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Home (golden age) Oil on canvas	Mass (mess) Polymer, oil and pencil on canvas	Hunt (golden age) Oil on canvas

She was reading as we turned the earth into travel (lateron) Polymer, oil and pencil on canvas	Seen it all (golden age) Oil on canvas	We bring them with us Polymer, oil and pencil on canvas

Tourist Oil on canvas	You eat what you are. (lateron) Polymer, oil and pencil on canvas

Michael Gromm

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19 June - 3 July 2010

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Michael Gromm paints super-real figures that appear surprisingly at home within surreal, abstract environments, morphing in space and time. ‘I like to think we are all abstractionists,’ says Michael, ‘that our approach to our environment is to change it to fit our needs’.

Michael was born in Mt. Gambier, completed his Bachelor of Arts (fine arts) at the University of Ballarat in 2001, and was awarded the David Pratt Drawing Award in the the same year. He was one of 38 artists short-listed for the 2008 Geelong Gallery Fletcher Jones Art Prize, with his painting 'Bounce the chocolate the number the', and this recognition coincided with his sell out show in 2008 at Metropolis Gallery.

EDUCATION

Bachelor of Arts (fine arts) University of Ballarat.

GROUP SHOWS

2000-2001 Various class exhibits. University of Ballarat Gallery
2001 Slow germination. Graduation exhibition. Chapel Off chapel.
2005—6—7 Mid-year and Christmas group shows. Wall Gallery. Ascot Vale.
2007 Emerging Geelong Artists. Little Malop Gallery. Geelong
2007 Philip Adams + Michael Gromm. Little Malop Gallery. Geelong
2008 Fletcher Jones Contemporary Art Award, Geelong Gallery
2009 Art Melbourne with Metropolis Gallery, Royal Exhibition Building Melbourne
2010 Art ][ Seven Metropolis Gallery Geelong

2010 Metro Art Award, Metro Gallery, Armadale

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2001 Photopaintings. University of Ballarat
2005 Beach Balls and Ballerinas. Go! Gallery. Geelong
2006 Little pieces of chaos. Wall Gallery. Ascot Vale
2007 KALEIDOSCOPE. Wall Gallery. Ascot Vale
2008 GROMM : Recent Paintings by Michael Gromm. Metropolis Gallery, Geelong
2009 GROMM: Everything You Know is Wrong Metropolis Gallery, Geelong.

INSTALLATIONS

2001 VIDEO, LIGHT, SPACE. University of Ballarat Gallery
2002 Time travelled. University of Ballarat GalleryAWARDS
2001 DAVID PRATT DRAWING AWARD.

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