Qualifications

2000
Masters of Creative Art
James Cook University, Townsville.
1989
Graduate Diploma of Art
Queensland College of Art, Brisbane
1979
Graduate Diploma in Teaching
Kelvin Grove College of Advanced Education, Brisbane, QLD.
1976 - 78
Diploma of Arts
(Fine Arts) Queensland College of Art, Brisbane

 

Solo Exhibitions 1997 - 2007

2006
Romantic Etchings: in the tradition of Samuel Palmer and the Ancients
Grahame Galleries + Editions, Brisbane
Chasing Palmer
Impressions on Paper, CanberraFlinders
Suburban to Sublime: etchings and artists
Carelton College,Northfield, Minnesota
2005
The Artist's Studio
Flinders Lane Gallery Melbourne
2003-04
The Artist's Studio
(A Cairns Regional Gallery Touring Exhibition)
Cairns Regional Gallery
QUT Museum- Brisbane
Art Space Mackay
Mornington Peninsular Regional Gallery
Manly Regional Gallery
Hazelhurst Regional Gallery- Sydney
2003
Dog's Tales
Flinders Gallery - Flinders Street West, Townsville
1999
Flinders Lane Gallery
Flinders Lane Melbourne with Juli Haas
1998
The Miraculous and The Bizarre From
My Verandah
Akky van Ogtrop Fine Arts Gallery, Sydney
1997
Accidents and a Little Romance
Exhibition of prints & artists’ books
Grahame Galleries + Editions, Brisbane

 

Major Group and Invited Exhibitions
1997 - 2007

2007-2008
Ex Libris
Bookplates from our collections, State Library of Queensland
2007
Gifted
Recent donations of limited edition prints by 49 contemporary Australian artists. Charles Darwin University.
Altered States
An exhibition featuring the work of eight contemporary Australian printmakers, Wagga Wagga Art Gallery. NSW.
2006
Artists’ Books from the Centre for the Artist Book, Grahame Galleries+ Editions
Research Library and Archive, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
 
Partnerships
Alcan Building, Plaza Terrace, 443 Queen St, Brisbane
 
Art Bound
Ballieu Library, University of Melbourne
2005
Sydney Art on Paper Fair
Byron Kennedy Hall Sydney
Bookscapes - Contemporary Australian Artists books
Port Jackson Press print Room, Melbourne.
33 Print exchange portfolio
Curated by Rona Green, Port Jackson Press print Room, Melbourne
2003-05
Lights out
Curated by Flying Arts inc. touring Queensland and New South Wales
2003
Under the Monsoon
Art Space Mackay, a touring exhibition.
Hitchins Invitation Works On Paper Award Exhibition
Hobart
2001-03
Trans-Visual
Queensland Regional Galleries Touring Exhibition.
2002
Compact Prints, Print exchange and Exhibition
Umbrella Studio Townsville.
Inspiration NQ
Perc Tucker Regional Gallery, Townsville.
Book Arts Exhibition
Newcastle Regional Gallery, September.
Kedumba Drawing Award
Kedumba Gallery, Wentworth Falls.
Minature
Montréal International Minature Print Biennial, Canada
2001
Little Treasures, Collaborative Artists Books
RMIT Gallery, Melbourne, July. 
4TH Artists Book & Multiple Fair
The School of Arts, Brisbane.
Lyre Bird Press in Full Flight
Perc Tucker Gallery Exhibition, Townsville
Touring East Coast Regional Galleries
8th International Works on Paper Fair, Sydney
Represented by Akky van Ogtrop Fine Arts, Sydney and Grahame Galleries + Editions, Brisbane.
Trans-Visual
Queensland Regional Galleries Touring Exhibition.
Real World Art: art of the QUT Alumni
QUT Art Museum, Brisbane.
Art Reach
Brisbane City Gallery touring exhibition.
8 Triennale: Australia + Germany Craft From Scratch
Museum of Applied Art, Frankfurt /Art Gallery of South Australia. 
2000
5th Mondial Triennale of Small Sized Prints
Chamalieres, France.
Trans-Visual
Travelling schools exhibition.
1999
Bernheim Invite L’Australie Artists’ Books
Curated by Grahame Galleries + Editions, Brisbane.
1997
Recent Acquisitions
Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, Victoria
The Urban Edge 
Queensland Art Gallery travelling exhibition.
Venues Ipswich, Gladstone, Toowoomba, Townsville, Logan and QAG.
7th International Works on Paper Fair, Sydney
Represented by Grahame Galleries + Editions, Brisbane.
Kunst RAI, Amsterdam
Represented by Akky van Ogtrop Fine Arts, Sydney

 

Selected Professional
Experience

2007
Lecturer and Artist in Residence
James Cook University School of Creative Art
2006
Visiting Professor and artist in residence-
Carleton College, Northfield, Minnesota.
2005
Flying Arts winter school Tutor
Magnetic Island
2004-05
Director- Monsoon Publishing
James Cook University, Townsville.
Speaker- First National Artists Book Forum
Art Space Mackay, Friday 6th Feb
2001-02
Guest Lecturer /Artist-in-Residence
ANU, Canberra
1992-02
Co-Director Lyre Bird Press (with Tate Adams)
JCU Townsville
2001
Lecturer in Printmaking and Book Arts
James Cook University (JCU), Townsville QLD
1998
Invited Lecturer for critique sessions
Carelton College, Minneapolis, USA
Juror Margaret Stonewall Wooldridge Hamblet Award
Vanderbuilt University, Nashville, USA.
1991
Residency Cite International des Artes
Paris, France

 


Major Collections

Work is represented in many private and Regional Gallery Collections as well in
most Australian State Galleries and the National Gallery of Australia Collection, Canberra

 

 

Major Collections

2007
Martin Hanson Memorial Queensland Alumina Ltd Art Award
Gladstone Regional Art Gallery and Museum
2006
Martin Hanson Memorial works on paper Award
Gladstone Regional Art Gallery and Museum
2003
Runner up Hutchins Invitation Art Award
Hobart
1999
Martin Hanson Memorial Art Award
Gladstone Regional Art Gallery and Museum
1999
Henri Worland Memorial Art Award Purchase Prize
1977
Melvil Hanson Award
Gladstone Regional Gallery
7th C.P.M. Print acquisition Awards


SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY 1997-2007

2007
Ex libris
Bookplates from our collection- Catalogue, State Library of Queensland
Profiles in Print
Sasha Grishin,Craft Arts International Issue 71 pp83-85
2006
A Sense of Place
Sasha Grishin, The Canberra Times, October 13
2006
Art Bound
A selection of Artists books, by Brian Allison, University of Melbourne, ISBN0734036418
2004
Ron McBurnie, The Artists studio
Mandy Wildheart Eyeline - no53. Edited by Sarah Follent., p53.
2003
Beneath the Monsoon
Visions North of Capricorn- preface Robert Heather, text by Gavin Wilson, Artspace Mackay.
The Artist's Studio (Ron McBurnie)
Introduction by Hendrik Kolenberg, Louise Doyle, text by Ron McBurnie, Cairns Regional gallery.
2002
Miniare-2002 Montréal International Minature Prints Biennial
p226
2001
4th Artists' Books + Multiples Fair Catalogue
Edited by Noreen Grahame. pp49-55, 59-62
2000
Craft From Scratch: 8 Triennale Fur Form und Inhalte Australien und Deutschland
Frankfurt am Main 2000, p124
1999
Satirists on Show
Peter Timms, The Age, Melbourne. 16 June, p17
Contemporary Impressions
Fall 1999 Prints and Politics in the South Pacific, by Fred Hagstrom, pp6-9
1998
The Cask- An Aussie Icon
Catalogue published by Stephen Spurrier and George Matoulas, Melbourne
Thirty years of Korean Contemporary Prints, A Decade of Contemporary Australian Prints Catalogue
Edited by Han, Un-Sung, Contemporary Printmakers Association, p167
3rd Artists' Books + Multiples Fair Catalogue
Edited by Noreen Grahame
1997
Australian printmaking in the 1990ss
Sasha Grishin, Craftsman House, Sydney, pp 194, 195
Small Miracles
Introduction by Glen O’Malley. A Ned of the North Publication
1996
2nd Artists' Books + Multiples Fair Catalogue
Edited by Noreen Grahame
From Silk Screen to Computer Screen
Twenty years of the Fremantle Print Award, p29
Art and suburbia
Chris McAuliffe Craftsman House, Sydney, pp 113, 114

 

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