Born 1957, Kampala, Uganda. Lives and works Sydney, New South Wales.
Justin Trendall is a contemporary artist based in Sydney, working on Gadigal land. He received an MVA from Sydney College of the Arts, The University of Sydney in 1994. Since graduating he has produced an extensive body of work that has been exhibited nationally and internationally. Focussing on connections between history and cultural identity his practice explores ways in which the complex and dynamic nature of our relationship to the past can be visually represented. Best known for his ‘cultural maps’, an ongoing series of large scale fabric prints, he has also produced bodies of work dealing with these ideas in the mediums of ceramics, photography and Lego. The Museum of Contemporary Art, the Art Gallery of NSW, Monash University and the National Gallery of Australia all hold his work in their collections.
