Michael Le Grand: Biography

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2007 Michael Le Grand – Sculpture. Defiance Gallery, Sydney
2005 Michael Le Grand – Sculpture. Defiance Gallery, Sydney
2002 Defiance Gallery, Sydney
2000 Defiance Gallery, Sydney
2000 Beaver Galleries, Deakin, ACT
1992 Room 371, Alberta College of Art, Calgary, Canada
1988 Irving Sculpture Gallery, Sydney
1985 Irving Sculpture Gallery, Sydney
1983 Irving Sculpture Gallery, Sydney
1980 Link Theatre, Canberra, Albert Hall, Canberra

MAJOR AWARDS

2011 City News “Artist of the Year”
2011 The Helen Lempriere Scholarship
2007 The Tetsuya Wakuda Sculpture Prize
2006 The Lady Ethel Nock Sculpture Prize
2004 University of Western Sydney Acquisitive Sculpture Award
2003 Sculpture in the City, Martin Place, Sydney, invited artist
2002 Sculpture by the Sea, Invited Participant
2001 Finalist, Roche Contemporary Art Prize, Australia
2000 ACT Arts Quick Response Grant, Australian National University
Stopover Grant
1997 ACT- Arts Quick Response Grant and Australian National University
Stopover Grant
1998 ACT Government Creative Arts Fellowship, 1998 (Visual Arts)
Donation of Steel, Transfield Sydney for Canberra National Sculpture
Forum
1998 Co-winner, Inaugural Sydney Water Prize, Sculpture by the Sea
1979 Creative Arts Fellowship, Australian National University
1977 Visual Arts Board Grant, Australia Council – Special Projects
1975 Visual Arts Board Grant, Australia Council – Travel Grant

Le Grand has exhibited regularly with Sculpture by the Sea in both Cottesloe and Bondi since 1997, and exhibited at Sculpture by the Sea, Aarhus, Denmark in 2009 and 2011.

MAJOR COLLECTIONS

Gandel Sculpture Collection, Mornington Peninsula, Victoria
Spa Park, Bad Laasphe, Wittgenstein
Arts Act Public Art Program, Tuggeranong Arts Centre, ACT
Artbank, Sydney
Commonwealth Industrial Gases, Wetherill Park, NSW
Darwin Community Art Gallery, Darwin NT
Geoffrey Cousins Sculpture Collection, Mittagong, NSW
Lord Alistair McAlpine Collection, Broome, WA
Parliament House Construction Authority, Canberra
The Jackson Smith Collection
The Niland Collection
Therapeutic Goods Administration, Symonston, ACT
Tetsuya Wakuda, Sydney

PROFESSIONAL HISTORY

2008
Closing Speaker-ANCA-‘In the Fold’ ACT
Retired as Head of Sculpture-ANU School of Art
Judge/Selector – UWS Acquisitive Sculpture Prize
Judge – Far South Coast Living Artists Project
Guest Speaker – Bermagui Seaside Fair, Sculpture Symposium
2007
Judge – Kangaroo Valley Arts Festival, NSW
2004
Senior Lecturer – Head of Sculpture, ANU School of Art
1999
Travel. London: North East London University / Wimbledon School of Art, UK, New York and Washington, USA
Bad Laasphe International Sculpture Symposium, Germany
Professional Experience Leave – April – September
Appointed Head of Sculpture ANU Institute of the Arts
1998
ANU/ITA – Kyoto Seika University Exchange, Visit and Workshops, Japan
Acting Head, Sculpture Workshop, ANU, 
ITA Canberra School of Art
1997
Acting Head, Sculpture Workshop, ANU, 
ITA Canberra School of Art
Iron Corroboree, Blacksmithing, Braidwood, NSW
1996
Iron Corroboree, Blacksmithing, Braidwood, NSW
Japan: Kyoto Seika University, Tokyo, Nara, Shigaraki
1990-1998
Lecturer III (full time) Sculpture Workshop, ANU Canberra School of Art
1994
Building and establishment of new studio, Murrumbateman, NSW
1993
Promotion to Lecturer, Level B, CSA Sculpture Workshop
1992
Visiting Artist/Lecturer, University of Calgary, Canada
Guest Lecturer, Alberta College of Art, Calgary Canada
Lecture, Foundation Workshop, Alberta College of Art, Calgary Canada
1990
CSA Sculpture Workshop Coordinator
1988-1990
Canberra School of Art, Floriade Coordinator
1989
Acting Head of Workshop, Sculpture Workshop, ANU Canberra School of Art
1987
NSW Institute of Technology, Sculpture Workshop Participant, Sydney
Triangle Artist’s Workshop, New York, USA
1986
Acting Head of Workshop, Sculpture Workshop ANU Canberra School of Art
1984
Participant, Sculpture Symposium, Canberra School of Art