About

2023

• Magic Sauce, Drawspace, Sydney

2022

• Nerve Centre, Sydenham International, Sydney

2021

• Waiting for News, Bett Gallery, Hobart

2020

• Situation Room, Dominik Mersch Gallery, Sydney

2019

• The Stuff of Life, Bett Gallery, Hobart, Tasmania

2018

• Hear No Evil / See No Evil, Casula Powerhouse, Sydney
• Performancelab:4x4, Drawing Performance, Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney

2017

• Trouble on the range, Dominik Mersch Gallery, Sydney
• Back to the Dark Ages, Drawing Performance, MCA, Sydney
• Dark Ages, Maitland Regional Art Gallery, NSW
• Season of Unreason, Bett Gallery, Hobart, Tasmania

2016

• Back to the dark ages, Art Central Hong Kong, Solo Project for Dominik Mersch Gallery

2015

• City of Sydney Public Art Commission for the Juanita Neilson Community Centre
• Screenshots, Dominik Mersch Gallery, Sydney
• A week in the life of the world, Blue Mountains City Art Gallery, Katoomba, New South Wales
• Brainfog, Karen Woodbury Gallery, Melbourne, Victoria

2014

• Burn Freeze, David Krut Projects, NY, USA
• Made in Johannesburg, Solander, Wellington, NZ
• Lifters and Leaners, Bett Gallery, Hobart, Tasmania
• descent into the mass media maelstrom, Galerie Patrick Ebensperger, Berlin, Germany

2013

• 24HR News Feed, Christchurch Art Gallery, Christchurch, New Zealand
• Steep Descent, Dominik Mersch Gallery, Sydney, Australia

2012

• Boycott, Isolate, Sabotage, Whitespace, Auckland, New Zealand
• some mistakes were perhaps made, Bathurst Regional Art Gallery, New South Wales

2011

• Asia one, Hong Kong art fair for Dominik Mersch Gallery.
• Revolt, Dominik Mersch Gallery, Sydney

2010

• Mediated By The Media, White Space, Auckland, New Zealand
• Lozenge of dawn, 24Hr Art, Darwin, Australia
• Elevating a disastrous situation into a catastrophe, MOP Projects, Sydney, Australia
• Untitled, Karen Woodbury Gallery, Melbourne, Australia

2009

• HitchHiking in the Donut of Death, Gallery 9, Sydney, Australia
• Back-Handed Bullets, Whitespace, Auckland, New Zealand
• Ride it ‘til it dies, Rear View, Melbourne

2008

• I’ll Burn that bridge when I come to it, Until Never, Melbourne, Australia
• Final Notice, Centre of Contemporary Art, Christc hurch, N.Z.
• The Bird Agents, Tin Sheds Gallery, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia

2007

• Clearing Station, Centre of Contemporary Art, Christchurch, New Zealand

2006

• Spin Cycle, Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai, India

2005

• Live by the Sword, Mahara Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand

2004

• Poverty Jet Set, Espace SD Gallerie, Beirut, Lebanon
• Amnesia Beyrouth, Riviera Gallery, Brooklyn, New York

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2023

• Collection Focus: Paper Planes, Rockhampton Art Museum, Queensland
• Wrestlemania, Rockhampton Art Museum, Queensland
• No fixed shape, Bett Gallery, Hobart, Tasmania

2022

• DRAWING, Sydenham International, Sydney
• Cel, artist as animator, Bathurst regional art gallery
• Art and Conflict, Australian War Memorial travelling exhibition, Shepparton Art Museum, Vic,

2021

• The graceful exit, Dominik Mersch Gallery, Sydney

2020

• Critical Mass, the art of planetary health, Blue Mountains City Art Gallery, Katoomba
• Guns to Roses, Maitland Regional Art Gallery
• Curators Choice, Solander Gallery, Wellington, NZ

2019

• Print Council of Australia, Bilbao, Spain
• The Drawing Room, Galerie Obrist, Essen, Germany
• Dobell Australian Drawing Biennale, Orange Regional Gallery, NSW
• Shadow and Light, Solander Galerie, Wellington, NZ
• The Fall, Dominik Mersch Gallery, Sydney, NSW 2018 Disrupt, Whitespace, Auckland , NZ

2018

• Disrupt, Whitespace, Auckland, New Zealand
• Dobell Drawing Biennale, Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney
• BOVE/EXPAT, Kunstraum Dusseldorf, Germany

2017

• Giving Voice, Devonport Regional Art Gallery, Tasmania

2016

• MCA ARTBAR Four hour Durational Performance with Tim Bruniges and Hirofumi Uchino
• Giving Voice, Flinders University Gallery, Adelaide

2015

• Geelong Print Prize, Hutchins works on paper prize
• Burnie Print Prize, Burnie Regional Gallery,Tasmania
• Modern art projects, Everglades, Leura, NSW
• Giving voice, Touring exhibition, Gosford Regional Gallery
• Galerie Patrick Ebensperger, Vienna, Austria

2014

• Open Studio 18th Street Arts Centre, California, USA
• Jacaranda Drawing Award, Grafton, Regional Gallery NSW
• Fremantle Print Award, Fremantle, WA
• Redlands Art Award, Sydney, Aus
• Giving Voice, Salamanca Arts Centre, Hobart, Tas
• Nature Nurture, Karen Woodbury Gallery
• A General Map of caves, Hawkesbury Regional Art Gallery, Sydney, Aus

2013

• Galerie Patrick Ebensperger, Berlin, Germany
• Down to the line, Bett Gallery, Hobart, Australia
• Fremantle Print Award, Fremantle, WA
• Unsettled, Recent acquisitions of Australian Contemporary art, Art Gallery of South Australia
• Fauvette Laurio Travelling Art Scholarship, SCA, Sydney University, Aus

2012

• The Lookout, National Art School Gallery, Sydney
• Excavation, The Armory, Sydney Olympic Park, Sydney
• Drawing the line, Whitespace, Auckland, New Zealand
• Through your eyes, Korean Cultural Foundation, Sydney

2011

• 5 x 3, Kunstraum Dusseldorf, Germany
• Sub Text, Carriageworks, Sydney, Australia

2010

• FreeHand, Museum of Modern Art, Heide, Victoria, Australia
• Navigators, Karen Woodbury Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
• No right turn, Penrith Regional Gallery & The Lewers Bequest, Sydney, Australia

2009

• I Walk The Line New Australian Drawing, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia
• SMAC Awards, GBK, Sydney, Australia
• The written word in contemporary art, Karen Woodbury Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
• The June Fourth Incident, Serial Space, Sydney. Something I said Helen Gory Gallery, Melbourne, Australia

2008

• 888Exhibition, China Heights Gallery, Sydney

2007

• Riviera Real Estate, Riviera Gallery, Brooklyn, New York

2005

• Diversity 1, Sulkin Secant Gallery, Santa Monica, California

1999

• Sydney Beirut - Beirut Sydney Espace SD Gallery, Beirut, Lebanon

2022

• Finalist, commended. Jacaranda Drawing Award, Grafton regional gallery, NSW,
• Finalist Highly commended, Paul Guest Drawing Award, Bendigo Art Gallery, Vic
• Finalist National Works on Paper Award, Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, Vic
• Finalist, Adelaide Perry drawing award

2021

• Red dot design award Germany for my artist book six weeks in the life of a global pandemic
• Cel Animation Artist Residence, Hill End, NSW
• Finalist Fremantle Art Award, WA
• Burnie Print Award, Tasmania,
• Geelong Print Prize, Vic
• Dobell Drawing Award, NAS, Sydney
• Blake Prize for Religious and Spiritual Art, Casula Powerhouse, NSW

2019

• Dobell Drawing Prize, Finalist, National Art School, Sydney
• Geelong Print Prize Finalist,
• Hazelhurst Works on Paper prize Finalist

2018

• Dobell Australian Drawing Biennale, Art Gallery of New South Wales

2017

• Print Council of Australia, Print Commission

2016

• Finalist - Paul Guest Drawing Award, Bendigo Art Gallery, Victoria, AusFinalist – Fremantle print award,
• Finalist – Jacaranda Drawing Award, Grafton Regional Gallery, NSW Finalist - Wynne Prize Exhibition, Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney, Australia Finalist Fremantle Print Award, Fremantle WA

2015

• Hutchins School Works on Paper Prize, Tasmania, Second Place Winner Finalist - Burnie Print Award, Tasmania
• Wallace Art Awards, Auckland, New Zealand National works on paper prize, MPRG, Victoria Paul Guest Award, Bendigo Art Gallery, Victoria Alice Springs Art Prize, Finalist
• Winner Fishers Ghost art Award, Campbelltown Art Gallery Acquired-Kedumba contemporary drawing award, Wentworth Falls,

2014

• 18th Street Art Centre, Santa Monica, California, USA
• Artist Residence Big C, Bilpin, NSW Australia
• National Association for the Visual Arts, Artist Grant
• Australia Council for the Arts - New Work Grant
• Lancaster Press, Melbourne, Vic
• Fremantle Print Award, Finalist, WA

2013

• Finalist, Fremantle Print Award, Fremantle, WA
• Jacaranda Drawing Award, Finalist, Grafton Regional Gallery

2012

• Artist Residence, David Krut Projects, Johannesburg, South Africa
• Wallace Art Awards, Auckland, New Zealand
• National works on paper prize, MPRG, Victoria
• Paul Guest Award, Bendigo Art Gallery, Victoria
• Alice Springs Art Prize, Finalist
• Winner Fishers Ghost art award, Campbelltown Art Gallery
• Acquired-Kedumba contemporary drawing award, Wentworth Falls,

2011/2012

• Adelaide Perry Prize for Drawing, Finalist. Hill End Artist Residency. Hazelhurst Works on paper award, finalist

2010

• Winner, National Contemporary Art Award, New Zealand. Royal Bank Of Scotland Art Award, finalist.
• Asialink residency, Changdong Artist Studio, Seoul, South Korea. The Paul Guest Drawing Award, finalist.
• Noosa Regional gallery 3D Art prize, finalist. Sunshine coast art prize, finalist. Artist in Residency.
• Penrith Regional gallery. Stanthorpe Art Festival award, finalist

2009

• Winner of the Hazelhurst works on paper award. Fishers Ghost Art Prize, finalist
• Blake prize for Religious art, finalist. Geelong Print Prize, finalist. Fremantle Print Award, finalist

2008

• Kedumba drawing award, finalist. Fremantle print award, finalist

2007

• Hazelhurst works on paper award, finalist

2005

• Hazelhurst works on paper award, finalist. Fremantle print award, finalist

2004

• Artist in Residence, Espace SD Gallerie, Beirut, Lebanon

2003

• Lower East Side Print Workshop Residency, New York

Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

Australian War Memorial Museum, Canberra, Australia

Art Gallery of South Australia

Art Bank, Australia

National Gallery of Australia

National Gallery of Victoria

Kedumba contemporary drawing collection, Australia

Bathurst Regional Art Gallery

University of Wollongong, Australia

Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, New Zealand

James Wallace Trust, Auckland, New Zealand

Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery

Kunstwerk Museum, Collection of Peter W. and Alison Klein, Stuttgart/Eberdingen, Germany.

Tweed River Regional gallery

Sydney University

Grafton Regional Gallery

Rockhampton Art Museum, Qld

Shepparton Art Museum, Victoria, Aus

2021

• World News by locust Jones, Self Published Newspaper, ISBN: 978-0-646-83255-5

2017

• Locust Jones, Subterranean Output, Five years of drawing, 2010-15 ISBN 978-0-646-96678-6
• Hobart Mercury, Embracing Reality.

2015

• Raven, April, by Rachel Vance
• Art Monthly, A week in the life of the world, by Locust Jones
• ArtsHub, August, by Gina Farley
• What’s on in Melbourne, The Age, April 2015, Dan Rule

2014

• Holding up a mirror to society, Hobart Mercury, july 19, Clyde Selby
• The Age, In the galleries by Dan Rule, Feb 22
• Printeresting, New York, Review of Burn Freeze at David Krut Projects, April

2013

• Christchurch Art Gallery Bulletin Magazine, Sept-Nov, by Felicity Milburn

2012

• Sydney Magazine, SMH, August
• Financial Review
• New Zealand Herald, by Tj Mcnamara

2011

• Art Profile issue 15, Australian Art Collector, Jan-Feb.
• Art Nation, ABC Television

2010

• June/July edition of Art in America- Review by Roger Boyce

2009

• In the name of art, rub out the drawing board, Andrew Frost for Sydney Morning Herald
• On their marks, get set, go, John Mcdonald for Sydney Morning Herald
• ABC Sunday Arts, interview with Fenella Kernebone
• Exhibition Review Wellington, Catherine Macdonald writer for Imprint Magazine
• Pulp friction, Tracey Clement for The Sydney Morning Herald

2007

• Large-scale comment on life, Jamie Hanton for The Christchurch Press NZ
• The end is nigh - Locust Jones draws a world slowly going to hell. Tracey Clement for Sydney Morning Herald