Vivienne Binns b. 1940

  • Artist (Installation Artist),
  • Artist (Mixed Media Artist),
  • Artist (Painter)
Vivienne Binns has worked primarily as a painter, but has also continually worked across media and contexts. She worked almost exclusively with enamelling for a period from the late 1960s to mid 1970s, and extensively in the area of community arts throughout the 1970s and early 1980s. She was a founding member of the Sydney Women's Art Movement and is probably best known for early work with strong feminist themes.
creator of
Archetype in Cornwall
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creator of
Nylon mat
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(Sent from Tenant Creek by Alison Alder)

 
creator of
Pochoir Gesture
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Another of the split canvases, painted by Vivienne Binns and Geoff Newton.

 
creator of
Barbarella
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One of a series of split canvases, each painted by two artists; this one by Vivienne Binns and Derek O’Connor.

 
creator of
In aura, Captain Cook and termite mound
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creator of
Captain Cook, Parkinson and Spinifex
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creator of
In Memory of the Unknown Artist: A Surface of Leaves - lino
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creator of
In Memory of the Unknown Artist: Tissue Box Cover
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creator of
Mrs Cook's Waistcoat
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creator of
In Memory of the Unknown Artist: Woven Plastic Cloth, Gift from Ruth Waller
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creator of
Slicing History
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creator of
Suggon
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URL
http://artsearch.nga.gov.au/Detail.cfm?IRN=40748&PICTAUS=TRUE
 
creator of
Surfacing in the Pacific
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creator of
God's Beard in Flames over Pacific Patterns
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creator of
The Maiden Knows Herself at last. Whither Saint George?
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creator of
Impression of God's Beard - Book Print Michelangelo 1
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creator of
Tower of Babel
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(This is a collaborative work by Vivienne Binns and friends)

 
creator of
The Desert Isn't Only One
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creator of
Full Flight
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Medium
Art Caravan
Tags
Participation, Journey

This project consisted of Binns living in an “Art Caravan” for two years and travelling from Lithgow to Lake Cargelligo in central New South Wales. Throughout this journey, she observed and engaged with the creative expression of local communities.

 
creator of
Mothers' Memories, Others' Memories postcard rack
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URL
http://cs.nga.gov.au/Detail.cfm?IRN=85276

Two of these collaborative works were made by the participants in the Blacktown phase of the community arts project, 'Mothers’ memories, Others’ memories’. One is in the collection of the National Gallery of Australia and the other in the collection of Blacktown City Council.

 
creator of
Repro Vag Dens
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URL
http://artsearch.nga.gov.au/Detail.cfm?IRN=57205

Also known as Vag Dens Revisited

 
creator of
Vag Dens
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URL
http://artsearch.nga.gov.au/Detail.cfm?IRN=116421&PICTAUS=TRUE
 
creator of
Phallic Monument
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URL
http://artsearch.nga.gov.au/Detail.cfm?IRN=177495&PICTAUS=TRUE