Sharon Goodwin

Biography

Born Melbourne, 1973.

Education

1995 – 1997 

• Victorian College of the Arts, Bachelor of Fine Art (Painting)

1992 – 1994 

• Box Hill college of TAFE, Advanced Certificate in Art and Design

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2009

• South of Now, Uplands Gallery, Melbourne

2007

• Afterworld, Uplands Gallery, Melbourne
• Never is Forever, Heide III: Project Gallery, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne
• Foundation Dinner Installation, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne

2006

• Tomorrow Is Another Today, Uplands Gallery, Melbourne

2004

• Carry On..., Uplands Gallery, Melbourne

2003

• ...On a Night Like This..., Uplands Gallery, Melbourne

2002

• Escape from Neverlands, Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne

2001

• Neverlands, Uplands Gallery, Melbourne
• Death Pops a Mono, 1st Floor Artist and Writers Space, Fitzroy

2000

• Two Legs Good, 1st Floor Artist and Writers Space, Fitzroy

1999

• Look out, Behind you! TCB art inc. Melbourne

Selected Group Exhibitions

2009

• I Walk the Line: New Australian Drawing, curated by Christine Morrow, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney

2008

• Revolving Doors: an exhibition in memory of Blair Trethowan, Uplands Gallery, Melbourne

2007

• Relentless Optimism, curated by Mark Feary, Carlton Hotel and Studios, Melbourne
• Unreal-esque, GrantPirrie Gallery, Sydney

2006

• Big in Japan, Gallery Side 2, Tokyo, Japan
• Business as Unusual, Uplands Gallery, Melbourne

2005

• Contemporary Drawing, The Ian Potter Centre: National Gallery of Victoria (Australia), Melbourne
• Grotesque, National Gallery of Victoria (International), Melbourne

2004

• Instinct, Monash University Faculty Gallery, Monash University Caulfield Campus, Victoria
• National Works on Paper Prize, Mornington Peninsula Gallery, Mornington, Victoria
• Satellite Cities, Tabloid Life, Monash Museum of Art, Monash University Clayton Campus, Victoria

2003

• Curiosity Killed the Gap, Artspace, Auckland, New Zealand
• Robert Jacks Drawing Prize, Bedigo Art Gallery, Victoria
• World Speak Less Dumb, Uplands Gallery, Melbourne

2002

• Team Show, Uplands Gallery, Melbourne
• 1st Floor Final Exhibition, 1st Floor Artist and Writers Space, Melbourne
• Crime Scenes, Monash Gallery of Art, Wheelers Hill, Victoria
• National Works on Paper Prize, Mornington Peninsula Gallery, Mornington, Victoria (work acquired for collection)
• Play, Plimsol Gallery, CAST touring exhibition, Hobart, Tasmania
• Drawing the Line, curated by Ashley Crawford, Crossley and Scott Gallery, Melbourne
• Neo Noir, Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne

2001

• Something for the Ladies, Penthouse and Pavement, Melbourne
• Team Show, Uplands Gallery, Melbourne

2000

• Paintings Are Ace, Linden Gallery, Melbourne
• 14GO, Bendigo Art Gallery, Victoria
• Family Romance, 1st Floor Gallery, Melbourne, and Rubyaye Gallery, Sydney
• Are You Experienced? Physics Room, Christchurch, New Zealand
• Landscape, 1st Floor Artist and Writers Space, Melbourne

1999

• Who’s Afraid of the Avant Guard, TCB art inc. Melbourne
• No Jokes, Stripp Gallery, Melbourne

1998

• Rubik3 (Video Vs Watercolour Exhibition), Wellington St Collingwood, Melbourne
• 9x5x25 Victorian College of the Arts Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Exhibition, George Adams Gallery, Melbourne

1996

• Kabluey in Kensington, Collaborative Art Workshop with students from Kensington Community School and A Constructed World (Geoff Lowe and Jacqueline Riva), Karen Lovegrove Gallery, Melbourne
• History Lesson, collaboration with Etoile Nassralah, Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne
• Times Five, Next Wave Festival, curated by Amanda Ahmed, VCA Gallery, Monash University Painting Department, George Paton Gallery, Melbourne

Bibliography

2007

• Lisa Radford, "Never Is Forever", catalogue essay, Heide Museum of Modern Art, 2007.
• Jarrod Rawlins, "Note on a Two-Headed Specimen of the Pacific Garter Snake", catalogue essay, Relentless Optimism, Carlton Hotel and Studios, 2007, pp. 32–3.

2003

• Ashley Crawford, "Artist's Kiss of Life to Comic Book Romance", The Age, A3 Supplement, 16 June 2003, p. 13.
• Ashley Crawford "Melbourne Gothic", Australian Art Collector, Issue 24, May 2003, pp. 86–9.

2002

• Ashley Crawford "From the Dark, Screams Art", review, The Age, Culture Supplement, 29 May 2002, p. 6.
• Ashley Crawford "Crossing the Line", catalogue essay, 2002.

2000

• Deverall, 2000: Thomas Deverall, Rubik10 catalogue essay and artist pages, Rubik10, 2000.
• Feary, 2000: Mark Feary, "Neo Noir", catalogue essay, Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, 2000, p. 2–5.
• Clare Firth-Smith, "Before and After Painting Now", LIKE magazine, artist pages, Faculty of Art Design and Communication, RMIT, Autumn 2000.
• Robert Nelson, review, The Age, Today Supplement, 2 February 2000, p. 8.
  

2001

• Penny Trotter, "Monster Politics", LIKE magazine, Faculty of Art Design and Communication, RMIT, Autumn 2001, pp. 31–5.
• Charley, publication and archive by Maurizio Cattelan, PS1, 2001.
• HOTROD, artist pages, August 2001.

1999

• Rachel Kent, "Rubik3", review, Art & Text, no. 65, May–July 1999, p. 98.
• ARTFAN9, "Hot Tub", artist pages, A Constructed World, 1999

1998

• Rubik 1, artist page, 1998.
• Rubik 4, artist page, 1998.

1996

• "Art School Now", ARTFAN6, Art School Mama, Summer 1996/7, A Constructed World, p. 25.
• LIKE magazine, artist page, Faculty of Art Design and Communication, RMIT, October 1996, p. 34.

Collections

• Joyce Nissan Collection, Melbourne
• National Gallery of Victoria
• Mornington Peninsula Gallery

Awards and Prizes

2004 

• Australia Council Studio Residency, London