Neon Parc | Darren Sylvester

Born 1974 Warrane/Sydney, Australia. Lives and works in Naarm/Melbourne, Australia.**

Darren Sylvester, installation view, 'Carve a Future, Devour Everything, Become Something', NGV Australia, 1 March – 30 June 2019. Photography: Tom Ross

Selected works (70)

Exhibitions (5)

‘The Doom Buggies’
Brunswick
1 Mar.–6 Apr.
2024

‘The Heads of Snowmen’
Brunswick
1 Feb.–24 Feb.
2024

‘Shoobie Doobie’
Brunswick
12 Nov.–18 Dec.
2021

‘Forever twenty one’

31 May.–6 Jul.
2019

‘Darren Sylvester’
Brunswick
20 Apr.–9 Jun.
2017

Curriculum vitae (PDF)

Recent Solo Exhibitions

2024: ‘The Doom Buggies’, Neon Parc, Melbourne; ‘The Heads of Snowmen’, Neon Parc, Melbourne
2023: ‘2 Telegenic 2 Die’, Sullivan+Strumpf, Sydney; ‘The Stars Know My Name’, Hellenic Museum, Melbourne
2021: ‘Shoobie Doobie’, Neon Parc Brunswick, Melbourne; ‘Treasure Island’, Tweed Regional Gallery, NSW
2020: ‘Balustrade Stake’, Sullivan+Strumpf, Sydney
2019: ‘Carve a Future’, Devour Everything, Become Something, National Gallery of Victoria; ‘Forever Twenty One’ Neon Parc City, Melbourne
2018: ‘Out of Life’, Sullivan+Strumpf, Sydney
2017: ‘Darren Sylvester’, Neon Parc Brunswick, Melbourne
2016: ‘Broken Model’, Sullivan+Strumpf, Sydney
2014: ‘Darren Sylvester’, NADA Miami, Neon Parc; ‘Dreams End With You’, Sullivan+Strumpf, Sydney; ‘Won’, Alaska Projects, Sydney
2013: ‘Darren Sylvester’, VOLTA NY, Soho, New York, USA; ‘Darren Sylvester’, Alice Euphemia, Part of L’Oreal Melbourne Fashion Festival, Melbourne
2012: ‘Studio 12 Exhibition’, Gertrude Contemporary, Melbourne Darren Sylvester,; Sullivan+Strumpf Fine Art, Sydney
2011: ‘Darren Sylvester’, Sullivan+Strumpf, Sydney
2010: ‘Darren Sylvester – Take Me To You’, Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts (NAFA), Singapore; ‘Darren Sylvester - Large Format Works’, Sullivan+Strumpf, Sydney
2009: ‘Darren Sylvester’, Sullivan+Strumpf, Sydney

Selected Group Exhibitions

2023: ‘Maria Kozic x Darren Sylvester’, Neon Parc, Melbourne; ‘A Commodity is a Strange Thing’, Cellar Door⁣, Sydney
2022: ‘2022 Adelaide Biennial: Free/State’, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
2021: ‘The National’, Carriageworks, Sydney; ‘The Sculptural Body’, MUMA, Melbourne
2020: ‘Only Fans’, Neon Parc (online), Melbourne; ‘Annual Summer Group Show’, Sullivan+Strumpf, Sydney; ‘House Arrest’, Neon Parc, Melbourne
2019: ‘Sydney Contemporary’, Sullivan+Strumpf, Carriageworks, Sydney; ‘Remembrance’, The American Club, Singapore; ‘Annual Group Show’, Sullivan+Strumpf, Sydney
2018: Art Basel Hong Kong, Hong Kong Convention & Exhibition Centre, Hong Kong; ‘Looking But Not Seeing’, Benalla Art Gallery, curated by Kiron Robinson
2017: ‘Misshaped Head’, Neon Parc Brunswick; Art Basel Hong Kong, Sullivan+Strumpf, Hong Kong; ‘Spring1883’, Sydney, Neon Parc
2016: ‘Art Stage Jakarta’, Sullivan+Strumpf, Sheraton Grand Jakarta Granaria City Hotel Arrival, Singapore; ‘Group Exhibition’, Sullivan+Strumpf, Sydney
2015: ‘Midwinter Masters: Percy Grainger: In the Company of Strangers’, The Gallery, Bayside Arts
Centre, Victoria; ‘Outside Thoughts’, Contemporary Art Tasmania; ‘10 Year Anniversary Group Exhibition’, Sullivan+Strumpf, Sydney
2014: ‘Cars = My Automolove’, Caboolture Regional Art Gallery, Caboolture; ‘Wildcards: Bill Henson’, Monash Gallery of Art, VIC, Feb-March Animal Ark / Animal Art, Art Gallery of Western Australia; ‘Video’, Sullivan+Strumpf, Sydney
2013: ‘Melbourne Now’, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne; ‘National Artists’ Self-Portrait Prize’, University of Queensland Art Museum, Brisbane; ‘Burqas, veils and hoodies’, Walker Street Gallery and Arts Centre, Melbourne; ‘NGV Studio: Wired for Melbourne Sound’, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne; ‘Space Oddity’, Linden Centre of Contemporary Art, Melbourne; ‘Make Up: Painted Faces in Contemporary Photography’, Monash Gallery of Art, Melbourne; ‘Surface Noise’, Bus Projects, Melbourne; White Night Festival, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne; ‘We used to talk about love: Balnaves Contemporary’, Art Gallery of New South Wales,; curator Natasha Bullock, Sydney; Sullivan+Strumpf, Sydney; ;Burqas, veils and hoodies’, Walker Street Gallery and Arts Centre, Dandenong
2012: ‘Lumens Festival: Curating the Ancient City’, Suzhou, Jiangsu, China Like, Casula; Powerhouse, Sydney; ‘Chromagenic’, Media House Gallery, The Age Building, Melbourne Sense of Place, Lux; Media Arts, ‘touring’; ‘Project 12: This is not a Love Song’, Anna Pappas Gallery, Melbourne
2011: ‘What’s in a Face? Aspects of portrait photography’, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney; ‘Studio Artists Exhibition’, Gertrude Contemporary, Melbourne; ‘SUBTEXT: Artists and Writing’, West Space, Melbourne; ‘Black Box<>White Cube—Aspects of Performance in Contemporary Australian Art’, The Arts; Centre, Melbourne; ‘Jospehine Ulrick and Win Schubert Photography Award’, Gold Coast City Gallery, Gold
Coast; ‘Art Stage Singapore’, Sullivan+Strumpf Fine Art, Marina Bay Sands, Singapore
2010: ‘Power Chicks and Men Who Sew’, Deloitte, Sydney; ‘Mortality’, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne; ‘Autumn Masterpieces’, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne; ‘Double Exposure’, Viscopy Gallery, Sydney; ‘ARTHK2010’, Sullivan+Strumpf Fine Art, Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre,; Hong Kong SSFA10, Sullivan+Strumpf Fine Art, Sydney

Collections

Artbank
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth
Australia Council for the Arts
Charles Sturt University, Wagga Wagga
City of Port Phillip, Melbourne
Daniel & Danielle Besen Collection
Edith Cowan University, Perth
Gold Coast City Gallery, Gold Coast
Horsham Regional Gallery, Horsham
La Trobe University, Melbourne
Melbourne University, Baillieu Library, Melbourne Monash Gallery of Art, Melbourne Monash
University Collection, Melbourne
Murdoch University Collection, Perth
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane
Sir Elton John Collection
University of Queensland Art Museum, Brisbane
Private collections throughout Australasia, United States, United Kingdom, China

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Installation view, Darren Sylvester, ‘The Heads of Snowmen’, 2024. Neon Parc, Brunswick.

Darren Sylvester, ‘Captain’, 2024. Hand blown glass, bronze, 29 x 19 x 23 cm.

Installation view, Darren Sylvester, ‘The Heads of Snowmen’, 2024. Neon Parc, Brunswick.

Darren Sylvester, ‘Snowy’, 2024. Hand blown glass, bronze, 32 x 30 x 35 cm.

Darren Sylvester, 'Petty moxie', 2024. Archival inkjet print, 160 x 120 cm.

Installation view, Darren Sylvester, ‘Doom Buggies’, 2024. Neon Parc, Brunswick.

Darren Sylvester, 'Boys in the rain', 2024. Archival inkjet prints, 240 x 160 cm.

Darren Sylvester, 'Pirates par excellence', 2024. Archival inkjet prints, 320 x 240 cm.

Installation view, Darren Sylvester, ‘Doom Buggies’, 2024. Neon Parc, Brunswick.

Installation view, Darren Sylvester, ‘Uncanny Vallery: Photography, Tech and the Hyperreal’, as part of PHOTO 2024.

Darren Sylvester, Cheeseburger, 2017, Screenprinted Danish wool, stainless steel, 202 x 102 x 50 cm, Edition 1/1 + 2AP

Darren Sylvester, 'Star Machine', 2023. Lightjet prints, 240 x 160 cm.

Darren Sylvester, 'Transformer', 2021. Steel, neon, transformers, animator unit, mixed media, 220 x 130 x 48 cm. Installation view, '2022 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art: Free/State', Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, 2022.

Darren Sylvester, 'Dear Diary' 2021, two lightjet prints, 240 x 160 cm, edition of 3 + 2 AP, lightjet print, 180 x 120 cm, edition of 3 + 2 AP.

Darren Sylvester, 'Forest Flats', 2021. Two lightjet prints, 240 x 160cm.

Darren Sylvester, 'God bless therapy', 2021. Two lightjet prints, 240 x 160 cm.

Darren Sylvester, 'Shoobie Doobie', 2021, two lightjet prints, 240 x 160 cm.

Darren Sylvester, 'Adidas Hikers' 2017. Digital type C print, 320 x 120 cm, Ed. 2/3 + 2 AP.

Darren Sylvester, 'Céline', 2019. Acrylic, paint, timber, fluroescents, 240 x 240 x 20 cm.

Darren Sylvester, 'Sleeping Beauty dungeon door', 2021. Jelutong wood, natural stain, steel. 102 x 46 x 7 cm.

Darren Sylvester, 'Transformer', 2021. Steel, neon, transformers, animator unit, mixed media. 220 x 130 x 48 cm

Darren Sylvester, 'Triple S Space Rocker' 2021. Birch wood, black film, upholstery foam, wool, rubber, paint, 180 x 60 x 90 cm.

Darren Sylvester, What happens will happen #3, 2010, Digital type C print, 120 x 90 cm, AP 2/2

Darren Sylvester, Hi, 2010, Lightjet C print 120 x 160 cm, Ed. 1/3 + 2 AP

Darren Sylvester, 'Let hopes and dreams be things we can achieve', 2005, Digital type C print, 90 x 120 cm, AP 2/2

Darren Sylvester, If all we have is each other, that’s OK, 2003, Digital type C print, 90 x 120 cm, AP 2/2

Darren Sylvester, 'Broken model', 2016. Digital type C print, .120 x 160 cm. AP 2/2.

Darren Sylvester, To live, 2016, Bronze and porcelain, purple sand, Dimensions variable, Edition 32/40

Darren Sylvester, 'Triple S Space Rocker', 2021. Birch wood, upholstery foam, wool, rubber, paint. 180 x 60 x 90 cm.

Darren Sylvester, 'Forever twenty one', Neon Parc City, 2019. Installation view.

Darren Sylvester, 'Forever twenty one', 2019. Four lightjet prints, overall 240 x 320 cm. Ed. 1/3 + 2 AP

Darren Sylvester, 'Forever twenty one', Neon Parc City, 2019. Installation view.

Darren Sylvester, 'Horizon', 2019. Lightjet print, 160 x 120 cm. Ed. 3/3 + 2AP.

Darren Sylvester, Darren Sylvester, 'IKEA sunrise', 2018. Digital type C print, 240 x 160 cm. Ed. 1/3 + 2AP.

Darren Sylvester, 'Listen to me', 2012. Digital type C print, 160 x 120 cm. Ed. 1/3 + 2AP.

Darren Sylvester, 'Fillet-O-Fish', 2017. Screenprinted Danish wool, stainless steel 202 x 102 x 50 cm, Unique.

Darren Sylvester, 'Psychic's house', 2020. Digital type C print 180 x 120 cm, Ed. 2/3 + 2AP.

Darren Sylvester, 'Such a memory', 2012. Digital type C print, 160 x 120 cm. Ed. 1/3 + 2AP.

Darren Sylvester, 'Your heart never lied', 2012. Digital type C print, 160 x 120 cm. Ed. 1/3 + 2AP.

Darren Sylvester, 'Silver Lockheed', 2017. Digital type C print, 240 x 160 cm, Ed of 3 + 2AP.

Darren Sylvester, Installation view, '2022 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art: Free/State', Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, 2022.

Darren Sylvester, 'Séance', 2022. Six lightjet prints, 240 x 480 cm. Unique. Installation view, '2022 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art: Free/State', Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, 2022.

Darren Sylvester, installation view, 'Carve a Future, Devour Everything, Become Something', NGV Australia, 1 March – 30 June 2019. Photography: Tom Ross

Darren Sylvester, Who you are or how I meet you, I don’t know, 2007, Digital type C print, 90 x 120 cm, Ed. 4/6 + 2 AP

Darren Sylvester, I'm gonna live on after I die. In a search engine for all eternity, there I will be, 2014, Embroidered towel, 71 x 144 cm

Darren Sylvester, 'Shoobie Doobie', 2021. Installation view

Darren Sylvester, 'Shoobie Doobie', 2021. Installation view.

Darren Sylvester, 'Shoobie Doobie', 2021. Installation view

Darren Sylvester, 'Shoobie Doobie', 2021. Installation view.

Darren Sylvester, 'Céline', 2017. Steel, paint, steel, light, 240 x 240 x 20 cm. Installation view, Bus Projects, Melbourne.

Darren Sylvester, 'Céline', 2019. Acrylic, paint, timber, fluroescents, 240 x 240 x 20 cm.

Darren Sylvester, 'Céline', 2017. Steel, paint, steel, light, 240 x 240 x 20 cm. Installation view, Bus Projects, Melbourne.

Darren Sylvester, 'Forever twenty one', Neon Parc City, 2019. Installation view.

Darren Sylvester, Green Editorial, 2016, Digital type C print, 180 x 120 cm, Ed. 1/3 + 2AP

Darren Sylvester, installation view, 'Carve a Future, Devour Everything, Become Something', NGV Australia, 1 March – 30 June 2019. Photography: Tom Ross

Installation view, Darren Sylvester, Neon Parc Brunswick, 2017.

Darren Sylvester, 'Fillet-O-Fish', 2017. Screenprinted Danish wool, stainless steel 202 x 102 x 50 cm, Unique.

Installation view, Darren Sylvester, Neon Parc Brunswick, 2017.

Darren Sylvester, 'Silver Lockheed', 2017. Digital type C print, 240 x 160 cm, Ed of 3 + 2AP.

Installation view, Darren Sylvester, Neon Parc Brunswick, 2017.