Deborah Beck: CV
CURRICULUM VITAE
DEBORAH BECK
ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS
1973-76 Diploma in Art, National Art School and Alexander Mackie CAE
2007-09 Master of Arts (Research), History, University of Sydney. April 2010
2011 Accredited as a Professional Historian (MPHA) by the Australian Professional Historians Association, NSW
EMPLOYMENT
1979-2000 Part-time teacher, painting and drawing, Goulburn andRiverina CAE, St George College of TAFE,COFA, UNSW, National Art School (1986 painting lecturer), Hornsby TAFE, UWS
1996-2009 Painting teacher, Meadowbank TAFE ( Sydney Gallery School)
2005-2017 Archivist, historian and collections manager, National Art School.
2013-2014 Oral historian, City of Sydney Council
2000-2016 Lecturer, Drawing Department, National Art School, Darlinghurst
PUBLICATIONS
2017 Rayner Hoff: the life of a sculptor, Deborah Beck, NewSouth Publishing, March
2011 Set in Stone: the Cell Block Theatre, Deborah Beck, UNSW press, April
2005 Hope in Hell: a history of Darlinghurst Gaol and the National Art School, Deborah Beck, Allen and Unwin, November
CURATION
2017 Curator, Rayner Hoff: life and art, Rayner Hoff Project Space, NAS, March
2016 Co-Curator, Ann Thomson and Contemporaries, NAS Gallery, May-July
2013 Co-Curator, Dobell Legacy, NAS Gallery, Aug-Oct
2012 Curator, Out of the Box: Kerry Dundas photographs 1944-88, Project Space, National Art School, October.
2011 Co-Curator Set in Stone, National Art School Gallery, April
2008 Co-Curator Lines of Fire, National Art School Gallery, July-August.
GRANTS, AWARDS AND RESIDENCIES
2016 Anzac Community Grant, for research re Anzac War Memorial, Sydney
2013 Australia Council for the Arts, residency London Sept-Oct
2012 NSW Premier’s History Award, presented by the NSW Government and the State Library, for Set in Stone: the Cell Block Theatre
2009 History Publication Sponsorship Grant, City of Sydney Council, Set in Stone
2005 History Publication Sponsorship Grant, City of Sydney Council, Hope in Hell
2005 Recipient of the National Art School Residency at La Cite Internationale des Arts, Paris (September-October)
2000 Recipient of a NAVA Marketing Grant, for publication of catalogue for Paintings in Stone
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2017 Deco Janet Clayton Gallery, Sydney
2014 Memento Janet Clayton Gallery, Sydney
2012 Unrecognised Wilson Street Gallery at Danks, Sydney
2010 Mirrored Wilson Street Gallery, Sydney
2006 The Cars That Ate Paris Brenda May Gallery, Sydney
2003 Grilles and Grids Gallery SP, Sydney
2002 Small Works on Canvas Gallery SP, Sydney
2001 Paintings in Stone War Memorial Art Gallery, Sydney University
2000 Fragments UTS Gallery, Sydney
Chairs King Street Gallery, Sydney
1998 Facade King Street Gallery, Sydney
1995 Sideshow Access Art Gallery, Sydney
1993 Song Paintings Access Art Gallery, Sydney
1992 Ceilings Access Art Gallery, Sydney
1989 Recent Paintings Distlefink Gallery, Melbourne
1989 Dixon St Paintings Hogarth Galleries, Sydney
1987 Shop Paintings Hogarth Galleries, Sydney
Works on Paper Hogarth Galleries, Sydney
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2017 Kedumba Drawing Award, Orange Regional Gallery, December 2017
2016 Drawing Conversations, Rayner Hoff project Space, National Art School, Sydney
2014 Transforming, Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts, China, Living with Art, Drawing as Thought, Grace Cossington Smith Gallery, Sydney
2010-12 Dobell Prize for Drawing, finalist, Art Gallery of NSW
2012 Portia Geach Memorial Award Exhibition, finalist, SH Ervin Gallery 2012 From Paper, Beijing Art Space, Beijing, China
2008 Albany Art Prize, Western Australia
2007-13 Adelaide Perry Prize for Drawing, Adelaide Perry Gallery, Sydney
2001-07 Hazelhurst Art Award – Art on Paper, Hazlehurst Regional Gallery
2003 Blake Prize, finalist, Sir Hermann Black Gallery, Sydney
2003 Love Letter to China – Drawings by 35 Australian Artists, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney and tour of work to China 2003 – 2004
2003 Fisher’s Ghost Art Award, Campbelltown City Bicentennial Gallery
2003 Mosman Art Prize, Mosman Art Gallery, Sydney
2003 Waterhouse Natural History Prize, SA Museum, Adelaide
2002 Hobart City Art Prize, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart
Sulman Prize Exhibition, finalist, Art Gallery of NSW
2001 Ignite Cell Block Theatre, NAS, East Sydney
1997 Surface Tension Sir Hermann Black Gallery, Sydney University
1996-2009 Defiance, Newtown – 6” shows and Still Life exhibition
1974-1994 Exhibited in various group shows, including Goulburn Regional Gallery, Australian Contemporary Art Fair, Melbourne, Blaxland Gallery, Cell Block Theatre, Bonython and Macquarie Galleries, Sydney
PUBLISHED/REPRODUCED
1984-2017 – multiple reviews, catalogues, magazines and encyclopedias
Represented by Janet Clayton Gallery, Sydney. www.janetclaytongallery.com.au