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Biography

JESPER S. ANDERSEN
Born: Copenhagen, Danmark

CONTACT DETAILS
P.O. Box 678
S.A. 5171, Australia.
Email :jespersa@gmail.com

STUDIES
Currently Autodidactic
1973 Desiderius Orban, The Rocks, Sydney, NSW
1973 Graham Inson, Sydney, NSW
1970-1972 Julian Ashton Art School, The Rocks, Sydney, NSW
1967-1968 Murray Walker & Robert Grieve at Graham’s Castle,
Adelaide Uni. Summer School, Goolwa, SA
1964-1966 Self taught.

INDIVIDUAL EXHIBITIONS
2010 SALA Festival @ Mount Compass, SA

GROUP EXHIBITIONS
1971 The Newcastle Hotel, George Street, Sydney, N.S.W. Australia
1970-1971 The Orient Hotel, George Street North, Sydney, N.S.W. Australia

PUBLICATIONS:
This artist is listed in the following Australian standard biographical reference:

Germaine, Max. Artists and Galleries of Australia, Volumes 1 & 2, Third Edition. Craftsman Press, Sydney, 1990. Page 10.

ARTICLES:
Adelaide Hills Weekender, June 1999, by Joel Weatherald. “ Copyright conundrum puts artist out of the picture “ by Michael Reid The Australian newspaper, December 13th 1999, page 18.

I have also had my paintings exhibited in 43 selected group shows since between 1970 to 2010, below are an edited, and incomplete list of places and galleries were I have shown my art work:

Julian Ashton gallery, Sydney, NSW. 1971.
The Newcastle Hotel, Sydney, NSW. 1971.
CAS Gallery, Adelaide, SA. 1979, 1982, 1985.
Chapel Hill Winery and Gallery, McLaren Vale SA, 1992.
The Old Clarendon Gallery, SA, 1992.
The Noarlunga Community Art Centre, SA, 1996.
Chambers Gallery, City of Marion, SA, 1997.
Pirramimma Winery, McLaren Vale,SA 1997.
The Barn, McLaren Vale, SA 1998.
The Noarlunga Community Art Centre, SA, 1998.
Richard Hamilton Winery, Willunga, SA 1998.
McLaren Vale Visitors Centre, McLaren Vale,SA, 1998.
Broken Hill City Art Gallery, NSW, 1998-1999.

PRIZES: Jesper attended the prestigious Julian Ashton Art School in Sydney where he won the Phillip Musket landscape prize.

I have also featured once only, on a long running television program. My surname was miss spelt as " Anderson " in this television production.
titled: " POSTCARDS " Channel 9, TV, Mothers Day 10TH May 1998.

“Painting for me is about relationships.
This includes internal relationships within the painting itself, such as between the paint and the canvas and between the first mark and subsequent marks. I create windows so the viewer can enter into the work, move through it and experience or understand the landscape as I have done.”