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BIOGRAPHY                                ISABEL DAVIES                       STAR ARTIST

STUDIES
          1966-7  National Gallery of Victoria Art School

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2006  Arthouse Gallery, Mackay, Queensland
2005  Australian Galleries, Melbourne
         Artspace, Mackay Regional Gallery. Queensland
2003  Australian Galleries, Melbourne
1993  Christine Abrahams Gallery, Melbourne
1991  Christine Abrahams Gallery, Melbourne
         Macquarie Galleries, Sydney
1990  Macquarie Galleries, Sydney
1989  Christine Abrahams Gallery, Melbourne
1988  Macquarie Galleries, Sydney
1987  Christine Abrahams Gallery, Melbourne
1979  Powell Street Gallery, Melbourne
1977  Stuart Gerstman Galleries, Melbourne
         Shepparton Art Gallery
1976  Old Fire Station Gallery, Perth
         Holdsworth Galleries, Sydney 1991
1973  Realities, Melbourne
         Holdsworth Galleries, Sydney
1971  Realities, Melbourne
         Holdsworth Galleries, Sydney
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2006  Transitions 2Pi R Artists Exhibition 
          Span Galleries   Melbourne
2005 "Dialogue'   2Pi R Artists Exhibition  Red Gallery Melbourne
2003 "Dialogue'   2Pi R  Artists Exhibition  Monash 
         University  Gallery Prato Italy
2002 'Paleographia" Macquarie University Sydney
        ' 'The Persistance of Memory', Span Galleries Melbourne
        '2 Pi R Group Show', Maryborough Regional Gallery
2001 'Through Women's Eyes', Glen Eira City Art Gallery, Melbourne
2000 '2 Pi R Group Show', Span Galleries, Melbourne
         'The Persistence of Pop', Ararat Gallery, Ararat
         'The Persistence of Pop', The Exhibitions Gallery, Wangaratta
1999 'The Persistence of Pop', Monash University Gallery, Melbourne
1997 'Pathways', Manningham Art Space, Melbourne
1996 'A Small Survey of Boxes', Basement Gallery, Melbourne
1995 'Eveolution', Newcastle Regional Art Gallery
1994 'An Increase in Assets', Ballarat Fine Art Gallery
1993 'Simile', Craft Victoria, Melbourne
1992 'ACAF3, Exhibitions Building, Melbourne
         '10 Square for the Wilderness', Linden Gallery Melbourne
         'Exploring Landscape', Ballarat Fine Art Gallery
1991 'Gallery Artists' New Macquarie Galleries, Sydney
         'Off the Wall in the Air', Australian Centre for 
         Contemporary Art, Melbourne
1990 'Balance 1990', Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane
         'Mixed Media-Mass Media', Painter's Gallery, Sydney
         'Reference Points', Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane
1989 'Outback Australia', Vincent Art Gallery, Adelaide
         'Freestyle', National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
1988 Tenth Sculpture Triennial, Mildura Arts Centre, Victoria
         'Women Artists', Latrobe Valley Regional Gallery, Victoria
         'Bone', Gertrude Street Artists Space, Melbourne
         'Artists Self Portraits', David Jones Gallery, Sydney
         'New Art 2', Macquarie Galleries, Sydney
         First Australian Contemporary Art Fair, Melbourne
         Christmas Show, Christine Abrahams Gallery, Melbourne
1987 'The Age of Collage', Holdsworth Contemporary 
         Galleries, Sydney
        'Sculpture Survey', Mildura Arts Centre, Victoria
1983 'Five Women', Golden Age Gallery, Ballarat
1982 'Women's Images', Victoria College, Prahran, Melbourne
1981 First Australian Sculpture Triennial, Latrobe University, 
          Melbourne
         'Ten Years', George Paton Gallery, Melbourne University
         'Open Windows, Closed Doors', Latrobe University Art Gallery, 
          Melbourne
1980 Georges Invitation Art Prize, Georges Gallery, Melbourne
         'Women's Art', Niagara Lane Galleries, Melbourne
1979 Spring Festival of Drawing, Mornington Peninsula Art Centre
1978 'Drawing 1978', Stuart Gerstman Galleries, Melbourne
         Caltex 'Master's Choice' Award, Adelaide
         'Eight Women Realists', Victorian College of the Arts Gallery
         Seventh Sculpture Triennial, Mildura Arts Centre
        'The Map Show', Ewing Gallery, Melbourne University
1977 'The Money Show', Ewing Gallery, Melbourne University
         'Women's Postal Event', Institute of Contemporary Art, London
         'The Women's Show', Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide
         'Women's Postal Event', Ewing Gallery, Melbourne University
         Spring Festival of Drawing, Momington Peninsula Art Centre
1975 Spring Festival of Drawing, Momington Peninsula An Centre
         'Women in Art', Western Australian Institute of Technology,
        Perth
1974 Damell De Gruchy Invitation Exhibition, Brisbane
1970 Australian Galleries, Melbourne
GRANT 
            1992  Australia Council, Artist Development Project Grant

COLLECTIONS

 
 Australian National Gallery, Canberra
 National Gallery of Victoria 
 Queensland Art Gallery
 Newcastle Art Gallery, NSW
 Ballarat Fine Art Gallery
 Artspace Mackay Regional Gallery Queensland
 Shepparton Art Centre, Victoria
 Mildura Art Centre, Victoria
 Fremantle Art Centre, Western Australia
 Broken Hill Art Gallery, NSW
 Glen Eira City Art Centre, Melbourne
 University of Melbourne
 University of Western Australia
 Latrobe University, Melbourne
 Curtain University, Western Australia
 Edith Cowan University, Western Australia
 Monash University Melbourne, (Peninsular Campus)
 Art Bank Collection
 Robert Holmes-a-Court Collection
 Private Collections in Australia and Overseas


BIBLIOGRAPHY

 Selected articles and references to the artist's work published in
 Art and Australia - Vol. 9, No. 2 (Photograph)
 The Artist Craftsman in Australia - (1972)
 The Women's Show, Adelaide - (1977)
 The Women's Art Forum Annual - Melbourne (1978,1981)
 Lip  - No. 5 (1981)
 Artists and Galleries of Australia and New Zealand
 MaxGermaine 1980
 Australian Sculptors - KenScarlett (1980)
 Women and Art : Into the Eighties
 Monash University, Melbourne (1980)
 Who's Who of Australian Women - Methuen, Australia (1982)
 Encyclopedia of Australian Art - Alan McCulloch (1984)
 Artists and Galleries of Australia - MaxGermaine (1984)
 Sculpture at Mildura - Graeme Sturgeon (1985)
 Women Artists of Australia - South Australian Film Corporation
 The Gentle Arts - Jennifer Isaacs, Lansdowne(1985) (Photograph)
 New Art Two - Craftsman House, Sydney (1988)
 Vogue Living  - Diana Bagnall (October 1988)
 Macquarie Galleries Bulletin - (October 1988)
 Craft Arts International - Sandy Kirby (August - October 1989)
 Women's Art Register Bulletin - Vol. 2, No. 3 (1989)
 Contemporary Australian Collage - Arthur McIntyre, 
 Craftsman House (1990)
 Portfolio Magazine - (February 1991)
 Craft Arts International - (Nov 1991 - January 1992)
 Refractory Girl - No. 42. (1992)
 Women's Art Register Bulletin - No. 17 (1993)
 Art InSight - Lou Chamberlin, McGraw-Hill Book Co. Sydney (1996)
Women's Art and Feminism 1970-1994 Traudi Allen,  Video Education Australia, video.
Art Smart - Lou Chamberlin, McGraw-Hill Companies. Inc. Sydney (1998)
State Library of Victoria, Art Libray, 
Five biographical volumes 1970-2007

Isabel Davies
A founding member of the 
Women's Art Register
 


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"One Hundred Days Around Australia"
Isabel Davies
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"One Hundred Days Around Australia"
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"One Hundred Days Around Australia"
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"One Hundred Days Around Australia"
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"One Hundred Days Around Australia"
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"One Hundred Days Around Australia"
Isabel Davies
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