Christine Johnson

Solo Exhibitions: 2004, 2006, 2008
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Education

1979                      Diploma of Fine Art, Caulfield Institute of Technology
1980                      Graduate Diploma of Fine Art, RMIT, Melbourne
1981                      Diploma of Education, Melbourne State College

Solo Exhibitions

2008                      Arabesque, Martin Browne Fine Art, Sydney
2006                      Other Echoes, Martin Browne Fine Art, Sydney
2005                      Sub Rosa Australian Galleries, Melbourne
2004                      Spira Mirabilis, Martin Browne Fine Art, Sydney
Dark Wood to White Rose, a survey exhibition Benalla Art Gallery and Hamilton Art Gallery, Victoria.
2003                      By autumn...the rose-garden, Legge Gallery, Sydney
                              New Paintings Eastgate and Holst, Dealers in Fine Art, Melbourne.
2001                      Paintings Eastgate Gallery, Melbourne
2000                      Spiritus, Paintings and Drawings Legge Gallery. Sydney
1998                      Paintings Legge Gallery, Sydney
1997                      Paintings Eastgate Gallery, Melbourne
1996                      A Garden for the Heart Garden’s House, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne
1995                      Rosegarden and Labyrinth Legge Gallery, Sydney
1993                      Night Garden, Melbourne Contemporary Art Gallery, Melbourne
1993                      Paintings Legge Gallery, Sydney
1992                      PaintingsMelbourne Contemporary Art Gallery, Melbourne.
1991                      A Still Place Legge Gallery, Sydney
1990                      Ornamental Garden Legge Gallery, Sydney
1989                      Ornamental Gardens Melbourne Contemporary Art Gallery,

Selected Group Exhibitions

2007                     
Winter Catalogue, Martin Browne Fine Art, Sydney

2006                     
A rose is a rose is a rose Latrobe Regional Gallery, Victoria
Swan Hill Print and Drawing Aquisitive Award, Swan Hill Regional Art Gallery, Victoria
50 Years – 1956 - 2006, Australian Galleries, Melbourne
Group Exhibition, Australian Galleries, Melbourne
Sacre Coeur Alumnae Art Exhibition, Melbourne
Martin Browne Fine Art at the Melbourne Art Fair, Melbourne

2005                     
Thirty Port Jackson Press Gallery, Melbourne
The Art of Collaboration, Masterpieces of Modern Tapestry
from the Victorian Tapestry Workshop Singapore Tyler Institute Gallery, Singapore
The Big Small Tapestry Show Victorian Tapestry Workshop, Melbourne
New Acquisitions Benalla Art Gallery, Victoria
Brisbane Art Fair Martin Browne Fine Art, Brisbane
MLC Aquisitive Exhibition MLC, Melbourne
Wild GardenMartin Browne Fine Art at The Yellow House, Sydney
Notes From The Natural World Australian Galleries Works On Paper, Melbourne

2004                     
Summer Exhibition Martin Browne Fine Art at The Yellow House, Sydney
Collectors Exhibition Port Jackson Press Print Room, Melbourne The Year In Art S.H.Ervin Gallery, Sydney
The Blake Prize For Religious Art Hermann Black Gallery, Sydney University, Sydney
The Melbourne Art Fair Martin Browne Fine Art, Exhibition Buildings, Melbourne
Print Room Opening Port Jackson Press, Melbourne

2003                     
The Year In Art S.H.Ervin gallery, Sydney
Artists for the Tarkine  Bright Gallery, Melbourne.
Artists For Kid's Culture Trust Melbourne
Opening Exhibition Martin Browne Fine Art, Sydney

2002                     
City, Land, Sea University and Schools Club, Sydney

2000                     
We Are Australia Touring Exhibition
Melbourne Contemporary Art Fair Royal Exhibition Buildings

1999                     
Redlands Exhibition Sydney
Evolution Legge Gallery, Sydney

1998                     
Melbourne Contemporary Art Fair Royal Exhibition Buildings

1997                     
Mulch & Metaphors The Garden in Contemporary ArtMornington Peninsula Regional GalleryMornington, Victoria
Being There Legge Gallery, Sydney
A Collector’s Exhibition Eastgate Gallery, Melbourne

1995                     
Group Show Legge Gallery, Sydney

1992                     
The 9th R.M. Ansett Art Award Hamilton Art Gallery, Hamilton, Victoria.
Homage to Spain Melbourne Contemporary Art Gallery, Melbourne
Public Sphere Personal Vision Public Space Linden Gallery, St. Kilda, Melbourne

1991                     
Group Exhibition Legge Gallery, Sydney

1991                     
The 1991 Gold Coast City Conrad Jupiters Art Prize for
Painting Gold Coast City Art Gallery, Queensland
The 1991 City of Lake Macquarie Charleston Square Art Prize
Lake Macquarie City Art Gallery, N.S.W.
An Installation Publication – Potlatch 200 Gertrude Street, Fitzroy, Melbourne

1990                     
Melbourne Art Fair
Exhibition Buildings, Melbourne
Monash University Collection - A Selection Monash University Gallery, Melbourne

1989                     
Opening Exhibition, Gallery Artists Melbourne Contemporary Art Gallery, Melbourne
Heidelberg Heritage 9” X 5” Exhibition Linden Gallery, St. Kilda, Melbourne

Collections

Benalla Art Gallery, Victoria
St. Kilda Collection
Monash University Collection
B.H.P. Collection
Artbank (paintings hanging at Australian Embassy,
Paris and University of New South Wales)
Hamilton Art Gallery
Queensland University Collection
Crown Collection


Awards, Grants and Commissions

2005                     
Two etchings, Elina and Australian Sunrise, produced with printer Belinda Fox and published by Port Jackson Press, Melbourne.

2004                     
Tapestry design for the Victorian Tapestry Workshop, Melbourne (in production)
Two colour etchings, Memento and Winter Rose produced with printer Belinda Fox and published by Port Jackson Press, Melbourne

2003                     
Paintings for the Function Foyer of the Crown Promenade Hotel, Southbank, Melbourne

2000                     
Commission for the Karalyka Centre City Of Maroondah, Victoria

1999                     
Commission for the foyer of the Park Hyatt Hotel Melbourne

1997                     
Ernest Horton Memorial Grant

1992                     
The 9th R.M. Ansett Art Award, Hamilton Art Gallery, Victoria

1990                     
Project Grant, Visual Arts Board Australia Council

Bibliography

Prue Gibson, Christine Johnson Other Echoes, Australian Art Collector, July – Sept 2006
Ashley Crawford, Sunday Age, January 2006
Christine Johnson, Sub Rosa [exhibition catalogue] Australian Galleries, Melbourne, 2005
Chris Beck, Double Exposure [interview] The Age, A2, Saturday 5 November 2005
Thirty, Port Jackson Press Australia [catalogue] 18 November 2005
Ashley Crawford, Christine Johnson: Sub Rosa Retable [review] The Sunday Age, 30 October 2005
10 Things To Do, [listing and picture] The Age Magazine, Goodweekend, 12 Nov 2005
The Art of Collaboration, Masterpieces of Modern Tapestry from the Victorian Tapestry Workshop, [exh. cat for The Tyler Print Institute Gallery, Singapore] 2005
Christine Johnson and Simon Klose, Dark Wood to White Rose [exhibition catalogue] Benalla Art Gallery, Victoria, 2004
Christine Johnson, Spira Mirabilis [exh. catalogue], Martin Browne Fine Art, Sydney 2004
Laura Murray Cree, Now: Martin Browne Fine Art, Sydney, State of The Arts Oct-Dec 2004
Lenny Ann Low, Spira Mirabilis, Sydney Morning Herald Open Gallery 11 September, 2004
Chris Beck, A flowering brush with beauty,  The Age Review: Art, The Age, 29 May, 2004
Felicity Allen, Talent in full bloom, Visual Art, Herald Sun, Tuesday 27 April 2004
Martyn Hook, House Edge; Crown Promenade, Southbank, Melbourne,  Monument - Architecture and Design June/July 2004 (installation photograph)
Michael Reid, Wealth Liftout; Flower Power: Michael Reid picks the best of still life investment The Australian, Wednesday 3 March, 2004
Jessica Harris, Hunt in Hawthorn, Melbourne Weekly Magazine, 1-7 Feb, 2004 Vogue Arts
Framed: Christine Johnson, Vogue Australia, January 2004, p 63
Christine Johnson, New Paintings [exhibition catalogue], Eastgate Gallery, Melbourne, 2003
Jeff Makin, Art no PC can match, Herald Sun, Monday15 December, 2003
Jo Litson, Everything's coming up roses..., Qantas Magazine, November, 2003
Ashley Crawford, Immortality, the Sublime and the work of Christine Johnson, Arts & Antiques 2003
Ashley Crawford, Catalogue essay for By autumn...the rose-garden, March 2003
Lenny Ann Low, A timely embrace of the light gleaming on a rose, Sydney Morning Herald, 13/5/2003
Lenny Ann Low, A floral tribute, Sydney Morning Herald, 17-18 May 2003
Zelda Cawthorn, Burning Bright, Herald Sun, Monday 10 December 2001
Jo Litson, Flower Power, The Australian, Review, 1,2 December 2001, pg 14/15
Laura Murray Cree & Nevill Drury, Australian Painting Now, Craftsman House, 2000
Jeff Makin, Suite Success, In The Frame, Herald Sun, 10 May 1999
Gallery, Art & Australia, Vol 36, No 4, 1999 (image only)
Laura Murray Cree, Gardens of Night and Shadow, Art & Australia, June 1998
Sunday Programme (GTV 9), Interview - Marianne Latham
Mulch & Metzaphors, The Garden in Contemporary Art, 1997
Sonia Ryan, The Glory of the Garden, Antiques & Art, 1997
Naomi Florence, Artists from the Archives, Women’s Art Register Bulletin No 21. May 1994
Christopher Heathcote, Exhibition review The Age, December 1993
May-Lou Jelbart, Exhibition review, Radio National, May 1992
Meryn Gates, Exhibition review, Gotham City Gossip, 3RRR FM Radio, May 1990
Andrew Hobbs & Andrew Inwood, Painstaking Spontaneity, The Weekend Australian, (Magazine), 12,13 May 1990, pg 12


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