CURRICULUM VITAE
PETRUS SPRONK
EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATIONS
1966-1968 South Australian School of Arts
1969 Post-Graduate studies. S.A. School of Arts
Major: Sculpture, Ceramics
Minor: Design, Photography
COLLECTIONS
Tasmanian Art Gallery. Launceston. Tasmania. (chair sculpture)
Tasmanian Art Gallery. Hobart. Tasmania. (ceramic work)
Latrobe Valley Regional Gallery. Victoria. (ceramic work)
Hamilton Regional Gallery. Victoria. (ceramic work)
Ballarat Regional Gallery. Victoria(3 ceramic works)
South Australian Gallery of Art. Adelaide. S.A. (ceramic work)
National Gallery of Victoria. Melbourne. Victoria. (ceramic work)
Canberra College of Advanced Education Collection. A.C.T. (ceramic work)
New Parliament House Collection. Canberra. A.C.T. (ceramic works)
Adelaide Town Hall Collection. S.A. (ceramic work)
Art Bank. Sydney. N.S.W. (ceramic works)
Benalla City Council. Victoria. (public sculpture)
Benalla Regional Art Gallery. Victoria. (ceramic work)
Shepparton Regional Art gallery. Victoria(ceramic work)
Art Gallery of Queensland. Brisbane. Queensland. (ceramic work)
Melbourne City Council Collection. (Sculpture Model)
Melbourne City Council (public sculpture)
Heidelberg Repatriation Hospital. Melbourne (public sculpture)
Castlemaine Art Gallery. Vic(ceramic work)
Austin Hospital. Melbourne (public sculpture)
Sydney Casino. Sydney (ceramic work)
Box Hill City Council Collection. Victoria(ceramic work)
Jewish Museum Collection, Melbourne, Victoria(ceramic works)
Australian Embassy Collection, Tokyo, Japan (ceramic work)
Australian Embassy Collection Seoul Korea(ceramic work)
Convent Gallery Garden (public sculpture)
Hepburn Shire (public sculpture)
Contemporary Museum of Art, Honolulu, Hawai
EXHIBITIONS
1972 Launceston Purchase prize. Tasmania
1973 Old Fire Station Gallery. Perth. W.A.
1974 Old Fire Station Gallery. Perth. W.A.
1976 Ruby’s Gallery. San Francisco. U.S.A.
1978 Kilkenny Design Workshops Gallery. Dublin. Ireland.
1980 Gallery 14K. Copenhagen. Denmark
1980 Gallery Groeningen. Holland.
1982 Gallery Ioannis, Crete, Greece
1983 Jam Factory Gallery. Adelaide. S.A.
1984 Bonython Gallery. Adelaide. S.A.
Bethany Art gallery. Bethany. S.A.
Distelfink Art Gallery. Melbourne. Victoria.
Adelaide Festival Centre Gallery. Adelaide. S.A.
1985 Distelfink Art gallery. Melbourne. Victoria.
Mount Gambier Regional Art Gallery. S.A.
Ballarat Regional Art Gallery. Victoria.
Hamilton Regional Art gallery. Victoria.
Bendigo Ceramic Group. Bendigo. Victoria.
1986 Jam Factory Art Gallery. Adelaide. S.A.
Cuppacumbalong Art Gallery. Tharwa. A.C.T.
1988 South Australian Ceramic Award. S.A. (invitation)
1989 Distelfink Art gallery. Melbourne. Victoria.
1990 Adelaide Festival Exhibition. Bonython gallery. S.A.
1991 47th Concorso Internazionale Della Ceramica d’Arte Feanza.
Italy (invitation).
Arrarat Regional Art gallery. Victoria.
1992 International Ceramic Festival. Mino. Japan. (invitation)
Bethany Art Gallery Bethany. S.A.
Distelfink Art gallery. Melbourne. Victoria.
Melbourne City Council. Swanston Walk Sculpture model
exhibition. Melbourne. Victoria.
1993 National Gallery of Victoria. ‘The Second Landing’
(exhibition of Dutch born Australian artists).
1994 Rigg Award. Exhibition of twenty-five Victorian
ceramists. Invitation
1995 Heidelberg Repatriation Hospital (mural)
1996 ‘The vessel’ Canberra School of Art (Invitation)
1996 Qdos Fine Arts gallery. Lorne.
Distelfink Fine Arts. Director’s Choice.
1996 Distelfink Fine Arts. One man exhibition.
1997 SOFA Chicago, Australian Crafts Council (invitation)
1997 Jam Factory, Adelaide, S.A.
1998 International Ceramics award, Shepparton Regional Art Gallery, (invitation)
1999 Ian Potter Museum of Art. Melbourne university (shortlist exhibition)
2000 Jewish Museum of Australia (invitation)
1999 Hand and Mind gallery Seoul Korea, One man show
2000 Toju Cultural Foundation. Korea, One man show
2001 Convent gallery Daylesford Victoria
2004 Celebrating the Master. Skepsi gallery, Melbourne. (invitation)
2004 Jewish Museum of Australia( invitation)
2004 Shepparton Art Gallery, Vic state gallery Travelling one man exhibition)
2005 ‘The Passage of Time’ Collaborative exhibition with Oliver Patsch
for Daylesford Foto Biennale
2006 Ballarat Fine Art Gallery, one man show
2007 ‘Meditations on a Korean Odyssey’, Gallery 101, Melbourne
COMMISSIONS
1986 Benalla City Council Ceramic Sculpture
1986 Artist in Residence. Port Pirie. S.A.
1988 Castlemaine State Festival. Audio-Visual Performance.
1990 Castlemaine State Festival Committee. Six Sand Works. Victoria.
1991 Ballarat Begonia Festival. Five Sand Works. Victoria.
1991 Artist in Residence. Ballarat. Victoria.
1992 Adelaide Festival of Arts. Five Sand Works.
1992 Sculpture (blue stone) for Swanston Walk. Melbourne. Victoria.
1992 Castlemaine State Festival Committee. Six Sand Works. Victoria
1993 Artist in residence. Ballarat. Victoria.
1993 Melbourne Food and Wine Festival. One Sand Work.
1994 Castlemaine Festival Sculpture Exhibition. Invitation.
1994 Castlemaine State Festival. Stringed Visions from the
keyboard. Audio-Visual performance.
1995 Heidelberg Repatriation Hospital. Sculpture Commission
1996 Heidelberg Repatriation Hospital, Sculpture Commission
1997 Austin Hospital, Interior Design Commission
1998 Ian Potter Museum of Art (Ceramic Prize exhibition by invitation)
1998 Castlemaine Regional gallery (Ceramic exhibition of local artists)
1998 Distelfink Art Gallery. Invitation 25th Anniversary
1998 Created and published ‘Cosy Poets’ a collaborative project with Peter O’Mara
1998 Austin Hospital Public Art installation
1999 Two works for the Jewish Museum Melbourne
1999 Artist in residence Kook-Min University Korea.
2000 Toji Cultural Foundation Symposium. Guest Speaker. Seoul Korea
2001 Hepburn Council Public Sculpture Commission
2004 Commissioned to create a bowl for his Holiness The Dalai Lama
2004 Writer in residence Seoul Korea
2004 Public sculpture. Daylesford (Convent nuns, Convent Gallery Gardens)
Petrus Spronk P.O. Box 69
Hepburn Springs Victoria 3462
Email: art@petrusspronk.com
Website: www.petrusspronk.com
