn, Dirk, Abstract Cinema as Stunned Mouthpiece, http://www.experimenta.org/mesh/mesh15/flash/debruyn/index.html DeBruyn, Dirk, Image Smithing: Lost and Found https://www.academia.edu/3359118/Image_Smithing_Lost_and_Found
Education
2005-2007 BFA Drawing, Victorian College of The Arts, Melbourne.
2008 BFA (Hons), Victorian College of The Arts, Melbourne.
Work held in public and private collections, including University of Melbourne and Zentrum für Künstlerpublikationen, Weserburg Museum, Bremen.
2004 Moving Image Coalition, Cinema Nova, Melbourne.
2001 Experimenta 2001:Waste, A Puddle 400 Years Ago, Cinema Nova Melbourne.
The Robert Beck Memorial Cinema, New York. Millennium Filmworkshop, New York.
OFF OFF, Copenhagen. Biograf Panora, Malmo. Kino Kommunales, Freiburg.
Das Kino Kinemathek, Karlsruhe. Deutsches Filmmuseum, Frankfurt am Main.
Gallerie 88, Hamburg. Blockbau, Hamburg. Scratch Projection, Centre Wallonie Bruxelles, Paris.
Scratch Cinema, Light Cone, Paris. Austrian Filmmakers Cooperative, Vienna. Lux, London. Centre for Contemporary Art, Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw.
1999 Musika Paka 1999, Nova Paka, Czech Republic. 1998 The Bridge: Construction in Process VI, Melbourne. Music-Other-Film, The Musicians Club, Melbourne.
1997-98 Multiple Screenings, Cine Bohemio, Melbourne
1996 Scratch Film Festival, School of Architecture and Fine Arts, Perth.
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. 2010 Peninsula Arts Educators Association, Project 10 Professional Development
Contemporary Art and Theory Workshops held at Trinity Bay High School.
REACH Master classes, Trinity Bay High School, Cairns. Artist in Residence.
2006-ongoing Printmaking, sculpture, drawing, book-making/alteration, and drawing-machine workshops with students, the
public and Professional Development across Queensland and Darwin.
2009-ongoing Artist Residencies in FNQ secondary schools. Includes Bentley Park College, Cairns School of Distance Education,
Trinity Bay SHS, Kirwan State High School, Mossman State High School, Ryan Catholic College Townsville. 2000 Direct Action, Infiniti Ragioni, Altered Film/Installation Project, PB Gallery Prahran.
With Marcus Bergner, Dirk de Bruyn, Paul Rodgers, Lee Smith and Neil Taylor.
1997-2009 Collaborative constructions, murals, sculptures, paintings and screenings at Fitzroy Adventure Playground, Melbourne 1991-2007 President Westgarth Film Society; an artist-filmmakers group dedicated to the promotion and
support of local and international avant-garde and experimental film programmes.
Bibliography
DeBruyn, Dirk, Abstract Cinema as Stunned Mouthpiece, http://www.experimenta.org/mesh/mesh15/flash/debruyn/index.html DeBruyn, Dirk, Image Smithing: Lost and Found https://www.academia.edu/3359118/Image_Smithing_Lost_and_Found
Education
2005-2007 BFA Drawing, Victorian College of The Arts, Melbourne.
2008 BFA (Hons), Victorian College of The Arts, Melbourne.
Work held in public and private collections, including University of Melbourne and Zentrum für Künstlerpublikationen, Weserburg Museum, Bremen.
