Adrian Mauriks : Biography

Graduate Diploma of Fine Art, Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne

Diploma of Arts, Sculpture, Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne

Occupied the guest studio for five months at Stichting Kunst and Complex, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

Lecturer, Head of Department of Sculpture, School of Arts, University of Ballarat

Lecturer in Sculpture, Ballarat University College

Lecturer in Sculpture, School of Architecture, University of Melbourne

Lecturer in Sculpture, Phillip Institute of Technology

Lecturer in Sculpture, Ballarat College of Advanced Education

Artist in Residence, Riverina-Murray Institute of Higher Education, Wagga Wagga

Lecturer in Sculpture, Visual Arts Program, Darling Downs Institute of Advanced Education, Toowoomba

Lecturer, Head of Department, School of Visual Arts, Gippsland Institute of Advanced Education

Latrobe Regional Gallery Exhibition of Construct 2 from March to May 2009

Installations, Images in the Mirror Icon Museum of Art at Deakin University Melbourne

Australian Art Resources, Melbourne

William Mora Galleries, Melbourne

Andres Gallery, Singapore

Stichting Kunst and Complex, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

Opus II Series, William Mora Galleries, Melbourne

Robin Gibson Galleries, Sydney

William Mora Galleries, Melbourne

Department of Architecture, Melbourne University

William Mora Galleries, Melbourne

Irving Sculpture Gallery, Sydney

R.M.I.H.E. Gallery, Wagga Wagga

Irving Sculpture Gallery, Sydney

D.D.I.A.E. Gallery, Toowoomba, Qld

Contempora, Sculpture Award and Festival of public Art at Docklands Melbourne, Victoria

Magistery Latrobe Regional Gallery. Celebrating the 50th anniversary of Monash University in Gippsland Centre for Art and Design

The Inaugural Annual Lorne Sculpture Exhibition 2007, 26 Oct to 11 Nov 2007

The Helen Lempriere National Sculpture Award 2006, Werribee Park, Melbourne, Vic

Contempora 2, Docklands Festival of Sculpture at New Quay, Melbourne

Shanghai Art Fair 2004, Shanghai, China

Mc Clelland Survey and Award, Mc Clelland Gallery and Sculpture Park, Langwarrin Victoria

Oblique Shadows, Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, 6 August - 15 September 2002

Australian Art Resources, Melbourne
The Volvo Gallery, Sydney

Oblique Shadows, VCA Gallery Melbourne, 10 April - 27 April 2002

Oblique Shadows, Sculpture Square, Singapore, 15 Oct - 31 Jan 2001

Volume and Form, Singapore 1999 International Sculpture Exhibition by Invitation

1999 Tattersals Club Landscape Art Prize, by Invitation

9x5 by Twenty Five, The George Adams Gallery, Melbourne. (Formerly The Westpac Gallery)

The Rembrandt Connection, The Tower Room, Malthouse Theatre, Melbourne

Sculpture 9, Robin Gibson Galleries, Sydney

5th Australian Contempory Art Fair 1996, Melbourne Exhibition Building, Melbourne

Sculpture Now 96, Castlemaine, Victoria

Sculpture 3, Austin and Repatriation Medical Centre, Melbourne

Sculpture 7, Robin Gibson Galleries, Sydney

Sculpture 6, Robin Gibson Galleries, Sydney

Sculpture on View, Bendigo Art Gallery

Just Sculpture, Ballarat Fine Art Gallery (Curator and Participant)

Sculpture, Elwyn Dennis and Adrian Mauriks, Ararat Gallery

The Second Landing, Access Gallery, National Gallery of Victoria

Department of Architecture, Melbourne University

3rd Biennial Fletcher Jones Memorial Award Exhibition at Warrnambool Art Gallery

Ballarat Fine Art Gallery

Shell Australia, Acquisitive Sculpture Prize

Heidelberg School of Painters, Sculpture Competition (Maquette)

Short listed for commission for the Queensland Art Gallery by the Queensland Cultural Trust

Apposition, Brisbane CAE College Gallery, Kelvin Grove

Second Australian Sculpture Triennial, National Gallery of Victoria

Brisbane Community Art Centre

The Victorian College of the Arts Gallery - From the Country

Contemporary Artists of Gippsland, La Trobe Valley Arts Centre

Adelaide Festival Centre, Adelaide University

First Australian Sculpture Triennial, La Trobe University

Gippsland Sculptors at the Switchback Gallery, School of Visual Arts, Gippsland Institute of Advanced Education

Melbourne University Galleries

Exhibition from Artists Against Uranium

Co-organiser of the 15 Sculptors Travelling Exhibition. Works exhibited at: National Gallery of Victoria, The Benalla Art Gallery, Warrnambool Art Gallery, Hamilton City Gallery, McClelland Gallery, Wollongong Art Gallery, Mildura Art Gallery

The Keith and Elizabeth Murdoch Travelling Fellowship Exhibition at VCA Gallery (Honourable Mention)

Caulfield Purchase Prize Exhibition, (by invitation) Port Melbourne Galleries

Powell Street Art Gallery, Melbourne (Invitation)

La Trobe University, Melbourne

Exhibition of Work at the Trades Hall Gallery

The Keith and Elizabeth Murdoch Travelling Fellowship Exhibition, University Art Gallery

20th Art Gallery Exhibition, Hobart (Invitation)

6th Mildura Triennial, Caulfield Arts Centre

Hawthorn City Gallery, BHP House, Melbourne

Source, commissioned by the City of Darebin for Bundoora Park, Melbourne

Ensemble, commissioned by The City of Wodonga, for Woodland Grove Park Wodonga, Victoria

Silence Docklands New Quay Precinct. Commissioned by MAB Corp Melbourne

Opus 15, City of Yarra, (Richmond), Coorner of Punt Road and Bridge Road, Richmond, Melbourne

Opus 10 for the Commonwealth Bank Sydney, in the World Trade Centre, George Street, Sydney

Aspiration, Repeat Commission for production of 10 small pieces for Boma Rider Hunt

Aspiration, commission for production of 10 small pieces for Boma Rider Hunt

The Oldest Man, commission for the University of Wollongong performance centre, The University of Wollongong, Wollongong, NSW

Bird Totem, AMP commission for the Qantas and National Bank Buildings Plaza Cnr George and Jamieson Streets Sydney, (installed November 1988)

Interrupted Continuation, commission for the lawn section, Springvale Cemetery, Melbourne

Winner of the Regional Artists Award at The Inaugural Annual Lorne Sculpture Exhibition 2007

Arts Victoria International Cultural Exchange Program Grant

Winner of the Boma Rider Hunt, National Sculpture Competition

Keith and Elizabeth Murdoch Travelling Fellowship Exhibition (Honourable Mention)

Victorian College of the Arts, Sculpture Prize

Construct 5, Chadstone Shopping Centre collection, Melbourne, Victoria. Compilation, Deakin University, Burwood Campus. Garden of Eden. Swinburne University of Technology, Lilydale Campus. LaTrobe Valley Arts Centre Collection. D.D.I.A.E. Contemporary Art collection. Art Bank. RMIHE Contemporary Art Collection. Expo. Collection Brisbane. University of Tasmania Collection. AMP Society Collection of Contemporary Art, Sydney. University of Wollongong Collection of Sculpture. City of Yarra Public Art Collection. Boma Rider Hunt Collection of Contemporary Art, Sydney. World Trade Centre Collection, Sydney. The Victorian College of The Arts Collection. Sportscraft Collection, Melbourne. Commonwealth Bank Collection, Sydney. Singapore Tourism Board Collection. Singapore Art Museum National Heritage Board Collection.

The Sculpture of Adrian Mauriks. ISBN No: 0 646 21686 4

Sculpture II, Opus pieces 1995-1996. ISBN No: 0 646 281615 (No 2)

Publication and Distribution of Video entitled The Sculpture of Adrian Mauriks available for rent or purchase through Programs for art on film, New York

Sydney's Sculpture, Art in our Environment. ISBN 0582 868 20 3

The Second Landing, Published by The Erasmus Foundation, Netherlands - Australian Cultural Society Inc. Melbourne. ISBN 0 646 13593 7, (1994)

The World Expo 88 Collection, Brisbane Australia. ISBN 0731627636

Who's Who of Australian Visual Artists. ISBN 1 875589 821

Sculpture Now 96 catalogue

Just Sculpture catalogue, Ballarat Fine Art Gallery, 1993

Tenth Mildura Sculpture Triennial catalogue 1988. ISBN 0 9589947 1 4

Irving Sculpture Gallery, Wing Stand and Rainbow Rack, 1986

9th Mildura Sculpture Triennial catalogue, 1985. ISBN: 0815-1199

Second Australian Sculpture Triennial 1985 catalogue

Australian Sculpture Now Graeme Sturgeon. ISBN 0 7241 0107 1

Appositions, Brisbane College of Advanced Education, 1984. ISBN 0 86856 610 1

From the Country, VCA Gallery Melbourne, 1982

15 Sculptors catalogue, 1980

Seventh Sculpture Triennial, Mildura, 1978. ISBN 0 9598621 5 3

Exhibition of Work, Trades Hall Gallery, 1978

Victoria College of the Arts, 1977 Graduate Exhibition catalogue Melbourne University Art Gallery.

Sixth Mildura Sculpture Exhibition 1975 catalogue

Public Sculpture - Who Needs It by Ashley Crawford, Australian Art Review, Issue 15, Nov07-Feb08

Australian Sculptors by Ken Scarlett

Art and Australia, Vol 19 No 2, Summer 1981

Australian Art Review, ed. Leon Pariseon

Australian Sculpture Now, Catalogue, Second Australian Sculpture Triennial, National Gallery of Victoria

Australian Artists, Max Germaine, 1985

Arts National, Vol 3 No 3, January/February 1986

Arts and Australia, Vol 26 No 2, Page 238

Sculpture at Expo, by Stephen Rainbird

Crafts Arts International, Issue 13, page 115, September/November ed, 1988

Art Link, Vol 9 No 2, Winter 1989

Sydney's Sculpture, Art in our Environment. ISBN 0582 868 20 3

The Presence and Power of Totem, Weekend Australian, 30 July 1988, Elwyn Lynn

Variations on a Theme of Felt and Fat, The Australian, Tuesday 18 February 1986, Elwyn Lynn

A Search for the Human Side, Sydney Morning Herald, 14 February 1986, John McDonald

Phenomenon of the Untrained Artist, The Age, 16 August 1989, Gary Catalano

A Sculptor Under Wraps, Sydney Morning Herald, 5 August 1988, Bronwyn Watson

The Shape of Art to come, Sydney Morning Herald, 7 February 1986, John McDonald

Touched by Casts of Thousands, The Weekend Review, Australian, 31 July 1994

The Age, 9 February, 1994, Christopher Heathcote

A Search for Arts Human Side, Sydney Morning Herald, 14 February 1986, John McDonald