CURRICULUM VITAE

BONNEY BOMBACH

PERSONAL DETAILS

  • 1945 Born Melbourne, Australia
    1967-73 Lived in Europe/Israel, visited art museums and attended international exhibitions, travelled Africa/Asia
    1980 Relocated to Lismore area, New South Wales (NSW)
    1985-2015 Extensive travels in S.E Asia and Europe, research for various work
    1999 Relocated Whitsundays, Queensland

EDUCATION

  • 2001 Artist’s Book workshop, Adele Outerridge, JCU, Townsville, Qld
  • 1987 Masterclass Workshop, Canadian printmaker Harold Klunder, Noosa Regional Gallery, Qld
  • 1975-77 Dip. Art, Preston Institute of Technology, (now R.M.I.T.), Melbourne
  • 1972-73 Camden Institute of Art, London, studied sculpture
  • 1963-66 Melbourne University, B.A./Dip. Soc. Studies

SELECT SOLO EXHIBITIONS

  • 2013 The Personal and the Political: Selected Works 1995-2012, Perc Tucker RAG Townsville,Qld
  • 2011 Memento Mori: Tree of Life, Artspace Mackay, Qld
  • 2004 Small Wonders, Perc Tucker Regional Art Gallery (RAG), Townsville, Qld
  • An Altered Playground, Umbrella Studio, Townsville, Qld
  • Survey show, Celeber Studio, Whitsunday Anglican School, Mackay, Qld
  • 2003 Nature/Culture, Artspace Mackay, Qld
  • 2001 Flying with Angels, Songs of Renewal, Umbrella Studio Contemporary Art, Townsville, Qld
  • Dramatis Personae, wall installation, Toowoomba RAG, Qld
  • 2000 Dramatis Personae, wall installation, Perc Tucker RAG, Townsville, Qld
  • Stolen, Community Printmakers, Murwillumbah, NSW
  • 1999 The Poetics of Survival, Gold Coast City Art Gallery, Qld, Bonney Bombach and Lina Eve
  • Stolen, Bringing Them Home, Indigenous Conference Services, Gold Coast City Art Gallery,Qld
  • 1997 A Place of Tribute, installation, Lismore Regional Art Gallery, NSW
  • Dramatis Personae, wall installation, Australian Jewish Museum, Melbourne
  • 1996 War Works: Songs of Hope and Trepidation, Grafton Regional Gallery, NSW
  • Places of Tribute,  Installation, photograms, chemograms, Maudespace, Sydney
  • 1995 War Works: Songs of Hope and Trepidation, Lismore Regional Art Gallery, NSW
  • War Works II, Maudespace, Sydney, NSW
  • 1994 Out of the Shadows (II), expanded collaboration with Michael Baartz, Lismore Regional Art Gallery, NSW
  • New Works on Paper, MCA, Melbourne
  • 1993 Out of the Shadows (I), with Michael Baartz, Gold Coast City Art Gallery, Qld
  • 1992 Works on Paper, M.C.A., Melbourne
  • 1991 New Works, Agog, Canberra
  • 1990 Animist Images and Other Dreamstates, Access Contemporary Art Centre, Southern Cross University, Lismore, NSW
  • Survey Exhibition, Gasworks Art Centre, Lismore, NSW
  • 1989 The Garden and the Dance, Reconnaissance, Melbourne (catalogue)
  • Paintings and Works on Paper, Griffith Park Gallery, Condong, NSW
  • 1986 Mountainscapes and Gardenscapes, temporary space, Murwillumbah, NSW
  • 1985 A Personal View, Cape Gallery, Byron Bay, N.S.W (2-person)
  • 1984 Pictures at and Exhibition, Stokers Siding Gallery, Murwillumbah, NSW
  • 1983 Paintings and Drawings, Mori Gallery, Sydney
  • 1979 Bonney Bombach, Pinacotheca, Melbourne
  • 1978 Drawings, Trades Hall Council Gallery, Melbourne
  • Drawings, Footscray Community Arts Centre, Melbourne

SELECT GROUP EXHIBITIONS

  • 2013 Olive Cotton Award,  A Book About Death, Tweed River Gallery, NSW
  • Libris Awards, Australian Artists Book Prize, Artspace, Mackay, Qld
  • 2010 B-Aware Art Exhibition, St Johns Cathedral, Brisbane;
  • Subject Matters, Artspace, Mackay, Qld
  • 2009-2010 Linden Postcard Show, Linden Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne
  • Mackay Art Awards Qld.
  • Gargett Drawing Prize, Gargett Gallery, Qld
  • Australian Artists Book Prize, Mackay
  • 2008 Samisdat, CPM Print Studio, Murwillumbah, NSW
  • 2004 Books 04, Noosa Regional Gallery, Qld
  • 2003 Landed/Stranded, Installation, Strand Ephemera, Townsville
  • The Postcard Show, Grafton Regional Gallery, NSW
  • 2002 The Hutchins Art Prize Finalist’s Exhibition, Hobart
  • Wide Angle & Art For Earth, Hervey Bay RAG, Qld
  • 2002/3 Mum Shirl Tribute Exhibition, (touring nine venues, funding Visions of Australia)
  • Through Australian Women’s Eyes, touring NSW & Qld, (touring eight venues)
  • Wide Angle, Hervey Bay RAG, Qld
  • Wide Angle, Rockhampton RAG, Qld
  • Paper and String, Red Hot Fibre, Redcliffe Regional Art Gallery, Qld
  • 2001 White Wind Red Wind, installation, Strand Ephemera, Townsville, Qld
  • QCL Art Awards, Logan Art Gallery, Qld
  • Parallex, Umbrella Studio Members Exhibition, Townsville, Qld
  • 2000 Through Australian Women’s Eyes, Lismore Regional Art Gallery, NSW
  • Wish You Were Here, Touring Postcard Exhibition, Artists 2000 Foundation, Victoria
  • Mum Shirl Tribute Exhibition: The Sacred Trust of Memory (catalogue), UNSW / Boomalli Aboriginal Artist’s Cooperative, Sydney
  • The Hutchins Art Prize Finalist’s Exhibition, Hobart, Tasmania
  • 1999-2000 Crosscurrents, touring Qld, NT, NSW, WA, Vic (catalogue)
  • 1999 Propaganda, Umbrella Studios Members Exhibition, Townsville
  • The Hutchins School Finalists Art Prize, Hobart
  • Political Expletives, Community Printmakers, Murwillumbah, NSW
  • 1998 Crosscurrents, Lismore Regional Art Gallery; Australian Embassy and Salon Natasha, Hanoi, Vietnam
  • 1997 Womens Art Collective Exchange Exhibitions, Through Australian Women’s Eyes, ARC Invitational 1 Gallery, Chicago, and Hera Gallery, Rhode Island, USA
  • Agfa Film Invitation Photographic Award, Albury Regional Art Centre, NSW
  • Conrad Jupiters Art Prize, Gold Coast City Art Gallery, Qld
  • Muswellbrook Photographic Award, Muswellbrook Regional Gallery, NSW
  • 1997 Looking In, Salon Natasha, Hanoi, Vietnam
  • Pilipinas, Lismore Regional Gallery, NSW
  • 1996 Orchards of Ashes, Echoes and Ink, CPM, Michael Burke Gallery, Brisbane
  • All Those New Days, Salon Natasha, Hanoi, Vietnam
  • CPM National Print Prize, touring exhibition, NSW
  • Good Grief, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane (catalogue)
  • Redlands Westpac Invitational Art Prize, Sydney
  • 1995 Body Works, Lake Russell Gallery, Via Coffs Harbour
  • 1994 Chocolate Factory, Lismore; The Epicentre, Byron Bay
  • Journey Towards the Light, installation, Baguio Arts Festival, Philippines
  • 1993-94 Jewish Arts Festival, Melbourne
  • Coolangatta Galleries, Qld
  • 1993 Nexus, A.C.A.C., Southern Cross University, Lismore
  • References, Southern Cross University, Lismore
  • 1992 Making a Living, Tweed River Regional Art Gallery, Murwillumbah, NSW
  • Diamond Valley Art Awards, Victoria, (invitational)
  • Camden Art Prize (invitational), NSW
  • 1991-93 North Coast Art Award, The Epicentre, Byron Bay, NSW
  • 1991-92 Fishers Ghost Art Award (invitational), Campbelltown Art Gallery, NSW
  • 1991 Objects of Desire, Bond University, Qld
  • Mornington Peninsular Spring Festival of Drawing, (invitational) Victoria
  • 1990 New Era, Bond University, Qld
  • The Doors, Gold Coast City Art Gallery, Qld
  • 1990-92 Logan Art Award, Qld (invitational)
  • 1990-92 Fishers Ghost Art Award (invitational), Campbelltown Art Gallery, NSW
  • 1990-93 Alice Prize, Alice Springs, N.T. (invitational)
  • 1989 City of Boxhill Invitation Exhibition, Melbourne
  • Watermarks/Landmarks, Gold Coast City Art Gallery, Qld
  • The Fluid Brush, Gold Coast City Art Gallery, Qld
  • Drawing the Line, Tweed River Regional Art Gallery, Murwillumbah, NSW
  • Eltham Art Awards, Melbourne, (invitational)
  • Little Treasures, Big Pleasures, Lismore Regional Art Gallery, NSW
  • 1988 Landmarks 1, Lismore Regional Art Gallery, NSW
  • National Women’s Art Award, Gold Coast City Art Gallery, Qld
  • Bravura, Lismore Regional Art Gallery, NSW
  • 1984-87 Gold Coast City Art Prize, Gold Coast City Art Gallery, Qld
  • National Women’s Art Award, Gold Coast City Art Gallery, Qld
  • 1983 Arts-in-Action ’83, Northern Rivers Touring Exhibition, Lismore, NSW
  • 1982 Women’s Perspective, Lismore Regional Art Gallery, NSW
  • 1980 Women’s Art, Niagara Galleries, Melbourne

AWARDS AND PRIZES

  • Bowen Art Society, Qld, 2009/10/12/13(open)
  • Art Whitsunday 1999/2000/1/2/3/9/10/12/13/15
  • Townsville Art Awards, 2001
  • Sarina Art Prize, Qld, 2000/01
  • Kyogle Fairymont Festival, NSW, 1985/6
  • Jacaranda Drawing Festival, Grafton, NSW, 1987
  • Stanthorpe Heritage Art Prize, Qld 1987/90
  • Hansen, Martin Hansen Memorial Prize, Gladstone, Qld 1998
  • Byron Bay Easter Classic, NSW 1985/6
  • Murwillumbah, NSW, 1982/84/88/90/94/95/6
  • Bentley Art prize, 1989
  • Caloundra Art Festival, Qld,1986
  • Ipswich Art Prize, Qld, 1984

GRANTS

  • 2001 RADF (Whitsunday) Project Grant
  • 1988 Project Grant, VACB, Australia Council

EMPLOYMENT

  • 2002 Collaborative workshop for Art for Earth, Hervey Bay, Qld
  • 2001-2 Visual Arts Tutor, Flying Arts Inc., Queensland
  • 2001 Masterclassfor Flying Arts in conjunction with QAG Touring Exhibition Terra Cognita and Hervey Bay RAG
  • 1999-2000 Workshops Art Whitsunday and Bowen Art Societies
  • 1990-91 Visual Arts Tutor, Flying Arts Inc, Queensland
  • 1992-96 Conducted painting/drawing workshops Southern Cross University, Lismore; Murwillumbah and Lismore TAFE; Queensland Arts Council and various Regional Galleries and community groups, NSW and Qld
  • 1999-2002 Competition Judge

RESIDENCIES AND OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

  • 2014/15 Collaboration with American composer Daniel Perlongo
  • Art Whitsunday Gallery Hanging Coordinator & Exhibition Committee
  • 2015 Curator, From Trash To Treasure, Art Whitsunday Inc
  • 2014 Curator, The Naked Truth, Art Whitsunday Inc
  • 2006-7 Mc Gregor Winter School, USQ
  • 2006 Artist-in-Residence, Abbotsford Primary School, Melbourne
  • 2004 Artist-in-Residence, Whitsunday Anglican School, Mackay
  • 2001-02 Vice Pres. Art Whitsunday
  • 2001 Artist-in-Residence, Bowen High School & four Bowen Primary Schools, Qld
  • Forum Speaker, Strand Ephemera: Sculpture on the Strand Public Art Project,Townsville
  • 1999-2003 Committee Member Regional Arts Development Fund, Whitsunday
  • 2000 Artist-in-Residence, Proserpine High School, Qld
  • Artist-in-Residence, Northern Beaches High School, Townsville
  • 1999-02 Competition Judge (various)
  • 1997-98 Australian Coordinator, Crosscurrents intercultural collaborative project, Community Printmakers, Murwillumbah, NSW
  • 1995-96 Research Project USA and Vietnam for A Place of Tribute 1996
  • 1995 Keynote Address, Professional Development Seminar, RGANSW
  • 1995 Policy Development Committee, Lismore Regional Art Gallery, NSW  
  • 1994 Nimbin Arts Council Committee Member, NSW
  • 1994 Visiting artist, Artist Exchange Programme, Baguio Arts Guild, Philippines
  • 1993 Research Project S.E. Asia, produced Journey Towards the Light
  • Guest 1990 Artist, Traces of Place, TSN 11, Qld. produced by Pat Hoffie and TAFE, Qld
  • 1989 Research Project in Mexico/Central America for Animist Images exhibition

COMMISSIONS

  • 2009 Private sculpture commissions
  • 2006-07 Abbotsford Primary School, Melbourne (bas relief wall installation)
  • 2003 Art Built-in, Mackay Courthouse Redevelopment (collaborative sculptures Res Accedent Lumina Rebus & Lumina Radiantes)
  • Burdekin Shire CBD Redevelopment, bas relief wall installations (Narratives: Our Lives, Our Land, Our Water)
  • 2001 Art Built-in Airlie Beach Lagoon, (Resonance, sculptural installation)
  • 1998 Collaborative Commission, NSW Arts Council, cover, 1997 Annual Report
  • 1995 Australia Remembers, works on photographic paper for Lismore Regional Art Gallery, for Australia Remembers, 1945-1995 commemorative exhibition.

COLLECTIONS

  • Museum of Tolerance, Los Angeles, USA
  • Queensland Art Gallery
  • Artbank, Sydney
  • Southern Cross University, Lismore, NSW
  • Lismore Regional Art Gallery, NSW
  • Stanthorpe Regional Gallery, Qld
  • Tweed River Regional Art Gallery, NSW
  • Nimbin Aged Care Services, Nimbin, NSW
  • Preshil, Margaret Lyttle Memorial School, Melb
  • Northern Beaches High School, Townsville, Qld
  • Proserpine State High School, Qld
  • Footscray Community Arts Centre, Melbourne
  • Private collections: Australia, U.S.A., Europe

CATALOGUES/OTHER PUBLISHED WORKS

  • Australian Connection, Dec. 1998. A Backdrop to Business – Artists Build Cultural Bridge Between Asia and Australia, Lee-Anne Petchell, Country Exchange, Arts Council NSW, Nov. 1997
  • Encyclopaedia of Australian Art, McCulloch and McCulloch 1993 and 1996
  • Who’s Who of Australian Visual Arts, Thorpe in association with NAVA, 1991
  • Periphery Issue No. 5, November, 1990, Jennifer Aspinall, Animist Images and Other Dreamstates
  • Artists and Galleries of Australia and New Zealand, Max Germaine
  • Landmarks, Lismore Regional Art Gallery, NSW, 1985
  • Projects, Ideas, People, Arts Council of New South Wales, 1987
  • Visarts, Directory of North Coast Artists, Lismore Regional Art Gallery, NSW

CRITICAL REVIEWS/MEDIA COVERAGE

  • Melbourne Herald, Bonney Bombach, Pinacotheca, Alan McCulloch, November 1979
  • Gold Coast Bulletin, Far and away the most exciting art prize yet, John Millington, Sept 1984
  • Gold Coast Bulletin, Art with a personal flavour, John Millington, Feb 9, 1985
  • Gold Coast Bulletin, Bonney’s exhibition is unashamedly personal, John Millington, Aug 25, 1985
  • Gold Coast Bulletin, ‘Two plus three’ equals some fine regional work, John Millington, June 21, 1986
  • Gold Coast Bulletin, Gold Coast City Art Prize, John Millington, Sept 1987
  • Gold Coast Bulletin, Overcoming the Williams factor, John Millington Sept 30, 1989
  • Periphery Issue No.5, Animist Images and Other Dreamstates, Jennifer Aspinall, Nov 1990
  • Northern Star, Lismore, Individual Paths to Integrity, Geoff Levitus, July 7, 1990
  • Canberra Times, Working process displayed, Sonia Barron, Sept 21, 1991
  • Northern Rivers Echo, Art In Review ‘A Place of Tribute’ by Bonney Bombach, Irena Hatfield, May 29, 1997
  • Vietnam Investment Review, Timeout, Across the Divide, March 1998
  • Sunday Afternoon, ABC TV, Oct 2003, segment on Mackay Artspace