Vivienne is an award-winning abstract figurative artist, living on country in remote Western Australia. Her artworks are exhibited and collected around the world.

Life-long artist, university lecturer and teacher Vivienne’s chief subject is the Australian landscape, local characters and wildlife, the human condition and the immense intractable landmass itself.  A synaesthesia of time, place and identity.

Her abstract figurative works on paper reference her university training in drawing and printmaking. Confident, unique and colourful artworks depict a deeply intuitive response to each subject. Currently living and working immersed in Bardi Country and Culture in the North West Kimberley region of Australia, she is presented daily with a unique way of seeing. 

Selected Solo Exhibitions:

2017 - Balkon Arts Incubator, Melbourne, Australia

2015 - Artifact Gallery, New York, USA

2012 - Warracknabeal Arts Society, Warracknabeal, Australia

2009 - Arthur Gallery. Ballarat, Australia

2008 - Ballarat Fine Art Gallery

2008 - Post Office Gallery, Ballarat, Australia

2003 - Post Office Gallery, Ballarat, Australia

2002 - Vucciria, Palermo, Sicily, Italy.

Selected Group Exhibitions:

2021 - Lennox St Richmond, Melbourne, Australia

2015 - Next Wave Festival, West Space, Melbourne, Australia

2014 - Agora Gallery, New York City, USA

2013 - Agora Gallery, New York City USA

2012 - Gecko Gallery, Broome, Western Australia

2010 - Art Gallery of Ballarat, Australia

2007 - Ballarat Fine Art Gallery. Ballarat, Australia

2006 - International Female Printmakers Exhibition. Exhibited in Germany, Berlin, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Iceland, Italy, Lithuania and Luxemburg.

Events and Festivals:

2006 - Commonwealth Games Cultural Festival.

2003 - Brisbane River Festival, Brisbane. 

2003 - Frankston Arts Festival.  Frankston.

2002 - Big West, Footscray.  

2002 - Next Wave Festival.  Victorian Arts Centre and Ballarat Fine Art Gallery

Grants and Prizes:

2020 - Finalist - NTAA Lennox St Gallery Richmond.

2015 - Selected - Flanagan Art Prize, St Patrick’s College, Ballarat.

2014 - Awarded - CANWA Catalyst Grant.

2013 - Awarded - Best Drawing, Kimberley Art Prize. 

2011 - 2012 - Awarded - Arts WA. Connect – Community Connections Funding.

Artist in Residence:

2013 - Artist in Residence, Ardyaloon Incorporated, WA Australia.

2011 - 2012 - Artist in Residence Wulungarra Community School, Western Australia.

2010 - Artist in Residence Kadjina Aboriginal Community, Western Australia.

2009 - Artist in Residence “Art Is… Festival”, Horsham, Victoria

2007 - Artist in Residence, “STRONG+SMART” Cherbourg State School, QLD, Australia.

2006 - ARTPLAY, Ratartat and Cherbourg State School, Melbourne

2008 - Palm Island, QLD, Australia

2003 - Queensland College of the Arts and Brisbane River Festival, QLD, Australia

Education:

1999 - Advanced Certificate of Media Production, Footscray City College.

1995 - Bachelor Visual Arts Printmaking & Drawing, University of Melbourne.

Public Collections:

University Bratislava, Slovakia.  Federation University, Ballarat, Australia.  Print Archives of the Icelandic Printmakers Association, Tryggvagata Reykjavik, Iceland. Ministre de L’egalite des Chances, Luxemburg.  Warracknabeal Arts Council, Warracknabeal, Vic Australia.

Private Collections:

Australia, America, Brazil, Italy, France, England, Spain, Canada and Slovakia.