Curriculum Vitae:
Education:
2015 Bendigo Continuing Adult Education Certificate IV Training and Assessment
2010-2011 La Trobe University Masters of Special Education
1996-2000 La Trobe University Doctor of Philosophy
Thesis: The Visualisation of Primordial Shelter
My thesis was about the origins of art and architecture. The evidence, the hypothesis and the mythology surrounding man’s first attempts at creating art(ifacts) and constructing shelters. The core subject was the evolution of the house incorporating the philosophical matrix surrounding the fabled ‘hut in the forest’. My research considered, the societal, historic and artistic viewpoints of our built environment, incorporating the notions of place and space in our current milieu.
1994-1995 Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology Masters of Fine Art
1977 Melbourne University Graduate Diploma of Education
1975-1976 Victorian College of the Arts Post Graduate Diploma in Fine Art
1971-1973 Prahran College of Advanced Education Diploma of Art and Design (Honours 1)
Exhibition History:
Solo Shows:
2019 Geographia, Tacit Gallery Collingwood
2016 Continuum Woodbine Art Malmbury
2011 Synapse, La Trobe University Visual Arts Centre, Bendigo
2008 Nexus 11, Gallery 101, Melbourne
2006 Transition, Bendigo Art Gallery
2005 Interface, Gallery 101, Melbourne
2003 Shrine, Gallery 101, Melbourne
2002 Structure, Phyllis Palmer Gallery, La Trobe University, Bendigo
2001 Shelter, Herring Island Environmental Sculpture Park, Melbourne
2000 Ideology, Gallery 101, Melbourne
Visualisation, Span Galleries, Melbourne
1989 Christine Abrahams Gallery, Melbourne
1982 Axiom Gallery, Melbourne
1978 La Trobe University, Bundoora
Group Shows:
2018 ArtLands, Regional Art Victoria, Ulumbaraa Theatre, Bendigo
2017 Collective Vision: 130 Years, Bendigo Art Gallery
Place + Space Tacit Contemporary, Abotsford Melbourne
2011 InPrint, Phyllis Palmer Gallery, La Trobe University, Bendigo
2010 Something Is In The Air, 27 Gipps Street, Richmond
Intimate Encounters, Sculpture from the La Trobe University Art Collection,
La Trobe University Visual Arts Centre, Bendigo
Wall Works and Other Projects, Gallery 101, Melbourne
2008 Green Zone, Academy Gallery, University of Tasmania
2007 Curious Forms, La Trobe University Museum, Bundoora
Often Spotted, Rarely Seen Touring Exhibition, La Trobe University Museum
Shine, Poimena Art Award, Tasmania
2006 Stock Show, Gallery 101, Melbourne
Robert Jacks Drawing Prize, Bendigo Art Gallery
2005 Contempora 2, Docklands, Melbourne
Duplex, La Trobe University Visual Arts Centre, Bendigo
Sculpture Inside, Mansell Wicks Gallery, Sydney
Sculpture By The Sea, Bondi Sydney
Veneer, Poimena Art Award, Tasmania
2004 Compendium, Icon Gallery, Deakin University
John Leslie Art Prize, Gippsland Art Gallery, Sale
Organic Matter, Sculpture in the Conservatory, Bendigo
Swan Hill Print and Drawing Award, Swan Hill Regional Art Gallery
Toorak Village Festival of Sculpture
Robert Jacks Drawing Prize, Bendigo Art Gallery
Melbourne International Art Fair
2003 Site Unseen Contemporary Local Sculpture, Bendigo Art Gallery
The Edge, Castlemaine State Festival, Castlemaine
Compendium, Platform@Spencer Street, Melbourne
4th. ICWA Women of the World Exhibition, Setagaya Art Museum and
Gallery, Isogaya, Tokyo, Japan
McClelland Gallery Sculpture Prize and Survey, McClelland Gallery and
Sculpture Park, Langwarrin
Distant Voices, R.M.I.T. Gallery, Melbourne
2002 Toorak Village Festival of Sculpture
Yarra Array Sculpture Festival, Birrarung Marr Park, Melbourne
Melbourne International art Fair
Robert Jacks Drawing Prize, Bendigo Art Gallery
Fleming Muntz Art Prize, Albury Art Gallery
2001 Helen Lempriere National Sculpture Prize, Finalist’s Exhibition, Werribee Park
Grounds for Sculpture 1, McClelland Gallery and Sculpture Park, Langwarrin
Small Exhibition New and Emerging Architectural Practices
Span Galleries, Melbourne
2000 Fertile Ground, Bendigo Art Gallery
Melbourne International Art Fair
Square, Gallery 101 Melbourne
1999 Common ground, P)hyllis Palmer Gallery, La Trobe University, Bendigo
1996 La Trobe University Student Survey Exhibition, Bendigo Art Gallery
Works on Paper, Bendigo Art Gallery
Book Show, University Art Museum, La Trobe University Bundoora.
1995 R.M.I.T. Graduate Exhibition, Melbourne
Alice Prize, Alice Springs, N.T.
Broken Hill Prize, Broken Hill, N.S.W.
1992 Six New Faces, Solander Gallery, Canberra
Dominique Segan Drawing Prize, Castlemaine State Festival
1991 10 x 10 Exhibition, Access Gallery N.G.V.
Works on Paper Art in the City Installation Project
1990 Greenpeace Exhibition, Linden Gallery, St. Kilda
1989. Mandorla Religious Art Prize, Perth
Mornington Peninsula Drawing Prize, Mornington
1985 Other People, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art
1982 Mornington Peninsula Print Prize, Mornington
1980 Women’s Art, Hawthorn Art Gallery
1980Women’s Art, Niagara lane Gallery, Melbourne
1979 1979 Drawing Show, Stuart Gertsman Gallery, Hawthorn
1978 La Trobe University Gallery, Bundoora
1976 Seven Young Austrtalians, South Australian Art Gallery
Mornington Peninsula Print Prize, Mornington
Post Graduate Exhibition, VCA Gallery, Melbourne
1975 Minnie Couch Purchase Award, Canberra A.C.T.
Mornington Peninsula Drawing Prize, Mornington
1973 Hawthorn City Council Drawing Prize
Portland Art Prize
Print Council Exhibition
Awards:
2002 Yarra Array Sculpture Festival, Melbourne Dockland Prize for Sculptural Innovation
2001 Helen Lempriere National Sculpture Prize Inaugural Winner
Scholarships:
2010 Victorian Education Department Masters of Special Education Scholarship
Commissions:
2006 ‘Engima’, Works on paper, 101 Collins Street Pty. Ltd.
Publications:
2008 The Age Melbourne Magazine, #40 February
2005 Artist Interview, World Sculpture News
Jeremy Eccles, ‘The Relevance of Art Prizes’, Australian Art Review, July-October Issue.
2003 Zelda Cawthorne, ‘Primordial Shelters’, Poster magazine, Issue No.2 International Edition
Robert Nelson, ‘Bring Out the big Guns’, The Age, October 8.
Allison Barclay, ‘Home is where the Art is’, Herald sun, November 4.
Monument, 57 Calendar, Art and Photography, p.113.
Ken Douherty, “Karen’s home is where the Art is’, Bendigo Advertiser, March 15.
2002 Bendigo Advertiser, 25 May and 11 October.
Art and Australia, Vol.39, N0. 4 Gallery selected works from recent exhibitions, p.602.
Herald Sun, ‘Yarra Diversion’, 14 September.
2001 Robert Nelson, ‘Winner shed pretension’, the Age, Today Review, March 28, p.1.
Harbart Gill, ‘Parking a Prized Home’, Herald Sun March 22, p11.
Photograph of the “Hut” featured on front cover The Herald Sun PM edition, March 22, p.1.
Gabriella Coslovich, ‘A Shed? No, its a hut, a hit...’ The Age, March 22, p.8.
Gabriella Coslovich, ‘Pot of Gold in the Cubbyhouse’, Sydney Metropolitan, March 22, p.15.
Benjamin Genoccio, ‘Out of a job, but flying cabin class’, The Austrtalian, March22.
‘Hut Raises Roof for Sculpture’ Melbourne Express, March 22, p.15.
Alastair Paton, ‘Sculptor Honoured’, Bendigo Advertiser, March, 22
Fleur Watson Hook, ‘Lempriere Legacy’, Monument #42, June/July, p.26.
Maria Bilske, ‘The Helen Lempriere National Sculpture Award’, Artlink, Vol. 21, #2, June p.92.
Ken Scarlett, ‘The Helen Lempriere National Sculpture Award’,
World Sculpture, Vol. 20, #7, September, p.85.
Maria Bilske, ‘The Helen Lempriere National Sculpture Award’, Sculpture, Vol 20, #7,
September, p.85.
Roger Taylor, ‘In Praise of teh Natural World’, World Sculpture News, Vol 7, #3,
Summer Edition, p.52-57.
David O’Halloran, ‘Prize Fighters’, Broadsheet Contemporary Visual Arts +
Culture, Vol. 30, #3, Spring, p.16.
Allison McClelland, ‘Artist Settles on an Isle of Shelter, Stonnington Leader, November, 26, p.24.
2000 Home and Hearth, Bendigo Advertiser, February 19, p.4.
Jeff Makin, Critics Choice, The hearld Sun, February 28, p.97.
Robert Nelson, ‘Miss Twiggy give us some stick’, The Age, Today Review, March 1, p.7.
1999 Artists and Galleries of Australia, Max Germaine.
1985 150 Women Artists
Television Interviews:
2011 News, Channel 9 Win Television, August 29.
2002 News, Channel 9 Win Television, May 23.
2001 Snapshot ABC T.V., March 20
The Arts Show, ABC T.V. March 22
ABC Sunday Arts Programme, ABC T.V. April 8.
Good Morning Australia, Channel 10, April 10.
Radio Interviews:
2006 ABC Regional Radio, October 24.
2003 ABC RadioNational, The Maker’s with Julie Copland, November 23.
2001 3BO, March 22
Radio National, March 22.
ABC Gippsland, March 22.
3AW, March 24.
3RRR with Roger Taylor, March 28.
Radio Live with Vin O’Donnell, March 29.
Art Today, Radio National with Michael Carthcart, April 26.
3RRR with Roger Taylor, November
Collections:
Ballarat Art Gallery
Bendigo Art Gallery
Deakin University
Helen Lempriere Collection, Werribee Park, Victoria
La Trobe University, Bundoora and Bendigo Collections
Mornington Peninsula Regional Art Gallery
Commonwealth Bank of Australia Collection
101 Collins Street Pty. Ltd., Collection
Victorian Racing Club, Flemington, Melbourne
Private Contemporary Collections, Netherlands and Scotland
Private Collections Australia