Anna Platten

 

1957  Born Adelaide, South Australia

Education

1983 
Post Graduate Award, South Australian College of Advanced Education, Adelaide

1976-1980
Bachelor of Arts, Fine Arts, South Australian College of Advanced Education, Adelaide

Awards

2004   
Mid Career Fellowship, Arts SA, South Australian Government

1987   
Chanter Bequest, South Australian College of Advanced Education, Adelaide

 

Solo Exhibitions

2012   
The Devil is in the Detail, Art Gallery of South Australia

2005   
Anna Platten: Paintings and Drawings 1994-2006, Eva Breuer, Art Dealer, Sydney

2004   

Anna Platten: Paintings and Drawings 1994-2004, Adelaide Central Gallery, Adelaide

1992   
Paintings and Studies 1982 - 1992, University of South Australia Art Museum, Adelaide

 

Group Exhibitions

2017
Trace, Hill Smith Gallery, Adelaide
4 Decades, 6 Artists, Hill Smith Gallery, Adelaide

2016
Fleurieu Art Prize, Samstag Museum of Art, Adelaide

2014
'Walking the Line', Group Drawing Exhibition, Hill Smith Gallery, Adelaide

2009  
Figurative Painting 2009, Hill Smith Gallery, Adelaide
Colliding Worlds, Samstag Museum of Art, Adelaide

2008
Optimism, Queensland Art Gallery, Gallery of Modern Art

2007 
Portrait and Place, Identity, Document or Insight?, Flinders University City Gallery, Adelaide   Finalist: Kedumba Drawing Awards, Blue Mountains, NSW
True Portraits, Adelaide Central Gallery, Adelaide 

2004-6
Drawing today: surveying recent work by South Australian artists, Adelaide Central Gallery and Country Arts SA regional tour

2001
Finalist: Kedumba Drawing Exhibition, Blue Mountains, NSW

1999 
Chemistry, Art in South Australia 1990-2000, Art Gallery of South Australia

1998-9   
Finalist: Doug Moran Portrait Prize, national tour

1998   
ACSA Staff Show, Adelaide Central Gallery

1996   
Compost, Adelaide Festival, Adelaide

1995   
Rapture, Dubbo Regional Gallery, travelling to Adelaide Central Gallery

1993   
Stage Two, Adelaide Festival Centre

1992   
This Mortal Flesh, Adelaide Town Hall, 1992 Adelaide Festival

1991   
The Nude Show Travelling Arts Program, Art Gallery of South Australia

1990 
South Australian Contemporary Drawing, Anima Gallery, Adelaide

1988 
The Image in Question - 4 Adelaide Artists, Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide

1987   
New New, Lion Arts Centre, Adelaide

1987   
Art Bank's Big Paintings, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney

1986   
New New, Lion Arts Centre 1986 Adelaide Festival Fringe

Commissions

2001 
Flinders University – portrait of Vice Chancellor Ian Chubb

2000 
University of Adelaide – portrait of Vice Chancellor Mary O’Kane

1993   
University of South Australia

1988
South Australian Government Portrait Commission, the Hon. Anne Levy, Parliament House, Adelaide

1987-88   
Museum Views, one of 12 commissioned mural artists, South Australian Museum,   Adelaide

 Collections

National Gallery of Australia, Canberra; Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Tweed Heads Regional Gallery, NSW; Newcastle Regional Gallery, NSW, Artbank, Sydney; Parliament House, South Australia,; University of South Australia.