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Visual Artist
PhD, MCA
Adjunct Associate Professor, School of Creative Arts, James Cook University,
Townsville
▪ Tutor, Flying Arts Inc, Queensland
2013 Floating, Falling Sweet Intoxication , Mission Arts, Mission Beach
2013 Divergent Visions , Umbrella Studio Townsville
2011 Linked Landscapes, Glass house Gallery, Port Macquarie, NSW
2010 Works from residency Jean Belette Gallery, Hill End. NSW
2010 Picture the Point, Small Point Gallery, Phippsburg, Maine USA
2009 Hill End Air , Bathurst Regional Gallery, Bathurst NSW
2009 Gezellige Gevels en Franse Doorkijkjes , Atelier Elly Koot, Amsterdam,
Netherlands
2009 Linked Landscapes , touring solo show opens in Bundaberg Regional Gallery
2009 Drawings of Ilford House, Gallery Number 47, Rylstone NSW
2008 Journeys of Discovery , Marta’s Gallery Townsville
2008 Sail and Swim National Museum Fiji, Suva Fiji
2008-10 Linked Landscapes , travelling solo show, curated by Cairns Reg. Gallery
2007 A Year in Broek , Elly Koot Gallery, Broek in Waterland/Amsterdam. Netherlands
2006 un-framing , Perc Tucker Regional Gallery, Townsville,
2006 Articulated Landscapes , ArtSpace Mackay
2004 Sanctus, installation in ‘vault’ at Umbrella Studio
2004 Landscapes, Cairns Regional Gallery, Cairns
2003 Hinterlands , (together with James Brown) Pinnacles Gallery, Thuringowa
2003 Dreams of Brick and Iron, Flinders Gallery, Townsville
1999 Memory Transect, Flinders Gallery, Townsville
1997 Seasons Without Names, Perc Tucker Gallery, Townsville
1996 Water Spirits, Griffith Park Gallery, Condon, NSW
1995 In Search of an Aquatic Deity , Gallery Gaia, Sydney.
1995 A Selection of Recent Work , Flinders Gallery, Townsville.
1997 30 Years in North Queensland , Retrospective Exhibition, Perc Tucker Gallery,
Townsville. Curated by Ross Searle
1994 Seasonal Circles, Tumbetin Lodge, Palmetum, Townsville
1992 Postcards from Europe Grahame Galleries, Brisbane

1992 Transitions, Griffith Park Gallery, Gold Coast
1991 Living with Gaia , ‘No vacancy’ project
1991 Images Past, Images Present Perc Tucker Gallery
1990 Ancient Connections , Painters' Gallery, Sydney
1989 Ancestral Meetings , Perc Tucker Gallery Townsville
1988 Totemic Landscapes, Painters Gallery, Sydney
1983 Peter Lane Gallery, Sydney
1972-86 Martin Gallery, Townsville
1974 & 75 Trinity Gallery, Cairns ((Major) Jim McFarlaine)
1974 & 77 Bakehouse Gallery , Mackay (Clem Forbes)
1974 Young Australian Gallery, Brisbane
1972-73 Barefoot Gallery , Sydney (Thea Beaumont)
2013 Postcards form the North and South, Press North at Gallery 48, Townsville and Firestation Print Studio, Melbourne
2012 Bookplates, Studio West End, Brisbane
2012
2011
2011
2011
B & W , Umbrella Studio
Something Personal, Charles Hewitt Gallery, Sydney
Musical works Show Case Perc Tucker Regional Gallery
Water Memory , Glass house Port Macquarie Regional Gallery, NSW
2011
2011
2011
Sense of Place and Being, Press North Artspaced, Townsville
August Movement. Perc Tucker Regional Gallery, Townsville
Twenty Five : Twenty Five Women artists celebrate the female perspective,
Artspaced Inc. Townsville
2011 & 12 In the Heart of the City, St James Cathedral
2009-11 Twelve Degrees of Latitude, touring Regional Galleries in Queensland:
A selection from Public Gallery and University Art Collections
2011 For the loved one, GS Gallery, Townsville
2010 Evolve 2010, Umbrella Studio Townsville
2009 Q150, Umbrella Studio Townsville
2009
2009
2007
2007
2007
2007
2007
Buddha Girls and Iconic Moments,
Five Senses,
Not for Sale,
Coalface
Curated to travel for Flying Arts
State Library, Queensland. m art a’s gallery, Townsville
, Art space Mackay
Acquisitions
Drawings,
, Bathurst Regional Gallery, Bathurst
Hill End Gallery, Hill End
Percival Portrait Prize , Perc Tucker Regional Gallery, Townsville,

2006
2006
2006
2005
2005
2004
Postcard Exhibition, Cairns Regional Gallery, Cairns
Greenpeace , Botanical Gardens, Sydney
Mining the Collection , Hill End Gallery, Hill End
Strand Ephemera, Townsville
Kedumba Drawing Prize , invitation, WentworthFalls NSW
Walk This Way, Perc Tucker Gallery, Townsville
2003
2003
2003
Construction/De-construction, Umbrella Studios, Umbrella Townsville
The Artist’s Studio, touring exhibition curated by Cairns Reg. Gallery,
Under the Monsoon, invitation & touring curated by Gavin Wilson
2002 Kedumba Drawing Prize, invitation Wentworth Falls, NSW (purchased)
2002 Palmetum, Artist Book, Perc Tucker Regional Gallery
2002
2002
Compact Prints,
Toys,
Umbrella Studios
Umbrella Studios
2002
2001
2001
2001
2000
2000
Inspiration north Queensland
Strand Ephemera,
Aspiration Inspirations
, Perc Tucker Regional Gallery
Perc Tucker Regional Gallery
, Umbrella Studios
Opening the Umbrella, Umbrella Studios retrospective group show
Timbres of the North , Pinnacles Gallery, Thuringowa
Art Angels , Centre Gallery, Surfers Paradise
2000
2000
Artists Who Teach, Mackay
Oh for a Cut Lunch , Lismore Regional Gallery
1997-98 SWAN , women artists travelling exhibition, Chicago, United States
1997 The Rembrandt Connection , Malthouse, Melbourne.
1993
1992
1992
1992
1991
1991
1991
1991
1996-98 Coast Cult, Centre Gallery, Surfers Paradise & Murwillumbah
1996 Plenty, Survey NQ Women Artists, Perc Tucker Regional Gallery (Invitation)
1996 Asia Pacific Hotel Art Fair, Brisbane (Invitation)
1996
1996
Diaspora, White Box Gallery, Brisbane (Invitation)
Artist's Books Exhibition, Brisbane City Gallery
1995-96 Lingo, Getting the Picture , Touring Australia
The Second Landing,
New Pics on the Block
Definite Space
Evolute-Create
Sister City
Seeing Green
National Gallery of Victoria
, Perc Tucker Regional Gallery
, Perc Tucker Regional Gallery
, Space Plenitude, Brisbane
, Tokyama City Museum; Iwaki City Art Museum
Gold Coast City Invitation Art Prize
, Perc Tucker Regional Gallery
Images Past, Images Present , Perc Tucker Regional Gallery

1990
1990
1988
1988
1988
1988
Accents in the Landscape
Works on Paper
Tropical Visions
, Perc Tucker Regional Gallery
, Grahame Galleries, Brisbane
, travelling exhibition; curated by Gavin Wilson
9 x 5 x mail , Centre Gallery Surfers Paradise
The National Woman’s Art Award , Centre Gallery Surfers Paradise
Homage to Queensland Women Painters, Past and Present, QAG
1987-88 The Figure , Queensland Art Gallery (invitation)
1984-85 Drawing X Four , Perc Tucker Regional Gallery and travelling to Qld College of
Art; DDIAE, Toowoomba; Noosa Art Centre; Gladstone Art Gallery; Cairns
Community Art Centre.
1984-85 Women at Work , Perc Tucker Regional Gallery
1982
1975
Trustees’ Purchase Exhibition
Australian Women Artists
, Queensland Art Gallery
, Hogarth Gallery, Sydney (Clive Evatt)
Castlemaine Street Rejuvenation Project, Thuringowa: seating design & production
Thuringowa Customer Service Centre: wall work (1.5 x 12,5 m) ,
Ayr Main Street Rejuvenation: sculptural embellishment of Shade house
Dan Gleeson Memorial Gardens park entrance: group of sculptures
TAFE Townsville School of Hospitality: mosaic, George Coates Restaurant
Townsville City Centre Mall: mosaic for Central Stage area
Waterfront Place: gold leaf painting (6 x 6 m) Brisbane for foyer
Travelodge Hotel Gold Coast: large art work over reception area
Brisbane Hilton Hotel: atrium painting
Southbank Convention Centre: art works for Reception area
Townsville Entertainment Centre: panel paintings foyer
Hyatt, Coolum: large icon
Some of the above are pictured on this page .
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
Queensland Art Gallery
Artbank
Bathurst Regional Art Gallery
Glasshouse Gallery, Port Macquarie
Art Space, Mackay
Cairns Regional Gallery
Bundaberg Regional Gallery

Perc Tucker Regional Gallery
Suncorp
Kedumba Australian Drawing Collection
City Hall Collection, Brisbane
Parliament House, Queensland
James Cook University
University of Southern Queensland
Ernest Henry Memorial Collection
John Flynn College, JCU
Centre Gallery, Gold Coast City
Downlands College, Toowoomba
Numerous private and corporate collections in Australia, Europe and USA
Studio Alayrac, France, 2009 & 2007
Hill End, NSW, 2009 & 2005
Small Point, Maine 2010
Millington, John . Tropical Visions , Queensland Uni.Press, 1987
Searle, Ross (ed). Ancestral Meetings , Perc Tucker Gallery, 1989
Searle, Ross. Artist in the Tropics , PTRG, 1991
Drury, Nevil. New Art Seven , Craftsman House, 1992
Drury, Nevil. Images in Contemporary Australian Art: Craftsman House, 1992
Drury, Nevil. Images in Contemporary Australian Art: II, Craftsman House, 1994
Magon, Jane. Anneke Silver; Images of the Goddess and Nature Mysticism,
Craftmanhouse, 1995.
Voight, Anna. New Visions, New Perspectives , Craftsmanhouse, Sydney,1996
Germaine, Max. Artists and Galleries of Australia
Zimmer, Jenny. "Anneke Silver", Periphery no.28, August 1996, 30-31
Drury, Nevil. Images in Contemporary Australian Art: III , Craftsman House, 1998
Szulakowska, Ursula. Experimental Art in Queensland, 1975-1995: An Introductory Study.
Brisbane: Queensland Studies Centre, 1998
Wilson, Gavin. “Beneath the Monsoon: visions north of capricorn”, catalogue essay (p 49),
Mackay: Art Space Mackay, 2002
McBurnie, Ron. “The Artist’s Studio”, catalogue essay (p44), Cairns: 2003
Naylor, Stephen.
“unframing”, Eyeline, 2006

Remembering Timana, catalogue essay for To the Islands , curated by Ross Searle for
Perc Tucker Regional Gallery
"Letter from Townsville", Eyeline no. 3, March 1988
"Letter from Townsville" (co-author Vicky Lynn), Eyeline no. 5
"Suburban Etchings" by Ron McBurnie, Introduction, June 1988
"Letter from Townsville", Eyeline no. 6, September 1988
"Letter from Townsville" (co-author Ron McBurnie), LINQ , 1988
"An Interview with Robert Preston", Survey Exhibition Catalogue
"A Survey Exhibition, Robert Preston, July 1989 Script for video
(co-author Ross Searle), July 1989; produced by Coral Sea Imagery, Townsville
"Lighting the Candles; the First Decade", Eyeline no. 16, 1991.
"Outlying and Far Reaching, The Interstate Finals", Periphery no. 9, 1991
"Reflections, recent work by Jane McBurnie", Eyeline no. 17, 1991
"Thirty Eight Degrees in the Shade", Art Monthly, April 1, 1992
"Conversation", Eyeline no. 18, Autumn 1992
"Documenta IX", Eyeline no. 19, Winter/Spring 1992
"Lures, Fishhooks and Clay" Periphery no 23, 33-34, 1995
"Temptations, Miracles and Suburban Saint Anthony", Periphery no 24, 1995
"Food, Love, Dance and Music", Periphery no 25, 33-35, 1995
"Pre-Cultural Nature and Post-Natural Culture, Eyeline , December 1995
"No Piece of Cake", Craft/Arts International , December 1995
"Bowers, the Bush and New Humans", Periphery no 26, 31-33, Feb. 1966
"Stackarts, Erotica and the Outback", Periphery no 27, 32-33, May 1996
"Planes, Paints and Something Wonderful", Flying Arts Gazette , June 1996, Issue 70, 6-7.
"Modernism, the Victorians and Flawed Beauty", Periphery no 28, 32-33, August, 1996
"Anthills, Spirit and Cycles of Life". Periphery no 29, November, 1996, 32-33
"A National Portrait Prize", Periphery no 30, February 1997, 10-11.
"Art, Life and Multi Directional Arrows", Periphery no.31, 1997, 18-19.
"Environment, Spirituality and the Process of Art Making", Periphery no. 32, Spring 1997,
31-33.
"Spinifex, Ochres and The Land", Periphery no 33, Summer 1997, 28-29
"The Tropics, Tone and Timeless Moments", Periphery no 34, Autumn 1998, 31-33.
"Space, the Viewer and Installation Practice", Periphery no.35, Winter 1998, 28-30.
"Escape Artists: a talk with the curator", Periphery no.36, Spring 1998. 25-28
"Carried Lightly; a talk with curator Diane Moon", Periphery no.37, Summer 1998,14-16
"Responding to Place", Periphery no 38, 1999

"Nervous Objects", Periphery no 39, 1999
"From up there to up here", Periphery no 40, 1999
Catalogue Essay, Peter Gunn, Rockhampton Regional Gallery 2000
Catalogue Essay, Temperature (Jan Hyne), Brisbane City Gallery, 2003
Catalogue Essay, Sassikala Victoire , Cairns Regional Gallery, 2004
Catalogue Essay, Margot Douglas , PTRG 2004
Review “Glen Skien”, Eyeline 2010
Review “Buried Light and Pet Sounds” Eyeline no. 1, 2011
Review Flow , (Alyson Macdonald), Artgaze
An investigation of Visual Art Practice in North Queensland: A Sense of Place . MRG Grant
1993, continuing 1994-95.
PhD project: Seasons without Names . An exploration of seasons in the Tropics. The project includes practical and theoretical approaches.
Light weight grounds for plaster surfaces in the making of frescos
Public Art
“Working with Flying Arts” Small point Gallery, Maine, USA
“New Chinese Art” Perc Tucker Regional Gallery, 2009
“Could your three year old really have done that?” Perc Tucker Gallery, 2008
“Profit and Loss” floor talk Artspace Mackay, 2007
“Un-framing” public lecture, Perc Tucker Regional Gallery, Townsville
"Seasons in the tropics", Artist’s Studio Public Program, Mackay Regional Gallery,
Mackay, 2004
“Seasons in the Tropics”, University of Nashville, Tenessee, USA, 2003
”Public Art in Townsville; Brickbats and Bouquets”, Art and Architecture
Public Art , Perc Tucker Regional Gallery, 2003
“19-20-21”, An introduction to 20th century art.
Series of 8 Lectures, Perc Tucker Regional
Gallery, Townsville, 2002
“Images of a Second Language", Lern Conference, Araluen Arts Centre, Alice Springs,
Sept/October 1997
"The Advantage of Distance; Twenty-five Years of Contemporary Art in Townsville". Forum on Contemporary Art in Queensland, Queensland Studies Centre, Griffith University,
Brisbane, October 1997
"Seasons Without Names", Spirit of Place; Source of the Sacred Conference at ACU,
Strathfield Campus, May 1998
"Keeping in Touch" Regional Arts Writing Conference, Gold Coast Art Gallery, March 23-
24, 1995

A Selection , Vincent Gallery, JCU, 1997
Research and Visual Art , Vincent Gallery, JCU, 1998
2001 Aspiration Inspiration , Federally funded collaborative project with COMVAT
1996 Seanchai, for Dance North, Director Wendy Wallace.
1993 The Dancer and The Dance , design for set Dance North in Civic Theatre,
Townsville, Jane Pirani (Choreographer)
1990 Moon of Our Own , Dance North, design and original dance production collaboration with Cheryl Stock (choreographer) and Robert Keane (composer)
Late 1980s and 90s Sets for Tropic Line Theatre Company with Jean-Pierre Voos
1981? The Tempest , design of sets and costumes in conjuction with Bryan Nason
1970s Sets for My Fair Lady , The Sound of Music , Remembering Melba and The King and I for various Townsville theatre companies
1968? Sets for Dido and Aeneas, first performance in the new Civic Theatre, Townsville; costumes by Rachel Berker-Matthews