STELARC
KATE BERGIN
STEPHEN BIRD
LEAH BRADY
AMELIA CARROLL
PETER COOLEY
STEFAN DUNLOP
BERN EMMERICHS
RON FRANCIS
TODD HUNTER
AARON KINNANE
JAMES LAI
CHRIS LANGLOIS
ALESANDRO LJUBICIC
JOANNA LOGUE
CAMIE LYONS
LILY MAE MARTIN
JOHN PASTORIZA-PIÑOL
SONIA PAYES
AMELDA READ FORSYTHE
JENNIFER RIDDLE
JULIA RITSON
ANDREW ROGERS
JACK ROWLAND
KATHRYN RYAN
LUKE SCIBERRAS
JAMES SMEATON
VIPOO SRIVILASA
DICK WATKINS
JOSHUA YELDHAM
3 - 24 may 2025
My work explores the transformative journey through transition and rebirth. Drawing inspiration from Clarissa Pinkola Estés’ “Women Who Run with the Wolves,” I examine how we navigate life’s pivotal moments of metamorphosis—when we find ourselves in unknown territories yet instinctively seek regeneration.
The collection continues my long exploration of instinctual making—a process where intuition guides creation. I immerse myself in the rhythms and steps of making without excessive questioning, allowing the work to lead me to unexpected revelations. This approach has evolved over years through what I variously refer to as impromptu making, process-driven making, and nature making.
Water serves as both metaphor and method in this exhibition. During its creation, I literally swam daily in the wild crashing blue ocean, passing through portals of innocence and meaning. This immersion taught me that, like water, transformation cannot be tightly contained—it must be held with gentle, cupped hands. The works reflect this understanding through their flex and tension, restraint and release, mirroring the experience of being tumbled by waves, whether from the sea or our own tears.
The collection encompasses diverse media: bronze sculptures cast from organic materials, minimalist paintings on linen that embrace negative space, dense black charcoal drawings from multiple perspectives, and self-supporting forms. Many pieces have no designated front or back, inviting viewers to engage from various angles and positions—to physically participate in the act of shifting perspective.
The works navigate the darkness of transition—the dirt, grime, betrayal, hurt, loneliness, and exile that often accompany profound change. Yet they simultaneously celebrate the wild instinct that guides us through this territory toward beauty and renewal. They offer portals and vistas that untangle personal truths, capturing the internal shifts and external waves that ultimately reveal the “ridiculously exquisite beauty of it all.”
To engage with these works is to witness the possibility of return— enriched and transformed—after heeding the call of the wild spirit and following its instructions to create beauty from the depths.
2005 Master of Fine Art (Sculpture) College of Fine Arts, Sydney (COFA)
2003 Granite Course, Sten Academy & Chalmers University, Sweden
2001 Studied Butoh and Laban Movement Techniques, Soros Foundation, Bulgaria
2000 Concrete Course, Chalmers University, Sweden
1999 Bachelor of Fine Art (Sculpture), Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT)
2025 I Am the Water, Scott Livesey Galleries, Melbourne
2024 From the Centre, Australian Galleries, Sydneuy
2023 Undulation, Scott Livesey Galleries, Melbourne
2022 Bush Calligraphy Australian Galleries, Sydney
2020 Making Meaning, Scott Livesey Galleries, Melbourne
2020 A Physical Response Australian Galleries, Sydney
2019 A Physical Response Bathurst Regional Art Gallery, NSW
2019 Humming Space’ Jan Murphy Gallery, Brisbane
2018 Untethered,Scott Livesey Galleries, Melbourne
2017 Out on a Limb, Olsen Gallery, Sydney
2016 Spirit Recovered, Scott Livesey Galleries, Melbourne
2016 Tenderness and Tenacity, Cat Street Gallery, Hong Kong
2015 Rural Romance, Olsen Irwin Gallery, Sydney
2015 The Sinuous Line, Scott Livesey Galleries, Melbourne
2014 Finding Beauty, Olsen Irwin Gallery, Sydney
2012 Butterfly Effect, Cat Street Gallery, Hong Kong
2011 Wallflower, sculpture and drawings, Tim Olsen Gallery, Sydney
2009 In the Zone, sculpture and drawings, Cat Street Gallery, Hong Kong
2009 Lyrical, sculpture and drawings, Richard Martin Art, Sydney
2008 Falling, sculpture and drawings, Richard Martin Art, Sydney
2007 Ionosphere, Cat Street Gallery, Hong Kong
2005 Casting Into Space, Kudos Gallery, Paddington
AMP Capitol, Sydney
Classic, East Melbourne (development by Cbus, designed by BatesSmart)
Deloitte Australia, Sydney
Gothenburg City Gardens, Slottskogen, Sweden
Hilton Group, Sydney
Hoi Ha Wan Marine Reserve, Hong Kong
Marriot International Collection
Midlands Regional Council, Tasmania
Stonnington Council, Melbourne
Sydney City Council, Sydney
The Langham Group, Gold Coast Tiffany & Co., Sydney
2024 Invited Artist, Sculpture in the Vineyards, Wollumbi, NSW
2023 Sculpture in the Gardens, Wollongong Botanical Gardens, NSW
2022 6 x 6 x 6 Miniature Sculpture Show 2022, Defiance Gallery, Sydney
2022 Artists at Home: Book Launch 2022, Olsen Gallery, Sydney`
2022 Sculpture by the Sea, Bondi, Sydney
2022 Sculpture Inside, Bondi, Sydney
2022 Lake Art Prize, Museum of Art and Culture, Booragul, NSW
2021 Sculpture at Scenic World 2021, Scenic World, Katoomba, NSW
2021 Sculpture Other, Katoomba Cultural Centre, Booragul, NSW
2020 Sydney Contemporary, Australian Galleries, Sydney
2020 Winter Salon, Scott Livesey Galleries, Melbourne
2020 Persona, gallery HZ, Hong Kong
2020 Sculpture by the Sea, Bondi Sydney
2020 Navigating the Line (online exhibition) Australian Galleries
2020 Ravenswood Australian Women’s Art Prize, Ravenswood School for Girls, Sydney
2020 Live in Art 2020 (Highly Commended) Live in Art Gallery, Sydney
2020 Sculpture at Scenic World 2020, Blue Mountains, NSW (postponed 2021)
2020 Scupture Other, Katoomba Cultural Center, Blue Mountains, NSW
2019 Sydney Contemporary Works on Paper, Australian Galleries, NSW
2017 ‘At Bull Bay’, Delmar Gallery, Hobart
2015 ‘At Bull Bay’, Delmar Gallery, Hobart
2014 Twenty Fourteen, Scott Livesey Galleries, Melbourne
2013 Loaded: The Ned Kelly Exhibition at the Australian High Commission, Singapore
2013 Grounded, the Australian High Commission, Singapore
2013 Sydney Contemporary, Olsen Irwin Gallery, Australia
2012 Just This Moment, sculpture and drawings, Australasian Art Projects, Singapore
2012 Melbourne Art Fair, Tim Olsen Gallery, Sydney
2011 Wattle: A Survey of Contemporary Australian Art, Cat Street Gallery, Hong Kong
2010 Dobell Drawing Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
2010 Sculpture 2010, Tim Olsen Gallery, Sydney
2010 Signal 8 (Summer Show), Cat Street Gallery, Hong Kong
2010 Melbourne Art Fair, Tim Olsen Gallery
2009 Hong Kong Art Fair, Cat Street Gallery, Hong Kong
2008 Signal 8, sculpture, Cat Street Gallery, Hong Kong
2006 Friend Lyons Petrie, collection of sculpture, Stella Downer Fine Art, Waterloo
2006 Sculpture 2006, Heavy Metal Ballet series, Global Gallery, Paddington
2004 e:Motion Exhibition of sculpture & paintings, Spence & Lyda, Surry Hills, Sydney
2004 Art In The Park Exhibition, Maundrell Park, Marrickville Council
2004 Without Reason, Biennale of Sydney, COFA Exhibition Space, UNSW
2004 Push Hard, Cut Deep, Collection of granite sculptures, Avja yards, Sweden
2003 Granite Plays Granite, sculptures and earth drawings, Hunnebostrand, Sweden
2002 Urban Pods Bronze and steel installation, foyer of Bouverie Close, Melbourne
2002 Breath Becton Sculpture Biennale, Gasworks Art Park, Melbourne
2002 Working Drawings Series of drawings on canvas, Gasworks Art Park, Melbourne
2001 ARCA Bronze dance studies, Australia Council for the Arts, Surry Hills, Sydney
2000 Moebius Dance Bronze sculpture, Artbox, Sherman Galleries, Paddington, Sydney
1999 Emerge, Multiply Work, Sydney Design Week by Spence and Lyda, Sydney
GRANTS, AWARDS AND RESIDENCIES
2024 Winner of the Mt Eyre Art Prize with ‘Vines Reflecting Light’ bronze
2024 Residency at AiRSpace, Oatlands, Tasmania
2024 Highly commended Hawkesbury Art prize with ‘Bush Telegraph’ work on paper
2024 Finalist, Arts in the Valley outdoor sculpture prize, Kangaroo Vallery NSW
2023 Highly Commended Award at Sculptures in the Gardens, Wollongong, NSW
2022 Finalist in the Lake Art Prize, Museum of Art and Culture, Booragul, NSW
2022 Finalist in the North Sydney Art Prize 2022, The Coal Loader Cenre for Sustainability, Sydney
2021 Residency at Umbi Gumbi, Cutagee, NSW
2021 Winner of Sculpture at Scenic World Award, Scenic World, Katoomba, NSW
2021 Winner of Blue Mountains Cultural Centre Award, Katoomba, NSW
2020 Highly Commended Award for the Live in Art 2020 Invitational Art Prize, Zobon Group, Sydney/China
2020 Artist Residency at BigCi Australia, funded by Scenic World Blue Mountains
2020 Finalist for SXS 2020, Bondi
2020 Received the Umbi Gumbi Creative Residency, June 2020, Cuttagee NSW
2018 Hill End Residency, Bathurst Regional Gallery, NSW
2017 Bull Bay Artist in Residency, Bruny Island, Tasmania
2016 Natures Waltz, Kerry Hotel foyer sculptures, Hong Kong
2014 Bull Bay Artist in Residency, Bruny Island, Tasmania, Australia
2011 True Project’ sculpture commission for Phuket, Thailand
2009 Many Leaps Towards You’ wall installation, Pullman Project, Homebush Bay, Australia
2005 Awarded Research Grant, College of Fine Arts, University of NSW
2004 Guest Artist, Stone Academy Hunnebostrand Sweden
2003 Chalmers University Sweden- Artist in Residence, stone sculpting course
2001 Scholarship to attend Butoh and Laban Techniques in Sofia, Bulgaria, Soros Foundation
2000 Winner of the Baron Edson Public Art Commission, Waverly Council, Bondi Junction
2000 Artist in Residence (Concrete Course) at Chalmers University Sweden, and Earth Cycle
- selected for permanent display in Slottskogen Gardens, Gothenburg, Sweden.
1999 Finalist in the Green Square Sculpture Commission, City of Sydney
1997 RMIT Arts Union Grant, project funding
1997 RMIT Student Union Grant - performance funding
1996 Ella Donald Fine Art Scholarship, Department of Education
26 JULY - 16 AUGUST 2025
Exploring the sublime through the lens of psychedelia, in his new body of work Euphorica, Jack Rowland reimagines the vast Ikara -Flinders Ranges of South Australia as a dream-like utopia, in spite of its rugged and at times hostile environment, through his saturated palette and realist approach to landscape painting.
Euphorica draws inspiration from Rowland’s trip to the Ikara - Flinders Ranges in the middle of summer, where he experienced the vast beauty, extreme heat and a psychedelic journey isolated from the modern world, leading him to embrace a sense of awe and communion with the land in a heightened state of mind. Reflecting this perspective, Rowland depicts the land as a teacher and a healer that can provide a sense of belonging and a respite from human drama.
Seeking to capture the spiritual connection with nature, Rowland draws upon the Romantics’ idea of the sublime: an emotional and transcendental experience of the natural world that inspires reverence. Examining this theme through the use of enhanced colours and meticulous details, Rowland visualises the psychedelic experience of communing with nature, colliding familiar natural landscapes with the inner realm. In this way, his paintings offer the viewer an alternative perception of nature as an ancient, awe-inspiring presence.
Opposite: Painting details yet to be supplied
EDUCATION
2009 Completed Bachelor of Fine Arts (Painting), RMIT University, Melbourne
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2022 Un-Earth, James Makin Gallery, Melbourne
2020 Recovery, James Makin Gallery, Melbourne
2019 The Altered States, James Makin Gallery, Melbourne
2019 REIKAI, Backwoods Gallery, Melbourne
2018 SuperNatural, James Makin Gallery, Melbourne
2016 Alternative Territories, Anna Pappas Gallery, Melbourne
2014 Illusive Reality, Anna Pappas Gallery, Melbourne
2012 Unfamiliar, Anna Pappas Gallery, Melbourne
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024 Winter Salon 24, Scott Livesey Galleries, Melbourne
2022 Antipodes 2022, Beinart Gallery, Melbourne
2022 Reconnections, Let’s Pretend Gallery, Melbourne
2020 The 9th Annual Supersonic Invitational, Spoke Art, San Franciso
2019 Futures, Hyper Contemporary, Melbourn
2019 Toxic Cosmic, The Wandering Room, Melbourne
2018 Summer New, James Makin Gallery, Melbourne
2018 Fresh Blood, Backwoods Gallery, Melbourne
2017 Aberration, 407T Rose Lane, Melbourne
2016 Bendigo Inaugural Group Show, Gallery 369, Victoria
2016 Linden Postcard Show, Linden New Art, Melbourne
2015 Tomorrow Never Dies, Linden Centre for Contemporary Arts
2015 Group Show, Anna Pappas Gallery, Melbourne
2013 2013… Farewell, Anna Pappas Gallery, Melbourne
2013 Transition Period, Rubicon ARI, Melbourne
2013 Naturlich!, Kunstraum Tapir, Berlin
2013 Above From Below, The Cellar Gallery, Berlin
2012 Kultopia, Blindside Gallery, Melbourne
2011 Belle Arti - Chapman & Bailey Art Prize 2011, Abbotsford
2011 The Butterfly Effect, Toyota Community Spirit Gallery, Port Melbourne
2011 Art Melbourne- Affordable Art Fair, Royal Exhibition Building, Carlton
2010 Exploration 10, Flinders Lane Gallery, Melbourne
2010 Fit To Print, No Vacancy Gallery, Melbourne
2016 Finalist in the Bayside Aquisitive Art Prize
2016 Finalist in the Albany Art Prize
2016 Finalist in the Substation Art Prize
2015 Winner of the Hawkesbury Art Prize Highly Commended Award
2015 Winner of the Hawkesbury Art Prize Commended Award
2014 Finalist in the Albany Art Prize
2013 Finalist in the Hawkesbury Art Prize
2013 Takt residency, Berlin
2012 Winner of the Hawkesbury Art Prize Commended Award
2009 RMIT/Tolarno Art Award
August 2018, Artist Feature, Stell Magazine
July 2018, Create! Magazine
2012 Dan Rule, The Saturday Age, In The Galleries, 22 September, p. 5
May 2011, Russell, Stephen & Daffy, Mary-Jane, Collect call, Melbourne Weekly
In Sanctuary, my hope is that these paintings are quietly powerful.
Their stillness, light, and space offer an expansive distance while inviting intimacy through intricate and detailed mark-making. They suggest fragility and vulnerability alongside strength and monumental force, uniting opposites to form a harmonious whole. These concerns have endured in my work for the past 40 years, reflecting how our inner lives connect with the natural world, an ongoing inquiry into the essence of things and what matters.
My trees, often set in ambiguous spaces, become metaphors for co-existing fragilities and strengths, the union of opposites, and a search for beauty, calm, and peace. They offer meditation, a slowing down, a way to go deeper, to see beyond, find meaning, and connection. For me, art is both an expressive, creative visual language and a path to a spiritual life, connecting with the natural world.
As a series of predominantly sculptural tree portraits on ambiguous backgrounds, their simplicity masks their complexity. They sit quietly, yet are strong, both powerful and fragile, enduring weather and age. They stand confidently, resilient, marking the landscape with their presence. They punctuate the stillness and space, with light falling and waning, they are markers between distance and closeness. There is simplicity, yet it is refined, elegant, serene, and reduced to what is essential.
An artist’s inquiry is a lifelong venture, seeking to understand and express the essence of being human. The more I reflect and become absorbed in the process and challenge of painting, I understand how and why I create these works. My intention is to connect our inner lives with the natural world, developing a visual language that mirrors these qualities. This is achieved through intuition and a felt experience as much as intellect.
The balance and harmony of opposites underpin my work, combining delicate and strong, intimate and distant, resilience and what remains, to a unifying whole. It’s relayed through how you paint more than what you paint. Months of patient layering result in a final painting that is evocative, calm, and inviting close inspection while offering vast space. They visually express what remains, balancing the delicate with the monumental.
Being an artist, painting and working in the studio is my sanctuary and provides a place to explore a deeper understanding of our world through a felt and intuitive art practice.
KATHRYN RYAN
1989: Honours Degree of Fine Art, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology
1984-1986 Bachelor of Fine Art: Painting, Warrnambool Institute of Advanced Education
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023 STILL POINT, Nanda Hobbs Gallery, Sydney Sept 28 - Oct 14
2022-2023: HERE AND NOW, Hamilton Gallery VIC
2022 Small Works, Presented by Arts Eleven at Mario’s Melbourne
2022 A Sense of Place, RACV Club Melbourne
2022 Rapture, Charcoals, The F Project Gallery, Warrnambool
2020 Views from the West: Kathryn Ryan & Harley Manifold, The F Project Gallery Warrnambool
2020 Landscapes of Time & Memory , Flinders Lane Gallery, Melbourne
2019 The Way Home, Nanda Hobbs, Sydney
2018 South West Coast, Flinders Lane Gallery , Melbourne
2017 Shifting Light, Olsen Gallery, Sydney
2016 New Works , Olsen Irwin Works on Paper , Sydney
2016 New Works, Flinders Lane Gallery, Melbourne
2015 New Works, Olsen Irwin Works on Paper Gallery, Sydney
2015 A Quiet Place, Paintings & Drawings 1995-2015 Warrnambool Art Gallery
2013 Shadow & Light, Flinders Lane Gallery Melbourne
2012 New Paintings, Tim Olsen Gallery , Sydney
2011 Winter Landscapes, Flinders Lane Gallery, Melbourne
2010 New Paintings, Tim Olsen Gallery, Sydney
2009 New Paintings, Flinders Lane Gallery, Melbourne
2008 Recent Paintings, Tim Olsen Gallery, Sydney
2007 The Pines, Flinders Lane Gallery, Melbourne
2005 The South West, Flinders Lane Gallery, Melbourne
2003 Panmure Paddocks, Flinders Lane Gallery, Melbourne
2001 A Quiet Place, Flinders Lane Gallery, Melbourne
1999 Works on Paper, The Continental, Melbourne
1996 Paintings, Dianne Tanzer Gallery, Melbourne
COLLECTIONS
Parliament House Collection, Canberra.
RACV Collection
Warrnambool Art Gallery
Hamilton Art Gallery
Artbank
Deakin University, Melbourne
Macquarie Group Collection
BP Australia
Grafton Regional Art Gallery, NSW
M Collection, Melbourne
Australian Catholic Universities Collection.
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024 Winter Salon, Scott Livesey Galleries, Melbourne
2024 Land, Sea & Sky: Port Fairy Old Commonwealth Bank
2024 Group Show Lucy McEachern Gallery Wingeel Vic
2023 Group Show Lucy McEachern Gallery Wingeel Vic
2022 Members Exhibition Small Works F Project Gallery Warrnambool
2022 Western District Views, Lauriston Press, Penshurst
2022 Wingeel Group Show Lucy Mc Eachern Gallery
2021- 2022 Canopy, Warrnambool Art Gallery Dec 11th - May 29th
2021 9”x5” Group Show, Nanda Hobbs Gallery, Sydney
2021 The Warrnibald Portrait Prize, Warrnambool Art Gallery
2019 30”x30” , Flinders Lane Gallery, Melbourne
2019 Deakin Landscapes, Deakin Downtown Gallery, Melbourne Curated by James Lynch
2019 Mail Art Project, 20 Artists, 12 Countries, Toten, Norway, Curated by Caroline Ho Bich-Tuyen Dang
2019 A Journey into Dark Essentiality, Flinders Lane Gallery, Melbourne Curated by Dr Marcus McMahon & Matthew Lucas
2019 Women Artists, Flinders Lane Gallery, Melbourne
2018 Summer Show, Nanda Hobbs Gallery, Sydney
2018 M Collection 10 yrs Australian Art Collection , Menzies Art Brands, Melbourne
2018 2 x 2 Olsen Gallery Sydney
2016 Regroup : The Artery, Warrnambool & The Alfred Deakin Prime Ministerial Library , Geelong
2015 Mail Art Project, Oppland Kunstsenter, Lillehammer, Norway
2015 Biblio Art Award, Blarney books & Art, Port Fairy
2014 25th Anniversary Show, Flinders Lane Gallery, Melbourne, VIC
2014 No White Walls, Fairmont Bab Al Bahr, Abu Dhabi, UAE
2014 ART SOUK, Etihad Modern Gallery, Abu Dhabi, UAE
2014 Australia Unlimited MENA, by Australian Embassy, Conrad Hotel Dubai ,UAE
2014 Ras Al Khaimh Fine Arts Festival, RAK National Museum &Banyan Tree Al Wadi Resort, UAE
2014 The Portrait Show, Flinders Lane Gallery, Melbourne
2013 No White Walls, The Fairmont Bab Al Bahr, Abu Dhabi, UAE
2013 Australian Art Month, Art Hub, Abu Dhabi, UAE
2012 Artist’s Books: The Fairmont, Abu Dhabi, UAE
2011 New Romantics: Darkness & Light in Australian Art, Gippsland Regional Art Gallery, Book Launch
2009 The Australian Landscape, Tim Olsen Gallery, Sydney
2008 Summer Show, Tim Olsen Gallery, Sydney
2008 Here & Now, Flinders Lane Gallery Melbourne, inc Catalogue
2008 2x2 Show, Tim Olsen Gallery, Sydney
2008 Contemporaneous: Australian Contemporary Painting 1, Wangaratta Exhibitions Gallery VIC
2008 The View from Here III, Flinders Lane Gallery, Melbourne
2007 Summer Show, Tim Olsen Gallery, Sydney
2007 The View from Here II, Flinders Lane Gallery, Melbourne
2006 Melbourne Contemporary Art Fair, Flinders Lane Gallery,
GROUP EXHIBITIONS (CONTINUED)
2006 The View from Here, Flinders Lane Gallery, Melbourne
2005 Works for Windows, St Kilda Festival, VIC
2005 Survey, Warrnambool Regional Art Gallery, VIC
2005 Treasures, Flinders Lane Gallery, Melbourne
2004 Melbourne Contemporary Art Fair, Flinders Lane Gallery
2003 Treasures, Flinders Lane Gallery, Melbourne
2003 Bowling Club Studios, Metropolis Gallery, St Kilda VIC
2003 Inaugural Exhibition, Wishart Gallery, Port Fairy, VIC
2002 St Kilda Salon, Metropolis Gallery, St Kilda VIC
2002 Melbourne Contemporary Art Fair, Flinders Lane Gallery
2002 Treasures, Flinders Lane Gallery, Melbourne
2001 Opening Show, Landau Gallery, Melbourne
2000 Exploration, Flinders Lane Gallery, Melbourne
2000 Swan Hill National Print & Drawing Acquisitive Award, Swan Hill Regional Gallery
2000 Serene, Metropolis Gallery, Melbourne
2000 Best of Metropolis Gallery, Metropolis Gallery, Melbourne
2000 The Post Card Show, Linden Gallery, Melbourne
2000 Artists of the Bowling Club Studios, Alliance Francais Gallery, Melbourne
2000 Group Show, The Continental, Melbourne
1999 Landscape, Metropolis Gallery, Melbourne
1999 Salon Show, Metropolis Gallery, Melbourne
1999 Small Works, Metropolis Gallery, Melbourne
1999 Works for Windows, St Kilda Festival, Melbourne
1999 The Post Card Show, Linden Gallery, Melbourne
1998 The Post Card Show, Linden Gallery, Melbourne
1997 Works for Windows, St Kilda Festival, Melbourne
1996 Abstraction/Reaction, Dianne Tanzer Gallery, Melbourne
1995 Nillumbuk Art Award, Eltham Arts Centre, Melbourne
1995 The Post Card Show, Linden Gallery, Melbourne
1995 The Festival of St Kilda, Garry Mc Ewan Gallery, Melbourne
1994 Six Melbourne Artists, Volartile Contemporary Gallery, Geelong
1993 Posthead, Ether Ohnetitel Gallery, Melbourne
1993 The Post Card Show, Linden Gallery, Melbourne
1993 Contemporary Art Auction, Ether Ohnentitel Gallery, Melbourne
1992 The Post Card Show, Linden Gallery, Melbourne
1990 St Kilda Festival Acquisition Exhibition, Linden Gallery, Melbourne
1989 National Student Art Prize, Mitchell College, Bathurst NSW
1989 Fine Art Honors Show, RMIT Gallery, Melbourne
1988 Castlemaine State Festival Drawing Prize, Castlemaine Art Gallery, VIC
1986 National Student Art Prize, Mitchell College, Bathurst, NSW
1986 The Art of Women, Warrnambool Performing Arts Centre, VIC
1986 B.A. Graduate Show, Warrnambool Art Gallery, VIC
AWARDS & SCHOLARSHIPS
2017 Q Bank Residency, Queenstown, Tasmania
2016 Winner, Ursula Hoff Institute Emerging Artist Acquisitive Art Award
2008 Commonwealth Education Scholarship
2008 Steve Cox Drawing Prize
2008 Lionel Gell Traveling Scholarship
2008 Ignition: NAVA Prize for Professional Practice
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2022 Veneration, Scott Livesey Galleries, Melbourne
2019 Elucidate, Scott Livesey Galleries, Melbourne
2016 Drawing all the time: Lily Mae Martin, Ararat Regional Art Gallery, Victoria
2016 New Drawings, Scott Livesey Galleries, Melbourne
2013 Far From Home, Art Gallery of Ballarat, Ballarat, Victoria
2012 Brutally Beautiful, NEONCHOCOLATE Gallery, Berlin
2009 Mêlée, theARTer gallerie, Berlin
2007 Things That Scare Me, 696 Gallery Melbourne
PRIZES
2019 Finalist, Dobell Drawing Prize
2017 Finalist, Adelaide Perry Drawing Prize, Sydney
2016 Finalist, Rick Amor Drawing Prize, Art Gallery of Ballarat, Victoria
2016 Finalist, National Works on Paper Prize, Mornington Peninsular Regional Gallery, Victoria
2016 Finalist, Paul Guest Drawing Prize, Bendigo Art Gallery, Victoria
2016 Finalist, JADA Drawing Prize, Grafton Regional Gallery, NSW)
2015 Finalist, Manning Art Prize, Taree, Australia
2014 Finalist for 2014 Benalla Nude Art Prize, Benalla, Victoria (highly commended)
2014 Finalist, Rick Amor Drawing Prize, Art Gallery of Ballarat, Ballarat, Victoria
COLLECTIONS
Art Gallery of Ballarat, Ballarat, VIctoria
‘Love Letters is a collection of ink drawings celebrating queer joy and self discovery’.
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2020 SHE 220 Walker Street Gallery & Arts Centre, Greater Dandenong, Victoria
2018 W.O.P. 2018, Scott Livesey Galleries, Melbourne
2017 Summer Salon, Scott Livesey Galleries, Melbourne
2015 The Salon, Scott Livesey Galleries, Melbourne
2014 Twenty Fourteen, Scott Livesey Galleries, Melbourne
2013 Personae featuring Lily Mae Martin, Ron Francis, Matt. R. Martin & Heidi Yardley, Scott Livesey Galleries, Melbourne
2013 Winter Selection, Scott Livesey Galleries, Melbourne
2013 Big and Small - Paintings by Melbourne Artists, Scott Livesey Galleries, Melbourne
2012 Gallery One, Scott Livesey Galleries, Melbourne
2011 Lilacs out of the dead land (Showcase of six artists)
2011 WWA Gallery Culver City, California, USA
2010 My Favorite Nightmares, Works Gallery, San Jose, California, USA
2010 Horrorwood, WWA Gallery Culver City, California, USAbeinArt Collective
2010 Group Exhibition, Copro Gallery, Santa Monica, California, USA
2010 Out of Nowhere, 696 Ink, Melbourne
2010 The Devil Made Me Do It, WWA Gallery Culver City, California, USA
2009 The forty thieves 2: The Cuban connection, Gorker Gallery, Melbourne
2008 Victorian College of the Arts Graduation show, Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne
2008
Two guys, a girl and a gallery space, Exhibition with Andrew Gallagher and Pierre Lloga, 696 Gallery, Melbourne
2006 Chaos and Bunnies: Show with Asha Duggan, 45 Downstairs Flinders Lane, Melbourne
2005 Nine exhibition, With artists from the NGV Young Ambassadors Program, Arts Victoria Foyer, Melbourne
Opposite: Work in progress
ADORATION OF THE LANDSCAPE
11 OCTOBER - 1 NOVEMBER 2025
The complex and mysterious emotions surrounding human nature’s relationship with the landscape have long been at the heart of my practice. In Adoration of the Landscape, I examine this bond further by drawing upon the landscapes that have helped shape my emotional connection to nature and investigate the nuanced ephemeral qualities that heighten the senses with overwhelming reverence.
These artworks are adorations of the landscape, giving recognition to the layered connections between the natural world and humanity. A devotion to nature that manifests in the atmospheric veils and spatial voids that permeate beyond the realms of our complete understanding.
Being immersed in the landscape, you soon realise that it’s not just the tangible physicality of what you see that can make a place so profound, but it’s the intangible, invisible, and incomprehensible. That is to say, there is an undeniable transcendence that occurs when witnessing the expanse of space that surrounds the landscape, an elemental void that hangs between you and the distance. Here, it is both empty and complete—a depth of space to extend one’s consciousness into the sublime, feel the interconnection of all life forms, and escape the inundating stimuli from the outside world.
Born 1971, Victoria, Australia.
1990-91 Associate Diploma of Art, Melbourne College of Decoration.
1988-89 Advanced Certificate in Art and Design (painting under Howard Arkley), Moorabbin College of TAFE.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023 Depth of Place, Scott Livesey Galleries, offsite at Salamanca Arts Centre (Long Gallery).
2021 Lost and Found: A Painted Landscape, Scott Livesey Galleries, Prahran, VIC.
2020 Embrace, Scott Livesey Galleries, Prahran, VIC.
2019 Land Relics and Reflections, Gallery One, Southport, QLD.
2018 Reverence - Pastures to the Wild, Scott Livesey Galleries, Armadale, VIC.
2017 Hither Land, Gallery One, Southport, QLD.
2017 Illusory Light, Salt Contemporary Art, Queenscliff, VIC.
2016 Swoon, Salt Contemporary Art, Queenscliff, VIC.
2015 Silent Song, Gallery One, Southport, QLD.
2015 Art Images Gallery, Adelaide, SA.
2014 Exhale, Gallery One, Southport, QLD.
2014 Sundays, Manyung Gallery, Sorrento, VIC.
2013 Southern Light, Gadfly Gallery, Dalkeith, WA.
2013 Cloud Ballads, Manyung Gallery, Sorrento, VIC.
2012 The White of the Cloud, Gadfly Gallery, Dalkeith, WA
2003 Moodscapes, Art Shed Gallery, Red Hill, VIC.
AWARDS & PRIZES
2024 Finalist, Glover Prize, Evandale, TAS.
2023 People’s Choice & Children’s Choice Award, Glover Prize, Evandale, TAS.
2022 Winner, Glover Prize, Evandale, TAS.
2021 Finalist, Glover Prize, Evandale, TAS.
2019 Finalist, Paddington Art Prize, Sydney, NSW.
2019 People’s Choice Award, Tattersall’s Club Landscape Art Prize, Brisbane, QLD.
2019 Finalist, Glover Prize, Evandale, TAS.
2018 Finalist, Tattersalls Club Landscape Art Prize, Brisbane, QLD.
2018 People’s Choice Award, Hadley Art Prize, Hobart, TAS.
2017 Finalist, Paddington Art Prize, Sydney, NSW.
2017 People’s Choice & Children’s Choice Award, Glover Prize, Evandale, TAS.
2016 Salon des Refusés, S.H Ervin Gallery, Sydney, NSW.
2016 People’s Choice Award, Bay of Fires Art Prize, St Helens, TAS.
2015 Finalist, Glover Prize, Evandale, TAS.
2015 Winner, Mornington Peninsula Shire Acquisitive Art Prize, Red Hill, VIC.
2014 Winner, Art Red Hill, Red Hill, VIC.
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025 Autumn Salon 2025, Scott Livesey Galleries, Prahran, VIC.
2024 Winter Salon 2024, Scott Livesey Galleries, Prahran, VIC.
2023 Winter/Spring Salon 2023, Scott Livesey Galleries, Prahran, VIC.
2022 Summer 2022/23, Scott Livesey Galleries, Prahran, VIC.
2021 Summer, Scott Livesey Galleries, Prahran, VIC.
2021 Twenty One, Scott Livesey Galleries, Prahran, VIC.
2020 Winter Salon 2020, Scott Livesey Galleries, Prahran, VIC.
2018 Christmas Exhibition, Scott Livesey Galleries, Armadale, VIC.
2018 Winter Salon, Scott Livesey Galleries, Armadale, VIC.
2018 A Painted Landscape, Book Launch, Special Group Studios, Sydney, NSW
2017 Winter Salon, Scott Livesey Galleries, Armadale, VIC.
2017 20/20 A Sense of Place, Whistlewood Gallery, McCulloch & McCulloch, Shoreham, VIC.
2016 Length and Breadth, Parliament House, Canberra, ACT.
2016 Salon des Rufusés, S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney, NSW.
2016 Salon des Rufusés, Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, Mornington, VIC.
2016 Utopia du jour, Manningham Gallery, Doncaster, VIC.
2016 Summer Series, Salt Contemporary Art, Queenscliff, VIC.
2015 Salt Contemporary Art, Queenscliff, VIC.
2014 Salt Contemporary Art, Queenscliff, VIC.
2013 Art Images Gallery, Adelaide, SA.
2013 Gallery One, Southport QLD.
2012 Gadfly Gallery, Dalkeith, WA.
2003-12 Group exhibitions at Manyung Gallery, Mt Eliza, VIC.
Parliament House, Canberra, ACT
Mornington Peninsula Shire, VIC
Epworth Hospital, Melbourne, VIC
National & International Private Collections
2023 “Jennifer Riddle wins Glover Prize 2023 People’s & Children’s Choice Awards.” Art Almanac, March 21, 2023.
Ingles, Rob. “Stunning exhibition to showcase ‘rugged, raw’ Tassie beauty.” The Mercury, July 25, 2023.
2021 Smith, Linda. “Wild at Heart.” The Mercury (Tasweekend), June 5-6, 2021.
2022 “Jennifer Riddle wins 2022 Glover Prize for Wanderings of the Past and Now.” Australian Arts Review, March 11, 2022.
McLennan, April. “Glover Art Prize 2022 winner is Jennifer Riddle with a tribute to her sister, Wanderings of the Past and Now.” ABC News, March 11, 2022.
Pridham, Bec. “Jennifer Riddle is the 2022 recipient of the prestigious Glover Prize.” The Examiner, March 12, 2022.
Bell, Liz. “Rugged Tasmania a lure for peninsula painter.” Mornington Peninsula News, March 28, 2022. Osmond, Cathy. “A Grand Spread.” The Australian (The Weekend Australian Magazine), August 12, 2022.
Burden, Hilary. “The deep South-West part 1: Light is Weather.” Forty South Tasmania, 106 (2022): 12-21.
2019 Vinall, Frances. “Jennifer Riddle awarded 2019 Glover Prize People’s Choice Award.” The Examiner, March 17, 2019.
“Jennifer Riddle wins her second Glover Prize People’s Choice Award.” Art Almanac, March 18, 2019. Vinall, Frances. “Q&A: Jennifer Riddle talks her Glover People’s Choice painting.” The Examiner, March 22, 2019.
Young, Phillip. “Wilderness Yearning.” The Mercury, May 4, 2019. Purdon, Fiona. “Riddle in an enigma.” The Courier Mail (U on Sunday Magazine), November 10, 2019.
2018 Bell, Amber Creswell. A Painted Landscape. Thames & Hudson, 2018.
Brodribb, Romany. “Misty scene wins art lovers’ hearts.” The Mercury, August 19, 2018.
“Nature ‘heightens senses’ of Red Hill artist.” Mornington Peninsula News, September 17, 2018.
2017 Geale, Hamish. “Jennifer Riddle’s Glover double the first in Prize history.” The Examiner, March 20, 2017.
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