Heather Dunn
Curriculum Vitae: Heather Dunn
www.heatherdunnartist.com.au
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Born in Melbourne, now living in O’Connell, NSW, Heather has been practicing art all her life. She has sort to educate herself along this path, allowing textiles to stand equally with more traditional media. Heather completed a Diploma of Tapestry in 2011. This course has been the catalyst for work in the textual mediums of woven tapestry, complex cloth collage and mixed media, based around hand dyed cloth.
Since 2014 Heather has been a Director of the T.arts Gallery Bathurst, NSW. This is an artist run, not for profit initiative, which apart form giving her a place to exhibit work has been a valuable source of support and collaborative inspiration in her art practice. Heather tutors occasionally in woven Tapestry, printing making and natural dyeing, as well as mentoring art students on an ad hoc basis.
Solo Exhibitions
2013 “Limited Resources”, Dean Mobbs Gallery, Bathurst NSW
Select Group Exhibitions
2017 Tumut Art Society Show. Second Price, Textile Section
2017 Touring exhibition AuNz Tapestry Group Exhibition
2016 Three person show “In the Presence of Iron”, T.arts Gallery Bathurst
2016 Cossack Art Awards, WA
2015 T.arts on Tour, “Art of our Place”, Grenfell Regional Gallery, NSW
2015 Bathurst Art Fair, Bathurst Regional Gallery, NSW
2014 “Tactile Pleasure Exhibition”, Apollo Bay, Vic
2012 Tutor and Exhibitor, “The Beanie Festival”, Bathurst Regional Gallery, NSW
2012 Graduate Exhibitor, “Ascending”, Scope Galleries, Warrnambool, Vic
2009 “Tapestry Blues” Touring exhibition AuNz Tapestry Group
Select Curated Exhibitions
2017 Finalist Kate Duram Small Tapestry Awards, Australian Tapestry Workshop
2016 Finalist Cairns Inkmaster Print Award
2016 Finalist “Petite” Exhibition (textiles), Wangaratta Regional Gallery
2015 Finalist Wangaratta Contemporary Textile Awards, Wangaratta Regional Gallery
2014 Finalist “Petite” Exhibition (textiles), Wangaratta Regional Gallery
Residencies
2017 Hill End NSW, Murrays Cottage, September (www.hillendart.com.au)
Education
Diploma of Tapestry (TAFE Warrnambool Vic)
Numorous workshops and master classes with weavers: Marilyn Rea-Menzies (NZ), Cresside Collette (Vic), Tim Gresham (Vic): Print Makers: Seraphina Martin, Annie Day, Elizabeth Powell: Textile dyeing: Kirstan Ingemar, Judy Dominic, Mahdi Chandler: Book Arts: Amanda Degener (Canada): Painters/Mixed Media: Charlie Tong (Vic), Natasha Daniloff (NSW), Peter Robinson (NSW), Merilyn Rice (NSW)
www.heatherdunnartist.com.au
Facebook/instagram: heatherdunnartist
Born in Melbourne, now living in O’Connell, NSW, Heather has been practicing art all her life. She has sort to educate herself along this path, allowing textiles to stand equally with more traditional media. Heather completed a Diploma of Tapestry in 2011. This course has been the catalyst for work in the textual mediums of woven tapestry, complex cloth collage and mixed media, based around hand dyed cloth.
Since 2014 Heather has been a Director of the T.arts Gallery Bathurst, NSW. This is an artist run, not for profit initiative, which apart form giving her a place to exhibit work has been a valuable source of support and collaborative inspiration in her art practice. Heather tutors occasionally in woven Tapestry, printing making and natural dyeing, as well as mentoring art students on an ad hoc basis.
Solo Exhibitions
2013 “Limited Resources”, Dean Mobbs Gallery, Bathurst NSW
Select Group Exhibitions
2017 Tumut Art Society Show. Second Price, Textile Section
2017 Touring exhibition AuNz Tapestry Group Exhibition
2016 Three person show “In the Presence of Iron”, T.arts Gallery Bathurst
2016 Cossack Art Awards, WA
2015 T.arts on Tour, “Art of our Place”, Grenfell Regional Gallery, NSW
2015 Bathurst Art Fair, Bathurst Regional Gallery, NSW
2014 “Tactile Pleasure Exhibition”, Apollo Bay, Vic
2012 Tutor and Exhibitor, “The Beanie Festival”, Bathurst Regional Gallery, NSW
2012 Graduate Exhibitor, “Ascending”, Scope Galleries, Warrnambool, Vic
2009 “Tapestry Blues” Touring exhibition AuNz Tapestry Group
Select Curated Exhibitions
2017 Finalist Kate Duram Small Tapestry Awards, Australian Tapestry Workshop
2016 Finalist Cairns Inkmaster Print Award
2016 Finalist “Petite” Exhibition (textiles), Wangaratta Regional Gallery
2015 Finalist Wangaratta Contemporary Textile Awards, Wangaratta Regional Gallery
2014 Finalist “Petite” Exhibition (textiles), Wangaratta Regional Gallery
Residencies
2017 Hill End NSW, Murrays Cottage, September (www.hillendart.com.au)
Education
Diploma of Tapestry (TAFE Warrnambool Vic)
Numorous workshops and master classes with weavers: Marilyn Rea-Menzies (NZ), Cresside Collette (Vic), Tim Gresham (Vic): Print Makers: Seraphina Martin, Annie Day, Elizabeth Powell: Textile dyeing: Kirstan Ingemar, Judy Dominic, Mahdi Chandler: Book Arts: Amanda Degener (Canada): Painters/Mixed Media: Charlie Tong (Vic), Natasha Daniloff (NSW), Peter Robinson (NSW), Merilyn Rice (NSW)
