Title

Heather Burness CV

Author

Heather Burness

Details

1 February 2010

Publication date

1 February 2010

Type

CV

Language

English

Country of context

Australia

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 CURRICULUM VITAE
Heather Burness
61 Ambalindum St.
HAWKER, ACT.
Australia 2614

Phone: Australia (02) 6254 5979
Email: mburness@bigpond.com
ABN:1724 9175 908

Born: Melbourne 1956, lives and works in Canberra Australia

Education
2004 Master of Philosophy, ANU, School Of Art, Printmedia and Drawing
Thesis topic “Natural Phenomena as a Metaphor for Being” examined by Martin King and Dr. Jan Davis accepted in full without change
1989/93 Bachelor of Art (Visual) ANU, Institute of the Arts, School of Art, ACT Australia.
1975/77 Diploma of Teaching (Art/Craft), Burwood Teachers College, Melbourne, Australia.

Solo Exhibitions
2008 Shorelines of Belonging ANCA Gallery ACT and also at The Mann Gallery, Horsham Regional Gallery Victoria (focus exhibition in the suite of shows Connection~ Reflection)
2006 others at the edge Foyer Gallery ANU School of Art ACT Australia
2004 I gazed for 28 Days ANCA Gallery ACT Australia.
0700 to 0900 Experience: Experiment METIS:TIME 04 Science and Contemporary Arts Festival Foyer Gallery, ANU School of Art, ACT, Australia
2002 first quarter to first quarter Foyer Gallery, ANU School of Art, ACT Australia
2001 Near real time Foyer Gallery, ANU School of Art, Australia

Group Exhibitions
2009 artroom5 Adelaide
Dog of a show Megalo Members Show
2008 Megalo Members Show
Changing Climate…Reinventing Lives Gladstone Noosa Cowra Warwick and Caloola Regional Galleries. Warringah Printmakers Studio Sydney Firestation Print Studio Melbourne Tresillian Community Centre Queensland and Megalo Gallery
25x25 Celebrating 25 years of printmaking at Megalo Access Arts 1980- 2005 Grafton Tamworth Bega and Cowra Regional Galleries
2007 Site and Soul III Canberra Museum and Gallery
Mondayitis Megalo Gallery
25x25 Celebrating 25 years of printmaking at Megalo Access Arts 1980- 2005 Wagga Wagga Port Macquarie Hastings and Broken Hill Regional Galleries toured by Museums and Galleries NSW
2006 Resonance Megalo Residency artists from 2005, Megalo Gallery ACT Australia
2005 25X25 Celebrating 25 years of printmaking at Megalo Access Arts 1980-2005 Megalo Gallery ACT Australia
Hazelhurst Art Award Works on Paper Exhibition Hazelhurst Regional Gallery Sydney Australia
2004 surface indicators School of Art Gallery, ANU Australia
the sea, the sea…Gippsland Regional Gallery, Sale, Victoria, Australia. Curated by Merle Hathaway, exhibiting with Kevin Mortensen, Kim Lawler, Jennifer Marshall and Harry Nankin
2003 the sea, the sea…Horsham Regional Gallery, Horsham, Victoria, Australia. (Curated Merle Hathaway as above)
2001 International Works on Paper Fair Emerging Artists Exhibition Byron Kennedy Hall Sydney Australia
Mildura Palimpsest #4 Mildura Vic Australia
1999 Wish you were here Post card show Oxford UK, Argentina and Australia
1998 maritime ANCA Gallery ACT Australia
From the book Zone Gallery Adelaide South Australia.
Staff work Studio One National Print Workshop ACT Australia.
1997 Ici, un bout du monde... Here, one end of the world Alliance Francaise ACT Australia
Current Interdepartmental diversities Canberra School of Art ANU held in conjunction with the Third Australian Print Symposium
Living with art Spiral Arm Gallery Leichhardt Street Studios ACT Australia
After Hours School of Art Gallery Foyer Canberra School of Art ANU ACT Aust
1996 Ici, un bout du monde… Here, one end of the world The Cercle D’Art de Gentilly Gentilly Biennale Paris France
Borderlines Workshop Arts Centre, Willoughby Sydney Australia
Near Distance work by seven women artists Crafts ACT Gallery ACT Australia
Fragile objects Artists books and Limited Editions National Library of Australia ACT Australia
1995 Borderlines Spiral Arm Gallery ACT Australia
The Women’s Room Studio One Exhibition Space, ACT. Australia
1994 Western Australia Print Association Exchange Exhibition Perth WA
Ocean Currents vitreographs at Studio One Inc ACT Australia
1993 Exhibition of the Art Colleges Print Society of Japan The Machida City Museum of Graphic Arts Tokyo Japan
e.fem era Institute of the Arts ANU and ANCA Gallery ACT Australia
Interval ANU Institute of the Arts Gallery and The Drill Hall Gallery ACT Australia
Canson Student Print Award Exhibition COFA Gallery Sydney and Australian Print Workshop Melbourne Australia
Current trends Canberra School of Art
1992 Exhibition of Student’s Work from the Printmaking and Graphic Investigation Workshops of the Canberra School of Art Canberra School of Art
Work in progress School of Art Gallery ACT Australia
1991 Objecting Photospace Gallery Canberra School of Art ACT Australia
Acroamatic fields Photospace Gallery ACT Australia
Printmakers show Graphics Brasserie Kingston ACT. Australia.
Fundraising show for Care Australia Studio One Inc
1990 Memorandum High Court of Australia ACT Australia
Stand by Canberra School of Art Gallery ACT Australia
9th Mornington Peninsula Print Acquisitive Award Mornington Peninsula Art Gallery Victoria Australia
Canberra Institute of the Arts Show Weswal Gallery Tamworth Queensland Australia
1989 Canberra Institute of the Arts Printmaking Exhibition Broken Hill Regional Gallery Broken Hill NSW Australia
Spitten Chips Ralph Wilson Theatre Gorman House ACT Australia

Awards
2009 Finalist Burnie Print Prize, Burnie Regional Art Gallery, Tasmania
2008/9 artsACT Project funding
2007 (inaugural) CPS Australia Capital Arts Patrons Organisation Award of $5000
2006 Highly Commended Goulburn Art Award
2005 Shortlisted Hazelhurst Art Award Works on Paper
Awarded Megalo Residency
2002 Post Graduate Materials Award 2002 National Institute of the Arts School of Art
2001 Selected to exhibit, International Works on Paper Fair Emerging Artists Exhibition Byron Kennedy Hall Sydney Australia
1993 Awarded Interiors Australia, Australian Construction Services Award, ANU Institute of the Arts, School of Art Gallery and Drill Hall Gallery ACT Australia
Selected to exhibit Canson Student Print Award COFA Gallery Sydney and APW Melbourne Australia
1990 Selected to exhibit, 9th Mornington Peninsula Print Acquisitive Award Mornington Peninsula Art Centre Victoria, Australia

Residencies
2006 Resident Printmedia and Drawing Workshop ANU School of Art ACT Australia
2005 Megalo Printmaker-in-Residence Megalo Access Arts Watson ACT Australia
1997 Artist-in-Residence Experimental Etching Studio, Boston USA as part of the National Print symposium of the USA Shifting Grounds- The New Terrain of Printmaking. Invited and made work at the Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop. New York NY USA

Collections
The Donald Macpherson Collection of Literature and Art within The State Library of New South Wales rare books collection
Horsham Regional Art Gallery
Broken Hill Regional Art Gallery
Canberra Museum and Gallery
National Library of Australia
National Gallery of Australia
Private collections in Canada, Germany, Malaysia, New Zealand and Australia

Bibliography
Heather Burness Self published catalogue with essays included McMahon, A. “Shorelines and the Art of Being” and Torok, Dr J. “Images facts and Climate Change”.2009 Colour illus

Art Almanac August 2008 Profile: statement and colour Illustration p 202

Herbst, J (Ed) Changing Climate… Reinventing Lives (Catalogue) Press Gang, Noosa Arts and Crafts Association, 2008. Colour Illus p 21

Foxlee, J. Frederick, U. Hall, N. “Pieces of Place: exploring the personal souvenir” in Sense of Place: Exploring concepts and expressions of place through different senses and lenses National Museum of Australia 2008

Megalo Access Arts 25x25 Catalogue (Illustration and statement) unpaginated 2005

Stockdill, J. “Present Tense” in Artlook issue#08 February 05 Colour Illus p5 and 12 0700-0900, Anomalies and Adjustments #2, 2004

Barney, J. “At Tides Edge” in Metis:Time :04 Catalogue for Science and Contemporary Arts Festival 2004 (Canberra Contemporary Arts Space, 2004), p54-57. Colour Illus.

Gates, M merryngates.com at website http://www.merryngates.com/article.asp?aID=216 (sighted 30/3/2008)

www.mediaust.com.au/palimpsest_2001/featured works, ABC.online archived feature (2001)

Hambly, M. “innocence and experience” in Canberra Arts Anthology, (National Library of Australia and artsACT, 1999) illus p32

McConchie, B. “Shifting Grounds Boston Print Symposium” in Imprint (Journal of the Print Council of Australia1997), Vol 32 #2 p20

Imprint (Journal of the Print Council of Australia, 1997) Vol 34 #2, p22.

Burness, H. and McConchie, B. “Shifting Grounds: The Boston Print Symposium from an Australian Perspective” in Contemporary Impressions (Journal of the American Print Alliance, 1997), Vol 5, #2, p27 B/W p1 Trichord from Sandlines,1997 and Six Notes from Sandlines,1997

Professional Experience (Abbreviated)

1996-2009 Sessional Lecturer, ANU, School of Art, Printmedia and Drawing Workshop in (variously) Etching Drawing and Studio Theory

2008/9 Visitor Services National Museum of Australia

2006 Presented Artforum Lecture Public lecture program by the ANU School of Art

2001, 2002, 2006, 2007 Teacher National Gallery of Australia Summer Scholarship Program

Megalo Access Arts Risk Management Sub Committee as OH&S Member consultant

Leader and Technical facilitator of Monday Workgroup at Megalo Access Arts (students include Tony Oates, Ursula Frederick, Eleftaria Vlavianos, Jude Rae, Maiju Altperri-Woodhead, Pip Harbers, Sarina Noorduis-Fairfax).

Technical Consultant in etching/ printing to Jude Rae

2005 Megalo Access Arts Inc Board of Management

2000 Final Chair, Studio One Board of Management. Involving extensive negotiation with ACT government funding bodies, artsACT, artists, legal bodies, financial institutions, private businesses, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra Museum and Gallery, overseeing, organizing and packing the workshop and all its collectables, completing all appropriate paper work involved in the winding up of the organization and securing of funding from Government for Studio One equipment to be available for ongoing public access within the ACT.

Collaborative technician and printer to Naminapu Maymuru White and Michael Maymuru, (Visiting Fellows, Centre for Cross Cultural Research, ANU)

1998 Lectured at the 3rd Australian Print Symposium at Studio One Inc ACT

1996-98 Teacher Canberra Institute of Technology.

1995 Artist in Residence Mt Neighbour Primary School ACT Australia

1994-98 Teacher and Printer at Studio One Inc ACT Australia. Editioned prints by Emily Kame Kngwarreye and other Utopia Artists, Gary Shead, Treahna Hamm, Helen Geier, Gaye Paterson, Margaret Wilson, Annie Franklin, and various Tiwi Artists.

1979-82 Art Craft Teacher (Primary), Melbourne Victoria Australia