The Picture House Gallery & Bookshop
Contemporary Australian Art | Performing Arts Bookshop
Lawrence Finn | Terror Mythica 5 July - 9 August 2008
Lawrence Finn studied art at East Sydney Technical College, School of Fine Arts 1986-1989 specialising in Printmaking. He followed his studies with employment at The University of New South Wales, College of Fine Arts 1991-92 as a printmaking technician. He furthered his academic qualifications with a Post Graduate Diploma from Sydney College of The Arts (University of Sydney) in 1993. In 2007 he completed a Master of Fine Art in Printmaking at The National Art School, East Sydney.
Lawrence Finn's artworks are represented in the following collections:
The Art Gallery of NSW, The Australian National Gallery, John Curtin University Kerry Stokes Collection Perth Australia, State Library of Queensland James Hardie Collection, Glasgow Print Studio UK, Qantas Airlines Sydney Australia.
"I do a lot of printwork relating to Post Jungian explorations of the Human Psyche and The Situationist Internationals discourse on the "society of the spectacle".
Selected images from "Shadows Under the Blood Red Rock" - a book about the Dark Psyche of Australia
Available as a book edition of 15 or individually from an edition of 12
"Alberts Story - Blood and Wine" linocut 12 x 12cm Edition 12 2006
"Hope" linocut 11.5 x 17cm Edition 12 2006
"Natives on Flinders St" linocut 12 x 12cm Edition 12 2006
"Living off the Land" linocut 12 x 12cm Edition 12 2006
"Lost Gods of The Antipodes"
What if the modern world had seeded in the antipodes first?
Selected images
"Jesus" linocut 31 x 42cm Edition 12 2006
"Fenris" linocut 31 x 42cm Edition 12 2006
"A History of the Bastard Children of Empire"
Australian identity via native animals and war
Selected Images
Bookcover "200 Years - A History of the Bastard Children of Empire"
linocut 31 x 42cm Edition 12 2006
"Colonial Period - A Congaline of Suckholes (Kangaroo)"
linocut 31 x 42cm Edition 12 2006
"WW1 - The Myth of Nationhood Revealed (Simpson's donkey)"
linocut 31 x 42cm Edition 12 2006
"American Iraq War - George Bush's Poodle Farm (Camel Farming in the fucklands)"
linocut 31 x 42cm Edition 12 2006
LAWRENCE FINN - CURRICULUM VITAE
Educational Designer
2004 – 2006
Gallery 451 Printmakers
Director artist run inititive print gallery.
2003 – current
www.artistprinter.com
Director artist printmaker community web inititive.
Whitehouse Institute of Design
Computer Skills & Design Teacher P/T
to advanced level in Illustrator & Photoshop.
2002 - 2006
Architecture & Building
Computer Skills & Design Teacher P/T
to advanced skills in Illustrator, Quark XPress, Photoshop,(Under
Grad) and Flash, Dreamweaver & HTML (PG & MA students).
2001 – 2002
Computer Skills & Design Teacher P/T
Image ready, Photoshop, Illustrator, HTML, CSS, & Internet theory.
2000 – 2001 Enmore Design Centre
Co-ordinator/teacher Web Design Course
1999 – current Enmore Design Centre
Design Teacher P/T & Casual
Duties: teaching traditional (drawing) and digital design skills.
Introductory to advanced level, Illustrator, Quark XPress,
Photoshop, Flash & Dreamweaver.
1998 – current
VURTmedia
Freelance Graphic and web Designer,Typesetter and Illustrator
1997–98
Mitsui Computer,
Quark XPress & Macromedia Software Technical Support
1996–97
CompuServe Pacific, Fujitsu
Technical Support and Customer Service
1996
Designer typesetter newspapers;
On the Street and Nova Hrvatska newspapers
Design and typesetting (casual & freelance)
1995
Reckon Software
Reckon and Intuit Software Support
1995
Teledata P/L
Sales Service Support; Microsoft Team
1990–1998
Self Employed Graphic Artist, Designer, Illustrator
Clients include:
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• Cactus
• The Drawing Book Studios,
• Syntax Digital Typography,
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• Redback Graphix,
Version 200608
1991–92
Printmaking Technician
Duties: student supervision in print studios, management of plant
and perishables, equipment upkeep and repair; informal tutoring
in print techniques (excluding lithography). Mounting and
framing of student works and hanging of exhibitions.
1990–92 Redback Graphix
Printer, designer, casual & P/T
Duties: Screenprinting, design, soothing the boss, emptying
the bins.
EDUCATION
2002–2007 NATIONAL ART SCHOOL
Master of Fine Art in Printmaking.
2001 HTC VOCATIONAL INSTITUTE.
Certificate IV in Workplace Training and Assessment.
1993
Graduate Diploma in Visual Arts.
1989
Higher Art Certificate
1986–88
Art Certificate
1985
School Certificate
ARTWORK IN SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
2007 Sydney Morning Herald
2006 Human Rights Defender,
The Australian Human Rights Centre: The
2004 East West Arts,
New Contemporaries Pty Ltd
1999-2000
Illustrations for various maps, guides,covers, books and brochures in UBD, IYP and
Custom Mapping Services publications,
Universal Press
1999 Inside
Gemkit Publishing
1999 The Environmental Law
Redfern Legal Centre Publishing
1998 Global Environments, Communities and Citizenship,
McGraw-Hill Book Company
1998 Implementation: making workplace change and technical innovation happen,
McGraw-Hill Book Company
1998
1988–95 Processed
(interview),
COLLECTIONS
State Library of
The Australian National Gallery
QANTAS Airlines Sydney Australia
Art Gallery of NSW - Research Library and Archive
AWARDS 2008
Print Council of
2008
REVIEWS
2008 IMPRINT,Winter 2008,Vol 43 Number 2
Allen, July 21
