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Rona Green

SELECTED WORKS

 Rona Green
1972Born Geelong, VIC, Australia
1992-1995Bachelor of Arts (Fine Art), La Trobe University, Bendigo
1998 Graduate Diploma in Visual Arts, Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne
1999-2001 Printing Technician, Australian Print Workshop, Melbourne
2000-present Teacher, Centre for Creative Industries, Box Hill Institute, Melbourne
2006Travelled to Singapore, Borneo and Brunei
2007 Travelled to the Netherlands and Romania 
2007-presentLecturer, School of Media and Communication, RMIT University, Melbourne
2008-presentMaster of Fine Arts, Monash University, Gippsland Campus, Churchhill, VIC
 For more information please click the link below for Rona's website: 
 www.ronagreen.com

Solo Exhibitions

2012'Strokin', Australian Galleries, Sydney
2011'Fink yer‘ard?', Australian Galleries, Melbourne
‘Losers & Winners’, Solander Works on Paper Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand
2010‘Hold Fast’, The Art Vault, Mildura, VIC
‘Rona Green: Prints and Poppets 2000 – 2010’, Deakin University Art Gallery, Melbourne
‘12 Crack Men’, Switchback Gallery, Monash University, Churchill, VIC
2009‘Flashy Tasty’, Solander Works on Paper, Wellington, New Zealand
‘Obliquity’, Latrobe Regional Gallery, Morwell
‘Unleashed’, KidSpace, Albury Art Gallery, Albury
2008‘I love fish + chips’, Port Jackson Press Centre for Australian Printmaking, Melbourne
2007‘Betwixt and between’, Impressions on Paper Gallery, Canberra
2005‘Tattooed pets’, 404 Lygon Street, Melbourne
2004‘The Bughouse’, The Dolls House, Melbourne
‘Chequered past’, Ray Hughes Gallery, Sydney
2002‘Crumbs’, Department of Visual Arts, La Trobe University, Bendigo
‘Cake trail’, Mira Fine Art Gallery, Melbourne
2001‘Eye saw’, Warrnambool Art Gallery, Warrnambool
2000‘Works on paper’, Bulle Galleries, Melbourne
1997‘Recent lithographs and relief prints’, Australian Print Workshop Access Studio, Melbourne

Group Exhibitions

2011'Nature of the Mark' An Exhibition Curated by Deborah Williams, Australian Galleries, Melbourne
‘large exhibition of small works’, Australian Galleries, Roylston Street, Sydney
‘large exhibition of small works’, Australian Galleries, Derby Street, Melbourne
Banyule Award for Works on Paper, Banyule Arts Space, Melbourne
Geelong Acquisitive Print Awards, Geelong Gallery, Geelong, VIC
‘Voiceover’, Lake Macquarie City Art Gallery, Borragul, NSW
‘Freak of Nature’, Switchback Gallery, Monash University, Churchill, VIC
‘Nether Regions’, St. Heliers Street Store & Gallery, Abbotsford Convent, Melbourne
Silk Cut Award for Linocut Prints, Glen Eira City Council Gallery, Melbourne
Australian Tapestry Workshop, Heiser Gallery, Brisbane
‘Alone off the Press’, The Left Hand, Braidwood, NSW
‘Fair and Square’, Joyes Hall, Charles Sturt University, Wagga Wagga, NSW
‘Artists’ Ink: Printmaking from the Warrnambool Art Gallery Collection 1970 - 2001’, Bundoora Homestead Art Centre, Melbourne
‘Tasmania 1:100,000 Mapping the Island’, Burnie Regional Art Gallery, Burnie, TAS
‘Silent feathers’, Maroondah Art Gallery, Ringwood, VIC
‘Personal Space: Contemporary Chinese and Australian Prints’, Manly Art Gallery and Museum, Sydney
Burnie Print Prize, Burnie Regional Art Gallery, Burnie, TAS
2010'Artists' prints made with integrity', Australian Galleries, Melbourne
‘Summer stock show’, Australian Galleries, Smith Street, Melbourne
Silk Cut Award for Linocut Prints, Glen Eira City Council Gallery, Melbourne
‘Kids’ Picks’, Kidspace, Albury Art Gallery, Albury, NSW
‘Artists’ Ink: printmaking from the Warrnambool Art Gallery cCollection 1970–2001’, Deakin University Art Gallery, Melbourne
Paul Guest Prize, Bendigo Art Gallery, Bendigo, VIC
‘Two by six’, c3 contemporary art space, Melbourne
‘Copy Jam!’, Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction, Philadelphia, USA
‘52’, Geelong Gallery, Geelong, VIC
2009‘The Anatomy of… A Group of International Printmakers’, Pao Hall, Purdue University, Indiana, USA
Geelong Acquisitive Print Awards, Geelong Gallery, Geelong, VIC
Silk Cut Award for Linocut Prints, Glen Eira City Council Gallery, Melbourne
‘I saw and heard of none like me’, c3 contemporary art space, Melbourne
‘The Body’, Switchback Gallery, Monash University, Gippsland Campus, Churchill, VIC
‘Artists’ Ink: printmaking from the Warrnambool Art
Gallery Collection 1970–2001’, Ararat Regional Art Gallery, Ararat, VIC
‘First Cut – Linocuts from the Collection’, Warrnambool Art Gallery, Warrnambool, VIC
‘…a thousand words’, Tweed River Art Gallery, Murwillumbah, NSW
‘Mono Uno: Monotype mark making within the CSU Art Collection’, Wagga Wagga Art Gallery, Wagga Wagga, NSW
Burnie Print Prize, Burnie Regional Art Gallery, Burnie, TAS
‘Tasmania 1:100,000 Mapping the Island’, The IXL Atrium, Hobart
‘More Beasties’, Joyes Hall, Charles Sturt University, Wagga Wagga, NSW
‘Women, Art and Politics’, Swan Hill Regional Gallery, Swan Hill, VIC
‘New Prints from the Collection’, Grafton Regional Gallery, Grafton, NSW
2008‘Make Believe’, c3 contemporary art space, Melbourne
‘Wish You Were Here’, Tweed River Art Gallery, Murwillumbah, NSW
Silk Cut Award for Linocut Prints, Glen Eira City Council Gallery, Melbourne
Fremantle Print Award, Fremantle Arts Centre, Fremantle, WA
‘Double’, Wagga Wagga Art Gallery, Wagga Wagga, NSW
‘Bias Bound’, Victorian Tapestry Workshop, Self Preservation and Stephen McLaughlan Gallery, Melbourne
‘Artists’ Ink: printmaking from the Warrnambool Art Gallery Collection 1970–2001’, Riddoch Art Gallery, Mount Gambier, SA
2007‘50’, Geelong Gallery, Geelong, VIC
‘Gifted’, The Gallery, Charles Darwin University, Darwin
‘SIPA’, Hangaram Art Gallery, Seoul Arts Centre, Seoul, Korea
‘Contrasts within the Charles Sturt University Art Collection’, Latrobe Regional Gallery, Morwell, VIC
Geelong Acquisitive Print Awards, Geelong Gallery, Geelong, VIC
‘Altered States’, Wagga Wagga Art Gallery, Wagga Wagga, NSW
‘Antipodean Bestiary’, Project Space/Spare Room, RMIT University, Melbourne
‘By the light of the moon’, Impressions on Paper Gallery, Canberra
Burnie Print Prize, Burnie Regional Art Gallery, Burnie, TAS
‘Rona Green, Rebecca Mayo, Scott Taylor’, Adele Boag Gallery, Adelaide
‘Sci-Fi’, Stephen McLaughlan Gallery, Melbourne
‘Artists’ Ink: printmaking from the Warrnambool Art Gallery Collection 1970–2001’, Warrnambool Art Gallery, Warrnambool, VIC
2006‘Multiplicity’, Victorian Tapestry Workshop, Melbourne
‘Impressions 2006’, Australian Print Workshop, Melbourne
‘Our Home: Charles Darwin University Art Collection recent acquisitions’, Charles Darwin University, Darwin
‘21st Century prints from the Wagga Wagga Art Gallery Collection’, Wagga Wagga Art Gallery, Wagga Wagga, NSW
‘Deceivers of the Pack’, Port Jackson Press Australia, Melbourne
‘Beasties’, Port Jackson Press Australia, Melbourne
Silk Cut Award for Linocut Prints, Glen Eira City Council Gallery, Melbourne
‘Cutting Re-marks’, La Trobe University Visual Arts Centre Gallery, Bendigo, VIC
‘The Artist / The Printmaker’, Australian Art Resources, Melbourne
‘Can you see what I see?’, Warrnambool Art Gallery, Warrnambool, VIC
‘New Releases by Belinda Fox, Rona Green, Susan Pickering’, Port Jackson Press Australia, Melbourne
2005‘33’, Port Jackson Press Australia, Melbourne
‘Wayward Creatures’, Impressions on Paper Gallery, Canberra
Geelong Acquisitive Print Awards, Geelong Gallery, Geelong, VIC
‘Simon Cooper, Rona Green, Rebecca Mayo’, Adele Boag Gallery, Adelaide
‘Bestiary’, Stephen McLaughlan Gallery, Melbourne
‘We Are All Animals’, La Trobe University Visual Arts Centre, Bendigo, VIC
‘Contrasts within the Charles Sturt University Art Collection’, Wagga Wagga Art Gallery, Wagga Wagga, NSW
2004‘Impressions 2004’, Australian Print Workshop, Melbourne
‘New wave’, Port Jackson Press Australia, Melbourne
‘Pelt’, Project Space/Spare Room, RMIT University, Melbourne
‘National Works on Paper’, Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, Mornington, VIC
Fleming Muntz Albury Art Prize, Albury Regional Gallery, Albury, NSW
Swan Hill Print and Drawing Acquisitive Awards, Swan Hill Regional Art Gallery, Swan Hill, VIC
‘23’, Port Jackson Press Australia, Melbourne
‘23’, Phyllis Palmer Gallery, La Trobe University, Bendigo, VIC
‘A Humble Gesture’, Stephen McLaughlan Gallery, Melbourne
2003‘Accessible’, Australian Print Workshop, Melbourne
Hutchins’ Art Prize, The Long Gallery, Hobart
‘Strange Space’, Phyllis Palmer Gallery, La Trobe University, Bendigo, VIC
‘National Works on Paper’, Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, Mornington, VIC
Banyule City Council Works on Paper Art Award, Ivanhoe Receptions, Melbourne
The Robert Jacks Drawing Prize, Bendigo Art Gallery, Bendigo, VIC
‘Salon 2003: Sleeps With Angels / Sex and Death’, Stephen McLaughlan Gallery, Melbourne
2002Geelong Print Prize, Geelong Gallery, Geelong, VIC
‘APW Celebrating 21 Years of Printmaking’, Australian Print Workshop, Melbourne
Silk Cut Award for Linocut Prints, Glen Eira City Council Gallery, Melbourne
Fleming Muntz Albury Art Prize, Albury Regional Gallery, Albury, NSW
2001‘Small works’, Port Jackson Press Australia, Melbourne
‘Stock show’, Mira Fine Art Gallery, Melbourne
Geelong Print Prize, Geelong Gallery, Geelong, VIC
‘Minutia’, Australian Print Workshop, Melbourne
2000Silk Cut Award for Linocut Prints, Glen Eira City Council Gallery, Melbourne
‘Proof Positive’, Gold Treasury Museum, Melbourne
Swan Hill Print and Drawing Acquisitive Awards, Swan Hill Regional Art Gallery, Swan Hill, VIC
1999‘Impressions’, Australian Print Workshop, Melbourne
Rena Ellen Jones Memorial Print Award, Warrnambool Art Gallery, Warrnambool, VIC
24th Annual Shell Fremantle Print Award, Fremantle Arts Centre, Fremantle, WA
Geelong Print Prize, Geelong Gallery, Geelong, VIC
‘Swap’, Australian Print Workshop, Melbourne
1998‘Observations’, Australian Print Workshop, Melbourne
Silk Cut Award for Linocut Prints, Glen Eira City Council Gallery, Melbourne
‘Inkpots to Internet - Nucleus to Diversity’, Phyllis Palmer Gallery, La Trobe University, Bendigo, VIC
1997City of Hobart Art Prize, Carnegie Gallery, Hobart
‘Animal’, Australian Print Workshop, Melbourne
1995‘Transfer’, Australian Print Workshop, Melbourne
50th Anniversary Exhibition, Australian National Maritime Museum, Sydney
50th Anniversary Exhibition, National Australia Bank, Melbourne
‘Works on Paper’, The Women’s Gallery, Melbourne
1994‘Pee-Wee’, Convent Gallery, Daylesford, VIC
‘Hysteria’, Department of Art & Design, La Trobe University, Bendigo, VIC
Hutchins Art Prize, The Long Gallery, Hobart

Bibliography

Backhouse, Megan; “Prize Works”, The Age, Wednesday 23 August 2006
Bailey, John; “Grimm & grimmer”, The Age, Sunday 1 July 2007
Beck, Chris; “Art depicts passage of migration”, The Age, Monday 11 September 1995
Bellamy, Louise; “Artist’s four-legged muse”, The Age, Monday 11 April 2005
Bolch, Ursula; “Rona Green”, Imprint, volume 34 number 4 summer 1999
Bowes, Murray and Virgo, Anne; "Artists’ Ink", exhibition catalogue, Warrnambool Art Gallery, Warrnambool, 2007
"Cake trail", exhibition catalogue, Mira Fine Art Gallery, Melbourne, 2002
"Chequered past", exhibition catalogue, Ray Hughes Gallery, Sydney, 2004
Cininas, Jazmina; “Tall tales and antipodean adventures: narratives in contemporary Australian printmaking”, Imprint, volume 41 number 2 winter 2006
Cininas, Jazmina; "Rona Green: Prints and Poppets 2000-2010", exhibition catalogue, Deakin University Art Gallery, Mebourne

Cininas, Jazmina; "Antipodean Bestiary", exhibition catalogue, Project Space/Spare Room, RMIT University, Melbourne, 2007
Cininas, Jazmina; "Deceivers of the Pack", exhibition catalogue, Port Jackson Press Australia, Melbourne, 2006
Cininas, Jazmina; "Pelt," exhibition catalogue, Project Space/Spare Room, RMIT University, Melbourne, 2004
Cininas, Jazmina; “Rona Green: cake trail”, eyeline, number 50, summer 2002/2003
Daffy, Mary-Jane; “A new take on tatts”, Melbourne Weekly, 12 – 18 June 2007
Doubleday; Wayne and Middlemost, Thomas A.; “Mono type of exhibition”, Riverina Weekender, Saturday 21 and Sunday 22 March, 2009
Donnellan, Hannah, 'Weird and wonderful approach", Whitehorse Leader, Wednesday 19 May 2010
Forbes, Rodney; “Flash as a rat with a gold tooth: Rona Green’s strange familiars”, Imprint, volume 45 number 1 autumn 2010
Forbes, Rodney; "Saving our skins, Obliquity exhibition catalogue", Latrobe Regional Gallery, Morwell, 2009
Fox, Belinda; Green, Rona and Pickering, Susan; "New Releases", exhibition catalogue, Port Jackson Press Australia, Melbourne, 2005
Gardner, Jorian; “Wayward art”, The Canberra Review, 7 July 2005
Green, Rona; "52," exhibition catalogue, Geelong Gallery, Geelong, 2010
Green, Rona; "double", exhibition catalogue, Wagga Wagga Art Gallery, Wagga Wagga, 2008
Grishin, Sasha; “Eclectic mix of prints”, The Canberra Times, Wednesday 2 May 2007
Grishin, Sasha; “Multiplicity – Collecting Australian Prints”, Australian Art Review, Issue 13, March – June 2007
Grishin, Sasha; “Printmaker: Rona Green”, Australian Art Collector, Issue 37, July – September 2006
Grishin, Sasha; “Master printer stuns”, The Canberra Times, Thursday 28 July 2005
Hansen, David; “Out there, man”, The Age, Friday 9 March 2007
Hansen, David; “Bold and satirical”, The Age, Friday 22 September 2006
Heagney, Din (ed.); "Making space: artist-run initiatives in Victoria", VIA-N – the Victorian Initiatives of Artists Network, Australia, 2007
Hesterman, Heather; “I saw and heard of none like me”, Imprint, volume 44 number 4 summer 2009
Hesterman, Heather; “Pelt”, Imprint, volume 39 number 4 summer 2004
“In praise of all things strange and unusual”, artnews New Zealand, winter 2009
Lamb, Eve; “The world of eye saw”, Western Weekly, Warrnambool, Thursday 22 February 2001
Lucas, Clay; “Surf still strong for New Wave”, The Melbourne Times, Issue 40, Wednesday 13 October 2004
Makin, Jeff; “33”, Imprint, volume 40 number 2 winter 2005
McCulloch, Allan; McCulloch, Susan and McCulloch, Emily; The New McCulloch’s Encyclopaedia of Australian Art, Aus Art Editions, Melbourne, 2006
McLoughlin, Aaron; "It’s flash. It’s taste", Flashy Tasty exhibition catalogue, Solander Works on Paper, Wellington, New Zealand, 2009
McLoughlin, Aaron; "I love fish + chips", exhibition catalogue, Port Jackson Press Centre for Australian Printmaking, Melbourne, 2008
McLoughlin, Aaron; "Betwixt and between", exhibition catalogue, Impressions on Paper Gallery, Canberra, 2007
McLoughlin, Aaron; "eye saw", exhibition catalogue, Warrnambool Art Gallery, Warrnambool, 2001
Middlemost, Thomas A.; "Mono Uno", exhibition catalogue, Charles Sturt University, Wagga Wagga, NSW, 2009
Middlemost, Thomas A.; “My Mother Taught Me To Steal In The Industrial Zones”, Imprint, volume 43 number 2, winter 2008
Middlemost, Thomas A.; “I love fish and chips”, Printmaking Today, Vol 17 No. 3, Autumn 2008
Middlemost, Thomas A.; “Contrasts within the Charles Sturt University Collection”, Imprint, volume 40 number 1 Autumn 2005
Middlemost, Thomas A.; "Contrasts", exhibition catalogue, Wagga Wagga Art Gallery, Wagga Wagga, NSW, 2005
Morrow, Christine; “Pelt”, ACCA Online Magazine, issue 8, 2005
Nolan, David; “Rona Green & Rebecca Mayo”, Imprint, volume 42 number 1, Autumn 2007
Nolan, David; “Collisions”, blaze, Issue 155, 16 February 2007
Radok, Stephanie; “Quiet, insistent poetry in images”, The Adelaide Review, 8 – 21 July 2005
Schroder, Sophie; “Loner Rona”, Capital Times, Wellington, New Zealand, 20 – 26 May 2009
Slany, Mariyon; “Fremantle Print Award 2008”, Artlink, vol 28 no 4, 2008
Snell, Ted; “Fremantle hails the new prints of pop”, The Australian, Thursday 28 August 2008
Spencer, Ric; “Winning work value ads”, The West Australian, Wednesday 3 September 2008
Sullivan, Lisa; "50", exhibition catalogue, Geelong Gallery, Geelong, 2007
Virgo, Anne; "50th Anniversary Exhibition", exhibition catalogue, Australian National Maritime Museum, Sydney, 1995
Wagons, Henry; "Dogs in Art", Sunday Arts, ABC TV, Sunday 1 November 2009
Waite, Diane; Rena Ellen Jones Memorial Print Award, exhibition catalogue, Warrnambool Art Gallery, Warrnambool, 1999
Webb, Penny; “Animal magnetism”, The Age, Friday 18 May 2007
Webb, Penny; “Beauty and the beasts”, The Age, Friday 15 April 2005
Williams, Linda; “The Owl of Minerva and Recent Art”, eyeline, number 56, Summer 2004/2005

TELEVISION, AUDIO AND DVD

2009                'Dogs in Art', presented by Henry Wagons, Sunday Arts, ABC TV, Sunday 1 November
2008                Simon Terry, 'Kulture Vulture', Joy FM, Monday 27 October
2007                'The art of Printmaking - The Silk Cut Way', DVD produced by Duroloid, Australia
1999                Drawings featured in computer animated series ‘Private Muscle’ by Aaron McLoughlin for Recovery program, ABC TV

Awards

2011                Geelong Acquisitve Print Awards (acquired), Geelong, VIC
                       Monash University Research Publications Grant
2010                Artist in residence, the Vault, Mildura, VIC
2009                Wagga Wagga Art Gallery design commission
                       Monash University Research Publications Grant
                       Geelong Acquisitive Print Awards (acquired), Geelong, VIC
2008                Monash University Research Publications Grant
                       Fremantle Print Award (acquired), Fremantle, WA
2007                Janet Holmes à Court Artists’ Grant
2006                Silk Cut Award for Linocut Prints (winner Grand Prize), Melbourne
                       Victorian Tapestry Workshop small tapestries           project
2005                Print Council of Australia Print Commission
2004                Charles Sturt University Art Collection print commission, Wagga Wagga, NSW
                       National Works on Paper Award (acquired), Swan Hill Print Acquisitive Award
2003-2004        RMIT Summer Studio Residency
2003                Geelong Print Prize (acquired), Geelong, VIC
2002                Fleming Muntz Albury Art Prize
2000                Print Council of Australia Print Commission
1999                Rena Ellen Jones Memorial Print Award
1992                Ilford Award

Collections

Albury Regional Art Gallery, Albury, NSW
Anglican Church Grammar School, Brisbane
Arjo Wiggins / Canson Australia Pty Ltd, Melbourne
Artbank, Sydney
Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
Australian Print Workshop, Melbourne
Belfast Print Workshop, Belfast, UK
Burnie Regional Art Gallery, Burnie, TAS
Camberwell Grammar, Melbourne
Charles Darwin University, Darwin
Charles Sturt University, Wagga Wagga, NSW
Chiang Mai Contemporary Art Museum, Chiang Mai, Thailand
Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai, Thailand
Chicago Printmaking Collective, Chicago, USA
Christian College Geelong, Geelong, VIC
City of Yarra, Melbourne

Deakin University Art Collection, Melbourne
Geelong Gallery, Geelong, VIC
Glasgow Print Workshop, Glasgow, UK
Grafton Regional Gallery, Grafton, NSW
Guanlan International Print Biennial Committee, Guanlan, China
Hobart Museum Gallery, Habart
Ipswich Art Gallery, Ipswitch, QLD
Latrobe Regional Gallery, Bendigo, VIC
La Trobe University, Melbourne
Limerick Print Workshop, Limerick, Ireland
Little Collection, Fremantle, NSW
London Print Studios, London, UK
Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, Mormington, VIC
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
Port Jackson Press Australia, Melbourne
Presbyterian Ladies College, Melbourne
Print Council of Australia, Melbourne                    
Royal Perth Hospital, Perth
RMIT University, Melbourne
Scotch Oakburn College, Melbourne
Silk Cut Foundation, Melbourne
Swan Hill Regional Art Gallery, Swan Hill, VIC
Tasmanian Museum Gallery, Hobart
Toowoomba Regional Art Gallery, Toowoomba, QLD
Tweed River Art Gallery, Tweed River, NSW
University of Colorado, Denver, USA
University of West England, Bristol, UK
University of Wollongong, Wollongong, NSW
Wagga Wagga Art Gallery, Wagga Wagga, NSW
Warrnambool Art Gallery, Warrnambool, VIC
Westminster School, London, UK