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Jonathan Tse is an artist/printmaker from Brisbane. He studied Visual Arts at the University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba and at the Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane. He is currently working at the Queensland College of Art/Griffith University as a Tutor/Lecturer in Printmaking. His work is represented by Grahame Galleries + Editions, in Brisbane and has exhibited in various group exhibitions including China, Vietnam, Frankfurt.

1967   Born Hong Kong 1975    Migrated to Brisbane, Australia

• 1987 - 89    Diploma of Arts, major in Printmaking University of Southern Queensland , Toowoomba, Qld, AUSTRALIA
• 1989    Australian Studying Abroad (European Study Tour) Italy, France, U.K
• 1990    Bachelor of Arts, major in Printmaking Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Qld, Australia
• 1993-2001 Lecturer/tutor in Printmaking, Queensland College of Art/Griffith University, Brisbane, Qld, Australia
• 1998 Lecturer in Printmaking, Griffith University, Gold Coast Campus, Qld, Australia
  Responsible for establishing Printmaking Department at the Gold Coast Campus.

Exhibitions

Selected Group Exhibitions

• 2002

  'books by artists'
  Damian Minton Gallery, 8 Pacific Street, Newcastle 2300
  29 August to 15 September 2002

   

• 2001

AUSTRALIA + GERMANY INTERNATIONAL CRAFT TRIENNALE
Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
Object Gallery, Customs House, Sydney, Australia

• 2000

8^th Frankfurt International Craft Triennale, Craft from Scratch- Eine Spur von Handarbeit, Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Frankfurt, Germany

Cathedral College Acquisitive Art Prize Rockhampton, North Queensland, Australia

• 1999 

Crossing the Ocean, an exhibition of staff/students works from the Queensland College of Art at the Central Academy of Fine Arts Gallery, Beijing, China

The 24^th Annual Shell Fremantle Print Award, Fremantle Art Centre, Western Australia

• 1998

The 3^rd Artist’s Books + Mutiples Fair, School of Arts-166 Ann Street, Brisbane, Australia

The Big Small Print Show Grahame Galleries, Brisbane, Australia

Diverse Rituals Palma Rosa Gallery, Brisbane, Australia

Sixth International Works on Paper Fair State Library of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

Community Printmakers of Murwillumbah Acquisitive Print Award Tweed River Regional Art Gallery, Murwillumbah, New South Wales, Australia

PRINTink Gallery Aesthete’s inaugral launch, Brisbane, Queensland , Australia

The 2^nd Artist’s Book + Mutiples Fair, Metro Arts-Gallery 4 , Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

Community Printmakers of Murwillumbah Acquisitive Print Award Tweed River Regional Art Gallery, Murwillumbah, New South Wales, Australia

Hard Copy Works on paper from the Queensland College of Art Staff & Students, Lower Gallery, Ipswich Regional Art Gallery, Ipswich, Queensland, Australia

20^th Annual Shell Fremantle Print Award, Fremantle Art Centre, Western Australia

PRINTink Brisbane Printmakers, Contemporary Art & Design Gallery, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

Book artists Booked in Toowoomba Regional Art Gallery, Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia

• 1994 

Brisbane’s Biennial Artists’ Books Fair, State Library of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia

Hanoi Art Brisbane Art Hanoi Institute of Fine Art/Queensland College of Art Gallery, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

• 1993

Community Printmakers of Murwillumbah Acquisitive Print Award Tweed River Regional Art Gallery, Murwillumbah, New South Wales, Australia

• 1991 

Great Wall Contemporary Chinese Artists in Australia, Metro Arts Gallery , Gallery 4, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

Community Printmakers of Murwillumbah Acquisitive Print Award Tweed River Regional Art Gallery, Murwillumbah, New South Wales, Australia

The Caroline Barker Award Brisbane City Gallery, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

Queensland University of Technology Graduate Exhibition Palace Gallery, Brisbane, Australia

Logan Art Award Kingston Butter Factory, Brisbane, Australia

Aberdare Art Prize Ipswich Regional Art Gallery, Ipswich, Queensland, Australia

• 1989

Final Selection Darling Downs Graduate Exhibition, Toowoomba Regional Art Gallery, Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia

Mitchell Union Student Art Prize Charles Sturt University, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Solo Exhibitions

• 1999    The language of life an exhibition of monoprints, Grahame Galleries + Edition, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

• 1996    Lessons in life an exhibition of screenprints, Ipswich Regional Art Gallery, Ipswich, Queensland, Australia

• 2002     National judge at the 27th Annual Shell Fremantle Print Award 2002

• 2000     Guest artist in the Carleton College Print Portfolio, Northfield, MN, U.S.A

• 2000    2000 Collaborative printing with Katerina Lytras. Editioning woodcut print for Patrice Kaikilekofe (New Caledonia) at the Griffith Print Workshop, Nathan, Brisbane Qld

• 1999     Guest artist at the Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, China

• 1997     Printer for Udo Sellbach guest artist in the Out of Bounds Print Portfolio, etching in one colour, edition 27 sponsored by the Bundaberg Arts Centre

• 1996     Member of PrintInk, Brisbane Printmakers
  Participated in PrintInk’s Artists’ Portfolio of screenprints titled Reflections in an edition of 20
  Collaboration with Professor Fred Hagstrom and students from Carleton College, Northfield, MN, U.S.A. Printmaking/Bookmaking workshop at the Queensland College of Art/Griffith University, Brisbane

• 1991     Printer for John Honeywill, a suite of six etchings, sponsored by Grahame Galleries + Editions, Brisbane

• 1993     Printer for John Honeywill, artist’s book catalogue memory maps, published by Grahame Galleries + Editions, Brisbane

• 1993-2001 Queensland College of Art/Griffith University’s staff and students Printmaking Portfolio

• Grishin, Sasha GRAPHEION15 (Fifteenth/Sixteenth Edition 2000) European Works on Paper, prints & artists’ books journal, Czech Republic

• Sabine Runde, Stefan Soltek, Christopher Menz, craft from scratch-eine spur von handarbeit ISBN 3-88270-082-0 museum fur angewandte kunst frankfurt, October 2000

• McLean, Ian the 24^th annual shell fremantle print award ISSN 1327-4015 fremantle arts centre, September 1999

• Brown, Phillip art beat brisbane news March-April 1999

• numero uno publications 3^rd artists’ books + mutiples fair brisbane ISBN 0-9585994-08 grahame galleries + editions, September 1998

• Grishin, Sasha australian printmaking in the 1990’s ISBN 90-5703-3917 craftsman house, December 1996

• Numero uno publications beware books by artists ISBN 0-646-20433-5 grahame galleries + editions September 1994

• Alberta College of Arts & Design, Calgary, Canada

• Artbank, Victoria

• Brisbane City Art Gallery and Museum, Queensland

• Bundaberg Art Centre, Queensland

• Canson Papers Australia, Victoria

• Carleton College, MN. U.S.A

• Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, China

• Curtin University Collection, John Curtin Gallery, Western Australia

• Gladstone Regional Art Gallery, Queensland

• Hong Kong Bookbinders, Hong Kong, China

• Ipswich Regional Art Gallery, Queensland

• James Hardie Library/State library of Queensland, Queensland

• Mackay City Council Library, Queensland

• Magnani Papers Australia, Victoria

• Mirvac Constructions, New South Wales

• Quay West, Queensland

• Quay Grand, New South Wales
• Queensland Art Gallery, Queensland
• Queensland College of Art Gallery, Griffith University Queensland
• Queensland University of Technology Art Museum, Gardens Point, Brisbane, Queensland
• Southern Cross University, Lismore, New South Wales
• State Library of New South Wales, New South Wales
• Toowoomba Regional Art Gallery, Queensland
• University of the South Pacific, Laucala Bay, Fiji Islands
• University of the West of England, U.K.
• & numerous private collections

My family migrated to Australia from Hong Kong in 1975. I was eight years old and my brother seven. We were the first Asian students at our school. We repeated first grade, as our English was limited. Needless to say the first several years of transition from one place to another was difficult for all of us.

My mother was a schoolteacher in Hong Kong and my father, who was sponsored to work in Australia arrived a year before us. During the first few years our mother tutored us written Chinese after school and in the evenings, but soon this was lost and English became our preferred language. There was rarely a time when Chinese was used, perhaps only with our family friends, who experienced similar circumstances with their children. Today, it is still difficult for us to converse in a full sentence without letting a word or two in English between our slightly imperfect Cantonese. After thirteen years we returned to Hong Kong for the first time, we found ourselves foreigners in a foreign place not knowing if we were Australians or Chinese. The decisions to migrate is usually one where the child has little or no say, even though the parents may see their children as the main beneficiaries of migration. This series of prints examines the cross-cultural boundaries of assimilation from one culture to another. These works dictate the artist’s own experiences from a child to a young adult and challenges the notion of what it means to be an Australian.

Jonathan Tse
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