KATHRYN ORTON
Born 10 April 1957, Orange NSW
Studies
1976-77 Graphic Design Certificate Randwick College of TAFE
1980-83 Part-time Art Certificate West Wollongong College of TAFE
1984-86 Bachelor of Creative Arts University of Wollongong
1993-96 Foundry - Metal Casting Wollongong College of TAFE
2002 Statement of
Attainment, Advanced Creative Fine Arts: Printmaking Meadowbank TAFE
Solo Exhibitions
1984 Interior/Exterior Art Arena Gallery Inc
1989 Masquerade Art Arena Gallery Inc
1991 A Mariner's Tale: Drawings
& Furniture Legge Gallery
1994 A wardrobe, a dressing table
and some very fine fish Legge
Gallery
Small Fish
In A Big Pond Wollongong
City Gallery
1995 Review Art Arena Gallery, Wollongong
1996 A Tea Party Legge Gallery
1998 Dining With A Matriarch Legge Gallery
2001 About Town Legge Gallery
2003 Let them eat cake Legge
Gallery
Selected Group Exhibitions
1983 Student Printmakers Karoona Gallery
1985 New Voices Wollongong City Gallery
Works on
Paper Long Gallery, University of
Wollongong
Six by Six Art Arena Gallery Inc
1985-86 New South Wales Travelling Art
Scholarship Exhibition Blaxland Gallery
1986 OUT Visual Arts Graduating
Students Exhibition Long Gallery
Six by Six Art Arena Gallery Inc
1987 Sulman Exhibition Art Gallery of New South Wales
Brickbats
and Bouquets Art Arena
Gallery Inc
Six by Six Art Arena Gallery Inc
1988 20th
Century TAFE Masters Long Gallery,
University of Wollongong
TAFE
Teachers Exhibition Goulburn
Regional Gallery
Jumbled Mumblings
from a Studio in Bulli Art
Arena Gallery Inc
Six By Six Art Arena Gallery Inc
1989 Australian Identikit Critical
Projections Hamilton Artists Inc,
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Six by Six Art Arena Gallery Inc
1990 Legge Gallery Preview Watters Gallery
The Cow Show Legge Gallery
Six by Six Art Arena Gallery Inc
1991 Group Show of Five Legge Gallery
Six By Six Art Arena Gallery Inc
Works On
Paper Legge Gallery
A Selection From The University Of
Wollongong Permanent Collection
Long Gallery, University Of Wollongong
When Love
Blooms Legge Gallery
1992 Portia Geach Memorial Award S.H. Ervin Gallery
Thisness Legge Gallery
Six By Six Art Arena Gallery Inc
1993 Figuration Legge Gallery
Sight
Regained Ivan Dougherty Gallery
Tempest Legge Gallery
1994 Six By Six Art Arena Gallery Inc
Fourth
Australian Contemporary Art Fair
Royal Exhibition Building Melbourne
Artists
Don't Believe in Sanity Clause
Legge Gallery
1995 Six By Six Art Arena Gallery Inc
Summer
Exhibition Legge Gallery
1996 Six By Six Art Arena Gallery Inc and Orange
Regional Gallery
Fifth
Australian Contemporary Art Fair
Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne
Mellow Down
Easy Legge Gallery
1997 Partagez Wollongong City Gallery
Portia Geach
Memorial Award S.H Ervin
Gallery
New Work Four Gallery Artists, Legge Gallery
Sanguine
Valediction Legge Gallery
1998 Sixth
Australian Contemporary Art Fair
Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne
Christmas Show Legge Gallery
1999 Evolution Legge Gallery
Tenth Summer Exhibition Legge Gallery
2000 Ten Year Show Legge Gallery
Seventh Australian Contemporary Art
Fair Royal Exhibition Building,
Melbourne
Summer
Exhibition Legge Gallery
2001 Legge Gallery Painters Use
Atelier Artists' Acrylics Legge
Gallery
Packsaddle New England Regional Art Museum, Armidale
Six
By Six Wollongong City Gallery
Prelude Long Gallery, University of Wollongong
Segment @ project centre for contemporary art
Encore Wollongong City Gallery
Conrad
Jupiter's Art Prize Gold Coast City
Art Gallery
2002 Landmarx Long Gallery, University of Wollongong
Heads Long Gallery, University of Wollongong
Shell
Fremantle Print Award Fremantle
Arts Centre
Tea
Party Karoona Gallery, West
Wollongong TAFE
Melbourne
Art Fair 2002 Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne
Sophia
Mundi Annual Art Exhibition, Melbourne
Summer
Show Legge Gallery
2003 Portia Geach Memorial Award,
S. H. Ervin Gallery
Summer Show Legge Gallery
2004 Moments of Slippage Mura Clay Gallery, Sydney
Melbourne
Art Fair 2004 Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne
2005 Packsaddle New England Regional Art Museum, Armidale
Meroogal Art Prize Nowra
Summer Show Legge Gallery
2006 Melbourne Art Fair 2006
Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne
Dobell Prize for Drawing 2006 Art
Gallery of NSW
Awards
1989 1st Prize Bowral-Mittagong Rotary Club Art Prize
2005 Highly Commended Meroogal Art Prize
Collections
Wollongong
University Permanent Collection
University
of Wollongong Union Collection
Wollongong
City Gallery
Bibliography
Artists Make
Furniture exhibition catalogue, University of Wollongong, 1997
Bogle,
Michael: The Sydney Review, August 1991
Encore exhibition
catalogue, Wollongong City Gallery
Guinness, Daphne: Metropolitan,
The Sydney Morning Herald, 20/5/02
Just A Memento exhibition catalogue, @ project Contemporary Art
Space, Wollongong, 1995
McKay, Fiona: Olwen 12 Pockets a children’s book illustrated by Kathryn Orton, 1993
Partagaz exhibition catalogue, Wollongong City Gallery, 1997
Scarp New
Arts and Writing No.7: Prints,
University of Wollongong, 1985
Scarp New
Arts and Writing No.15: Prints, University Of Wollongong, 1989
Scarp New
Arts and Writing No.19: Interview and Drawings,
University
of Wollongong, 1991
Small Fish
In A Big Pond exhibition
catalogue, Wollongong City Gallery, 1996