Born: 1962 Sydney, Australia

 

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

 

2023     New Light, Martin Browne Contemporary, Sydney, NSW
2023     Early Works: Autumn Leaves, Martin Browne Contemporary, Sydney, NSW
2018     New Ground, Martin Browne Contemporary, Sydney, NSW
2018     Cat's Cradle, Raft Artspace, Alice Springs, NT
2017     Inner Cycle, Martin Browne Contemporary, Sydney, NSW
2015     Current, Martin Browne Contemporary, Sydney, NSW
2015     Hugo Michell Gallery, Adelaide, SA
2014,     Looking Through, Martin Browne Contemporary, Sydney, NSW
2013     Hugo Michell Gallery, Adelaide, SA
2012     New Work, Martin Browne Contemporary, Sydney, NSW
2011     Hugo Michell Gallery, Adelaide, SA
2011     Hazelhurst Regional Gallery and Art Centre, Sydney, NSW
2010     Martin Browne Fine Art, Sydney, NSW
2009     Hugo Michell Gallery, Adelaide, SA
2007     Christine Abrahams Gallery, Melbourne, VIC
2005     Road Works, Martin Browne Fine Art, Sydney, NSW
2004     Martin Browne Fine Art, Sydney, NSW
2004     Christine Abrahams Gallery, Melbourne, VIC
2002     Christine Abrahams Gallery, Melbourne, VIC
2001     Martin Browne Fine Art, Sydney, NSW
1999     Christine Abrahams Gallery, Melbourne, VIC
1998     Christine Abrahams Gallery, Melbourne, VIC
1998     Mary Place Gallery, Sydney, NSW
1997     Mary Place Gallery, Sydney, NSW
1995     Selenium Gallery, Sydney, NSW
1994     Studio Exhibition, Sydney, NSW
1993     Studio Exhibition, Sydney, NSW
1991     Garry Anderson Gallery, Sydney, NSW
1989     Garry Anderson Gallery, Sydney, NSW
1988     Garry Anderson Gallery, Sydney, NSW

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

 

2024   Illsley Collection: A Quarter Century of Collecting, Kelli Lundberg Art, Mornington Peninsula, VIC

2018     RAW Wedderburn, Delmar Gallery, Sydney, NSW
2017     Artist Profile: Australasian Painters 2007-2017, Orange Regional Gallery, NSW
2017     Into Abstraction II: Interconnections, Macquarie University Art Gallery, Sydney, NSW
2016     Black, White & Restive. Newcastle Art Gallery, NSW
2016     James & Jacqui Erskine Collection. Drill Hall Gallery, ACT
2016     Fleurieu Art Prize, Samstag Museum, University of South Australia, SA
2015     Wynne Exhibition, Art Gallery of New South Wales, NSW
2014     Sublime Point: The Landscape in Painting, Hazelhurst Regional Galleryand Arts Centre, NSW
2014     Wynne Exhibition, Art Gallery of New South Wales, NSW
2013     Crossing Paths III, Raft Art Space, Alice Springs, NT
2013     Vibrant Matter, TarraWarra Museum of Art, VIC
2013     Action/Abstraction, Wangaratta Art Gallery
2012     Melbourne Art Fair 2012, Martin Browne Contemporary, Melbourne, VIC
2012     Roads Cross: Contemporary Directions in Australian Art, Flinders University Art Museum, SA
2011     Shared Language of Paint, Raft ArtSpace, Darwin, NT
2011     Laverty 2, Newcastle Regional Art Gallery, New South Wales, NSW
2011     Field Work, Bathurst Regional Art Gallery, New South Wales, NSW
2010     MCA - The Gift of Ann Lewis AO, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, NSW
2009     Summer Exhibition, Martin Browne Fine Art, Sydney, NSW
2009     'Sitting down with Jukuja & Wakartu', Raft Art Space, Darwin, NT
2008     Paint, Raft Artspace, Darwin, NT
2007     Summer Exhibition, Martin Browne Fine Art, Sydney, NSW
2006     Crossing Paths II, Martin Browne Fine Art, Sydney, NSW
2004     Selection of Contemporary Australian Art, Martin Browne Fine Art, Sydney, NSW
2004     Depth of Field ˆ Anamorphosis, Utopia Art Sydney, NSW
2004     Talking About Abstractions, Ivan Dougherty Gallery COFA, Sydney, NSW
2004     U R in E.U., Sir Herman Black Gallery, University of Sydney, NSW
2003     Crossing Paths, Martin Browne Fine Art, Sydney, NSW
2002     A Silver Lining and a New Beginning, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, COFA, UNSW
2002     Redlands Westpac Art Prize, Mosman Art Gallery, Sydney, NSW
2002     Indecorous Abstraction, Light Square Gallery, Adelaide & QVB Sydney, NSW
2002     Southern Exposure 2, Hazelhurst Regional Gallery, Sydney, NSW
2002     Wynne Exhibition, Art Gallery of New South Wales, NSW
2002     University School Club Art Prize, Sydney, NSW
2001     A Century of Collecting 1901 > 2001, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney, NSW
2001     Wynne Exhibition, Art Gallery of New South Wales, NSW
2001     Southern Exposure 1, Hazelhurst Regional Gallery, Sydney, NSW
2000     Wynne Exhibition, Art Gallery of New South Wales, NSW
2000     Summer Exhibition, Martin Browne Fine Art, Sydney, NSW
2000     Sydney Artists, Hazelhurst Regional Gallery, Sydney, NSW
2000     We Are Australian, Touring Exhibition
2000     1999 Wynne Exhibition, Art Gallery of New South Wales, NSW
2000     Sulman Exhibition, Art Gallery of New South Wales, NSW
2000     Contemporary Painting, Allen Allen and Hemsley Collection
2000     University of Technology, Sydney, NSW
1998     Archibald, Wynne & Sulman, Regional Tour of Selected Works
1998     Wynne Exhibition, Art Gallery of New South Wales, NSW
1998     Sulman Exhibition, Art Gallery of New South Wales, NSW
1996     Moet & Chandon, Touring Exhibition
1996     Wynne Exhibition, Art Gallery of New South Wales, NSW
1995     Up, Down and Across, Campbelltown City Art Gallery, , NSW
1995     Wynne Exhibition, Art Gallery of New South Wales, NSW
1995     Group Exhibition, Eva Breuer Gallery, Sydney, NSW
1994     Group Exhibition, Olsen & Carr Gallery, Sydney, NSW
1994     Wynne Exhibition, Art Gallery of New South Wales, NSW
1993     Contemporary Australian Painting, Allen Allen & Hemsley Collection Victorian Arts Centre, Melbourne, VIC
1991     Over East, Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, University Of Western Australia, Perth, WA
1990     Working Up to Yellow, Campbelltown City Art Gallery, New South Wales, NSW
1990     Art Dock, D‚Art Contemporain Australien, Noumea, New Caledonia
1989     Sir William Dobell Foundation Art Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, NSW
1987     Group Exhibition, Gary Anderson Gallery, Sydney, NSW
1987     Winter Exhibition of Women Artists, Gary Anderson Gallery, Sydney, NSW
1986     Group Show, EMR Gallery, Sydney, NSW
1983-86 Heritage Art Prize, Blaxland Gallery, Sydney, NSW
1983     Works on Paper, Campbelltown City Art Gallery, NSW

COLLECTIONS

 


National Gallery of Australia
MCA
Art Gallery of New South Wales
Newcastle Regional Art Gallery
Allen Arthur Robinson Collection
Artbank
Art Gallery of New South Wales
Bathurst Regional Art Gallery
Campbelltown City Arts Centre
Gold Coast City Art Gallery
Hamilton Art Gallery, Victoria
Macquarie Bank
Maitland Regional Art Gallery
Museum of Contemporary Art
National Gallery of Australia
National Gallery of Victoria
Newcastle Regional Art Gallery
Riddoch Art Institute
World Bank, Washington DC, USA
Visy Corp, Melbourne


 

Various private collections


AWARDS, RESIDENCIES & GRANTS

 

2016                 Finalist, Fleurieu Art Prize, Samstag Museum, SA

2015                 Winner, The Bulgari Art Award, Art Gallery of New South Wales

2015                 Finalist, The Wynne Prize, AGNSW

2014                 Finalist, The Wynne Prize, AGNSW

Fishers Ghost Art Prize, Campbelltown City Art Gallery, 

Youth Art Award, Bondi Pavilion. Sydney

 

PUBLICATIONS

 

Amber Bell                       Book, Australian Abstract, 2023 

Amber Creswell Bell            A Painted Landscape, Thames & Hudson, Melbourne, 2018
 Sioux Garside                   RAW Wedderburn, Delmar Gallery, Sydney, 2018
Leonard Janiszewski           Into Abstraction II: Interconnections, Macquarie University Art Gallery, Sydney, 2017
Gina Fairley                      Choreography of Colour, Art Collector Issue #81, 2017
Una Rey                          Black and White Restive, Newcastle Art Gallery, Newcastle, 2016
Owen Craven                    Melbourne Art Fair Preview, Artists Profile #19, 2012

Gina Fairley and Tony Twigg  Ildiko Kovacs: Down the Line 1980-2010, Eyeline #75, 2012
 Gina Fairley                     Down the Line 1980-2010, Art Monthly #251 June, 2012
Stephanie Radox               Eloquent Intersections, Australian Art Review #33, 2012
Daniel Mudie Cunningham     Ildiko Kovacs: Down the Line 1980-2010,    Hazelhurst Regional Gallery and Arts Centre,

 and Terence Maloon, 
John McDonald                  Seeker After Truth, Sydney Morning Herald - Review, 9 May 2011
Jane Sullivan                     MAF, Australian Art Collector, #53, 2010
Nicolas Rothwell                Kimberley In Harmony, The Australian, 2009
Louise Martin Chew            Collaborations Wakartu Cory Surprise And Ildiko Kovacs, Australian Aboriginal Art magazine,
Susan McCulloch                Paint, Artworld Magazine, 2009
Vogue Living                    August 2007
Inside Out                        November 2005
Jazmina Cininas                 Review, Art & Australia, Autumn, Vol.40, No.3, 2002
Roy Jackson                     Exhibition Catalogue Essay, August, 2002
John Peart                       Exhibition Catalogue Essay, September, 2001
 Sebastian Smee                Sydney Morning Herald, 19 January, 2001
Andrew Frost                    Australian Art Collector, January-March Issue, 2000
Sebastian Smee                 Sydney Morning Herald, 15 December, 1998
John McDonald                  Sydney Morning Herald, 13 December, 1997
 Deborah Tarrant               Australian Art Collector, October Issue, 1997
Terence Maloon                Art & Australia, Autumn Issue, 1996
John McDonald                  Sydney Morning Herald, 02 September, 1995
Felicity Fenner                  Sydney Morning Herald, 26 May, 1995
 Felicity Fenner                 Sydney Morning Herald, 14 April, 1995
Elwyn Lynne                     The Australian, 11 April, 1994
 Felicity Fenner                 The Sydney Morning Herald, 25 March, 1994
Robert Rooney                  The Australian, September, 1993
David Bromfield                 The West Australian, 09 February, 1991
Charlie Shead                   Agenda Art Magazine, January, 1991

Christopher Allen               Sydney Morning Herald, 15 April, 1988