Christopher Orchard
{{Short description|Australian artist and arts educator}}
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{{Infobox artist
| name = Christopher Orchard
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| birth_name = Christopher Orchard
| birth_date = {{birth year and age|1950}}
| birth_place = South Australia
| nationality = Australian
| field = Drawing
| training = South Australia College of Advanced Education
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| awards = SALA Festival Featured Artist 2017
| website = [http://christopherorchardartist.com.au/ Personal website]
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Christopher Robin Orchard is a South Australian artist and arts educator who began as a sculptor but subsequently specialised in drawing. His character, the Bald Man, is a recurrent motif. Orchard is Associate Professor at Adelaide Central School of Art and was the subject of the 2017 SALA Festival monograph, Christopher Orchard: The Uncertainty of the Poet.{{cite book |last1=Goldsworthy |first1=Peter |last2=Osborne |first2=Margot |last3=Ananda |first3=Roy |last4=Robinson |first4=Julia |last5=Taylor |first5=Rod |title=Christopher Orchard: The Uncertainty of the Poet |date=2017 |publisher=Wakefield Press |location=Mile End, South Australia |isbn=9781743054925 |url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/version/247449101 |language=English}} He is also the subject of the 2013 short documentary film Everyperson, by Jasper Button and Patrick Zoerner.{{cite web |title=DocWeek 2014 Program Guide |url=https://issuu.com/docweek/docs/final_docweek_2014_program_single_p |website=Issuu |accessdate=3 September 2018 |page=22 |language=en}}{{cite web |last1=Button |first1=Jasper |last2=Zoerner |first2=Patrick |title=Everyperson |url=https://vimeo.com/118578690 |website=Vimeo |accessdate=3 September 2018 |language=en |date=2013}}
Biography
Orchard was born in South Australia in 1950.{{cite book |last1=Goldsworthy |first1=Peter |last2=Osborne |first2=Margot |last3=Ananda |first3=Roy |last4=Robinson |first4=Julia |last5=Taylor |first5=Rod |title=Christopher Orchard : the uncertainty of the poet |date=2017 |publisher=Wakefield Press |location=Mile End, South Australia |isbn=9781743054925 |url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/version/247449101 |language=English}} Orchard's full name is Christopher Robin Orchard.{{cite book |last1=McCulloch |first1=Alan |last2=McCulloch |first2=Susan |last3=McCulloch Childs |first3=Emily |title=The new McCulloch's encyclopedia of Australian art |date=2006 |publisher=Australian Art Editions and The Miegunyah Press |location=Melbourne, Vic. |isbn=052285317X |page=748 |edition= Fourth}} He completed an Advanced Diploma in fine Art, Sculpture and Painting at the South Australia College of Advanced Education. He is a founding member of the Art Workers’ Union in 1979 and joined Central Studios in 1982.{{cite book |last1=Goldsworthy |first1=Peter |last2=Osborne |first2=Margot |last3=Ananda |first3=Roy |last4=Robinson |first4=Julia |last5=Taylor |first5=Rod |title=Christopher Orchard: The Uncertainty of the Poet |date=2017 |publisher=Wakefield Press |location=Mile End, south Australia |isbn=9781743054925 |url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/version/247449101 |language=English}} From 1985-1987 he was a member of Air and Space Studios, London. He joined the teaching staff of Adelaide Central School of Art in 1989. In 2005, he was appointed Adjunct Associate Professor at Flinders University. Orchard held his first solo exhibition in Adelaide in 1975. In 1986, he presented his first British solo exhibition in London. In 2011, he presented his first American solo exhibition in New York.
Artistic style and subject
Orchard began as a sculptor but came to specialise in drawing. His works feature an avatar known as the Bald Man who emerged from Orchard’s “fight with the figure”{{cite web |last1=Neylon |first1=John |title=Appreciating Christopher Orchard's Hiss and Growl - The Adelaide Review |url=https://www.adelaidereview.com.au/arts/visual-arts/appreciating-christopher-orchards-hiss-growl/ |website=The Adelaide Review |accessdate=3 September 2018 |date=28 July 2017}} and who, according to Orchard, represents ”the entire history of what it means to be human”.{{cite web |last1=Croall |first1=Fiona |title=Christopher Orchard creator of the Bald Man |url=http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/booksandarts/christopher-orchard-creator-of-the-bald-man/9057806 |website=Radio National |publisher=Australian Broadcasting Commission |accessdate=3 September 2018 |language=en-AU |date=7 December 2017}}
Awards/Prizes/Residency
- 1985-1986: Berry Street Studios Residency{{cite book |last1=Goldsworthy |first1=Peter |last2=Osborne |first2=Margot |last3=Ananda |first3=Roy |last4=Robinson |first4=Julia |last5=Taylor |first5=Rod |title=Christopher Orchard: The Uncertainty of the Poet |date=2017 |publisher=Wakefield Press |location=Mile End South Australia |isbn=9781743054925 |url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/version/247449101 |language=English}}
- 2000: Gunnery Space
- 2000: Finalist, Dobell Drawing Prize{{cite web |title=Dobell Prize for Drawing (discontinued) finalists 2000 :: Art Gallery NSW |url=https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/prizes/dobell/2000/ |website=Art Gallery of New South Wales |accessdate=3 September 2018}}
- 2001: Finalist, Dobell Drawing Prize{{cite web |title=Dobell Prize for Drawing (discontinued) finalists 2001 :: Art Gallery NSW |url=https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/prizes/dobell/2001/ |website=Art Gallery of New South Wales |accessdate=3 September 2018}}
- 2005: Finalist, Dobell Drawing Prize{{cite web |title=Dobell Prize for Drawing (discontinued) finalists 2005 :: Art Gallery NSW |url=https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/prizes/dobell/2005/ |website=Art Gallery of New South Wales}}
- 2006: Finalist, Dobell Drawing Prize{{cite web |title=Dobell Prize for Drawing (discontinued) finalists 2006 :: Art Gallery NSW |url=https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/prizes/dobell/2006/ |website=Art Gallery of New South Wales |accessdate=3 September 2018}}
- 2015: Invited Artist, Kedumba Drawing Award{{cite web |title=2015 Kedumba Drawing Award – The Kedumba Collection of Australian Drawings |url=http://kedumba.org.au/2015-kedumba-award/ |website=The Kedumba Collection of Australian Drawings |accessdate=3 September 2018 |language=en-AU}}
- 2016: Finalist, Paul Guest Prize{{cite web |title=Paul Guest Finalists 2016 |url=http://www.bendigoartgallery.com.au/Prizes_Scholarships/Paul_Guest_Prize/Paul_Guest_Finalists_2016 |website=Bendigo Art Gallery |accessdate=3 September 2018 |language=en}}
- 2017: SALA Festival Featured Artist{{cite web |title=Christopher Orchard named 2017 SALA featured artist |url=https://www.salafestival.com/news/4/ |website=SALA Festival |accessdate=3 September 2018 |language=en}}
References
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External links
- [http://christopherorchardartist.com.au/ Personal website]
- Entry in [https://www.daao.org.au/bio/christopher-orchard/personal_details/ Design & Art Australia Online]
- Documentary [https://vimeo.com/118578690 Everyperson]
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Category:Artists from South Australia
Category:Australian contemporary artists
Category:Artists from Adelaide
Category:20th-century Australian artists