Neon Parc acknowledges the Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung and Bunurong Boon Wurrung as the Traditional Owners and sovereign custodians of the Country on which we operate. We pay our deepest respects to their Elders past and present. Always was, always will be Aboriginal land.
Colleen Ahern was born in 1971 in Wiradjuri/Leeton, New South Wales. Lives and works in Naarm/Melbourne, Australia.
Colleen Ahern's paintings engage primarily with visible remnants of the music industry, the historical scope of portraiture, and cultural iconography. Ahern creates paintings that are representational of vinyl LP record covers, exploring the intersecting nexus between fandom and nostalgia. The idea of homage is accentuated in Ahern's practice, as her paintings mimic the size of the record itself, and are created within the time it takes to listen to the album's duration. Ahern's recent work expands the artist's preoccupation with record cover art and translating the experience of music, utilising her trademark painting format of the 12-inch album.
Colleen Ahern, 39.44 min (Beggars Banquet), 2016, Oil on board, 2 panels, 30 x 30 cm each
‘Cathedral’, Colleen Ahern & Tully Moore, Bus Projects, Melbourne
2014
‘Dear Masato, All at Once’, Margaret Lawrence Gallery, Melbourne
‘Don’t Kurt Cobain’, Slopes Gallery, Melbourne
‘Re-raising consciousness’, TCB art inc, Melbourne
2011
‘A way of Calling’, Linden Centre of Contemporary Art, Melbourne
‘Sushichampagnepaintingsculpture’, City apartment, Melbourne
2010
‘Jewel of the Newell’, Firstdraft, Sydney.
‘Photocopier’, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne
‘Like your Small Opening’, Hell Gallery, Melbourne
2009
‘Shilo Project’, Ian Potter, Melbourne.
Royal Bank of Scotland Contemporary Australian Art Award, Royal Bank of Scotland, Sydney.
2008
‘The Art of the Bicycle’, Don’t Come Gallery, Melbourne
‘Satellite Show’, Joint Hassles, Melbourne
Melbourne Art Fair, Neon Parc, Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne
2006
‘Still lives’, TCB art inc., Melbourne
‘Kids Stay Free’, Neon Parc, Melbourne
ABN AMRO Emerging Artist Award, Optus Centre, Melbourne
2005
Affordable Art Fair, Melbourne Exhibition Building, Melbourne
‘A portable model of…’, Plimsoll Gallery, University of Tasmania, Hobart
Latrobe Regional Gallery, Morewell
‘Cover Versions’, Arts Projects Victoria, Melbourne
2004
‘Address Book’, Bus Gallery, Melbourne
‘Rock and Roll Wall of Flame’, Dudespace, Melbourne
‘Fair Game: Art + Sport’, NGV Response Gallery, Melbourne
2003
‘Seventies Extension’, 3/19 Albert St, Melbourne
‘Posted’, MOP Project Space, Sydney
2002
‘Long Player’, UPLANDS Gallery, Melbourne
‘Something for the Ladies’, Penthouse and Pavement, Melbourne
2001
‘Eat My Art’, TCB art inc., Melbourne
‘Love and Other Abstract Things’, Penthouse and Pavement, Melbourne
2000
‘Rear Vision’, Span Galleries, Melbourne
1999
‘Who’s Afraid of the Avant Garde, Who Cares?’, TCB art inc., Melbourne
Vinyl, VCA Gallery, Melbourne.
‘Don’t have to sell my soul, he’s already in me’, TCB art inc., Melbourne
(close)Colleen Ahern, '61.15 min (Dongs of Sevotion)', 2016. Oil on board, 30 x 30 cm.Colleen Ahern, 75.39 min (Double Cocker Power), 2016, Oil on board, 30 x 30 cmColleen Ahern,
Bowie,
2007,
Oil on board,
30 x 30 cmColleen Ahern, 41.06 min (Stranded), 2016, Oil on board, 30 x 30 cmColleen Ahern,
Feelin Inside,
2010,
Oil on paper,
76 x 56 cmColleen Ahern,
At Heart,
2010,
Oil on paper,
76 x 56 cmColleen Ahern,
Head On,
2010,
Oil on paper,
76 x 56 cmColleen Ahern,
Head On,
2010,
Oil on paper,
76 x 56 cmColleen Ahern, 42.14 min (East), 2016, Oil on board, 30 x 30 cmColleen Ahern, 52.06 min (Atom Heart Mother), 2016, Oil on board, 30 x 30 cmColleen Ahern, 40.02 min (Dreamboat Annie Over Parallel Lines), 2016, Oil on board, 31 x 30 cmColleen Ahern, 46.11 min (Odetta at Town Hall), 2016, Oil on board, 30 x 30 cmColleen Ahern, 44.23 min (Tattoo You), 2016, Oil on board, 30 x 30 cmColleen Ahern, 39.44 min (Beggars Banquet), 2016, Oil on board, 2 panels, 30 x 30 cm each
