Australian Contemporary Art

Noel Hart was born in 1955 in Geelong, Australia. He received his Diploma of Fine Art and Design in 1975 from the Gordon Institute of Technology also in Geelong, Australia.
In 1989, Hart retreated to the dense rainforest in Australia with the desire to be outnumbered by other species, especially the birds which now provide the stimulus and inspiration for his current work in blown glass. His profound interest in the diversity of animal and plant life in the surrounding environment is reflected in the versatile range of his work. His passion and involvement in photography, theater and painting over the years has created an added dimension of design and form to his view of art.
Hart's first experience with glass came from an invitation from well known Australian glass artist, Colin Heaney to work as a designer, photographer and sculpture fabricator in Heaney's glass blowing facility. Since then he has created many of his own unique designs and techniques and has built on the accumulated knowledge of over 2,000 years of glass blowing. His methods to some artists are somewhat unorthodox and have a sort of idiosyncratic approach to the medium. It is because of his diversified art background that he is able to envision ways of working with glass that no other artist has attempted.
His current collection of glass pieces, "Parrots of the World" are predominantly based on the colors and textures of the plumage of brightly colored parrots. They incorporate juxtaposed sections of spiraling, swirling opaque glass than resembles brightly colored length of fabric twisted tightly and then frozen in a single surface. From his painting experiments, Hart has discovered that is possible to simulate brush like gestures in the swirls of glass, the best examples of this being in the pieces where one sees through a transparent layer into an opaque layer beneath.
Hart's blown glass sculptures begin as a thick bubble of clear glass on the end of a blowpipe and are followed by multiple layers of glass trails and fritted glass, additional layers of clear glass and plunged into an optic mold to create texture and rhythmic patterns. The glass in a molten state is stretched and twisted onto the clear bubble much like making a gesture with a loaded brush. The finished forms will have been flattened and squared up to give two vaguely two dimensional surfaces like a traditional painting.

Education

1975 Diploma of Art and Design (Fine Art)
Gordon Institute of Technology, Geelong, Australia

Solo Exhibitions

2008 Jane Sauer Gallery, Santa Fe, NM, USA
Starcap Galleries, Singapore
2007Parrotism, Kira Galleries, Melbourne
Partotesque, Harrison Galleries, Sydney
Parrotesque, COSA Gallery, London, UK
2006Psittaculture, Tweed River Regional Gallery, Murwillumbah, Australia
Australian Parrot Abstraction, Kirra Galleries, Melbourne
Parrotism, PISMO, Denver, Co, USA
Parrotism, COSA Gallery, London, UK
2005 Psittaculture, Dickerson Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
2004 Recent Work, Habatat Galleries, Boca Raton, Florida, USA
2003 Parrots of the World, Compositions Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1991 Bowerhaus Paintings, Network, Byron Bay, Australia
1990 Bowerhaus Paintings, Network, Byron Bay, Australia
1987 A Wide Angled View of A Wide Angled View, Artery Gallery, Geelong, Australia
1983 New Work, Iceberg Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
1978 PhotoWorks, Works Gallery, Geelong, Australia

Group Exhibitions

2008 Palm Beach 3, Habatat Galleries, Boca Raton
SOFA New York, Jane Sauer Gallery, Santa Fe, NM, USA
25th Annual Glass Invitational, Habatat Galleries, Boca Raton
2007 Palm Beach 3, Habatat Galleries, Boca Raton
The Vessel Explored, Habatat Galleries, Boca Raton
London Art Fair, COSA Gallery, London, UK
Let Them Roam, Harrison Galleries, Sydney
Form Art Fair, COSA Galleries, London, UK
SOFA Chicago, Kirra Galleries, Melbourne
KIAF– Seoul, Korea, Gaffer Studio Glass, Hong Kong
2006 24th Annual Glass Invitational, Habatat Galleries, Boca Raton
COLLECT, Victoria and Albert Museum with COSA Gallery, London, UK
London Art Fair. COSA Gallery, London, UK
34th Annual Glass Invitational, Habatat Galleries, Royal Oak, Michigan, USA
Mastery, Gaffer Studio, Hong Kong
SOFA Chicago, Kirra Galleries, Melbourne
Australian Glass 2006, Sandra Ainsley Gallery, Toronto, Canada
Singapore Art Fair, Gaffer Studio Glass, Hong Kong
Art London, COSA Gallery, London
2005 23rd Annual Glass Invitational, Habatat Galleries, Boca Raton
SOFA Chicago, Kirra Galleries, Melbourne
Two Cubes, Sherman Galleries, Sydney
COLLECT, Victoria and Albert Museum with COSA Gallery, London, UK
Contemporary Australian Glass, Gaffer Studio, Hong Kong and The Arthouse, Singapore
Contemporary Glass 2005, Habatat Galleries, Boca Raton,
23rd Annual International Glass Invitational, Habatat Galleries, Royal Oak, Michigan
Olympia Art Fair, COSA Gallery, London, UK
ArtsCape, Cape Byron, Byron Bay, Australia
2004 Gannon House and Pitt St Galleries, Sydney
2nd Annual International Glass Invitational, Habatat Galleries, Royal Oak, Michigan
Contemporary Glass 2004, Habatat Galleries, Boca Raton
COLLECT, Victoria and Albert Museum and COSA Gallery, London, UK
One Earth, One Human, One Bird, Gaffer Studio Art, Hong Kong
New Work, Kirra Galleries, Melbourne
1000 Degrees Gallery, Avalon Beach, Sydney
SOFA Chicago, Kirra Galleries, Melbourne
International Galss Collectors Exhibition, Global Art, Seattle, USA
2003 Soul Searchin', Exhibit, Sydney, Australia
International Glass Collectors Exhibition, Global Art, Seattle, WA
1996 Byron Regional Art Gallery, Byron Bay, Australia
Mullumbimby Art Gallery, Mullumbimby, Australia
Artworks, Brisbane, Australia
1995 Wilsons Creek Sculpture Garden, Wilsons Creek, Australia
1994 Epicentre Art Gallery, Byron Bay, Australia
1993 Mullumbimby Art Gallery, Mullumbimby, Australia
Cape Gallery, Byron Bay, Australia
Byron Regional Art Gallery, Byron Bay, Australia
Lismore Regional Art Gallery, Lismore, Australia
1992 Gold Coast City Art Gallery, Gold Coast, Australia
Museum of Contemporary Art, Brisbane, Australia
1991 Bond University Art Gallery, Gold Coast, Australia
Kinsellas, Sydney, Australia
1989 Tweed Regional Gallery, Murwillumbah, Australia
Artery, Geelong, Australia
1988 Qdos, Lorne, Australia
Artery, Geelong, Australia
1987 Deakin University, Geelong, Australia
1985 Sculpture ‘85, Melbourne, Australia
Maakom Foundation, Amsterdam