BERKEMEIER Geraldine

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RECENT EXHIBITIONS
2008 Sink or swim: Orange Regional Gallery,8/2-6/4, Gold Coast City Art Gallery 13/9 – 6/11
  Sydney Printmakers, Taylor Gallery, Summer Hill, Sydney
  Sighting the whale, new works by members of Primrose Paper Arts, Mosman Art Gallery
  Ocean to Harbour, new works by members of Warringah Print Studio, Mosman Art Gallery
2007 Sink or swim tour:
  Moores Building Contemporary Art Gallery, Fremantle, Geraldton Regional Gallery,
  Darwin Visual Arts Assoc. Charles Darwin University, Darwin,
  Australian Catholic University, NSW
2006 Sink or swim, collaborations and other works on paper with Gary Shinfield,
  Manly Art Gallery and Museum, Sydney
  Sydney Printmakers, Taylor Gallery, Summer Hill, Sydney
  Force of fire, with Willi Michalksi, ceramic artist, Marianne Newman Gallery
   
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2004-05 dodecahedron=the force of creative command, exhibition at Flinders Street Gallery Sydney.
  Manly Art Gallery and Museum – Recent Acquisitions
  Southern Highlands Printmakers at Campbelltown Regional Gallery, Sydney
  COFA Staff and students- Prints at Chang-Mai, Thailand
  College of Eastern Utah, USA
  An Australian Image, Atelier Skåra, Oslo, Norway
  Palm to Paper, hand made paperworks at Palm House, Botanical Gardens, Sydney
   
SELECTED FOR EXHIBITIONS: INTERNATIONAL, NATIONAL AND LOCAL
2007 Wrexham (Wales UK) International Print Exhibition, touring exhibition, UK
2005/07/08 Broken Hill Outback Award, Broken Hill, NSW
2006 Sydney Prints, 45 years of the Sydney Printmakers, S.H.Ervin Gallery
2005 Geelong Print Prize, Geelong Regional Gallery, Victoria
  Fishers Ghost Art Award, Campbeltown Regional Gallery, Sydney
2004 Big, Warringah Print Studio, Manly Art Gallery and Museum
2004/06 China- Print exhibition at Guangzhau, Guangdong (Canton) province
2004 Swan Hill Print and Drawing Award, Victoria
2004/06 Duraloid Silk Cut National Print Award, Victoria
2004 Passion for Paper: Mosman Art Gallery, paperworks, Sydney
2002 Kanagawa Prefecture Gallery, Japan
2002/03/04 Willoughby Art Prize, Sydney
2001 11th International Bulgarian Biennale, Varna
  Finalist Canson National Print Prize
  Hutchins Art Prize, Tasmania
  Toowoomba Regional Gallery Biennial Exhibition, Queensland
  Exploration, COFA Exhibition /Performance Spaces
  CUPRUM International Biennial of Prints – Metal techniques, Lubin, Poland
   
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2004 Hot & Cold, Hardware Fine Art, Sydney
2002 Spanning the Mark, MFA Exhibition, College of Fine Arts, UNSW
  Site Lines: Hardware Fine Art, Sydney
 
AWARDS
2008 Broken Hill Outback Art Award- 3rd prize
2007 NAVA Grant for Sink or swim
2006 Dylon Paper Award: Dying to Make Paper Awards Exhibition 2006,
  Primrose Paper Arts, Sydney
2004 (National) Australia Council grant- New Work- with Gary Shinfield
2003/05 Best Stand award, Sydney Art on Paper Fair
  Independents Stand (6 artists)
2003 North Sydney Art Prize- Contemporary Art
2002 May: Prize- the COFA Alumni Paper Exhibition
2001 November: North Sydney Art Prize
  June: Student Research Grant (COFA UNSW)-overseas research
1996 November: Joseph Lebovic Print Prize (COFA UNSW)
1990-94 Two grants from the NSW Ministry for the Arts and one from the
  Australia Council for Primrose Paperworks Co-op Ltd.
   
EDUCATION
2001-04 Lithography, Meadowbank Technical and Further Education (TAFE)
1998-02 Master of Fine Arts by Research (Printmaking),
  University of NSW College of Fine Arts, (COFA), Part-time
1994-96 Master of Art (Studio Art - Printmaking), part-time, UNSW COFA
1982-83 Study at Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, USA : Drawing, Papermaking
  Study at Boston Museum of Fine Arts USA: Drawing
1979-81 Workshop Arts Centre, Willoughby (Sydney): Etching, Life Drawing
1970-76 Bachelor of Arts, Sydney University
  Diploma of Education, Sydney Teachers College
  Post Grad. Diploma of Arts (Industrial Archaeology) Sydney University
   
PROFESSIONAL
2003-08 COFA, UNSW, Art school, Printmaking, sessional teaching
2007 Invited to present a paper at Impact 5, International Print Symposium, Estonia (October)
  Artist in residence at an Archaeological excavation, Marulan NSW, December.
2002 Invited to present a paper at the International Conference on Printmaking, Auckland University, New Zealand, May 17-19
2001-03 CREATE Australia: National Visual Arts, Craft & Design Industry Training Project:
  Project writer
2001 Invited to speak at the Odyssey International Print Symposium, Cortona, Italy
2000-04 Artist in Residence, Bundanon (Arthur Boyd’s estate given to the nation), as well as residencies for gifted and talented students (Primary and Secondary Schools) and at various schools in Sydney
1975-07 Visual Arts teacher and Head of Dept (Visual Arts) at several schools, teacher at TAFE,
  Co-ordinator of HSC program at Sydney Institute of Technology (TAFE)
2004-08 Teacher – Printmaking, Western Sydney Institute of TAFE
1977-04 Marker and Senior marker for statewide final school examinations,
  (the HSC: Higher School Certificate) Visual Arts examination
1989-94 Co-ordinator, Primrose Paperworks Co-op Ltd, Sydney.
   
President of the Sydney Printmakers, active member of the Warringah Printmakers (Sydney), Southern Highlands Printmakers and the COFA Chapter of UNSW Alumni
   
PUBLICATIONS
2008 Mosman Daily newspaper, June 12, 2008, article and image – Dance!, p.51
  Exhibition- Drawn from Life, Marianne Newman Gallery, June
2008 Mosman Magazine, March 2008, image Red Alert included in article on Sighting the whale, new works from Primrose Paper Arts, pp.22-23
2008 Sighting the whale, catalogue essay by Katrina Cashman, Curator Mosman Gallery, p7.
2008 Mosman Magazine, June 2008, Image-Tracking, included for article for From Ocean to Harbour, recent works by members of Warringah Printmakers Studio, p.15
2008 From Ocean to Harbour, recent works by members of the Warringah Printmakers Studio, catalogue essay by Tony Geddes and Katrina Cashman, Mosman Gallery, p5.
2006 Australian Art Collector, Issue 38, October – December, 2006, by article by Sasha Grishin, p.352
2006 Imprint, Spring, 2006, Volume 41, Number 3, Review - Sink or Swim exhibition, Manly Art Gallery and Museum, 23 June – 23 July by Isobel Johnson, p. 20-21
2004 State of the Arts, April to June Art Now, by Laura Murray Cree, p.44
2004 Premier Sydney Homes, Issue 13, 23 April 2004. Front cover image, p.2–3, article by Charlotte Adams
2004 Imprint, Spring, Volume 39, Number 3, Matrix (womb and surface) sensitive, protective, conceptual, review by Fiona Barbouttis, selected work by Warringah Printmakers Studio members in Guandong Province Exhibition Hall, Guangzhou, China, 3-13 September, p.6
2004 Imprint, Spring, Volume 39, Number 3, Traces, review by Anne Ryan, exhibition of prints by members of the Southern Highlands Printmakers, Wollongong City Gallery, 31 July – 5 September, p.7
2002 Exploration, curated by Exhibition Management and Curatorial Studies students, COFA
  UNSW at COFA Exhibition/Performance Spaces, exhibition catalogue
2002 A Passion for Paper, retrospective exhibition of hand made paper art works from Primrose Paperworks Co-operative, Mosman Art Gallery, 18 May – 18 June
2001 Mark as printmakers, by Sasha Grishin, review of Southern Highlands Printmakers Annual Exhibition, Sturt Gallery, Mittagong
   
WESTERNSCAPE …. Artist statement
Seemingly brittle but tough land... Overwhelmingly beautiful and humbling
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