I am a Canberra-based artist working on Ngunnawal-Ngambri land. My interests span painting, print, textiles and drawing-based art practices and my work is informed by a diverse range of sources including artistic abstraction, mathematics, architecture and philosophy to explore the relationships between visual art, craft and design practices. I have exhibited widely throughout Australia and internationally, and mywork is held in public and private collections.

Instagram: @al_munro_art

Education

2013 Doctor of Philosophy, ANU School of Art

2001 Master of Philosophy, ANU School of Art (Printmedia and Drawing)

1997 Bachelor of Visual Arts (First Class Hons.) ANU School of Art (Printmedia and Drawing)

Solo exhibitions

2023 Regular/irregular, ANCA Gallery, Canberra

2022 Colour Fold, M16 Artspace, Canberra

2021 Pattern/Pleat, M16 Artspace, Canberra

2019 Pattern Fold, May Space, Sydney

2018 Disturbing the Grid, May Space, Sydney

2018 Grid disruptions: painting, weaving and other algorithms, Fringe Gallery, ANU

2017 The Structure of Things, M16 Artspace

2016 Pleated Logic, Brenda May Gallery, Sydney

2014 Systems of the Infinite, Brenda May Gallery, Sydney

2014 Art + Science, Chiang Mai University Art Centre, Thailand

2013 Homage to the Everyday (Morandi), Loop, London, UK

2013 Patterns from an Invisible World, Brenda May Gallery, Sydney

2011 Crystallography 2, Brenda May Gallery, Sydney

2010 Crystallography, Craft ACT, Canberra

2009 Bird Show, Brenda May Gallery, Sydney

Selected group exhibitions

2021 Dobell Drawing Prize, National Art School Gallery, Sydney

2021 Square2, Five Walls Gallery, Melbourne (curator Lisa Jones + Tom Loveday)

2021 Thread, May Space, Sydney (curator Brenda May)

2019 Square, May Space, Sydney (curator Lisa Jones + Tom Loveday)

2017 Fourteen, May Space, Sydney

2017 Paper Work, Baan Tuek Gallery, Chiang Mai, and 9 Gallery, Chiang Rai, Thailand

2016 Holding, Newcastle Regional Gallery (curator Anne Kempton)

2016 Op Art, Brenda May Gallery, Sydney (curator Megan Fizell)

2015 Chat 2: Australia/Thai Art Exchange 2015, Chiang Mai University Art Centre, Thailand

2015 Patternation, Hazelhurst Regional Gallery

2015 Vice Chancellor's Fellowship Exhibition 2014, ANU School of Art

2014 In Tandem, Brenda May Gallery, Sydney (curated by Olivia Welsh)

2014 Chat: Australia/Thai Art Exchange 2014, ANU School of Art Gallery

2014 Ordinary/Extraordinary, Sturt Craft Centre, Mittagong

2013 Wangaratta Contemporary Textile Award, Wangaratta Regional Gallery

2013 Inhabit, Craft ACT: Craft and Design Centre (Curator Diana Hare)

2012 Needlework/Needleplay: Embroidery Now, Brunswick Street Gallery, Melbourne

2012 Petite Public Art, Canberra Museum & Gallery (Curator Yolande Norris)

2012 Art + Food, Brenda May Gallery, Sydney (Curator Megan Fizell)

2012 M16 Drawing Prize, M16 Gallery, Canberra

2011 Imitation of Life, Canberra Museum and Gallery, Canberra, ACT (Curator Deborah Clark)

2011 Natural Digression 2, University of Technology Gallery, Sydney (Curator Yolande Norris)

2010 Green, Brenda May Gallery, Sydney (Curators Anna Lawrence and Brenda May)

2010 Natural Digression 1, University of Victoria, Melbourne (Curator Kirsten Rann)

Awards/Grants/Residencies

2019 Residency -Royal School of Needlework, University of the Creative Arts, Surrey, UK

2019 ArtsACT Quick response grant

2018 Residency - Painting Department, Chiang Mai University Faculty of Fine Arts, Thailand

2015 Residency - Australia Council Tokyo Studio, Tokyo, Japan

2015 Residency - Megalo Print Studio, Canberra

2015 Arts ACT project funding

2014 Residency - Printmaking Department, Chiang Mai University Faculty of Fine Arts, Thailand

2013 Sage Legal Award, Capital Arts Patrons’ Organisation.

2003 Residency - Australia Council UK Studio, London, United Kingdom