Biography
Brenda Runnegar
EDUCATION
2007- Master of Fine Arts, Monash University
1997 Bachelor of Visual Arts in Fine Art (Hon), Qld College of Art
1984 Diploma of Arts in Visual Art, Canberra Institute of the Arts
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2008 Memories of Gardens, Meeniyan Art Gallery, Victoria
2007 Landscapes of Desire and Melancholy, Monash University, Victoria
2006 Landscapes of Desire and Melancholy, ANCA Gallery, Canberra
1997 Tous saints Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane
1989 Left for Dead, Galerie Constantinople, Queanbeyan
1985 Bitumen River Gallery, Canberra
Avago Gallery, Sydney
1981 Solander Gallery, Canberra
1979 Solander Gallery Canberra
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2008 Window on Sardinia, Civic Library, Canberra
2005 Sardinia Through Australian Eyes, Italian Institute of Culture,
Melbourne
2004 Chiuso per ferie, Monash Centre, Prato Italy
2000 CWA Art Award, Tennant Creek NT
1998 Griffith University Alumni Exhibition, Qld College of Art Gallery
1997 Post grad students’ exhibition, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane
A Humid State , Qld College
of Art Gallery and Touring
Postcards from the Edge, SoapBOx
Gallery, Brisbane
Diverse Visions, Qld College
of Art Gallery
1996 Solitary Confinement, Boggo Road Gaol, Brisbane
Diverse Alliances, Centre
Culturel de Ku We Kara, Noumea
Examinations, Institute
of Modern Art, Brisbane
RAWing, Institute of Modern
Art, Brisbane
1995 Beyond the Picket Fence
Australian Women’s Art in the National Library’s
Collection, National Library of Australia
Collision, Loading Bay,
Museum of Contemporary Art, Brisbane
1990 The Arsonists, Galerie Constantinople, Queanbeyan
1986 Visual Artists Tenants Show, Art Council of ACT
1984 The Sexuality Show, Canberra School of Art Gallery
Graduate Show, Canberra
School of Art Gallery
1982 Rites of Passage, Photospace Gallery, Canberra School of Art
ARTS ADMINISTRATION
2001-2008 Project Officer, Exhibitions Branch, National Library of Australia
2000 Manager, Anyinginyi Arts & Cultural Centre, Tennant Creek NT
1998-99 Member Services Officer, Museums Australia (Qld)
1987-94 Administrator, Canberra Contemporary Art Space
1993 Acting Director, Canberra Contemporary Art Space
CURATED EXHIBITIONS
2000 Bush Fruits, Anyinginyi Arts Touring Exhibition
Woodworks, Anyinginyi Arts,
Tennant Creek, NT
Medical Posters, Anyinginyi
Arts, Tennant Creek, NT
Works on Paper from the Pink
Palace, Anyinginyi Arts, Tennant Creek
NT
1996 Solitary Confinement, Boggo Road Gaol, Brisbane
1994 Inside Out – Out of the Mainstream, Canberra Contemporary Art Space
1993 Embodied, Canberra Contemporary Art Space
Real Time, Canberra Contemporary
Art Space
Surfacing, Canberra Contemporary
Art Space
RESIDENCIES/GRANTS/PRIZES
2004 Sardinianian Cultural Association (vic) For travel to Sardinia, Italy
2004 Residency at Monash University Centre, Prato, Italy
2000 CWA Art Award, Tennant Creek NT
1999 Grant - Arts Qld to attend Remote Area Museum Conference in Tennant
Creek
1997 Residency at Qld College of Art, Griffith University, Manila Studio, Philippines
PUBLICATIONS
2008- Window of Sardinia, Exhibition catalogue, Sardinian Cultural
and Social Association, Canberra.
1997 Tous saints Exhibition Catalogue - self-published
1996 Solitary Confinement Exhibition catalogue – self-published
1986 Works of Art in Canberra Vol 2
1984 Craft Australia Yearbook
1982 Craft Australia – autumn