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Filomena Coppola biography
 
Born          
   
EDUCATION
1993/5 MFA, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Tasmania
1992 Bachelor of Fine Arts with Honours, University of Tasmania, Tasmania
1988/90 Bachelor of Fine Arts with Distinction, La Trobe UCNV, Victoria
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2006 Transient Light, Dickerson Gallery, Melbourne
2005 Transit, Dickerson Gallery, Melbourne
2004 Seam, Lauwrence Gallery, Rosemont College, Philadelphia, USA
2003 The Dialogue of Difference, Tina Smyrnios Gallery, Melbourne
2002 Pulse, Tina Smyrnios Gallery, Melbourne
1999 Swoon, Dick Bett Gallery, Hobart, Tasmania
1998 String of Pearls, Dick Bett Gallery, Hobart, Tasmania
1996 Paradise Lost, Dick Bett Gallery, Hobart, Tasmania
1995

In the Garden of Eve, Dick Bett Gallery, Hobart, Tasmania

1993 Rites of Passage, Mildura Arts Centre Gallery, Victoria, and Phyllis Palmer Gallery, La Trobe UCNV, Victoria

1992 Serendipity, Entrepot Gallery, Hobart, Tasmania

GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2006

Swan Hill Print and Drawing Acquisitive, Swan Hill Art Gallery, VIC
Art Melbourne 06, Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne

2005

Recent Acquisitions, Wagga Wagga Art Gallery, NSW

2004 Movimento Rapido, Dickerson Gallery at Steps Gallery, Melbourne, VIC                                       
  Hutchins Art Prize, Long Gallery, Hobart, TAS
2004 Swan hill Print and Drawing Award, Swan Hill Regional Gallery, VIC
EveN, Mildura Regional Gallery, Mildura, VIC
Group Exhibition, Glen Eira Arts Complex, Melbourne, VIC
2003 The Book Show, Stephen McLaughlan Gallery, Melbourne, VIC
Distant Noises, Print Council of Australia, RMIT Gallery, Melbourne VIC
The Print Council of Australia’s Member Print 2003, touring nationally
2002 Bendigo Drawing Prize, Bendigo Art Gallery, Bendigo, VIC
Stitches, Australian National Maritime Museum, Sydney, NSW
Hutchins Art Prize, Long Gallery, Hobart, TAS
Group Show, Mendelson Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Food in Art, Devonport Regional Gallery, Devonport, TAS
2000

Melbourne Art Fair, Exhibitions Buildings, Melbourne, VIC

1999 Milles bon Baisers, Mendelson Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Rosamond, Plimsoll Gallery, Hobart, TAS
Hutchins Art Prize, Hutchins School, Hobart, TAS
1998 1998 National Works on Paper, Mornington Peninsula Gallery, VIC
  Hutchins Art Prize, Long Gallery, TAS
Inkpots to Internet, La Trobe University Gallery, Bendigo, VIC
1997/8 In Praise of Make-Up, Plimsoll Gallery, Hobart, TAS and touring
1997 The 1997 Collectors Print Folio, Dick Bett Gallery, Hobart, TAS
Contemporary Tasmania Art, Dick Bett Gallery at Caulfield Art Complex, Melbourne, VIC

Exposition Collective, Cite Internationale des Arts, Paris, France
1996 Mornington Peninsula Print Award, Mornington Peninsula Gallery, VIC
Fremantle Print Award, Fremantle Art Centre, WA
University of Western Sydney, Macarthur Printmedia Acquisitive, Casula Powerhouse, Art Centre, NSW
Group Exhibition, NISART Gallery, Launceston, TAS
Poets and Painters, Dick Bett Gallery, Hobart, TAS
1995/6 Hobart Art Prize, Carnegie Gallery, Town Hall, Hobart, TAS
1995 Blundstone Art Prize, QVMAG, TAS, touring Victoria and NSW
Partners in Print, Australian Print Workshop, Melbourne, VIC
1994 Canson Student Print Award, Queensland College of Art; COFA Gallery, College of Fine Art, NSW; Australian Print Workshop, Melbourne VIC
1994 Triennale Mondiale D’Estampes Petit Format, Musee d’Art Contemporain, Chamalieres, France
1994 Crossovers, REVOMATIC II Performance, Launceston, TA
1993/4 Island, Long Gallery, Hobart, TAS
1993 The Conversation of Humanity, Australian Print Workshop, Melbourne and touring with the Print Council of Australia.
International Pacific Rim Print Exhibition, University of Hilo, Hawaii, USA
When the Boats Come In, Entrepot Gallery, Hobart, TAS
1992 The Honours Show, Plimsoll Gallery, Hobart, TAS
All Inked Up, Designer Makers Gallery, Hobart, TAS
Dorothy Douglas Bequest, Swan Hill Gallery, Victoria
1991 Dorothy Douglas Bequest, Swan Hill Gallery, Victoria
The Inland Sea, Fire Station Community Arts Gallery, Bendigo, VI
1990 Marks, La Trobe UCNV Gallery, Bendigo; Mildura Arts Centre Gallery, Mildura; La Trobe University, Melbourne, VIC
COMMISSIONS & PRIZES
2005 Robert Jacks Drawing Award, Bendigo Art Gallery, VIC
Hutchins Art Prize, Long Gallery, Hobart, TAS
Banyule Works on Paper Award, Banyule Council, Melbourne, VIC
Recent Acquisitions, Wagga Wagga Art Gallery, NSW
2004 Vermont Studio Centre Residency and Part Fellowship, Vermont, USA
2003 The Print Council of Australia, The 2003 Member Print Selection
2001 Judges Selection, Hutchins Art Prize, Hobart, Tasmania
2000 Ian Potter Foundation, Individual Grant
Tonchi Dzelalija, Drawing Commission
1999 Arts Tasmania, Development Grant
1998 Arts Tasmania, Artsbridge Funding
T42 Restaurant, Drawing Commission
1997 Rosamond McCulloch Scholarship, Cite Internationale des Arts, Paris, University of Tasmania and Arts Tasmania
1996 Pat Corrigan Artist Grant
TAAB Art in Public Places, with Robyn Daw, Queen Victoria Hospital, Launceston, TAS
1995 City of Hobart Art Prize, Works on Paper, Joint Winner
1994 Arts Tasmania Grant, Professional Development Reserve Fund
1993 The Print Council of Australia, The 1993 Member Print Selection
1989 Ilford Torphy 1989, Outstanding Photographic Achievement
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
2005

Pastel Drawing Workshop, Sonoma Community Centre, CA, USA

Artist Talk, Melbourne Artists, Sonoma Community Centre, CA, USA

Artist in Residence, Sonoma Community Center, Sonoma, CA, USA

2004 Artist in Residence, Rosemont College, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Vermont Studio Art Center Residency, Johnson, VT, USA
2003 Working with Bill Young, at the Brooklyn Studio making etchings
2001 Traveled to Rome to research Bernini (The Ian Potter Cultural Trust Funding) and then to the USA.
1999/2000 Administration, St Martins Youth Arts Centre, Melbourne
1998 Mappa di un Indentita, Conference, Sydney
Technician, Printmaking Department, University of Tasmania, Hobart
Administrator, Sculpture by the Sea, SOCOG A Sea Change, Tasman Peninsula
Organising Committee, A Flourishing Ecology, Festival of Printmaking, Hobart
1992/98 Member, Plimsoll Gallery Committee, University of Tasmania, Hobart
1997 Studying and working at the Cite Internationale des Arts, Paris and Italy
1996 Dick Bett Gallery Collectors Print Folio Organiser with Raymond Arnold
Drawing Tutor, University of Tasmania, Hobart
1994/96 Printmaking Tutor, University of Tasmania, Hobart
Administrator, Dick Bett Gallery, Hobart, Tasmania
1995 Curator with Susan Pickering, Art of Reproduction, Plimsoll Gallery, Hobart
1994 Printmaking Workshops, University of Tasmania, Launceston
1991 Technician, Printmaking Department, La Trobe UCNV, Bendigo, Victoria
Technical Assistant (Photography), Fine Art Lake Eyre Excursion, La Trobe
UCNV, Bendigo, Victoria
 
BIBLIOGRAPHY  
  Frankham, Noel, Editor, Claiming Ground, 25 Years of Tasmania’s Art for Public Building Scheme, Quintus Publishing – Arts Tasmania and University of Tasmania
  Backhouse, M. Uncoiling a Mystery, The Age, A2, June 18, 2005
  Bellamy, L, Founded on a Fascination With Fabric, The Age, Metro, June 7, 2005
  Fowler, M. Australian Artist Work Reveals a Passion For Color, Main Line Ticket, Philadelphia, Nov 4, 2004
  Donahoe, V. Review, Philadelphia Inquirer, Oct 31, 2004
  Backhouse, M. The Point Where Patterns Collide, The Age, Review, Sept 20,2003
  Hewitt, H. V. Rapproachement, Exhibition Newsletter, Tina Smynios Gallery, Melbourne 2003
  Scott, S. Pulse, Exhibition Newsletter, Tina Smynios Gallery, Melbourne 2002
Vanni, I. Stitches, Exhibition Catalogue, Australian National Maritime Museum, Sydney 2001
Klaosen, D. A Flourishing Ecology, A festival of prints and printmaking, Art Monthly, Aug 1998, No.112
  Knights, M. Specific Times and Particular Spaces, Recent Public Art in Tasmania, Artlink, Vol.18, No.2, 1998
Klaosen, D. The Shudder of a Caress, RealTime, June/July 1998
Catalano, G. An Education in Light – An Interview with Filomena Coppola, Imprint Summer 1997 Vol.32 No.4 and reprinted for Dick Bett Gallery Newsletter No.37, 1997
Bond, C. In Praise of Make-Up, Exhibition Catalogue, University of Tasmania, Hobart, 1997
Daw, R. Opus Topiarum, Paradise Lost, Dick Bett Gallery Newsletter No.33, 1996
Spinks, J. Review, City of Hobart, Art and Australia, Vol.33, No.4, Winter 1996
Klaosen, D. In the Garden of Eve, Imprint, Summer 1995, Vol.30 No
Colless, E. In the Garden of Eve, Dick Bett Gallery Newsletter, No.26, 1995
Hill, P. Review, The Art of Reproduction, Imprint, Spring 1995 Vol.30 No.2
Andersch, J. Weaving New Patterns on a Classical Theme, The Mercury, Oct 22, 1994 p34
Two etching from the series Nubile, Published in Siglo, Issue 3, 1994
Waite, D. Australian Prints to France and Beyond, Imprint, Winter 1994 Vol.29 No.2
Australia in Print, PCA Members Prints Released, Imprint, Spring 1993 Vol.28 No.3
Weston, B. Regionalism-Localism – The Debate Goes On, Imprint, Autumn 1992 Vol. 27 No.1
PUBLICATIONS  
2005 In residence, The Vermont Studio Center, Vermont, USA, Imprint, Volume 40, Number 3, Spring 2005
1999 A Second Coming in Hobart, RealTime32, August – September 1999
1998 Soap and not Soap, RealTime27, October – November 1998
1998 Daniel Moynihan and the Tasmanian Tiger, Imprint, Volume 32, Number 3, Spring 1998
1996 Arnold reflects Arnold: The installation works, Imprint, Volume 31, Number 3, Spring 1996
1995 Art of Reproduction, Catalogue Introduction, with Susan Pickering,
Plimsoll Gallery, University of Tasmania
1994 Maison Aux Images, Imprint, Volume 29, Number 2, Spring 1994
COLLECTIONS
Artbank, Sydney
Print Council of Australia, Melbourne
Canson Australia, Melbourne
University of Tasmania, Launceston and Hobart
City of Hobart, Tasmania
City of Banyule, Melbourne
Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, Launceston
Devonport Art Gallery, Tasmania
Mornington Peninsula Gallery, Victoria
Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane
The Hutchins School, Hobart
Mildura Arts Centre Gallery, Victoria
Wagga Wagga Art Gallery, NSW
Imagery Imagery Estate Winery and Art Gallery, USA
Private: Australia, Italy, New Zealand and USA
 

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