PAMELA KOUWENHOVEN - BIOGRAPHY
Pamela Kouwenhoven is a South Australian artist who has consistently,
and over many years, used unlikely discarded materials to construct
sculptural works, assemblages and installations. Kouwenhoven's
current work utilises discarded malthoid, which she scrapes from
the bottom of old rainwater tanks, and the discarded tanks themselves.
Winner of numerous awards and prizes, Kouwenhoven is three times
winner of the Heysen Prize for Australian Landscape. She is represented
in The State gallery of South Australia, most South Australian
Regional Gallery collections and Wentworth Shire Council in N.S.W.
She has been included in major group exhibitions including The
Blake, The National Sculpture Prize and Exhibition, and numerous
travelling shows.
In 2007 she was a finalist in The Sunshine Coast Art Prize, the
SALA Advertiser Contemporary Art Award [winner], and The Gold
Coast Art Prize. In 2008 she has been a finalist in the Alice
Prize, is part of an exhibition 'Redeeming the Ruin the
Art of Consumption", touring Regional Victorian Galleries,
was represented in the 2008 SALA exhibition at the Art Gallery
of South Australia and has had a solo exhibition at The University
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Dryland containers no's 1, 2,3, 2008
metal & wire
47x 25x 29 cms
Photo: Michal Kluvanek
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Dryland container no1, 2008
metal & wire
47x 25x 29 cms
Photo: the artist
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Desert archipelago, 2008
metal, rust, wire
48 x 32 x 24 d cm
Photo: The artist
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Dryland Base 3, 2008
galvanised iron with malthoid
217cm diameter [round]
Photo: the artist
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3x4 Dryland containers [detail], 2008
rusted buckets and hose
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Landscape with birds 2008
galvanised iron, plastic.
180cms x 140cms [diameter]
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Selected Professional
Development
Current
1995
1989
1964
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Visual artist, working with mixed media; teacher.
Mulgara Gallery Artist - in - Residence (June), Ayers Rock Resort, NT
Collaborations: Linking Art & Architecture, Professional Development Workshop.
Diploma in Art, North Adelaide School of Art, SA.
Worked as a painter in the Royal Delft Factory. Toured major European galleries.
Diploma in Teaching (Art), South Australian Education Department.
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Selected Professional
Development
Current
1995
1989
1964
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Visual artist, working with mixed media; teacher.
Mulgara Gallery Artist - in - Residence (June), Ayers Rock Resort, NT
Collaborations: Linking Art & Architecture, Professional Development Workshop.
Diploma in Art, North Adelaide School of Art, SA.
Worked as a painter in the Royal Delft Factory. Toured major European galleries.
Diploma in Teaching (Art), South Australian Education Department.
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Solo Exhibitions
2008
2007
2006
2004
2003
2002
2000
1995
1994
1993
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Dryland, University of The Sunshine Coast Gallery, Maroochydore QLD
SALA Festival 2007, Grieve Gillett Architects, Adelaide SA
Maltha - Earth, Gemtree, Dowie Doole Cellar Door at the Salopian Inn, McLaren Vale SA
Charge It, Prospect Gallery, City of Prospect, SA
Memory & Loss, Mildura Arts Centre, Mildura, VIC
The Opal Cutter, Coober Pedy, SA
Bye & Bye, Light Square Gallery, Adelaide, SA
Memory, Love & Loss, Newland Gallery, Pt Adelaide, SA
The Women's Gallery, Melbourne, VIC
Artist in Profile (May), Adelaide Town Hall, SA
Beyond Boundaries, Art Zone Gallery, Adelaide, SA
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Selected Group Exhibitions
2008
2007
2006
2005
2004
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Gallery 7, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide SA
Redeeming the Ruin - the art of consumption, Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, Mornington VIC
Finalist - Alice Prize 2008, Araluen Centre, Alice Springs NT
Heart / Land, Hahndorf Academy, Hahndorf SA
Redeeming the Ruin - the art of consumption, Shepparton Art Gallery, Shepparton VIC
Terra Spiritalis, Murray Bridge Regional Gallery, Murray Bridge SA
2008 Palmer Sculpture Biennial, Palmer SA
Homage to Nature, 2008 Adelaide Fringe Festival, The Cedars, Hahndorf SA
refigured / refined, 2008 Adelaide Fringe Festival, Hahndorf Academy, Hahndorf SA
Redeeming the Ruin - the art of consumption, Latrobe Regional Gallery, Morwell VIC
Finalist - Stan and Maureen Duke Gold Coast Art Prize 2007, Gold Coast City Art Gallery,
Surfers Paradise QLD
Finalist - Tattersall's Club Art Prize, Brisbane QLD
Finalist - The Sunshine Coast Art Prize 07, Caloundra Regional Gallery, Caloundra QLD
Finalist - The Advertiser Contemporary Art Award, SALA Festival 2007, Adelaide SA
Artist Voice, SALA Festival 2007, Hahndorf Academy SA
Art House, Somerton Park, Adelaide SA
Murray Bridge Combined Rotary Clubs 20th Anniversary Art Show, Murray Bridge Regional Gallery SA
After Heysen: Exposing the Australian Landscape, Artspace, Adelaide Festival Theatre, Adelaide SA
Perceptions of Distance, Newland Gallery, Port Adelaide SA
The Artist's Voice (Fringe Exhibition), Hahndorf Academy, Hahndorf SA
The Biennale Invitational Exhibition, Hardy's Tintara Winery, McLaren Vale SA
The French Connection, Bella Cosa Sculpture Park and Gallery, McLaren Flat SA
John Leslie Art Prize, Gippsland Art Gallery, Sale VIC
Tattersall's Club Landscape Art Prize, Brisbane QLD
Confluence, Murray Bridge Palimpsest, Murray Bridge SA
Intimate Topographies, Barossa Regional Gallery Tanunda SA
Burning Issues, Civic Complex, Port Lincoln SA
pressing - Pamela Kouwenhoven and John Hayward, Gallery 25, Mildura, SA
Whyalla Art Prize, Whyalla, SA
Martin Hanson Memorial Art Awards and Exhibition, Gladstone Regional Art Gallery, QLD
Tattersall's Club Art Prize Brisbane, QLD
wishlist: 2005 Craftsouth Members Exhibition Adelaide, SA
Melbourne Affordable Art Fair, Gallery 25 Mildura, Melbourne VIC
Pivotal Galleries, Richmond, VIC
Fleurieu Peninsula Art Prize, Hardys Winery, McLaren Vale S.A.[Finalist]
Bendigo Bank Tattersall's Club Art Prize Brisbane, QLD
Whyalla Art Prize Whyalla, SA
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Selected Awards, Grants
and Prizes
| 2007 SALA 2007 Advertiser Contemporary Art Award
- Winner, Arts SA Independent Makers & Presenters
Project Development & Presentation Grant, Murray Bridge
Combined Rotary Clubs 20th Anniversary Art Show, Winner:
Acquisitive Prize 2006 Eckersly's Art Prize (Acquisitive)
2005 Craft-in-site project grant, 2004 Wentworth
Art Prize, Winner Acquisitive, Heysen Prize for
Australian Landscape Winner Best Regional Artist; Pt
Pirie Art Prize Winner Acquisitive, Whyalla Art Prize
Most Innovative Reg. Artist Acquisitive 2003 Heysen Prize
for Australian Landscape Winner; Waverley Art Prize, Sydney,
NSW Viewers Choice Prize, Kernewek Lowender Art Prize,
SA 2nd Prize; Port Pirie Art Prize, Port Pirie, SA Highly
Commended Award; 2002 Rotary Club of Port Adelaide
Winner, Heysen Prize for Australian Landscape, Highly
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Selected Recent Publications
2008 Artlink, vol 28, no:
1, pg. 72-73, "Chance encounters", Melinda Rankin,
The Advertiser, 13 February 2008, pg 27. "Sculpture
- Biennial Artists", The Advertiser, 6 February 2008,
pg. 27,"Art Award - Going for Gold", Tim Lloyd, 2007
Art Monthly, October, pg204, Artnotes, Cath Kenneally;
The Advertiser, August 15, pg3, Patrick McDonald; The Advertiser
Review, SALA, Tim Lloyd, 28 July, pg 28, The Advertiser,
SALA Festival, Patrick McDonald, 21 July, pg 13, The Adelaide
Review, 10-16 March, pg18, Perceptions of Distance, John
Neylon; The Independent Weekly, 10-16 March, pg. 31, The Artist's
Voice, Adam Dutkiewicz 2006 The Independent Weekly,
23 Dec, pg 26, The Year That Was, Adam Dutkiewicz; The
Advertiser, 16 Dec, pg 6, Best Regional Exhibition - "Confluence";
Artlink, Vol26 #3, pg 95, Confluence Review, Melinda Rankin;
Australian Art Review, Issue 10, March-June'06, pg. 92, Stephanie
Radok. |
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