EXHIBITIONS

Bella Vista
10 September - 3 October 2009
The Winter Collectors' Exhibition 2009
15 July - 1 August 2009
Nothing lasts forever
30 April - 17 May 2008
The Summer exhibition
19 December 2007 - 19 January 2008
The Christmas Collectors' Exhibition
29 November - 22 December 2006


SELECTED WORKS

CURRICULUM VITAE

Diploma of Art & Design Caulfield Institute of Technology, Melbourne
Bachelor of Arts (Prehistory/Art History) The Australian National University
Master of Arts, Fine Art RMIT
 
Janenne Eaton is Head of Painting, VCA Art, Victorian College of the Arts, The University of Melbourne

 
Selected Solo Exhibitions

2009 Bella Vista, John Buckley Gallery, Melbourne
2008 Nothing lasts forever, John Buckley Gallery, Melbourne
2007 Outliers, Helen Maxwell Gallery, Canberra
2007 The Avenue of Honour, Shrine of Remembrance, Melbourne
2006 Angle of head, Helen Maxwell Gallery at Silvershot, Melbourne
2005 F i  l t e r , Conny Dietzschold Gallery, Sydney / Cologne
2005 Deleting the monarchy, West Space, Melbourne
2004 F i l t e r,  Helen Maxwell Gallery, Canberra
2003 Creek Runner: Second Crossing, Conny Dietzschold Gallery, Sydney / Cologne,
2001 Equidistant – Anatomy of a Project, West Space Inc., Melbourne
2001 Histories, Golden Dragon Museum, Bendigo
2000 Histories : Learning Chinese, Ben Grady Gallery, Canberra
1999 Materia Prima, Para Site Art Space, Hong Kong
1998 Terra Australis: Works from the Penal Colony Series, Renard Wardell Gallery, Richmond
1998 Transcriptions, West Space Inc., Footscray
1996 Terra Australis – Select Views, Drill Hall Gallery, The Australian National University, Canberra
1995 The Avenue of Honour, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne
1993 Paintings from the Penal Colony Series, Ben Grady Gallery, Canberra
1992 Mia Bellas & Bandoleras, Tolarno Gallery, Melbourne
1991 Recent Works, Ben Grady Gallery, Canberra
1990 New Paintings, Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne
1988 Afterimage, Milburn & Arte, Sydney
1987 Untitled Canberra Contemporary Art Space, Canberra
1986 From the Tower to the Brink, Mori Gallery, Sydney
1986 Untitled, Pinacotheca, Melbourne
1984 Drawings from the Underground, Mori Gallery, Sydney
 
Selected Group Exhibitions

2009 The Clemenger Contemporary Art Award exhibition, National Gallery of Victoria
2009 The Winter Collectors' Exhibition 2009, John Buckley Gallery, Melbourne
2008 Deleting the Monarchy inWhat is? Directors Lounge,Video Festival, Berlin, Germany: Fabs Gallery, Warsaw, Poland;Sub Urban video lounge, Rotterdam, Netherlands
2008 The First Decade, Canberra Museum & Art Gallery, Canberra
2007 Utopian Visions & the Slump of Paradise, Block Projects, Melbourne
2007 Arthur Guy memorial Painting Prize, Bendigo Art Gallery, Bendigo
2004-05 Imaging the Apple, Ballarat Fine Art Gallery, Ballarat. (travelling exhibition)
2003 The Year in Art, -  A Selection of Contemporary Works of Art Exhibited in Sydney Galleries Throughout 2003, S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney
2002 The Story So Far, National Portrait Gallery, Canberra.
2002 Melbourne Art Fair, Conny Dietzschold Gallery, Sydney/Cologne, Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne.
2002 Sculpture 2002, Conny Dietzschold Gallery, Sydney
2002 Multiple Box, Conny Dietzschold Gallery, Sydney
2001 Fallout, Victorian College of the Arts Gallery, Melbourne
2001 Minimal – Works from the Holmes a Court Collection, Holmes a Court Gallery, Perth
2001 Vietnam Voices – Australians and the Vietnam War, Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre, NSW. Touring Melbourne Museum, Salamanca Arts Centre, Hobart, Broken Hill City Gallery, Albury Regional Arts Centre, Newcastle Regional Museum, Queensland Museum, Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory
2000 The Retrieved Object, Linden Contemporary Art Centre, Melbourne
1998 Geelong Contemporary Art prize, Geelong Fine Art Gallery, Victoria
1998 The Australian Drawing Biennale, Drill Hall Gallery, The Australian National University, Canberra
1997 Swingtime : West Coast & Swingtime East Coast – Art from the 60’s and 70’s, Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, University of Western Australia
1997 Wynn Prize Exhibition, Art Gallery of New South Wales.
1997 The International Works on Paper Fair, State Library of NSW.
1997 Australian Art in the 1980’s, National Gallery of Victoria.
1997 Australian National University Art Collection, 50th Anniversary Touring Exhibition, Drill Hall Gallery, ANU, Canberra.
1996 Some Recent Acquisitions, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra.
1995 Works on Paper, Wimbeldon School of Art London.
1994 The Baillieu Myer Collection of the 80’s, Museum of Modern Art at heidi, Melbourne.
1994 Two Weeks, Tolarno Gallery, Melbourne.
1994 Hard Rain, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra.
1994 Unpeeled Art, Ballarat Fine Art gallery, Ballarat.
1994 The Print, the Press, The Artists and the Painter – Limited Editions and Artists’ Books from the Art Presses of the ACT, Drill Hall Gallery, ANU, Canberra.
1993 Australian National University Collection Exhibition, Drill Hall Gallery, ANU, Canberra            
1992 Canberra and Regional Artists In the Parliament House Collection, Parliament House, Canberra
1992 Works on Paper by Contemporary Australian Artists, RMIT Gallery, Melbourne
1992 The Land Print Portfolio, AGOGGallery,Canberra
1992 Still Life Whittaker and the Surreal, Gold Coast City Art Gallery, Surfers Paradise
1991 The Gold Coast City and Conrad Jupiters Art Prize for Painting, Gold Coast City Art Gallery
1990 The Seventies Collection, Caulfield Arts Complex, Melbourne
1990 Sun, Smoke and Steel, National Touring Exhibition 1990-92, Studio One, Canberra & Tin Sheds, Sydney
1989 10 :1 Print Project, Ben Grady Gallery, Canberra
1989 Canberra Institute of the Arts Staff Exhibition, Canberra School of Art, Canberra
1988 Ten Years of Tapestry from the Victorian Tapestry Workshop, National Gallery of Australia
1987 Blake Prize, Blaxland Gallery, Sydney
1987 Canberra Times National Art Award, Canberra School of Art Gallery, Canberra
1987 Tutti Frutti Verde Gallery, Milan Art Fair, Milan, Italy
1987 Backlash : the Australian Drawing Revival1976-1986, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
1986 The Repeated Image, an Exhibition from the Griffith University Collection, Brisbane Civic Art Gallery & Museum
1986 The Hugh Williamson Prize, Ballarat Fine Art gallery, Ballarat
1986 An Exhibition of Selected Works from the Griffith University Art Collection, Queensland College of Art Gallery, Brisbane
1986 Monumental Drawings, Contemporary Art Society of Australia Gallery, Adelaide
1985 Australian Perspecta ’85, Art Gallery of NSW,Sydney
 
Selected Bibliography

Blair, U.,'Nothing lasts forever’,  Catalogue, John Buckley Gallery, Melbourne
Eaton, J., ‘Equidistant’  in Brett Jones & Leung Chi Wo Eds. Materia prima (catalogue) West Space, Melb. & Para Site, Hong Kong, 1999
Eaton, J., ‘Learning Chinese’ in Form and formation, West Space 1993 – 2003, Ed. Brett Jones, 3Deep publishers 2004
Gott, T.,  ‘Backlash – The Australian Drawing Revival 1976 – 1986 (catalogue), National Gallery of Victoria
Green, C., ‘Peripheral Vision- Contemporary Art in Australia 1970-1994, World Books, Sydney 1995
Green, C., Art Forum International, February 1991
Green, C., ‘Cities of Light’, Terra Australis-Select Views, Catalogue ANU, 1996
Grishin, S., ‘The Print, the Press, the Artist and the Painter – Limited Editions and Artists Books from Art Presses of the ACT’, Australian National University, 1994
Grishin, S., ‘The ANU Art Collection, Fiftieth Anniversary Touring Exhibition’ catalogue, ANU 1996
Hansen, D. ‘Bedrock principles’, Exhibition  - Angle of head. (Cat essay) 2006
Haynes, P., ‘Artists from Canberra and Districts in the Parliament House Collection’, Catalogue, parliament House, Canberra  1992
Haynes, P., ‘Janenne Eaton, Recent Paintings, Catalogue, Canberra Contemporary Art Space, October 1987
Hethrington,P. National Library of Australia News, March 1997
Holt, R.,  ‘Equidistant-Anatomy of a Project’, Like Art Magazine, No 15 Winter 2001
Just, K., ‘Angle of Head’, Eyeline, Contemporary Visual Arts, No 61: Spring 2006
Kerr, J., ‘The Australian Drawing Biennale’, catalogue, Drill Hall Gallery, The Australian National University, Canberra, 1996
Jones, B., ‘In and out of focus’, Materia Prima – Hong Kong – Melbourne art exchange (catalogue) 2000
Kerr, J.,‘Janenne Eaton Transcriptions’, The Australian Drawing Biennale (catalogue), 1998, The Australian National University , Canberra
King, N.,  ‘The Retrieved Object’, Like Art Magazine,No 14, Autumn, 2001
Kleinert, S., ‘Unreal City’, Volume 1, No 3, Canberra Contemporary Art Space, Canberra 1991
Kleinert, S., ‘Myths of the Future: The Art of Parliament House’, Transition: Discourse on Architecture No 30, Spring 1989
Koop, S., ‘The Retrieved Object’ Linden Contemporary Art Centre, St Kilda, Curator, Elizabeth Gower 2001
Lowe, G., Janenne Eaton, http://2012.blogspot.com
Lindsay, R., ‘The Myer Baillieu Collection of the 80’s, Vol II, Collections in the Museum of Modern Art at Heidi, Melbourne, 1994
Lindsay, R., ‘The Seventies – Australian Art Paintings & Tapestries from the Collection of the National Australia Bank, Catalogue 1982
Magor-Blatch, L., ‘Janenne Eaton- Colonial Influences’, Imprint Vol 31, No 3, Spring 1996
McGregor, P., ‘Vietnam Voices, The Art of War’ in Australia Screen Education, Issue26/27, Winter 2001
McIntyre, A., ‘Australian Contemporary Drawing’, Boolarong Publications, Brisbane 1988
McKenzie, J., ‘New Drawing in Australia: The Work of Lynne Boyd, Marion Borghelt  & Janenne Eaton’, Studio International Vol 199, No 1015, Dec 1986-Feb1987            
McKenzie, J., ‘Drawing in Australia’ Macmillan, Sydney 1986
Mendelssohn, J., ‘Conflict and Tradition: Australian Art and the Vietnam War’ in Vietnam Voices – Australians and the Vietnam War, Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre, NSW 2002
Morrell, T., ‘Monumental Drawings’ Contemporary Art Space, Adelaide, Catalogue 1986
Morrell, T., ‘Big Drawings’ Art and Australia Vol 23 No 3 Autumn 1986
Nelson, R., ‘Semiotic History of the Fold’ Agenda No 33, September 1993
Nelson, R., ‘Marked by the Past’ The Age, 24 December 1994
Nelson, R., ‘Correspondence in Art Monthly Australia No 101, July 1997
Prunster, U., ‘Transformations’, Australian Perspecta Catalogue, Art Gallery of NSW, 1985
Rudhyar, D., ‘Six Levels of Art Activity’ Transforming Art Vol 3 No 1, 1988
Semmens, S., ‘Fallout’, Eyeline  Contemporary Visual Arts No 48, Autumn/Winter 2002
Semmens, S., ‘ Filter’,  Eyeline, Contemporary Visual Arts, No. 56 : Summer 2004 / 2005
Wallis, S., ‘Unpeeled Art’ Catalogue, Ballarat Fine Art Gallery, 1994
Galleries, Art & Australia, 40th Anniversary Issue Vol 40 No 4 2003
Exhibition Commentary, Art & Australia, Vol22, No 3, Autumn 1985

Collections
 
Artbank  
Australian National Gallery, Canberra  
Australian National University, Canberra  
Baillieu Myer Collection, Museum of Modern Art at Heidi  
Ballarat Fine Art Gallery, Ballarat  
BHP Billiton, Australia  
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne  
National Portrait Gallery, Canberra Parliament House, Canberra
Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, Launceston
Holmes a Court Collection, Perth
University of Western Australia, Perth
The Corbett and Yueji Lyon Collection
Canberra Museum and Gallery
Canberra University Collection, Canberra
Curtin University, Perth
City of Port Phillip Collection
Darwin Community College, Darwin
Geelong Art Gallery, Geelong, Victoria
Gold Coast City Art Gallery, Surfers Paradise
Golden Dragon Museum, Bendigo, Victoria
Griffith University, Brisbane
Murdoch University, Perth
National Australia Bank Melbourne
Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne
Private Collections in Australia and overseas

Awards

Geelong Contemporary Art Prize
ACT Cultural Development Grant
Canberra Critics Circle Award
The Gold Coast City and Conrad Jupiters Art Prize
Australia Council Artists Development Grant
Canberra Times National Art Award
Visual Arts Board Artists Grant
Visual Arts Board Studio Grant, Paretaio, Italy

Commissions

1991– 2004 Video Exhibition Documentaries
1986 Design of tapestry for National Australia Bank  Collection

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