MARLENE GILSON On Country 5 March - 29 March 2020
© Martin Browne Contemporary © All images copyright Marlene Gilson This catalogue is copyright. Apart from any fair dealing for the purposes of private study, research, criticism or review as permitted under the Copyright Act, no part may be reproduced by any process without written permission. COMPILER: Ally Russell-Floyd PHOTOGRAPHY: Jane Gardner COLOUR SEPARATIONS: Spitting Image, Sydney Cover Image: Ballarat, My Country, 2019, acrylic on linen, 150 x 120 cm
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LIST OF WORKS Building the Road to Ballarat, 2019, acrylic on linen, 76 x 100 cm Out and About on the Goldfields, 2019, acrylic on linen, 76 x 100 cm The Outback Racing, 2019, acrylic on linen, 40.5 x 70 cm The Country Racing, 2019, acrylic on linen, 40.5 x 70 cm John Batman and William Buckley, 2019, acrylic on linen, 76 x 100 cm Wathaurung Visit, Coranderrk, 2019, acrylic on linen, 120 x 100 cm Ballarat, My Country, 2019, acrylic on linen, 150 x 120 cm
Building the Road to Ballarat, 2019, acrylic on linen, 76 x 100 cm
Out and About on the Goldfields, 2019, acrylic on linen, 76 x 100 cm
The Outback Racing, 2019, acrylic on linen, 40.5 x 70 cm
The Country Racing, 2019, acrylic on linen, 40.5 x 70 cm
John Batman and William Buckley, 2019, acrylic on linen, 76 x 100 cm
Wathaurung Visit, Coranderrk, 2019, acrylic on linen, 120 x 100 cm
Ballarat, My Country, 2019, acrylic on linen, 150 x 120 cm
MARLENE GILSON Born 1944, Warrnambool Clan – Wathaurung (Wadawurrung)
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
AWARDS
2020
On Country, Martin Browne Contemporary, Sydney, 5 March - 29 March 2020
2016
2018
Marlene Gilson, Biennale of Australian Art, Art Gallery of Ballarat, Ballarat, 21 September 2018 – 3 February 2019
City of Ballarat, Bunjil Plaques on Twelve Historical Buildings
2016
Gekko Painting Award, Ballarat
2017
What If, Koorie Heritage Trust, Melbourne, 5 August – 8 October 2017
2015
2016
Painting Stories, Aunty Marlene, Solo Exhibition, Creswick and Bacchus Marsh Libraries, NAIDOC Week, 3 – 10 July
The 10th Anniversary Victorian Indigenous Art Awards, Art Gallery of Ballarat, 9 August – 20 September 2015
2015
2015
Guraham - King William - His Country, Museum of Australian Democracy at Eureka, Ballarat, 26 September – 23 January 2016
Koorie Heritage Trust Reconciliation Award, Christmas Exhibition
2014
2014
Wadawurrung - Past, Present & Future, Bunjilaka Aboriginal Cultural Centre at Melbourne Museum, Melbourne, 5 December 2014 – 28 June 2015 (with Deanne Gilson)
Koorie Heritage Trust Reconciliation Award, Christmas Exhibition
1956
Specially Commended Certificate of Merit, Children’s Art Award, Footscray, Melbourne
2012
Welcome to our Country (Ngardang baap yarrang) - Mother and Daughter - Wathaurung (Wadawurrung) Dreaming, Art Gallery of Ballarat, 4 August - 9 September 2012 (with Deanne Gilson)
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
COLLECTIONS
2019
New Acquisitions, Shepparton Art Museum, January 2019
2018
The National Picture: The Art of Tasmania’s Black War, National Gallery of Australia, 12 May – 29 July 2018 touring to Tasmanian Museum & Art Gallery, Hobart and the Queen Victoria Museum & Art Gallery, Launceston
2018
Superpostion, 21st Biennale of Sydney, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 16 March – 11 June 2018
2018
Colony: Frontier Wars, National Gallery of Victoria 15 March – 15 July 2018
2017
Reconciliation, Manningham Art Gallery, Doncaster, Victoria 24 May – 24 June 2017
2017
Taking the Myth, The Lost Ones Gallery, Ballarat, 26 April – 28 May 2017
2017
Leather Poisoning, Counihan Gallery, Brunswick, Victoria, 11 March – 9 April 2017
2016
Sovereignty, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, 17 December 2016 - 26 March 2017
2016
Kingston Art Centre, ‘I Never Painted My Dreams, I Painted My Reality’, Kingston Art Centre, Moorrabin, Victoria, 2 - 27 September 2016
Art Gallery of Ballarat, Ballarat Australian Catholic University Art Collection, Melbourne Bundoora Homestead, Bundoora City of Melbourne Art Collection, Melbourne Counihan Gallery, Brunswick, Victoria Deakin University Art Collection Koorie Heritage Trust, Melbourne Manningham Gallery, Doncaster, Victoria National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne Shepparton Art Museum, Shepparton Sovereign Hill Gold Museum, Ballarat Guirguis Art Collection, Ballarat Gekko Systems Art Collection, Ballarat Nigel Buesst Art Collection, Melbourne
2016
Gekko Systems Commission Exhibition, Gekko Systems, Ballarat, August - September 2016
Works held in private collections Australia and USA