Polaroid by David-Ashley Kerr
Solo Exhibitions
2023 Ever Evolving Landscape Sauerbier House AU
2022 New Work Maunsell Wickes AU
2020 Landscapes 2020 Maunsell Wickes AU
Joint Exhibitions
2019 Glossolalia Lethbridge Gallery AU
2016 Probed Light KTR/Active-Art DE
Walking Tapestry Ernst & Young DE
2015 3 Painters Old Museum AU
Group Exhibitions
2023 Lethbridge Landscape Prize
Students of Keith Dewell Berry Studio Gallery AU
2022 Lethbridge 20 000 Lethbridge Gallery AU
2021 Fellows Exhibition RQAS AU
2020 End of year exhibition Maunsell Wickes AU
2019 End of year exhibition Maunsell Wickes AU
Brisbane Portrait Prize Powerhouse AU
Naked & Nude Prize Manning Regional Gallery AU
KAAF Korean Cultural Center AU
Blacktown City Art Prize Blacktown Arts AU
Clayton Utz Art Award AU
Du Rietz Art Awards Gympie Regional Gallery AU
Memory & Landscape Allison K Bellinger Gallery AU
The Naked Truth RQAS AU
2018 Leipzig in Hamburg Greskewitz-Kleinitz-Galerie DE
Sedimente Werkschau Spinnerei DE
Spring Spinnerei Rundgang Spinnerei DE
CURIO Lethbridge Gallery AU
Redlands Art Award Redland Art Gallery AU
KAAF Korean Cultural Center AU
Moreton Bay Art Awards Pine Rivers Art Gallery AU
QLD Figurative Award RQAS AU
H&A Richardson Drawing Prize RQAS AU
The End Festival Hill End AU
2017 Strong Enough Galerie Irrgang DE
Affects on Absorption LIA Spinnerei Rundgang DE
PARADIGMA Blickwechsel Tapetenwerk DE
Cheer-io Heiser Gallery AU
Rick Amor Self Portrait Prize Montsalvat AU
Moreton Bay Art Awards Pine Rivers Art Gallery AU
Annual Members Exhibition RQAS AU
2016 If on a Winters Night a Traveller LIA Spinnerei Rundgang DE
International Residents Neo Rauch Grafik Stiftung DE
PARADIGMA Blickwechsel Tapetenwerk DE
AME Alice Bale Awards Glen Eira Council Gallery AU
Moreton Bay Art Awards Pine Rivers Art Gallery AU
Glencore Percival Portrait Prize Townsville Regional AU
Wyndham Art Prize Wyndham Art Gallery AU
2015 Unheimlich LIA Spinnerei Rundgang DE
2014 Journeys West Orange Regional Gallery AU
Redlands Art Award Redland Art Gallery AU
QLD Figurative Award RQAS AU
Moreton Bay Art Awards Pine Rivers Art Gallery AU
AME Alice Bale Awards Glen Eira Council Gallery AU
ARC Yinnar Drawing Prize AU
2011 Evolving Traditions Redcliffe City Art Gallery AU
Collections
Lethbridge Gallery Brisbane AU
Chevalier Yves Hernot Sydney AU
Atelier für Radierung Leipzig DE
Kreativ Werkstatt Aschersleben DE
Leipzig International Art Programme (LIA) DE
Royal Queensland Art Society (RQAS) AU
Sculptors Queensland (SQ) AU
Private Collections worldwide
Education
2012 Australian National University AU
2005 Julian Ashton Art School AU
Awards / Grants
2023 Hornsby Art Prize Wallarobba Arts & Cultural Centre AU
Lethbridge 20 000 Lethbridge Gallery AU
Major Grant English Speaking Union (VIC) AU
2020 QLD Figurative Award RQAS
2017 Art Projects for Individuals Australia Council
2015 Individuals Grant Arts Queensland
Crowdfunding (Leipzig Residency. LIA) Kickstarter
2014 Best In Show RQAS Annual Members
Works On Paper RQAS Annual Members
2008 AME Bale Travelling Scholarship
2005 Robert Lee Gay Brereton Prize AGNSW
2000 Dobell Scholarship JAAS
Residencies
2023 Sauerbier House AU
2018 Hill End Bathurst AU
2016 Atelierhaus Salzamt AT
2015 LIA Spinnerei DE
Bibliography
Sauerbier Residency 2023 “Port Noarlunga Arts Precinct Program” City of Onkaparinga AU
Caddell, C 2022 “The True Gods Attend You” Bonfire Books AU
Lynn, L 2018 "Leipzig in Hamburg" DE
Lewis, M/ Van, S 2017 “ Tree People. Vol 1” Paper Earth USA
Pietsch, E/ Rolland, A L 2016 "PARADIGMA Blickweschsel II" DE
Fitzgerald, S "The Percivals 2016 Perc Tucker Gallery AU
Media
LCA News:
lcanews.com/exposition-ryan-daffurn/
ID Vice:
youtube.com/watch?v=UNw-vsu7B7w&feature=youtu.be
Neo Rauch Graphic Stiftung:
youtube.com/watch?v=oXjZ0fIC4Gg
Gallery Talk:
gallerytalk.net/mehr-malerei-machen/
Mitteldeutsche Zeitung:
mz-web.de/aschersleben/atelierbesuch-im-bestehornpark-architektur-puzzle-24643606
cultgc.wordpress.com/2016/11/19/brisbane-artist-series-ryan-william-daffurn/
Commissions
Royal Queensland Art Society
Advance Australia
Various private commissions
Teaching
2023 Sauerbier House AU
2019 Private classes AU
2018 Academy of Visionary Art AT
2017 Private workshops AT
2010-15 Atelier Art Classes AU
2013 Queensland Rail AU
2011 Westpac Bank AU
2010 QCA Griffith University AU
2002-06 Julian Ashton Art School AU