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EXHIBITIONS

2024: defi-Nations, OUR WORDS (group exhibition) – Adelaide Festival Centre, Adelaide SA

2024: waiting for kakirra, Between Waves (Yalingwa 3, group exhibition) – Plimsoll Gallery, Hobart TAS

2024: found object I, Assembly: Unveiling the City of Adelaide Contemporary Art Collection (group exhibition) – Adelaide Town Hall, Adelaide SA

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2024: songlines, Songs to uncover what is there (group exhibition) – FELTspace, Adelaide SA

2023: Treaty, Studios: 2023 (group exhibition) – Adelaide Contemporary Experimental (ACE), Adelaide SA

2023: Burn the log., Title TBC (group exhibition) – The Joinery, Adelaide SA

2023: Ruled Us, Ruled Us, Ruled Us (solo exhibition) – Adelaide Contemporary Experimental (ACE) & Museum of Economic Botany, Adelaide SA

2023: waiting for kakirra, Between Waves (Yalingwa 3, group exhibition) – Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (ACCA), Melbourne VIC

2023: Dream Job (solo exhibition) – Disclaimer (Liquid Architecture) & Sydney Opera House, online

2023: Never too hot, A Partnership for Uncertain Times (group exhibition) – Australian Network for Art & Technology (ANAT) and University of South Australia (UniSA), Newmarch Gallery, Prospect SA

2023: Burn the log., Presence (group exhibition) – Hahndorf Academy, Hahndorf SA

2022: Right of way, shifting (group exhibition) – Centre for Creative Health, Dentons Fisher Jeffries, Adelaide SA

2022: Nharangga Mayi Guranna, First Nation Art Exhibition (group exhibition) – Edithburgh Hotel, SA

2022: Smart Object, Experimenta Life Forms (group exhibition) – Western Plains Cultural Centre, Dubbo NSW

2022: no, Who Let The Flies Out (group exhibition) – Good Bank Gallery, McLaren Vale SA

2022: Make Yourself Comfortable II, Neoteric (group exhibition) – Adelaide Railway Station, Adelaide SA

2022: Make Yourself Comfortable I (solo exhibition) – Post Office Projects, Port Adelaide SA

2021: Waiting to Return (solo exhibition collaborating with Mr Fox) – Flinders Medical Centre, SALA Resident, Bedford Park SA

2021: Smart Object, Experimenta Life Forms (group exhibition) – Tweed Regional Gallery, Murwillumbah NSW

2021: Smart Object, Experimenta Life Forms (group exhibition) – The Lock Up, Newcastle NSW

2021: Tremendously very very very beautiful (solo exhibition) – Yungondi exhibition program, Guildhouse, Adelaide SA

2021: Scar tree 1, ANAT 2021 NAIDOC Week (online exhibition) – Adelaide SA

 

2021: Smart Object, Experimenta Life Forms (group exhibition) – Plimsoll Gallery, Hobart TAS

2020: Hold Me, A//I Adelaide International (group exhibition) – Samstag Museum, Adelaide SA

2020: old light (refraction) (group exhibition)– Lot Fourteen, Adelaide SA

2020: UNCEDED LAND (solo event)– Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide SA

2020: Holiday Boy, VIETNAM - ONE IN, ALL IN (group exhibition) – Walkway Gallery, Bordertown SA

2019: Holiday Boy, VIETNAM - ONE IN, ALL IN (group exhibition) – roxbylink Art Gallery, Roxby Downs SA

2019: UNCEDED LAND (performance, fine print TRANSCRIPTIONS 2) Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide SA

2019: old light (refraction), ISEA 2019: Lux Aeterna (international group exhibition) – Gwangju, South Korea

2019: Holiday Boy, VIETNAM - ONE IN, ALL IN (group exhibition) – Yarta Purtli Gallery, Port Augusta SA

2019: Home (series), Already Home (group exhibition) – City Library, Adelaide SA

2019: Holiday Boy, VIETNAM - ONE IN, ALL IN (group exhibition) – Walter Nicholls Gallery, Port Lincoln SA

2019: Holiday Boy, VIETNAM - ONE IN, ALL IN (group exhibition) – Tandanya NACI, Adelaide SA

2019: found object I, Commons (group exhibition) – Adelaide Town Hall, Adelaide SA

2018: to tamper with light is to tamper with reality, The Return (group exhibition) – Dark Mofo 2018, Hobart TAS

2018: old light (refraction), Enlightenment Festival (group exhibition) – Australian National University, Canberra ACT

2018: Tremendously very very very beautiful, standing still; looking back, looking forward (group exhibition) – Incinerator Gallery, Moonee Ponds VIC

2018: old light (refraction) (group exhibition) – ANAT/City of Adelaide, Adelaide SA

2017: to tamper with light is to tamper with reality (UTAS postgrad exhibition) – Tasmanian College of the Arts, Hobart TAS

 

2017: free speech, TALK BACK, HB17 Hobienalle Festival 2017 (group exhibition) – Visual Bulk, Hobart TAS

 

2017: LOSS. GAIN. REVERB. DELAY. (solo exhibition) – Vitalstatistix/TARNANTHI, Port Adelaide SA

 

2017: Avoirdupois, Blak Mirror (group exhibition) – Gallery Lane Cove, Lane Cove NSW

2017: Untitled (series), Blak Mirror (group exhibition) – Gallery Lane Cove, Lane Cove NSW

2017: old light (refraction), New Light (group exhibition) – ANAT/TARNANTHI, Adelaide SA

2016: Avoirdupois, Blak Mirror (group exhibition) – 107 Projects, Redfern NSW

 

2016: Untitled (series), Blak Mirror (group exhibition) – 107 Projects, Redfern NSW

 

2016: Avoirdupois, Middle Distance (group exhibition) – Praxis Gallery, Adelaide SA

 

2016: Truth Over Time, We Run Into the Fire (group exhibition) – Alaska Projects, Sydney NSW

 

2016: Territorial Encounters (sound work for James Tylor solo exhibition) – CACSA, Adelaide SA

 

2016: Cultural Precinct (solo exhibition) – Art Pod, Adelaide Town Hall, Adelaide SA

 

2015: PALM VALLEY (solo exhibition) – CACSA, Adelaide SA

 

2014: found object II, Our Mob Contemporary: Behind the Glass (group exhibition) – Adelaide Festival Centre, Adelaide SA

 

2014: appropriate[d], University of South Australia, Adelaide SA

 

2014: found object I, University of South Australia, Adelaide SA

 

2014: free speech, University of South Australia, Adelaide SA

 

RESIDENCIES

2023-2024: Studio Artist, Adelaide Contemporary Experimental (ACE), Adelaide SA

2021: SALA Artist in Residence, Flinders Medical Centre, Bedford Park SA

2016: Resident Artist (Incubator Residency Program), Vitalstatistix, Port Adelaide SA

INDUSTRY EXPERIENCE

Current: Board member, Australian Network for Art & Technology, Adelaide SA

Current: Artist Advisory Group member, Guildhouse, Adelaide SA

Current: Peer Assessor, Arts South Australia, Adelaide SA

2021: Program presenter, Nebula, Country Arts SA

2021: Program artist, Wild Dog, Country Arts SA

2021: Panel assessor, ANAT, Adelaide SA

2020: Panel assessor, Country Arts SA, Port Adelaide SA

2020: Curator, NEO Full Moon, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide SA

2019: Panel assessor, Country Arts SA, Port Adelaide SA

2019: Panel Assessor, Guildhouse, Adelaide SA

2017: Workshop with Youth, NEO Deadly Halloween, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide SA

2016: Workshop (all ages), Artbank Social Club & Artist Flea Market, Artbank, Sydney NSW

2015: Artist Advisory board member, SASA Gallery, Adelaide SA

Topic Teacher - Visual Arts Specialisation A & B + Painting + and Studio Practice + Sculpture + Drawing

School of Education, Flinders University, South Australia 

2015 — 2022

Tutor - Fine Arts

Indigenous Tutorial Assistance Scheme, Yunggorendi, Flinders University, South Australia 

2015

Indigenous Tutorial Assistance Scheme, Riawunna, University of Tasmania, South Australia 

2017

Installation and Gallery Manager

The Australian Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide

2014 — 2015

Traveling Exhibitions Installation Technician

The National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

2011 — 2015

Casual Installation Technician

Contemporary Art Tasmania, North Hobart

Plimsoll Gallery, Hobart

Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide

SAMSTAG Museum of Art, Adelaide

Tandanya National Aboriginal Cultural Institute, Adelaide

Nexus Arts, Adelaide

2011 — 2017

AWARDS / ACQUISITIONS

2023: Acquisition by the Australian War Memorial – Holiday Boy

2022: Acquisition by Guildhouse – Unceded Seeded (Ngampa)

2019: Acquisition by City of Adelaide – found object I

2017: Degree Master of Fine Art and Design, UTAS, Hobart TAS

2017: Recipient, Riawunna Postgraduate Scholarship, Hobart TAS

2016-infinity: Public Artwork Commission (Melville Street UTAS Accommodation), Hobart TAS

2011-2015: Degree Bachelor of Visual Arts (Painting Specialisation), UniSA, Adelaide SA

2012-2014: Fellow (Wesfarmers Indigenous Arts Fellowship Program), National Gallery of Australia

2011: Recipient, Wyatt Benevolent Fund Indigenous Student Scholarship

2011: Participant (Wesfarmers Indigenous Arts Leadership Program), National Gallery of Australia

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY & PUBLICATIONS

 

Bolton, Ken – 'TO BE 'WITH' BUT NOT 'OF' THE WEIRD', Form Guide 15.4, 29 October 2015

Burke, Eliza – 'Experimanta Life Forms', Artlink, 14 April 2021

 

Butler, Andy – 'Notes on measuring value, progress and productivity', Adelaide//International, Samstag Museum of Art, Exhibition, February 2020

 

Fairly, Gina – 'Is the myth of ‘sameness’ unwarranted across the emerging artist landscape?', Arts Hub, 2 August 2023

 

Falcinella, Marie – 'Brad Darkson: Ritual Space', Artlink, 1 June 2018

 

Guerrera, Dominic – 'Make Yourself Comfortable I', Post Office Projects Exhibition, February 2022

 

Howden, Belinda – 'Artists in focus: Brad Darkson', AGSA, 19 October 2021

 

Koch, Megan – 'Exhibition Review: Neoteric', Arts Hub, 5 April 2022

 

Llewelyn, Jane – 'Playing with fire: Artists respond to uncertain times', InReview, 30 June 2023

 

Llewelyn, Jane – 'Unearthing the stories of Aboriginal veterans and the Vietnam War', The Adelaide Review, 7 May 2019

 

Llewelyn, Jane – 'Brad Harkin's Cultural Precinct', The Adelaide Review, 25 July 2016

 

Luscombe, Liang – 'Dream Job', Disclaimer, 12 July 2023

 

Marsh, Walter – 'In the studio with Brad Darkson', InReview, 22 July 2022

 

Masi, Monte – 'Brad Harkin: Loss. Gain. Reverb. Delay', Artlink, 16 November 2017

 

Mills, Jennifer – 'A Partnership for Uncertain Times', Artlink, 29 June 2023

 

Shearn, Rohan – 'Between Waves opens at ACCA', Australian Arts Review, 30 June 2023

 

Skujins, Angela – 'Harvesting a 'cultural miracle'', CityMag, 18 January 2023

 

Sliuzas, Adelè – 'Brad Harkin: Cultural Precinct', Artlink, 30 June 2016

 

Sullivan, Eve – 'On hold in hard times', Artlink, 8 April 2020

 

Wilson, Vicky - 'Adelaide Festival Exhibition Series Explores How Architecture Influences Experience', habitusliving, 5 February 2020

 

Wolifson, Chloé – '2020 Adelaide//International', 29 March 2020

 

Wong, Serena – 'Against the Odds', Neoteric, Exhibition, March 2022

Wyld & Guerrera – 'The Rocks Remain: Blak Poetry and Story', published by Wakefield Press March 2024

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