BORN
3 June 1962
currently living and working at Lake Wapengo NSW
EDUCATION
1982-1986 Diploma of Art (Printmaking) Charles Sturt University, Wagga Wagga
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2019 Currawong Call Nancy Sever Gallery, Canberra ACT
2018 being here Narek Gallery, Bermagui NSW
2017 feast and forest Under the Greenwood Tree, North Tamborine QLD
2016 Illumination Nancy Sever Gallery, Canberra ACT
2016 Twenty nine moments Rathdowne Galleries, Melbourne VIC
2015 Small Kingdoms Narek Galleries, Tanja NSW
2013 The first day of summer the Electric Wall, Canberra ACT
2010 North country south country Framed Gallery, Darwin N.T.
2009 102 reasons Helen Maxwell Gallery, Canberra ACT
2009 Recent work Ivy Hill Gallery, Wapengo NSW
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 Inside Outside Framed Gallery, Darwin NT
1998 A tiger in the garden The Contemporary Art and Design Galley, Brisbane Qld
1997 Continuum aGOG, Canberra ACT
1994 One Western Woman aGOG, Canberra ACT
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
2022 Fragile Annie Franklin and Gordon Robinson, Nancy Sever Gallery, Canberra ACT
2021 Passage Annie Franklin, constellations Gordon Robinson, Gallery Bodalla NSW
2016 On site – six artists working en plein air Gallery Bodalla, NSW
2015 The Summer Exhibition Nancy Sever Gallery, Canberra ACT
2014 Living like Gods Bega Valley Regional Gallery, NSW
2013 Tuned Bega Valley Regional Gallery, NSW
2010 Gulaga Bega Valley Regional Gallery, NSW
2009 Companis Marks and Gardner, Mt Tamborine Qld
2008 Sunprints Spiral Gallery Bega & Megalo Print Gallery Canberra
2007 Atmosphere of Hope Legislative Assembly, Canberra, Parliament House, Sydney, Spiral Gallery, Bega
2006 The Sound of the Sky Museum & Art Gallery of Northern Territory
2006 Flock Helen Maxwell Gallery, Canberra
2006 Wingspan Spiral Gallery, Bega
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
2003 Spoiled Earth Helen Maxwell Gallery, Canberra
2003 Reclaiming the Mainstream: contemporary humanist ideals Counihan Gallery, Melbourne VIC
2002 Waterworks Helen Maxwell Gallery, Canberra ACT
2000-01 Art Towards Reconciliation (exhibition toured through 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
PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE
2013 Artist mentor, ‘My story my place’ Workability Bega NSW
2012 Artist mentor, Tulgeen 3D mural project, Bega NSW
2002-2008 Director, Spiral Gallery Collective, Bega NSW
2008 Coordinator, South Coast Solar Print Project, Bega NSW & Canberra ACT
2005 Coordinator, Living in Harmony mural project, Bega, N.S.W.
2004 Printmaker-in-Residence Megalo Access Arts, Canberra
2003-04 Coordinator, Painted Panels public art project, Bega NSW
2000 NT Artist in Schools Program Batchelor & Milikapiti School
1997-2002 Printmaking tutor Batchelor Institute of Indigenous Tertiary Education
1990-93 Art Coordinator Munupi Association, Pularumpi NT
AWARDS & GRANTS
2007 Marketing grant for NSW artists 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
Australian Parliament House
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
2013 Megalomania, 33 years of posters made at Megalo Print Studio
2006 Daena Murray, The sound of the Sky
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
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 CouncilMaroochy River Recovery poster
2004 Micah Network, U.K. Millennium Development Goals card series
1998-2001 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 commemorative banner
1989-90 Community Aid Abroad series of poster designs