Represented by Utopia Art Sydney, 2 Danks Street, Waterloo, NSW, 2017
Tel: 61 2 9699 2900  Fax: 61 2 9699 2988

Born Sydney 1928
Currently living and working in Sydney

1997 Guest artist, Institute of Ceramic Studies, Shigaraki Ceramic Cultural Park, Japan
  Victorian College of the Arts 1997-8 Mentor Program
1989-92 Awarded Australian Artists Creative Fellowship
1988 Resident in Dr Denise Hickey Studio, Cite Internationale des Arts, Paris
1978 Awarded Senior Fellowship, Craft Board, Australia Council
1961 Studied with Lyndon Dadswell at the National Art School, Sydney, NSW
1955-59 Studied at the Central School of Arts and Design, London
1953-55 Studied at the National Art School, Sydney, NSW

solo exhibitions

2009 'Selini', Utopia Art Sydney, NSW
2008 'Thalassa', Utopia Art Sydney, NSW
2007 'looking forward - looking back - a recent survey', Utopia Art Sydney, NSW
2005 'Black & Blue', Utopia Art Sydney, NSW
2004 'The Odyssey', Utopia Art Sydney, NSW
2002 'Edge', Utopia Art Sydney, NSW
2000 'Disk', Utopia Art Sydney, NSW
1999 'Convergence', Utopia Art Sydney, NSW
1998 'Contemporary Projects - Marea Gazzard', Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW
1997 'Lauraine Diggins' Fine Art, Melbourne, VIC
1996 'The Hidden Heart of Australia', exhibition featuring the Mingarri sculpture for the
Prime Minister's Courtyard, Parliament House, Canberra, ACT
1994 'Marea Gazzard - Form & Clay', S H Irvin Gallery, Sydney, NSW
Launch of monograph by Christine France
1993 Coventry Gallery , Sydney, NSW
1990 Coventry Gallery , Sydney, NSW
  Victorian Arts Centre, Melbourne, VIC
1979 Coventry Gallery, Sydney, NSW
  'Clay and Fibre' (with Mona Hessing), National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, VIC
  Bonython Gallery, Sydney, NSW
1970 South Yarra Gallery, Melbourne, VIC
1969 Gallery A, Sydney, NSW
1967 Johnstone Gallery, Brisbane, QLD
1966 Gallery A, Sydney, NSW
1965 Johnstone Gallery, Brisbane, QLD
1963 Hungry Horse Gallery, Sydney, NSW
  Westmount Gallery, Montreal, Quebec

selected group exhibitions

2011 'Heads', Utopia Art Sydney, NSW
  ‘AAA – Australian Abstract Art’, Utopia Art Sydney, NSW
2010 ‘Museum III’ Utopia Art Sydney, NSW
  ‘Melbourne Art Fair 2010’, Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne, VIC
  'KIAF 2010, Korea International Art Fair’, COEX, Seoul, Korea
  ‘Tales from the Vault’, Manly Art Gallery and Museum, NSW
2009 'The 23rd Annual Packsaddle Selling Exhibition', New England Regional Art Museum, NSW
  '2009 Korean International Art Fair', CO-EX, Korea
  'small & wall', Utopia Art Sydney, NSW
2008 'Public Sculpture', Utopia Art Sydney, NSW
  'Melbourne Art Fair 2008', Royal Exhibition Building, VIC
2007 'Turning 20', Utopia Art Sydney, NSW
2006 'The crafted object 60s-80s', National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, ACT
  'Sydney Design 06 - 10th International Design Festival', Powerhouse Museum, Sydney, NSW
  'Melbourne Art Fair 2006', Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne, VIC
  'The 9th International Shoebox Sculpture Exhibition' University of Hawaii Art Gallery, Honolulu
2005 'Museum II', Utopia Art Sydney, NSW
  'Significant Objects - Sculpture 2005' Utopia Art Sydney, NSW
  'New Ideas 2005' Utopia Art Sydney, NSW
  Marea Gazzard 'the odyssey' & John R Walker 'dry land paintings', Silvershot, Melbourne, VIC
  'colour(less)' Lake Macquarie City Art Gallery, Booragul, NSW
2004 Saastamoinen Foundation Collection, Kuopio Art Museum, Finland
  'Melbourne Art Fair 2004' Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne, VIC
  'Sculpture 2004 - Object, Artefact & Adornment', Utopia Art Sydney, NSW
  'Fathoming - contemporary australian sculpture', A Regional galleries Association of Queensland Travelling Exhibition, QLD
  Boutwell Draper Gallery, Sydney, NSW
2003 'Sculpture 2003 Gazzard and Hodges', Utopia Art Sydney, NSW
  'Fathoming - contemporary australian sculpture', A Regional galleries Association of Queensland Travelling Exhibition, QLD
  'Australian Art' - National Gallery of Australia (Catalogue p. 292), ACT
  'Mingarri Revisited, Weather Reports, New Figures - Marea Gazzard, Peter Maloney, John Bursill', Utopia Art Sydney, NSW
2002 'Melbourne Art Fair 2002', Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne, VIC
  'Sculpture 2002', Utopia Art Sydney, NSW
  'Fathoming - contemporary australian sculpture', A Regional Galleries Association of Queensland Travelling Exhibition, QLD
  'Solstice', Utopia Art Sydney, NSW
  'The Year In Review', Utopia Art Sydney, NSW
2001 'Museum', Utopia Art Sydney, NSW
2000 'Respect', The Sir Hermann Black Gallery & Sculpture Terrace, University of
Sydney Union, NSW
  'Landscape', Utopia Art Sydney, NSW
  'Melbourne Art Fair 2000', Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne, VIC
  'Encore' Utopia Art Sydney, NSW
1998 Three Sculptors: Neil Taylor, Marea Gazzard, Christopher Hodges, Utopia Art
Sydney, NSW
1997 'Australian Ceramics Exhibition', Galerie Handwerk, Munich (Associated with
HWK Handwerkskammer fur Munchen and Oberbayern and at the
Kunstgewerbe Museum Dresden)
  'Bronze - New Sculpture', Utopia Art Sydney, NSW
1993 'Delinquent Angel (Historical Exhibition)', 49th Ceramic Concorso in Faenza,
Italy (and Singapore and Japan)
  'Review (works by Women from the Collection)', Art Gallery of New South Wales, NSW
  'Ceramics Survey 1969-1995 from Permanent Collection', Bathurst Regional Art Gallery, NSW
  'Women Artists from the Collection', Lewers Bequest & Penrith Regional Art Gallery, NSW
  'Women Hold Up the Sky', National Gallery of Australia, ACT
  'Australian National Gallery, Canberra: Selected work from the permanent collection', for the 8th National Ceramic conference, ACT
  'Australian Contemporary Art Fair' Utopia Art Sydney stand, Royal Exhibition Hall, Melbourne, VIC
  'Collecting Today for Tomorrow', Powerhouse Museum, Sydney, NSW
1994 'Australian Art 1940-1990', from the collection of the National Gallery of Australia, ACT
1988 'A Changing Relationship: Aboriginal Themes in Australian Art 1938-1988', S H
Irvin Gallery, Sydney, NSW
  'Australian Decorative Arts 1900-1985', Australian National Gallery, Canberra, ACT
1987 Finalist, Royal Blind Society Sculpture Award
  'Impulse and Form', Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, WA
1984 'Australian Ceramics', Dept of Foreign Affairs and Australia Council
1982 'Women and Arts Festival (with Bridget Riley and Inge King)', Coventry, Sydney, NSW
  'Australian Women Artists', Blaxland Gallery, Sydney, NSW
  'Invitation for Ian Potter Foundation Sculpture Commission', VIC
  Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney, NSW
1978 'Perth Festival', Fremantle arts Centre, Fremantle, WA
  'Citta' di Faenza XXII Concorso Internationale della Ceramica d'Arte
Contemporanae', Palazzo Esposizioni, Faenza, Italy
1970 'Mildura Sculpture Triennale', Mildura Arts Centre, Mildura, VIC
1969 'Auckland War Memorial Museum', Auckland, NZ
1968 '5th Adelaide Festival', Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, SA
  'Mildura Sculpture Triennale', Mildura Arts Centre, Mildura, VIC
  'Group Seven', Hungry Horse Gallery', Sydney, NSW

commissions

2004 Sculpture commission for the Municipal Company of Culture, Of the Municipality of Amaroussion, for the Olympic Games Sculpture Park 2004, Athens, Greece
  Sculpture commission for Adelaide Plaza (ASER Nominees)
1990-92 Commissioned by Kim Walker to design set for the ballet 'Harold'
1988 Sculpture commission for Graeme Murphy
1984-88 Sculpture commission for executive Court, Parliament House, Canberra (Mitchell Giurgola Thorp, Architects)
1962 Ceramic for Australia Room, Hilton Hotel, Hong Kong (Marion Hall- Best)
1961 Ceramic tiles for the Wellington RSL Club, Wellington, NSW (McConnell, Smith Johnson Architects)
1959 Architectural commission for chimney pots in Montreal, Canada
1957 Ceramic piece for the Weston family, London
  Joint commission with Nicholas Vergette for ceramics for hotel in Bermuda

collections

Ampol Petroleum Limited
Art Gallery of New South Wales
Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth
City Gallery, Brisbane
Crafts Board, Australia Council
High Court of Australia
Lake Macquarie Regional Art Gallery
Macquarie University, Sydney
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Newcastle Region Art Gallery
New South Wales Kindergarten Teachers Union
Parliament House, Canberra
Prieto Collection, Mills College, Oakland, California, USA
Powerhouse Museum, Sydney
President of Mexico (Gift of the Australian Government)
Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane
Queensland University of Technology
Robert Holmes a' Court Collection, Perth
Saastamoinen Foundation, Helsinki, Finland
Shepparton Art Gallery
Wagga Wagga Art Gallery
Wollongong City Art Gallery
Museum of Contemporary Ceramic Art , Shigaraki, Japan

publications

Art Pages Magazine May/June 2003 Vo. 27 No.3, Atlanta, USA.
Marea Gazzard Form and Clay, Christine France, Australia, 1994

 

marea gazzard

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