Biography
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KRISTIN HEADLAM
C U R R I C U L U M V I T A E
Born Launceston, 1953
Lives and works in Melbourne
STUDIES
1972-76 Bachelor of Arts, Departments of Fine Arts & English, University of Melbourne
1980-81 Painting, Victorian College of the Arts
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
1984 Nielson Hayes Library, Bangkok, Thailand
1988 Cockatoo Gallery, Launceston
1989 Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne
1991 Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne
1992 Julie Green Gallery, Sydney
1994 Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne
1996 Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne
1998 Tony Palmer at Mary Place Gallery, Sydney
1999 Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne
2000 Tony Palmer, Sydney
2000 Public Park, Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne
2001 As the Twig is Bent, (retrospective exhibition) Launceston Church Grammar School, Launceston
2001 Private Garden, Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne
2003 News, Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne
2005 Heiser Gallery, Brisbane
2005 Recent Works, Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne
2006 Paper to Paper, Charles Nodrum Gallery
2006 Recent Watercolours, Mansfield, Victoria
2007 Recent Works, Heiser Gallery, Brisbane
2007 The Gesture, Chapman Gallery, Canberra
2008 About the House, Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne
2009 The Art of Politics, Cowwarr Art Space, Gippsland
2009 Inside Out, Heiser Gallery, Brisbane
2011 Seasonal Adjustments, Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
1982 Tricycle Theatre Arts Complex, London
1988 Spirit of the Times, Bicentennial Touring Exhibition, Melbourne
1989 Scotchman’s Hill Invitation Art Prize, Geelong Art Gallery
1990 Scotchman’s Hill Invitation Art Prize, Geelong Art Gallery
1991 The Medium Pastel, David Jones Gallery, Sydney
1992 Kristin Headlam & Noel McKenna, Dick Bett Gallery, Hobart
1993 Approaches to the Sublime, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney
1995 City of Hobart Invitation Art Prize
Blundstone Contemporary Art Prize, Queen Victoria Museum & Art Gallery
1996 Brushing the Dark: Recent Art and Tasmania, CAST; toured nationally
Doug Moran Portrait Prize, National Gallery of Victoria & touring
1997 Deacons, Graham and James Art Award, Ian Potter Gallery, Melbourne
1998 Contemporary Art Fair, Melbourne, Charles Nodrum Gallery Stand
1999 Visyboard Art Prize, Barossa Vallery
We are Australian, Victorian Arts Centre, Melbourne & traveling to 2002
Conrad Jupiters Acquisitive Art Prize, Gold Coast City Art Gallery
Artful Cello, Victorian Arts Centre, Melbourne, & traveling to 2000
2000 Exquisite Corps, Bendigo Art Gallery
Doug Moran Portrait Prize, traveling exhibition
An Affair to Remember, Artsauce Gallery, Singapore
Geelong Contermporary Art Prize, Geelong Art Gallery
Kozminsky Galleries, Melbourne
2000 Melbourne Art Fair, Melbourne, Charles Nodrum Gallery Stand
2001 Male Nude – A Private View, Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne
Savage Art Prize, Savage Club, Melbourne
Portraits 2001, Tweed River Regional Gallery & touring Australia 2001-02
Selected Paintings, Kozminsky Galleries, Melbourne
Australian & International Works on Paper, Charles Nodrum Gallery
Contemporary Art, Christie’s Australia, Melbourne & Sydney
2002 The Human Portrayed, Charles Nodrum Gallery
The Painted Fold: The Garment in Art, Charles Nodrum Gallery
Savill Contemporary, Savill Galleries, Melburne
Contemporary Art, Christie’s Australia, Melbourne & Sydney
Just Married, Monash Gallery of Art
Melbourne Artfair 2002, Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne
2003 X Melbourne, COFA Gallery, Sydney (Gary Willis curator)
The Arthur Guy Acquisitive Award, Bendigo Art Gallery (finalist)
2003-2004 , Hunter.1, Newcastle Regional Art Gallery
Modern Australian Painting, Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne
2008 National Artists’ Self-Portrait Prize, The University of Queensland
2008 Optimism, Queensland Art Gallery
2011 Gaze, Redland Art Gallery, Queensland
Finalist, Doug Moran National Portrait Prize
People and Places, Heiser Gallery Brisbane
AWARDS
1991 Conrad Jupiters Acquisitive Art Prize, Gold Coast City Gallery
2000 Doug Moran National Portrait Prize, Winner
COMMISSIONS
1995 Crown Melbourne Hotel: designs for tapestries executed by the Victorian Tapestry Workshop
2001 Painting Commission, Perth Mint, Perth, WA
2001 Portrait Commission, Queens College, University of Melbourne
2005 Portrait Commission, Trinity College, University of Melbourne
2007 Portrait Commission, Tasmanian Parliament, Tasmania
2008 Dawn Service, Australian War Memorial
2009 Portrait Commission, Centenary Institute, NSW
COLLECTIONS
British Museum
National Gallery of Australia Art Gallery of New South Wales
National Gallery of Victoria Tasmanian Museum & Art Gallery
ArtBank Hamilton Regional Art Gallery
Gold Coast City Art Gallery Western Mining Corporation
Tamworth Regional Gallery National Australia Bank
Deakin University Gallery Queen Victoria Museum and Art Australian War Memorial Gallery
Walter & Eliza Hall Institute Tamar Collection
State Library of Victoria Derwent Collection
Queen’s College, University of Melbourne The Ian Potter Museum of Art
Moreland City Council, Melbourne Tweed Heads Regional Art Gallery, NSW
Queens College, University of Melbourne La Trobe University Collection
University of Tasmania Ballarat Art Gallery
Private & Corporate Collections Trinity College, Melbourne
PUBLICATIONS
Barilo von Reisberg, Eugene. Catalogue Essay, Charles Nodrum Gallery, 1999;
Cawthorne, Zelda (ed). The Artful Cello, MICMC, 1999.
Cree, Laura Murray, Australian Painting Now, Craftsman House, 2000
Deeth, Jane. Kristin Headlam: As the Twig is Bent, exh catalogue, Launceston, 2001
Drury, Neville. Images 2, Craftsman House, Sydney, 1994;
Drury, Neville. Images 3, Craftsman House, Sydney, 1999;
Falkiner, Suzanne. “Brushing the Dark”, Art Monthly, no 90, June 1996, pp. 22-24
Hammond, Victoria. Catalogue Essay, Brushing the Dark (op cit);
Hammond, V et al, The Derwent Collection, TMAG, 1995, p. 34
Hart, Kevin. Catalogue Essay, Charles Nodrum Gallery, 1996;
Kent, Rachel. Catalogue Essay, Deacons Graham & James Award, 1997;
Marsh, Anne. “Public Park: A Gendered Performance”, Art & Australia, June 1999;
Marsh, Anne, News, exhibition catalogue essay, Charles Nodrum Gallery, 2003
McCulloch, A & S. Encyclopedia of Australian Art, 1994; pp. 330-31
Smith, Smith & Heathcote, Australian Painting 1788-2000, Oxford University Press, 2000, p. 585
ARTICLES & REVIEWS
Albert, Jane. “Artist Paints Herself into $100,000 Victory”, The Australian, 23.08.2000
Backhouse, Megan. “Out of the Shadows”, Today, The Age, 20.09.2000; p. 7
Brennan, Betsy, Vogue Living, Aug-Sept 2001
Cawthorne, Zelda. “Here Comes the Bride in Oils”, Herald Sun, 2 March 1999, p 48;
Cawthorne, Zelda. “Naked Men, for a Change”, Herald Sun, 28.01.2001
Cawthorne, Zelda. “Exhibition Review”, Herald Sun, Nov. 2001
Fortescue, Elizabeth. “In bed with Kristin”, Herald Sun, 23.08.2000; p. 56
Fyfe, Melissa,. “Waking Up a Winner”, The Age, 23.08.2000;
Hammond, V. “Contemporary Artists Gain International Appeal”, Masterpiece Australia, W, 1999
Hart, Kevin. “Kristin Headlam”, Agenda, 39/40, Nov 1994, p. 44;
Hedger, Michael. “Endless Exploration”, The Herald Weekender, 21.02.2004, p. 14
Hurell, Brownyn. “Prize Painting A Pet Project”, Herald Sun, 23.08.2000; p. 12
Jay, Sian E. “What Are These Australians up to?”, The Straits Times (Singapore), 16.02.2000
Jones, Jacqui. “Exhibition has much to offer”, Newcastle & Hunter Herald, 11.02.2004; p. 7
Keene, Neil. “Galleries combine in Art Tour”, Newcastle & Hunter Herald, 13.02.2004; p.5
Lawson, Valerie. “Tails of a Prize-Winning Portrait”, Sydney Morning Herald, 28.08.00; pp 1, 5;
Lynn, Elwyn. “Sublimity to Ridicule”, The Australia Weekend Review, 13-14.11.1993; p. 13
MacDonald, John. Sydney Morning Herald, 1996;
Makin, Jeff. “Brave Artist Tackles Footy Heroes”, Herald Sun, 4 Aug 2003; pp. 91-92
Mollison, James. “On Collecting”, Art & Australia, vol 34, no 1; 1997;
Murray Cree, Laura. “Gardens”, Art & Australia, vol 35, no. 4, 1998;
Porter, Liz. “How Brendan Fevola went from devil to Botticelli angel”, The Age, 31/07/03
Schoenbaum, Sam. “Male Nude – A Private View” (exhibition review), Artlink, March 2001
Spunner, Suzanne. “The Thrall of the dress: Blame it on Dior”, Art Monthly, April 99, p. 16-17.
Stone, Deborah. “Rondo with an airy middle section”, The Age, 14 May 1999.
Watson, Bronwyn. “Galleries”, Sydney Morning Herald, 30.10.1992
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