Ruth Johnstone b. c.1955

  • Artist (Installation Artist),
  • Artist (Printmaker)
Tower Hill and the cypress trees of the Western District where Johnstone grew up have profoundly influenced her work, as has Eugene Von Guerard's painting of the same area.
exhibited at
Ruth Johnstone
Date
2000
Place
Warrnambool Art Gallery, Warrnambool, VIC
Description

Prints, installations and works on paper and fabric. Many of the artworks deal with the period from the Irish famine, a personal historical point of reference and one which acknowledges the date of arrival of her forebears in Australia in the 1840’s.

Source: Solo Survey Exhibition Linkage Project, Tasmanian School of Art, UTAS
Warrnambool Art Gallery exhibition archive

Type
Exhibition
Tags
Major Solo, Printmaking, Installation, Textiles
exhibited at
To the scale olf an Irish mile: selected works by Ruth Johnstone
Date
1999
Place
Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, Launceston, TAS
Description

Source: Solo Survey Exhibition Linkage Project, Tasmanian School of Art, UTAS
Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery annual report 1998-99

Type
Exhibition
Tags
Major Solo, Printmaking
exhibited at
Psychogeographica: mapping the interior - recent works by Ruth Johnstone
Date
1998
Place
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, VIC
Description

Source: Solo Survey Exhibition Linkage Project, Tasmanian School of Art, UTAS
NGV annual report

Type
Exhibition
Tags
Major Solo, Printmaking, Installation
exhibited at
Women and Art
Date
4 August 1995 - 5 August 1995
Place
Mary Place Gallery, Paddington, NSW
Description

auction preview for Dalia Stanley Auctioneers, auction held 6 August 1995

Type
Exhibition
Tags
National Women's Art Exhibition
exhibited at
A l'hombre des jeunes filles et des fleurs: In the shadow of young girls and flowers
Date
10 March 1995 - 28 May 1995
Place
Benalla Art Gallery, Benalla , Vic.
Type
Exhibition
Tags
National Women's Art Exhibition
exhibited at
Aspects of Australian Printmaking
Date
1995
Place
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Vic.
Description
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Ruth Johnstone, Mick Sirianni
Date
1983
Place
Warrnambool Art Gallery, Warrnambool, VIC
Description

Source: Solo Survey Exhibition Linkage Project, Tasmanian School of Art, UTAS
Warnambool Art Gallery exhibition archive

Type
Exhibition
Tags
Duo, Printmaking, Drawing, Photography