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James Money
Gordon Morrison, 2018
200 x 122 cm
Mixed media on board



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Baby Raven, 2018
Mixed media on board
63.5 x 63.5cm



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Big Wren, 2019
Mixed media on board
122 x 122cm



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Blue Wren, 2019
Mixed media on board
54 x 61cm



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Raven's Beak, 2019
Mixed media on board
41 x 110cm



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James Money



Scratched & Feathered
18 September - 5 October 2019
Opening: 20 September 2019, 6.30 - 8.30 pm



Birds, and humans, are survivors. These works feature dark, scratched, provoking pictures cropped to instigate the viewer's rumination on existence outside the frame. Aggressively notched and tarnished mark-making contrasts with a dignified silence: the suspenseful mystery of the impending moment.


"If you could say it in words, there would be no reason to paint" - Edward Hopper




Born in Melbourne.


Money’s early graphic art influences comprised an unusually eclectic diet. His fascination was captured by everything from MAD magazine to Vincent Van Gogh- his visual palate ran the gamut from traditional to contemporary art, magazine illustration and popular culture. He had his first drawing published when he was 16 years of age and a few years later, graduated from the Victorian College of the Arts, in 1995. Money worked as a cartoonist and illustrator for many years.His drawings were published by Amida magazine, The Age, The Ink Group and others. Barry Humphries once described Money’s Savage Club Prize winning drawing of Sir Les Patterson as”the best I’ve ever seen” . Sir William Dargie (winner of 8 Archibald Prizes) declared Money “a talent”when they met in the 90’s. In 2010 his works were selected as finalists in the Archibald Prize and the Doug Moran National Portrait Prize. In 2013 Money’s portrait of John Bertrand was selected for the Salon des Refusés. Most recently he was a 2018 Semi Finalist in The Doug Moran National Portrait Prize. In the tradition of Australian artists such as Norman Lindsay, Donald Friend and John Spooner, Money also produces pen and ink works. He creates these with an old -fashioned nib pen-dipping it in black ink to get thick and thin lines and showing his confidence as a supreme draughtsman. The Art Gallery of Ballarat has a selection of his pen and ink drawings in their permanent collection.





James Money



Scratched & Feathered
18 September - 5 October 2019



Birds, and humans, are survivors. These works feature dark, scratched, provoking pictures cropped to instigate the viewer's rumination on existence outside the frame. Aggressively notched and tarnished mark-making contrasts with a dignified silence: the suspenseful mystery of the impending moment.


"If you could say it in words, there would be no reason to paint" - Edward Hopper





Solo Exhibitions


2019 Scratched and Feathered, Metro Gallery, Melbourne, Victoria

2009 McCulloch Gallery, Flinders, Victoria

Group Shows


2018-Summer Show Metro Gallery, Melbourne


2013 Seascapes Eastgate and Holst, Melbourne


2011 An Exhibition of drawings & Book launch: ‘Wisdom’ by Ron Barassi Metro Gallery, Melbourne


2011 Scraperboards Warburton Lane Exhibits, Melbourne





Awards and Prizes


2014 Rick Amor Drawing Prize Art Gallery of Ballarat, Victoria


2013 Salon des Refuses S.H.Ervin Gallery, Sydney


2012 Rick Amor Drawing Prize Art Gallery of Ballarat, Victoria


2011 ANL Prize Mission to Seafarers, Melbourne


2010 Archibald Prize Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney


2010 Doug Moran National Portrait Prize State Library of NSW, Sydney


2010 Rick Amor Drawing Prize Art Gallery of Ballarat, Victoria











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Exhibitions and Awards

2016 - Rick Amor Drawing Prize Shortlist, 'Raven' Ballarat, 9 July - 2 October


2013 - Salon des Refusés exhibition, S.H.Ervin Gallery Sydney, 23 March – 19 May Group Show, Eastgate and Holst, Melbourne, April – June


2012- ANL Art Prize Finalist, 'Ceremony'

Rick Amor Drawing Prize, Finalist, 'Rob'

Rick Amor Drawing Prize Exhibition, Art Gallery of Ballarat, 28 April – 24 June


2011 - 'Wisdom' by Ron Barassi with Illustrations by James Money, Published by Allen & Unwin

'Scraperboards', Warburton Lane Exhibits, 10 November – 10 December

An exhibition of illustrations and drawings / Book launch: 'Wisdom' by Ron Barassi, Metro Gallery, 26 November

ANL Art Prize, Finalist, 'Blue Monday' 2010

Doug Moran National Portrait Prize Exhibition, La Trobe Regional Gallery, 5 Feb – 3 April


2010 -Doug Moran National Portrait Prize, Finalist , 'Winter Self-portrait' Archibald Prize Finalist , 'Robert Doyle' Rick Amor Inaugural Drawing Prize, Finalist, 'Self-portrait Study'


2009 - 'Keith Richards', Michael Collins Caricature Award, Perth Central TAFE Gallery, 15 – 24 October First Solo Exhibition, McCulloch Gallery, 23 April – 11 May



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