Artists
Gilles Tran
Nguyen Huu Khoa
Tran Dan
Le Huy
Le Vo Tuan
Le Duc Hai - Le Ngoc Thanh
Sue Pedley
Gail joy Kenning
Nguyen Nhu Huy
Dinh Cong Dat
Luong Luu Bien
Tran Huu Nhat
Tran Trung Linh
Bui Bao Quoc
Truong Thien
Ngo Thai Uyen
Nguyen Thanh Truc
Rodney Dickson
Colin McGookin
Bonita Ely
Bui Cong Khanh
Glen Clarke
Le A
Ben Puah
Tiffany Chung
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Bonita Ely
Public Art Projects
2002 Permanent public art commission,
3rd International Sculpture Symposium: Hue, Vietnam. Location, City Hall,
Hue, Vietnam
1998 Public art commission,
Light House, architectural folly, Hue, Vietnam.
Brick, reinforced concrete, ceramic, paint. Approx. 5 metres high, 1.5 metres
diameter. Built using traditional Vietnamese building methods
and materials.
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2001 Inside Mawson's Sleeping Bag
Bellas Gallery, Brisbane, Queensland
Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide
Stills Gallery, Sydney
2000 Inside Mawson's Sleeping Bag: the Poetics of Heroism, Sutton Gallery, Melbourne
1999 Asian Biennale of Contemporary Art, Dhaka, Bangladesh, Juggernaut
Customs House, Sydney, Juggernaut
Bellas Gallery, Brisbane, Juggernaut
1998 Public commission, 2nd International Sculpture Symposium, Hue, Vietnam.
1997 Artists In The House! Elizabeth Bay House Contemporary Art Installation Program,
Elizabeth Bay House, Historic Houses Trust, Sydney.
Melbourne Festival. Sutton Gallery, Melbourne. Juggernaut
1995 Solo exhibition, Sutton Gallery, Melbourne.
1994 Sleepers/Ties 111 Highways Gallery, installation, Los Angeles, USA.
1993 Sleepers/Ties 1, Urban intervention near Olympic Blvd. and 17th Street,
Santa Monica, Los Angeles.
Solo exhibition, Bellas Gallery, Brisbane.
1992 Installed works on paper, Annandale Galleries, Sydney
Sculptural installation, installed works on paper, Sutton Gallery, Melbourne
Installed works on paper, Bellas Gallery, Brisbane, Queensland
1991 We Live To Be Surprised, sculptural installation, Performance Space, Sydney
1990 Rabbit, sculptural installation, Bellas Gallery, Brisbane, Queensland
1989 Paintings, prints, drawings, Bellas Gallery, Brisbane, Queensland
1988 Paintings, drawings, Bellas Gallery, Brisbane, Queensland
1987 Phototropic, sculptural installation, Performance Space, Sydney
Paintings, Roslyn Oxley Gallery9, Sydney
Paintings, drawings, Bellas Gallery, Brisbane, Queensland
1986 Dogwoman Makes History, performative installation, First Draft, Sydney
1985 Murray River Project, Performance Space, Sydney
1983 Controlled Atmosphere, performative installation, Artspace, Sydney
1981 Mount Feathertop Project, Part 2, sculpture, Institute of Modern Art,
Brisbane and Art Projects, Melbourne
Murray River Punch, performance, Rundle Mall, Adelaide
1979 Mount Feathertop Project, works on paper, sculpture, Art Projects, Melbourne
1975 At Home With The Locust People, installation,West Street Gallery, Sydney
1972 Blondie, sculpture, Ceylon Tea Centre Gallery, London.
Selected Group Exhibitions
2003 Australian Installation Art, Museum of Art, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, USA
Outside In, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney
2002 Fieldwork, the Ian Potter Centre, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne.
Hue, 4A Gallery, Sydney
Border Panic, Performance Space and Museum Of Contemporary Art, Sydney
3 Foot Square, COFA, with Marr Grounds, Tony Coleing, Shayne Higson.
2001 Histories, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney
2000 Spitting and Biting, Monash University Gallery, Melbourne
1999 We Are Australian, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne [travelling]
Shifting Currents: College of Fine Arts Faculty, Ivan Dougherty Gallery,
College of Fine Arts, the University of New South Wales.
1998 Co-Existence: Australian Artists Against Racism, Hogarth Galleries, Sydney.
Collaboration with Pulpuru Davies.
Private Parts, Monash University Gallery, Melbourne.
The Acid Test, Project Space, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, (RMIT)
1997 Gift For India, Safdar Hashmi Memorial Trust, Lalit Kala Galleries, New Delhi;
Gallery Chemould, Bombay.
1996 Parking, Casula Power House, Casula, Sydney. Paper sculpture,
Lila and De Witt's Patent Digestive System
1995 The River, Swan Hill Regional Art Gallery, Victoria. Travelling.
1994 25 Years of Performance Art in Australia, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney. Travelling.
Out of the Box, Nolan Gallery, Canberra. Travelling.
1993 Fifth Australian Sculpture Triennial, Melbourne. Urban intervention, Spirit Level.
1992 Unfamiliar Territory, Adelaide Biennial of Australia, Art Gallery of South Australia.
1990 Installation, Art Dock, Noumea, New Caledonia
1989 In Transit, Chisenhale Gallery, London, and Canterbury Arts Festival, United Kingdom
Australian Prints, Australian National Gallery, Canberra
1988 Bicentennial Print Portfolio, Australian National Gallery, Canberra
1985 Dog Woman Project, installation, Making Appearances,
Charlottenberg Museum, Copenhagen, Denmark
Murray River Project, installed work on paper, sculpture, artist's book, Perspecta,
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
1983 Survey of Australian Art, Continuum, Tokyo, Japan
Controlled Atmosphere, performance, Anzart, Hobart, Tasmania.
1982 Dog Woman Communicates With The Younger Generation, performance,
Performance Festival, Kunsterhaus Bethanien, West Berlin
1980 15 Sculptors, (travelling sculpture exhibition) National Gallery of Victoria
Perspecta, Art Gallery of New South Wales
3+3+9, sculpture, Harbourfront Gallery, Toronto, Canada
Bread Line, performance, Anzart, Christchurch, New Zealand
1978 Women's Show, Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide
1977 Portrait of the Artist As a Young Woman, Women's Postal Event;
Institute of Contemporary Art, London, United Kingdom
1976 Three Statements on Environment, George Paton & Ewing Galleries, Melbourne
1975 The Grid Show, George Paton & Ewing Galleries, University of Melbourne
GRANTS
2001 UNSW University Research Support Program
Faculty Research Grant, College of Fine Arts, UNSW, Sydney.
2000 Special Studies Program, UNSW
1998 Development Grant, Visual Arts/Crafts Fund, Australia Council.
1997 Faculty Research Grant, College of Fine Arts, UNSW, Sydney.
1996 Special Studies Program, UNSW
1994 Small A.R.C. Grant, College of Fine Arts, UNSW, Sydney.
1993 Faculty Research Grant, College of Fine Arts, UNSW, Sydney..
Visual Arts/Crafts Board, Australia Council, Professional Development Grant.
Residency in the Australia Council Studio, 18th Street Arts Complex,
Santa Monica, Los Angeles, U.S.A.
1988 Visual Arts/Crafts Board, Australia Council, Full-Standard Grant.
1985 "See Awards".
1981 Victorian Ministry of the Arts Literature Grant
a publication about the Murray River , entitled "Murray Murundi".
1979 Further funding for WAREP from Schools Commission.
Tasmanian College of Advanced Education, Hobart,
Invitation to make paper works at "Jabberwocky Paper Mill".
1977 Visual Arts Board, Australia Council. Special Projects Grant for Mt. Feathertop Project
Schools Commission Innovations Program for project entitled
"Women's Art Register Extension Project" (WAREP) involving
research, collection, documentation and collation of material, historical
and contemporary, about Australian women artists, for educational use.
1976 Visual Arts Board, Australian Council, Special Project Grant for Mt. Feathertop Project.
AWARDS
1985 Visual Arts Board, Australia Council Kiffi Rubbo Memorial Art Award Grant
1979 Henri Worland Memorial Arts Prize, Warrnambool, Victoria.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Selected Publications
Ely, B., (2001), Longevity In Hue, TAASA Review: the Journal of the Asian Arts Society of Australia, Vol. 9, No. 3.
Ely, B., (2000), Inside Mawson's Sleeping Bag: the Poetics of Heroism, catalogue.
Ely, B, (1998), Juggernaut, catalogue, Sutton Gallery, Object Gallery, Bellas Gallery.
Ely, B. (1998), Two Gardens and a Wasteland In LA, TAASA Review: the Journal of the Asian Arts
Society of Australia, Vol. 7, No. 2.
Ely, B. (1997), The Spatiality of Hindu Temples, Southern India, TAASA Review: the Journal of the
Asian Arts Society of Australia, Vol. 6, No. 4, P. 10 - 11.
Ely, B. (1997) Artists In The House! Elizabeth Bay House Contemporary Art Installation Program,
Historic Houses Trust, New South Wales. P. 12. Catalogue notes.
Ely, B., (1994) 25 Years of Performance Art In Australia, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney. P. 25. Catalogue notes.
Ely, B., (1994) Sexism and Art Education. Women's Show; Conference Papers, 1977. Ed. Moore, C.,
Dissonance - Feminism and the Arts 1970 - 1990. Artspace, with Allen and Unwin, P. 48.
Ely, B. (1981), Murray/Murundi, Adelaide, Experimental Art Foundation.
Ely, B.; Havana, A. (1979), A Profile of Australian Women Sculptors, 1860 1960, (inc. slide kit),
Schools Commission, Women's Art Register, Melbourne.
Conference papers
2001, The Ancient History of Installation Art, Spatial Cultures Conference, University of Newcastle:
http://home.iprimus.com.au/painless/space/bonita.html
2001, Inside Mawson's Sleeping Bag, Australians In Antarctica Conference, National Museum of Australia.
National Council for the Centenary of Federation event.
2001, Great Ideas: the Influence of Artists' Organisations on Public Art Policy, Sculpture Out There Conference,
Canberra School of Art Gallery, National Institute of the Arts, ANU, Canberra
Selected Citations
Thomas, D. 2002.Terra. Catalogue, Fieldwork: Australian Art 1968 - 2002, the Ian Potter Centre [IPC] , National Gallery of Victoria [NGV], pp.66, 67
Green, C., 2002, Into the 90s: the decay of postmodernism. Catalogue, Fieldwork: Australian Art 1968 - 2002, IPC., NGV., pp. 102, 104.
Fieldwork: Australian Art 1968 - 2002, IPC., NGV., p. 152.
Hill, P., Raise the Baa. Metro, Sydney Morning Herald [SMH], 8-14/11/02, p. 26.
Duncan, J., Michael, L., Monash University Collection: four decades of collecting, Monash University Museum of Art. 2002.
Hill, P., 3 Foot Square, Critic's Picks, Sydney Morning Herald, [SMH], 1st Nov., 2002, p. 27.
McFarlane, R., Look Closely For the Mystery In the Vista. SMH, 20th July, 2001. Article.
Critic's Picks. SMH, Metro, July, 6-12, 2001.
Low, A. L., Spotlight, SMH, Metropolitan, June 27th, 2001
Green, C. (1995) Peripheral Vision: Contemporary Australian Art 1970 - 1994, Craftsman House, Melbourne. Pp. 21 - 23, 53, 153.
Kenyon, T. (1995) Under A Hot Tin Roof: Art, Passion and Politics At The Tin Sheds Art Workshop;
Power Publications, University of Sydney. Pp. 69, 85, 88, 118.
Sullivan, G. (1994) Seeing Australia: Views of Artists and Art Writers, Piper Press, Sydney. Pp. 16, 72,
Waterlow, N. (1994) 25 Years of Performance Art In Australia. Catalogue. Ivan Dougherty Gallery, COFA.. Pp. 4, 6, 15, 25, 62, 64.
Stephen. A. A Process Of De-Neutralising. Anything Goes: Art In Australia 1970 - 1980. (1994) Ed. Taylor, P. Art And Text, Melbourne. Pp. 62, 64.
Marsh, A. (1993) Body and Self: Performance Art in Australia 1969 92, Oxford University Press, Australia. Pp. 40, 142 - 148, 166, 167, 169.
Green, C. (1993) Art as Printmaking: The Deterritorialised Print, Art Monthly, No. 58, April. Pp. 11, 13.
Brauer, F. (1993) Bonita Ely: The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters, Eyeline, No. 21, Autumn.
Pp 26, 27.
Morrell, T. (1992) Unfamiliar Territory: the Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art. Art Gallery of South Australia. Pp. 6 - 7, 18 - 19, 59.
Kirby, S. (1992) Sight Lines: Women's Art and Feminist Perspectives in Australia, Craftsman House
Burke, J. (1990) Field of Vision, A Decade of Change: Women Artists In the 70s, Viking Penguin Books, Australia. Pp 15, 92 - 98, 121 -123.
McIntyre, A. (1988) Australian Contemporary Drawing: Resurgence and ReDefinition, Boolarong Publications, Australia.
Catalano, G., (1984) The Bandaged Image: A Study of Australian Artist's Books, Hale and Ironmonger, Sydney.
Catalano, G., (1985) An Intimate Australia: The Landscape In Recent Australian Art, Hale and Iremonger, Sydney.
Bond, A., Perspecta 85, (1985) Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney. Catalogue.
Ruinard, E. (1986) Dogwoman Makes History, First Draft, Sydney,. Catalogue.
REPRESENTED
National and State, Educational and Institutional Collections
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra; Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney; Art Gallery of Queensland,
Brisbane; National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne; University of New South Wales, Sydney; Griffith University,
Brisbane; University of Queensland, Brisbane: Victorian Law Courts, Melbourne; Art Bank, Sydney; Brisbane City Council, Queensland.
Australian Regional Galleries
Warrnambool Art Gallery, Victoria; Perce Tucker Regional Gallery, Townsville, Queensland;The Araluen Centre,
Alice Springs South Australia; Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, Launceston, Tasmania; Fremantle Arts Centre,
Fremantle, Western Australia; City of Ballarat Fine Art Gallery, Ballarat, Victoria; Newcastle Region Art Gallery, Newcastle,
New South Wales; Naracoorte Art Gallery, Naracoorte, South Australia
Overseas Collections
Museo de Arts de Sao Paolo, Brazil; National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa; Central Art Gallery, Beijing, China; Bibliotheque Nationale,
Paris, France; Staatliche Museum, Berlin, Germany; British Museum, Department of Prints and Drawings, London, UK; National Gallery
and Alexandros Soutzos Museum, Athens, Greece; National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi, India; National Library of Indonesia,
Jakarta, Indonesia; Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel; Gabinetto Nazionale delle Stampe, Rome, Italy; National Museum of Western Art,
Tokyo, Japan; National Institute of Fine Arts, Mexico City, Mexico; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands; National Art Gallery,
Wellington, New Zealand; National Museum and Art Gallery, Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea; The Museum of Modern Art,
New York, United States of America; Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow, USSR; Narodna Gallerija, Ljubljana, Yugoslavia;
National Gallery of Zimbabwe, Harare; 18th Street Arts Complex, Los Angeles, USA; Side Street Projects, Los Angeles, USA
Represented by
Stills Gallery, 36 Gosbell St., Paddington, NSW 2021
PH 61 2 9331 7775
Peter Bellas, Bellas Gallery, 49 James St., Fortitude Valley, (Brisbane), Qld. 4006
PH 61 7 3257 1608; FAX 61 7 3852 2855 bellasgallery@ozemail.com.au
Irene Sutton, Sutton Gallery, 254 Brunswick St., Fitzroy, (Melbourne), Vic. 3065
PH 61 3 9416 0727; FAX 61 3 9416 0731; EMAIL <suttgal@netline.com.au>
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