Curriculum Vitae

KAYE C. JOHNSTON

www.kayejohnston.net
kayecj@westnet.com.au


Solo Exhibitions 1998-2007

2007 ‘Passion of Place’ Global Gallery Sydney

2006 ‘Art At Bellachara’ Gerringong (4/8/06-6/10/06)

2000 ‘Milk & Honey’ at The Tea Club Nowra (9/10/00 – 22/10/00)

1998/99 Stan’s Dine-In Berry (12/98-early 99)

1998 ‘Biodiversity’ at The Tea Club Nowra (13/10/98 – 3/11/98)

1998/99 Alfresco Café Kangaroo Valley (7/5/98-1/9/99)

1998/99 Jo Jo’s Café Kangaroo Valley (20/11/99–1/11/99)

Joint Exhibitions

2010 ‘Roadside’ with Sue Dale at Project Contemporary Artspace
Wollongong March 10-21

2008 ‘Sharp & Unctuous’ with Sue Irvin at Café Bella Kangaroo
Valley 23/5-Nov08

2006 ‘Standing On Our Own Feet’ with Sue Irvin at Silos Art Space
Jaspers Brush Berry 30/9/06-19/11/06

Residencies

Artist-In-Residence Bundanon 13 June – 27 June 2006

Awards

2007 Kangaroo Valley Arts Festival Painting Prize, 2nd prize

2006 Berry Landcare Art Festival, highly commended

2006 Alvaro Painting Prize Berrima Dist. Art Soc. Bowra, 2nd prize

2004 TAFE Acquisition Prize

2002 Meroogal Women’s Art Exhibition, 2nd prize

1999 Meroogal Women’s Art Exhibition Peoples Choice Award

Collections

Nowra TAFE

Bundanon Trust

Various private collections and commissions NSW, Tasmania, Sweden.

Selected Group Exhibitions 1997-2009

2008 Waverley Art Prize, Sydney

Meroogal Women’s Art Prize 1998, 1999, 2000, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009

Meroogal Women’s Art Prize Travelling Exhibition 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010

Education (relevant)


2005 Advanced Painting with Barbara Hilder Breakaway Art Group

2004 Statement of Attainment in Creative Fine Arts – Painting 2 & 3
Nowra College of TAFE

2002 Certificate 1V Fine Arts Nowra College of TAFE

1998 Certificate 11 Fine Arts Nowra College of TAFE

1996 Drawing Course Adult Education Kiama

1983 Bachelor of Arts Degree Macquarie University

Born

Sydney Australia - lives and works Kangaroo Valley NSW

Group Exhibitions Chronological order

1997-2000


1997 TAFE Student Exhibition, Nowra

1998 Art & Soul Exhibition, Australians for Native Title & Reconciliation Feat Of Clay, Kangaroo Valley, (13 September 1998)

1998 IMB Alexander Berry Art Exhibition, Berry, NSW

1998 Meroogal Women’s Art Prize’, School of Arts Nowra, Nov.

1999 Meroogal Women’s ArtPrize’, Nowra Library, Nov/Dec.

1998 TAFE Student Exhibition, Dec, Nowra

1998/99 Teacup Exhibition, The Tea Club, Nowra (Dec 98-Jan 99)

1999 Exhibition, Artzapart Gallery, Jindy Andy Mill, Nowra (11/3/99-6/3/00)

1999 Full Bodied Exhibition, Hotel Berry, Berry (29/10/99- 20/12/99)

1999 Exhibition at Berry Public School, Berry (17/18 September)

1999 IMB Alexander Berry Art Exhibition, Berry

1999 Meroogal Women’s Art Prize, School of Arts Nowra, Nov.

1999 Meroogal Women’s Art Prize, Nowra Library, Nov.

1999 Meroogal Women’s Art Prize, Vaucluse House, Sydney, (March18-April 2 2000)

1999/00 Exhibition at Berry Hotel-Gallery Café, Berry (7/12/99 – 19/9/00)

1999/00 Works On Paper, Precinct Galleries, Berry (9/12/99-10/1/00)

2000 Precinct Galleries , Berry (14/1/00-9/9/00)

2000 Precinct Galleries, Berry (31/3/00-8/4/00)

2000 Pigs Fly, Precinct Galleries, Berry (17/4/00-25/4/00)

2000 Botanica, Precinct Galleries, Berry (27/10 – 12/00)

2000 Alexander Berry Art Exhibition, Berry (3-12/11/00)

2000 Meroogal Women’s Art Prize, Nowra School of Arts, Nov.

2000 Meroogal Women’s Art Prize, Spiral Gallery Bega, Nov/Dec

2000 Splash-Out, Currarong Seafarers Festival Art & Photography Exhibition, Currurong, Nov.

2001-2003

2001 Precinct Galleries, Berry (8/1/01-1/5/01)

2001 The Art Group Exhibition, Berry, May 5&6th

2001 TAFE Student Exhibition, Nowra, Dec

2002 The Art Group Exhibition, Berry, May

2002 Meroogal Women’s Art Prize, Nowra

2003 Meroogal Women’s Art Exhibition Art The Mint, Sydney (Oct 02 - Feb 03)

2003 Meroogal Women’s Art Exhibition The Southern Highlands Regional Gallery, Bowral (Feb 7 - March 9)

2003 ‘Making Waves’, The Art Group Exhibition, Berry (July 5 & 6)

2003 Darru Art Studio, Figtree, (July 26- 12/1/05)

2003 Bowral Sculpture Prize, Berrima District Art Soc, Bowral, (October 31 – Nov 9)

2003 The Alexander Berry Art Exhibition, Berry, (Oct 31 – Nov 3)

2003 Members Exhibition Berrima District Art Soc, (Dec 3-8)

2003 6X6 One Night Stand Art Exhibition, Cambewarra ,(Dec 23)

2004


Osborne Gallery (Jan 27-March)

Berry Bowling Club Exhibition

Meroogal Women’s Art Prize, The Southern Highlands Regional Gallery, Bowral, (Feb 6 to March 7)

New Beginnings Exhibition, Shoalhaven Art Society, Nowra,(Feb 23 to April 23)

Tyree-Tycan Works on Paper, Berrima District Art Soc, Bowral (April 2nd -12th)

Viva? The Art Group Exhibition, Berry, (April 29 to May 2)

Sculpture in the Forest, Tabula Rasa, Milton Ulladulla Arts Festival
(June30th- 11July)

Kangaroo Valley Pre School Exhibition, (July 2nd- 3rd)

Meroogal Women’s Art Prize, Shoalhaven Art Centre, Nowra (September 4-15)

Alvaro Painting Prize, Berrima District Art Soc, Bowral, (July9th-18th)

Bowral Sculpture Prize, Berrima District Art Soc, Bowral ,
(October 29th-November 7th)

Distracted Abstractors, Karoona Gallery, West Wollongong TAFE, Wollongong, (October 12th-28th)

TAFE Student Exhibition, Nowra, Dec

6X6 Art Exhibition, Cambewarra, (Dec 10-11th)

2005


Members Exhibition, Bowral District Art Soc, Bowral, (16-22 Feb)

Vagina Monologues Art Exhibition, Berry, (Feb)

Spirit & Form The Art Group Exhibition, Berry,(4-6 March)

Berry Bowling Club, Berry, April - June

Breakaway Collection, Osborne Gallery, Nowra, (6-31 May)

Alvaro Painting Prize, Bowral District Art Soc. Bowral, (23 June - 4th July)

Top Shelf Exhibition, Project Contemporary Art Space, Wollongong (23 Sept-2 Oct )

Bowral Sculpture Prize, Bowral District Art Soc. Bowral, (3 Nov – 13 Nov)

9x5 Exhibition, Café Bella, KangarooValley, (15 Dec – 28 Jan 06)

6x6 Exhibition, Cambewarra, (17 Dec)

2006


Members Exhibition, Project Contemporary Art Space ,Wollongong, Jan –Feb

Festival of Sedition Exhibition, Huskisson ,18 March

Harvest Aquisitional Art Prize, The Silos Art Space, Berry, 11 June-30 July

Beneath The Surface’,The Art Group, The Shoalhaven City Art Centre,
Nowra, 22 June-20 July

Alvaro Painting Prize, Berrima District Art Soc, Bowral, 24June-10 July

Berry Landcare Celebration of Environment Art Festival, Berry, 15-16 July

Meroogal Women’s Art Prize, Shoalhaven City Arts Centre, Nowra,
11 August-6 September

Meroogal Women’s Art Prize Travelling Exhibition, The Spiral Gallery, Bega, 16 September -5 October, HHT Members Lounge, The Mint, Sydney,
10 October-29 January 2007

6x6 Art Exhibition, Cambewarra ,Dec 2nd

2007


Members Exhibition, Project Contemporary Art Space, Wollongong Jan –Feb

Meroogal Women’s Art Prize Travelling Exhibition,

Spiral Gallery, Bega NSW, 5-24 October 2007,

HHT Members Lounge The Mint, Sydney 10 October 2006-29 January 2008,

Arts in the Valley, Kangaroo Valley Arts Festival, Painting and
Indoor Sculpture, April 21-22

Exhibition, Café Bella 20/7 - Sept

Berry Landcare Celebration of Environment Art Festival, Berry, 7-9 September

The Cow & The Sea Festival of Short Film & Art, Kiama, 7-9 September

Festival of Sedition, Huskisson, 29 September

Meroogal Women’s Art Prize Travelling Exhibition The Spiral Gallery, Bega ,
5-24 October,

HHT Members Lounge, The Mint, Sydney 30 October -31 January 2008

6x6 Art Exhibition, Cambewarra, Dec 8th

2008


Meroogal Women’s Art Prize Travelling Exhibition, HHT Members Lounge The Mint, Sydney, 10 October 2006-29 January 2008,

Sturt Gallery, Mittagong, 3-24 February,

Wollongong City Gallery, Wollongong NSW, 8-25 May,

Tuggeranong Arts Centre, Tuggeranong ACT 29 May-15 June

6x6 Art Exhibition, Cambewarra, Dec 6th

2009


Out There, The Painting Group Art Exhibition, Café Bella
Kangaroo Valley January 23rd – February 23rd

Arts in the Valley, Painting, Indoor Sculpture, Garden Sculpture,
Kangaroo Valley Arts Festival

Exhibition, Café Bella, Kangaroo Valley, NSW, May

Vets Exhibition Ian Scott’s Vincentia August-Feb 2010

Escape Artfest Mettle Gallery Milton 2nd -11th Oct

6x6 Exhibition Cambewarra Dec 5th

2010


Meroogal Women’s Art Prize Travelling Exhibition

Lady Denman Huskisson 12th Feb – March 28th

Bowral Sculpture Prize March 5th-14th