Julie Collins & Derek John – Sculpture
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Julie has been a professional sculptor since 1987, exhibiting across commercial, public and artists run galleries. Derek is a steel fabricator by trade & has 35 years’ experience in assisting artists with creative outcomes. He has been collaborating with Julie on sculptural projects since 2001. Julie has exhibited in 32 solo and 120 group exhibitions including collaboratively with Derek since 2001. Their sculptures are held in public and private collections throughout Australia and internationally.
Solo Exhibitions by Julie Collins and Derek John
2022 Core Samples - & Gallery Australia @ Sorrento
2021 In the Not Too Distant Future- & Gallery Australia
2019 The Lucky Dip Fed Square - & Gallery Pop Up
2017 Evidence@Hepburn Bathhouse & Spa
2016 Paradise Lost, & Gallery Melbourne
Paradise Lost, Stockroom Gallery Kyneton
Evidence@ballarat Lost Ones Gallery, Ballarat
2015 Evidence Based Research – Collate, & Gallery Melbourne
2014 Evidence Based Research@QDOS, Qdos Gallery, Lorne, Victoria
2013 Rescue- Mars Gallery Port Melbourne
2011 Open Studio- Golden Plains Arts Trail
2011 Shared Journey- Stockroom, Kyneton, Victoria.
Messages to the World, Mars Gallery, Port Melbourne.
Open Studio -Golden Plains Arts Trail.
Messages to the Street, Sturt Street Rotunda, Ballarat.
2010 Seven Stories - Civic Trust House. Cork Ireland.
Rescue -Siamasa Tire Gallery, Tralee Ireland.
Unnatural Disaster, Installation- National Sculpture Gallery Cork, Ireland.
Landscape, Shared Journey -Bundaberg Regional Art Gallery.
2009 Arts Trail, Studio Exhibition.
Are We There Yet? - Yarra Sculpture Gallery.
2008 Ship of Fools -Ballarat Mining Exchange.
2006 With Ownership Comes Great Responsibility -Yarra Sculpture Gallery.
2004 Landscape - Yarra Sculpture Gallery. Melbourne.
2002 The Small One -Yarra Sculpture Gallery, Melbourne.
Solo Exhibitions by Julie Collins
2000 Fractured Memoirs- Yarra Sculpture Gallery.
1999 Pettys Reopen -Pettys Orchard, Templestowe Melbourne.
1998 Pettys Orchard -One Weekend Only, Melbourne.
1997 Worship -Yarra Sculpture Space Melbourne.
1995 Recent Sculpture- Craft Council Gallery Canberra.
1993 Zoning-Luba Bilu Gallery Melbourne.
1991 Recent Sculpture- Luba Bilu Gallery Melbourne.
1990 Sea Stories -Luba Bilu Gallery Melbourne
Group Exhibitions by Julie Collins and Derek John
2023 The Locals @ InterContinental Hotel Sorrento
2022 Melbourne Salon at & Gallery @ FED SQ.
Yering Station 20th Anniversary Sculpture exhibition
2021 Montalto Sculpture Award
Every Artist Ever- Stockroom Kyneton
2017 CSA /Yarra Sculpture Gallery 20th Anniversary exhibition
2016 Montalto Sculpture Award- Red Hill Victoria
Alice Springs Prize. Finalist Alice Springs
2015 Mt Alexander Rd Project – City of Moonee Valley
Deakin Small Sculpture Award- Deakin University Gallery, Burwood CSA
18th Anniversary Exhibition- Yarra Sculpture Gallery- Abbotsford
Evidence Based Research- the Rescue- Incinerator - Moonee Ponds
Climarte: The Warming and The Anthropocene Cabinet of Curiosities-
Australian Galleries
Montalto Sculpture Award- Red Hill Victoria
2014 Sculpture by the Sea- Bondi NSW
Flower, Yarra Sculpture Gallery Curated by David Waters
Mars Gallery Pop Up Exhibition WTC Melbourne.
Lights on - Lights Off, Spencer Street Melbourne
2013 The Story of the Creative-See Me Gallery Long Island, Queens New York.
Art/Work Fairbanks Gallery Ballarat, Victoria
Mt Buller Sculpture Award- Mt Buller Victoria
Periscope- Castlemaine State Festival, Visual Arts curated by Deborah Ratcliff
2012 Maquette Exhibition -Mars Gallery, Port Melbourne.
A Pop Up Gallery - Mars Gallery in Collins Street.
A Public Art Perspective - Backyard Gallery, Ballarat.
Sculpture by the Sea- Cottlesloe, Western Australia.
2011 Small Works Australian Galleries -Melbourne & Sydney.
Sculpture by the Sea- Bondi, New South Wales
Montalto Sculpture Award-Red Hill, Victoria.
Bonanza- Yarra Sculpture Gallery-Abbotsford, Victoria.
2010 Yering Station Sculpture Award- Yarra Valley.
Toyota Sculpture Exhibition-Port Melbourne.
Bittersweet, Macroom Town Hall-Macroom County Cork, Ireland.
Seven Messages to the World- Willow Bar, Northern Exposure, Northcote.
Bittersweet -Dodswell Gallery, Roscarberry, West Cork.
Bonanza - Yarra Sculpture Gallery, Abbotsford.
2009 Willoughby Sculpture Prize -Willoughby Council, NSW.
Glenlyon Sculpture Show -Glenlyon Victoria.
Horses and Hats - Yarra Sculpture Gallery.
1 0/30 - Post Office Gallery, Ballarat.
Northern Exposure-High Street Northcote.
Williamstown Contemporary Art Prize -Substation Newport.
Linden Post Card Show - Linden Gallery St Kilda.
Bonanza - Yarra Sculpture Gallery, Abbotsford.
2008 Affordable Art Show - Post Office Gallery, Ballarat.
Bonanza- Yarra Sculpture Gallery, Abbotsford.
Yering Station Sculpture Award & Exhibition -Yarra Valley.
Glenlyon Sculpture Show - Curated by Jason Waterhouse.
Metal, Curated by Van Komis - Yarra Sculpture Gallery.
Ship of Fools, Ship of Hope, One World - Ballarat Mining Exchange.
Ship of Fools, Ship of Hope, One World - Yarra Sculpture Gallery.
Motorshow 3 -Docklands, Melbourne.
Committed/Committee -Yarra Sculpture Space, Abbotsford.
Montalto Sculpture Award - Red Hill, Victoria.
Sustainable Living Festival - Federation Square.
2007 Lorne Sculpture Prize, Lorne Victoria.
Yering Station Sculpture Award & Exhibition- Yering Station, Yarra Valley.
Ten, 10th anniversary exhibition CSA. Yarra Sculpture Gallery.
Bonanza, Yarra Sculpture Gallery, Abbotsford.
Concurrent, ABL, Melbourne.
Posted, Yarra Sculpture Gallery.
Water, Yarra Sculpture Gallery.
Waste Not, Want Not - Edinburgh Gardens, North Fitzroy.
Waste Not, Want Not - Yarra Sculpture Gallery.
Contempora2 - Docklands, Melbourne.
2006 Motorshow 06, Yarra Sculpture Gallery, curated by Jason Waterhouse.
Symbiotics, Toyota Australia, Port Melbourne.
Toorak Sculpture Festival, Toorak.
Yering Station Sculpture Award & Exhibition. Yarra Valley.
Bonanza, Yarra Sculpture Gallery, Abbotsford
2005 Docklands Festival of Sculpture. Docklands Melbourne.
Metaphysics, Toyota Australia, Port Melbourne.
Bonanza, Yarra Sculpture Gallery, Abbotsford.
Yarra array, Birrarungmar, City of Melbourne.
Group Exhibitions by Julie Collins
2005 Committed -Yarra Sculpture Gallery.
2004 The World We Live - Melbourne Museum.
2002 Terra Firma Sculpture Trail - Hawthorn, Melbourne.
CSAsculpture@stkildabotanicalgardens - St Kilda Botanical Gardens.
2001 Selection - Yarra Sculpture Gallery,
CSAsculpture@stkildabotanicalgardens - St Kilda Botanical Gardens.
Horizons 01 - BHG Gallery, Kyneton, Victoria.
Begonia Festival Sculpture Show -Ballarat.
Sculpture Survey 01 - Gomboc Gallery W.A.
2000 Ovedue- Yarra Sculpture Gallery Melbourne.
1999 Organic, Sculptural Form/Natural Landscape- McClelland Art Gallery
The Australian Tactile Art Prize - Customs House Sydney. Commissions
Rejected - Yarra Sculpture Gallery. Bonanza - Yarra Sculpture Gallery.
1998 M3 - Yarra Sculpture Space Melbourne.
Sculpture Trail - Dandenong Ranges Curated by Ken Scarlett.
Ceres Sculpture Show - Melbourne Australia.
1997 Herring Island Environmental Sculpture Park - Melbourne International Festival
Enough Space - Yarra Sculpture Space, Melbourne.
Fringe Festival - Stop 22, Melbourne Australia.
1996 Sculpture Now, Castlemaine State Festival.
Gasworks Outdoor Sculpture Show, Gasworks Port Melbourne.
1995 The Situation Now; A Survey Of Local Non Objective Art - Latrobe University
Continuum and Contrast curated By Ken Scarlett - McClelland Gallery.
Contemporary Australian Artist - National Gallery of Victoria.
It’s a Guitar Shaped World curated By Reg Lynch - Tamworth City Gallery
1994 Fourth Australian Contemporary Art Fair Royal Exhibitions Buildings.
Gasworks Outdoor Sculpture Show, Gasworks Port Melbourne.
Sculpture for Heidelberg, Repatriation Hospital, curated by Ken Scarlett.
Sculpture on The Foreshore, Williamstown Festival Melbourne.
Alice Prize Araluen Arts Centre Alice Springs.
1993 No Standing, Melbourne International Festival Melbourne.
Gasworks Outdoor Sculpture Show, Gasworks Port Melbourne.
Artworkz 5 101 Collins Street Melbourne.
1992 Margaret Stewart Endowment Collection, National Gallery of Victoria.
Recently Seen, McClelland Gallery Mornington Victoria.
Gasworks Outdoor Sculpture Show -Gasworks, Port Melbourne.
Third Australian Contemporary Art Fair - Royal Exhibition Buildings.
1991 Review 1991 - Luba Bilu Gallery Melbourne.
In 3D, Contemporary Outdoors Sculpture - Heide Park And Art Gallery.
1990 Special.... It’s Been Used Before - Luba Bilu Gallery.
Sculpture at Riverside Quay South Bank Melbourne - Fourth Australian
Sculpture Triennial
Sculpture - Meat Market Craft Centre Melbourne.
1989 St Kilda Festival Show Theatre Works - Melbourne.
Sculptors on The Wall, Others on the Floor - 70 Arden Street Gallery.
1988 Group Show - 70 Arden Street Gallery Melbourne.
1987 Prahran Prize Show- William Street Gallery Melbourne
Residences
Julie Collins and Derek John
2010 National Sculpture Factory in association with Cork Film Centre - Cork Ireland.
Bundaberg Regional Art Gallery -Queensland, Australia. Julie Collins
2008 Artist in residence -Ballarat Art Gallery open weekend.
1998 (12 Months) Petty Orchards - Parks Victoria
1996 (3 months) Carey Grammar - Melbourne
1994 (3 Months) Doncaster Quarry -City of Manningham
Awards & Grants
Julie Collins and Derek John
2022 Yering Award, Yering Station
2015 Mitchell Family Award, Montalto Sculpture
2009 Toyota Travel Award.
Willoughby Sculpture Prize- Major Award.
Williamstown Contemporary Art Prize,
Fundere Award. 2008
Agashop Award of Excellence.
2007 Celia Dymond Design Acquisitive Award,
Contempora2 Sculpture Encouragement Award
2006 Fernhills Non Acquisitive Prize,
Yering Station, Highly Commended.
Public Art Commission by Julie Collins and Derek John
Home at Alphington old Papermills site - 10 major sculptures throughout the major development.
ANA building Camp Street Ballarat Commission.
Sunvale Project City of Brimbank Commission - Collaboration with Mandi Barton & Lee ann Clarke Sebastopol
CFA Sebastopol 150th Commission.
Private home- Shunde, China.
City of Greater Geelong.
Port Fairy, Private Commission.
Mt Helen, Victoria, private home, The River.
St Michaels Catholic Church – Melbourne
Fresh & Salty, Haddon Wetlands - Regional Arts Victoria.
Melbourne Seafood Centre - Ian Wright Collection.
Dalwhinnie Wines.
Melbourne International Festival, Herring Island, Parks Victoria
City of Manningham Melbourne.
Collections – Julie Collins & Derek John
Caydon Developments, Home at Alphington.
Coombs Collection.
Sebastopal CFA.
City Brimbank.
City of Geelong
Bundaberg Regional Art Gallery
Celia Dymond Design.
Haddon Wetlands
Golden Plains Shire
Mark & Carolyn Guirguis Collection
Dan Wollmering Collection
Cathy & Lochie Dyer Collection
The Sutcliffe Collection
Bern Barry Collection
Cootes Collection
Ken Scarlett Collection
Macrae & Way Collection
Private Collections.
Collections - Julie Collins
National Gallery of Victoria
Melbourne International Festival Herring Island, Parks Victoria
Latrobe University Melbourne
Taim Management
101 Collins Street Melbourne
City of Manningham Melbourne
Julian Burnside QC
Royal Blind Society– NSW
Fundere Fine Art Foundry Collection Private Collections
Private Collections