Deirdre Brennan - STRANGER

Biographical Notes


CONTACT

Please email me at: puglover98@hotmail.com

EDUCATION

1998   M.Art,University of NSW-College of Fine Arts.

1997   M.Ed (Creative Arts),University of N.S.W.

1988   Post-Graduate Diploma in Professional Art Studies - University of NSW - College of Fine Arts.

1985   B.V.A., University of Newcastle.

1984   Post-Graduate Diploma in Education, University of Newcastle.

1983   Dip.Art,University of Newcastle.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2004   Warnambool Regional Art Gallery - “Stranger” series. [The Domestic, The Pool and The Bathroom.]

2004   Hazelhurst Regional Art Gallery - “Stranger” series. [The Domestic, Night Time, The Bathroom and the Hotel Room.]

2003   Canberra Contemporary Art Space - “Stranger” series. [The Domestic, Day Time, and the Night Time.]

2001   SPAN, Melbourne - “Silence and Duration” with J Day

2000   ANCA, Canberra -“Silence and Duration” with J Day

1999   Gallery East, Clovelly - "Voices of Silence"

1997   Palette Cafe, Glebe - " Dog Days " with N Austin.

1995   Tanilba House, Tanilba Bay. Port Stephens. ["The Eternal Moment"- Photography.]

1991   Watt Space Gallery, Watt St., Newcastle. ["Inception : Symbiosis" - Photography.]

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2005   Alumni Prize 2005, COFA.

2005   CCAS Annual Prize.

2005   McGregor Prize for Photography, USQ Toowoomba.

2005   SODA Gallery, Small Painting Prize.

2005   Muswellbrook Regional Gallery, Photographic Award.

2005   'Women Artists' Global Gallery Paddington.

2005   CCAS Drawing Award.

2005   ‘Killing Time’ Contemporary Photography SOApBOX Gallery

2004   Mandorla Biennale Art Award, Fremantle.

2004   Muswellbrook Photographic Award (Highly Commended).

2004   Josephine Ulrick National Photographic Prize.

2004   SOApBOX Gallery with Suzanne Staal.

2004   Josephine Ulrick and Win Schubert Foundation for the Arts Photography Award, Gold Coast Arts Centre

2003   Canberra Contemporary Art Space & The Art Store inaugural Contemporary Art Exhibition Award.

1999   Albury Regional Gallery, Photographic Acquisition.

1981-1998   Various Exhibitions - [Sydney, Newcastle, Tanilba Bay & Japan.]

RESIDENCIES

1991-1992   Shodo, (Japanese Calligraphy), Matsumoto Sensei, Japan.

GRANTS

2004   NSW Artists Marketing Scheme

BIBILOGRAPHY

2004   “Artist is no Stranger to the South West”. [The Warnambool Standard, 21st May 2004.]

2003   “Images of Moments in the Life of Everyone”. [Reviewed by Zoja Bojic, The Canberra Times, 31 October 2003]

2001   Archived Library & Research Centre of The National Museum of Women in the Arts. www.nmwa.org

1999   www.digitalphoto.com.nf. Reviewed by Christopher Wright.

20/12/91   The Yomuri Shimbun, Japan

12/12/90   Mysteries of Motherhood Captured by Camera Reviewed, Stowell, Newcastle Morning Herald

15/12 /90   2NURFM, Interviewed by Libby Dickenson

PUBLICATIONS

1998   Photographic Text - “Voices of Silence” Master of Art Dissertation, College of Fine Art, UNSW.

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