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Australia Artist List

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Audrey Kitiching
Bimba Dissanayake
Ingrid Dusselberg
Kathy Fahey
Margaret Kettels
Margery Hummel Bennett
Marina Holland
Maureen Slatter
Roma McLaughlin
Sandra Angliss
Sharon Hodgson-Riley
Shirley Straford
Sue Apted-Muir

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Margaret Kettels

Born:

1941 Morwell, Victoria. Australia

Occupation:

Community Art Teacher / Artist / Home duties

Education:

Various private art classes

Media:

Oil, acrylic, gouache, mixed media, collage.

Experiences Related to Art:

Commissions, including a painting of Blackburn North Shopping Centre in 2000; Channel 10 ‘Neighbours’ TV series in 1991; and a private house in the Yarra Valley, Victoria. Art teacher at Koonung Community Centre. Demonstrations and workshops at art societies.

Honours and Awards:

Throughout 1991- 2005 21 First Prizes in art societies and local exhibitions including: First Prize Contemporary Art of the Royal Overseas League Exhibition 1997, Highly commended at the Victorian Artists’ Society 1995 and recipient of the City of Whitehorse Acquisitive Art Award in 1991 and 1994.

Most recently:

First Prize in Oils at the combined Whitehorse and Box Hill Artists’ Society exhibition 2004

First Prize in acrylics at the Whitehorse Artists’ Association 2004

First Prize in Other Media at the Strathdon Community Exhibition 2004

First Prize Bayswater Rotary Exhibition 2005

First Prize City of Whitehorse Mayors Award 2005

Solo Exhibitions:

2006 LaTrobe Regional Gallery

2000 Seventh Day Adventists ‘Bridge to the Future’ Exhibition,

Melbourne

1998 Whitehorse Centre, City of Whitehorse, Nunawading,

Melbourne

1990s Three studio gallery exhibitions in Melbourne

1990 Guilfoyles, South Yarra, Melbourne

Group Exhibitions:

Exhibited in Melbourne galleries for the past 20 years; selected:

2006 Her Presence in Colours VII, Her Light in Native Colours, Australian Chapter,

Manningham Gallery, Doncaster

2005 Mixed Palette Group Exhibition, Collingwood Gallery

2004 Her Presence in Colours VI, International Women Artists’

Exhibition, Manningham Gallery

2004 Fiveways Gallery, Mt. Dandenong (permanent)

2004 Contemporary Painters Group Exhibition, Box Hill Community

Arts Centre, Box Hill

2003 Mixed Palette Group Exhibition, Glen Eira Council Gallery,

Caulfield

2001 Mixed Palette Group Exhibition, Victorian Artists Society, East

Melbourne

2000 Something Different, Highway Gallery, Mt. Waverley

2000 Mixed Modern, Box Hill Community Arts Centre, Box Hill,

Melbourne

1995 Innovative Painters, Doncaster Templestowe Artists Society,

Doncaster

Memberships:

International Women Artists Association

Whitehorse Arts Association

Mixed Palette Group

Contemporary Women Painters Whitehorse

Important Collections:

Victorian Teachers Union

City of Whitehorse

St Vincent’s Private Hospital

S.M.H. Australia (Omega)

Royal Overseas League