Arlo works primarily with large-scale interactive installations paired with sound, video and animation. His humorous and often sardonic approach explores art history and the contextual relationship between contemporary art practice and its perceived past. Recently Arlo has completed a number of animations in which characters re-interpret art historical events, works and ideas in an attempt to decipher their own environments, situations and even their existence.
Arlo Mountford is a Melbourne based Artist, who has exhibited regularly since finishing a Bachelor of Fine Arts at the Victorian College of the Arts in 2002. In 2003 he took up a studio residency at Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces. Arlo has been included in numerous group exhibitions including NEW010 ACCA (2010), Hong Kong Art Fair (2010), ShContemporary: Best of Discovery Asia Pacific Contemporary Art Fair, Shanghai (2008), Contemporary Australia: Optimism, Queensland Gallery of Modern Art (2008), Heide Museum of Modern Art (2008) and Adelaide Biennial (2006). Arlo's most recent solo exhibitions have been at Grantpirrie (2009), Centre of Contemporary Photography (2009), The Art Centre Chulalongkorn University Bangkok, Thailand (2009), Conical (2008) and Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces (2007). Arlo was awarded the ABN AMRO Emerging Artist Award and has recently returned from a residency at the Frank Mohr Institute, Groningen, Netherlands.
Arlo exhibits regularly in both artist run and public galleries nationally and internationally.