Linda Jackson Curriculum Vitae

LINDA JACKSON CV

PERSONAL DETAILS

Born: Melbourne, 15 September 1950

Education: Emily McPherson College, R.M.I.T, Victoria –Fashion Design Prahran Technical College, Victoria- PhotographyCOLLECTIONSAustralian National Gallery, CanberraFrances Burke Resource Centre, R.M.I.T., MelbourneMuseum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, DarwinNational Gallery of Victoria, MelbournePrivate CollectionsPowerhouse Museum, Sydney. Major Archive &costume collectionQueen Victoria Museum, TasmaniaSouth Australia MuseumThe Araluen Centre for Arts and Entertainment, Alice Springs

AWARDS AND GRANTS

2003 Life Fellow: Powerhouse Museum, Sydney2003 1st Prize: Carnivale Art competition, - Port Douglas Gallery of Fine Art1996 Visual Arts / Craft Board Fellowship - Australia Council for the Arts 1977 Lyrebird Australian Fashion Awards - Innovators Award

SOLO EXHIBITIONS: FINE ART AND TEXTILES

2006 Cairns Regional Gallery – “Essence”2006 Karnak Kaleidoscope Art Theatre – “The Opal Forest”2005 Port Douglas Daintree Gallery of Fine Art – “Reflections in a Blue Lake”2003 Radisson Treetops Resort – “Coral Sea” Exhibition and Residency2002 Butcher Café Mudgee “Waratah” Paintings and Scrolls2001 Port Douglas Gallery – “Opal Reef” Paintings TextilesRadisson Treetops Resort – “Fan Coral” Exhibition & Residency1998 Radisson Treetops Resort – “Rainforest” Exhibition & ResidencyPost Office Gallery Port Douglas – “Lipstick Palm” PaintingsSpan Gallery Melbourne – “Fashion Festival Linda Jackson 1974-1999”1998 Roslyn Oxley 9 Gallery – “Paintings Rugs Textiles” Gondwana 11 Alice Springs – “Desert Rivers” Paintings1996 Durack Gallery Broome – “Pearl Coast” Paintings & Textiles1995 24HR Art Darwin – “Billabongs Boabs Beyond”1994 Gallery Gondwana Alice Springs – “Opal Country Paintings”1993 Barry Stern Gallery Sydney – “A Brush with the Bush Paintings”1991 Museum of Childhood Juniper Hall Sydney – “A Bush Fantasy”

SOLO STUDIO SHOWS: FASHION / PERFORMANCE / OPALS

1986 Shepherd Street Chippendale Studio – “Bush Couture Christmas Show” Nieman Marcus Dept, Store, Dallas, U.S.A. – “Bush Couture Trunk Show”1984 William Street Studio, Sydney – “Bush Couture Blossoms” Collection 1983 William Street Studio, Sydney – “Opal Perfume – Jewellery and Textile Collection” William Street Studio, Sydney – “Black Opal Bush Couture”1982 William Street Studio, Sydney – “Opal & Silver Jewellery and Textiles” William Street Studio, Sydney – “Black Magic”1981 Queen Street Galleries, Sydney – “Opal & Silver Jewellery and Textiles”

FLAMINGO PARK EVENTS - PERFORMANCES - FASHION WITH JENNY KEE

1981 Jamieson Street Nightclub Sydney – “Flaming Opal Follies”1980 Sydney Town Hall – “Red Centre”1979 Seymour Centre Sydney – “Barrier Reef & Wildflowers”1978 Queen Street Galleries – “Colour & Shapes”1977 New York – “Wildflowers”Milan Paris – “Wildflowers1976 Café Sydney – “Flamingo Follies”1975 Bondi Pavilion Theatre – “Flamingo Follies”1974 Hingara Chinatown Sydney – “Step Into Paradise”

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS AUSTRALIA

2005 Powerhouse Museum – “Inspired! - Design Across Time”2003 Powerhouse Museum – “Life Fellows Awards Exhibition” Port Douglas Galleries of Fine Art – “Carnivale Art Show”2002 Twister: The Ian Potter Centre N.G.V. Australia. – “Federation Square Opening”1999 Museum of Sydney – “Photographs”Myer, Melbourne – “Federation Fashion”Lightning Ridge N.S.W. – “Opal textiles & jewellery”Yowah Queensland – “Opal textiles & jewellery”H.S. Ervin Gallery, Sydney – “State of the Waratah”Powerhouse Museum, Sydney – “Colonial to Contemporary”Myer, Melbourne – “One Hundred Moments of Fashion”1999 Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney - “Design Show”Object Gallery, Sydney – “Southern Bias”1996 The Araleun Centre, Alice Springs – “Great Lengths Central Australian Textiles”The Araleun Centre, Alice Springs – “Indigo”National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne – “Couture to Chaos” Curated by Robyn Healey1995 Australian National Gallery, Canberra – “The Artists Garden”1993 Hyde Park Barracks, Sydney – “The Art of the Scarf”1989 Powerhouse Museum, Sydney – “Australian Fashion The Contemporary Art”Powerhouse Museum, Sydney – “A Free Hand”Australian National Gallery, Canberra – Australian Decorative Arts 1788-1988”Art Gallery of N.S.W. – “Art KnitsAustralian National Gallery, Canberra – “Plastic Rubber & Leather Dress”19856 Australian National Gallery, Canberra – “Linda Jackson & Jenny Kee, Flamingo Park & Bush Couture”1984 National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne – “Permanent Collection” Australian National Gallery, Canberra – “Australian Decorative Arts The Last 10 Years”1983 Orange Gallery, NSW – “Clothes & Clay”1982 Queensland Art Gallery – “Costumes, Masks & Jewellery of the Commonwealth Crafts CouncilGallery of Tasmania – Textiles”1981 Art Gallery of N.S.W. “Fabulous Fashions 1907-1967” Art Gallery of N.S.W. – “Art Clothes”1980 Art Gallery of N.S.W. – “Vogue Australia 21 Birthday Fashion Show”1979 Textile Museum of Australia – “Into the 80s”

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS INTERNATIONAL

1991 Korea - “Australian Fashion The Contemporary Art” 1990 Tokyo Japan - “Australian Fashion The Contemporary Art1989 Victoria & Albert Museum, London – “Australian Fashion The Contemporary Art”1986 Tokyo, Japan – “Art Knits”1987 Neiman Marcus, San Francisco USA – “Australian Fortnight”Neiman Marcus, Los Angeles USA - “Australian Fortnight”1986 Commonwealth Arts Festival, Edinburgh Scotland – “Australian Decorative Arts” Neiman Marcus Dallas USA - “Australian Fortnight”

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