Kerrie Poliness is a contemporary Australian artist, known for her rule-based painting and drawing works that revisit the ideas and practices of

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. Poliness was born in 1962 and grew up in Melbourne. She completed her Bachelor degree in Victoria University in 1984, majoring in

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. She was a co-founder of the Store 5 group of artists, an artist-run space focusing on geometric abstraction.

Public collections

Poliness's work uses a palette of red, green, yellow and some black, and appears in public and private collections across Australia and New Zealand. She is featured in major state galleries such as

Art Gallery of Western Australia The Art Gallery of Western Australia (AGWA) is a public art gallery that is part of the Perth Cultural Centre, in Perth. It is located near the Western Australian Museum and State Library of Western Australia and is supported and managed by the ...

National Gallery of Australia The National Gallery of Australia (NGA), formerly the Australian National Gallery, is the national art museum of Australia as well as one of the largest art museums in Australia, holding more than 166,000 works of art. Located in Canberra in th ...

National Gallery of Victoria The National Gallery of Victoria, popularly known as the NGV, is an art museum in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Founded in 1861, it is Australia's oldest and most visited art museum. The NGV houses an encyclopedic art collection across two ...

Queensland Art Gallery The Queensland Art Gallery (QAG) is an art museum located in South Bank, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. The gallery is part of QAGOMA. It complements the Gallery of Modern Art (GOMA) building, situated only away. The Queensland Art Gallery ...

, as well as corporate, private and university collections throughout Australia, including Artbank Australia,

Bendigo Art Gallery Bendigo Art Gallery is an Australian art gallery located in Bendigo, Victoria. It is one of the oldest and largest regional art galleries. History The gallery was founded in 1887. The gallery's collection was first housed in the former Bendigo ...

Deakin University Deakin University is a public university in Victoria, Australia. Founded in 1974, the university was named after Alfred Deakin, the second Prime Minister of Australia. Its main campuses are in Melbourne's Burwood suburb, Geelong Waurn Ponds, ...

, Dowse Museum,

Griffith University Griffith University is a public research university in South East Queensland on the east coast of Australia. Formally founded in 1971, Griffith opened its doors in 1975, introducing Australia's first degrees in environmental science and Asian s ...

, Maddocks, Margaret Stewart Endowment,

Monash University Monash University () is a public research university based in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Named for prominent World War I general Sir John Monash, it was founded in 1958 and is the second oldest university in the state. The university has a ...

Museum of Contemporary Art Australia The Museum of Contemporary Art Australia (MCA), located on George Street in Sydney's The Rocks neighbourhood, is solely dedicated to exhibiting, interpreting, and collecting contemporary art, from across Australia and around the world. It is ...

, Museum of Modern Art at Heide,

University of Melbourne The University of Melbourne is a public research university located in Melbourne, Australia. Founded in 1853, it is Australia's second oldest university and the oldest in Victoria. Its main campus is located in Parkville, an inner suburb nor ...

, and the

University of Wollongong The University of Wollongong (abbreviated as UOW) is an Australian public research university located in the coastal city of Wollongong, New South Wales, approximately 80 kilometres south of Sydney. As of 2017, the university had an enrolment of ...

Exhibitions

Her exhibitions and collections throughout Australia as well as overseas include:

Solo exhibitions

* 2018 ''Field Drawing #1'',

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* 2016 ''Red Matter Wall Drawing #2'',

* 2014 ''Landscape Paintings (Lake Bolac and Zagreb) and Wave Drawings (orange and green),'' G-MK,

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* 2013 ''Field Drawing, the Agora'',

La Trobe University La Trobe University is a public research university based in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Its main campus is located in the suburb of Bundoora. The university was established in 1964, becoming the third university in the state of Victoria an ...

; Kerrie Poliness: Black O,

Dowse Art Museum The Dowse Art Museum is a municipal art gallery in Lower Hutt, New Zealand. Opening in 1971 in the Lower Hutt CBD, The Dowse occupies a stand-alone building adjacent to other municipal facilities. The building was completely remodelled in 20 ...

* 2008 ''Blue Wall Drawing #1'',

* 2007 ''Blue Wall Drawing, Anna Schwartz Gallery'

* 2006 ''Wall Drawings'',

Dunedin Public Art Gallery The Dunedin Public Art Gallery holds the main public art collection of the city of Dunedin, New Zealand. Located in The Octagon in the heart of the city, it is close to the city's public library, Dunedin Town Hall, and other facilities such as t ...

* 2004 ''Something & Something Somewhere Else'',

North Melbourne Town Hall North Melbourne Town Hall is the former town hall of the Town of North Melbourne (originally the Town of Hotham) in Victoria, Australia. It was listed on the former Register of the National Estate on 21 March 1978 and on the Victorian Heritage ...

; Wall Works,

* 1999 ''The Pipestacks (permanent installation),''

Pipemakers Park Pipemakers Park is located in the inner western suburbs of Melbourne in the city of City of Maribyrnong, Maribyrnong, on the western bank of the Maribyrnong River near Highpoint Shopping Centre. The park was created on the site of a former pipe ...

* 1998 ''Wall Drawings, Artspace, Auckland; Wall Drawings'',

, Perth * 1997 ''Black O Wall Drawings 1 - 6, Sarah Cottier Gallery'',

Sydney Sydney ( ) is the capital city of the state of New South Wales, and the most populous city in both Australia and Oceania. Located on Australia's east coast, the metropolis surrounds Sydney Harbour and extends about towards the Blue Mountain ...

** Red Matter Wall Drawings 1 - 3, Kovacka 3 gallery,

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\ ** Black O Wall Drawings 3 & 4, Museum of the City of Rovinj, Istria * 1996 ''Red Matter Wall Drawings #1 - #4'', Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne * 1995 ''Wall Drawing #1'', Phoenix Hotel,

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** ''Drawings, Sarah Cottier Gallery'',

** ''Black O Wall Drawings 3 & 4,'' CBD Gallery,

* 1994 ''Pavilion #2'', Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne ** ''Red Matter Wall Drawings #1 - #4'', Sarah Cottier Gallery,

* 1993 ''Pivilion #1'', No. 140, Store 5,

Melbourne Melbourne ( ; Boonwurrung/Woiwurrung: ''Narrm'' or ''Naarm'') is the capital and most populous city of the Australian state of Victoria, and the second-most populous city in both Australia and Oceania. Its name generally refers to a met ...

* 1992 ''136 Paintings'', Tolarno Galleries,

** ''No. 123'', Store 5,

* 1991 ''12 Paintings'', Tolarno Galleries,

** ''104 Paintings'',

Gallery,

Geelong Geelong ( ) (Wathawurrung: ''Djilang''/''Djalang'') is a port city in the southeastern Australian state of Victoria, located at the eastern end of Corio Bay (the smaller western portion of Port Phillip Bay) and the left bank of Barwon River, ...

, Victoria * ''Wall Painting'', No. 99, Store 5,

* 1990 ''No.55'', Store 5,

* 1989 ''No.4'', Store 5, Melbourne, ''No.25'', Store 5, Melbourne * 1987 ''Shattered Plywood Paintings'', 312 Lennox Street,

Site-specific public artworks

* 2014 Field Drawing #1,

Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane The Gallery of Modern Art (GOMA) is an art museum located within the Queensland Cultural Centre in the South Bank precinct of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. The gallery is part of QAGOMA. GOMA, which opened on 2 December 2006, is the largest ...

* 2013 Wave Drawings,

Highpoint Shopping Centre Highpoint Shopping Centre is a super regional shopping centre located in Maribyrnong, Victoria, in the western suburbs of Melbourne, Victoria. Highpoint is Victoria's third largest shopping centre and the fifth largest in Australia, with an a ...

, Melbourne * 1998 The Agora,

, Melbourne ** Black O Wall Drawings,

Library, Melbourne * 2000 The Government Superannuation Building,

References

External links

Official website
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