Carolyn Fels

Carolyn Fels Biography

EDUCATION

2003 Master of Visual Art
Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne
1986 -1988 Graduate Diploma in Visual Art
Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne
1986 Bachelor of Fine Art
Victorian College of the Arts. Melbourne
1973 -1979 Bachelor of Arts
The University of Melbourne . Melbourne
1961 -1962 George Bell School , Melbourne
1959 -1960 National Gallery Art School , Melbourne

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

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
Time Past/Present , King Street Gallery, Sydney
1995 Memory & Desire , Jan Murphy Gallery, Brisbane
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

2005 Art for Science, Nellie Castan Gallery, Melbourne
2004 Summer Exhibition, Span Galleries. Melbourne
2004 Precious Platters , Jewish Museum of , 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
2002-2000 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
1998-1996 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
New Space , Michael Wardell Gallery, Richmond
1995 Australian Women Artists , Art Gallery Schubert, Queensland
Something Old Something New , Michael Gallery , Melbourne , Jan Murphy Gallery, Brisbane
The Situation Now: A Survey of Local Non Objective Art , LaTrobe University Art Museum , Melbourne
Decadence: 10 Years of Exhibitions , 200 Gertrude Street, Fitzroy
International Interstate , King Street Gallery, Sydney
1994 Preview, 94 , Michael Wardell Gallery, Richmond
1992 Margaret Stewart Endowment, Recent Acquisitions , National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
5th Birthday Exhibition , 13 Verity Street, Melbourne
Keith & Elisabeth Murdoch Travelling Fellowship , Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne
City of Richmond Acquisitive Arts Awards , Richmond Town Hall , Richmond
1991 The John McCaughey Memorial Prize , National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Artworkz Three: BP Acquisitive Prize , Caulfield Arts Complex, Caulfield
`National Australia Bank Collection: Rivers in Australian Art`, Heide Park & Art Gallery, Bulleen
Ellipses , 13 Verity Street, Melbourne
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
New Art 1990 Adelaide , BMG Fine Art, Adelaide
Contemporary Art Centre: Fundraising Exhibition , Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia , Adelaide
1989 Sixteen Artists , University Gallery, Melbourne
Gold Coast Invitation Art Prize , The Centre Gallery, Queensland
Scotchmans Hill Vineyard Art Prize , Geelong Art Gallery, Geelong
`National Australia Bank Collection: Rivers in Australian Art`, Royal Melbourne Show grounds, Flemington
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
Gold Coast Invitation Art Prize , The Centre Gallery, Queensland
The Melbourne Savage Club Invitation Art Prize , RMIT, Melbourne

COLLECTIONS

Artbank
Heidelberg Repatriation Hospital
Hyatt Hotel
National Gallery of Australia
Phillip Morris Collection
National Gallery of Victoria
National Australia Bank Collection
Peter Mac Art Collection
Western Mining Corporation

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Susan McCulloch. The Encyclopedia of Australian Art, Tie Miegunyah Press, 2006
Charlotte Day A Short Ride in a Fast Machine Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, 1985-2005
Louise Bellamy. The Age .March1.2005
Christopher Marshall and Jenny Zimmer , Interpreting Art , A guide for Students, 2001
Patrick Hutchings, Landscape Remembering Landscape , August 2000
Robert Nelson, The Sunday Age, May 2000
Robert Rooney, Abstraction Now , The Australian, February 7, 1997
Patrick Hutchings, Red Memory and other Colours , August 1997
Patrick Hutchings, For The Truly Singular There Is Only Silence , Art Monthly, No. 93, September 1996
Bruce James, Galleries , The Sydney Morning Herald, 26 July, 1996
Patrick Hutchings, Carolyn Fels Memory/Desire/Time , June 1996
Simeon Kronenberg, Abstraction Now: Notes on Different Paths - An Exploitation of Delight , Geelong Art Gallery, July 1996
Peter Timms, Abstract views , Herald Sun, July 24,1996
Anna Clabburn, Ellipsity, Carolyn Fels, Time Past/Present , Michael Wardell Gallery Richmond 1996
Chris Wallace Crabbe, Duncan Grant in New Haven , Art Monthly, No. 78 April 1995
Christopher Heathcote, The Age, Arts and Entertainment, August 31, 1994
Alan & Susan McCulloch, The Encyclopedia of Australian Art, Allan & Unwin, Sydney, 1994
Simeon Kronenberg, Rewards for Some , Artlink, Vol.14, No. 4, Summer 1994
Simeon Kronenberg, Carolyn Fels. A humanist Abstraction. Carolyn Fels. Memory , Michael Wardell Gallery, Richmond 1994
Michael Wardell, Carolyn Fels, Being And Memory, Carolyn Fels, Memory , Michael Wardell Gallery, Richmond 1994
Chris McAuliffe, Where are the paintings? Where is the Artist? 1993
Neville Drury, Images in Contemporary Australian Painting , Craftsman House, Sydney 1992
Robert Rooney, The Arts , The Weekend Australian, October 20 21 1991 (Review 11)
Robert Rooney, The Arts , The Weekend Australian, March 30-31, 1991 (Review 8)
Ronald Millar, Agenda , The Sunday Age, March 17, 1991
Gary Catalano, The Age, Arts and Entertainment October 24, 1990
Max Germaine, Artists & Galleries of Australia , Craftsman House, Sydney 1990
Neville Drury (ed), New Art Three: Profiles in Contemporary Art , Craftsman House, Sydney 1989
Robert Rooney, Arts , The Weekend Australian, June 18, 1988