BIOGRAPHY
| 1952 |
Born Alpha
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| 1971 |
Julian Ashton, Sydney |
| 1972/74 |
Queensland College of Art, Brisbane |
| 1979/80 |
Co-Director, E.M.U., experimental art space, Brisbane |
| 1984 |
Atelier Dalmas, Paris |
| 1984/97 |
lived and worked in Europe |
| 1989 |
Co-Director AGLASSOFWATER, Brisbane |
| 1989 |
New Image Research Award, Australian Film Commission |
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Premier's Encouragement Award |
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REMM Art Award |
| 1991 |
VA/CB Overseas Development Grant |
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Qld. Ministry of Arts Project Grant
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| 1995 |
Prize-winner, Mary MacKillop: A Tribute, Powerhouse Museum, Sydney |
| 1996 |
Fellowship Residency, P.S.1 Studio, Institute of Contemporary Art, New York |
| 1999 |
Arts Queensland Grant |
| 2001 |
Master of Fine Arts degree, Queensland University of Technology |
| 2002 |
Australian Representative, Biennale of Sydney |
| 2003 |
UFO, Public Art Commission , West End, Brisbane
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SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
| 2006 |
Alpha Paintings (Frontiers), Philip Bacon Galleries, Brisbane |
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You Are Not Alone, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane |
| 2005 |
Points of view: Australian photography 1985-95, Art Gallery of New South Wales |
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Paradise Regained: Headlands and Skylands, Redland Art Gallery |
| 2004 |
Arrivederci Rivoli, Bellas Gallery Brisbane |
| 2003 |
Missing Person: Alice Jitterbug Photographed, Bellas Gallery |
| 2002 |
Mu Pavilion Installation, Sydney Biennale, MCA, Sydney. |
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Aloha Eloha, Stranger Than Fiction , Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney |
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Venice Paintings/ Alpha Paintings, Bellas Gallery, Brisbane |
| 2001 |
1+1=8, Bellas Gallery, Brisbane |
| 2000 |
Dressed up for Paradise (Beyond the Great Divide), Bellas Gallery, Brisbane |
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Forbidden Universe, Bellas Gallery, Brisbane |
| 1997 |
Snakes and Aliens, Bellas Gallery, Brisbane |
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Mu Consciousness raising exercises and Pope Alice sightings... Sala Diaz, San Antonio and Texas USA |
| 1996 |
Clutch, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane |
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Dispersion, Randall Street Studio, Brisbane |
| 1994/1995 |
WUNDERKAMMER/KUNSTKAMERA, Gallery 14 Project, Queensland Art Gallery |
| 1994 |
Lot 204: Luke Roberts, a Closet, a Painting, a Duchess and a pair of oversize hand carved wooden salad servers, Martin Browne Fine Art, Sydney |
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Lot 62: POSTCARDS FROM ALPHAVILLE (Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft) POST JOHNSTONE DIASPORA/Lorraine, My Heart is Full, Bellas Gallery, Brisbane |
| 1993 |
All Souls of the Revolution (detail) + Objects of My Affection, Sutton Gallery, Melbourne |
| 1992 |
18 Paintings in Search of a Glossary (Life), Sutton Gallery, Melbourne |
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The Wonder of You, Bellas Gallery, Brisbane |
| 1991 |
The Veto of Reason, Bellas Gallery, Brisbane |
| 1990 |
Wunderkammer, State Library of Queensland |
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Objects of My Affection, Site, Brisbane |
| 1989 |
Without Closure, Bellas Gallery, Brisbane |
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Artist's Videos, National Arts Week, Brisbane |
| 1988 |
Logic Assassinates, Bellas Gallery, Brisbane |
| 1987 |
1+1=3, ongoing photographic work |
| 1986 |
Plan 9, The Compartners, Amsterdam |
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Touring Exhibition, Araluen Centre, Alice Springs |
| 1985 |
Name Dropping, St. Olofspoort, Amsterdam |
| 1984 - 86 |
Touring Exhibition, Queensland Arts Council |
| 1984 - 85 |
Der Kunstler Als Narcis/Das Leben Ist Kunst Ist Kitsch Screening and Discussion of the Artist's own films, Hannover Fachhochschule + Braunsweig Film Academie, Fed Rep. Germany |
| 1984 |
Alpha Centenary, commemorative envelopes, Australia Post |
| 1982 |
Luke Roberts, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane |
| 1980 |
Pope Alice Presents Luke Roberts, Spring Hill Gallery, Brisbane |
JOINT EXHIBITIONS
| 2006 |
Queensland Live, Queensland Art Gallery touring exhibition |
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Colonial to contemporary, Queensland College of Art, Brisbane |
| 2005 |
Baroque and Neo-Baroque. The Hell of the Beautiful, Domus Artium (DA2) Salamanca, Spain |
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Beyond Real, Australian Centre for Photography |
| 2004 |
Don't call it Performance, El Museo del Barrio, New York
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Sailor Style, National Maritime Museum, Sydney |
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the world may be post-dated: Luke Roberts and Jennifer Maklem, Galerie de l'UQAM, Montreal, MacLaren Art Centre, Barrie, Canada |
| 2003 |
Parthenogenesis, Ivan Doughety Gallery, Sydney |
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No lo Llames Performance, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, and touring Spain |
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One Square Mile, Museum of Brisbane |
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the world May be post-dated: Luke Roberts and Jennifer Maklem, University of Waterloo Art Gallery and touring Canada. |
| 2002 |
13th Biennale of Sydney, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney |
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Stranger than Fiction, ACP, Sydney |
| 1996 |
The Second Asia-Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, Queensland Art Gallery |
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Gramercy Park International Hotel Art Fair, New York |
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ARCO'96 International Contemporary Art Fair, Madrid |
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Asia-Pacific Hotel Art Fair, Brisbane
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Recollection, Brisbane City Art Gallery and Museum |
| 1995 |
Australian Perspecta 1995, Art Gallery of New South Wales |
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Mary MacKillop: A tribute, Powerhouse Museum, Sydney, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, New Parliament House, Canberra |
| 1994 |
Remain in Light, AGLASSOFWATER project, Blaxland Gallery, Sydney |
| 1993 |
Happiness is a Loaded Brush. Outside the Walls of Jericho (with Beattie Millis), Bellas Gallery, Brisbane |
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Dislocations: Body, Memory, Place (curator Marcus O'Donnell) Access Gallery, National Gallery of Victoria |
| 1990 |
Eating People is Wrong, (with Scott Redford), AGLASSOF WATER, Brisbane |
| 1989 |
All Souls Day (with Urszula Szulakowska), Artspace, Sydney |
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Slow Information (with Scott Redford), Arch Lane Public Art, Brisbane |
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Running Man, (with Scott Redford), AGLASSOFWATER, Brisbane |
| 1988 |
The World Is Full of Objects (with Scott Redford), slide documentation |
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Redford/Boyd/Roberts (with Scott Redford and Adam Boyd), Arson Street, St. Kilda, Melbourne. |
COLLECTIONS
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Rockhampton Art Gallery
Gold Coast City Art Gallery
Griffith University
Harriet Jane Neville-Rolfe Gallery, Alpha
James Hardie Collection, State Library of Queensland
Kamloops Art Gallery, BC, Canada
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane
Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane
University Art Museum, University of Queensland, Brisbane
University of Southern Queensland
Newcastle Region Art Gallery
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