Currently lecturer in the Department of Fine Arts, Faculty of Art and Design, Monash University, Caulfield East 3145 Victoria Australia
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2010 The poetics of geometry Latrobe Regional Gallery, Morwell, Victoria 2008 Post-Op Faculty Gallery, Faculty of Art & Design, Monash University 2002 Histories of... Flinders Lane Gallery, Melbourne
foreshadow Linden, Melbourne
2000 seven enigmas Flinders Lane Gallery, Melbourne
1997 Night scenes and allegories Access Contemporary Art Gallery, Sydney
1996 Recent paintings Flinders Lane Gallery, Melbourne
An enquiry into allegory Switchback Gallery, Monash University
1995 Iconologies of Antarctica Access Contemporary Art Gallery, Sydney
1994 Anatomy of melancholy Kingston Arts Centre
Collection in context Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery
1993 Recent work Access Contemporary Art Gallery, Sydney
1991 Plant: works on paper LaTrobe Regional Gallery, Morwell, Vic
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2010 Footprint: 2nd international printmaking biennale Centre for Contemporary Printmaking, Norwalk, Connecticut The outsider Trocadero Art Space, Melbourne Fremantle Arts Centre Print Award 2009 City of Hobart Art Prize 2008 Magistery Latrobe Regional Gallery 2007 Slowing Down Glen Eira City Gallery, Melbourne Artist's Ink, printmaking from the Warrnambool Art Gallery Collection 1970-2001, Warrnambool Regional Gallery Dominique Segan Drawing Prize, Old Castlemaine Gaol, Castlemaine, Vic
Geelong Print Prize, Geelong Gallery, Vic
Aomori Print Triennale, Aomori, Japan
Hazelhurst Art Award, Hazelhurst Regional Gallery & Arts Centre, NSW
Banyule Works on Paper Art Award, Melbourne
Hutchins Art Prize, Hobart, Tas
50, Geelong Gallery, Vic
Solstice Antarctica, Hobart, Tas
2006 Dobell Prize for Drawing, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Interior design, Alliance Française Gallery, Melbourne
Round and round and round and round, Albury Art Gallery
Masks and motifs: prints from the Print Council of Australia collection,
QUT Art Gallery, Brisbane and touring throughout 2007
Float, Project Space, RMIT Melbourne
Swan Hill Print and Drawing Acquisitive Awards, Swan Hill Regional Gallery
2005 Hazelhurst Art Award, art on paper
2003 Heat, Noosa Regional Gallery
Impressions of Antarctica, Parliament House, Canberra
Geelong Print Prize, Geelong Regional Gallery
National Works on Paper, Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery
Exposition colléctif, Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris
2002 Villa Alba, Villa Alba, Melbourne
2001 Rena Ellen Jones Memorial Print Award
Warrnambool Art Gallery, Vic
Shell Fremantle Print Award
Willoughby City Art Prize
2000 Fleming Muntz Albury Art Prize
Swan Hill National Print and Drawing Acquisitive Awards
The exquisite corpse Bendigo Art Gallery and touring
1999 Shell Fremantle Print Award
Rena Ellen Jones Memorial Print Award
Warrnambool Art Gallery
1998 Decalogue: a catalogue of ten years of Australian printmaking
1987-1997 Metropolitan Museum of Seoul, Korea
Geelong Print Prize, Geelong Art Gallery
Shell Fremantle Print Award, Fremantle Arts Centre
National Works on Paper, Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery
The Hutchins School Art Prize, Tasmania
1997 The decorated egg Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery
Redlands Westpac Art Prize
1996 Spring Festival of Drawing Survey Exhibition
Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery
1995 Pacific Rim International Print Exhibition
University of Hawai'i, Hilo, Hawai'i
Understanding Antarctica Parliament House, Canberra
Works on Paper, LaTrobe Street Gallery, Melbourne
Working Art, Steps Gallery, Carlton
1994 New Works, Flinders Lane Gallery, Melbourne
St.Kilda Festival Postcard Exhibition, Linden Gallery, St.Kilda
Troisième Triennale Mondiale D'Estampes Petit Format
Chamalières, France
Australian Universities Exhibition of Visual Art
Australian High Commission, Singapore
Images 2, Access Contemporary Art Gallery, Sydney
Fourth Australian Contemporary Art Fair, Melbourne
1993 Mornington Peninsula Arts Centre Drawing Biennale
Correspondences, Dom Kultury Podgorze, Krakow, Poland
1992 Walkom-Manning Art Prize, Manning Regional Art Gallery, Taree, NSW
Small Works-Wide Visions, Downlands Art Exhibition
Toowoomba, Qld
Paper Works 3, Seagate Gallery, Dundee, U.K.
City of Richmond Acquisitive Art Award, Richmond, Vic
1991 Henri Worland Memorial Print Award, Warrnambool Art Gallery, Victoria
The Postcard Show, St Kilda Festival Exhibition, Linden Gallery St.Kilda
Indo-Eco, Latrobe Valley Arts Centre, Morwell, Victoria
and regional venues in Victoria
Diamond Valley Art Award, Victoria
10th Spring Festival of Drawing
Mornington Peninsula Arts Centre, Victoria
GRANTS & RESIDENCIES
2008 City of Melbourne arts grant for Paradise Lost (with co-curator Dr. Catherine Bell) 2004 Australian Postgraduate Award
2003 Residency at the Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris supported by
Monash University Faculty of Art & Design Research Grant
1994 Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions
humanities program berth to Antarctica
1994 Monash University post-graduate scholarship
AWARDS & COMMISSIONS
2006 Shortlisted for the $30,000 City of Melbourne Laneway Commissions 2007
2006 Swan Hill Regional Gallery Print and Drawing Acquisitive Award (Drawing)
2001 Rena Ellen Jones Memorial Print Award
2000 Fleming Muntz Albury Art Prize
1996 Santos Whyalla Art Prize Industrial Art Award
1993 Print Council of Australia Member Print Commission
Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery Drawing Acquisitive
1992 City of Richmond Acquisitive Art Award
1991 Grafton Regional Gallery Acquisitive Drawing Prize
COLLECTIONS
National Gallery of Australia
Art Gallery of New South Wales
Tasmanian Museum & Art Gallery
Swan Hill Regional Art Gallery
Latrobe Regional Gallery
Grafton Regional Gallery
Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery
Burnie Regional Art Gallery
Monash University Clayton Campus
Monash University Gippsland Campus
Latrobe Regional Arts Board
Print Council of Australia
City of Richmond
Mildura Arts Centre
Australian Paper Manufacturers
Canson Australia Pty Ltd
Deakin University Library
BHP Australia
Australian Antarctic Division
Albury Regional Art Gallery
South Australian Country Arts Trust
Warrnambool Art Gallery
Artbank
Private collections
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
Anna Hoyle 'Post-Op: Caroline Durre' Imprint Vol 44 No 1 March 2009
Ross Moore 'Into the abyss' The Age 14 Nov 2008
Lynne Andrews Antarctic eye: the visual journey Studio One, Hobart, Tas 2007
Vivien Gaston, catalogue essay, seven enigmas, Flinders Lane Gallery, Melbourne 2000
Sasha Grishin, Australian printmaking in the 1990's -artist printmakers 1990 to 1995 Craftsman House Sydney 1996
Courtney Kidd, 'The Unframed Eye: Perspectives on Antarctica' Art and Australia Winter 1996, Vol. 33 No. 4
Robert Nelson, 'Generating inspiration for industry falling from grace' The Age 10 April 1996
David Hansen, catalogue essay, Contemporary Gippsland Artists Touring Exhibition Morwell 1990
Robert Nelson, catalogue essay, 'The Vigorous Plant of Durré's Works on Paper' Morwell 1991
PUBLICATIONS (as author)
Regeneration catalogue essay for Rebecca Mayo and Marian Crawford RMIT Project Space Melbourne 2010
The poetics of geometry book published by Latrobe Regional Gallery, Morwell 2010 ISBN 9781921179730
Dexa-Dan: Danny McDonald' review, Artlink Vol 30 no 1 March 2010
Texts in parallel: art research as allegory' refereed journal article, Creative Approaches to Research RMIT publishing Volume 1 Issue 2 November 2008
'Allegories of representation: the work of Maryanne Coutts' Catalogue essay for Maryanne Coutts: Telling Tales Bendigo Fine Art Gallery 2008
Out there: in light of remote possibilities
Felcity Spear catalogue essay, Monash University 2007
Natural selection: new sculptures
Dan Wollmering catalogue essay, Flinders Lane Gallery 2007
'Carmel Wallace: the art of the facade'
exhibition review, Imprint Vol 42 no 1 Autumn 2007
'Now: Gosia Wlodarczak drawing'
book review, Imprint vol 39 no 3 Spring 2004 p10
'Papercuts'
exhibition review, Imprint vol 38 no 3 Spring 2003 p10
'2000 years 2 spaces': Clive Barstow & Nicola Kaye
exhibition review, Imprint vol 37 no 4 Summer 2002 p22
'In the museum of extinction'
Tick Tock: 8 artists look at extinction catalogue essay
City of Melbourne/Melbourne Observatory 2002
Notes... on the oceanic
Isobel Clement catalogue essay, Diane Tanzer Gallery 2002
More songs about dancing and horses
Rodney Forbes catalogue essay, Australian Galleries 2001
'Raymond Arnold and Danny McDonald'
exhibition review, Imprint vol 34 no 4 Summer 1999 p13
'Geelong Print Prize 1999'
exhibition review, Imprint vol 34 no 3 Spring 1999 p10
'Twenty years of the Shell Fremantle Print Award'
exhibition review, Imprint vol 31 no 4 Summer 1996 p8
'Libidinous vigour' (Review of Stewart MacFarlane: riddles of life by Veronique Helmridge-Marsillian, Craftsman House 1996)
book review, Australian Book Review no. 183 August 1996 pp31-32
'The economy of printmaking: culture and commodity, part one: markets and values, institutions and collectors'
Imprint vol 29 no. 1 Autumn 1994 pp4-7
'The economy of printmaking: culture and commodity, part two: workshops and publishing, art education, developments in technology'
Imprint vol 29 no. 2 Winter 1994 pp5-8
'Searching for definition—the Second Australian Print Symposium'
Imprint vol 27 no. 4 Summer 1992 pp.10-11
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
2005 The landscape architecture of paranoia 'Badlands' Conference, University of Central Queensland at Bundaberg
2006 Texts in parallel: art research as allegory Australian Council of University Art and Design Schools Conference, Monash University, Melbourne
Pastoral prison, abject arcadia: surveillance, militarism and the city 'Reinventing the Medium', Art Association of Australia and New Zealand Conference
EDUCATION
2008 PhD Post-Op: on the experience and representation of paradoxical space Faculty of Art & Design, Monash University
1996 MA (Visual Arts) by research, Monash University
1987 Graduate Diploma in Education, Hawthorn Institute of Education
1975 Dip. Art, PIT (RMIT)