Deborah Russell

BIOGRAPHY
Born in Melbourne, 1951. Lives and works in Melbourne.

1969-73	Diploma of Painting and Printmaking Royal Melbourne Institute
1975	Academie des Beaux Arts, Paris
1976-78	Design & Illustration for the literary magazine Mars, London; illustration & political cartoons for Bananas; International Times; Speed; Fanatic; Chile Fights
1979-80	Illustration for Nation Review, Australia Design for Light Vision
1993-94	Lecturer, Department of Painting, Royal Melbourne Institute

Solo exhibitions
2004	Tim Olsen Gallery, Sydney
2002	Tim Olsen Gallery, Sydney
2000	Painting; On the Grassy Knoll, William Mora
1998	Real Estate, Olsen Carr Art Dealers, Sydney
1997	Deborah Russell, William Mora Galleries, Melbourne
1995	Great Moments in Arboreal History, William Mora Galleries
1994	Meaning of Still, William Mora Galleries
1992	Natural History; Still Lives, William Mora Galleries Natural History; Still Lives, Mori Gallery, Sydney
1991	Animals, William Mora Galleries
1990	Flowers, William Mora Galleries
1989	Deborah Russell, William Mora Galleries
1988	Deborah Russell, Mori Gallery
1987	Deborah Russell, Hamilton Regional Art Gallery, Hamilton
1986	Novel Works, Mori Gallery
1985	Deborah Russell, Mori Gallery
1983	Deborah Russell, Mori Gallery
1981	Deborah Russell, Heyday Gallery, Melbourne

Selected group exhibitions
1997	Perspecta, S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney
1996	Colonial Post Colonial, Museum of Modern Art at Heide, Melbourne Fifth Australian Contemporary Art Fair, William Mora Galleries at the Royal
1995	Best arrangement of a single bloom, a travelling exhibition, Regional Galleries of Victoria (Wangarratta, Geelong, Mildura, Benalla) and Linden Gallery, Melbourne
1994	Tableaux, Monash University Gallery, Melbourne
1993	Images of the Geelong Region, Geelong Regional Art Gallery
1990	Loaded, 13 Verity Street, Melbourne 100 Artists Against Animal Deutscher Brunswick Street, Melbourne Greenpeace Linden Gallery – St Kilda Arts Complex, Melbourne
1989	Preview 1990, William Mora Galleries, Melbourne Savage Club Invitational Drawing Prize, Savage Club, Melbourne
1987-89	Novel Works, created by Ewen McDonald, Australian Centre
1985	Art Workers Union Fundraising Exhibition, Sydney
1984	Christmas Show, Mori Gallery, Sydney Flower Show, Mori Gallery, Sydney
1975	Three Dimensional Collages Drawings, in cafes, streets, railway stations and diverse locations in Paris, France
1974	Prints, Myer Gallery, Melbourne

Collections
Artbank; Australian National Gallery, Canberra; BP Collection, Melbourne; Hamilton Regional Gallery, Hamilton; IBM Collection, Perth; Monash University Collection, Melbourne; Myer Collection, Melbourne; National Ban Collection, Melbourne; National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne; Reg Grundy Collection, Los Angeles; Robert Holmes a Court Collection, Perth; V.R.C. Collection, Melbourne and Western Mining Collection, Melbourne.

Grants and Commissions
1991	River Collection, National Australia Bank
1989	The Terrace, Victoria Racing Club, Flemington
1988	Lithograph, Victorian Print Workshop, Melbourne Visual Arts Board,
1984	Mural, Exterior, Mori Gallery, Sydney
1979-80	Mural, Williamstown, Victoria
1975	Installation and performance, Village of Flaine, France

Selected Bibliography
Jane E. Shepherd, "I never promised you a rose garden: the art of Deborah Russell 1985-1990", Art and Australia, March 1997 Jane E. Shepherd, "Say it with Flowers", Colonial Post Colonial (exhibition catalogue), Museum of Modern Art at Heide, Bulleen, 4th June – 11th August 1996 Christopher Heathcote, The Age, 13th April 1994, p. 13 Nevill Drury (ed.), New Art Eight, Craftsman House, Roseville East, 1993 Ray Eager, "Surrealism works but you have to look hard to find it", The Melbourne Times, 6th December 1992, p. 24 Jan Blensdorf, "The most beautiful lies and other sights", EG, The Age, 25th May 1990 Robert Rooney, "Is an artist's stature based largely on size?", The Australian, 26th May 1990 Paul Baxter, Icons and Monuments, City of Hamilton Art Gallery, 3rd – 24th July 1987, Ewen McDonald, Novel Works, Mori Gallery, 1987