Exhibition 14^th October to 9^th November 2008

Copyright  © 2004 Pollock Gallery

Stephen Armstrong

“above the city”

For over 20 years, Stephen Armstrong has fed off Melbourne city as a

generous provider of artistic fuel and inspiration. This year, working as ‘artist in

residence’ at St Vincent’s Private Hospital from the top floor studio, with its

spectacular, uninterrupted skyscraper views of Melbourne and surrounding parks, Stephen discovered a wealth of material for his nocturnal and daytime cityscapes.

In Stephen Armstrong’s paintings, those subjects most familiar to Melbourne residents and visitors receive bold artistic reinvention. Although intensely familiar to the artist – as they are to many – Melbourne’s buildings and parks, trams and trains, tracks and roads, are re-presented in a new light. Armstrong reconstructs Melbourne, granting it

a new visual identity, inviting viewers to examine the ‘everyday’ with fresh eyes.

A selection of the catalogue follows:

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Night Panorama Oil on canvas 61 x 305 cm
Exhibition Gardens Oil on canvas 122 x 183 cm
Window View Oil on canvas 183 x 122 cm
City Intersection Oil on canvas 183 x 122 cm
Hospital at Night Oil on canvas 120 x 152 cm
Looking Down Oil on canvas 125 x 92 cm
Threatening Storm Oil on canvas 92 x 122 cm
City Intersection 2. Oil on canvas 112 x 84 cm
Gardens in Autumn Oil on canvas 84 x 112 cm
Northern Lights Oil on canvas 84 x 112 cm
Winter Sky Oil on canvas 84 x 112 cm
Buildings Oil on canvas 84 x 112 cm
Cleaning Windows Oil on canvas 106 x 84 cm
Late Night Self Portrait Oil on canvas 84 x 106 cm
Stormy Sky Oil on canvas 102 x 76 cm
Clouds Oil on canvas 56 x 71 cm
Up Nicholson St. Oil on canvas 61 x 61 cm
Gardens at Night Oil on canvas 51 x 61 cm
Summer Gardens Oil on canvas 46 x 61 cm
A Break in the Clouds Oil on canvas 51 x 41 cm
Towards the City Oil on canvas 51 x 41 cm
Exhibition Buildings Oil on canvas 30 x 40 cm
Patch of Blue Oil on canvas 40 x 30 cm
Dark Night Oil on canvas 36 x 36 cm
Night Panorama Study Oil on canvas board 14 x 85 cm
Stormy Sky 2. Oil on canvas 31 x 31 cm
Late Afternoon Oil on canvas 31 x 31 cm
Rolling In Oil on canvas 20 x 20 cm
City at Night Study Oil on canvas board 33 x 12 cm
Zig Zag Oil on canvas board 36 x 8 cm
Windows Oil on canvas board 23 x 13 cm
Trees at Night Oil on canvas board 13 x 23 cm

STEPHEN ARMSTRONG

Curriculum Vitae

QUALIFICATIONS

1992-96 Masters in Fine Art (Research), RMIT

1990 Graduate Diploma in Education, Melbourne University

1978 Graduate Diploma in Fine Art (Painting), RMIT

1975-1977 Bachelor of Fine Art (Painting), Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT)

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2008 Pollock Gallery, Richmond

2007 Pollock Gallery, Richmond

2006 Survey Exhibition 1986-2006 Pollock Gallery, Richmond

2005 Travellers & Urban Landscapes, Pollock Gallery, Richmond.

2004 ‘Great Suburban Train Journeys’, Sporting Club Hotel, Brunswick

2000 'Site" Collingwood Gallery, Collingwood

Alfio's Caffe, Fairfield

1999 Melbourne Arts Club, North Melbourne

Robert Steele Gallery, Adelaide

Gallery 720, High Street, Armadale

Royal Melbourne Tennis Club, Melbourne

1998 La Trobe Street Gallery, Melbourne

1997 Robert Steele/Anima Gallery, Adelaide

1996 La Trobe Street Gallery, Melbourne

Project Space, RMIT Melbourne

1995 Mildura Art Centre, Mildura

1994 Melbourne Contemporary Art Gallery, Melbourne

1991 Melbourne Contemporary Art Gallery, Melbourne

1990 Chapman Gallery, Canberra

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2007 DLAP07, Bundoora Homestead, Bundoora

Savage Club Art Prize, Melbourne

2006 Darebin Art 2006

2005 Darebin and Latrobe University Acquisitive Art Prize Exhibition

2005 Works on Paper Exhibition, Pollock Gallery, Richmond.

2004 Darebin Art 2004

Fundraising Show, West Space, Melbourne

Group Show, Rosbourne House, Melbourne

2003 Fundraising Show, West Space, Melbourne

‘Banyule Works on Paper Art Award’, Ivanhoe

'Postcard Show' Grafton Regional Gallery, Grafton

'Giardino Harmonico' Moor St Art Gallery, Fitzroy

2002 Jacaranda Drawing Prize' Grafton Regional Gallery, Grafton, NSW (traveling exhibition)

'BLOKE' Collingwood Gallery, Collingwood

'Stephen Armstrong, Shivalee Lees, Alessandro Piredda' Collingwood Gallery, Collingwood

2001 'A4ART 2001’ West Space, Melbourne

‘Untitled’ Collingwood Gallery, Collingwood

Linden Postcard Show, St Kilda

2000 Linden Postcard Show, St Kilda

1999 National Works on Paper, Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery

Artzine, Spencer Street Gallery, Melbourne

Hobart Royal Tennis Club, Hobart

Linden Postcard Show, St Kilda

1998 Linden Postcard Show, St Kilda

La Trobe Street Gallery, Melbourne

1997 Williamstown Art Prize, Williamstown

Linden Post Card Show, St Kilda

1996 Williamstown Art Prize, Williamstown

The Autumn Show, La Trobe Street Gallery, Melbourne

1995 Williamstown Art Prize, Williamstown

Linden Post Card Show, St Kilda

Albert Park 9" x 5" Show, Robert Lindsay Gallery, Mel.

Group Show, 100 Gertrude Street, Fitzroy

'John R Neeson, Ronald Millar & Stephen Armstrong' La Trobe Street Gallery, Melbourne

1994 'The Body', Steps Gallery, Melbourne

Saltwater River Gallery

1993 Diamond Valley Art Award

1992 Motor Works Gallery, Melbourne Grammar School

Barrister's Club

1990 Linden Gallery

'Alice 125 Exhibition', City Square, Melbourne (catalogue)

1989 'Three Views', Gryphon Gallery, University of Melbourne

1988 Linden 2, Linden Gallery, Melbourne

1987 Fringe Arts at Spoletto, Uffitzi Gallery

1986 Figure Show, Roar Gallery, Melbourne

1984 Group Show, Roar Gallery, Melbourne

1983 Two Person Show, Hawthorn City Art Gallery

Group Show, Hamilton Art Gallery

1981 Emerging Young Artists, RMIT Gallery

COMMISSIONS, AWARDS & RESIDENCIES

2004 City of Darebin Art Prize

2002 Residency at Bundanon, June 2002

2001 Commission by MCC Gallery of Sport – Painting of the Boxing Day Test including old member’s stand.

1997 Ivanhoe Art Prize

1996 Newport Power Art Prize

1991 Inez Hutchinson Art Award

1982 Lygon Street Art Award

1977 Ministry of the Arts Poster Award

COLLECTIONS

Victorian State Library Collection.

University of Melbourne Collection.

Artbank.

BHP Collection.

Mildura Art Centre.

City of Yarra..

MCC Gallery of Sport.

Bundanon Collection,

City of Darebin Collection