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About

Caroline Rannersberger: Born in Adelaide, South Australia; lives and works in Tasmania

 

Relevant Qualifications

2007-2010 PhD Visual Arts Charles Darwin University, NT
2005-2006 MA Visual Arts Charles Darwin University, NT
1992-1995 BA Visual Arts (studies in painting, drawing, visual art theory) University of South Australia
1983-1986 Bachelor of Arts (Int/Trans) University of Vienna, Austria/Edith Cowan University, WA

 

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2013 April: Landscape in Refrain; Despard Gallery; Hobart

2013 November: New Work; Tim Olsen Gallery; Sydney

2012 Movement of Disappearance Flinders Lane Gallery, Melbourne, Vic
2011 Terra Mercurialis Cross Cultural Art Exchange, Darwin,NT
2010 Unsettling country Dominik Mersch Gallery, Sydney, NSW
2008 Landscapes of Delight and Disquiet Dominik Mersch Gallery, Sydney
2008 Landscapes of Delight and Disquiet Charles Darwin University Gallery, NT
2007 Sublime Territory Dominik Mersch Gallery, Sydney
2007 Sublime Territory Darwin Visual Arts Association,NT
2007 Sublime Journey Northern Editions, Charles Darwin University, NT
2006 Sublime Territory Araluen Galleries Alice Springs Cultural Precinct, NT
2006 New Works (Post Graduate Symposium) Charles Darwin University
2005 New Works Charles Darwin University Gallery, NT
2002 Darwin Festival of Arts, NT Darwin Entertainment Centre Gallery, NT
2000 New paintings Adelaide Central Gallery, SA
1999 New Paintings BMG Gallery, Adelaide, SA

 

Selected Group Exhibitions

2012 Merry Margaret 25th Christmas exhibition; Despard Gallery; Hobart

2012 Au Courant; Tim Olsen Gallery; Sydney

2012 Time; Flinders Lane Gallery; Melbourne

2012 Director’s Choice: 25th Anniversary; Despard Gallery; Hobart

2012 New Artists; Despard Gallery; Hobart

2012 The Paper Room; Flinders Lane Gallery; Melbourne

2011 TogArt Contemporary Art Award NT; finalist Darwin, NT
2011 Glover Prize finalist Evandale, Tasmania
2011 Visible Invisible Flinders Lane Gallery, Melbourne
2011 City of Albany Art Prize finalist Vancouver Arts Centre, Albany, WA
2010 Greatest Hits Flinders Lane Gallery, Melbourne
2010 Stan and Maureen Duke Gold Coast Art Prize; finalist Gold Coast City Art Gallery, Queensland
2010 Agenda Dominik Mersch Gallery, Sydney
2009 Hong Kong Art Fair Dominik Mersch Gallery, Sydney
2009 Glover Prize, Tasmania; finalist Evandale, Tasmania
2008 Fleurieu Art Prize; Fleurieu Water Prize;finalist in both categories Fleurieu Peninsula, SA
2008 The other thing – a survey show Charles Darwin University Art Collection
2008 Melbourne Art Fair, courtesy Thirtyseven Degrees Contemporary Fine Art Melbourne, Vic
2008 Silvershot Gallery, Melbourne, courtesy Dominik Mersch Gallery, Sydney Melbourne, Vic
2008 Charles Darwin University Post Grad in Progress, NT (Exhibiting artist and Curator) Charles Darwin University, NT
2007 ABN Amro Emerging Artist Award finalist Sydney, NSW
2007 TogArt Contemporary Art Award NT; finalist Darwin, NT
2006 Members’ Show, 24hr Art, The Northern Territory Centre for Contemporary Art Darwin, NT
2006 Fremantle Print Award, finalist Fremantle, WA
2006 Alice Prize, NT, finalist Alice Springs, NT
2006 Darwin Visual Arts Association Terra, NT Darwin, NT
1999 Prospect Portrait Prize (Subject: Robyn Archer) Adelaide, SA
1999 SANTOS Whyalla Art Prize, finalist Whyalla, SA
1999 Group show Robert Steele Gallery, Adelaide, SA

 Collections

Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory Darwin
National Gallery of Australia Canberra
Australian Embassy,The Hon Kim Beazley, AC Washington
Artbank Sydney
Macquarie Group Sydney
Suncorp Collection Brisbane
Private collection of Robyn Archer, OA Adelaide
Charles Darwin University Art Collection, Charles Darwin University Darwin
COMMISSIONS
Queen Elizabeth Hospital Research Foundation Adelaide
Cancer and Bowel Research Trust Association, Inc Adelaide
SA Ambulance Adelaide

 

Awards & Prizes

2013 Glover Prize (finalist); Evandale, Tasmania

2012 Tattersall’s Club Landscape Art Prize (finalist); Brisbane

2011  TogArt Contemporary Art Award; finalist, Darwin, NT

2011 Glover Prize finalist, Evandale, Tas

2011 City of Albany Art Prize finalist; Vancouver Arts Centre, Albany, WA

2010 Stan and Maureen Duke Gold Coast Art Prize; finalist; Gold Coast City Art Gallery, Queensland

2009 Glover Prize finalist, Evandale, Tas

2008 Fleurieu Art Prize; Fleurieu Water Prize;finalist in both categories; Fleurieu Peninsula, SA

2007 ABN Amro Emerging Artist Award finalist; Sydney

2007 TogArt Contemporary Art Award NT; finalist; Darwin, NT

2006 Fremantle Print Award, finalist; Fremantle, WA

2006 Alice Prize finalist; Alice Springs, NT

 

Commissions

Celebrating Darwin 2013, City of Darwin Public Art Installation

Queen Elizabeth Hospital Research Foundation Adelaide

Cancer and Bowel Research Trust Association, Inc Adelaide

SA Ambulance Adelaide

 

Reviews, Catalogues, Media

2013 Murray, Daena, Hot Springs, Macmillan Art Publishing, Darwin

2012 “Caroline Rannersberger: Movement of Disappearance.” The Week no. 18-24 May (2012).
2012 Fitzpatrick, Donal. “Movement of Disappearance.” Melbourne Review. May (2012).
2012 “Movement of Disappearance “Pick of the Month (Art)”.” Melbourne Magazine; The Age. 27 May (2012).
2011 Kohen, Apolline. “Unusual Terrains in Varied Media.” Australian Art Review no. May-June (2011): 79-81.
2011 Coleman, Leanne. “Painting Northern Australia: Caroline Rannersberger.” Origins, Charles Darwin University no. 1, March 2011 (2011): 30-31.
2010 ‘The Week’, Art Review, June 25
2010 Christopher, Lissa. “Visual Art: Unsettling Country.” Sydney Morning Herald, June 12-13.
2009 Artist explores new horizons, NT News, October 31
2008  Clement,C ‘Sydney Morning Herald Metro Pick’ Caroline Rannersberger, October 3, 2008
2008 Angel, Anita. “The Other Thing – a Survey Show “, edited by Charles Darwin University. Darwin: Charles Darwin University, 2008.
2008 Rothwell, Nicolas. “Catalogue Essay, Landscapes of Delight and Disquiet, Caroline Rannersberger.” 2-4. Sydney: Thirty-seven degrees contemporary fine art gallery (Dominik Mersch Gallery), Sydney,2008.
2008 Stainer, L, 2008, ‘Printmaking in SCAH, Charles Darwin University’, Imprint, Winter 2008, Vol 43, No. 2, p.9
2007 ABC, 2007, Landscape Painting Documentary ‘Painting Australia, Kakadu’
2007 Hampson, J 2007, ‘NT Caroline Rannersberger’, Review, Art & Australia, Vol 44, Autumn, No. 3
2007 Green, F (Ed) 2007, TogArt Contemporary Art Award (NT), PR Print, Queensland
2007 Unwin, S 2007, ‘Caroline Rannersberger’, Resident Magazine, Issue 6, Wet Season, p. 172
2007 Australia Business Arts Foundation, 2007, ‘Top Ten Tips for Exhibiting Artists’
2007 ABN Amro Emerging Artist Award Catalogue
2007 Goethe Institut, 2007, Portrait subject of, Far Away, So Close, Germans living in Australia, by Claudia Terstappen
2006 Spencer, R 2006, ‘Prints find earthy element’, West Australian, 30th September

 

Published papers, presentations

2011 “The Sensation of Painting Country in Remote Northern Australia.” In Making Sense: For an Effective Aesthetics, edited by Lorna Collins and Elizabeth Rush, 157-84. Bern: Peter Lang AG, 2011.
2011  ”The Logic of Untamed Chaos: Bryan Bulley.” Art Monthly Australia October, no. 244(2011).
2010 Review of Djalkiri Blue Mud Bay Exhibition, 24hrArt, Artlink; Volume 30, No 4, 2010
2010 Essay: “Metaphysical Territory.” Art Monthly Australia no. 230 (2010): 21-25.
2010 Presentation: Unsettling Country: The sensation of northern Australian landscape painting;Curtin University School of Design and Art, Perth
2009 Colloquium Presentation: Unsettling Country: The sensation of northern Australian landscape painting; Cambridge University, UK: ‘Making Sense Colloquium’ ; Charles Darwin University, NT, Australia
2009 Exhibition Review: Gary Lee; ‘Photofile’, Australian Centre for Photography, Vic
2008 Curated Exhibition and paper: CDU Post Grad in Progress, NT
2008 Artist Forum CDU: Landscapes of Delight and Disquiet, NT
2007 Artist Forum Araluen Galleries: Sublime Territory, NT
2007 Artist Business Top Ten Tips for Exhibiting Artists (Australia Business Arts Foundation), NSW
2007 Artist Forum CDU: Sublime Territory; CDU, NT
2006 Symposium Presentation: Beyond the Sublime: CDU Postgraduate Symposium, NT

 

 Further Art Related Experience

2013 Painting facilitator; Kids Artzone workshop; Bruny Island, Tasmania

2009-2011 Sessional lecturer in Visual Arts:Higher education and VET (painting, drawing, visual art theory); Arts writer Charles Darwin University, NT;Journals: Artlink, Art Monthly
2006-7 Facilitator and Curator, Mulil Bim, Kakadu Artists Limited Edition Print Exhibition Charles Darwin University; Social Justice Communications
2006 Coordinator, Creative Arts and Humanities at CDU Post graduate symposium Charles Darwin University School of Creative Arts and Humanities
2006 Subject of landscape painting documentary, Painting Australia: Kakadu ABC television
2002 Painting tutor (VET); Event Manager and Artistic Director, Kakadu Arts Festival (Mahbilil Festival) Batchelor College / Injalak Arts and Crafts, Gunbalanya, West Arnhem; Charles Darwin University, Jabiru Campus
2002 Judge, Katherine Art Prize Katherine Town Council, NT
1995 Artist in Residence Art School of SA, University of SA
1984-86 Arts Writer Danube Weekly, Vienna, Austria