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PENNY BYRNE
Born 1965, Australia
EDUCATION
1997 Bachelor of Laws (LLB), La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia
1990 Graduate Diploma (Ceramics and Glass Conservation and Restoration), West Dean College, West Sussex, United Kingdom
1987 Bachelor of Arts (BA Fine Arts Ceramics), RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia
AWARDS, PRIZES AND GRANTS
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 The Young Masters Ceramics Award, London, UK, finalist
2014 Australia Council for the Arts, Publicity and Promotion Grant
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
INTERNSHIP AND RESIDENCY
1990 Victoria and Albert Museum, Internship, Ceramics Conservation Labroatory, London, UK
1988 Meat Market Craft Centre, Ceramics Studio, 12 Month Residency
COLLECTIONS
Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, Western Australia
Artbank, National Collection, Australia
Ballarat Fine Art Gallery, Ballarat, Victoria
City of Yarra Art Collection, Melbourne, Victoria
Deakin University Collection, Melbourne, Victoria
Henning V. Claassen Collection, Germany
Holmesglen TAFE Collection, Melbourne, Victoria
Lyon House Museum, Melbourne, Victoria
Mildura Art Gallery, Mildura, Victoria
Museum of Australian Democracy, Old Parliament House, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory
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
Warrnambool Art Gallery, Warrnambool, Victoria
Western Plains Cultural Centre, Dubbo, New South Wales
Private Collections in Australia, United Kingdom, Turkey, USA, New Zealand, Hong Kong, France, Belgium, Singapore, Germany, The Netherlands
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
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 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
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
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 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
2013-14 Melbourne Now, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Victoria
2013-14 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 (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
2011 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 Recent Acquisitions, Shepparton Art Gallery, Shepparton, 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
BIBLIOGRAPHY
“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
“Penny Byrne on Europe’s Refugee Crisis and the Power of Porcelain”, October 5th, 2017
“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
Penny Byrne changes medium and scale in riotous new exhibition, Dylan Rainforth, 11th November, 2014
“Feisty figurine fitted with baton and grenade”, The Art Newspaper Online, 23rd November, 2013
‘Penny Byrne featured artist’, Australian Art Collector, Issue 64, 2013
‘Figuring out sincerity without irony’, Robert Nelson, The Age, August 15, 2012
‘Artist’s delicate figurines have plenty to say’, Sun Herald, August 28 2011
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
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
SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS
2017 Linden New Art, Penny Byrne - Brutal, Artist Talk
2017 Mornington Peninsular Regional Gallery, Flight Paths: Birds in Art Artist Talk
2016 ART16 London Art Fair, Artist Talk
2016 Shepparton Festival, In Conversation with Dr Rebecca Coates, Shepparton Art Museum
2016 Art Gallery of Ballarat, Greg Binns Memorial lecture, Ballarat, Victoria
2016 Numurkah Library, Artist talk, Numurkah, Victoria
2014 Shepparton Art Museum, In Conversation with Kate Auty, Shepparton, Victoria
2014 Linden Centre for Contemporary Arts, Artist Talk, Melbourne
2014 Leith School of Art, Guest lecturer and seminar presenter, Edinburgh, Scotland
2014 Sunday Reid Salon, Guest Speaker, London, England
2014 Renew Restore Respect Forum, Sustainability Festival, Guest Speaker, Melbourne
2014 The National Gallery of Victoria, Artist Talk, Melbourne
2013 The Lyceum Club Arts Forum, Artist Talk, Melbourne
2013 RMIT University School of Visual Arts, Artist Talk, Melbourne
2013 University of Tasmania College of the Arts, Artist Talk, Launceston
2013 Ceramics and Glass Circle of Australia, Artist Talk, Melbourne
2013 Bayside Arts and Cultural Centre, Artist Talk, Brighton, Victoria
2013 National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne Now Forum, Melbourne
2012 ABC Radio National, By Design Panel Discussion, Objects and Memory
2012 Australian Ceramics Triennale, Key Note Speaker, Adelaide
2012 The School of Art, Australian National University, Artist Talk, Canberra
2012 The Museum of Australian Democracy at Old Parliament House, Artist Talk, Canberra
2012 The Jam Factory, Artist Talk, Adelaide
2011 Holmesglen Tafe, Artist Talk, Melbourne
2011 Geelong Art Gallery, Artist Talk, Geelong, Victoria
2011 Deakin University Gallery, Artist Talk, Deakin University, Melbourne
2010 Newcastle Region Gallery, International Women’s Day Guest Speaker, Newcastle, NSW
2009 The National Gallery of Victoria Women’s Association, Decorative Arts Seminar, Melbourne
2008 National Gallery of Victoria, Voluntary Guides Guest Speaker, Melbourne
2008 Sidney Myer Fund International Ceramic Award at Shepparton Art Gallery, Artist Talk, Shepparton, Victoria
2007 Vogue Living, Artists in Conversation Dinner, Sydney
2007 Visual Arts Secondary Teachers Annual Conference, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
2007 Australian Institute for the Conservation of Cultural Materials, Artist Talk, Melbourne
