D R A N N E B E N N E T T v i s u a l artist, writer, independent curator and educator
Practicing Professional Artist:
Participated in over 70 exhibitions nationally and internationally since 1982. Curated eight group
exhibitions and project managed touring schedules. Published numerous catalogues, articles and
conference papers. Have been a finalist in over 15 prizes and also won numerous prizes and awards.
Have paintings, works on paper and artists books held in a number of public and private collections
around Australia. Member of Banyule Art Collection Advisory Committee and Cultural Vault
Reference Group at the City of Banyule. Most recently curated “Seeing Books as Research” at the
Royal Society of Victoria and lectured in the Bachelor of Illustration at NMIT.
Qualifications:
PhD , Faculty of Art, Design & Architecture, Monash University
Master of Fine Art (Painting), University of Tasmania (Hobart)
Bachelor of Art (Fine Art - Painting), Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (now RMIT University)
Certificate IV in Training and Assessment, MRWED/ Northern Melbourne Institute of TAFE
Teaching experience:
2012
Northern Melbourne Institute of TAFE (NMIT), Higher Education - Bachelor of Illustration
NMIT Vet sector - Advanced Diploma of Creative Product Development
1990-
Northern Melbourne Institute of TAFE (NMIT), Visual Art Department and Koorie Services-
2011
Diploma of Visual Art, Graphic Arts, Illustration & Certificate IV programs -
2005-09
Centre for Adult Education (CAE), Visual Arts Department - Short Courses
2000
Chisholm Institute of TAFE, Visual Arts Department - Diploma of Visual Arts
1990
Centre for Adult Education (CAE), Liberal Arts Department - Short courses
1986
University of Tasmania (Hobart Campus) - Bachelor of Fine Arts program
M a i n t e a c h i n g a r e a s : Drawing, Painting, Printmedia, Illustrative Methods, Design, Arts Business &
Professional Practice, Art Theory, History/Cultural Contexts & Curriculum Development
Individual exhibitions:
2011
Fall Out From Eden Faculty Gallery, Monash University, Caulfield
2005
Re-coil Cardinia Cultural Centre
2001-02
Federation Dreaming Swan Hill Regional Gallery
2001
Federation Dreaming Walker Street Gallery, Dandenong, Gippsland Art Gallery, Sale,
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Horsham Regional Art Gallery, Spiral Arm Gallery, ACT, Band Hall Gallery, Kyneton, Victoria,
2000
Paradise Unreal Estate 8 metre installation, 24 Langtree Ave, Mildura, as part of Mildura
Palimpsest #3
1999
Packaging Paradise Civic Centre Art Space, City of Casey
1991
Passages from Paradise Pinacotheca, Richmond
1988
Descent into Paradise Tolarno Galleries , South Yarra
1986
Imposition and Disposition Plimsoll Galleries, Centre for the Arts, Hobart
Curated & selected group exhibitions:
2012
Transdisciplinary Studio on Yarra Bend Road, Red Gallery
Seeing Artists Books as Research Royal Society of Victoria, Heritage Library
Guarda…PRATO! Atrium Gallery, Monash University, Caulfield
2011
Impact Of/n Nature 69 Smith Street Gallery, Fitzroy
Artists Books Monash University Library
Greater Than One Faculty Gallery, Monash University
2010
Women, Art and Politics Swan Hill Regional Gallery
2009
ABC Book exhibition Northampton University, United Kingdom
2007
Paper Animals: animals as metaphor East Gippsland Art Gallery, VIC,
Albury Regional Art Gallery, NSW
Bannon, Bennett & Dionyspopoulos Brunswick Mechanics Institute Performance Art
Theatre
3rd International Collage Exhibition Vilnius 2006 Gallery Arka, Vilnius, Lithuania
2006
Hey-Li Printmedia Festival Sung Shin Women’s University, Seoul, Korea
Working Out Trocadero Art Space, Melbourne, Melbourne
Red/ Read Artisan Books, Gertrude Street, Fitzroy
Black and White Books Artisan Books, Gertrude Street, Fitzroy
2005
Beyond Words East Gippsland Art Gallery
Focus on artists’ books 2 Artspace, Mackay QLD
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Paper Animals: animals as metaphor Maroondah Art Gallery
2004
Search: aspects arising from visual research Cusp Gallery, Melbourne
Environment Matters: science in art The Royal Society of Victoria
Artscapes Sustainable Living Festival, Federation Square, Melbourne
2003
Works on Paper by Australian Artists Anhui University, Hefei, China
Mildura Palimpsest #4 Packing Sheds, Mildura
2001
The Dog Show Band Hall Gallery, Kyneton
Art Animals: animals as metaphor Walker St Gallery, Dandenong, Horsham Regional Art
Gallery, Switchback Gallery, Monash Uni.
1999
Mildura Palimpsest #2 Mildura Arts Centre
9” x 12” National Touring Exhibition of Contemporary Art
1992-3
Margaret Stewart Endowment National Gallery of Victoria
1992
Recently Seen McClelland Gallery, Langwarrin, VIC.
1990
Art Angels Blaxland Gallery, Myer Melbourne
1987
Gallery Artists Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne
Prize exhibitions:
2008
Libris Awards Artspace, Mackay, QLD,
2007
She Walker Street Gallery, Melbourne
Search For The Impossible, Books 07 Noosa Regional Art Gallery, QLD
2006
2006 Swan Hill Print and Drawing Acquisitive Awards Swan Hill Regional Art Gallery
Waterhouse Natural History Art Prize South Australian Museum
Robert Jacks Drawing Prize Bendigo Art Gallery
2006 Silkcut Award Glen Eira City Council Gallery
10+ Beyond Books 06 Noosa Regional Gallery Qld
Libris Awards Artspace, Mackay
2006 Southern Cross University Aquisitive Artists’ Book Award Next Contemporary Art
Space, Southern Cross University, Lismore, NSW
2005
Image as Text as Image Noosa Regional Gallery Qld
Black and White Books Artisan Books, Gertrude Street, Fitzroy
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Southern Cross University Acquisitive Artists’ Book Award Next Contemporary Art
Space, Southern Cross University, Lismore, NSW
2002
Smorgon Steel Contemporary Art Prize Williamstown Festival
2000
Heart Walker St Gallery, Dandenong
1999
Jacaranda Acquisitive Drawing Award Touring Show
Shell Contemporary Art Prize Williamstown Festival
She Walker Street Gallery, Dandenong
1998
Jacaranda Acquisitive Drawing Award Grafton Regional Gallery
She Walker Street Gallery, Dandenong
Curatorial projects:
2012
Seeing Artist Books as Research, Royal Society of Victoria
2011
Impact of/n Nature, 69 Smith Street Gallery, Fitzroy, part of the Month of Print, Impact
International Print conference
2004
Paper Animals: animals as metaphor touring exhibition - Maroondah Art Gallery,
Melbourne, East Gippsland Gallery, Albury Regional Gallery
Search Aspects Arising from Visual Research, Cusp Gallery, Melbourne
Environment Matters: Science in Art, The Royal Society of Victoria, Melbourne
2000
Art Animals: animals as metaphor touring exhibition - Horsham Regional Art Gallery,
Switchback Gallery, Monash University, Gippsland Campus, Walker St Gallery, Dandenong
1987
Work on Walls, Melbourne Spoleto Fringe Festival, Uffizi Galleries, Melbourne,
co-curated with Hugh Wilbur-Ham
Awards, grants & residencies:
2012
Artist in Residence, University of Ballarat
2008
Postgraduate Travel Scholarship, Monash University
2007
Postgraduate Equity Travel Scholarship, Monash University
Search For The Impossible, Books 07 Acquisition Award
2000
Swan Hill Regional Art Gallery Acquisition Award
Artistcare Art Award
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1998
Walker Street Gallery Award
1987
Desiderius Orban Award, Australia Council
Represented:
National Gallery of Victoria, Swan Hill Regional Art Gallery, University of Tasmania, Monash University
Library Artists Books, State Library of Queensland Artists Books
Private Collections in Victoria & Tasmania
Bibliography:
McCulloch, Susan and Emily McCulloch, ed.s. McCulloch’s Encyclopedia of Australian Art, (4th ed.) NSW,
Aus Art Editions, 2006.
Alan & Susan McCulloch, Encyclopedia of Australian Art, (3rd ed.) NSW, Allen and Unwin, 1994 and (4th
ed.)
2006 Silkcut catalogue
Hey-Li Printmedia Festival, catalogue, Korean Contemporary Printmakers Association, Seoul, 2006.
The Age (Melbourne ) Magazine, Issue #3 September 2006, p.106
Search: Aspects arising from post-graduate research catalogue, Melbourne: Cusp Gallery, 2004
Environment Matters: science in art catalogue, Melbourne: Royal Society of Victoria Melbourne, 2004
Evans, Pru J. “Paper Animals” in Paper Animals: Animals as Metaphor catalogue, Melbourne, 2004
Preview: “Paper Animals: animals as metaphor.” Imprint 39, No. 4, (2004): 29
Fulton, Bernadette. “Federation Dreaming” in Federation Dreaming catalogue, Melbourne, 2001
Grishan, Sasha. “A Satirical Manner.” Canberra Times, April 23, 2001.
Dodd, Lisa. “Artistic Dreaming.” Pakenham-Berwick Gazette, March 28, 2001, People in Profile section.
Mark Freeman, ‘The Great Australian Dream’ The Springvale Dandenong Times, February 14, 2001, 14
Stephanie Radock, ‘Mildura’s Palimpsest: the sigh of the land’, Realtime + On Screen, No. 37 June/July
(2000)
Beattie, Terry. “Animals in Art.” Art Animals: animals as metaphor catalogue, Melbourne, 2000
Max Germaine, A Dictionary of Women Artists of Australia, NSW, Craftsman House, 1990
Ronald Millar, ‘Out of Fashion Art Hits Fashionable Galleries’, The Hearld, 16/3/1988
Roger Taylor, Gotham City Gossip, 3 RRR, March 1988 – nominated show of the week
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Authored/Publications:
Bennett, Anne. “Interweaving Materiality and Meaning Through Abstraction and its Processes.”
Catalogue essay in Wendy Kelly: Undercurrent. Melbourne: Forty Five Downstairs, 2011. ISBN 978-0-64656873-7
Bennett, Anne. Impact Of/n Nature. Melbourne: Keats Street Press, 2011. ISBN 978-0-9752425-3-7
Bennett, A. “Fallout From Eden: Re-visioning Dualist Thinking in Western Culture.” PhD exegesis. Monash
University, 2011.
Bennett, Anne. “Being in the Moment.” Catalogue essay in Transience: July Skies, Kari Henriksen.
Melbourne: Keats Street Press, 2009. ISBN 978-0-9752425-2-0
Bennett, Anne. “Sutured Hearts and Other Hallmarks: The Prints of Heather Shimmen.” Imprint. Spring,
34, no. 3 (1999): 6-8.
Bennett, Anne. “Light and Water: Views from Portsea.” Antiques & Art in Victoria, December (1999): 18.
Bennett, Anne. “Loss.” Catalogue essay published in conjunction with the exhibition Loss: paintings and
Drawings by Alex Lyall shown at Mildura Arts Centre, April 23 – May 30, 1999.
Bennett, Anne. “The Invisible Hand of the Future.” Catalogue essay published in conjunction with the
exhibition The Invisible Hand of the Future: Heather Shimmen shown at Bulle Galleries in Melbourne.
June 1997.
Bennett, A. “Imposition and Disposition.” MFA Exegesis, University of Tasmania, 1986.
S e l e c t e d C o n f e r e n c e P a p e r s a n d P u b l i c L e c tu re s:
2012
“Seeing Artist Books as Research” Collaborations: Artists, Scholars and Libraries in Research
Ecosystems, The Arts Libraries Society Australian and New Zealand Conference (ARLIS)
2011
University of Ballarat: Public Forum and Postgraduate Seminar/Workshop
Artist Management Advisory Group, Kingston Arts Centre: “Professional Practice for
2009
Artists.”
2008
Northern Melbourne Institute of TAFE: Industry Forum
2008
Holmesglen TAFE: Industry Forum
"Antipodean Animals: positioning kangaroos, emus and copperhead snakes as visual
metaphors down under." Antipodean Animal Conference. Menzies Centre, Kings College
2007
London, U.K. 7 July 2008
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"In the Serpent's Image: snakes as metaphor." Animals and Society II: Considering Animals
2006
Conference. Old Woolstore, Hobart, Tasmania. 3 July 2007
‘Snakes and Ladders: A fertile framework for the future’, Australian Council of University
Art and Design Schools (ACUADS) 2006 Conference. Monash University, 28 September
2006
2006, published www.acuads.com.au
"The artist/researcher as curator - A Case Study: Animals as Metaphor." Setting the
Standard(s): Learning and Teaching, Practice and Research, Art Education Australia, (AEA),
2005
Art Education Victoria (AEV). Monash University, 6 July 2006
2002
CAE: Visiting Artists Forum
Opening address for 2006 Annual “She” Exhibition, Dandenong Community Art Centre and
2000
Walker Street Gallery in celebration of International Women’s Day
1990
“Artists an Writing.” Faculty of Education, Monash University, Frankston Campus
1990
Monash University, Gippsland Campus: Visiting Artist Forum
“The Moment of Carnival.” Liberal Studies Department, CAE
“The Figure of the Witch.” Liberal Studies Department, CAE
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