TONY AMENEIRO 1959 Born London, United Kingdom, arrived 1968 1978-81 Bachelor of Art (Education) Alexander Mackie C.A.E., Sydney, Australia

Selected Awards

2012, 2007, 2004,1996 Fisher’s Ghost Art Award, Work on Paper Campbelltown City Art Gallery, NSW 2009 Geelong acquisitive print award Geelong Gallery, Victoria. Acquired 2007 Fremantle Arts Centre, WA 2004 Toowoomba Biennial Acquisitive Art Award Toowoomba Regional Art Gallery, NSW. Acquired

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2017 Head Over Head Devonport Regional Art Gallery 2016 Head Over Head Wagga Wagga Art Gallery Head Over Head Wollongong Art Gallery, NSW 2015 (Artist in Residence) Annabel Wallace Gallery, Boorowa, NSW 2014 Recent Drawings Art Vault, Mildura, Vic 2013 Flowering Heads Maitland Regional Art Gallery, NSW Annabel Wallace Gallery, Boorowa, NSW Head to Head Art Vault, Mildura, Vic 2012 Flowering Heads David Stein & Co, Sydney, NSW 2011 Night Skulls and Lily Heads Art Vault, Mildura, Victoria 2010 The Night Lily Head Sturt Gallery, Mittagong, NSW 2007 Recent Works Impressions on Paper, Canberra Skulls and Lilies, Lilies and Skulls Marianne Newman Gallery Sydney NSW 2005 Recent Prints and Drawings Bowerhouse Gallery, Milton, NSW Selected Locations CTC, Robertson, NSW 2004 Location Wollongong City Art Gallery, NSW 2001 Road Edge – Park Edge New England Regional Art Museum, Armidale, NSW 2000 Pole to Post James Harvey Gallery, Balmain, NSW 1998 Pictures in C.D. Project Contemporary Art Space, Wollongong, NSW 1985 Tony Ameneiro - Prints and Drawings Camera Lucida Gallery, Chippendale, NSW 1984 Camouflaged Cakes James Harvey Gallery, King St, Newtown, NSW

Selected Group Exhibitions

2017 Artists in Residence Annabel Wallace Gallery, Murringo, NSW Burnie Print Prize 2017 Burnie Regional Art Gallery, Tasmania

2016 Primavera Queenscliff Galery & Workshop, VIC MONO Metropolis Gallery Geelong VIC Contemporary Paper Port Jackson Press, Melbourne VIC “National Works on Paper Award” Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, VIC Charles Sturt University Art Exhibition “2006-2016: A Decade of ” Griffith Regional Art Gallery, NSW “Limited Edition” Burnie Regional Art Gallery, Tasmania Swan Hill Print and Drawing Acquisitive 2016 Swan Hill Regional Art Gallery, Victoria “Between a Rock and a Hard Place” Megalo Print Studio and Gallery, Canberra ACT

2015 Exchange 21 years SHPrintmakers Sturt Gallery, Mittagong, NSW Megalo Print Studio and Gallery Muswellbrook Art Prize Muswellbrook Regional Arts Centre, NSW Burnie Print Prize 2015 (acquired) Burnie Regional Art Gallery, Tasmania

2014 City of Hobart Art Prize 2014 (Highly Commended) Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart, TAS International Print Biennale 2014 Hatton Gallery University of Newcastle, Newcastle on Tyne U.K. Efflorescent Goulburn Regional Art Gallery, NSW Rick Amor Drawing Prize 2014 Art Gallery of Ballarat, Victoria "Prints 25" - Print Council of Australia Prints Whitehorse Artspace Gallery, Melbourne, Victoria “New(s)” Southern Highlands Printmakers Coffs Harbour Regional Gallery

2013 Kedumba Drawing Award 2013 Kedumba Gallery, Katoomba, Blue Mountains NSW Art on Paper Award Hazelhurst Regional Gallery & Arts Centre, Sydney NSW Burnie Print Prize 2013 Burnie Regional Art Gallery, Tasmania Fair Trade TAFE Teachers’ exhibition Goulburn Regional Art Gallery, NSW Elements Sturt Gallery, Mittagong, NSW Pentimenti Prints Hazelhurst Regional Gallery & Arts Centre, Sydney, NSW

2 Stone to Paper - Lithographs from Lancaster Press Firestation Print Studio & Gallery Armadale, Victoria

2012 Dobell Drawing Prize 2012 Art Gallery of NSW ( final Dobell Drawing Prize) Contemporary Prints from the Collection Wollongong Art Gallery, NSW 2012 Artists for Kids Culture Melbourne, Victoria Sentinels and showboats Geelong Gallery, Geelong, Victoria Swan Hill Print and Drawing Acquisitive 2012 Swan Hill Regional Art Gallery, Victoria Mono Uno Albury City Gallery, NSW Pentimenti Prints - a variable Print Exchange Folio FCA Gallery , NSW “ “ Tipografia Grifani Donati, Citta di Castello, Italy “ “ Instituto Italiano di Cultura, Sydney, NSW

2011 Prints & Drawings Study Room, re-opening exhibition Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney Duality 2011, Banyule Award for Works on Paper Banyule Arts Centre, Ivanhoe, Victoria 2011 Geelong Acquisitive Print Award Geelong Gallery, Geelong, Victoria 2011 Artists for Kids Culture Melbourne, Victoria Alone Off the Press The Left Hand Gallery, Braidwood, NSW VARIO print exchange Goulburn Regional Art Gallery “ “ Brisbane, Hawaii, Ireland Burnie Print Prize 2011 Burnie Regional Art Gallery, Tasmania.

2010 Waterhouse Natural History Art Prize Museum of South Australia, Adelaide, SA & National Archives Canberra, ACT ( Highly Commended ) 2010 Artists for Kids Culture Melbourne, Victoria Skeletons in the Collection Goulburn Regional Art Gallery, NSW Joseph Banks: a Regional Response Goulburn Regional Art Gallery, NSW

2009 Collaborations Lancaster Press Gallery, Melbourne,Victoria 2009 Geelong Acquisitive Print Award Geelong Gallery, Geelong, Victoria Silk Cut Award for Linocut Prints Glen Eira City Council Gallery, Victoria 2009 Artists For Kids Culture Melbourne, Victoria Staff Show, West Wollongong TAFE Project Contemporary Art Space, Wollongong, NSW Now & Then Campbelltown Arts Centre, Sydney, NSW 13th CPM National Print Awards Tweed River Art Gallery, NSW (Highly Commended) Spirit Wagga Wagga Art Gallery, NSW Mono Uno Wagga Wagga Art Gallery, NSW The Gib Sturt Gallery, Mittagong NSW, Burnie Print Prize 2009 Burnie Regional Art Gallery, Tasmania Adelaide Perry Drawing Prize 2009 PLC, Croydon, Sydney.

2008 Lancaster Press Griffith Regional Art Gallery, NSW Flora, Still Life Moving Fast Hazelhurst Arts Centre, Sydney NSW Artists For Kids Culture Melbourne, Victoria On Paper Toowoomba Regional Art Gallery, Queensland Waterhouse Natural History Art Prize Museum of South Australia, Adelaide, S.A. Swan Hill Print and Drawing Award Swan Hill Regional Art Gallery, Victoria Fremantle Print Award Fremantle Arts Centre, W.A. Southern Highlands Printmakers Sturt Gallery, Mittagong, NSW Stock Show Port Jackson Press C.A.P.Gallery, Melbourne, Victoria Best Of The Print Exchange Print Zero Studios , Ballard, Seattle USA

2007 Burnie Print Prize 2007 (Acquired) Burnie Regional Art Gallery, Tasmania Adelaide Perry Drawing Prize PLC, Croydon, Sydney. Recent Acquisitions in Context Charles Sturt University, Wagga Wagga. Relief Method: prints from the City Collection Fremantle Arts Centre, WA Fremantle Print Award Fremantle Arts Centre, WA Just Imagine, Y-Curate Wollongong City Art Gallery, NSW Milestones Project Contemporary Artspace, Wollongong, NSW Geelong Print Award Geelong Art Gallery, Victoria Hazelhurst Works on Paper Award Hazelhurst Arts Centre, Sydney, NSW

2006 Dobell Drawing Prize 2006 Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney, NSW Printmakers Gallery Inaugural Exhibition Burnie Regional Art Gallery, Tasmania, Ergon Energy Central Queensland Art Award Rockhampton Art Gallery (Commended) Staff Show West Wollongong TAFE Project Contemporary Art Space, Wollongong, NSW

2005 Biennale Jogja VIII, 2005 Yogyakarta, Indonesia Hand Pulled Prints XII, The Stonemetal Press International Juried Exhibition, Texas, USA Stock Show Port Jackson Press Gallery, Melbourne, Victoria

3 Print Zero Studio Print Exchange II & III University of Wyoming, USA Southern Highlands Printmakers Campbelltown Arts Centre, Sydney, NSW Fresh - new acquisitions Wollongong City Art Gallery, NSW Staff Show West Wollongong TAFE Project Contemporary Art Space Wollongong, NSW

2004 Hutchins Art Prize Hobart, Tasmania Silk Cut Award 2004 Melbourne, Victoria Swan Hill Print and Drawing Acquisitive Awards Swan Hill, Victoria Print Zero Studio print exchange Seattle & Laramie, USA Florida Printmakers Print Exchange University of Miami, Florida, USA The Tree in Changing Light Bower House Gallery, Milton, NSW Staff Show West Wollongong TAFE Project Contemporary Art Space Wollongong, NSW

2003 Dobell Drawing Prize Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney, NSW Trees Rex Irwin Gallery, Woollahra, NSW Important Works on Paper Rex Irwin Gallery Hutchins Art Prize Hobart, Tasmania Geelong Print Award 2003 Geelong Art Gallery, Victoria 50-Fifty New England Regional Art Museum, NSW The Printed Image Sturt Gallery, Mittagong, NSW Love Your Work The Muse, Sydney Institute of TAFE, NSW 2002 Important Works on Paper Rex Irwin, Woollahra, NSW

Shell Fremantle Print Award Fremantle, WA Toowoomba Biennial Acquisitive Art Award Toowoomba, Queensland People’s Choice Wollongong City Art Gallery, NSW Incline, Southern Highland Printmakers Long Gallery, University of Wollongong, NSW Heads - TAFE staff show, & Landmarx Long Gallery, University of Wollongong Pocketsized James Harvey Gallery, Clovelly, NSW Sub 500 Dickerson Gallery, Woollahra, NSW

2001 Important Works on Paper Rex Irwin Gallery, Woollahra, NSW Drawing Show James Harvey Gallery, Balmain, NSW Prelude - TAFE staff show Long Gallery, University of Wollongong, NSW Segment - TAFE staff show Project Contemporary Art Space, Wollongong, NSW A Heritage of Health Wollongong City Art Gallery, Wollongong, NSW Encore - TAFE staff show Wollongong City Art Gallery Art on Paper Award Hazelhurst Regional Art Gallery, Sydney, NSW Rena Ellen Jones Memorial Print Award Warrnambool Art Gallery, Victoria 2000 TAFE staff show Project Contemporary Art Space,Wollongong, NSW Silk Cut Award 2000 Melbourne, Victoria Visions Wollongong City Art Gallery,NSW Invitation Exhibition Art Arena Gallery, Wollongong, NSW 1999 Réveries Project Contemporary Art Space, Wollongong, NSW New Acquisitions Wollongong City Art Gallery, NSW Sema-Phoros, Illawarra TAFE artists / teachers Project Contemporary Art Space, Wollongong, NSW Animalistic James Harvey Gallery, Balmain, NSW 1998 End of Term Show, End of Year Group Show Korunna Gallery, West Wollongong TAFE, NSW 1997 Australian Printmedia Awards Casula Powerhouse Art Centre, NSW Redundant Korunna Gallery, West Wollongong TAFE, NSW 1996 Tamara Acquisitive Art Prize Tamworth Art Gallery, NSW 12th Biennial Prints Acquisitive Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery 1994 Abstract Papers First Draft West, Annandale, NSW This is Not a Book First Draft West, Annandale AW Faber Castell Art Prize Boronia Art Gallery, Mosman, NSW 1981 Graduation exhibition Alexander Mackie CAE, Sydney 1978 Ameneiro, Selby, Weir, Young Stephen Mori’s Student Gallery, Leichhardt, Sydney, NSW 1977 HSC Touring Art Exhibition The NSW Department of Education

Selected Collections

British Museum, London, UK National Gallery of Australia Art Gallery of Art Gallery of South Australia Queensland Art Gallery State Library of Victoria National Museum of Wales UK Burnie Regional Art Gallery City of Fremantle Campbelltown City Bicentennial Art Gallery Toowoomba Regional Art Gallery Wagga Wagga Art Gallery Warrnambool Art Gallery Wollongong City Gallery

4 University of Wollongong University of NSW, Art Collection John Curtin University Charles Sturt University University of South Australia University of Ballarat University of Miami, USA University of Nebraska-Lincoln USA Print Council of Australia Canson Australia Pty Ltd. City of Whitehorse Royal Perth Hospital Brisbane Grammar Brisbane State High school Downlands College Genazzano College St Michael’s Grammar School Illawarra Grammar Melbourne Grammar St Ursula’s College Tintern Girls’ Grammar Westbourne Grammar Various other institutional and private collections Australia and overseas.

Commissions Illawarra Coke Company (I.C.C.) Illawarra Area Health Service (I.A.H.S) Stalker Theatre Company Print Council of Australia (P.C.A.) , Member Print Commission 2002 and 2006

Selected Bibliography ART MONTHLY Issue 259, "Head to Head" by Jan Jones May, 2013 ARTLINK Vol 27 no4 “Fremantle Print Awards” by Judith McGrath. 2007, ARTLINK Dec 2008 “Fremantle Print Awards” by Mariyon Slany ART MONTHLY Dec 2009 #226 (Artnotes p70) October 2007 #204 (W.A. News) THE AUSTRALIAN ”Tech-savvy printmakers find photo finish offers a winning style” Ted Snell Fri Sept. 28 2007 CANBERRA TIMES ”Lithography with an All Star Cast” (‘Between a Rock and a Hard Place) Sasha Grishin May 14 2016 CANBERRA TIMES ”Exchange: Celebrating 21 years of the Southern Highlands Printmakers “ full page review & Photos, by Sasha Grishin October 9 2015 CANBERRA TIMES ”Eclectic Mix of Prints” full page review & Photos, by Sasha Grishin Wed May 2nd 2007 CANBERRA TIMES ”Print Impressions” Helen Musa, Article and Photos THE “Local Lily Draws an Impression”, page article plus photo, Jan 22 2011 SYDNEY MORNING HERALD Jan 22 2011 SYDNEY MORNING HERALD Feb 1 2009 SYDNEY MORNING HERALD April 10 2002 Metro pg 15 SYDNEY MORNING HERALD Oct 27 2001 Metropolitan pg11, PERIPHERY “Jewel Case: The Work of Tony Ameneiro” Issue No. 36 Spring 1998 pg 15-16. IMPRINT (Quarterly Journal of Print Council of Australia) Vol 39 No 2 ”Location” pg 13. “Moments of Slippage” Summer 2004 Vol 39 No 4 pg 17. IMPRINT (Quarterly Journal of Print Council of Australia) Summer ’96 Vol 31 No 4 pg 11, pg18, Winter ’98 Vol 33 No 2 pg 18 Summer ’98 Vol 33 No 4 pg21 Summer ’99 Vol 34 No4 pg21 Spring 2000 Vol 35 No3 pg17, Autumn 2001 Vol 36 No1 pg16, Spring 2002 Vol 37 No3 pg 14, Spring 2004 Vol 39 No 3 pg 7, Winter 2004, Vol 39 No 2 ”Location” pg 13.Summer 2004 “Moments of Slippage” Summer 2004 Vol 39 No 4 pg 17. Spring 2006 Vol 41 no 3. pg 18. Winter 2007, Vol 42 No 2 ”New Works” pg 26. Winter 2013 Vol 48 No 2 pg 23 “Flowering Heads” by Tom Middlemost NWOP 2016 catalogue, Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, pg 11 pg 77 ISBN 978-0-9580956-0-0 PERGAMENT (Parchment, Publ. Jan Thorbecke Verlag GmbH) pg 385-388. ISBN 3-7995-4202-7 SILK CUT AWARD 2000, 2004 & 2009 Catalogue published Duroloid Pty Ltd, 2000 & 2004 & 2009 “Shell Fremantle Print award 2002” & 2007 & 08 Catalogue published Fremantle Arts Centre 2002, 2007, 2008 “Toowoomba Biennial Acquisitive Art Award 2002” Catalogue published Toowoomba Reg. Gallery 2002 “Hutchins Art Prize 2003 & 2004” Catalogue published 2003 and 2004 “Location” Catalogue for Exhibition published by Wollongong City Art Gallery 2004 “The For Drawing 1993-2004” published by A.G.N.S.W 2005 pg 54 ISBN 0-7347-6376-X “ The People’s Choice ” Published by Wollongong City Art Gallery, 2005 “ Just Imagine ” Published by Wollongong City Art Gallery, 2007 (re - Published 2008) ISBN 0-9758372-1-4 “ Flora, Still Life Moving Fast” Pub. Hazelhurst Regional Art Gallery & Arts Centre, 2008 ISBN 978-1-921437-08-3 “ The Gib ” Catalogue Sturt Gallery 2008 ISBN 978-0-9805947-0-6 “ 50/50 Survey of Contemporary Printmaking” Print Zero Studios Catalogue 2009 ISBN 978-0-9844173-0-8 “Seeking Images” (Catalogue TAFE Staff show Goulburn Regional Gallery, 2009 ) ISBN 978-0-9805947-1-3 “Joseph Banks: a Regional Response” (Catalogue Goulburn Regional Gallery, 2010 ) ISBN 978-0-9807642-0-8 “Marks and Motifs ( prints from the PCA collection) ” (Catalogue QUT, Queensland University of Technology, 2006 ISBN 1 74107 1305 “Burnie Print Prize 2011” Catalogue, Burnie Regional Art Gallery, Tasmania; ISBN 978-0-9808003-4-0 "Duality" 2011 Banyule Award for Works on Paper, Catalogue, Banyule Arts Centre ISBN 978-0-9803626-5-7 “A Place For Art, The University of Wollongong Art Collection” ISBN 978-1-74128-204-7 “EFFLORESCENT - a Contemporary Take” catalogue Goulburn Regional Art Gallery, NSW 2014, ISBN 978-0-9875863-0-8 “The ART VAULT 5th Anniversary” catalogue published 2013 ISBN 978-0-646-91248-6 “International Print Biennale 2014” published by Northern Print Newcsatle upon Tyne 2014 ISBN 978-0-9927842-0-1 “Just Paper” catalogue published 2015 ISBN 978-0-9942530-2-6