Lane Cormick makes work through endurance-based performance or procedure, with a commitment to impractical or unreasonable projects that test him physically and mentally, without any assurance of a predictable outcome. At the heart of Cormick’s work is an investigation of risk and technique. The artist throws himself fearlessly into challenges where anything could go wrong at any moment, exposing the limits of his skills and the enormity of his attempts.
Melbourne-based artist Lane Cormick has previously exhibited at Tristian Koenig, Neon Parc, CCP, RMIT Project Space, Gertrude Contemporary and the Australian Centre of Contemporary Art in Melbourne; and at Chalk Horse Gallery, Sydney; UKS Gallery, Oslo; Art Forum Berlin; Artspace, Sydney. He has also exhibited at various artist-run initiatives such as Hell, Platform, Bus, Penthouse and Pavement, Kings, TCB and First Floor. Cormick has been the recipient of an Australia Council residency in Los Angeles and a Gertrude Contemporary residency in Melbourne. He completed a Bachelor of Fine Art (Drawing) from the Victorian College of the Arts in 1999.
Club
sawdust, acrylic paint and ink on plywood
dimensions variable (individual panels 120 x 175 cm)
Photograph: Craig Burgess
Club
sawdust, acrylic paint and ink on plywood
dimensions variable (individual panels 120 x 175 cm)
Photograph: Craig Burgess
Club
sawdust, acrylic paint and ink on plywood
dimensions variable (individual panels 120 x 175 cm)
Photograph: Craig Burgess
Club
sawdust, acrylic paint and ink on plywood
dimensions variable (individual panels 120 x 175 cm)
Photograph: Craig Burgess
Club
sawdust, acrylic paint and ink on plywood
dimensions variable (individual panels 120 x 175 cm)
Photograph: Craig Burgess
Club (#15-#18)
sawdust, acrylic paint and ink on plywood
dimensions variable (individual panels 120 x 175 cm)
Photograph: Craig Burgess
Club (#19)
sawdust, acrylic paint and ink on plywood
120 x 175 cm
Untitled
sawdust, acrylic paint and ink on paper and board
90 x 64.5 cm
Photograph: Craig Burgess
Untitled
sawdust, acrylic paint and ink on wood
48 x 23 x 15 cm
Photograph: Craig Burgess
Untitled
sawdust, acrylic paint and ink on plywood
67.5 x 60 cm
Photograph: Craig Burgess
Lane Cormick (born 1975 Melbourne, lives Melbourne)
Education
1997-9 BFA (drawing), VCA, Melbourne
1995-6 Western Tafe, Melbourne
Solo Exhibitions
2012 Club, Daine Singer, Melbourne
2011 Hey Moses, (with Tony Garifalakis), Bus Projects, Melbourne
2010 Real Bos(e), Neon Parc, Art Forum Berlin 2010
2009 Cook Mustard Beal Swan, Neon Parc, Melbourne
2008 Unearthing The Hawke, Hell Gallery, Melbourne
2008 Only one way out of here, Chalk Horse Gallery, Sydney
2007 Only one way out of here, Neon Parc, Melbourne
2006 Stress less (with Rob McHaffie), Gertrude Contemporary, Melbourne
2006 (with Tony Garifalakis), Ocular Lab, Melbourne
2004 Lovethethird, Kings ARI, Melbourne
2003 Brazilian Wax Museum, Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne
2003 Fordarsefalcon, 24/7 Melbourne
2002 VIVA, TCB art inc., Melbourne
2002 Vanilla Sigartje, Studio 12, Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne
2002 Blues Mama, First Floor, Melbourne
2002 Paisano Amigo, Studio 12, Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne
2000 Iʼm Gonna Buy Me A Horse, Penthouse and Pavement, Melbourne
Selected group exhibitions
2012 Art LA, Tristian Koenig
2011 Explaining colours to the blind, Tristian Koenig, Melbourne
2011 Body Language, curated by Drew Pettifer, Bus Projects, Melbourne
2011 Whatever doesn’t work, Stockroom Kyneton
2011 Endism, curated by Tony Garifalakis, 24hr Art, Darwin
2010 Autumn Masterpieces, curated by Mark Feary, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne
2009 +/- , curated by Danny Lacy, Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne
2009 Coates, Cormick & Vascellari, Neon Parc, Melbourne
2009 Cross Colouring, Hell Gallery in association with Gambia Castle and Joint Hassles
2009 Blue Sunshine, curated by Charles O’Loughlin, TCB Arts Inc, Melbourne
2009 Don’t Worry It’s Only Money, City Art Rooms, Auckland New Zealand
2009 Texticles, curated by Rob McHaffie, TCB Arts Inc, Melbourne
2009 AUSTRALIA?, Mildura Art Centre, Mildura, Victoria
2008 Little Deaths, Apartment Space, Melbourne
2008 Bad Brains, curated by Peter McKay, CACSA, Adelaide
2007 New Work – Expanded and Compressed, curated by Danny Lacy, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne
2006 One God, No Masters, Hamish McKay Gallery, Wellington, NZ
2006 Man/Trouble, curated by Peter McKay, Downtown Gallery, Adelaide
2006 New Work, curated by Danny Lacy, George Paton Gallery, Melbourne University
2006 Kids Stay Free, Neon Parc, Melbourne
2006 PROJEKT Video, curated by Brendan Lee, Perth Institute of Contemporary Art, Perth (traveling)
2005 RE/Thinking, Bus Gallery, Melbourne
2005 The Beast With Three Backs, (with Tony Garifalakis & Matt Griffin), RMIT Project Space, Melbourne
2005 A portable model of… Plimsoll Gallery, University of Tasmania, Hobart & Latrobe Regional Gallery, Morewell
2005 5uper MUSEUMSQARTIER, 5uper, Vienna
2003 Something Something Video Something, curated by Jarrod Rawlins, Artspace, Sydney
2002 Something Something Video Something, curated by Jarrod Rawlins, Uplands Gallery, Melbourne
2001 Gertrude Studio Artists 2001, Gertrude Contemporary, Melbourne
2001 Five, Span Galleries, Melbourne
2000 Blink, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne
2000 Blockbuster 99, UKS Gallery, Oslo, Norway
2000 Gertrude Street Studio Artists 2000, Gertrude Contemporary, Melbourne
Bibliography
2012 Amita Kirpalani, Lane Cormick, Club (catalogue essay), Daine Singer, 2012
2011 Tim Richards, ‘On the creative trail’, The Age, March 19, 2011
2010 Astrid Mania, ‘Where the eagle melts,’ Artnet, 2010 >>
2010 Dan Rule, ‘Broadening their horizons’, The Age, October 13, 2010, p.21
2010 ‘Codes, Patterns and Material Catalysts: Haskings, Takasaka, Radford, Cormick, Macfarlane, Banks’, Golden ArtNet, 2010
2009 Dylan Rainforth, ‘Taking a crack at Aussie blokes,’ The Age, July 1, 2009 >>
2009 Danny Lacy, +/- (exhibition catalogue), Monash Museum of Modern Art, 2009
2009 Brendan Lee, AUSTRALIA? (exhibition catalogue), 2009
2009 Amita Kirpalani, ‘Fail More, Fail Better’, Un Magazine, Issue 3.1, 2009 pp. 12-13 >>
2008 Megan Backhouse, ‘Lane Cormick: Cook Mustard Beale Swan’, The Age, April 12, 2008
2008 Tony Lloyd, ‘Review: Benevolent Terrorist Siege at Neon Parc’, Art Info, 2008 >>
2008 Dylan Rainforth, ‘Cook Mustard Beale Swan’, M Magazine, The Age, April 13, 2008
2008 E Maudie, ‘Mags To Riches: Lane Cormick’, Dazed & Confused Vol 1 #8
2007 Nadia Saccardo, Only One Way Out Of Here, Threethousand.com.au, March 7, 2007
2006 Stephanie Raddock, ‘Man/Trouble’, The Adelaide Review, October 20, 2006
2006 Peter McKay, Man/Trouble, (exhibition catalogue), Downtown Art Space
Adelaide, 2006
2006 Danny Lacy, New Work , (exhibition catalogue), George Paton Gallery, 2006
2005 Jenson Tjhung, & Soo Soo Kee, Beast with Three Backs (exhibition catalogue), RMIT Project Space, 2005
2005 Tristian Koenig, A portable model of… (exhibition catalogue), Plimsoll
Gallery, University of Tasmania, Hobart & Latrobe Regional Gallery, Morewell, 2005
2004 Danny Lacy, ‘Blood, Sugar, Sex, Magic’, Un Magazine, Issue 1, 2004, p.13 >>
Residencies
2000-2 Gertrude Contemporary, Melbourne, studio residency
2005 Australia Council for the Arts, Los Angeles studio residency
Collections
Artbank
Scanlan & Theodore
Private collections in Australia, New Zealand and United States
