Julian Holcroft

Position title:

Lecturer, Gippsland Centre for Art & Design

 Qualifications

• MA (research) Gallery and Museum Studies, Monash University, Melbourne
• Post Graduate Diploma Of Fine Art (Painting), Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne
• Bachelor Of Fine Arts, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand

Statement

Julian Holcroft has 20+ years experience across the breadth and depth of the arts community- galleries, writing, curatorial, collaborative, radio and internet projects. Julian creates multi media installations that combine old and new formats, materials and technology.

As a reviewer his writing interests have focused on multidisciplinary art projects that utilise sound and performance as a major component of the work

He was the founder and Director Of Penthouse and Pavement Gallery (1999-2002) an exhibition space dedicated to new and emerging artforms, presenting the first solo exhibitons of a generation of emerging artists such as Nick Mangan and Daniel Von stumer, along with a focus on international, interstate and exchange projects from New Zealand.

Research / Professional activities

Grants

• Neo Folk, Melbourne City Council Arts Grants, 2004
• Milk Bar Project, Arts Victoria New Work Grant, 2003
• Fresh from Paris, Australia Council New Work Grant, 2001
• Prototypes, Australia Council Arts Grant, 1994
• New Zealand Arts Council (Queen Elisabeth II Travel Grant) 1988
• New Zealand Arts Council (Queen Elisabeth II Travel Grant) 1987
• Ethel Rose Overton Scholar Award, University of Canterbury 1986

Catalogues Essays, Published Articles And Reviews

LIKE art magazine, Eyeline and other contemporary art publications; Like: Audioloops review, #15, 2001, Serge Gainsbourg: view from the exterior, feature, #14 pp 14-15, 2001, Sione Francis review, #13 p 59, 2000, Terry Urbahn - Urbahn Mythology, profile #12, 2000, Alexander Knox review, #11 p.59, 2000, Slave Pianos review, #9 p.59, 1999, Too Close for Comfort, feature article, #8 p.8, 1999, Eyeline contemporary visual arts, Ronald Clyne; Folkways album covers, John Nixon 2008, Art>music: rock, pop, techno, None More Blacker,Tougher Than Art, Sound Particle, review, #45 p.49, 2001. Longevity review, #44 p.45, 2001

DART, 3RRR Radio Arts Magazine. Programmed and presented a series of weekly half hour segments that included artist interviews with coverage of visual art, film, theatre and performance. 1993 -1994

Selected Solo Exhibitions

• Milk Bar Project, Eisenberg Gallery, Melbourne, 2005
• Against Architecture/Critical Mud Workshop/What is Folk?
• Clubs Project, 2004
• An Adventure, Penthouse & Pavement, Melbourne, 2000
• Concrete Video, The Physics Room, Christchurch, NZ, 1999
• Hybrids, Temple Artspace, Melbourne, 1994
• New Work, Linden Gallery, Melbourne, 1991
• Paintings and Constructions.
• James Paul Gallery, Christchurch, NZ, 1986
• Wall Sculptures,Christchurch Artists Collective, 1985

Selected Group Exhibitions

• Post, Place Gallery, Melbourne, 2009
• Neo-Folk, Lithuanian Club, Melbourne, 2005
• Print Room Project, Clubs Project, Melbourne/Amsterdam, 2003
• We Don't Charge For Looking, Curated by Laresa Kossloff Block Gallery, Sydney, 2002
• Fresh from Paris, Centre, for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne, 2001
• Brand New Master Copy, Curated by Ricky Swallow, UKS Gallery, Oslo, Norway, 2000
• Same As It Ever Was, 200 Gertrude Street, Melbourne, 1999
• Video vs Watercolour, Rubik#3, Melbourne, 1998
• Atopic Detail, Stop 22 Gallery, Melbourne 1998

Curated Exhibitions

• Neo-Folk, Lithuanian Club, Melbourne, 2005
• Video Smash Hits (New Zealand and Australian new video compilation), MAP Art Space, Darwin, 1999,
• Stop 22 Gallery, Melbourne, 1999
• Failure, Linden Gallery, Melbourne, 1996                             
• Failure Website launched 1996
• Prototypes, Linden Gallery, Melbourne and Robert McDougall Art Annex, Christchurch, NZ, 1994
• Intergrade, works on paper, Gallery 101. Melbourne, 1994
• Objects of Desire Panorama Gallery, Melbourne, 1992

Selected Bibliography

• A bolder gaze into the abyss of contemporary aesthetics, Robert Nelson, The Age, 2001
• Same As It Ever Was, Catalogue Essay, 200 Gertrude St, Daniel Palmer. 1999
• Peripheral Attractions, Clare Firth-Smith, Log Illustrated, The Physics Room, Christchurch, N.Z, 1998
• Catching the 6th Next Wave, Virginia Baxter Real Time Magazine12/4/96
• Prototypes, Justin Paton, Art New Zealand 20/4/1996
• Critics Choice, Justin Paton, The Listener, New Zealand, 23/12/95
• Art or Bathroom Decor? Adrienne Rewi, Christchurch Press, NZ 20/12/95
• Tiles evoke the old skills, Jenny Zimmer, The Age, Melbourne 15/7/94
• Individual Flair, Jenny Zimmer The Age, Melbourne, 28/6/94
• Prototypes Exhibition, catalogue essays by Ben Curnow and Robin Craw.1994
• Prototypes Exhibition, interview with Mary Lou Jelbart, Radio National. 1994
• Antithesis Vol. 1, No. 2, Melbourne University Press,1990

Penthouse & Pavement Articles & Reviews

• The Young Collectables, article, Carolyn Webb, The Age 23/10/2001
• Melbourne in Focus, article, Andrew Frost, Australian Style Magazine, Summer/2001
•  Pip Hayden, review, Robert Nelson, The Age, 11/2000
• Cityscape Melbourne, article, Damiano Bertoli, Flash Art, vol.33 May- June. Pg 71
• Drunkards Dream; Richard Reddaway, Judy Darragh, Kate Rhodes. Review Art Monthly Online.
• Hiace Van, Guy Benfield, review, Bridget Crone, LIKE Magazine #13, Pg 49-50.
• Simone Le Amon, review, Robert Nelson, The Age, 6/2000