Carolyn Fels Biography
EDUCATION
| 2003 | Master of Visual Art, Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne |
| 1988 | Graduate Diploma in Visual Art, Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne |
| 1986 | Bachelor of Fine Art, Victorian College of the Arts. Melbourne |
| 1979 | Bachelor of Arts, University of Melbourne. Melbourne |
| 1962 | George Bell School, Melbourne |
| 1960 | National Gallery Art School, Melbourne |
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
| 2013 | Landscape in Time. Woodbine Art. Malmsbury |
| 2010 | Continuum, Anna Pappas Gallery, Melbourne |
| 2009 | Continuum, Art at St. Francis, Melbourne |
| 2005 | Recent Landscape Paintings, Span Galleries, Melbourne |
| 2002 | The Nature of Nature, Span Galleries, Melbourne |
| 2000 | Landscape Memory. Span Galleries, Melbourne |
| 1998 | Landscape Past/Present, Renard Wardell Gallery, Richmond |
| 1997 | Red Memory and Other Colours, King Street Gallery, Sydney |
| 1996 | Time Past/Present, Michael Wardell Gallery, Richmond |
| 1996 | Time Past/Present, King Street Gallery, Sydney |
| 1995 | Memory & Desire, Jan Murphy Gallery, Brisbane |
| 1995 | Desire, Michael Wardell Gallery, Richmond |
| 1994 | Memory, Michael Wardell Gallery, Richmond |
| 1993 | Recent Works, 1993, 13 Verity Street, Melbourne |
| 1990 | Recent Paintings, 13 Verity Street, Melbourne |
| 1989 | Carolyn Fels, Coventry, Sydney |
| 1988 | Recent Paintings and Drawings, 13 Verity Street, Melbourne |
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
| 2007 | Liminal Convergence, Art Establishment, Melbourne |
| 2005 | Art for Science, Nellie Castan Gallery, Melbourne |
| 2004 | Summer Exhibition, Span Galleries, Melbourne |
| 2004 | Precious Platters, Jewish Museum, Melbourne |
| 2003 | Span Galleries Summer Exhibition, Span Galleries, Melbourne |
| 2003 | Graduate Exhibition 2003, V.C.A. Gallery, Melbourne |
| 2003 | ANZ Visual Arts Fellowship Award, ANZ Bank, Melbourne |
| 2002 | Darkness & light: looking at the landscape, Touring Exhibition, McClelland Gallery, Ballarat Fine Art Gallery, Benalla Art Gallery, Geelong Art Gallery, Auckland Art Gallery |
| 2001 | The Melbourne Savage Club Invitation Art Prize, RMIT, Melbourne |
| 1998 | Abstraction Now, Touring Exhibition, Geelong Art Gallery, Benalla Art Gallery, Waverly City Gallery, Gippsland Art Gallery, Swan Hill Regional Art Gallery, Gold Coast City Art Gallery, Albury Regional Art Centre |
| 1997 | A Woman’s View, Ord Minnett 1997/1998, Lauraine Diggins Fine Art, North Caulfield |
| 1996 | Inaugural Christmas Show, Jan Murphy Gallery, Brisbane |
| 1996 | New Space, Michael Wardell Gallery, Richmond |
| 1995 | Australian Women Artists, Art Gallery Schubert, Queensland |
| 1995 | Something Old Something New, Michael Wardell Gallery, Melbourne, Jan Murphy Gallery, Brisbane |
| 1995 | The Situation Now: A Survey of Local Non Objective Art, La Trobe University Art Museum, Melbourne |
| 1995 | Decadence: 10 Years of Exhibitions, 200 Gertrude Street, Fitzroy |
| 1995 | International Interstate, King Street Gallery, Sydney |
| 1994 | Preview, 94, Michael Wardell Gallery, Richmond |
| 1992 | Margaret Stewart Endowment, Recent Acquisitions, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne |
| 1992 | 5th Birthday Exhibition, 13 Verity Street, Melbourne |
| 1992 | Keith & Elisabeth Murdoch Travelling Fellowship, Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne |
| 1992 | City of Richmond Acquisitive Arts Awards, Richmond Town Hall, Richmond |
| 1991 | The John McCaughey Memorial Prize, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne |
| 1991 | Artworkz Three: BP Acquisitive Prize, Caulfield Arts Complex, Caulfield |
| 1991 | 'National Australia Bank Collection: Rivers in Australian Art', Heide Park & Art Gallery, Bulleen |
| 1991 | Ellipses, 13 Verity Street, Melbourne |
| 1991 | National Australia Bank Collection: Rivers in Australian Art, Heide Park & Art Gallery, Bulleen |
| 1990 | New Art: Contemporary Australian Art Acquisitions, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne |
| 1990 | New Art 1990 Adelaide, BMG Fine Art, Adelaide |
| 1990 | Contemporary Art Centre: Fundraising Exhibition, Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia, Adelaide |
| 1989 | Sixteen Artists, University Gallery, Melbourne |
| 1989 | Gold Coast Invitation Art Prize, The Centre Gallery, Queensland |
| 1989 | Scotchmans Hill Vineyard Art Prize, Geelong Art Gallery, Geelong |
| 1989 | 'National Australia Bank Collection: Rivers in Australian Art', Royal Melbourne Show grounds, Flemington |
| 1989 | 8 x 10 Fundraising Exhibition, Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia, Adelaide |
| 1988 | A New Generation 1983-1988, The Phillip Morris Arts Grant Purchases, Australian National Gallery, Canberra |
| 1988 | Gold Coast Invitation Art Prize, The Centre Gallery, Queensland |
| 1988 | The Melbourne Savage Club Invitation Art Prize, RMIT, Melbourne |
COLLECTIONS
| 2006 | Artbank |
| Heidelberg Repatriation Hospital | |
| Hyatt Hotel | |
| National Gallery of Australia | |
| Phillip Morris Collection | |
| National Gallery of Victoria | |
| National Australia Bank Collection | |
| Monash University Museum of Art | |
| Peter Mac Art Collection | |
| Western Mining Corporation |
BIBLIOGRAPHY
| 2006 | Susan McCulloch, The Encyclopedia of Australian Art, Tie Miegunyah Press |
| 2005 | Charlotte Day, A Short Ride in a Fast Machine, Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces Louise Bellamy, The Age, 1 March |
| 2000 | Christopher Marshall and Jenny Zimmer, Interpreting Art, A guide for Students, Patrick Hutchings, Landscape Remembering Landscape, August Robert Nelson, The Sunday Age, May |
| 1997 | Robert Rooney, Abstraction Now, The Australian, 7 February Patrick Hutchings, Red Memory and other Colours, August |
| 1996 | Patrick Hutchings, For The Truly Singular There Is Only Silence, Art Monthly, No. 93,
September Bruce James, Galleries, The Sydney Morning Herald, 26 July Patrick Hutchings, Carolyn Fels Memory/Desire/Time, June Simeon Kronenberg, Abstraction Now: Notes on Different Paths - An Exploitation of Delight, Geelong Art Gallery, July Peter Timms, Abstract views, Herald Sun, 24 July Anna Clabburn, Ellipsity, Carolyn Fels, Time Past/Present, Michael Wardell Gallery Richmond |
| 1995 | Chris Wallace Crabbe, Duncan Grant in New Haven, Art Monthly, No. 78 April |
| 1994 | Christopher Heathcote, The Age, Arts and Entertainment, 31 August Alan & Susan McCulloch, The Encyclopedia of Australian Art, Allan & Unwin, Sydney Simeon Kronenberg, Rewards for Some, Artlink, Vol.14, No. 4 Simeon Kronenberg, Carolyn Fels. A humanist Abstraction. Carolyn Fels. Memory, Michael Wardell Gallery, Richmond Michael Wardell, Carolyn Fels, Being And Memory, Carolyn Fels, Memory, Michael Wardell Gallery, Richmond |
| 1993 | Chris McAuliffe, Where are the paintings? Where is the Artist? |
| 1992 | Neville Drury, Images in Contemporary Australian Painting , Craftsman House, Sydney |
| 1991 | Robert Rooney, The Arts, The Weekend Australian, 20-21 October, (Review 11) Robert Rooney, The Arts, The Weekend Australian, 30-31 March, (Review 8) Ronald Millar, Agenda, The Sunday Age, 17 March |
| 1990 | Gary Catalano, The Age, Arts and Entertainment 24 October Max Germaine, Artists & Galleries of Australia, Craftsman House, Sydney |
| 1989 | Neville Drury (ed), New Art Three: Profiles in Contemporary Art, Craftsman House, Sydney |
| 1988 | Robert Rooney, Arts, The Weekend Australian, 18 June |