S U E A N D E R S O N
Born 1962, Geelong, VIC, Australia
1980-83 Bachelor Education (Art and Craft), Melbourne State College, Melbourne
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2021 ‘Closer to Ocean’, Australian Galleries, Melbourne 2019 ‘Paths to Trees’, Australian Galleries, Sydney 2018 ‘Outer Bounds’, The Art Vault, Mildura, VIC 2017 ‘Outer Place’, Australian Galleries, Melbourne
2016 Sue Anderson and Aubrey Comben, Wyndham Art Gallery, Werribee, VIC 2015 ‘Between trees and freeways’, Australian Galleries, Roylston Street, Sydney 2014 Salt Contemporary Art Gallery, Queenscliff, VIC
2013 ‘Home and Away’, Australian Galleries, Derby Street, Melbourne Salt Contemporary Art Gallery, Queenscliff, VIC
2012 ‘Near and Far’, Australian Galleries, Smith Street, Melbourne Salt Contemporary Art Gallery, Queenscliff, VIC
Lancaster Press Gallery, Melbourne Lancaster Press Gallery, Melbourne
2010 ‘Land and Sea’, Australian Galleries, Glenmore Road, Sydney
‘Moving Horizons’, Australian Galleries, Smith Street, Melbourne 2008 ‘Coastal Drift’, Australian Galleries, Derby Street, Melbourne 2007 ‘Going about’, Libby Edwards Galleries, Sydney
2006 ‘In my Nature’, Australian Galleries Painting & Sculpture, Melbourne
‘Telling tales’, Libby Edwards Galleries, Sydney 2004 ‘Suitcase series’, Shanghai, China
‘Natural selections’, Depot Gallery, Sydney
‘Wake-up Calls’, Australian Galleries Painting & Sculpture, Melbourne 2001 ‘Recent Work’, Australian Galleries Painting & Sculpture, Melbourne
2000 ‘New Paintings and Drawings’, Australian Galleries Painting & Sculpture, Melbourne 1999 ‘Recent Works’, Australian Galleries, Melbourne
1998 ‘Peripheral Visions’, Geelong Gallery, Geelong, VIC 1996 ‘Recent Works’, Australian Galleries, Melbourne 1994 ‘Paintings and Pastels’, Australian Galleries, Melbourne 1992 ‘Mallee Sea’, Mildura Art Gallery, Mildura, VIC
‘Mallee Sea’, Australian Galleries, Melbourne
1990 ‘Seen from the Sticks’, The Women’s Gallery, Melbourne 1986 Rhumbarallas, Melbourne
1984 Rhumbarallas, Melbourne
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2021 Deakin University Contemporary Small Sculpture Award, Deakin University Art Gallery, Melbourne
2020 ‘Bellarine and Beyond’, Salt Contemporary Art Gallery, Queenscliff, VIC Wyndham Art Prize (Finalist), Werribee, VIC
‘Art Aid Gippsland’, Gippsland Art Gallery, Gippsland, VIC
‘Off the Wall’ Summer Group Show, Australian Galleries, Sydney
2019 ‘Australian Galleries: The Purves Family Business. The First Four Decades’, Book Launch and Group Exhibition, Australian Galleries, Melbourne
‘papermade’, Australian Galleries, Melbourne
Kangaroo Valley SIAR Exhibition, Kangaroo Valley, NSW
‘Terrain’, Salt Contemporary Art Gallery, Queenscliff, VIC
‘Layers of Settlement’, The Art Vault, Mildura, VIC
2018 ‘Summer by the sea’, Salt Contemporary Art, Queenscliff, VIC
‘Painting as Process’, Incinerator Gallery, Moonee Ponds, Melbourne
‘Creatures Great and Small’, Salt Contemporary Art, Queenscliff, VIC
‘Overwintering Project: Mapping Sanctuary’, Wyndham Art Gallery, Werribee, VIC 2017 Tattersalls Club Art Prize (Finalist), Tattersalls Club, Brisbane
‘Sculpture: medium and small scale – Mixed Sculptors’, Australian Galleries, Sydney
‘Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Lithography at Lancaster Press’, The Art Vault, Mildura
The Kelton Plain Artist Residency exhibition, Raglan Art Gallery, Cooma, NSW 2016 ‘Survey 2016’, School of Clay and Art, Melbourne
‘Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Lithography at Lancaster Press’, Queenscliff Gallery & Workshop, VIC
‘Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Lithography at Lancaster Press’, Megalo Paint Studio and Gallery, Canberra
‘Life: Limited Edition Etchings, Lithographs and Linocuts’, Australian Galleries, Melbourne
Tattersall’s Club Landscape Art Prize, touring Redland Art Gallery, Cleveland, QLD, Gympie Regional Gallery, Gympie, QLD, Gladstone Regional Art Gallery and
Museum, Gladstone Central, QLD, Childers Art Space, Childers, QLD, Toowoomba Regional Art Gallery, Toowoomba, QLD and Roma on Bungil Gallery, Roma, QLD Wyndham Art Prize, Wyndham Art Gallery, Werribee, VIC
2015 ‘Summer by the Sea’, Salt Contemporary Art Gallery, Queenscliff, VIC
‘Beastarium’, Dubbo Regional Gallery, Dubbo, NSW
‘Tattersall’s Landscape Art Prize’, Tattersall’s Club, Brisbane
2014 ‘Cars = My Automolove’, Caboolture Regional Art Gallery, Caboolture, QLD
‘one of each’, Australian Galleries, Derby Street, Melbourne
‘Australia Day 2014 Celebratory Exhibition’, Australian Galleries, Roylston Street, Sydney
‘Australia Day 2014 Celebratory Exhibition’, Australian Galleries, Derby Street, Melbourne
2012-13 ‘Summer Stock Show’, Australian Galleries, Derby Street, Melbourne
‘Works from the Stock Rooms’, Australian Galleries, Smith Street, Melbourne 2011 ‘large exhibition of small works’, Australian Galleries, Roylston Street, Sydney
‘large exhibition of small works’, Australian Galleries, Derby Street, Melbourne Rick Amor Print Prize, Montsalvat, Eltham, VIC
‘Seven Seas – Seven Women Artists’, Salt Contemporary Art Gallery, Queenscliff, VIC
2010 ‘Summer Show’, Australian Galleries, Glenmore Road, Sydney
‘Artists’ Prints made with Integrity I’, Australian Galleries, Smith Street, Melbourne 2009 ‘4 Melbourne painters’, Wishart Gallery, Port Fairy, VIC
‘Summer Show’, Australian Galleries, Derby Street, Melbourne
‘Lancaster Press’, Griffith Regional Art Gallery, Griffith, NSW
‘Collaborations’, Lancaster Press, Melbourne
2007 ‘Earth, Wind & Solar’, Annenberg Gallery, University of Southern California, California, USA
‘Small Pleasures’, Australian Galleries Painting & Sculpture, Melbourne
‘Stock Show’, Australian Galleries Painting & Sculpture, Melbourne 2006 ‘Stock Show’, Australian Galleries Painting & Sculpture, Melbourne
‘Summer Stock Show’, Australian Galleries Works on Paper, Melbourne
‘50th Anniversary Exhibition’, Australian Galleries Painting & Sculpture, Melbourne Swan Hill Print and Drawing Acquisition Awards, Swan Hill Regional Art Gallery, Swan Hill, VIC
‘Melbourne painters’, Libby Edwards Galleries, Brisbane
2005 RT Edgar Alpine Art Prize (People and Events Winner), Mt Buller, VIC 2004 ‘Group Exhibition’, Australian Galleries Painting & Sculpture, Melbourne
‘Species’, Australian Galleries Works on Paper, Melbourne 2003 California State University, Northridge, California, USA 2002 John Leslie Art Prize, Gippsland Art Gallery, Sale, VIC
Wyndham Contemporary Art Prize, Wyndham Art Works, Melbourne 2001 Tattersalls Club Art Prize, Tattersalls Club, Brisbane
‘William Buckley Rediscovered’, Touring: Geelong Gallery, VIC; Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, VIC
2000 John Leslie Art Prize, Gippsland Art Gallery, Sale, VIC 1999 ‘Pleasure’, Australian Galleries, Melbourne
1998 Geelong Contemporary Art Prize, Geelong Gallery, Geelong, VIC
Fremantle Arts Centre Print Award, Fremantle Arts Centre, Fremantle, WA Art Galleries Schubert, Gold Coast, QLD
1997 ‘Knock, Knock’, Australian Galleries, Melbourne Images International, Hong Kong, China
1996 Dominique Segan Drawing Prize, Castlemaine Art Gallery & Historical Museum, Castlemaine, VIC
Outback Open Art Prize, Broken Hill Regional Art Gallery, Broken Hill, NSW 1995 Williamstown Festival Contemporary Art Prize (Best Local Artist Award),
Melbourne
1994 ‘Original Prints’, Australian Galleries, Sydney
‘Tidal Wave Three’, Salt Gallery, Queenscliff, VIC
‘Domain of the Other: An Exploration into Community Arts by 10 Women Artists’, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
1993 Rob Street Gallery, Bairnsdale, VIC 1992 ‘Chaumont Poster Exhibition’, France
‘Wilderness Show’, Linden Gallery, Melbourne
1991 ‘Young Artists New Works’, Flinders Lane Gallery, Melbourne 1990 ‘Pressing Issues’, Latrobe Library, State Library of Victoria, Melbourne
‘The Churchie National Emerging Art Exhibition’, Griffith University Art Gallery, Brisbane
‘Joining Forces’, International Women’s Day Exhibition, The Women’s Gallery, Melbourne
1989 ‘Group Show’, Robb Street Gallery, Bairnsdale, VIC
‘Spoletto Group Show’, The Women’s Gallery, Melbourne
‘9x5 Heidelberg and Heritage’, Linden Gallery, Melbourne 1988 ‘Right Here Right Now’, National Touring Exhibition, Australia 1986 The Tea Chest Prize (Winner), Rhumbarallas, Melbourne 1983 ‘Prints 83’, Gryphon Gallery, Melbourne
COMMISSIONS AND COMMUNITY PROJECTS
2019 Landscape painting workshops, year 10, Geelong Grammar School, Toorak Painting workshops Geelong College
Artist-Shared Futures Project, Mount Rothwell, VIC Mural, St Dominic’s Primary School, Melton, VIC 2018 Artist in Residence, The Art Vault, Mildura, VIC
Landscape painting workshops, year 7, Geelong Grammar School, Toorak 2017 Artist in residence, Kangaroo Valley, Shark Island Institute
Artist in residence, Geelong Grammar School, Timbertop Campus, Mansfield, VIC
2014 Artist in Schools Project, Seaholme Primary School, Altona, VIC Artist in residence, Geelong Grammar School, Toorak, VIC 2011-13 P-9 Art teacher (part time), Point Cook College, Point Cook, VIC
2010-13 Art workshops Mt. Rothwell Conservation and Research Centre, Little River, VIC 2010-11 Art workshops with Aboriginal artists in South Australia for Anangaku Arts 2006-8 P-6 Art teacher (part time), Point Cook Primary School, Point Cook, VIC 2006 Mural felting workshop and commission celebrating 10 year anniversary, Thomas
Carr Secondary College, Tarneit, VIC
2003 ‘Dragon Garden’, Art project, Point Cook Primary School, Melbourne
2002 Commission of 30 drawings for Asia, Australia and Pacific clients, Empower Pty Ltd 2000 ‘Flights of Imagination’, Artists and designers in schools project, Point Cook Primary,
Melbourne
1997 ‘Australian Inventions’, Drawing series, Commission for AMRAD and Bristow &
Prentice Advertising, Australia
1996 Artist in Residence, Redplanet, Community Screenprint Workshop, Melbourne 1995-1996 ‘Textile Journeys by Refugee Women from North East Africa’, 12 month art project,
Melbourne
1995 Artists in Schools Project, Bellbridge Primary School, Melbourne,
Culminating in an exhibition at Access Gallery, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne; Doutta Galla Community Health, Melbourne; Melbourne Town Hall, Melbourne
1994 Poster Design and Community Consultation Children’s Services, City of Wyndham Painted Tiles Project, Hoppers Crossing Secondary College and City of Wyndham, Melbourne
1993 Bronze Relief Inlay, Bourke Street Mall, Melbourne City Council, Melbourne Carlton and Parkville Recreation Map, Melbourne City Council, Melbourne
‘Safety Calendar Project’, Lino-print workshops with Carlton primary schools, Melbourne, Calendar Exhibition and school display books, Carlton Community Health Centre, Melbourne City Council, Melbourne
Laverton Pool Mural with local teenagers, Arts Access and Werribee City Council, Melbourne
1992 Painted Tram, Public Transport Corporation and Melbourne City Council, Melbourne
‘Keep in Touch’, Children’s printmaking workshops, Australia Post and Melbourne City Council, Melbourne
Lygon Street Car Park Mural, Melbourne City Council, Melbourne Melbourne Explorer Maps x 4, Melbourne River Cruises, Melbourne Flemington Recreation Map, Melbourne City Council, Melbourne 1991 Carlton Recreation Map, Melbourne City Council, Melbourne 1990 Mural, St Vincent’s Boys Home and Arts Access, Sydney 1989 Mural, Goulburn Valley Base Hospital, Goulburn, NSW
Underwater Monoprint Series, Portsea Project Casey Kingman, Melbourne 1987-88 Artist in Residence, Redletter Screenprint Workshop, Melbourne
COLLECTIONS ANZ Bank, Australia
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney Artbank, Sydney
Australian Government, The Treasury, Canberra BHP Billiton, Australia
BP International, Australia Capital Coast Health, NZ
Centre for the Study of Political Graphics, USA Cisco Systems, Beijing, China
Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore, Singapore Crown Casino, Melbourne
CSR, Sydney
Department of Communication, IT and the Arts, Canberra Ezi Buy, NZ
Federal Express, Guangzhou, China Geelong Gallery, Geelong, VIC Honeywell, Singapore
Hongkong Bossini, Hong Kong, China Hongkong Land, Hong Kong, China
Latrobe Library, Latrobe University, Melbourne Leighton Contractors, Sydney
Maersk, Shanghai, China Meridian Energy, NZ
Mildura Arts Centre, Mildura, VIC National Gallery of Australia, Canberra NZ Post, NZ
Orica, Melbourne
Overseas Chinese Banking Corporation, Singapore Pilkington, Australia
Procter & Gamble, Guangzhou, China Rio Tinto, Melbourne
SH Mobile, Shanghai, China Shanghai Telecom, Shanghai Shell, Melbourne
Transpower, NZ UCOL, NZ
University of Tasmania, Hobart
Warrnambool Art Gallery, Warrnambool, VIC Wellington City Council, Wellington, NZ Western Mining Corporation, Australia
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Abdallah, Tim; ‘Between Maribyrnong and Barwon’, Coast & Country, 2000 Anderson, Sue; ‘Sue Anderson Selected Works’, 2018
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Gallagher, Lyn; ‘Hindsight’, Radio interview, ABC Radio National, February 2004
Gray, Benjamin; Extinct: Artistic Impressions of Our Lost Wildlife, CSIRO Publishing, 2021 Jones, David S. and Roös B, Phillip; Geelong’s Changing Landscape: Ecology, Development and Conservation, CSIRO Publishing, 2019, pp. 90, 91, 127
Murdoch, Anna King; ‘Every canvas tells a story of life’s complexities’, The Age, July 1999 Power, Liza; ‘Savouring Sweet Moments of Artistic Escape’, The Age, June 14 2020
‘The Art of Survival’, Artlink Magazine, Vol 14 No.2, 1994
‘The Arts Show’, Exhibition footage, ABC TV, 2001
