vivonne thwaites
curator
alison alder
Marion Bitting, Alison Alder and Biddy Wodidj holding
Alison's son Tom at Palumpa airstrip in 1993
Alison Alder and Peggy Napangardi Jones at the opening of
Nyinkka Nyunyu Art & Culture Centre in Tennant Creek in 2003
Cutting History 2008/2009
paper cuts from screen printed paper
approx 3.5 metres by 2 metres
Read about the Cutting History exhibition
alison alder - cv
Alison Alder is currently on a Residency, Centre for Contemporary Printmaking, Norwalk USA
and has won the Alice Prize, Araluen Centre, Alice Springs, NT
| EDUCATION | |
| 2007 | Master of Fine Arts (Research), Monash University |
| 2002 | Graduate Diploma Visual Arts, Monash University |
| 1980 | Diploma of Visual Arts, Canberra School of Art |
| SOLO EXHIBITIONS | |
| 2010 | Cutting History: Australian Story, Kala Art Institute Project Space, Berkeley, USA |
| 2009 | Cutting History, Helen Maxwell Gallery, ACT |
| 2009 | Carcass, Helen Maxwell Gallery, ACT |
| 2007 | Outback, Helen Maxwell Gallery, ACT |
| Out there and Outback, Switchback Gallery, Monash University, Vic | |
| 2004 | Drink, Helen Maxwell Gallery, ACT |
| 2000 | Road to Somewhere, Helen Maxwell Gallery, ACT |
| 1998 | Kujurra Mampaly Nyirrila, with Peggy Jones, Araluen Centre, NT |
| 1997 | Kujurra Mampaly Nyirrila, with Peggy Jones, aGOG and Telegraph Stn, Tennant Creek NT |
| 1995 | Florals, aGOG, ACT |
| 1991 | A Country Show, aGOG, ACT |
| SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS | |
| 2010 | Alice Prize, Araluen Centre, Alice Springs, NT |
| 2009 | Making it New: Focus on Contemporary Australian Art, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney |
| 2009 | Paper Cuts, Araluen Centre, NT |
| 2009 | In Residence, Megalo Print Studio + Gallery, Canberra, ACT |
| 2008 | Artroom5, Adelaide, SA |
| 2008 | New Social Commentary 08, Warrnambool Art Gallery. Victoria |
| 2008 | Alice Prize, Araluen Centre, NT |
| 2007 | Myself by Myself, Helen Maxwell Gallery, ACT |
| Nuclear Matters, Powerhouse Museum, NSW | |
| 2006 | Alice Prize, Araluen Centre, NT |
| 2004 | Megalo 25 X 25, travelling through regional galleries |
| 2003 | Without Classification, John Curtin Gallery, John Curtin Uni, WA |
| 2000 | Triptych, Helen Maxwell Gallery, ACT |
| 1996 | Great Lengths, Araluen Centre, NT |
| 1995 | Out of Line, State Library of NSW |
| 1993 | Australian Poster Art, National Gallery of Australia, ACT |
| 1992 | The Lie of the Land, Powerhouse Museum, NSW |
| 1990 | Now We Are Ten, Redback Graphix Retrospective, Tin Sheds Gallery NSW & touring regional galleries |
| 1988 | Right Here Right Now, Tin Sheds Gallery NSW and Touring |
| 1987 | Shocking Diversity, Print Council of Australia and touring |
| 1986 | Redback Retrospective, Wollongong City Gallery, NSW |
| 1985 | Working Art, Art Gallery of NSW |
| 1982 | Canberra School of Art Staff Exhibition, School of Art Gallery, ACT |
| The All Australia Poster Show, George Paton Gallery, Melbourne | |
| Australian Art of the Last Ten Years, Australian National Gallery | |
| COLLECTIONS | |
| National Gallery of Australia | |
| Art Gallery of NSW | |
| Art Gallery of WA | |
| Australian War Memorial, ACT | |
| Australian National Library, ACT | |
| Wollongong City Gallery, NSW | |
| Art Gallery of South Australia | |
| Queensland Art Gallery | |
| NSW State Library | |
| Kerry Stokes Collection WA | |
| Powerhouse Museum, NSW | |
| Wollongong University, NSW | |
| John Curtin University, WA | |
| ACT Legislative Assembly | |
| Old Parliament House, ACT | |
| ACT Library | |
| Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies, ACT | |
| Megalo Print Studio, Canberra, ACT | |
| Centre for Political Graphics, Los Angeles, USA | |
| Araluen Centre, Alice Springs, Northern Territory | |
| Cruthers Collection of Women’s Art, University of Western Australia | |
| Canberra Museum & Art Gallery | |
| Wagga Wagga Regional Gallery | |
| PUBLICATIONS | |
| McDonald,J. Stitch in Time for the Imagination, Sydney Morning Herald, 10-11 October 2009 pp14-15 | |
| Morrow, C. Making it New: Focus on Australian Contemporary Art, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney 2009 | |
| Grishin, S. Beautiful but Disturbing Critique, Canberra Times, 25 August, 2009 | |
| Christen, K. Aboriginal Business: Alliances in a Remote Australian Town. School for Advanced Research Press, Santa Fe, New Mexico, 2009 | |
| Nainby, B. New Social Commentary 08, Artlink, Vol 28, No 4, 2008 | |
| Zagala, A. Redback Graphix, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra 2008 | |
| Wallace, C. Clean, orderly and laminex coloured. Griffith Review No 18 2008 | |
| Ryan, J. Colour Power, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 2003 | |
| Zagala, A. Redback Graphix. Art on View, NGA. Spring 2005 | |
| Nugent, M. Putting in the Colour, Jukurrpa Books, NT | |
| Wright, F. The Art Centre Story, Desart. | |
| Tregenza, E. Kujurra Mampaly Nyirrila, Julalikari Council, 1997 | |
| Grishin, S. Australian Printmaking, Craftsman House | |
| McQuiston, L. Graphic Agitation, Social and Political Graphics since the 60s. Phaidon | |
| Barkley, G. Multiplicity. Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, 2006 | |
| Church, J. Imprint, Print Council of Australia, 1990 | |
| Butler, R. Poster Art in Australia, National Gallery of Australia | |
| Butler, R. and Stephen, A. Now We Are Ten, Redback Graphix 1998 | |
| Stephen, A. The Lie of the Land. Powerhouse Museum, Sydney | |
| Ewington, J. Shocking Diversity. Print Council of Australia, 1987 | |
| AWARDS | |
| 2010 | Residency, Centre for Contemporary Printmaking, Norwalk USA Alice Prize, winner, Araluen Centre, Alice Springs, NT |
| 2009 | artsACT Project Grant |
| 2008 | Artist in Residence, Megalo Print Studio, Canberra |
| 2007 | Vice Chancellors Commendation for Masters Thesis Excellence, Monash University |
| 2006 | Monash University Postgraduate Academic Merit Scholarship |
| 2004/05 | Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies Research Grant |
| 1996/97 | Australia Council for the Arts, International Year of Tolerance Fellowship |
| 1997 | ArtsNT Artists Grant |
| 1987 | Australia Council for the Arts, Community Arts Board Fellowship, |
| 1984/85 | Australia Council for the Arts, Trainee-Artist-in-the-Community |