EDUCATION
Swinburne University, Awarded Commonwealth Scholarship after first year. 
Best Student Award in final year.
Third Highest Student Statewide. Post Graduate Diploma in Community Education/Development - Phillip Institute 

ART STUDY TOURS
Europe, UK, Egypt, Israel, Italy, Greece, Spain, Morocco, North America and Eastern Europe, Selected Master Classes.
1996 - current: Australia Council Register of Peers.
2005 - 2000 Cultural Advisor City of Bayside, Melbourne. 

SOLO EXHIBITIONS: 
2005 ‘Strips by Gurney & Gurney’, Skepsi on Swanston Carlton
2004 ‘Full of Life’- Skepsi on Swanston Carlton
2004 ‘Catching Waves’- Sorrento; Williamstown; Black Rock
2002 ‘Tropical Delights’- Radisson Tree Tops Resort, Port Douglas
2002 ‘Margaret Gurney Rocks Around the Kimberley’ - Year of the Outback - Bayside, Sandringham
2000 Hobsons Choice - Queenscliff
1999 ‘Antipodean Dreaming’ - Greek Festival Melbourne; 
1999 Without Pier - Sandringham
1999 Customs Wharf - Williamstown
1998 ‘Big Mouth’ St. Kilda
1997 Ricketts Point Beaumaris
1999 Est. own web site gallery www.megeron.com.au/gurneyart

AWARDS
2005 Best Painting & Environmental Message Blue Wedges Coalition, Kingston
2004 Isabel De Soyres Life Drawing Award
2002 Artist in Residence, Port Douglas Qld.
2002 Mentone-Mordialloc Art Prize
2002 Finalist National Works on Paper - Broken Hill N.S.W.
2001 Beaumaris Watercolour Prize
2000 Finalist (x2) Yosemite Renaissance, California USA
2000 Mentone-Mordialloc Art Prize
1999 Guest Artist Greek Antipodes Festival Melbourne
1999 Inaugural Kay Bunnett Painting Award 
1998/8/7 Highly Commended Beaumaris & Mentone Painting Awards
1994 RCI ‘Room with a View’ Award Numerous Youth Art Awards

GROUP EXHIBITIONS 
2005 Melbourne Savage Club Invitation Art Prize 
2004 Skepsi on Swanston Carlton
2004 Castlemain Galleries, Black Rock
2004 Manyung Gallery Mt Eliza
2004/3 Affordable Art Show, Melbourne
2004 ‘Vivid’, Flinders Lane
2003 ‘Mixed Palette - Urban Reflections’, Glen Eira City Gallery
2002 Joy Lea & Friends - The Art Shed Gallery, Red Hill 
2001 Alex Gurney - Peoplescape Federation Art Installation, ACT
2001 Mixed Palette - ‘Show Off’, East Melbourne
2000 Manyung - Mt Eliza
2000 World Festival of Art on Paper, Kranj, Slovenia 
1995 Meat Market- Group Exhibition
1994-2003 In group exhibitions yearly with C.A.S.,VAS, B.A.G., MMAG

Collections
2004 Mentone Girls Grammar 
2002 The Melbourne Greek Community
2001 Bayside Corporate Collection 
Archival file Women art Register, Melbourne 
Represented in numerous private collections in Australia and overseas.
National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington

Employment 
Current - 1995 Art tutor, Art Societies
1994-81 Arts Manager, Council of Adult Education, Melbourne 
1980-75 Community Arts Co ordinator, City of Doncaster & Templestowe
1977-78 Lecturer Art & Design Phillip Institute
1977-69 Established own Pottery Studio & practice 
1969-67 Art Director, George Patterson Advertising, Melbourne 
1967-65 Senior Graphic Designer, ATV-O
1966-64 Graphic Designer, Advertising Agencies, Melbourne
 

Text for Image  Heaven & Earth right:
Travelling through the Kimberley I was inspired by the shimmering plains, rocky ridges and dry river beds that seem to be coming from nowhere  going on forever. Velvety nights aglow with so many stars were truly wonderful. i felt immersed in the brilliant colours and rich deep shadows of this ancient, spiritual land.
 

Contact Details: August 2005
Margaret Gurney web site
email:click here  Mob: 0417 106 431 Melbourne
 

Margaret Gurney

Inland Serpent - Margaret Gurney
Watercolour 52 x 72cm 2000

Sweeps of the Bays - Margaret Gurney

Heaven & Earth - Margaret Gurney
Watercolour on Arches paper 76 x 54cm