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