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DAAO URL

https://www.daao.org.au/bio/kristin-headlam

Birth Place

Launceston, Tasmania, Australia

Biography

STUDIES1972-76 Bachelor of Arts, Departments of Fine Arts & English, University of Melbourne1980-81 Painting, Victorian College of the Arts SOLO EXHIBITIONS1984 Nielson Hayes Library, Bangkok, Thailand1988 Cockatoo Gallery, Launceston1989 Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne1991 Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne1992 Julie Green Gallery, Sydney1994 Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne1996 Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne1998 Tony Palmer at Mary Place Gallery, Sydney1999 Charles Nodrum Gallery, MelbournePublic Park, Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne2001 As the Twig is Bent, (retrospective exhibition)Launceston Church Grammar School, LauncestonPrivate Garden, Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne2003 News, Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne 2005 Heiser Gallery, Brisbane2005 Recent Works, Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne2006 Paper to Paper, Charles Nodrum Gallery 2006 Recent Watercolours, Mansfield, Victoria2007 Recent Works, Heiser Gallery, BrisbaneThe Gesture, Chapman Gallery, Canberra2008 About the House, Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne2009 The Art of Politics, Cowwarr Art Space, GippslandInside Out, Heiser Gallery, Brisbane 2011 Seasonal Adjustments, Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne A Domestic Sublime, Chrysalis Gallery, Melbourne 2013 Home Theatre, Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne The Blue Square, Heiser Gallery, Brisbane SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS1982 Tricycle Theatre Arts Complex, London1988 Spirit of the Times, Bicentennial Touring Exhibition, Melbourne1989 Scotchman’s Hill Invitation Art Prize, Geelong Art Gallery1990 Scotchman’s Hill Invitation Art Prize, Geelong Art Gallery1991 The Medium Pastel, David Jones Gallery, Sydney1992 Kristin Headlam & Noel McKenna, Dick Bett Gallery, Hobart1993 Approaches to the Sublime, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney1995 City of Hobart Invitation Art Prize Blundstone Contemporary Art Prize, Queen Victoria Museum & Art Gallery1996 Brushing the Dark: Recent Art and Tasmania, CAST; toured nationally Doug Moran Portrait Prize, National Gallery of Victoria & touring1997 Deacons, Graham and James Art Award, Ian Potter Gallery, Melbourne1998 Contemporary Art Fair, Melbourne, Charles Nodrum Gallery Stand1999 Visyboard Art Prize, Barossa Vallery We are Australian, Victorian Arts Centre, Melbourne & traveling to 2002 Conrad Jupiters Acquisitive Art Prize, Gold Coast City Art Gallery Artful Cello, Victorian Arts Centre, Melbourne, & traveling to 20002000 Exquisite Corps, Bendigo Art Gallery Doug Moran Portrait Prize, traveling exhibition An Affair to Remember, Artsauce Gallery, Singapore Geelong Contermporary Art Prize, Geelong Art Gallery Kozminsky Galleries, Melbourne Melbourne Art Fair, Melbourne, Charles Nodrum Gallery Stand2001 Male Nude – A Private View, Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne Savage Art Prize, Savage Club, Melbourne Portraits 2001, Tweed River Regional Gallery & touring Australia 2001-02 Selected Paintings, Kozminsky Galleries, Melbourne Australian & International Works on Paper, Charles Nodrum Gallery Contemporary Art, Christie’s Australia, Melbourne & Sydney2002 The Human Portrayed, Charles Nodrum Gallery The Painted Fold: The Garment in Art, Charles Nodrum Gallery Savill Contemporary, Savill Galleries, Melburne Contemporary Art, Christie’s Australia, Melbourne & Sydney Just Married, Monash Gallery of Art Melbourne Artfair 2002, Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne2003 X Melbourne, COFA Gallery, Sydney (Gary Willis curator) The Arthur Guy Acquisitive Award, Bendigo Art Gallery (finalist) *2004 Gardenesque: A Celebration of Australian Gardening, State Library of Victoria2003-2004 , Hunter.1, Newcastle Regional Art Gallery Modern Australian Painting, Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne2006 A rose is a rose is a rose, Latrobe Regional Gallery The Idea of the Animal, RMIT Gallery & Melbourne International Arts Festival2007 Snap Freeze: Still Life Now, Tarrawarra Museum of Art Eye to ‘I’, Ballarat Fine Art Gallery National Artists Invitation Self-Portrait Prize, University of Queensland2008 Optimism, Queensland Art Gallery Muse, Mildura Arts Centre, Benalla City Gallery Who let the dogs out, The dog in contemporary Australia, Hazelhurst Regional Gallery & Arts Centre2011 Gaze, Redland Art Gallery, Queensland Finalist, Doug Moran Portrait Prize Finalist, Stan & Maureen Duke Art Prize, Gold Coast City Gallery People and Places, Heiser Gallery, Brisbane Remarks on Colour, Australian Watercolours QUT Art Museum, Brisbane2012 Finalist, Rick Amor Drawing Prize, Ballarat Fine Art Gallery Finalist, Rick Amor Self Portrait Prize, Monsalvat Gallery2013 Water Views – Paesaggisti all’acquerello dell XXI secolo, The ArtsBox, Vicenza, Italy 2014 Geelong Art Prize, Geelong Art Gallery 30th Birthday Show, Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne Vista II, Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne 2015 5, with Philip Faulks, Cathy Drummond, Bill Hay and Richard Stringer. 45 Downstairs, MelbourneArt & Furniture II, Charles Nodrum Gallery, MelbourneGarden, QUT Art Museum, Brisbane AWARDS1991 Conrad Jupiters Acquisitive Art Prize, Gold Coast City Gallery2000 Doug Moran National Portrait Prize, Winner COMMISSIONS1995 Crown Melbourne Hotel: designs for tapestries executed by the Victorian Tapestry Workshop2001 Painting Commission, Perth Mint, Perth, WAPortrait Commission, Queens College, University of Melbourne2005 Portrait Commission, Trinity College, University of Melbourne2007 Portrait Commission, Tasmanian Parliament, Tasmania2008 Dawn Service, Australian War Memorial2009 Portrait Commission, Centenary Institute, NSW2011 Portrait Commission, Walter and Eliza Hall Institute 2013 Portrait Commission, Business and Economics, Melbourne University2014 Melbourne Festival, Art Trams COLLECTIONS National Gallery of Australia British MuseumNational Portrait Gallery Art Gallery of New South WalesNational Gallery of Victoria Tasmanian Museum & Art GalleryArtBank Hamilton Regional Art GalleryGold Coast City Art Gallery (Western Mining Corporation)Tamworth Regional Gallery National Australia BankDeakin University (BHP)Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery (Tamar Collection)State Library of Victoria (Derwent Collection)Queen’s College, University of Melbourne The Ian Potter Museum of ArtMoreland City Council, Melbourne Tweed Heads Regional Art Gallery, NSWLa Trobe University Collection Perth Mint, WAUniversity of Tasmania Trinity CollegePrivate & Corporate Collections PUBLICATIONSAitken, Richard, Gardenesque, A Celebration of Australian Gardening, The Miegunyah Press, 2004Barilo von Reisberg, Eugene. Catalogue Essay, Charles Nodrum Gallery, 1999;Britain, Ian, Editor, Meanjin: Portraits of the Artist, Vol. 64, 1-2, 2005Cawthorne, Zelda (ed). The Artful Cello, MICMC, 1999.Stephen Coppel: Out of Australia – Prints and Drawings from Sidney Nolan to Rover Thomas, The British Museum Press 2011Cree, Laura Murray, Australian Painting Now, Craftsman House, 2000Deeth, Jane. Kristin Headlam: As the Twig is Bent, exh catalogue, Launceston, 2001Drury, Neville. Images 2, Craftsman House, Sydney, 1994;Drury, Neville. Images 3, Craftsman House, Sydney, 1999;Falkiner, Suzanne. “Brushing the Dark”, Art Monthly, no 90, June 1996, pp. 22-24Jan Fook and Renate Klein (eds.): A Girl’s Best Friend – The Meaning of Dogs in Women’s Lives, Spinifex Press 2001Grishin, Sasha, Accounting for Taste, The Lowensteins Arts Management Collection Macmillan 2013Sasha Grishin: Australian Art: A History, The Miegunyah Press 2014; Hammond, Victoria. Catalogue Essay, Brushing the Dark (op cit);Hammond, V et al, The Derwent Collection, TMAG, 1995, p. 34Hart, Kevin. Catalogue Essay, Charles Nodrum Gallery, 1996;Kent, Rachel. Catalogue Essay, Deacons Graham & James Award, 1997;Marsh, Anne. “Public Park: A Gendered Performance”, Art & Australia, June 1999;Marsh, Anne, News, exhibition catalogue essay, Charles Nodrum Gallery, 2003Miller, Steven, Dogs in Australian Art, The Wakefield Press, 2012Patrick McCaughey: Strange Country, Why Australian Painting Matters, The Miegunyah Press 2014; McCulloch, A & S. Encyclopedia of Australian Art, 1994; pp. 330-31Smith, Smith & Heathcote, Australian Painting 1788-2000, Oxford University Press, 2000, p. 585 State Library of Victoria: The Art of the Collection, The Miegunyah Press 2007; Webby, Elizabeth, Editor, Humanities Australia, Vol 4, 2013 ARTICLES & REVIEWSAlbert, Jane. “Artist Paints Herself into $100,000 Victory”, The Australian, 23.08.2000Backhouse, Megan. “Out of the Shadows”, Today, The Age, 20.09.2000; p. 7Brennan, Betsy, Vogue Living, Aug-Sept 2001Cawthorne, Zelda. “Here Comes the Bride in Oils”, Herald Sun, 2 March 1999, p 48;Cawthorne, Zelda. “Naked Men, for a Change”, Herald Sun, 28.01.2001Cawthorne, Zelda. “Exhibition Review”, Herald Sun, Nov. 2001Fortescue, Elizabeth. “In bed with Kristin”, Herald Sun, 23.08.2000; p. 56Fyfe, Melissa,. “Waking Up a Winner”, The Age, 23.08.2000;Fiona Gruber. “Australian Portraits”, ABC Radio National and Arts Daily (Michael Cathcart); Hammond, V. “Contemporary Artists Gain International Appeal”, Masterpiece Australia, W, 1999Hart, Kevin. “Kristin Headlam”, Agenda, 39/40, Nov 1994, p. 44;Hedger, Michael. “Endless Exploration”, The Herald Weekender, 21.02.2004, p. 14Hurell, Brownyn. “Prize Painting A Pet Project”, Herald Sun, 23.08.2000; p. 12Jay, Sian E. “What Are These Australians up to?”, The Straits Times (Singapore), 16.02.2000Jones, Jacqui. “Exhibition has much to offer”, Newcastle & Hunter Herald, 11.02.2004; p. 7Keene, Neil. “Galleries combine in Art Tour”, Newcastle & Hunter Herald, 13.02.2004; p.5Lawson, Valerie. “Tails of a Prize-Winning Portrait”, Sydney Morning Herald, 28.08.00; pp1, 5;Lynn, Elwyn. “Sublimity to Ridicule”, The Australia Weekend Review, 13-14.11.1993; p. 13MacDonald, John. Sydney Morning Herald, 1996;Makin, Jeff. “Brave Artist Tackles Footy Heroes”, Herald Sun, 4 Aug 2003; pp. 91-92Marsh, Anne, A Photographic Ghost in Contemporary Painting: Recent Works by Kristin Headlam, Southern Review, Vol 37, No 1, 2004Mollison, James. “On Collecting”, Art & Australia, vol 34, no 1; 1997;Murray Cree, Laura. “Gardens”, Art & Australia, vol 35, no. 4, 1998;Porter, Liz. “How Brendan Fevola went from devil to Botticelli angel”, The Age, 31/07/03Schoenbaum, Sam. “Male Nude – A Private View” (exhibition review), Artlink, March 2001Spunner, Suzanne. “The Thrall of the dress: Blame it on Dior”, Art Monthly, April 99, p. 16-17.Stone, Deborah. “Rondo with an airy middle section”, The Age, 14 May 1999.Watson, Bronwyn. “Galleries”, Sydney Morning Herald, 30.10.1992 Writers: ecwubben CNG Date written: 2012 Last updated: 2015

Born

b. 1953

Summary

Melbourne based painter who uses photographic images in her artistic process.

Gender

Female

Died

None listed

Age at death

None listed