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Jane Burton - Curriculum Vitae (April 2010) |
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| Born Brisbane, 13th July 1966 | |
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Education |
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| 1993 | Honorary Research Associate, Tasmanian School of Art, Hobart |
| 1991 | Bachelor of Fine Arts (Honours), Tasmanian School of Art, Hobart |
| Residencies and Awards | |
| 2009 | Residency, The Art Vault, Mildura |
| 2005 | Australia Council Residency, London Studio |
| 2003 | Arts Victoria Development Grant (Creation) |
| 1993 | Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris - Lloyd Rees Travelling Scholarship and Residency |
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Solo Exhibitions |
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| 2010 | Ivy, Bett Gallery, Hobart |
| 2009 | Eye of the Beholder, Glen Eira City Council Gallery, Melbourne |
| Ivy, Karen Woodbury Gallery, Melbourne | |
| Jane Burton, The Art Vault, Mildura | |
| Jane Burton, Heiser Gallery, Brisbane | |
| 2008 | when under ether, Apartment, Melbourne |
| motherland, Rex Irwin Art Dealer, Sydney | |
| motherland, Bett Gallery Hobart, TAS | |
| motherland, Johnstone Gallery, Perth, WA | |
| 2007 | Wormwood, Heiser Gallery, Brisbane |
| Tarraleah, Apartment, Melbourne | |
| Wormwood, Rex Irwin Art Dealer, Sydney, NSW | |
| Wormwood, Karen Woodbury Gallery, Melbourne, VIC | |
| 2006 | under water, Apartment, Melbourne, VIC |
| I did it for you, Johnston Gallery, Perth, WA | |
| 2005 | I did it for you, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne, VIC |
| The Fall, Dickerson Gallery, Melbourne, VIC | |
| 2004 | The Fall, Bett Gallery, Hobart, TAS |
| Available Light, Dickerson Gallery, Sydney, NSW | |
| 2003 | Available Light, Dickerson Gallery, Melbourne, VIC |
| The Other Side, Dickerson Gallery, Sydney, NSW | |
| 2002 | The Other Side, Crossley & Scott, Melbourne, VIC |
| 2001 | Badlands, Dickerson Gallery, Melbourne, VIC |
| 2000 | Cul-de-Sac, Dickerson Scott, Melbourne, VIC |
| 1991 | The Sweetest Path, Contemporary Art Services
Tasmania, Hobart, TAS; and Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne, VIC |
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Selected Group Exhibitions |
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| 2010 | Josephine Ulrick & Win Schubert Photography Award, Gold Coast Arts Centre, QLD |
| Darkness Creeps, Hazelhurst Regional Gallery & Arts Centre , NSW | |
| 2009 | William & Winifred Bowness Photography Prize, Monash Gallery of Art, Vic |
| Redlands Westpac Art Prize, Mosman Art Gallery, Sydney | |
| The Lake, Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney | |
| A Secret Life of Plants, Linden – Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne; and Fremantle Arts Centre, Perth | |
| +/-, Switchback Gallery, Gippsland Centre for Art & Design, Monash University, Churchill, Vic; and Faculty Gallery, Faculty of Art & Design, Monash University, Caulfield, Vic | |
| Heads, Rex Irwin Art Dealer, Sydney | |
| Trace Elements: spirit and memory in Japanese and Australian photomedia, Performance Space, Sydney | |
| Dark Dreams + Fluorescent Flesh, South Australian School of Art, Adelaide | |
| 2008 | Primary Views: Artists Curate The Monash University Collection, Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne |
| neo goth: back in black, The University of Queensland Art Museum, Brisbane | |
| Trace Elements: spirit and memory in Japanese and Australian photomedia, Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Tokyo | |
| FX in Contemporary Photography, McClelland Gallery and Sculpture Park, Vic | |
| Decor, Glen Eira City Gallery, Melbourne | |
| Important Works on Paper, Rex Irwin Art Dealer, Sydney | |
| Can’t Take My Eyes Off You, Rooftop Cinema, Melbourne | |
| Figure in a Landscape, Rex Irwin Art Dealer, Sydney | |
| 2007 | National Photographic Portrait Prize, National Portrait Gallery, Canberra |
William and Winifred Bowness Photography Prize, Monash Gallery of Art, VicCity of Hobart Art Prize, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart |
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| The Last Thing I Remember... Jane Burton, Lily Hibberd, Brie Trenerry, University Art Gallery, The University of Sydney | |
| Australian Works on Paper, Rex Irwin Art Dealer, Sydney | |
| 2006 | Light Sensitive - Contemporary Australian Photography from the Loti Smorgon Fund, The Ian Potter Centre, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, VIC |
| Salon, Bett Gallery, Hobart, TAS | |
| The Last Thing I remember... Jane Burton, Lily Hibberd, Brie Trenerry, Switchback Gallery, Gippsland Centre for Art and Design, Monash University, VIC | |
| William and Winifred Bowness Photography Prize, Monash Gallery of Art, VIC | |
| Black and White, Dickerson Gallery, Sydney, NSW | |
| 2005 | The Sea, Rex Irwin Gallery, Sydney, NSW |
| Art for Science, Nellie Castan Gallery, Melbourne, VIC | |
| Opening Exhibition, Johnston Gallery, Perth, WA | |
| Loaded, Gallery 101, Melbourne, VIC | |
| The Naked Truth: A Photographic Exploration, Dickerson Gallery, Melbourne, VIC | |
| 2004 | Good Looking: Narrative Photographs Past and Present, Ian Potter Centre, NGV Australia, Federation Square, Melbourne, VIC |
| 2003 | Good Looking: Narrative Photographs Past and Present, Ian Potter Centre, NGV Australia, Federation Square, Touring Exhibition |
| Boogy, Jive and Bop, Academy Gallery, University of Tasmania, Launceston, TAS | |
| Anxious Bodies, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW | |
| Australian Photographic Portrait Prize, Art Gallery of NSW | |
| 2001 | Between Place and Non-Place, Victorian College of the Arts Gallery, Melbourne, VIC |
| Hutchins Contemporary Art Prize, Salamanca Arts Centre, Hobart, TAS | |
| 2000 | Spooky, Glen Eira City Gallery, Melbourne, VIC |
| Moral Hallucination: Channelling Hitchcock, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, NSW | |
| Landscape, First Floor Gallery, Melbourne, VIC | |
| 1999 | "F"- Divergent Abstraction and the Photographic Project, Plimsoll Gallery, Centre for the Arts, University of Tasmania, Hobart, National Touring Exhibition |
| 1998 | Respond Red or Blue, Royal Melbourne Hospital, Melbourne International Festival |
| Everyday, Glen Eira City Gallery, Melbourne, VIC | |
| Private Parts, Monash University Gallery, Melbourne, VIC | |
| Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide | |
| 1997 | Episodes, Contemporary Art Services Tasmania, Hobart, National Touring Exhibition |
| 1996 | City of Hobart Art Prize, Carnegie Gallery, Hobart, TAS |
| 1995 | Bad Light, Contemporary Art Services Tasmania, National Touring Exhibition |
| Colonial Past-time to Contemporary Profession: 150 Years of Australian Womens Art, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart, TAS | |
| 1994 | Recent Acquisitions, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart, TAS |
| Incorporeal 4: Scrounge Time, Plimsoll Gallery, Centre for the Arts, University of Tasmania, Hobart, TAS | |
| 1993 | The Honeymoon Killers, Chameleon Contemporary Art Space, Hobart, TAS |
| 1992 | Collecting Art: Critics Choice, Macquarie Galleries, Sydney, NSW |
| This Sweet Sickness, Fine Art Gallery, University of Tasmania, Hobart, TAS | |
| 1991 | Lust, Plimsoll Gallery, Centre for the Arts, University of Tasmania, Hobart, TAS |
Collections and Acquisitions |
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RACV Art Collection, Victoria |
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| Artbank | |
| Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney | |
| Edith Cowan University, Perth | |
| Glen Eira City Council, Melbourne | |
| Macquarie Bank, Sydney | |
| Murdoch University, Perth | |
| Sovereign Art Foundation, Hong Kong and London | |
| Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne | |
| Monash Gallery of Art, Melbourne | |
| Newcastle Region Art Gallery | |
| National Gallery of Victoria | |
| Australia Post | |
| Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart | |
| Private Collections | |
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Selected Bibliography |
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| 2010 | Ashley Crawford, ‘Innocence and Intoxication: The work of Jane Burton’ Eyeline, #70, 2009 |
50 Most Collectable Artists 2010, Australian Art Collector, Issue 47 January |
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| 2009 | Natalie King, ‘Fatal Attraction’, Photofile, No 88, Dec 09 – March 10, 2009 |
Anna MacDonald, ‘Eye of the Beholder’, review, Flash, Issue 3, 2009 |
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Dr Marcus Bunyan, ‘Jane Burton, ‘Ivy’, at Karen Woodbury Gallery, Melbourne’, Art Blart blog, 23 September 2009 |
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| Helen McDonald, ‘Inhabiting illusions’, catalogue essay, Eye of the Beholder, Glen Eira City Council Gallery, Melbourne, 2009 | |
| Diane Soumilas, ‘Private encounters’, catalogue essay, Eye of the Beholder, Glen Eira City Council Gallery, Melbourne, 2009 | |
| Robert Nelson, ‘Grabbing our attention’, The Age, 23 September 2009 | |
| Betty Milonas, ‘A Secret Life of Plants’, Artlink, Vol 29 #2, 2009 | |
| Ric Spencer, ‘Weeds of bloom town’, Today, The West Australian, 19 June | |
| Mimi Kelly, ‘Dark Dreams + Fluorescent Flesh’, Dark Dreams & Fluorescent Flesh, catalogue, SASA Gallery, University of South Australia | |
| Adrian Martin, ‘Sex Neurosis’, Dark Dreams and Fluorescent Flesh, catalogue, SASA Gallery, University of South Australia | |
| Ashley Crawford, Reviews: ‘Dark Dreams + Fluorescent Flesh’, Photofile, Issue 86 March – June 2009 | |
| Andrew Gaynor, ‘A Secret Life of Plants: One person’s pleasure is another one’s weed’, catalogue essay, A Secret Life of Plants, Linden – Centre for Contemporary Art | |
| Ingrid Periz, ‘Acquisitions: Jane Burton’, Australian Art Collector, Issue 47 January – March 2009 | |
| 2008 | Gail Priest, ‘Time slips in an other place’, Real Time Dec - Jan 2009 |
| Olivier Krischer, ‘Reflections on a Particular Moment – Do you see what I see?’, Tablog, Tokyo Art Beat 20 Sept 08 | |
| Ashley Crawford, ‘Gothic Candour: “I am the coffin that will not be silent”’, Art Monthly Australia #216 Dec 08 – Feb 09 | |
| Ashley Crawford, ‘Found in Translation: Australian Art in Tokyo’, Photofile #85 Dec 08 – March 09 | |
| Shihoko Iida, ‘Contemporary Trace Elements’, catalogue essay, Trace Elements: spirit and memory in Japanese and Australian photomedia, Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery | |
| Bec Dean, ‘Trace Elements: Australian Artists’, catalogue essay, Trace Elements: spirit and memory in Japanese and Australian photomedia, Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery | |
| Louise Martin-Chew, ‘Neo-Goth Shadows Loom Large’, catalogue essay, neo goth: back in black, University of Queensland Art Museum | |
| Rosemary Sorenson, ‘How death becomes you’, The Australian, 1st August | |
| Alicia Bridges, ‘Childhood Dreaming’, The Sunday Times, WA, 8 June | |
| Penny Teale, ‘FX in Contemporary Photography’, catalogue essay, FX in Contemporary Photography, McClelland Gallery and Sculpture Park, 2008 | |
| Ashley Crawford, ‘Trace Elements: spirit and memory in Japanese and Australian photomedia’, Photofile No 83 Winter | |
| 2007 | Clara Iaccarino, ‘Wormwood’, Sydney Morning Herald, 28-29 July |
Robert Nelson, ‘Humanity takes over where nature’s cold branches can’t reach’, The Age, 20 June |
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| Jeff Makin, ‘Sensuality on the dark side’, Herald Sun, 11 June | |
| 2006 | Isobel Crombie, ‘Light Sensitive: Contemporary Australian Photography from the Loti Smorgon Fund’, exhibition publication, National Gallery of Victoria McCulloch’s Encyclopedia of Australian Art, Aus Art Editions in association with Miegunyah Press |
Kyla McFarlane, ‘The Last Thing I Remember... Jane Burton, Lily Hibberd, Brie Trenerry’, catalogue essay, The Last Thing I Remember... Jane Burton, Lily Hibberd, Brie Trenerry, Monash University Museum of Art, 2006 |
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| Kyla McFarlane, ‘Jane Burton: I did it for you’, Photofile No 77 Autumn | |
| Ashley Crawford, ‘Dark Thoughts’, I did it for you, catalogue essay, Johnston Gallery, 2006 | |
| 2005 | Daniel Palmer, Book Editor, Photogenic: Essays/Photography/CCP 2000 -2004, Centre for Contemporary Photography, publication |
| Ashley Crawford, Jane Burton: I Did It For You, The Age, Preview, 4 December | |
| Catriona Moore, Decoration, Aspiration and Nostalgia: Contemporary Australian Photography, Art and Australia, Vol 42 No 3 | |
| Felix Ratcliffe, Jane Burton: The Fall, Photofile No 74 Winter | |
| Ashley Crawford, Loaded, Previews, Australian Art Collector, Issue 32 April - June. Victoria Hammond, The Fall, catalogue essay, Bett Gallery, Hobart, TAS | |
| 2004 | Ashley Crawford, Shadowlands, Australian Art Collector, Issue 28 April - June |
| Magda Keaney, Jane Burton - Available Light, Photofile, No 71 Winter | |
| 2003 | Lucinda Strahan, Perfect Point of Light, The Age, 9 October |
| Ashley Crawford, Art of Darkness, The Age, 28 September | |
| Ashley Crawford, Moods in Light, Business Review Weekly, June 12 -18 | |
| Natasha Bullock, Anxious Bodies, catalogue essay, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW | |
| 2002 | Daniel Palmer, Icons and Other Pictures - The Photograph in the Art Market, Australian Art Collector, Issue 21, July - September |
| Chris Chapman, Australia’s 50 Most Collectable Artists, Australian Art Collector, Issue 19, January - March | |
| 2001 | Ashley Crawford, Now You See It..., The Age, Review, December |
| Daniel Palmer, Between Place and Non-Place, Photofile, No 62, April | |
| 2000 | Helen McDonald, Erotic Ambiguities: The Female Nude in Art, Routledge Press, UK |
| Samantha Morris, Absence Minded, Black & White, October | |
| Robert Nelson, Lust for Art, The Age, Review, 28 August | |
| Ashley Crawford, Undiscovered Artists: Jane Burton, Australian Art Collector, Issue 12, April - June | |
| 1999 | Edward Colless, The Sweetest Path, Photofile, No 57, Sept |
| Ian McLean, 'F" is for Art, Siglo, Issue 11 | |
| 1998 | KevinMurray, All This and Heaven Too, 1998 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art, Artlink, Vol 18 No 2 |
| Natalie King, Private Parts, catalogue essay, Monash University Gallery | |
| Ewen McDonald, Invention or Symbol? Tracing Shapes in the Dark, catalogue essay, All this and Heaven Too, 1998 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art, Art Gallery of South Australia | |
| Edward Colless, Jane Burton - Royal Derwent Hospital Suite, catalogue essay, All This and Heaven Too, 1998 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art, Art Gallery of South Australia | |
| 1996 | Helen McDonald, Feminising the Surreal, Art and Australia, Vol 34 No2 |
| 1995 | Jennifer Spinks, Bad Light, Art and Australia, Vol 32 No 4 |
| Clifford Davey, Bad Light: Through a Glass, Darkly, Contemporary Art Tasmania, Issue No 7 | |
| Ian McLean, Bad Light, Agenda, No 42, May | |
| Edward Colless, Ghosting, Photofile, No 44, April | |
| 1994 | Victoria Hammond, Trapped in Paradise, Artlink, No 1 Vol 14 |
| 1993 | Edward Colless, From the Edge of the World, Art and Australia, June |
| 1992 | Amanda Henry, Sweet Sickness, Photofile, No 37, Nov |
| Clifford Davey, Like Always I Persuade You, catalogue essay - This Sweet Sickness | |
| 1991 | Peter Hill, Lust, Art and Text, # 40, Sept |
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