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Helen Wright - Curriculum Vitae (October 2011) |
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| Born, 1956, Sydney, New South Wales. Lives Hobart, Tasmania. | |
| Education | |
| 1977-1979 | Bachelor of Fine Arts, Tasmanian School of Art, University of Tasmania, Hobart, TAS |
| 1980 | Post Graduate Diploma of Visual Arts, Alexander Mackie School, Sydney, NSW |
| 1987 | Master of Fine Arts, Tasmanian School of Art, University of Tasmania, Hobart, TAS |
| Solo exhibitions | |
| 2011 | Wonderland, Bett Gallery, Hobart, TAS |
| 2009 | More Signs of Life, Bett Gallery Hobart, TAS |
| 2007 | Survival of The Cutest, Niagara Galleries, Melbourne, VIC |
| 2005 | Nobody Knows Anything, Bett Gallery Hobart, TAS |
| 2004 | White (light), Niagara Galleries, Melbourne, VIC |
| 2003 | Untouchable Face, Helen Maxwell Gallery, Canberra, ACT |
| No body knows anything, Bett Gallery Hobart, TAS | |
| 2002 | Future Perfect, Niagara Galleries, Melbourne, TAS |
| 2000 | Future Perfect, Helen Maxwell Gallery, Canberra, TAS |
| Frankenflower, Bett Gallery Hobart, TAS | |
| 1999 | Niagara Galleries, Melbourne, VIC |
| 1998 | Helen Wright - Almost familiar, Bett Gallery Hobart, TAS |
| 1997 | Helen Wright - A ‘taxonomy’ of symbols, Niagara Galleries, Melbourne, VIC |
| 1996 | Helen Wright - A symptom of beauty - Drawings, Dick Bett Gallery, Hobart, TAS |
| 1995 | Helen Wright - The perfume factory and other drawings, Niagara Galleries, Melbourne, VIC |
| 1993 | Helen Wright - Recent work, Australian Girls Own Gallery (aGOG.), Canberra, ACT |
| Helen Wright - Villa of mysteries, Dick Bett Gallery, Hobart, TAS | |
| 1992 | Helen Wright - Recent works, Niagara Galleries, Melbourne, VIC |
| 1991 | Science lessons and other mysteries, Dick Bett Gallery, Hobart, TAS |
| 1990 | Helen Wright; prints and drawings, Australian Girls Own Gallery, Canberra, ACT |
| 1989 | Helen Wright - Recent work, Cockatoo Gallery, Launceston, TAS |
| Short stories, Salamanca Place Gallery, Hobart, TAS | |
| 1987 | Helen Wright; prints and drawings, Reconnaissance Gallery, Melbourne, VIC |
| Avago, Tasmania School of Art, University of Tasmania, VIC | |
| Selected group exhibitions | |
| 2010 | Australian Drawing R.M.I.T Gallery, Melbourne, VIC |
| 2009 | Burnie Print Prize Finalists’ Exhibition, Burnie Regional Art Gallery, TAS |
| Niagara Galleries, Melbourne, VIC | |
| 2007 | The Story of Australian Printmaking 1851-2000, National Gallery of Australia, ACT |
| 2006 | Salon, Bett Gallery Hobart, TAS |
| 2005 | Melbourne Art Fair, Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne, VIC |
| Rhapsody 21C, Tasmanian Contemporary Art, University of Tasmania, TAS | |
| 2003 | Australian Drawing, International Drawing Research Institution, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney and touring China |
| Travelling The Roundabout, University of Tasmania, Launceston, TAS | |
| Future Perfect, Bett Gallery Hobart, TAS | |
| The Robert Jacks Drawing Prize, Bendigo Art Gallery, VIC | |
| 2001 | Survey of Recent Tasmanian Art, Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, Launceston, TAS |
| 1998 | Look again: Contemporary Works on Paper from the Collection, National Gallery of Victoria, VIC |
| 1997 | Hobart Art Prize, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart, TAS |
| 1996 | Brushing the Dark, curator: Victoria Hammond, Tasmanian Museum & Art Gallery and touring |
| 1995 | City of Hobart Invitation Art Prize, TAS |
| Poets and painters exhibition, Salamanca Writers Festival, Dick Bett Gallery, Hobart, TAS | |
| The Derwent Collection, Australian Art of the 1980’s & 1990’s, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart, TAS | |
| 1994 | Artists for Mt Wellington, Long Gallery, Salamanca Arts Centre, Hobart, TAS |
| A Celebration of Women's Suffrage, Central Gallery, Adelaide, SA | |
| Focus, Celebration, Adelaide, SA | |
| Artist’s choice, Curated by Noel McKenna, Rex Irwin, Sydney, NSW | |
| Fourth Australian Contemporary Art Fair, Melbourne, VIC | |
| 1993 | Recent Acquisitions, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart, TAS |
| Recent Acquisitions, Devonport Gallery and Art Centre, TAS | |
| To the Surface, Curator: Ray Arnold, University of Tasmania, Hobart, TAS | |
| 1992 | Barcelona: Rick Amor, Angela Brennan & Helen Wright, Niagara Galleries in conjunction with the Melbourne International Festival, VIC |
| Rediscovery - Australian artists in Europe 1982-1992, Curator: Jonathan Holmes, Seville Universal Expo, Spain and touring | |
| My Head Is A Map, Curator: Roger Butler, Australian National Gallery, Canberra, ACT | |
| 1991 | South of No North, Curator: Richard Flanagan, Dick Bett Gallery, Hobart, TAS |
| Invitation Print Prize, Melbourne Savage Club, Bendigo, VIC | |
| Six Tasmanian Printmakers, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart, TAS | |
| One, Niagara Galleries, Melbourne, VIC | |
| Dick Bett Gallery, Hobart, TAS | |
| 1990 | The Summer Show, Chameleon Gallery, Hobart, TAS |
| Tasmanian Printmakers, Gallery Cimitiere, Launceston, TAS | |
| Michelton Print Exhibition - Where Have All the Gum Trees Gone?, Curator: Janie Gillespie (Assistant Curator of Australian Prints, Australian National Gallery) | |
| 1989 | Australian prints now, Curator: Roger Butler, Australian National Gallery, ACT |
| Island, Tasmanian Printmakers, Print Council of Australia, VIC | |
| Paradise Lost: Tasmanian prints, Regionalism, Postmodernity, curator: Ian McLean, Print Council of Australia, Melbourne and touring | |
| Genius Loci: Spirit of place, Contemporary Tasmanian painting, curator: Nick Waterlow, Tasmanian School of Art, Plimsoll Gallery, Tasmania, and RMIT Gallery, Melbourne. | |
| The October Show, curator: Diane Dunbar, Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, Launceston | |
| 1988 | Landfall, curator: Sean Kelly, Chameleon Gallery, Hobart, TAS |
| 3 x 15, Sculpture Exhibition, curator: Finola Jones, Chameleon Gallery, Hobart, TAS | |
| Selected works, Fine Arts Gallery, University of Tasmania, Hobart, TAS | |
| Diversities, curator: Mary Scott, Fine Arts Gallery, University of Tasmania, Hobart, TAS | |
| 1987 | M.F.A. Graduate Exhibition, Centre for the Arts Gallery, University of Tasmania, TAS |
| 1986 | Post Lintel Design - David Keeling, Helen Wright & Wayne Malm, Handmark Gallery, Hobart, |
| Six Tasmanian Artists, Rhumbarallas Gallery, Melbourne, TAS | |
| Prints from the Collection, Fine Arts Gallery, University of Tasmania, Hobart, TAS | |
| 1985 | Three Tasmanians in Print, curator: Kay Francis, Burnie Art Gallery, and touring |
| 1984 | The Chameleon Print Show, Chameleon Gallery, Hobart, TAS |
| Works on paper, Chameleon Gallery, Hobart, TAS | |
| 1983 | Helen Wright and David Keeling, Memorial Fine Arts Gallery, University of Sydney |
| 1983 | Henri Worland Print Prize, Warrnambool Art Gallery, Warrnambool, Victoria |
| 1981 | Student Printmakers, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney |
| Publications | |
| ‘Artnotes: Wright honour’, Art Monthly Australia, No. 219, May 2009 | |
| White (Light) (exhibition catalogue), Niagara Publishing, Melbourne, 2004 | |
| Anna Gray, Australian Art in the National Gallery Collection, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, 2002 | |
| Future Perfect, (exhibition catalogue), Bett Gallery Hobart, 2003 | |
| Future Perfect (exhibition catalogue), Niagara Publishing, Melbourne, 2002 | |
| Victoria Hammond, ‘The night, its volume and what engenders it: Recent pastels by Helen | |
| Wright, Art & Australia, Vol.36, No.4, pp516-23, 1999 | |
| Kirsten Matthews, ‘Helen Wright’, Imprint, Vol.34, No.1, 1999 | |
| ‘Helen Wright in interview’ Helen Wright - A ‘taxonomy’ of symbols’, Niagara Galleries (exhibition catalogue), 1997 | |
| Anna Cladburn, ‘Modest views of the world’, Herald Sun, 9 September 1997 | |
| Victoria Hammond, Brushing the dark, (exhibition catalogue) CAST, Tasmania, 1996 | |
| John MacDonald, ‘Peaks of inspiration’, Sydney Morning Herald, 1996 | |
| Giles Auty, ‘Theories with holes’, The Australian, 1996 | |
| Susan Faulkner, ‘Brushing the dark’, Art Monthly, June, 1996 | |
| Anna King Murdoch, ‘The powerful mystique of navels’, The Age, 6 December 1995 | |
| Alison Barclay, ‘Do the strand, girl’, The Herald Sun, 3 December 1995 | |
| Jennifer Spinks, ‘Helen Wright - The perfume factory & other drawings’, (catalogue essay), Niagara Galleries, 1995. | |
| J. Holmes & E. Colless, Rediscovery: Australian artists in Europe 1982 - 1992, 1992 | |
| My head is a map, (catalogue essay), Australian National Gallery and touring Australia, 1992 | |
| What happened to the gum trees?, Mitchelton Print Exhibition, 1990 | |
| Grants and Awards | |
| 2010 | Australia Council New Works Grant |
| 2009 | Winner, Burnie Print Prize, Burnie Regional Art Gallery, Tasmania |
| 2000 | Australia Council New Work Grant |
| 1999 | Tasmanian Art in Public Buildings Grant |
| 1998 | Arts Tasmania Professional Development Grant |
| 1997 | Arts Tasmania Professional Development Grant |
| 1994 | Visual Arts Board, Australia Council, Project Grant |
| Arts Tasmania Project Funding | |
| 1991 | Visual Arts Board, Australia Council, Overseas Studio - Barcelona |
| Arts Tasmania | |
| 1989 | Travel/Development Grant, Tasmanian Arts Advisory Board |
| 1988 | Workshop Development Grant, Tasmanian Arts Advisory Board |
| 1987 | Commonwealth Postgraduate Scholarship, Masters, Hobart |
| 1985 | Visual Arts Board Australia Council |
| 1982 | Visual Arts Board Australia Council |
| Collections | |
| Artbank, Sydney | |
| Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth | |
| Art in Public Places Scheme, Tasmania | |
| Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide | |
| Burnie Art Gallery, Tasmania | |
| Derwent Collection, Tasmania | |
| Devonport Art Gallery, Tasmania | |
| Esk Collection, Tasmania | |
| Island Collection, Tasmania | |
| Joseph Brown Collection, Melbourne | |
| Maatsuyker Collection, Tasmania | |
| Macquarie Bank, Sydney | |
| Monash University Collection, Melbourne | |
| National Gallery of Australia, Canberra | |
| National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne | |
| National Works on Paper Collection Mornington Regional Art Gallery |
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| New Parliament House Collection, Canberra | |
| Queen Victoria Museum & Art Gallery, Launceston | |
| Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane | |
| Rockhampton Regional Art Gallery, Queensland | |
| Tamar Collection, Tasmania | |
| Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart | |
| University of Tasmania, Hobart | |
| University of Tasmania, Launceston | |
Corporate and Private Collections, Australia |
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| go to | Helen's page | Island Collection (members only) | |