CUrriculum Vitae

Dr Anne Bennett

Contemporary artist

Based in Naarm / Melbourne, Australia.

Education

Doctor of Philosophy MADA, Monash University.

Master of Art Curatorship, The University of Melbourne

Listed on the 2016 Dean’s Honours List for Academic Excellence

Master of Fine Art, University of Tasmania.

Bachelor of Art (Fine Art), Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (now RMIT University)

Certificate IV in Training and Assessment (TAE 40110), MRWED/ NMIT

Solo exhibitions & Key Collaborations

2022 Forest of Hope Performance Night with Jutta Pryor (projections), Megan Kenny (flute), Scott Dunbabin (bass) Ivanhoe Library & Cultural Centre (ILCH)

2022 Deluge/ Paradise Transplant at Banyule Open Studios Light after Dark Performance Night with Jutta Pryor (projections), Megan Kenny (flute), Scott Dunbabin (bass) and others, Dimension Art Project Space, Bundoora

2018 Yarra Yarra Project, Testing Grounds, in collaboration with sound artist Alice Bennett & accompanied by Nat Grant

2020 Revitalise Warringal: The remaking of Banyule’s wetlands, Warringal Shopping Centre, Heidelberg

2019 Waterways, WaterMarc, Banyule City Council, Greensborough

2016 Formation & Reformation, Tilde New Music & Sound Art Festival, Testing Grounds

2015 Reiterating Paradise, Tilde New Music & Sound Art Festival, Testing Grounds

2014 The Making of Meaning: rapture and rupture in the garden, Post Office Gallery, Federation University, Ballarat

2014 The Making of Meaning: precedents and precincts, The Front, Docklands

2011 Fall Out From Eden Faculty Gallery, Monash University, Caulfield

2005 Re-coil Cardinia Cultural Centre

2001-02 Federation Dreaming Swan Hill Regional Gallery

2001 Federation Dreaming Walker Street Gallery, (touring Victorian Regional Galleries & ACT)

2000 Paradise Unreal Estate 8 metre shop front installation, 24 Langtree Ave, Mildura for Mildura Palimpsest #3 1999 Packaging Paradise Civic Centre Art Space, City of Casey

1991 Passages from Paradise Pinacotheca, Richmond

1988 Descent into Paradise Tolarno Galleries, South Yarra

1986 Imposition and Disposition, Plimsoll Galleries, Centre for the Arts, Hobart

Awards, Prizes & Residencies

2020 Awarded Banyule City Council Community Grant, Banyule City Council

2019 Awarded Pinpoint Art In Public Spaces Grant, Banyule City Council

2018 Awarded Artist-In Residence, Testing Grounds, Melbourne with Sound Artist Alice Bennett

2016 Awarded Dean’s Honours List for Academic Excellence in Art Curatorship, The University of Melbourne

2012 Awarded Artist in Residence, University of Ballarat

2008 Awarded Postgraduate Travel Scholarship, Monash University

2008 Finalist Libris Awards Artspace, Mackay, QLD

2007 Awarded Postgraduate Equity Travel Scholarship, Monash University

2007 Awarded Search For The Impossible, Books 07 Acquisition Award

2007 Finalist She Walker Street Gallery, Melbourne

2007 Finalist Search For The Impossible, Books 07 Noosa Regional Art Gallery, QLD

2006 Finalist Swan Hill Print and Drawing Acquisitive Awards Swan Hill Regional Art Gallery

2006 Finalist Waterhouse Natural History Art Prize South Australian Museum

2006 Finalist Robert Jacks Drawing Prize Bendigo Art Gallery

2006 Finalist Silkcut Award Glen Eira City Council Gallery

2006 Finalist 10+ Beyond Books 06 Noosa Regional Gallery Qld

2006 Finalist Libris Awards Artspace, Mackay

2006 Finalist Southern Cross University Aquisitive Artists’ Book Award Next Contemporary Art Space, Southern Cross University, Lismore, NSW

2006 Finalist Image as Text as Image Noosa Regional Gallery Qld

2005 Finalist Black and White Books Artisan Books, Gertrude Street, Fitzroy

2005 Finalist Southern Cross University Acquisitive Artists’ Book Award Next Contemporary Art Space, Southern Cross University, Lismore, NSW

2005 Finalist Smorgon Steel Contemporary Art Prize Williamstown Festival

2002 Finalist Heart Walker St Gallery, Dandenong

2000 Awarded Swan Hill Regional Art Gallery Acquisition Award

2000 Awarded Artistcare Art Award

2000 Finalist Jacaranda Acquisitive Drawing Award Touring Show

1999 Finalist Shell Contemporary Art Prize Williamstown Festival

1999 Finalist She Walker Street Gallery, Dandenong

1999 Finalist Jacaranda Acquisitive Drawing Award Grafton Regional Gallery

1998 Awarded Walker Street Gallery Award, She Walker Street Gallery, Dandenong

1987 Awarded Desiderius Orban Award, Australia Council

Curatorial projects

2017 States of Being: the elemental importance of water, Hatch Contemporary Arts Space

2012 Seeing Artists Books as Research Royal Society of Victoria, Heritage Library

2011 Impact Of/n Nature 69 Smith Street Gallery, Fitzroy

2007 Paper Animals: animals as metaphor Albury Regional Art Gallery

2007 Paper Animals: animals as metaphor East Gippsland Art Gallery

2004 Paper Animals: animals as metaphor, Maroondah Art Gallery

2004 Environment Matters: science in art, Royal Society of Victoria

2004 Search: aspects arising from postgraduate research, Cusp Melbourne

2001 Art Animals: animals as metaphor Horsham Regional Art Gallery

2001 Art Animals: animals as metaphor Switchback Gallery, Gippsland Campus, Monash University.

2001 Art Animals: animals as metaphor Walker St Gallery, Dandenong

1986 Work on Walls, co-curator Hugh Wilbur-Ham in conjunction with Fringe Furniture Show, Ufitzi Galleries, Spoleto Fringe Festival, Melbourne

Selected group exhibitions

2021 Winter Days, Off the Kerb, Collingwood

2021 Land, Off the Kerb, Collingwood

2020 Liminal // a shared distance, , Hatch Contemporary Arts Space (online)

2017 States of Being: the elemental importance of water, Hatch Contemporary Arts Space

2016 Pinpoint Contemporary Art Fair, Hatch Contemporary Artspace, Banyule City Council

2015 f generation: feminism, art, progressions, George Paton Gallery, The University of Melbourne

2013 Drawing the Line, Chapman and Bailey

2013 Change within Change, Transdisciplinary Studio, Northern Exposure, Northcote Town Hall

2012 Seeing Artists Books as Research Royal Society of Victoria, Heritage Library

2012 Guarda…PRATO! Atrium Gallery, Monash University, Caulfield

2012 Transdisciplinary Studio on Yarra Bend Road, Red Gallery, Fitzroy

2011 Impact Of/n Nature 69 Smith Street Gallery, Fitzroy

2010 Greater Than One Faculty Gallery, Monash University

2009 Women, Art and Politics Swan Hill Regional Gallery

2007 ABC Book exhibition Northampton University, United Kingdom

2007 Paper Animals: animals as metaphor East Gippsland Art Gallery & Albury Regional Art Gallery

2007 3rd International Collage Exhibition Vilnius 2006 Gallery Arka, Vilnius, Lithuania

2006 Hey-Li Printmedia Festival Sung Shin Women’s University, Seoul, Korea

2006 Swan Hill Print and Drawing Acquisitive Awards Swan Hill Regional Art Gallery

2006 Waterhouse Natural History Art Prize South Australian Museum

2006 Robert Jacks Drawing Prize Bendigo Art Gallery

2004 Paper Animals: animals as metaphor, Maroondah Art Gallery

2004 Environment Matters: science in art, Royal Society of Victoria

2004 Search: aspects arising from postgraduate research, Cusp Melbourne

2001 Art Animals: animals as metaphor Walker St Gallery, Dandenong, Horsham Regional Art Gallery, Switchback Gallery, Monash Uni.

2001 Mildura Palimpsest #4 Packing Sheds, Mildura

1999 Mildura Palimpsest #2 Mildura Arts Centre

1992-3 Margaret Stewart Endowment National Gallery of Victoria

1992 Recently Seen McClelland Gallery, Langwarrin, VIC.

1990 Art Angels Blaxland Gallery, Myer Melbourne

1987 Gallery Artists Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne