Gordon Monro is a digital media artist who lives in Ballarat, Victoria, Australia.
Gordon has a background in science and mathematics; he became involved in computer music
in the 1990s, subsequently moving to multimedia and eventually visual art.
Gordon commenced exhibiting visual art in 2008. He completed a PhD at Monash University (
Melbourne) in 2016, working on computer-generated art.
| 2018 |
Finalist, Wyndham Art Prize, Wyndham Art Gallery, Werribee. |
| 2017, 2018 |
Finalist, Fremantle Arts Centre Print Award, Fremantle Arts Centre, Fremantle, Western Australia. |
| 2016, 2017 |
Finalist, St Patrick’s College Art Exhibition, St Patrick’s College, Ballarat. |
| 2015 |
Finalist, Banyule Award for Works on Paper, Hatch Contemporary Art Space,
Ivanhoe, Melbourne. |
| 2015 |
Finalist, Fremantle Arts Centre Print Award, Fremantle Arts Centre, Fremantle, Western Australia. |
| 2011, 2013, 2014, 2015 |
Finalist, St Patrick’s College Art Exhibition, St Patrick’s College, Ballarat. |
| 2009 |
Winner of the University of Ballarat Emerging Artist Prize,
St Patrick’s College Art Exhibition, Ballarat. |
| 2007 |
Small grant from the Music Board of the Australia Council
(category New Media). |
| 2007 |
Mención especial in the III Muestra Monográfica
de Media Art, Manizales, Colombia. |
| 2006 |
Mención especial in the II Muestra Monográfica
de Media Art, Manizales, Colombia. |
| 2004 |
Work chosen for concert of brainwave sonifications in
the Sydney Opera House, for the 2004 International Conference on Auditory Display |
| 2003 |
Multi-media award at the Kaleidoscope Festival,
Metro Screen, Sydney. |
| 2002 |
Granted representation by the Australian Music Centre. |
| 1999 |
Joint prize-winner, First Australian Flute
Composition Competition, Brisbane. |
| 1996 |
Honourable mention, Prix Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria. |
| 2022 |
The Necessary and the Possible (digital prints), Five Walls Gallery, Footscray, Melbourne. |
| 2021 |
Pandemic Distortions, Open Program, Ballarat International Foto Biennale; Known World Bookshop, Ballarat. |
| 2021 |
Eureka: Singular and Plural (installation), Eureka Centre, Ballarat. |
| 2018 |
Bubble Chamber (site-specific installation), Biennale of Australian Art, Ballarat. |
| 2017 |
Nanocosm (real-time computer display and one digital print), Art Gallery of Ballarat, Ballarat. |
| 2017 |
Recent work (digital prints and real-time computer display), Stephen McLaughlan Gallery, Melbourne. |
| 2016 |
Shaping Evolution (digital prints and video), Gallery on Sturt, Ballarat. |
| 2013 |
Four Generative Videos, Ararat Regional Art Gallery, Ararat. |
| 2012 |
Video shown in the Projection Window of the Art Gallery of Ballarat. |
| 2011 |
Shaping Evolution (digital prints and video), Pigment Gallery, Melbourne. |
| 2010 |
Difference Engine (installation and digital prints), Arthur Gallery, Ballarat. |
| 2009 |
Ab Initio (digital prints), Radmac Gallery, Ballarat. |
| 2008 |
Cloud Drum (installation), Trocadero Art Space, Footscray, Melbourne. |
| 2020 |
Pause Button, auspiced by Art Aviso), The Old Auction Rooms, Kyneton.
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| 2019 |
The Project Space, Deakin University, Geelong. Exhibition of works connected with the 50th
anniversary of the first moon landing. |
| 2019 |
Future Abstract, The Concourse Art Space, Chatswood (part of Vivid Sydney/Vivid
Chatswood; Willoughby Council).
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| 2018 |
Abstraction TwentyEighteen, Stephen McLaughlan Gallery, Melbourne. |
| 2017 |
Digital: The World of Alternative Realities, Justin Art House Museum, Melbourne. |
| 2016 |
Art exhibition, 19th Generative Art Conference, Florence, Italy. |
| 2016 |
Anita Traverso Pop-up Gallery, Prahran, Melbourne. |
| 2016 |
Aspect, Stephen McLaughlan Gallery, Melbourne. |
| 2016 |
Globelight, Off the Kerb Gallery, Collingwood, Melbourne. |
| 2015 |
AT_Salon2, Anita Traverso Gallery, Richmond, Melbourne. |
| 2014 |
Without a Shadow of a Dao, Anita Traverso Gallery, Richmond, Melbourne. |
| 2013 |
Sensorium, Red Gallery, Fitzroy, Melbourne. |
| 2013 |
Globelight 13, Anita Traverso Gallery, Richmond, Melbourne. |
| 2012 |
Non-Objective Conversations x 4, Sydney Non Objective, Marrickville, Sydney.
The exhibition was also shown at the Visual Arts Centre, La Trobe University,
Bendigo, in 2013. |
| 2011 |
Orbit, Space 22 Gallery, Ballarat. |
| 2010 |
Showcase Ballarat, Gallery on Sturt, Ballarat. |
| 2010 |
Greater Than One, Faculty Gallery, Monash University, Melbourne. |
| 2009 |
Design After Nature, Guildford Lane Gallery, Melbourne. The exhibition
was also shown at the Frankston Arts Centre, Melbourne, early in 2010. |
| 2009 |
Art exhibition for the Time, Transcendence, Performance conference, Monash University, Melbourne. |
| 2008 |
Art exhibition for the Australasian Computer Music Conference, University of Sydney. |