Harry Hummerston     

 

Curriculum Vitae

 

EDUCATION AND QUALIFICATIONS    

 

2002  Master of Arts (Fine Art), Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology University

1991  Post Graduate Studies in Visual Arts, Curtin University

1985  Teachers Higher Certificate, Education Department of Western Australia

1983  BA Fine Arts, Western Australian Institute of Technology

1981  Associateship in Art Teaching, Western Australian Institute of Technology. 

1973  Diploma of Teaching and Teachers Certificate, Graylands Teachers College.

 

 

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

 

2006  Studio Coordinator Printmaking School of Art, RMIT University

2003-05  Head Department of Art, Faculty of BEAD, Curtin University

2002  Deputy Head School of Art, Curtin University

2001-1999  Undergraduate Coordinator, School of Art, Curtin University

1998-88  Coordinator Printmaking, SOA, Curtin University

1987  Carine TAFE, Lecturer

1986-85  Albany TAFE, Curtin Course Coordinator, acting Senior Lecturer

1984  Duncraig Senior High School, Art teacher

1983-80  WA Ministry of Education, Education Officer, Art Advisory

1979  Art Specialist teacher, Bridgetown

1978  Newton Moore Senior High School, Art teacher

1977-76  Art Specialist teacher primary

1975-74  Education Department of WA, primary school teacher

 

 

SOLO EXHIBITIONS 

 

2022   Past Present Post, Nyistor Studio, Perth WA

2019   Harry Hummerston Screenprints, Fremantle Arts Centre, WA

2019   Don’t Blink Twice, Turner Galleries, WA

2015   Walking Spanish, Turner Galleries, WA

2013   Double Vision, Turner Galleries, WA

2011   Unrealised, Turner Galleries, WA

2011   New Works, Umbrella Studio Contemporary Arts, Townsville, Qld

2009   Necromancing, Showcase Gallery Central TAFE, WA

2003   Portent, Perth International Arts Festival, Fremantle Arts Centre, WA

2002   An Enduring Symbol II, Faculty Gallery RMIT University, VIC

2000   An Enduring Symbol, Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts, WA

2000   In Progress, Gossard Project Space, RMIT, VIC

1995   In the Eye of The Beholder, ArtPlace, Perth WA

1993   To Thy Own Self Be True, Chiang Mai University Gallery, Thailand

1993   Sculpture and Prints, ArtPlace, WA

1992   An Odd, Odd Thought, Delaney Galleries, WA

1991   Devotional Fetish Objects, Fremantle Arts Centre, WA

1989   Of Cups, Festival of Perth Exhibition, Addendum Gallery, WA

1989   H Hummerston Printmaker, Geraldton Regional Art Gallery, WA

1989   Towards Some Understanding, Spiral Gallery, WA

1985   Works on Paper, The Vine Gallery, Mt Barker, WA

 

 

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

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2020   Sculpture at Bathers Beach, Fremantle.

2018   Galvanise, Old Customs House, Fremantle.

2017   Sculpture at Bathers Beach, Fremantle.

2017   Scene, Nyisztor Studio, WA

2017   Gifted, Fremantle Arts Centre, Fremantle.

2015   Scene, Nyisztor Studio, WA

2014   Staff Room, PS Art Space, Fremantle

2014   Boom, City of Perth Art Collection, Council House, WA

2013   Pure contemplation without knowledge 5, Nyisztor Studio, WA

2012   Midwest Art prize, Geraldton Regional Art Gallery

2012   City of Joondalup Invitation Art Award, WA

2011   Familiar Unfamiliar, C3 Contemporary Artspace Vic

2011   Artists for peace, Moores Building Contemporary Gallery, WA

2011   Angel Hair, Alcoa Mandurah Gallery, WA

2011   City of Joondalup Invitation Art Award, WA

2011   Infest, Central Gallery, WA

2010   Harboring Histories, Durban University, South Africa

2010   Exchange, RMIT School of Art Gallery, VIC

2010   Beneath the skin, Wagga Wagga Art Gallery, NSW

2010   Home Open, Fremantle Arts Centre, WA

2010   City of Joondalup Invitation Art Award, WA

2010   Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital Art Award, WA

2010   WallPaper, Gallery Central, WA

2010   GET smART, John Curtin Gallery WA

2010   Ten 2000 – 2010, Homes a Court Gallery, WA

2009   Staff Room 09, Moores Building Contemporary Art Gallery, WA

2008   Closet Circus, Bunbury Regional Art Galleries, WA

2007   Font, Central TAFE Art Gallery, Perth WA

2007   Altered States, Wagga Wagga Art Gallery, New South Wales

2007   The Art of Giving, Murdoch University, Perth, WA

2007   by the light of the moon, Impressions on Paper Gallery, Canberra, ACT

2006   The Men’s Gallery, The Doll’s House, Melbourne, Victoria

2006-2008   Mine Own Executioner, Art on The Move Touring exhibition, WA

2006   Staff Room, Moores Building Contemporary Art Gallery, Fremantle, WA

2005   Mine Own Executioner, Survey Exhibition, Mundaring Arts Centre, WA

2004   Mine Own Executioner, Mundaring Arts Centre, WA

2004   Two Wheels Good, Fremantle Arts Centre, WA

2003   Animalistic, Touring Exhibition, Edith Cowan University, WA

2003   Retablo, Art 03, WA Contemporary Art Fair, WA

2002   27 Annual Shell Fremantle Print Award, WA

2002   Kurb Your Indifference, Kurb Gallery, WA

2002   Compact Prints, Print Exchange Exhibition, Umbrella Studio, QLD

2002   Love Your Work, Fremantle Arts Centre, WA

2001   26 Annual Shell Fremantle Print Award, Fremantle Arts Centre, WA

2001   Prints WA 2001, The Moores Building, Fremantle WA

2001   Printonline, Impressions Gallery, Northbridge WA

2000   Korea-Australia Print Exchange Exhibition, RMIT Gallery Story Hall, VIC

2000   Prints WA 2000, The Moores Building, WA

1999   Art for Australia Portfolio, Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, University of WA

1999   The Cask - An Aussie Icon, USQ Arts Gallery, QLD

1999   Shell Fremantle Print Award, Fremantle Arts Centre, WA

1998   The Cask - An Aussie Icon, National Gallery of Victoria, VIC

1998   ArtPlace at 101, Gallery 101, VIC

1998   Artists Against Racism, Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts, WA

1997   Read My Lips, Fremantle Arts Centre, WA1997   On Censorship, ArtPlace, Perth WA

1996   The Ultimate Proof, Art Gallery of Western Australia, WA

1996   Printmedia, Casula Powerhouse Art Centre, NSW

1995   Pacific Rim International Print Exhibition, University of Hawaii, USA

1995   Extraordinary Paintings, Erica Underwood Gallery, Curtin University, WA

1995   A Survey in Printmaking, Claremont Art School Gallery, WA

1994   At The Front - Artists at War, Art Gallery of Western Australia, WA

1994   Studio One Exchange Exhibition, Studio One, ACT

1994   Masculinities, Claremont Art School Gallery, WA

1994   Erotic Works, ArtPlace, WA

1993   Bunbury Biennale, Bunbury Regional Art Gallery, WA

1993   Fremantle Print Award, Fremantle Arts Centre, WA

1993   The Advantage of Isolation, Festival of Perth Exhibition, ArtPlace, WA

1993   The Advantage of Isolation, Blaxland Gallery, NSW

1993   Six Hundred and Seventy Two Heads, Fremantle Arts Centre, WA

1992   ARX3, (Artist Regional Exchange), Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts, WA

1992   The Loaded Image: Satire in Contemporary Art, The Art Gallery of WA

1992   Acquisitions 1990/91, Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, University of Western Australia

1992   Urban reality, NETS Touring Exhibition, WA

1991   Printessentials, Festival of Perth Exhibition, The Moores Building, WA 

1991   Woodworks, The Erica Underwood Gallery, University of Western Australia, WA

1991   Artist - Artist, Festival of Perth Exhibition, Fremantle Arts Centre, WA

1990   Screenprints, Tools of The Trade Series, The Art Gallery of Western Australia, WA 

1990   Gotham Goes Shopping, Festival of Perth Exhibition, PICA, WA

1989   Western Australian Prints Recent Acquisitions, The Art Gallery of Western Australia

1989   Henri Worland Memorial Print Award 1989, Warrnambool Art Gallery, VIC

1989   Fable Talk, Festival of Perth Exhibition, The Moores Building, WA

1988   Bicentenary Print Award, Bridge Street Gallery, NSW

1988   The One Off Show, The Beach Gallery, WA

1988   Fremantle Print Award, Fremantle Arts Centre, WA

1987   Southern Printmakers, Festival Fringe, Glyde Gallery, WA

1987   Luv A Duck, Undercroft Gallery, University of Western Australia, WA

1987   Fremantle Print Award, Fremantle Arts Centre, WA

1986   Three Premiers Art Purchase, Bunbury City Art Gallery, WA

1986   M.P.A.C. 7th Biennial Print Acquisitive, Mornington Art Gallery, VIC

1986   Fremantle Print Award, Fremantle Arts Centre, WA

1985   Australian Prints 1985 Exhibition, Print Council of Australia, Touring USA

1984   M.P.A.C., 6th Biennial Print Acquisitive, Mornington Gallery, VIC

1984   Bunbury City Invitation Art Purchase, Bunbury Art Gallery, WA

1984   Fremantle Print Award, Fremantle Art Gallery, WA

1984   6 by 6 Show, Fremantle Art Gallery, WA

1983   Henry Worland Print Award, Warranambool Art Gallery, VIC

1983   Fremantle Print Award, Fremantle Art Gallery, WA

1982   The Xerox Show, Quentin Gallery, WA

1982   Andrew & Lillian Pederson Memorial Prize for Printmaking, Queensland Art Gallery

1982   Political Print Show, Praxis Gallery, WA

1981   Artists Against Uranium, Fremantle Art Gallery, WA

1981   Fremantle Print Award, Fremantle Art Gallery, WA

1981   Young Artist Awards, The Art Gallery of Western Australia

1981   The Postcard Show, Galerie Dusseldorf, WA

 

 

BIBLIOGRAPHY

 

Harry Hummerston; ‘Double Vision’, exhibition catalogue, 2013, ISBN 978-0-646-52028-5

Harry Hummerston; ‘Unrealised’, exhibition catalogue, 2011, ISBN 978-0-646-52028-5

Harry Hummerston; ‘Necromancing’, exhibition catalogue, 2009, ISBN 978-0-646-52028-5

Harry Hummerston; ‘Portent’, exhibition catalogue, 2002, ISBN 0-9579896-4-4

 

Goddard, Julian; ‘Double Vision’, Exhibition Catalogue, September 2013   

Fitzpatrick, Donal; ’Unrealised’, Exhibition Catalogue, August 2011

Thelma John, Julie Hobbs: Wallpaper Exhibition Catalogue, July 2010

Spencer, Ric; ‘Necromancing the Tableau Vivant’, Exhibition Catalogue, September 2009 

Spencer, Ric; ‘Symbology for Youth Lays Out Future’, West Australian, 28 October 2009 

ABC Regional TV; The Horn Collection of WA Art Pt 2 Video 2009

Green, Rona; ‘Altered States’, exhibition catalogue, Wagga Wagga Art Gallery, July 2007

Spencer, Ric; ‘A movable feast of art’s changing Face’ Western Australian, January 2007

Spencer, Ric; ‘Chuck another metaphor on the babbie’ West Australian, October 2005 

English, Annie; ‘Perth International Art Festival’, Art Monthly, December 2002, p60

Goddard, Julian; ‘Harry Hummerston and the Gallery of Fear, Exhibition Catalogue, August 2002 

English, Annie; ‘Very Now’, Art Monthly, October 2002, p46

O’Brien, Philippa; ‘Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts’, Artlink, , Vol. 20, No 4, 2000. p77 

English, Annie; ‘Exhibition Excitement’, Art Monthly, November 2000, p46

Wilson, Leigh; ‘An Enduring Symbol’, Artseen (http://www.artseen.vbw.com.au/index.html),  October 2000

Bromfield, David; ‘Intricacies of Context’, Western Australian, 7 October 2000

‘RMIT’, The Bulletin, Vol. 4, No 2, May 2000, p4

Huppatz, D.J; The Cask - an Aussie icon, catalogue introduction, 1998

Bromfield, David; ‘Biggles, Buddha & The Fear of Books’, Western Australian, 14 June 1997 

Nelson, Alice; ‘Cause for Celebration’, Imprint, Vol. 32, No 2, 1997, p9

Bromfield, David; ‘Censorship Raises Vexed Question’, Western Australian, 24 May 1997 

Herriman, Anna; ‘Public Objects and Private Parts in Harry Hummerston’s Recent Assemblages’, Artlink, Vol. 16, No 1,1996, pp.58-61

Weston, Neville; ‘Work It Out For Yourselves’, Western Review, Ocober,1995, p18

Tailor, Robyn; ‘Tickling The Male Psyche’, Artlink, Vol. 14, No 3, 1994, p85

Wallace, Linda; ‘Undergrowth Articulated’,  Eyeline, Special ARX3 issue, 1993, p51

Duxbury, Lesley; ‘Big Prints Boom’, Imprint, Vol. 28, No 4, Summer 1993, pp15-16 

Bromfield, David; ‘Originality Shines Through’, Western Australian, 8 August 1992 

Banks, Ron; ‘Wild Boy Ranges Between Sophistication and Whimsy’, Western Australian, 7 August 1992 

Bromfield, David, ‘Hooked on Images of Agony’, The Western Australian, 1 June 1991 

Gaynor, A & Horridge, N (ed); Gotham Goes Shopping, February 1990, p28

Quick, Ron; Henri Worland Memorial Print Award, Imprint, Vol. 24, No 4. December 1989, p8 

Anderson, S & Paterson Drake Brockman, R; Fable Talk, Festival of Perth Catalogue, p38 

Quick, Larry Unconditionally Yours, Rare Earth Media, 1989

Lally, Janice; Fable Talk, Praxis M, July 1989, p35

Directory 1988 Australian Artists producing Prints, Print Council of Australia,  

Clark, Deborah ‘West Australia Prints’, Imprint, Vol. 23, No 3, September 1988, pp.1-2

Gooding, Janda; ‘The Art Gallery of Western Australia’, Imprint, Vol. 23, No 1-2, June 1988, p20

‘Member Prints’ Imprint, Vol. 20, No 3-4, 1985, p28

Germaine, Max; Artists and Galleries of Australia, Boorarong Press, 1984

Australian Directory of Printmakers, 1982, Print Council of Australia

 

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AWARDS, GRANTS, COMMISSIONS & RESIDENCES   

 

2009  Artist in Residence, Central TAFE

2009  Art Angles Acquisition

1999  New Concepts Grant, Ministry for Culture and The Arts, ArtsWA

1999  Outside Study Program Grant, Curtin University of Technology

1999  Commission, Art for Australia Print Portfolio. Australian Republican Movement

1994  Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital Acquisitive Prize 1994

1993  Bunbury Biennale 1993 Acquisition Winner, Bunbury Regional Art Gallery, WA

1993  Artist in Residence, Chiang Mai University, Thailand

1993  New Researches Grant, Curtin University of Technology

1989  Artist in Residence, Spiral Gallery, Fremantle

1988  Experimental Print Award, West Australian Printmakers Association

1988  Australian Picture Framers Association 1988 Commission

1986  Three Premiers Art Purchase, winner Sir Newton Moore Best Works on Paper

1985  Print Council of Australia, Member Print Commission

 

 

COLLECTIONS  

 

Art Gallery of Western Australia 

National Gallery of Victoria        

National Gallery of Thailand 

Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery 

Australian War Memorial ACT 

Art Bank Australia

Print Council of Australia 

Department of Culture and the Arts WA 

Kerry Stokes Collection 

Wesfarmers Collection 

Janet Holmes a Court Collection 

Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, University of Western Australia 

Curtin University of Technology WA 

Monash Gallery of Art, Murdoch University Vic

Edith Cowen University WA 

Chiang Mai University Thailand 

Deakin University Vic 

Charles Darwin University NT 

RMIT University Union Vic 

University of Queensland Union Qld

Wagga Wagga Art Gallery NSW 

Bunbury Regional Art Gallery 

Geraldton Regional Art Gallery 

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