Madonna Staunton
MADONNA STAUNTON
1938 Born Murwillumbah, New South Wales. Lived and worked Brisbane, Queensland.
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2019 A Selected Survey: 1964 - 2019, Milani Gallery, Brisbane
2014 Madonna Staunton: Out of a Clear Blue Sky, Queensland Art Gallery / Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane
2013 Dream Trolly, Grahame Galleries + Editions, Brisbane
2012 New Work, Milani Gallery, Brisbane
2010 Homework, Milani Gallery, Brisbane
2006 Breaking the Line, Bellas Milani Gallery, Brisbane
2004 Difficult Accord, Bellas Milani Gallery, Brisbane
2003 Madonna Staunton, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane
2002 Works from the Collection, QUT Art Museum, Brisbane
2000 Monotypes, Bellas Gallery, Brisbane
Homage to Erik Satie, De Montforte University, Leceister
1999 Madonna Staunton, Metro Arts, Brisbane
1998 New Works, Bellas Gallery, Brisbane
1997 Winged Archive, Bellas Gallery, Brisbane
1996 Patience and the Provoked, Sutton Gallery, Melbourne
1995 1 - 6 Recent Works, Bellas Gallery, Brisbane
1994 Madonna Staunton: A Survey, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Perc Tucker Regional Gallery, Townsville
Madonna Staunton, Bellas Gallery, Brisbane
1993 Paradigms, Sutton Gallery, Melbourne
1992 Iconic Images, Bellas Gallery, Brisbane
1991 Recent Works, Gary Anderson Gallery, Sydney
1989 Assemblage - Collage, Bellas Gallery, Brisbane
1988 Gary Anderson Gallery, Sydney
1984 Gary Anderson Gallery, Sydney
1983 Ray Hughes Gallery, Brisbane
1980 Ray Hughes Gallery, Brisbane
1979 Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane
1978 Ray Hughes Gallery, Brisbane
1977 Ray Hughes Gallery, Brisbane
1976 Ray Hughes Gallery, Brisbane
Selected Group Exhibitions
2019 New Woman, Museum of Brisbane, Brisbane
2018 They Say I Look Like My Mother, 55 Sydneham Road, Sydney
2017 Contour Biennale 8, Mechelen, Belgium
National Self-Portrait Prize, University of Queensland Art Museum, Brisbane
2016 Painting. More Painting. Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne
Beyond the tower: 40 years and counting, University of Queensland Art Museum, Brisbane
2015 9/11, Moana Project Space, Perth
Streetwise: Contemporary Print Culture, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
2013 NEW 2013: Selected Recent Acquisitions, University of Queensland Art Museum, Brisbane
Born to Concrete: Visual Poetry from the Collections of Heide Museum of Modern Art and The University of Queensland', University of Queensland Art Museum, Brisbane.
2012 Lessons in History Vol 11 - Democracy, Grahame Galleries + Editions, Brisbane.
2010 A Geneoristy of Spirit: Recent Australian Women's Art from the QUT Art Collection, Queensland University of Technology Art Museum, Brisbane.
2008 Cubism & Australian Art, Heide Museum of Modern Art.
Under the influence: Art and Music, QUT Art Museum, Brisbane.
The contemporary collage: Australian collage and assemblage, John Buckley Gallery, Melbourne.
2007 25 th Anniversary Exhibition, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra.
2006 La femme domestqiue, QUT Art Museum, Brisbane.
2005 Interesting Times, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
2004 From the Ephemeral to the Eternal, University of South Australia.
2002 LxWxD, Brisbane City Gallery, Brisbane
1998 Fluxus- The International and the Avant Garde, Queensland Art Gallery
Artists’ Books, Brisbane City Gallery
ex.cat, Smith & Stoneley Gallery, Brisbane
1997 New Works on Paper (with Jon Cattapan and Leonard Brown), Bellas Gallery, Brisbane
Gramercy International Art Fair, New York
1995 B.I.A. Annual Exhibition, Brisbane Institute of Art, Old Museum Building, Brisbane
The Paper Makers, Queensland Museum, Brisbane
1993 Fluxus and Beyond, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane
1992 Domino I, Ian Potter Gallery, University of Melbourne
Abstract: The Non Objective, M.O.C.A. (Museum of Contemporary Art), Brisbane
1990 Osmosis, Gary Anderson Gallery, Sydney
Carchesio & Staunton, Bellas Gallery, Brisbane
1989 Group Exhibition, Bellas Gallery, Brisbane
1988 National Women's Art Award, Centre Gallery, Gold Coast
Charles Page, Madonna Staunton, Normana Wright, Graham Galleries, Brisbane
Painters and Sculptors: Diversity in Contemporary Australian Art, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane (touring exhibition)
The Age of Collage, Holdsworth Contemporary Galleries, Sydney
Cool quiet art, Ipswich City Council Art Gallery
1986 Aberdare Prize for Still Life, Ipswich City Council Art Gallery
1985 Sorry - I'm Thinking Aloud, Ray Hughes Gallery, Brisbane
Six New Directions, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane
Queensland Works 1950 -1985, University of Queensland Art Museum, Brisbane
The First Exhibition, Ray Hughes Gallery, Sydney
Australian Perspecta, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
1984 Recent Acquisitions 1981-1983, Brisbane College of Advanced Education
1983 Acquisitions 1973 - 1983, University of Queensland Art Museum, Brisbane
Australian Perspecta, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
1982 The Collage Show, Visual Arts Board Regional Development Program No.10, Sydney (touring exhibition)
1981 Nine Queensland Artists, Perc Tucker Regional Gallery, Townsville
Ray Hughes at Pinacotheca, Pinacotheca Gallery, Melbourne
1980 Drawn and Quartered: Australian contemporary paperworks, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
Brisbane Women Artists, Kelvin Grove College of Advanced Education, Brisbane
Queensland Connection, Contemporary Art Society, Adelaide
MacPherson, Shepherdson, Staunton, University of Queensland Art Museum, Brisbane, (touring exhibition)
1979 European Dialogues, Biennale of Sydney, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
1977 Collage, Ray Hughes Gallery, Brisbane
1966-71 Contemporary Art Society, Brisbane
1956-61 Royal Queensland Art Society Annual Exhibitions, Brisbane
Collections
Allen, Allen and Hemsley Collection
Artbank, Sydney
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth
Bendigo Art Gallery
Benalla Art Gallery
Brisbane City Gallery
Brisbane College of Advanced Education
Burnie Art Gallery
Darling Downs Institute of Advanced Education, Toowoomba
Grifffith University, Brisbane
Monash University, Melbourne
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
Parliament House, Canberra
Perc Tucker Regional Gallery, Townsville
Queensland Art Gallery/Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane
Queensland University of Technology, Kelvin Grove, Brisbane
Undercroft Gallery, Perth
University of Queensland Art Museum, Brisbane
Western Australia Institute of Technology, Perth
Awards
1990 Visual Arts/ Craft Board, Development Grant
1988-9 Selected National Women's Art Award, Centre Gallery, Gold Coast
1986 Visual Arts Board Overseas Studio Residency, Tokyo (not taken up)
Selected Bibliography
Airo-Farulla, Joseph, "Cool Quiet Art", Eyeline 2, 1987
Baker, James, M.O.C.A. Bulletin, Museum of Contemporary Art, Brisbane, July 1992, no.55.
Bond, Anthony, Australian Perspecta,ex.cat., Art Gallery of New South Wales, 1985
Byrne, Dianne, "Art Review", Courier Mail, July 1978
Cooke, Glenn, "Madonna Staunton", Painters and Sculptors: Diversity in Contemporary Australian Art, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, 1987
Dark, Tony, Madonna Staunton" A Recent Work", IMA Bulletin, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, September, 1979
Gates, Merryn, Domino I, ex.cat., Ian Potter Gallery, University of Melbourne, 1992
Jackson, Beth, "Lateral Spaces. The Art of Helen Lilliecrapp-Fuller and Madonna Staunton", Eyeline, No.18, Autumn 1992
Kirker, Anne “Interview with Madonna Staunton”, Eyeline, Autumn 2000
Langer, Gertrude, "Art Review: Madonna Staunton", Courier Mail, 5 April, 1976
Langer, Gertrude, "Artists Share A Sensitivity", Courier Mail, 4 August, 1980
Langer, Gertrude, "From Serenity to Anger", Courier Mail, 28 October, 1983
McIntyre, Arthur, Contemporary Australian Collage and Its Origins, Craftsman House, Sydney, 1990
McKay, Peter, 'Madonna Staunton: Out of a Clear Blue Sky' exhibition catalogue, Queensland Art Gallery / Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, 2014
Murphy, Bernice, Australian Perspecta, ex.cat., Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 1983
Rainbird, Stephen, "Brisbane Scene", Art and Australia, Vol.22, no.2, 1984
Rainbird, Stephen, Cool Quiet Art, ex.cat., Ipswich City Council Art Gallery
Staunton, Madonna, artists' statement in Third Biennale of Sydney: European Dialogue, ex.cat.,
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 1979
Staunton, Madonna, artists' statement in Drawn and Quartered: Australian Contemporary
Paperworks, ex.cat., Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, 1980
Webster, Sue, "Six Brisbane Artists", Art And Australia, vol.18., no.4, 1981