ART INSIGHTS Creating Wealth as a Successful Artist - John Dahlsen

Throughout the years, his work hasgarnered a lot of praise. Dahlsen exhibitedat the Florence Biennale of ContemporaryArt in 2003, where he won an award formixed-media/new media. His work alsowon the prestigious Wynne Prize (the mostrecognized annual Australian art prize,in existence for more than a century) atthe Art Gallery of NSW in 2000. And hewas selected by an international jury tobe a cultural ambassador and representAustralia at the Athens Olympics of theVisual Arts “Artiade Exhibition 2004”.Not only has Dahlsen’s work been exhibitedworldwide, including at the Australianembassy in Washington D.C., but hehas lectured about his art form in frontof hundreds of audiences ranging from30 to 3,000 attendees, and has curatedenvironmental art shows everywhere fromAustralia to New York. All this, and muchmore, because Dahlsen had the courage topursue a form of art that forced him to letgo of many of the predispositions he hadabout success in the art world and insteadbelieve wholly in his art and its mission.129