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Wendy Kelly
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Melbourne, Australia |
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Academic History
| 2010 |
PhD, Monash University, Faculty of Art and Design |
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| 1993 |
Graduate Diploma, Monash University, Gippsland School of Art |
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| 1978 |
Diploma of Art and Design / Fine Art, Caulfield Institute of Technology |
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Publications and External Examiner roles
| 2016 |
Wendy Kelly: Abstraction within the concerns of visual art language contemporaneously? Ed: Isabel Wunsche and Wiebke Gronemeyer, Practices of Abstract Art: Between Anarchism and Appropriation. Cambridge Scolars Press 2016 Chapter 13. |
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| 2013 |
External Examiner PhD [Research] candidate RMIT University |
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| 2012 |
External Examiner MFA [Research] candidate Charles Darwin University |
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| 2012-2013 |
Wendy Kelly, Catalogue essay, Non-Objective Conversations x 4. Sydney Non-Objective Art Projects (SNO), Sydney 2012 and Visual Art Centre, Latrobe University Gallery, Bendigo 2013. |
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| 2012 |
Duyan, Efe Ed. New Questions on Contemporary Art COTEMP ART '12 Conference Istanbul DAKAM Publishing (D/PB) Istanbul. Wendy Kelly, Problems of the role of Abstraction contemporaneously. P50 |
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| 2011 |
Wendy Kelly, Abstraction and its Processes: An Historical and Practical Investigation into Abstract Visual Language, Saarbrucken, Germany: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing GmbH & Co. KG. |
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Solo Exhibitions
| 2024 |
The Complexity of the Ordinary. Nancy Sever Gallery, Canberra. Virtual exhibition. nancysevergallery.com.au |
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| 2024 |
Variations: One plus One. Five Walls Melbourne |
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| 2022 |
Themes and Variations, Five Walls Melbourne |
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| 2020 |
Imbre: The Rain Series, West End Art Space, Melbourne |
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| 2019 |
Ciphering Place. Five Walls Projects, Melbourne. With Magda Cebokli |
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| 2019 |
Book works and bound folio's Stephen McLaughlan Gallery, Melbourne |
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| 2018 |
Abstract Junctions. Abstract Projects Gallery Paris |
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| 2017 |
Fitzroy Detritus Langford 120, Melbourne |
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| 2016 |
Geometric Progressions Langford 120 Melbourne |
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| 2015 |
Conversations, Langford 120 |
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| 2015 |
Wendy Kelly Factory 49, Sydney |
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| 2015 |
'Wendy Kelly Works on Paper'. Langford 120, Melbourne |
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| 2014 |
'Shades of Concealment', Langford 120, Melbourne |
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| 2013 |
'Oblique Interpretations' Factory 49, Sydney |
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| 2012 |
"The Subverted Surface" Factory 49, Sydney |
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| 2011 |
"Undercurrent" fortyfivedownstairs Melbourne |
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| 2010 |
"Along these lines" Monash University Faculty Gallery |
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| 2010 |
Factory 49, Sydney |
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| 2008 |
"Crossing Borders" Depot II Gallery, Sydney |
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| 2007 |
dianne tanzer gallery, Melbourne |
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| 2005 |
dianne tanzer gallery, Melbourne |
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| 2003 |
"Removed" dianne tanzer gallery, Melbourne |
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| 2001 |
"Nulla Dies Sine Linea" dianne tanzer gallery, Melbourne |
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King Street Gallery, Sydney |
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"Textrix" The Church Gallery, Perth |
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Gallery 482, Brisbane |
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| 1999 |
dianne tanzer gallery, Melbourne |
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| 1998 |
dianne tanzer gallery, Melbourne |
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| 1997 |
dianne tanzer gallery, Melbourne |
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Greenaway Art Gallery, Adelaide |
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| 1995 |
“Coober Pedy Experience”, Riddoch Art Gallery, Mt Gambier Regional Gallery |
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“Wendy Kelly Now”, Manningham Artspace |
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| 1993 |
“Journey”, Melbourne Contemporary Art Gallery |
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| 1992 |
Greenaway Art Gallery, Adelaide |
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| 1990 |
Works on Paper, Judith Pugh Gallery, Melbourne |
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| 1985 |
Pinacotheca, Melbourne |
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Chisholm College, Latrobe University |
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| 1981 |
Hawthorn City Art Gallery, Melbourne |
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Awards, Grants and Studio Residencies
| 2014 |
NAVA Victorian Bursary to attend Future/Forward Summit, Sydney |
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| 2010/2013 |
Adjunct Research Associate, Monash University, Faculty of Art design and Architecture, Department of Fine Art |
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| 2007 |
Monash University Postgraduate Travel grant Award; Monash University HDR Prato Programme |
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| 2001 |
The Church Gallery, Perth, residency and exhibition |
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| 2000 |
N.S.W. Ministry for the Arts, The Gunnery, Woolloomooloo |
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| 1989 |
Australia Council, V.A.C.B. Artists Development Project Grant |
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| 1981 |
Pioneer Art Award, Swan Hill Regional Art Gallery |
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Collections
| State Library of Victoris |
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| National Gallery of Victoria |
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| Art Bank |
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| Monash University Library, Artists Book Collection, Caulfield Campus |
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| La Trobe University Collection |
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| University of Southern Queensland |
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| Private collections |
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Touring Exhibitions
| 2012-2013 |
Non-Objective Conversations x 4. Sydney Non-Objective Art Space and La Trobe University Visual Art Centre, Bendigo. Curated by Wendy Kelly |
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| 2007-2008 |
"The Space Between", VCA Gallery and Bendigo Regional Gallery. Curated by Tara Gilbee |
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| 2002 |
“Indecorous Abstraction”, Light Square Gallery, Adelaide, and Newcontempories Gallery Sydney, Curated by Dr Margo Osbourne |
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| 199-2001 |
“Celebrating the Exquisite corpse”, Bendigo Art Gallery and Monash Art Gallery. Curated by Anonda Bell |
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| 1999-2002 |
“We are Australians”, 10 venues around Australia |
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| 1987 |
“Domestic Contradictions”, Power Gallery of Contemporary Art Sydney, A.C.T. Arts Council Gallery, Shepparton Regional Art Gallery and the Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide Curated by Julie Ewington |
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Commissions
| 2008 |
Private Commission, Sydney |
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| 1999 |
Centrum Architects, Melbourne |
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| 1982 |
Chisholm College, Latrobe University |
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Curated and Group Exhibitions
| 2022 |
Melbourne Art Book Fair. NGV Melbourne |
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| 2020 |
Melbourne Art Book Fair, Great Hall, National Gallery of Victoria |
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| 2020 |
Tacit Gallery, Melbourne |
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| 2019 |
The Paul Guest Collection, Bendigo Regional Gallery |
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| 2018 |
Abstracteighteen, Langford 120 Curated by Stephen Wickham and Wilma Tabacco |
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| 2018 |
Edge, Langford 120 and the Global Centre for Drawing, Curated by Irene Barberis |
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| 2018 |
The Exquisite Palette Tacit Gallery Melbourne |
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| 2017 |
Shades of Grey Tacit Gallery Melbourne |
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| 2016 |
Nearly Monochrome, Five Walls Art Projects, Curated by Stephen Wickham |
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| 2016 |
Unmake/Make/Denouer/ Nouer Factory 49 Pop-up Paris |
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| 2016 |
Shades of Grey Tacit Gallery Melbourne, Curator Emma Langridge |
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| 2015 |
Grid: Matrix Module Myth. Langford 120, Melbourne. Curated by Dr Wilma Tabacco |
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| 2015 |
'Black and White' Spot 81 Gallery Sydney |
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| 2014 |
'Print Matters', Spot 81 Gallery, Sydney |
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| 2014 |
'Art and Books: Against the Odds.' Symposium Exhibition, Otago University Duneden School of Art Gallery, NZ |
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| 2014 |
'Grid Line Pattern: a serial approach.' Gallery Lane Cove, Sydney |
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| 2013 |
Abstraction 13 Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne. |
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| 2013 |
In Line. Langford 120, Curated by Dr Wilma Tabacco |
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| 2013 |
Line upon Line. ParisCONCRET Paris, with Elisia Marchal (Fr) and William James Thurman (USA) Curated by Richard van de Aa |
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| 2012 |
Factory 49 Miami. Stand K 22, Scope, Miami 2012. Curated by Pam Aitkin |
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| 2011 |
Factory 49 exhibition, Galerie bij de Boeken, Netherlands |
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| 2011 |
"Non-Objective Group Show", Art Month Sydney, Factory 49 |
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| 2010 |
"Lineate" with Magda Cebokli, Factory 49 Project Space, Sydney |
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| 2010 |
"Non-Objective Group Show", Art Month Sydney, Factory 49 |
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| 2009 |
“Folk 1”, SNO Contemporary Art Projects, Sydney. Curated by Dr. Billy Gruner |
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| 2009 |
Monash University Faculty Gallery |
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| 2009 |
Factory 49, Sydney |
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| 2004 |
“White”, The Church Gallery, Perth. Curated by Allison Archer |
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| 2004 |
The Melbourne Art Fair, dianne tanzer gallery |
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| 2003 |
“Distant Noises”, Collaborative Group Exhibition RMIT |
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| 2003 |
“The Future in every Direction”, Joan Clemenger Endowment, Ian Potter Centre, NGV |
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| 2003 |
“Dialogue”, 2pi r Artists Group Exhibition, Monash University Gallery, Prato, Italy |
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| 2002 |
“Persistence of Memory”, 2pi r Group Exhibition, Span Gallery |
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| 2002 |
“Swap”, Perth Gallery |
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| 2001 |
King Street Gallery on Burton |
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| 2000 |
“Last show of the year”, King Street Gallery on Burton, Sydney |
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| 2000 |
The Melbourne Art Fair, dianne tanzer gallery |
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| 2000 |
“Reciprocal Moves”, Warrnambool Art Gallery, curated by Dr Noela Stratford |
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| 2000 |
“On the brink: Abstraction in the 90’s” , Heide Museum of Modern Art. Curated by Kelly Gellatly |
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| 1999 |
2 pi r Artists Group Exhibition, Span Gallery |
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| 1998 |
“Making Waves”, dianne tanzer gallery |
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| 1998 |
Sixth Australian Art Fair, dianne tanzer gallery |
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| 1997 |
“Selected Artists”, dianne tanzer gallery |
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| 1995 |
“Some Women I Know”, La Trobe University |
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| 1992 |
“Homage to Spain”, Melbourne Contemporary Art Gallery |
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| 1992 |
“Small works, wide visions”, Downlands, Toowoomba |
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Conference Presentations and Selected Artist Lectures
| 2013 |
Conference Paper, The Topologies of Materiality and Practice within Abstraction. Panel: Topologies of Practice, Chair, Charles Robb AAANZ Annual Confrence Melbourne. |
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| 2013 |
Conference paper What is the role of Abstraction Contemporaneously, 100 years of Abstract Art: Theory and Practice. School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Jacobs University, Bremen, Germany |
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| 2012 |
Panel Chair"Abstract Relationships together<>apart AAANZ Annual Conference, Sydney |
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| 2012 |
Conference paper"The problem of the role of Abstract Art Contemporaneously". Contemp Art 12, Mimar Sionan Fine Art University, Istanbul, Turkey. International conference |
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| 2011 |
"Undercurrent" fortyfivedownstairs gallery, two Artists lectures. |
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| 2008 |
Bendigo Art Gallery, "The Space Between" exhibition |
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| 2007 |
Monash PhD Seminar |
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| 2005 |
RMIT |
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| 2003 |
Moorabbin TAFE |
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| 2001 |
Monash University Lunch time lecture series |
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| 2001 |
Edith Cowen University, Perth |
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| 2001 |
Perth Institute of TAFE |
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Group Exhibitions Since 1990
| 2016 |
Shortlisted Albany Art Prize |
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| 2014 |
Shortlisted The 38th Alice Prize, Alice Springs |
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| 2013 |
Factory 49 Annual group exhibition |
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| 2011 |
Factory 49 Annual group exhibition |
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| 2010 |
Scope Gallery, Warnambool |
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| 2010 |
Factory 49 group, Sydney |
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| 2009 |
Factory 49 group, Sydney |
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| 2009 |
"30x30x30", Monash University Faculty Gallery |
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| 2008 |
The Tallis Foundation Works on Paper prize, Mornington Regional Gallery |
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| 2008 |
2 pi r Artists Group, Red Gallery |
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| 2007 |
The Savage prize, Melbourne |
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| 2006 |
2 pi r Artists Group, Span Galleries |
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| 2005 |
Geelong Contemporary Art Prize |
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| 2002 |
Out Back Art Prize Works on Paper Broken Hill NSW |
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| 2002 |
Geelong Contemporary Art Prize |
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| 2001 |
Hazelhurst Art Award Works on Paper |
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| 1997 |
Hutchins Art Prize, Hobart |
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| 1997 |
First Darebin - La Trobe Acquisitive Art Prize |
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| 1995 |
Save Albert Park 9x5 Invitation Exhibition |
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| 1995 |
Nillumbik Invitation Art Award |
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| 1995 |
Mornington Peninsula Spring Festival of Drawing |
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Exhibition Catalogue Essays
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The Paul Guest Collection, Bendigo Regional Gallery P 28 and160 |
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| 2014 |
Stupples, Peter. Art and Book: Against the odds. Exhibition Catalogue, University of Ontago, Dunedin School of Art Gallery NZ |
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| 2014 |
Richard van de Aa, ParisCONCRET 2009 - 2014 P105 |
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| 2011 |
Dr Anne Bennett, "Interlacing Materality and Meaning through Abstraction and its Processes" |
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| 2011 |
"Undercurrent" fortyfivedownstairs, Melbourne |
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| 2001 |
Dr Margo Osborne, “Indecorous Abstraction 1. Contemporary Women Painters” Light Square Gallery, Adelaide, and “Indecorous Abstraction 2”, Newcontemoraries, Sydney 2001 |
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| 2001 |
Kelly Gellatly, “Nulla Dies Sine Linea”, dianne tanzer gallery, 2001 |
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| 2001 |
Paul Hinchliffe, “Textrix”, The Church Gallery, June 2001 |
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| 2000 |
Dr. Noela Stratford, “Reciprocal Moves”, Warrnambool Art Gallery, 2000 |
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| 1999 |
2 Pi r Artists Group Exhibition, Catalogue, 1999 |
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| 1997 |
Anna Clabburn, “Waxing Linear”, Greenaway Art Gallery, Adelaide, 1997 |
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| 1995 |
Roger Palmer, “Wendy Kelly Landscapes: Matters of Place, Time and Identity”, 1995, Riddoch Art Gallery, Mt. Gambier |
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| 1992 |
I. McCulkin, “Small Works Wide Visions”, Catalogue, Downlands Exhibition, 1992 |
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| 1987 |
Julie Ewington, “Domestic Contradictions”, 1987, Power Gallery of Contemporary Art, Page 5, Illustration, Page 11 |
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| 1987 |
Women 150, “150 Victorian Women Artists”, Illustration |
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Articles & Newspapers
| 2006 |
Alan Mc Culloch, Susan McCulloch and Emily Mc Culloch-Childs, The New McCulloch’s Encyclopaedia of Australian Art, Aus Art Editions, The Miegunyah Press, Melbourne, Page 569 |
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| 2005 |
Jeff Makin, “Critic’s Choice”, Herald Sun, April 4, 2005, Page 89 |
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| 2005 |
Megan Backhouse "Reading between the threads”, The Age, April 9.2005, A2, Page 9 |
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| 2002 |
Michael Newall, “Indecorous Abstraction”, Artlink, Vol. 22 No. 4, 2002, Page 85 |
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Josephine Allison, “Getting the Thread”, The Western Australian, Today, May 23 2001 Lin DiCiero, |
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| 2001 |
“In residence at The Church Gallery”, Artists Chronicle, Art in Western Australia, Issue 78, April/May 2001 |
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| 2001 |
Philip Brown, “Let it Rip”, Brisbane News, Brisbane, April 24 2001 |
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| 2000 |
Susan McCulloch, “Undiscovered Artists”, The Australian Art Collector, April 2000, Page 71 |
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| 2000 |
Alison Barclay, “2020 Visionaries”, Herald Sun, Melbourne, January 8 2000, Page 97 |
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| 1999 |
Jeff Makin, “Choice views”, Herald Sun, Melbourne, June 7 1999, Page 106 |
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| 1998 |
Art in Australia, Vol 36, No 2 1998, Illustration “Gallery”, Page 252 |
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| 1998 |
Robert Rooney, “Late starters show colors by design”, The Australian, June 5 1998 Page 14 |
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| 1998 |
Jeff Makin, “Choice Views”, Herald Sun, Melbourne, May 18 1998, Page 9 |
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| 1997 |
Adam Dutklewicz, “Image through Icon”, The Advertiser, Adelaide, November 6 1997 |
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| 1994 |
Alan and Susan McCulloch, The Encyclopedia of Australian Art, 1994, Allen and Unwin, Australia, Page 385 |
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| 1993 |
Susan McCulloch, “Gallery takes care of a visual treat”, Herald Sun, Friday, June 18 1993, Illustration |
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| 1992 |
John Neylon, “Changed Bait”, The Adelaide Review, No.104, July 1992, Page 34 |
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| 1992 |
Graham Ryles, “A Buyers Guide to Australian Art”, 1992, Mandarin, Australia, Page 45 |
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| 1991 |
Max Germain, A Dictionary of Women Artists of Australia, 1991, Craftsman House, Australia, Page 241, Illustration |
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| 1990 |
Max Germain, Artists and Galleries of Australia, 1990, Craftsman House, Australia, Page 366 |
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| 1989 |
Artworkz One Exhibition Catalogue 1989, Illustration |
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| 1989 |
Women 150, “150 Victorian Women Artists”, Illustration |
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| 1985 |
Ronald Millar, “Happiness is a Room Full of Monets”, Herald, August 15 1985, Page 24 |
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| 1985 |
Ronald Millar, “Of Prams and Parking Meters”, Herald, June 6 1985, Page 23 |
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