Geoff Lloyd

Born in 1952, Geoff grew up mainly in Adelaide. After beginning a trade as an Electical Fitter, Geoff decided to study art at the South Australian School Of Art from 1975-1978, where he gained a Diploma of Fine Art (Sculpture).

1975-78

S.A. School of Art-Diploma of Fine Art (Sculpture)
1977 Clarkson Memorial Award
Exhibited at Mildura Sculpture Triennial withWave Form
Exhibited at La Trobe Sculpture Festival with Quarter Wave
Channel 10 Young Artists Award - Prize for Sculpture,1978

1979

Participated in South Australian Workshop(SAW) Show at Adelaide Festival Centre with sculptural piece, And The Song Remains The Same
Taught kite-making workshop at Flinders University and craft workshops with the Arts Council.
Completed environmental piece Skyline at the Coorong,S.A.

1980

Involved in Bunyipological Research and Reconstruction Unit,SAW contibution to Adelaide Arts Alternatives, for 1980 Adelaide Festival of Arts.

Completed a sound sculpture entitled Listening To The Inner Ear

Involved in radio production workshop for 5MMM.
Participated in photograhic exhibition Seventeen Viewpoints, at Flight Gallery Adelaide.
Guest artist at Darwin Youth Festival.
Speaker at Twelve Artists Talk-Adelaide Festival Centre Gallery.
Committee member of Artworkers Union, S.A.

1981

Guest artist in community arts programme for Port Family Project, January
Guest artist in Adelaide Festival Centre Community Arts Free For All programme, February
Exhibited at First Australian Sculpture triennial with installation entitled We Were All Once Navigators.
Invited to submit a proposal for, and subsequently awarded, commission for sculpture for Telecom Building Project, Adelaide, July.
Invited as S.A. representative to ANZART, New Zealand.
Installed sculptural piece entitled Cairn: From Here to There at ANZART, The Australian and New Zealand Art Encounter, Christchurch, New Zealand, August.
Guest speaker at various New Zealand centres.
Involved in performance work with Andrew Drummond, New Zealand.
Constructed a piece entitled Beacon, due to be exhibited at Robert McDougall Gallery in New Zealand.
Working towards an exhibition, to be called Describing A Line, at Festival centre gallery, Adelaide, January 1982, to coincide with Beacon installation.
Geoff died in Adelaide, on 21st November, after one month's undiagnosed illness, aged 29.

Picture Gallery

In his short career, Geoff had already achieved many things.After his death a group of his friends, relatives and colleagues organised a retrospective exhibition and published a book about his work. Much of the information that has been reproduced here is from that book and my thanks must also go to Chris Goodwin at Fifth Creek Studio fcstudio@camtech.net.au for her technical assistance.

MAIN PAGE

Sign My Guest Book View My Guest Book

This page hosted by Get your own Free Home Page