Michael Schlitz
Education –
2000
1996
1991
MFA, Tasmanian School of Art, University of Tasmania, Hobart, TAS
BFA Hons, Tasmanian School of Art, University of Tasmania, Hobart, TAS
BCA, University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba, QLD
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2011
2010
2010
2008
2006
2006
2006
2005
2003
2001
2001
2000
1998
1997
1996
1994
Cloud Exchange, Bett Gallery, North Hobart, TAS
Michael Schlitz: Recent Woodcuts, Grahame Galleries Brisbane, QLD
Michael Schlitz: Recent Woodcuts, Bett Gallery, North Hobart, TAS
Michael Schlitz, Impressions on Paper Gallery, ACT 2007 Michael Schlitz University of
Southern Queensland, Toowoomba, QLD
The Nature of Things, Bett Gallery Hobart, TAS
The Nature of Things, Bett Gallery Hobart at Silvershot, Melbourne, VIC
The Nature of Things, Grahame Galleries, Brisbane, QLD
Michael Schlitz, Grahame Galleries, Brisbane, QLD
Collaborative Woodblock Prints, Michael Schlitz (AUS) & Hiroki Satake (JAP), Bett Gallery,
Hobart, TAS
Recent Experiments, Caberra Contemporary Art Space, Manuka, ACT
Engravings inspired by Duparc’s ‘Interview with the Savages: Bay of Sea Dogs’ 1824, Bett Gallery,
Hobart, TAS
Language of the Mute, Plimsoll Gallery, University o f Tasmania, Hobart, TAS
House, University Fine Art Gallery, Sandy Bay, Hobart, TAS
Intervention 4, Tasmanian Museum & Art Gallery, Hobart, TAS
Boat Signs, Grahame Galleries, Brisbane, QLD
Waterline, Ipswich Regional Art Gallery, Ipswich, QLD
Collections
Australian National Art Gallery
Art Gallery of South Australia
Queensland Art Gallery
Burnie Regional Art Gallery
Tasmanian Art Gallery and Museum
Queen Victoria Museum and art gallery
Queensland University of Technology Art Museum
Toowomba Regional Art Gallery
Ipswich Regional Art Gallery
Wagga Wagga Art Gallery
Brisbane Boys College
TooWoomba Bank of Queensland
Mackay City Library
Gladstone Regional Art Gallery
University of Southern Queensland
Carrington Smith Art Library
Council of Australia Anglican Church
Work is also held in public and private collections in China, Canada, England and Japan.
Selected Group Exhibitions
2013
2013
2013
2013
2012
2012
2011
2010
2009-2010
2008
2007
2005
2004
2002
2001
2001
2001
2000
2000
2000
1997
1994
1993
1992
1991
Sea, Wastell Ruffels Schlitz, Sawtooth, Launceston, TAS
Time, Pamona Gallery, Launceston, TAS
Perennials, Toowoomba Regional Art Gallery. QLD
Burnie Print Prize, Burnie Regional Art Gallery, QLD
Life, Wastell Ruffels Schlitz, Bett Gallery, Hobart, TAS
ForePlay, Plimsoll Gallery, Hobart, TAS
Personal Space, Contemporary Chinese and Australian Printmakers touring exhibition, China,
Aus.
Figure in the Ground, Macdermott Maher Schlitz, Hobart, TAS
Stories of our Makind, Bower Ashton Campus Gallery, Bristol, UK
Contemporary Prints from Australia, Columbia College Exhibition Space, Michigan, USA
On a Roll, Plimcoll Gallery, Hobart, TAS
Isolation/Solitude, Salamanca Long gallery, Hobart, TAS
HANGA, Devonport Regional Art gallery, Devonport, TAS
TICK TOCK, Royal Botanical Gardens, Melbourne, VIC
Poets and Painters, Bett Gallery, Hobart, TAS
Between Phenomena, Plimsoll Gallery, University of Tasmania, Hobart, TAS
Somewhere Between Then and Now, CAST Contemporary Art Space, Hobart, TAS
Ingress, RMIT Gallery, Melbourne, VIC
Small Works, Bett Gallery, Hobart, TAS
Six Equals Nine, CAST Contemporary Art Space, Hobart, TAS
Excursive Sight, Plimsoll Gallery, University of Tasmania, Hobart TAS
Um, Doggett Street Gallery, New Farm, Brisbane, QLD
Paper Work, Toowoomba Regional Art Gallery, Toowoomba, QLD
Four Australian Printmakers, Grahame Galleries, Brisbane, QLD
The Brisbane Line, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, QLD
Awards and Grants
2013
2011
2009-2010
2007
2007
2006
2005
2004
2001
2000
Highly commended, Burnie Print Prize
Winner, Rick Amor print prize
Artist in Residence, Australia National University
Winner, Hutchins Art Prize
Martin Hanson memorial award section one
Tisdall Wines print commission, National Works on paper, Martin Hanson Memorial award,
Section two.
Martin Hanson Memorial award, section two
Australia Council, Established Artist, New Work Grant
Asialink, Grant to study woodcut printmaking in Japan
Australia Council, Emerging Artist, new work grant
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1999
1998
1998
Arts Tasmania, Works for Public Buildings Grant
Arts Tasmania, Heritage Grant to work at Highfield House, TAS
Arts Tasmania, Writing Voyages and Encounters grant to study early Australian Explorers
Teaching
2011-2012
2009-2010
2007-2008
2006
2003-2004
2000-2002
1997-1998
1993-1995
Part-time lecturer in Printmaking, Tasmania School of Art, Hobart, TAS
Part-time Lecturer in Printmaking, Australian National University, ACT
Part-time lecturer in Printmaking, Tasmania School of Art, Hobart, TAS
Part-time lecturer in Printmaking, University of Southern Queensland
Technician and Lecturer in printmaking, RMIT, Melbourne, VIC
Part time lecturer in drawing and printmaking, ANU, Canberra, ACT
Part time lecturer in drawing and printmaking, University of Tasmania, Hobart, TAS
Tutor in Printmaking and drawing, SQIT, Toowoomba, QLD
Selected Reviews and Commentary
Eyeline Contemporary Visual Arts Magazine no.73, 2011,
Anne Kirker, Michael Schlitz New Woodblocks, pp 90-91Art Monthly 243 September 2011,
Anne Kirker, Materiality and the Print Iconography of Michael Schlitz, pp 8-10
Grahame N. The book, the poet, the artist, the breakthrough Artlink, Vol 27, no 1 2007 pp 68 71
Kelly S. Artlink, Autum Spring 2006 the nature of things
Knights, M. Island Magazine 93/94 A Piece of the Bloody cliff . pp 44-54
Grishan, Sasha, Australian Printmaking in the 1990’s, Craftsman’s House Melbourne, 1996.
Wastell, Richard, Navigating Space, Imprint, Vol 4, No.3, 1997
Knights, Mary, Historical Incisions, Art Monthly, Vol 33, No.2 1997
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