![]() MelbourneĢ019 28 Beasts, group exhibition, curated by Jake Treacy and Ben Taranto. ![]() Dolatian has recently received grants from Australia Council for the Arts and Creative Victoria to assist to develop new projects in Australia and New Zealand.Ģ022 Scott Lawrie Gallery, Auckland New ZealandĢ022 Between Two Rivers, Melbourne Design Week, MelbourneĢ020 Site With No Real Place Jan at C3 Contemporary Art Space.Ģ019 Heterotopia, Stockroom, Kyneton, Vic.Ģ018 Narratives- Realties, fictionalising the present and contaminating the fantasticalĢ017 Controlled Instabilities, Contemporary Art Space, Montevideo, Uruguay.Ģ017 Progress and Passivity, Five Walls, Melbourne.Ģ016 Hybrid Terrains, Black Centre AADK, SpainĢ016 Reflection as Ideological Hallucination, Incinerator Gallery, Melbourne.Ģ016 Terrains, Seventh Gallery, Melbourne.Ģ015 Navigating With Uncertainty, C3 Contemporary art space.Ģ012 Frame of Reference, RMIT Graduation Exhibition.Ģ011 Perceptual, First Site Gallery, MelbourneĢ021 Darlings, group exhibition, Curatorial +Co, SydneyĢ019 Tiny World Reunion, group exhibition, curated by the Wandering Room. In 2019 he was a finalist in both the Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize and the Deakin University Contemporary Small Sculpture Awards. In 2021 he was awarded the Incinerator Art Award, as well as receiving a residency as a part of Craft Victoria’s Makers in Residence. Eccentric forms with peculiar colour schemes, pleasing curves and fragile forms inspired by archaeological figures and decayed architectural sites.Īra Dolatian received a Bachelor of Fine Art (sculpture) from RMIT in 2012 and a Master of Social Science Environment and Planning in 2014, he has exhibited extensively both nationally and internationally. The ceramic objects are small enough to hold but are not embraceable. The work is a tangible visual memory of sculptural deities, architectural forms and vessels, the intentions are not to replicate the pieces but draw from them. Mythos of the Island examines cultural ecologies associated with lost and stolen artefacts within the Al- Jazira region, the area between the Euphrates and Tigris rivers also known as Mesopotamia. ![]() His latest exhibition, Mythos of the Island is a body of sculptural ceramic work inspired by archaeological relics. Dolatian’s work is also imbibed with numerous ideas centred upon conceptions of ‘the studio’ and the conceptual domain of socio-environmental politics. His ceramic works are hybrid ecosystems models of utopian cities and sculptural experiments. Ara Dolatian’s interdisciplinary practice explores the relationship between cultural landscapes and the natural ecosystem.
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