About the Artist

Teresa Dowd was born in Ceduna in South Australia in 1951. She left school early and returned in her mid twenties and became a school teacher. She then worked in education, equal opportunity and publishing and raised three children. She found a creative outlet in drawing, creating assemblages and painting. In 1997 she attended RMIT to complete a diploma in Visual Art. Since then she has worked and exhibited as a practising artist, involved in both group and solo exhibitions.

Teresa usually makes work in series, taking up a set of ideas and sequentially developing and exploring a concept. Her work is based on her personal and professional meditations on the relationship between the visible and the metaphysical worlds, between the self and the surrounding natural forces. Throughout her practice her iconography has often come from a woman's realm of experience and childhood memory. It has included landscape, religious imagery, sewing paraphernalia, childhood photographs, domestic interiors and childhood toys. Although serious about her work, her idea of making art is quite closely associated with play; a game of improvisation and indefinite rules.

Exhibitions

2007 Contemporary Art Society Exhibition Carlton

2006 Bid for Freedom -The Glen Eira City Council Gallery, Caulfield

2004 Flying Ants - stART Community Art Space, Collingwood
2004 Pigments 1 - Fitzroy Gallery, Fitzroy
2004 Atelier - At Home with Art Charter House, Bank Place, Melbourne
2004 Bid For Freedom - The Glen Eira City Council Gallery, Caulfield
2003 Bid For Freedom - The Glen Eira City Council Gallery, Caulfield
2003 Smorgon Steet Contemporary Art Prize - Williamstown
2003 Postcard Exhibition - Linden Art Gallery, St Kilda
2002 Between the Spires - Dante's Upstairs Gallery, Fitzroy
2002 Smorgon Steel Contemporary Art Prize - Williamstown
2002 APW Celebrating 21 Years of Printmaking - Australian Print Workshop Fitzroy
2002 Postcard Exhibition - Linden Art Gallery, St Kilda
2001 Red - Jackman Gallery, St Kilda
2001 Postcard Exhibition - Linden Art Gallery, St Kilda
2000 Girls Play - Australian Academy of Design, Docklands (solo)
2000 Cross the Bridge - Vic Ave Gallery, Albert Park (curator)
2000 Postcard Exhibition - Linden Art Gallery, St Kilda
1999 Qualities of Being - Xeros Gallery, St Kilda
1999 About the House - Vic Ave Gallery, Albert Park (solo)
1999 Impressions - Australian Print Workshops, Fitzroy
1998 Siteseeing - First Site RMIT Gallery Swanston St
1997 Destination - First Site RMIT Gallery Swanston St
1997 Post Postcard - Linden Art Gallery, St Kilda

Represented

National Gallery Australia, Canberra (purchased from Impressions Exhibition 1999) and private collections

Prizes

Linden 2001 Postcard show
Urban Attitude Acquisitive Prize
St Kilda Art Supplies Acquisitive Prize

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