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PAMELA
GAUNT
1952
Born England
EDUCATIONAL
QUALIFICATIONS
1982
B.A. (Craft) Western Australian Institute of Technology. (Major in Textiles)
1989 Graduate Diploma in Art and Design. Curtin
University of Technology
EMPLOYMENT
Lecturer
(part-time) Fibre/Textiles Department, School of Art
Curtin University of Technology, Perth.
Liaison Person for International Students, School of Art
ONE
PERSON EXHIBITIONS
1984
BODY WORKS Australian Craftworks Gallery, Sydney
1994 ONE SIZE FITS MOST The Story So Far Gallery,
Perth
1996 MARGINALIA, Perth Institute of Contemporary
Arts
1998 NOTHING TO WEAR Distelfink Gallery, Melbourne
1998 PATTERNING THE EDGE Craft Victoria, Melbourne
1999 MOTH-EATEN Object Gallery Centre for Contemporary
Craft, Sydney
1999 RECENT WORKS Galerie Düsseldorf, Perth
GROUP
EXHIBITIONS (SELECTED)
1980
CRAFTS IN GEAR Fremantle Art Gallery, Fremantle
1983 SYDNEY CRAFT EXPO Sydney
1984 FESTIVAL CRAFT 1984 Craft Council Gallery, Perth
1984 BODY RAP Art Gallery of W.A., Perth
1984 THE SECOND SKIN Beaver Galleries, Canberra
1984 THE NEW WAVE Editions Gallery, Fremantle
1984 AUSTRALIAN CRAFTWORKS-SUMMER PROMOTION
Australian Craftworks Gallery, Sydney
1984 THE CHRISTMAS SHOW Galerie Düsseldorf, Perth
1985 FACTOTUM GALLERY Melbourne
1985 CITY OF PERTH CRAFT AWARDS Craft Council Gallery,
Perth
1985 ARARAT SECOND BIENNALE Ararat Regional Gallery
Ararat, Victoria
1985 DIAMOND VALLEY ART AWARD Diamond Valley Civic
Centre,Victoria
1985 THE CHRISTMAS SHOW Galerie Dusseldorf, Perth
1986 SURVEY OF CONTEMPORARY AUSTRALIAN EMBROIDERY
The Jam Factory, South Australia
1986 TAMWORTH NATIONAL FIBRE EXHIBITION Tamworth,
N.S.W.
1986 CITY OF PERTH CRAFT AWARDS Craft Council Gallery,
Perth
1986 AMERICA'S CUP CUPS Galerie Düsseldorf, Perth
1987 CHALLENGES Craft Council Gallery, Perth
1987 FEATURED ARTIST - BEAVER GALLERIES, Canberra
1987 CITY OF PERTH CRAFT AWARDS Craft Council Gallery,
Perth
1988 THE SECOND SKIN Beaver Galleries, Canberra
1988 THE MEAT MARKET INVITATION SHOW Meat Market Gallery,
Melbourne
1988 NEW CONTEMPORARIES Craft Council Gallery, Perth
1988 FIBRE WORKS 1988 Craft Council Gallery, Perth
1988 SMALL SCALE FIBRE WORK Corridor Gallery Fremantle
Art Centre
1989 FIBRE AND TEXT Ararat Regional Gallery, Ararat,
Victoria
1990 FIBRE EXPRESSIONS New Collectables Gallery, Fremantle.
1991 THREADS OF JOURNEYS Touring exhibition funded
by The Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, High Court/Canberra
and travelling to over twenty four countries.
1991 AUSTRALIAN CONTEMPORARY DESIGN IN JEWISH CEREMONY
(By Invitation) Jewish Museum of Australia, Melbourne.
1992 PRAXIS/TEXTILES Craft Council Gallery, Perth.
1993 Opening celebration of the new Craft Council
of Australia premises, Sydney.
1994 10th INTERNATIONAL BIENNALE MINATURE TEXTILES
Szombathely Museum, Hungary.
1994 CITY OF PERTH CRAFT AWARDS Craft Council Gallery,
Perth.
1994 IN OUR HANDS, Nagoya, Japan.
1995 SAMPLE ART, Mobilia Gallery, Mass. USA
1995 SYMBOL AND NARRATIVE, travelling show to
India, Nepal and Thailand
1995 WOMEN'S WORK, Erica Underwood, Curtin University
1995 BEADS, Craft Council Gallery, Perth
1996 DERIVATIONS, Craft Council gallery of ACT,
Canberra
1996 SECOND LOOK, Prospect Gallery Textiles
Biennial, Prospect Gallery, Adelaide
1996 FOLDING, Arts House, Perth
1996 12th TAMWORTH FIBRE/TEXTILES BIENNIAL Tamworth
City Gallery, NSW
1997 INTERNATIONAL TEXTILES BIENNIAL, Museum
of Kyoto, Japan.
1997 DERIVATIONS, The Dowse Art Museum, New
Zealand
1997 GALERIE DUSSELDORF - 21 YEARS ON, Galerie
Düsseldorf, Perth
1998 WEB WARP WEFT WOOF, Manningham Regional
Gallery, Victoria
COMMISSIONS
1995
Red Cross in conjunction with the W.A. Crafts Council, Banner for the
Festival of Perth
1994/5 Co-supervision, SAFTI Military Institute Banner
Commission, Singapore in conjunction with MGT Architects
1996 Perth City Council, banner
for Local Government Week
REPRESENTED
IN THE FOLLOWING COLLECTIONS
Museum Fur Kunsthandwerk, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Art Gallery of Western Australia
Jewish Museum of Australia.
Crafts Board of the Australia Council
Curtin University of Technology
Ararat Regional Gallery, Victoria
PUBLISHED
IN THE FOLLOWING BOOKS
1992
A SENSE OF PLACE A national overview of contemporary Australian embroidery.
Jerry Rodgers/Angus & Robertson.
1994 CONTEMPORARY EMBROIDERY , Ann Morrell,
Cassell, London.
1997 PAM GAUNT - SELECTED WORKS, 1989-1997,
Monograph funded by the Australia Council
texts by Robert Bell and Marco Marcon.
1999 ART TEXTILES OF THE WORLD, AUSTRALIA, Telos,
England
REVIEWS
Anderson,
N.'Fabric Art & Fashion, Craft Australia Year Book,, 1984,
pp85-86
Hatton, B. Craft Australia Year Book,, 1985, pp49-51
Sanders, J.'Tamworth National Fibre Competition', Craft Arts Magazine,
Feb-April, p36-40, 1987
Taylor, R. 'Challenges 'Craft West, Issue One, 1987.
Bromfield, D. 'Fibre Works'West Australian Newspaper, 30 July
Snell, T. 'Fibre Works 1988', Craft West , Issue 3, 1988.
Fibre Works 1988', Praxis M , Issue 4, 1988, pp 34-35
New Contemporaries', Craft West, Issue 3, 1988
Bromfield, D. 'Small Scale Fibre Works',West Australian Newspaper,
5 Oct., 1988
Ewington, J. 'Shreds and Patches', Textile-Fibre Forum, No 27,
1990
Kirby, S. 'Fibre & Text',Craft Arts International, July-Sept,
No 19, pp85-87, 1990.
Bromfield, D., West Australian Newspaper, Oct 3rd, 1992
Marcon, M. 'Praxis/Textiles', Craft West, Summer, 1992
Ainscow, M.'Fibre & Text', Craft Art International, No 27,
pp104, 1993
Marcon, M. Marginalia, Catalogue essay, 1997
Kawashima, Keiko. Japanese Textile Magazine, Kyoto, Japan, November/
No 188, 1996
Textile Fibre Forum Magazine, Vol.16/Issue 3/No 50, pp57, 1997
Clabburn, A. 'Space Size and Surface', Metroarts, The Age Newspaper,
25th Feb. 1998
Gelbart, M.L. Radio Review, ABC, Radio National Arts Program, Sunday
15th March, 1999
Gelbart, M.L. Radio Review, ABC, Radio National Arts Program, Sunday
19th July 1999
PROFESSIONAL
RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT (SELECTED)
1992
Granted Study Leave and Long Service Leave.Travelled to India to research
the interface between traditional and contemporary imagery, in Indian
textiles
1993 Curtin New Researchers Grant Scheme,($4,800).
To establish a women's art register and
data
base, of Western Australian women artists, for research and educational
purposes
1994 Curtin New Researchers Grant Scheme ($5,600).
To further develop the original research
(as
above), to include an historical section and to increase the representation
from
Aboriginal
women artists and women from NESB
1995 Creative Development Grant ($12,000) from
the W.A. Dept. for the Arts
1996 Project Grant, ($15,000) from VA/CB of
the Australia Council
1997 Granted Milan Studio Residency (VIAFARINI
Gallery) by the VA/CB of the Australia Council
1998 Artflight ArtsWA grant to install work
at Distelfink Gallery
1998 Vice Chancellor's Excel Award for Teaching
1999 Artflight ArtsWA grant to install work
at Object Gallery, Sydney
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