Curriculum Vitae
Vocation: Self-employed Australian visual artist/educator; creative founder/operator/co-owner at Artropica Innisfail Studio Gallery, a retail small business providing custom framing, fine art supplies, original art, unique giftware, art restoration and artistic services.
Address: Work: Artropica Innisfail Studio Gallery, 12-B Owen Street / PO Box 1776, Innisfail, Far North Queensland, 4860, Australia
Phone: Work: 617 4061 1747
Web: www.kerrynmadsen-pietsch.com
Blog: http://kerrynmadsen-pietsch.blogspot.com.au/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/Artropica
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Date of birth: 1956
Citizenship: Australian
Ethnicity: Australian (3rd generation), Great grandparents ~ German, Other ancestry - Polish
Lives: Innisfail region, Queensland, AU.
Works: Innisfail, Queensland, AU.
Education:
2003 - Certificate 4 in Public Art, Cairns TAFE, FNQ
1982 - Graduate Diploma in (Secondary) Education, Bendigo CAE, Vic. Majors: Art & Craft (Distinction)
1977 - Diploma in Art & Design, Deakin University Geelong Vic.
1974
- TOP Tertiary Orientated Program (equivalent Yr 12) - 8 Subjects -
Drawing, Figure Drawing, Painting, Art History, Pottery, Design, Social
Science, English, ; Stawell Technical School, Vic.
Professional Development:
2010 - 1989 Professional Art Practice Development
Numerous art
workshops with exposure to various professional art tutors: Barbara
Dover, Adele Outteridge, Rebecca Barret, Theo Tremblay, Jill O'Sullivan,
Melissa Waters, Stephen Royster, Mollie Bosworth, Anneke Silver, Jenny
Valmadre, Jill Kinnear, Sally L'Estrange, Rhonda Payne, Amanda de Haan,
Ian Smith, Helen Broadhurst, Beverly Budgen, Rae O'Connell, Sam Di
Mauro, Mary-Lou Hogarth, David Campbell, Dr Irene Amos, Marion Gaemers,
Lindsay Wilson, Peter Thomson, Barbara Schey, Ken Smith, Sue Bisset, Rex
Backhaus-Smith, Barbara Cheshire, Karen Laird, Wendy Mills, Dennis
Magee, Anne Lord.
Employment:
2021 - 1998 - Self Employed: Founder/co-owner/operator of
Artropica Innisfail Studio Gallery, small retail business. As founder,
set up for custom framing, fine art material supplies, studio and
gallery with emphasis on Tropical North Qld local original unique art
and handmade giftware.
2008, 2007 - Teaching Abstraction Art
workshops aligned with my solo & touring 'Elevating the Spirit'
Exhibition at Cairns Regional Gallery, then Sugarama Gallery.
Teaching Appointments:
2003 - 1985 - Secondary Teacher, Good Counsel College, Innisfail.
Worked
various full time/part time contract/supply teaching positions - a
cross range of curriculum areas; Speciality areas - Art, Manual Arts
& Graphics.
*Also worked in other Innisfail & District Primary & Secondary Schools.
2001 - Adult Art Teaching, Johnstone College of TAFE, Innisfail. Certificate 3 Art Module Units:
1. Observing the Body;
2. Acrylic Polymer Painting;
3. Lino Printing; Screen Printing.
1993
- Johnstone College of TAFE, Innisfail. Teacher Part-Time, all year.
Trade Styling Certificate in Clothing and Manufacture Course.
1992 - Johnstone College of TAFE, Teacher Part-Time, all year Introduction to Drawing - Art Certificate III
1984
- 1983 - Education Department, Victoria 'Emergency' Teaching: Stawell,
Ararat, Murtoa, Horsham, in both Secondary High & Technical Schools.
Consultancies:
2021 (x-2020-Covid19) -1991 - Art Steward, Innisfail Show & District Association.
2014-2005 - Flying Arts Innisfail Regional Workshop Representative
2009-1987
- Art Coordinator, Innisfail Art Society Inc. Involved with
organizing/coordinating many projects eg. Exhibitions, workshops (many
RADF funded)
2003-2002 - Curator (Taskmaster) Remnants of Presence,
Exhibition of 19 local (Innisfail & district) artists work; Sugarama
Gallery, 4/5 - 29/6
2002, 1999-1992 - Committee Member, Regional Art Development Fund, Johnstone Shire Council
1994,'92,
'91 - Organizer, Coordinator, Arts worker, for the 'Artist Xmas
Market', Innisfail Art Space, 33 Rankin St Innisfail Dec.
1988 -
Judge/Critique * Mackay & District Agricultural Pastoral &
Industrial Assoc. Annual Show's Art Section (23 Categories) and Critique
to audience 30 - 40 people.
1988 - Judge, Annual Art Show - Innisfail Agricultural Show & District Society
Gallery Representation:
Self @ Artropica Innisfail Studio Gallery
12-B Owen Street
Innisfail, Queensland
Australia
Tel: 617 4061 1747
Individual Exhibitions:
2009 - Elevating The Spirit, Main Space, Umbrella Studio Contemporary Arts, Townsville; April 24-May31 (Jury Selected) (Toured)
2007 - Elevating The Spirit, Sugarama Gallery, Mourilyan Qld; July-Oct. (Toured)
2007 - Elevating The Spirit, Cairns Regional Gallery, Qld; (Jury Selected - Community Exhibitions Program)
1994 - Figure Works, Drawings and Paintings, Innisfail Art Space, Innisfail, Qld.
Selected Group Exhibitions:
2017 - One Tree Matters, 2017 Brettacorp Inc., Tully + Recycled Pallet Art Auction., Sat. June 17, @C4, Mission Beach.
2010
- Tablelands, Perimeters and Parameters, Tableland Regional Gallery, 15
artists from the Kuranda Arts Cooperative Ltd. Feb 5-28
2009 - 9 x 5, Walker St. Gallery, Melbourne, Vic. (Dec)
2009,08 - Hidden Treasures, Cairns Regional Gallery, Qld(selected).
2008 - Big, Insiders Members Kick Arts, COCA, Cairns, Qld
2007/2008 - Light, Time and Facade (curated), Sugarama Gallery, Mourilyan, Qld
2007 - Flight, Insiders Members Kick Arts, Centre of Contemporary Arts (COCA), Cairns, Qld
2007 - Hidden Treasures, Cairns Regional Gallery, Qld (selected).
2006 - Annual National Competition (Selected) Cairns Art Society Inc Cairns Regional Gallery, Qld (Aug/Sept)
2006 - Hidden Treasures, Cairns Regional Gallery, Qld (selected)
2005/06 - Duality (curated) Sugarama Gallery, Mourilyan, Qld (Nov 13 2005 - Jan 29, 2006)
2005 - Teacher's Exhibition, Sugarama Gallery, Mourilyan, Qld (Oct 7-Nov 12)
2005 - Postcard Show, Cairns Regional Gallery, Qld
2005 - Growth (curated), 11 members of Kuranda Arts Cooperative, Cairns Regional Gallery, Qld (July 30 -Aug 28)
2004 - Postcard Show, Cairns Regional Gallery, Qld (Nov 12 - Dec 3)
2004 - Sense of Attachment (curated), Sugarama Gallery, Mourilyan, Qld (Oct 17-Nov 14)
2004 - Raw Expose (Over 18), Cairns Tanks Art Centre, Qld
2004 - Feast of the Senses (Mar) Sugarama Gallery, Mourilyan, Qld
2003 - Postcard Show, Cairns Regional Gallery, Qld (Dec.)
2003 - Annual National Competition, Cairns Art Society Inc. Cairns Regional Gallery, Qld (selected)
2003 - Remnants of Presence (curated), Sugarama Gallery, Mourilyan, Qld (4 May - 29 June)
2002 - Blue, Kick Arts, Cairns, Qld Dec.
2002 - Year of the Outback DPI Awards, Flying Arts - Dalby, Qld
2002-2003 - Touring, Year of the Outback (Selected) Regional Qld
2002-2004 - Cross Currents (Selected) Touring, Regional Qld
2002 - Cross Currents: Micro - Macro, Sugarama Gallery, Mourilyan Qld (4 May - 29 June)
2002 - Wunderkammer (Selected artist) Plimsoll Gallery Hobart Tasmania Aug/Sept.
2002 - Craft Connect Expo, Cairns Hilton, Qld May
2002 - Postcard Show, Cairns Regional Gallery Qld (Nov - Dec 6)
2001 - Co-operate Collaborate, Kuranda Arts Co-op. Cairns Regional Gallery Qld
2000 - Starkers, Post Office Gallery Port Douglas Qld 17/6 to 14/7
1999 - Postcard, Cairns Regional Gallery Qld (11.12.98 - 10.01.99)
1998 - Four Seasons - Vivaldi Music, Visual Arts Association of Far North Qld. Cairns Regional Gallery Qld (11 Oct - 1 Nov)
1998 - Flying Arts Inc. Northern Regional, Cairns Regional Gallery Qld (Oct-Nov)
1997 - Flying Arts Inc. Northern Regional, (Selected work) Mt Isa Qld (Oct - Nov)
1997 - 1996 - Screen-Printing Johnstone Shire Library Qld Dec-Jan
1996 - Member's, Innisfail Art Society Inc. 33 Rankin St. Innisfail Qld (Nov-Dec)
1996 - Artists Evening, Lugger Bay Rainforest Apartments Qld (August)
1994 - Landmarks, Innisfail Art Space Qld August
1991 - QLD Suncorp Art Awards, Selected Work, Cairns Qld
1991 - Windows to the Past, Paronella Park, Artists Gallery Qld
1991 - National Artists Week, Paronella Park, Artists Gallery Qld
1989 - Local Artists, Bamboo Gallery, Miriwinni Qld
Touring Exhibitions:
2009 - Elevating The Spirit, Main Space, Umbrella Studio Contemporary Arts, Townsville; April 24-May31 (Jury Selected) (Toured)
Awards:
2018 - Champion Art Award, 1st: Open Painting - specific size 30 x30 cm,
1st: Abstract/Contemporary Painting ~ Innisfail & District
Agricultural Show
2013-2010, 2008-1990 - Numerous awards - covering
areas of Drawing, Contemporary Painting, Digital Giclee Print, Creative
Receptacle, Sculpture and Printmaking - annual Innisfail & District
Agricultural Show.
2006 - Abstract Painting (Commended) Judge Sylvia
Ditchburn. National Competition, Cairns Art Society Inc. Cairns Regional
Gallery
2005 - Sculpture (Highly Commended) Judge Anneke Silver, Biennial National Competition, Innisfail Art Society Inc. (Oct/Nov)
2001 - Drawing, Biennial National Competition, Innisfail Art Society Inc.
2001 - Creative Fibre, Biennial National Competition, Innisfail Art Society Inc.
1999 - Drawing (Highly Commended) Biennial National Competition, Innisfail Art Society Inc.
1996 - Logo, Innisfail Harvest Festival Competition - Johnstone Shire Cultural Assn.
1995 - Drawing, Biennial National Competition, Innisfail Art Society Inc.
1995 - Open Section (Highly Commended)- Biennial National Competition, Innisfail Art Society Inc.
1993 - Miniature Painting, Biennial National Competition, Innisfail Art Society Inc.
1993 - Creative Receptacle (Fibre Basketry) Biennial National Competition, Innisfail Art Society Inc.
1991 - Local Artist (Highly Commended) Innisfail Art Society Inc
1989 - Drawing, National Competition, Mareeba Art Development Group
1989 - Drawing (Highly Commended) National Competition, Mareeba Art Development Group
1987 - Spinning, International Competition, Fibres & Fabrics Association, Townsville.
Grants:
2003 - RADF Johnstone Shire Council for 'Remnants of Presence' Exhibition May-June 2003
2003
- Regional Quick Response Grant - Qld Arts Council for Workshop with
Tutor Steve Royster for Exhibition 'Remnants of Presence' artists
developmental/curatorial processes.
1997 - Professional Individual
Development ,Regional Arts Development Fund (RADF), Johnstone Shire
Council; 'Creative Merchandising' Seminar Brisbane; half day seminar
delivery report to Innisfail arts audience
1996 - Community Art
Project, RADF, Johnstone Shire Council. 6 (2 day) weekends x Design
& Screen Printmaking Workshops; Outcome: manufacture of
Screen-printed Banner for Good Counsel Secondary College.
Public Collections:
Johnstone Shire Council, Innisfail Qld
- External Wall Mural Painting. Panel Size Approx 6m x 2.5m wall section
Good Counsel College, Innisfail Qld
- 2D Artwork 'Sea of Hands' 1998 - Painted Canvas Fabric Panel, size 3m x 2m
- 2D Artwork 'Tropical Inspirations' 1996 - Screen-printed Panel, size 2m x 1m
Private Collections:
Australia, England, America.
Commissions:
2003 - Life Drawings Private commissions, Australia
1999 - Qld. Dept. Natural Resources - Colour work for 7 large display posters.
1999 - 'River Reflections' 8-page information brochure - computer layout/graphics. JSCA Innisfail RADF funding.
1993
- MURAL Artist (part of Group of 9) PUBLIC ART PROJECT: INNISFAIL SHIRE
PUBLIC LIBRARY - External Wall Mural Painting. Panel Size Approx 6m x
2.5m wall section
Artist-in-Residencies:
2003 - 1993 Teacher/Artist Run and operate privately run Life Drawing
Classes, mostly weekly basis at studio 33 Rankin St. Innisfail
1998
- SEA OF HANDS Canvas Fabric Panel (size 3m x 2m) for ASSPA
Reconciliation Project. Artist in Residence, with an access day to all
secondary students, teachers. (October) Good Counsel College, Innisfail
1997
- ONE DAY RESIDENCIES Working with Primary School students: DARADGEE
FIELD CENTRE (selected students) - Design & Screen Printing; MURRAY
UPPER State School - Drawing, Pottery, Painting and Group Mural work on
canvases - All levels
1996 - PUBLIC ART PROJECT - Good Counsel
College New Administration Block Foyer. PRINCIPAL DESIGNER/MAKER of
Screenprinted Panel - 2m x 1m. Organizer, Project Coordinator and Artist
Participant in RADF funded 'Design & Screen printing' Workshops
over 6 weekends, with screen print Tutor/Design Public Art Advisor Rae
O'Connell.
1993 - ARTS/CULTURAL WEEK (October) at Babinda State
School. Artist in Residence: Involved access to Yrs 1 - 7 from a Cluster
of 6 Primary Schools. Group activities involved chalk drawing, pottery
and painting of 6 large canvases (one for each cluster school and to
rotate over period of time)
1993 - ABORIGINAL ART/CULTURAL
Studies ASSPA Program Good Counsel Primary - Invited Artist in residence
for painting & drawing with Yr 4 Class over 6 week period ending
with exhibition of student's work at Johnstone Shire Library
1992
- ARTS FUSION, INNISFAIL SUMMER SCHOOL, TAFE. Visual artist/tutor -
Weekend Children's Classes in Painting and Pottery, culminating in Group
Exhibition - feature was a large 9 panel mural of a sea serpent.
Selected Publications:
Critical reviews and media coverage:
2007 - Valerie Keenan, Exhibition Review Elevating the Spirit, Arts Nexus Mag.Ed.65 p.30 Jan-Mar 2008
2007 - Think Outside The Square, Innisfail Advocate Sat.Aug 25 2007 p17
2007 - Karen van Harskamp: Raising Spirits, Cairns Post Timeout p18 Thur June 21, 2007
2007 - Kerryn Madsen-Pietsch: Elevating the Spirit, Art Dekko No30 Cairns Regional Gallery Mag. April-June 2007 pp6,8,12.
www.cairnsregionalgallery.com.au/exhibition-madsen.pdf
2004 - Sense of Attachment, Arts Nexus Jan-March 05
2003 - Lou West: Remnants of Presence - Nineteen contemporary artists, Arts Nexus July-Sept p.26
2002 - Craft Connect In the Tropics, NAVA Newsletter p.13 Sept
1999 - Sandra Hodgson: Inspiration in Network in the North, Courier Mail Thur April 1 p.38
1999 - K.Madsen-Pietsch: Artist's Profile, Kuranda Paper July
1998 - Sandra Hodgson: Environment, Region, Identity, Flying Arts Gazette, Dec. Issue No. 78 p.6-9
1998 - Marina Muecke: Weekly Feature Artist, Cairns Post Friday Aug 31/p36
1996 - Marina Muecke: Unique arts Display, The Cairns Post Fri Aug 30 p25
1994 - Editorial: Art Fills A Void, (Artist's Market) Innisfail Advocate Sat Dec 17/p12
1994 - Natalie Shaw: Kerryn Takes a New Look at Life, Innisfail Advocate, Thur May 26 /p5.
1993 - Karla Pincott: Wall of Vision, Townsville Bulletin Fri Aug 20/p21
Catalogues:
Other Published Works
2010 - Tablelands, Perimeters and Parameters
2009 - Elevating the Spirit (Townsville)
2007 - Elevating the Spirit (Mourilyan)
2007 - Elevating the Spirit (Cairns)
2007 - Light, Time & Facade
2004 - Sense of Attachment
2003 - Remnants of Presence, Brochure (20 pages - 19 artists) (Introduction/Rationale)
2002 - Cross Currents: Micro - Macro, Sugarama Gallery, ASIM.
2002 - Wunderkammer, Exhibition Catalogue/Essay Aug/Sept; David Humes
1994
- Wall Of Vision, Article reprinted in Your Guide to Beautiful
Johnstone Shire publisher Graphically Speaking, March p.6 Karla Pincott
Online Publications:
Other Media Publication:
Artist Talks:
2009 - Elevating the Spirit (Umbrella Studio Contemporary Arts, Townsville, Qld)
2007 - Elevating the Spirit (Sugarama Gallery, Mourilyan, Qld)
2007 - Elevating the Spirit (Cairns Regional Gallery, Qld)
Judging Appointments:
2020 July - Mareeba Art Society Inc.
2015 Aug. - Mission Arts, Annual Anniversary Exhibition, Mission Beach, Qld. AU
1987 - Mackay Art Show Exhibit., Show Pavilion, Mackay, Qld. AU including Audience Art Critique
Professional Memberships:
Current
Qld College of Teachers (Qld.Teacher Registration)
Previous
Kuranda Arts Cooperative Ltd
Flying Arts Inc. Qld (area representative)
Kick Arts Insider, Centre of Contemporary Arts (CoCa) Cairns
QLD Arts Law (Affiliate)
NAVA
. . .
Biography:
Kerryn
Madsen-Pietsch, born Ararat, grew up on country near Hall's Gap, in the
heart of the Grampians of Western Victoria, Australia .
Between formal Art & Teacher Education qualifications Madsen-Pietsch worked & travelled interstate gaining life/work experiences and eventually settled in the isolated country region of Innisfail, Far North Queensland, teaching secondary level from 1985 onwards until 2003. Madsen-Pietsch has taught art at all levels ~ primary, secondary and tertiary ~ in education systems and also privately.
Parallel to a long art teaching career, raising a family & now self-employed at Artropica Innisfail Studio Gallery, a custom framing and art supplies retail small business, being sole operator/founder/co-owner, has been a continual commitment to developing her professional art practice. This is especially evidenced in her mastery of life (figure) drawing having regularly practised for thirty plus years since her first exposure to figure drawing classes back in 1974.
Other achievements behind her are: community participation in many local and regional curated group art exhibitions and in organizing many local community art workshops and exhibitions.
The most significant
personal art achievements to date came after 2006 Tropical Cyclone
Larry, a Cat.4/5, directly hit her home & Innisfail region in the
Cassowary Coast, tropical Far North Queensland. As one of eight only
(out of forty applicants) she was 'selected' to show/present her solo
exhibition titled 'Elevating the Spirit', a body of mixed-media
abstract works, at the Cairns Regional Gallery in mid 2007. Afterwards
the solo exhibition was independently toured, showing at:
a) The Sugarama Gallery, Mourilyan (near Innisfail), then
b) The Main Space (again 'selected') at Umbrella Studio Contemporary Arts, Townsville, Queensland.
Profile:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/kerrynmadsenpietsch/
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