Title

Anita Laurence: CV.

Author

Laurence, Anita.

Details

2010

Publication date

2010

Type

CV

Language

English

Country of context

Australia

Full text

Curriculum Vitae

Anita Laurence
4153 Wangaratta-Whitfield Road
King Valley VIC 3678
03 5729 3662
0427 790 563
bystudio@bordernet.com.au  www.anitalaurence.com.au
www.musegallery.com.au

Born 1963 Hobart, Tasmania.

Education
1981-83 Degree Fine Art Painting, Prahran College, Victoria.
1998 Diploma of Education, University of Melbourne.

Biographical Details
1984 Began making prints with Bill Young at Middle Park Studio.
1985-93 Limited edition prints published by Port Jackson Press.
1991 Initiated ‘Developing Creativity in the Community’ a Country Education Project.
1992 Artist in School at Bright P-12 College.
‘In Bloom’ Solo Exhibition of oil paintings, linocuts and monoprints, Baysics Café, Brighton.
1993-1998 Sophia Mundi Rudolph Steiner School, part-time teaching, printmaking, drawing and bookbinding.
1994 –2004 Limited Edition Prints published by Chrysalis Publishing.
1994 Hand colourist at Chrysalis Publishing for prints by Michael Leunig, John Spooner and Geoff La Gerche.
1996 Mosaic Sculptures: assisted Deborah Halpern with her ceramic sculptures for commission and exhibition.
1999-2008 Casual relief teaching Art in NE Victorian regional primary and secondary schools.
1999- Painting, printmaking and bookbinding in King Valley, NE Victoria with husband Bill Young. Assistant to Bill Young in custom printing.
2001 Mosaic paver project with Edi Upper Primary School.
2004 Vietnamese Printmaking workshop with Nguyen Van Cuong at Lancaster Press, Brooklyn, Victoria.
Solo Exhibition at ‘The Muse Gallery of Milawa’ Milawa NE Victoria.
2004- King Valley Art Show organising committee member.
2005 Mosaic Sculpture: assisted Deborah Halpern with ‘Portal to Another Time and Place’ Sculpture for the Helen Lampriere Sculpture Award.
Artist in Schools for Rural City of Wangaratta ‘Regeneration’ Project for Seniors Week
King Valley End of Harvest Fiesta decorations and Seed Mosaic/Rangoli children’s art activities
2007 Co-organiser of ‘Where There’s Smoke…’ an exhibition of community photos from the 2006/2007 King Valley Bushfires
2009 Cork Printmakers, Cork City, Ireland, visiting artist.
Artist in Residence, The Art Vault, Mildura, Vic.
2010 Artist in Residence, The Art Vault, Mildura, Vic.

Exhibitions
2010 ‘Light On The Landscape’ Works from the Rural City of Wangaratta collection, gallery Workshop Space, Wangaratta.
‘A Retrospective- King Valley Art Show 1997-2009’, King Valley.
The Art Vault, Mildura.
The Muse Gallery of Milawa.
2009 ‘Horizons’, solo exhibition, Wangaratta exhibitions Gallery.
The Art Vault, Mildura.
‘Outskirts’ regional artists and artisans, Benalla Art Gallery.
Bill Young Printer’s Proof exhibition, Albury City Gallery.
Silk Cut Award exhibition, Glen Eira City Council Gallery.
Wangaratta Cardio-Respiratory Centre.
The Muse Gallery of Milawa.
12th King Valley Art Show.
2008 ‘Dwell’ north east regional artists travelling exhibition, outreach project of Wangaratta exhibitions Gallery.
‘Outskirts’ regional artists Benalla Art Gallery.
11th King Valley Art Show.
‘A Feast of Art’, Oxley.
The Muse Gallery of Milawa.
2007 Alpine Style ‘20 Perspectives’, Dinner Plains.
The Muse Gallery of Milawa.
‘A Feast of Art’, Oxley.
10th King Valley Art Show.
2006 Alpine Style ‘20 Perspectives’, Dinner Plains.
‘A Feast of Art’, Oxley.
9th King Valley Art Show.
2005 The Muse Gallery of Milawa.
8th Annual King Valley Art Exhibition.
‘The Memory Project’, Wangaratta exhibitions Gallery.
2004 7th Annual King Valley Art Exhibition.
The Muse Gallery of Milawa.
‘Art @ the Port’, Port Phillip Special School.
‘Jazz Art’, Wangaratta exhibitions Gallery.
The City of Hobson’s Bay.
2003 ‘Longitude & Latitude’, Wangaratta exhibitions Gallery.
Sophia Mundi Steiner School Art Exhibition, Abbotsford.
Arthaus Group ExhibitionWangaratta exhibitions Gallery.
6TH Annual King Valley Art Exhibition.
The Muse Gallery of Milawa.
2002 ‘Surface 2 Surface’, NE Regional printmakers, Wangaratta exhibitions Gallery.
‘Jazz Art’, Wangaratta exhibitions Gallery.
Arthaus, Café Martini, Wangaratta.
Arthaus, GOTafe Wangaratta.
Sophia Mundi Steiner School Art Exhibition, Abbotsford.
2001 ‘Flower Power’, Wangaratta exhibitions Gallery.
‘Meeting of the Waters’, Arthaus, and Wangaratta.
‘Jazz Art’ Wangaratta exhibitions Gallery.
King Valley Virgin Wine and Food Art Exhibition.
Sophia Mundi Steiner School Art Exhibition, Abbotsford.
2000 ‘Christmas Icons’, Veranda Gallery, Wangaratta.
King Valley Virgin Wine and Food Art Exhibition.
‘Night Garden’, Arthaus, Wangaratta.
1999 ‘Body and Soul’, Wangaratta Jazz Festival.
King Valley Virgin Wine and Food Art Exhibition.


1997 Australia Felix, fringe Exhibition, Benalla.
‘Out of the Drawers’, A.R.T. Gallery Eden, Melbourne.
‘Cornucopia’, A.R.T. Gallery Eden, Melbourne.
1998 ‘Impressions’, A.R.T. Gallery Eden, Melbourne.
1996 Australian Contemporary Art Fair 5, Chrysalis Stand.
1994 Australian Contemporary Art Fair 4, Chrysalis Stand.
Chrysalis Publishing Exhibition.
‘Visions of the Landscape’, Veritas Galleria, Eldorado.
19th Wangaratta Art Show.
Courier Gallery Mansfield.
‘Garden in Art’, Veritas Galleria, Eldorado.
1990 ‘Glimpses of Treasure’ Margot Knox Studio Gallery, Melbourne.
1989 ‘Visions of Australia’ Gryphon Gallery, Melbourne.
1986 Warrandyte Post Office Preservation Group Exhibition.
1985 Box Hill Acquisitive Prize.
1983 Prahran Painters Exhibition.


Commissions and Prizes

2009 Acquired by the Silk Cut Foundation Collection gifted to National Gallery of Australia
2007 Rural City of Wangaratta Australia Day Community Event Award for ‘Where There’s Smoke….’
2004 7th Annual King Valley Art Exhibition, Winner Contemporary Section.
2000 King Valley Virgin Wine and Food Festival Exhibition Winner of 2 sections.
1999 Private Commission ‘Under the Sea’ oil painting
‘Body and Soul’ 2nd prize.
1993 -2004 Relief prints and etchings for Chrysalis Publishing.
1992 19th Wangaratta Art show, Winner of works on paper section.
1991 Brotherhood of St Laurence ‘Hollingworth Trust Collection’, Linocut title ‘The Home’.
1985-1993 Over 30 limited edition prints produced for Port Jackson Press.

Collections

NGA, National Australia Bank, Wangaratta exhibitions Gallery Collection, and private collections in Australia, Japan, Ireland, Italy, USA and UK.