Kristin Headlam Biography

(Born Launceston, 1953)

Lives and works in Melbourne

STUDIES
1972-76 Bachelor of Arts, Departments of Fine Arts & English, University of Melbourne
1980-81 Painting, Victorian College of the Arts

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
1984 Nielson Hayes Library, Bangkok, Thailand
1988 Cockatoo Gallery, Launceston
1989 Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne
1991 Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne
1992 Julie Green Gallery, Sydney
1994 A Gardener at Midnight, Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne
1996 The Sick Rose, Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne
1998 Tony Palmer at Mary Place Gallery, Sydney
1999 Public Park, Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne
2000 Tony Palmer, Sydney
         Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne
2001 As the Twig is Bent, (retrospective exhibition)
         Launceston Church Grammar School, Launceston
         Private Garden, Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne
2003 News, Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne
2005 Bruce Heiser Gallery, Brisbane
         Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne
2006 Works on Paper, Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne
2007 Works on Paper, Bruce Heiser Gallery, Brisbane
         Chapman Gallery, Canberra

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
1982 Tricycle Theatre Arts Complex, London
1988 Spirit of the Times, Bicentennial Touring Exhibition, Melbourne
1989 Scotchman's Hill Invitation Art Prize, Geelong Art Gallery
1990 Scotchman's Hill Invitation Art Prize, Geelong Art Gallery
1991 The Medium Pastel, David Jones Gallery, Sydney
1992 Kristin Headlam & Noel McKenna, Dick Bett Gallery, Hobart
1993 Approaches to the Sublime, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney
1995 City of Hobart Invitation Art Prize
          Blundstone Contemporary Art Prize, Queen Victoria Museum & Art Gallery
1996 Brushing the Dark: Recent Art and Tasmania, CAST; toured nationally
          Doug Moran Portrait Prize, National Gallery of Victoria & touring
1997 Deacons, Graham and James Art Award, Ian Potter Gallery, Melbourne
1998 Contemporary Art Fair, Melbourne, Charles Nodrum Gallery Stand
1999 Visyboard Art Prize, Barossa Valley
          We are Australian, Victorian Arts Centre, Melbourne & traveling to 2002
          Conrad Jupiters Acquisitive Art Prize, Gold Coast City Art Gallery
          Artful Cello, Victorian Arts Centre, Melbourne, & traveling to 2000
2000 Exquisite Corps, Bendigo Art Gallery
          Doug Moran Portrait Prize, traveling exhibition
          An Affair to Remember, Artsauce Gallery, Singapore
          Geelong Contemporary Art Prize, Geelong Art Gallery
          Kozminsky Galleries, Melbourne
          Melbourne Art Fair, Melbourne, Charles Nodrum Gallery Stand
2001 Male Nude - A Private View, Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne
          Savage Art Prize, Savage Club, Melbourne
          Portraits 2001, Tweed River Regional Gallery & touring Australia 2001-02
          Selected Paintings, Kozminsky Galleries, Melbourne
          Australian & International Works on Paper, Charles Nodrum Gallery
          Contemporary Art, Christies Australia, Melbourne & Sydney
2002 The Human Portrayed, Charles Nodrum Gallery
          The Painted Fold: The Garment in Art, Charles Nodrum Gallery
          Savill Contemporary, Savill Galleries, Melburne
          Contemporary Art, Christies Australia, Melbourne & Sydney
          Just Married, Monash Gallery of Art
          Melbourne Artfair 2002, Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne
2003 X Melbourne, COFA Gallery, Sydney (Gary Willis curator)
2004 <LOOK>, Hunter 1, Newcastle Regional Art Gallery
           Modern Australian Painting, Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne
2006 The Idea of the Animal, RMIT Gallery, Melbourne
2007 Snap Freeze, TarraWarra Museum of Art
          Bodies & Minds, Charles Nodrum Gallery
          Urban Arboreal, curated by David Hansen, City of Melbourne City Gallery
          Eye to 'I', Ballarat Fine Art Gallery
          University of Queensland National Artists’ Self-Portrait Prize

AWARDS
1991 Conrad Jupiters Acquisitive Art Prize, Gold Coast City Gallery
2000 Doug Moran National Portrait Prize

COMMISSIONS
1995 Crown Melbourne Hotel: designs for tapestries executed by the Victorian Tapestry Workshop
2001 Painting Commission, Perth Mint, Perth, WA
         Portrait Commission, Queens College, University of Melbourne
2005 Portrait Commission, Trinity Collage, University of Melbourne
2007 Portrait Commission, Parliament House, Tasmania

COLLECTIONS
British Museum
National Gallery of Australia
Art Gallery of New South Wales
National Gallery of Victoria
Tasmanian Museum & Art Gallery
ArtBank
Hamilton Regional Art Gallery
Gold Coast City Art Gallery
Western Mining Corporation
Tamworth Regional Gallery
National Australia Bank
Deakin University
BHP
Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery
Tamar Collection
State Library of Victoria
Derwent Collection
Queen's College, University of Melbourne
The Ian Potter Museum of Art
Ballarat Fine Art Gallery
Moreland City Council, Melbourne
Tweed Heads Regional Art Gallery, NSW
La Trobe University Collection
University of Tasmania
Perth Mint, WA
Private & Corporate Collections
Trinity College, University of Melbourne

PUBLICATIONS
Barilo von Reisberg, Eugene. Catalogue Essay, Charles Nodrum Gallery, 1999
Cawthorne, Zelda (ed). The Artful Cello, MICMC, 1999
Cree, Laura Murray, Australian Painting Now, Craftsman House, 2000
Deeth, Jane. Kristin Headlam: As the Twig is Bent, exh. catalogue, Launceston, 2001
Drury, Neville. Images 2, Craftsman House, Sydney, 1994
Drury, Neville. Images 3, Craftsman House, Sydney, 1999
Falkiner, Suzanne. "Brushing the Dark", Art Monthly, no 90, June 1996, pp. 22-24
Hammond, Victoria. Catalogue Essay, Brushing the Dark (op cit)
Hammond, V et al, The Derwent Collection, TMAG, 1995, p. 34
Hart, Kevin. Catalogue Essay, Charles Nodrum Gallery, 1996
Kent, Rachel. Catalogue Essay, Deacons Graham & James Award, 1997
Marsh, Anne. "Public Park: A Gendered Performance", Art & Australia, June 1999
Marsh, Anne, News, exhibition catalogue essay, Charles Nodrum Gallery, 2003
McCulloch, A & S. Encyclopedia of Australian Art, 1994; pp. 330-31
Smith, Smith & Heathcote, Australian Painting 1788-2000, Oxford University Press, 2000, p. 585

ARTICLES & REVIEWS
Albert, Jane. "Artist Paints Herself into $100,000 Victory", The Australian, 23.08.2000
Backhouse, Megan. "Out of the Shadows", Today, The Age, 20.09.2000; p. 7
Brennan, Betsy, Vogue Living, Aug-Sept 2001
Cawthorne, Zelda. "Here Comes the Bride in Oils", Herald Sun, 2 March 1999, p 48;
Cawthorne, Zelda. "Naked Men, for a Change", Herald Sun, 28.01.2001
Cawthorne, Zelda. "Exhibition Review", Herald Sun, Nov. 2001
Fortescue, Elizabeth. "In bed with Kristin", Herald Sun, 23.08.2000; p. 56
Fyfe, Melissa,. "Waking Up a Winner", The Age, 23.08.2000;
Hammond, V. "Contemporary Artists Gain International Appeal", Masterpiece Australia, W, 1999
Hart, Kevin. "Kristin Headlam", Agenda, 39/40, Nov 1994, p. 44;
Hedger, Michael, 'Endless Exploration', the Herald Weekender, 21.02.2004, p.14
Hurell, Bronwyn. "Prize Painting A Pet Project", Herald Sun, 23.08.2000; p. 12
Jay, Sian E. "What Are These Australians up to?", The Straits Times (Singapore), 16.02.2000
Jones, Jacqui, 'Exhibition has much to offer, Newcastle & Hunter Herald, 11.02.2004
Keene, Neil, 'Galleries combine in Art Tour', Newcastle & Hunter Herald, 13.02.2004, p. 5
Lawson, Valerie. "Tails of a Prize-Winning Portrait", Sydney Morning Herald, 28.08.00; pp 1, 5;
Lynn, Elwyn. "Sublimity to Ridicule", The Australia Weekend Review, 13-14.11.1993; p. 13
MacDonald, John. Sydney Morning Herald, 1996;
Makin, Jeff. "Brave Artist Tackles Footy Heroes", Herald Sun, 4 Aug 2003; pp. 91-92
Mollison, James. "On Collecting", Art & Australia, vol. 34, no 1; 1997;
Murray Cree, Laura. "Gardens", Art & Australia, vol. 35, no. 4, 1998;
Porter, Liz. "How Brendan Fevola went from devil to Botticelli angel", The Age, 31/07/03
Schoenbaum, Sam. "Male Nude - A Private View" (exhibition review), Artlink, March 2001
Spunner, Suzanne. "The Thrall of the dress: Blame it on Dior", Art Monthly, April 99, p. 16-17.
Stone, Deborah. "Rondo with an airy middle section", The Age, 14 May 1999.
Watson, Bronwyn. "Galleries", Sydney Morning Herald, 30.10.1992