Kerrie Poliness is a contemporary Australian artist, known for her rule-based painting and drawing works that revisit the ideas and practices of conceptual art. Poliness was born in 1962 and grew up in Melbourne. She completed her Bachelor degree in

Victoria University Victoria University may refer to: * Victoria University (Australia), a public research university in Melbourne, Australia * Victoria University, Toronto, a constituent college of the federal University of Toronto in Canada * Victoria University of ...

in 1984, majoring in

fine art In European academic traditions, fine art (or, fine arts) is made primarily for aesthetics or creative expression, distinguishing it from popular art, decorative art or applied art, which also either serve some practical function (such as ...

. She was a co-founder of the Store 5 group of artists, an artist-run space focusing on

geometric abstraction Geometric abstraction is a form of abstract art based on the use of geometric forms sometimes, though not always, placed in non-illusionistic space and combined into non-objective (non-representational) compositions. Although the genre was popu ...

Public collections

Poliness's work uses a palette of red, green, yellow and some black, and appears in public and private collections across Australia and New Zealand. She is featured in major state galleries such as

Art Gallery of Western Australia The Art Gallery of Western Australia (AGWA) is a public art gallery that is part of the Perth Cultural Centre, in Perth. It is located near the Western Australian Museum and State Library of Western Australia and is supported and managed by the ...

National Gallery of Australia The National Gallery of Australia (NGA), formerly the Australian National Gallery, is the national art museum of Australia as well as one of the largest art museums in Australia, holding more than 166,000 works of art. Located in Canberra in th ...

National Gallery of Victoria The National Gallery of Victoria, popularly known as the NGV, is an art museum in Melbourne, Victoria (state), Victoria, Australia. Founded in 1861, it is Australia's oldest and list of most visited art museums in the world, most visited art mu ...

Queensland Art Gallery The Queensland Art Gallery (QAG) is an art museum located in South Bank, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. The gallery is part of QAGOMA. It complements the Gallery of Modern Art (GOMA) building, situated only away. The Queensland Art Galle ...

, as well as corporate, private and university collections throughout Australia, including

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Australia,

Bendigo Art Gallery Bendigo Art Gallery is an Australian art gallery located in Bendigo, Victoria. It is one of the oldest and largest regional art galleries. History The gallery was founded in 1887. The gallery's collection was first housed in the former Bendig ...

Deakin University Deakin University is a public university in Victoria, Australia. Founded in 1974 with antecedent history since 1887, the university was named after Alfred Deakin, the second Prime Minister of Australia and a founding father of Australian Fede ...

, Dowse Museum,

Griffith University Griffith University is a public university, public research university in South East Queensland on the Eastern states of Australia, east coast of Australia. The university was founded in 1971, but was not officially opened until 1975. Griffith ...

, Maddocks, Margaret Stewart Endowment,

Monash University Monash University () is a public university, public research university based in Melbourne, Victoria (state), Victoria, Australia. Named after World War I general Sir John Monash, it was founded in 1958 and is the second oldest university in the ...

Museum of Contemporary Art Australia The Museum of Contemporary Art Australia (MCA), formerly the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, is located on George Street, Sydney, George Street in The Rocks, Sydney, The Rocks neighbourhood of Sydney. The museum is housed in the Stripped Cl ...

, Museum of Modern Art at Heide,

University of Melbourne The University of Melbourne (colloquially known as Melbourne University) is a public university, public research university located in Melbourne, Australia. Founded in 1853, it is Australia's second oldest university and the oldest in the state ...

, and the

University of Wollongong The University of Wollongong (UOW) is an Australian public university, public research university located in the coastal city of Wollongong, New South Wales, approximately south of Sydney. , the university had an enrolment of more than 33,000 s ...

Exhibitions

Her exhibitions and collections throughout Australia as well as overseas include:

Solo exhibitions

* 2018 ''Field Drawing #1'',

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, Gold Coast * 2016 ''Red Matter Wall Drawing #2'',

* 2014 ''Landscape Paintings (Lake Bolac and Zagreb) and Wave Drawings (orange and green),'' G-MK,

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* 2013 ''Field Drawing, the Agora'',

La Trobe University La Trobe University is a public university, public research university based in Melbourne, Victoria (Australia), Victoria, Australia. Its main campus is located in the suburb of Bundoora, Victoria, Bundoora. The university was established in 1 ...

; Kerrie Poliness: Black O,

Dowse Art Museum The Dowse Art Museum is a municipal art gallery in Lower Hutt, New Zealand. Opening in 1971 in the Lower Hutt CBD, The Dowse occupies a stand-alone building adjacent to other municipal facilities. The building was completely remodelled in 2 ...

* 2008 ''Blue Wall Drawing #1'',

* 2007 ''Blue Wall Drawing, Anna Schwartz Gallery'

* 2006 ''Wall Drawings'',

Dunedin Public Art Gallery The Dunedin Public Art Gallery holds the main public art collection of the city of Dunedin, New Zealand. Located in The Octagon in the heart of the city, it is close to the city's public library, Dunedin Town Hall, and other facilities such as ...

* 2004 ''Something & Something Somewhere Else'',

North Melbourne Town Hall North Melbourne Town Hall is the former town hall of the Town of North Melbourne (originally the Town of Hotham) in Victoria, Australia. It was listed on the former Register of the National Estate on 21 March 1978 and on the Victorian Heritage R ...

; Wall Works,

* 1999 ''The Pipestacks (permanent installation),'' Pipemakers Park * 1998 ''Wall Drawings, Artspace, Auckland; Wall Drawings'',

, Perth * 1997 ''Black O Wall Drawings 1 - 6, Sarah Cottier Gallery'',

Sydney Sydney is the capital city of the States and territories of Australia, state of New South Wales and the List of cities in Australia by population, most populous city in Australia. Located on Australia's east coast, the metropolis surrounds Syd ...

** Red Matter Wall Drawings 1 - 3, Kovacka 3 gallery,

Dubrovnik Dubrovnik, historically known as Ragusa, is a city in southern Dalmatia, Croatia, by the Adriatic Sea. It is one of the most prominent tourist destinations in the Mediterranean Sea, Mediterranean, a Port, seaport and the centre of the Dubrovni ...

\ ** Black O Wall Drawings 3 & 4, Museum of the City of Rovinj, Istria * 1996 ''Red Matter Wall Drawings #1 - #4'', Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne * 1995 ''Wall Drawing #1'', Phoenix Hotel,

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** ''Drawings, Sarah Cottier Gallery'',

** ''Black O Wall Drawings 3 & 4,'' CBD Gallery,

* 1994 ''Pavilion #2'', Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne ** ''Red Matter Wall Drawings #1 - #4'', Sarah Cottier Gallery,

* 1993 ''Pivilion #1'', No. 140, Store 5,

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* 1992 ''136 Paintings'', Tolarno Galleries,

** ''No. 123'', Store 5,

* 1991 ''12 Paintings'', Tolarno Galleries,

** ''104 Paintings'',

Gallery,

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, Victoria * ''Wall Painting'', No. 99, Store 5,

* 1990 ''No.55'', Store 5,

* 1989 ''No.4'', Store 5, Melbourne, ''No.25'', Store 5, Melbourne * 1987 ''Shattered Plywood Paintings'', 312 Lennox Street,

Site-specific public artworks

* 2014 Field Drawing #1,

Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane The Gallery of Modern Art (GOMA) is an art museum located within the Queensland Cultural Centre in the South Bank precinct of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. The gallery is part of QAGOMA. Opened on 2 December 2006, the GOMA is Australia's l ...

* 2013 Wave Drawings,

Highpoint Shopping Centre Highpoint Shopping Centre is a shopping centre located in Maribyrnong, in the western suburbs of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Highpoint is Victoria's third largest shopping centre and the fifth largest in Australia, with an annual turnover ...

, Melbourne * 1998 The Agora,

, Melbourne ** Black O Wall Drawings,

Library, Melbourne * 2000 The Government Superannuation Building,

References

External links

Official website
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