CAROLYN FELS: CV


1941		Born: December 8 Melbourne, Australia
1959-60	National Gallery Art School, Melbourne
1961-62	George Bell School, Melbourne
1979		Bachelor of Arts, University of Melbourne, Melbourne
1986		Bachelor of Fine Arts. Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne
1987­88	Graduate Diploma of Fine Art (Painting)
		Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne


INDIVIDUAL EXHIBITIONS

1988		Recent Paintings and Drawings. 13 Verity Street, Melbourne
1989		Carolyn Fels., Coventry  ,  Sydney
1990		Recent Paintings.  13 Verity Street, Melbourne
1993		Recent Works 1993.  13 Verity Street, Melbourne
1994 	Memory.  Michael Wardell Gallery, Melbourne
1995		Desire.  Michael Wardell Gallery, Melbourne
		Memory & Desire.  Jan Murphy Gallery, Brisbane
1996		Time Past / Present.  King Street Gallery, Sydney
		Time Past / Present.  Michael Wardell Gallery, Melbourne
1997		red memory and other colours.  King   Street Gallery, Sydney
1998		landscape past / present.  Renard Wardell Gallery, Melbourne
2000		Landscape Memory.  Span Galleries, Melbourne


SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

1988		A New Generation 1983-1988.  The Phillip Morris Arts Grant Purchases,
		Australian National Gallery, Canberra
		Gold    Coast Invitation Art Prize.  The Centre Gallery, Queensland
		The Melbourne Savage Club Invitation Art Prize.
		Royal Melbourne Institute Of Technology
1989		Sixteen Artists.  University   Gallery .Melbourne. 
		Gold   Coast Invitation Art Prize.  The Centre Gallery, Queensland
		Scotchmans Hill Vineyard Art Prize.  Geelong Art Gallery. Geelong
		`National Australia Bank Collection: Rivers in Australian Art`
		Royal Melbourne Showgrounds, Melbourne
		8x10 Fund ­raising Exhibition. Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia, Adelaide. 
1990		New   Art 1990 - Adelaide.  B.M G   Fine  Art .Adelaide
		New Art:  Contemporary Australian Art Acquisitions.
		National Gallery of Victoria Melbourne



SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

1990		Contemporary Art Centre: Fund ­ raising Exhibition . Contemporary Art Centre of 
        South Australia.Adelaide
1991		The John McCaughey Memorial Prize. National Gallery of Victoria.Melbourne 
		Artworkz Three: B P. Acquisitive Prize.  Caulfield Arts Complex, Melbourne
		`National Australia Bank Collection: Rivers in Australian Art`.
		Heide Park & Art Gallery
		Ellipses Curator, Natalie  King.  13 Verity Street, Melbourne
1992		5th Birthday Exhibition.  13 Verity Street, Melbourne
		City of Richmond Acquisitive Arts Awards.  Richmond Town  Hall, Melbourne
		Elizabeth   Murdoch Traveling Scholarship.  Victorian College of the Arts. Melbourne
		Margaret Stewart Endowment.Recent Acquisitions..
		National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
1994		Preview, 94.  Michael Wardell Gallery ( 13 Verity Street ) Melbourne
1995		Australian Women Artists , Art Gallery Schubert, Queensland
		Something Old Something New.  Michael Gallery, Melbourne
		Jan Murphy Gallery, Brisbane
		he Situation Now; a survey of local non ­ objective art.
		Curator: Christopher Heathcote  LaTrobe University Art Museum, Melbourne
		Decadence: 10 Years Of Exhibitions.  200 Gertrude Street, Melbourne
		International Interstate.  King Street Gallery Sydney
1996		New Space.  Michael Wardell Gallery, Melbourne
1996 -98	Abstraction  Now.  Curator: Simeon Kronenberg.Touring Exhibition.
		Geelong Art Gallery, Victoria.  Benalla Art Gallery.  Waverly City Gallery.
		Gippsland Art Gallery.  Swan Hill Regional Art Gallery.
		Gold Coast City Art Gallery, Queensland.  Albury Regional Art Centre
1996		Inaugural Christmas Show.  Jan Murphy Gallery, Brisbane
1997		A Womans View.  Lorraine Diggins Gallery, Ord Minnett 1997/1998
2000		Darkness & light: looking at the landscape.
		Curators: Simeon Kronenberg & Ngariraka Mason. Touring Exhibition
		McClelland Gallery.  Ballarat Fine Art Gallery.  Benalla Art Gallery.
		Geelong Art Gallery.  Auckland Art Gallery, New Zealand


COLLECTIONS AND COMMISIONS

Artbank. Sydney
Heidelberg Repatriation Hospital. Melbourne
Hyatt Hotel. Sydney
National Gallery  of  Australia .Phillip Morris Collection.Canberra
National Gallery of Victoria
National Australia Bank Collection .Melbourne
Western Mining Corporation  .Melbourne




SELECTED    PUBLICATIONS

Rooney, Robert		Arts, The Weekend Australian. June 18,1988 (p. 14 )
Drury, Neville (ed)	New Art Three: Profiles in Contemporary Art.  Craftsman
House.  Sydney 1989 (pp,76-79 )
Germaine, Max	Artists &Galeries of Australia. Craftsman House. Sydney 1990 (pp.  212-213)
Catalano, Gary		The Age.  October 24, 1990. Arts and Entertainment (p.14 )
Rooney, Robert		The Arts.  The Weekend Australian.  March 30-31, 1991 ( Review 8 )
Rooney, Robert	The Arts,  The Weekend Australian. October 20 ­ 21 1991 (Review / 11)
Millar, Ronald		Agenda. The Sunday Age. March 17.1991
Dury, Neville.		Images in Contemporary Australian Painting.
Craftsman House.  Sydney.  1992. Plate 52(pp. 58)
Kronenberg, Simeon	An Exhibition of Contemporary Art by Jewish Artists in Australia
McAuliffe Chris ---Where are the paintings ? Where is the Artist ? 1993 (unpublished )
Wardell, Michael	Carolyn Fels.  Being And  Memory.  Carolyn Fels. Memory
Michael Wardell Gallery, Melbourne. 1994(pp. 3-4)
Kronenberg, Simeon	Carolyn Fels.   A humanist abstraction.  Carolyn Fels.Memory
Michael Wardell Gallery, Melbourne 1994
Heathcote, Christopher	Arts And Entertainment.  The Age.  August 31. 1994(p 27 )
McCulloch, Alan / SusanThe Encyclopedia of Australian Art. Allan & Unwin, Sydney, 1994 (p 250 )	
Kronenberg, Simeon	Rewards for Some.Artlink.Vol.14.14 No. 4.Summer 1994(p.3)
Wallace­Crabbe, Chris	Duncan Grant in New Haven. Art Monthly. No. 78 April 1995(illus. P.4)
 Clabburn, Anna	Ellipsity.  Carolyn Fels.  time past/present
Michael Wardell Gallery Mellbourne 1996
Kronenberg, Simeon	Abstraction Now: notes on different paths-an exploitation of delight
Abstraction Now, Geelong Art Gallery,  July 1996
Timms, Peter 		Abstract views, Herald Sun.24 July,1996 ( p. 67 )
Hutchings, Patrick	Carolyn Fels ­ Memory/Desire/Time June 1996 (unpublished)
James, Bruce 		Galleries. The Sydney Morning Herald 26 July,1996( p. 16)
Hutchings, Patrick	For the truly singular there is only silence.
Art Monthly. No. 93 September 1996
Hutchings Patrick ----Red Memory and other  Colours.August 1997  (unpublished )
Rooney, Robert 	Abstraction Now.  The Australian. February .7.1997 (p.12)
Nelson, Robert		The Sunday Age May 2000 (p. 5)
Hutchings Patrick	Landscape remembering landscape ,August 2000

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