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See an inclusive list of Gav’s actions over the course of his career.
Education
2010
Masters of Transformative Studies – Community engagement, sociology, ecology
OASES University, Melbourne.
1991 - 1993
Bachelor Degree – Theatre and Film Studies
National Institute of Dramatic Arts (NIDA)
Major in Production / Set and Costume Design.
2012 - present
Yoga teacher / Somatic Movement (BMC) facilitator / Meditation teacher training — currently teaching somatic movement / stretch therapy / visualization meditation.
1984-1990
Apprenticeship Commercial Arts & Visual Merchandising / Gas & Fuel Corporation, Victoria.
Solo Exhibitions
2024 Shadow Sculptures, public engagement, live activation in the streets—George Town Arts Festival Penang
2024 Sydney Harbour—Wentworth Galleries Sydney-ice works and video installation
2024 Radical Fields Arts and Community Festival—Nature based Mark Making and Shadow Sculpture activation
2024 The fluidity of not knowing—& Gallery Sorrento Victoria-street activated ice works and live immersive
performance with audience interaction.
2023 Transmogrification—Hyphen Regional Gallery Wodonga interactive immersive ice works and video pieces.
2023 Mark Making—Co Create Hyphen Regional Gallery Wodonga interactive sound, movement, mark making.
2022 Sound of Prayer—Wentworth Galleries Sydney (exhibition/ video piece).
2020-21 Body—online work over 8 months—recorded dance, drawing and movement everyday live.
2020 Painted City Forest—A Refugee online works of quick response paintings live over a year.
2019 A movement of flying—Audrey Fine Art Gallery Sydney.
2019 Gav Barbey—Hong Kong and Singapore Art Fairs.
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2019 Flow a series of Ice Melts and Live performance—Wentworth Galleries Sydney.
2018 Flight an exhibition on the wing—Wentworth Galleries Sydney.
2017 Lyrical line—Wentworth Galleries Sydney.
2016 Birds—Wentworth Galleries Sydney (exhibition / live performance).
2012 Little Seed America – Installation / book reading / animation / performance across 7 States / 3000 people across
North America.
2011 The Poetic Nature of the Dot – Red Gallery - Iceworks.
2010 Love / Hate – Until Never Gallery 2 street 150 litre blocks + 500 small blocks & video pieces.
2010 Transformation – Brightspace Gallery – 5 x 150 litre Icemelts live & split screen Video piece.
2009 Interaction (viewer is artist & artist is viewer) - Installation and stills video, Under the Bridge Arts Festival
(exhibition / performance / Installation), Dumbo, New York.
2009 For the Love of the Game, Sackville Artist Studio, (High gloss pours) Melbourne.
2008 Dots - Installation and film, Under the Bridge Arts Festival, (exhibition/performance/ Installation), Dumbo, New
York.
2008 Retrospective, The Birth of the Landscape, Wentworth Galleries, Sydney.
2005 The White Album Roney Gallery, (performance/ Installation), Sydney.
2004 Ned Kelly Hanged – limited edition print series Signature Prints, Sydney.
2004 Portraits RPArt, Sydney.
2003 Ned Kelly Hanged Greythorne Galleries, Melbourne.
2003 Works on Paper Manyung Gallery, Melbourne.
2002 33/21 Works on Paper Contacts Photographics, Sydney.
2002 A Day at the Zoo Patrizia Autore Gallery, Melbourne.
2002 Aerials, Blobs, Tidal Marks, Ink-blots Arthouse Hotel, ( 120 Lt Icemelts performance/ Installation/ Video),
Sydney.
2002 Birds Danks Street Gallery, Sydney.
2001 Iceworks Charles Hewitt Gallery, (performance / Installation), Sydney.
2001 Recent Works Charles Hewitt Gallery, Sydney.
2000 Zoo II Source 490, Sydney.
1999 Zoo Studies Source 490, Sydney.
Group Exhibitions
2019 Wentworth Galleries Hong Kong / Sydney.
2016 Wentworth Galleries Hong Kong / Sydney.
2016 Manyung Galleries Melbourne.
2015 Signature Prints — showcase of prints.
2014 Hut 41 — The figure.
2012 Hut 41 — Greetings.
2011 Wonderland – Amelia Johnson Contemporary, Hong Kong.
2009 Carriage artworks – contemporary art from the city fringe, (Performance / Iceworks / Installation) Sydney
2009 I Heart Art – Dumbo Arts Centre (DACs) New York.
2008 Leo Kuelbs Collection – Patriotic, Dumbo Panelling Gallery, New York.
2008 Leo Kuelbs Collection – Under the Bridge festival group show, Dumbo Panelling Gallery, New York.
2008 More Than Meets The Eye, At The Vanishing Point Contemporary Art, Sydney.
2007 Marrickville Contemporary Art Prize, MCAP’07, Sydney.
2007 Gallery of functional art, Blood Stains ice works (Christina Mero curated) Santa Monica, California.
2007 The Howard Years, The Vanishing Point Contemporary Art, Sydney.
2007 Space Aid – Iceworks Queen St Studio, Sydney.
2007 Leo Kuelbs Collection – Iceworks Dumbo Panelling Gallery, Brookyln, New York.
2006 ANZAS Southern Hands - Works on Paper Australian Embassy, KwanHoon gallery Korea.
2005 Works on Paper Charles Hewitt Gallery, Sydney.
2004 Humane Society – Extinction Denied Arthouse Hotel, Sydney.
2004 Josephine Ulrick Photographic Prize Tweed River Gallery, Murwillumbah.
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2004 Propeller 4 Sydney.
2003 Rings of History Hazelhurst Regional Gallery, Sydney.
2003 Waterhouse Prize South Australian Museum.
2003 RU&(eye)@1…some things we think… Hazelhurst Regional Gallery, Sydney.
2003 MAC Art (AIDS Fund) Orson & Blake, Sydney.
2003 Humane Society - Extinction Denied Arthouse Hotel, Sydney.
2003 Studio Exhibition Schwang Effects, Sydney.
2003 Creative Madness Garvan Institute, Sydney.
2003 With anything blank around The Ephemeral Holt Street Gallery, Sydney.
2002 Duck Art, Installation, Royal Lifesaving Australian Stock Exchange, Sydney.
2001 Willoughby City Art Prize Sydney.
2001 Humane Society VOLVO Gallery, Sydney.
2001 Amnesty International Wagner Gallery, Sydney.
Film / Installation / Performance
2023 Transmogrification — community driven process over 3 months creating 8 continual ice works presented within
dimensional works and video capture.
2022 Sound of Prayer video piece based on the different perceptions of human prayer.
2020-21 COVID Dancin — a daily video vlog of somatic movement and mark making online.
2019 Painted City Forest—Refugee engagement live painting of shelters Paris.
2015 Festival Spectrum Now — 2000 people participation of the construction of 140 meters of overlaid screen
printing art — piece donated to King George Hospital Sydney.
2013 Signature Prints (Short video piece for Cannes film festival) 5 min.
2012 Ferrari (scale model of Ferrari car for China event/installation) – stop motion.
2010 Love/ Hate (150 litre ethereal Icemelts outdoors) 4 min digital video.
2010 Transformation (120 litre Iceworks textures) 4.5 min digital video.
2009 Interaction (viewer is artist and artist is viewer) 1000 interactive Icemelts N.Y. - stop motion.
2008 The Guy who Killed Paris Hilton -Feature Length (Iceworks) film which looks at the complex word ‘Art’,
featuring Actors/ Performers / musicians / DOP’s / Writers 60 mins (Goalpost pictures).
2008 Live under the Brooklyn Bridge (500 Icemelts) 3000 HD digital stills to quicktime.
2005 The White Album (Iceworks) HD video, 15 mins.
2005 FlyVideo, 22 mins, work on the birds in Sydney Park.
2002 Aerials, Blobs, Tidal Marks, Ink-blots 16mm, 5min, Time Lapse.
2002 Birds Digi Beta, 30 min documentary.
2001 Mean Gleam Ultra Marine Digi Beta, 5 min, Ice Painting.
Director / Design Film
2023 Transmogrification, Video Art pieces-Hyphen, Regional Gallery Wodonga 2022 Sound of Prayer, Feature length
Art Documentary.
2021 I am Unbelievable Man, Short Film.
2020-21 Dance a series of daily, dance videos over 12 months.
2018 Educational video and trailer, Painted City Forest Refugee Beautification.
2013 Bespoke Summit, Opera House, Short documentary, Florence Broadhurst / Signature Prints Cannes lecture
series, Short documentary, Florence Broadhurst / Signature Prints.
Mushroom Man Video Clip Lisa Mitchell, Warners Music.
2012/13 Pre School-Hand Painted Animated Interstitial series x 60, Sunnytime Productions / CLM
2 Dream, Short Film.
2011 Sunnytime Zoom Zoom, Animated short film, Sunnytime Prod / ABC Kids.
2010 Music Makers, 26 x 1.20sec-animated interstitials, Sunnytime Prod / Parthenon Entertainment UK
Transformation Video Art, Brightspace Gallery.
LOVE - HATE, Video Art, Until Never Gallery.
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2009 The Man who killed Paris Hilton, Documentary, Goalpost pictures.
Artist is viewer Viewer is Artist, Under the Bridge Festival New York NY.
1000 live ice melt / Stop Motion Video.
2008 Multi culture, dot works, Under the Bridge Festival NY.
500 live ice melts, stop motion video 2005 The White Album, Roaney Galleries.
FlyVideo, 22min documentary, Sydney Park Bird life 2002 Fables, feature film, NSWFTO Aurora funding
Birds, 30min art documentary, Danks Street Galleries Aerials, Blobs, Art House Hotel Galleries.
Tidal Marks, Ink-blots, Experimental art video.
2001 Ice Painting, Short digital video, Charles Hewitt Gallery Hashi, Short Film, Whykickamoocow.
Big Snorkel, 6 - 1⁄2hr Sitcom, Many Hands Production.
2000 Burnout, Short Film, FTO Young Film Makers fund.
1999 Federation Float, 3D CD-Rom. Centenary of Federation.
1998 Kissed, Short Film, Many Hands - Tropfest Finalist 1997 Fever, 13 Ep. Sitcom/Drama, Many Hands / R.B. Films
Portrait of the Queen, Documentary, Peep Show Productions.
Motel, Station ID, Channel V / Peep Show Productions Thumbelina, Station ID, Channel V / Peep Show Productions.
Film Production Design / Costume Design
2023 Just a Farmer, Design Mentor, Feature Film Dir: Simon Lyndon.
2022 Raine Boys, Proof of Concept, Feature Film, Dir: Jarrod Dean & Jeremy Cumpston / Film 8.
2018 Production Art Director and facilitator for Giraud and Siboni ‘The Everted Capital’—MOMA gallery
2016 Ellipsis, Feature Film, Dir: David Wenham / Arena Films.
2015 Imagination Train, 60 x 30min Children’s television, Prod: Ambience, Entertainment / Channel 9.
2012 Schadenfreude, Short Film, Dir: Peter O’Brien/ Adelaide Film Festival.
2001 Zoom Zoom, TVC, Dir: Dave White, Peepshow.
Country Fire, Association, TVC, Dir: Dave White, Peepshow.
Butter Menthol, TVC, Dir: Dave White, Peepshow.
2000 Carlton Cold, TVC, Dir: Michael Corridor, Peepshow.
Breast Cancer, TVC, Dir: Dave White, Peepshow.
Mazda 626, TVC, Dir: Dave White, Peepshow.
NRMA Insurance, TVC, Dir: Michael Corridor, Peepshow MYOB, TVC, Dir: Dave White, Peepshow.
Police, TVC, Dir: Dave White, Peepshow Singapore Army, TVC, Prodigy Productions.
1999 Confessions of a Head Hunter, Film SBS Indigenous, Dir: Sally Riley.
NRMA, TVC, Dir: Michael Corridor, Peepshow.
Naprogesic, TVC, Dir: Dave White, Peepshow.
Tiny Teddy’s, TVC, Dir: Michael Corridor, Peepshow.
1998 Fresh Air, Feature, Dir: Neil Mansfield, RB Films.
The Greens, Political Campaign, TVC, Dir: John Isard.
MBF, TVC, Dir: David White, Peepshow.
Bundaberg Rum, TVC, Dir: Brendan Fletcher.
Garage, Short Film, Dir: Richard Lindsell Many Hands.
English at Work, TV Series, SBS Television 1997 Lendlease, Corporate, Dir: Brendan Fletcher
NSW Police, TVC, Dir: David White, Peep Show.
Kentucky Fried, TVC, Dir: David White, Peep Show.
Hilux, TVC, Dir: David White, Peep Show, Winner Cannes Shots Reel Bathroom, Short Film, Many Hands.
Bedroom, Short Film, Many Hands.
Mediation, Corporate Video, Dir: Kay Pavlov.
St George Bank, TVC, Dir: David White Peep Show.
English at Work, TV Series, SBS Television.
1996 World Vision, TVC, Dir: James Bogle.
40 Hour Famine, TVC Dir: James Bogle.
Savage Garden, Music Clip, Lucid Films.
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Country Comfort, Short Film, Dir: Adolfo Cruzado The Rule of Three, Short Film, Dir: David White English at Work, TV Series, SBS Television.
1995 Hatred, Documentary, Dir: Mitzi Goldman, R.B. Films Doc, Documentary, Dir: Pat Fiske Film Aust.
Floating Theatre, Corporate, Dir: Rowan Wood.
Fly Pee Wee Fly, Short Film, Dir: Sally Riley Film Aust. Swallowing, Short Film, Dir: Sofya Golam.
Hallelujah, Short Film, Dir: Michael Bennett.
James Blundel, Film Clip, Dir: Neil Mansfield R.B. Films English at Work, 6 part TV Series, SBS Television Health & Literacy, TV Pilot, SBS Television.
1994 What’s Going On Frank, Short Film, Dir: John Polson.
Feel Like Coming Out Tonight, TVC, Dir: Kym Vaidtiekus.
Harvest Award, TVC, Hot House Prod.
Audacious, Short Film, Dir: Sam Lang.
1993 Is It My Body (Melissa), Video Clip, Dir: Greg Ferguson.
Theatre Set / Costume Design
2024 Song Book, the history of Millers Point Sydney, Dir: Joanna Weinberg
2024 Poltergeist, La Mamma theatre, Dir: Tamblyn Lord
2018 Call of the Ice, La Mamma theatre, Dir: Tamblyn Lord.
2018 Milky Way, Snow Gum, Collaboration WA Ballet / Gary Lang dance company / Deborah Cheetham Opera Singer.
2009 Sisters of Gelam, Ilbijerri theatre, Dir: Rachael Maza.
2007 No Chance in Hell Hotel, Dir: Joe Turner.
2003 Beasty Girrrl, Big hART, Dir: Scott Rankin.
2001 Amago, Kicking & Screaming, Dir: Chris Mead.
2000 Temp Rising, Tamarama Rock Surfers, Dir: Alan Flower.
Grave Gnomes, La Mama, Dir: Anni Finisterer.
1999 Amco Riders, Tamarama Rock Surfers, Dir: Alan Flower 1997 After Dinner, Melbourne Theatre Co, Dir: Sally Riley.
Road, Tamarama Rock Surfers, Dir: Simon Lyndon.
1996 Freaks Geeks & the Chimp Who Speaks, Griffin Theatre, Writer: Hilary Bell.
Renewal, Aust. Council NSW, Dir: Antoinette Blaxland, Arts & Skills Festival Ray’s Tempest, Burning House, Dir: Richard Roxburgh.
Cock’n’Bull Story, Red Rock Theatre, Dir: Patrick Nolan.
1995 Hot Young Things, ATYP, Dir: Antoinette Blaxland.
That Eye the Sky, Performing Lines, Dir: Richard Roxburgh.
Orientalia, Performance Space, Dir: Sally Sussman.
Tales of Helpman, Syd. Fringe Festival, Dir: Tyler Coppin.
1994 Appetite, Melb. Int. Festival, Dir: J. Forbes-Watson.
Shearston Shift, APT/STC, Dir: John Howard.
That Eye the Sky, Syd./Melb. Festivals Dir: Richard Roxburgh.
Boys in the Band, New Theatre, Dir: Kevin Jackson.
Bad Boy Johnny, Prophet Production, Dir: Terry O’Connell.
Corporate Facilitation Design Community Engagement
2024 User experiential design and facilitation.
Patient Experience Agency pty ltd
2023 Design ideation facilitation FIFA touring museum.
Hassel Architects / Freestate Innovation
Ideation on community engagement for Melbourne City festival Open House.
Freestate Innovation
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Little Seed picture book and educational program.
Bondi Public School
2022 Corporate design and community engagement.
Lend Lease Innovation
Corporate design and ideation.
Hassel Architects / Freestate Innovation
2021-22 Facilitation, co-design strategy, mark making community engagement Sydney Children’s Hospital (working with
13 end user young adults within designing a new mental health space and wayfinding app to promote inclusion
and the unique needs of young adults)—Sydney Children’s Hospital / Inside Out & Associates.
2019-20 Ideation through design thinking and community engagement ongoing workshops based on a deck of 13
creative activation cards.
Macquarie Bank
2019- Refugee and NGOs engagement and prototyping of refugee beautification project based on pictorial
expressions around the concepts of House and Home, these workshops have afforded the project in creating documentation around health and the beneficial application of trees/ nature and pictorial language to dis-placed peoples, and has contributed and engaged funding and collaboration with Clowns Without Borders, Objectif Monde, UNESCO and UNHCR. The project has now received funding from UNHCR to create workshops within the Congo in 2023.
2017 Facilitation, community and corporate engagement, design ‘Colour the World’ Tree Guard project— Planet Ark/
National Tree Planting Day signature event Parramatta Sydney.
2016-19 Facilitation, support VCE teaching of collaborative school’s theatrical production and costume design within the
public spaces, creation of theatre spaces, final VCE folio presentations—Alice Millar High School
Macedon—Head of Performance Studies Anna Browning.
2016 Designer / maker / ideation.
Creative Play Sydney Opera House
Facilitation of rapid prototyping and creative innovation workshops.
Hayworth Asia Pacific
Facilitation / creative design, rapid prototyping workshop.
Girvan and Waugh Architects
Social Justice public art work facilitation of entire school’s creative expressions around the theme of kindness
and wellbeing / design.
Dharma School and Springs Medical Centre Daylesford
Ideation, community and corporate engagement and collaboration, design, facilitation 190 mt of public created fabric for King George Hospital.
Spectrum Now Festival, Richard Roxburgh and Signature Prints
2015-16 Facilitation, educator of creative play and implementation within schools of the Creative Leadership for
Learning series of NSW Teachers Professional development opportunities at Sydney Opera House and Sydney
University based on schools Burning Question.
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2015 Community and school’s engagement inspiring school children and teachers to learn about environmental
science through engagement of creative expression and storytelling on national tree guard project
National Tree Planting Day, Planet Arc, Derivan Matisse Art Suppliers and Toyota.
2014 Corporate art & design implementation and community engagement.
CUA Bank / Wyndana Drug and Rehabilitation Centre
Environmentally sustainable practices and material design / facilitation of change management through creative thinking / wayfinding design / community participation engagement within design methodology and rapid prototyping / interior design.
Suncorp corporate headquarters Barangaroo Sydney
Ideation / rapid prototyping and community engagement workshops of agile writable walls.
Suncorp Melbourne
2013-15 Design / maker and performance with Creative Learning Specialist Frank Newman.
Creative Play Sydney Opera House
2013-14 School’s picture book readings and creative play workshops.
Booked Out Australia
2013 Corporate design through rapid prototyping and end user engagement / community engagement design.
Suncorp Old Melbourne Stock Exchange
Facilitation of storytelling through environmental science and art mark making on community / council tree guard.
Dharma School Daylesford/ Daylesford Council Victoria
Ideation / corporate engagement / archival research / direction of documentary video and cross platform
archiving of designer Florence Broadhurst/ Signature Prints.
Bespoke Summit Opera House/ Cannes lecture series
2012 Little Seed North America's picture book primary school’s tour of North America—this tour was a culmination
of readings and creative play within schools across North America of my picture book Little Seed (published originally in Australia by Pan Macmillan) with the launch of an animated and interactive digital version of Little Seed North America in collaboration with Urban Fox Productions LA and the animations series on North American tree and creative play workshops https://vimeo.com/58223908
2011-14 public and private creative mark making workshops / screen printing workshops.
Signature Prints (Florence Broadhurst) Sydney
Teaching and facilitation
NIDA open program co-facilitation Steve Rodgers (actor, screenwriter) — building collaboration and ideation through text, visual movement and play.
WAAPA production and design talks.
ATYP co-facilitation with Frank Newman (creative learning specialist) — performers as design through movement and visual character play.