Artists

Born Adelaide 1950
Lives and works Daylesford, Victoria, Australia

Aleks Danko is recognised for a prolific career spanning over 30 years, working in installation art, performance art, 3-Dimensional works, and public commissions. The past decade has seen Danko create a body of work which suggests, discusses, & interrogates the social, political & cultural landscape of Australia.

The SONGS OF AUSTRALIA: VOLUME 1-16 series was first exhibited at Sutton Gallery in 1996, with subsequent shows to follow, it culminated in SONGS OF AUSTRALIA: VOLUME 16 - SHHH, GO BACK TO SLEEP (an un-Australian dob-in mix), 2004, presented by the National Gallery of Victoria, as recipient of the 2002-04 Contempora Fellowship. Danko has also held a survey exhibition at Adelaide's CACSA, 2001, and exhibited SONGS OF AUSTRALIA: VOLUME 9 - UH-OH THE CHINESE ARE COMING (take-away mix), 2001, at the Project Space, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney. Group exhibitions include a performance and exhibition in The Liverpool Biennial 2004, UK; Clemenger Award of Contemporary Art, the Ian Potter Centre: NGV:A, Melbourne, 2003; Journey to Now: John Kaldor Art Projects and Collection, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, 2003; Meridian, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, 2002; Fieldwork: Australian Art 1968-2002, the Ian Potter Centre: NGV:A, Melbourne, 2002; and Australian Perspecta 99 -Art and Politics, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 1999. Public commissions and performances include Western Gateway Project, Adelaide, awarded through Arts SA and Adelaide City Council, Songs of Australia Volume 3 - At Home, public work at the University of South Australia, Adelaide; and performances: Songs of Australia Volume 5 - Life Sentences, Remanence, Melbourne Magistrates' Court, Melbourne, Melbourne International Festival of the Arts, 1999; 10e Biennale de Paris, series of performances with Joan Grounds, Paris, 1977. Alex is exhibiting a new body of work, CULTURAL MEDITATION 1949-2006, at Sutton Gallery, Melbourne in 2006.

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