John Teschendorff was born in Melbourne in 1942 and moved to Perth in 1985. He studied at the Caulfield Institute of Technology (now Monash University), the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology and the Royal College of Art London. He has held solo exhibitions in Melbourne, Sydney, Newcastle (NSW) and Oxford (UK) This is his first solo exhibition in Perth. He has participated in numerous national and international group exhibitions; representing Australia at the 36th Concorso Internazionale della Ceramic DíArte, Faenza, Italy (1978) and in Contemporary Australian Ceramics at the Smithsonian Institute, Washington USA (1981). In 1995 he was selected for Australian Ceramics 1830-1995 a major survey exhibition presented at the Museo Internazionale della Ceramiche, Faenza Italy. Since the early 1980's Teschendorff has been working with constructed forms and works on paper whilst holding a number of senior academic appointments in Melbourne (Melbourne State College), Perth (Curtin University) and Kuala Lumpur (Malaysian Institute of Art & Limkokwing Institute of Technology). His work is represented in major Australian and international public collections. John Teschendorff currently lives and works in Fremantle. SOLO EXHIBITIONS 1974 Gryphon Gallery, Melbourne 1977 Gryphon Gallery, Melbourne 1978 Art of Man Gallery, Sydney 1980 Stuart Gerstman Galleries, Melbourne 1981 Oxford Galleries, Oxford, UK 1984 Cooks Hill Galleries, Newcastle, NSW 1989 Fremantle Arts Centre, Fremantle (with Annette Seeman) 1991 Galerie MIA, Kuala Lumpur, (with Annette Seeman) 1999 Galerie Düsseldorf, Perth SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 1975 Crafts Victoria '75 National Gallery of Victoria Diamond Valley Art Award Exhibition 1976 Bendigo International Award, Bendigo Art Gallery Living Space Royal Australian Institute of Architects, Melbourne Mask Show Mildura Arts Centre The Drinking Vessel Show Crafts Council of Victoria Beaumaris Invitation Exhibition 1977 The Money Show Ewing Paton Gallery, Melbourne University Twelve Days of Christmas Crafts Councils of Australia Gallery Sydney 1978 Australian Collection Pieces , National Gallery of Victoria Seventh Australian Sculpture Triennial, Mildura Arts Centre 1978 Latrobe University Union Sculpture Festival 1979 Mayfair Ceramic Award, Crafts Councils of Australia Gallery, Sydney Royal College of Art, London 1980 Australian Crafts '80, Invitation Exhibition, Melbourne Swap Show, Gryphon Gallery, Melbourne Artists Ceramics, McCleland Gallery, Frankston, Victoria Victorian Ceramics Jam Factory Gallery Adelaide Mayfair Ceramic Award Exhibition, Melbourne. 1981 Diamond Valley Art Awards Exhibition, Melbourne Australian Ceramics Smithsonian Institute, Washington, USA 1982 Ceramics in Victoria Ballarat Fine Art Gallery Australian Ceramics, Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, Launceston. Australian Crafts '82 Melbourne Ceramics from the State Collection, University of Melbourne National Acquisitions Award Exhibition 1982 Museum and Art Galleries of the Northern Territory, Darwin Diamond Valley Art Award Exhibition,Melbourne 1982 Mayfair Award Australian Crafts Council Gallery, Sydney 1983 New Directions Contemporary Australian Ceramics, Jam Factory Galleries, Adelaide August Works Major works by Australian Artists/Craftsmen, Meat Market Centre Melbourne Australian Crafts '83 Invitation Exhibition, Melbourne The Jackson Collection of Australian Ceramics, Geelong Regional Art Gallery Ceramics from the State Collection Waverley City Gallery and G.I.A.E. Gallery 1984 Darling Downs 1st National Acquisitive Ceramics Award, Toowoomba Regional Art Gallery Alice Springs Ceramics Acquisition, Araluen Arts Centre, Alice Springs Material and Form, The Sculptor as Craftsman' Third Australian Sculpture Triennial Melbourne Peace Earth Peace Mail Art Exhibition, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada 1985 With Jeff Mincham, Jenny Orchard and Stephen Szonyi Four Aspects of Contemporary Australian Ceramics', Orange Regional Art Gallery, NSW Common Ground, R.M.I.T Ceramics Graduates 1948-1981 Devise Gallery, Melbourne Selected Works, The Mayfair and Jackson Collections of Contemporary Australian Ceramics Geelong Regional Art Gallery National Ceramics Conference Exhibition, University of Melbourne Tutors Exhibition, C.C.W.A. Gallery, Perth Impulse and Form, Art Gallery of Western Australia Christmas Exhibition, Galerie Düsseldorf, Perth 1986 Clay '86 Touring Exhibition, Tasmania,(Launceston, Burnie, Devonport,Hobart) October 1986 - March 1987 Luv a Duck'Invitation Exhibition, Undercroft Gallery, University of Western Australia Fremantle Invitation Ceramics Award, Fremantle Arts Centre 1987 Early Acquisitions from the Victorian State Collection' State Collection Gallery, Melbourne Ceramic Showpieces from the Shepparton Collection, Orange Regional Gallery,NSW Fire and Earth - Contemporary Australian Ceramics', Manly Art Gallery and Museum, Sydney 1988 International Ceramics, Solander Galleries, Canberra Ceramics from the 1st International Symposium', National Gallery of Victoria 1989 Disintegration Six Aspects of Australian Ceramics Townsville Regional Art Gallery & Art Gallery of Queensland 1992 Dreams [works by Teschendorff, Beames, Clark, Seeman, France and Jones] 1992 Festival of Perth Exhibition, Fremantle Arts Centre 1994 Heavier Than Air (with Annette Seeman), Perth Institute of Contemporary Art Icons to Irony, Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital Annual Exhibition 1995 Newcastle Ceramic Purchase Award Newcastle Region Art Gallery 1995 The Delinquent Angel: Australian Historical, Aboriginal and Contemporary Ceramics 1830-1995 Museo Internazionale Ceramiche, Faenza, Italy 1996 Touring Exhibition, The Delinquent Angel, Major Galleries in Japan, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore and Australia 1996-97 Post-Pak Exhibition, Canberra Institute of the Arts, Australian National University Thrones CCWA Gallery Perth 1997 The Collection-Recent Acquisitions, Art Gallery of Western Australia 21 Years On - Galerie Dusseldorf 21st Anniversary Exhibition, Galerie Dusseldorf, Perth The Cask Show-An Australian Icon, Melbourne Fringe Festival Exhibition, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne The David Bromfield Testimonial Exhibition, Gulag Gallery, Perth PUBLIC COLLECTIONS Diamond Valley Art Collection, Victoria Victorian Ministry of the Arts State Collection Jackson Collection of Australian Ceramics, Victoria Geelong Regional Art Gallery, Victoria Visual Arts Crafts Board of the Australia Council,Sydney National Gallery of Australia, Canberra University of Melbourne Art Collection Royal College of Art, London The Marer Collection of Contemporary Ceramics, Scripps College, Claremont, California, USA Benalla Regional Art Gallery, Victoria Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem, Israel National Gallery of Victoria Art Gallery of Western Australia University of the Northern Territory Art Collection Monash University Art Collection, Victoria Newcastle Regional Art Gallery, Newcastle, NSW Powerhouse Museum, Sydney Silber Collection of Contemporary Ceramics',California,USA Orange Regional Art Gallery, Orange, NSW Shepparton Regional Art Gallery, Victoria University of Tasmania Art Collection [Launceston] Malaysian Institute of Art, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia West German Consulate,Perth, Western Australia Australian High Commission, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Holmes a Court Collection, Western Australia City of Fremantle Art Collection, Fremantle,Western Australia AWARDS & COMMISSIONS 1975 Diamond Valley Art Award 1976 Honorary Diploma 36TH CONCORSO INTERNAZTIONALE DELLA CERAMICS. Faenza, Italy 1978 Australia Council VACB Purchase Fund 1978 State College of Victoria Postgraduate Scholarship, Royal College of Art, London 1981 Australia Council VACB Purchase Fund 1981 Artist in Residence, Bezalel Academy of Art & Design, Jerusalem, Israel 1984 Invited submission, Westpac Banking Centre Commission, New York, USA 1987 Hyatt Hotel Commission, Adelaide 1988 Australia Council VACB Grant Australian Ceramics Symposium Artist in Residence Program, Australian National University, Canberra 1991 Visiting Professor, Malaysian Institute of Art, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia 1997 Australia Council VACF Major Development Grant [New Work] SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY Books, Major Catalogues and Journals CRAFTS VICTORIA 1975 - A Survey of Contemporary Victorian Crafts, Crafts Council, Melbourne 1975 THE LIVING SPACE ñ Royal Australian Institute of Architects Melbourne 1975 McCullough Thomas [Ed], SEVENTH SCULPTURE TRIENNIAL, Mildura Arts Centre, Mildura, 1978 XXXVI CONCORSO INTERNAZIONALE DELLA CERAMIC D'ARTE FAENZA Commune di Faenza, Faenza, Italy, 1978 Hood Kenneth - CONTEMPORARY AUSTRALIAN CERAMICS Australia Council, Sydney, 1982 Lane Peter - STUDIO CERAMICS, Pitman House, London, 1983 Borrman Gotfried, CERAMICS OF THE WORLD Kunst and Handwerk, Dusseldorf 1983 Young Michael - SCULPTORS AS CRAFTSMEN, MMCC Press, May 1984 Bell Robert and Bond Tony - RECENT ACQUISITIONS 1981-1983, AGWA, Perth, 1984 Anderson Bruce - CLAY STATEMENTS - CONTEMPORARY AUSTRALIAN CERAMICS, Darling Down Press, Toowoomba, 1985 Bell Robert - IMPULSE and FORM, AGWA, June 1985 Mansfield Janet - COLLECTORS GUIDE TO MODERN AUSTRALIAN CERAMICS, Craftsman Press, Sydney, 1987 Zamorano-Vivas Antonio (ed), 'John Teschendorff CERAMICA REVISTA TRIMESTRAL DEL ARTE OFFCIENCIA DE LA CERAMICS, Madrid, 1988 Germaine Max, ARTISTS AND GALLERIES OF AUSTRALIA [3rd Edition], Craftsman House Press, Sydney, 1990. Featured Artist 'The Makers', ABC TV Documentary series 1990 Ianou Noris - THE CULTURE BROKERS, State Publishing, South Australia, 1988 Cochrane Grace - THE CRAFT MOVEMENT IN AUSTRALIA: A HISTORY New South Wales University Press, Sydney, 1992 Kins Andra, DREAMS Craft Council of Western Australia and Fremantle Arts Centre, Lamb Print, Perth, 1992 McCulloch Susan and McCulloch Alan ENCYCLOPEDIA OF AUSTRALIAN ART, Alan and Unwin, Sydney 1994 Ross Helen, The Curtin University School of Art and South East Asia ARTLINK,Vol 15, Winter 1994 Pascoe Joseph ñDELINQUENT ANGEL: AUSTRALIAN HISTORICAL, ABORIGINAL AND CONTEMPORARY CERAMICS, Centro Di della Edifimi, Florence, Italy 1995 David Bromfield & Robert Bell JOHN TESCHENDORFF Visual Culture Research Unit, Curtin University March, 1999 Newspapers and Periodicals Greenaway Victor 'The 1975 Beaumaris Exhibition', PIA Vol.14/1 Greenwood Ted 'Putting Life in Living Spaces', Melbourne Age, 26 September 1976 Greenwood Ted 'Ceramic Wit is Measured', Melbourne Age, 21 July, 1977 Flanders Rosemary 'Pot on..', Farrago, Melbourne University, July, 1977 McGrath Sandra 'Satire that goes to the Heart', The Australian, 23 August 1978 Challis Martin 'Here's Mud In Your Eye' POL Magazine, October 1978. McCulloch Alan 'Medievalists Old And New' Melbourne Herald, 14 September, 1978 Parks Denis 'Faenza 1978', CRAFTS AUSTRALIA, Autumn, Vol.1/1979 Clarke Robyn 'Australia's Gem of A Landscape', Melbourne Age, 28 October, 1980 Rooney Robert 'Poetry of Structures', Melbourne Age, 6 November, 1980 McCulloch Alan 'John Teschendorff', Melbourne Herald, 8 November 1980 Mansfield Janet [ed] Recent Works' P.I.A., Vol.20/1, 1981 Llewenstein Eileen [ed] 'Recent Works', CERAMIC REVIEW, London, April , 1981 Clarke Robyn 'Ceramic Skills, Melbourne Age, 28 September 1982 CRAFTS AUSTRALIA, Vol.3/1982, Supplement and Review POTTERY IN AUSTRALIA, Vol.21/2 1982 (Cover Feature). Weston Neville 'Clay Exhibits By The Car Load', Adelaide Advertiser, 17 May, 1983 'POTTERY IN AUSTRALIA' Vol.22/2 1983 'Recent Works' 'POTTERY IN AUSTRALIA' Vol.24/2 1984, 'Recent Works' Australia Council - ANNUAL REPORT 1983-1984, Government Printers, Canberra 1984 Warren Joy 'Australian Ceramics', CRAFT AUSTRALIA YEAR BOOK, CCA, Sydney, 1984 Addams-Allen Jane 'Ceramic Quality Down Under', Washington Times, USA, 1 May 1984 Pamela Kessler 'Clay Pot Pourri from Down Under', Washington Arts Weekly, 12 May 1984 Haynes Peter 'Clothes and Clay at Orange Regional Gallery', PIA, September, 1985 AUSTRALIAN CRAFT ARTS, Summer 1985, Exhibition Survey Prott Julie 'Superficial Hi Tech Values Exposed', Sunday Times, 14 August, 1985 Snell Ted 'Impulse and Form', Western Mail, 10 August 1985 Mason Murray 'The Art of The Matter', Western Australian, 7 August, 1985 Ferroul Brimo 'Mostre : Impulse and Form', II Globo Melbourne, 5 August, 1985 Butel Elizabeth 'A Double Dip of Serendipity', The National Times, 25 July, 1985 POTTERY IN AUSTRALIA, Vol.25/3, 1985. Seminar, Commentary and Review CRAFT TASMANIA, Vol.16/4, Summer 1986/1987 Dineen Mary 'The Shape of Ceramics Today', Hobart Mercury, 21 February 1987 Beaumont Rosina 'Opening up a New World', The Sunday Tasmanian, 22 February, 1987 Dineen Mary 'Who Makes Art And What Makes A Crafter?', Hobart Mercury 25 February 1987 Mansfield Janet 'Fire And Earth Contemporary - Australian Ceramics', MAGM, Sydney, September 1987 McPhee John 'Australian International Master Workshops', ARTS MONTHLY,No.14, September 1988 Mansfield Janet 'International Ceramics Symposium' PIA, Vol.27/3, 1989 Ross Helen, 'Clay Is For Making Art - John Teschendorff Interviewed', CERAMIC ART AND REVIEW, Vol.5, 1991 Lee Karen 'An Artist of the Mythical World', VOID MAGAZINE 24 April 1992 Ross Helen, 'Craft And The Third Industrial Revolution', CRAFTWEST, Spring1992 Timms Peter, 'Finding A Niche For Industry Within Craft, ART MONTHLYAUSTRALIA, 54/October 1992 Johnston Fran, 'From A Gallery of Dreams', Fremantle Herald, 17 February, 1992 Miley Caroline, What Crafts Industry?.Craft 2000 Conference Perth 1992 CRAFT VICTORIA, Vol 23 No 220,March 1993 Bromfield David, Display Pays Tribute to Seat of Power', The West Australian, 23 November 1996 'Artyfacts', The West Australian, 26 September 1997 'Curtin Scoops Australia Council Art and Craft Awards' The Voice Newspaper, Curtin University, 27 September 1997 |