Vincent Serico
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Born: 1949 Brisbane QLD
Died: 2008 Toowoomba QLD
Language: Wakka Wakka & Kabi Kabi
Region: Cherbourg QLD

Vincent, whose artistic body of work spans over forty years, regarded himself as a history painter. Vincent interpreted the whispers – from both land and people – during his life’s journey through regional, remote and rural Queensland. Many of his paintings document significant events in his life or of previous generations as Indigenous people struggled with cultural and lifestyle changes. The limited edition A1 bound folio. Some people are stories was produced in 2009. It consists of 22 images that convey the artist’s views of history in a dense hive of colour and activity. The folio includes a legend of stories along with interview notes and quotes by Vincent collected between 1993 and 2007. The artist’s works are held in major private, corporate and public collections including the Nationally Gallery of Australia, National Museum of Australia and Queensland Art Gallery.

 

 

EXHIBITIONS-SOLO

2010 Vincent Serico paintings & prints FireWorks Gallery Brisbane
2009 Vincent Serico: Some People Are Stories, Limited Edition Print Series FireWorks Gallery Brisbane
2007 Vincent Serico: Some People are Stories FireWorks Gallery Brisbane
2006 Vincent Serico: Carnarvon Suite Museum of Brisbane
1999 The Road to Cherbourg Global Arts Link Ipswich
1996 The Timeless Land Aboriginal Cultural Centre and Keeping Place Armidale
1995 The Timeless Land FireWorks Gallery Brisbane
The Timeless Land IMM International Art Exhibition Singapore (with FireWorks Gallery)
1994 Baramba Visions Aboriginal Cultural Centre and Keeping Place Armidale
 

 

EXHIBITIONS-GROUP

2011 Blue August FireWorks Gallery Brisbane
2010 Vincent Serico Fireworks Gallery Brisbane
2007 Telstra: The National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Awards
70% Urban National Museum of Australia Canberra
I Saw The Sun East Coast Lismore Regional Gallery
2006 Gatherings II: Contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Straight Islander Art from Queensland and Australia Keeaira Press Southport Queensland (Catalogue)
Homage to the Square FireWorks Gallery Brisbane
Headscapes Toowoomba Regional Art Gallery
Nokturne 24hr Art Darwin
Two Way: Artists and Mentors FireWorks Gallery Brisbane
Three Large Rooms FireWorks Gallery Brisbane
2005 SHOOSH! The History of the Campfire Group Institute of Modern Art Brisbane
Smoke: Campfire Group and other Commissioned works Despard Gallery Hobart & FireWorks Gallery Brisbane
2002-5 Native Title Business - Contemporary Indigenous Art National Travelling Exhibition
2004 Crossing the Line: Brisbane to Belgrade Ethnographic Museum Belgrade
2003 People FireWorks Gallery Brisbane
2002 Urban Blackness Noosa Regional Gallery
2001 Gatherings: Contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Straight Islander Art from Queensland and 2001 Australia Keeaira Press Southport Queensland (Catalogue)
Dreamtime: The Dark and the Light Sammlung ESSL Vienna
1999 Telstra: The National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Awards \
Big Smoke (with Campfire Group) Coo-ee Aboriginal Art Sydney
1998 Wearing Culture Queensland Museum Brisbane
Telstra: The National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Awards
1997 Saltwater Freshwater Borewater (with Campfire Group) Regional Galleries Association of Queensland Touring Exhibition
Brisbane vs Essendon FireWorks Gallery Brisbane
1996 All Stock Must Go! The Second Asia Pacific Triennial (with Campfire Group) Queensland Art Gallery Brisbane
Ancient Land, Modern Art Queensland Art Gallery Regional Touring Exhibition
Perpetual Motion Tandanya Aboriginal Cultural Institute Adelaide Touring Exhibition
1995 Telstra: The National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Awards
Pathways 1 (Changes and Exchanges) Queensland Art Gallery Touring Exhibition
Downlands Art Exhibition Toowomba
Robin O’Chin Memorial Exhibition Queensland Aboriginal Creations South Brisbane
Seven Deadly Australians FireWorks Gallery Brisbane
Dreamtime Gallery Sante Fe New Mexico USA
1994-5 Campfire Group Exhibitions FireWorks Gallery Brisbane
1994 Schubert Art Gallery Gold Coast
Art of Place Australian Heritage Commission – National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award Exhibition
Old Parliament House Canberra
Telstra: The National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Awards
Urban Focus – Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art from the Urban Areas of Australia, National Gallery of Australia Canberra
Opening Exhibition Toowoomba Regional Art Gallery
Crosscurrents Coo-ee Aboriginal Art Sydney
1993 Aboriginal Perceptions 1963-1993 Brisbane City Gallery
1993 Been Gone Is Boomalli Aboriginal Artists Co-operative Sydney
Art of Place Australian Heritage Commission – National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Awards Old Parliament House Canberra
Woorabinda Artists Conference Campfire Consultancy Woorabinda
1992 Yarrabah Artists Conference Yarrabah
 

 

AWARDS/GRANTS

2007 Highly commended, Telstra National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award
1996 Inside Art/Out National Prison Art Program OZCO Australia Council Grant
1993 Botany Aboriginal Art Award 1st Prize Interpretative Category
 

 

PUBLISHED MATERIAL

2007 Michael Aird Defining who we are in Sunshine State, Smart State, Campbelltown Arts Centre (Catalogue Essay)
Vincent Serico: some people are stories FireWorks Gallery Brisbane (Catalogue)
I Saw The Sun East Coast Lismore Regional Gallery (Catalogue)
2006 Gatherings II: Contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art From Queensland Australia
Keeaira Press Southport Queensland (Catalogue)
Three Large Rooms FireWorks Gallery Brisbane (Catalogue)
Michael Eather Vincent Serico - Whispers from the past Antiques and Art Rural Press Sydney July – November 2006 (Article)
Vincent’ World: Digitial Songlines. ACID (Australasian CRC for Interaction Design) Brisbane. (Interactive 3D Multimedia Immersive Display)
Truna Aka Destination Space: experiential spatiality and stories. ACM
International Conference Proceeding Series. Volume 223 (Conference Paper)
2005 Michael Eather ed., SHOOSH! History of the Campfire Group Institute of Modern Art Brisbane (Publication)
Michael Eather ed., Smoke: Campfire Group and other Commissioned works Despard Gallery Hobart (Exhibition/Web Essay)
2005 Craig Cameron Douglas Cultivating the (New) Country: Disclosing through Curatorship the Cultural and Economic Development Potential of the Australian Regional Art Museum QCA Griffith University (Doctoral Thesis)
2004 Carolyn Webb Art unites a land divided The Age June 23 (Exhibition Review)
Jay Younger less ordinary legends Judy Watson responding to Vincent Serico. Toowoomba 2004Regional Art Gallery (Catalogue Essay)
Queensland Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art (Calender)
2002 Native Title Business -Contemporary Indigenous Art (Catalogue)
Urban Blackness Noosa Regional Gallery (Catalogue)
2001 Gatherings I: Contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art From Queensland Australia
Keeaira Press Southport Queensland (Catalogue)
Dreamtime: The Dark and the Light FireWorks Gallery Brisbane
2000 Sylivie Kleinart & Margo Neale General Editors The Oxford Companion to Aboriginal Art and Culture
Oxford University Press South Melbourne
1999 Australian Indigenous Art Trade News Journal of the Australian Indigenous Art Trade Association Volume 1 Number 2 Summer (Journal)
The Road to Cherbourg: Surveying issues in contemporary Indigenous art
Call no: 709.94 CAM C-F Published: Campfire Group (CD ROM)
1997 Saltwater; Freshwater; Borewater FireWorks Gallery Brisbane (Exhibition Catalogue)
Campfire Group Survey FireWorks Gallery Brisbane (Catalogue)
1996 Queensland Art Gallery: 2nd Asia Pacific Trienniel Campfire Group – All Stock Must Go (Exhibition Catalogue)
Doreen Mellor Native Title Now South Australia (Catalogue)
1995 The Timeless Land Paul Pitman Toowoomba (Brochure-Touring exhibition)
1994 Baramba Visions Australia Council for the Arts Sydney (Catalogue)
 

 

COLLECTIONS-SELECTED

  Singapore Art Musuem
National Gallery of Australia
National Museum of Australia
Queensland Art Gallery
Queensland Museum
Queensland University Technologyv Art Museum
Museum of Brisbane (formerly Brisbane City Gallery Collection)
Toowoomba Regional Art Gallery
Global Arts Link Ipswich
Queensland Department of Health
Mater Hospital
Kelton Collection USA
Numerous Private Collections in Australia and Internationally
 

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