'Lizard Land' by Bronwyn Bancroft
“Bronwyn
Bancroft completed a Diploma in Visual Arts at the Canberra School of Arts
in 1980, and then moved to Sydney where she became involved with the
Aboriginal Medical Service’s Fashion Show in 1985. Following the success
of the fashion parade, she opened the shop ‘Designer Aboriginals’ in
Rozelle, as an outlet for her own designs and the designs of other
Aboriginal artists. In 1990 she moved from retail to wholesale production
of fabrics in order to concentrate on painting and design. Her work was
exhibited in Paris at the Printemps Fashion Parade in 1987, and also in
London at the 1989 Australian Fashion: The Contemporary Art exhibition. In
1989 her paintings were included in nine exhibitions. Her first solo
exhibition of paintings was held in Sydney in 1989, and in 1991 she
collaborated with Sally Morgan to produce an exhibition of prints at the
Warrnambool Art Gallery, Victoria.”
Excerpt taken from “Australian Women, Biographical entry: http://www.womenaustralia.info/biogs/AWE0981b.htm"
2004 - Memory Matrix, Vivien Anderson Gallery, Melbourne
2003 - My DNA, Gallery Teneleven, Melbourne
2002 - My DNA, BBA Gallery, Sydney
2001 - Inner Voices, BBA Gallery, Sydney
2000 - Selected Works, Australian Museum, Sydney
1998 - My Life as a Fish, Conventry Gallery, Sydney
Group
Exhibitions
2005
Native Title Business, Contemporary Indigenous Art, Regional Galleries of
QLD and touring Australia
2004
Writer's Festival Sydney, Children's book Illustrations
Women's Exhibition, Vivien Anderson Gallery, Melbourne
Stand up and be Counted, NSW Artists Exhibition: Boomalli Aboriginal
Artists Co-operative, Sydney
2003
Urban Myth, Members Exhibition: Boomalli Aboriginal Artists Cooperative,
Sydney
Ned Kelly Framed, SH Erwin Gallery, Sydney
2002
Native Title Business, Contemporary Indigenous Art, Regional Galleries of
QLD and touring Australia
Bringing it Home, Boomalli Aboriginal Artists Co-op, Members Exhibition,
Sydney
Melbourne Art Fair, Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne
With or Without You, Re-visitations of Art in the Age of AIDS, Ivan
Dougherty Gallery, Sydney
2001
Back to Back, Black to Black, Boomallli Aboriginal Artists Co-operative
with Euphemia Bostock
1999
Great Australian Amnesia, Coventry Gallery, Sydney
1998
Birth Rights,
Luke close, Aboriginal Cultural Keeping Place, Armidale, NSW
RAKA Award, Ian Potter Gallery, Melbourne University
White Men Can't Dance, Boomalli Group Show in conjunction with Banarra,
The Wharf, Sydney
1997
Traditions in Transition: The Art of Aboriginal Australia, Tremaine
Gallery, USA
1996
NSW Australian Touring Exhibition Copyright: Aboriginal Art in the Age of
Reproductive Technologies
Conventry Diary Show, Convetry Gallery, Sydney
Through a Jarjum's Eyes, Grafton Regional Gallery and Touring
A Test of the Heart (with Sally Morgan), Hogarth Gallery, Sydney
1995
Australian Art 1940 - 1990 from the collection of the National Gallery of
Australia, The Museum of Fine Arts, Gifu, Japan
Women's Views-Art, Science and the Environment, Australian Museum, Sydney
1994
Yiribana, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Don't leave me this way, art in the age of AIDS, National Gallery of
Australia, Canberra
+ Positive, Artists Addressing AIDS, Campbelltown City Art Gallery, NSW
1993
Wiyana/Perisferia (Periphery), Satellite Exhibition of the 9th Biennale of
Sydney, The Performance Space, Sydney and touring regional galleries of
NSW
1990
Lineage Landscapes, Boomalli
1989
Boomalli Breaking Boundaries, Boomalli Aboriginal Artists Co-operative
Women's Show, Boomalli Aboriginal Artists Co-operative
Heidelberg & Heritage for Wilderness Society
Exhibition of Boomalli Artists, Belvoir St Theatre, Sydney
Aboriginal Women, Craft Centre Gallery
A Koori Perspective, Artspace, Sydney
Australian Fashion: The Contemporary Art of Dress, Victoria and Albert
Museum, London, in conjunction with Power House Museum.
1988
ANCAAA and Boomalli, Boomalli Ko-op, Chippendale, Sydney
Boomalli Exhibition, Tin Sheds, Sydney University
De Facto Apartheid, Boomalli Exhibition, Performance Space, Sydney
Fashion parades in Sydney, Armidale, Kyogle
1987
Fashion Parades in Paris, Sydney, Canberra
1986
The Third National Aboriginal Art Award Exhibition, Museum and Art Gallery
of the Northern Territory, Darwin
Fashion Parades in Sydney and Melbourne
1982
Fashion Parade, Canberra
1980
Graduate Diploma Exhibition, Canberra School of Art
1979
Diploma Exhibition, Canberra School of Art
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Collections
Artbank, Sydney
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Australian Museum, Sydney
Centre for the Study of Political Graphics, Santa Monica California, USA
Collection of National AIDS Campaign, Commonwealth Department of Human
Services and Health
Flinders University Art Museum, Adelaide
Maritime Muesum Sydney
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
National Museum of Australia, Canberra
Power House Museum, Sydney
The Kelton Foundation, Santa Monica, USA
Volkerkunde Museum, Frankfurt Germany