Sue Anderson has regularly exhibited her exuberant paintings and drawings around Australia since 1983
Since then she has exhibited in numerous group and solo shows around Australia. Her work uses colour and simple figurative elements in landscape to illustrate her delight and concern for the natural world. Her work is held in many private and public collections in Australia and overseas.
You can see her current work at Australian Galleries in Melbourne and Sydney and Salt Gallery Queenscliff.
"My artwork celebrates the momentous landscapes at our backdoor, the fragile beauty of the everyday, the songs and dreams of our daily worlds." - Sue Anderson 2013
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES
1962 Born Geelong, Victoria 1980-83 Bachelor Education (Art and Craft), Melbourne State College
Solo Exhibitions
1984, 86-9 Rhumbarallas Gallery, Melbourne, The Women’s Gallery 1992 Mildura Art Gallery, Australian Galleries, Melbourne 1994-96 Australian Galleries, Melbourne 1998 Peripheral Visions, Geelong Art Gallery, Victoria 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 Australian Galleries, Melbourne 2004 ‘Suitcase Series’, Shanghai, China Natural Selections, The Depot Gallery, Sydney 2006 In My Nature, Australian Galleries, Melbourne Telling Tales, Libby Edwards Gallery, Sydney 2007 Going About, Libby Edwards Gallery, Sydney 2008 Coastal Drift, Australian Galleries, Melbourne 2010 Land and Sea, Australian Galleries, Sydney Moving Horizons, Australian Galleries, Melbourne 2012 Near and Far Australian Galleries, Melbourne 2013 Salt Gallery Queenscliff Home and Away, Australian Galleries Melbourne 2014 2015 Salt Gallery Queenscliff 2015 “Between Trees and freeways” Australian Galleries Sydney 2017 “Outer Place” Australian Galleries. Melbourne 2018 “Outer bounds” The Art Vault. Mildura. 2019 “Paths to Trees” Australian Galleries. Sydney. November. 2021 “Closer to ocean” Australian Galleries, Melbourne. February 2022 “Shorelines “Australian Galleries Melbourne 2024 ”Recent Landscapes” Australian Galleries Sydney
Group Exhibitions
1986 The Tea Chest Prize (Winner), Rhumbarallas 1988 Right Here Right Now, National Touring Exhibition 1990 Pressing Issues, Latrobe Library, State Library Vic. Churchie Exhibition Drawing Award, Brisbane 1992 Chaumont Poster Exhibition, France 1994 Original Prints, Australian Galleries, Sydney; Domain of the Other: An exploration into community arts by 10 women artists, National Gallery of Victoria 1995 Williamstown Art Prize, Best Local Artist Award.1996 Dominique Segan Drawg Prize. Castlemaine; Broken Hil Art Prize 1997 Knock Knock, Australian Galleries and Images International, Hong Kong 1998 Geelong Contemporary Art Prize, Geelong Art Gallery; Fremantle Print Prize 1999 Pleasure, Australian Galleries, Melbourne 2000 John Leslie Art Prize (judges commendation), Sale, Victoria 2001 Tattersalls Club Art Prize (Landscape Painting), Brisbane; William Buckley Rediscovered, Geelong Art Gallery and Mornington Peninsula Art Gallery 2002 John Leslie Art Prize, Sale, Victoria; Wyndham Contemporary Art Prize, Melbourne 2005 R.T. Edgar Alpine Art Prize (winner people and events section), Mt. Bulla, Victoria 2006 50th Anniversary Exhibition, Australian Galleries, Melbourne New Year Group Exhibition, Australian Galleries, Melbourne Group Show, Libby Edwards Gallery, Brisbane 2006 2007 Small Pleasures, Australian Galleries, Melbourne 2007 2009 Wishart Gallery Port Fairy Summer Show, Australian Galleries Lancaster Press exhibition, Griffith Regional Gallery. "Collaborations", 2010 Stone Love, Lithography exhibition, Lancaster Press, Melbourne Artists’ prints made with integrity, Australian Galleries, Melbourne 2011 “Seven Seas” 7 women artists Salt Gallery Queenscliff Gold Coast Art Prize 2014/15 Cars=My Automolove Caboolture Regional Gallery 2016 Between a rock and a hard place. Megalo Print Studio and Gallery. Canberra Tattersals Club Landscape Art prize. Finalist. Brisbane 2017 Between a rock and a hard place. The Art Vault. Mildura Kelton Plain Artist Residency Exhibition. Raglan Gallery and Art Centre Cooma NSW 2018 Printing as process. Incinerator gallery. Moonee Ponds. 2019 Terrain Salt gallery. Layers of Settlement The Art Vault Midura. Kangaroo Valley SIAR exhibition 2020 Papermade. Australian Galleries Melbourne Bellarine and beyond.Salt Gallery Queenscliff Art Aid Gippsland Gippsland Art Gallery. ‘Onrush of scenery’ Australia Galleries 2021 Deakin University Contemporary Small Sculpture Award 2022 “Sea to Shore” Salt Contemporary Art gallery 2023 “Whereabouts’ Print exhibition Ballarat Art
Commissions and community art projects
1988 Ooh Yuk It's Been Irradiated, Mural, Jolimont Bridge, FEIPP 1989 Mural, Goulburn Valley Base Hospital 1990 Mural, St. Vincents Boys Home and Arts Access 1991 Carlton Recreation Map, Melbourne City Council 1992 Lygon Street car park mural, Melbourne City Council Keep in Touch, Children's printmaking wkshops, exhibition, Aust.Post MCCouncil Painted Tram, Public Transport Corporation and Melbourne City Council 1993 Carlton and Parkville recreation Map, Melbourne City Council Bronze Relief Inlay, Bourke Street Mall, Melbourne City Council 1994 Poster Design and Community Consultation, Children's Services, City of Wyndham 1995 Artist in Schools Project, Bellbridge Primary School, Hoppers Crossing 1995-96 Textile Journeys Art workshops and exhibition by refugee women from N.E.Africa, Access Gallery, NGV. 1996 Artist in Residence, Redplanet Community Screenprint Workshop 1997 Australian Inventions drawings, AMRAD, Bristow &Prentice Advertising 1999 Courtyard painting project, Westbourne Grammar Junior School 2000 Flights of the Imagination, Artists in schools project, Point Cook Primary School 2002 Commission of 30 drawings for Asia, Australia and Pacific clients, Empower Pty Ltd 2003 Dragon Garden outdoor art project, Point Cook Primary School 2009 Casual teaching at Mt. Rothwell Conservation and Research Centre 2010 Art workshops in S.Australia for Anangaku Arts . 2011 Screen printing workshops Oodnadatta , Indulkna ,South Australia. 2012 Pastel workshops Salt Gallery Queenscliff 2011-2013-2014 P-9 Part time Art Teacher Point Cook College 2014/15 Artist in residence Geelong Grammar School, Corio, Timbertop. Artist in Residence Seaholme Primary School, Eco Garden, CASS Project. 2017 Artist in Residence. Kangaroo Valley. Shark Island institute. Artist In Residence. Timbertop. Geelong Grammar School. 2018 Landscape painting workshops. Geelong College. Year 7. School container mural. Seaholme Primary School. Artist in Residence. The Art Vault. Mildura. 2019 Landscape painting year 10 workshops.Geelong Grammar School. Painting workshops Geelong College. Artist-Shared futures project. Mt. Rothwell. Mural St. Dominics Primary School. .Melton.
Collections
AUSTRALIA: ANG Gallery, Latrobe Library, Gallery of N.S.W. Geelong Art Gallery, Warrnambool Gallery, University of Tasmania, ArtBank, Mildura Art Gallery, Shell Oil Company, Crown Casino, Department of Communications, IT and the Arts, Canberra,
CHINA: Procter & Gamble (Guangzhou), Federal Express (Guangzhou), SH Mobile(Shanghai), Shanghai Telecom (Shanghai), Maersk
NEW ZEALAND: NZ Post, Ezi Buy, Transpower, Meridian Energy, Capital Coast Health, Wellington
SINGAPORE: Overseas Chinese Banking Corporation, Procter and Gamble, Civil Aviation,Authority of Singapore, Honeywell.
U.S.A.: The Centre for Political Graphics. Los Angeles.
Publications
1994 The Art of Survival, Vol 14 No. 2, Artlink Magazine 1999 July Every Canvas Tells a Story of Life's Complexities, by Anna King Murdoch, The Age 2000 Between Maribyrnong and Barwon, by Tim Abdullah, Coast and Country Magazine 2001 The Arts Show, Footage of exhibition, ABC TV 2004 Feb Hindsight, radio interview by Lyn Gallagher, ABC Radio National 2018 Self published paperback. Sue Anderson Selected Works. 2019 Geelong’s changing landscape DS Jones PB Roos Pages 90, 91,127 The Women’s Gallery 1988-1995 Judith Brooks. Pages, 104,105, 73. 2020 Savouring sweet moments of artistic escape. Liza Power .The Age. June 14.