Represented by Utopia Art Sydney, 2 Danks Street, Waterloo, NSW, 2017
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education

1972-75 South Australian School of Art, Adelaide. Dip Fine Art
1980 Travelled and worked in America and Europe assisted by VAB Travel Grant
1986-1990 College of Fine Arts, U.N.S.W., M.A. Visual Arts
1988 VACB Residency in New York

solo exhibitions

2009 'Tripartite', Utopia Art Sydney, Sydney, NSW
2005 'New Directions', Depot Gallery, Sydney, NSW
2003 'Precipice, New Paintings', Watters Gallery, Sydney, NSW
2000 'On the Edge, new work', Watters Gallery, Sydney, NSW
1999 'Transformed, a survey' 1990-1999, Watters Gallery, Sydney, NSW
1998 'Angle, new paintings' Watters Gallery, Sydney, NSW
1996 'Connections, new paintings', Watters Gallery, Sydney, NSW
1995 'Transit new prints and drawings', Watters Gallery, Sydney, NS
1994 'Eclipse of the moon new paintings', Watters Gallery, Sydney, NSW
1992 'Searching the Shadows', Watters Gallery Sydney, NSW
1990 'From an Old House in America', large works on paper, Watters Gallery, Sydney, NSW
1989 'Works on Paper', Watters Gallery, Sydney, NSW
1988 'Ceremony', Watters Gallery, Sydney, NSW
  'Performance', Milburn & Arte, Brisbane, QLD
1987 'Prints and Drawings Anima Gallery', Adelaide, SA
1986 Watters Gallery, Sydney, NSW
  Michael Milburn Galleries, Brisbane, QLD
1984 Michael Milburn Galleries, Brisbane, QLD
  'Light Charms', Watters Gallery, Sydney, NSW
1983-1984 'Helen Eager Prints and Drawings', Orange Regional Gallery and toured N.S.W. Regional Galleries
1983 'Out of Time, drawing and prints', Watters Gallery, Sydney, NSW
1981 'Recent Works on Paper', Watters Gallery, Sydney, NSW
  'Prints and drawings', Miller Gallery, Perth, WA
1979 Watters Gallery, Sydney, NSW
1978 Pinacotheca, Melbourne, VIC
1977 Watters Gallery, Sydney, NSW

group exhibitions

2011 ‘AAA – Australian Abstract Art’, Utopia Art Sydney, NSW
2010 ‘KIAF 2010, Korea International Art Fair’, COEX, Seoul, Korea
  ‘in [two] art’, the Agapitos/Wilson Annual, Maitland Regional Art Gallery, NSW
  ‘Ascent into Infinity’, Delmar Gallery, NSW
  ‘Museum III’ Utopia Art Sydney, NSW
  ‘Melbourne Art Fair 2010’, Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne, VIC
  ‘The Catalano Collection’, Art Gallery of Ballarat, VIC
2009 'The 23rd Annual Packsaddle Selling Exhibition', New England Regional Gallery, Sydney, NSW
  'pinned & framed', Utopia Art Sydney, NSW
  '2009 Korean International Art Fair', CO-EX, Korea
2008 'pairs of paintings', Utopia Art Sydney, NSW
  'Australian Abstraction', Utopia Art Sydney, NSW
  'Melbourne Art Fair 2008', Royal Exhibition Building, VIC
2007 'Sydney Prints; 45 Years of the Sydney Printmakers', Hawkesbury Regional Gallery, Sydney, NSW
  'Liz Coats - time and motion, Helen Eager - plains to mountains, Peter Maloney - electric planchette', Utopia Art Sydney, Sydney, NSW
  'Turning 20', Utopia Art Sydney, Sydney, NSW
2006 'Sydney Prints; 45 Years of the Sydney Printmakers', S H Ervin Gallery, Sydney, NSW
  'Robert Jacks Drawing Prize', Bendigo Art Gallery, Sydney, NSW
  'Melbourne Art Fair 2006', Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne, VUC
  'Bits and Pieces abstract art', Utopia Art Sydney, Sydney, NSW
2005 'from big things little things grow', Utopia Art Sydney, NSW
  'Sydney v Melbourne', Silvershot, Melbourne, VIC
  'Sydney Art on Paper Fair 2005', Bryan Kennedy Hall, Moore Park, Sydney, NSW
  'Museum II', Utopia Art Sydney, Sydney, NSW
2001 'Abstraction Spirit, Light, Pure Form', Tim Olsen Gallery, Sydney, NSW
2000 'Summer Show', Watters Gallery, Sydney, NSW
  'The Australian Drawing Biennale', Drill Hall Canberra, ACT
1999 'Summer Show', Watters Gallery, Sydney, NSW
  'Silver 25th Anniversary Exhibition', Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney, NSW
1998 Summer Show', Watters Gallery, Sydney, NSW
1997 'Summer Show', Watters Gallery, Sydney, NSW
  'Rena Ellen Jones Memorial Print Award', Warrnambool Art Gallery, VIC
  'Rena Ellen Jones Memorial Print Award', Warrnambool Art Gallery, VIC
  'Conrad Jupiters Art Prize', Gold Coast City Art Gallery, Sufers Paradise, QLD
  '13th Biennial Spring Festival of Drawing', Mornington Peninsular Regional Gallery, VIC
  'Sustainability Benefit Exhibition', Newcastle, NSW
  'The Face Amnesty International Benefit Exhibition', Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW
1996 'Jacaranda Drawing Award', Grafton, NSW
  'Floressence', Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney and touring Newcastle Region Gallery, Tamworth City Gallery, NSW
  'Chromacryl Paint', exhibition Utopia Art Sydney, Sydney, NSW
  'Kedumba Drawing Prize Invitation Drawing exhibition', Leura, NSW
  'Contemporary Australian Abstraction', Niagara Gallery, Melbourne, VIC
1995 'Recent small works', Watters Gallery, Sydney, NSW
  'Women at Watters', Watters Gallery, Sydney, NSW
  'Ironside Benefit Exhibition for N.E.R.A.M', Powerhouse Museum, Sydney, NSW
  'in the company of women: 100 years of Australian women's art from the Cruthers Collection', P.I.C.A., Perth, WA
1994 'Home and Away: Domestic Icons and Daily Life as Art', Gold Coast City Gallery, Surfers Paradise, QLD
  'The John McCaughey Memorial Art Prize', National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, VIC
1993 'Contemporary Australian Paintings: Works from the Allen Allen & Hemsley Collection', Westpac Gallery, Melbourne, VIC
  'Arrangement: Australian Still Life 1973-1993', Museum of Modern Art, Heide, Melbourne, VIC
1992 'Magaret Stewart Endowment', National Gallery Victoria, VIC
  'Munu et Mente', Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney, NSW
1991 'Prints Galore', Wollongong City Gallery, NSW
  'Light', Watters Gallery, Sydney, NSW
  'Her Story', S H Ervin Museum, Sydney, NSW
  'Interiors', Noosa Regional Gallery, Queensland, QLD.
  Group Show, with Ron Lambert and Vicki Varvaressos', Waters Gallery, NSW
1990 '1990 Collection: A Portfolio Of Australian Women Artists', Macquarie Gallery, NSW
  'Second Australian Contemporary Art Fair', Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne, VIC
  'Paper Works: Drawings, Watercolours, Pastels & Collages from the Wollongong City Collection', NSW
  'The Rotary Collection', Australian National Gallery, Canberra, ACT
  'Windsor & Newton Painting Prize', Coventry Gallery, Sydney, NSW
1989 'Intimate Drawing', Coventry Gallery, Sydney, NSW
  'Portrait of a Gallery', Watters Gallery 25th Anniversary Exhibition, touring eight regional centres until 1991, NSW
  'Work from the Studios of ... with Ian Bettinson, Robert Klippel, Richard Larter, Jon Plapp, & Vicki Varvaressos', Watters Gallery, Sydney, NSW
1988 'Tamworth Environs', Tamworth City Gallery and NERAM, Armidale, NSW
  'New Art', Ben Grady Gallery, Canberra, ACT
  'A New Generation', Australian National Galley, Canberra, ACT
  'First Australian Contemporary Art Fair', Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne, VIC
1987 'Moet & Chandon Touring Exhibition', AGWA and State Galleries
  'A New Romance', Australian National Gallery, ACT
1986-87 'Painters' Prints', The Mitchelton Print Exhibition, Benalla and Shepparton Art Galleries, VIC
  'NUSTART', Milburn Gallery, Brisbane, QLD
1986 Watters Gallery, Sydney, NSW
1985 'Small Works', Michael Milburn Galleries, Brisbane, QLD
  'In all Directions', Milburn Gallery, Brisbane, QLD
1984 'Australian Woodcuts and Linocuts from the Collection', Art Gallery of New South Wales
  'Works on Paper', Campbelltown Art Gallery, NSW
1983 'Drawings', Watters Gallery, Sydney, NSW
  'Australian Perspecta 1983', Art Gallery of New South Wales and touring, NSW
  'The Printmakers Studio', Art Gallery of New South Wales, NSW
  'Rooms', James Harvey Gallery, Sydney, NSW
  'New Art, Selections from the Michell Endowment', National Gallery of Victoria, VIC
  'Some Recent Australian Works on Paper', Art Gallery of New South Wales, NSW
  'Some Quieter Statements', Watters Gallery, Sydney, NSW
1982 'Albury Purchase Award', Albury Regional Arts Centre, Albury, NSW
  'Helen Eager - Pastels, Christine Simons - Acrylics on Paper', Watters Gallery, Sydney, NSW
  'Printmakers of NSW', The Gallery, NSW House London, UK
1981 'Works from Kirktower House', Peacock Printmakers Gallery, Aberdeen, Scotland
  'Seventh British International Print Biennale', Bradford, UK
  'Capital Permanent Award', Geelong Art Gallery, Geelong, VIC
1980 'Drawn and Quartered', (Australian Contemporary Paperworks) Art Gallery of South
Australia Festival Exhibition, Adelaide, SA
  'Interiors', Art Gallery of New South Wales Travelling Art Exhibition 1980-1981
  'Contemporary Australian Drawings and Prints', Art Gallery of New South Wales, NSW
1979 'Sixth British International Print Biennale', Bradford, UK
  'Tokyo Print Biennale', Tokyo Art Museum, Japan
  'Art In The Making', Art Gallery of NSW and travelling 1979-1980
1978 'Helen Eager, Leone Furber, Bernie Pask', CAS Gallery, Adelaide, SA
  'Still Life Still Lives', Glenfiddich exhibition, Opera House, Sydney and travelling
1977 'Watters at Pinacotheca', Pinacotheca, Melbourne, VIC
1976 'NSW Printmakers', Contemporary Art Society Gallery, Adelaide, SA
  'NSW Printmakers', Contemporary Art Society Gallery, Adelaide, SA
  'Outlines of Australian Printmaking', Ballarat Fine Art Gallery, Ballarat, VIC
1975 'Young Artists Award', Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, SA
  'Members Exhibition'', C.A.S. Gallery, Adelaide, SA

other

1993 Print Collaboration: printed and published Papunya Tula artists, Turkey Tolson Tjupurrula, Joseph Jurra & Dinny Campbell and Gloria Petyarreye
1992 Imprint journal of the Print Council of Australia. Utopia Art Sydney Publishing Prints by Artists from the Desert
1991 Print Collaboration: printed and published Papunya Tula artists, Turkey Tolson Tjupurrula, Joseph Jurra & Dinny Campbell
1990 Print Collaboration: printed and published The Utopia Suite: 72 Prints by 72 Artists, Utopia Community, NT

comissions and other activities

1993 Redesigned and painted set for the National Capitol Dancers, Canberra for the ballet 'The Host '
1990 Collection: A Portfolio Of Australian Women Artists, Commission Cancer Council of NSW
1989 Designed and painted set for the National Capitol Dancers, Canberra for the Ballet 'The Host'
1983 Yulara Resort, Northern Territory, 1983: lithograph, edition of 50
1982 Print Council of Australia, member's print

collections

Albury Regional Arts Centre Allens Arthur Robinson
Art Gallery of New South Wales Art Gallery of South Australia
Artbank National Gallery of Australia
Baker & McKenzie Ballarat Fine Art Gallery
Bathurst Region Art Gallery Broken Hill Art Gallery
Burnie Art Gallery, TAS Campbelltown Art Gallery
Caufield Arts Centre, VIC C.O.F.A. Sydney, NSW
Deakin University Library, VIC Fremantle arts Centre, WA
Greenwood High School, WA Griffith University, QLD
Holmes a'Court Collection Hawthorn Institute of Education VIC
Ipswich Girls' Grammar School, QLD LaTrobe Valley Arts Centre, VIC
Los Angeles M.O.C.A. Los Angeles, USA Melbourne University, VIC
National Gallery of Victoria N.E.R.A.M., Armidale, NSW
Newcastle Region Art Gallery, NSW NSW Parliament House
Print Council of Australia, VIC Queen Victoria Museum & Art Gallery, TAS
State Bank, NSW Tasmanian CAE
Tasmanian Art Gallery, TAS Trinity Grammar School Gallery, Sydney, NSW
Warrnambool Art Gallery, VIC WESTPAC - New York
Warrnambool Art Gallery, VIC Wheelers hill High School, VIC
  Wollongong Art Gallery, NSW

bibliography

reference books

Australian artists' index, compiled by Jan McDonald. Sydney: Arts Libraries Society, Aust. & New Zealand,1986.
Artists and galleries of Australia and New Zealand, edited by Max Germaine. Sydney: Lansdowne Editions, 1979.
Directory 1988 : Australian artists producing prints. Melbourne: Print Council of Australia, 1989.
Directory of Australian printmakers 1982, edited by Lilian Wood. Melbourne: Print Council of Australia, 1982.
Germaine, Max. Artists and galleries of Australia. Brisbane: Boolarong Publications, 1984. Roseville, NSW: Craftsman House, 1990.
McCulloch, Alan. Encyclopedia of Australian Art. Hawthorn: Hutchinson of Australia, 1984.
Who's who of Australian Women, compiled by Andrea Lofthouse. Sydney: Methuen, 1982.

books

Drury, Neville. New art two. Roseville, NSW: Craftsman House, 1988. (Includes photos of 2 works and artist, biography and artist's statement)
McKenzie, Janet. Drawing in Australia: contemporary- images and ideas. Sydney; Macmillan, 1986. (Includes photos of 3 works)
1990 collection: a portfolio of Australian women artists. NSW: State Cancer Council, 1990. (Includes photos of work and artist)
Outlines of Australian printmaking: prints of Australia from the last third of the 18th century, until the present day. Ballarat: Ballarat Fine Art Gallery, 1976.

journals (articles)

"Artists to watch" Art and Australia. Sydney, 1983. Vol.20 No.3. p 328. (Includes photo)
Baker, Russel. "Portrait of the artist" Follow me. Sydney: Follow me Publications, April/May 1987, p 121, 127. (Includes photos of works and artist)
Catalano, Gary. "About the house: The domestic scene in Australian art" Art & Australia. Sydney, Ure Smith, 1984. Vol.21 No.l. p 86
Clare, John. "Emanations of the inanimate: Helen Eager's subtle lithography" Sydney City monthly. Sydney: Australian Consolidated Press, September 1981. p 108. (Includes photos of 2 works and artist)
Gallery Guide and Newsletter. Sydney: Australian Commercial Galleries Association, 1984. p 6-8. (Includes photo of work)
McPhee, John. "The Rotary collection of art by young Australians" ANG Association News. Canberra: Australian National Gallery, March/April 1987. p 12-15. (Includes photo of work)
Morrell, Timothy. "Alien corn" Artlink. South Australia, 1989. Vol.9 No.2. p 58-59 (Includes photo of work)
Overton, Sara. "Affordable art: prints" Follow me. Sydney: Follow me Publications, Oct/Nov 1984. p 151, 156-7 (Includes photos of 3 lithographs and artist)

journals (inclusions)

Art almanac. Sydney, September 1986. (Photo and comments)
Art and Australia. Sydney, Vol.22 No.5. p 453. (Exhibition commentary)
Art Gallery of South Australia monthly news. Adelaide, Vol.l No.10, March 1980. ("Drawn and quartered" information)
Australian National Gallery annual report 1977/78. Canberra: ANG, 1979. p 42 (Details of 5 print acquisitions - name, year, type, size)
Australian National Gallery annual report 1985/6. Canberra: ANG, 1987. p 102 (Details of acquisition - drawing)
Information bulletin, Art Gallery of NSW. Sydney, October, 1979. ("Travelling art exhibition" details)
Information bulletin, Art Gallery of NSW. Sydney, June, 1983. (Front cover photos of artist at work)
New England Region Art Museum annual report. NSW: Armidale City Council, 1987. (Front cover photo of artist's work)
Peacock printshop newsletter. Aberdeen, Scotland, 1981. (Details of exhibition, photo of work)

reviews

"Artist works with everyday subjects". Central Western Daily. Orange, NSW, 1983. ("Prints & drawings" touring exhibition)
Borlaise, Nancy. "Art". Sydney Morning Herald. I0/10/77. (lst show, Watters)
Burke, Janine. "Critic choice". National Times. Weekending 11/11/78. p 58 (Pinocotheca show)
Collins, Kate. "Reflections". Sunday Mail. Qld, 16/2/86. (Milburn show)
Pidgeon, W.E. "Art". Sun Herald. NSW, 18/10/77. (lst show)
Dolan, David. "The arts". Advertiser. S.A., 24/5/78. p 33 (CAS show)
Dolan, David. Advertiser. S.A., 4/3/80. ("Drawn & quartered")
Grishin, Sasha. "A mixture of love & objectivity: Helen Eager prints & drawing". Canberra Times. ACT, 10/7/84. (Arts Council show)
Langer, Gertrude. Courier Mail. Qld, 4/1/84. (Milburn show)
Lynn, Elwyn. Weekend Australian. 27/28 September, 1986. p 10. (Watters show)
Lynn, Elwyn. Weekend Australian. 6-7 June 1992 "Skeletons of the Human Insect"
Lynn, Elwyn .Weekend Australian. 11-12 January 1992 (Summer show Watters Gallery)
Lynn, Elwyn. "The fruits of female flair". Weekend Australian. 23/24 April, 1988. ("Ceremony", Watters)
Lynn, Elwyn, Weekend Australian. 4/5 March 1989. (Works on paper", Watters)
McDonald, John, "Metro". Sydney Morning Herald. September, 1986. (Listing and brief review for Sept 10-27 show)
McGrath, Sandra. "Whisky, & the art of picture buying". Australian. 1979. (Glenfiddich show at Opera House)
McGrath, Sandra. "Art". Australian. 11/10/77. p 10. (First show, Watters)
McGrath, Sandra. "So it's fruit and vegies all the way". Weekend Australian. 21/22 March, 1981. (Recent works on paper", Watters)
Mendelssohn, Joanna. "Paintings & drawings by Helen Eager & Virginia Coventry". Sydney Morning Herald. 12/9/86. p 12. (Watters show)
Mendelssohn, Joanna. "The arts". Bulletin. 14/6/88. p 107.
Sohien, Gina. "Billboard". National Times. May, 1983. p 32. (Exhibition listing & brief review)
Sturgeon, Graeme. "Artist's Artist" The Age (Pinacotheca show) Victoria, 11/11/78.
Sweeny, Brian. "Sweeny on Sunday". Sunday Sun. Qld, 16/2/86. (Milburn show)
Woolcock, Phyllis. "Arts". Courier Mail. Qld, 15/2/86. (Milburn show)

catalogues

Australian perspecta 1983: a biennial survey of contemporary Australian art. Sydney: Art Gallery of NSW, 1983. (Biography, photo of work)
Drawn and quartered: Australian contemporary paperworks Adelaide: Art Gallery of S.A., 1980. (Biography and statement)
First Australian contemporary art fair. Melbourne: Commercial Galleries Association, 1988.
Hammond, Victoria & Svetlana Karovich. Painters' prints: The Mitchelton print exhibition. Victoria: Benalla & Shepparton Art Galleries, 1986. (Biography and photo of work)
Her story: Images of domestic labour in Australian art. Sydney: S. H. Ervin Gallery, 1991.
Interiors, Travelling art exhibition 1980-1981. Sydney: Art Gallery of NSW, 1980.
Interiors. Tewantin, Qld: Noosa Regional Gallery, 1991. (Artist's comment)
Legge, Geoffrey. Helen Eager. Brisbane: Michael Milburn Galleries, 1984. (Biography, photos of work and artist)
Legge, Geoffrey. Moet & Chandon touring exhibition. Australia: State Galleries, 1987. (Biography and photo of work)
McPhee, John. A new romance. Canberra: Australian National Gallery, 1987. (Held at University Drill Hall Gallery.)
A new generation 1983-1988. Canberra: Australian National Gallery, 1988.
New release show. W.A.: Miller Gallery, 1981. (Biography, comments and photo of work)
Portrait of a gallery. Sydney: Watters Gallery, 1989.
Print award exhibition. W.A.: Fremantle Art Gallery, 1981.
Printmakers of NSW. London: The Gallery, NSW House, 1982. (Biography)
Prints from Kirktower House. Aberdeen, Scotland: Peacock Printmakers Gallery, 1981. (Exhibition details and photo of work)
Second Australian contemporary art fair. Melbourne: Commercial Galleries Association, 1991.
Seventh British international print biennale. Bradford: Cartwright Hall, 1981.
Sixth British international print biennale. Bradford: Cartwright Hall, 1979.
Slutzkin, Linda. Art in the making; Travelling exhibition 1979-1980. Sydney: Art Gallery o
NSW, 1979. (Biography, photos of 5 works, and of the printing steps)
Slutzkin, Linda. Helen Eager: Prints and drawings. Orange Regional Gallery, 1983. (Includes 4 photos of work, and artist)
Still life still lives; the Glenfiddich exhibition. Sydney: Australian Gallery Directors Council, 1978. (Biography and photo of work)
Tamworth Environs. NSW: Tamworth City Gallery, 1988. (Photo of work, and artist, biography and statement)
Tokyo print biennale. Japan: Tokyo Art Museum, 1979.
Women's imprint, womens & arts festival. Sydney: Art Gallery of NSW, October, 1982. (Project 39)
Work from the studios of .....[6 artists]: Watters Gallery

audio/visual material

Eager, Helen (and Margaret Dodd). Art in the making, the Art Gallery of NSW travelling exhibition. Adelaide: Educational Technology Centre, Education Dept, S.A., 1979. (28 slides, booklet)
Arts of NSW Vision & sound exhibition, held Darling Harbour. Chatswood, NSW: The Production Group, 1988. (5 slides of work)
Melon, James. Helen Eager. Victorian State Library, 1985, (interview with artist - audio recording)

other

Designed and painted set for "The Host", ballet performed by the National Capitol Dancers, Canberra, 1989. (Catalogue)
Artist gave talk at Allen, Allen & Hemsley, Sydney, 1990, about her works in the firm's collection. 4-page document includes biography, 13 photos of work.
Illustration for article on George Johnston & Charmain Clift. Agenda, Sydney Morning Herald, 6/10/86. p11

 

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