Debra Dawes b. 1955

  • Artist (Painter)
exhibited at
Twining: Weaving and Abstraction
Date
11 February 2011 - 19 March 2011
Place
The Cross Art Projects, 8 Llankelly Place, Kings Cross, Sydney, 2011, Australia
Description

Twining: Weaving and abstraction brings together weaving and abstraction, material and form. Four artists experiment with the nexus between the opposing registers of high and traditional art to explore ideas of cultural circulation and, in this exhibition, the critical process of colonial cultural intersections.

Type
Exhibition
Tags
The Cross Art Projects
Website
http://crossart.com.au/home/index.php/archive/114-twining-weaving-and-abstraction
exhibited at
Solidarity with Sandon Point Aboriginal Tent Embassy (SPATE)
Date
9 November 2004 - 27 November 2004
Place
Shopfront, Glebe Point Road, Sydney, Australia
Description

The Kuradji/Sandon Point Aboriginal Tent Embassy (SPATE) is a rallying point in the debate about urban development in sensitive coastal environments with significant Aboriginal heritage. There has been a decade of protests and a picket and Aboriginal tent embassy on the site on the Illawarra coast between the villages of Thirroul and Bulli below Sydney.

Coordinated by south coast artist Dootch Kennedy.

Type
Other event
Tags
Installation, The Cross Art Projects
Website
http://crossart.com.au/home/index.php/archive/235-solidarity-with-sandon-point-aboriginal-tent-embassy-spate-19-to-27-november-2004
exhibited at
In the Company of Women: 100 years of Australian women's art from the Cruthers collection
Date
16 February 1995 - 13 March 1995
Place
PICA (Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts), WA
Description

Opened by Dr Liz Constable MLA, Member for Floreat, 15 February 1995

Type
Exhibition
Tags
National Women's Art Exhibition
exhibited at
Debra Dawes: starlight
Date
1993
Place
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW
Description

Organised by Wollongong City Gallery. An installation of 104 individual panels inspired by patterns in the concrete wall near the artist’s studio.

Source: Solo Survey Exhibition Linkage Project, Tasmanian School of Art, UTAS
AGNSW annual report & archive index cards; AGNSW Library catalogue

Exhibition Catalogue:
Starlite / Debra Dawes. [Sydney: Art Gallery of New South Wales], 1993
ISBN 064614698X

Type
Exhibition
Tags
Major Solo, Painting, Installation
exhibited at
Starlite
Date
1993
Place
Wollongong City Gallery, Wollongong, NSW
Description

Wollongong City Art Gallery. An installation of 104 individual panels inspired by patterns in the concrete wall near the artist’s studio.

Source: Solo Survey Exhibition Linkage Project, Tasmanian School of Art, UTAS
Wollongong Regional Gallery annual report; AGNSW Library catalogue

Exhibition Catalogue:
Starlite / Debra Dawes. [Sydney: Art Gallery of New South Wales], 1993
ISBN 064614698X

Type
Exhibition
Tags
Major Solo, Painting, Installation
exhibited at
Microcosm
Date
4 December 1991 - 21 December 1991
Place
Garry Anderson Gallery, Sydney, NSW
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Feminist narratives
Date
4 June 1987 - 24 June 1987
Place
George Paton Gallery, Melbourne University, Melbourne, Vic.
Tags
Feminist
Website
http://georgepatongalleryarchive.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/feminist-narratives-catalogue-cropped9.jpg