Bill Culbert - Artist Profile - Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery

Bill Culbert

Artist profile

Flat Light, 2009

Bill Culbert: Groundworks, 2008 (Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, NZ)

Bill Culbert, Black and Light, 2006

Coup de Foudre, 2006

SkyBlues, 2006

Daylight and Nightlight, 2004

Wheels, 2002

Bonbonnes, 2002

BILL CULBERT
Born 1935, New Zealand. Lives London and France.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2008	**Groundworks, Govett Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, New Zealand**
2006	*Bill Culbert, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney* **Bill Culbert, Sue Crockford Gallery, Auckland New Zealand**
2005	*Bill Culbert,* Galerie Catherine Issert, April-May 2005, France **Bill Culbert, Pinboard Gallery, London Light wine things, Whangara Art Gallery, New Zealand**
2004	**Light wine things, Dunedin Public Gallery, New Zealand Daylight and Nightlight, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney Bill Culbert, Sue Crockford Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand**
2003	*Bill Culbert, New Gallery, Auckland Art Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand* *Wine, Light and Things, Millenium Gallery, Blenheim, New Zealand*
2002	**Bill Culbert, Centre d'Arts Plastic, St Fons, Lyon, France**
2001	**Spacific Plastics, Sue Crockford Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand New Works, St Roseline (Château), Galerie Catherine Issert, Les Arcs, France**
2000	**HalfLight, Gitte Weiss Gallery, Sydney, Australia**
1999	**Bill Culbert, Six Friedrich Gallery, Munich, Germany Photoworks, Sue Crockford Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand Galerie des Beaux-Arts, Rouen, France**
1998	**Lightworks, Govett-Brewster, New Plymouth, New Zealand Whalebone, (with Ralph Hotere), Sue Crockford Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand Lightworks, Dunedin Public Gallery, New Zealand Bill Culbert, Galerie Municipale, Vity-sur-Seine, Paris**
1997	Musée-Château d'Annecy, France **Bill Culbert: Photoworks, Ecole d'arts d'Annecy, France Photoworks, BUPA, London Lightworks, City Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand Stoplight, Gitte Weiss Gallery, Sydney, Australia Incident in Marlow's Office, Musée Calvet et Cité Appolinaire, Avignon, France**
1996	**Vessels, Jars and Plains I, Viewpoint Gallery, Salford Vessels, Jars and Plains II, Zone Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne**
1995	Musée des Beaux-Arts, Mulhouse **Pacific Plastics, Sue Crockford Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand New Work II, Kunst, Sydney, Australia**
1994	**Six Pack Blue, Kunst, Sydney, Australia Citroën Series, Sue Crockford Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand FRAC Limousin, Chapelle Saint Libéral, Brive FRAC Limousin, Les Coopérateurs, Limoges**
1992	Galerie Carsten, Berlin Galerie l'Ollave, Lyon Photos, Sue Crockford Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand Galerie Six Friedrich, Munich **Vol au Vent, Champs Elysées, Paris Château d'Oiron, France**
1991	Galerie Froment Putman, Paris La Criée, Rennes Victoria Miro, Florence Andata Ritorno, Genéve Victoria Miro Gallery, London Watermans Gallery, Brentford, London
1990	Galerie Six Friedrich, Munich Sue Crockford Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
1989	**Very Close, Saint-Satunin Les Apt, France**
1988	Victoria Miro Gallery, London
1987	Orchard Gallery, Derry, Northern Ireland Corner House Gallery, Manchester
1986	Athenaeum, Dijon, France ICA, London Tour de Wellington, Christchurch et Dunedin, New Zealand
1985	Coracle Press Gallery, London
1984	Staircase Project, ICA, London Auckland City Art Gallery, New Zealand
1982	Coracle Press Gallery, London
1980	Sunderland Art Gallery
1979	ACME Gallery, London
1978	National Art Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand
1977	Serpentine Gallery, London Arts Council Tour, Grande-Bretagne Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool Mapping Art Gallery, Sheffield Musée Industriel de Bradfort City, Yorkshire
1976	Forum Kunst Gallery, Rottweil, Germany
1965	McRoberts et Tunnard Gallery, London
1964	Nottingham University Art Gallery
1963	Nottingham University Art Gallery Hatton Art Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne Picadilly Gallery, London
1961	Commonwealth Institute Art Gallery, London Edinborough Festival, Scotland
	GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2006	*High Tide: Currents in Contemporary Australian Art, Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, Poland and Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius, Lithuania*
2004	**Prospect 04, Wellington City Art Gallery, New Zealand Light Art, Richmond, New Yorkshire, England Image & Object - Contemporary Still Life in New Zealand, Pataka Porirua Museum of Arts & Cultures, Porirua, New Zealand**
2003	**Image and Object, Pataka, Porirua, New Zealand Reinvention, FRAC collection, Centura, Corsica**
2002	**La Cuite, La Galerie Martagon, Malancène, France Aramoana / Pathway to the sea (collaboration with Ralph Hotere), Second Asia-Pacific Triennale, Queensland Art Gallery, Australia**
2001	**Works from Paper Graphia, ADAM Art Gallery Azerty, Centre Pompidou, Paris Collection FRAC Limousin Bright Paradise, Auckland Art Gallery, New Zealand Bill Culbert and the Sainte-Roseline Chateau, Galerie Catherine Issert, St Paul de Vence, France (White Shadow) Mutiservice programme, Auckland Art Gallery, New Zealand**
2000	**Alive, still life into 21 century, ADAM Art Gallery, Victoria University, Wellington, New Zealand Drive, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, New Zealand Black Light, collaborative works (with Ralph Hotere), Museum of New Zealand Dunedin Art Gallery, Auckland Art Gallery, New Zealand**
1999	*Toi toi toi, *3 Generations of New Zealand, Art Museum Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany Toi toi toi, Auckland Art Gallery, New Zealand Eclipse, CEAAC, Strasbourg, France**
1998	Inauguration exhibition, Wellington **Switch, Art Electric, Sir Herman Black Gallery, Sydney, Australia The Shape of Light, Eich Gallery, Humberside University, Hull England Bildhauerzeichnungen de Gegenwart, Rottweil, Germany**
1997	**Off the Peg, Rack Gallery, London Dream Collectors, One Hundred Years of Art in New Zealand**
1996	**Transformers, New Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand Milky Way, FRAC Corse**
1994	*Fault* (with Ralph Hotere), Wellington Art Gallery, New Zealand
1993	**Sixties in London, Barbican, London Château d'Oiron, France**
1992	*Post Black* (with Ralph Hotere), Sue Crockford, Auckland **Northern Adventures, Camden Arts Centre, London Lux Europa, Edinborough, Scotland**
1991	*Aramoana* (with Ralph Hotere), Auckland City Art Gallery, New Zealand *Prop* (with Ralph Hotere), RKS Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand **L'insoutenable légèrete de l'Art, Musée de Poitiers et Musée de la Roche-sur-Yon**
1990	Tyneside International Art Exhibition, Gateshead **Nature artificielle, Foundation EDF, Paris Biennale of Sydney, Australia**
1989	**Les acquisitions 89 du Fonds National d'Art Contemporain, Paris**
1988	Asher Faure Gallery, Los Angeles **NZXI, City Art Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand; Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia; Museum of Contemporary Art, Brisbane, Australia Nature Inconnue, Nevers, France 30 ans de Sculpture, Britannica, Le Havre, Rouen, Evreux, Toulouse, France et Anvers, Belgium**
1987	**Airwaves, Museum of Holography, New York Erehwon, Nowhere, New Zealand House, London**
1986	**Incidentally, Winchester Art Gallery, England Furniture Sculpture, Victoria Miro Gallery, London The Illuminations, Camera House, London Foto Cliché, Victoria Miro Gallery, London**
1985	Interim Art, London Barbara Toll Gallery, New York
1984	**Plus-value, Galerie Eric Fabre, Paris Salon de Automne, Serpentine Gallery, London Low-Tech, Rees Martin, London**
1983	**The Sculpture Show, Serpentine and Hayward Gallery, London Assemble Here, Puck Building, New York**
AWARDS
1989	**Artist in Residence, Exploratorium, San Franscisco**
1985	**Artist in Residence, Museum of Holography, New York**
1982	Arts Council of Great Britain, Holography Grant
1981	Artists Grant, Greater London Art Association
1978	**Invited Fellow, University of Canterbury, New Zealand**
1964	First Prize, Painting Competition, Arts Council of Northern Ireland
1963-65	**Fellow in Fine Arts, University of Nottingham**
1957	**National Art Gallery, New Zealand, Travel Grant**
COMMISSIONS
2006	**Skyblues, Wellington Post Office Square, Wellington**
2004	**Lustre, Neon commission, Palace Theatre, Watford, London Transporter, Runcorn, England**
2002	**Wallwave, Neon sculpture, PriceWaterhouseCoopers Tower, Auckland, New Zealand**
2001	**Skyline, Millenium Project, Goodwood Park, England Blackhole (with Ralph Hotere), Auckland, New Zealand**
2000	**Skyline, Millenium Dome, London Blue, Convention Centre Christchurch, New Zealand Skylight (with Ralph Hotere), Auckland, New Zealand**
1999-00	*Black Stump* (collaboration with Ralph Hotere), Royal Sun Alliance Building, Auckland, New Zealand
1999	**Streetlight, University of Munich, Germany**
1998	**Four Winds, Meteo department, Reading University, UK (with Ron Haselden)**
1997	**Rouge, jaune et bleu, Ecole d'Arts, Annecy, France Skylight 2, Serpentine Gallery, London**
1996	**Kaipara Light, Installation solaire, North Auckland, New Zealand**
1994-95	**The Sinking of the Titanic, by Gavin Bryars, collaboration, light work for Premier Performance - QEH London and Edinborough**
1994	*Fault* (with Ralph Hotere), Wellington Art Gallery, New Zealand **Aramoana, Pathway to the Sea, Auckland Art Gallery, now Tetapa, Wellington, New Zealdn (with Ralph Hotere)**
1993	**Vol au Vent, Paris, France**
1989	**Reflection on an Incident in Marlow's Office, Exploratorium, San Francisco**
1970	**Lament on Waves, project for the Royal Ballet, Covent Garden, London**
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2006	Jean-Michel Forey, *Fonds d'Art Contemporain de la ville de geneve collection 1991 - 2003* Naomi Evans, **Bill Culbert: Black and Light, exhibition brochure, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney**
2005	**High Tide: new currents in art from Australia and New Zealand, exhibition catalogue, Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius and Poland, Warsaw Richard Kalina, `Report from Downunder: Down Under no more', Art in America, April 2005, pg. 77 Justin Paton, Light wine things, Dunedin Public Art Gallery, New Zealand Effervescence, La sculpture anglaise en France 1969 - 89, Museés, Anders, France**
2002	Yves Abrioux, **Bill Culbert, St Fons, Lyon, France William McAloon and Kyla McFarlane, Millenium Gallery, Blenheim, New Zealand**
2000	Le Château d'Oiron et son cabinet de curiosités, Jean Hubert Martin, Ed. du Patrimoine
1999	William McAloon, **home and away: contemporary Australian and New Zealand art from the Chartwell Collection, Auckland Art Gallery, p. 78-9, 133 Justin Paton, “Frequent Flyers,” Art New Zealand #92, Spring 1999, pp. 46-51 Toi toi toi, exhibition catalogue, Museum Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany**
1998	**Public Art Space, P.A.C.A., Merrell Holberton Phs, water works, p. 50, 3 photos, 2 colours Bill Culbert, Galerie Municipale de Vitry-sur-Seine, p. 48 textes Yves Abrioux Bildhauerzeichnungen de Gegenwart, Rottweil, Germany Dream Collectors: One Hundred Years of Art in New Zealand N.Z. Listener, “Brightness visible,” textes Justin Paton**
1997	Virginia Baxter, “Meeting Bill Culbert,” *RealTime* #19, June-July 1997, p. 12 **Incident in Marlow's Office, Avignon, France Bill Culbert, Château Gallery, Annecy, France, Ed. Petit école, textes Yves Abrioux Lightworks, City Gallery Wellington, New Zealand Sport'19, Nov 97, Lightworks, 78 photos**
1996	**Un siècle de sculpture anglais. Petit dictionnaire des sculptures britanniques du XXme siècle. Pub, Galerie Nationale du Jeu de Paume**
1995	Yves Abrioux, *untitled*
1994	Yves Abrioux, **An Understanding of Light/ Comprendre la lumiere, interview, cat. Bill Culbert Afterduk / Entre chien et loop, Ed. FRAC Limousin, Limoges Olivier Blanckart, Peu de choses, tout un monde, id Frédéric Paul, Bill Culbert, Home Sweet Home, id**
1993	**The Sixties Art Scene in London, David Mellor**
1992	**Bill Culbert, Galerie l'Ollave, Lyon (9 photos)**
1991	Jérôme Sans, **Bill Culbert, à charge de décharge, Galerie Froment-Putman, Paris**
1990-91	Maribel Konger, *Bill Culbert, *ZUM, Kunstforum, Stadische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich**
1990	Simon Cutts, **Bottle-Combinations, Galerie Six Friedrich, Munich and Victoria Miro Gallery, London Frédéric Paul, Bill Culbert, retrospective nécessaire, Halte-Sud no.24, Genève Philippe Nottin, Bill Culbert, Etant donné, Kanal Magazine, no. 9-10, Paris Gladys Fabre, Une écologie de l'art, cat. Bill Culbert, éd. Musée des Beaux-arts André Malraux, Le Havre; Musée Greuze & Association Tournus Art Contemporain, Tournus; La Criée, Halte d'Art Contemporain, Rennes; Victoria Miro Gallery, London and Florence**
1989	Jean-Michel Roudier, **Bill Culbert, Fiat Lux, Halte-Sud no.22, Genève Alain Coulange, Bill Culbert, le faux bric-à-brac, Galeries Magazine, Paris Alain Coulange, Histoires Naturalles, 1984-89, journal d'un amateur, éd. Pictura, Toulouse**
1988	Alexa Johnston, **NZXI, Auckland City Art Gallery Simon Cutts, 30 ans de sculpture anglais, Britannica, Musée du Havre, Rouen Simon Cutts, Nature inconnue, A.P.A.C., Nevers**
1984	Stephen Bann, **Selected Work: 1968 - 86, I.C.A., London**
1978	David Thompson, **Bill Culbert, University of Canterbury Publishing, New Zealand**
1977	David Thompson, **Bill Culbert, Serpentine Gallery, Art Council of Great Britain, London**