Angela Brennan

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2011 'To whom the silver-footed goddess replied', Goddard de Fiddes Gallery, Perth
2010 Happen Today, Niagara Galleries, Melbourne
Gear Box Gallery, Melbourne
2009 Everything is what it is and not some other thing, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
2008 Beautiful World, Niagara Galleries, Melbourne
2007 Goddard de Fiddes Gallery, Perth
Circular Scenery, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
2006 Angela Brennan: every morning I wake up on the wrong side of capitalism, Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne
Still Life, Niagara Galleries, Melbourne
2005 Geranium Lake, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
Paintings and Drawings, de Recourt Art, The Gallery on Cork Street, London
2004 Peas cooked the Roman Way, Niagara Galleries, Melbourne
Faites l'amour pas la guerre, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
2003 Business men, they drink my wine, Pickled Art Centre, Beijing
Oestrogen, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
2002 Niagara Galleries (Melbourne Art Fair)
2001 Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
2000 Niagara Galleries, Melbourne
1999 Bendigo Art Gallery, Victoria
1998 Niagara Galleries, Melbourne
1997 Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
1996 Niagara Galleries, Melbourne
1995 Ararat Regional Art Gallery, Victoria
Niagara Galleries, Melbourne
Temple Studios, Melbourne
1994 Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
1993 Niagara Galleries, Melbourne
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
1992 200 Gertrude Street, Melbourne
1991 Niagara Galleries, Melbourne
1990 First Draft West, Sydney
1989 Possible Worlds, George Paton Gallery, Melbourne

GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2010 Can't See the Wood for the Trees, Niagara Galleries, Melbourne
Blue Chip XII: The Collectors' Exhibition, Niagara Galleries, Melbourne
Hell's Bottom Draw, Hell Gallery, Melbourne
2009 The Shilo project, The Ian Potter Museum of Art, Melbourne, and touring
Portia Geach Memorial Award Exhibition, S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney
The Collectors' Show, Orexart, Auckland New Zealand
Revisited, Tarrawarra Museum of Art
Blue Chip XI: The Collectors' Exhibition, Niagara Galleries, Melbourne
Auckland Art Fair, New Zealand
2008 Taking a line, Vavasour Godkin Gallery, Aukland, New Zealand
The Ecologies Project, Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne
Robert Jacks Drawing Prize, Bendigo Art Gallery
Melbourne Art Fair, Melbourne
This way up: Abstract works from the La Trobe University Art Collection, Bundoora Homestead Art Centre, La Trobe University
Blue Chip X: The Collectors' Exhibition, Niagara Galleries, Melbourne
Aspects of the Gallery, Vavasour Godkin Gallery, Aukland, New Zealand
2007 Monash University Collection: A selection of recent acquisitions, Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne
Melbourne Savage Club Art Prize, Melbourne
Chat Room, Deloitte Foundation, Sydney
Materiality, Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne, Switchback Gallery, Gippsland Campus
From here to Eternity: contemporary tapestries from the Victorian Tapestry Workshop, S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney
Received with thanks: New acquisitions 2001-07, Ian Potter Museum of Art, Melbourne
Snap Freeze: Still Life Now, Tarrawarra Museum of Art
Art For Science, Murdoch Children's Research Institute (MCRI) Charity Exhibition, Nellie Castan Gallery, Victoria
Arthur Guy Memorial Painting Prize, Bendigo Art Gallery
Auckland Art Fair, New Zealand
Blue Chip IX, Niagara Galleries, Melbourne
2006 Stolen Ritual, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
Art and About, Open Gallery, City Street Banners, Sydney
Melbourne Art Fair, Melbourne
Care Australia Art Auction, Christine Abrahams Gallery, Melbourne
Fletcher Jones Art Prize, Geelong Art Gallery
Recent Acquisitions, Tarrawarra Museum of Art
Selected works from the Vizard Foundation Art Collection of the 1990s, Ian Potter Museum of Art, Melbourne
Blue Chip VIII, Niagara Galleries, Melbourne
2005 Arthur Guy Memorial Painting Prize, Bendigo Art Gallery
Art for Science, Murdoch Childrens Research Institute
The Sound of Painting, George Adams Gallery, Arts Centre, Melbourne
2004 Recent Acquisitions, National Gallery of Victoria, Federation Square
Fletcher Jones Art Prize, Geelong Art Gallery
Zurich Art Fair, Zurich
Melbourne Art Fair, Melbourne
Talking about Abstraction, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney
Blue Chip VI, Niagara Galleries, Melbourne
2003 ArthurGuy Memorial Painting Prize, Bendigo Art Gallery
See here now: The Vizard Foundation Art Collection of the 1990s, Ian Potter Museum of Art, Melbourne
Portia Geach Memorial Award Exhibition, S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney
Four, Holmes a Court Gallery, Perth
Newcontemporaries Gallery, Sydney
Hermanns Art Award, Christine Abrahams Gallery, Melbourne, and touring
Blue Chip V, Niagara Galleries, Melbourne
2002 Briefcase 50, Boutwell Draper Gallery, Sydney
Good Vibrations: The Legacy of Op Art in Australia, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne
Geelong Contemporary Art Prize, Geelong Art Gallery
Indecorous Abstraction, Light Square Gallery, AIT Arts, Adelaide
Mosman Art Prize, Mosman Art Gallery, NSW
Towards Colour, McClelland Gallery, Langwarrin
Dobell Drawing Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Creiamo insieme per un minuto: 20:2002 20/20 2002, Milan
2002: 20 years of Roslyn Oxley9, Sydney
2001 Desire, RMIT Gallery,Melbourne
Love Colour, Studio 91B, Adelaide
Something for the Ladies, Penthouse & Pavement, Melbourne
Rockhampton Art Show, Rockhampton, Queensland
Headlands, Bendigo Art Gallery
Portia Geach Memorial Award Exhibition, S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney
Visions of Their World, La Trobe University, Melbourne
2000 On the Brink: Abstraction of the 90s, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne
Blue Chip II, Niagara Galleries, Melbourne
Arts d'Australie, Air France, Paris
Portia Geach Memorial Award Exhibition, S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney
Geelong Contemporary Art Prize, Geelong
1999 Portia Geach Memorial Award Exhibition, S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney
Salon Grandes et Jeunes D'Aujord'hui, Espace Eiffel-Branly, Paris
1998 Sixth Australian Contemporary Art Fair, Melbourne
Portia Geach Memorial Award Exhibition, S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney
Australie Art a Bastille, Paris
1997 Geelong Contemporary Art Prize, Geelong Art Gallery
Antipodean Abstraction, University of Queensland Art Gallery
Acquisitions of Contemporary Australian Art, National Gallery of Victoria
The Vizard Foundation Art Collection of the 1990s, University of Melbourne
1996 Moet & Chandon Award, National Gallery of Victoria and touring
Contemporary Australian Abstraction, Niagara Galleries, Melbourne
Blundstone Contemporary Art Prize, Waverley City Gallery, Melbourne
1995 Lovers, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne
Decadence:10 Years of Exhibiting, 200 Gertrude Street, Melbourne
Track Suits, Victoria College of the Arts, Melbourne
NON: Artists Against Nuclear Testing, Ether Ohnetitel, Melbourne
I Did It For Love, Centre of Contemporary Photography, Melbourne
Collusions: Collaborations Between Visual Artists and Writers, !st floor Melbourne
Blundstone Contemporary Art Award, Queen Victoria Museum, Launceston
Moet & Chandon 1995, Touring Exhibition
In the Company of Women - 100 Years of Australian Women's Art from the Cruthers Collection, Perth Institute of Contemporary Art, Western Australia
Best Arrangement For A Single Bloom, Touring Exhibition
Double Vision: Artist's Portraits of Other Artists, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney
1994 Fourth Australian Contemporary Art Fair, Melbourne
Re-inventing the Grid, Robert Lindsay Gallery, Melbourne
1993 Contemporary Australian Paintings - Works from the Allen Allen & Hemsley Collection, Westpac Gallery
High Pop, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
1992 Barcelona, Niagara Galleries, Melbourne
Third Australian Contemporary Art Fair, Melbourne
The Angelic Space, Monash University Gallery, Melbourne
Artworkz 4 Gallery 101, Melbourne
Ten Square Works For Wilderness, Linden, Melbourne
SWIM, Linden, Melbourne
Margaret Stewart Endowment, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Small Works-Wide Vision, Downlands Art Show, Toowoomba, Qld
1991 Exaltate Jubilate, Store 5, Melbourne
Room For Abstraction, Heide, Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne
Stories and Scapes, Niagara Galleries, Melbourne
Art works 3, Caulfield Arts Complex, Melbourne
1990 Artists Against Animal Experimentation, Deutscher Fine Art, Melbourne
Platform, Spencer Street Railway Station, Melbourne
1989 Proposals, George Paton Gallery, Melbourne & Adelaide Contemporary Centre of Art, Adelaide & Artspace, Sydney
Heidelberg and Heritage; 9 x 5 Exhibition, Linden, Melbourne
8 x 10 Fund Raising Exhibition, Contemporary Centre of Art, Adelaide
Pure, Mori Gallery, Sydney & Queensland College of Art, Brisbane
1988 Vasari Revisited, a Kuntskammer in Melbourne, 200 Gertrude Street, Melbourne
Christmas Exhibition, Roar Studios, Melbourne

AWARDS AND QUALIFICATIONS
2008 Australia Council Studio, Milan
2007 Melbourne Savage Club Art Prize
2006 Studio residency, Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris
2002 Red Gate Gallery Artists Residency, Beijing art Academy (2003 April-May)
Arts Victoria Project Grant
1998 Art Gallery of New South Wales: Moya Dyring Studio at the Cite Internationale des Arts, Paris
New Work Grant, Australia Council
Arts Victoria Project Grant
1995 Blundstone Contemporary Art Award
Artist in residence, Lee Street Primary School, Carlton, Victoria
Artist in residence, Mt Scopus Memorial College, Melbourne
1992 Bachelor of Arts, University of Melbourne
1991 Artist in residence, Ormond College, University of Melbourne
1990 Australia Council Studio, Barcelona
1982 Bachelor of Fine Art, Painting, RMIT

ARTIST PROJECTS
Australian Centre for Contemporary Art/Grossi Florentino Menu Cover Series, 2009
Victorian Tapestry Workshop Commission, 2006
Art and About, Open Gallery, City Street Banners, City of Sydney
'Every morning I wake up on the wrong side of capitalism', Arena Magazine No 84, August-September 2006
'Tartelette aux framboises, a fez from Savers and a boat my father built', Angela Brennan: every morning I wake up on the wrong side of capitalism, catalogue, Monash University Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne, 2006
HEAT Magazine, No. 10 New series, 2005
'Espace Rouge', Espace Rouge, No.1, 2003
'Beauty in the paintings of Angela Brennan', Island no 88, 2002
Façade Mural, Niagara Galleries, 1996
'Mountains in the Palm of My Hand' ArtFan, Spring, 1993
'On What There Is', Broadsheet, Adelaide Arts Festival, March 1990
'Graphic Art Is Not Wobbly', Set Sub Set: An Installation Publication, Melbourne, September 1990
'Because The World Is Round It Turns Me On', Agenda, October 1990

WRITINGS BY THE ARTIST
'Emily Kame Kngwarreye, Alhalkere - Paintings from Utopia', Like Magazine, No.8, 1999
'Tony Clark: a Colloquium', Heide Museum of Modern Art
'Andrew McQualter', 1st Floor, Fitzroy, 1995
'Noella Stratford', The Women's Gallery, Melbourne, ArtFan No. 3, 1994
'Sensual Potential' (curator & catalogue essay), Angela Brennan, Linden & the Next Wave Festival, Melbourne, 1993.
'Geoff Lowe: According To Others', Collaborations 1980-1992' Catalogue Essay, ACCA, Melbourne 1992
'On What There Is', Broadsheet, Adelaide Arts Festival, December 1990
'Ode to Vault', ArtFan No.2, 1994

BIBLIOGRAPHY
BOOKS
Maudie Palmer (ed.), Encounters with Australian Modern Art, Hermann Editeurs, Paris, 2008
Barbara Flynn (ed.), Emerge and Review: A look into the UBS Australian art collection, UBS, 2007
Feelings: One Hundred Years of Montblanc, Montblanc Simplo, Germany, 2006
Jingzhe Li, Australian Contemporary Painting, Shanghai People's fine Art Publishing House, 2005
Charlotte Day (ed.), A Short Ride in a Fast Machine: Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces 1985-2005, Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, 2005
Naomi Cass (ed.), See here now: The Vizard Foundation Art Collection of the 1990s,
Thames & Hudson, 2003
Donald Williams, In Our Own Image: The Story of Australian Art 4th Ed,
McGraw Hill. 2001
Christopher Marshall, Macmillan Interpreting Art, Macmillan, 2001
Laura Murray-Cree and Nevill Drury (eds.), Australian Painting Now, Craftsman House, 2000
D.Williams and C.Simpson, Art Now: Contemporary Art Post 1970, McGraw Hill, 1994

CATALOGUES
2010 Change, Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne
Happen Today, Niagara Galleries, Melbourne
Blue Chip XII: The Collectors' Exhibition, Niagara Galleries, Melbourne
2009 Blue Chip XI: The Collectors' Exhibition, Niagara Galleries, Melbourne
2008 The Ecologies Project, Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne
Beautiful World, exhibition catalogue, Niagara Galleries, Melbourne
Nick Cave Stories, Told in Four Chapters, featuring the Nick Cave Collection, The Arts Centre, Melbourne
Blue Chip X: The Collectors' Exhibition, Niagara Galleries, Melbourne
2007 Monash University Collection: A selection of recent acquisitions, Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne
Snap Freeze: Still Life Now, Tarrawarra Museum of Art
Blue Chip IX, Niagara Galleries, Melbourne
2006 Angela Brennan: every morning I wake up on the wrong side of capitalism, Monash University Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne
'Montblanc: the Cutting Edge Art Collection', One Hundred Years of Montblanc
Blue Chip VIII, Niagara Galleries, Melbourne
2005 Art for Science, Murdoch Childrens Research Institute
2004 'Peas cooked the Roman Way', Niagara Galleries
Felicity Fenner, 'Talking about Abstraction', Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney
Blue Chip VI, Niagara Galleries, Melbourne
2003 Blue Chip V, Niagara Galleries, Melbourne
2002 John McPhee, 'Angela Brennan: Outside Language, Inside Paintingʼ, Niagara Galleries
Robert Lindsay, 'Towards Colour', McClelland Gallery
2000 Patrick Hutchings, ' Angela Brennan New Paintings', Niagara Galleries
Jenny Long, 'Perfect Day'
1996 William Nuttall, 'Contemporary Australian Abstraction', Niagara Galleries
'Angela Brennan/Neil Taylor', Niagara Galleries
Jim Morgan, 'Angela Brennan-25/August- 8/October/1995, Ararat Regional Art Gallery'
1993 Contemporary Australian Paintings-Works from the Allen Allen & Hemsley Collection, Westpac Gallery, Melbourne
Jeff Gibson, High Pop, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
1991 Gail Hastings, 'Oh, Tango', 200 Gertrude Street, Melbourne
James Harley, 'Room for Abstraction', Heide, Museum of Modern Art
1990 Stuart Koop, 'Datur Tertium: A Third is Given',
1989 Geoff Lowe, 'Possible Worlds', George Paton Gallery, Melbourne
David O'Halloran, 'Proposals', George Paton Gallery, Melbourne

ARTICLES
Robert Nelson, 'Unsettling the old sores', The Age, 26 May 2010
'Angela Brennan', Australian Art Collector 52, April-May 2010
Penny Webb, The Age Melbourne Magazine, 2 May 2010
Melissa Amore, ʻThe road: the Ecologies Project, MUMAʼ, Art Monthly Australia, No 220, June 2009
Harbant Gill, ʻThe fine art of givingʼ, Herald Sun, 18 March 2009
Megan Backhouse, ʻArt around the galleriesʼ, The Age, 17 May 2008
Linda Short, 'Freedom and necessity: Angela Brennan and the pursuit of painting', Eyeline No 63, 2007
Kate Sands, 'Angela Brennan: every morning I wake up on the wrong side of capitalism', Art Monthly No 194, October 2006
Robert Nelson, 'Angela Brennan', The Age, 9/8/06
Megan Backhouse, 'Every picture spins a tale', The Age, 21/6/06
Megan Backhouse, ʻColour my worldʼ, Art Gallery Guide, May 2006
Penny Webb, 'Brennan accentuates the visual', The Age, 28/2/06
Jeff Makin, 'A U-turn to humanity', Herald Sun, 13/2/06
Harbant Gill, 'Brush speaks for her', Herald Sun, 13/2/06
Amanda Rowell, HEAT Magazine, No 10 New Series, 2005
Timothy Morrell, 'Angela Brennan', in 'Fifty of Australia's most collectable artists', Australian Art Collector 31, 2005
Max Delany, 'Gallery: Selections from recent exhibitions in Australia', Art & Australia Vol 41, No 4, Winter 2004
Louise Bellamy, 'The Art of Text Messages', The Age, 24/4/04
Ashley Crawford, 'Peas cooked the Roman Way', The Sunday Age, 4/4/04
Robert Nelson , 'Brennan's P's and Q's' The Age, 30/4/04
Patrick Hutchings, 'Angela Brennan', Australian Art Collector 28, April 2004
Emily Childs, 'Blue Chip VI: The Collector's Exhibition', Australian Art Collector 2, January 2004
Courtney Kidd, 'Crammed Abstraction', The Sydney Moring Herald, 7/2/01
Annmarie Kiely, 'Kaleidoscope', Belle Magazine, Aug/Sept 2000
Georgina Jerums, 'Truecolours', Melbourne Weekly Magazine, 3/9/00
Robert Nelson , 'Angela Brennan' The Age, 16/8/00
Brad Leonard, 'Angela Brennan, Herald Sun, 25/8/00
Jeff Makin, 'The color of beauty', Herald Sun, 14/8/00
Megan Backhouse, 'Angela Brennan', The Age, 9/8/00
Drusilla Modjeska, 'Personal Space', The Australian Review of Books, August 1999
Lisa Dabscheck, 'Art for posterity', The Australian Finnancial Review Magazine, Sept 1998
Jenny Zimmer , 'Driven to abstraction', The Age, 3/6/98
Courtney Kidd, 'Goodwill Hunter', Australian Art Collector, Issue 5, 1998
Stuart Koop, 'The failures of modernism and the painting of Angela Brennan', Art and Australia Vol 34 No2, Summer 1996
Diane Dunbar, 'Picture of the Month', Queen Victoria Museum & Art Gallery, The Examiner, 4/11/1996
Robert Nelson, 'That rare creature, charm', The Age 31/7/1996
Robert Rooney, The Australian, (re: Moet & Chandon Touring Exhibition), 25/8/95
Robyn McKenzie, 'Audacious use of influences', The Age, 23/8/1995
Robyn McKenzie, 'Exhibition with room to view', Moet & Chandon, The Age, 16/8/1995
Marie Sierra-Hughes, 'Temple Jacqui, Temple Angela', Herald Sun, 26/5/95
Robert Rooney, 'Re-inventing the Grid', The Australian, 22/10/94
Chris Heathcote, 'Re-inventing the Grid', The Age, 19/10/94
Felicity Fenner, Sydney Morning Herald, 7/10/94
Tim Sowden, 'Angela Brennan, Everyday Saints', World Art No.1, March 1994
Elwyn Lynn, The Australian, 1/10/94
Felicity Fenner, Sydney Morning Herald, 8/5/1993
Tim Sowden, 'Angela Brennan, 200 Gertrude St', Art & Text No.44, 1993
Robyn McKenzie, 'What girls like', Art & Text No. 46, September 1993
Elwyn Lynn, The Australian, 8/5/1993
Felicity Fenner, Sydney Morning Herald, 8/5/1993
Chris Heathcote, The Age 21/9/93 (re. Allen Allen & Hemsley Collection exhibition)
Robert Rooney, The Australian 22-23/8/1992
Chris Heathcote, The Age 4/9/91
Robert Rooney, 'Room for Abstraction', The Age, 4/9/1991
Kevin Murray, 'I Think Therefore I Am', Agenda, 1991
Jan Blensdorf, The Age 13/9/1991
Chris Heathcote, The Age, 7/8/1991
Stuart Koop, 'Angela Brennan: Recent Paintings', Art Now: Contemporary Art In Melbourne, National Gallery News, January 1990
Elizabeth Newman, 'Possible Worlds: Angela Brennan's Paintings', Agenda, 12/1989
Julianna Engberg, 'Contemporary Art in Melbourne', National Gallery News 12/1989
Robert Rooney, 'Possible Worlds', The Australian, 25/11/1989
John Emery, 'More Than Just A Pretty Picture', Adelaide Advertiser 18/10/1989
Chris McAuliffe, 'Proposals', Agenda, 4/1989
Robert Rooney, 'Proposing Utopia', The Australian, 27/2/1989

COLLECTIONS
Allen, Allen and Hemsley, NSW
ANZ Bank
Art Bank, NSW
Art Gallery of South Australia
Benalla Art Gallery, Victoria
City of Yarra, Victoria
Collection of Sir James and Lady Cruthers, Perth
Council of Adult Education
Deakin University Collection, Victoria
Deloitte Foundation, Sydney
Goldman Sachs JBWere
KPMG, Melbourne
LaTrobe University, Victoria
Leeuwin Estate, Western Australia
Monash University
Mont Blanc Art Collection, Swizterland
National Bank
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
National Gallery of Victoria
Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, Launceston
RACV, Melbourne
TarraWarra Museum of Art, Victoria
The Arts Centre, Melbourne
The Vizard Foundation, Victoria
Trinity Grammar School, NSW
University of Melbourne
Western Mining Collection, Victoria
World Bank, New York, USA
Private Collections, Australia, United Kingdom, France, USA, Canada, Israel, Japan, Singapore and elsewhere