FireWorks gallery - Vincent Serico 1949

	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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