Geraldine is an Australian born visual artist, based in Naarm/Melbourne. She creates fictional landscapes to explore deep body memory from a feminist perspective. Using the internal landscape as a safe space for exploration, she searches for connection to the physical landscape, investigating form, nuanced colour and abstraction. She engages a design aesthetic that is influenced by a life immersed in rural Victoria and through growing up during the modern era, drawing upon conscious and unconscious memories in the process.
She studied and worked in horticulture, before undertaking an Advanced Diploma in Gestalt Therapy through Gestalt Therapy Australia in 2004. This was followed by a Master's in Counselling through Latrobe University (Melbourne) in 2010, before working for many years as a psychotherapist. Driven to deepen her creative voice, she committed to a career as a visual artist, attaining a Diploma of Visual Art in 2016 from Latrobe College of Art and Design (Melbourne) and a Master's of Fine Art in 2022 from Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (Melbourne).
Recent exhibitions include Invisible at Red Gallery, Fitzroy (Melbourne, 2017), Somewhere Near Here at Art at St Francis (Melbourne, 2019) Fantasy Landscapes at Malvern Art Society (Melbourne, 2020), Counter Encounter at Studio 11/ Owen Dixon Chambers (Melbourne, 2022) and Not Nothing/ It’s Something, RMIT MFA Graduate Exhibition at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (Melbourne, 2022).
In 2019 she won the award for Best Contemporary works at the Flinders Art Show (2015), was awarded the Highly Commended prize in the Non-Traditional Painting section of the Camberwell Art Show (2019) and was shortlisted for the Clyde and Co Art Prize (2023). Her work is held in several collections in Australia and the United Kingdom.
CURRICULUM VITAE
EDUCATION
2022 | Master's of Fine Art, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Melbourne, Australia (RMIT) |
2019 | Art study tour with Robin Kingston through RMIT, New York |
2016 | Art study tour with Martina Copley through LCAD, New York |
2016 | Diploma in Visual Arts, Latrobe College of Art and Design, Melbourne, Australia (LCAD) |
2015 | Art study tour with Martina Copley and Honor Bradbeer through LCAD, Venice, Italy |
2014 | Art study tour with Michael Mark and Jane Cocks through LCAD, New York |
2010 | Master's of Counseling and Human Services, Latrobe University, Melbourne, Australia (LTU) |
2007 | Developmental Psychiatry Course, Melbourne and Monash Universities, Melbourne, Australia |
2003 | – 2005 Private tuition with artists John Lawry and Colin Johnson, Malvern, Melbourne, Australia |
2004 | Advanced Diploma of Gestalt Therapy, Gestalt Therapy Australia (GTA), Melbourne |
2002 | Graduate Diploma of Business in Leadership and Organisation Dynamics, Swinburne University, Hawthorn |
1986 | Advanced Diploma in Horticulture, Victorian College of Agriculture and Horticulture, Burnley |
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2022 | ‘Not Nothing/ It’s Something’, RMIT Master of Fine Art Graduate Exhibition, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Melbourne |
2019 | ‘Somewhere Near Here’, Art at St Francis’, Melbourne |
2010 – 2015 | Several exhibitions in private residences throughout Melbourne |
SELECTED DUO EXHIBITIONS
2022 | ‘Counter Encounter’ with Robyn Wilson, Studio 11/ Owen Dixon Chambers, Melbourne |
2020 | ‘Fantasy Landscapes’, Malvern Artists Society with Robyn Wilson, Melbourne |
2014 | ‘Urban Landscape’ with Clive Sinclair Melbourne, Panoply Gallery, Malvern |
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2022 | RMIT MFA Graduation Show, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Melbourne |
2021 | Camberwell Art Show, Hawthorn |
2018 | Flinders Art Show, Flinders. |
2017 | ‘Invisible’, Red Gallery, Fitzroy, Melbourne |
2016 | Graduate Exhibition, Latrobe College of Art & Design. |
2015 | Place and Space, Red Gallery, Fitzroy, Melbourne |
2015 | Venice Biennale Journal Exhibition as part of Guided Study Tour, Latrobe College, Collingwood |
2014 | New York Journal Exhibition as part of Guided Study Tour, Latrobe College, Collingwood |
2013 | Linden Postcard Art Prize, St Kilda |
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS/PRIZES
2021 | Camberwell Art Show, Hawthorn |
2021 | Camberwell Art Show, Hawthorn |
2017 | Camberwell Art Show, Hawthorn |
2016 | St Kevin’s Art Show, Toorak |
2015 | St Kevin’s Art Show, Toorak |
2014 | St Kevin’s Art Show, Toorak |
AWARDS
2023 | Finalist in the Clyde and Co Art Award |
2023 | Shortlisted for the Ravenswood Australian Women’s Art Prize (Emerging Artist section) |
2021 | Highly Commended Prize for Non-Traditional Painting, Camberwell Art Show |
2015 | Award for Best Contemporary works, Flinders Art Show Regional, Victoria |
REPRESENTED BY
2014 – 2016 | Panoply Gallery, South Yarra, Melbourne |
PAINTING COMMISSIONS
| 2015 | Maplewood Gifts |
| 2016 | Sissy and Co. |
| 2015–2023 | Private commissions |
COLLECTIONS
Private collections in Australia and the U.K.
Paul Delaney Architects, Melbourne, Australia
