Penny Harris – Artist Bio

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Born in the UK ( dual English and Canadian citizenship) and permanent Australian Resident

Education

2002 Doctor of Creative Arts, University of Wollongong
1991 Bachelor of Creative Arts (Honours) University of Wollongong

Relevant Employment

2010-current Senior Lecturer Visual Arts, University of Wollongong, Australia
2010-2013 Visual Arts Coordinator, University of Wollongong, Australia
1999-2010 Visual Arts lecturer, University of Wollongong, Australia
1992-1999 Sessional Visual Arts lecturer, University of Wollongong

Solo Exhibitions

2014 This is the list of Cargo as described by Palek, Galerie Art Mur, Montreal, Canada
2014 The Story of ‘El Cobre’ is Uncertain, Romerias Festival, Holguin, Cuba
2013 The Petrified Poem The Drawing Room Gallery , Sydney, Australia
2010 Here it is as a Picture Postcard Romerias Festival, Holguin, Cuba
2010 I Draw What’s Left Over, Galerie Art Mur, Montreal, Canada
2009 The Cellar and the Grove Snail Depot II Gallery, Danks Street, Sydney, Australia
2009 Doubt’s Garden Galerie Art Mur, Montreal, Canada
2008 Flutter Depot I Gallery, Danks Street, Sydney, Australia
2007 Doubt’s Passion Depot II Gallery, Danks St. Sydney
2007 A Laboratory for Sound, China Heights Gallery, Sydney
2004 Our House in Winter Studio Arts Gallery, Capilano College, Canada
2001 Waiting, FCA Gallery, University of Wollongong
1995 The Slug and I, Wollongong City Gallery: (opened by Joan Brassil)
1993 Framing the Insignificant First Draft West Gallery, Sydney: Collaboration with Isabel Zardain
1992 From the Diary of a Snail Art Arena, Wollongong

Selected Group Exhibitions

2013 Transitions,  Faculty Gallery, University of Wollongong
2013 Inter-sensorial Threads, Faculty Gallery, University of Wollongong
2012 Aphrodite’s Island: Australian Archaeologists in Cyprus, Nicholson Museum, The University   of Sydney
2011 Who Stole the Amphora Handle, Faculty Gallery, University of Wollongong
2008 Flutter and a Toothbrush Wollongong City Gallery 25th Anniversary exhibition
2007 Wonder Caught The Attention; Curiosity Riveted It  FCA Gallery, UOW
2007 Continuum, FCA Gallery, University of Wollongong.
2007 Out on the Patio Studio Arts Gallery, Capilano University, Vancouver, BC, Canada
2006 Under the Surface GIG gallery, Sydney
2006 Hour Glass Project University of British Columbia, Kelowna Campus Gallery, Canada
2006 Leap Project Contemporary Arts Space, Wollongong
2006 FCA Staff Exhibition, Long Gallery Wollongong
2003 Fabric(ation)s of the Postcolonial  FCA, University of Wollongong
2002 FCA Staff Exhibition, FCA, University of Wollongong.
1998 Spark FCA Gallery, University of Wollongong.
1995 Onistkulture Project Contemporary Art Space, Wollongong (opened by Jo Holder)
1995 3 Sculptors: Mailing Gallery, Power House Gallery, Casula,
1994 Drawing on the Illlawarra,  Long Gallery, University of Wollongong
1994 Drawing on the Environment, Fire Station Gallery, Wollongong
1993 Them or Us Long Gallery, University of Wollongong
1993 Concrete Images, TAP Gallery, Sydney (with Isabel Zardain and Carla Cescon)
1993 International Women’s Day exhibition Tin Sheds Gallery, Sydney
1993/1992 Illawarra Sculptors, Art Arena Gallery, Wollongong
1990/1989 Sculpture exhibitions, Wollongong City Gallery (curated by Bert Flugelman)

Exhibitions Curated

2013 Inter-sensorial Threads, Faculty Gallery, University of Wollongong
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2011 The Collected Poetry of Doubt, Faculty Gallery, University of Wollongong
2007 Continuum FCA Gallery, University of Wollongong (Jacky Redgate, Bert Flugelman, Ian Gentle,Penny Harris)
2007 Out on the Patio Studio Arts gallery, Capilano University, Vancouver, Canada
2006 Art from a Northern Colony, Faculty Gallery, University of Wollongong (curated with Toni Latour) (opened by Barbara Layne)
1994 Drawing on the Environment, Fire Station Gallery, Wollongong
1994 Drawing on the Illawarra, Long Gallery, University of Wollongong (opened by Tony Bond)
1993 Illawarra Sculptors, Art Arena Gallery, Wollongong
1992 Illawarra Sculptors, Art Arena Gallery, Wollongong