Jo Darvall

As a child I studied art under a local artist and drew. On completion of a TAFE Art course in Sale Victoria, I was selected to study at the Victorian College of the Arts in Melbourne in 1985 and completed a Bachelor of Arts in Fine Art. Along with friends I created an alternative art Night Club called the "Sod Club" in Fitzroy and St Kilda in Melbourne; and worked and exhibited for the Melbourne Fringe Arts Festival over a number of years.
I worked part time and exhibited in alleyways, circus tents, and community/street festivals and in nightclubs (additionally creating short films, videos and volunteering for SKA TV).
Over the past 7 - 10 years I have achieved 9 solo exhibitions and engaged extensively with the contemporary arts sector in Victoria and WA, entering works in numerous prizes, offering my work for selection to curators and exhibiting at commercial art galleries. You could say it has taken me 20 years to self-fund an art practice and develop my own visual language. I have created a number of revenue streams from commissions, sales at exhibitions and teaching to support myself without government funding.
I have had artwork selected and exhibited internationally in Singapore a number of works have been collected by...

1989 Bachelor of Fine Arts, Victorian College of the Arts. Melbourne
1987 Video Production, Collingwood Technical College
1986 Super 8 and 16mm Film Production, Collingwood Technical College, Victoria
1985 Art, East Gippsland Tafe College, Sale, Victoria

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2013 "Gemstones and Millstreams" PSAS Western Australia
2012 “Big Sky” Moore’s Contemporary Art Gallery Fremantle WA
2011 “Artists who hale from the West”, Substation Arts Centre, Newport, VIC
2011 “Landscape Riches”, Brightspace Gallery StKilda, Melbourne.
2010 “A new beginning… West”, Kidogo Arthouse Fremantle, W.A.
2009 “Natural Heros” Sub 12, Newport Sub Station, Newport .VIC
2008 “Small Things”, Katrina Manton Gallery, Albert Park, Melbourne.
2007 “Flight” Mario's, Fitzroy, Melbourne.
2005 “Recent Works from the West”, Mario's, Fitzroy, Melbourne.
1992 “Dream”, Joes Garage, Fitzroy, Melbourne.

EXHIBITIONS

2013
Award Winner Open Acquisitive Art Prize City of Belmont WA
Finalist Lethbridge 10,000 Art Award 2013 “On line Finalist” NSW
Land Lines Exhibition Grand Opening Repeat Offenders Gallery Subiaco WA
Invited “Shore Thing” art exhibition curated by Director of Brightspace and Mick
Turner (Dirty Three) Brightspace Gallery StKilda Melbourne VIC
Land Lines Exhibition with Bo Wong F.Y.E. Fremantle WA
Linden Postcard Show 2013 Linden Centre for Contemporary Arts StKilda Melbourne VIC.

2012
PAWA Print Prize (exhibited) City of Swan Gallery WA
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