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Janenne Eaton  - Biography
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Janenne Eaton’s studies and fieldwork in archaeology have been influential in the direction her artwork has taken since the mid 1980’s. Her artistic explorations acknowledge how individuals and societies are shaped, through time, by historical events, economics, and experiences of diaspora, within today’s mesh of a globalized, digital ecology.
 
Janenne’s works focus a lens on the visual static that permeates contemporary life.  Through the use of historical markers, digital textual symbols and elements embedded in computer based imaging, her works explore how a new, virtual language
​of sign systems mediates our day-to-day experience of the world.  Highlighting some of the key visual signifiers of our consumer-led, info-centric society, her works explore local and global political imperatives, their impact on people and the environment. 
 
Janenne Eaton's practice incorporates painting, photography, installation and video. Through solo and participation in group exhibitions her works have been exhibited extensively in ARI’s, museums and commercial galleries nationally and internationally. Janenne's work is represented in numerous public and private collections including the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, The National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne,The National Portrait Gallery, Canberra.

Recent exhibition highlights include:  Yellow Brick Wall, Thomas Kong’s Back Room, Chicago, USA; Road to the hills – a text for everything and nothing, The 8th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, Queensland Art Gallery /Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane (2015 - 2016); Black, works from the National Gallery of Australia Collection (2016); Fences B/orders Walls, TCB art inc. Melbourne (2016); PRINT @ CDU, Charles Darwin University, NT (2016); Black to Blacker, Geelong Art Gallery (2016); Pictures at an exhibition, West Space, Melbourne (2013), Reading the Space, Contemporary Australian Drawing #4, New York Studio School, USA (2013)


Education

Master of Arts, Fine Art, RMIT University
Bachelor of Arts (Prehistory/Art History), The Australian National University, Canberra
Diploma of Art & Design, Caulfield Institute of Technology, Melbourne

Professional Experience

- Head of Painting Programme, School of Art, Victorian College of the Arts and Conservatorium of Music, Faculty of 
   Melbourne University, Melbourne 1999 – 2011.
- Lecturer, Painting Programme, School of Art, Victorian College of the Arts and Conservatorium of Music, Faculty of 
   Melbourne University, Melbourne 1992 – 1998.
- Lecturer, Canberra School of Art, Australian National University, Canberra 1980 – 1991.

Solo Exhibitions
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FENCES BORDERS WALLS - Keep Clear, Canberra Contemporary Art Space [CCAS]
Shadowlands, Nancy Sever Gallery, Canberra
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The Yellow Brick Wall – The Back Room at Kim’s Corner Food, Chicago, USA
FENCES B/ORDERS WALLS,  TCB Melbourne 
Re e f  - Nancy Sever Gallery. Canberra
Road to the hills - a text for everything and nothing, NKN Gallery, Melbourne
Superradiant, Block Projects, Melbourne
Bella Vista, John Buckley Gallery, Melbourne
Nothing lasts forever, John Buckley Gallery, Melbounrne
Outliers, Helen Maxwell Gallery, Canberra
The Avenue of Honour, Shrine of Remembrance, Melbourne
Angle of head, Helen Maxwell Gallery at Silvershot, Melbourne
Filter , Conny Dietzschold Gallery, Sydney / Cologne
Deleting the monarchy, West Space, Melbourne
Filter,  Helen Maxwell Gallery, Canberra
Creek Runner: Second Crossing, Conny Dietzschold Gallery, Sydney / Cologne,
Equidistant – Anatomy of a Project, West Space Inc., Melbourne
Histories, Golden Dragon Museum, Bendigo
Histories : Learning Chinese, Ben Grady Gallery, Canberra
Materia Prima, Para / Site Art Space, Hong Kong
Terra Australis: Works from the Penal Colony Series, Renard Wardell Gallery, Melb.
Transcriptions, West Space Inc., Footscray
Terra Australis – Select Views, Drill Hall Gallery, The Australian National University, Canberra
The Avenue of Honour, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne
Paintings from the Penal Colony Series, Ben Grady Gallery, Canberra
Mia Bellas & Bandoleras, Tolarno Gallery, Melbourne
Recent Works, Ben Grady Gallery, Canberra
New Paintings, Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne
Afterimage, Milburn & Arte, Sydney
Untitled  Canberra Contemporary Art Space, Canberra
From the Tower to the Brink, Mori Gallery, Sydney
Untitled, Pinacotheca, Melbourne
Drawings from the Underground, Mori Gallery, Sydney
Aerial, Hogarth Gallery, Sydney
New Paintings, Hogarth Gallery, Sydney
Untitled, Lister Gallery, Perth
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IN FULL VIEW  - WORKS FROM THE LYON COLLECTION
HOUSEMUSEUM GALLERIES.  7 September – 26 January 2020
NGV COLLECTION – AUSTRALIAN ART
Ian Potter Centre: – NGV Australia​. 2019
From the Collection: National Anthem A New Order
Buxton Contemporary/The University of Melbourne
Celebration: 20 years of collecting visual art ,
Canberra Museum and Gallery
 Canberra ACT 24 march – 17 June 2018
Shakespeare Grove Artist Studios Selected Works 2018
Carlisle Arts Space (St Kilda Town Hall ) 21March – 18 April 2018
​As Long As The Night Is Dark
Wagga Wagga Art Gallery 4 February – 23 April 2017
Mars Gallery, Melbourne, 13 May – 3 June 2017
8th Asia pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art QAGOMA, Brisbane
“priNT@CDU” Charles Darwin University, NT 2016
This exhibition is in celebration of 50 years of the Print Council of Australia
LAT 35:17, LONG 149:09 1991, National Gallery of Australia, Level 1;  the exhibition Black
Reading the Space: Contemporary Australian Drawing #2, New York Studio School, New York USA
Pictures at an Exhibition, Rohan Schwartz, West Space, Melbourne
In line, Wilma Tobacco curator, Langford 101, Melbourne
Everything at once, Paradise Hills, Melbourne
Negotiating This World, National Gallery of Victoria              
From Realism to Nihilism, The Gallery – St KIlda Town Hall, Melbourne
Contemporary Australian Drawing, University of the Arts, London
Artist and Mentor, The Gallery @ Bayside Arts & Cultural Centre
Imitation of Life, Canberra Museum and Gallery
A Gleam of Light, M16 Artspace, Canberra
Imaging the Apple, AC Institute [Direct Chapel], New York
Folk 2: Assemblage No 4.Wallwork , SNO – Contemporary Art Projects, Sydney
The 2009 Clemenger ContemporaryArt Award, National Gallery of Victoria
Reflections – Selected works from the Holmes a Court Collection, Holmes a Court Gallery, Perth.
Deleting the Monarchy inWhat is? Directors Lounge,Video Festival, Berlin, Germany: Fabs Gallery, Warsaw, Poland;Sub Urban video lounge, Rotterdam, Netherlands.
Look: New Directions in the Contemporary Collection, The National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
The Aliens Can Smell Our Blood, Block Projects, Melbourne
Recovering Lives, ANU Drill Hall Gallery, Canberra.
Reflections  -The First Decade, Canberra Museum & Art Gallery, Canberra
Utopian Visions & the Slump of Paradise, Block Projects, Melbourne
Arthur Guy memorial Painting Prize, Bendigo Art Gallery, Bendigo
Imaging the Apple, Ballarat Fine Art Gallery, Ballarat. (travelling exhibition)
The  Year in Art, -  A Selection of Contemporary Works of Art Exhibited in Sydney Galleries Throughout
S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney
The Story So Far, National Portrait Gallery, Canberra.
Melbourne Art Fair, Conny Dietzschold Gallery, Sydney/Cologne, Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne.
Sculpture 2002, Conny Dietzschold Gallery, Sydney
Multiple Box, Conny Dietzschold Gallery, Sydney
Fallout, Victorian College of the Arts Gallery, Melbourne.
Minimal – Works from the Holmes a Court Collection, Holmes a Court Gallery, Perth.
Vietnam Voices – Australians and the Vietnam War, Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre, NSW. Touring Melbourne Museum, Salamanca Arts Centre, Hobart, Broken Hill City Gallery, Albury Regional Arts Centre, Newcastle Regional Museum, Queensland Museum, Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory
The Retrieved Object, Linden Contemporary Art Centre, Melbourne.
Geelong Contemporary Art prize, Geelong Fine Art Gallery, Victoria.
The Australian Drawing Biennale, Drill Hall Gallery, The Australian National University, Canberra.
Swingtime : West Coast & Swingtime East Coast – Art from the 60’s and 70’s, Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, University of Western Australia.
Wynn Prize Exhibition, Art Gallery of New South Wales.
Th e International Works on Paper Fair, State Library of NSW.
Australian Art in the 1980’s, National Gallery of Victoria.
Australian National University Art Collection, 50th Anniversary Touring Exhibition, Drill Hall Gallery, ANU, Canberra.
Some Recent Acquisitions, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra.
Works on Paper, Wimbeldon School of Art London.
The Baillieu Myer Collection of the 80’s, Museum of Modern Art at Heide, Melbourne.
Two Weeks, Tolarno Gallery, Melbourne.
Hard Rain, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra.
Unpeeled Art, Ballarat Fine Art gallery, Ballarat.
The Print, the Press, The Artists and the Painter – Limited Editions and Artists’ Books from the Art Presses of the ACT, Drill Hall Gallery, ANU, Canberra.
Australian National University Collection Exhibition, Drill Hall Gallery, ANU, Canberra            
Canberra and Regional Artists In the Parliament House Collection, Parliament House, Canberra
Works on Paper by Contemporary Australian Artists, RMIT Gallery, Melbourne
The Land Print Portfolio, AGOGGallery,Canberra
Still Life Whittaker and the Surreal, Gold Coast City Art Gallery, Surfers Paradise
The Gold Coast City and Conrad Jupiters Art Prize for Painting, Gold Coast City Art Gallery
The Seventies Collection, Caulfield Arts Complex, Melbourne
Sun, Smoke and Steel, National Touring Exhibition 1990-92, Studio One, Canberra & Tin Sheds, Sydney
10 :1 Print Project, Ben Grady Gallery, Canberra
Canberra Institute of the Arts Staff Exhibition, Canberra School of Art, Canberra
Ten Years of Tapestry from the Victorian Tapestry Workshop, National Gallery of Australia
Blake Prize, Blaxland Gallery, Sydney
Canberra Times National Art Award, Canberra School of Art Gallery, Canberra
Tutti Frutti Verde Gallery, Milan Art Fair, Milan, Italy
Backlash : the Australian Drawing Revival1976-1986, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
The Repeated Image, an Exhibition from the Griffith University Collection, Brisbane Civic Art Gallery & Museum
The Hugh Williamson Prize, Ballarat Fine Art gallery, Ballarat
An Exhibition of Selected Works from the Griffith University Art Collection, Queensland College of Art Gallery, Brisbane
Monumental Drawings, Contemporary Art Society of Australia Gallery, Adelaide
Australian Perspecta ’85, Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney
Six Drawing, Tasmanian School of Art Gallery, University of Tasmania, Hobart
Collectors Choice, Gallery Huntly, Canberra
New Art, Selections from the Michell Endowment, National Gallery of Victoria
Banyule Gallery Heidelberg
From the Studio, Gallery Huntly, Canberra
Canberra School of Art Staff Show, Canberra School of Art Gallery, Canberra
Georges Invitation Art prize, Georges Gallery, Melbourne
Undercroft Gallery Acquisitions Exhibition, University of Western Australia Collection, Perth
Undercroft Gallery Acquisitions Exhibition, University of Western Australia, Perth
The Perth Drawing Prize, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth
Selected Bibliography
Criddle, G.,
Changing Sides. TCB Art Inc. Melbourne, Catalogue Essay 2016


Crawford: A.,
As Long As The Night Is Dark: Hysteria And Apocalypse,
Ashley Crawford
The Article - April 2017

Blair, U.,  
'Nothing lasts forever’,  Catalogue, John Buckley Gallery, Melbourne 2008

Clark D.,
‘Imitation of Life’, catalogue essay, for exhibition, Imitation of Life, Canberra Museum and Gallery, 2011

Eaton, J.,
‘Equidistant’  in Brett Jones & Leung Chi Wo Eds. Materia prima (catalogue) West Space, Melb. & Para Site, Hong Kong, 1999
‘Learning Chinese’ in Form and formation, West Space 1993 – 2003, Ed. Brett Jones, 3Deep publishers 2004

Eagle, M. 
Janenne Eaton - our speed Is our point of view, Mary Eagle, catalogue essay for exhibition, Recovering Lives, 
ANU Drill Hall Gallery 2008

Gellatly, K.,
Generous and Brave: A Decade of Contemporary Australian Art, catalogue essay for exhibition 101 Contemporary Australian Artists; Negotiating This World, National Gallery of Victoria, 2012

Gott, T.,
‘Backlash – The Australian Drawing Revival 1976 – 1986 (catalogue), National Gallery of  Victoria

Green, C.,        
‘Peripheral Vision- Contemporary Art in Australia 1970-1994, World Books, Sydney 1995
Art Forum International, February 1991
‘Cities of Light’, Terra Australis-Select Views, Catalogue ANU, 1996

Gregg, S.,        
Artist & Mentor, catalogue essay for exhibition  Artist & Mentor, The Gallery @ Bayside Arts & Cultural Centre 2012

Grishin, S.,       
‘The Print, the Press, the Artist and the Painter – Limited Editions and Artists Books from Art Presses of the ACT’,
      Australian National University, 1994
‘The ANU Art Collection, Fiftieth Anniversary Touring Exhibition’ catalogue, ANU 1996

Hansen, D.,
'Through a glass, but even more darkly',  Exhibition Road to the hills - a text for everything and nothing, 
Catalogue Essay ​-  NKN Gallery. Melbourne 2014
‘Bedrock principles’, Exhibition  - Angle of head. (Cat essay) 2006

Haynes, P.,      
‘Artists from Canberra and Districts in the Parliament House Collection’, Catalogue, parliament House, Canberra  1992
‘Janenne Eaton, Recent Paintings, Catalogue, Canberra Contemporary Art Space, October 1987

Hethrington,P., 
National Library of Australia News, March 1997

Holt, R.,                       
‘Equidistant-Anatomy of a Project’, Like Art Magazine, No 15 Winter 2001

Jones, B.,        
‘In and out of focus’, Materia Prima – Hong Kong – Melbourne art exchange (catalogue) 2000

Just, K,
‘From the Collection: National Anthem A New Order’ Catalogue
essay, Buxton Contemporary/University of Melbourne, 2019 Melbourne

Just, K.,           
‘Angle of Head’, Eyeline, Contemporary Visual Arts, No 61: Spring 2006

Kerr, J.,           
‘The Australian Drawing Biennale’, catalogue, Drill Hall Gallery, The Australian National University, Canberra, 1996
‘Janenne Eaton Transcriptions’, The Australian Drawing Biennale (catalogue), 1998, The Australian National University ,
      Canberra

King, N.,          
‘The Retrieved Object’, Like Art Magazine,No 14, Autumn, 2001

Kleinert, S.,
Avenue of Honour: Post Modern Histories . Catalogue essay Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, 1995
‘Unreal City’, Volume 1, No 3, Canberra Contemporary Art Space, Canberra 1991
'Myths of the Future: The Art of Parliament House’, Transition: Discourse on Architecture No 30, Spring 1989

Knezic, S.,
'From the Collection: National Anthem A New Order’ Catalogue
essay, Buxton Contemporary/University of Melbourne, 2019 Melbourne

Koop, S.,         
‘The Retrieved Object’ Linden Contemporary Art Centre, St Kilda, Curator, Elizabeth Gower 2001

Lindsay, R.,     
‘The Myer Baillieu Collection of the 80’s, Vol II, Collections in the Museum of Modern Art at Heidi, Melbourne, 1994
‘The Seventies – Australian Art Paintings & Tapestries from the Collection of the National Australia Bank, Catalogue 1982

Magor-Blatch, L., 
‘Janenne Eaton- Colonial Influences’, Imprint Vol 31, No 3, Spring 1996

McGregor, P.,  
‘Vietnam Voices, The Art of War’ in Australia Screen Education, Issue26/27, Winter 2001

McIntyre, A.,    
‘Australian Contemporary Drawing’, Boolarong Publications, Brisbane 1988

McKenzie, J.,   
‘New Drawing in Australia: The Work of Lynne Boyd, Marion Borghelt  & Janenne Eaton’, Studio International Vol 199,
      No 1015, Dec 1986-Feb 1987         
‘Drawing in Australia’ Macmillan, Sydney 1986
Contemporary Australian Drawing #1, Macmillan Australia 2012

Mendelssohn, J.,
‘Conflict and Tradition: Australian Art and the Vietnam War’ in Vietnam Voices – Australians and the Vietnam War,
      Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre, NSW 2002

Morrell, T.,       
‘Monumental Drawings’ Contemporary Art Space, Adelaide, Catalogue 1986
‘Big Drawings’ Art and Australia Vol 23 No 3 Autumn 1986

Mulvaney, J.,
‘Digging Up a Past’, UNSW Press Ltd 2011

Nelson, R.,
‘Semiotic History of the Fold’ Agenda No 33, September 1993
‘Marked by the Past’ The Age, 24 December 1994
‘Correspondence in Art Monthly Australia No 101, July 1997

Perichic; S.,
All the things you see now will soon be gone and all the things we can’t see will last forever 
Issue Two (54.1): The Plague p52 – 85. Art + Australia. 2017.

Prunster, U.,
‘Transformations’, Australian Perspecta Catalogue, Art Gallery of NSW, 1985

Rudhyar, D.,    
‘Six Levels of Art Activity’ Transforming Art Vol 3 No 1, 1988

Semmens, S.,  
‘Fallout’, Eyeline  Contemporary Visual Arts No 48, Autumn/Winter 2002
‘ Filter’,  Eyeline, Contemporary Visual Arts, No. 56 : Summer 2004 / 2005

Wallis, S.,       
‘Unpeeled Art’ Catalogue, Ballarat Fine Art Gallery, 1994
Galleries, Art & Australia, 40th Anniversary Issue Vol 40 No 4 2003
Exhibition Commentary, Art & Australia, Vol.22, No 3, Autumn 1985

 (Newspaper reviews not included)

Collections
Artbank,  
Australian National Gallery, Canberra,  
Australian National University, Canberra,  
Ballarat Fine Art Gallery, Ballarat,  
National Australia Bank, Melbourne
Heide Museum of Modern Art , Melbourne
BHP Billiton, Australia
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne,  
National Portrait Gallery, Canberra
​Parliament House, Canberra
Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, Launceston
Holmes a Court Collection, Perth
University of Western Australia, Perth
Lyon Housemuseum
Canberra Museum and Gallery
Canberra University Collection, Canberra
University of Melbourne
Curtin University, Perth
City of Port Phillip Collection
Darwin Community College, Darwin
Geelong Art Gallery, Geelong, Victoria
Gold Coast City Art Gallery, Surfers Paradise
Golden Dragon Museum, Bendigo, Victoria
Griffith University, Brisbane
Murdoch University, Perth
Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne
Private Collections in Australia and overseas
Awards
Geelong Contemporary Art Prize
ACT Cultural Development Grant
Canberra Critics Circle Award
The Gold Coast City and Conrad Jupiters Art Prize
Australia Council Artists Development Grant
Canberra Times National Art Award
Visual Arts Board Artists Grant
Visual Arts Board Studio Grant, Paretaio, Italy 
Janenne Eaton © 2020