Adriano Gemelli

Mailing address
PO Box 135
Hastings Vic 3915
Mobile: 0419544588

Studio
6 Wallis Drive
Hastings Vic Australia
Melways ref 154 G9
Studio: 5979 1345
Mobile: 0419 544 588

-Invited by Triton Foundation to exhibit selection of holospectral art works at Innovations@257, Collins St, Melbourne.
-6 major holospectral art works, exhibited in Italiafest, Crown Casino 2000 (by invitation)
- First Australian Sculpture Triennial, Melbourne 1981 (Invitation)
- Glass in Public Spaces, Westpac Gallery, The Theatres, Victorian Arts Centre, Melbourne 1987
- National Gallery of Victoria, 1992 - Invited, with other Australian Italian artists, to exhibit selected pieces in conjunction with the Rubens and Italian Renaissance exhibition
- The Art of Gold 1997-98, Ballarat Fine Art Gallery

-2003 Commissioned War Memorial for Dandenong RSL - DL Design Group - completed June 2003
- 2 Major glass murals, combining oxidised metals and holographic material, Village Green Supersite, constructed by Thiess Contractors Pty Ltd, commissioned by Wilkinson Fincher, Architects 1998.
- Hanging glass and acrylic sculpture, St Francis Xavier Primary School, Frankston, commissioned by Edmond & Corrigan, Architects.
- Carved glass logo and portraiture of prominent American financiers for Indelible Link, St Kilda.
- Suspended sculpture, stainless steel and glass, for Mr Peter Nelson, commissioned by John Herniman & Assoc Architects.
- 'Storm at Sea' Glendonald school for deaf children. Mosaic mural using glass and mirror 18m x 6m 1983
- War Memorial, Frankston, commissioned by the City of Frankston in conjunction with the Frankston RSL. Sited outside the Civic Centre in Davey St, Frankston it includes 4 relief murals in Cold Cast Bronze - in collaboration with Stephen Glassborow.
- Portrait of Mr Ron Finemore, Director of Finemore Holdings Ltd, commissioned by the Board of Directors

| PORTRAITS | MURALS & MOSAIC |

Tina Wencher Prize for sculpture (second). · Manyung Art Gallery, Mt Eliza. · Wirreanda Prize, Marysville. · Diamond Valley Art Awards

3 Grants including "Artists in the Schools" program: A joint project of the Victorian Ministry for the Arts and the Education Department to design and construct a glass mural wall at Glendonald School for Deaf Children, Marshall Avenue, Kew, June 1982, 14 x 5.6m

1970 to 1976 - Residency at Dunmoochin with Clifton Pugh and Frank Hogkinson. Studied S. W. Hayter's method of colour and relief etching. 1977 Private study travel in Europe. 1977 to 1980 Commercial printing, graphic design, bookbinding and commercial camera operation, Melbourne College of Printing and Graphic Arts.

Extensive publication and documentation including:

2003 - Art Craft International - Profile October edition

2002 - Italy Down Under - Profile Autumn edition

2001
Profile - Domain supplement, The Age Newspaper, 6th June 2001
New Home magazine, Sun Herald Newspaper, 10th March 2001

2000
Leader Newspaper, 17th January 2000

1999
Article, House & Garden magazine - October issue, page 44, Judy Ostergaard
Atricle, Domain Supplement, The Age Newspaper, 20th Oct, Jeanette Leigh
Review, The Sun Herald Newspaper, 18th Oct, Felicity Allen
ABC Television, Snapshot, 20th October, Robyn Ray

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5 years research with holographic medium to achieve the properties of animation on 2 and 3 Dimensional static grounds with multiple points of viewing, where line and form use spectral colour in the presence of white light i.e. spotlight. In 1998 a patent on the process (no. 695839) was granted. · Series of works - Sea & Water - using holographic and mixed media 96-00. · Commercial Glass tile development using holographic medium, in conjunction with gold, silver and oxidised metals

| TILE DEVELOPMENT |

Extensive lectures and community work including:
1984 Art Coordinator - Consultant to Victoria 150 Celebrations in conjunction with the Ministry of the Arts, Victoria.
1989-90 Chisholm Institute of Technology, Caulfield Campus, Sessional Teaching Mixed Media
Chairman of Artworkers Union 1980-81

Extensive mixed media, primarily holographic material, glass, resins, metals, stone, paint. Installations and constructions and 3-dimensional art works

| SCULPTURE | PAINTINGS | DESIGNS | DRAWINGS

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