Personal Details
Born 1965, Mildura, Australia
Lives and works in Naarm/Melbourne, Australia
2020- 2023 | Master of Fine Arts (Practice led Research), RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia |
1995- 1997 | Bachelor of Laws (LLB), La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia |
1989- 1990 | Graduate Diploma (Ceramics and Glass Conservation and Restoration), West Dean College, West Sussex, United Kingdom |
1985- 1987 | Bachelor of Arts (BA Fine Arts Ceramics), RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia |
2020 | Finalist FUSE Glass Prize, Jam Factory, Adelaide, SA |
2019 | Australia Council for the Arts funded Residency, Canberra Glass Works, ACT |
2017 | First Prize, Linden Postcard Show, Linden New Art, Melbourne |
2017 | Woollarha Small Sculpture Prize, Sydney, finalist |
2016 | Contemporary Small Sculpture Award, Deakin University, Melbourne, finalist |
2015 | Sidney Myer Fund Australian Ceramics Award, Shepparton Art Museum, Shepparton, finalist |
2015 | Australia Council for the Arts, Venice Biennale Artist Assistance Grant |
2014 | Contemporary Small Sculpture Award, Deakin University, Melbourne, finalist |
2014 | The Young Masters Ceramics Award, London, UK, finalist |
2014 | Australia Council for the Arts, Publicity and Promotion Grant to attend the Venice Biennale 2015 |
2012 | The Fisher's Ghost Art Award, Cambelltown Arts Centre, Sydney, finalist |
2012 | Adelaide Fringe Festival Visual Arts Award, finalist |
2012 | Sidney Myer Ceramics Award, Shepparton Art Museum, Shepparton, Victoria, finalist |
2012 | Albury Art Prize, Albury, finalist |
2011 | Woolarah Small Sculpture Prize, Sydney, finalist |
2011 | National Association of Visual Arts (NAVA) Grant: Janet Holmes a Court Artist Grant |
2010 | City of Hobart Art Prize, Hobart, finalist |
2009 | Stan + Maureen Duke Award, finalist |
2009 | Woolarah Small Sculpture Prize, Sydney, finalist |
2008 | Woolarah Small Sculpture Prize, Sydney, finalist |
2008 | Stan + Maureen Duke Award, finalist |
2008 | Fishers Ghost Art Award, Campbelltown Arts Centre, Sydney, finalist |
2007 | Ripe, Art and Australia and ANZ Emerging Artists, finalist |
2006 | Warrnambool Regional Art Gallery New Social Commentaries 06, Warrnambool, finalist |
2005 | Linden Postcard Show, Linden Centre for Contemporary Arts, Melbourne, Post Card Winner |
2002 | Pat Emery Award for Emerging Ceramicists, Victorian Ceramic Group, Honourable Mention |
2001 | Pat Emery Award for Emerging Ceramicists, Victorian Ceramic Group, Honourable Mention |
Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, Western Australia
Artbank, National Collection, Australia
Ballarat Fine Art Gallery, Ballarat, Victoria
Bendigo Art Gallery, Bendigo, Victoria
City of Darebin Art Collection, Melbourne, Victoria
City of Yarra Art Collection, Melbourne, Victoria
Deakin University Collection, Melbourne, Victoria
Henning V. Claassen Collection, Germany
Holmesglen TAFE Collection, Melbourne, Victoria
Horsham Regional Art Gallery, Horsham, Victoria
Lyon House Museum, Melbourne, Victoria
Mildura Art Gallery, Mildura, Victoria
Museum of Australian Democracy, Old Parliament House, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Victoria
Newcastle Region Art Gallery, Newcastle, New South Wales
Powerhouse Museum, Sydney, New South Wales
RMIT University Art Collection, Melbourne, Victoria
Shepparton Art Museum, Shepparton, Victoria
Simon Mordant Collection, Australia and Italy
Warrnambool Art Gallery, Warrnambool, Vic
Western Plains Cultural Centre, Dubbo, NSW
Private Collections in Australia, United Kingdom, Turkey, USA, New Zealand, Hong Kong, France, Italy, Belgium, Singapore, Germany, The Netherlands
2023 | White Gold: A Throne Gallery for the 21st Century, Master of Fine Art Examination Exhibition, Site8 Gallery, RMIT University, Melbourne, Vic |
2022 | White Gold: A Throne Gallery for the 21st Century, Red Gallery, Melbourne, Vic |
2022 | Community, Satellite Projects, Melbourne, Vic |
2019 | HIGH VIS: Protest, People and Power in a time of Fake News, St Helier St Gallery, Abbotsford Convent, Melbourne |
2019 | HIGH VIS: Protest, People and Power in a time of Fake News, Warrnambool Art Gallery, Vic |
2017 | Penny Byrne #EuropaEuropa, Michael Reid Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
2017 | Penny Byrne Brutal, Linden New Art, Melbourne |
2014 | Ettonez Moi, Fehily Contemporary, Melbourne |
2013 | Penny Byrne iPROTEST, Art Basel Hong Kong, Sullivan+Strumpf, Hong Kong |
2012 | Life is a Riot, Albury Library Museum, Albury, New South Wales |
2012 | The Art of the Possible, The Jam Factory Gallery, Adelaide, South Australia |
2011-12 | Penny Byrne: Commentariate, Deakin University Art Gallery, Melbourne; Geelong Art Gallery, Geelong; Warrnambool Gallery, Warrnambool; Mildura Art Gallery, Mildura |
2011-12 | Political Porcelain, Museum of Australian Democracy, Old Parliament House, Canberra |
2011 | Plausible Deniability, Sullivan+Strumpf Fine Art, Sydney |
2011 | Penny Byrne, Gear Box Gallery, The Motor Works, Melbourne Grammar School, Melbourne |
2010 | ILL gotten Gains, Sullivan+Strumpf Fine Art, Sydney |
2009 | Interesting Times, Sullivan+Strumpf Fine Art, Sydney |
2008 | Collateral Damage, Melbourne Art Fair, Sullivan+Strumpf, Royal Exhibition Centre |
2007 | Blood, Sweat and Fears, Sullivan+Strumpf Fine Art, Sydney |
2006 | Penny Byrne: Mantlepiece, Linden Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne |
2024/25 | Maximum Madness: Art inspired by Mad Max, Caboolture Regional Art Gallery, Qld |
2024 | BIG CERAMIC ENERGY, Shepparton Art Museum, Shepparton, Vic |
2024 | Maximum Madness: Artworks inspired by Mad Max, Rockhampton Museum of Art, Qld |
2024 | Settled/Unsettled, Maitland Regional Art Gallery, NSW |
2023 | DOMINION, Arts West Gallery, University of Melbourne, Vic |
2023 | There's No Place Like Home, Warrnambool Art Gallery, Warrnambool, Vic |
2023 | Visual Language: The Art of Protest, Subliminal Projects, Los Angeles, USA |
2023 | Lyon Collection Exhibition #6, Lyon House Museum and Galleries, Melbourne, Vic |
2023 | Dance Me to the End of Love: Journeys from birth to death in the SAM Collection, Shepparton Art Museum, Shepparton, Vic |
2023 | Settled/Unsettled: art on asylum seeker, migrant and refugee experiences, Canberra Museum & Art Gallery, Canberra, ACT |
2023 | Welcome to my World, Ceramics with Narrative, Hub-Sleaford, Sleaford, England |
2022 | Welcome to my World: Ceramics with Narrative, New Brewery Arts, Cirencester, England |
2022 | Settled/Unsettled: art on asylum seeker, migrant and refugee experiences, Manly Museum & Art Gallery, Sydney, NSW |
2021 | GLASSTRESS: Window to the Future, The State Hermitage museum, St Petersburg, Russia |
2021 | Welcome to my World: Ceramics with Narrative, The Burton on Bideford, Devon, England |
2021 | Figuratively, Llantarnam Grange Arts Centre, Cwmbrân, Wales |
2021 | The Art of Protest, Newcastle Art Gallery, Newcastle, NSW |
2021 | Clay Dynasty! The Powerhouse Museum, Sydney, NSW |
2021 | Flesh After Fifty: Changing Images of Older Women in Art, The Abbotsford Convent, Melbourne, Vic |
2020 | Emerging to Established, Krause Gallery, New York, USA |
2020 | Linden Postcard Show 30th Anniversary Exhibition, Linden New Art, Melbourne, Vic |
2020 | UNBREAKABLE: Women in Glass, Fondazione Berengo Art Space, Murano, Venice, Italy |
2020 | FUSE Glass Prize Finalist's Exhibition, Jam Factory, Adelaide, South Australia |
2020 | Guns to Roses, Maitland Regional Art Gallery, Maitland, NSW |
2019 | Postcard Salon 2019, Jarvis Dooney Galerie, Berlin, Germany |
2019 | Collection Exhibition: Talismans for Uncertain Times, Bendigo Art Gallery, Bendigo, Vic |
2019 | Pleasure, (2019 2020), RMIT University Gallery, Melbourne, Victoria |
2019 | Craftivism: Dissident Objects and Subversive Forms, 2018 to 2020, Shepparton Art Museum, Warrnambool Art Gallery, Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, Museum of Australian Democracy, Bega Valley Regional Gallery, Warwick Art Gallery, University of the Sunshine Coast Art Gallery |
2019 | Between the Moon and the Stars, Museum Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, NT |
2019 | SODEISHA: connected to Australia, Newcastle Art Gallery, NSW |
2019 | Enucleo Subversive Clay, Australian Ceramics Triennale, Hobart, Tasmania |
2018 | Gothic Beauty: Victorian Notions of Love, Loss and Spirituality, Bendigo Art Gallery, Bendigo, Victoria |
2018 | Chaos & Order: 120 Years of Collecting, RMIT University Gallery, Melbourne, Vic |
2018 | Unbreakable – Ceramics Redefined, Jankossen Gallery, New York, USA |
2018 | Hearts and Minds, Canberra Glassworks, Canberra, ACT |
2017 | Linden Postcard Show, Linden New Art, Melbourne, Victoria |
2017 | Woollarah Small Sculpture Prize finalists exhibition, Woollahra Council Gallery, Sydney, NSW |
2017 | BLOOD: Attract & Repel, Science Gallery Melbourne, Victoria |
2017 | Survival Bias, La Trobe Art Institute, Bendigo, Victoria |
2017 | VOLTA13, with Coates and Scarry, Basel, Switzerland |
2017 | Time and Tide, ClimArte Festival, Alcaston Gallery, Melbourne, Victoria |
2017 | The Extractive Frontier: Mining for Art, Castlemaine Art Gallery, Victoria |
2017 | Selected works Coates and Scarry, Gallery8, London, UK |
2016 | My Hero! Contemporary Art & Super Hero Action, touring multi venue until 2020, USA |
2016 | Birds: Flight Paths in Australian Art, Mornington Peninsular Regional Gallery, Victoria |
2016 | Wildthing: Animals in Contemporary Art, Mosman Art Gallery, Sydney, NSW |
2016 | 10+3, James Makin Gallery, Melbourne, Victoria |
2016 | 80/80. Eighty Years of SAM. The Collection, Shepparton Art Museum, Shepparton, Victoria |
2016 | Art16 London, Grand Hall Olympia, with Fehily Contemporary, London, UK |
2016 | GlassFever Contemporary Art in Glass, Huis van Gijn, Dordrecht, The Netherlands |
2016 | Contemporary Small Sculpture Award, Deakin University, Melbourne |
2016 | Wait, weep and be worthy, Hawkesbury Regional Gallery, Windsor, NSW |
2016 | New16, Fehily Contemporary, Melbourne, Victoria |
2016 | Antipodean Inquiry, Yuvaz Gallery, Singapore |
2015 | GLASSTRESS Gotika, Venice Biennale, Palazzo Franchetti, Venice, Italy |
2015 | Sidney Myer Australian Ceramics Award, Shepparton Art Museum, Shepparton, Victoria |
2015 | Storm in a Teacup, Mornington Peninsular Regional Gallery, Mornington, Victoria |
2015 | Vestige, Gallery8, Coates and Scarry, Duke Street, London, UK |
2015 | First Landing to Last Post, Australian Parliament House, Canberra, ACT |
2015 | Guarding the Homefront, Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre, Sydney, NSW |
2014 | The Object Divine, Lauraine Diggins Fine Art, Melbourne, Victoria |
2014 | Young Masters Ceramics Award, Lloyds Club, London, UK |
2014 | START Art Fair, Saatchi Gallery, with Fehily Contemporary, London, UK |
2014 | Paradise Again, Shepparton Art Museum, Shepparton, Victoria |
2014 | Animal Ark, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, WA |
2014 | Art14 London, Grand Hall Olympia, with Fehily Contemporary, London, UK |
2014 | Made to Last, NETS (Victoria) Touring Show, CDU Art Gallery, Charles Darwin University, Darwin, NT |
2014 | Private assembly: a contemporary collection, Tweed Regional Gallery, NSW |
2014 | Melbourne Now, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Victoria |
2014 | Vital Signs: Interpreting the Archive, Blindside Gallery, Melbourne, Vic |
2014 | Made to Last, NETS (Victoria Touring Show), McClelland Sculpture Park + Gallery, Victoria |
2013 | Australia – Contemporary Voices, The Fine Art Society, London, UK |
2013 | Censored, Fehily Contemporary, Collingwood, Victoria |
2013 | In the Public Interest, Counihan Gallery, Brunswick, Victoria |
2013 | Enucleo – Contemporary Clay, Sawtooth ARI, Launceston and 146 Artspace, Hobart, Tasmania |
2013 | Auckland Art Fair, Fehily Contemporary, The Cloud Convention Centre, Auckland, New Zealand |
2013 | Made to Last, NETS (Victoria Touring Show), QUT Art Museum, Brisbane, Queensland |
2013 | Compact, Fehily Contemporary, Collingwood, Vic |
2013 | (What’s so funny ‘bout) Peace, Love and Understanding?, Bayside Arts and Cultural Centre, Brighton, Victoria |
2013 | Diorama, Wollongong City Gallery, Wollongong, NSW |
2013 | Made to Last, NETS (Victoria) Touring Show, Manningham Gallery, Doncaster, Victoria |
2012 | Fishers Ghost Art Award, Campbelltown Arts Centre, Campbelltown, NSW |
2012 | Subvert, Australian Ceramics Triennale Group Show, Light Square Gallery, AC Arts, Adelaide, South Australia |
2012 | Made to Last, NETS (Victoria) Touring Show, La Trobe Regional Gallery, Ballarat Art Gallery, Victoria |
2012 | iPROTEST - (installation in Haunts and Follies), Linden Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne |
2012 | Like, Casula Powerhouse, Sydney, NSW |
2012 | Hello Dolly, Penrith Regional Gallery, Penrith, NSW |
2012 | Albury Art Prize, Albury Art Gallery, Albury, NSW |
2012 | SSFA12, Sullivan+Strumpf Fine Art, Sydney, NSW |
2012 | Art by Wendouree, Art Gallery of Ballarat, Ballarat, Victoria |
2011 | Capriccio, Red Gallery, Melbourne, Victoria |
2011 | SSFA11, Sullivan+Strumpf Fine Art, Sydney, NSW |
2010 | Power Chicks and Men Who Sew, Deloitte, Sydney, NSW |
2010 | New Acquisitions, Art Gallery of Ballarat, Ballarat, Victoria |
2010 | Recent Acquisitions, Shepparton Art Gallery, Shepparton, Victoria |
2010 | Ceramics Now! Whitehorse Art Space, Melbourne, Victoria |
2010 | The Navigators, Karen Woodbury Gallery, Melbourne, Victoria |
2010 | ARTHK10, Hong Kong Art Fair with Sullivan+Strumpf Fine Art, Hong Kong |
2010 | Clash: Contemporary Sculptural Ceramics, Newcastle Region Gallery, Newcastle, NSW |
2010 | SSFA10, Sullivan+Strumpf Fine Art, Sydney, NSW |
2010 | Time Travel, Tweed River Art Gallery, Murwillumbah, NSW |
2009 | Copenhagen Art Fair, ADCO:VENUE, Copenhagen, Denmark |
2009 | Horror – Come Darkness, Macquarie University Art Gallery, Sydney, NSW |
2009 | Thing: Beware of the Material World, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, WA |
2009 | White Heat, Manly Art Gallery and Museum, Sydney, NSW |
2009 | Facing the Future, Australian Ceramics Triennial, National Art School, Sydney, NSW |
2009 | The Climate Show, Copenhagen, Denmark |
2009 | Salon des Refuses, SH Ervin Gallery, Sydney, NSW |
2009 | SSFA09, Sullivan+Strumpf Fine Art, Sydney, NSW |
2008 | Fishers Ghost Art Award, Campbelltown Arts Centre, Campbelltown, NSW |
2008 | Stan and Maureen Duke Award, Gold Coast City Gallery, Gold Coast, QLD |
2008 | Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize, Sydney, NSW |
2008 | SSFA08, Sullivan+Strumpf Fine Art, Sydney, NSW |
2007 | Arc Biennial, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane QLD |
2007 | SSFA07, Sullivan+Strumpf Fine Art, Sydney, NSW |
2007 | Exquisite Palette, St Luke The Colourmen, Melbourne, Victoria |
2006 | New Social Commentaries 06, Warrnambool Art Gallery, Warrnambool, Victoria |
2006 | The (Royal) Melbourne Show, Sullivan+Strumpf Fine Art, Sydney, NSW |
2006 | SSFA06, Sullivan+Strumpf Fine Art, Sydney, NSW |
2006 | Linden Postcard Show, Linden Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, Victoria |
2005 | Sydney Affordable Art Fair, Sullivan+Strumpf Fine Art, Sydney, NSW |
2005 | Linden Postcard Show, Linden Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, Victoria |
2004 | It's Murder on Easey Street, Easey Street Studios Gallery, Melbourne Fringe Festival, Melbourne, Victoria |
2003 | Castlemaine State Festival Ceramics Award, Castlemaine, Victoria |
2002 | Pat Emery Award for Emerging Ceramicists, Victorian Ceramic Group, Montsalvat, Victoria |
2001 | Pat Emery Award for Emerging Ceramicists, Victorian Ceramic Group, Northcote Pottery Kiln Gallery, Melbourne, Victoria |
2000 | The White Cube Project, Dante's Gallery, Melbourne, Victoria |
1988 | RMIT Graduate Show, Arts Centre, Melbourne, Victoria |
Warrnambool Art Gallery, Exhibition Catalogue, 2019
http://www.thewag.com.au/exhibition/high-vis-protest-people-and-power-time-fake-news
“All We Can’t See: Australian Artists Illustrate the Nauru files”, Sydney Morning Herald, August 4th, 2018, Jewel Topsfield
https://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/art-and-design/all-we-can-t-see-australian-artists-illustrate-the-nauru-files-20180804-p4zvjz.html
“Penny Byrne: Armed and vulnerable”, Art Monthly Australia, Issue 305 (Mar 2018), Arjmand Aziz
https://search.informit.com.au/documentSummary;dn=423389763935541;res=IELLCC
“Penny Byrne, ceramicist: Four Horsemen of the 21st Century Apocalypse”, The Australian, October 7th, 2017, Bronwyn Watson
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/arts/review/penny-byrne-ceramicist-four-horsemen-of-the-21st-century-apocalypse/news-story/d1241c0d8f8126d25f4b895a431b44d3
“Penny Byrne on Europe’s Refugee Crisis and the Power of Porcelain”, October 5th, 2017|https://www.juxtapoz.com/news/sculpture/europaeuropa-penny-byrne-on-europe-s-refugee-crisis-and-the-power-of-porcelain/
“Penny Byrne – Brutal”, Arts Review, February 7th, 2017
http://artsreview.com.au/penny-byrne-brutal/
Exhibition:Brutal at Linden New Art, The ArtMUSEum, Paul Costigan, 5 March 2017
http://www.theartmuseum.com.au/2017/03/05/penny-byrne/
"Wings of Desire, Demise and Adaptation: Birds in Australian Art", Grainne Cleary and Hannah Tribe, The Conversation online, 5 December, 2016
https://theconversation.com/wings-of-desire-demise-and-adaptation-birds-in-australian-art-69884
"Harrowing Photojournalism inspires a tragic Greek Sculpture" by Catherine Chapman, The Creators Project, VICE, 16 June 2016
http://thecreatorsproject.vice.com/blog/penny-byrne-homemade-gas-masks-sculpture
NewGlass Review 37, page 8, Penny Byrne "Hurt Locker" one of 100 cutting edge glass artworks selected in 2016, Corning Museum of Glass, New York, 2016
"Melbourne artist Penny Byrne creates suit of armour out of hand-blown glass for prestigious Venice Biennale show', Kylie Northover, Fairfax media, 15th April, 2015
http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/art-and-design/melbourne-artist-penny-byrne-creates-suit-of-armour-out-of-handblown-glass-for-prestigious-venice-biennale-show-20150416-1mlp7c.html
Penny Byrne changes medium and scale in riotous new exhibition, Dylan Rainforth, 11th November, 2014
http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/art-and-design/penny-byrne-changes-medium-and-scale-in-riotous-new-exhibition-20141111-11ka83.html
“Feisty figurine fitted with baton and grenade”, The Art Newspaper Online, 23rd November, 2013
http://old.theartnewspaper.com/articles/The%20feisty%20figurine%20fitted%20with%20baton%20and%20grenade/31036
‘Penny Byrne featured artist’, Australian Art Collector, Issue 64, 2013
‘Figuring out sincerity without irony’, Robert Nelson, The Age, August 15, 2012
http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/art-and-design/figuring-out-sincerity-without-irony-20120814-246l7.html
‘Artist’s delicate figurines have plenty to say’, Sun Herald, August 28 2011
http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/art-and-design/artists-delicate-figurines-have-plenty-to-say-20110827-1jfat.html
Pryor, Sally. ‘Porcelain conservator goes to pieces over politics’, The Canberra Times 30 June 2011
ABC Radio- Canberra, Porcelain with a political message, Afternoons with Genevieve Jacobs, June 2011
artingeelong, Commentariat by Penny Byrne at Geelong Gallery (blog), 1st June 2011
http://artingeelong.com/2011/06/01/commentariat-by-penny-byrne-at-geelong-gallery/
Nelson, Robert. ‘Of gentility and heebie-jeebies’ The Age, 9 March 2011, p 19
http://newsstore.fairfax.com.au/apps/viewDocument.ac;jsessionid=5BA5A6BE8DE19E35B26BA4639D017E6C?sy=afr&pb=all_ffx&dt=selectRange&dr=1month&so=relevance&sf=text&sf=headline&rc=10&rm=200&sp=brs&cls=611&clsPage=1&docID=AGE110309M16DQ5323G4
ABC Radio – Ballarat, and www.abc.net.au/ballarat: Radio interview about New Acquisitions Exhibition, 2 September, 2010
Mendelssohn, Joanna. ‘Critic’s Choice’, Australian Art Collector, Issue 56 April – June 2011, p. 191
Reid, Michael. ‘Penny Byrne’ Michael Reid: Australian Art, 2011
http://www.michaelreid.com.au/Resources/CY54_Byrne.pdf
‘Opening Gallery: Ill Gotten Gains’, Spectrum, Sydney Morning Herald, 18 – 19 September 2010
‘Look what we’ve bought’, The Courier, Ballarat, 31 August 2010, p 14
Flynn, Paul. ‘Profile: Penny Byrne’ Artist Profile, Issue 12, 2010, p 77 - 81
Ray, Una. ‘Dynamic Ceramics’ The Herald, Saturday 20 February, 2010
Gibson, P. ‘Exceptional Acquisitions’ Australian Art Collector, Issue 51, January – March 2010, p 148 - 151
Cook, Robert. ‘Thing: Beware the Material World’, exhibition catalogue, Art Gallery of Western Australia, p 42 – 43
Reid, Michael. ‘Plenty of talent to boost collections’, The Weekend Australian, 2 -3 January 2010
‘Stan and Maureen Duke Gold Coast Art Prize 2008’, Antiques and Art in Queensland, Nov 08 – March 09, p 11
‘Oh Brother’, The Age 19 September 2008 p 22
Israel, Glenis. ‘Art Wise Contemporary 2’, John Wiley and Sons Australia Ltd, 2009, p 66 - 72
O’Riordan, Maurice. ‘Editorial’ and cover image, Art Monthly, August 2008 Issue #212 p 3
‘New Work: Penny Byrne’ Art World, August – September 2008, p 152 - 155
Walton, Inga. ‘Vicious Figurines. Penny Byrne’s Ceramic Advocacy’, Ceramics Art and Perception International, Issue 72, 2008, p 15
‘Feats of clay’, Careers section, City Weekly, Melbourne, 19 June 2008, p 21
Mendelssohn, Joanna. ‘Smart Art: Penny Byrne’ Australian Art Collector, Issue 41, July – September 2007, p 150
Clement, Tracey. ‘Blood, Sweat and Fears’, Artlink, Vol 27 # 2, 2007, p 93
Carol Rosenberg. ‘Guantanamo in pop culture’, The Miami Herald, 9 September 2007, p 1
Galacho, Olga. ‘Suffer for art but not financially’, Herald Sun, 24 May 2007, p 67
Organ, Joyce. ‘Beware, these pretty things bite’, Sydney Morning Herald, 6 March 2007, p 14
‘2007’s top 100 tips - Art investing’, The Weekend Australian, 30-31 December 2006, p 29
Sheedy, Chris. ‘Q&A: Love your work’, Sunday Life magazine,18 June 2006, p 10
Lobley, Katrina. ‘Events – The Royal Melbourne Show’, Domain, Sydney Morning Herald 13 April 2006, p 4
Clement, Tracey. ‘Victoria Bitter’, Metro, Sydney Morning Herald April 21-27 2006, p 23