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CLARE WHITNEY

I am a full-time professional artist living and working from my home studio in Melbourne’s Northern suburbs. As a painter and print-maker my passion for colour and illustration crosses over many different mediums. Transitioning from oil on canvas to etchings and printmaking was an easy transition that allowed me to push the boundaries of mark making on paper using traditional and contemporary techniques. Formally studying Fine Art at Melbourne’s RMIT (1993), where I majored in Painting. Both my etchings and ceramics have been widely exhibited from the National Gallery of Australia to the Melbourne Museum. An extensive private commercial collection of etchings can be seen at Melbourne’s RACV clubs and Canberra’s famous Ovolo Art (Nishi) Hotel. Having lived and worked throughout Australia and abroad, my work expresses a freedom of interpretation using colour and natural forms found in my immediate surrounds to capture everlasting memories open to the viewers interpretation.

Education

1993 Bachelor of Fine Art; Major in Painting, RMIT.
1990 Certificate of Art and Design, Frankston Tafe.

Solo Exhibitions

2021 New works, paintings, Mario’s Brunswick st Fitzroy

2020 Summer , works on paper, Como House Gallery, St Yarra

2019 Window, Ceramic design collaboration display, Artelier ,Smith St Collingwood.

2012 Memories of You , recent Etchings, Geko Gallery, Fish Creek, Victoria

2011 The Mystery of Love, Port Jackson Press, Window Exhibtion, Fitzroy Nth.

2010 After Eden, Bsg Gallery, 322 Brunswick st, Fitzroy

2007 The Swan and The Owl, Gilligan and Grant Gallery, Collingwood, Melbourne.
         New Works on Paper, Journal, Flinders Lane, Melbourne.

2006 Don’t forget about me, Gasworks Gallery, Port Melbourne.

2005-10  Journal, recent etchings, Flinders Lane Gallery, Melbourne.


2004 Two plus two, Willow Creek Winery, Red Hill, Vic.

2005 One plus One Recent paintings, Willow Creek Winery, Red Hill,Vic.

2004 Recent Paintings, Pier Ten Winery, Red Hill Flinders Rd, Shoreham, Vic.
         Winged Things, Willow Creek Winery. Balnarring Rd, Balnarring, Vic.
         Works on Paper, Catherine Manuell, High St, Northcote, Vic.
         Soul Journey, Theatreworks Gallery, St. Kilda, Vic
         Icons of the Mind, Bliss, Parkdale, Vic.

1998 Waiting, Borranup Gallery, Margaret River Gallery.W.A

Group exhibitions

2016 Selected works on paper, Lauriston Press Gallery, Kyneton, Victoria

2011 Australian Contemporary Printmaking, James Makin Gallery, Collingwood

2010 Paper cuts ii, Pigment Gallery, Flinders lane, Melbourne
         Salon Show, Port Jackson Press Print Rooms, Smith St, Collingwood

2009 Sydney Art 09, Moore Park, Sydney. NSW
         Printmaker’s 09, BSG Gallery, Fitzroy,Vic.
         Works on Paper, Pigment Gallery 2, Flinders Lane.
         Works on Paper Prize, BSG Gallery, Fitzroy,Vic.
         Black and White, Pigment Gallery, Flinders Lane, Vic.

2008 Tattersalls Art Prize Finalist Exhibition, The Substation, Spotswood
         Banyule Works on Paper Prize, Banyule Gallery , Bundoora, Vic.
         Murray Cod The Biggest Fish in The River, Melbourne Museum, Melbourne.
         Black And White, Pigment Gallery, Flinders Lane, Melbourne.

2007 The Nicholas Collective, The Nicholas Gallery Flinders Lane, Melbourne.
         Bird-Human Exhibition, Pigment Gallery, Flinders Lane, Melbourne.

2006 Murray Cod, the Biggest fish in the River, Melbourne Museum.
         Someone Shows Something to Some-one, Contemporary Art Centre,Canberra.
         The common thread is Red, Per Square Meter Gallery, Collingwood, Vic.
         Colors Magazine, An Artist Collective Publication. Paris
         Ephemeral, Brunswick Arts Gallery, Hope St, Brunswick,Vic
         A Nicholas Building Collective, Blindside Gallery, Nicholas Building,  Melbourne.
         Lexicon, Melbourne City Library, Flinders Lane, Melbourne
         Blame It on the Rain, Murmur, Melbourne
         20 days, 20 day Gallery, Lupa High St, Northcote, Vic

2005 Pigment, group show, Nicholas collective, Flinders Lane, Melbourne.
         Selected works on paper, 20 Day Gallery, High St, Westgarth, Vic.
         Linden Postcard show, Linden Gallery, St. Kilda, Vic

2004 Small Talk, Mad Gallery, High St, Lancefield, Vic
         Maritime Art Prize, Maritime Museum, Docklands, Melbourne.

2003 Works on Paper, Goya Gallery, Melbourne.
         Sustainable Living Show, Federation Square, Melbourne.
         Linden Postcard Show, Linden Gallery, St.Kilda. Vic.
         Six, Margaret River Arts Co-Op Gallery. W.A

1993 Graduate Show, R.M.I.T. Melbourne, Vic

Public Collection

2012 Large Collection of Artworks displayed and acquired by Ovolo, New Nishi Building, Canberra

2011 RACV Club, Melbourne City. Melbourne.

Relevant Experience

2010  Artist in residency PLC, Ladies College, Burwood. VIc
2005-11 Art Tutor to Special Needs Students from Sunshine Special Developmental School.
          Print Tutor, Signal, Melbourne City Council, Docklands.

2009 ABC online Arts program, Video interview.
         Artist in Residence Arts Victoria Program, 
2005-2209   Etching workshops Kyneton Press Studios

2008 Short Listed Tattersall’s Art Prize, The Substation. Vic
         Walked to Canberra, Charity Event, Scaffidi Foundation.
         Print -making Tutor Flinders Lane Studio, Melbourne.

2004 2009 Studio Manager Print-making Technician, Littlewood and Hart Gallery.Southbank, Melbourne.

2001 Artbites, City of Kingston, Community art project.

1999 Sweet Rain English School , Art and English Teacher, Haulien, Taiwan.