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Fergus Binns

Fergus Binns, Pigeon in Electrical Fruit Tree, 2013, presented as part of TITLE?, installation at Gertrude Contemporary. Photo: Fergus Binns.
Fergus Binns, Pigeon in Electrical Fruit Tree, 2013, presented as part of TITLE?, installation at Gertrude Contemporary. Photo: Fergus Binns.

16 November -
11 December 2013

200 Gertrude Street

200 Gertrude Street, Fitzroy

Opening: 15 November, 6—8PM

Gertrude Contemporary was pleased to announce the opening of Fergus Binns’ exhibition TITLE?. Binn’s new large-scale cave painting work Life size Special (FX) Cave (painting) of Forgotten Reality... Elephant (and flowers) in the Room (cave) obviously, 2013, dominated the Studio 12 Project Space.

Fegus Binns was born in Lismore, NSW in 1980. He holds a Bachelor of Fine Art (Painting) from the Victorian College of the Arts, Solo exhibitions include Ali Baba Squinting and The Watership Windband, Utopian Slumps, Melbourne, 2012; Toy Paintings, Uplands Gallery, 2011; Toy Paintings, Chalkhorse Gallery, Sydney, 2010; In a Heart Beat (Minnie Expressions of a Distant Airshow), Inflight, Hobart, 2009; Missing Bushwalkers on Found Landscapes, Uplands Gallery, Melbourne, 2008; Work From Garage, Chalkhorse, Sydney, 2008; The Wilderness, Uplands Gallery, Melbourne, 2007; Fergus Binns, Uplands Gallery, Melbourne, 2005; Paintings, TCB art inc, Melbourne, 2004; and Galerie Vege, TCB art inc, Melbourne, 2003. Recent group exhibitions include Sub12, The Substation, Newport, 2013; DECLINE, curated by Harriet Morgan, Top Shelf Gallery, Melbourne, 2013; Like Mike, Linden Centre for Contemporary Art, St Kilda, 2013; Guirguis New Art Prize, Art Gallery of Ballarat, 2013; On the Y Axis: Considering Vertical Perspective, curated by Venita Poblocki, First Draft, Sydney, 2012; Thank you for the days: my teenage years, curated by Djon Mundine, Lismore Regional Gallery, 2011; Impossible Objects 1, organised by Melissa Loughnan and Helen Hughes, Utopian Slumps, Melbourne, 2011; Home, Lismore Regional Gallery, Lismore, 2008; MAN: Depicting Contemporary Masculinity, Penrith Regional Gallery, Penrith, 2008; Primavera 2006, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, 2006; Big In Japan, Gallery Side 2, Tokyo, Japan, 2006. Binns was winner of the Metro 5 Award in 2008 and the TCB VCA Graduate Award 2003. 

Fergus Binns is represented by Utopian Slumps, Melbourne.

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