Renato Grome


Seduce: Aura 2006	Seduce: Alien 2006	Seduce: Calm 2006
Seduce: Spirit 2006	Seduce: Zap 2006	Seduce: Hum 2006
Seduce: Entice 2006	Seduce: Hypnos 2006	Seduce: Snap 2006
Seduce: Origin 2006	Seduce: Virtue 2006	Seduce: Life 2006
Seduce: Fire 2000	Seduce: Reach 2000	Seduce: Divine 2006

High Line Dream 2010	Ghosts of the Past 2010	High Rise Rain 2010
A Shadow of Myself 2010	Night Dreaming 2010	Swan Lake 2010

In Renato Grome, born in Rome (1954) of British parents the day the Bikini explosion rocked the world, mingles the blood of artists and writers- his father, a painter descended from British aristocrats and the chaotic genius Sheridan, his midwife mother of British farmer roots.

He was named for his godfather, the Sicilian painter Renato Guttuso, reared among influential musicians and artists, he discovers the magic powers of photography early. Sent to school in cold grey England this rebellious boy, well whipped by his masters, escaped in his suit of crushed raspberry velvet to the sex and drugs and rock and roll mayhem of the ’60s London, and taken under the wing of the late Alexis Korner.

From there he was first apprenticed in Rome as a fine art restorer, scraping and cleaning Caravaggios and Raphaels, fascinated by the world of allegory and symbol revealed to him, thence to Paris in the grip of student revolution and on to Stockholm where free love and high-minded socialism reigned, he worked as a fashion model and furthered his understanding photography assisting François Gillet.

His career expanded and blossomed in a place where he felt at ease and where he fathered the lovely Melody, always the joy of his life. Sometimes a raver, always a rover, he based himself in Stockholm, setting up a studio there and working with camera and wayward searching eye in film and video, beaming his creativity on projects both commercial and purely aesthetic.

Perpetually searching new horizons, in the mid ‘90s he moves to Sydney, where stunning nature, sunshine and sea and new freedom from the shibboleths of old European culture, brought forth a fresh tide of new work and building on beginnings in Stockholm, he held several shows of work which imagination and technical understandings are fused with a wild and beautiful surrealism.

Renato has used a camera all his working life, knows well the rich diversity of its possibilities, and in his long dalliance with the mystery of light, spiller of the life force, creates images beyond the merely arresting, memorable, erotic and electric. He cultivates a garden where a new flora flourishes, familiar yet drenched in light and aflame with colour, metamorphosed. These are not pictures of flowers in the botanical sense. Enigmatic and surprising, playing with the ambiguity of the magic medium of ‘truth’, photography. (...)

Christopher Gibbs, mentor to Renato Grome, is Trustee of The Edward James Foundation, prominent London antiquarian, writer and co-Art directed cult films Performance and Blow Up.



Renato Grome - Selected Group Exhibitions

2012	Il fuoco della Natura/ The Flash of Nature, Salone degli Incanti -Ex Pescheria, Trieste (Italy)
	Io sono, LipanjePuntin artecontemporanea, Trieste (Italy)
	5 photo-based artists, Ausin Tung Gallery, Melbourne (Australia)
2011	Arte Fiera, LipanjePuntin artecontemporanea, Bologna (Italy)
2010	Matt Dive Gold, Smith & Hall, Sydney (Australia)
	Dollypop, Head-On, Sydney (Australia)
	Beyond the Beyond, Shenker Culture Club, Firenze (Italy)
	Fighting Flowers, LipanjePuntin artecontemporanea, Trieste (Italy)
2009	Matt Dive Gold, LipanjePuntin artecontemporanea , Roma (Italy)
	Beyond the Beyond, Shenker Culture Club, Torino (Italy)
	Art Verona, LipanjePuntin artecontemporanea , Verona (Italy)
	Arte Fiera, LipanjePuntin artecontemporanea, Bologna (Italy)
	Olive Cotton Award, Finalist, Sydney (Australia)
	Bowness Award, Finalist, Monash Gallery of Art, Melbourne (Australia)
	Smith & Hall, Sydney (Australia)
2008	Art Verona, LipanjePuntin artecontemporanea , Verona (Italy)
	MiArt, LipanjePuntin artecontemporanea, Milano (Italy)
	Arte Fiera, LipanjePuntin artecontemporanea, Bologna (Italy)
2007	Metro 5, Melbourne (Australia)
	Byron McMahon Gallery, Sydney (Australia)
2006	Paris Photo, Sandra Byron Gallery, Paris (France)
	Sandra Byron Gallery, Sydney (Australia)
	The Armory Show, Sandra Byron Gallery, New York (USA)
2005	Sydney Art Fair, Sandra Byron Gallery, Sydney (Australia)
2000	Byron Mapp Gallery, Sydney (Australia)
	Stockholm Art Fair, Zinc Gallery, Stockholm (Sweden)
1999	Byron Mapp Gallery, Sydney (Australia)
	Paris Photo, Byron Mapp Gallery, Paris (France)
1998	Paris Photo, Byron Mapp Gallery, Paris (France)
	Zinc Gallery, Stockholm (Sweden)
	Byron Mapp Gallery, Sydney (Australia)
	Group Show Byron Mapp, Australian Embassy, Paris (France)
1997	Byron Mapp Gallery, Sydney (Australia)
	Art House Gallery, Sydney (Australia)
	Fuji House, Tokyo (Japan)
1996	ACMP,, Collection II, Travelling exhibition (Australia)
	Sub Culture, travelling exhibition, (Australia / New Zeland)
1990	The Image Gallery, Stockholm (Sweden)


Renato Grome - Selected Solo Exhibitions

2010	Self-discovery Channel, Sedition Gallery, Sydney (Australia)
	LuccaDigitalPhotoFest, Villa Bottini, Lucca (Italy)
2008	Vanitas, LipanjePuntin artecontemporanea, Trieste (Italy)
2007	Essence, Sandra Byron Gallery, Sydney (Australia)
	Dollypop, Byron McMahon Gallery, Sydney (Australia)
	Essence, Monash Gallery of Art, Melbourne (Australia)
	Essence, LipanjePuntin artecontemporanea, Roma (Italy)
2006	Seduce (Tease), Sandra Byron Gallery, Sydney (Australia)
2005	Seduce retrospective, Sandra Byron Gallery, Sydney (Australia)
2001	Seduce, Nellie Castan Gallery, Melbourne (Australia)
1999	Seduce, Zinc Gallery at the Centre for the Arts, Boston (USA)
1998	Seduce (Tease), Byron Mapp Gallery, Sydney (Australia)
1997	Exposed, Art House Gallery, Sydney (Australia)
1996	Penetrating Images, Art House Gallery, Sydney (Australia)

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