Curriculum Vitae
Alexander Spremberg
1950 Born, Hamburg, Germany
Education/Teaching
1972-78 Art School - Hochschule fur bildende Kunste, Hamburg, Germany. Student of Professor Franz E. Walther
1995 Part-time lecturer in Painting, Edith Cowan University, WA
1994- Part-time lecturer in Painting, Central Metropolitan College of TAFE, WA
Solo Exhibitions:
1989 Delaney Galleries, Perth WA, Festival of Perth Exhibition
1989 The Beach, Perth WA
1990 Galerie Dusseldorf, Perth WA
1990 Gore St. Gallery, Melbourne Vic.
1991 Basic Tables, Deutscher Brunswick Street Gallery, Melbourne Vic.
1992 High, Wide and Deep, Galerie Dusseldorf, Perth WA
1993 Support, Galerie Dusseldorf, Perth, WA.
1994 Kunst und Form, Essen, Germany
1994 Painting 1976 -1994, Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, UWA
1996 Painting? Galerie Dusseldorf, Perth WA
Selected Group Exhibitions:
1978 Hochschule fur bildende Kunste, Hamburg, Germany
1987 "Triptychs" at Praxis, Fremantle WA
1989 "Pilasters" at the Perth Institute of Contemporary Art, Perth, WA
1989 Customs House Show, Fremantle WA
1989 "Gotham Goes Shopping", Perth Institute of Contemporary Art, Perth.
1989 "Shades of Meaning" Galerie Dusseldorf, Perth WA
1990 "Art Dock", Exhibition of Contemporary Australian Art,
Noumea, New Caledonia
1990 Melbourne Art Fair (Galerie Dusseldorf)
1990 "Here and Now" Art Gallery of Western Australia
1990 Customs House Show II, Fremantle WA
1990 "October" The Beach, Fremantle WA
1991 Customs House Show III, Fremantle WA
1992 Artist's Choice, Greenhill Galleries, Perth WA
1993 The Margaret Stewart Endowment: Part 2,,
National Gallery of Victoria.
Collections:
Art Gallery of Western Australia
Art Gallery of Victoria
University of Western Australia Collection
Edith Cowan University Collection
Curtin University Collection
The Holmes a Court Collection
Royal Perth Hospital Collection
Perth Dental Hospital Collection
Ian & Sue Bernadt Collection
Artbank, Sydney
Award
1991 Creative Development Grant
W.A. Department for the Arts
1997 Project Grant - ArtsWA, Ministry For Culture and The Arts
Bibliography
Bromfield, David "On Show", West Australian, 16 February 1989
Snell, Ted "After hibernation, a big yawn", The Australian, 1 March 1989
Bromfield, David "On Show", West Australian, 19 August 1989
Snell, Ted "Work that turns the glass on itself', The Australian, 31 August 1989
Marcon, Marco "Painterly investigations", Praxis M, No 23, July 1989
McNamara, Philip "Towards emotive clarification", Praxis M, No 25, December 1989
Bromfield, David "On Show~, West Australian, 5 May 1990
Marcon, Marco "Alexander Spremberg", Art Monthly, June 1990
Snell, Ted "European influence stretches our view", The Australian, 21 May 1992
Bromfield, David "On Show", West Australian, 23 May 1992
Bromfield, David "On Show", West Australian, 2 November 1992
Bromfield, David "On Show~, West Australian, 10 July 1993
Marcon, Marco "Alex Spremberg", Art & Text, No 46, September 1993
Bromfield, David "On Show", West Australian, 18 June, 1994
Gaynor, Andrew Western Review, July, 1994
Barrett-Leonard, John "Looking to Basics: Reductive Painting in the Here & Now", Fremantle Arts Review Dec 94/Jan 95.
Stringer, John "Artist-in-Residence", Publication produced with Richard Woldendorp, photographer.
David Bromfield "On Show", West Australian, 2 November 1996