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is an Australian artist, based in Byron Bay, who studied in Melbourne at the Victorian College of Arts and at the Melbourne College of Advanced Education.

1 is an Australian artist, based in Byron Bay, who studied in Melbourne at the Victorian College of Arts and at the Melbourne College of Advanced Education. explores the duality of meaning and perception, and the illusion that is created in between. He presents an image of a non-object in a painting of an informal formalist sculpture. His paintings form the profile of a solid sculpture, moulded and plied to present the essence of formalism. The subject of the paintings, exhibit abstract geometrical imagery and constructivist diagramming of space that is playfully organic and blob-like. Yet the work is a painting of these organic man-made blob sculptures. The work considers cycles and recycling in re-presenting paintings of sculptures that are inherently plastic fabricator machine end waste. The use of plastic materials and their place in the evolutionary motions of recycling are important to Dahlsen in constructing these images. He explores the mechanics of how an object is put together, what place it occupies in a cycle of life; organic or manmade. Dahlsen's choice of materials has as muchprominence as the end product. The work concentrates on cycles, momentum and the multiple. He is painting nonrecyclable purged plastic objects. These objects are by products of everything plastic, they are the plastic run before or after a hairbrush, juice bottle or chair is made. They represent everything and nothing. The plastic in its petroleum state has undergone millions of years of evolution to get to this stage. And then, it is discarded as a byproduct of societal needs. For 25 years John Dahslen has had regular solo and group exhibitions in Australia, in both commercial and regional galleries and internationally, in USA and Europe. Dahlsen became the first Australian artist, (he joins such renowned artists as Andy Warhol, Keith Haring, Francesco Clemente and Damien Hirst) to be commissioned by global vodka producer Absolut, to create a major public artwork Absolut Dahlsen, which was unveiled at Sculpture by the Sea, (This work is now located outside the Gold Coast City Art Gallery). Page 1/8

2 Vessel Contemporary environmental art installation, made from found plastic objects and nylon rope. Recycled art created from plastics collected from Australian beaches. 140 x 540 cm Page 2/8

Red Purge Dialogue These objects are by products of everything plastic, they are the plastic run before or after a hairbrush, juice bottle or chair is made. They represent everything and nothing.

3 Red Purge Dialogue These objects are by products of everything plastic, they are the plastic run before or after a hairbrush, juice bottle or chair is made. They represent everything and nothing. The plastic in its petroleum state has undergone millions of years of evolution to get to this stage. And then, it is discarded as a byproduct of societal needs. explores the duality of meaning and perception, and the illusion that is created in between. He presents an image of a non-object in a painting of an informal Formalist sculpture. His paintings form the profile of a solid sculpture, moulded and plied to present the essence of formalism. The subject of the paintings, exhibit abstract geometrical imagery and constructivist diagramming of space that is playfully organic and blob-like. Yet the work is a painting of these organic man-made blob sculptures. The work considers cycles and recycling in re-presenting paintings of sculptures that are inherently plastic fabricator machine end waste. The use of plastic materials and their place in the evolutionary motions of recycling are important to Dahlsen in constructing these images Page 3/8

4 Totems Made from found plastic, driftwood and rubber objects and stainless steel. Abstract recycled art created from objects collected from Australian beaches 220 x 40 cm Page 4/8

5 Totems Made from found plastic objects and stainless steel. Abstract recycled art created from plastics collected from Australian beaches. 220 x 50 cm Page 5/8

6 Signature of Sydney The work, which measures 3 metres wide x 1.5 metres high, presents a birds eye view of a large assemblage of over 1000 recycled thongs, as a high-resolution digital print on canvas. He collected each of the thongs, mainly from our more remote beaches, after they had been washed up or discarded somewhere along the eastern seaboard. The print was made using latest technology by photographing a series of 12 individual large format transparencies of the assemblage of thongs, which were drum scanned and digitally stitched together, to form a high resolution file suitable for printing the highest quality image. 150 x 300 cm Page 6/8

7 Exhibitions 2007 Oneness University - Chennai - Andrah Pradesh, India"Linnaeus Exhibition" Solo Show Broken Head. Curated by the Lismore Regional Art Gallery. Jan - March 2006 Parliament House Sydney "Recycled Materials As Art" 5-30 June"Linnaeus Exhibition" Solo Show Broken Head. Curated by the Lismore Regional Art Gallery. October - Dec 2005 Artspace Mackay: "Detritus" - works by 2nd Sept - 16th Oct "From Floor to Wall " installations and assemblages by : Tweed River Regional Art Gallery Murwillumbah NSW Australia "New Work - " D'Ars Contemporary Art Space Milano Italy" in Byron Bay" Byron Fine Art Gallery NSW Australia. "Renewed" Gallery 49 New York USA 2003 "Found Plastics" Umbrella Studios Townsville QLD Australia. Renewed Australian Art Resources, Melbourne, VIC Australia. Art/Rubbish Lake Russell Gallery Coffs Harbour NSW Australia "Survey" Fox Galleries Brisbane QLD Australia "Full Circle" Gold Coast City Art Gallery QLD Australia., Fox Galleries, Brisbane QLD Australia "Totem", Arthouse Gallery, Sydney, NSW Australia., Fox Galleries, Brisbane QLD Australia Australian Embassy, Washington D.C. USAContemporary Landscapes, Fox Galleries, Brisbane QLD Australia The Avatar Series, Orlando Resort Florida, USA 1995 Works on Paper and Canvas - 'The Orient' Byron Bay NSW Australia.Painting & Drawing Soho Galleries, Sydney NSW Australia Works on Paper, 'Byronian' Byron Bay, NSW Australia Paintings, Cape Gallery - Big Space, Byron Bay, NSW Australia Recent works on paper from Amsterdam, Artplace, Perth, Western Australia Painting + Drawing, Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery University of Western Australia Paintings, Old Papa's, Fremantle, Western Australia Recent Paintings, Gore Street Gallery, Melbourne VIC Australia. Paintings, Delaney Galleries, Perth, Western Australia Colour and Transparency, Prism Gallery Fremantle, Western Australia. 1981, Johnathan Sweet Gallery, Melbourne, VIC Australia Studio Works, Artist's London Studio, England Page 7/8

8 Awards 2006 Finalist: Sulman Prize for Genre Painting AG NSW Australia."The Signature Of Sydney Prize" - Australia's richest prize: 2nd prizewinner. December Sydney. Finalist: Jacaranda Acquisitive Drawing Award. Finalist: Signature of Sydney Art Prize Mosman Art Prize Finalist Awarded Senate Proclamation, Jefferson City, State of Missouri, USA.Regional Artist Award: East Coast Sculpture Show - Thursday Plantation, NSW Awarded the role as Cultural Embassador for Australia at the Athens "Olympics Of Visual Arts" Artiade Exhibition.Finalist: Wynne Prize for Sculpture & Landscape AG NSW Australia 2003 Florence Biennial of Contemporary Art - Award for mixed media/new media.finalist: Wynne Prize for Sculpture & Landscape AG NSW AustraliaEarth Champion Nominee: Athena Foundation 2001 Highly Commended: East Coast Sculpture Show Thursday Plantation, NSW Winner of the Wynne Prize for Sculpture & Landscape AG NSW AustraliaAppointed "Official Artist of the New Millennium" for the organizations 'Clean Up Australia' & "Clean up the World"N.S.W. Ministry for the Arts grant Australia 1998 Highly Commended: East Coast Sculpture Show Thursday Plantation, NSW Artrage Festival Subsidy Funding 1991 Winner of the Geraldton-Greenough Aquisitive Art Award 1976 Cann River Open Art Prize, Gippsland, Victoria Australia Page 8/8

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