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Helen Kennedy

SELECTED WORKS

 Helen Kennedy
1967 Born Melbourne, Australia
1986 – 88 Bachelor of Fine Arts (Printmaking), Victoria College, Prahran
1991 Diploma of Education, University of Melbourne

Solo Exhibitions

2007'Recent Works', Australian Galleries, Melbourne
2006'Recent Works', Australian Galleries, Sydney
2004‘Paintings’, Australian Galleries, Melbourne
2001‘Recent Paintings’, Australian Galleries, Melbourne
2000‘Recent Paintings’, Australian Galleries, Sydney
1999‘Remembered Horizons’, Australian Galleries, Melbourne
1998‘Recent Paintings 1997-1998: Paris – Cologne’, Australian Galleries, Sydney
‘Second Sunday’, Salon Art and Tertulias, Cologne, Germany
1997‘Recent Prints, Paintings and Drawings’, Australian Galleries, Melbourne
1996‘Recent Prints and Drawings’, Citè Internationale des Arts, Paris
1995‘Recent Prints and Drawings’, Australian Galleries, Melbourne
1993‘Recent Etchings and Lithographs’, Australian Print Workshop, Melbourne
1989‘Etchings’, Rathdowne Street Gallery, Melbourne

Group Exhibitions

2007'Small Pleasures: Painting and Sculpture', Australian Galleries, Melbourne
'Stock Show', Australian Galleries, Melbourne
2006'50th Anniversary Exhibition', Australian Galleries, Melbourne
'Group Exhibition', Australian Galleries, Melbourne
'New Year Group Exhibition', Australian Galleries, Melbourne
'Stock Show', Australian Galleries, Melbourne
’Same Place, Many Views: Painting the Australian Landscape’, Defiance Gallery, Newtown, Sydney
2005'Contemporary Works on Paper', Australian Galleries Works on Paper, Melbourne
‘33’, Port Jackson Press, Melbourne
2004‘33’, Print Exchange, Port Jackson Press, Melbourne
‘Group exhibition’, Australian Galleries, Melbourne
‘Salon 2004 A Humble Gesture’, Stephen Maclaughlin Gallery, Melbourne
‘Panorama’, Australian Galleries Works on Paper, Melbourne
Fleurieu Peninsula Biennale Art Prize, McClaren Vale, South Australia
2003Australian Galleries Painting & Sculpture, Sydney
Depth of Field’, Shepparton Art Gallery, Victoria; Monash Art Gallery
2002Geelong Art Prize, Geelong Art Gallery, Victoria
Landscape and Environment’, Australian Galleries, Melbourne
’APW Celebrating 21 Years of Printmaking’, Australian Print Workshop, Melbourne
2001‘Workings of the Mind: Melbourne Prints 1960’s to the 1990’s’, Queensland
‘Geelong Print Prize 2001, Geelong Art Gallery, Victoria
2000Deacon, Graham and James Award, Ian Potter Gallery, University of Melbourne
‘Drei Abstrakte Maler’, Galerie Brigitte Schenk, Cologne, Germany
1999‘Contemporary Australian Works on Paper’, Australian Galleries
‘International Works on Paper Fair, Sydney
‘Pleasure’, Australian Galleries Works on Paper, Melbourne
‘Australian Galleries Works on Paper’, Smith & Stoneley, Brisbane
1998‘Art Cologne’, Cologne, Germany
‘Prepositions Australiennes’, Galerie Luc Queyrel, Paris
‘Sixth Australian Contemporary Art Fair, Melbourne
‘Thirteen Artists’, Recent Works on Paper, Australian Galleries
‘International Works on Paper Fair, Sydney
‘National Works on Paper’, Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, Victoria
Shell Fremantle Print Award, Fremantle Arts Centre, Western Australia
‘Art d’Australie’, Bibliotheque Perreux-sur-Marne, France
1997‘Art Aborigene d’Australie - Clin d’oeil à l’Art Australien’, Occidental Espace Riquet, Beziers, France
‘Recent Acquisitions’, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
‘International Print Triennial ‘97, Cracow Contemporary Art Gallery,
‘Bunkier Sztuki Historical Museum, Cracow, Poland
‘Knock Knock’, Australian Galleries, Melbourne
‘IV Biennial Internacional de Grabado Caixo Ourense, Spain
1996The London Artist Book Fair, Concourse Gallery, Barbicon, London
’Exposition Collective’, Citè International des Arts, Paris
’12th Biennial Acquisitive Print Exhibition, Mornington Peninsula Art Gallery, Victoria
199550th Anniversary Exhibition, National Australia Bank, Melbourne
50th Anniversary Exhibition, The Australian National Maritime Museum, Sydney
Nilumbik Community Art Exhibition, Eltham Community Centre, Melbourne
‘Australian Artists in Europe’, Australian Galleries, Melbourne
‘Opening of Gallery of Slavic Art, Group Exhibition, Melbourne
1994Osaka Triennial International Contemporary Print Competition, Japan
International Triennial of Graphic Art, Bitola, Republic of Macedonia
Fremantle Print Award, Fremantle Arts Centre, Western Australia
Print Exhibition, Australian Galleries, Melbourne
1993The Second Kochi International Triennial Exhibition of Prints, Kochi-Ken, Japan
City of Richmond Acquisitive Award II, Richmond Town Hall, Melbourne
The Murwillumbah Community Printmakers Acquisitive Prize, New South Wales
’Partners in Print’, Melbourne/Sydney Print Exchange, Australian Print Workshop
1992‘Christmas Show’, Australian Print Workshop, Melbourne
‘City of Richmond Acquisitive Award, Richmond Town Hall, Melbourne
‘The Third Australian Contemporary Art Fair, Royal Exhibition Buildings, Melbourne
‘ ‘Local and Urban Ethnicity’, Australian Print Workshop Partners in Print, Australian Print Workshop, Melbourne
19909th Biennale Acquisitive Print Exhibition, Mornington Peninsula Art Gallery, Victoria
1989The Second Irish Miniprint Exhibition, The Royal Hibernian Gallery, Dublin
Fremantle Print Award Exhibition, Fremantle Arts Centre, Western Australia
‘Private View II, A Birthday Celebration’, Gretz Gallery, Needham, Melbourne
Henri Worland Memorial Print Award, Warnambool Art Gallery, Victoria
19888th Biennial Acquisitive Print Exhibition, Mornington Peninsula Arts Centre, Victoria
2001_‘University of Technology Art Museum, Brisbane; Grafton, Toowoomba, Canberra, Bendigo, 2001_‘Townsville & Heide
1997 - 98_International Triennial 100 Cities, Poland

Bibliography

“Abstrakte Malerei”, Kölner Rundschau, 12 August 2000
“Farbe geht unter die Haut”, Kölner Stadtenzeiger, 10 August 2000
Bellamy, Louise; “Industrial light and magic”, Age, 7 August 2004
Bezor, Annett; “An Australian or Two in Paris, Nineties-style”, Artlink, Vol 18, No 4, 1994, p 56-57
Broomfield, David; “Beyond the medium”, Artlink, Vol 4, 1994 p 84
Erlich, Rita; “The Painting of Paris”, Age, 26 February 1997
Field, Caroline; “Remembered Horizons”, catalogue essay, Helen Kennedy, Melbourne 1999
Gishin, Sasha; Australian Printmaking in the 1990s, Craftsman House, Sydney 1997
Hall, Karen and Tegart, Louise; “Depth of Field”, catalogue essay, Sheparton Art Gallery 2003, p 22
Hill, Peter; “Paintings”, catalogue essay, Australian Galleries, Melbourne 2004
Long, Anna; catalogue essay, Melbourne 1997
Makin, Jeffrey; “Mysteries of Heide’s plot”, Herald Sun, 26 July 2004
Rainbird, Stephen; “Workings of the mind: Melbourne Prints 1960s – 1990s”, catalogue essay, 2001

Awards

1988 Prahran Faculty of Art and Design, 9th Annual Awards

Award of Excellence, Dean’s Acquisitive Award

Award of Excellence, Hopetoun Award

Collections

Art Gallery of New South Wales
Art/Craft Teachers’ Association, Victoria
Artbank
Ballarat Regional Art Gallery
Canson Australia Pty Ltd
Caulfield Grammar School, Victoria
Flinders University, South Australia
Galerie Boudoin Lebon, Paris
Heatley State School, Queensland
Monash Medical Centre, Victoria
Mornington Peninsula Arts Centre
National Gallery of Australia
National Gallery of Victoria
Print Council of Australia
Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, Tasmania
Queensland University of Technology
Rathdowne Street Gallery, Victoria
Somerville House Art Department, Queensland
St Leonards College, Victoria
St Peter’s College, South Australia
The Melbourne Club, Victoria
Victoria College, Prahran, Victoria
Wesley College, Prahran, Victoria
Private Collections USA, Australia, Japan, France and Germany

Commissions

1999 Five paintings, Regent Hotel, Kables Restaurant, Sydney
1994
National Gallery of Victoria Business Council, limited edition prints including event cover.
1992 Local and Urban Ethnicity, Print Council of Australia Membership
1992 Print (published in Imprint magazine)

Selected Reviews

New Year Group Exhibition | The Sunday Age, Preview | 6 Jan 2005

Special Notes

Grants

1995 Collie Trust Grant

Artist residencies

1997 Citè Internationale des Arts, Paris
1995-1996 Citè Internationale des Arts, Paris
  Atelier Lacourière et Frélaut, Paris
  Atelier Intaglio, Village des Arts et Métiers du Livre, Octor, France
1995 Caulfield Grammar School, Melbourne
1994 Atelier Lacourière et Frélaut, Paris
  Atelier Pasnic, Paris
  Bob Blackburn Workshop, New York
  National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
1993 Caulfield Grammar School, Melbourne