BIO
Landen Callander is a Meanjin (Brisbane) based artist, designer, and arts worker with a keen interest in visual communication and typography.
Within a contemporary art context, Landen creates diagrammatic representations of intangible thoughts, memories, and feelings associated with Australian suburbia and the everyday. He seeks to encourage contemplation of overlooked ‘constants’ within the ordinary and mundane through an analytical lens.
Landen completed his Bachelor of Fine Arts (Visual Arts) with Distinction at Queensland University of Technology (QUT) in 2019. During his degree Landen interned at not-for-profit art residency space, House Conspiracy, eventually becoming a board member before leaving to co-found a new not-for-profit organisation, Nextdoor Artist Run Initiative (ARI), with four close friends. Currently operating as President, Landen hopes that his involvement with Nextdoor ARI helps foster a community that inspires creativity, inclusivity and kindness.
Eager to build on his existing design experience, Landen returned to study in 2023 and received his Diploma of Graphic Design at TAFE alongside an award for excellence in typography.
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EDUCATION
2024 - Introduction to Auslan 1 | Deaf Connect
2022 to 2023 - Diploma of Graphic Design | TAFE Queensland
2017 to 2019 - Bachelor of Fine Arts (Visual Arts) with Distinction | Queensland University of Technology (QUT)
2014 to 2015 - Certificate II in Visual Art
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2020 - Constants | House Conspiracy
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2020 - Hatched | Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts (PICA)
2020 - Hey Neighbour | Wreckers Artspace (facilitated by Nextdoor ARI)
2019 - Epoch | QUT Visual Art Studios (Creative Industries QUT)
2019 - Continuance | Frank Moran Gallery (Creative Industries QUT)
2019 - Concurrency | Frank Moran Gallery (Creative Industries QUT)
2019 - Palimpsest | Metro Arts
2018 - Un/Comfortable | Woolloongabba Substation
2018 - Concrescence | Frank Moran Gallery (Creative Industries QUT)
2018 - Alchemy | Frank Moran Gallery (Creative Industries QUT)
PUBLIC ART COMMISSIONS
2019 - Botanica | Brisbane Botanic Gardens | Commissioned by Brisbane City Council, curated by Urban Arts Project (UAP) | Collaborative work by Landen Callander, Joaquin Gonzales, Amelia McLeish, Kellie Parsons, Abigail Rutter, Kimberly Stokes, Jessica Tracey, Rhanjell Villanueva, Keemon Williams
AWARDS
2023 - Typography Award (TAFE QLD)
2019 - Milani Family Arts Prize
2017 - Vice Chancellor's Elite Visual and Performing Arts Scholarship ($30 000)
EXPERIENCE
January 2020 to current - Nextdoor Artist Run Initiative (ARI) | Co-founding director
May 2021 to Dec 2021 - Big Roddy’s Rippin’ Rib Shack | Marketing Manager
January 2020 - House Conspiracy | Director / Curator for residency cycle and exhibition The Personal Is Political
December 2019 - House Conspiracy / Vacant Assembly | Assistant Curator for exhibition 42: Life, The Universe and Everything
June 2019 to 2020- House Conspiracy | Media and Communications
October to December 2019 - House Conspiracy | Assistant Curator for exhibition 42: Life, The Universe and Everything
April to November 2019 - House Conspiracy | Intern
June to November 2019 - QUT Graduate Show Student Management Team
June 2018 to June 2019 - Post Datum | Vice President
February to June 2018 - Post Datum | Social Media
RESIDENCIES
2020 | House Conspiracy