Curriculum Vitae JAN RAE
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2021 WATERWORLD Artist Studio Gallery Byron Bay
2019 COAST paintings Lennox Head Art Collective, guest artist
2018 TRAVEL SKETCHES Byron Bay Community Centre
2016 COAST-LINE LONE GOAT Gallery, Byron Shire
2009 Expresiones Tangueras C.C.Borges Gallery, Buenos Aires
2008 The Dance Show Retrospect Galleries, Byron Bay
2005 The Art of Tango Commerford Gallery, Sydney
2005 A Tango Journey Lethbridge Gallery, Brisbane
2002 Recent Works Cape Gallery, Byron Bay
2001 Works on Paper Fox Galleries, Brisbane
2000 Big Faces Crawford Gallery, Sydney
1999 Quintessence Fox Galleries, Brisbane
1990 The Magic Show Network Galleries, Byron Bay
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2022 THOM Gallery for La Bohemia Tango Marathon, Byron Bay
2014 'Sydney Contemporary Abstraction' Kudos Gallery, Sydney
2013 'Elephant, Water, Tango' Lust for Life Galleries, Brisbane
2012 'Seascapes' PoPuP Gallery, with John Dahlsen, Byron Bay
2007 'The Red Shoes' ArtsNest ,ABC travelling NSW Regional Galleries
2006 'Dance Paintings' Agora Galleries, New York
1988 'Landmark' Lismore Regional Art Gallery
1987 'DownUnder in Disneyland' (with Offart) SPARC Galleries. Los Angeles
1985, 87 Holdsworth Contemporary Galleries (with Offart) Sydney
PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS
2018/2019 Dance/Draw workshops Byron Bay Tango Festival (projections, drawing and dancing)
2017 Dance/Draw workshop "Drawing the Language of Dance" for Australian Tango Festival, Sydney
2017 Dance/Draw workshop and' Light Dance Performance' at Byron Bay Tango Festival
2017 'DRAW to PERFORM' Symposium , performance and workshop ,Brighton U.K.
2008-13 Teaching and coordinating events, ByronTango
1995-98 Designer and Mural painter DIEMME Pty Ltd, Sydney
1984-89 Coordinator and Mural painter Offart group
1981-85 Director, Lismore Regional Art Gallery
GRANTS and AWARDS:
2021 finalist BIBLIO Art Prize, Port Fairy, Victoria
2020 winner Video Award c.a.s.e. Northern Rivers
2017 finalist Noosa Regional Gallery Drawing Prize
2016 invited artist and highly commended, Tim Olsen Drawing Prize, Kudos Gallery, Sydney
2016 winner Waverley Drawing Prize
2016 finalist Noosa Regional Gallery Drawing Prize
2010 Byron Arts Classic Art Prize
2009 finalist Country Energy Art Prize Lismore Regional Art Gallery
2007 finalist ABC Artnest awards for best emerging screen artist 'The Red Shoes' 5min short film
2007 winner Australian Tango Championships (Sydney Opera House)
2005 winner Dance Art Prize Sydney
2000 Mosman Art Prize (popular vote)
1999 Easter Art Acquisition Art Prize Byron Bay
1987 Peter Browne Memorial Fellowship (with Offart)
STUDIES:
2014- 16 Master of Art UNSW Art & Design
2007 Media & Performance Lismore TAFE
1998 Art History (British Institute, Florence, Italy)
Life Drawing (Florence, Italy)
1972-75 Fine Arts, Queensland College of Art
PUBLICATIONS:
2020 complete series of 12 contextualised video tango lessons on www.youtube.com/jalexrae
2019 'TRAVEL SKETCHES: the illustrated observations of a tango dancer in Buenos Aires' by Jan Rae
2018 PAJ: A Journal of Performance & Art, New York; ed: Bonnie Marranca
2016 RIPE UNSW Art&Design
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