Title

Therese Kenyon CV

Author

Kenyon, Therese

Publication date

2008

Type

CV

Language

English

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PRESENT POSITION

1999 - 09 Director, Manly Art Gallery & Museum.
2006-08 Lecturer Public Programs at the National Art School Sydney

PREVIOUS POSITIONS

1991 - 98 Director Tin Sheds Art Workshop and Gallery, Senior Lecturer Drawing, Set Design, Printmaking in Faculty of Architecture, University of Sydney

1988 -90 Lecturer and then Coordinator in Printmaking at the Tin Sheds Art Workshop, University of Sydney.

1980 - 82 Lecturer in Printmaking Dept Fine Arts University of Newcastle

1980-86 Part time Lecturer in Printmaking, Hunter District of Technical and Further Education.

QUALIFICATIONS

1988-92 Master of Fine Arts by research in the Visual Arts, College of
Fine Arts, University of NSW.

1975-78 Bachelor of Art in Visual Art, Alexander Mackie College of
Advanced Education.

1964-67 National Art School, Sydney

TRAINING

2003 Computer Training Photoshop, Access and EEO and’ Authority’ finance software.

1996 Head of Department Leadership Training Course CTL
University of Sydney.

Head of Department forum and women's forum University of
Sydney.

1995 Exell training, Centre for Teaching and Learning, University of
Sydney.

1994 Computer Imaging Course, College of Fine Arts, University of
NSW.

GRANTS AND RESEARCH

1993 University research grant to research the history of the Tin
Sheds Art Workshop, University of Sydney. Conducting interviews with artists and community for publication of a book titled ’Under a Hot Tin Roof’ in 1995 to mark the 25th anniversary of Tin Sheds.

1988 Community Arts Board grant with Community Child Care Co-op
to produce a series of prints about current issues in child care.

1984-85 Visual Arts/Community Arts Board and NSW Ministry for the
Arts grants for 12 months part-time residency with the
Newcastle Printmakers Workshop.

1980 Visual Arts Board Grant for six months artist in residence at
Queensland Film & Drama Centre, Griffith University, Queensland.

CATALOGUE ESSAYS

2008 ‘Artist as Social Commentators and Activists –tracing the influence of Rod Shaw 1915-1992 MAGAM

2007 Ruth Downes ‘Lunch for the trades’ exhibition catalogue
Hadyn Wilson essay for ‘A Real Allegory’ MAGAM

2006 Michael Callaghan retrospective catalogue introduction MAGAM

2006 Robert Boynes ‘Still Stealing Time’ for In Real Time exhibition Manly Art Gallery

2003 ‘A Lost World’ for ‘part of the landscape#2’ Shirley Cameron-Roberts at Swan Hill Regional Gallery Vic.

2001 The Studio Tradition National Art School 1883-2001 Manly Art Gallery & Museum.

1997 'Sanctuary' catalogue essay for the work of Seraphina Martin as
part of the 1997 Print Symposium at AGOG in Canberra.

1993 'Current State - Future Directions' Tin Sheds Gallery, University
of Sydney.

1991 'The Artists At Least It Has Gone To A Good Home' Tin Sheds,
University of Sydney.

1985 'East - End: Before and After' Curator Therese Kenyon,
Newcastle Regional Art Gallery.

 

CURATORIAL AND GALLERY MANAGEMENT EXPERIENCE

2005-08 Chairperson, Sydney Art on Paper Fair.

2004 Curator ‘Luminous: Contemporary Art from the Australian Desert’ Touring exhibition funded by Visions of Australia and Gordon Darling Foundation and Museums and galleries NSW.

2003 Lecture on history of poster art at the Tin Sheds for the College of Fine Art UNSW Gallery Administration program.

2001 27 July Convenor ‘From Pencil to Pixel’ the International Works on Paper Fair Symposium. College of Fine Art UNSW

2001-2004 Curator of ‘The Studio Tradition - National Art School 1883-2001.’ Touring exhibition to eleven NSW venues.

1999-2001 Director Manly Art Gallery & Museum curating annual exhibitions and touring throughout Australia.

1991-1998 Director of the Tin Sheds Art Workshop & Gallery, Faculty of Architecture, University of Sydney

1996 Curator and manager of 'Affinities' an exchange exhibition of
both Australian and Korean artists to be toured throughout NSW in 1997. Successfully applied for funding Regional Galleries Association and Asialink.

Manager of A R Penck exhibition from Germany, curator A van Ogtrop. Successfully applied for funding through the Goethe Institute.

1995 Curator and manager of 'Java to Gepps Cross' by Carol Ruff.
Toured throughout NSW and SA. Successfully applied for funding through Visions of Australia touring program.

1994 Manager of Tin Sheds 25 year anniversary exhibition 'Under A
Hot Tin Roof' with Jan Fieldsend as curator.

1993 Co-curator and coordinator of 'Current State - Future Directions'
a selected exhibition of current printmaking practices at the Tin Sheds Gallery in November 1993. As well as a series of ongoing workshops specialising in the adoption of non toxic printmaking methods and the training of teachers and artists in these techniques.

1990-96 Member of the University of Sydney Student Union Art
Collection and Acquisitions sub-committee.

1992-95 Coordinator and manager of the RAPTS project (Regional
Access Program at the Tin Sheds). This program employed a consultant to research the possibilities of this type of project being situat4ed on the campus at the University of Sydney. Funded by the Australia Council VACB Project Development Grant. The first f these exhibitions was held in 1993 with the director of Broken Hill Gallery devising a touring exhibition for the Tin Sheds with the work of two aboriginal artists from Moree and Broken Hill.

The next exhibition in the series was with The New Agency from Lismore, a group which describes themselves as agents instead of artists who will produce another group exhibition.

1991 Coordinator and manager of the 'Watch This Space' public
billboard space on the side of the Tin Sheds Gallery. This project required a curator (Jeff Gibson) and the involvement of the Tin Sheds Gallery Exhibitions committee. It was funded by the VACB of the Australia Council and South Sydney City Council.

1991 'At Least It Has Gone To A Good Home: women collecting and
producing art at Sydney University 1971-91'. Co-curated with Joan Kerr, assisted by Sue Best and Bronwen Hanna, an exhibition about patronage of women's art as part of the feminist Dissonance Project in NSW.

1990 Exhibition and tour manager for Jo Spence, visiting British
photographer. Coordinator of curatorial and public relations team. Funding acquired by previous director from Australia Council.

1987-96 Member and executive officer of the Tin Sheds Gallery
Exhibition Committee, University of Sydney.

1985 Curator for 'East End - Before and After', Newcastle Regional
Art Gallery, Catalogue Essay and 23 artists statements for catalogue, audio & video taped documentation and slide presentation.

 

RESIDENCIES AND TRAVEL

2003 Artist in Residence at Bundanon NSW for 6 weeks.

1998-01 Travel to France and Holland to research locks and canals for work on The Floating Studio’ exhibition and ‘The Lock’ series.

1996 Self-funded travel to France to research residential studios and
printmaking workshops.

1993 Self-funded travel to US. Washington, to research models for
history of artist run collectives and organisations. Washington Project for the Arts, National Artists Associatin, Black Mountain College research as a model for the book 'Under A Hot Tin Roof'.

1988 Artists-in-community with Community Child Care Cooperative,
liaising, researching, designing and printing three of a set of six posters about current issues in child care in Australia.

1985 Guest artist in ANZART Auckland of 1985 in New Zealand.

1984 Artist-in-residence, Newcastle Printmakers Workshop and
Director of the project 'East End - Before and After'. Responsible for research, liaison, specialised workshops and production of original prints for exhibition.

1983-84 Self-funded two months visiting and researching in New York,
Washington and Vancouver, for background material for East End project. WPA Historic American Buildings Survey research.

1980 Artist-in-residence at Queensland Film & Drama Centre for six
months in etching studio at Griffith University, Queensland.

ART PRACTICE

Individual exhibitions

2008 ‘Paintings and Collages’ Adagio gallery Sydney

2007 ‘Clerestory’ Paintings Collages Addison Rd Gallery Sydney,
‘Lightspill’ Paintings drawings Depot 1 Gallery Dank St Sydney

2002 Voies D'eaux - Waterways' Alliance Francaise, Sydney

1997 'The Floating Studio', Maudespace, Sydney

1996 'The Floating Studio', Tin Sheds, University of Sydney.

1992 'The Mediated Image', Tin Sheds, Master of Fine Arts exhibition.

1990 'Fall From Grace', joint exhibition with Jan Fieldsend, Tin
Sheds.

1983 'Two Work Histories' Project exhibition, Newcastle Region Art
Gallery.

1982 Exhibition of paintings and prints, Contemporary Arts Society
Gallery, Adelaide.

Exhibition of prints and documentation, Ivan Dougherty Gallery,
Sydney.

Exhibition of prints and documentation, Morpeth Gallery, NSW

1979 Exhibition of paintings, Armstrong Gallery, Morpeth NSW.

 

Selected group exhibitions

2005 ‘Twenty Twenty Vision’ The Ultimo Project celebrates 20 years of existence. NSW Parliament House Gallery

2004 ‘Undercurrents’ Maitland Regional Gallery NSW.
Nu Horizons, Townsville Regional Gallery Qld.

2003 Contemporary Australian Prints, Campbell Hall Gallery Western Oregon University, USA

2004 Nu Horizons - Australian Women Artists Manningham Gallery Doncaster Vic.

2003 Nu Horizons - Australian Women Artists Tin Sheds Gallery University of Sydney

2002 Nu Horizons - Australian women artists Touring exhibition Hangzhou Academy of Art, China

2002 Northwest Print Council touring exhibition of Australian prints Canada

2003 Hazelhurst Works on Paper Award Gymea NSW

2001 Lake Macquarie City Art Gallery 'Selected works from the Ronaldo Cameron Collection

2000 ‘Dante in Australia’ The Atrium Gallery ABC blg Ultimo.

1999 Reconciliation exhibition. Holdsworth Galleries.

1998 Inside/Out Staff exhibition Tin Sheds Gallery

1996 'Raising The Roof' staff exhibition, Tin Sheds Gallery.

1995 'Under A Hot Tin Roof' 25 Year anniversary exhibition at the Tin
Sheds Gallery.

1991 'Fall From Grace', Newcastle Contemporary Gallery, Newcastle.

'Sun, Smoke And Steel: Studio One', a touring print exhibition,
Canberra, Sydney, Newcastle and Brisbane.

'Sodality/Solidarity' in 'Primitive Concepts: The Four Elements', touring exhibition, Lake Macquarie, Maitland, Tamworth.

'Her Story: Images of Domestic Labour In Australian Art', SH
Ervin Gallery, Sydney.

1989 'Inside The Greenhouse', Tin Sheds Gallery, Sydney.

1988 'Towers Of Torture', Tin Sheds Gallery, Sydney.

Exhibition and launch of posters commissioned by Community Child Care Cooperative, Tin Sheds, Sydney.

1987 Overseas Exhibition of Newcastle Printmakers to Kala Institute,
Berkeley, California, USA.

'Trace' (Atelier 63) Paris, FIAP 30 Rue Cabanis, Paris France.

'The Graphic Edge', Artspace, Randle Street, Sydney.

'The Age of Collage', Perspecta, Holdsworth Contemporary
Galleries, Liverpool Street, Sydney.

1986 'Truth Rules II' Experimental Art Foundation travelling print and
poster exhibition to New Zealand, New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland and Western Australia.

'10 Newcastle Artists', Holdsworth Contemporary Galleries,
Liverpool Street, Sydney.

1985 'East End - Before and After'. Exhibition of prints and
documentation of the history and culture of the East End of Newcastle. Newcastle Region Art Gallery, Experimental Art Foundation Adelaide and Tin Sheds Gallery, Sydney.

1984 'Hunter Valley Printmakers' Newcastle Region Art Gallery.

1984-85 'The Romance Show', Lake Macquarie Community Gallery and
touring to New England Regional Museum, Queensland School of Art Gallery, Albury/Wodonga Regional Gallery, Artspace Sydney, Contemporary Art Space Melbourne, Experimental Art Foundation Adelaide, Canberra School of Art Gallery.

1982 'Women As Social Documenters' Lake Macquarie Community
Gallery For Women and The Arts Festival, NSW.

1980 Queensland Film & Drama Centre, exhibition of prints & games,
Griffith University, Queensland.

'Non Figurative Artists of the Hunter Region', Newcastle Region Art Gallery, NSW.

'Project 34', Exhibition of Hunter Valley Artists, Art Gallery of NSW.

 

REPRESENTED IN CATALOGUES

2004 ‘Undercurrents’ Brian Roberts, Shirley Cameron-Roberts and Therese Kenyon, Maitland Regional gallery, NSW. Curated by Gavin Wilson

2002 ‘Nu Horizons’ Australian Women Artists touring exhibition to China and Australia. Curated by Elizabeth James

1991 'At Least It's Gone To A Good Home', Tin Sheds, University of
Sydney. Curated by Joan Kerr

1989 'Australian Perspecta, Place, Space and Difference', AVAGO
Gallery, Tin Sheds, University of Sydney.

1987 'The Age Of Collage', Curator Arthur McIntyre, Holdsworth
Contemporary Galleries, Sydney.

'The Graphic Edge', Artspace, Sydney.

1985 'East End - Before and After', Curator Therese Kenyon,
Newcastle Region Art Gallery.

1984 'Hunter Valley Printmakers', Curator Andrew Sayer, Newcastle
Region Art Gallery.

'The Romance Show', catalogue essay, Gary Sangster, Lake
Macquarie Community Gallery, Boolaroo.

1983 'Project 3.83 Therese Kenyon: Two Work Histories', Curator,
Sioux Garside, Newcastle Region Art Gallery.

1982 'Documentation', Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney.

REPRESENTED IN COLLECTIONS

Grafton Regional Gallery NSW
IBM Collection
Maitland City Art Gallery
Newcastle Trades Hall Collection
Newcastle Region Art Gallery
Griffith University, Queensland
Artbank, Sydney
City Art Institute, University of NSW
Hunter District Water Board
Housing Commission, Hunter Region
Mitchell Library, Sydney
National Gallery of Australia
University of Sydney Collection
Lake Macquarie Community Gallery
University of Sydney Student Union Collection