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| 1955 | Born Goondiwindi, Queensland |
| 1979 | Art Certificate, Newcastle TAFE |
| 1980-82 | Diploma in Art, Newcastle College of Advanced Education |
| 1984-85 | Post-graduate Diploma in Painting, Sydney College of the Arts |
| 1985-86 | Co-director of Union Street Gallery, Sydney |
| 1994-2000 | Doctor of Creative Arts, University of Wollongong |
| SOLO EXHIBITIONS |
| 2010 | Open Studio - untitled, Gallery Barry Keldoulis, Sydney |
| 2008 | Blind faith, Gallery Barry Keldoulis, Sydney |
| 2006 | Cover up, Gallery Barry Keldoulis, Danks Street, Sydney |
| 2005 | Everydaynow, Drill Hall Gallery, Australian National University, Canberra |
| 2005 | clock wise, Sydney College of the Arts Galleries, University of Sydney, Sydney |
| 2004 | clock wise, Gallery Barry Keldoulis, Danks Street, Sydney |
| 2002 | Afterthought, Sherman Galleries Hargrave, Sydney |
| 2001 | Glare, Sherman Galleries Goodhope, Sydney |
| 2000 | Afterthought, Robert Lindsay Gallery, Melbourne |
| 1999 | Lifting the Sky, Sherman Galleries Goodhope, Sydney |
| 1997 | Trace of Passage, Robert Lindsay Gallery, Melbourne |
| 1996 | Gray Spectra, Sherman Galleries Goodhope, Sydney |
| 1995 | Gingham, Robert Lindsay Gallery, Melbourne |
| 1993 | Starlite, Art Gallery of New South Wales & Wollongong City Gallery |
| 1992 | On the Edge, Deutscher Fine Art, Melbourne |
| 1991 | Houndstooth, Mori Gallery, Sydney |
| 1989 | Abstract Painting 1989, Mori Gallery, Sydney |
| 1988 | Abstract Paintings, Mori Gallery & George Paton Gallery, Melbourne |
| 1987 | Psychedelia and Other States, Mori Gallery, Sydney |
| 1986 | Three Narratives: An Autobiography, Union Street Gallery, Sydney |
| 1983 | Drawing and Paintings, A-Weg Gallery, Groningen, The Netherlands |
| SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS |
| 2008 | gbk @ Hong Kong Art Fair |
| 2008 | gbk @ Melbourne Art Fair |
| 2008 | Open Gallery (retrospective), Art & About, City of Sydney, Sydney |
| 2007 | Cross Currents: Focus on Contemporary Australian Art, Museum of Contemporary Art |
| 2007 | gbk @ Silvershot, Melbourne |
| 2007 | Come Hither: Interpretations of the Boudoir, Wagga Wagga Art Gallery, Wagga Wagga |
| 2006 | The December Group, Gallery Barry Keldoulis, Sydney |
| 2006 | 21st Century Modern, Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide |
| 2006 | gbk @ Melbourne Art Fair, Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne |
| 2005 | gbk at Span Galleries, Melbourne International Painting on Paper, Gallery Barry Keldoulis, Sydney |
| 2004 | Open Gallery, Art & About, City of Sydney, Sydney Site-Seeing, War Memorial Art Gallery, University of Sydney and Sydney College of the Arts Galleries, Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney, Sydney Talking About Abstraction, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, The University of New South Wales, Sydney Sight-Seeing, Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing Down Town Gallery, Beijing, China |
| 2003 | Shangrila Collective, Art Space, Woolloomooloo, Sydney |
| 2002 | Good Vibrations, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Bulleen, Victoria Group Exhibition, Sherman Galleries Goodhope, |
| 2001 | Phenomena: New Painting in Australia, 1, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney and Ian Potter Museum of Art, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne Group Exhibition, Sherman Galleries Hargrave, Sydney Group Exhibition, Sherman Galleries Goodhope, Sydney |
| 2000 | Suburb, Museum of Sydney, Sydney. On The Brink: Abstraction of the 90s, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Victoria |
| 1998 | VERVE: An exhibition of Visual Poetry and Poetic Visuals, S. H. Ervin Gallery, National Trust (curated for the Sydney Writer's Festival) |
| 1997-98 | Containment, Plimsoll Gallery, University of Tasmania, Hobart |
| 1996-97 | Flagging the Republic, Sherman Galleries, regional gallery tour |
| 1997 | Geometric Painting in Australia 1941-1997, University Art Museum, The University of Queensland Ornamentalism, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane Antipodean Abstraction, University Art Museum, University of Queensland, Brisbane |
| 1994 | The John McCaughey Memorial Art Prize, National Gallery of Victoria Reinventing the Grid, Robert Lindsay Gallery, Melbourne |
| 1992 | Wish Hard, Biennale of Sydney Satellite, Wollongong City Gallery |
| 1991 | Rules for Drawing, Mori Gallery, Sydney Microcosm, Garry Anderson Gallery, Sydney The Subversive Stitch, Monash University Gallery Melbourne and Mori Annexe, Sydney |
| 1990-91 | Abstraction, Art Gallery of New South Wales and touring |
| 1990 | Pure, Queensland College Art Gallery, Brisbane Architecture of Light, Mori Gallery, Sydney |
| 1989 | Pure, Mori Gallery, Sydney Australian Perspecta, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney Colour Blind, Mori Gallery, Sydney |
| 1987 | Feminist Narratives, George Paton Gallery, University of Melbourne |
| 1986 | Union Street, George Paton Gallery, University of Melbourne and College Gallery, Brisbane |
| 1985 | Joint Show, Union Street Gallery, Sydney |
| 1984 | Last Past the Postism, Art Unit, Sydney |
| 1983 | Installation in collaboration with Jelle van den Berg, Academia del Arte, Florence, Italy |
| 1982 | Curatorial Committee and Exhibitor in Women and Arts Festival Gallery 62, Newcastle |
| COLLECTIONS |
Wesfarmers Collection of Australian Art |
| SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY |
| Fairley, Gina. “Art Month Sydney Precinct 3: Waterloo”, Art Guide Australia, March/April 2010, pp. 32-35 |
| Vickers, Rose. “Debra Dawes + Four White Walls”, |
| Dawes, Debra. “Q&A: Debra Dawes”, Art Month Sydney 2010 Guide by Vogue Living |
| Clement, Tracey. “Metro Picks”, Metro: Art, Sydney Morning Herald, March 19-25, 2010, p. 14 |
| Kelly, Miriam, Debra Dawes: Parallel Planes, Art on View, National Gallery of Australia, 2009, p.38. |
| Serisier, Gillian, Show and Tell, Art Market, 2009, p.30-34. |
| Stephen, Ann, “Cross Currents: Focus on Contemporary Australian Art”, Art & Australia, Vol 45, No.3 Autumn 2008 p. 473 |
| Lewis, Clare. 'A Life Examined', Cross Currents: Focus on Contemporary Australian Art, exhibition catalogue, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, 2007 |
| Boulten, Phillip. 'Cover Up/Terror Wars', exhibition catalogue, Gallery Barry Keldoulis, Sydney, 2006 |
| Grace, Helen. 'clock wise', 21st Century Modern, 2006 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art, exhibition catalogue, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, 2006 |
| Stubbs, Mike. 'A Leap Into the Light', White Noise, exhibition catalogue, Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Melbourne, 2005 |
| Grace, Helen. 'Debra Dawes The Dynamism of Equilibrium', Everydaynow, exhibition catalogue, Drill Hall Gallery, Australian National University, Canberra, 2005 |
| Gibson, Ross. 'Debra Dawes clock wise', exhibition catalogue, Gallery Barry Keldoulis, Sydney, 2004 |
| Fenner, Felicity. 'Talking About Abstraction', exhibition catalogue, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales, Sydney, 2004 |
| Garside, Sioux. 'Sightseeing', exhibition catalogue, Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney, Sydney, 2004 |
| Schwarz, Katrina, ‘Art as Theatre’, Reviews, Monument, 46 February/March 2002 |
| Stanhope, Zara. 'Good Vibrations: the Legacy of Op Art in Australia', Heide Museum of Modern Art, Bulleen, Victoria, 2002 |
| Wardell, Michael. 'Phenomena New Painting in Australia:1', exhibition catalogue, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2001 |
| Broadfoot, Keith. 'In The Name of Painting', Postwest, No. 16, 2000 |
| Broadfoot, Keith. 'The Mirage of Memory: Lifting the Sky', exhibition catalogue, Sherman Galleries Goodhope, Sydney, 1999 |
| Quillaen, Diana. 'Verve and After The Masters', Art Monthly, No. 110, June 1999 |
| Hallett, Bryce. 'Sorry seems to be the hardest word - to see', Sydney Morning Herald, 26 May 1998 |
| Bond, Clare. 'Containment', exhibition catalogue, Plimsoll Gallery, Hobart, 1997 |
| McNamara, Andrew. 'Ornamentalism', exhibition catalogue, Institute of Modern Art and Power Institute of Fine Arts, Brisbane, 1997 Gibson, Ross. 'Restless, Abstract and Realist', Art & Australia, Vol. 34, No. 2 1996 |
| Moore, Catriona. 'Supermodels: Women artists enter the mainstream', (ed) Butler, Rex, What is Appropriation: An Anthology of Critical Writings on Australian Art in the 1980s, IMA and Power Institute publication 1996 |
| McNeill, David. 'Debra Dawes', Art + Text, May 1996 |
| Auty, Giles. 'Obsessive Convulsive', The Weekend Australian, 13-14 April 1996 |
| Mendelssohn, Joanna. 'Sydney Art: Bill Henson, Debra Dawes', The Australian, 19 April 1996 |
| Green, Charles. Peripheral Vision: Contemporary Australian Art 1970 - 1994, A World of Art Book, Craftmans House, 1995 |
| McKenzie, Robyn. 'Gingham: Debra Dawes' The Age 17 May 1995 |
| Bruce, Candice. 'Performance Peace', exhibition catalogue, Robert Lindsay Gallery, Melbourne, 1994 |
| Kent, Rachel. 'Reinventing the Grid' exhibition catalogue, Robert Lindsay Gallery, Melbourne, 1994 |
| Rooney, Robert. 'How lines of thought converge on the grid', The Weekend Australian, 22-23 October 1994 |
| Gibson, Ross. 'A Constellation of Options', Starlite, exhibition catalogue, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 1993 |
| Holder, Jo. 'Wish Hard' exhibition catalogue, Wollongong City Gallery, Wollongong, December 1992 |
| O'Donnell, Marcus. Debra Dawes 'On the Edge', Agenda No. 25 September/October 1992 |
| Rooney, Robert. 'Reductive Geometry in Many Colourful Guises', The Weekend Australian, 4-5 July 1992 |
| Green, Charles & Wickham, Stephen. 'Abstract?', West, Vol. 3, No. 2 1991 |
| Kleinert, Sylvia. 'On the idea of being sub.ver'sive', Crafts NSW Summer 1991 |
| Lynn, Elwyn. 'Modernism minus authoritarian bombast', The Weekend Australian, 7-8 December 1991 |
| Murray, Kevin. 'Contemporary Twists', Craft Victoria, October/November p.13 1991 |
| Rooney, Robert. 'Serious funny business', The Weekend Australian , 21-22 September 1991 |
| Green, Charles. 'Debra Dawes', Artforum, October 1991 |
| Forsyth, Graham. 'Houndstooth - Debra Dawes', Agenda No. 19 September 1991 |
| Lynn, Elwyn. 'Back to the square ones' The Weekend Australian 22-23 June 1991 |
| Kirby, Vicki. Interview with Debra Dawes, West Vol. 2, No. 1 1990 |
| Snell, Ted. 'Abstraction', Art and Australia 1990 |
| McDonald, Ewen. 'Variations on a Minimalist Theme', Eyeline No. 13 1990 |
| Lumby, Catherine. 'Abstraction', Tension No. 22 1990 |
| Lynn, Victoria. 'Abstraction' exhibition catalogue, Art Gallery of New South Wales, June 1990 |
| Moore, Catriona. 'Debra Dawes', Flash Art No. 144 January/February 1989 |
| Lindsay, Eloise. 'Australian Perspecta', exhibition catalogue, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 1989 |
| McDonald, John. 'This Perspecta relies on blind faith', The Sydney Morning Herald, 3 June 1989 |
| Lynn, Elwyn. 'The individual in perspective', The Weekend Australian, 10-11 June 1989 |
| Hansford, Pam. 'Abstract Paintings', exhibition catalogue, Mori Gallery, Sydney, 1988 |
| Watson, Bronwyn. 'The power of the grid', The Sydney Morning Herald, 9 September 1988 |
| Lynn, Elwyn. 'Unashamedly Abstract', Weekend Australian, 10-11 September 1988 |
| Rooney Robert. 'Mapping the realm of ambiguous vision', Weekend Australian, 19-20 November 1988 |
| Lindsay, Eloise. 'Abstract Paintings', Eyeline, No. 7, December 1988 |
| Holder, Jo. 'Who is Mondrian?', Feminist Narratives,4-24 June 1987 |
| Short, Susanna. 'Not so boring students' work', The Daily Telegraph, 28 February 1986 |
| Mendelssohn, Joanna. 'Voice of reason in a revival of past styles' The Sydney Morning Herald, August 22 1986 |
| Maloon,Terence. 'Union Street', exhibition catalogue, Union Street Gallery, Sydney, 1986 |
| McDonald, John. 'Dawes shares the crest of a new feminist wave', National Times, 31 August 1986 |
| Moore, Catriona. 'Deborah Singleton and Debra Dawes at Union Street Gallery', Art Network, Spring 1985 |
| Maloon, Terence. 'Critics Choice 85, Part II', Sydney Morning Herald, 30 December 1985 |