Solo Exhibitions

Group Exhibitions

Bibliography

‘A Breath of Fresh Hair’, Deborah Klein/Heather Shimmen, Adam Dutkiewicz, The Independent Weekly, Adelaide, Sept. 16, 2006
‘Acquisitions 93’, Bendigo Art Gallery, Elizabeth Hastings
‘Allure: The Feminine in Print’, Juliet Peers, Artlink, Vol 21 no 3, 2001
‘Allure The Feminine in Print’ Jazmina Cininas, Imprint, Vol 36 no 2 , 2001
‘Animal Magnetism, Antipodean Bestiary’, by Megan Backhouse, The Age May 18 2007
‘Artisan Culture-Technology-Education’ Seeing and Imagining, 2/1984, RMIT
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Art and Australia Vol46, No 4, 2009
Art Streams, Vol 2, No 4, Peter Dougherty
Art Streams, Vol 3, No 2, Peter Dougherty
At The Gallery Focus, Kate O’Hara, Bendigo, Winter 2002
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Australian Women Artists – 150 Women
‘Award/Competition results’, Imprint Summer 2002, Volume 37, No 4
Beyond belief, Works from the Banule Art Collection, Wendy Garden 2004
‘Books Crossing- from the Deakin University Artist’s Book Collection’ Robert Heather, Deakin University
‘Colonial Ambitions Scrambled’ Robert Nelson, The Age Metro, 21/10/05
‘Contemporary Communicator’ Graham Ryan, Artdate, no 37 September, 2001
‘Cutting Comments’ Contemporary Linocuts 1995-1998 Nets Victoria
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‘Deakin University Art Collection Calendar’, 2006
‘Deborah Klein/Heather Shimmen’, Adelaide Review, John Neylon, Sept, 2006
‘Directory of Australian Printmakers’, 1982, Lillian Wood
‘Directory of Australian Printmakers’, 1989, Lillian Wood
‘Dream Textures’, Adam Dutkiewicz, Adelaide Advertiser, 18/08/93
‘Encyclopaedia of Australian Art’, 1994, Allan McCulloch, revised Susan McCulloch
‘European Sensibilities, George Baldessin and his circle’, Castlemaine Art Gallery, 2007
‘Experiments in serious humor’ Adam Dutkiewicz, Adelaide Advertiser, 31/8/00
‘Exhibition Reveals Artists At Play’ Derek Brown, Monash news, July, 2002
‘Faces in Emotional Turmoil’, Sasha Grishin, Canberra Times, 18/09/84
‘Fresh Imprints Making Quite an Impression’, Joerg Andersch, The Saturday Mercury, 12/03/98
‘The Figures that Count’, Ronald Miller, The Herald, 1983
‘From Here To Eternity’, A publication of the Tapestry Workshop 2007, by Anna Claburn
‘Gallery’, National Gallery of Victoria, May/June, 2009
Geelong Print Prize 1999, Caroline Durre, Imprint Vol 34 No 3, 1999
‘Germanic Starkness Dominates Mixed Offering’, Stephanie Wallace, The Melbourne Times, 1981
Ronald Miller, The Herald, 1982
‘Grafik Aus Australien’, Nord Bay Dick her Ruber, 12/04/83
‘Heather Shimmen’  “Betwixt’ by Pamela Irving, Gallery 101, 2008
‘Heather Shimmen: I Dreamt I Dwelt in Marble Halls’, Stonnington Stables Museum of Art, Deakin University, Melbourne Campus at Toorak, 2006
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‘Layering’ Stephanie Radock, Adelaide Review, September, 2000
‘Linoleum in the 20^th Century from Kandinsky to Corneille’, Cobra Museum Voor Moderne Kunst, Amsterdam, Netherlands
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‘Memories of Middle Earth’, Jeff Makin, Herald Sun, 06/09/99
‘On A Whim and Flair, Megan Backhouse, The Age review Art, 22/10/05
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‘Poems in Concrete’, Allan McCulloch, The Herald, 19/10/78
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‘ReVisioning Australia, by Ruth Johnstone & Jazmina Cininas, Belfast Print Workshop Gallery 2008
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‘Shell Fremantle Print Award’ Rachel Berry, Artlink, pg84, Vol 22, #4, 2002
‘Silken Purses’ The 2002 Silk Cut Award for Linocut Prints by Ruth Johnston, Imprint, Summer 2002, Vol 37 No 4
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‘Suck’, Voices from the interior, Sophia Xeros-Consternides, 2004
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‘The 2002 Silk Cut Acquisitive Award for Linocut Prints, Duraloid Pty Ltd & Forbo
‘The 2000 Silk Cut Acquisitive Award for Linocut Prints’, Duraloid Pty Ltd & Forbo
‘The 1998 Silk Cut Acquisitive Award for Linocut Prints’, Duraloid Pty Ltd & Forbo
‘The Figures that Count’, Ronald Miller, The Herald, 1983
‘The Sound of Many Hands Clapping’ by Stephanie Radock, Artlink, Vol 29, no 2 2009
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‘Two Exciting Exhibitions’, Leanne Fitzgibbon, Bendigo Advertiser, Sat June 22, 2002
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‘Young Australians’, 1987, Budget Collection, (Catalogue)

Collections

Art Bank
Art Gallery of South Australia
Australian National Gallery, Canberra
Australian War Memorial, Canberra
Australian National Museum, Canberra
Baillieu Library, University of Melbourne
Ballarat Fine Art Gallery, Ballarat
Banyule City Council, Victoria
Bathurst Regional Art Gallery
Bendigo Art Gallery, Bendigo
Boston Consulting Group, Melbourne
Burnie Regional Art Gallery
Camberwell Grammar
Canberra School of Art, Canberra
Canson Australia Pty Ltd, Australia
Chisholm Institute
City Of Fremantle
City Of Port Phillip, Melbourne
City Of Whitehorse
Fairhills High School
Forbo Krommenie Collection, Krommenie, Holland
Geelong Art Gallery, Geelong
Deakin University Art Collection
Gippsland Centre for Art & Design
Grafton Regional Gallery
Hamilton Regional Gallery
Kings Park Secondary College
Latrobe Regional Gallery
Mildura Arts Centre, Mildura
Monash Medical Centre
Phillip Institute of Technology
Presbyterian Ladies College
Print Council of Australia Inc.
Queensland Art Gallery
Queensland University Of Technology
Queen Victoria Museum & Art Gallery, Launceston
RMIT Faculty of Arts
State Library of Victoria
Shepparton Art Gallery
Silk Cut Foundation
Sunraysia Tafe
Swan Hill Regional Gallery
Tamworth City
Tintern Anglican Girls Grammar School
Toowoomba Regional Art Gallery, Toowoomba
University Of Ballarat, Ballarat
Victorian Education Department, Hamilton
Warrnambool Art Gallery, Warrnambool
Wesley College, Melbourne

Commissions

2009           Highly Commended & Acquired, Burnie Print Prize, Tasmania
2008           Silk Cut Award Finalist
                  Burnie Print Prize Finalist, Tasmania
2003           Acquired Geelong Art Gallery, Geelong Print Prize, Geelong
2002           Acquired Toowoomba Biennale Art Award, Toowoomba Art Gallery, Queensland
                  Highly Commended, Fremantle Art Award, Fremantle
                  Acquired By City Of Port Phillip, New Acquisitions, Melbourne
                  Acquired Silk Cut Acquisitive Award For Linocut Prints, Duraloid
2000           Acquired Silk Cut Acquisitive Award for Linocut Prints, Duraloid
                  Member Print, Print Council of Australia
                  Keith Alexander Powell Relief Award
1999           F.J. Foundation, Rena Ellen Jones Memorial Foundation, Swan Hill
1998           Bathurst Art Purchase  
                  Silk Cut Grand Prize, Silk Cut Acquisitive Award for Linocut Prints
1990           Patron/Member Print, Print Council of Australia: 25^th Anniversary, ‘Transitional Times’
1989           Visual Arts Board Grant
1983           Visual Arts Board Grant
1982           Member Print, Print Council of Australia
1981           Rena Ellen Jones Memorial Print Award