The Second Asia-Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art exhibition catalogue (APT2)

WeAdl lllllLAI Born 1954 Wau, Papua New Guinea Currently completing MA in Textile Design at RMIT, Melbourne, Australia EDUCATION/TRAINING 1986 Diploma in Textile Design, National Arts School, Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 1996 Myer Young Designer Award Finalist's Exhibition, Melbourne, Australia 1993 Pacific Arts Association, South Australia Museum, Adelaide, Australia 1987 PNG Textiles Exhibition, Mila-Maia Gallery, Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea 'Hiri Moak Festival', Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea 1986 'Commonwealth Arts Festival', Edinburgh, Scotland 1984 World Craft Show, Indonesia 144 A RT I ST BI OGRAPHI ES Born 1957 Maryborough, Australia Lives and works in Melbourne, Australia EDUCATION/TRAINING 1981 DipEd. (Humanities), La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia 1979 BA, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia SELECTED EXHIBITIONS Selected Solo Exhibitions 1995 'Welcome To Never Never', Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne, Australia; Germany Rebecca Hassock Gallery, London, England, UK 1994 'My Boomerang Won't Come Back', Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia,Adelaide, Australia; Aotearoa/ New Zealand Selected Group Exhibitions 1996 'Abstracts, New Aboriginalities: Destiny Deacon and Brenda L. Croft', Watershed Media Centre, Bristol, UK 'Inheritance', Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney, Australia 'Beauty's Back On Duty: Destiny Deacon and Clinton Petersen', Hogarth Gallery, Sydney, Australia 1995-96 'In the Picture-Creative Australians from the National Library's Portrait Collection', National Portrait Gallery, Canberra, Australia 1995 'Africus', 1st Johannesburg Biennale, Johannesburg, South Africa 'National Women's Art Exhibition', Hogarth Gallery, Sydney, Australia 'Octette, the Critic's Choice', Eva Breuer Gallery, Sydney, Australia 1994-1997 'Blakness: Blak City Culture!', Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, etc. Australia 1994 'Descriptions', Next Wave Festival, 200 Gertrude Street, Melbourne, Australia 'Fifth Havana Biennial', Havana, Cuba 'True Colours: Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Artists Raise the Flag', Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool, etc. UK; Australia 'Lookin' Good', Boomalli Aboriginal Artists Cooperative, Sydney, Australia 'Smiling Dangerously: Destiny Deacon and Michael Riley', Hogarth Gallery, Sydney, Australia 'Bad Toys', Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, Australia 'Life Works: Aboriginal Women Photographed in Action & at Work by Aboriginal Women Photographers', Tandanya, Adelaide, Australia 'An Eccentric Orbit-Electronic Media Art from Australia', Museum of Modern Art, New York City, USA 'Urban Focus: Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art from the Urban Areas of Australia', National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Australia 'Knowing the Sensorium', Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia 1993 'Australian Perspecta', Art Gallery of NSW, Sydn.ey, Australia 'Can't See for Looking-Koori Women Artists Educating', National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia 'Flowers, Herbs, Human Sweat and Animal Breath', Long Gallery, Wollongong, Australia 'Caste Otts: Destiny Deacon and Brenda L. Croft', Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney, Australia 'Yanada New Moon', Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney, Australia 1992 'Kitch'en Koori', Fringe Festival Gallery, Melbourne, Australia 1991 'Aboriginal Women's Exhibition', Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney, etc. Australia 'Kudjeris', Boomalli Aboriginal Artists Cooperative, Sydney, Australia 1990 'Pitcha Mi Koori', Friends of the Earth Gallery, Melbourne, Australia COLLECTIONS Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney, Australia National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Australia Flinders University of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia National Library of Australia, Canberra, Australia University of Wollongong,Wollongong, Australia Haus der Kulturen derWelt, Berlin, Germany Vizard Foundation, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia Born 1965 Papua New Guinea Teaches Faculty of Creative Arts, University of Papua New Guinea, Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea EDUCATION/TRAINING 1981-84 Certificate in Sculpture, Faculty of Creative Arts, University of Papua New Guinea SELECTED EXHIBITIONS Selected Group Exhibitions 1995 'Contemporary Art of South Pacific', University of NSW, etc. Sydney, Australia 'New Highlands Art', New Guinea Arts, Sydney, Australia 1994 'PNG Contemporary Artists', Art Gallery, National Museum, Papua New Guinea 'Tom Deko and Martin Morububuna', F.C.A. Gallery, Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea 1992-95 Group Exhibition,Waigani Arts and Crafts Show GRANTS AND AWARDS 1992 1st Prize, Sculpture,Waigani Arts and Crafts Show COLLECTIONS PNG Arts Advisers (Aust.) Pty. Ltd. Jean-Marie Tjibaou Cultural Centre, New Caledonia