Luke Roberts
LUKE ROBERTS
1952 Born Alpha
1971 Julian Ashton School, Sydney
1972-74 Queensland College of Art, Brisbane
1979-80 Co-Director, E.M.U., experimental art space, Brisbane
1984 Atelier Dalmas, Paris
1984-87 Lived and worked in Europe
1989-94 Co-Director AGLASSOFWATER, Brisbane
1989 New Image Research Award, Australian Film Commission
Premier's Encouragement Award
REMM Art Award
1991 VA/CB Overseas Development Grant
Qld. Ministry of Arts Project Grant
1995 Prize-winner, Mary MacKillop: A Tribute, Powerhouse Museum, Sydney
1996 2nd Asia-Pacific Triennial, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane
Fellowship Residency, P.S.1 Studio, Institute of Contemporary Art, New York
Sala Diaz Residency, San Antonio, Texas, USA
1999 Arts Queensland Professional Development Grant
2001 Master of Fine Arts degree, Queensland University of Technology
2002 13th Biennale of Sydney, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
2003 UFO, public art commission, West End Five-Ways, Brisbane
2006 Residency, Walter Reid Cultural Centre, Rockhampton
Board member, Artworkers Management Committee
2008 AlphaStationAlphaVille, Professional Development Grant, Arts Queensland
Presented with the Order of the Morning Star (OMS) by HDH Pope Alice.
2012 Australia Council artist scholar, British School at Rome, Rome, Italy
Archibald Prize finalist, Art Gallery of New South Wales
2014 Do Disturb, Palais de Tokyo, Paris
2016 Moran Portrait Prize finalist, Juniper House, Sydney
PoinsettiaRiverfire, public art commission, Brisbane City Council
Pope Alice Xorporation, new branding and exhibiting entity
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2016 Margin through Centre, Fairweather Drawings, Milani Gallery, Brisbane
2014 Kunstkamera, Anna Pappas Gallery, Melbourne
2013 AMOROMA… Burning Love, Milani Gallery, Brisbane
2011 AlphaStation/Alphaville, Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney
2010 AlphaStation/Alphaville, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane
2006 You Are Not Alone, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane
Alpha Paintings (Frontiers), Philip Bacon Galleries, Brisbane
2005 Paradise Regained: Headlands and Skylands, Redland Art Gallery
2004 Arrivedeci Rivoli, Bellas Gallery Brisbane
2003 Missing Person: Alice Jitterbug Photographed, Bellas Gallery
2002 Mu Pavilion Installation, Sydney Biennale, MCA, Sydney.
Aloha Eloha, Stranger Than Fiction , Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney
Venice Paintings/ Alpha Paintings, Bellas Gallery, Brisbane
2001 1+1=8, Bellas Gallery, Brisbane
2000 Dressed up for Paradise (Beyond the Great Divide), Bellas Gallery, Brisbane
Forbidden Universe, Bellas Gallery, Brisbane
1997 Snakes and Aliens, Bellas Gallery, Brisbane
Mu Consciousness raising exercises and Pope Alice sightings... Sala Diaz, San Antonio and Texas USA
1996 Clutch, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane
Dispersion, Randall Street Studio, Brisbane
1994-5 WUNDERKAMMER/KUNSTKAMERA, Gallery 14 Project, Queensland Art Gallery
1994 Lot 204: Luke Roberts, a Closet, a Painting, a Duchesse and a pair of oversize hand carved wooden salad servers, Martin Browne Fine Art, Sydney
Lot 62: POSTCARDS FROM ALPHAVILLE (Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft) POST JOHNSTONE DIASPORA/Lorraine, My Heart is Full, Bellas
Gallery, Brisbane
1993 All Souls of the Revolution (detail) + Objects of My Affection, Sutton Gallery, Melbourne
1992 18 Paintings in Search of a Glossary (Life), Sutton Gallery, Melbourne
The Wonder of You, Bellas Gallery, Brisbane
1991 The Veto of Reason, Bellas Gallery, Brisbane
1990 Wunderkammer, State Library of Queensland
Objects of My Affection, Site, Brisbane
1989 Without Closure, Bellas Gallery, Brisbane
Artist's Videos, National Arts Week, Brisbane
1988 Logic Assassinates, Bellas Gallery, Brisbane
1987 1+1=3, ongoing photographic work
1986 Plan 9, The Compartners, Amsterdam
Touring Exhibition, Araluen Centre, Alice Springs
1985 Name Dropping, St. Olofspoort, Amsterdam
1984-6 Touring Exhibition, Queensland Arts Council
1984 -5 Der Kunstler Als Narcis/Das Leben Ist Kunst Ist Kitsch Screening and Discussion of the Artist's own films, Hannover Fachhochschule + Braunsweig Film
Academie, Fed Rep. Germany
1984 Alpha Centenary, commemorative envelopes, Australia Post
1982 Luke Roberts, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane
1980 Pope Alice Presents Luke Roberts, Spring Hill Gallery, Brisbane
Selected Group Exhibitions
2019 The National: New Australian Art, Carriageworks, Sydney
Word of Mouth, Venice
2018 Startin Young, Gallery of Children's Art, Brisbane
2017 Unflinching Gaze: photo media and the male gaze, Bathurst Regional Gallery, NSW, Australia
2016 Sugar Spin: You, me, art and everything, Queensland Art Gallery/Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane
Bimblebox: art - science - nature, Logan Art Gallery, QLD
Beyond the tower: 40 years and counting, University of Queensland Art Museum, Brisbane
2015 Do Disturb, Palais de Tokyo, Paris
2014 Bimblebox: art-nature-science, Reldands Art Gallery and touring
Voice and Reason, (until April 2014), GoMA, Brisbane
2013 Voice and Reason, GoMA, Brisbane
OpShop, Maitland Regional Gallery, NSW, Australia
2012 Wher you liv now, Artists in residence, British School at Rome
Sexualising the City, Gold Coast City Art Gallery, Gold Coast, October
Re-Story, Kamloops Art Gallery, Kamloops BC, Canada June – August
Archibald Prize exhibition, AGNSW, Sydney
2011 60th Blake Prize, National Art School Gallery. Sydney
Femmes&Hommes, curated by Jessica Bridgfoot, John Buckley Gallery, Melbourne 20 May – 11 June 2011
Three Views: Gallery Photographers, John Buckley Gallery, Melbourne, 10 August – 3 September 2011
2010 Pingyao International Photography Festival 2010, Imagining the Everyday. Pingyao, China
James Sourris Collection, Brisbane Club, Brisbane
Multiplicities: Self portraits from the Collection, University of Queensland Art Museum, Brisbane
NEW 2010, University of Queensland Art Museum, Brisbane
2009 I have not been myself lately... Queensland College of Art Gallery, Brisbane.
Soft Sculpture, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
Artscape: The Art Life: Who Made Who?, ABC TV
National Self-Portrait Prize, University of Queensland Art Museum, Brisbane
Wunderkammer detail, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane
I Am the Message, Lismore Regional Gallery, Lismore
Quirky: from the collection, Newcastle Region Art Gallery, Newcastle
2008 Oooga-booga, Pope Alice Xorporation with Proppa Now, George Petelin Gallery
2007 Morimura, Mishima. Roberts Art Gallery New South Wales
The Visitors, Penrith Regional Gallery
Multiple Personality, MOP, Sydney
2006 Queensland Live, Queensland Art Gallery touring exhibition
Colonial to Contemporary, Queensland College of Art, Brisbane
2005 Baroque and Neo-Baroque. The Hell of the Beautiful, Domus Artium (DA2) Salamanca, Spain
Beyond Real, Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney
Points of View: Australian Photography 1985-95, Art Gallery of New South Wales
2004 Don't call it Performance, El Museo del Barrio, New York
Sailor Style, National Maritime Museum, Sydney
the world may be post-dated: Luke Roberts and Jennifer Maklem, Galerie de l'UQAM, Montreal, MacLaren Art Centre, Barrie, Canada
2003 Parthenogenesis, Ivan Doughety Gallery, Sydney
No lo Llames Performance, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, and touring Spain
One Square Mile, Museum of Brisbane
the world may be post-dated: Luke Roberts and Jennifer Maklem, University of Waterloo Art Gallery and touring Canada.
2002 13th Biennale of Sydney, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
Stranger than Fiction, ACP, Sydney
1996 The Second Asia-Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, Queensland Art Gallery
Gramercy Park International Hotel Art Fair, New York
ARCO'96 International Contemporary Art Fair, Madrid
Asia-Pacific Hotel Art Fair, Brisbane
Recollection, Brisbane City Art Gallery and Museum
1995 Australian Perspecta 1995, Art Gallery of New South Wales
Mary MacKillop: A tribute, Powerhouse Museum, Sydney, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, New Parliament House, Canberra
1994 Remain in Light, AGLASSOFWATER project, Blaxland Gallery, Sydney
1993 Happiness is a Loaded Brush. Outside the Walls of Jericho (with Beattie Millis), Bellas Gallery, Brisbane
Dislocations: Body, Memory, Place (curator Marcus O'Donnell) Access Gallery, National Gallery of Victoria
1990 Eating People is Wrong, (with Scott Redford), AGLASSOFWATER, Brisbane
1989 All Souls Day (with Urszula Szulakowska), Artspace, Sydney
Slow Information (with Scott Redford), Arch Lane Public Art, Brisbane
Running Man, (with Scott Redford), AGLASSOFWATER, Brisbane
1988 The World Is Full of Objects (with Scott Redford), slide documentation
Redford/Boyd/Roberts (with Scott Redford and Adam Boyd), Arson Street, St. Kilda, Melbourne.
PERFORMANCES (selected)
2015 Pope Alice, Walking to the New Jerusalem, Palais de Tokyo, Paris
2014 Pope Alice, Walking to the New Jerusalem, Showcase 2014, Queensland College of Art, Griffith University, Brisbane
2014 Pope Alice, The Canonization of Alice Jitterbug, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
2014 Pope Alice, Walking to the New Jerusalem, Melbourne Art Fair
Pope Alice (Assumption), Anna Pappas Gallery, Melbourne
2006 You Are Not Alone, 2006. Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane. Pope Alice theatre based performance of one hour duration with sound, visuals and various assisting performers.
2002 Aloha Eloha, 2002, Stranger than Fiction, Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney. Performance as part of group exhibition.
2002 Peoples Delegation from the Lost Continent of Mu, Museum of Contemporary Art, 2002 Biennale of Sydney. Performance as part of artists installation for Biennale of Sydney 2002.
2001 Fridapeople, National Gallery of Australia. Performance for opening night of Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera and Mexican Modernism.
1997 Popepeople, DIA Centre for the Arts, New York. Appearance with Quentin Crisp and photography at opening night of Tracey Moffatt exhibition Free-Falling.
1997 Mu Embassy and Wunderkamera, PS1, Center for Contemporary Art, New York, performance and group exhibition.
1996 clutch, Pope Alice, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane. Exhibition of Pope Alice and Archangel photographic performance works.
1996 Hypnotism, Brisbane City Hall. Performance as part of exhibition.
1995 Popepeople, Pierre et Giles event, Roslyn Oxley Gallery, Sydney. Appearance and photography at opening night Pierre et Giles exhibition.
1995 Pope Alice Tour, Australian Perspecta 1995, Art Gallery of New South Wales, performance as part of artists exhibition, Australian Perspecta 1995
1993 Pope Alice, Surrealism: Revolution by Night, Queensland Art Gallery. Performance at press launch for travelling exhibition of European Surrealism Masterworks Surrealism: Revolution by Night.
1993 Popepeople, Gilbert and George event, Brisbane. Performance celebrating Gilbert & Georges visit to Brisbane. Private function Spring Hill Baths.
1993 Pope Alice, 1993, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
1991 Popepeople, Australian Perspecta 1991, Art Gallery of New South Wales, performance as part of artists exhibition, Australian Perspecta 1991
1970s – 1984 Pope Alice performance have taken place from the late 1970s, including Pope Alice presents Luke Roberts at the Spring Hill Gallery in 1980. Pope Alice made a press appearance for the launch of Luke Roberts exhibition, as well as appearing in various locations around the city including King George Square and was a special guest on opening night, who opened the show.
Regular appearances at the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras
FILMS BY LUKE ROBERTS (selected)
2012 The Visitation, dir. Luke Roberts, Pope Alice’s visit to Vatican City
Sailing to Byzantium, videos documenting a series of “perne in a gyre” artist performances centered around the concept of spinning in sacred spaces. including SpaceOdysseySpace (Pantheon), Cincitta (outside), Cinecitta (inside), St. Peter’s Basilica, The House of the Poet, Vatican (Laocoon), Vatican (Apollo Belvedere).
2006 Alice Jitterbug (Transformer) 2003, added soundtrack Rainbow Horse music Carmela Tal Baron
2003 Alice Jitterbug (Transformer), Images (1977) morphing and editing Daniel Sala
2002 Pacifica: Greetings from Amnesia/Wait for me Juanita/Wangatatta Wahine concept and art direction Luke Roberts, camera and editing Daniel Sala.
1998 Infinito, digital film (unedited) Franco Mondini Ruizs Botanica, San Antonio November 1998
Dear Mr Crisp, digital film, October 1998
Pope Alice Flame Tree (working title/ unedited) with Paul Andrew December 1998
Pope Alice Homeless, with Paul Andrew December 1998
1997 Wunderkamera, Pope Alice in Texas, 6-7 Feb 1997 plus interview Peter Gonzales-Falcon 16 Feb 1997 (NTSC) Hi8
1988 The Despair of the Parrot, edited performance document, Bellas Gallery 1988
My Dress Hangs There, performance document, the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, camera Adam Boyd VHS camera Adam Boyd, VHS
1983 Nazissus, directed by John Lee & Luke Roberts 1983 Super 8 film
Alice Springs Into Wonderland, 1983-84 directed by Luke Roberts Super 8 film
Living Arthur Street On, 1983 directed by Luke Roberts Super 8 film
Pope Alice Plastik, 1983 directed by Luke Roberts Super 8 film
1980 Pope Alice Presents Luke Roberts, Spring Hill Gallery Brisbane 1980
Selected Publications
AlphaStation/Alphaville, monograph pub. Institute of Modern Art 2012
Daniel Mudie Cunningham, Queer Today, Gone Tomorrow, Art and Australia, Winter 2009
NEW, exhibition catalogue, University of Queensland Art Museum, 2008
Vanitas: Pope Alice Presents Luke Roberts, monograph pub. Institute of Modern Art 1999
Queensland Live, exhibition catalogue, Queensland Art Gallery 2005
Points of View, Photography 1985-95, exhibition catalogue Art Gallery New South Wales 2005
Biennale of Sydney 2002, exhibition catalogue
Australian Perspecta 1991, exhibition catalogue, Art Gallery New South Wales
Australian Perspecta 1995, exhibition catalogue, Art Gallery New South Wales
Urszula Szulakowska, feature article eyeline #10, Dec 1989
Michele Helmrich, feature article, eyeline 1995
Louise Martin-Chew, exhibition catalogue for Paradise Regained: Headlands and Skylands 2005
Photofile, Australian Centre for Photography 2004 (first issue of the new look Photofile)
Alpha Paintings (Frontiers), artist statement, exhibition catalogue, Philip Bacon Galleries, 2006
The Visitors, exhibition catalogue, Penrith Regional Gallery, 2007
STUDIO: Australian Painters on the Nature of Creativity, R. Ian Lloyd and John macDonald, 2007
John LeKay, interview heyokamagazine 2008
http://www.heyokamagazine.com/heyoka.19.lukeroberts.interview.htm
Pope Alice, religion, heyokamagazine 2008 -
Pope Alice Xorporation was a regular contributor to heyokamagazine.com http://www.heyokamagazine.com/heyoka_magazine.28.popealice.htm
Collections
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Gold Coast City Art Gallery
Griffith University
Harriet Jane Neville-Rolfe Gallery, Alpha
James Hardie Collection, State Library of Queensland
Kamloops Art Gallery, British Columbia, Canada
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain
Museum of Brisbane
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Newcastle Region Art Gallery
Queensland Art Gallery/Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane
Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane
Rockhampton Art Gallery
University Art Museum, University of Queensland, Brisbane
University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba