Bronwyn Bain
ART IS INTEGRITY
“In the great silence, integrity listens for the true course” (1)




BRONWYN BAIN
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 Gainsborough, Anthony 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
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)