Represented by Australian Galleries Melbourne & Sydney; Colville Gallery, Hobart.
EDUCATION
2006 – 2011 MFA Research Printmaking, National Art School, Sydney
2006 Certificate IV in Training and Assessment
1994 Bachelor of Arts (Honors) Fine Art RMIT
1991 Diploma of Education, University of Melbourne –Hawthorn Institute
1987-1989 Bachelor of Arts (Printmaking) Victoria College, Prahran
SELECTED EMPLOYMENT
2012 Printmaking Coordinator, 2nd Year Coordinator & Teacher, Visual Arts TAFE, RMIT University
2012 Sessional Lecturer Studio Studies Printmaking Victorian College of the Arts
2007- ongoing Teacher, & Printmaking Coordinator, Visual Arts TAFE, RMIT University
2001-2009 Sessional Visual Media Lecturer, School of Creative Arts, The University of Melbourne.
2001-2009 Technical Officer Visual Media – 2Dimensional Studio, School of Creative Arts. The University of Melbourne
1998-2000 Sessional Printmaking Lecturer, Victorian College of the Arts, School of Studies in Creative Arts
2000, 1999, 96 Technician, Australian Print Workshop, Fitzroy, Vic
1995- 2000 Technical Officer, Victorian College of the Arts areas including Sculpture/Ceramics, Drawing/Painting/Printmaking & Photography.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2012 Of its own, The Art Vault, Mildura Victoria
2011 Recent work, Colville Street Art Gallery, Hobart, TAS
2009 Significant Others: Reflecting on a Relationship. . Australian Galleries, Sydney
2008 New works Melbourne Art Fair representing Australian Galleries, Exhibition Buildings
2007 If you can’t bite, don’t show your teeth. Colville Street Gallery, Hobart.
Unmarked Territory Impressions on Paper, Canberra.
If you can’t bite, don’t show your teeth. Australian Galleries, Sydney
2006 If you can’t bite, don’t show your teeth. Australian Galleries Works on Paper, Melbourne
2005 Unleashed, Doggett St Studio Gallery, Brisbane
2004 Yesterday I was a dog. Today I am a dog. Tomorrow I’ll probably still be a dog. Australian Galleries Works on Paper, Sydney
recent works, Australian Galleries Works on Paper, Melbourne
2002 recent works, Red Gallery, Vic
2000 Drag Racing, Firestation Print Studio Inc., Vic
1999 Penthouse Pets West Space, Footscray, Vic
Down Faced Dog cityartpublicspace, Transport Shelters, Vic
1993 Dog Day Afternoon, Australian Print Workshop Access Studio, Fitzroy, Vic
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2012
Familiar Unfamiliar, Tweed River Art Gallery, NSW
6th International Printmaking Biennial, Douro Portugal.
Freak of Nature, University of Colorado, USA
2011
Nature of the Mark, Australian Galleries, Melbourne
Burnie Print Prize, Burnie Regional Gallery, Tasmania
National Art School Postgraduate Show 2011, NAS Sydney
Happily Ever After – alternative destinies in contemporary feminine narrative, John Paynter Gallery, Newcastle NSW; Manly Library, Sydney; Artspace Mackay, QLD.
Fair & Square, Joyes Hall, Charles Sturt University, Wagga Wagga
Artists Ink: printmaking from the Warmambool art collection 1970 – 2001, Bundoora Homestead Art Centre, Melbourne
Rick Amor Print Prize, Montsalvat, VIC
Contemporary & Collectable Australian Printmakers, Metropolis Gallery, Geelong,VIC
Biting Issuess, Cascade Print Workshop, Maldon, VIC
2010
Swan Hill Regional Gallery, Victoria:
New Prints 2010 / Spring, International Print Center New York (IPCNY),USA:
52, Geelong Gallery, VIC:
Artists’ Prints Made with Integrity, Australian Galleries, Melbourne
2009
C P M National Print Award, Tweed RiverArtGallery,Murwillumbah.South, NSW,
Wish you were here, Tweed Regional Gallery Murwillumbah, NSW
Mono Uno, Wagga Art Gallery, NSW
2008
Pressing Matters, Jenny Port Gallery, Richmond, VIC
The Mars Project, Project Space, RMIT University
Who let the dogs out, Lake Macquarie City Art Gallery, NSW & Hazelhurst Regional Gallery and Arts Centre
2007
Artists’ Ink, Warrnambool Art Gallery, VIC
Sci-Fi 2007, Stephen McLaughlan Gallery, VIC curated by Stephen Wickham
By the Light of the Moon, Impressions on Paper, Canberra
2006
Beasties, Port Jackson Press, Melbourne
Art Bound, Baillieu Library, University of Melbourne
so cold it was a 2 dog night, Colville St Art Gallery, TAS
2005
beastiary curated by Stephen Wickham. Stephen McLaughlin Gallery VIC
Jacque Cadry Memorial Art Prize, (finalist), Fox Studios and State Library of NSW
We are all animals, La Trobe University Visual Arts Gallery, Bendigo, Vic
2004
Species, Australian Galleries, Works on Paper, Melbourne
23,. Port Jackson Press, VIC, Phyliss Palmer Gallery, La Trobe University, VIC
In the presence of All Creatures Great and Small Australian Galleries Sydney
Pelt RMIT Project Space, VIC
The Grant Gallery, Sanur, Bali, INDONESIA
2003
Sex and Death. Stephen McLaughlan Gallery, VIC
MPRG, WORKS ON PAPER, VIC
International Print & Drawing Award, Silpakorn University, Thailand
2002
Melbourne Summer, Urban Art Tram Shelters
Majority Rules! (Part one), Free Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland.
Silk Cut Award for Linocut Prints, Glen Eira Arts Centre, VIC
2001
New Q 2001, Counihan Gallery, Vic
ALL THE RAGE, Keith Murdoch Gallery, State Library of Victoria
Something for the Ladies……, Penthouse & Pavement Art Space, VIC
2000
New Q 2000, Linden Art Gallery, Vic
Proof Positive, Gold Treasury Museum, Vic
Play Thing, Span Galleries, Vic
The Korea Australia Exchange Exhibition. RMIT Gallery, Storey Hall.
menagerie@treasury. Gold Treasury Museum, Vic.
1999
Play Thing, Craft Victoria
Rene Ellen Jones Memorial Print Award Warrnambool Art Gallery
‘AGITATE! a celebration of street art Platform 2, Vic
1998
Decalog- A Catalogue of 10 Yrs of Aust Printmaking Met Museum of Seoul,Korea.
The Cask, An Aussie Icon, Access Gallery, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Vic
Shell Fremantle Print Award, Fremantle Art Centre, WA
1997
International Print Exhibition, Portland Museum, Oregon, USA
The Embellished Egg, Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, Vic
Australian Printmedia Awards, UWS Macarthur, NSW
1996
21st Annual Shell Fremantle Print Award, Fremantle Arts Centre, WA
Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery 12th Biennial Prints Acquisitive Exhibition,
1994
“Watch This Space”, Platform Exhibition Space, Spencer Street, Melbourne, Vic
International Triennial of Graphic Art Bitola, Republic of Macedonia
Eureka Group Show, Engramme, Quebec
CURATORIAL PROJECTS
2011 Curator Nature of the Mark, Australian Galleries, Melbourne
2008 CuratorVisible Word, artist’s response to the theme of text and/as image as part of the 2007/08 Printmaking Summer Residency. Project Space RMIT University.
ACQUISITIONS / COMMISSIONS / PRIZES / RESIDENCY
2011/2012 RMIT Summer Printmakers Residency, VIC
2010 Winner Swan Hill Aquisitive Print Award
2002 Acquired, 2002 Silk Cut Award
2000 Highly Commended, New Q 2000.
1999 Acquired, Rene Ellen Print Award, Warrnambool Art Gallery
1997 Acquired, International Print Exhibition, Portland Museum, Oregon, USA
2003, 1996 Acquired, Mornington Peninsular Regional Gallery Works on paper MPRG, Vic
1994 Print Council of Australia, Member Print Commission
1988 Highly Commended, Powell Street Gallery Award, Victoria College, Melbourne
2003/04 RMIT Summer Printmakers Residency, VIC
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Catalogues
Middlemost, T; MONO uno: Australian Monotypes in the Charles Sturt University Art Collection, 2009. Pg 63 & 64
Cininas, Jazmina; Pelt, 2004
Gellatly, Kelly; The City of Whitehorse Art Collection, 2003, p 27 & 29
Tsara, Olga; “The Post Modern Advertising Message: Take It or Leave It”, All the Rage, August 2001, p 34 & 36
Periodicals
“Arse Feature”, Inpress, Issue 592, 12 January 2000, p 43
Bolch, Ursula; “Deborah Williams: Perfect”, Imprint, Vol. 34 No. 3, Spring 1999, pp 16-18
Bouda, Jenny; “Exclusively dog”, bark!, November/December 2006, p. 80
Crawford, Ashley; “Deborah Williams; Etchings & Linocuts”, The Age, Agenda, 29 February 2004, p 19
Hanson, David; “Dog has its day”, The Age, Sightlines Critical Guide, Friday November 10 2006, p. 17
Hill, Peter; “Art Now: Deborah Williams”, State of the Arts, April-June 2005, p 79
Hill, Peter; “Sticks and Bones”, The Sydney Morning Herald, Spectrum, 11/12 December 2004, p 20
Low, Lenny Ann; “Open Gallery”, The Sydney Morning Herald, Spectrum, 4/5 December 2004, p 20
Morrow, Christine; “Pelt”, ACCA Mag (ACCA Online Magazine) issue 8, www.accaonline.org.au
“No room for a dog with a message”, The Age, Today Section, 22 September 1999, p 10
“Preview Exhibition: Australian Galleries Sydney”, Imprint, Vol. 39, No. 4, Summer 2004, p 25
“Signs of the times”, The Age, Today Section, 27 September 1999, p 1
St Leger, Deborah; “Review: 5th Hutchins Art Prize”, Imprint, Vol. 36, No. 4, Summer 2001, pp 16-17
Webb, Penny; Review, The Age, Preview Section, November 5 2006, p. 45
The Weekend Australian, Listing in Review Section, 18-19 November 2006, p. 17
Williams, Linda; “The Owl of Minerva and Recent Art”, Eyeline, No. 56 Summer 2004/05, p 30
TV/Radio interviews
Mason,Maggie, 2 RRR Sydney, Arts and Tarts, 10 November, 2009
Kernebone, Fenella ABC TV Sunday Arts Artist Books 28 June 2009
Clarke, Peter and Haultain, Lynne; 774 ABC Melbourne, 18 February 2004 Taylor,
Roger; “High & Low”, 3RRR, 22 September 1999
“Art Rave Today”, 3PBS, 20 January 2000
McAuliffe, Chris; Exhibition review Sunday Arts 3LO , July 4, 1999
“Melbourne Fringe, A Dog’s Breakfast”, Oz Culture, Radio National, October 1998
COMMITTEES
1997 – 2000 Print Council of Australia Committee Member & Treasurer
COLLECTIONS
Art Gallery of New South Wales
Australian Print Workshop, Victoria
Belfast Print Workshop, Ireland
Burnie Regional Gallery, Tasmania
Canson Australia Pty Ltd
Charles Sturt University, New South Wales
Chiangmai Contemporary Art Museum, Thailand
City of Banyule, Victoria
City of Whitehorse, Victoria
Edinburgh Print Workshop, Scotland
Fremantle Arts Centre, Western Australia
Glasgow Print Workshop, Scotland
Gold Coast City Art Gallery, Queensland
Latrobe Picture Collection
State Library of Victoria
Latrobe Regional Gallery, VIC
Little Collection, Little Creatures Brewery, Fremantle, WA
London Print Workshop, UK
Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, Victoria
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
Portland Art Museum, Oregon, USA
Print Council of Australia, Victoria
Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, Tasmania
Silk Cut Collection, Australia
Tasmanian Museum Art Gallery
The Chicago Print Collective Workshop, USA
Toowoomba Regional Gallery, Queensland
Tweed River Art Gallery, NSW
University of Papua New Guinea
University of Southern Queensland
University of Melbourne, Baillieu Library Special Collections, Melbourne
Warrnambool Art Gallery, VIC
Yayasan Yudisthira Collection, Bali, Indonesia
Swan Hill Regional Gallery, VIC
Artspace Mackay, QLD.