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Lorraine Lee Barbie Kjar Jon Williamson and Fiona Tabart Helen Wright Tim Burns Janice Hunter Catherine Waining Anna Phillips David O'Halloran Matthew Calvert Karina Clarke Noel Frankham Victoria Cattoni Jim McKee Anne MacDonald Tony Stuart Philip Wolfhagen Sean Kelly Leslie John Wright Grace Cochrane Maria Kunda Patrick Hall David Adderton Michael Edwards Pat Brassington David McDowell Heather B. Swann Ruth Frost |
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| Lorraine Lee
Trained to become an art teacher in the early 1970s and taught for several years before going back to art school first in Hobart and then in Sydney where she completed an MFA in Ceramics. She taught part time, and exhibited at galleries like Macquarie Galleries in Sydney. For a number of years she lived in France supplementing her income teaching English while continuing to work as an artist. Since she returned from France last year and she has been living and working in Sydney. |
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| Barbie
Kjar
Graduated with a BFA in the late 1980s, majoring in Printmaking. she has actively exhibited her work in solo and group exhibitions, both in Tasmania and interstate. In 1988 she was Artist-in-Residence at the KALA Print Workshop, San Francisco; and, more recently, at the International Print Workshop, Barcelona, Spain. Currently, she teaches part time in Printmaking and Drawing at the Tasmanian School of Art at Hobart. |
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| Jon Williamson and
Fiona Tabart
Both completed a BFA majoring in Printmaking in 1987. Since then they have established a successful screenprinting and graphic design business, Inkpot Studios, operating out of Hobart. |
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| Helen Wright
Completed an MFA in 1987, majoring in Printmaking. Since then Helen has consistently exhibited her work around the country and more recently in Rediscovery: Australian Artists in Europe, 1980-1990 in Seville, Spain. Her work is held in major national collections, and currently she is teaching part-time in Printmaking at the Tasmanian School of Art at Hobart. |
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| Tim Burns
While teaching drawing and painting at the School, he completed his MFA in 1990. He continued as a tutor until mid-1998, at the same time actively painting and exhibiting. He has had several solo exhibitions in Melbourne and Hobart and has been represented in major group exhibitions, including the Moet & Chandon Touring Exhibition in 1992, 1994 and 1996. He has been the recipient of various awards and is represented in major public and corporate collections as well as private. |
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| Janice Hunter
Graduated with an MFA in the mid-1980s and has had several solo exhibitions since then. She worked part-time running a childcare centre in Melbourne as well as working virtually full-time as a printmaker. She has spent several months living and working in a studio in Italy. Currently, she has her own workshop and is involved with lithography. |
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| Catherine Waining
After graduating with a BFA majoring in painting in the late 1980s, she moved to Melbourne, rented a studio and worked in a graphic design office until end of 1989. She was accepted into a Museum Studies Graduate Diploma course run by Victoria College and has since worked as an exhibitions consultant whilst continuing her career as a painter. |
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| Anna Phillips
Completed an MFA in 1997 and currently is a lecturer in the Sculpture studio at the School of Art and the Curator for the University Fine Arts Gallery. She exhibits frequently both in Tasmania and elsewhere and was commissioned by CAST for a solo exhibition "Extra Body", 1998. |
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| David O'Halloran
Graduated with a BFA majoring in painting in the mid-1980s and since then has carved out a career as a gallery director, first in Melbourne and subsequently in Adelaide. He continues to paint and is also involved in the production of an art journal. He worked as an assistant curator on the Biennale of Sydney before becoming Director of the Australian Network for Art and Technology in Adelaide and assisting with the 1995 Adelaide Biennale; he went on to become Director of Contemporary Art Services Tasmania before moving to Melbourne in 1997 to take up the position as Director of Caulfield Art Centre, Melbourne. |
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| Matthew Calvert
Completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts with first class honours in sculpture at the Tasmanian School of Art at Hobart in 1993, and that same year was awarded a prestigious Samstag International Scholarship to further his career abroad. He finished a masters course at Goldsmith College, University of London, and continued to work as a sculptor in London and Paris before he returning to Tasmania in 1996. |
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| Karina Clarke
Completed a Master of Fine Arts in furniture design at the Tasmanian School of Art at Hobart in 1994, following a BA(Hons) in interior design at RMIT. Karina was a part-time lecturer in furniture design at TSAH until early 1995, when she was awarded a four-month residency at the Universitys Rosamond McCulloch Studio at the Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris to carry out research and develop her skills as a designer. She was also commissioned to research career and marketing opportunities for Tasmanian graduates in Europe, particularly in furniture and associated products, before returning to Australia late in 1995. After a period working as a designer for the furniture manufacturing company, Chisnells, in Sydney she was appointed as a designer for the design company Country Road. |
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| Noel Frankham
Trained as a photographer at the Tasmanian School of Art in the late 1970s and afterwards moved to the mainland where he became involved in gallery administration. From a position at the Queensland Art Gallery in the mid-1980s, he moved to Sydney to work at the Australia Council as Director of the Visual Arts and Crafts Board of the Australia Council the major funding body for the visual arts in the country. More recently he has become director of the Craft Centre in Sydney. |
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| Victoria Cattoni
Majored in painting and completed a BFA in 1987. Moving to Melbourne soon afterwards, she was subsequently awarded a residency at one of the Australia Council studios in Italy and spent nearly a year in Italy. After returning she continued to paint while she completed postgraduate study at the Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne. She is now a full-time artist, with some teaching responsibilities. |
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| Jim McKee
Graduated with a Master of Fine Arts degree in 1995, specialising in contemporary furniture design, receiving several furniture commissions for State and Federal government departments while working in the School's Centre for Furniture Design. He supplemented his income tutoring in art history and theory and was responsible for helping to develop the School's Design and Craft theory units. Since leaving to work as a freelance designer in Brisbane, he has also been working part-time at the Queensland College of Art, lecturing in the area of craft and design history. |
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| Anne MacDonald
Trained first as an art teacher before deciding to pursue a professional career as an artist working mainly with photography. She completed a Masters degree in 1983 and became a tutor at the School of Art soon afterwards. Now a lecturer at TSAH, she spent part of 1990 in Paris, living and working in one of the Australia Council studios. She exhibits regularly in solo and group exhibitions around the country and was one of three Tasmanian School of Art graduates to be represented in the exhibition Rediscovery: Australian Artists in Europe, 1980-1990, which toured Europe in 1992. |
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| Tony Stuart
Tony is a designer specialising in furniture design. He joined forces with David Adderton to create a design firm several years ago. He spent several months in Italy in the late 1980s pursuing his career. As well as continuing his own design practice he worked as a researcher for the Schools Centre for Furniture Design. He is currently living and working as a designer in Melbourne. |
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| Philip Wolfhagen
Continued to develop his professional career as a painter since graduation in the mid-1980s. After a short-time residence in Tasmania he moved to Sydney and continued to paint while working part-time as a curatorial assistant at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney. He has held several very successful solo exhibitions and been represented in a number of survey shows with a particular emphasis on the natural environment in Tasmania. He returned to Tasmania in the mid-1990s and has continued to paint; he has also been very much involved in the continuing support of visual artists in Tasmania as chair of the visual arts and crafts panel of Arts Tasmania. |
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| Sean Kelly
Trained as an art teacher during the early 1970s before returning to the Tasmanian School of Art in the mid-1980s to undertake a Master of Fine Arts degree, specialising in painting. Following his graduation he continued to work as an artist until taking on a full-time position as a project officer with Arts Tasmania. More recently he has become Director of Contemporary Art Services Tasmania and plays a major role in promoting the art of Tasmanian artists both here and interstate. |
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| Leslie John Wright
Graduated with a Master of Fine Arts (Research) degree in 1996 - one of the first Tasmanian School of Art research graduates. Already with a successful career as a furniture designer before he enroled at the School, Leslie taught in the studio of furniture design while undertaking his postgraduate degree. Since graduating he has moved to Sydney where he continues to practice as an independent designer. |
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| Grace Cochrane
Trained as a primary school teacher in New Zealand in the 1960s and came to work in Tasmania as a media consultant for the Education Department. During the 1970s she became actively involved in the craft movement in Tasmania and eventually decided to resign from her senior position in the Education Department to study full-time at the Art School. She majored in photography, was the School's guest lecturer coordinator, and graduated with an MFA in the mid-1980s. During that time she was also a Board member of the Crafts Board of the Australia Council. Soon after graduating she received a commission to write a history of the crafts in Australia and subsequently she was appointed Curator of Australian Decorative Arts at the Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences in Sydney. |
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| Maria Kunda
Completed her BFA (Hons) 1994 and her MFA in 1997. She is a member of the Print Workshop and was one of the organizers of A Flourishing Ecology, a major overview of print media in Tasmania as seen through several exhibitions , 1998. She is currently Chairperson of Contemporary Arts Services Tasmania (CAST) |
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| Patrick Hall
Completed a BFA in 1986. He has had successful solo, exhibitions in Hobart Adelaide and Melbourne and has participated in group exhibitions in Australia and overseas. His public art commissions include the widely acclaimed Elizabeth Street Mall installations, Hobart. He specialises in furniture and small product design, often with whimsical printed imagery, having concentrated on furniture design and printmaking as a student. He has established his own successful, company PHish Design, and has been a member of the Visual Arts and Design panel, Tasmanian Arts Advisory Board, 1994-95 and a Director of Designer-Makers Tasmania, 1985-91. |
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| David Adderton
Completed a BFA degree in 1986, majoring in furniture design. He went on to form a design company which has been very successful and which produces custom-made furniture. David moved from Hobart in 1990 to take up a position running the design studio at the Jam Factory in Adelaide, a large government-funded visual arts complex. |
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| Michael Edwards
Michael Edwards Complete MFA in printmaking 1994. University of Tasmania/Arts Tasmania Residency, Rosamund McCulloch Studio, Cite International des Arts, Paris 1995. Currently Touring Officer for Contemporary Arts Services Tasmania (CAST) |
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| Pat Brassington
Graduated from the Tasmanian School of Art in 1984 with a Master of Fine Arts degree. For over ten years now she has been Coordinator of the Plimsoll Gallery and its exhibition program, working on a part-time basis. Her work as a photographer and, more recently, working with digital images, has become widely known in Australia and overseas and she has been invited to exhibit in a large number of important survey exhibitions during the past decade. She is an active member of the Tasmanian School of Art's digital art research facility, DARF. |
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| David McDowell
Completed a BFA, BFA Honours and then in 1992, a Master of Fine Arts As well as producing a large body of work (especially screenprints), he was active as an exhibition curator, writer, tutor and administrator. He coordinated the Tasmanian School of Art's guest lecturer program and taught part time, before moving to a teaching post at the Canberra Institute of the Arts. |
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| Heather B. Swann
Graduated in 1995 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree with First Class Honours. Since then she has been very active as a sculptor, exhibiting in a number of survey and theme exhibitions as well as a solo exhibition at Dick Bett Gallery. She has supplemented her income as an artist by working part-time in a book shop and, in 1998, she is the University of Tasmania and Arts Tasmania resident at the McCulloch Studio, Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris. |
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| Ruth Frost
Began study in the Art School in the late 1970s beginning in the Associate Diploma program and working her way through until she graduated with a Masters degree in the late 1980s. Her photography has been exhibited widely in Australia in many survey and solo exhibitions. After teaching part-time at the Tasmanian School of Art until 1990, she moved to Canberra teaching at the Canberra School of Art. She has since returned to Hobart and is currently undertaking a PhD. Information on her PhD can be found here. |
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