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Mary Tonkin

SELECTED WORKS

 Mary Tonkin
1973 Born Melbourne, Australia
1992-94 Bachelor of Arts (Fine Arts), Faculty of Art & Design, Monash University
1994-95 Bachelor of Arts – Honours (Fine Arts), Faculty of Art & Design, Monash University
1995 Master of Arts by Research (Fine Arts), Faculty of Art & Design, Monash University
1996 Sessional Lecturer (Drawing), Ceramic Department, Monash University, Caulfield
  Sessional Lecturer (Drawing), Monash University, Frankston
1999-04 Sessional Lecturer (Drawing), Faculty of Art and Design, Monash University, Caulfield

Solo Exhibitions

2007'Near the Top Dam', Australian Galleries, Melbourne
2005‘Recent Painting’, Australian Galleries, Sydney
‘Recent Painting, Australian Galleries Works on Paper, Melbourne
2003Australian Galleries Works on Paper, Melbourne
1999‘Recent Drawings’, Victoria University 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
'Stock Show', Australian Galleries, Melbourne
Redlands Westpac Art Prize, Mosman Art Gallery, Sydney
Fleurieu Peninsula Art Prize, McLaren Vale, South Australia
2005‘Notes from the Natural World’, Australian Galleries Works on Paper, Melbourne
2004‘Panorama’, Australian Galleries Works on Paper, Melbourne
2002‘Dobell Drawing Prize Exhibition’, AGNSW, Sydney
‘Landscapes’, Australian Galleries Works on Paper, Sydney
2001‘Drawing’, Faculty Gallery, Monash University, Melbourne
1998‘Absolute Secret New York’, McKee Gallery, New York
‘Fall Student Exhibition’, New York Studio School, New York
1996‘1996 Doug Moran National Portrait Prize’, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
‘Drawing from the Visible – New Artists’, Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, VIC
‘Radical Choice – Twelve Figurative Painters’, Charles Hewitt Gallery, Sydney
‘Spring Festival of Drawing Survey Exhibition 1973-1995’, Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, VIC
1995‘Monash Painting Graduates “Opening Exhibition”’, Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne
‘Mornington Peninsula Spring Festival of Drawing’, Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, VIC
1994‘The Victorian Campus Art Prize Exhibition’, George Paton Gallery, University of Melbourne

Bibliography

McDonald John; “Least they could do”, The Sydney Morning Herald p.28 & 29, 21 – 22 May 2005
Backhouse, Megan; “Portraits and paper at Australian Galleries’, The Age, April 2003, pp.18-19
Dober, Mark; “Home truths in the lie of the land”, The Age, A2, May 12, 2007, pp. 19
Doug Moran National Portrait Prize, exhibition catalogue, 1996, pp.60-61
Gray, Paul; “Drawn to Success”, Herald Sun, 17 June 2002
Kolenberg, Hendrik; “Drawing a Winner – A decade of Dobell Prizes shows us how and why”, Look, AGNSW, August 2003, pp 24-27
Kolenberg, Hendrik and Ryan, Anne; The Dobell Prize for Drawing: The First Ten Years 1993-2002; exhibition catalogue, AGNSW, 2003, pp. 34-35
Nelson, Robert; ‘Visual Arts’, Review, The Age, Wednesday June 6, 2007, p. 23
Nelson, Robert; “Mary Tonkin and the Onus of Perception”, Mary Tonkin, Australian Galleries, 2003
Nelson, Robert; “Lost in space”, The Age, April 30, 2003, p.12
Nelson, Robert; “Undiscovered Artists, Mary Tonkin”, Australian Art Collector, April-June, 2002, p.100
Nelson, Robert; “Visual acumen displayed by artists with confidence”, The Age, June 1996, p.12
Wise, Kit, “Australian drawing Now: labouring lightly”, Artlink, Vol. 25 No. 1, 2005, pp. 35-39
Vogue Living, May-June 2005, p. 64

Awards

2002 Dobell Drawing Prize (winner)
2000 Australian Post-Graduate Award
1998 Robert Greenberg Fees Grant, New York Studio School
1998 Elizabeth Greenshield’s Foundation Grant
1995 National Gallery of Victoria, Trustees Awar
1994 National Gallery of Victoria, Trustees Award
1994 Victoria Campus Art Prize (winner)

Collections

Australia Catholic University, Melbourne
ANZ BankAustralia Catholic University, Melbourne
ANZ Bank, Australia
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
City of Whitehorse, Melbourne
Deakin University, VIC
Monash University, Melbourne
Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, VIC
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne (Margaret Stewart Foundation)
UNSW Art Collection, The University of New South Wales



Photograph courtesy of Mark Boyle

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