About / CURRICULUM VITAE
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 training: Holmes College, Melbourne 2005
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2016 The Distal Zone # 2 - Continuation of the theme of geology/water/Murray Darling Basin. Studio Show/Brunswick
2011 The Distal Zone - Aerial landscapes from the Murray Darling Basin. GallerySmith Project space, Melbourne.
2010 Studio Show & preview of new works from The Distal Zone. Brunswick.
2009 Topographia fortyfivedownstairs, Melbourne. Interview on Bush Telegraph, ABC Radio National. (see Links)
Topographia # 2 Toured to Gallery 25, Mildura
2006 Studio Show Brunswick 100,000 Tree Project: Antipodean Miniatures & 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
2019 "Water Soil and Life" - Charles Nodrum Gallery Richmond as part of the Climarte Festival.
2018 "Artists for Peace" MAPW Steps Gallery Melbourne
2014 "Waterfront" Signal Point Regional Gallery, Goolwa, South Australia.
2012 Finalist Redland Art Award, Queensland.
Finalist Scope Galleries Art Prize, Warrnambool Vic.
Finalist Kogaragh Art Prize, NSW
Finalist Skillset Flannery Art Prize, Bathurst NSW
2011 Finalist Fleurieu Art Prize, SA
Finalist Whyalla Art Prize, SA
2010
Finalist Broken Hill Outback Art Prize
Belle Arti - Chapman & Bailey
2008 Finalist NSW Parliament Plein Air Painting Prize Parliament House Sydney NSW
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 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 the Sunraysia region, held during Mildura Arts Festival. REVIEW Steve Naylor, Sunraysia Daily.
Restoration of Historic Graves and Commemorative Garden Project – Final stage. Part funded by The Australia Council, Arts Victoria Regional grants, Mildura Rural City Council, Tasco Inland, Mildura Grand Hotel. An ongoing project begun in 2000 as part of Mildura Palimpsest. Winner of 2 awards.
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. (see Links)
Finalist McGivern Art Prize Maroondah Gallery Melbourne.
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
Finalist Redlands Westpac Art 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 Works). REVIEWS Julie Copeland, Arts Talk, ABC Radio National; ABC Radio, Mildura
2000
MILDURA PALIMPSEST # 3. Mapping Silence/Marking Time (see Works) REVIEWS: Julie Copeland, Arts Talk, ABC Radio National; Sunraysia Daily; Mary Ryllis Clarke,The Age; Stephanie Radok, Real Time 37
NB: This project received Australia Council funding and 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 Finalist 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. Toured to the UK and Wales. Work purchaced for permanent collection. (see 3D Works)
1993
MLC Art Award
Williamstown Summer Festival
Dominique Segan Drawing Prize Castlemaine Victoria
1992
Interiors Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne. Photography from Jordan and Syria. Curated by Susan Fereday. (see Works-Photography)
1991
Engaged by Melbourne University Classics Department to document the archaeological expedition to Tel Ahmar, Northern Syria. Travelled south, to Palmyra, Syria, and 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 curated by Anne Marsh in NZ, & toured to Los Angeles. REVIEWS Donald Brooks Adelaide Advertiser; Art Network; Artlink. This video is lost, due to a studio fire in 1989, unless other copies are available.
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 Gol Gol on the River Murray.