Kerrie Poliness

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Kerrie Poliness
Born1962
Nationality Australian
Alma mater Victoria University, Melbourne
Known forAbstract Wall Drawings

Kerrie Poliness is a contemporary Australian artist, known for her rule-based painting and drawing works that revisit the ideas and practices of conceptual art. [1]

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Poliness was born in 1962 and grew up in Melbourne. She completed her Bachelor degree in Victoria University in 1984, majoring in fine art. [2]

She was a co-founder of the Store 5 group of artists, [2] an artist-run space focusing on geometric abstraction. [3]

Public collections

Poliness's work uses a palette of red, green, yellow and some black, [3] and appears in public and private collections across Australia and New Zealand.

She is featured in major state galleries such as Art Gallery of Western Australia, National Gallery of Australia, National Gallery of Victoria, [4] Queensland Art Gallery, as well as corporate, private and university collections throughout Australia, including Artbank Australia, Bendigo Art Gallery, Deakin University, Dowse Museum, Griffith University, Maddocks, Margaret Stewart Endowment, Monash University, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Museum of Modern Art at Heide, University of Melbourne, and the University of Wollongong.

Exhibitions

Her exhibitions and collections throughout Australia as well as overseas include: [1]

Solo exhibitions

Site-specific public artworks

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References

  1. 1 2 "Kerrie Poliness | Anna Schwartz Gallery" . Retrieved 17 March 2020.
  2. 1 2 "Kerrie Poliness | MCA Australia". www.mca.com.au. Retrieved 17 March 2020.
  3. 1 2 "Explore the work of Australian artist, Kerrie Poliness". Explore the work of Australian artist, Kerrie Poliness. Retrieved 6 August 2020.
  4. "Kerrie POLINESS | Artists | NGV". www.ngv.vic.gov.au. Retrieved 17 March 2020.