Virginia Coventry b. 1942 Melbourne
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Gallery website : http://www.liverpoolstgallery.com.au/public_panel/artist_image.php?id_ART=10 EDUCATION 1967-68 Post-graduate studies (Painting) Slade School of Fine Art, University College, London 1960-64 Dip. Fine Art (Painting) RMIT, Melbourne SOLO EXHIBITIONS 1977 Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide 1979 Art Projects, Melbourne 1980 Watters Gallery, Sydney Art Projects, Melbourne Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane 1982 Art Projects, Melbourne 1986 Watters Gallery, Sydney 1989 Watters Gallery, Sydney 1991 Watters Gallery, Sydney Powerhouse Museum, Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences, Sydney 1992 La Trobe Valley Arts Centre, Morwell 1993 Watters Gallery, Sydney 1995 Watters Gallery, Sydney 1997 AGOG, Canberra 1998 Watters Gallery, Sydney 2001 Watters Gallery, Sydney 2002 Helen Maxwell Gallery, Canberra 2003 Watters Gallery, Sydney 2004 The Light of Open Spaces: A Survey of Virginia Coventry’s Work, The Drill Hall Gallery, ANU, Canberra, Curated by Terence Maloon 2005 Watters Gallery, Sydney 2006 Helen Maxwell Gallery, Canberra 2007 In Place, Tin Sheds Gallery, Faculty of Architecture, Design and Planning, The University of Sydney 2008 Silvershot Gallery, Melbourne 2010 Liverpool Street Gallery, Sydney 2012 2x2, Adelaide Central Gallery, Adelaide Less is More – More is Less, Shoalhaven City Arts Centre, Nowra Liverpool Street Gallery, Sydney GROUP EXHIBITIONS 1969 Slade Postgraduate Show; University College, London 1969 Click, (inflatable structure/walk-through projection space); National Universities Arts Festival, University of Melbourne 1974 International Women's Day Festival; Exhibition Gardens, Melbourne 1975 Three Women Photographers; Ewing and George Paton Galleries, The University of Melbourne 1976 A survey of Post-object Art in Australia and New Zealand; Experimental Art Foundation, AdelaideDrawing: Some Definitions; Ewing and George Paton Galleries, The University of Melbourne Photographic documentation of Standing, Lying, Walking and Talking (Stuart Brisley) for the Biennale of Sydney; Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney Ten Viewpoints; Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney 1977 The Women's Show; Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide Whyalla—Not a Document (as work in progress); Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide 1978 Six Series; National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne The Map Show; Ewing and George Paton Galleries, Melbourne University 1979 Photographs; Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Alexander Mackie C.A.E., Sydney Biennale of Sydney: European Dialogue; Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney 1980 Self Portrait/Self Image; Victoria College of the Arts, Melbourne and the Gallery Directors’ Council of Australia traveling exhibition 1980-81 Frame of Reference; Ewing and George Paton Galleries, The University of Melbourne 1981 Landscape—Art; two way reaction, Australian National Gallery at Melville Hall, Canberra Landscape (Some Interpretations); Tasmanian School of Art Gallery, University Tasmania 1982 Eureka!: Artists from Australia; Institute of Contemporary Arts, London 1983 Continuum ‘83; Gallery Lunami, Tokyo Attitudes to Drawing; Ivan Dougherty Gallery, City Art Institute, Sydney 1984 The Centre—Works on Paper by Contemporary Australian Artists; Art Gallery of South Australia Symbols, Emblems and Signatures; Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, New Zealand, in association with the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne 1986 Big Pictures: Australian Photography 1975-1985; Australian National Gallery at The Drill Hall, ANU, Canberra 1987 In Print: Vol 1. Artists Books; Power Gallery of Contemporary Art, The University 1988 Structures of Necessity; First Draft, Sydney Towers of Torture; The Tin Sheds Gallery, The University of Sydney 1989 Australian Artists Books: The Eighties; Drill Hall Gallery, Canberra A Touch of Black; Watters Gallery, Sydney Portrait of a Gallery—Watters Gallery 25 years; Watters Gallery, Sydney 1990 40 Artists - 40 Works; Watters Gallery, Sydney Acquisitions 1984-90: A Collection of Australian Contemporary Art; University Art Museum, The University of Queensland 1991 At Least its Gone to a Good Home (in association with Dissonance—Aspects of Feminism and the Arts ); The Tin Sheds, the University of Sydney 1992 Manu et Mente; Ivan Dougherty Gallery, College of Fine Arts, UNSW 1993 Virtu; Ivan Dougherty Gallery, College of Fine Arts, UNSW Nuclear (R)age; Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne 1994 Drawing on Inspiration; Ivan Dougherty Gallery, College of Fine Arts, UNSW The 19th Annual Fremantle Print Award; Fremantle Arts Centre, Fremantle A Hundred Years; Ivan Dougherty Gallery, College of Fine Arts, UNSW 1996 Women at Watters: 1964-1994; Watters Gallery, Sydney Interlude; Ivan Dougherty Gallery, College of Fine Arts, UNSW Up, Down and Across; Campbelltown City Art Gallery 1997 Sextet; Ivan Dougherty Gallery, College of Fine Arts, UNSW 1998 Co-existence (in association with Artists Against Racism); Hogarth Galleries, Sydney and University of Wollongong 1998 Graphic; Monash University Gallery, Melbourne 1999 25th Anniversary Exhibition; Australian Centre for Photography, SydneyShifting Currents; Ivan Dougherty Gallery, College of Fine Arts, UNSW Triptych; Helen Maxwell Gallery, Canberra 2001 Abstraction; Tim Olsen Gallery, Sydney The 31st Alice Prize; The Araluen Centre, Alice Springs 2003 Redlands Westpac Art Prize; Mosman City Gallery, Sydney 2004 Good Looking: Narrative Photographs Past and Present; The Ian Potter Centre, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne 2004 The Sulman Prize; Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney 2007 Into Abstract; Hawkesbury Regional Gallery, Windsor 2009 Summer Exhibition, Liverpool Street Gallery, Sydney The Sulman Prize; Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney 2010 Black is The Colour; Shoalhaven City Arts Centre, Nowra 2011 Abstraction, Drill Hall Gallery, Australian National University, Canberra AWARDS 1977 Overseas Travel Grant; Visual Arts Board, Australia Council 1981 Academic Professional Development Leave; research for The Critical Distance project 1983 Project Grant; Visual Arts Board, Australia Council 1986 Academic Professional Development Leave; research in Italy, France and Germany 1988 Half Standard Grant; Visual Arts and Craft Board, Australia Council 1989 Academic Professional Development Leave; research for solo exhibition 1992 Faculty Research Grant; College of Fine Arts, UNSW 1994 Faculty Research Grant; College of Fine Arts, UNSW 1999 Art Gallery of New South Wales Paris Studio (for July - September, 2000) Development Grant; Visual Arts/Crafts Fund, Australia Council 2005 Visual Arts and Craft Strategy New Work Grant, Australia Council STATEMENTS & WRITINGS BY THE ARTIST Drawing: Some Definitions (catalogue); Ewing and George Paton Galleries, The University of Melbourne, 1977 Six Series (catalogue); National Gallery of Victoria, 1978 European Dialogue—Biennale of Sydney, (catalogue); Art Gallery of NSW, 1979 Lip (1978/79), Melbourne, 1979; From the Ground Up (Photographs, text) Frame of Reference (cat.); Ewing and George Paton Galleries, The University of Melbourne, 1980 Eureka!: Artists from Australia (catalogue); ICA, London, 1982 Continuum '83 (catalogue); Tokyo,1983 The Centre - Works on Paper by Contemporary Australian Artists (catalogue); Art Gallery of South Australia, 1984 The Critical Distance: Work with Politics/Photography/Writing; Hale and Iremonger, Sydney 1986 (Introductory essay) Structures of Necessity (catalogue); First Draft, Sydney, 1988 Manu et Mente (catalogue); Ivan Dougherty Gallery, College of Fine Arts, UNSW 1992 Up, Down and Across (catalogue) Campbelltown City Art Gallery 1995 Graphic (catalogue); Monash University Gallery, Melbourne 1998 Soundings (catalogue), Helen Maxwell Gallery, Canberra 2002SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY Annear, Judy, Frame of Reference; George Paton Gallery, Me1bourne University Union, Parkville 1980 Burke, Janine, Self Portrait/Self Image; Australian Gallery Directors’ Counci1 1980 Burke, Janine, Field of Vision: A Decade of Change—Women's Art in the Seventies; Viking/Penguin Australia 1990 Carroll, Alison, The Centre - Works on Paper by Contemporary Australian Artists; Art Gallery of South Australia Drury, Neville, New Art Two: New Directions in Contemporary Australian Art; Craftsman House, Sydney 1988 Ennis, Helen, Big Pictures: Australian Photography 1975-1985; National Gallery of Australia, Canberra 1986 Ennis, Helen, The 1970's and Now; Afterimage, September 1986 Frost, Andrew, Driven to abstraction, Metro Art, The Sydney Morning Herald, September 24-30, 2010 Grishin, Sacha, The Canberra Times, August 12, 1997 The Canberra Times, September 18, 2002 Ewington, Julie, Eyeline # 8, March, 1989 Grace, Helen, Against 'Social Concern'; Art Network # 3, January 1982 James, Bruce, The Australian, September 12, 1997 Lynn, Elwyn , The Australian, June 3-4, 1986 MacIntyre, Arthur, Australian Contemporary Drawing; Boolarong Publications, Sydney 1988 Mendelssohn, Joanna, The Australian, August 4, 1995 Maloon, Terence The Weaving of Hands; Tony Tuckson at 75; Art and Australia Vol. 3, # 33, April 1996 (pp. 348, 352) The Light of Open Spaces—a survey of Virginia Coventry’s work; ANU Drill Hall Gallery, Canberra 2004 Maloon, Terence Echolocation; exhibition catalogue essay for In Place, Tin Sheds Gallery, Faculty of Architecture, The University of Sydney, 2007 Maloon, Terence, Abstraction, Drill Hall Gallery, Australian National University, Canberra, 2011 Moore, Catriona, Indecent Exposures: Twenty Years of Australian Feminist Photography; Allen and Unwin, Sydney 1994 (pp. 101,102) Morris, Meaghan Critical Reflections; Artforum April 1992 (p. 79) Murphy, Bernice Australian Perspecta 1981; Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney 1981 Phipps, Jennifer Symbols, Emblems, Signatures - Australian Drawings 1984; Govett - Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, New Zealand 1984 Rooney, Robert, The Australian, 31 July 1998 Rhodes, Kate, Good Looking: Narrative Photographs Past and Present; The Ian Potter Centre, NGV Australia, Melbourne 2004 Stanhope, Zara, Graphic; Monash University Gallery, Melbourne 1998 COLLECTIONS National Gallery of Australia, Canberra Centre for Contemporary Art, Hamilton, New Zealand College of Fine Arts, The University of New South Wales, Sydney Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne The Powerhouse Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences, Sydney The University of Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane Alan Cleary Collection, Hawkesbury Regional Gallery, Windsor M G Dingle and G B Hughes Collection Shoalhaven City Arts Centre, Nowra Private collections in Australia and overseas 243a Liverpool Street, East Sydney NSW 2010 |
