Small, stylized human figurines appear throughout ancient cultures. They are found rendered in stone or clay, wood or bone, even string. Potent and enigmatic, their original meaning and purpose eludes us. Yet, to view this tiny figure through the museum glass, is to feel a powerful bond with its ancient maker and evokes all the joy and the burden of being human. The work seen here is my response to that experience and to the complexity of humanity in our present time.
All works are hand sewn on linen. Materials used include buttons, beads, shell, braid, lace and fabrics. Work is mounted on stretched canvas.
Available for sale by application to the artist.
2001 |
Georges Gallery, Melbourne |
1999 |
Georges Gallery, Melbourne |
1999 |
Westbeth, New York |
1998 |
Georges Gallery, Melbourne |
1993 |
Realities Gallery, Melbourne |
1990 |
Realities Gallery, Melbourne |
1989 |
Roslyn Oxley 9 Gallery, Sydney |
1988 |
Realities Gallery, Melbourne |
1986 |
Realities Gallery, Melbourne |
1984 |
Gippsland Institute of Technology, Victoria |
1983 |
Realities Gallery, Melbourne |
1981 |
Roslyn Oxley 9 Gallery, Sydney |
2005 |
Life in a Time of Decadence, Cork Gallery, Lincoln Center, New York |
2005 |
Summer View, Robert Steele Gallery, New York |
2000 |
Group Exibition, George Gallery, Melbourne |
1996 |
Shifting Identities, CB's 313 Gallery, New York |
1995 |
Girl Dreams/Women's Visions, CB's 313 Gallery, New York |
1994 |
Open/Shut, The Crystal Quilt Inc., New York |
1994 |
Women's Ways of Seeing 3, The Crystal Quilt Inc., New York |
1994 |
Unpeeled Art, Ballarat University Gallery, Victoria |
1993 |
Women's Ways of Seeing 2, The Crystal Quilt Inc., New York |
1992 |
Miniatures, Realities Gallery, Melbourne |
1990 |
Selected Works, Realities Gallery, Melbourne |
1989 |
Group Exhibition, Realities Gallery, Melbourne |
1988 |
Here and There (Overseas Residency), Monash University Gallery, Melbourne |
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A Celebration, Realities Gallery, Melbourne |
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The New Generation, Australian National Gallery, Canberra |
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St. Kilda 1, Linden Gallery, Melbourne |
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The New, Ben Grady Gallery, Canberra |
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Group Exhibition, Roslyn Oxley 9, Sydney |
1987 |
Young Australians: The Budget Rent a Car Collection, National Gallery of Victoria |
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Chaos, Roslyn Oxley 9 Gallery, Sydney |
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Field to Figuration, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne |
1986 |
Triad, Royal South Australian Society of Art Gallery, Adelaide Festival of the Arts |
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The First Look: Phiip Morris Arts Grant Purchase, Australian National Gallery |
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Director's Choice, RMIT Gallery, Melbourne |
1985 |
Expatriates l l, Contemporary Arts Society, Adelaide |
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Symbols, Emblems and Signatures:Australian Drawings, National Gallery of Victoria |
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International Drawing, Nuremberg, West Germany |
1984 |
Roslyn Oxley 9 Gallery, Sydney |
1983 |
Australian Perspecta 83, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney |
1982 |
Visions in Disbelief, 4th Biennale of Sydney, Art Gallery of New South Wales |
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New Paintings, Roslyn Oxley 9 Gallery, Sydney |
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Young Melbourne Painters, Monash University Gallery, Melbourne |
1981 |
Post-Graduate Exhibition, Victoria College of the Arts, Melbourne |
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AWARDS |
1986 |
Studio Grant, Greene Street New York, Visual Arts Board of the Australian Council |
1984 |
Project Grant, Visual Arts Board of the Australian Council |
1994 |
Geoff Willis, Susan Rankine, Unpeeled Art, exhibition catalogue, Ballarat University Gallery, |
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Ballarat, Victoria |
1991 |
Contemporary Austalian Paintings, catalogue, Sotheby's Australia |
1987 |
Robert Lindsay, Young Australians: The Budget Rent a Car Collection, exhibition catalogue, |
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National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne |
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Elaine Merkus, introduction: Rankine, Europe/New York; Here and There, (Overseas |
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Residency and Recent Australian Artists), exhibition catalogue, Monash University Gallery, |
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Melbourne |
1986 |
Memory Holloway, Susan Rankine, Triad, exhibition catalogue, Adelaide Festival of the Arts |
1984 |
Jennifer Phipps, Symbols, Emblems, and Signatures: Australian Drawings, exhibition
catalogue, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne |
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Jenny Watson, Urgent Images, Art & Text 1984 |
1983 |
Bernice Murphy, Recent Painting in Australia, Flash Art, (no.110. Milan, January) |
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Bernice Murphy, Australian Perspecta 83, exhibition catalogue, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney |
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Memory Holloway, Closing the Gaps, Studio International, October 1983 |
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Memory Holloway, Time Present and Time Past, Australian Art Review 2, editor Leon |
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Parroisien, Sydney 1983 |
1982 |
Memory Holloway, introduction: New Paintings, exhibition catalogue, Roslyn Oxley 9 |
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Gallery, Sydney |
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William Wright, Visions in Disbelief; 4th Biennale of Sydney, Art Gallery of New South Wales, |
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Sydney |
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Memory Holloway, introduction: Young Melbourne Painters, Monash University Gallery, |
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Melbourne |