SUE LOVEGROVE
Born Adelaide, South Australia, lives and works in Tasmania

Education & Professional Appointments

2013-18      
Sessional Lecturer in Drawing at Tasmanian College of the Arts, UTAS

2012            
Visiting artist, Painting workshop, School of Art, ANU, Canberra

2002            
PhD, School of Art, National Institute of the Arts, ANU, Canberra

1999-02      
Lecturer in Visual Art, University of Wollongong, New South Wales

1997            
Lecturer and coordinator of painting studio, Faculty of Fine Arts, Northern Territory University

1993-00      
Sessional Lecturer, Painting Workshop, School of Art, National Institute of the Arts, ANU

1990            
Bachelor of Arts (Visual) major in painting, School of Art, National Institute of the Arts, ANU

Solo Exhibitions

2025            
Meltwater, Bett Gallery, Hobart

2024            
Water Sky, Gallerysmith, Melbourne

2023            
Slow Water, Beaver Galleries, Canberra

2022            
The River Flows Through You, Gallerysmith, Melbourne

2021            
Waterholes and Wetlands, Beaver Galleries, Canberra

2020            
Surfacing, Bett Gallery, Hobart
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
The Book of Trees, Beaver Galleries, Canberra

2015            
Cloud Lake, Gallerysmith, Melbourne
Landforms and Lagoons, duo-solo with Charmaine Pike as part of CLIMARTE

2014            
Writing the Sky, Bett Gallery, Hobart
Nest, Beaver Galleries, Canberra

2013            
Cloud Memory, Gallerysmith, Melbourne

2012            
Windwalking, Bett Gallery, Hobart

2011            
Glimpse, Gallerysmith, Melbourne

2010            
Still Light, Beaver Galleries, Canberra
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
To hear the earth breathe, (part 2), Canberra School of Art Gallery, Canberra
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
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 Group Exhibitions

2022
Alice Prize, Araluen Arts Centre, Alice Springs, Northern Territory
Hadley Prize, Hobart
RANT Women's Prize, Hobart

2021            
Reflection/Submersion, Janet Homes a Court Gallery, Western Australia
Bay of Fires Art Prize, Tasmania

2020            
WINNER Elaine Bermingham National Watercolour Prize for Landscape, Webb Gallery, Griffith University, Queensland
RANT Women’s Art Prize, Tasmania
Paul Guest Drawing Prize, Bendigo Art Gallery, Victoria

2017            
Hadleys Art Prize, Hobart
Speaking of History, Bett Gallery Hobart
Poets and Painters, Moonah Arts Centre, Hobart
Abstraction: celebrating Australian women abstract artists, NGA (touring), Geelong Gallery

2015            
Under Kunanyi, Bett Gallery, Hobart
Urban Suburban, Canberra Museum and Gallery. Canberra
Exquisite, Henry Jones Hotel, Hobart
Biophilia, Beaver Galleries, Canberra

2013            
Poets and Painters, Bett Gallery, Hobart
Intensity of Purpose, Canberra Museum and Gallery, Canberra

2011            
Van Diemen's Land: Tasmanian Artists in the UK, Celia Lendis
Contemporary, UK
25 Years, An Unfolding Journey, Bett Gallery, Hobart

2010            
A Generosity of Spirit, QUT Art Museum, QLD |Anne & Gordon Samstag Museum of Art, SA
This Way Up, Canberra School of Art Gallery, Canberra
Three women paint the landscape, Damien Minton Gallery, Sydney
Autumn Collection, James Makin Gallery, Melbourne

2009            
Transcending Surfaces, Helen Maxwell Gallery, Canberra
Flower Show, Brenda May Gallery, Sydney

2008            
The View From Here II, Christine Abrahams Gallery, Melbourne
Bias Bound, Victorian Tapestry Workshop, Melbourne

2007            
Intimate and Distant Landscapes, Devonport Regional Gallery, Tasmania
Prometheus Art Award, Brisbane

2006            
Salon, Bett Gallery, Hobart
Robert Jacks Drawing Prize, Bendigo Art Gallery, Victoria
Senses of Place, Plimsoll Gallery, Tasmanian School of Art, Tasmania
Picture This, Canberra School of Art Gallery, ANU, VCA Gallery, Melbourne

2005            
ANL Maritime Art Prize, Melbourne
Looking South, Plimsoll Gallery, University of Tasmania, Hobart

2004            
Flemming Muntz Albury Art Prize, Albury Regional Art Gallery, Victoria
Blake Prize, touring exhibition, ACU Gallery Sydney, Melbourne

2003            
McGivern Art Prize, Maroondah Art Gallery, Victoria
Distant Noises, RMIT Gallery, Victoria

2002            
Melbourne International Art Fair, Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne

2001            
Conrad Jupiters Art Prize, Gold Coast Arts Centre, Queensland
Alice Prize, Araluen Arts Centre, Alice Springs, Northern Territory

2000         
Jacaranda Acquisitive Drawing Award, Grafton Regional Gallery touring regional galleries of New South Wales and Queensland during 2001   
Triptych, Helen Maxwell Gallery, Canberra

1999         
Australian Drawing Biennale, Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, Perth | the University Art Museum, University of Queensland

1998            
Australian Drawing Biennale, Drill Hall Gallery, Canberra
National Works on Paper, Mornington Peninsular Regional Gallery, Victoria
Alice Prize, Araluen Arts Centre, Alice Springs, Northern Territory
Conrad Jupiters Art Prize, Gold Coast Arts Centre, Queensland

1997            
Canberra Contemporary Art Fair, Drill Hall Gallery, Canberra
Winter Light, Australian Girls Own Gallery, Canberra
Painting Alumni, Photospace Gallery, Canberra School of Art, Canberra

1996            
ACAF 5, Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne, Victoria
Speculations 1, ANCA Gallery, Canberra
A Matter of Making, Canberra School of Art Gallery, Canberra

1995            
Works on paper, Christine Abrahams Gallery, Melbourne
Canberra Contemporary Art Fair, Drill Hall Gallery, Canberra
City of Hobart Art Prize, Hobart City Council, Hobart

1994            
Broken Hill Art Prize, Broken Hill City Art Gallery, New South Wales
Home is Where the Art is, Artspace, Adelaide Festival Centre, Adelaide
ACAF 4, Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne

1992            
ACAF 3, Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne

1990            
Sites Unseen One, Canberra Contemporary Art Space, Canberra

Awards and Grants

2021         
Finalist, Bay of Fires Art Prize, Tasmania

2020         
WINNER, Elaine Bermingham Watercolour Prize, Griffith University, Queensland

Finalist, RANT Women’s Art Prize, Tasmania

Finalist, Paul Guest Drawing Prize, Bendigo Art Gallery

2017            
Highly Commended, Award, Hadleys Art Prize, Hobart

Vice Chancellors Award for Community Engagement, Clemente program, University of Tasmania
            
Teaching Merit Certificate Award, University of Tasmania

2014            
Teaching Merit Certificate Award, University of Tasmania

2006            
Arts Tasmania Natural and Cultural Heritage Grant, (Maatsuyker Island)

2003            
Australian Antarctic Division Arts Fellowship

2002            
Canberra Critics Circle Award

2001            
ANU Postgraduate Award, PhD Scholarship

2000            
New Research Grant, University of Wollongong

1998            
Arts ACT Professional Development Grant

1994            
Broken Hill Art Prize (Work on Paper)

Residencies

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
            
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

Bibliography

Grishin, S. Water Works Invite Contemplation, Canberra Times, 20 March, 2023

Harper, A. Remembering a Jewel, Mercury, 17 September, 2022

Grishin, S. Enchanting and Haunting Beauty, Canberra Times, 10
April, 2021

Grishin, S. Depicting Shimmers of light on water, Canberra
Times, 22 August, 2019

Burden, H. There’s Plenty in Reserve, Mercury, 22 Oct, 2016

Poets and Painters, Exhibition Catalogue, 2017

Harper, A. Speaking Volumes, Mercury, 26 August, 2017

Burden, H. Double Vision, Mercury, 2 September, 2017

Grishin, S. In Praise of Great Trees, Canberra Times, 4 November,
2016

What Now, Art Collector Iss 78, 2016

Grishin, S. Nesting Impulses, Canberra Times, 4 July 2014

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

Grishin,S., Worlds of their own, Canberra Times, 15 November, 2010

Hawthorne, L., The Shape of Wind, Artlink, vol. 30, no. 2, 2010

Rainbird, S., A Generosity of Spirit, exhibition catalogue, 2010

Holmes, J., Intimate and Distant Landscapes, exhibition catalogue,
2007

Holmes, J., Senses of Place, exhibition catalogue, 2006

Elkins, J. (ed), ‘The PhD in studio art, Printed Project, iss. 04,
2005

Zika, P., Looking South, exhibition catalogue, 2005

Grishin, S., Artist like an archaeologist, excavating memory’s traces,
Canberra Times, 14 May, 2004

Barron, S., Lyrical abstractions go beyond the usual, Canberra Times, 3 April, 2002

Maxwell, H., Sue Lovegrove in the Australian Drawing Biennale, Drill Hall Gallery, 1998

McFarlane, J., ‘Between’, in Between Worlds, exhibition catalogue,
1998

Clabburn, A., A talented defence, The Age, 8 July, 1998

O’Heir, A., Aediculae, an invitation to silence, Muse Magazine, no.
158, February, 1997

Grishin, S., Mood, Memory and Sensuality, Canberra Times, 27
November, 1996

Gates, M., The Materiality of Memory, A Matter of Making, CSA
Gallery, 1996

Philp, A (ed), ANCA 1996 Australian National Capital Artists Inc and Canberra Museum and Gallery

O'Hehir, A., Speculations 1 & 2, Muse Magazine, no. 156, 1996

Neylon, J., Antidote, Adelaide Review, March, 1995

Dutkiemicz, A., A touch of the orient, Advertiser, March 10, 1996

Winner shows technical Prowess, Broken Hill News, 2 December, 1994

Grishin, S., Fragments of an Ephemeral Past Life, Canberra Times, 5 March, 1994

Cousins, K-A., In the shadows, Muse Magazine, no. 129, 1994

Musa, H., Siva the Cosmic Dancer, Canberra Times, 31 July, 1993

Collections

ACT Legislative Assembly, Canberra, ACT

Artbank, Sydney, New South Wales

Australian Conservation Foundation, Victoria

Broken Hill City Art Gallery, New South Wales

Bundanon Trust, New South Wales

Canberra Hospital, ACT

Canberra Museum and Gallery, Canberra, ACT

Derwent Collection, Tasmania

EASS Loans Collection, ANU, Canberra, ACT

Grafton Regional Gallery, New South Wales

Hyatt Hotel, Melbourne, Victoria

Holmes a Court collection, Western Australia

KPMG, Canberra, ACT

Macquarie Bank, Melbourne, Victoria

Maatsuyker Collection, Tasmania

National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, ACT

National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Victoria

Parliament House Art Collection, Canberra, ACT

Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart, Tasmania

University of Canberra, Canberra, ACT

Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Queensland

Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, Launceston, Tasmania