CHRISTINE POLOWYJ

1975   Born UK

1983   Emigrated to Brisbane QLD

2000   Moved to Melbourne VIC

STUDIES

2001  Introduction to Supervision, Victorian Employers' Chamber of Commerce and Industry

          (VECCI)

2000   Diploma of Graphic Design (Technical Major), Queensland School of Printing and Graphic

           Arts, Brisbane

1996   Certificate in Office Administration (Business Traineeship), Lorraine Martin Commercial

           College and Tourism

           Training Queensland, Brisbane

1993   BA (Humanities and Journalism, deferred).

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2007   (untitled) - Brunswick Street Gallery, Fitzroy VIC. Transitional figurative development

           works

2007   Jackman Gallery, St Kilda VIC. Head studies and figurative works

2007   Art Melbourne, Carlton Exhibition Centre (Brunswick Street Gallery stand) VIC

2006   Further from Here - Eurotrash Gallery, Melbourne VIC

2003   Role Model - Fitzroy Gallery, Melbourne VIC

2001   Fashion Gone Wrong - Fat Ben Cafe, Melbourne VIC.

2001   more! - Gluttony, Collingwood VIC.

2000   4'6'8'9 - Espressohead, Brisbane QLD

1999   The 8th SW Dub - The Zoo, Brisbane QLD

1998   Making it Big - Alley Kat Cafe, Brisbane QLD

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2007   Off the Wall, Independent Artists Showcase, Art Sydney 07

           Small Works show - Brunswick Street Gallery, Melbourne VIC

           Portrait show - Brunswick Street Gallery, Melbourne VIC

           Annual show (invited artists) - HiArts, Highlands, VIC

2006   End-of-year Auction - Brunswick Street Gallery, Melbourne VIC

           Provocateur - Eurotrash Gallery, Melbourne VIC

           On The Wall - Popshop Gallery, Melbourne VIC: Live painting on the wall; works painted  

           over at end of show.

2005   9 Pink Pigs Go Pop - Popshop Gallery, Melbourne VIC

2004   Art vs Art - Stella Dimadis Galleries, Melbourne VIC

           with James Hancock - Stella Dimadis Galleries, Melbourne VIC

2002   Multimedia piece - Next Wave Festival (online), Melbourne VIC

2001   Artist for a Day - National Association for the Visual Arts (NAVA), 02 October.

           http://www.visualarts.net.au/gallery/images/2006/07/helmut

           Multimedia works - fEMmEDIA01, Chauvel Cinema, Paddington NSW

           Featured Artist on the noise website @ www.noise.net.au

2000   Feisty Apple Girls - Cambridge Academy, Brisbane QLD

1993   With Sara Shera, Symone Tait, Ben Lawrance and James Bailey - M.O.C.A. Petrie

           Terrace, Brisbane QLD

AWARDS

2007   Calling All Artists Project. Avant Card. 20,000 postcards printed and distributed

           Australia-wide

2001   Fake Ads, noise festival. Selected entries chosen for exhibition at www.noise.net.au

           noise festival GQ Fashion Illustration award, also at www.noise.net.au

PUBLICATIONS

Imagining Ourselves anthology by the International Museum of Women. New World Library, San Fransisco, California, USA

Hermes Art and Literature Annual Vol 18, 2002. 2 x illustrations/drawings. University of Sydney

Noise 2001. Illustration Published in Stuff Magazine (State Government of Victoria)

Juice magazine, November 2002. Artist biography and four works. Published nationally (Australia)

COLLECTIONS

1998- Frank Malerba (Jackman Gallery VIC), Mark Jamieson (Brunswick Street Gallery VIC), Richard Morrison, Melissa

Loughnan (Utopian Slumps), Brendan Wilkinson (Barrister), Stella Dimadis (Stella Dimadis Gallery VIC), various

private collections in Brisbane, Melbourne and Sydney.

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