Chris Dolman is a cross disciplinary artist living and working on Gadigal land.
Using traditional techniques with ad-hoc methodologies, Dolman explores contradictions within himself and the world around him. He uses chance and intuition as drivers for making, humour to disguise meaning, and switches between abstract and figurative modes of representation, to talk about existential themes of loss and impermanence, expectation and failure.
Dolman’s sound/music project Gogol deals with dark ambient driven sound scapes to blackened metal.
Dolman holds an MFA (research) from Sydney College of Arts, Sydney University, 2018, and a BFA printmaking with honours (first class) from the Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne, 2010.
In 2019, he won the Fauvette Loureiro Memorial Artists Traveling Scholarship. He received the Dyason Bequest from the Art Gallery of NSW in 2017. ArtStart and New Work grants from the Australia Council for the Arts in 2013 and 2011. He was the recipient of the Wallara Travelling Scholarship, George Hicks award, and the NGV Women’s Association Award, VCA 2009.
Dolman has undertaken international residencies at the Cité Internationale des Arts, Villa Belleville, Paris, and Frans Masereel Centrum, Belgium. National residencies include: Bundanon Trust, Hill End, BigCi NSW, Ceramic Design Studio, Parramatta Artist Studios, and Artspace Sydney.
In 2025, Dolman quit all social media. A quarterly mailout will begin shortly. Please email chris@chrisdolman.com if you wish to join the list.