DR LORIS BUTTON - SELECTED CURRICULUM VITAE
Born Melbourne, Australia 1951
SELECTED SOLO AND MAJOR EXHIBITIONS
2023 Archive: drawings & prints, Tin Can Collective, Creswick, Victoria
2021 Impact 11, International Printmaking Conference, (selected Print Exhibition), Hong Kong via Zoom
2018 Impact 10: Encounter, International Printmaking Conference, (selected Print Exhibition) Santander, Spain
Patterns of Collecting: From the Bower at the Johnston Collection, (with Deborah Klein, Louise Saxton, Carole Wilson), Fairhall, East Melbourne.
2017 From the Bower: Patterns of Collecting, (with Deborah Klein, Louise Saxton, Carole Wilson), Warrnambool Art Gallery, Warrnambool.
Touring to Art Gallery of Ballarat, Ballarat.
2014 Upon Return, (with Carole Wilson), Post Office Gallery, Federation University, Ballarat
2012 Drawn to Print: recent works on paper, University of Missouri St Louis, Missouri, USA
2010 Skin Deep, (with Sally Miller), Space 22, Ballarat
2008 Where Past and Future are Gathered, PhD Examination exhibition, Post Office Gallery, University of Ballarat, Ballarat
2002 Regarding History, Ararat Gallery, Ararat, Victoria + 2003 at Goya Galleries, Latrobe Street, Melbourne
1999 Signing the Times, Chiara Goya Gallery, Melbourne
1994 Accumulations of Time, Horsham Regional Art Gallery, Horsham
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024 STUCK: performing collage, PCA (Print Council of Australia) Gallery, Melbourne, Victoria
100 Faces, Playing in the Attic, Talbot, Victoria
2023 Thinking of Place iii, travelling to Limerick School of Art & Design, TUS, Limerick, Ireland; University of Kragjujervac, Serbia; Isla Centre for the Arts, University of Guam, Guam.
2022 100 Faces, Playing in the Attic, Talbot, Victoria
Editions 22: Print Prize & Survey Exhibition, Tacit Art Galleries, Collingwood
The Artists Garden of Imagination, Goldfields Printmakers at the Newstead Arts Hub, Newstead, Victoria
and concurrently at Impact 12 International Printmaking Conference, Bristol, UK
Thinking of Place iii, Impact 12 International Printmaking Conference, Bristol, UK and travelling to: Northsite Contemporary Arts, Cairns, Australia;
Corbans Estate Arts Centre (Printopia Festival of Original Print), Auckland, New Zealand; Thompson Rivers University Art Gallery, Kamloops, Canada;
Forma Gallery, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Self Portrait, Linocut Printmakers Exhibition, www.linogallery.org
2021 The Sea and the Lighthouses: IV International Mini Print Cantabria, Santander, Spain
Collection Mini Print Cantabria, La Mer et les Phares à Bordeaux, Cervantes Institute in Bordeaux, France
Thinking of Place iii, Studio One Toi Tu, Auckland, New Zealand
2020 Editions 20: Print Survey Exhibition, Tacit Art Galleries, Collingwood
The Sea and the Lighthouses: III International Mini Print Cantabria, Santander, Spain
2019 Drawing from the Line, Castlemaine State Festival, Cascade Art Gallery, Maldon
Editions 19: Print Survey Exhibition, Tacit Art Galleries, Collingwood
2018 Small Works: A Survey, Red Rock Regional Gallery and Theatre, Cororooke
Editions 18: Print Survey Exhibition, Tacit Art Galleries, Collingwood
2017 Romancing the Skull, (curated exhibition) Art Gallery of Ballarat, Ballarat
2016 Rick Amor Drawing Prize (shortlisted), Art Gallery of Ballarat, Ballarat
2015 Wall | Paper, Post Office Gallery, Federation University Australia, Ballarat
AT_SALON2 Anita Traverso Gallery, Richmond
Wall | Paper, Gallerysmith Project Space, North Melbourne
2014 - 2020 Annual SCOPE: Staff & Associates Survey Show, Post Office Gallery, Federation University Australia, Ballarat
2012 Rick Amor Drawing Prize (shortlisted), Art Gallery of Ballarat, Ballarat
Members Juried Show, Watermarks Congress of The Friends of Dard Hunter and IAPMA, The Morgan Conservatory, Cleveland, Ohio. USA
2011 Hanji, Hanji Development Institute, Wonju, Korea
Silver: 25 years of IAPMA, 69 Smith Street, Fitzroy
Choice, Art Gallery of Ballarat, Ballarat
2010 Black & White, Space 22, Ballarat
2009 10:30 Graduate Works 1999 – 2009, Post Office Gallery, University of Ballarat, Ballarat
Recent Acquisitions and Rarely Seen, Art Gallery of Ballarat, Ballarat
Tasmania: 1:100,000 Mapping the Island (selected travelling exhibition), IXL Atrium, Hunter St, Hobart
2009 – 2013 Annual SCOPE: Staff & Associates Survey Show, Post Office Gallery, University of Ballarat, Ballarat
2008, 14, 15, 17 The Flanagan Art Exhibition, (juried exhibition) St Patrick’s College, Ballarat
2007 / 2008 Eye to “I”: The Self in Recent Art, (curated exhibition) Ballarat Fine Art Gallery, touring to Warrnambool Regional Art Gallery and Hamilton Art Gallery.
2006 PLUS (with Maryanne Coutts & Sally Miller), Ballarat Fine Art Gallery, Ballarat
2003 Prospect Portrait Prize 2003, (juried exhibition) Prospect Gallery, Adelaide
2001 Portia Geach Memorial Award, (juried exhibition) S.H.Ervin Gallery, Sydney
Prospect Portrait Prize 2001, (juried exhibition) Prospect Gallery, Adelaide
1999 James Farrell Self Portrait Award, (juried exhibition) Castlemaine Art Gallery, Castlemaine
1998 The Artists Book is Not a Taxi, component exhibition of IAPMA international conference and the Adelaide Fringe Festival, Main Street Editions Gallery, Hahndorf & touring to Hobart City Gallery, Hobart
Portia Geach Memorial Award, (juried exhibition) S.H.Ervin Gallery, Sydney
1996 Paper Works: works on handmade paper, Ballarat Fine Art Gallery and touring to Horsham Regional Art Gallery
Portia Geach Memorial Award, (juried exhibition) S.H.Ervin Gallery, Sydney
Dominique Segan Drawing Prize, Castlemaine State Festival, Castlemaine
1988 The New Generation 1983-1988, recent acquisitions for the Phillip Morris Collection, Australian National Gallery, Canberra
CURATOR, ARTIST IN RESIDENCE, PUBLICATIONS
2021 “Michelle Zuccolo: The Encounter”, catalogue essay, Brighton: Bayside Gallery.
2017 “Sleepwalking Towards the Apocalypse: recent prints by Peter Ward”, catalogue essay, Melbourne: Firestation Print Studio
2016 The Art of Daniel Moynihan: Printmaking 1966-2016, (curator), a retrospective exhibition, Art Gallery of Ballarat
“Journey into the Art of Printmaking: Daniel Moynihan in Conversation with Loris Button”, The Art of Daniel Moynihan: Printmaking 1966-2016, catalogue interview, Ballarat: Art Gallery of Ballarat, 2016, pp 4-18.
“Daniel Moynihan”, Imprint, Vol. 51, No. 2, pp 20-23.
2014 Artist in Residence, OBRAS Foundation, Renkum, The Netherlands
2009 “Facing Time: The Evocation of Time in Visual and Literary Forms of Autobiography” in Word, Image, Text: Studies in Literary and Visual Culture, Panja, S., S. Chakrabati, C.R. Devadawson, Hyderabad: Orient Blackswan P/L, 2009, (see 152-160 and Figs 22-24).
1992 Paper Works, (curator), touring exhibition to Ballarat Fine Art Gallery & Horsham Regional Gallery
1984 Maria Kozic and Tsk Tsk Tsk, (curator), Tasmanian School of Art Gallery, Hobart
COLLECTIONS
Australian National Gallery; Artbank: Art Gallery of Ballarat; Hanji Development Institute, Korea; Federation University Australia; Il Bisonte Foundation, Florence, Italy; Loreto College Ballarat; Obras Foundation, Netherlands; Port Authority of Santander, Spain: RMIT Bundoora Campus; University of Queensland; various private collections
