Steven Rendall

Steven Rendall was born in the UK in 1969. He moved to Australia in 2000 where he currently lives and works. He has had many jobs & worked as a sessional lecturer until 2019 when his role was made ongoing in the School of Art at RMIT.

Rendall completed a Bachelor of Visual Art (Honours) at DeMontfort University in Leicester, undertook post-graduate studies at the Royal Academy Schools in London and somehow completed a PhD at Monash University in 2015.

 
Rendall's work is littered with references to technology, art history, horror movies and pop music. Materials, images and meanings are scavenged and rearranged in various ways. He works with discourses ranging across painting, video and sculpture. Rendall has worked on collaborative with Bryan Spier (as Rendall & Spier) and with Dr. Andrea Eckersly. He has also collaboratively curated numerous exhibitions including Collision Drive 1, 2 & 3 (with Benet Spencer); Incidents Above a Bar (with Lisa Young) and Worlds End/Future Perfect (with Meredith Turnbull).

Rendall has staged numerous exhibitions in Australia and the UK. His work is in various collections including The National Gallery of Victoria, The Monash University Collection, RMIT University Collection, Artbank, The City of Melbourne, Geelong Gallery, St. Vincent's Hospital, Melbourne and St. Helier Hospital, London.

Industry experience includes:

Represented by Niagara Galleries Melbourne: https://niagaragalleries.com.au/steven-rendall/
Manager of John Street Studios Melbourne: https://www.johnstreetstudios.net/
Various collaborative curatorial projects 
Ongoung collaborative projects with Dr. Bryan Spier, Dr. Andrea Eckersley, Dr. Michael Graeve, Benet Spencer and Danica Chappell

Selected individual exhibitions:

2024 Flat field contact and things meeting (with Michael Graeve), GalleryGallery Inc.

2023/2024 Data For Future Paintings, (with Albert Tucker), Heide Museum of Modern Art

2023 Mud & Clarity (with Michael Graeve), Five Walls
2023 Clarity & Mud (with Michael Graeve), Blindside
2023 What do paintings see? Niagara Galleries, Melbourne

2022 The far-away faint glimmer of a consciousness more acute (with Andrea Eckersley), Sarah Scout Presents

2021 Fragments, Excerpts and Categories, Niagara Galleries, Melbourne

2020 Disordered Things, Niagara Galleries, Melbourne

2018 18 Hours & 674 Days, Niagara Galleries, Melbourne


2016 Image Capture Video Loss, Niagara Galleries, Melbourne

2015 Research into Painting Discipline, PhD exhibition, MADA Gallery, Monash University

2014 Mirror-work, John Buckley Gallery, Melbourne

2012 Screen Violet Grey, John Buckley Gallery, Melbourne
2012 Television Project, The Substation, Newport

Selected group exhibitions:

2024 Hard Rubbish, Daine Singer. Curated by Daine Singer with Jane Rhodes and Nicholas Mahady

2024 Geelong Contemporary Art Prize finalist, Geelong Gallery 

2024 Working Title: Studio Practice in the RMIT Art Collection, RMIT Gallery

2024 Stepping on snails in socks. CbOne, Melbourne. Curated by Julie Vinci

2023 SCREEN CHAIN GRID SHELF. Collaborative experimental structures, Mejia

2023 Beneath the Surface, Behind the Scenes , Heide Museum of Modern Art. Curated by Melissa Keys
2023 Origin of Images, Fitzroy Gardens Pavilion. Curated by The Bureau for the Organisation of Origins (BOO)
2023 A Sky the Colour of a Dead Channel, Brunswick Temporary. Curated by Ingmar Apinis

2022 Microcosms, Clan Collective. Curated by Angela Rossitto and Mary Hackett
2022 Bayside Art Prize, The Gallery at BACC, Brighton, (shortlisted)
2022 Len Fox Award, Castlemaine Art Museum (shortlisted)

2021/2022/2023 Moreland Summer Show, Counihan Gallery Brunswick

2021 Microcosm, curated by Angela Rossitto and Mary Hackett at Clan Collective in the Craft Contemporary Festival
2021 The Space We Live The Air We Breathe, curated by Jan Duffy and Matthew Perkins at the Counihan Gallery

2020 McLelland Small Sculpture Prize shortlist, McLelland Gallery online
2020 The new (ab)normal, RMIT Gallery, Melbourne
2020 Paint vs colour, Five Walls, Footscray. Curated by Michael Graeve and Christophe Dalhausen

2019 Collision Drive 3, RMIT Project Space, Melbourne
2019 Representative Artists, VCCA, Hanoi
2019 The Moon, Geelong Gallery, Geelong. Curated by Lisa Sullivan.
2019 Collision Drive 2, Project Space Plus, Lincoln University, UK
2019 Collision Drive 1, Wimbledon College of Arts, London
2019 Bayside Art Prize Shortlist, The Gallery at BACC, Brighton

2018 Monochrome: Empty & Full, Margaret Lawrence Gallery, VCA, Melbourne. Curated by David Sequira
2018 The B-Side (with Andrea Eckersley), Blindside ARI, Melbourne

2017 Very Unco/Unco 2. Torrance Art Museum, California. Curated by Ian Haig
2017 The B-Side. Blindside ARI, Melbourne
2017 Darebin Art Prize Shortlist, Bundoora Homestead
2017 20th Anniversary, Yarra Sculpture Galleries
2017 9 x 5 Now, Margaret Lawrence Galleries, VCA, Melbourne
2017 Museum of Lost Public Notice, George Paton Gallery, Melbourne University
2017 An Act of Showing/Blindside, Testing Grounds, Melbourne. Curated by Leslie Eastman
2017 Technician's Choice, Bundoora Homestead Art Centre
2017 Bayside Art Prize Shortlist, The Gallery at BACC, Brighton
2017 Burning Light, Blindside/Play, Federation Square Screen

2016 Running Interference, Rubicon ARI, Melbourne. Curated by Kent Wilson
2016 Chain of Mountains, TCB, Melbourne, Curated by Jan Bryant and Tamsen Hopkinson
2016 Data Flow, Hawthorn Town Hall Gallery. Curated by Kent Wilson
2016 Bayside Art Prize, The Gallery at BACC, Brighton, (shortlisted)

2015 Transmission: Legacies of the Television Age, NGVi, Melbourne. Curated by Maggie Finch

Exhibition projects (printed catalogues are available + PDFs (possibly)):

2019 Collision Drive 1, 2 & 3 (with Benet Spencer), London, Lincoln & Melbourne
2014 Incidents Above a Bar (with Lisa Young), Melbourne
2012 Museums in the Incident, Faculty Gallery, Monash University
2008 World’s End/Future Perfect (with Meredith Turnbull), Carlton Hotel & Studios,
2006 Life is Getting Longer, VCA Gallery Melbourne
2004 Life is Very Long, Yarra Sculpture Space, Melbourne

Collections:

St. Vincent’s Hospital, Melbourne
DeMontfort University, Leicester, UK
Royal Academy Libraries, London
St. Helier Hospital Endoscopy Unit, London
Monash University Collection
City of Melbourne
Artbank
National Gallery of Victoria
RMIT University Collection

Geelong Gallery

Bendigo Art Gallery

Various Private Collections