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Alan Ibell is a painter based in New Zealand (b. Christchurch). He studied Painting at the Otago Polytechnic School of Art in Dunedin, New Zealand. Alan spent several years in Melbourne before returning to New Zealand in 2016. He is currently based in Auckland, NZ.

Ibell is interested in painting as narrative and uses figuration as a way to convey a poetic or abstract visual experience. To this end he casts imagery from dreams, memories, personal anxieties and existential musings into the works to create absurd human narratives about transition and the search for fulfilment, be it spiritual or other. The painting takes on the form of an object upon which to meditate, a space for contemplation.

EDUCATION

  • Otago Polytechnic School of Art in Dunedin, New Zealand

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2019

  • Aviary, Sanderson Contemporary Art, Auckland, New Zealand
  • An Angel, Then! Parlour Projects, Hastings, New Zealand
  • Old Energies, TSB Wallace Arts Centre - Pah Homestead, Auckland, New Zealand

2018

  • Problemata, Sanderson Contemporary Art, Auckland, New Zealand

2017

  • As When The Guests Depart, Sanderson Contemporary Art, Auckland, New Zealand
  • In The House Of The Poet, Sanderson Contemporary Art, Auckland, New Zealand

2015

  • He Thinks This House Is A Tomb, c3 Contemporary Art Space, Melbourne, Australia
  • New Work, Sanderson Contemporary Art, Auckland, New Zealand

2014

  • Schemes / Visions, Sanderson Contemporary Art, Auckland, New Zealand

2013

  • New Works, Sanderson Contemporary Art, Auckland, New Zealand

2012

  • Rubicon ARI Launch, Rubicon ARI, Melbourne, Australia
  • Isn't It Good To Be Lost In The Wood, c3 Contemporary Art Space, Melbourne, Australia

2009

  • Tales from the Interior, Blue Oyster Art Project Space, Dunedin, New Zealand

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2019

  • ONE, Millers O'Brien, Wellington, New Zealand
  • New Zealand Painting And Printmaking Award, The Atrium - Wintec, Hamilton, New Zealand

2018

  • Sydney Contemporary 2018, w/ Sanderson Contemporary, Carriageworks, Sydney, Australia
  • The 27th Annual Wallace Art Awards - Salon des Refusés, Pah Homestead, Auckland, New Zealand
  • Auckland Art Fair 2018, w/ Sanderson Contemporary, The Cloud, Auckland, New Zealand
  • Pink Frost, Tinning Street Presents, Melbourne, Australia

2017

  • Notes Towards A Speculative Fiction, TSB Wallace Arts Centre, Auckland, New Zealand
  • Confronting The Human Condition, Morrinsville Wallace Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
  • Into A Hole And Out Of A Hat, Rubicon ARI, Melbourne, Australia
  • Tentscape: Resting Spaces, Trocadero Art Space, Melbourne, Australia

2016

  • Portrait, Sanderson Contemporary Art, Auckland, New Zealand
  • The 25th Annual Wallace Art Awards - Salon des Refusés, Pah Homestead, Auckland, New Zealand

2015

  • International Contemporary Art Exhibition 2015, Art Gallery le Logge, Assisi, Italy
  • Absences, Little Tengu, Melbourne, Australia

2014

  • Advent, Sanderson Contemporary Art, Auckland, New Zealand

2013

  • Studio Raids, Sanderson Contemporary Art, Auckland, New Zealand

2012

  • Still Living, Red Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
  • Face…Paint? Gallery 33, Wanaka, New Zealand
  • August Presents: A Group Show, August. 13 Garrett Street. Wellington, New Zealand.

2011

  • Yallop & Smith Memorial Exhibition, a Gallery, Dunedin, New Zealand
  • Without Hope. Without Fear, Dowling St Studios, Dunedin, New Zealand

2010

  • Feast, Gallery 33, Wanaka, New Zealand

2009

  • Chop Chop! Gallery 33, Wanaka, New Zealand
  • The 18th Annual Wallace Art Awards - Salon des Refusés,
  • James Wallace Arts Trust Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand

2008

  • Convergence, Gallery 33, Wanaka, New Zealand

AWARDS AND PRIZES

2019

  • Finalist - New Zealand Painting And Printmaking Award, Waikato Society of Arts, Hamilton, NZ

2018

  • Finalist - The 27th Annual Wallace Art Awards, Pah Homestead, Auckland, New Zealand

2016

  • Finalist - The 25th Annual Wallace Art Awards, Pah Homestead, Auckland, New Zealand

2010

  • 1st Prize, City of Dunedin Art Awards, The Art Station, Dunedin, New Zealand (Judge: Leoni Schmidt Professor and Head of School, Otago Polytechnic School of Art)

2009

  • 1st Prize, The Edinburgh Realty Premier Art Awards, The Art Station, Dunedin, New Zealand (Judge: Elizabeth Caldwell, Director Dunedin Public Art Gallery)
  • Finalist - The 18th Annual Wallace Art Awards. James Wallace Arts Trust Gallery, Auckland, NZ

2007

  • Derivan-Art Award, Main Art Ltd, Auckland. New Zealand

RESIDENCIES

2019

  • Karekare House Residency, Karekare, New Zealand

2015

  • Arte Studio Ginestrelle International Artist and Writers Residency, Mount Subasio, Assisi, Italy

COLLECTIONS

  • The James Wallace Arts Trust Collection
  • Private Collections in New Zealand, Australia, Italy

BIBLIOGRAPHY

2018

  • Wagstaff, C, Under 5K: Alan Ibell, Art Collector (2018 Special Edition Auckland Art Fair), pp 22-23

2017

  • Stockman-Young, J, 'Alan Ibell' Apperley, J, Schierning, A and Sanderson, K, (Eds)
  • 20 / 20: Twenty Artists / Twenty Writers, Auckland: Sanderson Contemporary, 2017. pp 68-75

2015

  • Dornauf, P, 'Alan Ibell' n Apperley, A, Gomez, A, Darragh, T and Sanderson, K, (Eds)
  • 20 / 20: Twenty Artists / Twenty Writers / One New Zealand Gallery,
  • Auckland: Sanderson Contemporary, 2015. pp 68-75

2013

  • Apperley, A, Darragh, T and Sanderson, K, The Artists: 21 Practitioners in New Zealand Contemporary Art c. 2013-2015. Auckland: Beatnik Publishing, 2013. pp. 65 – 70.

2010

  • Ibell Acrylic Takes Top Prize, Otago Daily Times, November 4, Dunedin

2009

  • Nigel Benson, A Year To Remember, Otago Daily Times, December 24, Dunedin
  • Natalie Poland, Postcards: Dunedin, Art News NZ, Spring Issue, pg. 37
  • Ibell Wins Major Award, Otago Daily Times, August 6, Dunedin
  • James Dignan, Art seen: A series of floating islands, Otago Daily Times Online www.odt.co.nz July 2, Dunedin
  • Michelle McCollough, Alternative-folk band to launch 'If Bird Or Devil', The Star, February 19, Dunedin

2008

  • Painting reproduced in Art Zone, No. 26, Sept/Nov Issue, pg 89.

2007

  • Catherine Wellington, Young Artists Ex-cite, The Star, November 15, Dunedin

20 February 2020 – 14 March 2020
My Imagination - The Next Generation