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Colleen Ahern |
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Mollusk, oil on board, 30 x 30cm, Market value: $1200 |
born 1971, Letton, New South Wales
Lives and works in Melbourne |
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Education & Appointments |
2006 Painting lecturer, Swinburne TAFE
1999 Bachelor of Fine Art (Painting), Victorian College of the Arts
1996 Diploma of Visual Art (Painting), VUT TAFE |
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Solo Exhibitions |
2007 Frantic Romantic, Neon Parc, Melbourne
2006 Angels on Airwaves, Neon Parc, Melbourne
2005 Steal Your Face, Seventh Gallery, Melbourne
2003 Your Ok... You can Come in, TCB Art Inc., Melbourne |
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Selected Group Exhibitions |
2009 Royal Bank of Scotland Contemporary Australian Art Award, Royal
Bank of Scotland, Sydney
2008 The Art of the Bicycle, Don't Come Gallery, Melbourne
Satellite Show, Joint Hassles, Melbourne
Neon Parc, Melbourne Art Fair, Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne
2006 I don't like to play songs by myself, TCB art inc., Melbourne
Kids Stay Free, Neon Parc, Melbourne
ABN AMRO Emerging Artist Award , Optus Centre, Melbourne
2005 Affordable Art Fair, Melbourne Exhibition Building, Melbourne
A portable model of... Plimsoll Gallery, University of Tasmania, Hobart & Latrobe Regional Gallery, Morewell
Cover Versions, Arts Projects Victoria, Melbourne
2004 Address Book, Bus Gallery, Melbourne
Rock and Roll Wall of Flame, Dudespace, Melbourne
2003 Fair Game: Art + Sport, NGV Response Gallery, Melbourne
Seventies Extension, 3/19Albert St, Melbourne
Posted, MOP Project Space, Sydney
2002 Long Player (with Matthew Griffin), UPLANDS Gallery, Melbourne
Something for the Ladies, Penthouse and Pavement, Melbourne
2001 TCB Fundraiser, TCB art inc., Melbourne
Eat My Art, TCB art inc., Melbourne
Love and Other Abstract Things, Penthouse and Pavement, Melbourne
2000 Rear Vision, Span Galleries, Melbourne
1999 TCB fundraiser, TCB art inc., Melbourne
Who's Afraid of the Avant Garde, Who Cares?, TCB art inc., Melbourne
Vinyl, VCA Gallery, Melbourne.
Don't have to sell my soul, it's already in me, TCB art inc., Melbourne |
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Bibliography |
2007 Backhouse, M; Colleen Ahern, The (Melbourne) Magazine, The Age, Issue #38, December, 2007. pg. 123.
Devlin, N; I Love Rock 'n' Roll, Frantic Romantic exhibition catalogue, Neon Parc, Melbourne
2006 Sullivan, L; Law(s) of Nature, Angels on Airwaves exhibition catalogue, Neon Parc, Melbourne
Crawford, A; Kids Stay Free, The Age Review, April
2005 Dwyer, C; Getting Serious, Australian Art Collector, Issue 34
2003 Bell, A; Fair Game: Art + Sport ; exhibition catalogue National Gallery of Victoria
2001 Deverall, T; When Ally Met Dawson, Love and Other Abstract Things exhibition catalogue, Penthouse & Pavement
McAuliffe, C; Keep on rockin' in the art world, LIKE magazine, No. 15 |
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Collections |
Acacia Collection
Private collections in Australia and New Zealand |
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