Author
Enrique del Val lives and works in Sydney, Australia.
He runs alongside artist Aaron Matheson the Drawing in the City at Night sessions in cafes and bars around central Sydney.
Address: 5 Arcadia Rd, Glebe, 2037, NSW
Phone: +61 0 432174344
Email: lutxaster@gmail.com
Education
MArt (Printmaking)
CoFA-UNSW, currently undertaking
Course with printmaker Leon Steiner
Northern Editions, Darwin, 2005
BA (Hons), Fine Arts (Painting)
Basque Country University, 2003
Séneca Scholarship
University of Valencia, Spain, 2001- 2002
Erasmus Scholarship
Kalon Teknon Art School, Athens, Greece, 2000
Exhibitions
(Note: the star * stands for solo exhibitions)
2009
Art Sydney 2009, Royal Hall of Industries, Sydney, Australia.
"Addiction" Printmaking Exchange, Alfred University School of Art , New York, USA.
KunstLeben Studios, Hamburg, Germany.
"May Street Studios Open Day", Sydney.
"Parece humo pero sólo es fuego", Espacio Abisal, Bilbao, Basque Country. *
2008
"Itchy feet" Dirty Hands Printmakers Collective at Kudos Gallery, Sydney
"Catapult" Emerging artist, designer and curator award for CoFA students at Kudos Gallery, Sydney
"Lennox Street Studios annual show", Lennox Street Studios, Sydney "Underwatery Love" and "Taboo", Gallery285, Sydney
"Inferno" with artist Joanna Raskiowitz at Gallery Red, Sydney.
"Dislocation" Kudos Gallery, Sydney.
"Taboo" inaugural show at Gallery285, Sydney.
Spring exhibition, Beowulf Galleries, Sydney.
Etchings by students of College of Fine Arts, UNSW, Beowulf Galleries, Sydney.
"Centenary of Salvador Allende", Addison Gallery, Sydney.
"Refugee Art Exhibition 2008", Sydney.
2007
"La Patética Confusión de un Mosquito entre una Lámpra y el Sol", (The pathetic confusion of a mosquito between a lamp and the Sun) ANTI-liburudenda, Bilbao, Basque Country. *
"The Ultimate Irrelevance of Taking Yourself very Seriously", Glen Street Theatre Gallery, Sydney. *
"Disasters of a Careless Own Happy Accidents of Paint", Primrose Centre, Sydney. *
2006
Salon des Refusés, SH Ervin Gallery, Sydney, Australia.
"Spring Show" Wallspace Gallery, Sydney.
2005
"Karrakamini Kuwunawini", Gallery Forty-Four, Sydney. *
"Ditirámbico Vil Vaho", Cortes 29-31, Bilbao, Basque Country. *
Mosman Art Prize, Mosman Art Gallery, Sydney.
2004
"On the Complicity Among Rogues", Space3, Sydney. *
2002
"Pasado, Presente, Pintura" (Past, present, painting), La Casa de mi Amigo, Valencia, Spain.
Getxoarte 2002 "Painting made Performance" Getxo, Basque Country.
"Este tío está acabado" (This guy’s bitter end), Galería Arte Diverso, Valencia, Spain.*
Galería Catálogo General, Bilbao, Basque Country.
2001
Resident Artists, Bilbaoarte Foundation, Bilbao, Basque Country.
"VACAS! (COWS!)", Public Art, Bilbao.
Getxoarte 2001 "Total Art Work", Getxo, Basque Country.
"Mi tan Anhelada Complitud" (My longing for completeness), Piropo Café.Arte, Bilbao.*
2000
Politeknion Centre, Athens, Greece.
"Intensidad" (Intensity), with Intensidad art-collective, Sarea Aretoa, Bilbao
1999
"Inexpresionismo" (Inexpressionism), Sopela Kultur Etxea, Sopela, Basque Country.*
Other Art Related Activity
• Highly commended, Glebe Art Show, 2009
• Highly commended, Waverley Art Prize, 2009
• Paintings in collaboration with fellow artist Aaron Matheson as "The Pink Footed Nymphs" www.thepinkfootednymphs.com 2009.
• Member of Dirty Hands Collective, Printmakers Sydney, www.dirtyhandsprintmakers.com (2008-2009)
• "Drawing in the City at Night". Conductor of drawing sessions held in cafes, bars and en plain air around central Sydney, alongside Aaron Matheson www.thepinkfootednymphs.com (2008-2009)
• Teacher of creative painting at Manly Community College and Macquarie Community College (2006-2008)
• Lecturer of "Avant-garde Art Movements" at Mosman Community College and Macquarie Community College (2006-2008)
• Recipient of the Waverley Art Prize, Open Section, 2006.
• Volunteer at Munupi Art Centre and Jilamara Art Centre, Melville (Tiwi) Island, Northern Territory, 2005
• Selected for DOYA (Definitions Of a Young Artist) a documentary film that explores the lives of 4 European artists directed by Claire Fletcher, 2005/06.
• Directed "La Casa de mi Amigo" Alternative Art-space, Valencia, Spain, 2001/02.
• Performances in collaboration with Iñaki López in Valencia during 2002 (Color Elefante Gallery, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, other public sites)
• Selected as the youngest artist to share a Studio Space in Bilbaoarte Contemporary Art Centre during 2001, Bilbao, 2001.
• Speaker at the First Conferences of Contemporary Art at Bilbaoarte, Bilbao, 2001
• Co-founder "Intensidad" Group, Bilbao, 2000.
He runs alongside artist Aaron Matheson the Drawing in the City at Night sessions in cafes and bars around central Sydney.
Address: 5 Arcadia Rd, Glebe, 2037, NSW
Phone: +61 0 432174344
Email: lutxaster@gmail.com
Education
MArt (Printmaking)
CoFA-UNSW, currently undertaking
Course with printmaker Leon Steiner
Northern Editions, Darwin, 2005
BA (Hons), Fine Arts (Painting)
Basque Country University, 2003
Séneca Scholarship
University of Valencia, Spain, 2001- 2002
Erasmus Scholarship
Kalon Teknon Art School, Athens, Greece, 2000
Exhibitions
(Note: the star * stands for solo exhibitions)
2009
Art Sydney 2009, Royal Hall of Industries, Sydney, Australia.
"Addiction" Printmaking Exchange, Alfred University School of Art , New York, USA.
KunstLeben Studios, Hamburg, Germany.
"May Street Studios Open Day", Sydney.
"Parece humo pero sólo es fuego", Espacio Abisal, Bilbao, Basque Country. *
2008
"Itchy feet" Dirty Hands Printmakers Collective at Kudos Gallery, Sydney
"Catapult" Emerging artist, designer and curator award for CoFA students at Kudos Gallery, Sydney
"Lennox Street Studios annual show", Lennox Street Studios, Sydney "Underwatery Love" and "Taboo", Gallery285, Sydney
"Inferno" with artist Joanna Raskiowitz at Gallery Red, Sydney.
"Dislocation" Kudos Gallery, Sydney.
"Taboo" inaugural show at Gallery285, Sydney.
Spring exhibition, Beowulf Galleries, Sydney.
Etchings by students of College of Fine Arts, UNSW, Beowulf Galleries, Sydney.
"Centenary of Salvador Allende", Addison Gallery, Sydney.
"Refugee Art Exhibition 2008", Sydney.
2007
"La Patética Confusión de un Mosquito entre una Lámpra y el Sol", (The pathetic confusion of a mosquito between a lamp and the Sun) ANTI-liburudenda, Bilbao, Basque Country. *
"The Ultimate Irrelevance of Taking Yourself very Seriously", Glen Street Theatre Gallery, Sydney. *
"Disasters of a Careless Own Happy Accidents of Paint", Primrose Centre, Sydney. *
2006
Salon des Refusés, SH Ervin Gallery, Sydney, Australia.
"Spring Show" Wallspace Gallery, Sydney.
2005
"Karrakamini Kuwunawini", Gallery Forty-Four, Sydney. *
"Ditirámbico Vil Vaho", Cortes 29-31, Bilbao, Basque Country. *
Mosman Art Prize, Mosman Art Gallery, Sydney.
2004
"On the Complicity Among Rogues", Space3, Sydney. *
2002
"Pasado, Presente, Pintura" (Past, present, painting), La Casa de mi Amigo, Valencia, Spain.
Getxoarte 2002 "Painting made Performance" Getxo, Basque Country.
"Este tío está acabado" (This guy’s bitter end), Galería Arte Diverso, Valencia, Spain.*
Galería Catálogo General, Bilbao, Basque Country.
2001
Resident Artists, Bilbaoarte Foundation, Bilbao, Basque Country.
"VACAS! (COWS!)", Public Art, Bilbao.
Getxoarte 2001 "Total Art Work", Getxo, Basque Country.
"Mi tan Anhelada Complitud" (My longing for completeness), Piropo Café.Arte, Bilbao.*
2000
Politeknion Centre, Athens, Greece.
"Intensidad" (Intensity), with Intensidad art-collective, Sarea Aretoa, Bilbao
1999
"Inexpresionismo" (Inexpressionism), Sopela Kultur Etxea, Sopela, Basque Country.*
Other Art Related Activity
• Highly commended, Glebe Art Show, 2009
• Highly commended, Waverley Art Prize, 2009
• Paintings in collaboration with fellow artist Aaron Matheson as "The Pink Footed Nymphs" www.thepinkfootednymphs.com 2009.
• Member of Dirty Hands Collective, Printmakers Sydney, www.dirtyhandsprintmakers.com (2008-2009)
• "Drawing in the City at Night". Conductor of drawing sessions held in cafes, bars and en plain air around central Sydney, alongside Aaron Matheson www.thepinkfootednymphs.com (2008-2009)
• Teacher of creative painting at Manly Community College and Macquarie Community College (2006-2008)
• Lecturer of "Avant-garde Art Movements" at Mosman Community College and Macquarie Community College (2006-2008)
• Recipient of the Waverley Art Prize, Open Section, 2006.
• Volunteer at Munupi Art Centre and Jilamara Art Centre, Melville (Tiwi) Island, Northern Territory, 2005
• Selected for DOYA (Definitions Of a Young Artist) a documentary film that explores the lives of 4 European artists directed by Claire Fletcher, 2005/06.
• Directed "La Casa de mi Amigo" Alternative Art-space, Valencia, Spain, 2001/02.
• Performances in collaboration with Iñaki López in Valencia during 2002 (Color Elefante Gallery, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, other public sites)
• Selected as the youngest artist to share a Studio Space in Bilbaoarte Contemporary Art Centre during 2001, Bilbao, 2001.
• Speaker at the First Conferences of Contemporary Art at Bilbaoarte, Bilbao, 2001
• Co-founder "Intensidad" Group, Bilbao, 2000.