dawn csutoros
Curriculum vitaE - FULL

1960 Melbourne, Victoria
1993-2005 Hobart, Tasmania
2005 Melbourne, Victoria
 
Education and Professional Experience
2010 Artist in residence, La Muse, International Artists and Writers Retreat, Carcassonne, France
2008 Study tour, East Silk Road, North West China
2007 Artist in residence, Pickle Art Centre, Beijing, China
2006 Study Tour - Hong Kong, Europe, Morocco, New York, San Francisco
2003 Art Project Coordinator - Fitzroy Crossing, Kimberleys, Western Australia
  Artist Residency - Oncology Ward, Royal Hobart Hospital, Hobart, Tasmania
  Artist/Project Coordinator for The Wilderness Society, Hobart, Tasmania
  Tour and Exhibition - Tokyo, Japan
2002-2003 Arts Project Officer, Strathcare, Hobart, Tasmania
2001 Tour and Exhibition - Tokyo and Kurashiki, Japan
1996 Study Tour - Europe, New York, Los Angeles
1995-1998 Bachelor of Fine Arts, University of Tasmania, Hobart
1979-1981 Diploma of Teaching, State College of Melbourne, Victoria
 
Solo Exhibitions
2009 Black Diamonds, Imagine Gallery, Beijing, China
2008 Ink, Tea and Coal, Recent Works, Australian Embassy, Beijing, China
2007 Ink, Tea and Coal, Pickled Art Centre, Beijing, China
  Poetics of Space, Dickerson Gallery, Sydney, NSW
2005 Liminal - Thresholds of Being, Dickerson Gallery, Melbourne, Victoria
  Place of Mind, Dickerson Gallery, Melbourne, Victoria
2003 Dawn Csutoros, Genkan Gallery, Tokyo America Club, Tokyo, Japan
  Liminal - Thresholds of Being, Royal Hobart Hospital, Hobart, Tasmania
2001 Illumination, Mira Gallery, Melbourne, Victoria
  New Works, Australian Embassy, Tokyo, Japan
  New Works 2000, Gallery Tanaka, Tokyo, Japan
  Works on Paper, El Patio Gallery, Kurashiki, Japan
2000 Silent Friction, Bett Gallery Hobart, Tasmania
  Silent Friction, Soho Gallery, Sydney, NSW
1999 Edge of Possibilities, Bulle Gallery, Melbourne, Victoria
1998 A Selection, Maldinis Restaurant, Hobart, Tasmania
1996 Of Silence, Solitude & Roses, Fitzroy Gallery, Melbourne, Victoria
1994 Paintings 1989 -1994, Fitzroy Gallery, Melbourne, Victoria
   
Group Exhibitions
2010 Open Studio, La Muse, Carcassonne, France
  Moving, Maroonda City Council, Major Projects Unit, Victoria
  Women to see the World, Colourful, Shainhai International Fashion Week
  800 Show, Art Space, Shanghai, China
2007 Built Perceptions, Dickerson Gallery, Melbourne
  Hutchins Art Prize Finalist Exhibition, Long Gallery, Hobart, Tasmania
2006 Redbull Music Academy 06, Melbourne, Victoria
  Art Melbourne 06, Melbourne, Victoria
  The Winniowing of the Grain, Red Wall Gallery, Hobart, Tasmania
  Native Australian Timber Art, Melbourne, Victoria
2005 Bett Gallery, Hobart, Tasmania
  Art and the Sacred and Tasmania, Schoolhouse Gallery, Rosny Historic Centre, Hobart, Tasmania
  Hutchins Art Prize Finalist Exhibition, Hobart, Tasmania
2004 Barking up the Wrong Tree, Spacement Gallery, Melbourne, Victoria
  Barking up the Wrong Tree, Carnegie Gallery, Hobart, Tasmania
2003 Barking up the Wrong Tree, Mori Gallery, Sydney, NSW
  Future Perfect, Bett Gallery, Hobart, Tasmania
  Tasmanian Living Artists Week, Hobart, Tasmania
2002 Tachikawa Festival, international artists, Tachikawa, Japan
  Synergy, collaboration between artists and scientists, CSIRO, Hobart, Tasmania
  Works on Paper, Mira Gallery, Melbourne, Victoria
  Art Access: Contemporary Art at ANZ Tokyo, ANZ Gallery Pavilion, Tokyo
2001 Joyeux Noel Exhibition, Gallery Chika, Tokyo, Japan
  3D Exhibition, Mira gallery, Melbourne, Victoria
  The Next Exhibition, Gallery Tanaka, Tokyo, Japan
  Food in Art, 10 Days on the Island Festival, Tasmania, Devonport Regional Gallery
  Postcard Show, 10 Days on the Island Festival, Tasmania, State Library, Hobart, Tasmania
  Southern Island Art Prize, 10 Days on the Island Festival, Tasmania, Stanley Town Hall, Tasmania
2000 Melbourne Art Fair 2000, Exhibition Buildings, Melbourne, Victoria
  Axis, Bett Gallery Hobart, Tasmania
1999 The 10th Alice Prize, The Araluen Centre, Alice Springs, Northern Territory
  Contemporary Art Services Tasmania Members Exhibition, CAST Gallery, Hobart, Tasmania
  New Abstractions, Flinders Lane Gallery, Melbourne, Victoria
  Folksong, collaborative performance with Brigita Ozolins, Peacock Theatre, Hobart, Tasmania
1998 Dick Bett Galley, Hobart, Tasmania
  Hutchins Art Prize, Hobart, Tasmania
  Contemporary Art Services Tasmania Members Exhibition, CAST Gallery, Hobart, Tasmania
  A Flourishing Ecology, a survey of Tasmanian Printmakers, Long Gallery, Hobart, Tasmania
1997-98 Odyssey, collaboration with Brigita Ozolins, installation in a shipping container, School of Art, University of Tasmania, and Hobart Summer Festival
1997 Affinity, Fine Arts Gallery, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Tasmania 1998
  Hues Hue?, Entrepot Gallery, Hobart, Tasmania
  Consuming the Feminine, collaborative performance with Helen English & Jenna Meade, Recital Hall, Conservatorium of Music, Hobart, Tasmania
  Have a Seat, collaboration with Antoanette Ivanova, Entrepot Gallery, Hobart, Tasmania
1996 Pilgrimage, collaboration with Brigita Ozolins, series of landscape installations, Tasmania
  Exhibition of Essence, Swingbridge Gallery, Tasmania
  Multicultural Art Award, Swingbridge Gallery, Tasmania
1995 Fringe Festival, Fitzroy Gallery, Melbourne, Victoria
  Trust Bank Art Exhibition, Launceston, Tasmania
  Tasmania Day Art Award, Swingbridge Gallery, Tasmania
1992 Postcard Show, Linden Gallery, Melbourne, Victoria
  Group Show, Eltham Wiregrass Gallery, Melbourne, Victoria
  Group Show, Reflections Gallery, Melbourne, Victoria
  Not the Archibald Prize, Fringe Network, Fitzroy Fringe Festival, Melbourne, Victoria
  Richmond Off Peak Festival, Richmond, Melbourne, Victoria
  Contemporary Artists Society of Victoria Members Exhibition, Melbourne, Victoria
  Burke Hall Art Exhibition, Kew, Melbourne, Victoria
1991 Not the Archibald Prize, Fringe Network, Fitzroy Fringe Festival, Melbourne, Victoria
1989 VTU Credit Union Art Show, Caulfield Arts Complex, Melbourne, Victoria
  Group Show, The Studio, Carlton, Melbourne, Victoria
 
Public collections
  Elizabeth College, Hobart, Australia
  La Muse, Carcassonne, France
  Australian Embassy, Beijing, China
  JW Marriott Hotel, Beijing, China
  Australian Embassy, Tokyo
  Art Access, Tokyo, Japan
  Newcastle Regional Art Gallery, NSW, Australia
  Westmead Childrens Hospital, Sydney, Australia
  Royal Hobart Hospital, Tasmania, Australia
  North West Regional Hospital, Tasmania, Australia
  City Limits Hotel, Melbourne, Australia
  Hotel Heiser, Kurashiki, Japan
  Ryokan Kurashiki, Japan
  Healthy Outlook, Australia
  Bocskai Hungarian Cultural Centre, Melbourne, Australia
 
Grants & Awards
2005 Art for Public Building Scheme, Arts Tasmania, Tasmanian Fire Service Training Commission , Cambridge, Tasmania
2003 Export Marketing Assistance Scheme, Touring and Development Grant for Tokyo, Department of State Development, Tasmania 
  Tasmanian Export Awards, Department of State Development, Hobart, Tasmania
2002 Arts in Public Buildings Scheme, Arts Tasmania, Northern Regional Hospital, Burnie, Tasmania
  Tasmanian Export Awards Department of State Development, Nomination, Tasmania
2001 Export Marketing Assistance Scheme, Development Grant for Tokyo, Department of State Development, Hobart, Tasmania
2000 Export Marketing Assistance Scheme, Touring and Development Grant for Tokyo, Department of State Development, Hobart, Tasmania
  Research and Development Grant, for Tokyo, Department of State Development, Hobart, Tasmania
1999 Artsbridge Grant, Arts Tasmania, Hobart, Tasmania
1996 Mulicultural Art Award, Swingbridge Galley, Tasmania
1992 Sock it to me Baby, Not the Archibald Prize, Fitzroy Fringe Festival, Melbourne, Victoria
 
book covers and authored articles
2006 Book cover image, The Winnowing of the Grain, Art and Craft Magazines In     Australia 1963 - 1996, Michael Denholm, Carlton Street Press, Hobart, Tasmania
2004 Book cover image and article Tree hugs, Antipodes, A North American Journal of Australian Literature, New York, December, USA
  Front cover image and article, Correspondances Oceaniennes, Revue Cullturelle Neo-Caledonienne, New Caledonia
2002 Front cover image, Human Sexuality, Simon LeVay, Sharon M Valente, Sinauer Associates In, USA
  Artwork, Artes: Tidskrift for Litteratur, Konst och musick, Press Data, Stockholm
  Article, Art in Palliative Care, National Palliative News, Palliative Care Australia
2001 Front cover image, Antipodes, A North American Journal of Australian Literature, New York, June, USA
 
Bibliography
2008 Coverage of news and events in Beijing during Paralympics, ABC TV
2006 Sunday Arts Program, ABC TV
2005 Hungarian World in Australia and New Zealand, Panorama Media Mix, Budapest, Hungary
2004 Art craft and ecology meet at the Styx Forest, Adam Geczy, Art Monthly Australia, May 2004, No. 169 Art Monthly Australia
  Dawn Csutoros: a' l'aube d'une nouvelle creativite, Jean Francoise Vernay, Correspondences Oceaniennes, Revue culturelle ne'o-caledonienne, La Creation, Avril
  Tree Hugs, Leatherwood Online, Tasmanian magazine, www.leatherwood.com
2003 Dawn Csutoros art Her Art Projects, Stateline, ABC TV, 5 December
  Art Reaches out to Community, Penny Thow, Glenorchy Gazette, January, Tasmania
2002  A Creative Guru is helping revolutionise aged care, Margareta Poss, The Mercury, Hobart, Tasmania
  Synergy, catalogue of collaboration between artists and scientists, CSIRO, Hobart, Tasmania
  Art in Palliative Care, Dawn Csutoros, Palliative Care Australia
  Art in Health, Dawn Csutoros, Australian Network Art and Health Journal
  Art Monthly, Australia, July
  Magic Happens in Art Collaboration, Danny Rose, April 19, The Mercury, Hobart, Tasmania
2001 Life of an Artist, Hungarian Magazine, Community Television, Melbourne, Victoria
  A Sense of Heightened Experience, Naohiko Doki, July 5, Asahi Newspaper, Tokyo, Japan
  Sea of calm washes over drab grey wall, Patrick Cranny, July 21, The Saturday Mercury, Hobart, Tasmania
2000 Silent Friction, Joerg Andersch, May 27, The Saturday Mercury, Hobart, Tasmania
1999 Hungarians in Focus, Marffy Attila, July, Magyar Elet, Budapest, Hungary
1997 Fine Arts School Exhibit, October 16, The Star, Hobart, Tasmania
  Hue's Hue, Joerg Andersch, October 11, The Saturday Mercury, Hobart, Tasmania
  Affinity, Joerg Andersch, October 11, The Saturday Mercury, Hobart, Tasmania
  Have a Seat, Joerg Andersch, September 27, The Saturday Mercury, Hobart, Tasmania
  Well-travelled Couch Takes Art to the Streets, Georgia Warner, August 28, Bay-City Star, Hobart, Tasmania (front page)
 
Community/Cultural Public Art
2003 The River — Life Force of Fitzroy
A giant groundpainting (380 sq metres) at Guwardi Ngadu Frail Aged Hostel, Fitzroy Crossing . Due to the multiple modes of' being of a place', a strong sense of connectedness to the land can continue through the creative collaboration across all  generations and the four different language groups within the Fitzroy Crossing community.
2003 Tree Hugs
An art project with the Wilderness Society involving community members, local Tasmanian, national and international.  People young and old, male and female, knitted red sections which were pieced together to form metre long hugs. These 'hugs' were then wrapped around a part of old growth forest in the Styx Valley, Tasmania, to form a straight red line through the forest,  A line of protection, of care, of no to further logging.  Knitting has been part of our cultural heritage for generations and is an intimate and caring form of making. The Knitted red hugs also played against the coloured tape used to earmark the trees for harvesting.
This panorama of hugs was then filmed over a 19 hour period and then condensed to form a video of 15 minutes, showing the beautiful hugs made from the community in the forest through the shifting light of night to day.
2003 Liminal — Thresholds of Being
An eight week residency on the Onology Ward, creating a body of large pastel and pigment pictures in response to the patients their families, friends and staff at the Royal Hobart Hospital, Tasmania.
2003 Kosagi — Little Egret Bridge to Japan
International art collaboration between elderly residents from aged care facilities in Akashi, Japan and Strathcare, Hobart. This projected featured paper based artworks around the theme of the little egret which migrates between the two countries. Works included life size papier mache sculptures, origami, composite photography, aural histories, sound scapes, recordings of community radio programmes, and the setting up of a recording station by the Hobart residents themselves and local school children.
2002 Creative Guru
Position of creative arts project officer with all three facilities of Strathcare Aged Care Facilities around Tasmania reconfiguring the face of the elderly within the broader community using the arts as the main vehicle of expression.
2002 Older Persons and Disabled Sector Officer -
Position held with Cadence 99.3FM community radio.
2002 Mountain Magic
Collaborative project with elderly and schoolchildren, Vaucluse Gardens Lodge Pty Ltd (aged care facility) and school children from Goulburn St, Primary School.
 
Teaching Experience
2009-2010 Private Art Courses, Richmond, Australia
2007-2010 Art tutor, Council of Adult Education, Melbourne, Australia
2001-2010 Art tutor, Adult Education, Hobart, Australia
2001-2007 Art tutor, TAFE, Council of Adult Education, Melbourne, Victoria and Hobart, Tasmania
2000 Manager and teacher, Creative Art Classes for Children, Hobart, Tasmania
1999 Relief teacher, Elizabeth College, Hobart, Tasmania
1993/2 Part time primary school teacher, Melbourne, Victorian Education Department
1982-5 Full time art room and classroom teacher, Melbourne, Victorian Education Department
 
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