Liz Coats 'Streaming'

Liz Coats Streaming

Detail: Streaming #3, 2011. Front cover, detail: Streaming #5, 2011

Liz Coats Streaming

22 February - 15 March, 2014

Š Utopia Art Sydney

Detail: Streaming #6, 2011

Liz Coats Streaming

Walking alone one morning whilst on a field research trip at Glenbog State forest in south-east NSW, Liz Coats came upon a flooded creek and the inspiration for her latest series of paintings: Looking for a place to cross, I followed the creek downstream for a short distance to a rocky ledge where I clambered down to a pool below. Strands of foam and tiny bits of detritus stirred up by the pressure of falling water were circulating in the current with a continuous visible pulse. I watched streaks and tiny whirlpools of bubbles form and reform, break apart around a protruding rock, or cut by a floating leaf into lateral threads, then gather speed before releasing through the narrow gap downstream. I knew then, that I was seeing the basis for a new group of paintings.

The Streaming series builds upon a long interest in light-affected surface patterns and the fabric underlying surface appearances.

Like all of Liz’s work, the paintings are resolutely abstract; they do not represent pre-existing forms.

In this sense, they are not ‘of’ the pulsing patterns in that mountain stream. Rather, the ‘organic’ qualities of her work are a product of the flow and deformation of acrylic paint.

Liz sees herself as a facilitator rather than controller of this process. She sets up frameworks within which materials interact - liquid pigments are allowed to move freely, but within the confines of screens that are laid across the canvas. Layer upon layer of paint creates rich, textural surfaces of overlaying

forms. In such a way, the process of making (or of allowing to be made), is akin to the forces Liz recognises in the natural environment.

She describes her practice as follows: In the space between one thing and another, there is a world that exists in imagination insights waiting to be made tangible. My life is bound up with making paintings. I reach out and function in a world apart from words through painting. Likewise, ways of being in the world contribute to how I go about making these images. To use an analogy, I cohabit with the paintings that I create.

The viewer, in turn, is invited to become immersed in the paintings. They may evoke for you the ripples and bubbles of a mountain stream, leaves on a forest floor, the bark of a eucalypt, patches of shifting light, liquid pigment moving across a canvas surface... or something else entirely. *

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Liz acknowledges the benefit of scholarships from the ANU School of Art, Winsor & Newton and a Megalo Print Studio residency in the making of this work. The paintings were first presented at the School of Art Gallery, Australian National University in June 2012, in completion of Ph.D. research that explored growth and form in abstract painting. They were made in a spirit of exploration and discovery that is ongoing.

Streaming #1, 2011, acrylic media & pigments on polycotton canvas, 110 x 89cm

Streaming #2, 2011, acrylic media & pigments on polycotton canvas, 110 x 89cm

Streaming #3, 2011, acrylic media & pigments on polycotton canvas, 110 x 88.5cm

Streaming #4, 2011, acrylic media & pigments on polycotton canvas, 110 x 89cm

Streaming #5, 2011, acrylic media & pigments on polycotton canvas, 110 x 89cm

Streaming #6, 2011, acrylic media & pigments on polycotton canvas, 110 x 88.5cm

Streaming #7, 2011, acrylic media & pigments on polycotton canvas, 110 x 89cm

Streaming #8, 2012-3, acrylic media & pigments on polycotton canvas, 109 x 90cm

Streaming #9, 2012-13, acrylic media & pigments on polycotton canvas, 109 x 90cm

Streaming #10, 2013, acrylic media & pigments on polycotton canvas, 109 x 90cm

Streaming #11, 2013, acrylic media & pigments on polycotton canvas, 108 x 90cm

Liz Coats Biography

Education 2009-2012

1993-7

1977

1966-1968

Ph.D., Painting Studio, School of Art, Australian National University, Canberra (University Scholarship) College of Fine Arts, University of NSW. Master of Fine Arts (Research) (Hons Class 1).

Melbourne State College, Diploma of Education Elam School of Fine Art, University of Auckland, Diploma of Fine Art

Solo Exhibitions 2014 2012

2008

2006 2004 2003

2002

2000 1998

1996 1995 1994 1993

‘Streaming’, Utopia Art Sydney, NSW ‘Liz Coats/Painting/Doctor of Philosophy’, ANU School of Art Gallery, ACT ‘Liz Coats – New Paintings’, Tivoli, Waiheke Island, Auckland, NZ ‘Liz Coats – see, hear, know’, Utopia Art Sydney, NSW ‘Strata’ Utopia Art Sydney, NSW ‘Liquid Light’ Utopia Art Sydney, NSW ‘New Paintings’ Utopia Art Sydney, NSW ‘New Works by Liz Coats’ Te Tuhi-The Mark, Studio Gallery Manukau City NZ Lilian Ida Smith Acquisitive Award exhinition, Sarjeant Gallery, Whanganui, NZ X Space, Auckland, University of Technology NZ Quay Gallery, Whanganui Community Polytechnic, NZ Hocken Library Gallery, Dunedin, NZ The Physics Room, Christchurch, NZ Sarjeant Gallery, Whanganui, NZ Art Gallery of NSW, Level 2 Installation, Sydney, NSW Creation Gallery, Beijing Annandale Galleries, Sydney, NSW Annandale Galleries, Sydney, NSW Annandale Galleries, Sydney, NSW Brooker Gallery, Wellington, NZ Annandale Galleries, Sydney, NSW Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne, VIC

1993 1992 1991

1990 1989 1987 1986 1985 1984 1983 1981 1978

1977

Brooker Gallery, Wellington, NZ Annandale Galleries, Sydney, NSW Syme/Dodson Gallery, Sydney, NSW Brooker Gallery, Wellington, NZ Syme/ Dodson Gallery, Sydney, NSW Syme/ Dodson Gallery, Sydney, NSW Garry Anderson Gallery, Sydney, NSW Garry Anderson Gallery, Sydney, NSW Garry Anderson Gallery, Sydney, NSW Garry Anderson Gallery, Sydney, NSW Avago, Sydney, NSW David Reids’ Gallery, Sydney, NSW Gallery Data, Auckland, NZ Riverina CAE, Wagga Wagga, NSW George Paton & Ewing Galleries, Melbourne University Union, VIC

Group Exhibitions 2013 ‘Landscape’, Utopia Art Sydney, NSW

‘The Salon’, Utopia Art Sydney, NSW ‘No Boundaries’, Bayside Arts & Cultural Centre, VIC ‘Abstracting the Collection’, Cruthers Collection of Women’s Art, Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, WA ‘In Residence, 2012’, Megalo Print Studio + Gallery, ACT ‘LANDSCAPE’, Utopia Art Sydney, NSW ‘Now and When: contemplating climates on the South East Coast’, Sapphire Coast Marine Discovery Centre, Eden, NSW. The exhibition catalogue received an award for Best Planning Ideas at the ACT Planning Institute of Australia Awards.

‘ANCA Now’, curator: Meredith Hinchliffe, ANCA Gallery, Canberra 2012 ‘Word of Mouth’ encounters with abstract art,

Canberra Museum and Gallery, ACT ‘Abstraction’, Utopia Art Sydney, NSW ‘paperworks’, Utopia Art Sydney, NSW ‘Abstraction II’, Charles Nodrum Gallery, VIC 2011 ‘AAA – Australian Abstract Art’, Utopia Art Sydney, NSW Liz Coats, Geoffrey De Groen, Joan Lewis Brick, Charles

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Nodrum Gallery, VIC ‘Mallee’, ANU, Canberra ‘Far Enough: Aesthetic Responses to the Far South Coast of NSW’, Bega Valley Regional Gallery, Bega, NSW 2010 ‘Museum III’ Utopia Art Sydney, NS

‘Melbourne Art Fair 2010’, Royal Exhibition Building,

Melbourne, VIC

‘Engaging Visions’, ANU School of Art Gallery,

Canberra, ACT

‘This Way Up’ M16 Galley, Canberra, ACT 2009 ‘pinned & framed’, Utopia Art Sydney, NSW

‘’Phoenix Prize for Spiritual Art’, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT

‘Abstraction’, Utopia Art Sydney, NSW

‘The 23 Annual Packsaddle Selling Exhibition’, New England Regional Art Museum, NSW

‘2009 Korean International Art Fair’, Co-Ex, Seoul, South Korea 2008 ‘Shaping Perspectives’ Horus and Deloris, Sydney, NSW

“Foresight’ Sydney University Art Gallery, Sydney NSW

‘Australian Abstraction’, Utopia Art Sydney, NSW

‘Fragile Absolute’, Delmar Art Gallery, Sydney, NSW

‘Melbourne Art Fair 2008’, Royal Exhibition Building,

Melbourne, VIC

‘PAPERWORK’’, Shoalhaven City Arts Centre, Nowra,

NSW

‘Pairs of Paintings’, Utopia Art Sydney, NSW 2007 ‘Liz Coats – time and motion, Helen Eager – plains to

mountains, Peter Maloney - electric planchette,’

Utopia Art Sydney, NSW ‘Turning 20’, Utopia Art Sydney, NSW

‘Norsewood Contemporary Art Award Exhibition’,

Hastings, NZ

Space Between Words’, Brown’s Cows Art Projects,

Gosford, NSW 2006 ‘Melbourne Art Fair 2006’, Royal Exhibition Building,

Melbourne, VIC

‘Whanganui Exposed, Percy Thomson Gallery,

Stratford, NZ ‘Mosman Art Prize’, Mosman Art Gallery, Sydney, NSW

2005

2004

‘Bits and Pieces abstract art’ Utopia Art Sydney, NSW ‘Whanganui Artists Showcase Exhibition, Community Art Centre, Whanganui NZ ‘Paddington Art Prize’ Marlene Antico Fine Arts, Sydney, NSW ‘from big things little things grow’ Utopia Art Sydney, NSW ‘2005 - The Year In art’ S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney, NSW ‘Dawn Light’ Gosford Regional Gallery, NSW ‘Sydney v Melbourne’ Silvershot, Melbourne, VIC ‘Museum II’ Utopia Art Sydney, NSW ‘Abstraction 4’ Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne, VIC ‘New Ideas 2005’ Utopia Art Sydney, NSW ‘So you wanna be a rock’n’roll star: Australian painting from the NGV Shell Collection’ Wangaratta Exhibitions Gallery, McClelland Gallery & Sculpture Park, Hamilton Art Gallery, VIC ‘A Matter of Substance’, Kensington Gallery, Adelaide, SA ‘Hazelhurst Art Award 2005 Hazelhurst Regional Gallery & Arts Centre, Sydney, NSW ‘Wanganui Arts Review’ Sarjeant Gallery, Wanganui, NZ. Merit Award Gallery, Dalgleish, Wanganui, NZ ‘NZSAG@GAS, Kensington Gallery, Adelaide, SA ‘Norsewear Art Award 2005’ Hawkes Bay Exhibition Centre, Hastings, NZ ‘Blue’ Glasmuseet, Ebeltoft, DENMARK ‘House of Dowse’, Dowse Art Museum, Lower Hutt, NZ ‘Dowse Foundation Auction’ Dowse Art Museum, Wellington, NZ ‘Recent Acquisitions’ Christchurch City Art Gallery, Christchurch, NZ ‘Melbourne Art Fair 2004’ Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne, VIC ‘Southern Exposure: A Survey of New Zealand Glass’ Sarjeant Gallery, Whanganui NZ, & Glasmuseet, Elbeltoft, Denmark, curators: Grace Cochrane & Angela Lassig ‘Wanganui Arts Review’, Sarjeant Gallery, Wanganui,

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2003

2001

NZ Merit Award, Gallery Dalgleish, Wanganui, NZ ‘Abstracting the Collection’ Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne, VIC, curators: Zara Stanthorpe & Kendrah Morgan ‘Significant Tilt’ Art and the Horizon of Meaning, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW ‘Hidden Treasures’ Campbelltown City Bicentennial Art Gallery, NSW ‘The Wonder of Water, Unesco year or water’ Community Arts Centre, Wanganui, NZ ‘Mosman Prize Exhibition’ Mosman Art Gallery, Sydney, NSW ‘The Year In Review’ Utopia Art Sydney, NSW ‘A Silver Lining and a New Beginning’ Ivan Dougherty Gallery, College of Fine Arts, University of NSW, Sydney, NSW ‘The Redlands Westpac Art Prize’ Mosman Art Gallery, NSW, curator; Felicity Fenner Wallace Art Awards, Auckland War Memorial Museum & Massey University,Wellington Campus, NZ (Special Jury Award) ‘Good Vibrations: The Legacy of Op Art in Australia’ Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne, VIC, curator: Zara Stanhope ‘Melbourne Art Fair 2002’ Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne, VIC ‘Solstice’ Utopia Art Sydney, NSW Liz Coats & Eva Heimer, Sir Herman Black Gallery, University of Sydney Union, NSW, curator: Nick Vickers ‘Travellers’ Te Wa, Wanganui, NZ ‘The Immaculate Perception’ Manawatu Art Gallery, Palmerston North, NZ, curator: Paul Hansen Liz Coats & Eva Heimer, Equrna Gallery, Ljubljana, Slovenia, curator: Nick Vickers ‘Intersections of Art and Science’ in conjunction with ISIS-Symmetry Art & Science Congress, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, College of Fine Arts, University of NSW, Sydney, NSW ‘Leaping Boundaries: A century of New Zealand artists in Australia’ Mosman Art Gallery, Sydney, NSW,

curator: Sue Gardiner ‘New Work’, Janne Land Gallery, Wellington, NZ ‘Strictly for the birds’, installation/performance at the ‘Performances ‘Conditionelles’ Arts Festival, Taler, France, August. (Presented by Sonja van Kerkhoff) ‘Dans le jardin des beaux arts’ site specific installation in the ARS Aemula Naturae Gallery, Leiden, Netherlands. Curators: Sonja van Kerkhoff, Jacqueline Wassen, Sen McGlinn 2000 ‘Door-to-Door’ selected artists explore the concepts and connotations of the door, Fisher Gallery, Manukau City, NZ, curator: Rhoda Fowler Seoul International Communication Design Exhibition,

Korea ‘The Numbers Game: Art and Mathematics’ Adam Art Gallery, Victoria University, Wellington, NZ, curator: Zara Stanhope ‘Meeting Lines’ Margaret Roberts and Liz Coats, Otago Polytechnic Art School, Dunedin, NZ

‘Who Am I’, curator: Paul Rayner, Sarjeant Gallery,

Wanganui, NZ

‘Idea and Influence’ Annandale Galleries, Sydney,

NSW

‘Expatriates II’ Te Wa Gallery, Wanganui, NZ 1999 ‘Silver’ Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney, NSW, curator:

Nick Waterlow

‘Primary Colours: Red’ Annandale Galleries, Sydney,

NSW 1998 ‘Australian Watercolour Institute, Contemporary Invitational ‘98’ S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney, NSW, curator: Jo Holder ‘After the Masters 1993-7’ selected work, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney, NSW, curators: Jennifer Hardy & Nick Waterlow ‘Optics’ Sir Herman Black Gallery, University of Sydney Union, curator: Nick Vickers ‘Co-Existence - Australian Artists Against Racism’

Hogarth Galleries, Sydney, NSW

‘Primary Colours: Blue’, Annandale Galleries, Sydney,

NSW

‘Synapse Event’ Dog Trap Rd, Mangrove Mountain,

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1997/8

1996

1995

1994

NSW ‘Art-Inter-Change’ Exhibition in conjunction with 2nd IAAH Pacific Rim ‘Conference on Adolescent Health’ Bondi Pavilion Gallery, Sydney, NSW ‘AAAR! WIK Jigsaw, Conference for Reconciliation’, Melbourne,18-26 May ‘AAAR! Message Sticks, Field of Dreams’, S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney, NSW ‘Drawing on the Diaphanous (glass artists in association with Ausglass Conference)’ Michael Nagy Gallery, Sydney, NSW ‘Skirting Abstraction: Twelve Women Abstract Painters’, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New, Plymouth, NZ, curator: John Hurrell ‘Unavailable Space’, Curator: Suzanne Bartos, Performance Space, Sydney, NSW Mosman Art Prize exhibition, Sydney, NSW ‘ARTSEA’ Internet Exhibition & Auction for the Coral Reef Research Institute ‘Paper’, Annandale Galleries, Sydney, NSW ‘Australian Contemporary Painting’, Annandale Galleries, Sydney, NSW ‘Ironsides’, exhibition & auction for New England Art Gallery, Powerhouse Museum, Sydney, NSW ‘Minima:Maxima’, Liz Coats, Jim Croke, Jon Plapp, Sir Herman Black Gallery, Sydney University Union, NSW, curator:Nick Vickers ‘Bathurst Art Purchase exhibition’, Bathurst Regional Gallery, NSW Horst Kiechle, Margaret Roberts & Liz Coats’, Parliament House Gallery, Sydney, NSW. (Exhibition linked to Chimera Symposium) ‘Girls! Girls! Girls! Annandale Galleries’, Sydney & Orange Regional Gallery, NSW ‘Town & Gown’, Victoria University Collection, Wellington, NZ ‘Three artists: Liz Coats, Esther Morgan Leigh, Geoff Thornley’, Brooker Gallery, Wellington, NZ ‘Circle, Line, Square: Aspects of Geometry’, Campbelltown City Art Gallery. (Touring: Newcastle,

1993

1992

1991

1990

1989

1988

1986

Albury, New England Regional Art Galleries), NSW. Curator: Sioux Garside ‘Contemporary Australian Paintings: Works from the Allen,Allen & Hemsley Collection’, Melbourne International Festival, Victorian Arts Centre, VIC. curator: Ewen McDonald ‘Going Public: Ideas for Transforming Public Space’, Annandale Galleries, Sydney, NSW ‘Works on paper’, Sherman Galleries, Sydney, and Solander Galleries, Canberra, ACT ‘Thought Painting’, Curator: Scott Redford, Michael Milburn Gallery, Brisbane, QLD ‘Shift’, Performance Space, Sydney, NSW ‘The New Metaphysic’, curator: Felicity Fenner, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney, NSW ‘29 Ways’, Visual Arts staff from the University of Western Sydney, Macarthur, Campbelltown City Art Gallery, NSW ‘Frames of Reference: Aspects of Feminist Art’, Artspace, Pier 4/5, Sydney, NSW, curator: Sally Couacaud ‘Drawing Show’, Syme/Dodson Gallery, Sydney, NSW ‘Abstract Paintings’, Brooker Gallery, Wellington, NZ ‘Fine & Decorative’, David Jones Art Gallery, Sydney, NSW ‘Abstraction’, Art Gallery of NSW, curator: Victoria Lynn ‘Tokyo Connection: Twelve Australian Artists’, Heineken, Village Exhibition Centre, Tokyo ‘The Radiant Core’, David Jones Art Gallery, Sydney, NSW, curator: Terence Maloon ‘Works on Paper’, Brooker Gallery, Wellington, NZ ‘Modern Australian Paintings’, Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne, VIC ‘Australian Watercolours, Drawings, Prints’, 1935-1989,Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne, VIC ‘Inside the Greenhouse’, Tin Sheds Gallery, Sydney, NSW ‘Maiden Voyage’, First Draft Gallery, Sydney, NSW ‘Structures of Necessity’, First Draft Gallery, Sydney, NSW ‘Surface for Reflexion’, Curator: Tony Bond, Art Gallery

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1985

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of NSW, Sydney, NSW ‘The Subject of Painting’, Curator: Paul McGillick, Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney, NSW ‘In Visible Pursuit’, Curator: Merilyn Fairskye, Artspace, Sydney, NSW ‘Acquisitions’, NewCastle Regional Art Gallery, NSW Powell Street Gallery, Melbourne, VIC ‘Perspecta’, Curator: Bernice Murphy, Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney, NSW. ‘Artspace Special Event’, Curator: Judy Annear, Artspace, Sydney, NSW. Golden Age Gallery, Ballarat, VIC. ‘From the Inside Out’, Women & Arts Festival, Sydney, NSW ‘Ten Years After’, Ewing & George Paton Galleries, Melbourne University. Union, VIC Coventry Gallery, Sydney, NSW ‘Women’s Art at Work: A mobile exhibition of women’s art on tour, VIC ‘Apmira, Artists for Aboriginal Land Rights’, Sydney, NSW ‘David Reids’ Watercolour Show’, David Reids’ Gallery,Sydney, NSW ‘Capital Permanent Invitation Exhibition’, Geelong Art Gallery, VIC ‘Women’s Electoral Lobby Exhibition’, Niagara Gallery, Melbourne, VIC ‘The Map Show’, Ewing & George Paton Galleries, Melbourne Univ. Union, VIC ‘Wagga Wagga Annual Invitation Exhibition’, Wagga Wagga, NSW ‘The Women’s Show’, Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide, SA ‘Self Images’, La Trobe University, Melbourne, VIC

Curatorial Project 2001

‘Fertile Ground: An artist looks at McCahon’, Hocken Library Gallery, Dunedin, NZ

Collections

Allens Arthur Robinson Artbank Art Gallery of NSW Auckland City Art Gallery Australian Embassy, Beijing Bathurst Regional Gallery BP Collection Christchurch City Art Gallery University of Technology Sydney Campbelltown City Art Gallery University of Sydney Union, University of Technology Union Dowse Art Museum, New Zealand University of Western Sydney Federal Court of Australia, Canberra Victoria University, Wellington, New Zealand Heide Museum of Modern Art Law Commission, Wellington, New Zealand Macquarie Group Collection Max Watters Collection Melbourne University Newcastle Region Art Gallery New England Regional Art Museum New Parliament House Queensland Art Gallery Redlands Art Collection National Bank of NZ,Wellington National Gallery of Australia Bundanon Trust Glasmuseet, Ebeltoft, Denmark Sarjeant Gallery, Wanganui National Gallery of Victoria Artist Residencies 2014

2013- 2014 2012 2011

Power Institute, Sydney University, Cite Studio residency, Paris Winsor & Newton Artist Workshop, London (July) Graduate in Residence, Australian National University School of Art Artist-in-residence, Megalo Print Studio & Gallery Megalo Print Studio Residency, Canberra

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2005

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1987

Bundanon Trust Artist in Residence, Bundanon, NSW Sydney College of the Arts, Glass Studio Ourimbah Campus of Newcastle University School of Art, NSW The Gunnery at Artspace, Woolloomooloo, Sydney, NSW Eastern Institute of Technology, Hawkes Bay, NZ Rita Angus Studio, Wellington, NZ Asialink Residency, Beijing Art Academy, Beijing, China Artist Residency, School of Art, Otago Polytechnic, Dunedin Artist Residency, School of Art, Univ. of Canterbury, Christchurch, NZ. Tokyo Studio, Visual Arts Board

Awards 2011

2009 2004 2003 2002

1999 1994 1992 1989 1986 1983 1981

Winsor & Newton art materials scholarship EASS Patrons Graduate Scholarship, ANU University Scholarship, ANU, Canberra, ACT Merit Award, Wanganui Arts Review, Sarjeant Gallery, Wanganui Lilian Ida Smith Acquisitive Award, Sarjeant Gallery, Wanganui, NZ The Redlands Westpac Art Prize Special Jury Prize, 2002 Wallace Art Awards Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant Australian Post-Graduate Award, MFA Research, COFA, University of NSW Development Grant, Visual Arts/Crafts Board Artist’s Fellowship, Visual Arts/Crafts Board Studio & Material Costs, Visual Arts Board Studio & Material Costs, Visual Arts Board Assistance Towards an Exhibition, Visual Arts Board

Reviews 2013

2008

Sasha Grishin, ‘Intensity of Purpose: 21 Years of ANCA’, The Canberra Times, 27.04.2013 Basil Holmes, Review in ‘Gulf News’, Waiheke Island, Auckland, NZ

2006 Julie Karobenick, ‘Geoform’, website www.geoform.

net 2002 Anne Loxley (Redlands Westpac Art Prize), Sydney Morning Herald, October.

2001 Liz Coats & Eva Heimer at Equrna Gallery, Ljubljana,

Slovenia.

Courtney Kidd (Intersections of Art & Science, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, COFA, Univ.NSW), Sydney Morning Herald, 13 June.

Paul Field, (solo exhibition: Shifting Geometries and Curated Exhibition: Fertile Ground: An artist looks at McCahon, Hocken Library Gallery, Dunedin) Otago Daily Times, 5 April.

Sue Gardiner, Art Notes: NZ, Art Monthly No. 138, April.

1998 Bruce James, (solo exhibition: Annandale Galleries) Sydney Morning Herald, 3 March 1997 Nicky Combs, (solo exhibition: Creation Gallery, Beijing) Illus. with Chinese text, Art Life Magazine, July, China.

Zhongguo Yishu Bao (Art Paper), (solo exhibition:

Creation Gallery, Beijing) 3 July.

Brief reviews in: China Daily: Exhibitions, 29 June & 4 July; Youth Daily (illus.) 23 June; Beijing Weekend: Art, 27 June, 3 July.

Allan Smith, ‘Skirting Abstraction: Scepticism and Sensibility’, Art New Zealand, No. 82, Autumn 1997, pp.35-39 (illus.)

Bruce James, (solo exhibition, glass: Annandale Galleries) review: Sydney Morning Herald, 7 February.

Joanna Mendelssohn, (solo exhibition, Annandale Galleries) Review: Liz Coats, Painting with Glass, The Australian, Arts on Friday 31 January.

1996 Bruce James, (solo exhibition: Annandale Galleries), Review: Sydney Morning Herald, 21 June.

1996 Paul McGillick, Australian Financial Review (solo exhibition: Annandale Galleries), 28 June.

Interview, Charmain Smith, Otago Daily Times,

Dunedin, NZ, 3 September.

1995 Stephen Cain, Evening Post, Wellington (solo exhibition:Brooker Gallery) 25 November.

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1990

1989 1989

Felicity Fenner, Sydney Morning Herald (Minima:Maxima) 21 April.

Stephen Cain, Evening Post, Wellington (Liz Coats, Esther Morgan Leigh, Geoff Thornley at Brooker Gallery) 3 December.

Elwyn Lynn, Australian Weekend (solo exhibition, Annandale Galleries) 11-12 June.

Natalie King, Art and Text, September 1992.

Lynette Fern, Sydney Morning Herald (solo exhibition: Annandale Galleries) 3 July.

Julie Ewington, Art & Text No. 41 (Frames of Reference).

Stephen Cain, Evening Post, Wellington (Brooker Gallery, Wellington),19 June Bronwyn Watson, The Sydney Morning Herald (IDG Gallery) 4 December Meredith Morse, The Politics of Metaphor, Eyeline No.17 Summer, (Frames of Reference).

Rob Taylor, The Dominion, Wellington (Abstract Paintings,Brooker Gallery) 30 January.

Stephen Cain, The Evening Post, Wellington (Brooker Gallery), 12 February Joel Perron, Japan Times, (Tokyo Connection: Twelve Australian Artists) Tokyo, 10 June.

Rodney O’Brien, Japan Times Colour Supplement (illus.) (Tokyo Connection: Twelve. Australian Artists) Tokyo, 9 July.

Elwyn Lynn, Weekend Australian (Abstraction AGNSW), 9/10 June.

Elwyn Lynn, Weekend Australian (solo exhibition: Syme/Dodson Gallery) 7/8 July.

Bronwyn Watson, Sydney Morning Herald (solo exhibition:Syme/Dodson Gallery) 29 June.

John Hawke, Art Monthly No.33, August (solo exhibition: Syme/Dodson Gallery).

Christopher Allen, Sydney Morning Herald (The Radiant Core,David Jones Gallery) 21 July.

John McDonald, Sydney Morning Herald (solo exhibition: Syme/Dodson Gallery) 1 April.

Jacques Delaruelle, Sydney Review No. 11, April (solo exhibition: Syme/Dodson Gallery).

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1977

Bronwyn Watson, Sydney Morning Herald (group exhibition: First Draft Gallery) 22 January.

Bronwyn Watson, Sydney Morning Herald,(group exhibition: First Draft Gallery) 30 September Terence Maloon, Sydney Morning Herald (solo exhibition, Garry Anderson Gallery) 29 March.

Elwyn Lynn, Australian(solo exhibition, Garry Anderson Gallery) 5 April.

Susanna Short, Daily Telegraph (solo exhibition, Garry Anderson Gallery) 27 March.

Joanna Mendelssohn, Art Network, Winter/Spring (solo exhibition, Garry Anderson Gallery) John McDonald, Sydney Morning Herald, Critic’s Choice, 27 December.

John McDonald, Sydney Morning Herald(group exhibition, AGNSW) 6 December.

Terence Maloon, Sydney Morning Herald (solo exhibition,Garry Anderson Gallery) 19 April.

Susanna Short, Sydney Morning Herald (solo exhibition, Garry Anderson Gallery) 3 May. Terence Maloon, Sydney Morning Herald, Critic’s Choice, December.

Terence Maloon, Sydney Morning Herald (solo exhibition,Garry Anderson Gallery) 21 April.

Nancy Borlase, Sydney Morning Herald (solo exhibition, David Reids’ Gallery) 16 May. Elwyn Lynn, Australian (solo exhibition, David Reids’ Gallery) 9 May. Exhibition commentary, Art & Australia, Summer 1981.

Gordon H. Brown, Auckland Star (solo exhibition, Gallery Data) Auckland Arts Festival, 5 April.

Mary Eagle, The Age (group exhibition: The Map Show, Ewing & George Paton Gallery) 17 May. Mary Eagle, The Age (solo exhibition, Ewing & George Paton Gallery) 16 November.

Books, Articles, Catalogue Essays 2013

Gemma Weston, ‘Abstract Thoughts’, in exhibition catalogue, ‘Abstracting the Collection’, Cruthers Collection of Women’s Art, Lawrence Wilson Art

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Gallery, 27 July – 28 September 2013 Artist’s statement in catalogue: Now & When : contemplating climates on the South East Coast.

Design & editing: John Reid, Environment Studio, School of Art, ANU. Sapphire Coast Marine Discovery Centre, Eden, NSW. (The catalogue received an award for Best Planning Ideas at the ACT Planning Institute of Australia Awards.)

2012 ‘Word of mouth: encounters with abstract art’, exhibition catalogue, Canberra Museum and Gallery, 23 June – 19 August 2012 2009 ‘Abstraction 8’, exhibition catalogue, Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne, VIC 2008 Book: Contemporary Art Studio, Beijing Art Media

Center, China 2006 Interview with Julie Karabenick, USA on the Geoform,

abstract artists website 2005 Book: “Australian Contemporary Painting - The Classic Works of 42 Excellent Artists”, Shanghai People’s Fine Arts Publishing House, edited by Jingzhe Li. Illustrations : p 20-21.

Catalogue: ‘Dawn Light: International contemporary Art Symposium’, Gosford Regional Gallery, NSW,

27 Sept. – 23 Oct. 2004 Grace Cochrane, Neues Glas/New Glass Magazine, Fall 2004 Germany & USA, ‘Southern Exposure’ exhibition, P20-7.

Exhibition catalogue, ‘Southern Exposure’, Glasmuseet, Ebeltoft, Denmark

Liz Coats, paper given at Symmetry: Art and Science Tihany Congress, Hungary: ‘Colour is structure in Abstract Painting’. In: The Journal of the International Society for the Interdisciplinary Study of Symmetry (ISISSymmetry), 2004 / 1-4.

2003 Derek March – ‘Dark Waters’ catalogue, essay by Liz Coats, Lopdell House Gallery, Auckland, NZ.

Tarek Bazley radio interview for ‘What’s Going On’, Radio National, NZ. 11 Dec.

Laurel Stowell, City Artist Honoured (Lilian Ida Smith Award), Wanganui Chronical, NZ. ‘Significant Tilt’ catalogue, Macquarie University,

Sydney, NSW. Bridie Lonie essay ‘Analogical machines’.‘Liz Coats – New paintings’ catalogue, Utopia Art Sydney, NSW. 2002 Catalogue: Good Vibrations: The legacy of ŒOp‚ Art in Australia, curator: Zara Stanhope, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne, VIC. Andrew Paul Wood, Shifting Geometries: Liz Coats (Physics Room: 17 Jan.- 10 Feb.2001).

In: Physics Room Annual 2001, The Physics Room Trust, Christchurch, NZ. Points of View: University of Technology Sydney Art Collection, editor: Ewen McDonald, Sydney, NSW. Catalogue: Liz Coats & Eva Heimer, curator: Nick Vickers, Sir Herman Black Gallery, University of Sydney Union, Sydney, NSW. Laurel Stowell, interview in Wanganui Chronicle, 25

March.

Glass Notes May 2002, NZSAG (NZ Society of Artists in

Glass) Newsletter, Autumn.

2001 Paper given at ISIS-Symmetry: Art & Science Sydney Congress. “Shifting Geometries – Dimensional Colour in Abstract Painting”, University of NSW, Sydney, 7-14 July. Published in ‘Symmetry:Art & Science Quarterly, 2001 pp. 46-9

Bridie Lonie, ‘Liz Coats: Holding Patterns’, Art New

Zealand, No. 98 Autumn.

Catalogue ‘Intersections of Art and Science’, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, COFA, UNSW, Essay: Anna Munster.

Catalogue: ‘Leaping Boundaries: A century of New Zealand artists in Australia, Mosman Art Gallery, Sydney, NSW. ‘Fertile Ground: An artist looks at McCahon’. Liz Coats writes and curates on Colin McCahon, Hocken Library Gallery, Dunedin, March - May 2001.

Liz Coats: Notes from China, In: Arts Dialogue, Journal of the Ba’hai Organization, No. 54, February.

2000 Zara Stanhope, curator’s essay in association with exhibition: The Numbers Game: Art and Mathematics, Adam Art Gallery, Victoria University, Wellington, NZ.

Booklet: Inside Painting: Artist’s statement for exhibition, “Meeting Lines”: Margaret Roberts & Liz

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Coats, Otago Polytechnic Art School, Dunedin, NZ. D’Arcy Dalzell, ‘Liz Coats: Shifting Geometries’, Sarjeant Gallery Newsletter, March/April/May 2000.

1999 Liz Coats, (Aspiring to) The Great Wide Open: Notes on China, In: Australian Asian Arts Society Journal, Vol.8, No.1, March 1999.

1998 Artist’s statement in catalogue: The Sieve, Nets & Everything, (solo exhibition: Creation Gallery, Beijing), June.

Illustrated catalogue, English & Chinese text. Privately published on the occasion of Asialink Residency, Beijing, March-July.

Artist’s statement: Morphic Paintings (solo exhibition, Annandale Galleries, Sydney) February.

1997 Photo-documentation & catalogue report in: Japan Foundation: International Forum.

Symposium: Artist-in-residence program - Weighing up the options, celebrating 100 years of Australia-Japan Friendship.

Co-ordinator: Emiko Namikawa, Tokyo, 4 Feb 1996 Sue and Ben Dowd, ‘faces:1976-96’, film on four

screens.

1995 Bruce James, catalogue essay: ‘In the Congregations,

the paintings of Liz Coats’, solo exhibition, Brooker

Gallery,Wellington, NZ. Catalogue essay on work of Margaret Roberts, for group exhibition of installation artists, The Viaduct Project, Sydney, NSW. Catalogue: The Shell Collection of Contemporary Australian Painting. Curator: Robert Lindsay, Melbourne (illus.).

George Alexander, catalogue essay for exhibition: Minima:Maxima, University of Sydney Union.

1994 Sioux Garside & Jenny Zimmer, catalogue essays in: Circle, Line, Square: Aspects of Geometry, Campbelltown City Art Gallery (illus.).

1993 Catalogue: Allen, Allen & Hemsley Collection (illus.).

Anne Kirker, New Zealand Women Artists, 2nd edition, Craftsman House, Sydney (illus.).

1992 Artist interview with Nigel Hoffman in ‘Transforming

Art’, Sydney.

1991

1990

1989

1988

Brigitte Carcenac de Torne, ‘Colours that fan out subjectivity’, in: Binocular, Vol.2, Moet et Chandon, Sydney.

Cover illustration: The Fisherwoman and the Gardener: The Heart, in: Study Design booklet for Languages other than English, Victorian Curriculum & Assessment Board, Melbourne.

Paul Carter, Art Monthly Dec/Jan No.46, ‘Mining the Surface: The Illusion of Depth in Australian Landscape Painting.

Sandy Kirby, Sight Lines: Women’s Art & Feminist Perspectives in Australia, Craftsman House (illus).

Ewen McDonald, Liz Coats: A Body of Work, in: Art New Zealand, September.

Artist’s statement in: Frames of Reference catalogue.

Curator: Sally Couacaud, Pier 4/5, Sydney (in association with Dissonance Program).

Liz Coats, Art Monthly, October No.44, Mootwingee Sacred Site.

Victoria Lynn, Catalogue essay: Abstraction. Art Gallery of NSW (illus).

Terence Maloon, Catalogue essay: The Radiant Core.

David Jones Gallery, Sydney.

Max Germaine, Artists & Galleries of Australia & New Zealand, Craftsman House (illus).

Terence Maloon, chapter: Commitment to abstraction in: Contemporary Australian Painting, Editor: Eileen Chanin.Craftsman House, Sydney.

Sabrina Achilles, ‘Tokyo Connection’, interview in: From Australia: Contemporary Art & Craft, No. 2.

Published by the Australia Council.

Catalogue statement for exhibition: Tokyo Connection: Twelve Australian artists in Tokyo.

Joanna Mendelssohn, The Vision Splendid, in: The Bulletin, 24 October.

Takaki Hasegawa, ‘Stillness and Motion through using Japanese paper as material, Yomiuri Shimbun, November.

Catalogue essay for exhibition of drawings by Leah Mackinnon, First Draft Gallery, Sydney.

Catalogue statement for exhibition: Structures of

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1987

1986 1985

1981

Necessity, First Draft Gallery, Sydney.

Interview with Yoko Matsuda, in: Bijutsu Techo, Contemporary Art Magazine, Tokyo, July, p.249.

Artist’s Diary, Arts Monthly, December.

Interview with staff reporter, in: Tokyo Shimbun, Tokyo,14 March.

Interview with Graham Wicks, In: Australian Embassy Bulletin, Tokyo, January.

Tony Bond, catalogue essay in: ‘Surface for Reflexion’, Art Gallery of NSW & touring Regional NSW Galleries.

Catalogue essay, Ingrid Perez & Gary Sangster, ‘In Visible Pursuit’, Artspace, Sydney.

Paul McGillick, catalogue essay,‘The Subject of Painting’, Art Gallery of New South Wales.

Janine Burke, ‘Bringing it all back home: Thoughts on recent abstract painting’ in: Art & Australia, Vol.18, p.370-4.

1991 1992 1993 1994

1995

1996

Teaching Teaching in tertiary institutions in Australia and New Zealand since 1987. Specialized in painting, with attention to drawing and studio theory.

Part-time lecturer (Painting) Year 3, East Sydney Technical College 1988 Part-time lecturer (Painting) Year 3, East Sydney Technical College Part-time lecturer (Painting) Year 1, Sydney College of the Arts Part-time lecturer (Painting: tutorials & studio supervision) Years 2 & 3, Sydney College of the Arts Part-time lecturer (Painting: studio supervision) Postgraduate, Sydney College of the Arts 1989 P/T lecturer (Painting) Years 2 & 3 & post-graduate,

Sydney College of the Arts

Studio Theory course in abstract painting, Years 2 & 3,

Sydney College of the Arts

P/T lecturer (Painting) Year 3, East Sydney Technical

College 1990 P/T lecturer (Painting) Years 2 & 3 & post-graduate,

1997

1987

1998 1999

2000 2001

2002

Sydney College of the Arts P/T lecturer (Painting) Year 3 & post-graduate, Sydney College of the Arts P/T lecturer (Painting) Year 3, University of Western Sydney (Macarthur) P/T lecturer (Painting) Year 3, University of Western Sydney (Macarthur) P/T lecturer (Painting & Drawing) Year 2, University of Western Sydney (Macarthur) P/T lecturer (Drawing) Year 1, University of Western Sydney (Macarthur) P/T lecturer (Painting & Drawing) Year 2, University of Western Sydney (Macarthur) P/T lecturer (Primary Education electives in Painting) University of Western Sydney (Nepean) P/T lecturer (Primary Education and Visual Arts electives in Painting) University of Western Sydney (Nepean) P/T lecturer (Painting & Drawing) Year 2, University of Western Sydney (Macarthur) P/T lecturer (Painting) Year 3, University of Western Sydney (Macarthur) P/T lecturer (Painting) Year 3, University of Western Sydney (Macarthur) P/T lecturer (Painting) Year 2, College of Fine Arts, University of NSW, Sydney.

P/T lecturer (Cross-disciplinary experimenting with materials workshop) Year 2, College of Fine Arts, University of NSW, Sydney Examiner for Master of Arts candidate (Painting), University of Western Sydney (Nepean) Examiner for Master of Arts candidate (Painting) College of Fine Arts (COFA) University of NSW Masters tutorials at Auckland Institute of Technology Mentor & thesis examiner for 4th year print-making student at Whanganui Community Polytechnic Examiner for Masters thesis & exhibition, School of Art & Design, Auckland University of Technology Tutorials in 20th century art theory, Whanganui Regional Community Polytechnic, Year 3 Seminar for Art & Design students at Auckland

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University of Technology, School of Art & Design Examiner of Master of Arts candidate (Art & Design), Auckland, University of Technology, NZ. 2006 Seminar for painting students at Ourimbah Campus of Newcastle University School of Art, NSW 2006-7 Online dialogue with students and art teacher, Meg Lomm, at SCEGGS Redlands Grammar School, Sydney 2007 Casual Tutoring, all disciplines, UCOL School of Art, Wanganui, NZ

2006

2005

2000

Conferences/Workshops Attended

2005

2004

2001

1997

Dawn Light exhibition symposium, Ourimbah Campus, Newcastle University, NSW. Symmetry: Art and Science Tihany Congress, Hungary.

NZ Society of Artists in Glass Conference, Wanganui ISIS-Symmetry: Art & Science Sydney Congress, University of NSW, Sydney.

10th Biennial Ausglass Conference,Sydney College of the Arts, Workshop with Leifur Breidfjord (Iceland) in architectural glass 1995 Chimera Symposium and exhibition, Synapse artists, College of Fine Arts, University of NSW, Sydney.

Mt Abu Dialogue and International Retreat, Brahma Kumaris Organisation, Rajasthan, India 1993 2nd International Forum of the Arts, Brahma Kumaris

Organisatin, Olbia, Sardinia

8th Biennial Ausglass Conference, Canberra School of

Art, Workshop with Cappy Thompson (USA) and Maud Cotter (UK) in glass

painting

2008

Membership

2003 2002

2004

National Association of the Visual Arts (Australia) NAVA Womens Art Register, Victoria, Australia Synapse Art Initiatives (Brown Cows Art Projects) Judging

Annual Student Acquisitive Arts Prize, Watt Space Gallery, Newcastle (With Mike Parr and Nick Mitzevich) Castlecliff Domain Sculpture Competition, Wanganui, NZ Wanganui Telecom art scholarship

Talks 2010

2007

2006

2005

2004

2001

‘Russian Avant-Garde artist Mikhail Matiushin & the organic strand of abstraction’, School of Art, ANU, Canberra talk on Cezanne re: Masterpieces from Musee D’orsay, Paris’, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra floor talk, ‘Foresight’, University of Sydney Union Art Collection, Sydney University.

Talk at Tivoli Gallery, Waiheke Island Guest Lecture for Glass Studio, Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney Guest Lecture, Whanganui UCOL School of Art, NZ Artists talk at Tivoli, Waiheke Island, Auckland - Liz Coats New Paintings.

Guest Lectures (2) Newcastle University School of Visual Art, Newcastle, NSW Guest Lecture at School of Visual Art, Hunter Institute of TAFE, Newcastle NSW Paper given at ‘Dawn Light’ Conference, Ourimbah Campus of Newcastle University: ‘Liz Coats on making paintings’, (In association with ‘Dawn Light’ exhibition, Gosford Regional Gallery, NSW, Sept.)

Paper given at Symmetry: Art and Science Tihany Congress, Hungary: ‘Colour is Structure in Abstract Painting’.

Talk with slides, Sarjeant Gallery, Wanganui Seminar (with exhibition at X Space) Auckland University of Technology, School of Art & Design Paper given at ISIS-Symmetry: Art & Science Congress, University of NSW, Sydney Talk for painting students at Wanganui Regional Community Polytechnic Guest lecture at Otago Polytechnic School of Art,

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2000

1999

1998

1997

1996

1993

Dunedin Forum: “Who Am I” in association with ‘Who am I’ exhibition, curator: Paul Rayner, Sarjeant Gallery, Wanganui NZ Artist’s Forum, solo exhibition: ‘Shifting Geometries’, Sarjeant Gallery, Wanganui, NZ Guest lecture in the Korero Mo Toi series, a collaboration between the Auckland Institute of Technology Masters programme, and the Auckland City Art Gallery Guest lecture, University of Western Sydney-Macarthur Artists’ Forum: Tradition & Innovation, Australian Watercolour Institute, S.H. Evin Gallery, Sydney Master of Arts Forum, College of Fine Arts, Sydney (on China) Artists’ Forum, UWS-Macarthur (on China) Guest lecture, Seaforth TAFE, Sydney ‘Finding Simplicity: Engagement with painting as a living exchange’ (revised) Paper with slides presented

by Prof.Liz Ashburn at ISIS 4th International Conference on Art and Science, Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel, September Colloquium organised by Victoria Lynn, “On Painting”, Art Gallery NSW Guest lecture: Beijing Art Academy, Asialink Residency, Beijing, China ‘Finding Simplicity: Engagement with painting as a living exchange’, Paper presented at Intersections ‘97 Conference (in association with Perspecta) Guest lecture, Meadowbank TAFE Elam School of Art, University of Auckland, NZ School of Art, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, NZ School of Art, Otago Polytechnic, Dunedin, NZ Artist’s forum, University of Western Sydney, Macarthur Colloquium on contemporary women artists: Liz Coats, Noelene Lucas & Kate Briscoe Conference on Religion, Literature & the Arts, Sancta Sophia College, Sydney University Artist’s Forum, Meadowbank TAFE

1992

1991

1990

1989 1988

1987

1986

Artist’s Forum, Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne Artist’s Forum, University of New England, Northern Rivers Floor talk for ‘Face of Sydney’ summer programme, Art Gallery of NSW Slide talk (with Sally Couacaud) on ‘Frames of Reference’ exhibition, University Western Sydney, Nepean Weekend Forum, Art Gallery of NSW, ‘Speaking for Ourselves: Eight women artists, (in association with Dissonance programme) Lunchtime talk, Abstraction exhibition, Art Gallery of NSW Symposium for Australian Artists, Tokyo Connection exhibition, Tokyo 11th Australia/Japan joint seminar, organised by the Australia/Japan Foundation, Hachioji, Japan.

Slide talk, City Art Institute, Sydney Slide talk, Sydney College of the Arts Art Forum, Tasmanian School of Art Art Forum, Tasmanian Institute of Technology,Launceston Slide talk, East Sydney Technical College Art Forum, Canberra School of Art Slide talk, School of Art, Newcastle CAE Lunchtime talk, ‘Surface for Reflexion’, Art Gallery of NSW Slide talk, School of Art, Riverina CAE, Wagga Wagga

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