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Anna Platten (b.1957)
Born in 1957 in Adelaide, South Australia.
Present occupation
Artist working at Central Studios, Adelaide and Lecturer at Adelaide Central School of Art, Adelaide
Education
1983 Post Graduate Award, South Australian College of Advanced Education, Adelaide
1976-80 Bachelor of Arts, Fine Arts, South Australian College of Advanced Education, Adelaide
Selected solo exhibitions
2005 Anna Platten: Paintings and Drawings 1994-2004, Eva Breuer, Art Dealer, Sydney
2004 Anna Platten: Paintings and Drawings 1994-2004, 2004 Adelaide Festival of Arts Adelaide Central Gallery, Adelaide
1992 Paintings and Studies 1982 - 1992, University of South Australia Art Museum, Adelaide
Selected group exhibitions
2009 Colliding Worlds Anne & Gordon Samstag Museum of Art, Adelaide
2008 Optimism Queensland Art Gallery, Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane
2007 Portrait and Place –Identity-Document or Insight ? Flinders University City Gallery
2007 Kedumba Drawing Awards ,Blue Mountains NSW
2007 True Portraits Adelaide Central Gallery
2004 Drawing Today: Surveying recent work by SA artists, SALA show, curated by Margot Osborne, Adelaide Central Gallery
2001 Kedumba Drawing Exhibition, Blue Mountains, NSW
1999 Chemistry, Art in South Australia 1990-2000, Art Gallery of South Australia
1998-99 Doug Moran Portrait Prize, national tour
1996 Compost, 1996 Adelaide Festival of Arts
1995 Rapture, Dubbo Regional Gallery, travelling to Adelaide Central Gallery
1993 Stage Two, Adelaide Festival Centre
1992 This Mortal Flesh, Adelaide Town Hall, 1992 Adelaide Festival of Arts
1991 The Nude Show Travelling Arts Program, Art Gallery of South Australia
1990 South Australian Contemporary Drawing, Anima Gallery, Adelaide
1988 The Image in Question - 4 Adelaide Artists, Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide
1987 New New, Lion Arts Centre, Adelaide
1987 Art Bank's Big Paintings, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney
1986 New New, Lion Arts Centre 1986 Adelaide Festival Fringe
Public commissions
2001 Flinders University – portrait of Vice Chancellor Ian Chubb
2000 University of Adelaide – portrait of Vice Chancellor Mary O’Kane
1993 University of South Australia
1988 South Australian Government Portrait Commission, the Hon. Anne Levy, Parliament House, Adelaide
1987-88 Museum Views, one of 12 commissioned mural artists, South Australian Museum, Adelaide
Awards
2004 Mid Career Fellowship, Arts SA, South Australian Government
1998 Finalist, Doug Moran Portrait Prize
1987 Chanter Bequest South Australian College of Advanced Education, Adelaide
Represented
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Tweed Heads Regional Gallery
Newcastle Regional Gallery
Art Bank, Sydney
Parliament House, South Australia
University of South Australia, Adelaide
Private collections nationally and internationally
Selected publications
2007 Studio –Australian Painters on the nature of creativity
Nov 2006 Sydney morning Herald –John McDonnald
2004 Anna Platten Paintings and drawings 1994-2004 Marot Osbourne
2003 Chris Reid, ‘The Revision of the Gaze – The Art of Anna Platten’, Voicing Dissent, New Talents 21C: Next Generation, Australian Studies No. 76 (Queensland University Press) 2003
Selected Public Addresses
2008 Spring Lecture Art Gallery of SA
2007 Zonta Woman of Achievement
2002 Love and Death Symposium, Art Gallery of SA
2001 Opening address for SALA Week 2001Art Gallery of SA
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