REW HANKS

Born 19 May 1958, Sydney

Education

1977-79 Diploma of Visual Arts Alexander Mackie College Of Advanced Education

1984-85 Graduate Diploma in Professional Art Studies City Art Institute, Sydney College of Advanced Education

1989 Graduate Diploma In Education: Technical Sydney College of Advanced Education

1991 Print Fellow Tamarind Institute, University of New Mexico, USA

1991-99 Master of Fine Arts College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales

Solo Exhibitions

1982 Blackman Graphics, Sydney.

1991 Up The Garden Path Legge Gallery

1993 Remnants Legge Gallery

1999 Robinson’s Reflective Reticence Legge Gallery

2001 Pickled Pups and Tiger Tales Legge Gallery

2003 Tiger Tales Legge Gallery

Tiger Tales Burnie Regional Art Gallery, Tasmania

2006 The Tiger Hunter Impressions on Paper Gallery, ACT

Group Exhibitions

1980 New Australian Printmakers University of Tasmania.

1982 St Georges Terrace Gallery, Parramatta

1984 National Students Art Prize Exhibition Bathurst

1985 Holdsworth Contemporary Gallery, Sydney

Royal College Of Art, London

Graduate Diploma Exhibition Ivan Dougherty Gallery

1986 Travelling Art Scholarship Exhibition Blaxland Gallery

Works On Paper Sydney College of the Arts

Sydney Printmakers Blaxland Gallery

1987 Linden Gallery, Melbourne

Teachers' exhibition at Workshop Art Centre

1988 Spirit Of The Times touring exhibition; Melbourne, Adelaide, Sydney, Brisbane

1989 Sydney Printmakers Blaxland Gallery, Sydney

1990 The Cow Show Legge Gallery

Kingston Art Space, Canberra

Sydney Printmakers Blaxland Gallery, Sydney

1991 Works On Paper Legge Gallery

1992 Thisness Legge Gallery

1997 Staff Show Bondi Pavilion, Bondi Beach

1998 Laying Turf Nelson Street Gallery, Annandale

2001 Group Show Legge Gallery

Fisher's Ghost Campbelltown City Gallery

2002 National Works on Paper Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery

Packsaddle New England Regional Art Museum, Armidale

Melbourne Art Fair 2002 Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne

Fisher's Ghost Campbelltown City Gallery

Summer Show Legge Gallery

The Hutchins Art Prize The Long Gallery, Hobart

2003 Sulman Art Prize Art Gallery of New South Wales

The Dog Show A-Space on Cleveland, Sydney

Fisher's Ghost Campbelltown City Gallery

Summer Show Legge Gallery

2004 Doggy Two A-Space On Cleveland, Sydney

Melbourne Art Fair 2004 Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne

Packsaddle New England Regional Art Museum, Armidale

2005 Best In Show Third Annual Dog Show A-Space on Cleveland, Sydney

Carnevale Art Bishop Barry Centre, Sydney

Summer Show Legge Gallery

2006 4th Annual Dog Exhibition A-Space on Cleveland, Sydney

Landscape Show Legge Gallery

Group Show Adele Boag Gallery, South Australia

Winter Collection James Makin Gallery, Melbourne

Melbourne Art Fair 2006 Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne

Seoul International Biennial Print Prize Seoul, South Korea

Blake Prize National Art School Gallery, Sydney

Deceivers of the Pack Port Jackson Print Room, Melbourne

Idea of the Animal RMIT Gallery, Melbourne

Shelf Life Delmar Gallery, Sydney

Sydney Prints: 45 years of the Sydney Printmakers SH Ervin Gallery

Summer Show Legge Gallery

2007 Works on Paper Legge Gallery

Sci-Fi 2007 Stephen McLaughlan Gallery, Melbourne

Artist' Ink Warrnambool Art Gallery

Sydney Prints: 45 years of the Sydney Printmakers Hawkesbury Regional Gallery

Canine Capers A-Space on Cleveland, Sydney

Willoughby Art Prize Willoughby Civic Centre, Chatswood

Collections

Art Gallery of New South Wales

Australian Print Workshop Collection

Campbelltown City Bicentennial Art Gallery

City Art Institute C.A.E

College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales

Muswellbrook Shire Art Collection

National Gallery of Australia

Print Council of Australia Archives

RACV.

Seoul International Biennial Print Prize Collection

State Library of New South Wales

Warrnambool Art Gallery

Bibliography

Amadio, Nadine: Six Young Australian Artists, Arts National, vol 3, issue2, Nov-Dec 1985

Atkins, Rosalind: Silkcut Award for Linocuts, catalogue essay, 2002

Directory 1988 - Australian Artists Producing Prints

Freeman, Carol: Rew Hanks Tiger Tales , cataloque essay 2003

Grishin, Sasha: Hunter and the hunted,

Hanks, Rew: Remnants, catalogue to exhibition, Legge Gallery, 1993

Hanks, Rew: Robinson's Reflective Reticence, catalogue to exhibition, Legge Gallery, 1999

Hanks, Rew: Tasmanian Tiger, catalogue to exhibition, Legge Gallery, 2001

Icons and Identities, Art and Australia, vol 32 no 2, Dec 1999 – Jan 2000

Kidd, Courtney: Exhibitions, The Sydney Morning Herald, 27/4-3/5/2001

Kidd, Courtney: Gallery Crawl, The Sydney Morning Herald, 11/4/2001

Low, Lenny Ann: Paper and tigers, The Sydney Morning Herald, 11/10/2003

Mann, Allan: Impressions, Imprint vol 37 2002

Maylon, Craig: Jurassic Printmaking: A review of 'Pickled Pups and Tiger Tales', Imprint: Print Council of Australia, vol.36 no.2, 2001

Morgan, Clare : Spotlight, The Sydney Morning Herlald, 6/10/2003

Nelson, Robert: Fine art of prize giving, The Age, 23/4/2003

Pattenden, Rod: Theatre of the Knife - the Art of Rew Hanks, Australian Art Review, Nov 2006-Feb2007

Scheding, Stephen: The National Picture, 2002

Timms, Peter: Cutting the wood for the trees, The Age, 11/4/2001

Tse, Jonathon: Shell Fremantle Print Award, catalogue essay, 2002

Awards

1991 Project Fellowship Grant New South Wales TAFE Commission

2001 Fisher's Ghost Drawing Prize

Geelong Print Prize

Rena Ellen Jones Memorial Print Award

2002 Hunters Hill Print Prize

2003 Friends of the Campbelltown City Gallery Prize

Willoughby Art Prize

Ainsworth Regional Art Prize

Hunters Hill Print Prize

Geelong Print Prize

2005 Muswellbrook Open Art Prize Works on Paper

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