Ricky Swallow's work explores the passage of time, life, death and immortality, evolution and survival, monuments and memories.
Ricky Swallow / Artist biography
Ricky Swallow graduated from the drawing department of the Victorian College of the Arts in 1996. While he continues to make and exhibit drawings, Swallow is best known for his three-dimensional work. Swallow's sculptural objects and installations draw on a range of themes and sources, including popular culture, the tradition of natura morte imagery, the passage of time, and pop music. Swallow's works are meticulously crafted out of different types of media, resulting in work that is at once a replica of, and an homage to, the original subject.
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Ricky Swallow’s strong place within the contemporary art world is evident in solo exhibitions at the Kunsthalle Wien project space, Vienna; Stuart Shave / Modern Art, London; and Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney. Selected group exhibitions include: Lost & Found: An Archaeology of the Present, TarraWarra Biennial, Victoria, Australia 2008; GOTH, Yokohama Museum of Art, Japan, 2007-2008; and The Ten Commandments, Deutsches Hygiene-Museum, Dresden, Germany, 2004. Swallow was selected to represent Australia at the 2005 Venice Biennale. His work is held major public collections including the Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA; National Gallery of Australia, Canberra; Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney; and National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne.
