Dr Malcom Bywaters
For the past thirty years, Dr Bywaters has worked as an artist, exhibition curator, and gallery director. Malcom has curated over sixty exhibitions for venues such as the Westspace, Platform, Gertrude Contemporary, Monash Museum of Art, Geelong Art Gallery and the VCA Margaret Lawrence Gallery, The University of Melbourne, Victoria and the Academy Gallery, Plimsoll Gallery, Devonport Regional Art Gallery, Burnie Regional Art Gallery and Arts Tasmania Art Gallery, Tasmania.
Dr Bywaters has displayed solo exhibitions of his sculpture and artwork at Geelong Gallery, Gertrude Contemporary, Linden Centre for Contemporary Art, Victoria and Burnie Regional Art Gallery and the Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, Tasmania.
Bywaters artworks are represented in the collections of Artbank, Bundanon Trust, Ballarat University, Scotch Oakburn College, Wesley College, Camberwell Grammar and the Artist Book Collection, National Gallery of Victoria.
Bywaters has been awarded a Project Development Grant (Australia Council) 1989, and the Desiderius Orban Youth Art Award (Australia Council) 1986.
In 2013 Malcom was awarded a Doctorate of Philosophy (PhD) from The University of Melbourne.