Carolyn Fels Biography
EDUCATION
| 2003 | Master of Visual Art Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne |
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| 1986 -1988 | Graduate Diploma in Visual Art Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne |
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| 1986 | Bachelor of Fine Art Victorian College of the Arts. Melbourne |
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| 1973 -1979 | Bachelor of Arts The University of Melbourne . Melbourne |
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| 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 |