RACHEL BURNS CV
“My work never attempts to be a realistic interpretation of the landscape but rather a jumble of remembered and imagined forms. The works are drawn solely from memory and play with the notion of memory as a non linear construct. Colour is used to evoke a sense of place and time.”
Born 1969
Lives and works in Bega , NSW
Solo Exhibitions
2018 Aro Gallery, Sydney.
2011 Sydney, Hunter’s Hill
2010 Ivy Hill Gallery, Wapengo, NSW
2008 Ivy Hill Gallery, Wapengo, NSW
2007 Maunsell Wickes at Barry Stern, Sydney
2006 Ivy Hill Gallery, Wapengo, NSW
2003 Jill Richards Gallery, Sydney
2002 Jill Richards Gallery, Sydney
2001 Jill Richards Gallery, Sydney
2000 Jill Richards Gallery, Sydney
1999 Jill Richards Gallery, Sydney
1998 Maudespace, Sydney
1997 Maudespace, Sydney
1997 Wollongong City Gallery, Wollongong
1996 Maudespace, Sydney
Prizes and Awards
2019 Highly Commended. Hunters Hill Art Prize
2019 People’s Choice Sculpture in the Valley, Kangaroo Valley.
2001 Highly Commended. Fisher’s Ghost Art Award
1990 Cootamundra Art Prize
Residencies
1997 Artist in Residence, Wollongong City Gallery
1995 Yirikala Aboriginal Community, Northern Territory
1996 Coen Community Artist, Queensland
Collections
Bathurst Regional Art Gallery
Price Waterhouse Coopers Legal
Wollongong University Permanent Collection
Publications
Australian House and Garden, June 2005
The Sydney Morning Herald, September 2003
The Sydney Morning Herald, July 2002
Art and Australia, Vol. 38. No.3, 2001
Selected Group Exhibitions
2013 Damien Minton, Sydney
2013 Partnered, Bega Valley Regional Gallery
2009 Finalist - The Callen Art Award, Cowra
2008 Libby Edwards Gallery, Brisbane
2002 Land-Marks, Bathurst Regional Gallery
2001 Fleurier Art Prize, 2001 Adelaide, SA
2001 Decade, Bathurst Regional Art Gallery
2000 Fisher’s Ghost Art Award (Highly Commended), Campbelltown
Education and Professional Practice
2015- Present. Sculptural collaboration and Arts Management
2011 – 2015 Arts mentoring and teaching
2007 - 2011 casual TAFE lecturer Bega campus
2007 - present casual TAFE lecturer Bega campus
2007 - 2010 Public Programmes Coordinator ,Bega Valley Regional Gallery
1998 - 2003 TAFE lecturer at Bathurst, Mudgee and Bega campuses
1992 - 1994 Part time lecturer- Creative Arts, Wollongong University
1989 - 1994 Bachelor of Creative Arts (Hons), Wollongong University
1987 - 1988 Bachelor of Fine Arts. Sydney University