Curriculum Vitae JAN RAE
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
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
2018 ARTBOXproject NY ARMORY ART week, New York
2018 The BIG Little Show Bundeena Art Trail (with Jean Weiner)
2018 Unbounded STACKS project Sydney Art month
2016 40x40 Brunswick St Gallery, Melbourne
2016 UNSW A&D Annual Kudos Gallery, Sydney
2016 Works on Paper ArtPiece Gallery, Mullumbimby
2016 21.06.16 An Exhibition of Time ADSpace, UNSW
2016 RIPE Gaffa Gallery (UNSW Art&Design M.A. )
2015 WEST' Fowlers Gap Exhibition AD Gallery UNSW Art&Design
2014 'Refractions Sydney Contemporary Abstraction' Kaleidoscope Gallery
2014 KG- Expose Show Kaleidoscope Gallery, Sydney
2014 the Drawing Show Brunswick St Galleries, Melbourne
2013 Elephant, Water, Tango Lust for Life Galleries, Brisbane
2013 Flora and Fauna Brunswick St Galleries, Melbourne
2013 Paint, Purpose Brunswick St Galleries, Melbourne
2012 Seascapes PopUp Gallery, Byron Bay (with John Dahlsen)
2007 "The Red Shoes" short film in travelling ABC ArtsNest exhibition to Lismore,
Tweed and Grafton Regional Art Galleries
2006 Down Under and Beyond' Agora Galleries, New York
2004 Salmon Galleries Sydney
1989 Some Recent Works Network Galleries Byron Bay (with Les Dorahy)
1988 Landmarks Lismore Regional Art Galley
1987 'Down Under in Disneyland' SPARC, Los Angeles (OFFART)
1985 and 1987 OFFART Holdsworth Contemporary Galleries, Sydney
PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS
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.
2016 'Powerful Moments Forum' workshop 'Tango and the Art of Connection' Mullumbimby
2008-16 Teaching and coordinating events for ByronTango
1999 Teaching TAFE, Lismore - Colour Theory and Drawing
1995-98 Designer and Mural Painter for DIEMME Pty Ltd, Sydney
1991-94 Theatre Set designer and painter NORPA and Tin Shed Theatre (Byron)
1993 Teaching TAFE, Ballina -Aboriginal Special Projects
1991 Co-ordinator ”Common Site” public seminar for NORART (Byron)
1984-89 Co-ordinator and mural painter OFFART Mural Team
1981-85 Director, Lismore Regional Art Gallery
GRANTS and AWARDS:
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
2016 highly commended, Smalls Show, Brunswick St Gallery
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
2007 winner Australian Tango Championships (Sydney Opera House)
2005 Dance Art Prize Sydney
2000 Mosman Art Prize (popular vote)
1999 Easter Art Acquisition Art Prize Byron Bay
1987 Peter Brown Memorial Fellowship, Australia Council
1985 Visual Arts Board grant for Bangalow Mural
1976 Ceramics Workshop Development Grant (Australia Council)
STUDIES:
2016 Master of Art UNSW Art and 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:
2018 PAJ: A Journal of Performance & Art, New York; ed: Bonnie Marranca
2016 RIPE UNSW Art&Design
COMMISSIONS and MURALS:
1995 -2001 Mural and decorative artwork Brunei Palaces (DIEMME Sydney )
1984, 1988 The Byron Bay Community Centre Murals (OFFART)
INSTALLATIONS:
1986 Sydney Festival (Archibald Fountain)
1987 SPARC Los Angeles
1988 Adelaide Festival (Festival Forecourt)
(installations by Offart: a collaborative team 1984-1989 )