Jeremy Blank

Jeremy Blank trained as a painter also studying video and lasers at Chelsea School of Art before working in community video and photomedia. Recent exhibitions include photography, painting, video and sound works. 2019 • The Mid West Art Prize, Geraldton Regional Art Gallery Western Australia. (paint) 2018 • Central Gallery, North Metropolitan TAFE (painting & video) • Spectrum Project Space Edith Cowan Uni. ‘Three Points of View’ (Photography) • Minnawarra Art Awards, Armadale Arts festival (painting)
 • Albany Art Prize, WA (Painting) • City of Wanneroo Community Art Awards (painting)
 2017 • Minnawarra Art Awards, Armadale WA (painting) • City of Wanneroo Community Art Awards, WA (painting)
 2016 • Albany Art Awards, Albany WA (National juried Painting Award) • Wanneroo Community Art Awards (painting)
 • Minnawarra Art Awards (Armadale WA) (painting)
 2015• ‘Intersections’ New Art Projects, London, UKhttp://www.newartprojects.com/index.php?mode=exhibitions&id=12 (film) (Nov-Dec) • ‘Interchange’ (University of the Arts London Alumni) Gallery of Australian Design, Canberra, Australia (video) (Sept) • ‘See Me’ The Exposure Award, Portraiture Collection, Louvre Museum Paris, France (photography) (July) http://issuu.com/exposureaward/docs/the_portraiture_collection?e=16695655/14426871• Geraldton Mid-West Art Prize (painting) (March – May) • ‘Listening Lounge, Auricle Gallery ChristChurch, New Zealand (sound installation) • City of Wanneroo Art Awards (painting) • ‘Portrait’ Central Inst. of Technology. Perth (Digital Print, Photography & Installation) Awards include • The Alfred Munnings Award for Figurative Painting (Prix de Rome) • UK New Contemporaries Student Prize for Painting in his graduate year from Chelsea School of Art, London. • John Moores Liverpool XV UK National Painting Survey, 3rd prize. • White Space Gallery, Islington, London, Drawing Prize (judge; Waldemar Januszczak). • IMZ Video Dance, Austria, • City of Perth Photographic Award, Perth WA. • IRIS Photographic Portrait, Prizewinner• Emerging Curator Australia Council/ Venice Biennale vernissage and travel award. • Curtin University eScholar AwardJeremy has worked with UK gallery Beaconsfield, Roney Fraser Munro (K3 KinderKunst), Bruce Gilchrist (London Fieldworks), Station House Opera, The People Show 7/84, Kenneth Draper RA and the late British UK conceptual artist John Latham. His recent photographic works have returned to his long-standing interest in the self-portrait utilising pinhole photography to extend the duration of a single exposure as a performative action allowing movement and extended ritualised time within the frame beyond a singular moment. Blank’s works are held in Essex University, Colchester Art School, University of the Arts London, Austin University, Texas US, Epping Forest Museum, Essex UK, and private collections in London, UK and Australia. He currently lives and works in Perth, Western Australia.