Kerry Giles b. 1959

Also known as Kerry Giles, Kurwingie
  • Artist (Cartoonist / Illustrator),
  • Artist (Printmaker),
  • Artist (Textile Artist / Fashion Designer),
  • Artist ,
  • Artist (Draughtsman)
Giles worked as an artist, activist and curator. She has many accolades to her name, including the South Australian Aboriginal Artist of the Year Award in 1986 and two Artist in Residencies at Flinder's University. A retrospective of her work was held in 1997, the year of her sudden death.
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exhibited at
[tribute retrospective]
Date
August 1997
Place
Flinders University Art Museum, Adelaide, South Australia
Description
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Narrindjeri warrior: Kerry Giles
Date
1997
Place
Flinders University City Gallery, Adelaide, SA
Description

An exhibition held to celebrate the life and work of Kerry Giles, Ngarrindjeri artist whose tragic death moved all who knew her. She had been an artist-in-residence at Flinders University and involved in the print workshop and in curating an exhibition for the Art Museum in earlier years. A number of borrowed works were combined with those drawn from the Flinders collection.

Source: Solo Survey Exhibition Linkage Project, Tasmanian School of Art, UTAS
Exhibition program

Type
Exhibition
Tags
Retrospective, Printmaking
exhibited at
fab ART
Date
1993
Description
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Murrundi: three River Murray stories
Date
1993
Place
Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia, Adelaide, SA
Description

Woven rush baskets on simulated green riverbeds, vessel structures, sculptural forms and their implied history. Pointing to the early colonial engravings which represent aboriginal women making or holding or using similar artefacts that are not circulated or known.

Source: Solo Survey Exhibition Linkage Project, Tasmanian School of Art, UTAS
Blaze, CACSA, 1990-2002;
http://www.slsa.sa.gov.au/

Exhibition Catalogue:
Murrundi: three River Murray stories. Parkside, SA: Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia, [1993]
1 sheet ; ill;, ports. ; 30×84 cm. folded to 30×21 cm.

Type
Exhibition
Tags
Group, Installation
exhibited at
Murrundi: three River Murray stories
Date
1992
Place
Adelaide, South Australia
Description
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
ooooh! I feel Good....
Date
1991
Place
Flinders Art Gallery, Adelaide, South Australia
Description
Type
Exhibition

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