Name: Ian Chamberlain
Email: enquiries@ianchamberlain.com
Nationality: Australian resident
Born: Year of the rabbit

Biography: Australian born artist Ian Chamberlain has been involved in the arts for more than thirty years. Ian works across media: design, painting, sculpture, photography, music, digital media… He explores the possibilities of space, colour, sound and form, rather than the technical aspects of any one medium. His work can be found in private collections around the world. Education: left school early with the firm belief that society, as we know it, had but a short time left to run - still not sure. Commenced formal art training (DNF); Commenced formal art training again (DNF); Studied jazz at The Conservatorium of Music, Sydney; Studied graphic design at the School of Graphic Arts, Sydney; Studied digital imaging and multimedia, TAFE of Western Sydney Memberships: Current member National Association for the Visual Arts (NAVA); Founding Member of the Society of Advertising, Commercial and Magazine Photographers (ACMP) 1993; Founding Member of the Australian Graphic Designers Association (AGDA) 1988 Career experience in alphabetical order: assembly line worker; automotive spare parts manager; ayur-vedic therapist; bin tally man; cabinet maker; car detailer; composer; copy writer; courier; farm hand; fine artist; fruit picker; gardener; graphic designer; guitar teacher; handyman; health centre manager; house husband; labourer; musical instrument demonstrator; musician; office manager; owner/manager of graphic design and commercial photography studio; painter and decorator; photographer; picture framer; storeman; truck driver; waiter Past exhibitions: 2009 'Lingua Franca' Event Horizon Gallery, Katoomba, Australia; 2008 'Contemporary Art' Lloyd Gill Gallery, Weston-Super-Mare UK; 2007 'Art in Mind' Brick Lane Gallery, London UK; The Art Makers Exhibition, Balmain Watch House, Sydney; 2006 LGA exhibition, Peppers Fairmont, Leura; 'Photographic Portrait Prize', Wollongong City Gallery, Australia; 'Beyond the Blue', Cowra Regional Gallery, Australia; 'Cowra Festival', Cowra Regional Gallery, Australia; 2005 Major prize winner: Painting and Mixed Media, The Artspace, Katoomba, Australia; 'Digital Soup', Braemar Gallery, Springwood, Australia; 'Emerge', The Artspace, Katoomba, Australia; 1995 'Fruit Update', The Watchhouse Gallery, Balmain, Sydney, Australia; 'Doubly Gifted', Bondi, Sydney, Australia; 1995 'The Seven Deadly Things', The Watchhouse Gallery, Balmain, Sydney, Australia; 1994 'The Love of Money', The Watchhouse Gallery, Balmain, Sydney, Australia; 1993 'Views', The Watchhouse Gallery, Balmain, Sydney, Australia; 'Doubly Gifted', Bondi, Sydney, Australia; The Paper House Stationery Design Competition finalist, Sydney, Australia; 'Views', Stanton Library, North Sydney, Australia; Work featured in Professional Photography magazine; 1992 Finalist Hasselblad Masters Exhibition, touring exhibition of capital cities, Australia; 1991: The Phantom Exhibition, DC Arts, Sydney Likes: family and friends; hot showers and dry clothes after walks in the wilderness; good vegetarian food; running along forest paths; solitude; company; The Goons; yoga; my Dyson vacuum cleaner; weather; Hasselblad cameras; paradox Dislikes: isms and movements; cruelty; fashion (when taken seriously); a totally intellectual approach to anything; the senseless destruction of the planet; not owning a Hasselblad; paradox