CV - art practice

FORMAL QUALIFICATIONS

    • 2019 Master by Research, Charles Darwin University, NT, Australia
    • 2009 Bachelor of Creative Arts and Industries, Honours (First Class) Charles Darwin University, NT, Australia
    • 2008 Bachelor Visual Art (majoring in painting), Charles Darwin University NT Australia
    • 2005 Cert. IV Work Place Training and Assessment, Darwin Skills Development Scheme, NT, Australia
    • 1992 Diploma of Art (majoring in Fine Art Photography), RMIT, VIC , Australia

AWARDS AND GRANTS

  • 2022 departing December - India, UK and Europe on Churchill Fellowship, Winston Churchill Memorial Trust delayed due to  COVID travel restrictions 
  • 2022 Quick Response Grant, Regional Arts Fund, supporting participation and attendance to Lorne Sculpture Biennale 
  • 2022  Professional Development Grant, Arts NT. supporting participation and attendance to Lorne Sculpture Biennale 
  • 2021 Winner of the National Indigenous Fashion Award for Community Collaboration -Anindilyakwa Arts with Anna Reynolds and Dr. Aly de Groot, 
  • 2019 Churchill Fellowship, Winston Churchill Memorial Trust
  • 2016 Winner - Use of Colour, Scarf Festival, National Wool Museum, Geelong VIC, Australia
  • 2012 Winner -18th Rights On Show Award Darwin Community Legal Service, Supreme Court, Darwin NT, Australia
  • 2012 Australian Post Graduate Award (APA)
  • 2011 Arts Development, Arts NT
  • 2011 New Work Emerging, Australia Council for the Arts
  • 2011 Art Start, Australia Council for the Arts Initiative
  • 2011 Quick Response Grant, Arts NT 
  • 2011 Chancellor’s Medal for the Higher Education sector at Charles Darwin University, NT, Australia
  • 2010 Winner Peoples Choice, Togart Contemporary Art Award, Darwin NT
  • 2010 NT Winner Qantas Foundation Encouragement  of Australian Contemporary Art Award 
  • 2010 Bronze Award, The Epson International Photographic Pano Awards, www.panoawards.com
  • 2009 Edgar Dunis Art Scholarship, Charles Darwin University, Darwin NT 
  • 2009 Dean of Law, Business & Arts’ Bursary Award – Charles Darwin University, Darwin NT
  • 1996 First Prize, Dinah Beach Maritime Art Award, Darwin NT
  • 1996 The People’s Choice, Dinah Beach Maritime Art Award, Darwin NT
  • 1995 The Duke of Edinburgh Award, Preston TAFE NIES, Melbourne VIC
  • 1992 Outstanding Student – Kodak Prize RMIT, Melbourne VIC
  • 1992 Award of Excellence, National Gallery of Victoria, RMIT, VIC
  • 1991 First Prize – The First National Student Art and Design Exhibition, Melbourne VIC

SOLO EXHIBITIONS 

  • 2017-22  CLOTH ~ongoing living/working  CREATIVE PRACTICE LAB- SHOP/STUDIO shop 6 35 Cavenagh St Darwin NT
  • 2018 Plans for World Domination - Art to Textile - Master by Research, final presentation, Electric Gnome, Air Raid Arcade, Darwin, NT Australia
  • 2015 CLOTH ~ongoing living/working CREATIVE PRACTICE LAB- SHOP/STUDIO, Queenscliff, Vic, Australia
  • 2014 Untitled, A La Grecque, Airey Inlet, Vic, Australia
  • 2013 Mangrove Esperanto - pop up shop and exhibition, Darwin Festival, Darwin Entertainment Centre, NT
  • 2012 Reconstructed Empires - a collaboration with Fiona Morrison, Museum and Art Gallery Northern Territory, NT
  • 2011 Introducing 2 Good Dogs, a collaboration with Fiona Morrison,  Huantie Times Art Museum, Beijing, China 
  • 2011 Generic Metropolis, Point B, Brooklyn New York, NY
  • 2011 Generic Metropolis, Litchfield Butterfly Retreat, Batchelor NT
  • 2010 Awesome Atrocity, 24HRArt Darwin, NT
  • 2009 amidst the Mangrove and Metropolis, Wood Street Gallery, Darwin NT
  • 2009 Darwin's Bold New Future, Art Warehouse, Darwin NT
  • 2008 A Big City Up There, Charles Darwin University Art School Space,  Bldg 14, Casuarina Campus, NT
  • 2008 Experiments with Light, Deaf Space, Darwin Visual Arts Association NT
  • 2007 Dinah Beach, installation at Arts NT Office, Darwin NT
  • 2006 India and I, installation at Darwin Visual Arts Association, NT
  • 2003 Paintings and Sculpture, Nectar Bar, VIC
  • 1994 North West from where I stand, Helen Schutt Gallery CCP, VIC
  • 1991 The everything Anna Reynolds has done at school ½ price clearance sale, Café to go-go, Geelong VIC

GROUP EXHIBITIONS 

  • 2022  NCCA, 24 HR Art Members Show, NT Australia
  • 2022  Frock on, Songlines Arts, NT Australia 
  • 2022  Apollo Bay Art Show, Apollo Bay, Vic Australia
  • 2022  Small Sculpture Award, Lorne Sculpture Biennale, Vic Australia
  • 2022. Destination, Tactile Arts, NT Australia
  • 2021-22 Drawn from the CDU art collection, CDU, NT, Australia
  • 2021 Recycle, Rework, Remake, NCCA, NT, Australia
  • 2019 Refugia, Nan Giese Gallery, Northern Editions Gallery, Charles Darwin University, NT Australia
  • 2019 Art Mart, Northern Centre Contemporary Art, NT Australia
  • 2019 Fluidity, DVAA, Darwin NT
  • 2018 The Rogue Collective, DVAA, Darwin NT
  • 2018 Frog Hollow, what it means to you, DVAA, Darwin NT
  • 2016 Scarf Festival, National Wool Museum, Geelong, Vic
  • 2016 The Alice Prize, Alice Springs NT
  • 2015 Fabric of the Domestic, Boom Gallery, Geelong Vic, AUST.
  • 2014 Charles Darwin University Post Graduate Exhibition Nan Giese Galley, Charles Darwin University, NT
  • 2014 Botanica II, Chan Contemporary Art Space, Darwin, NT
  • 2014 Botanica, Godinymayin Yijard Rivers Arts and Culture Centre, Katherine, NT
  • 2013 She's a Pearler  DVAA Retrospective Exhibition, Woods St Gallery, NT
  • 2013 Togart Contemporary Art Exhibition, Chan Contemporary Art Space, Darwin NT
  • 2013 CDU Visual Arts- Here and Now, Chan Contemporary Art Space, Darwin NT 
  • 2012 Rights on Show, Supreme Court of the Northern Territory, Darwin NT
  • 2012 Togart Contemporary Art Exhibition, Chan Contemporary Art Space, Darwin NT 
  • 2012 Artists at work, Darwin Visual Arts Association, Darwin NT
  • 2012 The Little Prick Editions, Gallery Two Six, Winnellie, NT
  • 2012 intimate residues, Nan Giese Galley, Charles Darwin University, NT
  • 2012 Picture this Prize, Brunswick Street Gallery, Melbourne Vic
  • 2012 Here and or There, Nan Giese Galley, Charles Darwin University, NT
  • 2012 Look - Looking at art in the CDU art collection, Charles Darwin University Art Gallery, Darwin NT
  • 2011 Here and or There, Yogja Gallery, Yogjakarta, Indonesia
  • 2011 Backyard Wild, Nomad Art, Darwin NT
  • 2011 Togart Contemporary Art Exhibition, Chan Contemporary Art Space, Darwin NT 
  • 2011 Vast Expanses Shrinking Spaces curated by Pop-up Art, Paul Vincent Gallery, Jersey City New York NY
  • 2011 6-Pack, Happy Yess and Darwin Visual Arts Association, Darwin NT
  • 2011 Artist Trading Cards, Darwin Visual Arts Association, Darwin NT 
  • 2011 Dreaming Hazel Dooney, Latrobe Contemporary Gallery, Morwell Vic
  • 2011 Fiber Face 3 Transformations, Taman Budaya, Yogjakarta Indonesia
  • 2010 Eating Cheese with glee, bad terrible spelling, guilt and other pleasures, Darwin Visual Arts Association, Darwin NT
  • 2010 Senior Territorian Portrait Award, Parliament House, Darwin NT
  • 2010 Kodak Salon, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Fitzroy, Vic 
  • 2010 Togart Contemporary Art Exhibition, Chan Contemporary Art Space, Darwin NT 
  • 2009 Senior Territorian Portrait Award, Parliament House, Darwin NT
  • 2009 Before and After, Art Warehouse Darwin NT
  • 2009 Creationism, Darwin Visual Arts Association, Darwin NT
  • 2009 Green and Gold, Territory Craft, Darwin NT
  • 2008 Cube 24HR Art, Parap NT
  • 2008 Rights on Show, Supreme Court of the Northern Territory, Darwin NT
  • 2008 Territory Landscape, Art Warehouse, Darwin NT
  • 2007 One Thread, Charles Darwin University Art School Space, Bldg 14, Casuarina NT
  • 2007 Territory Icon, 24HR Art, Parap NT
  • 2007 Board+1, Darwin Visual Arts Association, Darwin NT
  • 2007 Onirique, Darwin Visual Arts Association, Darwin NT
  • 2007 BIITE Graduate Show, Coomalie Cultural Centre, Batchelor NT
  • 2005 Caravan and Camping, 24HR Art, Parap NT
  • 2004 Alien Show, Yarra Sculpture Space, Collingwood Vic
  • 2000 Dolls, Territory Craft, Darwin NT
  • 2000 Beyond Barbie, Territory Craft, Darwin, Katherine, Tennant Creek & Alice Springs, NT
  • 1999 Millenium, 24HR Art, Parap NT
  • 1995 Summer Show, Qdos Gallery, Lorne Vic
  • 1995 Dinah Beach Cruising Yacht Association Art Award, Darwin NT
  • 1993 Summer Salon, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Fitzroy, Vic
  • 1993 Summer Show, Qdos Gallery Lorne, Vic
  • 1993 The NT Environment Centre?s almost Annual Art Auction, Stokes Hill Wharf, Darwin NT
  • 1992 Three, Fringe Festival, Ertia Gallery, Port Melbourne Vic
  • 1992 Booked up, Little Collins St Melbourne Vic
  • 1992 Push up Art Travelling Umbrella Show, Fitzroy Vic
  • 1992 Kircaldy Davies Galleries Group Show, South Yarra, Vic
  • 1991 First National Student Art and Design Exhibition, Exhibition Buildings, Melbourne Vic

SELECTED COMMUNITY PROJECTS 

  • 2018-21 Workshop based collaboration with artists from Anindilyakwa Arts Groote Eylandt- Textile development for Darwin Aboriginal Art Fair and Country to Couture work included in Piinpi exhibition - survey of Indigenous Textile Bendigo Art Gallery & Australian National Gallery
  • 2019 Darwin Fringe Festival, Strange Glamour sewing workshops
  • 2018 ARTBIZ, business of being an artist, DVAA @ Happy Yess artist talks and forum
  • 2010  Lingalonga Festival- School holiday mural painting workshop
  • 2008  Moil Primary School – Culture Day Stencil Workshops
  • 2007  Lingalonga Festival – Batchelor, Art Workshops Co-ordinator
  • 2006  Lingalonga Festival – Batchelor, Art Workshops Co-ordinator
  • 2005 Darwin High School – Puppet-making with recycled materials
  • 2006 Vacation Care Millner School OSHC – Puppet-making workshop
  • 2006 Vacation Care Moulden Park OSHC – Mural design and painting, puppet-making workshop and performance
  • 2005  The Batchelor Amazing Race Recycled art segment (Youth Affairs NT funded activity for Batchelor Youth Group)
  • 2005  Gowrie Centre Recycled art and puppet-making workshop (Visionz seminar, Holiday Inn, NT)
  • 2005 Darwin High School Puppet-making workshop – Year 8
  • 2005 Batchelor Institute Indigenous Tertiary Education – part-time instructor RACSSU: Remote Vacation care and out-of- school hours arts’ facilitator at Milikapiti, Galiwinku, and Nguiu: puppet-making, painting and art and craft
  • 2005 Batchelor Institute Indigenous Tertiary Education – part-time instructor, RACSSU for Deadly Kids Deadly Programs  Expo
  • 2000 Northern Territory Libraries – Consultant for remote library art projects at Peppimenarti, Mataranka, Pularumpi,  Barunga, Batchelor – puppet-making, masks, art and craft (consulting for Remote Sport and Recreation recycled art  resources)

 

RESENDENCIES 

  • 2016         The Stitching Project, Pushkar Rajasthan, India
  • 2011         24HR Art – International Studio Residency Program.                                       Beijing Oct-Nov
  • 2011         point b Brooklyn NYC USA - July
  • 2011         Brama Tirta Sari Studio, Yogjakarta Indonesia - Jan-Feb
  • 2006         Borderline (not for profit -artist run initiative) Maesot, Thailand - May
  • 1996-98    Nelson Park School Geelong West Victoria Australia
  • 1998         Grovedale West Primary School Victoria Australia

COLLECTIONS

  • Huantie Times Art Museum and Art Gallery
  • Charles Darwin University
  • Toga Group
  • National and International  private collections 

BIBLIGOGRAPHY

  • 2013            Togart Contemporary Art Award Exhibition Catalogue 
  • 2012            Daena Murray, Hot Springs, The Northern Territory and            Contemporary Australian Artists, McMillian, Melbourne, Australia
  • 2012            Catherine Croll, Opportunity knocks in the year of the Dragon, Art Market Report - issue 41 - First Quarter
  • 2012            Togart Contemporary Art Award Exhibition Catalogue  
  • 2011            Becky Hunter, Artists in residence, Visual Overture Fall edition America
  • 2011            Eloise Baldwin, Fiber Face 3: Transforming Indonesian Contemporary Visual Arts, Article -TAASA Review Volume 20 No.2 June 2011
  • 2011            Transformation FiberFace3 Indonesian International FiberArt  Exhibition  Catalogue, February
  • 2010            Sasha Grishin, Review, The Togart Test,  Image pg 32, Art Monthly Australia #235 November 
  • 2010            Darren Jorgensen, Essay, ‘At the meeting of Worlds” Togart Contemporary Art Award Catalogue, October
  • 2010            Kieran Finnane, Catalogue Essay, Togart Contemporary Art Award Catalogue, October
  • 2009            Anna Reynolds, amidst the Mangrove and Metropolis, Charles Darwin University, October
  • 2009            Anna Reynolds, www.artistannareynolds.com, webs.com
  • 2009            Hatched Graduate Show Catalogue, "Photographs PG 38" Perth Institute of Contemporary Art
  • 2009            Hayley West, Artnotes, "Darwin's Bold New Future" Art Monthly Australia May
  • 2009            Daniel Bourchier, Interview, "Bold Green Artist Dream" NT News May 30
  • 2009            Kin Leon, Interview, "Progress" Off the leash May
  • 2008            Anna Reynolds, Selected Works from the 2006 Exhibition INDIA AND I BY  ANNA REYNOLDS Blurb.com San Francisco
  • 2008            Hayley West, Artnotes, "A World Before This" Art Monthly Austrlalia November
  • 2008            Off the leash, Exhibition announcement, "A Big City Up There" November
  • 2007            Top End Arts, Exhibition announcement and Image "India and I" Top End Arts Guide Dec - Jan
  • 2006            Clive Hyde, Interview and Image, "Indian delight for all the senses" NT News December 8
  • 2003            Darwin City Council, Image "The Art of Darwin" Arts NT 2003
  • 1995            Anne Marsh, Image "Salon of the still image" Herald Sun February 24
  • 1995            Northern Territory News, Front Page-Interview and Image "Anna wins with love of the sea" September 18
  • 1993            Northern Territory Arts Council, Illustration Front page and PG 4, Bush Telegraph August
  • 1993            Territory News, Interview and Image, "Mural shows pride in NT Northern Territory News August 17
  • 1992            RMIT Graduate Photography Exhibition Catalogue