JILL ORR

Born Melbourne, 1952
Studied Melbourne College of Advanced Education: Higher Diploma of Secondary Art & Craft;
RMIT: Masters of Arts in Fine Art

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2005      Text me photographs Sherman Galleries, Sydney,
2004      Ash performance and paintings, Shepparton and Sale Art Galleries
2004      From the Sea, video installation, Warrnambool Art Gallery ( Arts Victoria)
2003/4   Altitude Art (group) Redgate Gallery, Beijing, John Batten Gallery, Hong Kong Marroondah, Melb.
2003      The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters – Goya 45 downstairs, Melb ( City of Melb.)
2002/3   The Field, National Gallery of Victoria at The Ian Potter, Federation Square, Melbourne
2002       Ash, performance, paintings Artist in residence, Nillumbic Shire & Parks Victoria, Mass Gallery
2003      The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters - Goya, Artspace, Sydney
2004      Digital Ghosts, Installation-photographs, Mass Gallery Melb, Redgate Gallery Beijing, Tin Sheds Sydney
1999      Mud People, sculpture, painting, performance Herring Island, Melbourne ( Maudie Palmer)
1999      Artist in residence, Cite des Arts International, Paris, ( Australia Council)
1999      Presence 1, performance & painting, Mass Gallery, Melbourne
1999      Presence 2 Hunger, performance, International Performance Art Festival,Quebec City
1999      Presence 3 Hunger, performance, International Performance Art Festival,11a 7d Toronto
1999      Telling Tales, performance, Trauma, & Memory, Cross Cultural Perspectives, Gallery Neue, Graz, Austria. Curators - Jill Bennett & Jackie Dunn
1999      Exhume The Grave, performance /installation, Geelong Art Gallery
1999      New Worlds from Old, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
1998      A Bundle of Papers, Works on Paper, John Batten Gallery, Hong Kong. Curator - Tony Scott
1998      Telling Tales, photographs performance, Trauma& Memory, Cross Cultural Perspectives,
            Hunger , Ivan Dougherty Gallery. Curators - Jill Bennett & Jackie Dunn
1997       Myer Windows, performance/ installation, Melbourne International Festival. Curator - Maudie Palmer
1996      Sound Silence & Light, performance, Brisbane Festival for the Arts, IMA Brisbane
1996      Women Hold up the Sky, performance, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra. Curator - Roger Butler
1994      Lunch with the Birds, photographs, The Beach, Museum of Modern Art, Heide. Curator -Juliana Engberg
1994      Raising the Spirits, performance/ installation for Persona Cognita, Museum of Modern Art, Heide.
1994      Marrage of the Bride to Art, performance, N.G.V., Celebrating Women, Curator - Jane Scott
1994      25 Years of Performance, photo documentation, Sydney, Perth, Canberra, Melbourne
1992      Love Songs, performance season by popular demand, ACCA, Melbourne
1991      Off the Wall In the Air, A 70s Selection, ACCA, Melbourne
1991      Love Songs, performance installation, IMA Brisbane, ACCA Melbourne, Dissonance, Frames of Reference- Aspects of Feminism,
             Artspace, Sydney
1990      Photo documentation 1978-88, photographs & performance, Geelong Art Gallery, Bendigo Art Gallery,
             Mildura Art Gallery, Experimental Art Foundation Adelaide, Canberra Contemporary Artspace
1989      Paintings, solo show, 312 Lennox St, Richmond
1987      Paintings, 312 Lennox St, Richmond
1986      From Field to Figuration, National Gallery of Victoria
1985      The Amsterdam Process, paintings solo, Christine Abrahams Gallery, Melbourne
1985      Paintings, solo show, The Performance Space, Sydney
1983      The Digging in & the Climbing Out, performance earthwork, ACT 3, Canberra
1983      Continuim`83, documentation, Japan. Curators - Anne Marsh & Jane Kent
1982      Paintings, solo exhibition, Gallery Theeboom, Amsterdam
1982      Meeting the Opposites, performance/ installation, Eurecha/ Australian Artists in London, IMA, London.
             Curators - Leon Parissien & Burnice Murphy
1982      Headed South, performance, Salon O Amsterdam, IMA Belgium
1981      Paintings, solo show, Gallery Theeboom, Amsterdam
1980      She Had Long Golden Hair, performance, Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide
1980      Bleeding Trees, performance, Paris Biennalle, Musee D`Art Modern, Paris
1980      Do You Speak? performance, Mixage Festival, Rotterdam, Utrect, Breda, Amsterdam
1979      Bleeding Trees, performance, Sydney Biennalle, European Dialogue
1979      Pain Melts & Lunch With the Birds, performance/ installation, IMA Brisbane
1978      Response, performance/ earthwork, Mildura Triennial, Mildura

COLLECTIONS & AWARDS
National Gallery of Victoria, Australian National Gallery, Methodist Ladies College, Griffith Artworks, Mildura Art Gallery, Geelong Art Gallery. Private collections: Australia, Holland, England, France, USA, Belgium, China. Residencies: Parks Vic Nillumbic Shire 2002; Melbourne City Council 1999, Citè Des Artes, Paris, 1998. Project Grants: Arts Vic 1995; Hybrid Art, Aust Council, 1991; Fellowship, Aust Council, 1986+87; Production Grant, Theatre Board, Aust Council, 1979; Travel grant, VACB, Aust Council Residency, Redgate Gallery, Beijing, 2005