“Is not the whole universe a strange skull in which meteors, suns, comets and planets rush (throb) endlessly?”
Kazimir Malevich
'Man’s skull represents the same infinity for the movement of conceptions. It is equal to the universe, for in it is contained all that sees in it. Likewise the sun and whole starry sky of comets and the sun pass in it and shine and move as in nature…'
artist quote on infinity, taken from “God is not cast down”, Malevich, 1922; as quoted in “Futurism”, ed. By Didier Ottinger; Centre Pompidou / 5 Continents Editions, Milan, 2008, p. 65
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2019 Defiant Acts, group show SCA Galleries, Kirkbride, Sydney
2019 Annual Group Show, (July) Factory 49, Sydney
2019 Printmaking Show: group show, (June) Factory 49, Sydney
2019 Group Show: test space, (March) Sydney College of the Arts Foyer, Kirkbride, Sydney
2018 Printmaking Show: group show, (February) Factory 49, Sydney
2016 Delirium: Roger Crawford & Lana Ryles, Rayner Hoff Project Space, Sydney
2014 Solo Show: The Victory Project Space, Blue Mountains
2012 Solo Show: Edwards & Co, Sydney
2011 Solo Show: Life Drawn, William Wright // Artists’ Projects, Sydney
2010 Post Graduate Show, National Art School Gallery, Sydney
2010 Lana Ryles MFA Solo Exhibition, Building 25, National Art School, Sydney
2009 Drawcard, National Art School Gallery, Sydney
2007 Academy of Light, group show, Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, China
2006 Drawcard, National Art School Gallery, Sydney
2006 Framing the Urban, group show, Comber St Gallery, Sydney
2005 Honours Show, Cell Block, National Art School, Sydney
2004 Banque Up Art, group show, Art Banque, Adelaide
2004 Eloquence, group show, Blank Space, Sydney
2004 Love Lives, group show, Comber St Gallery, Sydney
2003 ASX Reuters Charity Auction, group show, Cell Block, NAS, Sydney
2002 Cheltenham Studio Exchange, Cheltenham Art School, UK
2002 Art & About, City of Sydney, AMP Building, Sydney Town Hall
2002 Discipline, NAS Stairwell Gallery, Sydney
2000 Waverley Art Prize, Finalist
2000 Group show, Bondi Spice Gallery, Sydney
2000 Drawing Week, National Art School, Sydney
1997 Red Hot: Ceramics & Sculpture, Stangate House Heritage Garden, Adelaide
PRIZES/ AWARDS
2023 USYD, The Faculty of Arts and Social Science Doctoral Research Travel Grant Scheme
2023 USYD, The Fauvette Loureiro Memorial Travel Scholarship
2020 Thomas Walker Student Award
2003 FONAS Graduate Prize for Drawing Excellence, (highest overall mark BFA graduates)
2002 AMP, City of Sydney Council, Art and About
2002 John Olsen Drawing Prize, (highly commended)
2002 Waverley Art Prize, finalist
EDUCATION
2018 PhD candidate, Sydney College of the Arts,The University of Sydney
2014 Dip. LIS, Sydney Institute
2012 Study Tour – Croatia, Barcelona
2010 Masters of Fine Art (research), National Art School, Sydney
2005 BFA Honours, National Art School, Sydney
2003 Study Tour - New York, London, Paris, Madrid
2002 Bachelor of Fine Art, National Art School, Sydney
1997 Certificate in Art Practice,TAFE Mt Barker, Adelaide
RESIDENCIES
2017 Bryants Butchery, Hill End, National Art School, June
2015 Bryants Butchery, Hill End, National Art School, December
2014 Bryants Butchery, Hill End, National Art School, April
2014 Bryants Butchery, Hill End, National Art School, October
2013 Bryants Butchery, Hill End, National Art School, June
COMMERCIAL/ PRIVATE COLLECTIONS
City of Sydney
White City Residential, Paddington, NSW
Private collections
CONFERENCES
Ryles, Lana, Threads of Light: neural networks of vision, Retro-futuristic Visions:
Looking Back to Look Forward: The 2nd International Academic Conference of
Yoobee College of Creative Innovation, October 25-27 2023. Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand
Ryles, Lana, The Enchanted Loom: numinous-like-auras explored through painting, Media, Culture, and Society: The Inaugural International Academic Conference of UP Education, December 14-16, 2022. Auckland, Aotearoa New Zealand
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Greig,Dr Ian, (2015, September 24-25). Art knowledge and the spiritual: a hermeneutical perspective, ACUADS Conference, Adelaide, Australia
http://acuads.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Greig.pdf
Ryles, Lana, Delirium: Roger Crawford & Lana Ryles, (exhibition catalogue), 15-23rd September 2016.
https://issuu.com/lanaryles/docs/delirium_catalogue_fa3
CATALOGUE ESSAY: Greig, Dr Ian, Musing on Delirium, p.3-10, September 2016
Ryles, Lana, A Representation of an Internalised Perceptual Experience, MFA exegesis, 2010
Dyer, Katie, Postgraduate Degree Show, National Art School, Sydney 2010, p.141
Academy of Light, Beijing, China, 2007, pp.121-122
Honours Show, National Art School, Sydney 2005, p.21
The Degree Show, National Art School Sydney, 2010, p.52
Art & About: the city as a canvas,(exhibition catalogue),16-29 September 2002, p.19
CONTACT
EMAIL: lanaryles@gmail.com