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Promotional Information:
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The artist is one of three Directors at the Curious Art Gallery, Chinderah Bay, on the far north coast of NSW. His main direction at present, combines photographic images with verse and prose and has self published five books of images and verse in the last three years. His work is currently represented in all the Curious Art exhibitions for 2009.
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C.V. Highlights:
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Representation in the Visual Arts since 1998.
1998 Art, Food & Jazz Festival Kingscliff, NSW
1999 Tweed River Regional Gallery Murillumbah NSW. A group exhibition, featuring an interactive artspace “Brain, the bottle and eyes” by Michael Bryant.
2000 Flying Colours Gallery, Fingal, NSW
2001 " " " "
2002 Art Food & Jazz Kingscliff NSW
2002 Choux Box Cafe Kingscliff NSW
2002 / 2003 Tyalgum Classical Music Festival as visual artists in residence (curious art group) and exhibition at Literary Institute Hall and 11:11 Tyalgum Café Gallery
2003 Collaborative exhibition with Vanessa Bryant “A bridge across” at Curious Art Gallery
2004 Josephine Ulrich Photography Prize Entrant Tweed River Regional Gallery
2005 Border Art Prize Tweed River Regional Gallery
2005 Solo exhibition “North by North East” at Curious Art Gallery
2005 Release of “North by North East-The Book” a visual sojourn of the East Coast of Australia, at the Curious Art Gallery, December 2005. The book combines original photography and digital media, prose and poetry. Selected outlets > check out www.curiousart.org.au/pages/mbartonthebrain.htm
2006 Release of “North by North East- Magnetic Directions Vol 2” continuing the visual sojourn of the East Coast of Australia, at the Curious Art Gallery, December 2006.
2007 Solo Exhibition >> InVerse Describing the work as ‘an exhibition embracing the imagery of words with the poetry of detail’ InVerse traverses often poignant themes through a framework of photography and verse. A new book release will feature selected images and verse from the exhibition along with other books by the artist.
The artist has been represented in over 50 exhibitions in the past nine years including continuous representation at the Curious Art Gallery from 2001 to the present time.
Gallery Experience and Skills
In his capacity as Manager and Director of Curious Art, he has been personally involved with the concept development and practical outcomes of the Curious Art Exhibitions at the Chinderah Bay Gallery and representation at the Tyalgum Classical Music Festival and Kingscliff, Art, Food and Jazz Festivals in the Tweed Shire.
He designed, developed and manages the Curious Art website. He leads a team of three from Curious Art in designing exhibition invitations, annual program of events, posters and general promotional material for print and web based media output.
3 Points North, his latest book of East Coast perspectives through words and photography, released Feb 2009.
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