Paul Adair – News

PAUL ADAIR finalist 'THE CHURCHIE'

12 July – 7 September 2013
Griffith University Art Gallery, QLD

Congratulations to Paul Adair, selected as a finalist in this year's 'the churchie national emerging art prize'.

'The churchie' is a respected and highly prestigious competition open to all mediums including painting, works on paper, photogrpahy, new media and sculpture. This important cultural and community event has been held annually since 1987 with the purpose of recognising, supporting and promoting emerging art and artists. The 2013 overall winner will be rewarded with a $15,000 non-acquisitve cash prize.

Paul Adair will be represented by a new work Endless Take-away Coffee Cups, a stack of cast replica take away coffee cups.

PAUL ADAIR 'CIRCLE JERKS'

12 - 29 June 2013
Bus Projects
Collingwood VIC

In his latest solo exhibition, Paul Adair continues to test the parameters of truth with a series of life size replica balls produced from pigmented polyurethane resin. Adair deliberately confuses our assumptions and teases our perceptions by evolving the relationship between sculpture and photography.

PAUL ADAIR in THIS HAS BEEN, VIC

24 April to 12 May 2013
c3 contemporary art space, Melbourne

This Has Been features artworks which expand contemporary ideas of the photographic by moving beyond the crossroad of analogue and digital forms. Paul Adair's Beach Boys 2012, which is deceptively made from cast pigmented polyurethane resin, brings photography's illusory potential into the sphere of sculpture, revealing our tendency to make assumptions about the objects of our everyday. Other artists in the exhibition include Kate Beckingham, Danica Chappell, Danny Digby, Benjamin Lichtenstein, and Kate Robertson.

PAUL ADAIR in POLARIZED: POLITICAL PHOTOMEDIA IN QUEENSLAND

2 November to December 1 2012
Colour Factory Gallery, Melbourne

Colour Factory Gallery plays host to a Queensland Centre for Photography exhibition that features Paul Adair’s Crate from Decoy 2005. The exhibition Polarized: Political Photomedia in Queensland, includes artists who are addressing a variety of political issues, including social, environmental and economic change.

THE STATE WE'RE IN: CONTEMPORARY QLD PHOTOGRAPHY

UQAM, Brisbane
29 January - 11 April 2010
Paul Adair’s series Three-Hole Mountain Inn is shown in its entirety in The State we’re in... the exhibition focuses on artists whose primary medium is photography and who are extending the parameters of contemporary photographic practice. The exhibition explores themes concerning local history, the landscape, constructed identities and environments, sites of struggle and memento mori. The show co-incides with the biennial Queensland Festival of Photography 3.

PAUL ADAIR: TEMPERATURE 2

Museum of Brisbane
6 February – 8 June 2009
Paul Adair is one of 20 artists who will be featured in the exhibition Temperature 2: New Queensland Art that showcases recent artwork by local contemporary artists. Adair is exhibiting a selection of works from his 2008 series Three-Hole Mountain Inn, including the image Rock Pool; a striking, brightly painted target reveals its unlikely garden centre origins, highlighting Adair’s interest in the relationship between truth and artifice, sculpture and photography.

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Australia Council Residency in LA
February - March 2009
Paul Adair has been awarded an Australia Council Studio Residency in Los Angeles, which he is undertaking in early 2009. This will be a return to LA for Adair who exhibited at Photo LA in 2007. The influence of Disneyland's hyper-real environment is clearly evident in Adair's 2008 series Three-Hole Mountain Inn, with photographed constructions that resemble the too bright, too perfect artificial sets of a theme park.