Lives and works in Melbourne, Australia

For more information, or to see images of other projects, please contact me at august.carpenter@gmail.com

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Education
2012 BFA(Honours), Byam Shaw School of Art/Central Saint Martins, London, UK
2009 BFA Drawing, Victorian College of Arts, Victoria, Australia

Solo Exhibitions
2021 Australian Galleries, Melbourne
2021 Big Problems, The Canning Room, Tinning St Presents, Melbourne

Group Exhibitions
2020 Now & Then, Australian Galleries 
Fragments, Australian Galleries, Melbourne
Monochrome Landscapes, Australian Galleries, Melbourne
Sydney Contemporary Online 
2019 Group show, Australian Galleries, Melbourne
Splendacious, Neospace, Melbourne
Summer Edition, Australian Galleries, Online
2018 Editions, Tacit Contemporary, Melbourne
St Kevins Art Show, St Kevins College, Melbourne
2017 Fremantle Print Award, Fremantle Arts Centre, Fremantle
2015 Here & Now; Group Show, NKN Gallery, Melbourne
2014 Out of Sight: August Carpenter & Sarah McConnell, The Henley Club, Melbourne
2013 Love Forests, Gallery One Three, Melbourne
2012 BA(Hons) Fine Art Degree Show, Central Saint Martins School of Art & Design, London
2011 Perpetual Presents, Shavian Gallery, London
Burntprogress presents CDR: Music of Tomorrow, Whitechapel Gallery, London

Residency / Awards
2019 (Current) Tate Adams Memorial Fellowship at the State Library of Victoria & Baldessin Press, Victoria
2018 Cake Wines Archibottle Prize, Shortlisted
2017 Fremantle Print Award, Shortlisted
2015 Cake Wines Archibottle Prize, Shortlisted

Collections
Lenton Parr Music, Visual and Performing Arts Library, The University of Melbourne
Bibliothecha Liborum Apud Artificem, Library for the Artist's Book, Sydney

Text
2020 Australian Galleries, Artist Feature http://australiangalleries.com.au/august-carpenter-artist-feature/
2017 Lor Journal, 5PRESS Interview, https://lorjournal.com/2017/09/08/5-press/
2012  The Guardian, Jonathan Jones, https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2012/jun/22/artists-tomorrow-paint-potential

5PRESS Books
5 Press was founded in 2015, by five Melbourne based artists: August Carpenter, Cheralyn Lim, Sarah McConnell, Jaime Powell and Sophie Westerman.  The collective was formed with the intention of investigating the artist book form, through traditional printmaking and book binding techniques.

5 Press are represented in a number of private and public Australian collections including the National Library of Australia (Canberra), the State Library of Victoria, and the University of Melbourne Lenton Parr Music, Visual and Performing Arts Library (Melbourne)

2020 Paper Contemporary, Sydney Contemporary, Sydney
Melbourne Artist Book Fair, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
2019 Paper Contemporary, Sydney Contemporary, Sydney
Melbourne Artist Book Fair, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Singapore Art Book Fair, Gilman Barracks, Singapore
2018 Hob/Art, Artist Book Fair, Tasmania
Paper Contemporary, Sydney Contemporary, Sydney
Melbourne Artist Book Fair, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
2017 Volume Artists Art Book Fair, Artspace, Sydney
ABBE ’17, Queensland College of Art, Brisbane
Museum of Contemporary Art Zine Fair, Sydney
Melbourne Artist Book Fair 2017, National Gallery of Victoria
Buku Mini #2, Jogjakarta, Indonesia
2016 Print Space, Abbotsford Convent Open Spaces, Melbourne
Melbourne Artist Book Fair 2016, National Gallery of Victoria
2015 Volume Art Book Fair, Artspace, Sydney