Liam Garstang lives and works between the lands of the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation (Inner West Sydney) and the Wiradjuri peoples (Downside, NSW). He is an artist, curator, and Gallery Manager at Sydney College of the Arts.
Artist CV
Born 1983 Wagga Wagga, NSW.
2014 - Current, Gallery Manager, Sydney College of the Arts, The University of Sydney
2023 Co-curator (with Barbara Campbell), Present Continuous, SCA Gallery
2020 Curator, The Gymnasium, SCA Gallery
2019 Curator, Unknown Scripture, Delmar Gallery, Sydney
2019 Tutor, MFA Printmedia, National Art School
2018 Curator, SCA New Contemporaries, SCA Galleries
2017 Curator, Nice One Picasso, St Jerome’s Laneway Music Festival, Sydney, SCA Galleries
2016 Curator, Sunday Punch, St Jerome’s Laneway Music Festival, Sydney, SCA Galleries
2014 Curator, 2cubded, St Jerome’s Laneway Music Festival, Sydney
Education
2008 Bachelor of Visual Arts (Honours Class 1), Sydney College of the Arts (SCA), The University of Sydney
Solo Exhibitions
2020 Another Orbit, Dominik Mersch Gallery, Sydney
2018 The Shepherds Crook, Dominik Mersch Gallery, Sydney
2017 There’ll Be No More Shepherds (The Homecoming), Wagga Wagga Art Gallery
2013 To Kill The Saudade, Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia, Project Space, Adelaide
2012 There’ll Be No More Shepherds, Cassa da Zorra, Evora, Portugal
2012 The Old Times Were Certainly The Scariest, Megalo Print Studios + Gallery, Canberra
Collaborative Exhibitions
2012 With Eyelids Cut Off, (with Adam Geczy), Wagga Wagga Art Gallery, Riddoch Art Gallery, Mt Gambier
Selected Group Exhibitions
2023 Semi Erotic (curated by Carla Cescon), SCALA Gallery, Sydney
2023 Landscape and Psyche, Dominik Mersch Gallery, Sydney
2022 In and out of darkness, Sydenham International
2021-22 Birds and Language (curated by Madeleine Kelly), Wollongong Art Gallery
2021 Fremantle Arts Centre Print Award, Fremantle Arts Centre
2021 Irreverent Matter (curated by Janet Parker-Smith), Hazlehurst Arts Centre
2019 Mountains become islands (curated by Alanna Irwin), Dominik Mersch Gallery, Sydney
2019 NEXT, Sydney Contemporary, Carriageworks, Sydney
2019 Pro Hart Outback Art Prize, Broken Hill Regional Gallery
2019 There Can Only Be Chaos, (curated by Ciaran Begley), Articulate Project Space, Sydney
2019 Unknown Scripture, (curator), Delmar Gallery, Sydney
2019 The Fall, (curated by Alanna Irwin), Dominik Mersch Gallery, Sydney
2018 MCA Art Bar, (curated by Jonny Niesche), Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
2017 Macquarie Group Emerging Art Prize, Space Gallery, Sydney
2017 Nice One Picasso, (curator), St Jeromes Laneways Music Festival, Sydney, SCA Galleries
2016 Sunday Punch, (curator), St Jeromes Laneways Music Festival, Sydney, SCA Galleries
2013 The Fauvette Loureiro Memorial Artists’ Travel Scholarship Finalist Exhibition, SCA Galleries, Sydney
2011 - 2013 Familiar/Unfamiliar, (curated by Rona Green) 3contemporary Art Space, Abbostsford Convent, Melbourne, Tweed River Art Gallery, Murwillumbah, s.p.a.c.c.e Gallery, Launceston, Swan Hill Regional Gallery, Swan Hill, Cessnock Regional Gallery, Cessnock, Toowoomba Regional Art Gallery, Toowoomba, Latrobe Regional Gallery, Morwell
2011 Fremantle Arts Centre Print Award, Fremantle Arts Centre
2011 Performance 3, Peloton Gallery, Sydney
2011 Megalo Print Studios 2010 Artist in Residence Exhibition, Megalo Print Studios + Gallery, Canberra
2010 Print Big, (curated by Alison Alder) Fitters Workshop, Canberra
2009 Emerging, (curated by Tim Brahan) Gosford Regional Gallery, Gosford
2008 Graduate Exhibition, Sydney College of the Arts, The University of Sydney
2008 3rd International Experimental Engraving Biennale, The Brancovan Palaces Cultural Centre, Mogosoaia, Romania
2008 Port Jackson Press National Graduate Printmaking Award, Centre for Australian Printmaking, Melbourne
Awards, Prizes and Residencies
2017 Winner, Macquarie Group Emerging Art Prize
2013 The Fauvette Loureiro Memorial Artists’ Travel Scholarship, Finalist, Sydney College of the Arts, Sydney
2012 Artist in Residence, OBRAS Centre for Arts and Science, Evoramonte, Portugal
2011 Australia Council ArtStart Grant
2010 Artist in Residence Award, Megalo Print Studios, Canberra
2008 The University of Sydney Honours Scholarship for Academic Excellence
2007 1st prize Drawing, Kempsey Council Art Award, (Judged by Prof Joanna Mendelssohn)
2007 The Charles William Wentworth Bursary, The University of Sydney
Bibliography
2021 M Kelly, Birds and Language, exhibition catalogue
2021 A Gaynor, Birds and Language, Artist Profile, Preview, p173
2019 A Irwin, Mountains become islands, exhibition catalogue
2018 J Guy, As the Crow flies: some notes on the recent work of Liam Garstang, exhibition catalogue
2018 A Stephens, Dark Country, Art Guide, Feature June/July 2018
2017 L Elliott, ‘From Downside with Love’, The Daily Advertiser, Riverina Weekender, 17 August, p 12
2013 A Geczy, To Kill The Saudade, exhibition catalogue
2012 A Geczy, With Eyelids Cut Off, exhibition catalogue
2012 A Geczy, ‘With Eyelids Cut Off’, IMPRINT, Vol 47 No.3, p28
2012 L Elliot, ‘Eyes Wide Open’, The Daily Advertiser, Riverina Weekender, 26th May, p 13
2012 J Guy, ‘Corvus Days’, The Old Times Were Certainly The Scariest, exhibition catalogue
2011 C Morrow, ‘Around the galleries’, The South Sydney Herald, 11th Sept 2011, Review p14
2011 A Alder, ‘Megalo Print Studio + Gallery, ACT’, IMPRINT, Vol 46 No.3, p5
2010 B McConchie, Print Big, exhibition catalogue
2010 J Williams, ‘Studio the image of success after 30 years’, The Canberra Times, Sat 16th Oct, News, p7
2010 J Cheney, ‘In praise of printing to impress’, The Canberra Times, Sat 16th Oct, Review, p28
2008 C Ciuclea, 3rd International Experimental Engraving Biennale, exhibition catalogue (Romanian/English), p19
Artist Talks
2017 Twin Hanging Trees, Macquarie Group Foundation Week
2012 OBRAS Centre for Arts and Science, Evoramonte, Portugal Sat 18th August
2012 With Eyelids Cut Off, Riddoch Art Gallery, Mt Gambier, Sat 30th June
2010 Confidence Trick_Ghost, Megalo Print Studios, Canberra, Fri 6th April
Broadcast
2012 Win Network, Nightly News, Mt Gambier, Fri 29th June, Re: With Eyelids Cut Off
2012 ABC Radio, Thurs 28th June, Re: With Eyelids Cut Off
Collections
Macquarie Group
Print Council of Australia
Wagga Wagga Art Gallery
Megalo Print Archive, Canberra
Private Collections, Sydney, Canberra