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