CONTEMPORARY MELBOURNE BASED ARTIST - STEVE ROSENDALE
"From my earliest days as an artist I began using film, television and magazines as source material for my work. This really came about as a matter of pure convenience because I found it increasingly difficult to get models to pose ... while I painted them … I began to rely more and more on film to provide the figures I needed for the paintings … I have spent countless nights sifting through hundreds of films to find the exact pose or image I am looking for.
I use the term 'Incidental' to describe the work, in that the use of film as subject matter is really secondary to the mood or feeling I am trying to convey. Film is simply a device that I manipulate to express the deeper, almost subconscious reasons for the choice of scene or figure ... The result is not unlike a film still but on transferring it to the canvas and manipulating various elements, the finished work will inevitably be filtered through the lens of my subconscious and imbued with the mannerisms of my personality."
Steve Rosendale
Born: Australia 1973
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2010
Bring The Money, Come Alone
Libby Edwards Galleries, Melbourne
2009
Incidental
Libby Edwards Galleries, Melbourne
2008
Ultraviolet Way
Libby Edwards Galleries, Brisbane
2007
New Work
Libby Edwards Galleries, Sydney
Portraits
Off the Kerb, Melbourne
2006
Silhouettes
Brunswick Arts Collective, Melbourne
2004
New Paintings
Thierry B Gallery, Melbourne
2003
Recent Work
Steven Print Gallery, Melbourne
Steve Rosendale
Gallery Ranfurlie, Melbourne
2002
Innercity
Steven Print Gallery, Melbourne
Paintings
The Fitzroy Gallery, Melbourne
The City
Goya Galleries, Melbourne
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2010
Network
The Art Gallery of Ballarat Victoria
2008
ArtBrisbane08
Thierry B Contemporary Art
Stand C10 Brisbane
ArtSydney08
Thierry B Contemporary Art
Stand A17 Sydney
ArtMelbourne08
Thierry B Contemporary Art
Stand D13 Melbourne
2006
The Brunswick Arts Collective, Melbourne
2005
Libby Edwards Galleries, Brisbane
Libby Edwards Galleries, Sydney
2003
VARIETY Celebrity Art Auction
Sotheby’s Fine Art Auctioneers
Melbourne
Exploration 4
Flinders Lane Gallery, Melbourne
2001
Chapel off Chapel Gallery, Melbourne
2000
Chapel off Chapel Gallery, Melbourne
Emerging Artists Program
Myra Gallery Melbourne
1999
Local
Chapel off Chapel Gallery, Melbourne
Indigo Studios, Melbourne
1998
Artists Online
The Jackman Gallery, Melbourne
EDUCATION
1999
Bachelor of Arts Degree (Fine-Art Painting) Monash University
1996
Diploma: Foundations in Art and Design,
Box Hill T.A.F.E.
1994
Certificate: Basic Photography,
Holmesglen T.A.F.E.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2010
Art In Geelong webpage exhibition revue http://artingeelong.com/2011/01/15/net-work-the-tlf-exhibition/
2008
Girdham, Ronnie 'Art Section',
Sunday Mail Brisbane, pg. 14, April 20th
2008
Turner, Tonya 'Around the Galleries',
The Courier Mail, pg. 39, April 21st
2007
Robert James, “Steve Rosendale”,
On painters & painting, March
2007
Diana Simmonds, “Steve Rosendale”,
STAGENOISE, March
2006
Holsworth Mark, “Rinaldi Gallery & Brunswick Arts”,
Culture Critic @ Melbourne, 6th August
COLLECTIONS
Rosendale's work is held in both corporate and private collections internationally.