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“I
am an Aboriginal artist and I just love painting. Painting gives
me confidence in myself and I can relate to people with my painting,
with things I’ve done, I’ve seen, how I grew up and
where I’d like to go. Painting has always been with me.
I started painting when I was… well as far back as I can
remember, I was always interested in it. I used to watch older
boys than me as I was growing up in the Boys Home. My uncles and
my aunties, they all painted and naturally, I became a painter,
following them. As I grew older I started drifting around Queensland,
moving around doing odd jobs, but I always fell back on painting.
After work I’d keep painting and, oh jeez, I don’t
think there was a moment when I didn’t have some paint brush
on some jobs I’d done. Come home from work and pick up my
paint brush and started again, painting things. … No matter
where I am, I’ll still keep painting, because what I do
I love to do it. I’ve still gotta paint some more yet. “
[Interview with Bronwyn Eather, February, 2001]
VINCENT SERICO
1949 Born Brisbane
Tribe: Wakka Wakka and Kabi Kabi
Grew up on Cherbourg Aboriginal Reserve, South-East Queensland
Lives and Paints between Toowoomba and Brisbane
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
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
1995 The Timeless Land IMM International Art Exhibition Singapore
(with fireworks gallery)
1994 Baramba Visions Aboriginal Cultural Centre and Keeping Place
Armidale
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2007 Telstra: The National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander
Awards Museums and Galleries of the Northern Territory Darwin
2007 70% Urban National Museum of Australia Canberra
2007 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)
2006 Homage to the Square fireworks gallery Brisbane
2006 Headscapes Toowoomba Regional Art Gallery
2006 Nokturne 24hr Art Darwin
2006 Two Way: Artists and Mentors fireworks gallery Brisbane
2006 Three Large Rooms fireworks gallery Brisbane
2005 SHOOSH! The History of the Campfire Group Institute of Modern
Art Brisbane
2005 Smoke: Campfire Group and other Commissioned works Despard
Gallery Hobart & Fire-Works gallery Brisbane
2002-5 Native Title Business - Contemporary Indigenous Art National
Travelling Exhibition
2004 Crossing the Line: Brisbane to Belgrade Ethnographic Museum
Belgrade
2002 Urban Blackness Noosa Regional Gallery
2001 Gatherings: Contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Straight Islander
Art from Queensland and Australia Keeaira Press Southport Queensland
(Catalogue)
2001 Dreamtime: The Dark and the Light Sammlung ESSL Vienna
1999 Telstra: The National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander
Awards
1999 Big Smoke (with Campfire Group) Coo-ee Aboriginal Art Sydney
1998 Wearing Culture Queensland Museum Brisbane
1998 Telstra: The National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander
Awards Museums and Galleries of the Northern Territory Darwin
1997 Saltwater Freshwater Borewater (with Campfire Group) Regional
Galleries Association of Queensland Touring Exhibiton
1996 All Stock Must Go! The Second Asia Pacific Triennial (with
Campfire Group) Queensland Art Gallery Brisbane
1996 Ancient Land, Modern Art Queensland Art Gallery Regional
Touring Exhibition
1996 Perpetual Motion Tandanya Aboriginal Cultural Institute Adelaide
Touring Exhibition
1995 Telstra: The National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander
Awards Museums and Galleries of the Northern Territory Darwin
1995 Pathways 1 (Changes and Exchanges) Queensland Art Gallery
Touring Exhibition
1995 Downlands Art Exhibition Toowomba
1995 Robin O’Chin Memorial Exhibition Queensland Aboriginal
Creations South Brisbane
1995 Seven Deadly Australians fireworks gallery Brisbane
1995 Dreamtime Gallery Sante Fe New Mexico USA
1994-5 Campfire Group Exhibitions fireworks gallery Brisbane
1994-5 Schubert Art Gallery Gold Coast
1994 Art of Place Australian Heritage Commission – National
Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award Exhibition
Old Parliament House Canberra
1994 Telstra: The National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander
Awards Museums and Galleries of the Northern Territory Darwin
1994 Urban Focus – Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
Art from the Urban Areas of Australia National Gallery of Australia
Canberra
1994 Opening Exhibition Toowoomba Regional Art Gallery
1994 Crosscurrents Coo-ee Aboriginal Art Sydney
1993 Aboriginal Perceptions 1963-1993 Brisbane City Gallery
1993 Been Gone Is Boomalli Aboriginal Artists Co-operative Sydney
1993 Art of Place Australian Heritage Commission – National
Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Awards Old Parliament
House Canberra
1993 Woorabinda Artists Conference Woorabinda
1992 Yarrabah Artists Conference Yarrabah
AWARDS/GRANTS
1996 Inside Art/Out, National Prison Art Program OZCO Australia
Council Grant
1993 Botany Aboriginal Art Award 1st Prize Interpretative Category
PUBLISHED MATERIAL
2007 Vincent Serico: Some People are Stories, I Saw The Sun East
Coast (Catalogue)
2006 Gatherings II: Contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait
Islander Art From Queensland Australia Keeaira Press Southport
Queensland (Catalogue)
2006 Three Large Rooms Fire-Works gallery Brisbane (Catalogue)
2006 Michael Eather, Vincent Serico - Whispers from the past Antiques
and Art Rural Press Sydney July – November 2006 (Article)
2006 Vincent’s World: Digitial Songlines. ACID (Australasian
CRC for Interaction Design) Brisbane. (Interactive 3D Multimedia
Immersive Display)
2006 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)
2005 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)
2004 Jay Younger less ordinary legends. Judy Watson responding
to Vincent Serico. Toowoomba Regional Art Gallery (Catalogue Essay)
2004 Queensland Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art (Calender)
2002 Native Title Business -Contemporary Indigenous Art (Catalogue)
2002 Urban Blackness Noosa Regional Gallery (Catalogue)
2001 Gatherings I: Contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
Art From Queensland Australia Keeaira Press Southport Queensland
(Catalogue)
2001 Dreamtime: The Dark and the Light
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)
1999 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; Boarwater Fire-Works gallery Brisbane
(Exhibition Catalogue)
1997 Campfire Group Survey Fire-Works gallery Brisbane (Catalogue)
1996 Queensland Art Gallery: 2nd Asia Pacific Trienniel Campfire
Group – All Stock Must Go (Exhibition Catalogue)
1996 Doreen Mellor Native Title Now South Australia (Catalogue)
1995 The Timeless Land Paul Pitman Toowoomba (Brochure-Tourng
exhibition)
1994 Baramba Visions Australia Council for the Arts Sydney (Catalogue)
COLLECTIONS
Selected
Singapore National Gallery
National Gallery of Australia
National Museum of Australia
Queensland Art Gallery
Queensland 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 International
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