Alan Constable

Born: Melbourne 1956

 Alan Constable is a Melbourne-based painter and ceramicist. The ceramics, which he began developing in 2007, reflect his life-long fascination with old cameras, starting at the age of eight when he would make replicas from cardboard cereal boxes. Now, many years later, his colourfully glazed clay sculptures present lyrical interpretations of cameras and other visual instruments. 

Constable has been a regular studio artist at Arts Project Australia since 1991. He presents regular solo exhibitions with Darren Knight Gallery, Sydney, Arts Project Australia, Melbourne and DUTTON, New York. He has had numerous solo and group exhibitions in Australia and internationally. Since his last exhibition with Darren Knight Gallery in 2021 notable shows include: Portrait 23: Identity, National Portrait Gallery, Canberra, 2023, Brick vase clay cup jug, curated by Glenn Barkley, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2023, Who Are You: Australian Portraiture, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne and National Portrait Gallery Canberra, Australia, 2022, Eyes that see: the collection of Norman Rosenblatt, Bayside Gallery, Melbourne, 2022 and Semiotic Terrain: Art from Australia and New Zealand, DUTTON with Salon 94 Freemans, Outsider Art Fair, New York. 2021.

Constable has been a finalist in a number of prominent art awards including the Victorian Craft Award in Melbourne, 2015 and 2017. His work is held in the collection of the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Queensland Art Gallery / GOMA, Brisbane, The Museum of Everything, London, regional galleries around Australia and private collections.