Ian Howard Artist Page

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*Currently Dean,College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales, previously Provost and Director, Queensland College of Art, Griffith University.

*Trained as an Artist and an educator - in Sydney (Diploma of Art Education), London (Graduate Diploma of Advanced Studies, Film and Television) and Montreal(Master of Fine Arts).

*Taught visual arts at secondary and tertiary levels in Australia, England, USA and Canada.

*Practising artist since 1968, concentrating on the theme of the relationship between Military and Civilian populations, and their material and symbolic products. Works included in Regional, State, National and International Galleries.

*First artist to work on the Berlin Wall(1973). In April 2000 completed a project on the Great Wall of China which began in 1972.

*Worked extensively with Australian, British and USA defence forces, including the Pentagon, gaining access to highly secret facilities and equipment.

*Travelled throughout Eastern Europe in the 70's & mid 80's, undertaking research into military museums and monuments.

*Exhibits work nationally and internationally, including most recent shows: Endgame, Watters Gallery, Sydney 1998; Cries and Whispers, Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne 1999; major survey show, Surface Tensions, Beijing, April 2000; Speaking Place, Redback Gallery, Brisbane May 2000; Great Wall(s), Watters Gallery, Sydney 2000.

*Curatorial coordinator of Vietnamese artists, and National Advisory Committee member for Queensland Art Gallery's Asia Pacific Triennials. For the last decade working with artists and institutions in Vietnam and China on staff student program exchange projects.

*Executive producerof Art of Place, Hanoi-Brisbane Art Exchange. (Broadcast SBS and ATVI 1995/96), Millenium Shift-Art of the New World Order, SBS, AFC, and Film Queensland sponsored APT II Documentary(1997) and Handcrafted Cinema, the Animation of Caroline Leaf (1998) for the National Film Board of Canada.

*Previously, member of Visual Arts Board of the Australia Council and Director of Board of Australian Centre for Photography, Chairperson of the State Government Visual Arts Committee, Arts Queensland.

Exhibition 2008 : larger than Life

Installations of photo murals and sculptures

Exhibition 2007

Exhibition 2005