Janet Dawson (b. 1935)

Biography

1935 Born Sydney
1951-56 Studied at the National Gallery Art School, Melbourne, Awarded Travelling Scholarship
1957-59 Studied painting and lithography, Slade School of Fine Art, London University; Studied etching, Central School, London; Awarded Boise Scholarship; Worked at Anticoli Corrado, near Rome, Italy
1960 Joined Atelier Patris, Paris. Printed lithographs for School of Paris Painters
1961 Returned to Australia

Selected Solo Exhibitions

1961 Gallery A, Melbourne (first show in Australia)
1964, 68 Gallery A, Sydney (first shows in Sydney)
1979 National Gallery Victoria: Survey 9: Survey Exhibition (Retrospective)
1986 312 Lennox Street, Richmond, Victoria: Works on Paper
1988 312 Lennox Street, Richmond, Victoria: Paintings
1989 David Jones Art Gallery, Sydney: Studies in Space and Volume

Selected Group Exhibitions

1961, 63 Invited Philadelphia Print Club Exhibition, USA, and International Print Biennale, Lubljana, Yugoslavia
1964 Gallery A, Melbourne: Exhibited group of 'Living Art' inlaid Laminex table tops, designed by Janet Dawson at the invitation of Laminex, made by Steven Davis
1966 Los Angeles and San Francisco, USA: Contemporary Australian Painting
1968 Twelve Outstanding Contemporary Prints
1968 National Gallery of Victoria, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney: The Field
1970 Australian Art Today, touring 5 South East Asian countries
1972 Victoria and Albert Museum, London, Australian Prints
1973 Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney: Archibald Prize Winner
1978 Indonesia, Landscape and Image, sponsored by the Dept. of Foreign Affairs & the Australia Council
1979 Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney: 3rd Biennale of Sydney: European Dialogue
1979 University of New South Wales, Kensington, Art Purchase Prize Winner
1983 Australian National Gallery, Canberra: A Melbourne Mood: Cool Contemporary Art
1983 Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, Travelling Exhibition: Twelve Australian Painters
1983 Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney, The Artist as Designer
1987 National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne: Australian Art 1960 to 1986, Field to Figuratism, and Backlash: The Revival of Australian Drawing 1976 to 1988
1987 The Solander Gallery, Canberra: Australian Masters
1988 Creating Australia: The Great Australian Art Show, Bicentenial Travelling Survey Exhibition
1988 Australian National Gallery, Canberra: Drawing in Australia, Drawings, Watercolours and Pastels, from the 1770s to the 1980s
1988 David Jones Art Gallery, Sydney: The Self Portrait
1991 David Jones Art Gallery, Sydney, The Medium Pastel
1992 Australian National Gallery, Canberra, Pastels from the Collection
1993 National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, The First Clemenger Triennial Invitation Exhibition
1993 The Kedumba Invitation Drawing Prize, Leuura
1995 20th Century Works of Art By Women, National Gallery of Australia, and other public collection
1995 National Gallery of Australia, 1968

Awards

Honoured with many prizes throughout her career, including the Archibald Prize in 1973 and an Australia Council Visual Arts and Crafts Board Grant in 1985

Collections

National Gallery of Australia, Canberra and most state and regional galleries