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Rosalind Atkins

SELECTED WORKS

 Rosalind Atkins
1957Born Terang, Victoria, Australia
1982 Bachelor of Fine Art, RMIT
1983 Graduate Diploma of Fine Art
1983 Member of the Society of Wood Engravers (England)
2005 Residency, Bundanon, NSW
2005 Currently employed by the Australian Print Workshop

Solo Exhibitions

2008‘A Discourse with Trees’ (Masters by Research), Visual Arts Centre Access Gallery, La Trobe University, Bendigo
2007'Rosalind Atkins: wood engraving', Warnambool Art Gallery, Warrnambool
2006'Arboreus', Australian Galleries, Sydney
2005Australian Galleries Works on Paper, Melbourne
2002Australian Galleries Works on Paper, Melbourne
Australian Galleries Works on Paper, Sydney
1999Australian Galleries, Melbourne
1998aGOG, Canberra

Group Exhibitions

2008'Stock show', Australian Galleries, Melbourne
'Visual Word: The Printmaking Summer Residency Exhibition', Project Space / Spare Room, RMIT University, Melbourne
'Wish you were here', Tweed River Art Gallery, Murwillumbah South, NSW
‘Print traditions – sources of Australian printmaking’, Geelong Gallery
2007'Stock Show', Australian Galleries, Melbourne
‘50 - a print exchange portfolio’, Geelong Gallery
2006'50th Anniversary Exhibition', Australian Galleries, Melbourne
'Group Exhibition', Australian Galleries, Melbourne
'Summer Stock Show', Australian Galleries, Melbourne
'Beasties', a print portfolio exchange, Port Jackson Press, Melbourne
Swan Hill Print and Drawing Acquisitive Awards, Swan Hill Regional Art Gallery (finalist)
‘Being at Bundanon’, curated by Niki Mortimer; travelling to Shoalhaven City Arts Centre, New South Wales; Mornington Peninsular Regional Art Gallery, Victoria; Orange Regional Gallery, New South Wales; Mosman Art Gallery, New South Wales; Albury Regional Gallery, New South Wales
2005’Contemporary Works on Paper', Australian Galleries Works on Paper, Melbourne
‘Notes from the Natural World’, Australian Galleries Works on Paper, Melbourne
‘Geelong Acquisitive Print Awards’, Geelong Art Gallery (2005 winner)
2004‘Contemporary Australian Prints from the collection’, Art Gallery of NSW
‘Tree in Changing Light’, Bowerhouse Gallery, Milton, New South Wales
‘The Tree Show’, Pennyschool Gallery, Victoria
‘Giant Ancient and Historic Trees’, Geelong Gallery, Geelong
‘Spiders and Flies’, New Contempories, Sydney
2003‘Nature’s Art Revealed: 150 years of Botanical Art at the National Herbarium of Victoria’, Domain House, Melbourne
‘Wallpaper’, Australian Galleries Works on Paper, Melbourne
‘People in a Landscape: Contemporary Australian Prints’ Chiang Mai University Gallery, Chiang Mai, Thailand
‘The Australian Print Workshop Archive 2’, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
‘Shell Fremantle Print Award’, Fremantle Arts Centre
2002‘People in a Landscape: Contemporary Australian Prints’, Berlin, Germany
‘16th Asian International Art Exhibition’, Guandong Art Museum, China
2001‘Korea-Australia Print Exchange’, RMIT Gallery, Melbourne
‘Landscape and Environment’, Australian Galleries, Works on Paper, Sydney
‘Minutia’, Australian Print Workshop, Melbourne
2000‘Triptych’, Helen Maxwell Gallery, Canberra
‘Proof Positive’, Gold Treasury Museum, Melbourne
‘Society of Wood Engravers, Annual Exhibition, England
1999‘Geelong Print Award’, Geelong Art Gallery
‘National Works on Paper’, Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery
‘Rena Ellen Jones Memorial Print Award, Warrnambool Art Gallery
1998Ex-Libris and Artists’ Books, Akky Van Ogtrop
‘Australian Prints’, Art Gallery of NSW
Fremantle Print Award, Fremantle Arts Centre
Geelong Print Award, Geelong Art Gallery
‘A Decade of Contemporary Australian Printmaking, 1987-1997’, Metropolitan Museum of Seoul, Korea
1997‘Off the Block’, Australian Print Workshop, Melbourne
‘Wood Knots’, The Line Gallery, Scotland
‘Fremantle Print Award, Fremantle Arts Centre
‘Geelong Print Award, Geelong Art Gallery
1994International Triennial of Graphic Art, Bitola, Macedonia
’Gardening’, Women’s Gallery, Melbourne
Eureka Engramme, Quebec, Canada
1993Fremantle Print Award, Fremantle Arts Centre
Joshua McClelland Print Room, Melbourne
1992‘Henri Worland Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition’, Warrnambool Art Gallery
1991‘Backyards and Beyond’, State Library of Victoria
1990MPAC Exhibition, Mornington Peninsula Arts Centre, Victoria
Jester Press, Melbourne
1988‘Contemporary Woodcuts and Wood Engraving’, Print Council of Australia, Melbourne
51st Annual Exhibition, Society of Wood Engravers and Relief Printers, England
1987Fremantle Print Award, Fremantle Arts Centre
50th Annual Exhibition, Society of Wood Engravers and Relief Printers, England
MPAC Exhibition, Mornington Peninsula Arts Centre, Victoria
1986Open Exhibition of Contemporary Prints, Royal Society of Painters, Etchers and Engravers, Bankside Gallery, London
49th Annual Exhibition, Society of Wood Engravers and Relief Printers, England
‘Young Printmakers’, RMIT Gallery, Melbourne
198548th Annual Exhibition, Society of Wood Engravers and Relief Printers, England
Griffith University Gallery, Queensland
‘Images of Melbourne’, Melbourne Town Hall
1984‘Emerging Victorian Printmakers’, Mitchelton Print Exhibition
1983Henry Worland Memorial Print Award, Warrnambool Art Gallery
1982Henry Worland Memorial Print Award, Warrnambool Art Gallery
1981Henry Worland Memorial Print Award, Warrnambool Art Gallery

Bibliography

Periodicals
Grishin, Sasha; "Multiplicity - collecting Australian prints", Australian Art Review, Issue 13, March-June 2007, pp. 52-55
Holden, Colin; “Print traditions - sources of Australian printmaking”, Imprint, Vol. 43, No. 2, Autumn 2008, p. 11.

Books
A Licence to Print, Alec Bolton and the Brindabella Press, 1993
Australian Prints, Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney 1998
Engravers, A Handbook for the Nineties, Silent Books, Cambridge 1987
Idyll Wheel, Brindabella Press, Canberra 1987
Lyrebird Press Bibliography, Lyrebird Press, Townsville 1998
McDonald, Roger; The Tree in Changing Light, Knopf, Sydney 2001
Recollections, Lyre Bird Press, Melbourne 1986
Thirty Years of Contemporary Korean Prints: A Decade of Australian Printmaking, Korean Contemporary Printmakers’ Association, Seoul 1998
Women Engravers, Virago Press, London 1988

Broadsheet collaborations
The Sleepout with Les Murray, Brindabella Press, Canberra 1994
Rain Forest with Judith Wright, Brindabella Press, Canberra 1986

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Collections

Art Gallery of New South Wales
Art Gallery of New South Wales Library
Australian National Gallery
Australian National Gallery Library
Ballarat Regional Art Gallery
Carleton College, Minnesota, USA
City of Whitehorse
Geelong Art Gallery
Melbourne City Council
Melbourne University Library
Monash Medical Centre
Monash University Library
Mornington Peninsula Arts Centre
National Library of Australia, Canberra
Peter MacCallum Institute Collection, Melbourne
State Library of Victoria
Wagga Wagga Regional Art Gallery
Warrnambool Regional Art Gallery
Private Collections: Australia, Canada, England, Europe, Japan, Saudi Arabia, USA

Commissions

Brindabella Press, Canberra, Australia
Crown Casino Hotel, Melbourne
Friends of the State Library of Victoria
Mobil Oil, Australia
Old Parliament House, Canberra
The Cancer Institute, Peter MacCallum Hospital, Melbourne
The Print Council of Australia – member print

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