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STUDIES
Diploma Fine Art South Australian School of Art 1969 (studied under Sydney Ball, Dora Chapman and Gordon Samstag)
Diploma Education, Hawthorn College/ Melbourne University, Victoria 1972
Photography Studies College, Victoria 1986
CELTA, ESL teacher Holmes College, 2005
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2011
The Distal Zone - aerial landscapes from the Murray Darling Basin. Purgatory Artspace, Melbourne.
2010
Studio Show & preview of new works from The Distal Zone. Brunswick.
2009
Topographia fortyfivedownstairs, Melbourne.
Toured to Stefano’s Gallery, Mildura, 25 June
2006
Studio Show Brunswick 100,000 Tree Project: Antipodean Miniatures and Murray River travel altars.
2004
In the Vein Gallery 25 Mildura.
REVIEWS Kate Bochner, ABC Radio National (The Maker); Mary Ryllis Clarke,The Age & The Herald Sun; Genevieve Barlow,The Herald Sun Weekly Times; The Sunraysia Daily ‘Arts About’; Ian Hamilton, Artlink Magazine.
2002
Charting Inland Waters Herring Island Gallery Melbourne. Curated by Maudie Palmer
REVIEWS Mary Ryllis Clarke, The Age; Radio PBS
2000
June Studio Show Brunswick. Paintings & works on paper.
1997
Body of Water Mildura Regional Art Gallery. Curated by Ian Hamilton.
Catalogue essay “ZONAL”, by Paul Carter.
REVIEWS Julie Copeland Arts Talk, ABC Radio National; Ben Knight, ABC Radio Mildura; Sunraysia Daily
1996
In.Land.Scape Paintings & works on paper. Artmoves Gallery Melbourne. Curated by Helen Vivian
REVIEW Anne Marsh. Herald Sun.
1994
Studio show Brunswick. Paintings & works on paper.
1986
Studio show Fitzroy. Photography from 1981 -1986
1984
The Empire Strikes Back AVAGO Gallery, Sydney. Mixed media installation in response to the United States invasion of Granada.
1982
Honeymoon Visibility Gallery, Melbourne. Photographic documentary of the Honeymoon Uranium Mine Blockade near Broken Hill. Toured to Ballarat, Maryborough and Adelaide. REVIEW The Age
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS AND PUBLIC WORKS
2010
Finalist - Broken Hill Outback Art Prize
2008
Finalist - NSW Parliament Plein Air Painting Prize Parliament House Sydney
Lest We Forget Post Master Gallery Anzac Day Remembrances. Photography from State Library of Victoria Collection. Curated by Elizabeth Gertsakis
When you Think About Art George Paton Gallery Melbourne. Curated by Helen Vivian Artmoves
Groundwork Publication Edition 7 Winter 2008 Regional Arts Victoria
2006
MAPW (Medical Association for the Prevention of War) Counihan Gallery Melbourne.
2005
Just Add Water Australian National Archives, ACT. Toured nationally 2005-2009. REVIEW Canberra Times
2004
Finalist - Swan Hill Print and Drawing Prize
Finalist - Wentworth Art Prize
EveN Mildura Regional Art Gallery. Curated by Donata Carrazza & Luci Marcuzzo. Works by women artists with links to Sunraysia during Mildura Arts Festival. REVIEW Steve Naylor, Sunraysia Daily.
Restoration of Historic Graves and Commemorative Garden Project – Final stage. Part funded by Arts Victoria plus many others. An ongoing project begun in 2000 as part of Mildura Palimpsest
2003
Hearing Your Place Acoustic Ecology. Yarra Sculpture Gallery. Australian Sound Design project, curated by Ros Bandt & Iain Mott. REVIEWS: Joel Crotty The Age; Radio 3MBS.
McGivern Art Prize Maroondah Gallery Melbourne. Selected.
Wish You Were Here Penrith Artist Led Projects, Cornwall, UK. Touring: International artists explore the theme of the suitcase.
2002
Towards a Free Tibet Span Galleries, Melbourne. Curated by Sue Ford
“8 x 8” at Horti Hall, Melbourne.
KISS my ART – WINDOWWORKS. Sydney Road Brunswick. (curated and participated) REVIEWS The Age; Andrew MacKenzie Channel 31 Arts Review; Clay Lucas Melbourne Times; Moreland Sentinel
2001
REDLANDS WESTPAC PRIZE Mosman Art Gallery, NSW. Curated by Amanda Bell
8” x 8” Roar Studios Melbourne. Instigated by the late Mike Brown in 1988, artists are invited to submit works within the dimensions of 8” x 8”.
HEADLANDS Bendigo Art Gallery. Artists invited to interpret the miner’s hardhat during Bendigo’s Heart of Gold Fiesta. Curated by Jenny Long.
MILDURA PALIMPSEST # 4 Coinciding with DISSOLVING DISTANCE - 2nd National Regional Galleries Summit. (See website). REVIEWS Julie Copeland, Arts Talk, ABC Radio National; ABC Radio, Mildura
2000
MILDURA PALIMPSEST # 3. Mapping Silence/Marking Time(see website) REVIEWS: Julie Copeland, Arts Talk, ABC Radio National; Sunraysia Daily; Mary Ryllis Clarke,The Age; Stephanie Radok, Real Time 37
NB: This project has won two awards.
1999
MILDURA PALIMPSEST # 2. Garden Story 2: Future Histories - A Memoryscape Mildura Regional Art Gallery
REVIEW Julie Copeland Arts Talk, ABC Radio National; Stephanie Radok Artlink; Sunraysia Daily.
“8 x 8” Roar Studios Melbourne
Art In Moreland Counihan Gallery Brunswick
1998
MILDURA PALIMPSEST # 1. Garden Story # 1 1830-1998 Mildura Regional Art Gallery
REVIEWS “A Brush with Landscape”, A 3 part series on Australian artists and the land with Julie Copeland Arts Talk, ABC Radio National; ABC Regional radio; Sunraysia Daily.
1997 Nillumbik Art Award Eltham, Victoria.
1995
The Suitcase Show Installation in City Art Space City Square. Curated by Susan Fereday for the City of Melbourne Moomba Festival. REVIEW The Age.
1993
MLC Art Award
Williamstown Summer Festival
Dominique Segan Drawing Prize Castlemaine
1992
Interiors Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne. Photography from Jordan and Syria. Curated by Susan Fereday
1991
Engaged by Melbourne University Classics Department to document the archaeological expedition to Tel Ahmar, Northern Syria. Travelled to Jordan and Egypt, developing the desert/water/interior series of land-based works.
1988
The Thousand Mile Stare Photography. The Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne. Curated by Joyce Agee. REVIEWS The Age; Agenda.
1981
The Security Show Ewing and George Paton Gallery Melbourne University. Curated by Aleks Danko. REVIEW Robert Rooney The Age
The Lovely Motherhood Show Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide. Performance video shown in NZ & Los Angeles. REVIEWS Donald Brooks Adelaide Advertiser; Art Network; Artlink.
GRANTS AND AWARDS
Commonwealth Government Scholarship 1966
Kim Bonython Prize for Painting 1967
George Rowney Prize for Drawing 1967
Community Arts Board, Australia Council 1983
Artist in Industry Grant, Arts Victoria 1984
Regional Arts Development Grant, Arts Victoria 2000 (Public Art Project, Mildura)
- Dame Phyllis Frost award for services to Community 2004
- Sunraysia Regional award for Chaffey Womens' Graves Restoration, Mildura 2004
COLLECTIONS
National Gallery Canberra.
State Library of Victoria, Pictures Collection.
Powerhouse Museum, Sydney.
Mildura Regional Art Gallery.
Mildura Rural City Council.
Mildara Blass P/L.
Elliot Newspaper Group.
Grand Hotel, Mildura.
Private: Australia, USA, UK, Germany.
Elliot Aldridge collection ‘The Post War Paintings’ Ed. Gordon Samstag exhibited 1970 SA School of Art.
RESIDENCIES
1984 Fawkner Primary School - Mural funded by an Arts and Industry Grant, Arts Victoria.
2000 - 2001 Sydney Church of England Grammar School (SCECGS) Redlands, Sydney. Two at Jindabyne campus, one at Broken Bay, NSW, one at Cremorne Campus, Sydney.
2003-2004 Courtesy of the Carrazza-DePieri Family. Gol Gol on the River Murray.
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