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RESUME: Charles J Page
EDUCATION
1976 Diploma of Illustrative Photography Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology
1981 Bachelor of Arts (Photography) Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology
1983 Diploma of Teaching (T.A.F.E.) Brisbane College of Advanced Education
2004 PhD. (Publication) Griffith University
1969 Assistant Photographer, Eric Lang Photography, Melbourne
1972 Traveling Overseas, Miscellaneous employment
1974 Photographer, Defense department, Australian Government
1981 Instructor, Queensland College of Art
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
1983 Alternatives Imagery Gallery, Brisbane
1984 Intrusions Queensland College of Art Gallery, Brisbane
Perc. Tucker Regional Gallery, Townsville
1985 Intrusions, Noosa Art Gallery , Noosa, (12 month tour of Regional Centres - Queensland Art Council)
1986 Commentaries Imagery Gallery, Brisbane
1988 Retrospective Graham Galleries, Brisbane
1990 A Troublesome Class of Men City of Ipswich Regional Art Gallery, Ipswich
1990 A Troublesome Class of Men Energy and Resource Centre, Brisbane
1991 Boggo Road Prison Graham Galleries, Brisbane
1992 Boggo Road Prison Tour of Regional Centres - Queensland Arts Council
1992 A Troublesome Class of Men Brisbane City Hall Art Gallery
1993 Boggo Road Prison Second tour of Regional Centres - Queensland Arts Council
1993 The Bomb in the Baby Carriage, McWhirter's Art Space, Brisbane (Supported by Australian Red Cross)
1994 Antarctic Folio Tasmanian Art Gallery, Hobart
1998 A Troublesome Class of Men Global Arts Link, Ipswich Qld.
1998 World Disasters Report Exhibition New Delhi, India
2000 Passing Trains Global Arts Link, Ipswich Qld.
2001 Passing Trains Volvo Gallery, Sydney
2002 Passing Trains Global Arts Link, Ipswich Qld.
2003 A Legacy of the Revolution China Steam 1979 - 2002, Queensland Rail Museum
2003 Visible Traces of Another Life: The photographs of Charles Page 1966 - 2003, Rockhampton Art Gallery
2004 Ipswich x 5 Global Arts Link, Ipswich Qld
2005 A matter of conscience, Benalla Art Gallery, Victoria
2006 South of Sixty, Bennala Art Gallery, Victoria
2007-2009 Cross Section, Horsham Regional Art Gallery Vic., Bundoora Homestead Gallery Vic., Ballarat Fine Art Gallery Vic., Ararat Regional Art Gallery Vic. Murray Bridge Art Gallery S.A., Mildura Art Gallery Vic., Wangaratta Exhibitions Gallery Vic. Ipswich Art Gallery Qld., QUT Art Museum Qld.
1981 Self titled Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology
1984 Self Titled Queensland College of Art Gallery
1985 Déjà vu Imagery Gallery, Brisbane
1987 Constructed Images, Photographs of the New Parliament House, Australian National Gallery, Canberra
1988 Journeys North Queensland Art Gallery
1988 Kodak Arakuen Tourist Images Brisbane - Alice Springs - Sydney
1988 Brisbane River Art Exhibition ( Brisbane River Committee), Riverside Centre, Brisbane
1988 Art in Queensland, Queensland Art Gallery
1989 Art in Queensland (2 nd Exhibition) Queensland Art Gallery
1989 Shot from Down Under Daicolo Gallery, Osaka, Japan,
Kodak Photo Salon, Tokyo, Japan
Kodak Photo Salon, Nagoya, Japan (Supported by Kodak and Continental Airlines)
1989 World Photographic Exhibition World Design Exposition, Nagoya, Japan
Kodak Photo Salon, Tokyo, Japan
1990 Townsville Art Award, Perc. Tucker Regional Gallery, Townsville
1991 Queensland State of the Art - Photography, Queensland Art Gallery (Sponsored by Kodak)
1991 The Nude in Photography (1860-1991) Josef Lebovic Gallery, Sydney
1991 Art in Queensland Queensland Art Gallery
1992 Journeys North Regional Tour - Queensland Art Gallery
1992 Outside Looking In, Queensland Art Gallery - Photographs and Our World
1995 A Hostile Environment Ipswich Regional Art Gallery
1996 The Power to Move Queensland Art Gallery
1996 Anti Land Mine Campaign United Nations, Geneva
1996 Outlaw Landmines Sydney Opera House
(Curated by the International Campaign to Ban Landmines and the International Committee of Red Cross (I.C.R.C.))
1996 Landmine Photographic Exhibition Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts
1997 Outlaw Landmines. The Outlaw Landmines exhibition traveled to all Australian states
1999 The Art of Inclusion Queensland Art Gallery traveling exhibition
(The exhibition was shown in Cairns, Toowoomba, Gladstone, Winton and Logan)
1999 The Nude, Queensland Art Gallery (Revisiting the Tradition through the Queensland Art Gallery collection)
1999 Pride of Place Global Arts Link and Ipswich Arts Foundation, Ipswich Qld
1999/2000 SITE Gallery 6 Parliament House, Canberra (Images from the New Parliament House Project)
2000 The Night has a Thousand Eyes Global Arts Link, Ipswich Qld
2000 Austcare, Australians caring for Refugees Queensland Museum
2000 The Art of Inclusion Queensland Art Gallery
2001 Local Color – Local Lives Cairns Regional Gallery - Centenary of Federation Exhibition
2003 Impressions of Antarctica Parliament House Canberra
2003 / 2004 How We Live Queensland Art Gallery (13 Asia-Pacific Artists)
2004 Ice and Snow – Antarctic to Mt Everest, Josef Lebovic Gallery, Sydney, NSW
(Selected photographers including works by Frank Hurley and Herbert Ponting)
2004 Antarctic Exhibition, Fram Museum, Norway
2006 Enigmatic, Shandong University Gallery, China
2006 Hell Bent for the South Pole, Tasmanian Art Gallery and Museum
COMMISSIONS
1984-86 New Parliament House Construction Authority Art Acquisitions Committee
Produced a folio of photographs based on the construction of the new Australian Parliament House, Canberra.
1986-88 Queensland Art Gallery and the Australian Bicentennial Authority
One of six Australian photographers selected. Traveled throughout Queensland documenting community life. The project aimed to encourage achievement and appreciation of contemporary art photography, as much as to celebrate and record the richness and diversity of community life in the late 1980s.
1988 Brisbane River Committee
Produced three works based on the theme: Brisbane River - Past, Present and Future.
1990 Australian Coal Industry Research Laboratories Ltd.
Produced a folio of photographs based on the coal industry
1991/92 Australian Construction Services
Produced a folio of photographs interpreting the construction of the Commonwealth Law Courts, Brisbane.
2000/2001 Cairns Art Gallery and The Centenary of Federation Committee
Documented social structures within Cairns society.
2001/04 Asia Rail Corporation and the Northern Territory Government
Documented the construction of the Alice Springs to Darwin Railway
NATIONAL PROJECTS
1967-99 An extensive project to document the decline of steam locomotion in rail transportation. The project involved all Australian states.
1989-90 Photographed in Boggo Road Prison with emphasis on the sociological effects of incarceration.
1990-91 Photographed the decline of underground coal mining operations in the Ipswich-West Moreton Coal fields, and the effect on miners and their families.
I993 Photographed in the Antarctic under the auspices of ANARE (Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions).
The project addressed environmental issues, the removal of the last Australian Huskies and the Antarctic Landscape. (This project was also supported by a Research Grant from Griffith University.)
2001 A project to document the interior of the disused Princess Alexandra Hospital, Brisbane. The project addressed the residual emotions of abandoned spaces.
INTERNATIONAL PROJECTS
1972-80 An extensive project to document photographically the decline of steam locomotion. The project also addressed the sociological implications brought about by this evolution in technology. The project concentrated on the following countries:
1972 South Africa, Rhodesia, Swaziland, Europe
1978 China, India, Malaysia
1980 India, Pakistan
1989 Photographed in Japan and USA for two and a half months.
1992 Photographed in Pakistan and Afghanistan the operations of the International Committee of Red Cross. This project concentrated on I.C.R.C. activities concerned with the Afghanistan War. (This project was supported by a Research Grant from Griffith University).
1993 Photographed in Malawi, Mozambique and Somalia. This project was supported by a Research Grant from Griffith University and with the cooperation of the following organizations -
U.N.SOM. United Nations Somalia
U.N.H.C.R. United Nations High commission for Refugees
I.C.R.C. International Committee of Red Cross
C.A.R.E. Somalia
I.F.R.C. Federation of Red Cross, Malawi
A.D.F. Australian Armed Forces
U.S.M.C. United States Marine Corps.
1994 - 95 Photographed in Thailand the operations of the Thai Red Cross. This project concentrated on the HIV/Aids programs of the Red Cross.
1995 Photographed in Chechnya ( Russian Federation) under the auspices of the International Committee of Red Cross. This project concentrated on ICRC activities concerned with the Chechnyan conflict. (This project was supported by a Research Grant from Griffith University).
1996 Photographed in Chechnya ( Russian Federation) under contract to the International Committee of Red Cross. This mission concentrated on ICRC activities concerned with the Chechnyan conflict. (This project was supported by a Research Grant from Griffith University).
1999 Photographed in Western China, Inner Mongolia, the last operational mainline steam locomotives. (This project was supported by a research grant from Griffith University).
2000 Academic Studies detachment [OSPRO] a 14-week international photographic project that addressed;
1. Mexican culture
2. The documentation of four Ipswich communities in the following geographical locations, Australia, U.S.A.[2] and the U.K.
2001 Photographed the Forest Railways of Manchuria, Northern China
2002 Photographed in Western China, heavy industrial sites and operational steam trains.
CURATORSHIPS
2002 The photographic exhibition “BELIEF’’ at the Multi-faith Center, Griffith University
2002 The Graham Burstow Retrospective exhibition ‘Sometimes a Light’ at the Toowoomba Regional Art Gallery
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane
Australian Parliament House, Canberra
Museum of Queensland
Brisbane City Council
City of Ipswich Regional Art Gallery, Ipswich
City of Townsville (Perc. Tucker) Gallery, Townsville
Australian War Memorial, Canberra
Commonwealth Law Courts, Brisbane
Australian Antarctic Division, Mawson Base, Antarctica
Australian Antarctic Division, Hobart
Tasmanian Art Gallery and Museum, Hobart
Australian Red Cross, Melbourne
International Committee of Red Cross, Geneva, Switzerland
Global Arts Link, Ipswich
Cairns Regional Gallery
Rockhampton Art Gallery
Museum of Brisbane
AusAid, Canberra
PRIVATE COLLECTIONS
(Represented by Josef Lebovic Gallery, Sydney)
Australia
United States of America
© charles john page 2005
