HELGA GROVES
1961 Born - Ayr,
Queensland, Australia
Education
2000 Master of Arts (Visual Arts), Sydney College of the Arts, Sydney
1988 Graduate Diploma (Visual Arts), Sydney College of the Arts, Sydney
1987 Bachelor of Arts (Visual Arts), Sydney College of the Arts, Sydney
Solo Exhibitions
2008
Divining Water, Gitte Weise Gallery, Berlin
2007
Below Sea Level, Sutton Gallery, Melbourne
2006
Landforms, Bellas Milani Gallery, Brisbane
2005
Geophysical Space, Sutton Gallery, Melbourne
2004
Subterranean Series, Bellas Milani Gallery, Brisbane
2003
Meltwater II, Sutton Gallery, Melbourne
Gitte Weise Gallery, Sydney
Meltwater, Bellas Gallery, Brisbane
2002
Increments and Shadows, Gitte Weise Gallery, Sydney
2001
New works from the SHADOW series, Sutton Gallery, Melbourne
Bellas Gallery, Brisbane
2000
Gitte Weise Gallery, Sydney
1999
Small Works on Paper, Bellas Gallery, Brisbane
Evanescence, Sutton Gallery, Melbourne
1998
Midnight Sun, Bellas Gallery, Brisbane
Under a Pearl Moon, Gitte Weise Gallery, Sydney
Under a Pearl Moon, Baudoin Lebon, Paris, France
1997
Seven Popular Shapes, Room 35, Sydney
1996
Water from the Red River, KUNST, Sydney
1995
Studio Exhibition, Hanoi Institute of Fine Arts, Vietnam
Diamond Paintings, CBD Gallery, Sydney
1994
Frisson, KUNST, Sydney
1993
After Rain, KUNST, Sydney
1992
KUNST, Sydney
Less than Perpendicular, KUNST (window), Sydney
1991
Cutting from Soft Stone, First Draft West, Sydney
1990
Before During and After, First Draft West, Sydney
Sunflowers, Foyer Gallery, University of Western Sydney, Milpera
1989
Imitation of Art, W.I.N.D.O.W., Sydney
Selected Group Exhibitions
2007
Dobell Drawing Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Syndey
Points of Departure, Tobey Fine Arts, New York
2006
Salon, Bett Gallery Hobart, Tasmania
Tidal: City of Devonport Art Award, Devonport Regional Gallery, Tasmania
Correspondence to a Single Point: A Survey of Geometric Abstraction,
Tobey Fine Arts, New York
P.O.W. (Personal Other World), Canberra Contemporary Art Space,Canberra
2005
Moist: Australian Watercolours, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
6 Kms from CBD, SNO, Sydney
2004
Melbourne Artfair, Royal Exhibition Building, Gitte Weise Gallery
Tidal: City of Devonport Award, Devonport Regional Gallery, Tasmania
Collectables, CQ Gallery, Brisbane
2003
Re-Collection, Gitte Weise Gallery, Sydney
Rendezvous mit Gitte, Volume 3, Gitte Weise Gallery, Sydney
Hot House, curated by Monash University Museum of Art, touring exhibition
Time Out of Joint, University of Fine Art, Hanoi, Vietnam.
2002
10th Anniversary Exhibition, Gitte Weise Gallery, Sydney
Lines 11, Fireworks Gallery, Brisbane
Rendezvous mit Gitte, Volume 2, Gitte Weise Gallery, Sydney
Good Vibrations: The Legacy of Op Art in Australia, Heide Museum of
Modern Art
2001
Phenomena New Painting in Australia:1
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Glacier, RMIT Gallery, Melbourne
2000
Selections from the University of Western Sydney Art Collection, touring
regional galleries, NSW
1999
Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, Queensland Art Gallery
Matter, Gitte Weise Gallery, Sydney
tekhne, Artists + Architects, The Royal Australian Institute of Architects,
Brisbane
Something For Above the Couch, Gitte Weise Gallery, Sydney
Liquid Evasions - flirting with the surface, Plimsoll Gallery, Hobart
On any given day....., Bundaberg Arts Centre, Bundaberg
1998
Kedumba Drawing Award, Kedumba Gallery, Wentworth Falls
1997
Giao Luu - Confluence, Australian Embassy Hanoi & Ho Chi Minh City,
Vietnam
SCEGGS Redland Westpac Art Prize, SCEGGS, Sydney
Exquisite, Room 35, Sydney
KUNST Unlimited editions + Multiples, Gitte Weise Gallery, Sydney
Moet & Chandon Touring Exhibition, State Galleries around Australia
Sight and Sensibility, S.H. Erwin Gallery, Sydney
Fever, Gitte Weise Gallery, Sydney
1996
Semblance, Canberra Contemporary Art Space, Canberra
Women Hold Up Half the Sky, Monash University Gallery, Melbourne
1995
On a clear day you can see forever, ACCA, Melbourne
Monash University Art Prize, Monash University Gallery, Melbourne
Art Hotline, The Performance Space, Sydney
Drawing Room, KUNST, Sydney
1994
No Absolutes, Tin Sheds Gallery, Sydney
Passage: Spacial Interventions, Monash University Gallery, Melbourne
Co-existence, Artspace, Sydney
1993
Australian Perspecta, Art Gallery NSW, Sydney
Confrontations, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney
Mal was Anderes, Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin
Hegemonic 1 & 2, KUNST, Sydney
Vitae, Room 4 Linden Gallery, Melbourne
14 Stations of the Cross, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
1992
Jeune Peinture, Grand Palais, Paris, France
Supermart, The Blaxland Gallery, Melbourne
Moet & Chandon Touring Exhibition, State Galleries around Australia
Lineage, 200 Gertrude Street, Melbourne
1991
Painting and Perception, Mori Gallery, Sydney
Body without organs, First Draft West, Sydney
1990
Vache, AGLASSOFWATER Project, Site, Brisbane
No, AGLASSOFWATER Project, Milburn + Arte, Brisbane
In Full Sunlight, AGLASSOFWATER Project, Brisbane, Sydney & Melbourne
1989
Moet & Chandon Touring Exhibition, State Galleries around Australia
Fresh Art, S.H. Erwin Gallery, Sydney
The New Naturalism, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane
1988
Six of One and Half a Dozen of the Other, First Draft West, Sydney
Collections
Art Gallery of New South Wales
Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth
Artbank, Sydney
Federal Court of Australia
Goldman Sachs JBWere, Sydney
Leeuwin Estate, Perth
Macquarie Bank
Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
National Gallery of Victoria
Private Collections
Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane
RACV, Melbourne
University of Western Sydney, Nepean
Selected Biography
2007 Penny Webb, Sightlines, The Age, 20 July
Ingrid Periz, Below Sea Level, catalogue essay
2006 David M. Thomas, Personal Other Worlds, Catalogue essay, Canberra
Contemporary Art Space
Contemporary: Art Gallery of New South Wales Contemporary Collection,
Collection Handbook
Ingrid Periz, Landforms, catalogue essay
2005 Ingrid Periz, Geophysical Space, catalogue essay
2004 Michele Helmrich, Fenestrations of Darkness and Light and Endless
Becoming, catalogue essay
2003 Tanya Peterson, Liquid Light, Art & Australia, Vol. 40, No.3,
2003, pp.426-435
2002 Zara Stanhope, Good Vibrations: The Legacy of Op Art in Australia,
Heide
Museum of Modern Art, ex.cat.
Carmen Grostal, Time out of Joint, ex.cat.
2001 Michael Wardell, Phenomena New Painting in Australia:1,
catalogue essay
Linda Williams, Reflection and Reconstruction: New Directions in Australian
Painting, Glacier catalogue essay
1999 Ingrid Periz, Evaporate, catalogue essay
Jacqueline Millner, Selections from the University of Western Sydney
Art
Collection, catalogue essay
1999 Doug Hall, Beyond the Future, The Third Asia-Pacific Triennial
of
Contemporary Art, catalogue text
Anna Johnson, On any given day..., catalogue text
1998 Bruce James, Archness on the Edge of Town, S.M.H. 24 August
Benjamin Genocchio, A relief from relentless avante - gardism, The Australian,
17 October
Julie Ewington, Inside the light: Helga Groves and the secret spaces
of painting, ex.cat
1997 John O’Neal, Material World, Australian Art Collector, Issue
2
Juliana Engberg, Before the Rain, Art + Text Vol 57
Anna Johnson, Arts new wave - 20 young artists to watch, S.M.H. Good
Weekend, 26 April
Bruce James, Raising the temperature, S.M.H., 1 February
1996 Melissa Chiu, Semblance, exhibition catalogue text
Melissa Chiu, Water from the Red River, exhibition catalogue text
Natalie King, Decor, Art and Australia Vol 33 Summer
Ben Curnow, On a clear day you can see forever, exhibition catalogue
text
1994 Natalie King, Passage: Spacial Interventions, exhibition catalogue
text
Shaun Davies, Co-existence, Agenda # 35, March
Ben Curnow, Co-existence, Art Monthly No: 69, May
Adam Geczy, Australian Perspecta 1993, Agenda # 35, March
Jackie Dunn, Art + Text 47
1993 Shaun Davies, Inflorescence, Australian Perspecta 1993, catalogue
text
Elwyn Lynn, Objects of artful desire, The Australian , 12 September
Browyn Watson, No mere window dressing, S.M.H. 10 September
1992 Eve Sullivan, Lightness or Whiteness, Art Monthly No5, November
Browyn Watson, Images from the lost Island, S.M.H. 16 October
Brigitte Carcenac de Torne, Jeune Peinture exhibition catalogue text
Justin Trendall, Lineage, exhibition catalogue text
Jeffrey Fereday, Supermart, Agenda, June
1991 Adam Geczy, Cutting from soft stone, Eyeline, Spring
Elwyn Lynn, Painting and Perception, S.M.H. January
1990 Julia Robinson, The New Naturalists, Eyeline, Winter
1989 Janet Shanks, The New Naturalim, exhibition catalogue text
Catherine Lumby, Spectre of the Readymade is implicit in Imitation of
Art, Eastern Herald, June
1988 John Young, Six of One and Half a Dozen of the Other, exhibition
catalogue text
Awards, Grants and Achievements
2003 Australia Council (Visual Arts/Crafts Fund) New Work Grant
2001 Artist in Resident, Bundanon Trust, Nowra NSW
2000 Australia Council (Visual Arts/Crafts Fund) New Work Grant
Artist in Residency, Parks Victoria, Melbourne
1998 Artist in Residency, Bundaberg Arts Centre, Bundaberg Qld
Kedumba Drawing Award
1997 Moet & Chandon Australian Art Fellowship
1995 Asialink Artist in Residency, Hanoi, Vietnam
1992 Australia Council (VACB) Project Grant
Pat Corrigan Artist’s Grant in association with N.A.V.A.
1990/91 Co-Director First Draft West, Sydney
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