Marika Borlase (b.1967)

Biography
1967 Born, Melbourne

Education
1995-96 Master of Arts (Fine Arts), Chelsea College of Art and Design, University of the Arts, London, United Kingdom
1989-90 Post Graduate Diploma of Fine Art , Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
1986-88 Bachelor of Arts, Fine Art (Painting) Victoria College, Prahran Campus , Victoria, Australia
1985 Certificate of Art and Design , Box Hill College of T.A.F.E., Victoria, Australia

Solo Exhibitions
2005 New Paintings, Brian Moore Gallery, Sydney
Meanwhile in the studio…, Flinders Lane Gallery, Melbourne, Victoria Australia
2004 Cadaver Exquis, George Paton Gallery, Union House, University of Melbourne, Victoria
2000 Memory of You, Uplands Private Space, O’Dowd Collection, Dulwich, London
1998 Out in the Midday Sun, Royal Over-Seas League, Over-Seas House, St James’ Street, London
1997 Out in the Midday Sun, Landings Gallery, Royal Over-Seas House, Princes Street, Edinburgh. *Coinciding with The Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting 1997, Edinburgh
1994 Heritage Colours, Either Ohnetitel, Melbourne, Australia
1993 Heritage Colours, First Draft (West) Sydney, Australia
1991 Scape, Linden, St Kilda, Melbourne, Australia

Group Exhibitions

2006Melbourne Contemporary Art Fair, Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne.-Flinders Lane representationArt Sydney 06 Hordern Pavilion-Harrison Galleries Launch, Harrison Galleries (formally Brian Moore), Sydney, Australia, Archibald, Wynne and Sulman Prize Exhibition, Sulman Prize finalist, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
2005Methodist Ladies College Acquisitive Prize Exhibition, Melbourne
Prometheus Art Award Exhibition , Merrimac, Queensland, Group Exhibition, Flinders Lane Gallery Melbourne, Australia Affordable Art Fair London, with Flinders Lane Gallery Art 05 Sydney with Flinders lane Gallery
2004Group Exhibition, Flinders Lane Gallery Melbourne, Australia
Methodist Ladies College Acquisitive Prize Exhibition, Melbourne( Work acquired for collection), Camberwell Grammar School Old Collegian’s Invitation Exhibition, Melbourne
2003 The Secret Life of Us:2, Art Faculty Staff Exhibition, Harrison Gallery, Mowbray College, Victoria, Australia
2002 The Secret vLife of Us, Art Facultyy Staff Exhibition, Harrison Gallery, Mowbray College, Victoria, Australia
2001 Consider This. Installation and Conceptual Art, Harrison Gallery, Mowbray College, Victoria, Australia
1999 Bendigo Regional Annual Works on Paper Exhibition, Bendigo Regional Art Gallery, Victoria, Australia
1998 Norton Rose Reception Group Exhibition, Quantum Contemporary Art Royal College of Art, Kennsington, London
1997 Recent Acquisitions of Contemporary Australian Art, Murdoch Court, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
1996 Contemporary Art Society Market, Royal Festival Hall, London, UK
1996 Chelsea College of Art and Design, Fine Art MA Degree Exhibition, London, UK
1996 Chelsea College of Art and Design, Fine Art MA Degree Mid Year Exhibition, London, UK
1996 Royal Over-Seas League 13th Annual Exhibition, Edinburgh College of Art, Scotland
1996 Royal Over-Seas League 13th Annual Exhibition, Over-Seas House, St James’, London UK
1995 Home Sweet Home, Marika Borlase and Megan Campbell, Ether Ohnetitel, Melbourne, Australia
1995 The Pet Show. Curated by Tobias Richardson. Ether Ohnetitel, Melbourne, Australia
1995 Love is a Many Lacroix Thing. Collaboration Marika Borlase and Robin Metcalfe, Kazbar Café Bar, Melbourne Australia
1994 A Tribute th Dr Seuss, Ether Ohnetitel, Melbourne, Australia
1994 Mask Group Exhibition, Central Goldfeilds Gallery, Maryborough, Victoria, Australia
1990 Tell Them It Was Wonderful, Ian Potter Gallery. University of Melbourne, Australia
1989 Post Graduate Exhibition, VCA Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
1988 Prahran Painters 1988, Linden, Melbourne, Australia
1987 Prahan Painters 1987, Linden, Melbourne, Australia.
1986 Group Exhibition Young Melbourne Artists BAD Gallery, Melbourne, Australia.
1985 TOP Finishing Exhibition, Box Hill Community Arts Centre, Victoria, Australia.

Awards
2000 The Dwights Prize, University of Melbourne.
2000 Deans Honours List. Graduate Diploma in Education. University of Melbourne.
1996 Royal Over-Seas League Travel Scholarship, Barcelona Residency.
1994 Anne and Gordon Samstag International Visual Arts Scholarship. Chelsea College of Art and Design, MA Fine Arts.
1993 Patrick Corrigan Artists Grant.
1990 Fred Williams Family Award, VCA.
1989 Eckersley’s Art Award, VCA.

Collections
Matthew Freud, Freud Communications, London
National Gallery of Victoria, Australia
Royal Over-Seas League, London
University of the Arts, London
Camberwell Grammar School, Melbourne, Victoria,
Australia Council of Adult Education, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Methodist Ladies College, Kew, Victoria, Australia
Loreto Mandeville Hall, Toorak, Victoria, Australia                                                                                                              BHP Billiton, Australia
Private Collections, U.K, Australia and Europe

Selected Bibliography
BBC Radio 4, Itchy Feet Program on Artists and travel. October 1998.
Lifestyle Art from the heart of our nations, Southern Cross- 502. London, June 1998, Angela Gosnell.
Over-Seas, Quarterly Journal of ROSL Viva Barcelona! March-May 1998.
Recent Acquisitions, The Australian. 14 Feb 1997, Robert Rooney.
Recent Acquisitions, The Age Melbourne, 8 Jan 1997, Robert Nelson