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Carol Ruff

SELECTED WORKS
 
1951Born, Birmingham, UK, currently lives and works in Sydney
  
1960 Migrated to Australia
1973Diploma Fine Art Painting, South Australian School of Art, University of South Australia, Adelaide
1994-1995Tutor, Arts Workshop, University of Sydney, Sydney 
1999-2001Desart Gallery Manager, Desart Aboriginal Enterprises, Sydney
1996-2009Artist Space Director, Gallery East, Sydney

Solo Exhibitions

2011'Ancient Land', Australian Galleries, Sydney
2009‘Love Creek Bitter Springs’ with Greg Weight, Australian Galleries, Sydney
2007‘Desert Air’, with Greg Weight, Australian Galleries Works on Paper, Sydney
2006‘Habitat’, Gallery East,
2004‘Emoh Ruo’, Gallery East, Sydney
2003‘Crossed Cultures’, Addison Road Gallery, Sydney
2002‘No Hiding Place’, Migration Museum, Adelaide
2001‘Coast’, Gallery East, Sydney
1999‘Back to Alice’, Gallery East, Sydney
1996-97 ‘Java to Gepps Cross’ touring exhibition, toured: Tin Sheds Gallery Sydney, Griffith Regional Gallery, Griffith, NSW, Port Pirie Regional Gallery, port Pirie, SA, Dutch Australian Cultural Centre, Sydney, Prospect City Gallery, Adelaide
1994-97 ‘Site Seeing’, collaborative exhibition with Jon Rhodes, toured: Araluen Centre, Alice Springs, NT, Hogarth Gallery, Sydney, Cairns Regional Gallery, Cairns, QLD, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane
1993‘Around Alice’, Helen Maxwell Gallery, Canberra
1991‘Once a Catholic’, Helen Maxwell Gallery, Canberra

Group Exhibitions

2011'large exhibition of small works', Australian Galleries, Derby Street, Melbourne
'large exhibition of small works', Australian Galleries, Roylston Street, Sydney

Bibliography

Artlink; vol 10, no. 3, 1994
Australian Artists Portraits by Greg Weight, Chapter & Verse, Sydney, 2004
De Lorenzo, Catherine;  “Site seeing”, Art & Australia, vol. 3, no. 96, 1996
Folk, Saskia; Conform, Palgrave Macmillan, Melbourne, 2004
Goldflam, Russell; “Site seeing”, Periphery, Issue 25, 1994
Murray, Daena; The sound of the sky, Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Alice Springs 2006
Murray, Daena; “Women’s business by remote”, Artlink, vol. 25, no. 2, 2005
Rowse, Tim; “Site seeing”, Arena magazine review, October, 1994
Smith, Bernard and Smith, Terry; Australian Painting 1788-1990, Oxford University Press, USA, 1994


Awards

1995TV Week Logie Awards, most outstanding documentury (winner) for '50 years of silence', Melbourne
 Australian Film Institute Awards, best documentary, (winner) for '50 years of silence', Melbourne and Sydney 
 Sydney Film Festival EAC Dendy Award, (winner) for '50 years of silence', Sydney 
 Asia Pacific Film Festival, best non fiction film, (winner) for '50 years of silence, Asia Pacific Region 
 Visions of Australia Grant, Australian Government, Canberra 
 Pat Corrigan Grant, Australia 
 NAVA Grant, Australia 
1983 Fellowship, Community Arts Board of the Australian Council for the Arts, Australian Government Canberra 

Collections

Araluen Cultural Centre, Alice Springs, NT

Flinders University, Adelaide

Human Rights Commision, Sydney

Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin

Prospect City Council, Adelaide

War and Women's Human Rights Museum, Seoul, Korea

Special Notes

SELECT MURALS AND PUBLIC ART


2002Design co-ordinator, 'Walking Together', Native Title Holders Mural, Alice Springs Hospital, Alice Springs, NT
1999 St Andrews Cathedral Schcool, Sydney 
1996 World Instrument Mural, Sydney 
1990 Enmore Swimming Pool, Sydney 
1988 Bicentennial Mural, Melbourne 
1987 Bush Tucker Murals, Yeperenye Centre, Alice Springs, NT 
1986 'Peace mural', Bondi Beach Public School, Sydney
1984 Niugini Panorama, University of Papua New Guinea, Port Morseby, Papua New Guinea 
1983 '40,000 Years is a Long Long Time', Redfern railway Bridge mural 
1982 'Aboriginals Discovered Cook', Adelaide Festival Centre mural, Commissioned by Jim Sharman, Adelaide 
 'Women on the edge of Town', Domain Parking Station mural, Woman and Arts Festival, Sydney