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ART IS INTEGRITY

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“In the great silence, integrity listens for the true course” (1)

 

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BRONWYN BAIN

www.bronwynbain.com

 

EDUCATION

1999-01     Master of Fine Arts (MFA) Research: College of Fine Arts University of NSW 

1998           `Tecnica Pittura Murale’: Il Laboratorio per Affresco di Vainella, Prato Italia.

1997           Electronic Design & Interactive Media: Victoria University

1996           Computer Graphics: (short course) Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology.

1988-90     B.A. Fine Arts: RMIT 

1984           Voice: Royal Academy of Dramatic Art London  - Method Acting 

                     Edinburgh Festival performance -  Oxford School of Drama, Oxford

2006           Phoenix Institute – Transpersonal Counselling & Art Therapy.

2004           Certificate IV Workplace Assessment & Training: Swinburne University 

 

 

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE - Member of Actors Equity

2015-18      Research

2016-18      Studio work. Music.  Broken leg

2015            Composing music for Barry Dickens.

2013-14      DMROS –open Studios

2011            Research Lake Mungo and Nanya Station (University of Ballarat)

2005            Study tour Art Research Bali, . Visited major museums: Louvre Paris, Peggy                                                                             Guggenheim Venice, Picasso Museum                   Paris, Tate London UK

2003             Studied Indigenous spirituality with Shuar Indians in Ecuadorian Amazon 

                      Study tour Indigenous spirituality & art: Ecuador, Peru & Bolivia 

2000             Lectured & facilitated Fresco workshops-Sydney

1998             Study tour Fresco imagery: Italy, Malta and England

1993             Mural Fitzroy Pool. Arts Small Business Course - 6 weeks

1991-2         Scenic Studios: Painting set designs for Victoria State Opera, Australian Ballet. Indigenous spirituality &                        Art (Fresco) study tour Mexico (Chichen Itza, Tulum)   Guatemala (Tikal), New York (MOMA),                                   London & Italy (Ufizzi).

1987              "Are There": Costume Designer children’s play  Melbourne

1977-87       Costume design for Merilyn Brend Children’s Theatre

1984             Edinburgh Festival: Actress, Method acting for theatre, Oxford School of Drama,

                       Research tour: creative set & costume design Italy, France, Germany.

1978-90       Actress: Film, prime time television drama, documentaries & Theatre

1976             Sketching & painting tour around the circumference of Australia

 

VIDEO

2020.             Philip Mould. A Call to Camera Episode 3 | Art in Isolation

                        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_VChTUNwN0

                        Philip Jonathan Clifford Mould OBE (born March 1960) is an English art dealer, writer and                                               broadcaster.He has made a number of major art discoveries, including works of Thomas                                                      GainsboroughAnthony Van  Dyck and Thomas Lawrence

 

LECTURER

2002-04     Lecturer: Multimedia Swinburne Victoria

2001           Lecturer/Tutor-Design (College of Fine Arts-UNSW)

2000           Lecturer/Tutor- Design College of Fine Arts-UNSW

2001           Fresco Painting-College of Fine Arts-UNSW 

1998           Guest lecturer Fresco Painting: Warrnambool Institute: 

                     Guest lecturer Painting: Casey Institute:

 

PORTRAITURE

EDWARD DE BONO             International Author/Lecturer/Speaker: CHOGM Malta 2005, de Bono Institute,                                                                 Lateral Thinking. 

HAMISH MCDONALD       2000 Para-Olympian: Shot-put

DR. JOHN YU                           Chancellor University of New South Wales, Sydney

SARAH CATHERALL          Photographer: Australian Artist Conservationist

 

 

BIBLIOGRAPHY - Articles

1993           Art and Australia, April 1993, Vol. 31,  No 1.  

1993           The Age, A Work of Art or Just an Object? Christopher 

                     Heathcote   25th September 1993

2000           Olympic Impact-UNSW Centre for Olympic Studies ISS. 

 

COLLECTIONS

                     De Bono Institute

                     ESPRIT

                     MMBW

                     Knoxfield TAFE College

                     Pacific Productions

                     L.J. Productions

                     Private Collections

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SOLO EXHIBITIONS

1992-2019    Marios Café Melbourne

2001               Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney

2014               Mary Place Gallery Paddington Sydney

2014               P.O. Gallery Taradale

2005               45 Downstairs, Melbourne

2003               45 Downstairs, Melbourne

                         Hogan Gallery, Melbourne

2000               Selected for the Archibald AGNSW.

1993 -2000   Continental Café Gallery, Melbourne

1994               N.A.V.A., No Vacancy, Carlton

                         J-Space Gallery, Dandenong, Melbourne

1993               N.A.V.A,  No Vacancy, Melbourne

                         N.A.V.A., No Vacancy, Carlton             

                         41 Gold Street, Melbourne (Installation)

                         Blaxland Gallery, Melbourne

                         "Out on a Day Pass" Director, Melbourne Festival

                         A.R.T. Gallery, Collins Street, Melbourne

1999                Melbourne Fringe Festival, Fringe Gallery Melbourne

 

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2002               Video installation: International Society for Interdisciplinary Study of Symmetry (ISIS) UNSW Sydney

2000               Tap Gallery Sydney 

                         d/struct Kudos Gallery Paddington Sydney

1999               Criss-Cross, College of Fine Arts, UNSW 

                         Monitor College of Fine Arts, UNSW    

1995                Nillumbik Art Prize - Finalist

1996                Mall Galleries, London

                         Yume Ya Gallery, Melbourne

1994                Philatelic Gallery, Melbourne

                         Arts Victoria,  Exhibition Space

                         Footscray Acquisitive Art Award, Melbourne

1993                Footscray Acquisitive Art Award, Melbourne

                         "Artworkz Five",101 Collins Street, Melbourne 

                          Commissioned installation, City of Northcote, 

                         "Italia", Blaxland Gallery, Melbourne

                          Contemporary Art Show, Melbourne      

1990                Graduate Exhibition, R.M.I.T., Melbourne

                          Matchbox Exhibition, R.M.I.T., Bendigo & Ballarat Uni.   

                          "Framed and Unframed", Warburton Regional Gallery

1988                 8”x 8”, R.M.I.T., Victoria (touring exhibition)

                           Children’s Week, National Gallery of Victoria

 

ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE

2007                 Luther College Ringwood

1998                 New Gisborne Primary School Melbourne: Art/Drama/Performance

1997                 Overport Primary School Melbourne: Art Creativity workshops

1996                 Currawa Primary School Dookie Agricultural College: Art/Drama/Performance

1994                 St. Kevin’s College Toorak

 

MURALS

1994                City of Fitzroy: Commissioned Mural

1992                Little Jamaica Melbourne: (private commission)

1990                Pugwall II  L.J. Productions: Artist/Actress

1990                Caloola, Sunbury Training Centre, Victoria

1989                MMBW, Bundoora.

 

FILM, TELEVISION & THEATRE WORK  -  ACTING

1991             Documentary - Living with Cancer (video for Anti-Cancer Council, Victoria)

1978-93     Television- Pugwall, Saturdee, Sullivans, Prisoner, Cop Shop, Sugar & Spice, Darlings of the Gods, All                            the Rivers Run, Pharlap, Carsons Law, Around the Twist, Magistrate, Home, All the Green Years,                                    Water Under the Bridge, Outbreak of Love, Lucinda Brayford, Skyways, Holiday Island, Pugwall II and                        Australia’s Most Wanted.

1988-90       Film - Evil Angels, Pharlap, Frog Dreaming, Desolation Angels, Wills & Bourke, Glass Babies, Ricky &                          Pete.

                      Theatre: 1990 Director  “Out on a Day Pass” Melbourne Festival

1984            Theatre: Edinburgh Festival, Scotland; London Fringe Festival, U.K.

1964-80    Folk musician & singer

1988-90       Film - Evil Angels, Pharlap, Frog Dreaming, Desolation Angels, Wills & Bourke, Glass Babies, Ricky &                          Pete.

(1)   John Tarrant,  The Light Inside the Dark: Zen, Soul, and Spiritual Life. Harper & Colins N.Y. 1998 p178)

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