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Australia Artist List

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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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Sharon Hodgson-Riley

Born:

1951, Orange, New South Wales

Occupation:

Artist, designer, researcher, student

Education:

Graduate Diploma of Cultural Studies

Master Research/Arts

Master Cultural Heritage

Media:

Multi-media

Experiences relating to art:

Varied experiences as a multi/media artist. Worked with many different types of media over the years from web design, computer graphics, costume, textile and graphic design, a Melbourne festival float, book illustration, community mural projects, ceramics, co-ordination of projects, theatre and more recently computer generation, video production and radio broadcasting.

Solo Exhibitions:

1988 ‘Art Design and Future’, Friends of the Earth Gallery, Fitzroy

1983 ‘Exhibitionism’, Tait Gallery, Surrey Hills

Group Exhibitions:

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

Australian Chapter, Manningham Gallery, Doncaster

2004 Her Presence in Colours VI, International Women Artists

Exhibition, Manningham Gallery, Doncaster

1997 Contemporary Aboriginal Artists’ Exhibition, Brunswick Festival

1996”Whiteout’ 3 women show, Collingwood

1995 ‘Women Je Ka’ , Bendigo Easter Festival

1994 Fringe Festival St Kilda Community Gallery

1994 Linden Gallery, St Kilda

1993 Halcyion Lake Gallery, Carlton

1992 ‘Koori women Mean Business’ Art Expo City Square

1989 Fringe Festival, Fitzroy

Important collections:

1994 Koori Heritage Trust permanent collection

1994 ‘Pictures from a Dream’, mural Mathew Flinders Girls College,

Geelong

1993 ‘Booyooburra’ children’s story illustration (nominated for best

picture book of the

year)

1989 ‘History of Marribynong’, textile prints, Living Museum of the

West

Sharon Hodgson-Riley – Australia

The ancestral spirits are dancing remnants of a culture. A people present for thousands of years, ashes of ancient fires, middens and tool flakes remain. The ceremonial fire is missing. Places, shelter from storm, fresh water and the breeding grounds for natures many creatures. Fishes, shell fish and animal habitats are invaded. Colours of ancient ochre stones found on the beach, ground to paint with brushes made from feathers found on the beach. Nature, she provides. The lore that was given to us was to care for and protect the sacred land. Strangers come, want to possess and conquer natures beauty. Build houses, monuments to human. Want to clear the land, crush the fragile bush, the native flowers, they destroy, fresh water and habitat even wombat echidna and koala. Polluting makes money and filth and death. Trespassers be gone you defile sacred ground.