Design and Art Australia Online

STUDIES
1972-76 Bachelor of Arts, Departments of Fine Arts & English,
University of Melbourne
1980-81 Painting, Victorian College of the Arts

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
1984 Nielson Hayes Library, Bangkok, Thailand
1988 Cockatoo Gallery, Launceston
1989 Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne
1991 Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne
1992 Julie Green Gallery, Sydney
1994 Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne
1996 Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne
1998 Tony Palmer at Mary Place Gallery, Sydney
1999 Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne
Public Park, Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne
2001 As the Twig is Bent, (retrospective exhibition)
Launceston Church Grammar School, Launceston
Private Garden, Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne
2003 News, Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne
2005 Heiser Gallery, Brisbane
2005 Recent Works, Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne
2006 Paper to Paper, Charles Nodrum Gallery
2006 Recent Watercolours, Mansfield, Victoria
2007 Recent Works, Heiser Gallery, Brisbane
The Gesture, Chapman Gallery, Canberra
2008 About the House, Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne
2009 The Art of Politics, Cowwarr Art Space, Gippsland
Inside Out, Heiser Gallery, Brisbane 2011 Seasonal Adjustments, Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne A Domestic Sublime, Chrysalis Gallery, Melbourne 2013 Home Theatre, Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne The Blue Square, Heiser Gallery, Brisbane

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
1982 Tricycle Theatre Arts Complex, London
1988 Spirit of the Times, Bicentennial Touring Exhibition, Melbourne
1989 Scotchman’s Hill Invitation Art Prize, Geelong Art Gallery
1990 Scotchman’s Hill Invitation Art Prize, Geelong Art Gallery
1991 The Medium Pastel, David Jones Gallery, Sydney
1992 Kristin Headlam & Noel McKenna, Dick Bett Gallery, Hobart
1993 Approaches to the Sublime, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney
1995 City of Hobart Invitation Art Prize Blundstone Contemporary Art Prize, Queen Victoria Museum & Art Gallery
1996 Brushing the Dark: Recent Art and Tasmania, CAST; toured nationally Doug Moran Portrait Prize, National Gallery of Victoria & touring
1997 Deacons, Graham and James Art Award, Ian Potter Gallery, Melbourne
1998 Contemporary Art Fair, Melbourne, Charles Nodrum Gallery Stand
1999 Visyboard Art Prize, Barossa Vallery We are Australian, Victorian Arts Centre, Melbourne & traveling to 2002 Conrad Jupiters Acquisitive Art Prize, Gold Coast City Art Gallery Artful Cello, Victorian Arts Centre, Melbourne, & traveling to 2000
2000 Exquisite Corps, Bendigo Art Gallery Doug Moran Portrait Prize, traveling exhibition An Affair to Remember, Artsauce Gallery, Singapore Geelong Contermporary Art Prize, Geelong Art Gallery Kozminsky Galleries, Melbourne
Melbourne Art Fair, Melbourne, Charles Nodrum Gallery Stand
2001 Male Nude – A Private View, Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne Savage Art Prize, Savage Club, Melbourne Portraits 2001, Tweed River Regional Gallery & touring Australia 2001-02 Selected Paintings, Kozminsky Galleries, Melbourne Australian & International Works on Paper, Charles Nodrum Gallery Contemporary Art, Christie’s Australia, Melbourne & Sydney
2002 The Human Portrayed, Charles Nodrum Gallery The Painted Fold: The Garment in Art, Charles Nodrum Gallery Savill Contemporary, Savill Galleries, Melburne Contemporary Art, Christie’s Australia, Melbourne & Sydney Just Married, Monash Gallery of Art Melbourne Artfair 2002, Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne
2003 X Melbourne, COFA Gallery, Sydney (Gary Willis curator) The Arthur Guy Acquisitive Award, Bendigo Art Gallery (finalist) *2004 Gardenesque: A Celebration of Australian Gardening, State Library of Victoria
2003-2004 , Hunter.1, Newcastle Regional Art Gallery Modern Australian Painting, Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne
2006 A rose is a rose is a rose, Latrobe Regional Gallery The Idea of the Animal, RMIT Gallery & Melbourne International Arts Festival
2007 Snap Freeze: Still Life Now, Tarrawarra Museum of Art Eye to ‘I’, Ballarat Fine Art Gallery National Artists Invitation Self-Portrait Prize, University of Queensland
2008 Optimism, Queensland Art Gallery Muse, Mildura Arts Centre, Benalla City Gallery Who let the dogs out, The dog in contemporary Australia, Hazelhurst Regional Gallery & Arts Centre
2011 Gaze, Redland Art Gallery, Queensland Finalist, Doug Moran Portrait Prize Finalist, Stan & Maureen Duke Art Prize, Gold Coast City Gallery People and Places, Heiser Gallery, Brisbane Remarks on Colour, Australian Watercolours QUT Art Museum, Brisbane
2012 Finalist, Rick Amor Drawing Prize, Ballarat Fine Art Gallery Finalist, Rick Amor Self Portrait Prize, Monsalvat Gallery
2013 Water Views – Paesaggisti all’acquerello dell XXI secolo, The ArtsBox,
Vicenza, Italy 2014 Geelong Art Prize, Geelong Art Gallery 30th Birthday Show, Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne Vista II, Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne 2015 5, with Philip Faulks, Cathy Drummond, Bill Hay and Richard Stringer. 45 Downstairs, Melbourne
Art & Furniture II, Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne
Garden, QUT Art Museum, Brisbane

AWARDS
1991 Conrad Jupiters Acquisitive Art Prize, Gold Coast City Gallery
2000 Doug Moran National Portrait Prize, Winner

COMMISSIONS
1995 Crown Melbourne Hotel: designs for tapestries executed by the
Victorian Tapestry Workshop
2001 Painting Commission, Perth Mint, Perth, WA
Portrait Commission, Queens College, University of Melbourne
2005 Portrait Commission, Trinity College, University of Melbourne
2007 Portrait Commission, Tasmanian Parliament, Tasmania
2008 Dawn Service, Australian War Memorial
2009 Portrait Commission, Centenary Institute, NSW
2011 Portrait Commission, Walter and Eliza Hall Institute
2013 Portrait Commission, Business and Economics, Melbourne University
2014 Melbourne Festival, Art Trams

COLLECTIONS
National Gallery of Australia British Museum
National Portrait Gallery Art Gallery of New South Wales
National Gallery of Victoria Tasmanian Museum & Art Gallery
ArtBank Hamilton Regional Art Gallery
Gold Coast City Art Gallery (Western Mining Corporation)
Tamworth Regional Gallery National Australia Bank
Deakin University (BHP)
Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery (Tamar Collection)
State Library of Victoria (Derwent Collection)
Queen’s College, University of Melbourne The Ian Potter Museum of Art
Moreland City Council, Melbourne Tweed Heads Regional Art Gallery, NSW
La Trobe University Collection Perth Mint, WA
University of Tasmania Trinity College
Private & Corporate Collections

PUBLICATIONS
Aitken, Richard, Gardenesque, A Celebration of Australian Gardening, The Miegunyah Press, 2004
Barilo von Reisberg, Eugene. Catalogue Essay, Charles Nodrum Gallery, 1999;
Britain, Ian, Editor, Meanjin: Portraits of the Artist, Vol. 64, 1-2, 2005
Cawthorne, Zelda (ed). The Artful Cello, MICMC, 1999.
Stephen Coppel: Out of Australia – Prints and Drawings from Sidney Nolan to Rover
Thomas, The British Museum Press 2011
Cree, Laura Murray, Australian Painting Now, Craftsman House, 2000
Deeth, Jane. Kristin Headlam: As the Twig is Bent, exh catalogue, Launceston, 2001
Drury, Neville. Images 2, Craftsman House, Sydney, 1994;
Drury, Neville. Images 3, Craftsman House, Sydney, 1999;
Falkiner, Suzanne. “Brushing the Dark”, Art Monthly, no 90, June 1996, pp. 22-24
Jan Fook and Renate Klein (eds.): A Girl’s Best Friend – The Meaning of Dogs in Women’s
Lives, Spinifex Press 2001
Grishin, Sasha, Accounting for Taste, The Lowensteins Arts Management Collection Macmillan 2013
Sasha Grishin: Australian Art: A History, The Miegunyah Press 2014;
Hammond, Victoria. Catalogue Essay, Brushing the Dark (op cit);
Hammond, V et al, The Derwent Collection, TMAG, 1995, p. 34
Hart, Kevin. Catalogue Essay, Charles Nodrum Gallery, 1996;
Kent, Rachel. Catalogue Essay, Deacons Graham & James Award, 1997;
Marsh, Anne. “Public Park: A Gendered Performance”, Art & Australia, June 1999;
Marsh, Anne, News, exhibition catalogue essay, Charles Nodrum Gallery, 2003
Miller, Steven, Dogs in Australian Art, The Wakefield Press, 2012
Patrick McCaughey: Strange Country, Why Australian Painting Matters, The Miegunyah
Press 2014;
McCulloch, A & S. Encyclopedia of Australian Art, 1994; pp. 330-31
Smith, Smith & Heathcote, Australian Painting 1788-2000, Oxford University Press, 2000, p. 585
State Library of Victoria: The Art of the Collection, The Miegunyah Press 2007;
Webby, Elizabeth, Editor, Humanities Australia, Vol 4, 2013

ARTICLES & REVIEWS
Albert, Jane. “Artist Paints Herself into $100,000 Victory”, The Australian, 23.08.2000
Backhouse, Megan. “Out of the Shadows”, Today, The Age, 20.09.2000; p. 7
Brennan, Betsy, Vogue Living, Aug-Sept 2001
Cawthorne, Zelda. “Here Comes the Bride in Oils”, Herald Sun, 2 March 1999, p 48;
Cawthorne, Zelda. “Naked Men, for a Change”, Herald Sun, 28.01.2001
Cawthorne, Zelda. “Exhibition Review”, Herald Sun, Nov. 2001
Fortescue, Elizabeth. “In bed with Kristin”, Herald Sun, 23.08.2000; p. 56
Fyfe, Melissa,. “Waking Up a Winner”, The Age, 23.08.2000;
Fiona Gruber. “Australian Portraits”, ABC Radio National and Arts Daily (Michael Cathcart);
Hammond, V. “Contemporary Artists Gain International Appeal”, Masterpiece Australia, W,
1999
Hart, Kevin. “Kristin Headlam”, Agenda, 39/40, Nov 1994, p. 44;
Hedger, Michael. “Endless Exploration”, The Herald Weekender, 21.02.2004, p. 14
Hurell, Brownyn. “Prize Painting A Pet Project”, Herald Sun, 23.08.2000; p. 12
Jay, Sian E. “What Are These Australians up to?”, The Straits Times (Singapore), 16.02.2000
Jones, Jacqui. “Exhibition has much to offer”, Newcastle & Hunter Herald, 11.02.2004; p. 7
Keene, Neil. “Galleries combine in Art Tour”, Newcastle & Hunter Herald, 13.02.2004; p.5
Lawson, Valerie. “Tails of a Prize-Winning Portrait”, Sydney Morning Herald, 28.08.00; pp1, 5;
Lynn, Elwyn. “Sublimity to Ridicule”, The Australia Weekend Review, 13-14.11.1993; p. 13
MacDonald, John. Sydney Morning Herald, 1996;
Makin, Jeff. “Brave Artist Tackles Footy Heroes”, Herald Sun, 4 Aug 2003; pp. 91-92
Marsh, Anne, A Photographic Ghost in Contemporary Painting: Recent Works by Kristin
Headlam, Southern Review, Vol 37, No 1, 2004
Mollison, James. “On Collecting”, Art & Australia, vol 34, no 1; 1997;
Murray Cree, Laura. “Gardens”, Art & Australia, vol 35, no. 4, 1998;
Porter, Liz. “How Brendan Fevola went from devil to Botticelli angel”, The Age, 31/07/03
Schoenbaum, Sam. “Male Nude – A Private View” (exhibition review), Artlink, March 2001
Spunner, Suzanne. “The Thrall of the dress: Blame it on Dior”, Art Monthly, April 99, p. 16-17.
Stone, Deborah. “Rondo with an airy middle section”, The Age, 14 May 1999.
Watson, Bronwyn. “Galleries”, Sydney Morning Herald, 30.10.1992

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Date written:

2012

Last updated:

2015