Simon O’Carrigan
(b. 1985 Bendigo, lives Melbourne)
Education
2007 B.F.A. (Hons), Monash University, Caulfield, Melbourne
2006 B.F.A. (Painting), Victorian College of The Arts, Melbourne
Published Illustrated Books
2020 Never Forget (author: Clare Hallifax), picture book, Scholastic
2019 Playground Circus (author: Chrissy Byers), picture book, Ford Street Publishing
Selected Commissions
2019 Hyde Park Barracks Museum, Sydney Living Museums / Local Projects, N.Y.
2018 Bargoonga Nganjin Fitzroy North Library Mural Commission
2017 Go Gentle / Oh Yeah Wow advocacy campaign video illustrations
2009 Knife, Animated music video
2008 Be Famous & Die, Animation for City Museum / Martyn Pedler / Tape Projects
Awards & Grants
2019 Silver Award – Unpublished Series, Illustrators Australia Biannual Awards
Highly Commended – Site Specific Work, Illustrators Australia Biannual Awards
2018 City of Yarra Small Projects Fund Arts Grant
2017 ASA Emerging Writers’ and Illustrators’ Mentorship Awards – Picture Books, (Copyright Agency Cultural Fund)
2014 Runner up, Toyota Community Spirit Sculpture Prize 2014 (collaboration with Alizon Gray)
2013 Exquisite Palette Prize, St Luke Artist Colourmen / Golden Paints
2012 Blake Prize (Director’s Cut Longlist)
2011 NAVA Janet Holmes A Court Artists Grant
2010 City Of Melbourne Young Artists’ Grant
City of Yarra Young Artists’ Grant
2009 CCP Kodak Salon, Most Innovative Use of Photomedia
2008 City Of Melbourne Arts Grant Program
2006 NAVA Ignition Prize
Solo Exhibitions
2018 Nice Day To Go The Pub, Off The Kerb, Collingwood
Reading in Edinburgh Gardens, Bargoonga Nganjin North Fitzroy Library
2015 Pyrite Radio, Rubicon ARI, North Melbourne
2014 Icons, c3 Contemporary Art Space, Abbotsford
2013 Duets, Rubicon ARI, North Melbourne
Sisyphus At Playtime (Endless Ball Machine), Federation Square, Melbourne
2012 Grey Flags, c3 Contemporary Art Space, Abbotsford
2011 Down To The Well, Daine Singer Gallery, Melbourne
2010 Persistence of Vision — Part Two, Blindside Artist Run Initiative, Melbourne
The Bear Cycle, Melbourne Propaganda Window, Melbourne
Persistence of Vision — Part One, C3 Contemporary Art Space, Abbotsford
2009 The Bear Cycle, Seventh Gallery, Fitzroy
Terminal, Platform Artists’ Group, Melbourne
The Petrol Can Rider, Bus Gallery, Melbourne
2008 Somnambulist, Victoria Park Gallery, Abbotsford
The Drowned World, Shifted Gallery, Richmond
2007 Elisions, Runt Gallery, Caulfield
Group Exhibitions
2019 Play It Again, Five Walls, Footscray (with Marcel Feillafe)
2017 Graeme Hildebrand Art Prize, Red Gallery, Fitzroy North
Albert Park College Art Prize, Albert Park
2015 Deluxe Reissue Vol 3, Easey St Studios, Collingwood
2014 Toyota Community Spirit Sculpture Prize 2014, Toyota, Port Melbourne
(Showing the work 100 Banners, 23.5 Million Whispers, collaboration with Alizon Gray)
2013 Deluxe Reissue, Easey St Studios, Collingwood
2012 2012 Linden Postcard Show, Linden Centre for Contemporary Arts, St Kilda
Deluxe Reissue, The Old Bar, Fitzroy (Curated by Simon with Alizon Gray)
Silence, 100th Gallery, South Yarra (Curated by Matteo Rubbettino)
2011 Disappearance, Kings Artist Run, Melbourne (Curated by Simon O'Carrigan)
Basic Instinct, Karen Woodbury Gallery, Richmond
2010 Exquisite Palette, St Luke Artist Colourmen, Collingwood
2009 City of Hobart Art Prize, Tasmanian Museum & Art Gallery, Hobart
Small Worlds, Singapore (Various venues) (Curated by Jacqueline Felstead)
Off The Wall Emerging Artist Showcase, Art Melbourne ’09, Carlton
CCP Kodak Salon, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Fitzroy
2008 Melbourne, And Other Myths, City Museum, Melbourne
Painting ’08, Brunswick Street Gallery, Fitzroy
2007 The Bigger Picture, Monash University, Caulfield
Hatched ’07, Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts, Perth
Proud, VCA Margaret Lawrence Galleries, Southbank
2006 People and Places, Mad Gallery, Lancefield
Proud, VCA Margaret Lawrence Galleries, Southbank
2005 The Self Portrait Show, Artholes Gallery, Fitzroy
Proud, VCA Margaret Lawrence Galleries, Southbank
Painters and Rockers, Victorian College of the Arts, Southbank
Slips of the Mind, Victorian College of the Arts, Southbank
Screenings
2017 Loop de Loop - Power, Loop Bar, Melbourne
2013 Austhetic, Federation Square, Melbourne
2011 Take One, Channel 31, Melbourne
2010 MUFF (Melbourne Underground Film Festival), 1000£ Bend, Melbourne
Revelation Film Festival, The Astor Theatre, Mt Lawley
AUSthetic, Federation Square, Melbourne
The St Kilda Film Festival, Palace George Cinemas, St Kilda
Melbourne International Animation Festival, ACMI, Melbourne
Australian International Animation Festival, Forum 6 Cinemas, Wagga Wagga
The Animation Club, Channel 31, Melbourne
2009 Australian International Animation Festival (AIAF), Mercury Cinema, Adelaide
AIAF, Civic Playhouse, Newcastle
AIAF, Latrobe University Visual Arts Centre, Bendigo
Electric Shorts (Melbourne Fringe Festival), Loop Bar & Cinema, Melbourne
Sydney International Animation Festival, UTS University Hall Cinema, Sydney
Melbourne International Animation Festival, ACMI, Melbourne
2008 Brisbane International Animation Festival, State Library of Queensland, Brisbane
Canberra Short Film Festival, Dendy Cinemas, Canberra
Electrofringe, curated by Tape Projects, Civic Playhouse, Newcastle
DVD Zine #04, curated by Tape Projects, launched in Carlton
2007 Tape Projects, curated by Tape Projects, Taiwan
123 TV, Channel 31, Melbourne
2006 DVD Zine #03, curated by Tape Projects, launched in Melbourne
2005 123 TV, Channel 31, Melbourne
24seven, Glitch Bar, North Fitzroy
Kiss My … After Effects, Public video projections, Carlton & Fitzroy
Positions Held
2019 Sessional Tutor / Mentor, Victorian College of the Arts Secondary School
2013 Judging position, Melbourne International Animation Festival
Bibliography
Jamie Farshchi (ed), ‘The Gadget Issue’, MISC, Spring 2013
Michael Dwyer, ‘Your Face Here’ (column piece), The Age, 8 April 2013
Claire Connors, ‘Simon O’Carrigan, Nicola Page and Hannah Gatland, Rubicon ARI April openings’, Three Thousand, 11 April 2013
Kane Daniel, ‘Deluxe Reissue Garage Sale Art Show’, Three Thousand, 15 June 2013
Kane Daniel, ‘Simon O'Carrigan, 'Down to the Well' and Becc Orszag, 'Autocue' exhibition openings’, Three Thousand, 11 October 2011
Din Heagney, ‘Down To The Well’ (catalogue essay), Down To The Well at Daine Singer Melbourne, 13-29 October 2011
Rachel Elliot-Jones, ‘Simon O'Carrigan, 'Persistence of Vision' exhibition opening’, Three Thousand, 24 October 2010
‘Simon O’Carrigan – The Petrol Can Rider’, Ozanimate, <http://www.ozanimate.com/?p=712>, 9 July 2010
‘Kafka Inspires Hand-drawn Film’, (video interview), ABC Arts Online, 6 July 2010
‘Jump Cut’, 3CR 855am Community Radio, 9 July 2009.
‘The Conversation Hour: Drawing You In’, ABC 774am Local Melbourne Radio, 17 June 2009.
Patrick Collins, ‘The Petrol Can Rider by Simon O’Carrigan, Three Thousand, Melbourne (online), 24 June 2009
‘Animated Discussion on Fame and Misfortune Gets Screen Test’, MX, Melbourne, 22 June 2009
Rohan Trollope, ‘The Weekend Starts Here (Art)’, The Age, Melbourne, 11 July 2008
‘Not Drowning, Animating’, MX, Melbourne, 2 July 2008
Max Olijnyk, ‘Melbourne, And Other Myths’, Three Thousand, Melbourne (online), 2 April 2008
Adrian Elmer, ‘Tape Projects’, Cyclic Defrost, Melbourne (online), Issue 18, 2007
‘Art Acclaim Builds from Trickle to a Flood’, Blue Mountains Gazette, Katoomba, 19 September 2007