MICHAEL-FRANCIS CARTWRIGHT
Artist
Born 1959
Member of Royal Sculpture Society
Intro
Cartwright’s creativity is spontaneous and his works exudes an ethos of balance and freedom. Whether it is sculpture, painting, drawing or printmaking, his work alternates between delightful play to a more serious exploration of man, nature and beauty.
Exhibitions
2019
- Atelier inauguration exhibition with invited artists
- Antipodes Film Festival exhibition Saint-Tropez
2018
- Tait Winter Prom, Australia House, London
‘Journeys’ at Australia House, London.
- Invited by the former High Commissioner, Alexander Downer AC, to take part in the centennial celebrations.
2016 Mossgreen Gallery, Melbourne Australia
2015 Mossgreen Gallery, Melbourne Australia
2014 Sandra Walters exhibition at the Sai Kung and Aberdeen, HK
Sandra Walters Consultancy exhibition, HK
La Rondine Gallery, Drawing exhibition with Shona Nunan
La Rondine Gallery, group exhibition
2013 La Rondine Gallery Pop Up Exhibition, Sheung Wan Art Precinct, Hong Kong
La Rondine Gallery, Tuscany, Italy
2012 La Rondine Gallery, Tuscany, Italy
2010 Gallicano, Tuscany, Italy
2009 Gallicano, Tuscany, Italy
2008 Gallicano, Tuscany, Italy
2004 Art 2 Gallery, Mita Building, Singapore
2001 Art 2 Gallery, Mita Building, Singapore
2001 Sandra Walters – Rotunda, Exchange Square, Hong Kong.
2000 Lindenderry, Red Hill, Australia
2000 Sheraton Sukhumvit, Bangkok, Thailand
1999 Willums Art Foundation, Provence, France
1997 Sandra Walters, Hong Kong
1997 Ian Rogers, Melbourne, Australia
1997 Fort Canning Park, with the Shona tribe sculptors of Africa. Singapore.
1995 Solander Gallery, ACT, Australia
1995 Art 2 Gallery, Singapore
1994 Meridian Gallery, traveling show to China, Beijing, Guangzhou, Hong Kong Art Fair
1994 Meridian Gallery, collaborative exhibition with artist Tony Scott. Vic. Australia
1994 Australian Contemporary Art Fair, Meridian Gallery
1993 Meridian Gallery, Vic. Australia
1992 Qdos Gallery, Lorne, Australia
1992 Castlemaine Gaol, Vic. Australia
1992 Australian Contemporary Art Fair, Meridian Gallery
1991 Alchemy Gallery, Vic. Australia
1990 Castlemaine gaol exhibition, Castlemaine, Australia
1989 Wallace Bros. Gallery, Vic. Australia
1988 Mildura Sculpture Triennial, Vic. Australia
1988 Barossa Sculpture Symposium, SA. Australia
1987 Holdsworth Gallery, Sydney, Australia
1986 Bitumen River Gallery, ACT, Australia
1984 Mildura Sculpture Triennial, Vic. Australia
Artist Residencies
2015 Montsalvat artist in residence, Melbourne Australia
2015 Kunstler Bei Wu, Wesenberg, Germany
2013 Cill Rialaig Art Project, County Kerry, Ireland
CIS, Chinese International School Hong Kong
2011 Yew Chung Foundation, Hong Kong.
1999 Willums Art Foundation, Provence, France
1998 Cill Rialig Art Project, County Kerry, Ireland
1996 Willums Art Foundation, Provence, France
1991 Port Moresby College of Art, PNG
1990 3rd street, New York. USA
Selected commissions and projects
2017 Collaborative commission with Shona Nunan for two monumental memorials for a private collector. One for the Sorrento cemetery in Australia and one for their private garden.
2016 Private commission
- ‘Fishing Over Uluru’ bronze 250 x 200 cm
2015 Sculptures ‘Journey of the Sage’ and ‘Reflection’ commissioned for sculpture park, Bei Wu in Germany
2013 Created hand carving marble sculpture symposium, Bagni di Lucca Arts Festival
2011 Yew Chung Foundation, Hong Kong
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- `Setting free the Golden Carp’ 250 x 500cm, painting for the Gallery entrance at Yew Chung, Hong Kong, Yew Chung Foundation, Hong Kong
- ‘Lost in the Cosmos’ 200 x 240cm venetian (smalto) glass mosaic, entrance at Yew Chung, Hong Kong
2010 Goldin Metrolpolis Hotel, Tianjin, China
- ‘Sunset’ 200 x 496cm oil on eight chestnut panels, commissioned for the Presidential suite.
2010 Morgan Stanley, head office-ICC tower, Hong Kong
- `The Bank’, 810cm long, three panels, oil on linen,
2008 Capital M Beijing, Tiananmen Square, Beijing, China
- `Journey’ 50 meters long x varying heights, (2.2 – 5.4m), oil on linen
1999 Singapore Expo building
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- `Passage’, 5 x 3 x 1.5 meters, bronze, granite and concrete, VIP entrance
- Private Commission ‘Reclining Figure’ black marble on granite, apprx. 200 cm tall by 250cm x 150cm
1997 Grand Plaza Hotel, Singapore
- `Journey’, 2.8 x 2.5 x 1.0 meters, bronze
1996 Willums Art Foundation, Provence, France
- A collection of cast bronze and steel sculptures
1993 Private commission
- Memorial sculpture, ‘Boat’.
1988 Sculpture symposium Tanunda, South Australia – donation of large marble sculpture to The local council
1978 Environmental work at Portsea Bay beach, Victoria, Australia. Documented on the front page of the Melbourne daily newspaper, `The Herald’,