biography


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born

3 June 1962
currently living and working at Lake Wapengo NSW

 

 

education
 

1982-86

Diploma of Art (Printmaking)  Charles Sturt University, Wagga Wagga

 

 

solo exhibitions
 

2009 102 reasons  Helen Maxwell Gallery, Canberra, ACT

2005

Common Ground  Helen Maxwell Gallery, Canberra, ACT

2001

Feast  Helen Maxwell Gallery, Canberra, ACT

2001

Scenes from the Palace Gardens  Framed Gallery, Darwin, NT

1998

A Tiger in the Garden  Art & Design Gallery, Brisbane, QLD

1998

Inside Outside  Framed Gallery, Darwin, NT

1997

Continuum  aGOG, Canberra, ACT

1994

One Western Woman  aGOG, Canberra, ACT

1991

A Sense of Place  Shades of Ochre, Darwin, NT

1990

A Sense of Place  aGOG, Canberra, ACT

1990

Stories  Punch Gallery, Sydney, NSW

1989

Prints & Paintings  Shades of Ochre, Darwin, NT

1988

Ancient Hues & Alien Forms  Canberra Contemporary Art Space, ACT

 

 

selected group exhibitions
 

2009 COM panis,  Annie Franklin & Cheryl Jones, Marks & Gardner Gallery, Mt Tamborine, QLD
2009 Transcending Surface, Helen Maxwell Gallery, Canberra, ACT
2009 Wild Forests, Bodalla Gallery, NSW
2008 Sunprints, Spiral Gallery Bega & Megalo Print Gallery, ACT
2007 Atmosphere of Hope,  Legislative Assembly Canberra  & Parliament House Sydney

2006

The Sound of the Sky,  Museum & Art Gallery of Northern Territory

2006

Flock,  Helen Maxwell Gallery, Canberra, ACT

2006

Wingspan Annie Franklin & Jan Ridgeway, Spiral Gallery, Bega, NSW

2004

Studio One Prints, the CMAG Collection, Canberra Museum and Gallery

2004

Contemporary Territory Museum and Art Gallery of Northern Territory

2003

In the Presence of Passion Helen Maxwell Gallery, Canberra, ACT

2003

Spoiled Earth Helen Maxwell Gallery, Canberra, ACT

2003

Reclaiming the Mainstream: contemporary humanist ideals  Counihan Gallery, Melbourne, VIC

2003

Shimmer: Annie Franklin & Nicole Vandersteegen  Spiral Gallery, Bega, NSW

2002

Waterworks  Helen Maxwell Gallery, Canberra, ACT

2000-01

Art Towards Reconciliation Museoa Gernika, Basque Country
Travelling in Spain, France & Germany

2000

Triptych  Helen Maxwell Gallery, Canberra, ACT

2000

Painted Proof  Canberra Contemporary Art Space, ACT

1999

Propositions Australiennes  Galerie Luc Queyrel, Paris, FRANCE

1997

Morning Song  Woods Street Gallery, Darwin, NT

1995

Bias Binding, Women’s Art Register 1975-1995 National Gallery of Victoria, VIC

1995

Changing Places, Cross Cultural Art from Australia 
Asialink touring exhibition, Malaysia, Singapore, Hong Kong

1994

Australian Naïve Art  Barry Stern Gallery, Sydney, NSW

1992

Ngingingawula Murrakapuni, Ngingingawula Jilamarra (with Tiwi women artists from Melville Island, NT)  Australian Embassy, Paris, FRANCE

1991

A Spirit of Place  Shanghai Hilton, CHINA

1990

Earthly Delights  aGOG, Canberra, ACT

1990

Sun, Smoke & Steel  Studio One traveling exhibition

1989

Posters, the politics of life  aGOG, Canberra, ACT

1989

200+1 Building Bridges  Bondi Pavillion, Sydney, NSW


professional practice
 

2008   Coordinator, South Coast Solar Print Project, Bega, NSW & Canberra

2002-08

 

Director, Spiral Gallery Cooperative, Bega, NSW

2005

 

Coordinator, Living in Harmony Mural Project, Bega, NSW

2004

 

Printmaker-in-Residence Megalo Access Arts, Canberra                       

2003-04  

Coordinator, Painted Panel Public Art Project Bega NSW

2000

 

NT Artist in Schools Program Batchelor & Milikapiti School

1997-2002

 

Printmaking tutor  Batchelor Institute of Indigenous Tertiary Education

1994, 95, 96

 

Coordinator, Pularumpi School Mural Project Pularumpi, NT

1990-93

 

Art Coordinator  Munupi Association, Pularumpi NT

1987-90

 

Freelance designer & illustrator  Canberra


awards & grants
 

2007   Marketing Grant  National Association for the Visual Arts

1994

 

Professional Development Grant  Visual Arts Board of the Australia Council

1988

 

Project Grant  Arts Development Board, Canberra


collections
 

 

 

National Gallery of Australia

 

 

Canberra Museum and Gallery

 

 

Museum & Art Galleries of the Northern Territory

 

 

Australian National University

 

 

Act Legislative Assembly

 

 

Archive of Humanist Art, Victoria

 

 

Northern Territory University, Darwin NT

 

 

Wagga Wagga City Art Gallery NSW

 

 

Charles Sturt University, Wagga Wagga NSW

 

 

Australian Embassy, Paris FRANCE

 

 

Rupert Murdoch Collection

 

 

Numerous private collections in Australia, France, U.K. 


publications
 

2003

 

William Kelly Art & Humanist Ideals: Contemporary Perspectives

1999

 

Dr Joan Kerr Artists & Cartoonists in Black & White

1996

 

Dr Sasha Grishin Australian Printmaking in the 1990s

1994

 

Sandra Warner Australian Naïve Art 

1992

 

Vision sur les Arts No.181 Paris

1992

 

Imprint  Vol 27, No.3

1991

 

Max Germaine A Dictionary of Australian Women Artists

1991

 

Craft Arts International Art at the Zoo

1990

 

Max Germaine Artists and Galleries of Australia

1988

 

Print Council of Australia Directory 1988: Australian Artists Producing Prints


selected commissions
 

2008   Sunshine Coast Shire Council, Maroochy River Recovery poster

2004

 

Micah Network, U.K. Millennium Development Goals card series

2000-01

 

Land & Water Australia  large painting for ACT office and series of posters

1998

 

NT Office of Women’s Policy Women’s Fellowship poster

1997

 

Smith Street Mall, Darwin Cyclone Season ceramic mural

1997

 

Kakadu National Park Visitors Centre Caring for Country mural

1996

 

Darwin Botanic Gardens mural and ceramic mosaic

1995

 

Australian Association of Adult Education poster and card series

1994

 

Human Rights Commission banner commemorating the
10th Anniversary of the Sex Discrimination Act

1992

 

Early Childhood Association poster design for Code of Ethics

1989-90

 

Community Aid Abroad series of poster designs

1988-89

 

Australian Institute of Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Studies series of book illustrations