Fergus Binns

Lives and works in Taungurung Country - Macedon Ranges.

Education

2000–02Bachelor of Fine Art (Painting), Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne
1999Art, Design and Photography Program, Elwood College, Elwood

Solo Exhibitions

2026Ice Bear, Mary Cherry Contemporary, Collingwood
2024Notes to Citizen, Neon Parc, South Yarra
2021Memory Cleaner, Mary Cherry, Collingwood; Medicine Walls, TCB art inc, Brunswick
2016To the right music, the Diamond Will Orbit The Moth, Long Division Gallery, Collingwood
2015Possibly etc, TCB art inc, Melbourne
2014Spinifex Songs, Watch This Space, Alice Springs; Rarities, Scarities, Ruins and Ripe Fruit, Utopian Slumps, Melbourne
2012Ali Baba Squinting and The Watership Windband, Utopian Slumps, Melbourne
2011Toy Paintings, Uplands Gallery, Melbourne
2010Toy Paintings, Chalkhorse Gallery, Sydney
2009In A Heartbeat (Minnie Expressions of a Distant Airshow), Inflight, Hobart
2008Missing Bushwalkers On Found Landscapes, Uplands Gallery, Prahran; Work From Garage, Chalkhorse, Sydney
2007The Wilderness, Uplands Gallery, Prahran; Fergus Binns, Chalk Horse, Sydney
2005Fergus Binns, Uplands Gallery, Melbourne
2004Paintings, TCB art inc, Melbourne
2003Galerie Vege, TCB art inc, Melbourne

Group Exhibitions

2025Summer Show, Kyneton Ridge Art Space, Kyneton
2023Introduced Pieces, Kyneton Ridge Art Space, Kyneton
2022Eddy, Minerva, Sydney
2021It's Raining In Sunshine, LON Gallery, Richmond
2018Accession, Bundoora Homestead Art Centre, Bundoora
2017Waves, Honeymoon Suite, Brunswick; Open House, True Estate, The Alderman Bar, Brunswick; 9 x 5, VCA Margaret Lawrence Gallery, Melbourne
2016Can't Look, Can't Look Away, Counihan Gallery, Brunswick; Bus Projects Editions, Collingwood; Lots Of Nudes, LON Gallery, Collingwood; Re-visioning Histories, Bundoora Homestead Art Centre; West Space Fundraiser; In Concert, Gertrude Glasshouse; Be The Person Your Dog Thinks You Are, LON Gallery; Elastic Field, Strange Neighbour, Fitzroy
2015TCB Fundraiser, TCB art inc, Melbourne; Groupgrope, The Alderman, Brunswick
2014Faux Museum, C3 Contemporary Artspace, Abbotsford; Martin Kippenberger, Neon Parc; Loose Canon, Artbank Gallery, Sydney; FIN, Utopian Slumps
2013Moreland Summer Show, Counihan Gallery; Gertrude Studios 2013, Gertrude Contemporary; Sub12, The Substation, Newport; Like Mike, Linden Centre for Contemporary Art; Guirguis New Art Prize, Art Gallery of Ballarat
2012Gertrude Studios 2012, Gertrude Contemporary; On The Y-Axis, First Draft, Sydney
2011Impossible Objects, Utopian Slumps; Thank you for the days: My Teenage Years, Lismore Regional Gallery
2010Dot Dot Dot, Lismore Regional Gallery; Dot Dot Dot, Pelaton, Sydney
2009Problem Solving: Espress Yourself, Uplands Gallery, Prahran
2008Home, Lismore Regional Gallery; Man Depicting Masculinity, Penrith Regional Gallery; Group Show, Mori Gallery, Sydney
2006Primavera 2006, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney; Big in Japan, Gallery Side 2, Tokyo; Single Currency, VCA Gallery, Melbourne
2004Real. Not Real, 5 Kent Street, Henley Beach, Adelaide
2003Unsigned Artists, Niagara Galleries, Melbourne
2002Fallout, VCA Gallery, Melbourne; Line Up, Mansour Gallery, Melbourne

Awards

2008Metro 5 Award
2003Matthew Teleskivi Memorial Sculpture Prize
2003TCB VCA Graduate Award

Collections

Artbank, Sydney
Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
Art Gallery of Ballarat
Epworth Hospital Collection
Private collections, Australia and overseas