Ken Done

Exhibition

ON THE EDGE OF COLOUR

04 Nov - 26 Nov 2022

Gallery One is proud to announce an exhibition of new work by Australia’s iconic and recognised artist Ken Done ‘On the Edge of Colour’ for the month of November 2022.

This stunning exhibition of recent paintings and drawings by Ken Done is his 3rd solo exhibition at Gallery One in Southport on the Gold Coast with a focus on Ken’s collectible Reef paintings featuring a bright joyful colour pallet is a must see.

Ken’s artistic career includes major projects in a very diverse career, which include the painting of a BMW Artcar and the total decorative scheme for the Garden Restaurant at the Powerhouse Museum, in Sydney. In 1988 Hanako, a Tokyo fashion and lifestyle magazine was launched, and featured a Ken Done painting on the cover every week for over 15 years. In 1999, Done was asked to create a series of works for the Opening and Closing Ceremonies programs of the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games. In 1993 Ken, together with his wife Judy, won the Fashion Industries of Australia’s Grand Award for Fashion. In 1994 a major retrospective of Ken Done’s work “Ken Done: the art of design” was mounted by the Powerhouse Museum. In 2002 the Museum acquired his commercial art and design archive of more than 300 items. More recently Ken has collaborated on ‘Romance Was Born’ for Australian Fashion Week 2022 and a collaboration with Vivid, Sydney light spectacular 2022.

Ken’s paintings became the creative source of a unique, and is now a highly successful Australian business, which continues to promote Australian art and design to a world-wide audience.

Although he has worked extensively for many charitable organisations, the welfare of underprivileged children has always been a special concern of Ken’s. He was Father of the Year in 1989 and Ken Done has been a Goodwill Ambassador for UNICEF since 1988.

Ken received the Order of Australia (A.M.), for services to Art, Design and Tourism in 1992. In many parts of the world, Ken Done has come to symbolise Australia and Australians: creative, optimistic and bold.

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