Warren Langley

About

1950, Sydney, Australia.
Warren Langley has over 30 years experience in public artworks. These works have often used glass and light as principle materials. The works are invariably site specific. They provide a visual and intellectual response to their locations and often embrace the boundaries between art, architecture and engineering.

Langley has achieved international recognition for large scale works using glass and light as preferred materials. Most recently, in a spectacular extrapolation of the properties of these mediums, he has used large bodies of water and other landscape components in conjunction with remote source lighting technology to create a series of large scale light sculptures loosely titled light and landscape.
Integrations of these lightworks with the built environment have occurred by way of a number of large, architectural scale projects including those for the French Ministry of Culture in Amiens, France, The Centre of Contemporary Art, Tacoma USA, Docklands in Melbourne and the huge pixel column recently installed for the Midland Redevelopment Authority in Perth. In 2010 following projects to create light-artworks for the Vancouver Winter Olympic Village and the World Expo in Shanghai, a major light sculpture has been created for the City of Sydney CBD. He is currently involved in the construction of an iconic 23m high tower of glass and light for the Australian national capital, Canberra.
Elsewhere, the light and landscape installations have taken place in Australia, New Zealand, Sweden, Amsterdam, Scotland, Canada and the USA. In 2003 the Australia Council for the Arts funded a number of these light installations to be created in the Central Australian desert.
In 1996 he was awarded a Fellowship by the Australia Council for the Arts.
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Location: Sydney, Australia
Website: http://warrenlangley.com.au

Education

Education
1972 BSc (Hons) University of Sydney
1972-78 Glass Studies Australia, UK, USA
Exhibitions
Solo and group exhibitions throughout Australia, Japan, USA, Canada, Sweden, Germany, Switzerland, France, Denmark, Germany, Holland, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Luxembourg and New Zealand

Recent Public Art Commissions
Sydney City Council
Australian Pavilion, Shanghai World Expo
Vancouver Winter Olympic Village
Midland Redevelopment Authority, Perth, Australia
New Acton, Canberra, Australia
Manningham City Council, Melbourne, Australia
Commonwealth Law Courts, Adelaide
Docklands precinct, Melbourne, Australia
Aurora Tower, Brisbane, Australia
Museum of Glass, Tacoma WA, USA
Bourke Place, Melbourne, Australia
500 Collins St. Melbourne, Australia
Mt Austin Hospital, Melbourne, Australia
University of Canberra
Australian Service Nurses War Memorial, Canberra (with Robin Moorhouse and Monumental Design)
ANZAC War Memorial, Hyde Park, Sydney
Australian Parliament House, Canberra, Australia
Maison de la Culture, Amiens, France
Mosman Swim Centre, Sydney, Australia
Darling Harbour Project, Sydney, Australia
John Oxley Memorial Sculpture, Brisbane, Australia
Regent Hotel, Melbourne, Australia
Snowy Mountains Hydro-Electric Authority, Cooma, Australia.
Dow Chemical Corporation, Sydney, Australia
ANA House, Sydney, Australia
Mayfair Building, Sydney, Australia
Shortland County Council, Newcastle, Australia
Joint Coal Board, Singleton, Australia
Girvan Corporation, Sydney, Australia
St Stephens Cathedral, Brisbane, Australia
Reserve Bank Training Facility, North Sydney, Australia
Clemenger Building, Sydney, Australia
Peat Marwick Building, Melbourne, Australia
Novotel International Hotel, Sydney, Australia
Pacific Fair, Southport, Australia
Overseas Telecommunications Building, Sydney, Australia
ANA International Hotel, Sydney, Australia
Northern Territory Houses of Parliament, Darwin, Australia
The Dame Joan Sutherland Centre, Sydney, Australia
International Airport Terminal, Brisbane, Australia
Manly Library, Sydney, Australia
Childrens Hospital, Sydney, Australia
Sinochem Building, Beijing, China
Majestic Centre, Wellington, New Zealand
Museum of New Zealand, Wellington, New Zealand

Collections
Australian National Gallery, Canberra
Musee des Artes Decoratifs, Lausanne, Switzerland
Corning Museum of Glass, New York, USA
Yokohama City Art Museum, Yokohama, Japan
Musee du Verre, Sars-Poteries, France
C.I.R.V.A. Marseilles, France
Ebeltoft Museum, Denmark
Glass Museum, Marinha Grande, Portugal
Toyama Art Museum, Japan
Natonal Gallery of Victoria
Art Gallery of Western Australia
Art Gallery of South Australia
Art Gallery of Queensland
Art Gallery of Northern Territory
Powerhouse Museum, Sydney
Hobart Art Gallery, Tasmania
Victorian Ministry of the Arts, Permanent Collection
Artbank, Federal Government Art Lending Body, Australia
Wagga Wagga Regional Gallery, Australia
Devonport Regional Gallery, Tasmania, Australia
Manly Regional Art Gallery
Canberra College of Advanced Education, Permanent Collection
Warringah Shire Council Collection
Latrobe Valley Art Centre, Tasmania
Chisolm Institute, Permanent Collection, Victoria, Australia.
NSW Premiers Collection, Quong Dong Province, China
National Australia Bank Collection, Melbourne, Australia
Rural and Industrial Bank Collection, Perth, Western Australia
Safeco Corporation Public Collection, USA
Ernst and Young Collection, Perth, Western Australia
Toho Corporation Public Collection, Japan
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