Resumé
Solo exhibitions
and community art 2016 Naked, JaRi’s, 13 Heathcote Street, Normanville 2008 Montessori Peace Pole, Bridgewater, Adelaide Hills (to mark 30th Anniversary) 2004 Figure in the Grain, Everglades, Leura, NSW 2003 Katoomba Fine Art, Katoomba 2002 Marbury School, South Australia, resident artist and mentor 2001 Imagine September 11 (photography), Cafe Zuppa, Katoomba 2000 Artist in residence, Penpont Estate, Wales, UK 1997 Flame Opals, The Rocks, Sydney, NSW (window display) 1996 Artist in residence, Rainbird Sculpture Garden, Montville, Queensland Duo exhibitions 2019 Soul Shapers (with Chris Williams) for Festival Fleurieu 2019 2013 A Buddha’s Heart, Normanville (with Kathryn Pentecost) 2011 Peace & War: 9/11 stories book launch, Melbourne City Library Gallery and Barr Smith Library, Adelaide (Author Kathryn Pentecost and Photographer/sculptor Geoff Bromilow) 2011 Delicious, The Table Restaurant, Stirling (with Kathryn Pentecost) 2009 Finesse, Ernst & Young, Adelaide Fringe (with David Innocente) 2008 Wairoa Art Barn Christmas exhibition 2006 Shadowplay, Hahndorf Academy, Adelaide Hills (with Kathryn Pentecost) 2006 The art of the sensual, Erosia gallery, North Adelaide (with Kathryn Pentecost) 2005 Spring Idyll, Everglades Gardens, Leura NSW (with Kathryn Pentecost) 2001 Ezair Gallery, Manhattan, New York, USA (with Tom Spence) 2000 Ezair Gallery, Manhattan, New York, USA (with Jo Ernst) Group exhibitions 2017–2012 The Links Lady Bay (ongoing exhibition of local art) 2013 Loreto Spring Art show, Loreto College, Adelaide 2013 Leafy Sea Dragon Festival opening night, The Links resort, Lady Bay 2012 Stirling Autumn Garden Festival, Aptos Cruz sculpture garden, Adelaide Hills 2009 Stirling Autumn Garden Festival, Adelaide Hills 2009 Culture of the River Murray Art Prize, Waikerie, SA 2008 Creating for Conservation, Belair, SA 2008 Hills Environmental Expo, Uraidla, SA 2008 From Fringes the Artists Come, Tess Pike Art Management, Adelaide 2007 Adelaide Festival Centre Art Market, Adelaide 2005 Artfest, Aldgate, Adelaide, S.A. 2005 Whitmore Square Artists Fair, Adelaide, S.A. 2005 Creative Home Living Show, Darling Harbour, Sydney, NSW 2005 Wines of the West exhibition, Carrington Hotel, Katoomba NSW 2004 ARTE & SOL, St Catherine’s School, Stirling, South Australia 2004 Sydney Garden and Flower Show, Darling Harbour, Sydney, NSW 2002 eMerge (Blue Mountains Artists Network) exhibition, Katoomba Civic Centre 2002 Blue Mountains Gallery and Studio Tours, Leura (featured artist with Lyn Hart) 2002 Blue Mountains Sculptors, Katoomba Civic Centre 2002 An Eclectic View, Kirra Australia Gallery, Southbank, Melbourne 2001 Gallery Lane, Leura, Blue Mountains, NSW 1998 PCL Exhibitionists Gallery, Surrey Hills, NSW Nature-play art 2021–2014 Nature-play installations in South Australia include (in alphabetical order): Alpine Reserve, Seacombe Heights Avenue Rd Reserve, Hallet Cove Brighton Primary School, Brighton Edwardstown Oval Playground, Edwardstown First Avenue Reserve, Ascot Park George St Reserve, Marion Grove Kindergarten Eastwood Jervois St Reserve, South Plympton Nannigai Drive Reserve, Hallet Cove Our Lady of la Vang Special School, Flinders Park Second Valley Playground’s snail sculpture Stanley St Reserve, Glengowrie West Lakes Shore Primary School Yanyarri Avenue Reserve, Edwardstown Awards 2005 Most Outstanding 3-Dimensional Prize, Balco Art Prize, South Australia 2005 Highly Commended – Photography, Balco Art Prize, South Australia 2004 Gold Sculpture Award, Sydney Garden and Flower Show, Darling Harbour, Sydney, NSW 2003 2nd and 3rd Prizes, Norman Lindsay Gallery Photography Competition, Springwood 1999 Highly Commended – Artstreet, Winter Magic Festival, Katoomba, Private collections Australia, France, Israel, Germany, Luxembourg, New Zealand, Scandinavia, USA and UK Academic record 1974–1976 Major in Sculpture, South Australian School of Art, Adelaide Selected press articles (in alphabetical rather than date order) ‘A passionate transformation’ (25 July 2001) Blue Mountains Gazette, Springwood NSW, p51 ‘Art engrained into dead trees at Everglades’ (8 September 2004) Blue Mountains Gazette, Springwood NSW, p25 Bauer C (May 2006) ‘Shared Vision’, Adelaide Matters (Issue 71, The Hills Edition) Brown K, (September 2005) ‘Seducing the senses’, Blue Mountains Gazette, Springwood NSW Caggiano A, (12 October, 2013) ‘Geoff Bromilow sculpts a relationship with art and nature’, The Times, Victor Harbor Debelle P, (10 September 2011) ‘Witness to History’, SA Weekend Magazine, The Advertiser, pp16-18 (11 February 2009) ‘Elegance and grace in ancient timbers’, Hillstyle section in The Courier, Mt Barker, p26 (www.courier.net.au) (16 February 2011) ‘Figurative works in timber draw from life’, Hillstyle section in The Courier, Mt Barker, p26 (www.courier.net.au) Frangos D, (4 January 2013) ‘Art that speaks to the heart’, The Weekender Herald, p17 ‘Johnston launches arts tours venture’, (30 June 2004) Blue Mountains Gazette, Springwood NSW, p18 ‘Main street the hub of artistic event’ (26 September 2007) The Courier, Mt Barker, p26 (www.courier.net.au) Pentecost K, (2 April 2003) ‘New exhibition for Geoff’’, Blue Mountains Gazette, Springwood NSW, p61 ‘Sculptor leaves for New York’ (22 August 2001) Blue Mountains Gazette, Springwood NSW, p51 |
All photography by Kathryn Pentecost, unless otherwise attributed.