Derek Kreckler

Derek Kreckler is an Australian visual artist, born in Sydney in 1952. He has worked in a variety of media creating performance, video, sound and photographic art works. His work is concerned with an ongoing examination of the transformation of modes of historical avant-gardism into the present. His "clean, crisp Cibachromes" of refrigerators were exhibited at the 14th Sydney Biennale in 2004.^[1]

He has exhibited internationally, extensively throughout Australia including: On Reason and Emotion: 2004 Biennale of Sydney, at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, the 2004 Adelaide Biennale of Australian Art at the Art Gallery of South Australia, and the 2003 Clemenger Contemporary Art Award at the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne, 1992 Encounters with Diversity, PS1. New York, 1990 Biennale of Sydney: The Readymade Boomerang: Certain Relations in 20th Century Art, National Review of Live Art Glasgow, UK.

He is represented in various Australian collections including: the Art Gallery of Western Australia, Art Gallery of South Australia, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney. Wesfarmers, Perth Western Australia, Archive of the Arts and Humanities Data Service (AHDS), Mitchell Library, Sydney, Australia, The University of Adelaide Library, Griffith Artworks, National Gallery of Australia^[2] and private collections.

He was awarded a New Media Arts Board Fellowship from the Australia Council for the Arts in 2000.^[3]

References

1. ^ Art in America, December 2004.
2. ^ cs.nga.gov.au, accessed 16 September 2007.
3. ^ ozco.gov.au, accessed 16 September 2007.

Bibliography

• 2007 – “Out Of Time: Essays Between Art and Photography, Blair French, pub Contemporary Art Centre South Australia. Adelaide.
• 2004 – ‘Derek Kreckler: Allegories Of Vision’, Blair French, Biennale of Sydney catalogue.
• 2004 – ‘Derek Kreckler’, John Mateer, Adelaide Biennale Of Australian Art catalogue
• 2003 – ‘Derek Kreckler’, Isobel Cromby, Clemenger Contemporary Art Awards Catalogue. National Gallery of Victoria.
• 2002 – Art Monthly Australia (Scholarly/Periodical); Philippa Kelly (Australia); Dec *2001-Feb 2002, 4 (colour illus.), 'Naturalisation: recent Australian art and the natural' by John Mateer, pg. 4-7.
• 1994 – 25 years of Performance Art in Australia’, Nicholas Waterlow catalogue. Ivan Dougherty Gallery, University Of New South Wales.

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