PENNY COSS
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ABOUT THE ARTIST
Penny Coss was born in 1961 in Sydney. She graduated from the University of NSW and the City Art Institute (Sydney). She studied drawing at St. Martins School of Art in London and was an ArtsWA grant recipient to participate in the 1997 New York School of Art Drawing Marathon (Adelaide). In 1994 she moved to Perth to practice her art and lecture for the West Australian School of Art & Design. She has won several awards including the Albany Art Prize, the Kimberley Drawing Prize and the East Fremantle Art Prize. Coss has exhibited widely throughout Australia and in Japan and New Zealand.
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Retinal Assault of the Western Sun
2009
oil & enamel on canvas
152 x 152 cm
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ARTIST'S CURRICULUM VITAE
1961 born Sydney, NSW, 1994 moved to Perth, WA
Education| 1990 | GradDip (VisArt) College of Fine Arts, University of NSW |
| 1989 | BA(VisArt) City Art Institute, Sydney NSW |
| 1986 | St Martin’s School of Art, London, U.K. Art Certificate TAFE NSW |
| 2010 | Light Works, Harrison Galleries, Sydney, New South Wales |
| 2009 | Wetlands, Harrison Galleries, Sydney, New South Wales |
| 2007 | Inversion of a Flat Lake, Perth Galleries, Western Australia |
| 2005 | Illegal Landscapes, Perth Galleries, Western Australia |
| 2004 | Straight Talk, Indigenart, Mossenson Galleries, Melbourne, Victoria |
| 2003 | Green Series, Perth Galleries, Western Australia |
| 2002 | Plates, Ballidu Art Gallery, Western Australia |
| 1995 | Body Drawing, Perth Institute of Contemporary Art (PICA), Western Australia |
| 1995 | Displacement and Identity, The Moore's Building, Fremantle, Western Australia |
| 1994 | Drawing the Batavia, The Tin Sheds, University of Sydney, New South Wales |
| 1993 | Wet Wood, First Draft (West), Sydney, New South Wales |
| 1992 | Point et Virgule, CBD Gallery, Sydney New South Wales |
| 2010 | Caloundra Regional Gallery, SCAP, QLD. Rex-Livingston Gallery, Mt Eyre Vineyards Art Prize, Sydney, NSW, Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital Exhibition, Perth WA, Melbourne Art Fair, Carlton VIC |
| 2009 | The Yellow Vest Syndrome, Fremantle Arts Centre, Fremantle, WA, Joondalup Invitation Art Award, WA, |
| 2008 | Melbourne Art Fair, Royal Exhibition Hall, Carlton, Victoria |
| 2007 | 2007 Contemporary Australian Art, Travelling Exhibition and Gaffer Gallery, Aberdeen, Hong Kong., BankWest Contemporary Art Prize, PICA (Perth Institute of Contemporary Art) Western Australia |
| 2006 | The Alice Contemporary Art Prize, Araluen Arts Centre, Alice Springs, Northern Territory, Australia. Melbourne Art Fair, Royal Exhibition Hall, Carlton, Victoria. BankWest Contemporary Art Prize, PICA , Western Australia, |
| 2005 | te tuhi - the mark, Pakuranga Arts Centre, Manukau City, Aotearoa New Zealand Bankwest Contemporary Art Prize, Perth Institute of Contemporary Art, Western Australia, Canberra Invitational Art Prize, Australian Capital Territory., City of Joondalup Invitation Art Award, Western Australia |
| 2004 | Riders, Mary Place Gallery, Sydney, NSW Melbourne Art Fair, Royal Exhibition Hall, Carlton, Victoria |
| 2003 | Artfair 03 represented by Perth Galleries, Fremantle Passenger Terminal, Western Australia, Winter Exhibition, Perth Galleries, Western Australia |
| 2002 | Miniature Works, Gallery Gallery, Kyoto, & Museum of Art and Craft, Itami, Japan, The Western Australian Folding Exhibition, The Textile Exchange Project, Gallery East, Western Australia |
| 1998 | Sculpture By The Sea, a sea change, National Olympic Arts Festival, Albany, Western Australia, Mine Own Executioner, Portrait Award. Mundaring Arts Centre, Western Australia, Folding, An Exhibition of Works in Fibre, The Textile Exchange Project National Textile Conference, Canberra & International Contemporary Arts Centre, Kyoto, Japan |
| 1997 | Kimberly Drawing Prize, W.A., Old Customs House 10th Anniversary, The Moores Building, Fremantle, Western Australia., Bunbury Biennale, Bunbury Regional Galleries, Western Australia |
| 1996 | Mandorla Art Prize, Perth, Western Australia., The Jacaranda Drawing Prize, Invitation, Grafton Regional Art Gallery, Grafton, New South Wales |
| 1995 | Midland Centennial Art Acquisition, Midland, Western Australia., Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital Annual Invitation Exhibition, Perth, WA, No. 7 The Moores Building, Fremantle, WA |
| 1994 | Works on Paper, James Harvey Gallery, Sydney, NSW., Flux, Airspace, Redfern, NSW Art of our Age, 5x8 installation, Airspace, Redfern, NSW, Australian Fibre Art Now Reptilia Salon, Rozelle, NSW, Fishers Ghost Art Award, Campbelltown Regional Art Gallery, NSW |
| 2010 | Mt Eyre Vineyards Art Prize |
| 1997 | Kimberly Drawing Prize, W.A. |
| 1997 | Town of East Fremantle Art Award, W.A. |
| 1996 | Albany Art Award, W.A. |
| 1995 | Woolstores Art Award, W.A. |
| 1986 | TAFE Award for Printmaking, NSW |
Grants
Bibliography
Collections
| 2006 | Artflight Grant ArtsWA, Alice Art Prize |
| 1999 | Catalyst Grant C.A.N. (Community Arts Network), W.A. |
| 1997 | Artflight Grant ArtsWA, New York Studio School Drawing Marathon, South Australia 1997 |
| 1997 | New York Studio School Drawing Marathon, South Australia 1997 |
| 2009 | Bromfield, David "Waves: The Edith Cowan University Art Collection", pp154 -157, ISBN 978-0-7298-0673-2 |
| 2009 | Stephens, Jasmin Yellow Manoeuvres, Catalogue essay, The Yellow Vest Syndrome: recent west Australian art, Fremantle Arts Centre |
| 2009 | Artbank Magazine, Western Australia News |
| 2007 | Spencer, Ric The value of experience, Sat, 29th April, The West Australian Newspaper |
| 2005 | http://artwall.blogspot.com/ Penny Coss, Illegal Landscapes- Perth Galleries, WA |
| 2005 | Butler, Rex An Art of its Times, p118 Australian Art Collector Magazine |
| 2005 | Ric Spencer, Breaking The Laws Of Abstraction, Sat,18th July, The West Australian Newspaper |
| 2003 | Nyanda Smith, Painter and Juggler, Thurs 10/07/03The West Australian |
| 2003 | Sandra Murray Catalogue Essay, Perth Galleries |
| 2003 | Simon Blond, Signs of Life, Sat 12/07/03The West Australian Newspaper |
| 2003 | Virginia Rigney Paintings and Drawings, Catalogue Essay |
| 1998 | Stuart Eliott, Catalogue, Mine Own Executioner |
| 1998 | Virginia Rigney, Folding Catalogue Essay |
| 1995 | Rosie Kerr, Midland Centennial Catalogue, WA |
| 1995 | Nikki Miller, Art Today, The West Australian Newspaper, Aug 16 |
| 1994 | Peter Duggan, Real Experience or mere information, Art Monthly, Aug |
| Artbank | |
| Leeuwin Estate Collection | |
| Ian + Sue Bernadt Collection | |
| Royal Perth Hospital | |
| Itami Craft Museum, Kyoto, Japan | |
| University of NSW | |
| BankWest | |
| Macquarie Bank | |
| Edith Cowan University | |
| Swan Shire, Western Australia | |
| King Edward Memorial Hospital, Western Australia | |
| Wesfarmers | |
| The Derwent Collection, Tasmania | |
| N.S.W. College of TAFE | |
| Hobsons Press, NSW | |
| Town of East Fremantle, Western Australia |