John Lendis

John Lendis
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Biography:

John Lendis grew up in Nottingham and completed a diploma in textile design at the Nottingham College of Art and Design before leaving England to travel; he landed and settled in Australia two years later. In the early 1980s, he moved from Sydney to Tasmania, where he went on to complete a BFA (Hons) and Master of Fine Arts (painting) at the University of Tasmania’s School of Art.

Lendis combines figurative and loaded symbols, such as a fox, angels or Defender series Land Rovers, with visions of the landscape in which he lives. The symbols come from his own past and life experience and he fuses them into the places in which he now lives and works. It is often a landscape shared with the Pre-Raphaelites before him and there is more than a hint of their influence in his artwork.

 

Résumé:

Education

2006    Master of Fine Arts, School of Art – Hobart, University of Tasmania
1996    Bachelor of Fine Arts (Honours), School of Art – Hobart, University of Tasmania
1995    Bachelor of Fine Arts (Painting), School of  Art – Hobart, University of Tasmania
1970    Diploma in Textile design, Nottingham College of Art and Design

 

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2022     'Reminiscences' Manyung Gallery Strathmore 
2021     ‘Luminescence’, Manyung Gallery Malvern
2018     ‘Lacuna’, Handmark Gallery, Hobart Tasmania
2017     ‘Both Sides Now’, Handmark Gallery, Tasmania
2016     ‘Indigo’, Handmark Gallery, Tasmania
2015     ‘Waltzing Matilda’, Handmark Gallery, Tasmania
2013     ‘Brook’, Celia Lendis Contemporary UK
2012     ‘Water and Dreams’, Handmark Gallery, Tasmania
2012     ‘October’, Celia Lendis Contemporary UK
2011     ‘Snow’, Handmark Gallery, Tasmania
2011     ‘Liminal’, Celia Lendis Contemporary UK
2010     ‘New Worlds’, Celia Lendis Contemporary  UK
2010     ‘The view from Kelmscott’, Brantwood Gallery Cumbria UK
2010     ‘The Last Days of Wildernes’s, Handmark Gallery, Tasmania
2009     ‘Invisible Cities’, Charles Hewitt Gallery, Sydney Australia
2009     ‘Voyages of Desire’, Handmark Gallery, Tasmania
2007     ‘Profane Illuminations’, Dickerson Gallery, Melbourne
2007     ‘Lady Jane and The Sleep of Reason’, Ancanthe Museum
2007     ‘The Mapmakers Dream’, Fisher Galleries, Auckland
2006     ‘Ocean’, Charles Hewitt Gallery, Sydney Australia
2006     ‘St Sebastian and the Wounded Forest’, Plimsoll Gallery
2006     ‘St Sebastian and the Wounded Forest’, Fisher Galleries, NZ
2005     ‘Sarah and Jane’, The Salamanca Collection, Hobart
2005     ‘Telling tales of Lady Jane’, Charles Hewitt Gallery, Sydney
2004     ‘Dreaming of The River’, Charles Hewitt Gallery, Sydney
2004     ‘The River’, The Salamanca Collection , Hobart
2003     ‘Silent Spaces’, Charles Hewitt Gallery, Sydney
2002     ‘South Wind’, Autore Gallery, Melbourne
2002     ‘Traffic’, Bett Gallery, Hobart
2001     ‘Trespass’, Charles Hewitt Gallery, Sydney
2000     ‘Searching for the Moon’, The Salamanca Collection
2000     ‘Observing Imagination’, Charles Hewitt Gallery, Sydney

 

Awards
2008    Artist in Residence, Scott Polar Research Institute, Cambridge University, England
2004    National Association for Visual Artists – Grant
2004    Arts Tasmania - Grant                                                                                                  
2002    Australian Postgraduate Research Award
2001    Arts Tasmania Grant (Joint)
2000    National Association for Visual Arts – Grant
1999    Artist in Residence, Cradle Mountain National Park Tasmania

Associated Exhibitions

John Lendis
'Reminiscences'

Manyung Gallery Strathmore
14 May - 28 May, 2022
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John Lendis
'Luminescence'

Manyung Gallery Malvern
24 April - 9 May, 2021
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Movement || Group Show of Figurative Artworks
Manyung Gallery Flinders
31 March - 13 April, 2018
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Sea, Sky, and Space
A Group Exhibition
13 January - 24 January, 2018
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Tax Deductible Art for Small Business
Manyung Gallery Malvern
1 June - 30 June, 2017
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John Lendis
Manyung Gallery Grande
30 December, 2016 - 12 January, 2017
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She.
Manyung Gallery Malvern
12 July - 31 July, 2016
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New Interiors Exhibition
Manyung Gallery Malvern
7 November - 29 November, 2015
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