SUE LOVEGROVE
Born 1962 Adelaide, South Australia, lives and works in Tasmania
QUALIFICATIONS
2002 — PhD, School of Art, National Institute of the Arts, ANU, Canberra
1990 — Bachelor of Arts (Visual) major in painting, School of Art, National Institute of the Arts, ANU
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2026 — 'Slow Moving Ice', Gallerysmith, Melbourne (upcoming)
2024 — 'Water Sky', Gallerysmith, Melbourne
2024 — 'Meltwater', Bett Gallery, Hobart
2023 — 'Slow Water', Beaver Galleries, Canberra
2023 — 'The Invisible Lake', Bett Gallery, Hobart
2022 — 'The River Flows Through You', Gallerysmith, Melbourne
2021 — 'Waterholes and Wetlands', Beaver Galleries, Canberra
2020 — 'Surfacing', Bett Gallery, Hobart
2020 — 'Air and Water', Project Space, Bett Gallery, Hobart
2019 — 'Shimmer', Beaver Galleries, Canberra
2018 — 'The Memory of Water', Gallerysmith, Melbourne
2016 — 'In a Strange Land', Bett Gallery Hobart
2016 — 'The Book of Trees', Beaver Galleries, Canberra
2015 — 'Cloud Lake', Gallerysmith, Melbourne
2015 — 'Landforms and Lagoons', duo-solo with Charmaine Pike as part of CLIMARTE
2014 — 'Writing the Sky', Bett Gallery, Hobart
2014 — 'Nest', Beaver Galleries, Canberra
2013 — 'Cloud Memory', Gallerysmith, Melbourne
2012 — 'Windwalking', Bett Gallery, Hobart
2011 — 'Glimpse', Gallerysmith, Melbourne
2010 — 'Still Light', Beaver Galleries, Canberra
2010 — 'The Shape of the Wind', Bett Gallery, Hobart
2009 — 'Grasses', Victorian Tapestry Workshop, Melbourne
2008 — 'Walk With Me', Paintings from Southern Tasmania, Christine Abrahams Gallery, Melbourne
2007 — 'Maatsuyker, Island of the Mind', Bett Gallery, Hobart
2006 — 'Vanishing', Helen Maxwell Gallery, Canberra
2005 — 'Vanishing', Christine Abrahams Gallery, Melbourne
2004 — 'In pursuit of Clouds', Helen Maxwell Gallery, Canberra
2002 — 'To hear the earth breathe', (part 3), Christine Abrahams Gallery, Melbourne
2002 — 'To hear the earth breathe', (part 2), Canberra School of Art Gallery, Canberra
2002 — 'To hear the earth breathe', (part 1), Helen Maxwell Gallery, Canberra
1998 — 'Between Worlds', Christine Abrahams Gallery, Melbourne
1996 — 'Aediculae', aGOG (Australian Girls Own Gallery), Canberra
1995 — 'From the shadow of a mountain', Christine Abrahams Gallery, Melbourne
1995 — 'From the shadow of a mountain', Artspace, Adelaide Festival Centre, Adelaide
1994 — 'In the shadows', aGOG (Australian Girls Own Gallery), Canberra
1992 — 'The unswept floor', Christine Abrahams Gallery, Melbourne
1990 — 'Wall paintings... from the other side', Photospace Gallery, Canberra School of Art, Canberra
SELECTED CURATED EXHIBITIONS
2026 — 'Creative Antarctica: Australian Artists in the Far South', RMIT Galleries, Melbourne
2026 — 'Infinite Expanses', Gallerysmith, Melbourne
2025 — 'Sea Above Sky Below', Rosny Schoolhouse Gallery, Hobart
2023 — 'XV: PAST PRESENT FUTURE', Gallerysmith, Melbourne
2022 — 'Watershed', Bett Gallery, Hobart
2021 — 'Sydney Contemporary in Hobart', Bett Gallery, Hobart
2021 — 'Reflection/Submersion', Janet Homes a Court Gallery, Western Australia
2017 — 'Speaking of History', Bett Gallery Hobart
2017 — 'Poets and Painters', Moonah Arts Centre, Hobart
2017 — 'Abstraction: celebrating Australian women abstract artists', NGA (touring), Geelong Gallery
2015 — 'Under Kunanyi', Bett Gallery, Hobart
2015 — 'Urban Suburban', Canberra Museum and Gallery, Canberra
2015 — 'Exquisite', Henry Jones Hotel, Hobart
2015 — 'Biophilia', Beaver Galleries, Canberra
2013 — 'Poets and Painters', Bett Gallery, Hobart
2013 — 'Intensity of Purpose', Canberra Museum and Gallery, Canberra
2011 — 'Van Diemen's Land: Tasmanian Artists in the UK', Celia Lendis Contemporary, UK
2011 — '25 Years, An Unfolding Journey', Bett Gallery, Hobart
2010 — 'A Generosity of Spirit', QUT Art Museum, QLD | Anne & Gordon Samstag Museum of Art, SA
2010 — 'This Way Up', Canberra School of Art Gallery, Canberra
2010 — 'Three women paint the landscape', Damien Minton Gallery, Sydney
2010 — 'Autumn Collection', James Makin Gallery, Melbourne
2009 — 'Transcending Surfaces', Helen Maxwell Gallery, Canberra
2009 — 'Flower Show', Brenda May Gallery, Sydney
2008 — 'The View From Here II', Christine Abrahams Gallery, Melbourne
2008 — 'Bias Bound', Victorian Tapestry Workshop, Melbourne
2007 — 'Intimate and Distant Landscapes', Devonport Regional Gallery, Tasmania
2006 — 'Salon', Bett Gallery, Hobart
2006 — 'Senses of Place', Plimsoll Gallery, Tasmanian School of Art, Tasmania
2006 — 'Picture This', Canberra School of Art Gallery, ANU, VCA Gallery, Melbourne
2005 — ANL Maritime Art Prize, Melbourne
2005 — 'Looking South', Plimsoll Gallery, University of Tasmania, Hobart
2003 — 'Distant Noises', RMIT Gallery, Victoria
2002 — Melbourne International Art Fair, Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne
1999 — Australian Drawing Biennale, Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, Perth | the University Art Museum, University of Queensland
1998 — Australian Drawing Biennale, Drill Hall Gallery, Canberra
1997 — Canberra Contemporary Art Fair, Drill Hall Gallery, Canberra
1997 — 'Winter Light', Australian Girls Own Gallery, Canberra
1997 — 'Painting Alumni', Photospace Gallery, Canberra School of Art, Canberra
1996 — ACAF 5, Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne, Victoria
1996 — 'Speculations 1', ANCA Gallery, Canberra
1996 — 'A Matter of Making', Canberra School of Art Gallery, Canberra
1995 — 'Works on paper', Christine Abrahams Gallery, Melbourne
1995 — Canberra Contemporary Art Fair, Drill Hall Gallery, Canberra
1995 — 'Home is Where the Art is', Artspace, Adelaide Festival Centre, Adelaide
1995 — ACAF 4, Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne
1992 — ACAF 3, Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne
1990 — 'Sites Unseen One', Canberra Contemporary Art Space, Canberra
AWARD EXHIBITIONS, AWARDS, AND GRANTS
2024 — Finalist, Tidal Art Prize, Devonport Regional Gallery
2022 — Finalist, The Alice Prize, Araluen Arts Centre, NT
2022 — Finalist, Hadley's Art Prize, Hadley's Orient Hotel, Hobart
2022 — Finalist, RANT Women's Art Prize, QVMAG, Launceston, Tasmania
2021 — Finalist, Bay of Fires Art Prize, Tasmania
2020 — WINNER, Elaine Bermingham National Watercolour Prize, Griffith University, Queensland
2020 — Finalist, RANT Women's Art Prize, Tasmania
2020 — Finalist, Paul Guest Prize, Bendigo Art Gallery, Victoria
2018 — Australia Council Grant (Collaboration with Tasmanian poet Adrienne Eberhard to publish 'The Voice of Water', a collection of miniature paintings and poems)
2017 — Highly Commended, Hadley's Art Prize, Hobart
2017 — Vice Chancellors Award for Community Engagement, Clemente program, University of Tas
2017 — Teaching Merit Certificate Award, University of Tasmania
2014 — Teaching Merit Certificate Award, University of Tasmania
2007 — Finalist, Prometheus Art Award, Brisbane
2006 — Arts Tasmania Natural and Cultural Heritage Grant, (Maatsuyker Island)
2006 — Finalist, Robert Jacks Drawing Prize, Bendigo Art Gallery, Victoria
2004 — Finalist, Fleming Muntz Albury Art Prize, Albury Regional Art Gallery, Victoria
2004 — Finalist, The Blake Art Prize, touring exhibition, ACU Gallery Sydney, Melbourne
2003 — Finalist, R & M McGivern Art Prize, Maroondah Art Gallery, Victoria
2003 — Australian Antarctic Division Arts Fellowship
2002 — Canberra Critics Circle Award
2001 — ANU Postgraduate Award, PhD Scholarship
2001 — Finalist, Conrad Jupiters Art Prize, Gold Coast Arts Centre, Queensland
2001 — Finalist, The Alice Prize, Araluen Arts Centre, Alice Springs, Northern Territory
2000 — New Research Grant, University of Wollongong
2000 — Finalist, Jacaranda Acquisitive Drawing Award, Grafton Regional Gallery touring regional galleries of New South Wales and Queensland during 2001, 'Triptych', Helen Maxwell Gallery, Canberra
1998 — Finalist, National Works on Paper, Mornington Peninsular Regional Gallery, Victoria
1998 — Finalist, The Alice Prize, Araluen Arts Centre, Alice Springs, Northern Territory
1998 — Finalist, Conrad Jupiters Art Prize, Gold Coast Arts Centre, Queensland
1998 — Arts ACT Professional Development Grant
1995 — Finalist, City of Hobart Art Prize, Hobart City Council, Hobart
1994 — WINNER, Broken Hill Art Prize, Broken Hill City Art Gallery, New South Wales
RESIDENCIES
2025 — New Zealand, glacier research
2023 — Iceland, glacier research
2022 — Ikuntji Artists, Northern Territory
2015 — London, study of Persian miniature painting
2012 — Visiting Artist, School of Art ANU Canberra
2011 — Self-initiated residency, Tasman Island, Tasmania
2008 — Victorian Tapestry Workshop residency
2007 — Arts Tasmania Wilderness residency, Maatsuyker Island, Tasmania
2004 — Australian Antarctic Division Arts Fellowship, visited Antarctica and Macquarie Island
2001 — 'Bundanon', Arthur Boyd's studio, Nowra, New South Wales
2001 — Araluen Centre for Arts and Entertainment, Alice Springs, Northern Territory
2000 — Ngukurr, SE Arnhem Land, printmaking project with University of Wollongong
1997 — Northern Territory University, Darwin, Northern Territory
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2011-20 — Sessional Lecturer in Drawing at Tasmanian College of the Arts, UTAS
2012 — Visiting artist, Painting workshop, School of Art, ANU, Canberra
1999-02 — Lecturer in Visual Art, University of Wollongong, New South Wales
1993-00 — Sessional Lecturer, Painting Workshop, School of Art, National Institute of the Arts, ANU
1997 — Lecturer and coordinator of painting studio, Faculty of Fine Arts, Northern Territory University
BIBLIOGRAPHY
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Harper, A. 'Remembering a Jewel', Mercury, Tas Weekend, 17 September, 2022
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Grishin, S. 'Depicting Shimmers of light on water', Canberra Times, 22 August, 2019
Burden, H. 'There's Plenty in Reserve', Mercury, Oct 22, 2016
'Poets and Painters', Exhibition Catalogue, 2017
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Grishin, S. 'In Praise of Great Trees', Canberra Times, 4 November, 2016
'What Now', Art Collector Iss 78, 2016
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Cousins, K-A. 'Inspired by Nature', Canberra Times, 25 September, 2014
Hay, P., 'Shape of the wind: pattern & Chaos in Sue Lovegrove's island art', Artlink Magazine, 2012
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'Winner shows technical Prowess', Broken Hill News, 2 December, 1994
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Musa, H., 'Siva the Cosmic Dancer', Canberra Times, 31 July, 1993
COLLECTIONS
National Gallery of Australia
National Gallery of Victoria
Parliament House Art Collection (Canberra)
Canberra Museum and Gallery
Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery
Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery
Artbank, Sydney
Grafton Regional Gallery
Broken Hill City Art Gallery
Bundanon Trust
ACT Legislative Assembly
Queensland University of Technology
University of Canberra
Australian National University Emerging Artists' Support Scheme Loans Collection
Australian Conservation Foundation
Janet Holmes à Court collection
KPMG
Macquarie Bank
Canberra Hospital
Hyatt Hotel
Maatsuyker Collection
Derwent Collection
Tier Collection
Island Collection
Artemisia Collection
