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EDUCATION

2008 Currently completing PhD, Monash University. Melbourne.
1995 Master of Arts, RM I T University, Melbourne.
1974 Diploma of Education, Teachers College, Melbourne.
1973 Diploma of Art & Design, Prahran College of Advanced Education, Melbourne.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2009 Amor Infiniti AC (Institute Direct) New York.
He loves me, he loves me not AC (Institute Direct) New York.
Genera series 09 Longwood University, Virginia.
2008 Cuttings (from Paris) Sutton Project Space, Melbourne.
2007 Artefacts Galerie 4, Cite Internationale des Arts, Paris.
Urban Artefacts Rewak Gallery, University of Sharjah, UAE.
Prismatics ll Bellas Milani Gallery, Brisbane.
2006 Prismatics l Sutton Gallery, Melbourne.
B/W Cuttings Sutton Gallery, Melbourne.
2005 Conversations 1955 - 2005 and Sites 1980 - 2005 VCA Gallery, Melbourne.
2004 Urban Artefacts Sutton Gallery, Melbourne.
Cuttings (from St.Kilda) Sutton Gallery, Melbourne.
Artefacts Bellas Milani Gallery, Brisbane.
2003 Beyond the everyday: The art of Elizabeth Gower 1974 - 2002 Mildura Arts Centre, Hamilton Art Gallery and Wangaratta Exhibition Gallery, Vic.
2002 Beyond the everyday: the art of Elizabeth Gower Glen Eira City Gallery, Melbourne.
Line of Thought 1975-2002 Sutton Gallery, Melbourne.
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Woman 1974 - 2002 Sutton Gallery, Melbourne.
2001 Cuttings (from Barcelona) Sutton Gallery, Melborne, Bellas Gallery, Brisbane.
2000 Artefacts from the 20th Century Sutton Gallery, Melbourne.
1999 Chance or Design Bellas Gallery Brisbane.
1998 Amor Infiniti (works from London) Sutton Gallery, Melbourne.
1997 Variants Arthouse, London.
Genera series Bellas Gallery, Brisbane.
Chance or Design Geelong Art Gallery , Sale Art Gallery, Victoria.
1996 New Work Sutton Gallery, Melbourne.
Chance or Design Mildura Arts Centre, Mornington Peninsular Art Gallery, Shepparton Art Gallery , Benalla Art Gallery, Victoria
1995 Chance or Design Ian Potter Gallery, University of Melbourne.
1994 A Fragile Life Contemporary Art Space, Canberra.
1993 A Fragile Life Sutton Gallery, Melbourne.
Small Works Bellas Gallery, Brisbane.
1991 Beyond the Everyday Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane.
Works on Paper Bellas Gallery, Brisbane..
1990 Beyond the Everyday Luba Bilu Gallery, Melbourne.
1989 Found Images Bellas Gallery, Brisbane.
1987 Found Images Lennox Street Gallery, Melbourne.
1984 All Life Long Christine Abrahams Gallery, Melbourne.
1983 City Series Christine Abrahams Gallery, Melbourne.
1982 Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane.
Paper works Christine Abrahams Gallery, Melbourne.
1981 Coventry Gallery, Sydney.
1980 Christine Abrahams Gallery, Melbourne.
1977 Powell Street Gallery, Melbourne.
1976 Ewing & George Paton Gallery, Melbourne.
Central Street Gallery, Sydney.
1975 Hawthorn City Art Gallery, Melbourne.

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2009 Live in the Limo Armory Art Fair, New York.
Pan-demonium AC(Institute Direct) New York.
Material Afterlife Urban Institute of Contemporary Art, Michigan.
Take Out Bevard Art Museum, Florida.
6X6X2009 Rochester Contemporary Art Center, New York State.
2008 Night of 1000 Drawings, Artists Space, New York.
When You Think About Art George Paton Gallery, Melbourne
Into the Closet The Carlton Hotel, Melbourne.
Contemporary Australian Collage John Buckley Gallery, Melbourne
Tallis Foundation National Works on Paper Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery.
2007 This Crazy Love Linden, Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne.
Paper/Scissors/Rock West Space, Melbourne
2006 Regarding Retro: Reanimations of the Preloved Bundaberg Arts Centre, Qld. Australian National University Student Gallery, ACT.
2005 Regarding Retro: Reanimations of the Preloved Blacktown Arts Centre, NSW. Gladstone Regional Art Gallery, Qld.
Imaging the Apple McClelland Gallery, Vic. University of Sydney Gallery, NSW. Noosa Regional Gallery, Qld. Geelong Art Gallery,Vic.
2004 Imaging the Apple Ballarat Fine Art Gallery, Vic.Plimsol Gallery, University of Tasmania. LaTrobe Regional Gallery,Vic. RMIT Project Space, Melb.
120 degrees of Separation, Linden, St.Kilda Contemporary Arts Centre, Melbourne.
Transit Narratives QCA Gallery, Qld. VCA Gallery, Melb. & Plimsoll Gallery, Hobart.
2003 Mesh The Art Gallery, National Institute of Education, Nanyan University, Singapore.
Pen to Pixel Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia, Melbourne.
The Barcelona Studio: Fragments of a brief History Plimsol Gallery, Hobart. Selections from the Clemenger collection Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia.
2002 Fieldwork Australian Art 1968-2002 Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia.
ARCO Contemporary Art Fair Madrid.
Trans it Narratives Centro per la Arti Vistve & Auronzo di Cadore, Italy.
Good Vibrations: the legacy of Op art in Australia Heide Museum of Modern Art.
2001 Fallout VCA Gallery, Melbourne.
Interactions between Art & Science Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney.
Paperworks Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane.
2000 The Retrieved Object Linden Art Centre and Gallery, Melbourne.
Avant Gardism for Children Monash University Gallery, Melbourne.
1999 Clemenger Contemporary Art Award Museum of Modern Art at Heide, Melbourne.
Avant-gardism for children University Art Museum, Brisbane.
1998 Metamorphosis Mornington Peninsula Art Gallery.
Nature Cooloola Art Gallery, Queensland..
1997 On the Line Hales Gallery, London.
Gramercy Art Fair Gramacy Hotel, New York.
Beyond the Quilt Maidstone Museum and Art Gallery, London.
Perspecta Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney.
1996 The Art of Collecting #2 Linden Arts Centre and Gallery, Melbourne.
1995 Review- works by women from the collection Art Gallery of NSW.
Collectable Eggbeater Plimsoll Gallery, Centre for the Arts, Hobart.
Eve evolution Newcastle Art Gallery, NSW.
1994 Reference Points III: the Immediate Past Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane.
Interfaces Art and Technology Griffith University, Brisbane.
1993 The Art of Collecting #1 Linden, St.Kilda Art Centre, Melbourne; Geelong Art Gallery.
1992 Inherited Absolute Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne.
Works on Paper by Contemporary Australian Artists RMIT Gallery,.Melbourne.
1991 Off The Wall - In the Air: A Seventies Selection Monash University Gallery,.Melbourne. Artists Make Books Linden Art Centre and Gallery,.Melbourne.
Embracing Space Art Gallery of Western Australia.
Neighbours Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia, Adelaide.
1990 SPECIAL..it's been done before Luba Bilu Gallery, Melbourne.
1989 The Intimate Object 200 Gertrude Street Gallery, Melbourne.
1988 Moet & Chandon Touring Exhibition all Australian states.
The John McCaughey Memorial Art Prize National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne.
1987 Backlash, Australian Drawing Revival: 1976 - 1986 National Gallery of Victoria. Domestic Contradictions Power Gallery of Contemporary Art; Arts Council Gallery,
Canberra; Shepparton Art Gallery and Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide.
10 x 10 Gertrude Street Gallery, Melbourne.
1985 Australian Perspecta Art Gallery of New South Wales.
Gower, Jenyns, Neeson, Wulff Fine Arts Gallery, University of Tasmania, Hobart.
1984 Isolaustalia Gallerie Lillo & Fondazione Bevilacqua, La Masa, Venice, Italy.
Australiana Galerija Studentskog, Belgrade.
On Site Tasmanian School Art Gallery, Hobart.
1983 The John McCaughey Memorial Art Prize National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne.
Recent Australian Painting: A Survey, 1970-1983 Art Gallery of South Australia
1981 Australian Perspecta Art Gallery of New South Wales.
1980 Drawn and Quartered: Australian Contemporary Paperworks Art Gallery of S.A.
1979 Three Artists Powell Street Gallery, Melbourne.
John McCaughey Memorial Art Prize National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne.
Biennale of Sydney: European Dialogue Art Gallery of N S W, Sydney.
1978 Selections from the Michell Endowment National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne.
Lost & Found - Objects and Images Ewing and George Paton Gallery, Melbourne.
Australian Artists Cunningham/Ward Gallery, New York.
Treasures of a Decade, 1968-1978 National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne.
Five Melbourne Artists Coventry Gallery, Sydney.
The Map Show Ewing and George Paton Gallery, University of Melbourne.
1977 The Women's Show Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide.
Fabric in Art Project 20, Art Gallery New South Wales.
1976 East Coast Drawing -Towards some Definitions Institute Modern Art, Brisbane.
1975 Women in Art Western Australian Institute of Technology, Perth.

EXHIBITIONS CURATED

2000 The Retrieved Object Linden: St.Kilda Contemporary Arts Centre, Melbourne.
Excess Baggage VCA Student Gallery Melbourne.
1996 The Art of Collecting #2 (images) Linden Art Centre and Gallery, Melbourne.
1993 The Art of Collecting #1 (objects) Linden Art Centre and Gallery, Melbourne.
The Art of Collecting #1 Geelong Art Gallery.
1992 Inherited Absolute (with Elizabeth Gertsakis) ACCA Melbourne.
1986 The Source Centre for the Arts Gallery, Hobart.
1978 Five Melbourne Artists Coventry Gallery, Sydney.

GRANTS / AWARDS

2008 Residency, Australia Council, New York Studio, USA.
2007 Residency, Dr Denise Hickey studio, Cite Internationale des Arts, Paris.
2006 Australian Postgraduate Award.
2002 Fellowship grant, Australia Council.
Arts Victoria, Professional Development grant
2000 Residency, Australia Council, Barcelona Studio, Spain.
1995 Project grant, Australia Counci.
Purchased Mornington Drawing Prize
1990 Project grant, Australia Council.
1983 Residency, Australia Council, Paretaio Studio, Italy.
1982 Special Projects grant, Australia Council.
1980 Alliance Francaise Art Fellowship.
1978 Georges Art Prize.
1977 Travel grant, Australia Council.
1973 Lynch Prize for Painting, Toorak Art Gallery. Melbourne

PUBLIC COMMISSIONS

2008 Inkerman Street St,Kilda, Melbourne.
1999 Super Dome, Sydney Olympics.
1995 Panorama Apartments, Melbourne
1994 City of Port Phillip, with John R. Neeson)
1992 Southbank, Melbourne.
1991 M CG Southern Stand, Melbourne.
1990 World Congress Centre, Melbourne.
1988 Victorian Ministry for the Arts Painted Tram Priject.

COLLECTIONS

Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Australian National Gallery, Canberra
Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth
Artbank
Ballarat Fine Arts Gallery, Victoria
Bendigo Art Gallery, Victoria
City of Port Phillip, Melbourne
Monash University, Melbourne
Mornington Peninsula Art Gallery, Victoria
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Newcastle Art Gallery, New South Wales
Parliament House collection, Canberra
Sale Regional Arts Centre, Victoria
Shepparton Arts Centre, Victoria
Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane
Queensland University of Technology
University of Tasmania, Hobart
Wesfarmers, Melbourne
Private collections, Australia, New York, London, France, Italy, UAE.