CV | Jayne Dyer

Studies
 
1997-continuing Head of Public Programs, National Art School, Sydney, F/T position
1995-96 Painting/Drawing Lecturer, NAS & University of Western Sydney, sessional position
1994 Master of Art painting/research, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology University (RMIT)
1989 Bachelor of Fine Art Hons, RMIT
1988-94 Painting/Drawing Lecturer, Monash University, F/T tenured position
1987 Bachelor of Fine Art, RMIT
1987-93 Painting/Drawing Lecturer, RMIT, sessional position
1984-86 Art Education Officer/Artist National Gallery of Victoria & Museum of Victoria, P/T position
   

Solo Exhibitions

2009
Spill, The Book Project: Seoul, SIPA, Korea
2008 White Work, King St Gallery on William, Sydney
  The Reading Room, Uber Gallery, Melbourne
2007 WORDSFORPICTURES, Lingnan University, Hong Kong. Library installation
  Spare Room, Elizabeth Bay House Museum, Sydney (3 person)
2006 Stutter, Uber Gallery, Melbourne
  One Reading, Sydney Writers Festival Launch, The Royal Mint, Historic Houses Trust, Sydney
  The Reading Room, Sydney Writers Festival, Sydney Theatre stage
2005 Shadowlands, Red Gate Gallery, Beijing, China
  greyspace, Yoshi Kono Gallery, Osaka, Japan
2003 greyspace, Gallery SP, Sydney
2002 Site-lines, John Batten Gallery, Hong Kong
2002 Site, Gallery SP Sydney
2002 Mapping the Sky, Gallery SP, Sydney
2000 Mapping the Sky, John Batten Gallery, Hong Kong
1999 Site: Post Paris, Span Galleries, Melbourne
1998 Critical Influence, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, UNSW
1997 Site, George Gallery, Melbourne
1996 Site, Central Academy of Fine Arts Chien Lie Hall, Beijing, China
1995 Site, Mornington Peninsula Arts Centre Regional Gallery, Vic
1994 Heat, Meridian Gallery, Melbourne
1994 Heat, Faculty of Art and Design Gallery, RMIT
1992 Site, Gore St Gallery, Melbourne
1991 Botanical Gallery, Melbourne
   
Selected Group Exhibitions
2010
Everything and Nothing, King Street Gallery on William, Sydney
2009
Luminous Dark, King St Gallery on William
  Seoul International Print Photo Art Fair (SIPA), Seoul Art Centre, Korea
  Kuandu Festival of Arts, Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei, Taiwan
2008 China / Australia, Song Zhuang Museum, Beijing
  Luminous Dark, Bleitreu Gallery, Berlin
  China Arts Project Launch, Two Lines Space, Beijing
  Residency artists, Taipei Artist Village Gallery, Taiwan
  Compositions, King Street Gallery on William, Sydney
2007 Translucent Tex’t, Red Gate Gallery, Beijing (4 person)
  Ten Years of Image’s, Too Art Gallery, Hong Kong Art Centre
  Process –Journey, Red Gate Gallery, Beijing. Touring Shanghai, Hong Kong, regional Australia. Funded Department of Foreign Affairs & Trade, Beijing, Australia/China Council
  Artefact, City Museum at Old Treasury, Melbourne
  Artist Books’ 5th Annual Sydney Book Fair, represented by Cross Art Projects
2006 2006 Praise of Shadows, King Street Gallery on Burton, Sydney (3 person)
  Art Interchange, Museum of Contemporary Art, Hongik University, Seoul, Korea & NAS, Sydney
  Linden Postcard Show 2006, Linden, St Kilda Centre for contemporary Arts, Melbourne
  Twenty/20 Vision, Parliament House, Sydney
  Pataphysical Pending Machine, AGNSW
  Pataphysical Pending Machine, Liverpool Regional Museum
  The Delmar Code x, Delmar Gallery, Sydney
  Melbourne Art Fair 2006, represented by Uber Gallery
  Shanghai/Australia, Jingan Cultural Exhibition Centre, Shanghai, China
  The Blake Prize NAS Gallery, Sydney, touring NSW 2007
2005 Altitude, Shepparton Regional Gallery, Vic
  Annual, Cite Internationale des Arts, Paris
  Small Offerings, The Cross Art Projects, Sydney
  Australian Paper Fair, Sydney represented by Uber Gallery
  Art Sydney 05, represented by Uber Gallery
  World Year in Physics Art Prize, Macquarie University Gallery
2004 Drawing Dust, Maroondah Regional Gallery, Melbourne
  Altitude Launch, Dante Gallery, Melbourne
  Altitude Billboard project, Gertrude St, Fitzroy, Melbourne
  Group Exhibition, John Batten Gallery, Hong Kong
  Group Exhibition, Gallery SP, Sydney
2003 Drawing Dust, Span Galleries, Melbourne & Red Gate Gallery, Beijing. Funded Arts Victoria
  Altitude, John Batten Gallery, Hong Kong
  Blake Prize, for religious art Sir Herman Black Gallery, University of Sydney, touring Grafton Regional Gallery; ACU National, Sydney & Melbourne; Stanthorpe Regional  Gallery 2004
2002 The Year in Art National Trust SH Ervin Gallery, Sydney
  Dialogue with the Watchtower, Jan Murphy Gallery, Brisbane
  Dialogue with the Watchtower, Melbourne Art Fair, represented by Red Gate Gallery, Beijing
  Hobart Art Prize 2002
  Open Studio, Ultimo Project, Sydney
  Open Studios Art & About: the city as a canvas, City of Sydney & NAS initiative
  Stable Exhibition, Gallery SP, Sydney
  Group Exhibition, John Batten Gallery, Hong Kong
2001 Australian Paper Art Awards 2001, touring 2001/2 The George Adams Gallery, Victorian Arts Centre, Melbourne, UTS Gallery, Sydney
  A Studio in Paris: Australian artists at the Cite, National Trust SH Ervin Gallery, Sydney
  31st Alice Prize The Araluen Centre, Alice Springs
  The Hutchins Art Prize 2001, The Long Gallery, Hobart
  Hazelhurst Art Award, Hazelhurst Regional Gallery
  Ignite, National Art School, Sydney curated by Barbara Tuckerman
  Landscape, Stephanie Burns Fine Art, Canberra
  Australian Paper Fair Sydney, represented by Akky Von Ogtrop
  Artist Books Fair Brisbane, represented by Akky Von Ogtrop
  Group Exhibition, John Batten Gallery, Hong Kong
2000 London Art Fair, London
  Half Metre Square, Cellblock, National Art School, Sydney
  Redlands Westpac Prize, Mosman Regional Gallery, Sydney
  Big Small, John Batten Gallery, Hong Kong
1999 Kunst Rai Art Fair, Amsterdam, represented by Akky Von Ogtrop Fine Art, Sydney
  International Works on Paper Fair, Sydney, represented by Akky Von Ogtrop Fine Art
  We Are Australian, touring metro and regional galleries Australia 1999-2002
  Hung, Drawn and Quartered, Mary Place Gallery, Sydney
  Cite Internationale Des Arts Paris
1998 Skin Culture, touring 1998/9 George Gallery, Melbourne; John Batten Gallery,
  Hong Kong; La Salle Gallery, Singapore; Tin Sheds Gallery, University of Sydney
  Transformations, digital imaging, Storey Hall, RMIT
  Co-Existence, touring Hogarth Galleries, Sydney; Wollongong University, NSW
  Pas D Accrochage, En Publiqe’ NAS
  Shields, Lennox Gardens, Canberra National Sculpture Forum
  To the Wall and Back, Span Gallery, Melbourne
1997 Affinities - Australian and Korean artists interact, touring 1997/8 Tin Sheds,  Sydney; Watt Space, Newcastle University; Canberra School of Art; Walker Hill Gallery, Seoul, Korea
  Field of Dreams, message sticks for native title, SH Ervin Gallery, Sydney; Parliament House, Canberra
  Artist’s Books, touring Riddoch Regional Gallery Mt. Gambier, Sth Australia; Main St Editions Gallery, Hanndorf, Sth Australia
  Works on Paper, John Batten Gallery, Hong Kong
1996/7 Oblique Travellers, touring Michael Wardell Gallery, Melbourne, Annandale Galleries, Sydney; Australian Embassy, Beijing; Galerie Boomerang, Amsterdam
  The London Artists 96 Book Fair Concourse Gallery, Barbican Centre, London
  World Money, Fax Art, Shanghai Hua Shan Art School Gallery, China
Continuum’ NAS
  Celebrate Australia, China Gallery, Hong Kong
1995 Australia Felix, Festival, Benalla, Vic
  Past Shelf Life, Meridian Gallery, Melbourne
1994 China Art Expo Guangzhou, China
  Australian Artists, Redgate at Song He Tang, Beijing, China
  Artomatch, Gallery Artomat vending machine project, ACAF 4
  Site, Museum of Natural History, Launceston
  ACAF 4, (Meridian Gallery)
1993 Threads, McClelland Regional Gallery, Langwarrin, Vic
  Mini Print International 13, touring exhibition Spain and England
  Miniatures, Melbourne University
  Recent Paintings and Drawings, Westspace Gallery, Melbourne
1992 Gore St Gallery, Melbourne
  Mini Print International 12, Cadaques, Spain
  MA Candidature, RMIT Faculty Gallery
1991 Gore St Gallery, Melbourne
1990 North Adelaide School of Art Gallery
  Mini Print International 10, Cadaques, Spain
  Art Workz Two, Melbourne
1989 Art Workz One, Melbourne
  Boxhill Invitation Prize
  Crafts Council of the Northern Territory Gallery, Darwin
  Abdullah Conn Prize RMIT
1988 Mini Print International Cadaques, Spain, Roar Studios, Melbourne
1987 International Graphics Art Foundation Miniature Print Biennial Connecticut and NY
  St Kilda Arts Festival Linden Gallery, Vic, Biennial Drawing Mornington Peninsula Arts  Centre
  St Kilda Arts Festival Linden Gallery, Vic, Biennial Prints Mornington Peninsula Arts Centre
  Prints  84, 85, 86, Gryphon Gallery, Melbourne University
   
Awards  
2006 Artist-in-Residence, Lingnan University, Hong Kong (March-May 2007)
2005 Commonwealth of Australia public service medal (PSM) outstanding service, arts & education
  FONAS ASX Travel Grant
  FONAS Studio Residency, Cite Internationale des Arts, Paris
  World Year of Physics Art Prize (3rd prize) Macquarie University, NSW
2000 National Art School Travelling Scholarship, Sydney
1997 AGNSW Residency, Moya Dyring Studio, Cite Internationale Des Arts, Paris (taken 1999)
1996 Solo and group exhibition grants (Beijing) Dept of Foreign Affairs and Trade
  Materials grant, Art Spectrum, Vic
1995/6 Asialink VACB/Aust Council Residency, Beijing
1993 Research grant, Monash University
1991/2 Residency, Verdaccio Studio, Italy, Monash University
1990 Commonwealth Scholarship, University of Tasmania
   
Projects & Commissions
2007/6 Commissioned installations for ‘Sydney Writers Festival’ at Sydney Theatre, stage design
2006 Commissioned ‘Sydney Writers Festival Launch’, The Royal Mint, Historic Houses Trust and Parramatta Riverside Theatre SWF program
2003/4 Sitework: Hong Kong, documentation street project in China
1995 Sitework: Critical Distance, documentation artwork in public locations in Australia
1994 Crossovers, Site(s) projects and symposium, University of Tasmania
   
Collections  
  Artbank
  The Australian Embassy, Beijing
  Macquarie Bank
  Maroondah Art Gallery,
  Monash University
  RMIT
  Vic Lingnan University, Hong Kong
  corporate and private collections in Australia, Hong Kong, China and England
   
Bibliography  
2007 Dyer, Jayne: Translucent Text, China Today, New York Arts magazine, Aug 07
  Yau, Elaine:  Black, red and white, South China Morning Post, 30/5/07
  Wright, Jean: Page Turner, Belle March issue
  Gellatly, Kelly: Process-Journey, catalogue, Contemporary Art, NGV; Damian Smith, Curator, Maroondah Gallery, Melbourne; H. E. Raby, Dr Geoff, Australian Ambassador, China
  Translucent Text, catalogue
  Words for Pictures, catalogue, Hort, Mette &  Nesta, Frederick essays
  Spare Room, catalogue, Barrett, Jennifer  & Carlin, Scott essay
  Spare Room, Insites, winter 2007
  Clements, Tracey: Three artists have their wicked way with a grand 19th Century House, review, Metro, Sydney Morning Herald 17/08
  Artists meet history, News, Wentworth Courier 18/07
2006 Nelson, Robert: Festivity low, quality high, The Age 27/12
  Nelson, Robert: On paper, a closed book, Arts & Culture The Age 3/5
  Wyndham, Susan: Artistry in the Background, Undercover, Spectrum, SMH 13/5
  Art Interchange, catalogue, Korean & Australian exchange exhibition Harding, Lesley: Stutter exhibition catalogue essay, Curator Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne,
  Higgins, Jo: Picture Book, State of the Arts online review 4/06
  Artists at Home, Belle April/May pg22
  Clement, Tracey: In Praise of Shadows, Metro Picks Sydney Morning Herald,
  The Blake Prize 2006 catalogue
2005 Sullivan, Graeme: Art Practice and Research, Sage pub. Cal, USA 2005 pp133-135
  Walking the Line, exhibition catalogue pg7
  Art Notes Asia, Art Monthly Sept 2005
  Art Notes Asia, Art Monthly Nov 2005
2004 35,000 days in Asia, Asialink Arts Residency Program publication
2003 Profile, Art Almanac, Sept 2003
  Hill, Peter: Spectrum, Sydney Morning Herald, 6/12
2002 Rees, Simon: Review, Art & Australia, Dec 2002
  Hynes, Victoria: Pulp Fiction, Metro Sydney Morning Herald, 15/3
  Hynes, Victoria: Critics Picks, Metro, Sydney Morning Herald, 7/6
  Morgan, Fran: interview on Artichoke 2SER 10/5
  Grishin, Sasha: Little gems within a diverse group, Canberra Times, 9/5
2001 A Studio in Paris: Australian artists at the Cite, catalogue
  Harding, Lesley: Australian Paper Art Awards 2001, catalogue introduction
  Hill, Peter:  Australians who made the French connection, The Sydney Morning Herald, 21/5
  Maria Nicolson, Anne: interview with National Arts reporter, ABC News, 3/5
1999 Kunst Rai, Amsterdam Art Fair catalogue
  Works on Paper Fair, Sydney catalogue
  Nava Newsletter, Abstract from Art of Sight: Art of Mind, forum, 3/99, pg 8
  Thiessen, Jodie: Fresh Air for HK, Australian Collectors, Jan 99
1998 Seven Artists in Residence: Dyer-Beijing, Jayne, Artlink, Vol 18 No. 4, pp 32-33
  Skin Culture – Australian Art in Hong Kong, Aust. Chamber of Commerce Oct. 98, pp44-45
  Clabburn, Anna: Private Meanings within Public Art, The Age 17/6
  Ko, Celia: Skin Culture, Pace Interior Magazine, Hong Kong
  Wang, Birong: To the Wall and Back, exhibition essay
  Skin Culture, SOCOG catalogue, Reaching the World Festival, pg 66
  Gagliardi, Jason: Skin of a culture peeled away, Sunday Morning Post, Hong Kong, 18/10
  Art & Australia, Gallery Survey, Vol 30 No. 1, pg 104
  Bragge, Anita: Skin Tight but Right, Sun Herald, 13/6
  Jelbart, Mary Lou: Arts National, ABC Radio, 14/6
  Drury, Neville: Images 3, Craftsman House, 1998
  Adler, Louise: Arts Review, Radio National, 17/2
  Waterlow, Nick & Mendelson Joanna: Critical Influence, catalogue
  Wardell, Micheal: Skin/Culture, Shields catalogue
  Ainger, S: Critical Influences, Uniken, UNSW No 442, pg 11 13/2
1997 Fink, Hannah: Second Contact Affinities, catalogue
  Grishin, Sasha: European Visions of the Other, Art Monthly Dec 96
1996 1996 Site catalogue, Beijing
  Timms, Peter: Oblique Travellers, catalogue essay
  Rooney, Robert: Art on Friday, The Australian 9/8
1995 1995 Australia Felix, catalogue
  City of Hobart Art Prize, catalogue
  Dewar, Sue: Meridian Artists at Song He Tang, Asia Pacific Sculpture News Winter
  Dewar, Sue: Asian Art News, Jan
  Lasschuyt, Helga & Taylor, Roger: China Expo 94, IIAS Newsletter 4
  Panorama, Beijing TV, Dec 94
  Taylor, Roger: Report from Beijing & Guangzhou, The Art Show, 3RRR, Interview 4/7, Nov 20 & 27
  Australian Painting and Sculpture, China Art Daily 5/11
  Meridian to Beijing, News Briefs, Asian Art News Nov/Dec 94
  McCulloch, Susan: Meridian Mounts China Mission’ The Age 7/11
  Meridian at Song He Tang, catalogue,
  2nd China Art Expo, catalogue
  Taylor, Sandra: Jayne Dyer in Conversation, Interacta 3/94
1993 AIAE conference program: Past Perfect: Future Tense, The Big Picture
1985 150 Victorian Women Artists, Visual Arts Board of the Australia Council/Myer Foundation/Women 15
Paper Presentations
2007 Presentations The book project & Dashanzi District, Beijing , Lingnan University HK & Hong Kong Art School (HKAS), Hong Kong Arts Centre; Floor Talks, Elizabeth Bay House,  Sydney
2006 Forum presentation, HKAS
2005 Forum presentation, National Art School
2004 Artist presentation, Hong Kong Arts Centre
2002 Artist floor talk for 2002 The Year in Art National Trust SH Erwin Gallery, Sydney
2001 Advocacy & the Arts, Keynote address, AIS annual conference Sydney
  Turbulence VAN group, Rose Siedler House, Sydney
  Artist slide presentation and panel discussion, SH Ervin Gallery, Sydney
  Forum panel discussion, The role of the contemporary, National Art School
2000 Artist slide presentation, Visual Arts Network group, Sydney
1998 Paper Rorsharch: A Reflection on Meaning, Art of Sight: Art of Mind NAVA forum
  Paper Contemporary Australian Art and Practice in the 1990’s, Agfa Gallery, Hong Kong
  Artist floor talk, Symposium, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney
1996 Asialink Forum, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane
  Paper Diversity in Australian Art Practice, Shanghai University, China
  Presentations at Artist lecture programs NAS, Tafe, COFA
1995 Artist lecture program, TAFE Melbourne and Sydney
1994 Paper Painting Re-Framed AIAE conference, Sydney
  Presentations at Artist lecture programs, NAS, RMIT, TAFE Melbourne and Sydney
1993 Paper A Fragile History AIAE conference, Melbourne
1992 Paper Relative Truths: Painting AIAE conference, Hobart; Artist lecture program, RMIT
Consultancy  
  Numerous advisory and organisational positions including:
  Invited guest artist/lecturer, BFA & MFA program at Hong Kong School of Art co-presented with RMIT University, degree awarded by RMIT University Feb/Nov 2003, May 2004, May/Aug 2006, Jan/May/Aug 2007
  Invited external examiner Doctoral candidate RMIT 2001/2002/2004/2005, external examiner Master of Fine Art candidates College of Fine Art UNSW 2002/2005 and Sydney College of the Arts 2004, external examiner Master of Art candidates RMIT 1995/6/9 and RMIT MFA program in NZ 1999, UWS (Nepean) 1997/8, 2006
  Judge/guest speaker regional and national art awards/exhibitions 2000/1/2/3/5/6/7
  Curated Threads 1993, Fibre Art 1988, McClelland Regional Gallery, Vic
  Delegate Arts Summit, joint project NAAE/Australia Council 4/93; delegate NAAE Forum, 8/93
  Delegate NAEA conference, Kansas City 1990
  Organised/conducted workshops for the Dept of Education/Arts, Victoria & Tasmania 1988/89/90/91