ANNA RUSSELL • ARTIST
Education
2011 – 16 M. Art (Printmaking) with excellence, UNSW A&D
2002 – 04 Bachelor of Fine Arts, National Art School
1995 –96 M. Adult Ed. UTS
Exhibitions and Prizes
2022
North Sydney Art Prize 2022, The Coal Loader, Waverton. [Installation with Anthea Boesenberg
& Rhonda Nelson] (finalist)
2021
Environmental Art & Design Prize 2021, Manly Art Gallery & Museum
Print Out Times, Taiyuan International Print Exhibition 0527x0620 Catalogue
Resist Relief, No Vacancy Gallery, Melbourne
To The Edges: 60 Years of Sydney Printmakers, Manly Art Gallery & Museum Catalogue
Inkmasters Cairns Print Exhibition, 5th 2021, Tanks Art Centre, Cairns, Qld (finalist) Catalogue
Time for This? The Corner Gallery, Stanmore (with Rhonda Nelson & Rebekah Honeyman
Burnie Art Prize 2021, Burnie Regional Art Gallery, Tas (finalist)
2020
Don’t Have Time for This, community project sea wall mural, Waverley City Council Thousand
Faces of Art: 2020 Asia Contemporary Art Exchange Exhibition, National Taiwan Arts Education
Center
Northern Perspectives, Gallery Lane Cove
In the Shade II, Glasshouse Regional Gallery, Port Macquarie
Unfolding, Incinerator Art Space, Willoughby
In the Shade II, Gallery Lane Cove
Sydney Printmakers 2020, May Space, Waterloo
PriNT, Northern Centre for Contemporary Art, Darwin
2019
Awagami International Mini Print Exhibition 2019, Tokushima, Japan
Borderless - Sydney Printmakers, Megalo Print Studio + Gallery, Canberra
The Selfie, Ten Forty Seven Gallery, Mascot
Library Artists Book Award 2019, for contribution to Encuentro-Encounter-Bhionn, Manly
Art Gallery and Museum
Chaos and Order, Incinerator Art Space, Willoughby
A Poetry of Ideas in Print, Art Space on The Concourse, Chatswood
Burnie Print Prize 2019, Burnie Regional Art Gallery, Tas (finalist)
2018
Miniature, Collab at Pine St, Chippendale
In the Shade - Members Exhibition [Sydney Printmakers], Umbrella Studios, Townsville, Qld
Symbiosis, Was Printed Collective, Chrissie Cotter Gallery, Camperdown
Inkmasters Cairns Print Exhibition 2018, Cairns, Qld (finalist)
Sydney Printmakers 2018 - members exhibition, Artsite Galleries, Camperdown
2017
International Open Submission Printmaking Show, 5th, 2017/18, Art at Wharepuke, N.Z. (finalist)
Blacktown City Art Prize 2017, Blacktown Arts Centre (finalist)
Annual Exhibition, Warringah Printmakers, Warringah Creative Space, North Curl Curl
Was Printed, The Corner Gallery, Stanmore
Inkmasters Cairns and Sydney Printmakers - Partners in Print, Kickarts, Cairns, Qld and Janet Clayton Gallery, Paddington
1200K West: Fowlers Gap, ADspace, Paddington
North Sydney Art Prize 2017, The Coal Loader, Waverton (finalist)
Passed/PRESENT, Wadsworth Gallery, Paddington
2016
PassedPRESENT, Gallery 43, TAFE NSW Riverina Institute, Wagga Wagga
SQ1@ARO, Aro Gallery, Darlinghurst
Tesselate, Chrissie Cotter Gallery, Marrickville
2015
Creative Conversations with Asylum Seekers: a Temporary Life, Annandale Creative Arts Centre
Waverley Art Prize 2015, Waverley Woollahra Art School (finalist)
North Sydney Art Prize 2015, The Coal Loader, Waverton (finalist)
2014
The Annual 2014, UNSW Art and Design. (The Art Scene Printmaking Award)
Art Prize Korea-Australia Arts Foundation, Sydney (finalist)
Self Contained, Gallery Red, Leichhardt
Greenway Art Prize 2014, Art Est, Leichhardt (finalist)
Mini Prints Exhibition, International Printmaking Centre, College of Arts, NTNU, Taiwan
31 Days: The Lifeworld, Gallery Red, Leichhardt
2013
Continuum, CofaSpace Gallery, University of NSW
Waverley Art Prize 2013, Waverley Woollahra Art School (finalist)
Environmental Change - a Visual Response. Portland Arts Centre, Vic.
Walking Mountains, Kudos Gallery, Paddington
Under Pressure, Gallery Red, Glebe
2012
Waverley Art Prize 2012, Waverley Woollahra Art School (Mixed Media prize winner)
Oh, for the Love of Prints! Kudos Gallery, UNSW
Landscape: Projections, Kudos Gallery, UNSW
ImPRESSions, Beowulf Galleries, Woollahra
2011
Pressed, Beowulf Galleries, Woollahra
Gumnuts, Baby! Shoalhaven Regional Gallery, Nowra; Art Arena, Wollongong; Light Horse Gallery, Robertson
2010
Lingua Loca: Stories from Sea and Land. Multicultural art exhibition, Wollongong
2009
Fishers Ghost Art Award, 47th, Campbelltown City Biennial Gallery (finalist)
Liverpool City Art Prize, Casula Power House (finalist)
Cat’s Cradle, Sydney Children’s Hospital
Camouflage, Project Contemporary Art Space, Wollongong
Hunters Hill Art and Craft Exhibition 55th, Hunters Hill (finalist)
Glebe Art Show, Sydney
2008
Hunters Hill Art and Craft Exhibition 54th, Hunters Hill (finalist)
Warringah Printmakers Annual Exhibition
Transitions08, Mary Place Gallery, Sydney
000s and Thousands, Xavier Art Space, St Vincents Hospital, Darlinghurst (solo show)
Waverley Art Prize 2008, Waverley Woollahra Art School (finalist)
4th International Photographic Exhibition of Thai Art and Culture, Bangkok, Thailand (finalist)
Glebe Art Show, Sydney (finalist)
2007
Fisher’s Ghost Art Award, Campbelltown City Biennial Gallery (finalist)
Waverley Art Prize 2007, Waverley Woollahra Art School (finalist)
Hunters Hill Art and Craft Exhibition 53rd, Hunters Hill (finalist)
Watermark, Mary Place Gallery, Paddington
Glebe Art Show, Sydney
2006
Fisher’s Ghost Art Award, Campbelltown City Biennial Gallery (finalist)
Warringah Art Exhibition (finalist)
Willoughby Art Prize (finalist)
Transitions 06 - 1 Painting and Sculpture, Mary Place Gallery, Paddington
Changing Nature 06: Art and Action, Greenpeace auction
Glebe Art Show, Sydney
2005
Dodecahedron, Flinders St Gallery, 134 Flinders St, Darlinghurst
Waverley Art Prize 2005, Waverley Woollahra Art School (finalist)
Lennox St Open Studios, 6th Annual Exhibition, Newtown
2004
The Degree and Stairwell shows, National Art School
2003
Liverpool City Arts Prize 17th, Liverpool (finalist)
2002
Fisher’s Ghost Art Award, Campbelltown City Biennial Gallery (finalist)
Waverley Art Prize 2002, Waverley Woollahra Art School (finalist)
Warringah Art Exhibition
Print Exchanges
2018
Encuentro-Encounter-Bhionn. Between Australian and Irish artists for display at the Impact 10 International Printmaking Conference, Santander, Spain
2014
The North American and Australasian Bestiary Exchange Portfolio. Between the Department of Art, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, USA and University of New South Wales Art & Design, Sydney
Alternatives: the road not taken. Sydney-Amsterdam Print Exchange
Residency
2009
Residency Banff Art Centre, Canada
Public Collections
Burnie Regional Art Gallery (2019), Manly Art Gallery and Museum (2019), International Printmaking Centre, College of Arts, NTNU, Taiwan (2015), St Vincent’s Hospital, Darlinghurst (2008), Sydney Children’s Hospital, Randwick (2009) and various private collections