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Deborah Walker CV

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Deborah Walker CV

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Deborah Walker

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2008

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2008

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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
Erlich, Rita                                The Australian, Palette Pleaser - Food for Thought, 1998
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.