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='''Elizabeth Ann Gower (artist, curator, lecturer)'''<sup><ref>Germaine, Max (1991). ''A dictionary of women artists of Australia''. Tortola BVI: Craftsman House. p. 173. [[ISBN (identifier)|ISBN]] [[Special:BookSources/9768097132|<bdi>9768097132</bdi>]].</ref></sup>=
Elizabeth Gower (born 1952 in Adelaide, South Australia) is an Australian abstract artist known for paper and mixed-media monochrome and coloured collages <ref name=":0">{{Cite book|last=|first=|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/13214779|title=150 Victorian women artists|date=1985|publisher=Women 150|others=|year=|isbn=0-9589286-0-6|___location=Melbourne|pages=|oclc=13214779}}</ref> who lives and works in [[Melbourne]]. Gower has also exhibited large textile and paper installations as well as collected and recycled objects and images. Her work developed as a young artist during the 1970s [[feminist movement]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.artlink.com.au/articles/4458/elizabeth-gower-he-loves-me-he-loves-me-not/|title=Elizabeth Gower: He loves me he loves me not|last=|first=|date=|website=Artlink Magazine|language=en|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200308115018/https://www.artlink.com.au/articles/4458/elizabeth-gower-he-loves-me-he-loves-me-not/|archive-date=2020-03-08|access-date=2020-03-08}}</ref> and has also been influenced by Christianity. <ref>{{Cite book|last=Burke|first=Janine|title=Beyond the everyday: the art of Elizabeth Gower: a Glen Eira City Council exhibition.|publisher=City of Glen Eira|year=2002|isbn=1876832908|___location=Melbourne, Australia|pages=}}</ref><ref>Gower, Elizabeth. National Gallery of Australia Ephemera. Australian and New Zealand Art Files</ref> Gower has been a senior lecturer at art college, curated exhibitions by other artists and authored essays and catalogues.<ref>Gower, Elizabeth. "Elizabeth Gower CV" ''elizabethgower.com''. Retrieved 8
== Personal life ==
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Gower has held teaching positions at the [[University of Melbourne]] and the [[Victorian College of the Arts]] and is an Honorary Fellow of the University.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://findanexpert.unimelb.edu.au/profile/172358-elizabeth-gower|title=Dr Elizabeth Gower|website=findanexpert.unimelb.edu.au|access-date=2020-03-08}}</ref>
== Recognition and awards<sup><ref>Gower, Elizabeth. "Elizabeth Gower CV" ''elizabethgower.com''. Retrieved 8 March 2020 </ref></sup>==
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== Exhibitions<sup><ref>Gower, Elizabeth. "Elizabeth Gower CV" ''elizabethgower.com''. Retrieved 8 March 2020 </ref></sup> ==
=== Solo
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|2018
|'''Cuttings- Elizabeth Gower''' Geelong Art Gallery, curator Lisa Sullivan
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|2017
|'''Delineations,''' Sutton Gallery, Melbourne.
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|2016
|'''Rotations,''' Wall Installation, Shepparton Art Gallery.
'''he loves me, he loves me not,''' RMIT Gallery, Melbourne, Australia.
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|2015
|'''Cycles''' Sutton Gallery, Melbourne, Australia.
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|2014
|'''365 Rotations''' AC Institute, New York, USA.
'''Regimes of Value''' PhD exhibition, MADA Gallery, Monash University.
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|2013
|'''The Cutting Table''' Sutton Project Space.
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|2012
|'''Monochrome''' Sutton Gallery, Melbourne, Australia.
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|2010
|'''Savings''' Sutton Gallery, Melbourne, Australia.
'''Cuttings (from New York)''' Sutton Gallery, Melbourne, Australia.
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|2009
|'''Amor Infiniti''' AC (Institute Direct) New York.
'''he loves me, he loves me not''' AC (Institute Direct) New York. '''Genera series 09''' Longwood University, Virginia.
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|2008
|'''Cuttings (from Paris)''' Sutton Project Space, Melbourne.
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|2007
|'''Artefacts''' Galerie 4, Cite Internationale des Arts, Paris.
'''Urban Artefacts''' Rewak Gallery, University of Sharjah, UAE. '''Prismatics ll''' Bellas Milani Gallery, Brisbane.
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|2006
|'''Prismatics l''' Sutton Gallery, Melbourne.
'''B/W Cuttings''' Sutton Gallery, Melbourne.
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|2005
|'''Conversations 1955 - 2005''' and '''Sites 1980 - 2005''' VCA Gallery, Melbourne.
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|2004
|'''Urban Artefacts''' Sutton Gallery, Melbourne.
'''Cuttings (from St.Kilda)''' Sutton Gallery, Melbourne. '''Artefacts''' Bellas Milani Gallery, Brisbane.
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|2003
|'''Beyond the everyday: The art of Elizabeth Gower 1974 - 2002''' Mildura Arts Centre, Hamilton Art Gallery and Wangaratta Exhibition Gallery, Vic.
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|2002
|'''Beyond the everyday: the art of Elizabeth Gower''' Glen Eira City Gallery, Melbourne.
'''Line of Thought 1975-2002''' Sutton Gallery, Melbourne. '''Portrait of the Artist as a Young Woman 1974 - 2002''' Sutton Gallery, Melbourne.
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|2001
|'''Cuttings (from Barcelona)''' Sutton Gallery, Melborne, Bellas Gallery, Brisbane.
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|2000
|'''Artefacts from the 20th Century''' Sutton Gallery, Melbourne.
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|1999
|'''Chance or Design''' Bellas Gallery Brisbane.
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|1998
|'''Amor Infiniti''' (works from London) Sutton Gallery, Melbourne.
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|1997
|'''Variants''' Arthouse, London.
'''Genera series''' Bellas Gallery, Brisbane. '''Chance or Design''' Geelong Art Gallery , Sale Art Gallery, Victoria.
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|1996
|'''New Work''' Sutton Gallery, Melbourne.
'''Chance or Design''' Mildura Arts Centre, Mornington Peninsular Art Gallery, Shepparton Art Gallery , Benalla Art Gallery, Victoria
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|1995
|'''Chance or Design''' Ian Potter Gallery, University of Melbourne.
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|1994
|'''A Fragile Life''' Contemporary Art Space, Canberra.
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|1993
|'''A Fragile Life''' Sutton Gallery, Melbourne.
'''Small Works''' Bellas Gallery, Brisbane.
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|1991
|'''Beyond the Everyday''' Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane.
'''Works on Paper''' Bellas Gallery, Brisbane..
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|1990
|'''Beyond the Everyday''' Luba Bilu Gallery, Melbourne.
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|1989
|'''Found Images''' Bellas Gallery, Brisbane.
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|1987
|'''Found Images''' Lennox Street Gallery, Melbourne.
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|1984
|'''All Life Long''' Christine Abrahams Gallery, Melbourne.
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|1983
|'''City Series''' Christine Abrahams Gallery, Melbourne.
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|1982
|Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane.
'''Paper works''' Christine Abrahams Gallery, Melbourne.
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|1981
|Coventry Gallery, Sydney.
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|1980
|Christine Abrahams Gallery, Melbourne.
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|1977
|Powell Street Gallery, Melbourne.
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|1976
|Ewing & George Paton Gallery, Melbourne.
Central Street Gallery, Sydney.
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|1975
|Hawthorn City Art Gallery, Melbourne.
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=== Group ===
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|2018
|'''One Last Time,''' Bellas Gallery, Brisbane.
'''Unfinished Business: perspectives on feminism and art,''' curators Max Delany and Annika Kristensen, in collaboration with Paola Balla, Julie Ewington, Vikki McInnes, Elvis Richardson, ACCA, Melbourne. '''Dipping in the Kool Aid,''' curator Mary Lou Pavlovic in conjunction with apexart NYC, Tony Raka Art Gallery, Ubud Indonesia. '''Elevating the Everyday,''' curator Elle Groch, Town Hall Gallery, Melbourne.
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|2017
|'''Abstraction: celebrating Australian women abstract artists,''' from the National Gallery of Australia collection, curator Lara Nichols, touring to Geelong Art Gallery, Newcastle Art Gallery, Cairns Art Gallery, Tweed Regional Gallery, QUT Art Gallery.
'''Self /Selfie,''' Ballarat International Foto Biennale, curator Fiona Sweet, Backspace Gallery, Ballarat. '''I love Pat Larter,''' curator Geoff Newton, Neon Parc, Brunswick.
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|2015
|'''Virtual Reality,''' curator Mark Parrish, Point [B], New York
'''18 x 8: from point A to PointB and back again…,''' Point [B], New York. '''Howard Arkley (and friends),''' curators Anthony Fitzpatrick and Victoria Lynn, Tarra Warra Museum of Art, Victoria. '''Wor(ds/rks),''' Sutton Projects, Melbourne.
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|2014
|'''Open Studio,''' Point [B], New York.
'''Spring 1883,''' The Windsor, Melbourne Art Fair, Melbourne. '''Domestic Bliss,''' curator Emma Cox, Deakin University Gallery.
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|2013
|'''Melbourne Now,''' curators Max Delany and Tony Ellwood, NGV: Australia & NGV: International Melb.
'''Regimes of Value,''' curator Elizabeth Gower with Dr Gillian Whiteley, Margaret Lawrence Gallery and The Substation Melbourne. '''Collage: the Heide Collection,''' curator Lesley Harding, Heide MoMA. '''Cut with a knife,''' curator Emily Jones, East Gippsland Art Gallery Swan Hill Regional Art Gallery, Central Goldfields Gallery, '''Kenneth Biennale,''' curator Kenny Pittock, TCB, Melbourne.
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|2012
|'''Art Dubai,''' United Arab Emirates.
'''Less is More: Minimal and Post-Minimal Art in Australia''' curator Sue Cramer, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne. '''Cut with a knife''' curator Emily Jones, Counihan Gallery, Melbourne; Art Space Wodonga, LaTrobe Regional Gallery, Dubbo Regional Gallery, '''Bakers Dozen''' curator Lorna Grear, UTS Gallery, Sydney, Australia. '''Feminage: the logic of feminist collage''' curator Jo Holder, Cross Art Projects, Sydney.
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|2011
|'''The Rest is Silence,''' curators Elvis Richardson and Claire Lambe, Death Be Kind, Melbourne.
'''Black elastic, two umbrellas, a mint leaf and wheels: selected works from the Monash University Collection,''' curator Rosemary Forde, MUMA, Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne, Australia.
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|2010
|'''Instructions for Initial Conditions''' Drift Station & Parallax Space, Nebraska , USA.
'''Extreme Beauty: Approaches to the Real''' curator Kate Briggs, Y3K, Melbourne, Australia. '''Stick It!''' curator Alisa Bunbury, NVG : Australia, Melbourne, Australia. '''Who's Afraid of Red, Yellow and Blue''' curator David Thomas, MUMA, Melbourne, Australia. '''Imaging the Apple''' curator Dr.John R. Neeson and Elizabeth Gower, AC Institute, New York, USA. '''Constellations: a Large number of Small Drawings''' curator Venessa Gerrans,,RMIT Gallery Melbourne, Australia. '''Pulp''' Sutton Gallery, Melbourne, Australia.
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|2009
|'''Cubism and Australian Art'''curator Sue Cramer, Heide MoMA, Melbourne, Australia.
'''Live in the Limo'''curator Dr.Holly Crawford, Armory Art Fair, New York, USA. '''Pan-demonium'''curator Dr. Gillian Whiteley, AC Institute, New York, USA. '''Material Afterlife'''curators Stephen T. Samson & Michael Wolf, UICA, Urban Institute of Contemporary Art, Michigan, USA. '''Take Out'''curator Jackie Borsanyi, Brevard Art Museum, Florida, USA. '''6X6X2009'''Rochester Contemporary Art Center, New York State, USA. '''Shilo Project'''curator Dr. Chris McAuliffe, Ian Potter Museum, University of Melbourne, Australia
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|2008
|'''1000 Drawings Artists Space'''New York, USA.
'''When You Think About Art'''curator Sandra Bridie, George Paton Gallery, Melbourne, Australia '''Into the Closet'''curator Geoff Nees, The Carlton Hotel, Melbourne, Australia '''Contemporary Australian Collage'''curator John Buckley, John Buckley Gallery, Melbourne, '''Tallis Foundation National Works on Paper'''Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery.
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|2007
|'''This Crazy Love''' curator Jan Duffy, Linden, Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne.
'''Paper/Scissors/Rock''' West Space, Melbourne
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|2006
|'''Regarding Retro: Reanimations of the Preloved''' curator Ingrid Hoffman, Bundaberg Arts Centre, Qld. Australian National University Student Gallery, ACT.
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|2005
|'''Regarding Retro: Reanimations of the Preloved''' curator Ingrid Hoffman, Blacktown Arts Centre, NSW. Gladstone Regional Art Gallery, Qld.
'''Imaging the Apple''' curator Dr. John R. Neeson, McClelland Gallery, Vic. University of Sydney Gallery, NSW. Noosa Regional Gallery, Qld. Geelong Art Gallery,Vic.
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|2004
|'''Imaging the Apple''' curator Dr. John R. Neeson, Ballarat Fine Art Gallery, Vic.Plimsol Gallery, University of Tasmania. LaTrobe Regional Gallery,Vic. RMIT Project Space, Melb.
'''120 degrees of Separation''' curator Jan Duffy & Amy Barret Leonard, Linden, St.Kilda Contemporary Arts Centre, Melbourne. '''Transit Narratives''' curator Jon Cattapan, QCA Gallery, Qld. VCA Gallery, Melb. & Plimsoll Gallery, Hobart.
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|2003
|'''Mesh''' curator Karee Dahl, The Art Gallery, National Institute of Education, Nanyan University, Singapore.
'''Pen to Pixel''' curator Kathy Leah, Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia, Melbourne. '''The Barcelona Studio: Fragments of a brief History''' curator Jonathon Holmes, Plimsol Gallery, Hobart. Selections from the Clemenger collection Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia.
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|2002
|'''Fieldwork Australian Art 1968-2002''' curator Jason Smith, Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia.
'''ARCO Contemporary Art Fair''' Madrid. '''Transit Narratives''' curator Jon Cattapan, Centro per la Arti Vistve & Auronzo di Cadore, Italy. '''Good Vibrations: the legacy of Op art in Australia''' curator Zara Stanhope, Heide Museum of Modern Art.
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|2001
|'''Fallout''' curator Marylou Pavlovic, VCA Gallery, Melbourne.
'''Interactions between Art & Science''' curator Nick Waterlow, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney. '''Paperworks''' curator Ann Kirker, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane.
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|2000
|'''The Retrieved Object''' curator Elizabeth Gower, Linden Art Centre and Gallery, Melbourne.
'''Avant Gardism for Children''' curator Helen Nicholson, Monash University Gallery, Melbourne.
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|1999
|'''Clemenger Contemporary Art Award''' curators Jason Smith and Max Delaney, Museum of Modern Art at Heide, Melbourne.
'''Avant-gardism for children''' curator Helen Nicholson, University Art Museum, Brisbane.
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|1998
|'''Metamorphosis''' Mornington Peninsula Art Gallery.
'''Nature''' curator Kevin Wilson, Cooloola Art Gallery, Queensland..
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|1997
|'''On the Line''' curator Paul Hales, Hales Gallery, London.
'''Gramercy Art Fair''' Gramacy Hotel, New York. '''Beyond the Quilt''' Maidstone Museum and Art Gallery, London. '''Perspecta''' curator Linda Michael, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney.
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|1996
|'''The Art of Collecting #2''' curator Elizabeth Gower, Linden Arts Centre and Gallery, Melbourne.
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|1995
|'''Review- works by women from the collection''' Art Gallery of NSW.
'''Collectable Eggbeater''' Plimsoll Gallery, Centre for the Arts, Hobart. '''Eve evolution''' Newcastle Art Gallery, NSW.
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|1994
|'''Reference Points III: the Immediate Past''' Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane.
'''Interfaces Art and Technology''' Griffith University, Brisbane.
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|1993
|'''The Art of Collecting #1''' curator Elizabeth Gower, Linden, St.Kilda Art Centre, Melbourne; Geelong Art Gallery.
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|1992
|'''Inherited Absolute''' curator Elizabeth Gertsakis, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne.
'''Works on Paper by Contemporary Australian Artists''' curator Peter Ellis, RMIT Gallery,.Melbourne.
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|1991
|'''Off The Wall - In the Air: A Seventies Selection''' curator Jennifer Phipps, Monash University Gallery,.Melbourne. Artists Make Books Linden Art Centre and Gallery,.Melbourne.
'''Artists Make Books''' curator Christine Johnston, Linden Art Centre and Gallery,Melbourne '''Embracing Space''' Art Gallery of Western Australia. '''Neighbours''' curator Julie Ewington, Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia, Adelaide.
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|1990
|'''SPECIAL..it's been done before''' Luba Bilu Gallery, Melbourne.
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|1989
|'''The Intimate Object''' curator Geoff Lowe, 200 Gertrude Street Gallery, Melbourne.
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|1988
|'''Moet & Chandon Touring Exhibition''' all Australian states.
'''The John McCaughey Memorial Art Prize''' National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne.
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|1987
|'''Backlash, Australian Drawing Revival: 1976 - 1986''' curator Ted Gott, National Gallery of Victoria.
'''Domestic Contradictions''' curator Julie Ewington, Power Gallery of Contemporary Art; Arts Council Gallery, Canberra; Shepparton Art Gallery and Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide. '''10 x 10''' curator Lesley Dumbrell, Gertrude Street Gallery, Melbourne.
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|1985
|'''Australian Perspecta''' curator Bernice Murphy, Art Gallery of New South Wales.
'''Gower, Jenyns, Neeson, Wulff''' curator Paul Zika, Fine Arts Gallery, University of Tasmania, Hobart.
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|1984
|'''Isolaustalia''' curator Judith Balckall, Gallerie Lillo & Fondazione Bevilacqua, La Masa, Venice, Italy.
'''Australiana''' curator Judith Blackall, Galerija Studentskog, Belgrade. '''On Site''' curator Paul Zika, Tasmanian School Art Gallery, Hobart.
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|1983
|'''The John McCaughey Memorial Art Prize''' National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne.
'''Recent Australian Painting: A Survey, 1970-1983''' curator Ron Radford, Art Gallery of South Australia
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|1981
|'''Australian Perspecta''' curator Bernice Murphy, Art Gallery of New South Wales.
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|1980
|'''Drawn and Quartered: Australian Contemporary Paperworks''' curator Ron Radford, Art Gallery of S.A.
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|1979
|'''Three Artists''' Powell Street Gallery, Melbourne.
'''John McCaughey Memorial Art Prize''' National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne. '''Biennale of Sydney: European Dialogue''' curator Nick Waterlow, Art Gallery of N S W, Sydney.
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|1978
|'''Selections from the Michell Endowment''' curator Robert Lindsay, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne.
'''Lost & Found - Objects and Images''' curators Janine Burke and Meredith Rogers, Ewing and George Paton Gallery, Melbourne. '''Australian Artists''' Cunningham/Ward Gallery, New York. '''Treasures of a Decade, 1968-1978''' curator Robert Lindsay, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne. '''Five Melbourne Artists''' curator Elizabeth Gower, Coventry Gallery, Sydney. '''The Map Show''' curators Kiffy Ribbo & Meredith Rogers, Ewing and George Paton Gallery, University of Melbourne.
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|1977
|'''The Women's Show''' Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide.
'''Fabric in Art''' Project 20, Art Gallery New South Wales.
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|1976
|'''East Coast Drawing -Towards some Definitions''' curator Dom De Clario, Institute Modern Art, Brisbane.
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|1975
|'''Women in Art''' Western Australian Institute of Technology, Perth.
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== PUBLIC COMMISSIONS ==
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|2015
|Brisbane City Council, Brisbane.
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|2012
|Pulse on Inkerman, Melbourne.
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|1999
|Super Dome, Sydney Olympics.
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|1995
|Panorama Apartments, Melbourne
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|1994
|City of Port Phillip, with John R. Neeson)
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|1992
|Southbank, Melbourne.
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|1991
|M CG Southern Stand, Melbourne.
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|1990
|World Congress Centre, Melbourne.
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|1988
|Victorian Ministry for the Arts Painted Tram Project.<br />
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