CATHERINE HEARSE
Born 29 May 1957
Studies
1977-80 Bachelor Of Arts Tasmanian School of Art
1981-86 Bachelor Of Arts in Visual and Classical Studies Monash University
Solo Exhibitions
2017 Sessile Lifestyle Watters Gallery, Sydney
2015 Particulate Matter Watters Gallery, Sydney
2013 Vegetable Matter Watters Gallery, Sydney
2011 Peculiar Adaptations Watters Gallery, Sydney
2009 Flowers from the Coromandel Coast Legge Gallery, Sydney
2008 Old Hearse – new and old drawings Legge Gallery, Sydney
Lots of Little Stitches Legge Gallery, Sydney
2007 Popular Domestic Plants of the Future Legge Gallery, Sydney
2006 Sculpture Legge Gallery, Sydney
Sculpture and Jewellery Elsie Gallery, Melbourne
2005 Under the Ocean Kunstreich am Pergamon Museum, Berlin, Germany
2004 Ocean and Forest Legge Gallery, Sydney
2002 Sometimes Legge Gallery, Sydney
2001 Old for New Legge Gallery, Sydney
2000 Rupunzel & other Tales Legge Gallery, Sydney
1998 Anticipation Legge Gallery, Sydney
1996 Insomnia Legge Gallery, Sydney
1995 Used Parts Legge Gallery, Sydney
1994 After The Rain Legge Gallery, Sydney
Harpies And Heroes Bridges Cafe Gallery, Melbourne
1991 Works The Women’s Gallery, Melbourne
Group Exhibitions
2017 An idiosyncratic selection, Watters Gallery, Sydney
Preview 2017 Watters Gallery, Sydney
2016 Heads Watters Gallery, Sydney
Metal Thread Mud – Watters Group Sculpture Watters Gallery, Sydney
2015 Big and Little Watters Gallery, Sydney
2013 Mainly Sculpture Watters Gallery, Sydney
Packsaddle, New England Regional Art Museum, Armidale
Watters Gallery 27th Summer Exhibition, Watters Gallery
2012 Melbourne Art Fair 12 Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne
2011 Frank’s Flat Maitland Regional Art Gallery
2010 Art Month Sydney Watters Gallery
Gelengu Du Gelenguwurru Sheffer Gallery, Sydney
Hands On Hazelhurst Regional Gallery, Sydney
Packsaddle New England Regional Art Museum
Special Art Month Sydney Exhibition Watters Gallery
Summer Exhibition Watters Gallery, Sydney
2009 The Drawing Show Defiance Gallery, Sydney
Sculpture Show Legge Gallery, Sydney
Summer Exhibition Watters Gallery, Sydney
2008 Sculpture Elsie Gallery, Victoria
Small Sculpture Legge Gallery, Sydney
Melbourne Art Fair 08 Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne
2007 Works on Paper Legge Gallery, Sydney
Small Sculpture Legge Gallery, Sydney
Art Sydney 07 Royal Hall of Industries, Moore Park, Sydney
Summer Show Legge Gallery
2006 Melbourne Art Fair 2006 Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne
Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize Woollahra Council Chambers
Summer Show Legge Gallery, Sydney
2005 Sculpture 2005 Legge Gallery, Sydney
Summer Show Legge Gallery, Sydney
2004 Voyage of the Underwhelmed Legge Gallery
Melbourne Art Fair 2004 Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne
Grassi Fair Museum fur Kunsthandwerk Leipzig,Germany
Packsaddle New England Regional Art Museum, Armidale
2003 Figurative Sculpture Legge Gallery, Sydney
Summer Show Legge Gallery, Sydney
2002 Sculpture 2002 Legge Gallery, Sydney
Melbourne Art Fair 2002 Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne
Summer Show Legge Gallery, Sydney
2001 Packsaddle New England Regional Art Museum, Armidale
Toys by Artists Newcastle University Art Gallery
Group Show Legge Gallery, Sydney
2000 Seventh Australian Contemporary Art Fair Royal Exhibition Building,
Melbourne
Ten Years Legge Gallery, Sydney
11th Summer Exhibition Legge Gallery, Sydney
1999 10th Summer Exhibition Legge Gallery, Sydney
1998 Christmas Show Legge Gallery, Sydney
Sixth Australian Contemporary Art Fair Royal Exhibition Building,
Melbourne
1997 Being There Legge Gallery, Sydney
1996 Fifth Australian Contemporary Art Fair Royal Exhibition Building,
Melbourne
1995 Drawings Part A Legge Gallery, Sydney
Bias Binding Access Gallery at National Gallery of Victoria
The Exploding Chrysanthemum Mechanics Institute, Melbourne
1994 Fifth International Women’s Day Exhibition The Women’s Gallery
Joint Show Cowwarr Art Space, Victoria
Fourth Australian Contemporary Art Fair Royal Exhibition Building,
Melbourne
Group Show Legge Gallery, Sydney
Artists Don’t Believe In Sanity Clause Legge Gallery, Sydney
1993 Fourth International Women’s day Exhibition The Women’s Gallery,
Melbourne
The Spinsters’ No Vacancy, Melbourne
Drawing Show Legge Gallery, Sydney
The Art Of Survival The Mechanics Institute, Melbourne
Invitation Prize Exhibition Box Hill Town Hall, Melbourne
Project Anna St. Stevens Church, Melbourne
Summer Collection Exhibition Gallery Two, Launceston
Christmas Show The Women’s Gallery, Melbourne
Tempest Legge Gallery, Sydney
1992 Joining Forces Third International Women’s Day Exhibition,
The Women’s Gallery, Melbourne
Third Australian Contemporary Art Fair Royal Exhibition Building,
Melbourne
Christmas Show The Women’s Gallery, Melbourne
1991 Second International Woman’s Day Exhibition The Women’s
Gallery, Melbourne
What A Relief Italio Printmaker Gallery, Melbourne
Christmas Group Show The Women’s Gallery, Melbourne
1990 St Kilda Festival Acquisition Exhibition Linden Gallery, Melbourne
Woman and Surgery West Theatre, Melbourne
1989 St Kilda 2 Group Show Linden Gallery, Melbourne
1984 Joint Show Roar Studios, Melbourne
1980 Women’s Art Exhibition in conjunction with the launch of Helen
Garner’s Monkey Grip Bellerive Art Centre, Hobart
Graduate Show Tasmania School of Art, Hobart
Illustrations
2010 Hands On:Craft in Contemporary Art 2010
2008 Textile Fibre Forum No.89, 2008
1992 Rondo magazine, Winter
Hidden Agenda Winter
Sharing The Journey book
1991 Siren magazine, Winter
The Age March & May
Bibliography
Blackwood, Alice: Catherine Hearse Sculpting Stories with a Crochet Hook, Textile Fibre
Forum, No.89, 2008
Brown, Cash: Hands On, Hands On:Craft in Contemporary Art, December 2010
Clement, Tracey: Critic’s Picks, The Sydney Morning Herald, 4-10/2/2005
Clement, Tracey: Metro Picks, The Sydney Morning Herald, 11-17/7/2008
Fenner, Felicity: Galleries, The Sydney Morning Herald, 3/12/1996
Hynes, Victoria: Critic’s Picks, The Sydney Morning Herald, 24-30/8/2001
Kidd, Courtney: Art Notes NSW, Art Monthly Australia, #188 April 2006
Legge, Sonia: Catherine Hearse, Women’s Art Register Bulletin, #42 Winter 2007
Low, Lenny Ann: Spotlight, The Sydney Morning Herald, 6/8/2001
Low, Lenny Ann: Ocean And Forest, The Sydney Morning Herald, 18/5/2004
McKenny, Leesha: Open Gallery, The Sydney Morning Herald, 12-13/7/2008
Moses, Alexa: Exhibitions, The Sydney Morning Herald, 10/8/2002
Penfold, Melissa: Source, The Sydney Morning Herald Domain Home, 30/3/06
Smee, Sebastian: Welcome To Her Nightmare, The Sydney Morning Herald Metro, 19/7/1996
Top Shelf , The Sydney Morning Herald Metro, 4-10/7/2008
Watson, Bronwyn: Drawing On The Past, The Sydney Morning Herald 20/8/1993
Wellington, Robert : A Stitch in Time , Art Market Report Issue 30, Fourth Quarte, 2008
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- Date written:
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- Last updated:
- 2018
