John Dahlsen

John Dahlsen is a contemporary Australian installation artist, noted for paintings and environmental artworks based on flotsom found along the Australian shoreline. His work 'Thong Totems' (based on recycled rubber flip-flops found along the beach) won the 2000 Wynne prize for landscape and was selected as a finalist again in 2003 and 2004. He represented Australia at the 2003 Florence Biennial and at the Athens Olympics in 2004.

He has regular exhibitions of his assemblages, eco-art sculptures, abstract paintings, installation art, found object digital print works and totems, driftwood art and assemblage art sculptures, as well as cibachrome photographs, throughout the capitals cities in Australia and in the International art arena.

John Dahlsen's work has been both commissioned for and is featured in, public and private collections in Australia, Japan, Europe and the United States. Invitations and commissions continue to be numerous, to exhibit and make major private and public artworks for this contemporary Australian artist.

Born in Sydney, he studied at the Victorian College of the Arts and at the Melbourne College of Advanced Education. He has since lectured at various Universities and at International and Australian environmental and architectural symposiums, on environmental and installation art, where he has also exhibited his own work. He is regularly interviewed by television, radio and the print media.

In 2006 he was a finalist in the Sulman Award at the Art Gallery of NSW. He has won several grants from various funding bodies, as well as winning other significant aquisitive and non aquisitive art prizes.

ee also

*Art of Australia

External links

* [http://www.johndahlsen.com/ John Dahlsen website]