SUE LOVEGROVE
Born Adelaide, South Australia, lives and works in Tasmania
Education & Professional Experience
2013-18 Sessional Lecturer in Drawing at
Tasmanian College of the Arts, UTAS
2003-12 Full
time artist
2012
Visiting artist, Painting workshop, School of Art, ANU, Canberra
1999-02 Lecturer in Visual Art,
University of Wollongong, New South Wales
1993-00 Sessional Lecturer, Painting
Workshop, School of Art, National Institute of the Arts, ANU
1997 Lecturer and coordinator of painting
studio, Faculty of Fine Arts, Northern Territory University
2002
PhD, School of Art, National Institute of the Arts, ANU, Canberra
1990
Bachelor of Arts (Visual) major in painting, School of Art, National Institute
of the Arts, ANU
Solo Exhibitions
2022
The River Flows Through You, Gallerysmith, Melbourne
2021
Waterholes and Wetlands, Beaver Galleries, Canberra
2020
Surfacing, Bett Gallery, Hobart
Air and Water, Project Space, Bett Gallery, Hobart
2019
Shimmer, Beaver Galleries, Canberra
2018
The Memory of Water, Gallerysmith, Melbourne
2016
In a Strange Land, Bett Gallery Hobart
The
Book of Trees, Beaver Galleries, Canberra
2015
Cloud Lake, Gallerysmith, Melbourne
Landforms
and Lagoons, duo-solo with Charmaine Pike as part of CLIMARTE
2014
Writing the Sky, Bett Gallery, Hobart
Nest,
Beaver Galleries, Canberra
2013
Cloud Memory, Gallerysmith, Melbourne
2012
Windwalking, Bett Gallery, Hobart
2011
Glimpse, Gallerysmith, Melbourne
2010
Still Light, Beaver Galleries, Canberra
The
Shape of the Wind, Bett Gallery, Hobart
2009
Grasses, Victorian Tapestry Workshop, Melbourne
2008
Walk With Me, Paintings from Southern Tasmania, Christine Abrahams
Gallery, Melbourne
2007
Maatsuyker, Island of the Mind, Bett Gallery, Hobart
2006
Vanishing, Helen Maxwell Gallery, Canberra
2005
Vanishing, Christine Abrahams Gallery, Melbourne
2004
In pursuit of Clouds, Helen Maxwell Gallery, Canberra
2002
To hear the earth breathe, (part 3), Christine Abrahams Gallery,
Melbourne
To
hear the earth breathe, (part 2), Canberra School of Art Gallery, Canberra
To
hear the earth breathe, (part 1), Helen Maxwell Gallery, Canberra
1998
Between Worlds, Christine Abrahams Gallery, Melbourne
1996
Aediculae, aGOG (Australian Girls Own Gallery), Canberra
1995
From the shadow of a mountain, Christine Abrahams Gallery, Melbourne
From
the shadow of a mountain, Artspace, Adelaide Festival Centre, Adelaide
1994
In the shadows, aGOG (australian Girls Own Gallery), Canberra
1992
The unswept floor, Christine Abrahams Gallery, Melbourne
1990
Wall paintings... from the other side, Photospace Gallery, Canberra
School of Art, Canberra
Selected Group Exhibitions
2021
Reflection/Submersion, Janet Homes a Court Gallery, Western Australia
2020 Elaine Bermingham National Watercolour
Prize for Landscape, Webb Gallery, Griffith University, Queensland
RANT Women’s
Art Prize, Tasmania
Paul Guest
Drawing Prize, Bendigo Art Gallery, Victoria
2017
Hadleys Art Prize, Hobart
Speaking
of History, Bett Gallery Hobart
Poets
and Painters, Moonah Arts Centre, Hobart
Abstraction:
celebrating Australian women abstract artists, NGA (touring), Geelong
Gallery
2015
Under Kunanyi, Bett Gallery, Hobart
Urban
Suburban, Canberra Museum and Gallery. Canberra
Exquisite,
Henry Jones Hotel, Hobart
Biophilia,
Beaver Galleries, Canberra
2013
Poets and Painters, Bett Gallery, Hobart
Intensity
of Purpose, Canberra Museum and Gallery, Canberra
2011
Van Diemen's Land: Tasmanian Artists in the UK, Celia Lendis
Contemporary, UK
25
Years, An Unfolding Journey, Bett Gallery, Hobart
2010
A Generosity of Spirit, QUT Art Museum, QLD |Anne & Gordon Samstag
Museum of Art, SA
This Way Up,
Canberra School of Art Gallery, Canberra
Three
women paint the landscape, Damien Minton Gallery, Sydney
Autumn
Collection, James Makin Gallery, Melbourne
2009
Transcending Surfaces, Helen Maxwell Gallery, Canberra
Flower
Show, Brenda May Gallery, Sydney
2008
The View From Here II, Christine Abrahams Gallery, Melbourne
Bias
Bound, Victorian Tapestry Workshop, Melbourne
2007
Intimate and Distant Landscapes, Devonport Regional Gallery, Tasmania
Prometheus
Art Award, Brisbane
2006
Salon, Bett Gallery, Hobart
Robert
Jacks Drawing Prize, Bendigo Art Gallery, Victoria
Senses
of Place, Plimsoll Gallery, Tasmanian School of Art, Tasmania
Picture
This, Canberra School of Art Gallery, ANU, VCA Gallery, Melbourne
2005
ANL Maritime Art Prize, Melbourne
Looking
South, Plimsoll Gallery, University of Tasmania, Hobart
2004
Flemming Muntz Albury Art Prize, Albury Regional Art Gallery, Victoria
Blake
Prize, touring exhibition, ACU Gallery Sydney, Melbourne
2003
McGivern Art Prize, Maroondah Art Gallery, Victoria
Distant
Noises, RMIT Gallery, Victoria
2002
Melbourne International Art Fair, Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne
2001
Conrad Jupiters Art Prize, Gold Coast Arts Centre, Queensland
Alice
Prize, Araluen Arts Centre, Alice Springs, Northern Territory
2000 Jacaranda
Acquisitive Drawing Award, Grafton Regional Gallery touring regional
galleries of New South Wales and Queensland duringt 2001, Triptych, Helen Maxwell Gallery,
Canberra
1999 Australian
Drawing Biennale, Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, Perth | the University Art
Museum, University of Queensland
1998
Australian Drawing Biennale, Drill Hall Gallery, Canberra
National
Works on Paper, Mornington Peninsular Regional Gallery, Victoria
Alice
Prize, Araluen Arts Centre, Alice Springs, Northern Territory
Conrad
Jupiters Art Prize, Gold Coast Arts Centre, Queensland
1997
Canberra Contemporary Art Fair, Drill Hall Gallery, Canberra
Winter
Light, Australian Girls Own Gallery, Canberra
Painting
Alumni, Photospace Gallery, Canberra School of Art, Canberra
1996
ACAF 5, Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne, Victoria
Speculations
1, ANCA Gallery, Canberra
A
Matter of Making, Canberra School of Art Gallery, Canberra
1995
Works on paper, Christine Abrahams Gallery, Melbourne
Canberra
Contemporary Art Fair, Drill Hall Gallery, Canberra
City
of Hobart Art Prize, Hobart City Council, Hobart
1994
Broken Hill Art Prize, Broken Hill City Art Gallery, New South Wales
Home
is Where the Art is, Artspace, Adelaide Festival Centre, Adelaide
ACAF
4, Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne
1992
ACAF 3, Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne
1990
Sites Unseen One, Canberra Contemporary Art Space, Canberra
Awards and Grants
2021 Finalist, Bay of Fires Art Prize,
Tasmania
2020 WINNER, Elaine Bermingham Watercolour
Prize, Griffith University, Queensland
Finalist, RANT Women’s Art Prize,
Tasmania
Finalist, Paul Guest Drawing Prize,
Bendigo Art Gallery
2017
Highly Commended, Award, Hadleys Art Prize, Hobart
Vice Chancellors
Award for Community Engagement, Clemente program, University of Tas
Teaching Merit Certificate Award, University of Tasmania
2014
Teaching Merit Certificate Award, University of Tasmania
2006
Arts Tasmania Natural and Cultural Heritage Grant, (Maatsuyker Island)
2003
Australian Antarctic Division Arts Fellowship
2002
Canberra Critics Circle Award
2001
ANU Postgraduate Award, PhD Scholarship
2000
New Research Grant, University of Wollongong
1998
Arts ACT Professional Development Grant
1994
Broken Hill Art Prize (Work on Paper)
Residencies
2015
London, study of Persian miniature painting
2012
Visiting Artist, School of Art ANU Canberra
2011
Self-initiated residency, Tasman Island, Tasmania
2008
Victorian Tapestry Workshop residency
2007
Arts Tasmania Wilderness residency, Maatsuyker Island, Tasmania
2004
Australian Antarctic Division Arts Fellowship, visited Antarctica and Macquarie
Island
2001
‘Bundanon’ Arthur Boyd’s studio, Nowra, New South Wales
Araluen Centre for Arts and Entertainment, Alice Springs, Northern Territory
2000
Ngukurr, SE Arnhem Land, printmaking project with University of Wollongong
1997
Northern Territory University, Darwin, Northern Territory
Professional Activities
2000 Visiting Scholar Program, Art
Across Cultures at the Centre For Cross Cultural Research, ANU
1996
Travel to Italy, research of Roman and Etruscan wall paintings and Italian
fresco cycles.
1995
Study of Sanskrit, ANU, Canberra
1992-95 Study of Kuchipudi, Classical
Indian dance, Canberra
1992
Visit to Yirrkala Aboriginal community, NE Arnhem Land, Northern Territory
Tour
of the 'corner country' NE NSW to develop paintings
1992
Study of Classical Chinese, ANU, Canberra
Travel
to India, study at Kuchipudi Art Academy (Classical Indian Dance), Madras &
research of archaeological sites and temple art, South India
1990
Curator, Sites Unseen One and Two, Canberra Contemporary Art Space
1989
Curator, Decade, Canberra Contemporary Art Space
1989
Travel by bicycle through Japan, research of calligraphy, temple art and
Japanese aesthetics
1982-85 Travel by bicycle
through Europe, Middle East, Asia, Australia, research of traditional and
religious art
Bibliography
Grishin, S. Enchanting and Haunting Beauty, Canberra Times, 10
April, 2021
Grishin, S. Depicting Shimmers of light on water, Canberra
Times, 22 August, 2019
Burden, H. There’s Plenty in Reserve, Mercury, Oct 22, 2016
Poets and Painters, Exhibition Catalogue, 2017
Harper, A. Speaking Volumes, Mercury, 26 August, 2017
Burden, H. Double Vision, Mercury, 2 September, 2017
Grishin, S. In Praise of Great Trees, Canberra Times, 4 November,
2016
What Now, Art Collector Iss 78, 2016
Grishin, S. Nesting Impulses, Canberra Times, 4 July 2014
Cousins, K-A. Inspired by Nature, Canberra Times, 25 September, 2014
Hay, P., Shape of the wind: pattern & Chaos in Sue Lovegrove’s island
art, Artlink Magazine, 2012
Grishin,S., Worlds of their own, Canberra Times, 15 November, 2010
Hawthorne, L., The Shape of Wind, Artlink, vol. 30, no. 2, 2010
Rainbird, S., A Generosity of Spirit, exhibition catalogue, 2010
Holmes, J., Intimate and Distant Landscapes, exhibition catalogue,
2007
Holmes, J., Senses of Place, exhibition catalogue, 2006
Elkins, J. (ed), ‘The PhD in studio art, Printed Project, iss. 04,
2005
Zika, P., Looking South, exhibition catalogue, 2005
Grishin, S., Artist like an archaeologist, excavating memory’s traces,
Canberra Times, 14 May, 2004
Barron, S., Lyrical abstractions go beyond the usual, Canberra Times,
3 April, 2002
Maxwell, H., Sue Lovegrove in the Australian Drawing Biennale, Drill
Hall Gallery, 1998
McFarlane, J., ‘Between’, in Between Worlds, exhibition catalogue,
1998
Clabburn, A., A talented defence, The Age, 8 July, 1998
O’Heir, A., Aediculae, an invitation to silence, Muse Magazine, no.
158, February, 1997
Grishin, S., Mood, Memory and Sensuality, Canberra Times, 27
November, 1996
Gates, M., The Materiality of Memory, A Matter of Making, CSA
Gallery, 1996
Philp, A (ed), ANCA 1996 Australian National Capital Artists Inc and
Canberra Museum and Gallery
O'Hehir, A., Speculations 1 & 2, Muse Magazine, no. 156, 1996
Neylon, J., Antidote, Adelaide Review, March, 1995
Dutkiemicz, A., A touch of the orient, Advertiser, March 10, 1996
Winner shows technical Prowess, Broken Hill News, 2 December, 1994
Grishin, S., Fragments of an Ephemeral Past Life, Canberra Times, 5
March, 1994
Cousins, K-A., In the shadows, Muse Magazine, no. 129, 1994
Musa, H., Siva the Cosmic Dancer, Canberra Times, 31 July, 1993
Collections
ACT Legislative Assembly, Canberra, ACT
Artbank, Sydney, New South Wales
Australian Conservation Foundation, Victoria
Broken Hill City Art Gallery, New South Wales
Bundanon Trust, New South Wales
Canberra Hospital, ACT
Canberra Museum and Gallery, Canberra, ACT
Derwent Collection, Tasmania
EASS Loans Collection, ANU, Canberra, ACT
Grafton Regional Gallery, New South Wales
Hyatt Hotel, Melbourne, Victoria
Holmes a Court collection, Western Australia
KPMG, Canberra, ACT
Macquarie Bank, Melbourne, Victoria
Maatsuyker Collection, Tasmania
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, ACT
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Victoria
Parliament House Art Collection, Canberra, ACT
Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart, Tasmania
University of Canberra, Canberra, ACT
Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Queensland
Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, Launceston, Tasmania
