CV & Publications

ANNE HARRIS Artist CV 

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www.anniesworkroom.com.au & www.treeplace.com.au  

 

SOLO EXHIBITIONS 

2016  Three Forces of the Soul, Inspired by works of Hildegard von Bingen 

2015 October – Noosa Regional Gallery – Notion of an Ordinary Yarn 

2014 June – Cooroora Institute – Materials of Place 

 

GROUP EXHIBITIONS 

2018/2019 Tree Place Final Exhibition Noosa Regional (Curator) 

2018 Waterhouse National Art Prize, SA Museum 

2018 Art Meets Science Exhibition, Brisbane 

2018 Wild Flower Wild Women II Caloundra Regional Qld 

2018 UDHR Quilt Project Kings ARI Gallery Melbourne  

2017/2018 Tree Place Community Exhibitions Wandinin (Curator & Facilitator) 

2017 Horizon Festival Global Art Installation “Standing Here” USC (Co-Facilitator) 

2017 Lost Arts, and Found, Wandinin Eumundi Qld 

2017 Wild Flower Women Symposium  

2016 Botanical Tin Shed, Palmwoods 

2014 Lovingly Interrupted Gallery 159 Brisbane – (shared & mentored by Kim Schoenberger ‘Expressions of Love II) 

2013 Cooroora Institue – Currency of Birdsong 

2012 Rosebed Gallery – Small Works, Small Town 

2005 Sydney College of the Arts Gallery  

2005 Sydney University Installation in Foyer 

2004 Tom Bass Sculpture Studio  

 

AWARDS AND PRIZES 

2018 Finalist Waterhouse National Art Prize 

2018 Short Listed Craft Biennale Scotland  

2016 Finalist in The Moreton Bay Art Award, Pine Rivers Art Gallery 

2016 Finalist in The Milburn Art Prize, Brisbane Institute of Art 

2016 Finalist in The Cambridge Studio Portrait Prize 

2015 Finalist in ‘The Churchie’ National Emerging Art Prize 

 

COMMUNITY AND GRANTS 

2018 Art as Exchange Bunya Mountains – QAGOMA 

2018 Bush Dye Collaboration – Hope Vale Arts Centre (Far North Qld)  

2018 No Human Being is Illegal – Deborah Kelly Collaboration (Noosa Regional) 

2018 Shona Wilson – Collaborations with Nature, Sunshine Coast Council 

2018 Bee Hive Sculptures Public Art – Tree Place Cross Cultural Collaboration 

2017 SevGen – Collaboration with Indigenous Artists in Residence 

2017 Bunya Collaboration – Cross Cultural Exploration of Iconic Bunya Tree  

2017 RAD Grant – Global Art Installation – Standing Here (Horizon Festival) 

2017 50th Anniversary of Sunshine Coast Grant 

2017 RADF Grant – Sunshine Coast, Tree Place Project Development  

2016 RADF Grant – Three Forces of The Soul, Group Funding 

2016 Australian Cultural Fund Recipient 

2016 RADF Grant – Project Development, Tree Project (Tree Place) 

2015 Public Workshops, Noosa Regional Gallery 

2015 RADF Grant – Tim Johnson Fibre Master Class (Victoria) 

2013 Balance Unbalance Conference Noosa – Currency of Birdsong Panel 

2013 RADF  Grant – Attended ‘Selling Yarns, Weaving a Nations Story  

 

RESIDENCIES 

2017 E. Tereticornis, A Self Directed Residency with an Ancient Tree 

2014 June Winter Artist in Residence at the Cooroora Institute, Cooroy, Qld 

 

MEMBERSHIPS 

Flying Arts Alliance Inc Qld 

NAVA National Association fro the Visual Arts Ltd  

Sunshine Coast Natural Dyers Group (SCNDG) 

 

EMPLOYMENT 

2012 – Current Self Employed Artist Specialising Textiles, Fibre Environmental Art 

2006 – 2011 Self Employed Book-Keeper 

2002 – 2005 Retail Buyer Womens Fashion – Big W & Suzanne Grae 

1999 – 2000 Merchandise Planner – Esprit Aust 

1993 – 1998 Fashion Design Depict Knits, Guess Jeans & Jigsaw 

1992 – 1994 ANZ Bank  

1991 – 1992 Screen Printer – Court Textiles  

 

EDUCATION 

2019 Celtic Studies Myth & Tradition – The Hedge School

2017 Julie Ryder Natural Print Master Class Sturt Summer School 

2017 Ruth Hadlow – Ideas Development Master Class 

2012 – 2016  Cooroora Institute –Fine Furniture Woodwork  

2016 Ruth Hadlow – Museum Interventions Master Class 

2016 Aboubakar Fofana – Traditional Mud Dyeing 

2015 Tim Johnson – Masterclass Weaving and Twining  

2014 Shona Wilson – Collaborations with Nature 

2012 Graeme Priddle – Wood Turning & Surface Decoration Master Class 

2012 Weavery – Rene Bahloo – Fibre Weaving Techniques          

2012 India Flint –Eco Printing Workshop                                    

2011 Sturt School for Wood – Various Weekend Workshops                 

2010 Jan French – Random Weaving 

2005 Sydney College of Arts, Uni of Sydney – Bach of Visual Art  

2004 Tom Bass NSW – Sculpture Studio School 

2004 Jim Wallis – Traditional Basket Making 

2003 Meadowbank TAFE NSW– Certificate in Fine Art Drawing 

2003 Meadowbank TAFE NSW – Cert IV Assessment and Workplace Training 

2003 Willoughby Arts Centre – Sculpture 

1996 – 2001 Monash Uni, Bach of Business – Marketing & Retail Management 

1994 – 1995 Tea Tree Gully TAFE – Textiles and Apparel 

 

PUBLICATIONS 

Harris, A 2016. Craft is not a Dirty Word, Textile Fibre Forum, Issue#123  

Harris, A. 2016, Eumundi Green, 241, April  (Front Cover Image In between) 

www.issuu.com/eumundigreen/docs/241_the_green_web 

Exhibition Review, Notions of Ordinary, 2016, Textile Fibre Forum, Issue #121 Artwear Publications 

Harris, A 2015. In the Artist’s Studio, The Planthunter , Issue #24 Art, http://theplanthunter.com.au/people/anne-harris/ 

Harris, A 2015. Notion of an Ordinary Yarn Art Zine, Independent Publication 

Harris, A 2015. The Process of Ordinary, http://earth-emag.com Ed7 June 

Harris, A 2014. Lovingly Interrupted Art Zine, Independent Publication 

Flint, I. 2014.  On a Wondering Wind by India Flint and Friends  Blurb online publishing – Anne Harris pages 38-41 http://au.blurb.com/books/5230082-on-a-wandering-wind