Deborah Walker CV
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Deborah Walker CV
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Deborah WalkerDetails
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2008Type
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ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS
1974 Diploma of Fine Art, Monash University, Australia
1981 Post-graduate Diploma, Victorian College of the Arts,
1994 Master of Arts, Monash University, Australia
2002 PhD, Deakin University, Australia
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
1987-88 Lecturer, Prahran Art School, Victoria College,
1987-88 Lecturer, Art School, R.M.I.T
1983-89 Lecturer, Victorian College of Arts, Art School,
1982 Visiting Lecturer, Phillip Institute of Technology
1987 Visiting Lecture, Gippsland Institute
1994 Visiting Lecture, Victorian College of Arts
1995 Visiting Lecturer, Victorian College of Arts
1992 Currently Senior Lecturer, Arts Faculty, Deakin University,
2005 Adjunct Lecturer, Griffith University, Queensland College of Art
PROFESSIONAL PROFILE
1988 Forum, Hobart University, Tasmania
1982-83 Summer School, National Gallery of Victoria,
1984 Assistant, Victorian Print Workshop
1988 Judge, St.Kilda Festival, Art Prize
1987 Women's Register Slide Kit
1991 Visiting Lecture, Art Resources Collective, Morwell,
1991 Co-ordinated Deakin University's participation in
National Student Exhibition Melbourne
1992 Co-ordinated Deakin University in
Next Wave Festival, Melbourne
1992 Ministry of Education Slide Kit, in Women in Contemporary Art
1993 Queensland University College of Arts, included in Slide Kit
1994 Discovery Media - Art CD - Rom, in Contemporary Australian Art
1996 Double Dialogues Conference, Deakin University
1997 Double Dialogues, Conference Paper, Deakin University
1998 Double Dialogues Conference Paper, Deakin University
2004 Artist’s floor talk, Stonington Stables Museum of Art
2005 Journal article, Double Dialogues, on-line journal
BOOKS
2008 Melbourne Writer’s Festival, Artist/Poet’s Book with Kevin Brophy
2008 Walker, D “Giorgio de Chirico and The Real: Art, Enigma and Nietzschean Innocence”, VDM Verlag Dr Muller , Germany 2008
ADDITIONAL ACADEMIC RESPONSIBILITIES
2005 Board Member, Faculty of Arts Board, Deakin University, Australia
2003-4 Arts Faculty Representative, Library Committee, Deakin University, Australia
1983-9 Selection & Interview Representative, Victorian College of Arts, Australia
2004-5 Deakin University Academic Advisory Committee
1997- 05 Deakin University, Selection Officer for Tertiary Student Entry
1996 - 04 Board Member, Koori Institute of Education, Deakin University
2003 - 4 Committee Member of Deakin University’s Academic Progress Committee
2000 – 4 Board Member, The School of Communication and Creative Arts, Academic Advisory Committee, (Visual Arts), Deakin University
1993 -2001 Responsible for designing & teaching new units, Deakin University
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
1978 Henri Worland Acquisition Award, Warrnambool Art Gallery, Victoria
1979 Henri Worland Acquisition Award, Warrnambool Art Gallery, Victoria
1980 St. Kilda Festival, Art Prize, Melbourne
1980 Henri Worland Acquisition Award, Warrnambool Art Gallery, Victoria
1981 Freemantle Print Award Exhibition, Western Australia
1983 Diamond Valley Acquisition Award, Victoria
Women in Prints, Melbourne University, Australia
St. Kilda Festival, Art Prize
Henri Worland Acquisition Award, Warrnambool Art Gallery, Victoria
1984 8th British International Print Biennale, United Kingdom
Recent Acquisitions, Australian National Gallery, Australia
McLelland Gallery, Victorian Print Workshop Prints
Other People, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art
The Nude, Gerstman Abdullah Fine Art, Melbourne
Retrospective, Gerstman Abdullah Fine Art, Melbourne
Henri Worland Acquisition Award, Warrnambool Art Gallery
Diamond Valley Acquisition Award
1986 Holdsworth Gallery, Sydney, New South Wales
Directors' Choice, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology,
1987 Recent Drawings, Gerstman Abdullah Fine Art
1988 The National Women's Art Award, Queensland
1989 Recent Work, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Meta-Portraits, Baxland Gallery, Melbourne
BP Art Award, Melbourne
Women's Art Register Auction
Group Artists, Realities Gallery, Melbourne
Between the Lines, coordinated by James Harley & Shiralee Saul An Installation Publication, 2nd Edition
1991 The Approaching Fin de Siecle, 25th Anniversary, Print Council of Australia., traveling Australia
St.Kilda Scapes, Work from Collection, St.Kilda Council
One, Group paintings, Niagara Galleries, Melbourne
Microcosm, Paintings, Gary Anderson Gallery, Sydney
1992 St.Kilda Festival, Postcard Exhibition
1992 Wildlife Exhibition, Linden Gallery, St. Kilda.
1991 Small Works - Wide Vision, Downlands Art Prize, Toowoomba
1992 20th Anniversary Henri Worland Prize, Warrnambool Art Gallery
1992 Alice Springs Invitation Prize, Alice Springs, N.T.
1993 Pacific Rim International Exhibition, University of Hawai’I, U.S.A.
On The Other Hand, S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney
1993 Alice Springs Invitation Prize, Alice Springs, N.T.
Vitae - An Installation Publication #7, Part of the 5th Triennial, R.M.I.T
1994 Remember - An Installation, Temple Studio, Melbourne
Contemporary Figuration, Lauraine Diggins Fine Art
Small Photographs, Centre for Contemporary Photographs
1995 St. Kilda Festival, Postcard Prize, Linden Gallery
Out of the Void, Art from the Collection of the Queensland Art Gallery
Locus Momentum, Warrnambool Art Gallery
1996 Pacific Rim International Print Exhibition, University of Hawai'i
Travelling to: West Bend Art Museum, Rahr West Art Museum & Bergstrom Mahler Museum, Wisconsin, U.S.A.
1997 Alice Invitation Prize, Alice Springs Art Foundation, N.T.
Mint Condition - Unhinged 3, Switchback Gallery, Monash University
Drawing Prize, Mornington Peninsular Art Gallery
1997 John McCaughey Memorial Invitation Art Prize, National Gallery of Victoria
1998 Magic Realism, Paintings, Australian Galleries
9 by 5 by Twenty Five, Celebrating 25 Years of Excellence, Victorian College of the Arts, The Victorian Arts Centre
1999 Paintings, Australian Galleries, Melbourne & Sydney
Chair Paintings, Childrens Cancer Trust, Sydney
We Are Australians, Melbourne International Festival of the Arts, Official Event of the Fine Art Programme, George Adams Gallery, Victorian Arts Centre
Conrad Jupiter Invitation Art Prize, Gold Coast Art Gallery
2000 We Are Australian, Volvo Gallery, Sydney,
Group Paintings, Andrew Baker Gallery, Brisbane
We Are Australian, Art space, Optima Playhouse, Adelaide Festival Centre, S.A.
Melbourne 2000 Art Fair, Exhibition Buildings, Melbourne
2001 We Are Australian, Tasmanian Museum & Art Gallery
Collected Work, Andrew Baker Gallery, Brisbane
Darebin, LaTrobe Acquisition Art Prize, Federation Centre for the Arts, Bundoora
We Are Australian, United Nations 3rd World Conference Against Racism, Durban, South Africa
St.Kilda Postcard Exhibition, Linden Art Gallery
We Are Australia, Canberra Museum & Art Gallery, Multicultural Festival
2002 Invitation Drawing Prize, Swan Hill Print & Drawing Acquisitive Awards,
We Are Australian, State Library of Queensland, Brisbane
2003 HEAT, Invitation Group Exhibition, Noose Regional Gallery, Old
Modern Portraits – Ord Minnett, Melbourne, curated by Kirsten Rann
We Are Australian, The Immigration Museum, Melbourne
2004 Swan Hill Drawing Prize, Swan Hill Regional Gallery
Fantastic and Visionary Art, Ballarat Fine Art Gallery
2005 Girls, Girls, Girls, Images of Femininity from the Banyule Art Collection, Banyule Art Gallery
Selected Works, Lauraine Diggins Fine Art
2005 Site: A selection of work, Warrnambool Art Gallery
Recent Acquisitions: Deakin University Art Collection
2006 R & M McGivern Art Prize, Invitation Prize, Maroondah Art Gallery
Compact Prints, Umbrella Studio, Townsville, Queensland
Tattersall’s Club Landscape Art Prize, Queensland
Impressions, Limited Edition Prints, Australian Print Workshop
2007 Warrnambool Art Gallery, 25 year Collection
Group Exhibition, Big Sky Print Workshop
2008 Drought, Melbourne Writer’s Festival, in collaboration with poet Kevin Brophy
2009 R & M McGivern Invitation Prize, Maroondah Art Gallery
Recent Acquisitions, Art Museum, Deakin University
Warrnambool Print Collection, Ararat Regional Gallery
Drought, Post Office Gallery, Ballarat
Spectral Bequest, Andrew Baker Art Dealer
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
1979 Harrington Gallery, Hobart, Tasmania
1983 Hawthorn City Art Gallery, Melbourne
1984 Stuart Gerstman Gallery, Melbourne
1986 Gerstman Abdullah Fine Arts International, Germany
Gerstman Abdullah Fine Arts International, Melbourne
1990 200 Gertrude Street Gallery, New York Drawings, Melbourne
1991 Niagara Gallery, Paintings, Melbourne
1994 Niagara Gallery, Paintings, Melbourne
1996 Paintings, X Vector, Adelaide
1997 Paintings, Hill-Smith Fine Art Gallery, Adelaide
2000 Paintings, Australian Galleries, Melbourne
2001 Paintings, Australian Galleries, Melbourne
2001 Paintings, Andrew Baker Gallery, Brisbane
2003 Kansas State University Gallery, Kansas, USA
2004 Hommage to the Infinite, Survey Exhibition, Stonnington Stables Museum of Art
Clouds & Shadows, Paintings, Andrew Baker Gallery, Brisbane
2008 Recent Paintings, Gallery 101, Melbourne
GRANTS & AWARDS & RESIDENCIES
1978 Warrnambool Print Acquisition Award,Warrnambool Art Gallery
1980 Victorian College of Arts, Graeme Brown Prize
St.Kilda Festival Acquisition Award
Visual Arts Board Traineeship Grant
Print Council of Australia, Member Print
1981 St.Kilda Festival Acquisition Award, Highly Commended
Victorian College of the Arts, Scholarship,
National Gallery of Victoria, Mid-year Trustees Award
1985 Diamond Valley Acquisition Award
1986 Visual Arts Board, Project Grant
Visual Arts Board, New York Travel Grant
1989 Trades Hall Studio Residency, Melbourne
1991 Deakin University, Research Grant
25th Anniversary Commission, P.C.A. The Approaching fin de siecle.
1992 St.Kilda Art Gallery, Postcard Show Prize, Ist Prize.
Melbourne Theatre Company programme commission.
Campbelltown City Bicentennial Art Gallery, Slide Registration
1994 Post-graduate scholarship, M.A., Monash University
1995 Outside Study Grant, Deakin University
2000 Post-graduate scholarship, Deakin University
2003 Artist in Residence, Griffith University, Queensland
2004 Artist in Residence, Griffith University
2005 Artist in Residence, Bundanon, Arthur Boyd Trust, Shoalhaven
Artist in Residence, Griffith University, Queensland College of Art
2006 Short-listed for Churchill Fellowship
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Baum, Caroline A Private World, Harper's Bazaar, 1985
Brown, Phil Time Warp, Gallery Review, Brisbane News, 2004
Butler, Roger Recent Acquisitions, Australian National Gallery, 1985
Catalano, Gary The Age, Arts Review, 1986
Cramer, Sue Other People, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, 1985
Erlich Rita The Age, Seduced by Manhattan, New York Interview, 1990
Erlich, Rita The Age, Interview, 1986
Erlich, Rita The Age, Room to Create, September 29, 2004
Germaine, Max Artists and Galleries
Haffke, Carol National Women's Art Award, Gold Coast Bulletin, 1989
Heathcote, Christopher The Age, Arts Review, 1992
Heathcote, Christopher The Age, Arts Review, 1992
Heathcote, Christopher Magic Realism, Catalogue Essay, Australian Galleries, 1998
Heathcote, Christopher Australian Painting 1788 – 2000, by Bernard Smith with additional chapters by Terry Smith & Christopher Heathcote, Oxford University Press, 2001
Holloway, Memory The Age, Arts Review, 1984
Howard, Jan Dowlands Wide Vision, Toowoomba
Nelson, Robert The Age, Arts Review, 2001
Nicholls, Lara The Cbus Collection of Australian Art: As advised by Dr Joseph Brown, Pandemonium Press, 2004
Makin, Jeffrey The Sun, Arts Review, 1979
McCulloch, Susan Australian Artist and Galleries
McCulloch, Allan The Herald, Arts Review, 1980
Michaels, Damien Exhibition Review, Magic Realism, Art Visionary, 88/99
Miller, Ronald The Herald, Arts Review,1983
Millar, Ronald The Herald, Arts Review, 1984
Millar, Ronald The Age, Arts Review, 1986
Murdoch, Anna The Age, Arts Report, 1989
Palmer, Sheridan Transitional Times, Print Council of Australia, 1983
Plant, Simon The Herald Sun, Brush with Fame: Archibald entrants, April 2, 2005
Riddle, Margaret Images of Women, Melbourne University Gallery,
Rooney, Robert The Australian, In Search of the Younger Artist, article, 1986
Strahan, Lucinda The Age, Exhibition Review, June 26, 2003
Thomson, Helen The Sunday Herald, Galleries, 1991
Waterfield, Dorothy The Myth of Promise, Gertrude Street Gallery Catalogue, 1990
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Inside Melbourne Mama Mia, 15th September, 1999
Mosman Daily Chairs become works of Art, 30th September, 1999
Strahan, Lucinda The Age, Modern Portraits, Exhibition Review, 26.5.03
Wood-Conroy, Diana A Parallel World Full of Imagination and Reflectiveness, catalogue essay – 20 year survey exhibition, Stonnington Stables Museum of Art, Deakin University
COLLECTIONS
Australian National Gallery
National Gallery of Victoria
University of Hobart
Bendigo Art Gallery
Tasmanian Art Gallery
Rudy Koman Art Gallery
Wagga Wagga Art Gallery
Geelong Art Gallery
Deakin University Museum of Art
Warrnambool Art Gallery
Gladstone Art Gallery
Queensland Art Gallery,
Queensland University Union
ACTV Collection
Western Mining Collection
Campbelltown City Art Gallery, N.S.W.
Queen Victoria Museum & Art Gallery, Tasmania
La Trobe University
Ballarat Fine Art Gallery, Victoria
Freemantle Arts Centre, W.A.
Canson Australia PTY. LTD., Victoria
Geelong Grammar, Victoria
Mentone Girls' Grammar , Victoria
Dickson College, N.S.W.
Upwey High School, Victoria
Print Council of Australia Inc.
Deakin University Collection
Ian Potter Foundation
Regional Victorian Galleries
Private Collections in Australia
Private Collections in Europe & U.S.A.
Last Updated
13 Aug 2012