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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
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