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| Jonathan Kimberley - Curriculum Vitae (April 2011) | |
| Solo Exhibitions & Collaborations | |
| 2011 | Oculus, Bett Gallery, Hobart, TAS |
| 2010 | Kuluntjarra World Map : The Nine Collaborations, Mildura Art Deco Palace, Mildura, VIC |
| 2009 | Old New World, Bett Gallery Hobart, - new solo work and collaborations with Kayili Artists. |
| Meenamatta Water Country Discussion, Artoteca Alliance Francais, Bari, Italy - collaboration with Jim Everett, painting & video installation. | |
| Kuluntjarra World Map, Jan Manton Art, Brisbane, - collaborations with Kayili Artists: Ngipi Ward, Pulpurru Davies, Nancy Carnegie, Manupa Butler, Norma Giles, Jodie Carnegie, Paul Carnegie. | |
| 2007 | Not My Garden, Jan Manton Art, Brisbane. |
| Meenamatta Water Country Discussion : meenamatta lena narla puellakanny, collaboration with puralia meenamatta - Jim Everett, Devonport Regional Gallery, Devonport. | |
| 2006 | meenamatta lena narla puellakanny : Meenamatta Water Country Discussion, collaboration with puralia meenamatta - Jim Everett, Bett Gallery Hobart. |
| 2005 | Travelling Water (Ur-landscape : Post-landscape), Bett Gallery @ Depot Gallery, Sydney. |
| Ur-Landscape : Post-Landscape (Blue Tier), Bett Gallery @ Fortyfivedownstairs, Melbourne | |
| 2004 | Living Water Travelling Water, collaboration with Patrick Mung Mung, Bett Gallery Hobart. |
| 2003 | Forests to Fields 1808-2003, Bett Gallery Hobart. |
| 2002 | Cloudglyphs, Studio Exhibition, Kununurra, W.A. |
| 1997 | Recent Paintings, Maverick Arts Week, Fitzroy Town Hall, Melbourne. |
| Knowings Edge, Artmoves Inc., Melbourne & Festival of Darwin. | |
| 1995 | Paintings from the Pilbara and Kimberley, Hawthorn Town Hall Gallery, Melbourne. |
| Selected Group Exhibitions | |
| 2011 | Tasmanian Painting, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart, TAS |
| Burnie Print Prize, 10 Days on the Island, Burnie Regional Gallery, TAS | |
| Glover Art Prize, Finalist, Evandale, TAS | |
| 2010 | Ecumene (the lived world), with Ken and Julia Yonetani - Ultrabuddha: this is why I want to be saved, Gallery 25,Mildura, VIC |
| Primed, Academy Gallery, University of Tasmania, Launceston, TAS | |
| Essence: Contemporary Australian Prints and Drawings, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart, TAS | |
| Glover Art Prize, Finalist, Evandale, TAS | |
| 2009 | Westpac Redlands Art Prize, Sydney, NSW |
| City of Hobart Art Prize, Tasmanian Museum & Art Gallery, Hobart. | |
| Installed Taste, (after disurbanity : a fast drive in an HJ60 – video on DVD), Inflight / Gallery 6a, Hobart. | |
| 2008 | Salon Show 08, Jan Manton Art, Brisbane. |
| Tidal: City of Devonport Art Award, Devonport Regional Gallery, Devonport. | |
| Members Show, (after disurbanity : a fast drive in an HJ60 – video on DVD), CAST, Hobart. | |
| When you think about art, George Paton Gallery, Melbourne. | |
| John Leslie Art Prize, Gippsland Art Gallery, Sale. | |
| From an Island South, Devonport Regional Gallery, Devonport. | |
| 2007 | Intimate & Distant Landscapes, (with Jon Cattapan, Dorothy Napangardi, Judy Watson, Sue Lovegrove), Ten Days on the Island, |
| Devonport Regional Gallery, Devonport. | |
| 2006 | From an Island South, Asialink Tour - Pakistan, Kuala Lumpur, Taiwan. Bangkok. |
| Tidal: City of Devonport Art Award, Devonport Regional Gallery. | |
| Salon, curated by Catherine Wolfhagen, Bett Gallery Hobart. | |
| The Artist, the Community and the Land, Plimsoll Gallery, UTAS, Hobart. | |
| Contemporary Aspects of Tasmanian Art, QVM&AG, Launceston. | |
| 1966 : 2006 A Collection Reviewed, Devonport Regional Gallery. | |
| 2005 | ABN AMRO 2005 Emerging Artist Award, Melbourne and Sydney. |
| Recent Acquisitions, Tasmanian Museum & Art Gallery, Hobart. | |
| Collecting for Tasmania, Devonport Regional Gallery. | |
| City of Hobart Art Prize, Tasmanian Museum & Art Gallery, Hobart. | |
| 2004 | Tidal: City of Devonport Art Award, Devonport Regional Gallery. |
| Painting the Corner, Christies (Trust for Nature), Melbourne | |
| 2003 | Four Tasmanian Artists, Bett Gallery Hobart @ The Depot Gallery, Sy.dney. |
| Future Perfect, collaboration with Gloria Andrews, Bett Gallery Hobart. | |
| Back in time of peace, - collaborations with Marine Ky,Australian Galleries, Sydney. | |
| Island Art Prize, Stanley Arts Centre, Stanley. | |
| 2002 | 2002 Melbourne Artfair, Bett Gallery Hobart, Melbourne. |
| Group Show, Bett Gallery Hobart @ Depot Gallery, Sydney. | |
| 1998 | Palimpsest #1, Mildura Regional Gallery. |
| 1997 | ArtLIVE, collaboration with musician Valanga Khoza, Maverick Arts Week, Melbourne. |
| 1996 | in.land.scape, Artmoves Inc. Melbourne. |
| 1990 | City of the Future, Victorian Ballet School, Melbourne. |
| RMIT University Graduate Painting Exhibition, Melbourne. | |
| Collections | |
| Parliament House Collection, Canberra, ACT | |
| Tasmanian Museum & Art Gallery, Hobart, TAS | |
| Federal Court of Australia, Hobart, TAS | |
| Artbank, Sydney, NSW | |
| Macquarie Bank, Sydney, NSW | |
| Devonport Regional Gallery, Devonport, TAS | |
| Big River Collection, TAS | |
| Mills Oakley Lawyers, Melbourne, VIC | |
| National Library of Australia, ACT | |
| Art Gallery of NSW, Research Library, NSW | |
| Monash University Library, VIC | |
| IATSIS Library, ACT | |
| State Library of Victoria, VIC | |
| State Library of Tasmania, TAS | |
| University of Tasmania Library, TAS | |
| Private Collections - Australia, China, USA | |
| Awards | |
| 2011 | Finalist, Glover Art Prize, Evandale, TAS |
| Finalist, Burnie Print Prize, Burnie Regional Art Gallery, Burnie, TAS | |
| 2010 | Finalist, Glover Art Prize, Evandale, TAS |
| 2009 | Finalist, Westpac Redlands Art Prize, Sydney, NSW |
| Finalist, City of Hobart Art Prize, Hobart, TAS | |
| 2008 | Finalist, Tidal: City of Devonport Art Award, Devonport, TAS |
| Finalist, John Leslie Art Prize, Gippsland Gallery, Sale, VIC | |
| 2006 | Finalist, Tidal: City of Devonport Art Award, Devonport, TAS |
| 2005 | Finalist, ABN AMRO Emerging Artist Award, Melbourne, VIC & Sydney, NSW |
| Finalist, City of Hobart Art Prize, Hobart, TAS | |
| 2004 | Finalist, Tidal City of Devonport Art Award, Devonport, TAS |
| 2003 | Finalist, Island Art Prize, Hobart, TAS |
| Residencies | |
| 2010 | The Art Vault, printmaking, Mildura, Vic. |
| 2009 | Alcorso Foundation Italian Residency (June - Aug & Oct), Capo di Ponte – Valcamonica, Roma, Venezia, Firenze, Torino, ITALY |
| Kayili Artists, Patjarr, Gibson Desert, W.A. (March / April) | |
| 2008 | Ezekaya Artists, Ezekaya, Limpopo, South Africa |
| Kayili Artists, Patjarr, Gibson Desert, W.A. (July/Aug & Oct/Nov) | |
| 2003 | Neds Corner Station, Murray River, Victoria. |
| 1998 | Palimpsest #1, Mildura Regional Gallery, Mildura, VIC |
| Published Writing | |
| 2009 | Not My Garden, essay, Open Manifesto essay in journal, Sept 2009. |
| 2006 | meenamatta lena narla puellakanny : Meenamatta Water Country Discussion, artists book, collaboration with Jim Everett, published by Bett Gallery Hobart. |
| 2000 | Lena Nyadbi, Beyond The Pale : Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art, AGSA, catalogue essay. |
| Selected Bibliography | |
| Katie Mutton, Letter from Mildura – An indefinable line, Art Monthly Australia, #236, December 2010 – February 2011, p.72 |
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| Anthony Gardner, Brave New Worlds: Jonathan Kimberley and the Kayili Artists, Eyeline, Number 70, December 2009. | |
| Helen Vivian, Approaching Paradise, Artlink, June 2009. | |
| Nicholas Rothwell, Kimberley in harmony, The Age, 22 June 2009. | |
| Stephen Rainbird, catalogue essay Not My Garden, Jan Manton Art, Brisbane, August 2007. | |
| Sean Kelly, From an Island South, Artlink Vol27/No2, pp32-35, 2007. | |
| Peter Hill, Apple Isle puts on 10 days to shake your world, review, The Age, 28 March 2007. | |
| Susan McCulloch, McCulloch’s Encyclopedia of Australian Art, p.575, Miegunyah Press, Melbourne, 2006. | |
| Jim Everett, ‘This is Manalargenna Country’, Keeping Culture: Aboriginal Tasmania, Ed. A J Reynolds, Australian National Museum, p.89-97, 2006. | |
| Roslynn D Haynes, Tasmanian Visions: Landscapes in Writing Art and Photography, ‘Country beyond Landscape’, p345, Polymath Press, TAS, 2006. | |
| Jane Stewart, Asialink / Devonport Regional Gallery, From An Island South, catalogue essay, 2006. | |
| Bett Gallery Hobart & Devonport Regional Gallery, meenamatta lena narla puellakanny (Meenamatta Water Country Discussion), Exhibition Catalogue, 2006. | |
| Erica Izett, Sitting Down with Indigenous Artists, New Directions in Kardiya Art, Artlink, Vol25/no2, pp.26, 2005. | |
| Australian Art Review, Kimberley Redefines Landscape, 22 April, 2005. | |
| Peter Timms, Margin Calls, The Australian Newspaper, Review, pp. R18-19, 4-5 September 2004 | |
| James Norman, Ten Days that shook the literary world (picture),Sydney Morning Herald, 14 March 2003 | |
| Bett Gallery Hobart, Future Perfect, collaboration with Gloria Andrews,Exhibition Catalogue, 26 March 2003 | |
| Penny Thow, Connecting with the country, Hobart Mercury, 31 March 2003 | |
| Danielle Wood, Picturing your place, Hobart Mercury, 7 June 2003 | |
| Jane Rankin-Reid, Sunday Arts - review, Sunday Tasmanian, 8 June 2003 | |
| Summary of Professional Art Practice | |
| 2011 | Working in Tasmania |
| 2010 | Working in Tasmania, Mildura and Melbourne, VIC |
| Research: Berlin, London, Valcamonica ITALY | |
| Conference papers: ‘Kuluntjarra World Map’, Cartographies of the Imagination, Adelaide, with Ngipi Ward and Jodie | |
| Carnegie; and ‘Paradise : Working Exmodern’, AAANZ, Tradition and Transformation, Adelaide, SA | |
| 2009 | Working in Tasmania, Patjarr (Gibson Desert) WA, and Valcamonica, ITALY |
| Alcorso Foundation Italian Residency | |
| Research in Italy, Switzerland, UK – incl Centro Camuno Di Studi Preistorico, Valcamonica. |
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| Paper with Jim Everett at the 2nd International Imagined Australia Forum, AILAE / University of Bari, ITALY |
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| Residency, Kayili Artists, Patjarr - Gibson Desert, WA |
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| Presentation with Ngipi Ward at Desert Mob Symposium, Alice Springs, NT | |
| Master of Fine Arts, University of W.A. (in progress) | |
| 2008 | Working in Hobart, Perth, Patjarr - Gibson Desert, WA & SOUTH AFRICA |
| Master of Fine Arts, University of WA (in progress) | |
| Working / Research in Ezekaya, Limpopo Province and Johannesburg, SOUTH AFRICA | |
| Residency, Ezekaya Artists, Ezekaya, Limpopo, SOUTH AFRICA | |
| Residency, Kayili Artists, Patjarr - Gibson Desert, WA | |
| 2007 | Working in Kununurra, W.A & Melbourne, VIC |
| 2006 | Working in Hobart, TAS & Kununurra, WA |
| Research: Paris, Cologne, New York, Tokyo, Kyoto. | |
| 2004-2005 | Working in Hobart, TAS & Kununurra & Warmun, WA |
| 2003 | Working in Hobart, TAS |
| Residency, Neds Corner Station, VIC | |
| 2001-2002 | Working in Kununurra, WA |
| 1998-2001 | Warmun Art Centre - Founding Manager, Warmun Community (Turkey Creek), WA |
| 1998 | Working in Melbourne, VIC |
| Residency, Palimpsest #1, Mildura Regional Gallery, VIC | |
| 1997 | Working in Melbourne, VIC |
| Research: Alice Springs & Darwin, NT | |
| 1996 | Working in Melbourne, VIC & Western Australia |
| Working / Research: Northwestern Australia (6 months), WA | |
| Relief Art Centre Manager, Warlayirti Artists, Balgo Hills WA | |
| 1995 | Working in Melbourne, VIC |
| Project Officer, Artmoves Inc, Melbourne, VIC | |
| Residency, Korowa School, Melbourne (6 months), VIC | |
| 1994 | Working & Research: Western Australia (10 months) |
| 1991-1993 | Event management business, Melbourne, VIC |
| 1988-1990 | B.A. (Fine Art), RMIT University, Melbourne, VIC |
| 1989 | Working / Research: Alice Springs, NT |
| 1988 | Port Jackson Press, printmaking assistant, Melbourne, VIC |
| 1987 | VCE (TOP) Art & Design, RMIT TAFE, Melbourne, VIC |
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