Curriculum Vitae
Education | Professional Experience | Selected Solo Exhibitions | Selected Group Exhibitions | Awards | Bibliography | Residences | Collections
Education2003-06 PhD College of Fine Arts, University of NSW
1989-90 Master of Fine Art
Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne
1984-86 Bachelor of Fine Art (Painting- with distinction)
Chisholm Institute of Technology, Melbourne
Professional Experience2006- Studio Head, Painting and Drawing, South Australian School of Art
Assistant, Mike Parr "Amerika", Art Gallery of NSW
Artist's assistant, Biennale of Sydney
Tutor, Sydney Community College
2000-06 Tutor, WEA Sydney
2005 Research paper – "Meditative process in painting and drawing", Research week – College of Fine Arts
2004 Artist's assistant, Biennale of Sydney
2003 Visiting lecturer, College of Fine Arts
2001-3 Lecturer, Drawing (Enmore Design Centre), Sydney; Visiting Lecturer, (Sutherland Institute of TAFE)
1999-2001 Lecturer, Drawing Department (National Art School), Sydney
1996 Curatorial assistant, Australian Art Department (Art Gallery of NSW)
1993 Lecturer, Drawing (Sculpture Department, RMIT)
Visiting Lecturer (Victorian College of the Arts)
1992 Tutor, Painting Department (RMIT) Tutor (Victorian College of the Arts), Melbourne
Tutor, Council of Adult Education, Melbourne
2007 Second Skins MARS Gallery, Melbourne
2006 What Lies Beneath, Tin Sheds, Sydney
2002 Hypochondria Series, Mary Street Studios, Sydney
2001 bodymaps, Mary Street Studios, Sydney
1998 Crawford Gallery, Sydney
1995 Introit, Crawford Gallery, Sydney
1993 Snedronningen, Studio 12 at 200 Gertrude Street, Melbourne
1991 Gore Street Gallery, Melbourne
1989 Gore Street Gallery, Melbourne
Selected Group Exhibitions2007 Quirk, SASA Gallery, Fenn Place, Adelaide
Adelaide Perry Prize for Drawing (Highly Commended), PLC, Croydon, NSW
2006 Chinese Whispers Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney
Works on Paper by Lecturers from the South Australian School of Art, China
2005 Dobell Prize for Drawing 2005, Art Gallery of NSW
2004 Jacaranda Acquisitive Drawing Award, Grafton Regional Gallery (touring)
Hutchins Art Prize, Hobart, The Alice Prize, Alice Springs, The Year in Art, S.H Ervin Gallery
Tim Olsen Drawing Prize, COFA
2003 Deeper Draughts Sir Herman Black Gallery, University of Sydney
The Dobell Prize for Drawing 2003, Art Gallery of NSW
Ten Years of the Dobell Prize for Drawing, Art Gallery of NSW
The Kedumba Prize, Wentworth Falls, N.S.W.
The Hazlehurst Art Prize, Sutherland, N.S.W.
The Hutchins Art Prize, Hobart, Tasmania
Series College of Fine Arts, Sydney
Fibres Westside Gallery, Sydney
2002 Jacaranda Aqcuisitive Drawing Award, Grafton Regional Gallery (touring around Australia)
The Hutchins Art Prize, Hobart, Tasmania
The Geelong Contemporary Art Prize, Geelong Regional Gallery, Vic.
2000 The Hazlehurst Art Prize, Sutherland, N.S.W.
Dobell Prize For Drawing 2000, Art Gallery of New South Wales
The Blake Prize, S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney
The Hutchins Art Prize, Hobart, Tasmania
The Alice Prize, Araluen Centre, Alice Springs
The Dobell Prize for Drawing 2000, Art Gallery of New South Wales
1998 The Hutchins Art Prize, The Hutchins School, Sandy Bay, TAS
Portia Geach Memorial Award, S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney
1995 Telling tales – Narrative Elements in Contemporary Art, Robert Lindsay Gallery, Melbourne
1994 Jacaranda Acquisitive Drawing Award, Grafton Regional Gallery
Portia Geach Memorial Award S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney
The Dobell Prize for Drawing Art Gallery Of New South Wales
1992 Third International Biennal Of Pastel Drawing, Saint-Quentin, France
(un) authorised duplication 200 Gertrude Street, Melbourne
Keith and Elizabeth Murdoch Travelling Fellowship, Victorian College of The Arts Gallery, Melbourne
2007 Highly commended, Adelaide Perry Prize for Drawing, PLC, Sydney
2006 NAVA, Artist's Grant for QUIRK
2004 UNSW COFA Cite International des Arts Studio
2003 Australian Postgraduate Award
2001 Peoples Choice Award, Hazlehurst Art Award
1999 Faculty Scholarship, National Art School
1996 Project Grant, Visual Arts / Craft Board of the Australia Council
1994 Alice Prize, Araluen Arts Centre, Northern Territory, Highly Commended
1991 Project Grant, Visual Arts / Craft Board of the Australia Council
1990 Christine Abrahams Award, Victorian College of the Arts Drawing Award, Victorian College of the Arts
1989 National Gallery of Victoria, Women's Society Award
1986 Works on Paper, Chisholm Graduate Show
Bibliography2007 Wendy Walker, The Australian, Adelaide Fringe Visual Arts, 29 Mar
Stephanie Radok, Quirk, Adelaide Review, 16-29 Mar
Quirk Catalogue, essays by Pamela Zeplin and Sean Kelly
2006 Chinese Whispers catalogue, essay by Mike Esson
John MacDonald, 'To draw or not to draw: that is the question' Spectrum, Sydney Morning Herald, 30 Sep - 1 Oct
Joanna Mendelssohn, 'Fine Art that comes from a broad brush' Higher Education Supplement, The Australian, 18 Oct
COFA Magazine, Issue 17, Spring 2006, p. 19 PhD Profile: Amanda Robins
'Amanda Robins: What lies beneath' Victoria Hynes, The Sydney magazine, Sydney Morning Herald, 23 February
2005 COFA MAGAZINE, January, Summer 05, p.7
2004 JADA Catalogue, The Hutchins Art Prize Catalogue
2003 'Battle Lines drawn as some see the light on artwork', Elizabeth Fortescue, Daily Telegraph, 13 Sep
The Hutchins Art Prize Catalogue, 'Art prize entries like chalk and cheese', Heidi Maier, Courier Mail, 7 Apr
Ten Years of the Dobell Prize for Drawing Catalogue Art Gallery of NSW,
Hendrik Kolenberg 'Drawing the spotlight' Look Magazine, Art Gallery Society, Art Gallery of New South Wales
2002 Robert Nelson, 'Prize show offers fascinating tour of new directions,' The Age, 21 Sep
'A perfect night at the Bergs' William Petley, Sunday Telegraph, 19 May
2001 'Critics picks,' Victoria Hynes, Sydney Morning Herald, Metro, 24 Aug
Jacaranda Acquisitive Drawing Award Catalogue, Grafton Regional Gallery
1997 Bruce James, 'Me, myself an eye', Sydney Morning Herald, 31 Oct
1996 'The art of you beaut country' Rita Erlich, The Age, 8 Jun
Images 3: Contemporary Australian Painting, (cover image) Nevil Drury,
Craftsman House, G+B Arts International; 'Good oil on country canvases', Zelda Cawthorne, Herald Sun, 23 Nov
1994 (un)authorised duplication Exhibition Catalogue, 200 Gertrude Street, Melbourne
John McDonald, 'Dreams of hope and menace', Art Review, Sydney Morning Herald, 18 Mar
Christopher Heathcote, 'Artist examines burdens put on women', Art Review, The Age, Melbourne, 29 Apr
1992 Public Sphere, Private Space, Exhibition Catalogue, Linden Gallery, Melbourne
1989 International Biennial of Pastel Drawing, exhibition catalogue
2005 Cite International Des Arts, Paris
1995 Residency and scholarship in Gunnery studios, Sydney
1992-94 Studio Artist, 200 Gertrude Street, Melbourne
CollectionsArt Gallery of New South Wales
Art Bank
Benalla Regional Art Gallery
Private collections in Australia and overseas
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