Curriculum Vitae
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2024 Glyphs – the poet’s garden, Beaver Galleries, Canberra
2023 Glyphs and the Poet, Australian Galleries, Melbourne
2022 Glyphs: The return of the Poet, Beaver Galleries, Canberra
2020 Glyphs, Australian Galleries, Sydney
2019 Glyphs: Homage to Country, Beaver Galleries, Canberra
Glass Glyphs, Canberra Glassworks, Canberra
2017 GW Bot: Grasslands-Glyphs, Australian Galleries, Melbourne
2016 GW Bot: Riverbend Glyphs, Australian Galleries, Sydney
GW Bot: Endangered Glyphs, Beaver Galleries, Canberra
2015 GW Bot: Glyphs and the elements, Australian Galleries, Melbourne
2014 GW Bot: Glyphs - Between Worlds, Australian Galleries, Sydney
2013 GW Bot: Glyphmetric, Beaver Galleries, Canberra
2012 GW Bot: Dancing Glyphs, Australian Galleries, Melbourne
GW Bot: Glyphmaker, Tweed River Art Gallery
2011 GW Bot: Australian Glyphs, Hart Gallery, London
Glyphs, Australian Galleries, Sydney
2010 A Morphology of Glyphs, Beaver Galleries, Canberra
GW Bot: The Long Paddock: A 30 year survey, Goulburn Regional Art Gallery (national touring exhibition)
2009 Fields of Glyphs, Hart Gallery, London
Fire Glyphs and Spirits, Artspace Mackay, Queensland
2008 Paddock Glyphs, Australian Galleries, Smith Street, Melbourne
Paddock Glyphs: New Work, Australian Galleries, Sydney
2007 Glyphs, Hart Gallery, London
Glyphs, Beaver Galleries, Canberra
Glyphs, Gadfly Gallery, Perth
2006 Glyphs, Australian Galleries, Melbourne
Glyphs, Australian Galleries, Sydney
2005 Morphic Fields, Hart Gallery, London
An Australian symphony, 5 + 5 Gallery, New York
Paths of being, Chapman Gallery, Sydney
Morphic fields and gardens, Gadfly Gallery, Perth
Figure in landscape, Barry Stern Gallery, Sydney
2004 Earth and Sky, Australian Galleries, Melbourne
An island of life, Barry Stern Gallery, Sydney
2003 The Garden of Possibilities, Canberra Museum and Gallery
Gardens, Canberra Museum and Gallery
2002 Suburban Gardens: Arrivals and Journeys, Barry Stern, Sydney
The Body in Question, Gadfly Gallery, Perth
2001 Gardens: Rites of Passage, Barry Stern Gallery, Sydney
Gardens: Rites of Passage, Hart Gallery, London
Gardens: Rites of Passage, Chapman Gallery, Canberra
2000 Mystic Language, Grahame Galleries + Editions, Brisbane
Bundanon Series, Barry Stern Galleries, Sydney
Recent relief prints, Bulle Galleries, Melbourne
Ancestral Landscapes, Port Jackson Fine Art, Laguna Beach, Los Angeles
1999 Enclosures, Chapman Gallery, Canberra
Semiotics of the Australian Wilderness, Bulle Gallery, Melbourne
Works on paper, Barry Stern Gallery, Sydney
The Australian Wilderness and Garden: Language, calligraphy and semiotics, Hart Gallery, London
1998 Paper Garden, Barry Stern Galleries, Sydney
1997 The Lady and the Unicorn, Hart Gallery, London
Journeys of a Poet, Lyall Burton Gallery, Melbourne
Sacred Gardens: drypoints and relief prints, Hart Gallery, Nottingham, UK
1996 The Lady and the Unicorn, Chapman Gallery, Canberra
1995 Journeys, Australia Centre, Manila, Philippines
Journeys, Australian Embassy, Paris, France
1994 Journeys, Chapman Gallery, Canberra
1993 Crucifixion, Criterion Gallery, Braidwood, NSW
1992 Crucifixion, Dubbo Regional Art Gallery, Dubbo, NSW
1992 An enclosed space, Canberra Contemporary Art Space, Gallery3, Canberra
Selected Group and Invitational Exhibitions
2024 Seven + Seven: printmaking across unknown terrain, Pinnacles Gallery, Townsville, Queensland (touring to Canada)
Mondo, Australian Galleries, Melbourne
Collection in focus, Goulburn Regional Gallery, NSW
2023 Jardin d’Hiver, Arts d’Australie, Paris
Affordable Art Fair, New York
Hamptons Fine Art Fair, UK
2022 Molecule (with Alex Asch, Badger Bates, Alexander Boynes, Fiona Hillary, Glenn Loughrey, Simon Maberley and Mandy Martin), Belconnen Arts Centre, Canberra
Carbon Neutral (with Jon Campbell, The River Yarners, Andrew Styan, Louisa Waters, Marzena Wasikowska and Anne Zahalka), Canberra Contemporary Art Space, Canberra
Sydney Contemporary 2022, Carriageworks, Sydney
The Window, Goulburn Regional Art Gallery, Goulburn
GW Bot at Billy Reid, Rebecca Hossack Gallery, New York
Abstraction & Bronze, Australian Galleries, Melbourne
2021 Know My Name: Australian Women Artists 1900 to Now, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra (also selected for national touring exhibition 2024-25 to Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, Vic; Horsham Regional Art Gallery, Vic; Tweed Regional Gallery, NSW; Perc Tucker Regional Gallery, Qld and Rockhampton Art Gallery, Qld)
‘Library Artists' Book Award, Manly Art Gallery and Museum, Sydney
Entrancing Others, Gippsland Art Gallery, Sale, Victoria
Burnie Print Prize, Burnie Regional Art Gallery, Tasmania
Dobell Drawing Prize, National Art School Gallery, Darlinghurst, Sydney (included in touring exhibition to regional galleries)
Tree of Life: a testament of Endurance, curated by Gavin Wilson S.H.Ervin Gallery, Sydney
Marking out the territory: Six Australian printmakers, Rebecca Hossack Gallery, London
A Conspicuous Object – The Maitland Hospital, Maitland Regional Gallery , NSW
‘MONO’, Australian Galleries, Melbourne
‘State of the Mark’, Work on Paper Group Exhibition, Australian Galleries, Melbourne
Journey through images: 40 years of Perc Tucker Regional Gallery, Townsville, Queensland
2020 Know My Name: Australian Women Artists 1900 to Now, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra.
More than human: The animal in the age of the Anthropocene, Australian National University, School of Art and Design Gallery, Canberra
Seeing Canberra, Canberra Museum and Gallery, Canberra
A collection of Stranger Things, Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, Victoria
2019 Australian Print Triennal, Mungo Exhibition, La Trobe Art Institute, Bendigo, Victoria
About the Land, Australian Galleries, Melbourne
Works on Paper Fair, New York
Stations of the Cross, Northmead Creative & Performing Arts High School, Sydney
Papermade, Australian Galleries, Melbourne
Imprint: A survey of the Print Council of Australia, Parliament House, Canberra
Layers of settlement, Art Vault, Mildura, Victoria
Goulburn Bustle: Permanent Collection en masse, Goulburn Regional Gallery, NSW
2018 Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, Burlington House, London, UK
Habitat, West Gallery, Thebartan, South Australia
Confluence, Canberra Glassworks, ACT
Sydney Contemporary, Carriageworks, Sydney, NSW
Tattersal’s Club Art Prize, Gladstone Regional Gallery and Museum, QLD
Australian Print Triennial, Mungo Exhibition, Mildura Art Centre, Mildura, Victoria
A passion for tapestry: small tapestries from a private collection, Tapestry Workshop, Melbourne
2017 Sculptures by the Sea, Bondi, NSW
Coast, artist’s retreat: Cape Schank to Point Nepean, Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, Victoria
6th artist’s book + multiples fair 2017, Queensland College of Art, Griffith University, Queensland
Tattersal’s Club Landscape Art Prize, Gladstone Regional Art Gallery and Museum, Queensland
artists’ books, curated by Nicholas Pounder, Australian Galleries, Sydney
Geelong Acquisitive print awards, Geelong Art Gallery, Victoria
Between the sheets: artists’ books, Australian Galleries, Melbourne
Three Ways, Goulburn Regional Gallery, NSW
2016 Three ways, Cowra Regional Gallery, NSW (three-person exhibition with Meg Buchanan and Anita McIntyre)
50 years of print, Print Council of Australia Collection, Grafton Regional Gallery, NSW
Life, Australian Galleries, Melbourne
2 degrees, Canberra Contemporary Art Space, Gorman House, Canberra
Eventide, Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, Victoria
Matière, Cobalt Contemporary Gallery, Pittenweem, Fife, Scotland
Tattersall’s Club Landscape Art Prize, Gladstone Regional Art Gallery and Museum, Queensland (finalist)
Tracing the line, Blue Mountains City Art Gallery, NSW
As far as the eye can see, Blue Mountains City Art Gallery, NSW
2015 Silkcut Awards for Linocut Prints, Melbourne
Cossack Art Award (invited), Cossack, Western Australia
Just paper, Maitland Regional Art Gallery
2014 Wynne Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales (Awarded Pring Prize)
Inaugural exhibition, NGA Contemporary, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
Conflict: Contemporary responses to war, University of Queensland Art Museum, Brisbane
Dexterity: PressNorth Printmakers, Perc Tucker Regional Gallery, Townsville, Qld
Silkcut Awards for Linocut Prints, Melbourne
Open books, Sanshang Contemporary Art Museum, China
Interchange, P&G Art Gallery, Silpakorn Gallery, Bangkok Thailand (travelled in 2015 to ANU School of Art Gallery, Mosman Art Gallery and Wagga Wagga Regional Art Gallery, NSW)
International Print Exhibition Australia & Japan, Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art and Fukuyama Museum of Art, Japan
2013 Australia, Royal Academy, London
Wynne Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales (finalist)
Treaty, yeah? Chan Contemporary Art Space, Darwin, NT
100% Books by Canberra Artists, Watson Arts Centre, Canberra
2012 Open Books: Sixteen artists and the Chinese Folding Book, National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth, UK
Inkmasters Cairns Inc, Tanks Arts Centre, Cairns, Qld
Marking Place, Canberra Museum and Gallery (3 person show), Canberra
Silkcut Awards for Linocut Prints, Melbourne
JADA Jacaranda Acquisitive Drawing Award, Grafton Regional Gallery
Calleen Art Award, Cowra Regional Gallery (Awarded the prize)
2011 Out of Australia: prints and drawings from Sidney Nolan to Rover Thomas, British Museum, London
Sulman Exhibition Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales (finalist)
Dobell Prize for Drawing, Art Gallery of New South Wales (finalist)
Artwork to Tapestry, TarraWarra Museum of Art, Victoria
Fair & Square, print exchange folio, Charles Sturt University, NSW
Contemporary Australian and Chinese Prints, Manly Art Gallery and Museum, Sydney and Xi’an, Peoples Republic of China
2010 Royal Academy, Summer Show, London
Abstract nature, Samstag Museum, Adelaide
Lake, Lake Macquarie City Art Gallery, NSW
Dobell Prize for Drawing, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney (finalist)
Print Big, Megalo Print Studio + Gallery, Canberra
Audible surface, Inaugural exhibition, M16 Artspace, Canberra
Swan Hill National Print & Drawing Acquisitive Awards, Swan Hill Regional Art Gallery, Swan Hill, Victoria (finalist)
Silkcut Awards for Linocut Prints, Melbourne
Joseph Banks: A regional response, Goulburn Regional Art Gallery
Melbourne Art Fair, Melbourne
Australian Trilogy : Dennis Nona, Abie Loy Kemarre, GW Bot, Arts d’Australie, Paris
8ème Mondial de l’Estampe et de la Gravure Originale - Triennale de Chamalières, France
2009 Tasmania 1: 100,000 Mapping the island, IXL Atrium, Hobart, Tasmania
Sulman Exhibition Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales
Silkcut Awards for Linocut Prints, Melbourne
Stories of our making, University of the West of England, Bristol, UK and Tweed River Gallery, Murwillumbah, NSW
Art London, Chelsea, London, UK
Surfacing, inaugural exhibition, Belconnen Arts Centre, Canberra
2008 Recent Acquisitions, British Museum, London
Robert Jacks Drawing Prize, Bendigo Art Gallery, Victoria
Dobell Prize for Drawing, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney (finalist)
Sulman Exhibition Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney (finalist)
Silkcut Award for Linocut Prints, Melbourne
National Works on Paper Prize, Mornington Peninsula Gallery (acquired)
Fremantle Print Award, Fremantle, Western Australia (finalist)
Retroactive, Canberra Contemporary Art Space, Manuka, Canberra
The other thing-a survey show, Charles Darwin University, Darwin, NT
Melbourne Art Fair
2007 The story of Australian printmaking 1803-2005, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
Dobell Prize for Drawing, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney (finalist)
Devilbend, Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, Victoria
CPM National Print Awards, Tweed River Art Gallery, Murwillumbah, NSW
Wynne Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney (finalist)
Summer Exhibition Royal Academy, London, UK
Geelong Acquisitive Print Awards, Geelong Gallery, Victoria (finalist)
Site and soul III, Canberra Museum and Gallery, Canberra
Guanlan International Print Biennial, Shenzhen, Peoples Republic of China
Southern Cross University Acquisitive Artists’ Book Award, Lismore, NSW
Lessons in history, vol. 1, Grahame Galleries + Editions, Brisbane
Prints from the Studio of Hugh Stoneman, Stoneman Graphics Gallery, Penzance, UK
Hart Gallery Collection, New Ashgate Gallery, Surrey, UK
Artists’ books and multiples fair Brisbane, University Art Museum, University of Queensland, Brisbane
Prints, Wagga Wagga Regional Gallery, NSW
Gifted, Charles Darwin University Art Collection, Darwin
Marks and motifs: Prints from the Print Council of Australia Collection, Queensland University of Technology, national touring exhibition
From here to eternity: Contemporary tapestries from the Victorian Tapestry Workshop, national touring exhibition
Montalto Sculpture Prize, Victoria
2006 Dobell Prize for Drawing, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney (finalist)
Being at Bundanon, Bundanon, NSW, national travelling exhibition
Footprints on the Lake, Goulburn Regional Gallery
Multiplicity: Small tapestries, Victorian Tapestry Workshop, Melbourne
50 years Australian Galleries Anniversary Exhibition, Australian Galleries, Melbourne
International Print Triennial Cracow, Poland (finalist)
Kedumba Drawing Award 2006, Wentworth Falls, NSW (acquired)
Silkcut Award for Linocut Prints, Melbourne
R&M. McGivern Art Prize, Maroondah Regional Gallery, Ringwood
CMAG touring exhibition, Narra City Gallery, Japan
International Graphic Triennial, Bitola, Republic of Macedonia
Cadaques Mini print exhibition, Spain
2005 Sulman Exhibition Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Site and soul II, Canberra Museum and Gallery, Canberra
Sculpture 2005, Barry Stern Gallery, Sydney
25 x 25 Celebrating 25 years of printmaking 1980-2005, Megalo Access Arts, Canberra
2005 Comalco Martin Hanson memorial Art Awards, section 2, works on paper. Awarded Alumina Ltd Award, judged by Tony Elwood, Deputy Director, NGV
Contrasts within the Charles Sturt University Art Collection, Wagga Wagga Regional Art Gallery, NSW
Works on paper 2005, Barry Stern Gallery, Sydney
Fireworks: An incendiary exploration of Australian art, Mackay Regional Gallery, Queensland (national touring exhibition)
Notes from the natural world, Australian Galleries, Melbourne
33 Print Exchange portfolio, curated by Rona Green, Port Jackson Press, Melbourne
National Sculpture Prize and Exhibition 2005, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra (finalist)
Dobell Prize for Drawing, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney (finalist)
2004 Surface tension, New York Society of Etchers, New York followed by national tour
Sculpture 2004, Maunsell Wickes Gallery, Sydney
Contemporary Australian Prints from the collection, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Sacred Ground: Spirituality and land in Australia, Australian Centre for Christianity and Culture, Canberra
Sulman Exhibition Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney (finalist)
33rd Alice Prize, Araluen Art Centre, Alice Springs, NT (finalist)
Bendigo Bank Art Prize, Brisbane (finalist)
Silk cut Award, Glen Eira City Council Gallery, Melbourne (acquired)
Contemporary prints and drawings, Australian Galleries, Melbourne
The International Print Triennial, touring to Municipal Museum in Lowicz, Poland; Cultural Centre ‘Castle’ Contemporary Art Gallery, “Profile”, Poznan, Poland, Horst Janssen Museum, Oldenburg, Germany
Le tapis volant, Flying carpet, Musée des beaux-arts de la Ville du Locle, Switzerland
2003 By George, Barry Stern Gallery, Sydney
Sulman Exhibition Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney (finalist)
Sydney Art on Paper Fair, The 9th Biennial Art Fair, Sydney
The International Print Triennial Krakow 2003, Poland, touring to Bunkier Sztuki Contemporary Art Gallery, Krakow, Poland, Palace of Art TPSP, Krakow, Poland, Contemporary Art Gerry, Opole, Poland
2002 Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London
Shakehands, Neusiedl am See, Austria
Shakehands, Wittgensteinhaus, Vienna, Austria
Shades of pink, Manly Art Gallery and Museum, Sydney
Shakehands, Halbturn, Austria
Sulman Exhibition Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney (finalist)
2002 Silk Cut Award, Melbourne
Print Australia, North-West Print Council, Portland, Oregon, USA
Miniare Biennale internationale d’estampes miniature de Montréal, Canada
2001 Island Postcards, State Library of Tasmania, Hobart
3rd International Ex-Libris Exhibition, Rijeka, Croatia (finalist)
2000 Weerewa woodcuts one, Bungendore Woodworks Gallery, NSW
Looking at a different aspect of Parliament House, Parliament House, Canberra
The art on paper fair, Royal College of Art, London
5th Sapporo International Print Biennale, Japan (finalist)
10th Gielniak Graphic Competition, Poland (finalist)
Six Australian Artists, Lane Gallery, Auckland
5th Triennale Moniale de l’estampe petit format Chamalières 2000, France
Mini Print International, Cadaques, Spain (acquired)
The 4th International Triennial of Graphics and Posters, Kharkiv, Ukraine
Gold Coast City Art Gallery 2000 Art Prize, Queensland (finalist)
Silk Cut Print Award (acquired), national touring exhibition
1999 Suddenly the Lake, Canberra Museum and Gallery, Canberra
Premio Internazionale Biella per L'incisione, Italy
Second Skin, RMIT, Melbourne
The present spirit, Helen Maxwell Gallery/ Burgmann College, Australian National University, Canberra
We are Australian, The George Adams Gallery, Victorian Arts Centre, Melbourne and national tour
1998 Gone to the dogs, Grahame Galleries and Editions, Brisbane
1998 Tyree-Tycan Art Prize, Bowral, NSW
Thirty years of Korean Contemporary Prints: A decade of Contemporary Australian Printmaking, Metropolitan Museum of Seoul, South Korea
Dogs' Breakfast, ANCA Gallery, Canberra
Picture Disk Exhibition, Illawarra Institute of Technology, Goulburn
Silk Cut Lino Print Collection, Fremantle Arts Centre, WA
Atelier Point et Marge, Paris, France
1998 Silk Cut Award, Melbourne
Artists' Books and Multiples Fair, School of Arts, Brisbane
Recto Verso, Goulburn Regional Art Gallery and Canberra School of Art
Joyce and the Nymph, Coach House, The Rocks, Sydney
International Biennial of Graphic Art, Belgrade, Yugoslavia (finalist)
Landscape, Charles Sturt University, Wagga Wagga, NSW
29th Alice Art Prize (acquired), Alice Springs, NT
National Works on Paper, Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, Victoria
Xylon 13: International triennial of artistic relief printing, Switzerland and international touring exhibition (finalist)
International Print Exhibition, Portland Art Museum, Oregon, USA (finalist)
International Print Triennial 1997, Cracow, Poland (finalist)
The 2nd International Print Triennial Colour in Graphic Art, Toru´n, Poland
Osaka Triennale 1997, Japan (finalist)
Artists' Books, Criterion Fine Art Gallery, Braidwood, NSW
V International Triennial Sztuki, Majdanek, Poland (finalist)
Rena Ellen Jones Memorial Print Award, Warrnambool, Victoria
The 3rd International Triennial of Graphics and Posters, Kharkiv, Ukraine
CPM Print Award, Tweed River Regional Art Gallery, Murwillumbah
1996 Sixth National Print Prize, Murwillumbah Tweed River Regional Gallery, NSW (finalist)
Silk Cut Print Award, RMIT Gallery, Melbourne
Works on Paper, Barry Stern Gallery, Sydney
University of Western Sydney National Print Media Exhibition, Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre, Sydney
Premio Internazionale Biella per L'incisione, Italy (finalist)
Shell Fremantle Print Award, Fremantle, WA (finalist)
Xylon 13, Winterthur, Switzerland (finalist)
Blake Prize for Religious Art, Sydney and national touring exhibition (finalist)
Artists' Books and Multiples Fair '96, State Library of Queensland, Brisbane
1995 ANU Staff Amenities Fund Exhibition, Drill Hall Gallery, Australian National University, Canberra
A Changing Landscape, Nolan Gallery, Lanyon ACT
Western Australia Print Exchange Exhibition, Studio One, Canberra
Lake Isle, Goulburn Regional Gallery, national touring exhibition
AMCOR Paper Awards, Invitational Exhibition Westpac Gallery, Victorian Cultural Centre, Melbourne, national touring exhibition
Borderlines, Spiral Arm Gallery, Canberra
Second Canberra Art Fair, ANU Drill Hall Gallery, Canberra
Print Triennial '94 Consumenta '95, Nuremberg, Germany (finalist)
1994 Open Art, Berrima District Art Society, Bowral, NSW
International Exhibition of Graphic Art, Kharkiv, Ukraine (finalist)
Winter Solstice, Barry Stern Gallery, Sydney.
Print Show, Barry Stern Gallery, Sydney
International Print Triennial, MTG 1994, Cracow, Poland (finalist)
Jacaranda Acquisitive Drawing Award, Grafton Regional Art Gallery, NSW
The print, the press, the artist and the printer, ANU, Drill Hall Gallery, Canberra
Outback Art Prize, 1994, Broken Hill City Art Gallery, NSW (finalist)
Fremantle Print Award, 1994, Fremantle Arts Centre (finalist)
Biennial Prints Acquisitive Exhibition, Mornington Peninsula Arts Centre
Contemporary Australian Printmaking, Sherman Galleries, Sydney
1993 Blake Prize, Blaxland Gallery, Sydney (finalist)
Best of the 1992 Blake Prize, Drill Hall Gallery, Canberra
Ten Years of Acquisitions: ANU Collection, Drill Hall, Canberra
Saints and sacred places, Barry Stern Gallery, Sydney
Fremantle Print Award, 1993, Fremantle Arts Centre (finalist)
The Tree of Life, Studio One Gallery, Canberra
First Canberra Art Fair, ANU Drill Hall Gallery, Canberra
1992 Third International Women's Day Exhibition, Melbourne
Between the covers, Canberra Contemporary Art Space, Canberra
Raft Press Book Project, National Library of Australia, Canberra
Addressing the Chair, Canberra Contemporary Art Space, Canberra
Fremantle Print Award, Fremantle and touring exhibition (finalist)
1991 Hard Pressed, Jan Taylor Gallery, Sydney
Familiar Territory, Canberra Festival, CAFC
Berrima District Art Society Print Award, Berrima (finalist)
Common Threads/A fine line, Canberra Contemporary Art Space, Canberra
Quasions Mornington Gallery, Mornington, Victoria
Art for Life, Studio One Gallery, Canberra
Fremantle Print Award, Fremantle, WA (finalist)
A tribute to Ronaldo Cameron, Lake Macquarie Art Gallery, NSW
Canberra Souvenir, Canberra Contemporary Art Space, Canberra
Social Images, Gorman House, Canberra
1990 Fragments and Foundations, aGog Gallery, Canberra
Contemporary Art, Jan Jones Gallery, Bowral
Focus on the Landscape, Studio One Gallery, Canberra
Social Images, Gorman House, Canberra
Calvary Hospital Art Show, Canberra
Artist Made, Ben Grady Gallery, Canberra
Familiar Territory, Canberra Festival, CAFC
Sun, Smoke and Steel, Studio One National Touring Exhibition
1989 Wild Art, Bondi Pavilion, Sydney
Edition 89, Ben Grady Gallery, Canberra
1988 Woden Library, Canberra
10:1 Print Project – Studio One National Touring Exhibition
1987 The Blake Prize, Sydney (finalist)
1986 Kingston Art Space, Canberra
GW Bot: Commissions and Awards
Commissions and Awards
2023 Bronze Gates commission, St John’s College, University of Sydney, NSW
2021 Anna Akhmatova's Requiem, 2021, artist’s book, 29 linocuts to accompany the poem commissioned by Nicholas Pounder of Polar Bear Press, Sydney
Robbie Coburn’s Equestria, 2021, two linocuts accompany poems, commissioned by Nicholas Pounder of Polar Bear Press, Sydney
2017-19 Little Eagle Glyph, Landmark sculpture for Ginninderry, ACT
2018 Arts ACT Project Funding, Residency at Canberra Glassworks, ACT
2017 Lake Mungo Print Project, 2nd Mildura Print Triennial
2014 John & Elizabeth Newham Pring Memorial Prize, Watercolour Painting, Wynne Prize, Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney
2014 Steel sculpture commission, River gums Glyphs, Charles Sturt University, Wagga Wagga campus, NSW
2013 Art Monthly Australia Commissioned Print, 2013
2012 Calleen Art Award $16,000 open art prize, Cowra Regional Art Gallery, NSW
2012 Inkfest Residency, Cairns, Qld
2011 Park Hyatt Sydney commission for nine monumental sandstone walls and 180 prints
2010 Tree of life, large bronze relief sculpture commissioned by Calvary Hospital, Canberra, ACT
2008 La Gravure Originale, Commissioned Member Print, Paris
The Lake, sculptural installation, Goulburn Regional Gallery, NSW (acquired)
2007 Print Council of Australia Commissioned Member Print
2006 National Critics selection: 50 Most Collectable Artists, Australian Art Collector
Artist in residence, Sculpture workshop, ANU, School of Art
2005 2005 Comalco Martin Hanson memorial Art Awards, section 2, works on paper. Awarded Alumina Ltd Award, judged by Tony Elwood, Deputy Director, NGV
2005 National Critics selection: 50 Most Collectable Artists, Australian Art Collector
2004 Print Council of Australia Commissioned Member Print
The Canberra Times Artist of the Year
2003 Artist-in-residence, University of Wollongong, NSW
2001 Residency Kultervereinigung Nördliches Burgenland, Neusiedl Am See, Austria
2000 2000 CAPO Fellow (Capital Artists Patrons’ Organisation)
1999 ACT Cultural Council Development Grant
Artist-in-residence, Arthur Boyd's Gift to the Nation, Bundanon
Print Council of Australia Member's Print Commission
1998 National Gallery of Australia 'New Worlds from Old' commissioned portfolio/ Studio One, Canberra
1998 Tyree-Tycan Print Prize, Bowral NSW (judged by Hendrik Kolenberg, curator of Prints, Drawings and Watercolours, Art Gallery NSW) (Awarded)
Illawarra Acquisitive Print Award (Awarded)
1997 Three commissioned drypoints, Hugh Stoneman Graphics, Cornwall/Hart Gallery, London
1996 Artist-in-residence, Arthur Boyd's Gift to the Nation, Bundanon
Acquisitive Award, Tweed Regional Art Gallery
Acquisitive Award, University of Western Sydney Permanent Art Collection
ACT Cultural Council Development Grant
Print Council of Australia Member's Print Commission
1995 ACT Cultural Council Development Grant
Environmental Artists in Schools Scheme
1994 Berrima District Art Society, Print Section, Commended
Canberra Critics Award, Visual Arts
CAPO Grant
Zaokhochuval'na Prize, 2nd International Exhibition of Graphic Art and Poster, 4th Block, Kharkiv, Ukraine
1992 CAPO Grant
1992 Canberra Critics Award, Visual Arts
GW Bot: Selected art collections
Selected Art Collections.
Major National and Public Collections:
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
Albertina, Vienna, Austria
British Museum, London
British Library, London
Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris
Fogg Museum of Fine Arts, Harvard University, Cambridge MA, USA
Kharkiv Art Gallery, Ukraine
Lublin Museum, Poland
Museum of Modern Art, Osaka, Japan
Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane
Art Gallery of South Australia; Adelaide
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Falmouth Gallery, Cornwall, UK
Mornington Peninsula Art Gallery Collection
Parliament House Art Collection, Canberra
National Library of Australia, Canberra
Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney
State Library Victoria, Melbourne
State Library of Queensland, Brisbane
Baillieu Library, University of Melbourne, Melbourne
Regional Public Art Galleries
City Art Gallery, Wagga Wagga
Ronaldo Cameron Collection, Lake Macquarie Art Gallery
Tweed River Regional Art Gallery
Gladstone Regional Art Gallery
Bathurst Regional Art Gallery
Gold Coast City Art Gallery
Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, Launceston
Warrnambool Regional Art Gallery
Toowoomba Regional Art Gallery
Araluen Art Centre, Alice Springs
Mildura Arts Centre, Mildura
City of Banyule, Melbourne
Brisbane City Gallery, Brisbane
Gladstone Regional Art Gallery, Gladstone
Gippsland Regional Gallery
Grafton Regional Gallery
Burnie Regional Art Gallery
Port Macquarie Hastings Regional Gallery
Artspace, Mackay, Queensland
Goulburn Regional Gallery, New South Wales
Tertiary, Collage and Academy art collections
Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, Peoples Republic of China
Australian National University Art Collection, Canberra
University of Western Sydney Art Collection
Charles Sturt University, Wagga Wagga
University of Canberra Art Collection
Sydney College of the Arts, Sydney
Alberta College of Art and Design, Calgary, Canada
John Curtin Gallery, Curtin University, WA
Australian International School, Hong Kong
Sunraysia Institute of Tafe, Mildura
Queensland College of the Arts, Brisbane
Canberra School of Art, Art Collection
University of Technology of Sydney, Art Collection
Brisbane Grammar Art Collection
Camberwell Grammar Art Collection
Downlands College Art Collection, Queensland
Geelong Grammar Art Collection, Geelong
Penleigh and Essendon Grammar School Art Collection
Presbyterian Ladies College Art Collection
Gennazzano College Art Collection, Victoria
Hailebury College, Victoria
Kooweerup Secondary College, Victoria
St Ursula's College, Queensland
St Peter's College, Adelaide
South Queensland Institute of TAFE
Queensland Institute of Technology
Westminster School, London
Art and Craft Teachers Association of Victoria
Gippsland Centre for Art and Technology, Victoria
Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane
Kedumba Collection, Coorah, Blue Mountains Grammar School
Charles Darwin University Art Collection, Darwin, Northern Territory
Deakin University Art Collection, Victoria
Major Corporate Collections
Print Council of Australia, Inc.
Canson Australia Pty Ltd.
Silk Cut Foundation Collection, Melbourne
Magnani Papers Australia
Macquarie Bank Corporate Art Collection, Sydney
Artbank, Sydney
James Hardie Collection of Australian Fine Art
Bundanon Collection, NSW
The Centre for the artist book collection, Grahame Galleries + Editions, Brisbane
Private Collections in Australia, Europe, Asia and the USA
GW Bot: Publications by the artist
Artist's Talks.
https://soundcloud.com/nationalgallery/thursday-art-talk-gw-bot?in=nationalgallery/sets/art-talks
Artist's Statements.
10:1 Print Project, Catalogue, 1988
Seven Days a Week, Fragments and Foundations, Catalogue, 1990
Familiar Territory, Catalogue, 1990
Tenth Calvary Art Show, Catalogue, 1990
Sun, Smoke and Steel, Catalogue, 1990
Common Threads, Catalogue, 1991
An Enclosed Space, Catalogue, 1992
In Christine Watson, Sacred Ground: Spirituality and land in Australia, Australian Centre for Christianity and Culture, Canberra 2004, catalogue np.
Artist's publications and artists books.
The Spartans, text by L.F. Fitzhardinge, illustrations G.W. Bot, Thames and Hudson, London 1980.
Cover Design, Social Images 1891-1991, ed, R. Joyce, Goanna Print, Canberra 1991
Blast, ed. A Nugent and B. Tully, no 15, 1991
Here we go Round the Mulberry Bush, vol 3, Raft Press, Canberra 1991
The Field of Life, Goanna Print, Canberra 1992
To Walk Across a Field, Raft Press, Canberra 1992
A Red Book, Raft Press, Canberra 1992
A Black Book, Raft Press, Canberra 1992
Cover Design, Brolga: An Australian Journal About Dance, No 1, December 1994
Journeys, March 1995
Mysteries, BB Press, Canberra 1997
Offerings, Finlay Press and BB Press, Yabber Yabber Publications, Goulburn 1997
Black Swan, self-published, 2007, linocuts with text on Magnani paper, A family history, 180 x 460 mm, Edition 15
Murrumbidgee Glyphs, self-published, 2016, concertina book, unique (collection of National Gallery of Australia)
GW Bot: Selected publications on the artist
Selected Bibliography.
Seven + Seven: printmaking across unknown terrain, Pinnacles Gallery, Townsville, Queensland, 2024 catalogue pp.16-17
Kerry-Anne Cousins, “The artist who tends well her spiritual garden” Canberra City News, February 15, 2024 (review of GW Bot solo show Glyphs – the poet’s garden, Beaver Galleries, 2024)
Louise Martin Chew, “G W Bot”, Art Collector (Sydney Contemporary 2022 Special Edition) pp.20-21 ISSN 2209-7317
Sally Pryor, “Canberra artist G.W. Bot is still walking in the poet's garden of the Australian landscape”, Canberra Times, May 16, 2022
Haynes, Peter, “G.W. Bot's The Return of the Poet reinforces the artist's well-earned status”, Canberra Times, May 14, 2022
Butler, Roger, Printed: Images by Australian Artists 1942-2021, Canberra, National Gallery of Australia, 2021, p.365, image 366
Bullock, Natasha, Kelli Cole, Deborah Hart, Elspeth Pitt, Know My Name, book catalogue, Canberra, National Gallery of Australia, 2020
Wilson, Gavin, Tree of Life, Sydney, SH Ervin, 2021 e-catalogue https://www.sher vingallery.com.au/event/tree-of-life-a-testament-to-endurance-2/
More than human: The animal in the age of the Anthropocene, Australian National University, School of Art and Design Gallery, Canberra, 2020, catalogue, 64pp.
Kerry-Anne Cousins, “Many magical ways to use paper”, Canberra Times, August 16, 2019
G.W.Bot: Glass Glyphs, catalogue, Canberra, Canberra Glassworks, 13pp
Peter Haynes, “Hidden journeys of the natural world”, Canberra Times, March 6, 2019
Kerry-Anne Cousins, GW Bot: Glass Glyphs, Canberra Times, June 14, 2019
Christopher Allen, Natural Habitat, Weekend Australia, 6 January, 2018
Donata Carazza, The Language of Place, Imprint, Spring 2018, Volume 53 number 3, pp.42-45
Giles Sutherland, ‘Matière, Cobalt Contemporary Gallery, Pittenweem, Fife, Scotland’, The Times, 9 March, 2016, p.24
Peter Haynes, Three ways: GW Bot, Meg Buchanan, Anita McIntyre, Cowra Regional Art Gallery (ISBN 978-0-9923730-4-7)
Anna Waldmann, Just paper, Maitland Regional Art Gallery, 2015, p.38
Peter Haynes, “GW Bot: Nature’s collaborator”, Imprint, 2015, vol 50, number 1, pp.12-13
International Print exhibition Australia and Japan, Kyoto Hanga, 2014, (catalogue), p.46
Somporn Rodboo and Joseph Falsone, Interchange: A printmaking dialogue between Australia and Thailand, Silpakorn University, Bangkok. 2014, up
Samantha Littley, Conflict: Contemporary responses to war, University of Queensland Art Museum, Brisbane, 2014, pp.7-9
Zhang Jian, Open books: Artists and the Chinese folding books, Shanghai Contemporary Art Museum, 2014, pp.54-55
Janet McKenzie, “GW Bot”, Studio International, 2014, (October issue)
Robert Purves et al., Inspiration Wild: An artistic celebration of Nature and the Environment, WAMA Foundation, Stawell, Victoria, 2014, pp.6-7
Anita Pisch, Inspiration Wild: Historical perspectives and future challenges, WAMA Foundation, Stawell, Victoria, 2014, pp.21-22
Charlene Smith, “Moving interpretations of nature”, Canberra Times, 17 may 2013 (review Beaver Galleries solo exhibition)
Janet McKenzie, Contemporary Australian Drawing #1, Macmillan Australia, 2012, pp.40-43
Peter Haynes, Marking Place: GW Bot, Anita McIntyre, Wendy Teakel, Canberra, Canberra Museum and Gallery, 2012 (catalogue)
Laura Murray Cree, “GW Bot: In the beginning was the Word …”, Art & Australia, vol 50/1 (2012), pp.106-113
Open books: Sixteen artists and the Chinese folding book, National Library of Wales/Blurb Books, 2012, pp.14-17
Peter Haynes,” GW Bot: the long paddock”, Craft Arts International, vol 85 (2012), pp.75-77
Stephen Coppel, Out of Australia: Prints and drawings from Sidney Nolan to Rover Thomas, London, British Museum, 2011, pp.18-19, 170-71,212
Michael Wardell and Anne Kirker, GW Bot: Australian Glyphs, London, Hart Gallery, 2011, 36pp.
Helen Maxwell, “G.W. Bot: Landscape of song”, Imprint, Journal of the Print Council of Australia, vol 44/number 4 (2011), pp.26-27
Elspeth Pitt, “GW Bot: Garden of Gethsemane”, Artonview, National Gallery of Australia, No 68 (2011), p.34
Jane Somerville, “Landscape as poetry: GW Bot” Australian Art Review, No 27 (2011), pp.36-38 (ISSN 1447-8587)
Thomas Middlemost, Fair & Square, print exchange folio, Charles Sturt University, catalogue, 2011
Ian Were, Artwork to tapestry, TarraWarra Museum of Art, catalogue, 2011
Peter Haynes, GW Bot. The long paddock, Goulburn Regional Art Gallery, catalogue, 2010, 40pp.
Jenny McFarlane, “GW Bot: The long paddock: A 30 year survey”, Artlink, vol 30, number 4, 2010, p.87
Jan Jones, “Artist, printmaker, sculptor: GW Bot”, Art Monthly Australia, Oct 2010, No 234, pp.34-35
Malcolm Smith, Lake, Lake Macquarie City Art Gallery catalogue, 2010, p.10
Margot Osborne, Abstract Nature, Samstag Museum of Art, Adelaide, 2010 catalogue pp.18-19 (ISBN 978-0-9807175-3-2)
Jane Cush, Joseph Banks: A regional response, Goulburn Regional Art Gallery, 2010
Ann D’Arcy Hughes and Hebe Vernon-Morris, The printmaking bible, San Francisco, Chronicle Books, 2008, pp.207-09
Anne Ryan, “GW Bot: Paddock Glyphs”, Art and Australia, vol 46, number 1, 2008, p.145
Glenn Barkley, “GW Bot: Paddock Glyphs”, Imprint, vol 43. Number 3, 2008, pp.20-21
Sheridan Palmer, GW Bot Glyphs, Hart Gallery, London, 2007, 26pp. (ISBN 978-0-646-47234-8)
Susie Shears and Anna Clabburn, From here to eternity: Contemporary tapestries from the Victorian Tapestry Workshop, Melbourne, 2007 (ISBN 978 0 9803731 0 3) catalogue
Charly Ogilvie. “A showing of stunning prints and twisting bronzes”, The Canberra Times, 9 August 2007 (exhibition review)
Alan McCulloch, Susan McCulloch and Emily McCulloch Childs, McCulloch’s Encyclopaedia of Australian Art, 4th edition, Melbourne, Aus Art Editions/The Miegunyah Press, University of Melbourne Publishing, 2006, pp.270-71
Sebastian Smee, “Between line and layers of paint”, The Australian, 14 December 2006 (review of Sydney show)
Lou Klepac, G.W. Bot Morphic Fields, Hart Gallery, London, 2005, 30pp
Oleg Veklenko and Volodimir Lesnjak, 4th Blok, Kharkiv (Ukraine), 2005, pp.32-33, 64-65
Rene Sutherland (ed.), Being at Bundanon, Bundanon Trust, Cambewarra, 2005, catalogue
Thomas Middlemost, Contrasts within the Charles Sturt University Art Collection, Wagga Wagga Regional Art Gallery, Charles Sturt University 2005, catalogue
Gavin Wilson, Fireworks: Tracing the incendiary in Australian art, Artspace Mackay, Mackay 2005, exhibition catalogue
Peter Haynes, “Anima and essences: The art of G.W. Bot”, Craft Arts International, No 61, 2004, pp.30-35
Laura Murray Cree, “G.W. Bot: Gardens of fire”, State of the Arts, April-June 2004, pp.42-43
Carmel Wallace, Surface tension, catalogue, New York Society of Etchers/Gallery 101, New York/Melbourne, 2004
Anne Ryan, Contemporary Australian Prints from the collection, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney 2004, catalogue.
Le tapis volant, Flying carpet, catalogue Xunta de Galicia, Santiago de Compostela, 2004
Christine Watson, Sacred Ground: Spirituality and land in Australia, Australian Centre for Christianity and Culture, Canberra, 2004, catalogue
Sonia Barron, “Private garden is pure visual poetry” critique, Canberra Times 7 July, 2003
Emma Epstein, G.W. Bot ‘Garden of possibilities’, exhibition brochure, Canberra Museum and Gallery, 2003
“G.W. Bot’s Garden State”, Printmaking Today (London) vol 12 no 3 2003, p.18
Peter Haynes, G.W Bot: Gardens, Canberra Museum and Gallery, Canberra 2003, 32pp.
John Thompson, catalogue essay, Pink and Shades of Pink, Manly Art Gallery and Museum, 25 January – 3 March 2002
Royal Academy Illustrated, London 2002, p.117
Anne Gray, G.W. Bot: Gardens: Rites of Passage, Goanna Print, Canberra/London 2001, 34 pp.
Courtney Kidd, “Still life that refuses to sit still” Sydney Morning Herald, May 16, 2001 (review of solo exhibition at Barry Stern Gallery).
Anne Gray, “Inner outback”, Printmaking Today (London), 2000, pp.10-11
Australian identities in printmaking, The Australian Print Collection of the Wagga Wagga Regional Art Gallery, Wagga Wagga 2000
Sasha Grishin, “G.W. Bot”, in Grapheion: European review of modern prints, book and paper art, vol 15-16 3/4 2000, p.74
Anne Gray, “G.W. Bot – Enclosures” in G.W. Bot: The Australian Wilderness and Garden: Language, calligraphy and semiotics, Hart Gallery, London 1999, 36 pp.
David Lee, “G.W. Bot: Artist’s eye”, Art Review, London, November 1999 p.47
Ljiljana Cinkul, “Contemporary Graphic Art of the Far East and Australia”, Graficki kolektic, Belgrade 1999
Kerry-Anne Cousins, “G.W. Bot: Poet and prophet”, Muse, Canberra 1998/99, p.8
Sheridan Palmer, "The Poet's Garden", Imprint, vol 33, no 1, 1998, pp.21-22
Pat Gilmour, "G.W. Bot: Poetry of Line", Art and Australia, 1998/2 pp.518-21
Thirty years of Korean Contemporary Prints: A decade of Contemporary Australian Printmaking, Metropolitan Museum of Seoul, 1998 , p.189
Mary Eagle and Tom Middlemost, Landscape, Charles Sturt University Art Collection, Wagga Wagga 1998
Sasha Grishin, Australian Printmaking in the 1990s: Artist printmakers 1990-1995, Craftsman House, Sydney 1997
Deborah Hart, The Lady and the Unicorn, Hart Gallery, London 1997, 44 pp.
Sonia Barron, critique, Canberra Times, 24 August 1996
Lake Isle, exhibition catalogue, Goulburn 1995
AMCOR Paper Awards catalogue, Westpac Gallery, Melbourne 1995, pp.20-25
A changing landscape, catalogue, Nolan Gallery, Canberra 1995 pp.18-19
Sonia Barron, critique, Canberra Times, 29 April 1995
Sonia Barron, Journeys , Paris/Manila 1995, 12 pp
Unsigned, critique, The Philippines Journal, 26 March 1995
Unsigned, critique, The Philippines Star, 27 March 1995
Maryann Rogers, critique, Goulburn Post, 5 April 1995
Warwick Williams, Australian National University: Staff Amenities Fund Donations to the Art Collection, ANU Drill Hall Gallery, Canberra 1995 catalogue with illustration.
Sasha Grishin, Contemporary Australian Printmaking: An interpretative history, Craftsman House, Sydney 1994.
Kerry-Anne Cousins, critique, Muse, July 1994
Sonia Barron, critique, Canberra Times, 3 June 1994
Sonia Barron, critique, Canberra Times, 10 April 1993
Sonia Barron, critique, Canberra Times, 26 September 1993
Rene Sutherland, critique, Daily Liberal (Dubbo), 1 April 1992
Sonia Barron, critique, Canberra Times, 25 April 1992
Amanda Uhlmann, article, Good Times (Canberra Times) 23 April 1992
Ralph Elliott, article, Canberra Times, 16 May 1992
Kerry-Anne Cousins, critique, Muse, June 1992
Sonia Barron, critique, Canberra Times, 18 November 1992
Sue-Anne Wallace, critique, Canberra Times, 16 March 1991
Max Germaine, A Dictionary of Women Artists of Australia, Craftsman House, Sydney 1991
Sonia Barron, critique, Canberra Times, 4 April 1990
Max Germaine, Artists and Galleries of Australia, 3rd. edit. 1990
Lisa Waller, article, Canberra Times, 10 August 1989
Arty Facts, Wagga Wagga City Art Gallery, January 1989
Lisa Waller, article, Canberra Times, 30 November 1989
Sonia Barron, critique, Canberra Times, 9 December 1989
Directory 1988, Australian Artists Producing Print