Born in Croatia in 1952, sculptor Anna Eggert emigrated to Australia in 1962 and in 2008 was living and working in Canberra. In 1973, Eggert graduated with a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Sydney, followed by a Diploma of Education in 1974, and in 1991 she was awarded a Bachelor of Arts (Visual) from the Canberra School of Art, Australian National University.

Particularly notable among her solo exhibitions are Mesmerised , Canberra Museum and Art Gallery, Canberra (2007); Pure Fabrication , Noosa Regional Gallery, Queensland (2007); Surface Tension, Beaver Galleries, Canberra (2006); Whispered Secrets , Karen Woodbury Gallery, Melbourne (2005); and On Reflection , Barry Stern Gallery, Sydney (2002).

Eggert has also participated in numerous group exhibitions, including the Helen Lempriere National Sculpture Award (finalist) (2008); McClelland Contemporary Sculpture Survey Award (finalist) (2007); the Wynne Prize (finalist), Art Gallery of New South Wales (2007); Art and About, AMP Forecourt, Circular Quay (2005); Sculpture by the Sea , Sydney (2004); the National Sculpture Prize , National Gallery of Australia, Canberra (2003); and Salon des Refusés , SH Ervin Gallery, Sydney (2002).

In 2008 Eggert was the recipient of an ACT Creative Arts Fellowship (2008). She has also received an Australia Council for the Arts New Work Grant (2007) and in 2004 was awarded the People’s Choice Award in the National Gallery of Australia’s prestigious McClelland Sculpture Award. T he previous year she was nominated the Staff Choice in the Macquarie Bank Award (2003). Eggert has also been a finalist in the Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize (2005 and 2004); the Alice Springs Art Prize (2002 and 2004); the National Sculpture Prize , National Gallery of Australia (2003); the Wynne Prize , Art Gallery of New South Wales (2001 & 2007); and in 2001, was announced winner in the Sculpture Division of the Waverley Art Prize , Victoria.

Her sculptures are held in major public collections including Artbank and the Alice Springs Art Foundation, Darwin. Other collections include the Patrick Corrigan Collection, Sydney, BHP Billiton, Melbourne and UBS Private Banking, Basel Switzerland. Her work also features in private collections across Australia, UK, Swizerland, Denmark and the USA.

Writers:
Woodbury, Karen
downes
Date written:
2011
Last updated:
2011