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animals beginning with the b |
Everything
you know is wrong
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Broken
Focus |
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Do pineapples
go to heaven |
Are me
we yet
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Holiday
Hunters |
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Heaven
Scent |
Idol Scene
Idle Seen
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Is this
the papers name or mine |
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We have
parley party |
I'd rather
candy land |
She
Was Reading As We Turned The World Into Travel Part 2 |
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With
time to do till then be there |
Life,
Death and product placement |
Its fun to
believe, I believe. |
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Day after
Monday Ars Page |
DRUGKSPORT-
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The
arse is always leaner |
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Around
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A Real
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GROMM
Everything You Know is Wrong
22 August - 5 September
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 last year at Metropolis Gallery.
EVERYTHING YOU KNOW IS WRONG questions our perception of a conventional
reality, and the space that exists between time and everyday occurrences.
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
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.