Helga Groves
Born 1961 Ayr, Queensland.
Education
2000
Master of Arts (Visual Arts), Sydney College of the Arts, Sydney
1988
Graduate Diploma (Visual Arts), Sydney College of the Arts, Sydney
1987
Bachelor of Arts (Visual Arts), Sydney College of the Arts, Sydney
Solo Exhibitions
2021
Early Earth (Abstractions of Time), Milani Gallery, Brisbane
2019
Patterns from the heart of a planet, Sutton Gallery, Melbourne
2018
Slow Moving Structures, Kronenberg Mais Wright, Sydney
2017
Tremor of Form, Milani Gallery, Brisbane
Looking at time, Sutton Gallery, Melbourne
2015
Optical Terrane, William Wright Artist Projects, Sydney
2014
Suspended Animation, Sutton Gallery, Melbourne
2013
Geomorphic, Milani Gallery, Brisbane
2011
Looking through an ocean of air, Sutton Gallery, Melbourne
Turning sky into stone, Milani Gallery, Brisbane
2009
Microclimate, Sutton Gallery, Melbourne
2008
Chance elements, Milani Gallery, Brisbane
Divining Water, Gitte Weise Gallery, Berlin
2007
Below Sea Level, Sutton Gallery Melbourne
2006
Landforms, Bellas Milani Gallery, Brisbane
2005
Geophysical Space, Sutton Gallery, Melbourne
2004
Subterranean Series, Bellas Milani Gallery, Brisbane
2003
Meltwater II, Sutton Gallery, Melbourne
Gitte Weise Gallery, Sydney
Meltwater, Bellas Gallery, Brisbane
2002
Increments and Shadows, Gitte Weise Gallery, Sydney
2001
New works from the SHADOW series, Sutton Gallery, Melbourne
Bellas Gallery, Brisbane
2000
Gitte Weise Gallery, Sydney
1999
Small Works on Paper, Bellas Gallery, Brisbane
1999
Evanescence, Sutton Gallery, Melbourne
1998
Midnight Sun, Bellas Gallery, Brisbane
Under a Pearl Moon, Gitte Weise Gallery, Sydney
Under a Pearl Moon, Baudoin Lebon, Paris, France
1997
Seven Popular Shapes, Room 35, Sydney
1996
Water from the Red River, KUNST, Sydney
1995
Studio Exhibition, Hanoi Institute of Fine Arts, Vietnam
Diamond Paintings, CBD Gallery, Sydney
1994
Frisson, KUNST, Sydney
1993
After Rain, KUNST, Sydney
1992
KUNST, Sydney
Less than Perpendicular, KUNST (window), Sydney
1991
Cutting from Soft Stone, First Draft West, Sydney
1990
Before During and After, First Draft West, Sydney
Sunflowers, Foyer Gallery, University of Western Sydney, Milpera
1989
Imitation of Art, W.I.N.D.O.W., Sydney
Selected Group Exhibitions
2021
Arthur Guy Memorial Painting Prize, Bendigo Art Gallery, Victoria
Geelong Contemporary Art Prize, Geelong Gallery, Victoria
2020
WONDER + DREAD: Art in the Lead of Weather Extremes, Shoalhaven Regional Gallery, NSW
f_OCUS, Counihan Gallery, Brunswick, Victoria
Perceptions of Time, QAGOMA, Brisbane, Queensland
2019
Anthropocene,The R&M McGivern Prize, Maroondah Federation Estate Gallery, Melbourne
Arthur Guy Memorial Painting Prize, Bendigo Art Gallery, Victoria
Sights Unseen: Recent Acquisitions From The Moreland Art Collection, Counihan Gallery, Melbourne
FEM-aFFINITY, Arts Project Australia, Melbourne
Bayside Acquisitive Art Prize, The Gallery at Bayside Arts and Cultural Centre, Melbourne
Finalist, Sunshine Coast Art Prize, Caloundra Regional Gallery, Caloundra, Queensland
2018
Chaos and Order, RMIT University Gallery, Melbourne
Couplings, Dominik Mersch Gallery, Sydney
Group Show, Kronenberg Wright Artists Projects, Sydney
2017
Limitless Horizon: Vertical Perspective, Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane
Artist Profile: Australasian Painters 2007 – 2017, Orange Regional Gallery, New South Wales
Arthur Guy Memorial Painting Prize, Bendigo Art Gallery, Victoria Sunshine Coast Art Prize, Caloundra Regional Gallery, Queensland
2016
Tidal: City of Devonport National Art Award, Devonport Regional Gallery, Devonport Tasmania
Quiddity, RMIT Gallery, Melbourne
Bayside Acquisitive Art Prize,The Gallery at Bayside Arts and Cultural Centre, Melbourne
2015
Arthur Guy Memorial Painting Prize, Bendigo Art Gallery, Bendigo, Victoria
Redlands Konica Minolta Art Prize, National Art School Gallery, Sydney
2014
National Works on Paper, Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery
2013
Pattern, Glen Eira City Council Gallery, Melbourne
Co-Variance, Counihan Gallery, Melbourne
2012
NEW 2011: Selected recent acquisitions, University of Queensland Art Museum, Brisbane
Symphonic Encounters, Linden Centre for Contemporary Arts, St Kilda, Melbourne
Inspiring Artists, Maitland Regional Gallery, NSW
Temperament Spectrum: the first twenty-one years 1992-2012, Sutton Gallery, Melbourne
2011
Where there is water, Lake Macquarie Regional Gallery, New South Wales
Ten years of contemporary art: The James C. Sourris AM Collection, Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane
Manifold, Annandale Gallery, Sydney
The Ron & George Adams Collection, MOP Gallery, Sydney
2010
Pulp, Sutton Gallery, Melbourne
Paul Guest Prize for Drawing, Bendigo Art Gallery, Bendigo
Fletcher Jones Art Prize, Geelong Gallery, Geelong
2009
Australian Art for Berlin, Gitte Weise Gallery, Berlin
2007
Dobell Drawing Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Syndey
Points of Departure, Tobey Fine Arts, New York
2006
Salon, Bett Gallery Hobart, Tasmania
Tidal: City of Devonport Art Award, Devonport Regional Gallery, Tasmania
Correspondence to a Single Point: A Survey of Geometric Abstraction, Tobey Fine Arts, New York
P.O.W. (Personal Other World), Canberra Contemporary Art Space, Canberra
2005
Moist: Australian Watercolours, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
6 Kms from CBD, SNO, Sydney
2004
Melbourne Artfair, Royal Exhibition Building, Gitte Weise Gallery
Tidal: City of Devonport Award, Devonport Regional Gallery, Tasmania
Collectables, CQ Gallery, Brisbane
2003
Re-Collection, Gitte Weise Gallery, Sydney
Rendezvous mit Gitte, Volume 3, Gitte Weise Gallery, Sydney
Hot House, curated by Monash University Museum of Art, touring exhibition
Time Out of Joint, University of Fine Art, Hanoi, Vietnam.
2002
10th Anniversary Exhibition, Gitte Weise Gallery, Sydney
Lines 11, Fireworks Gallery, Brisbane
Rendezvous mit Gitte, Volume 2, Gitte Weise Gallery, Sydney
Good Vibrations: The Legacy of Op Art in Australia, Heide Museum of Modern Art
2001
Phenomena New Painting in Australia:1 Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Glacier, RMIT Gallery, Melbourne
2000
Selections from the University of Western Sydney Art Collection, touring regional galleries, NSW
1999
Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, Queensland Art Gallery
Matter, Gitte Weise Gallery, Sydney
tekhne, Artists + Architects, The Royal Australian Institute of Architects, Brisbane
Something For Above the Couch, Gitte Weise Gallery, Sydney
Liquid Evasions - flirting with the surface, Plimsoll Gallery, Hobart
On any given day....., Bundaberg Arts Centre, Bundaberg
1998
Kedumba Drawing Award, Kedumba Gallery, Wentworth Falls
1997
Giao Luu - Confluence, Australian Embassy Hanoi & Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
SCEGGS Redland Westpac Art Prize, SCEGGS, Sydney
Exquisite, Room 35, Sydney
KUNST Unlimited editions + Multiples, Gitte Weise Gallery, Sydney
Moet & Chandon Touring Exhibition, State Galleries around Australia
Sight and Sensibility, S.H. Erwin Gallery, Sydney
Fever, Gitte Weise Gallery, Sydney
1996
Semblance, Canberra Contemporary Art Space, Canberra
Women Hold Up Half the Sky, Monash University Gallery, Melbourne
1995
On a clear day you can see forever, ACCA, Melbourne
Monash University Art Prize, Monash University Gallery, Melbourne
Art Hotline, The Performance Space, Sydney
Drawing Room, KUNST, Sydney
1994
No Absolutes, Tin Sheds Gallery, Sydney
Passage: Spacial Interventions, Monash University Gallery, Melbourne
Co-existence, Artspace, Sydney
1993
Australian Perspecta, Art Gallery NSW, Sydney
Confrontations, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney
Mal was Anderes, Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin
Hegemonic 1 & 2, KUNST, Sydney
Vitae, Room 4 Linden Gallery, Melbourne
14 Stations of the Cross, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
1992
Jeune Peinture, Grand Palais, Paris, France
Supermart, The Blaxland Gallery, Melbourne
Moet & Chandon Touring Exhibition, State Galleries around Australia
Lineage, 200 Gertrude Street, Melbourne
1991
Painting and Perception, Mori Gallery, Sydney
Body without organs, First Draft West, Sydney
1990
Vache, AGLASSOFWATER Project, Site, Brisbane
No, AGLASSOFWATER Project, Milburn + Arte, Brisbane
In Full Sunlight, AGLASSOFWATER Project, Brisbane, Sydney & Melbourne
1989
Moet & Chandon Touring Exhibition, State Galleries around Australia
Fresh Art, S.H. Erwin Gallery, Sydney
The New Naturalism, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane
1988
Six of One and Half a Dozen of the Other, First Draft West, Sydney
Selected Bibliography
2021
Ingrid Periz, Early Earth (Abstractions of Time), exhibition essay
2018
Ingrid Periz, Slow Moving Structures, exhibition essay
2017
Ingrid Periz, Tremor of Form, Exhibition Essay
Simon Brigden, The Expansive Temporality of the Duplicated Rock: a review of Tremor of Form, Brisbane Art Guide, April
2015
Jane O'Neill, Optical Terrance, Exhibition essay
2014
Eve Sullivan, Suspended Animation, Exhibition essay
2013
Eve Sullivan, Geomorphic, Exhibition essay
2012
Samantha Littley, ‘Walking On Air’, NEWv2: Selected recent acquisitions 2009–2011, UQ Art Museum, The University of Queensland, Brisbane.
2011
Doug Hall, Helga Groves: Age of reason, exhibition essay.
Dan Rule, ‘Helga Groves: Looking through an ocean of air’, The Age: Life and Style, 8 Oct, p.5.
2009
Jonathan Nichols, Altitude: A conversation between Jonathan Nichols and Helga Groves, August 2009
2008
Zara Stanhope, Divining Water, exhibition essay
Zara Stanhope, Chance Elements, exhibition essay.
2007
Penny Webb, Sightlines, The Age, 20 July
Ingrid Periz, Below Sea Level, catalogue essay
2006
David M. Thomas, Personal Other Worlds, Catalogue essay, Canberra Contemporary Art Space
Contemporary: Art Gallery of New South Wales Contemporary Collection, Collection Handbook
Ingrid Periz, Landforms, catalogue essay
2005
Ingrid Periz, Geophysical Space, catalogue essay
2004
Michele Helmrich, Fenestrations of Darkness and Light and Endless Becoming, catalogue essay
2003
Tanya Peterson, Liquid Light, Art & Australia, Vol. 40, No.3, 2003, pp.426-435
Alexie Glass, Meltwater, exhibition essay.
2002
Zara Stanhope, Good Vibrations: The Legacy of Op Art in Australia, Heide Museum of Modern Art, ex.cat.
Carmen Grostal, Time out of Joint, ex.cat.
2001
Michael Wardell, Phenomena New Painting in Australia:1, catalogue essay
Linda Williams, Reflection and Reconstruction: New Directions in Australian Painting, Glacier catalogue essay
1999
Ingrid Periz, Evaporate, catalogue essay
Jacqueline Millner, Selections from the University of Western Sydney Art Collection, catalogue essay
Doug Hall, Beyond the Future, The Third Asia-Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, catalogue text
Anna Johnson, On any given day..., catalogue text
1998
Bruce James, Archness on the Edge of Town, S.M.H. 24 August
Benjamin Genocchio, A relief from relentless avante - gardism, The Australian, 17 October
Julie Ewington, Inside the light: Helga Groves and the secret spaces of painting, ex.cat
1997
John O’Neal, Material World, Australian Art Collector, Issue 2
Juliana Engberg, Before the Rain, Art + Text Vol 57
Anna Johnson, Arts new wave - 20 young artists to watch, S.M.H. Good Weekend, 26 April
Bruce James, Raising the temperature, S.M.H., 1 February
1996
Melissa Chiu, Semblance, exhibition catalogue text
Melissa Chiu, Water from the Red River, exhibition catalogue text
Natalie King, Decor, Art and Australia Vol 33 Summer
Ben Curnow, On a clear day you can see forever, exhibition catalogue text
1994
Natalie King, Passage: Spacial Interventions, exhibition catalogue text
Shaun Davies, Co-existence, Agenda # 35, March
Ben Curnow, Co-existence, Art Monthly No: 69, May
Adam Geczy, Australian Perspecta 1993, Agenda # 35, March
Jackie Dunn, Art + Text 47
1993
Shaun Davies, Inflorescence, Australian Perspecta 1993, catalogue text
Elwyn Lynn, Objects of artful desire, The Australian , 12 September
Browyn Watson, No mere window dressing, S.M.H. 10 September
1992
Eve Sullivan, Lightness or Whiteness, Art Monthly No5, November
Browyn Watson, Images from the lost Island, S.M.H. 16 October
Brigitte Carcenac de Torne, Jeune Peinture exhibition catalogue text
Justin Trendall, Lineage, exhibition catalogue text
Jeffrey Fereday, Supermart, Agenda, June
1991
Adam Geczy, Cutting from soft stone, Eyeline, Spring
Elwyn Lynn, Painting and Perception, S.M.H. January
1990
Julia Robinson, The New Naturalists, Eyeline, Winter
1989
Janet Shanks, The New Naturalim, exhibition catalogue text
Catherine Lumby, Spectre of the Readymade is implicit in Imitation of Art, Eastern Herald, June
1988
John Young, Six of One and Half a Dozen of the Other, exhibition catalogue text
Collections
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth
Artbank, Sydney
Epworth Hospital Collection, Victoria
Federal Court of Australia
Goldman Sachs JBWere, Sydney
Lady Cilento Children's Hospital
Leeuwin Estate, Perth
Macquarie Bank
Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Private Collections
Queensland Art Gallery/Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane
RACV, Melbourne
RMIT, Melbourne
University of Queensland Art Museum, Brisbane
University of Technology Sydney
Sunshine Coast University Hospital, Queensland
University of Western Sydney, Nepean
Awards, Grants and Achievements
2020
Australia Council for the Arts, Project Grant
2019
Finalist, Sunshine Coast Art Prize, Caloundra Regional Gallery, Caloundra, Queensland
2016
Australia Council for the Arts, Project Grant
2015
ROI Prize, Melbourne
Shortlisted for Arthur Guy Memorial Painting Prize, 2015
2012-13
Public Art Commission, Lady Cilento Children's Hospital, Brisbane
2010
Australia Council for the Arts, Helsinki Studio (HIAP), Skills and Development
2008
Arts Victoria, International Touring Grant
2003
Australia Council (Visual Arts/Crafts Fund) New Work Grant
2001
Artist in Residency, Bundanon Trust, Nowra, New South Wales
2000
Australia Council (Visual/Crafts Fund), New Work Grant
Artist in Residence, Parks Victoria, Melbourne
1998
Artist in Residence, Bundaberg Arts Centre, Bundaberg, Queensland
Kedumba Drawing Award
1997
Moet & Chandon Australian Art Fellowship
1995
Asialink Artist in Residency, Hanoi, Vietnam
1992
Australia Council (VACB) Project Grant
Pat Corrigan Artist’s Grant in association with N.A.V.A.
1990/91
Co-Director First Draft West, Sydney