F A B I A    T O R Y

           Biographical Notes

 

1956

Born Sydney

1974

Study Tour:  Italy, Northern France, Switzerland and Southern England

 

1975-1978

Diploma in Art Alexander Mackie College

(now College of Fine Art University of NSW – COFA)

1988

Study Tour:  Central Australia and Northern Territory

2002

Study Tour:  Southern England and Rome

2004

Study Tour:  Italy, London and Barcelona

2006

Study Tour:  Italy and Paris

2007

Study Tour:  Central Australia and Northern Australia

2008

Study Tour: Spain & Morocco

2009

Study Tour to Spain & southern UK as Artist Residency at Uluru postponed

2010

Study Tour: Turkey, London and Cornwall

 

Major Exhibitions

 

1989

Seasons Gallery North Sydney   

1990

Seasons Gallery North Sydney   ‘Works on Paper’

1991

Forest Bluff School, Chicago USA 

1992

Seasons Gallery North Sydney   ‘Living on an Island

1993

Forest Bluff School, Chicago USA    ‘Works on Paper’

1994

Featured at VISUAL OUTLINES GALLERY, CHICAGO USA

1995

Seasons Gallery North Sydney   ‘UNICEF Greeting Cards’ Launch

1998

Seasons Gallery North Sydney   ‘a  Painter’s World’

2004

artarmon galleries  Gallery I and II

2006

artarmon galleries  Gallery I and II

2008

artarmon galleries    Central Australia   25  ‘Works on Paper’

2010

ARTARMON GALLERIES  24 works on paper in Group Exhibition with John Coburn

                                            and Ruth Faerber

 

Selected Group Exhibitions

 

 

Artarmon Galleries ‘Art & Theatre’ Exhibition 

Artarmon Galleries  ’50 Year Anniversary Show’

2003

2005

Australian Catholic University ‘Touching the Surface’

2003

Avalon Primary School Pittwater Festival ‘Art from the Edge’

1998

Balmain Watch House ‘Exhibition Exotica’

1994

Blaxland Gallery ‘ Five Young Painters’

1979

Gadfly Gallery Dalkeith ‘Christmas Show’

1999

Graham Gallery Kembla Heights ‘Flowers, Fronds & Fruit’

1998

Greenhill Galleries South Australia  ‘Christmas Show’

1998

Ivan Dougherty Gallery Paddington  ‘5 Graduate Students’ (1979);

Ivan Dougherty Gallery Paddington  ‘Its About Time’ (1995)

1979

1995

Macquarie Galleries ‘Young Sydney Painters’

1977

Millburn Gallery Chicago USA ‘Three Person Show’ (1991)

1991

Narrabeen Tramshed ‘Art from Overseas- Painters from Scotland Island

1987, 1988,1989, 1990, 1991

North Sydney Fine Arts Gallery ‘From the Mountains to the Sea’ and

North Sydney Fine Arts Gallery  ‘Inside and Outside the Garden’

2000

2000

North Sydney Council Chambers ‘Inspired b Nature’

2005

NSW Writers Centre Rozelle ‘Book Covers with Helen Geier’

1993

Open Studio – Pittwater Festival

1995

Scotland Island Community Hall ‘Island Renaissance’ (1995)

1995  also Artists Exhibition 1998, 1999,2000

Seasons Gallery North Sydney ‘ The Cup That Cheers’

1990

Studio of Artist open to the Public

1995

Studio Showcase Rozelle ‘Women’s Images of Women’

1995

 

Represented

Numerous Private Collections in Australia, England, USA, Spain  and New Zealand

 

Bibliography

Germaine ‘Artists & Galleries’ 2nd Edition (Boolarong Puublications);  Germaine ‘Encyclopaedia of Australian Woman Artists’

 

Reproductions of Work:

Book Cover ‘Waterlilies Kakadu’ for ‘Collected Poems of Les Murray 1992 (Heinemann Octopus Press London)

Book Cover ‘Paper Bark Trees’ for ‘The Paper Bark Tree’  Les Murray 1993 (Heinemann Octopus Press London)

Book Cover ‘Trincomalee by the Sea’ for ‘Mysteries’ - poems by Jamie Grant 1993 (William Heinemann, Australia)

UNICEF New York -  Greeting Cards in 1995 – three paintings selected

Other Cards for UNICEF:  ‘On the Road to Alice Springs’ (1996), ‘On the Road from Uluru’(1997), ‘Burrewarra Point Lookout’ (1998), Mother’s Day 1999 ‘Banksias’, ‘Burrewarra Point Lookout (2001)





  

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