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"Pretentious swanker” Art Fan, Great Escape Residency, 2007
"Arnold is gaining an increasingly high profile in the art world for his surreal and sometimes provocative style" Clair Weaver, Sunday Telegraph, 2006
 
"Eyes were popping at local rising star Arnie Arnold's latest art show. The crowd rolled up to check out Arnold's narrative, signature style which investigates the complexities of every day life using ultra saturated hues and candy coated tones ." Oyster Magazine, 2005
 
“Arnold’s stylish scenes flirt wildly with the strange, with fragments of exposed internal organs and faceless women behaving badly.” Dominique Angeloro, Sydney Morning Herald, April 2004
“Taking his lead from the young British Art movement, known for its hyped and profane style, Arnie Arnold is a colonial bastard child of deep pop. Arnold’s take on what’s been tagged “neurotic realism “is pointedly anchored in Australia.” Belinda Aucott, Men’s Style Magazine, 2003
 
"Somewhat perverse, a little shocking, a juxtaposition of the wholesome atmosphere of family snapshots with the seediness of amateur Internet porn, it's precisely in 'crossing the line' that Arnie sets himself apart from the plethora of post-pop artists currently at work."
Large Magazine, January 2002
"Arnie Arnold's paintings juxtapose real worlds with virtual, the topical with the bizarre, the realms of the everyday with consumer fantasy. Viewers enter a world somewhere between the mundane and the surreal, the comic and the nightmarish." Anne Marie Lopez, CitySearch, March 2001
 
"[Arnold's work] has all the graphic elements, synthetic colours and bravura of pop art. Techniques from mass media and popular culture explode on his canvases, while titles - Suburban Wife Swing, How Do I Get Off This Roundabout - say it all." Courtney Kidd, Sydney Morning Herald, 15 February 2000
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Arnie Arnold

Phone 0409 832 707    Email Arnie


Born in Sydney, Australia 1973
Lives & works in Sydney


solo exhibitions
2006
I'm So Hot Right Now, blank_space Gallery, Surry Hills, Sydney
Melt, Melt Gallery, Kings Cross, Sydney
2005
Your Beautiful My Ugly, Space Junk Gallery, Manly, Sydney
Off the Wall, Art Sydney 2005, Fox Studios, Sydney
Your Beautiful My Ugly, blank_space Gallery , Sydney  {slide show}
2004
Peep Show Now, blank_space Gallery, Surry Hills, Sydney
2003
Puberty Blues, Corner Shop, Paddington, Sydney
2002
Pink Lips Sink Ships, Blender Gallery, Paddington, Sydney
2001
Dynamite, Global Gallery, Paddington, Sydney
2000
Dappa, Rubyayre Gallery, Surry Hills, Sydney
1998
Ultra Violet, Nova Gallery, Taylor Square, Sydney

selected group exhibitions

2007
12x12, aMBUSH Gallery, Waterloo, Sydney
  Across The Board, Wall Space Gallery, Surry Hills, Sydney
2006 Sixteen by Twelve Monster Children, Gallery Sydney
  Class of 06, blank_space Gallery, Sydney
  Swap Meat, Bright Space Gallery, Melbourne
2005
Inbred, Wedding Circle, Camperdown, Sydney
2004
Upstarts Surf Art Tour, Our Spot Gallery, Darlinghurst, Sydney
  Upstarts Surf Art Tour, International tour
2003
No Harm in Looking, blank_space, Surry Hills, Sydney
Group Zine, Gallery Wren, Sydney
  I’ll Show You Mine, Incubator Studios, Sydney
  Fakes & Frauds,Tap Gallery, Sydney
  Monsters & Genetic, Mutations Knot Gallery, Sydney
  Future is Art, Bureau Gallery, Sydney
  Fly On The Wall, Good Bar, Paddington, Sydney
  Step Two Hats, Honky Tonks, Melbourne
  Art for AIDS, Orson & Blake, Sydney
  Nonennui, UTS Gallery, Ultimo, Sydney
  Schatz Art vs. Design, Cruise Bar, Sydney
  The Nu Erotic, Phatspace, Sydney
2002
Looking is Free, Gallery Victoria, Sydney
  Hung Shot Dyed, Knot Gallery, Sydney
  Installation, Tsubi - Tube Station, Fashion Week, London
  Deuce Art/Fashion, Location fashion show, Sydney
2001
Looking is Free, Hilton Hotel, Sydney
  Orange, Global Gallery, Sydney
  SCEGGS Art Fair, Darlinghurst, Sydney
2000
Olympic Arts, Volvo Gallery, Sydney
1999
Post No Bills, New space, Rozelle, Sydney
1997
Opening, Global Gallery, Paddington, Sydney

qualifications/ education
1998-2000 Advanced Diploma of Fine Art, National Art School, Sydney, NSW
1994-1997 Certificate in Sign-writing (3 yrs), Sydney Institute of Technology, Sydney, NSW
Advanced Sign Making (1 yr), Sydney Institute of Technology, Sydney, NSW

selected bibliography
NY Arts Magazine January/February 2007, vol 12, No 1/2
Clair Weaver, Sunday Telegraph, page 108, 4 June 2006
[weAREtheIMAGEmakers] (online) Issue 03, May 2006
Glue society ed. 365 (book/calender), Fairfax Publications, 2005
Review Oyster Magazine Issue 58 page 137, 2005
Review Cat Magazine, March 28 2005
Dominique Angeloro, Peep Show Now, Sydney Morning Herald, Metro, 30 April 2004
Belinda Aucott, Erotic Nurotic Men’s Style Magazine Issue 2 Dec/Jan 2003
Art Helmets Oyster Magazine - Issue 47 Aug/Sept page 32-37,2003
Betsy Brennan, Feature Artist in residence Vogue Living, April/May page 137 2003
Art & Soul Feature Large Magazine, Jan/Feb. page 8 2003
Yen Magazine Issue 2 - Dec/Jan page 20 2002
Inside Out Magazine - September page 64 2002
Karen Jane Aire, Bold Relief Blue Magazine April p8 2002
Rachel Neustein, Artist Profile & Story Australian Style - April page 28 2002
Art & Soul Large Magazine Art & Soul Artist Profile - Dec/Jan page 10 2001
Anne Marie Lopez, Dynamite City Search Online Review 18 April 2001
Begin book, 'The Revolution ed. Coca Cola pty ltd 2000
Portrait of a Portaloo Large Magazine 2000
Courtney Kidd, Dappa, Sydney Morning Herald, Metro, 14 Feb. 2000

professional organizations & affiliations
National Association for the Visual Arts (NAVA)
Writers Guild of Australia
Arts Law Center of Australia
Museums & Galleries Foundation of NSW

donated charities
2007 Across The Board, Wall space Gallery, Surry Hills, Sydney
2007 Starvation Online, The Wall, Sydney
2004 Mini Eyewear Charity fundraiser Sydney Wharf Theatre, Sydney
2003 MAC Charity Art For Aids, Orson and Blake, Surry Hills, Sydney

commissions
2006 Mural Design, Channel V Promo / Commercial, Fox, Sydney
2005 Customized range of Shoes for Melissa Brazil {photo's}
2004 Mural Design Renya Xydis hair salon, Paddington, Sydney
2004 Mural Design, Grand Pacific Blue Room ,Paddington, Sydney
2003 Showroom Concept Design 724 Artistic Direction, Incubator Studios, Sydney
2002 Dunlop Volley Light Sculpture Chandelier, Sydney
2002 Paul Maloney Fashion Show Art Installation, Redfern, Sydney
2000 Volvo Gallery Olympic Arts Installation, Sydney City

prizes
2007 Finalist Hazelhurst Art of Paper Prize, Sydney
2005 Finalist Mosman Art Prize, Mosman, Sydney

residencies
2007 Great Escape Festival {photo's}
2006 Painting Residency, Armory, Silver Water, Sydney
2005 Painting Residency Cockatoo Island, Sydney


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