CAST Gallery

Bio: Dr Colin Langridge

BA Fine Art 1991, Hons 1998 (Curtin University, Western Australia),

MA 2002, PhD 2006 (Tasmanian School of Art – University of Tasmania).

Langridge’s art practice is primarily sculptural. With an extensive exhibition history, he has won several awards and prizes for art including international residencies, sculpture prizes and major public art commissions. He has also curated and coordinated several group exhibitions and had reviews published in Australian art journals. He has taught at the Tasmanian School of Art since 2005. He was the Australia Council Resident Artist at the British School in Rome, July –Sept 2007. Langridge has also worked as Exhibitions Officer and Program Coordinator for several major Tasmanian arts organisations.

Langridge’s recent art practice has developed from studying Baroque figurative artworks where he has manipulated fabric folds into expressive sculptural forms. Previously he studied outmoded forms of traditional trade craft practices, such as coopering and wooden boat building, by extending the process to create unique sculptural forms. He has also worked with designers and engineers to create large steel sculptures for outdoor public art projects. Underlying much of Langridge’s art practice is his desire to shift the function of his art from being a tool for communication towards raising the question of Being. The artworks often encourage the viewer to ask: ‘What is it?’