CAS Collectors artist - Christopher Adams

The Contemporary Art Society

of Victoria Incorporated

Collectors' Exhibition 2005

A selected exhibition of

Australian Contemporary Art

6 - 21 February 2005

Steps Gallery, 62 Lygon Street,

Carlton, Melbourne

information from the artist....

BETTY JANICE COLLIER

Date of Birth: 12-7-1942

QUALIFICATIONS

1959 - 1962 Trained Secondary Teachers' Certificate Arts and Crafts.
1975 - 1977 Diploma of Fine Arts, major in sculpture, minor in painting. Now the equivalent of a Bachelor of Arts.

WORK EXPERIENCE

1963 - 1968 Taught art at Ballarat east High School.
1972 -1976 Taught art at Aquinas Teachers' College, Ballarat.
1979 - Joined the Art department, Ballarat School of Mines@Industries. Now called the Arts Academy, University of Ballarat, TAFE Section.

ART DIRECTIONS

I specialize in oxy welded sheet steel sculptures, limestone and wood carvings, modeling wax for bronze casts, clay and multi media sculptures. The subject ranges from stylized animals, insects, birds, plant forms and the human figure.

I also paint, draw and do monoprints; using watercolour paints, graphite and watercolour pencils, soft pastels, oil pastels and oil paints. My subject matter generally relates to nature or the human figure, and is either stylized or abstracted.

AWARDS

1999 Second in the Mabel Pryde Memorial Sculptural Prize awarded by the Association of Sculptors of Victoria Inc.
2000 Sculpture Award by Solid Solutions Annual Exhibition of Sculptors of Victoria Inc.
2002 Second prize for Drawing at Ballarat Agricultural Show.
2003 Special Prize for innovative use of materials in the Contemporary Art Society of Victoria inc. Annual Exhibition.

WORKS

United in Action. Bronze on Granite.

This sculpture is part of a series inspired by Gymnasts and Circus performers. It is their ability to show action in a rhythmic, balanced and energetic manner that I find captures the spirit of the moment.

These figures are meant to be asexual, because their united movement is the unifying force that I have set out to capture.

Octopus. Watercolour, ink and coloured pencil.

The octopus is part of a series in which I explored life under the sea. Having snorkeled from a coral atoll off the Queensland coast, along a part of the Great Barrier reef; the vibrancy of colours, shapes and sizes of this unique environment left special memories that I have endeavored to capture in my own personal way.

The Contemporary Art Society of Victoria (Inc.) is a non-profit organisation, run on a voluntary basis by artists, for artists, and the Society has a long history of supporting and fostering artists - particularly emerging artists and those from regional Australia.

Contemporary Art Society of Victoria - Collectors' Exhibition (Updated: 5 March 2005)