Biography

 

Stephanie Burns
Curriculum Vitae

b. 1962, Perth WA.
STUDIES Claremont School of Art, 1984; Norwich School of Art, attended the Life Drawing department under John Wonnicott and John Lessore 1984; Bath College of Higher Education, Art Foundation Course 1986-87; Wimbledon School of Art, London, Sculpture Course 1988-90.
LIVED Perth 1962-1982, London 1982-84, Perth 1984, London/UK 1984-1994, Sydney 1994-1999, Canberra 1999-2007, Yass 2007-.
Married Peter Fuller, 1985-1990, John McDonald, 1991-2002, Stephen Hooper, 2003-.

Appointee (1991-) and trustee (1991-98, 2007-) Peter Fuller Memorial Foundation.
Part-time lecturer NAS 1997-98.
Director Stephanie Burns Fine Art 2001-2007.
Editor Art Influence 2007-.
Arts Correspondent Retiree Magazine 2007.
Valuer Australian Governments Cultural Gifts Program 2008-.

As a professional artist Stephanie Burns has won a number of awards and produced art works for twelve solo exhibitions and over sixty group exhibitions in Britain and throughout Australia. While working for the last twenty-five years in the arts industry in Britain and Australia, Burns has published an online art magazine, edited several books on art, commissioned and published pamphlets of lectures by eminent people, curated over a hundred exhibitions that included works by artists as diverse as European masters and young emerging artists for Stephanie Burns Fine Art, and taught as an art lecturer at the NAS in Sydney. Since 2008 Burns has valued numerous works of art for the Australian Governments Cultural Gifts Program and private clients.

In 1990 Burns started an arts foundation, the Peter Fuller Memorial Foundation, a British registered charity that has hosted an annual lecture at the TATE Gallery in London since 1991, eminent cultural commentators such as William Tucker, Hilton Kramer, John Berger, Rudi Fuchs, Luc Tuymans and Sir Anthony Caro have given past lectures. The charity also runs an online art magazine Art Influence run by the artist and her son, Laurence Fuller.

Represented by Charles Hewitt Gallery, Sydney.

AWARDS Fisher's Ghost Art Award, (highly commended), Campbelltown, 1997. Waverley Art Prize – Open Prize and Works on Paper Prize 2009, Waverley Art Prize – Acrylic Prize 2010, Highly Commended Goulburn Art Award, Goulburn Regional Gallery 2011.

APPTS Appointee and trustee of The Peter Fuller Memorial Foundation 1991-. Editor: Art Influence www.artinfluence.com, 2007-. Valuer for the Australian Government’s Cultural Gifts Program 2008-.

COLLECTIONS National Australia Bank, Head Office, Melbourne; Gold Coast City Art  Gallery, QLD; Matisse Derivan Pty Ltd; Joondalup City Council, WA.

Solo Exhibitions
2010    Hedonism, The Depot Gallery, Danks St, Waterloo, Sydney NSW.
            YassArts Trail, Orion Sculpture Park and Gardens, Yass NSW.
2007    Reflections, Stephanie Burns Fine Art, Canberra
2005    Great Australian Male and Others, Stephanie Burns Fine Art, Canberra.
2001    10 Years a Survey of Sculptures and Collages, Stephanie Burns Fine Art, Canberra.
2000    Floriade, Canberra Tourism's Spring Festival, Canberra.
            Collage, Christine Abrahams Gallery, Melbourne.
1998    Towards the Baroque, Annandale Galleries, Sydney.
1997    Coventry Gallery, Sydney.
1996    Recent Sculpture, Christine Abrahams Gallery, Melbourne.
1995    Delaney Gallery, Perth, WA.
1994    Coventry Gallery, Sydney.

Group Exhibitions
2011    Something Personal-Small paintings in support of big ideas, Charles Hewitt Gallery, Sydney NSW.
            Goulburn Art Award, Goulburn Regional Gallery NSW.
            Hunters Hill Art Exhibition 2010, Sydney NSW.
2010    BSG $10,000 General Art Prize, Brunswick Street Gallery, Melbourne, VIC.
Artists in the Southern Highlands, Ryder’s Fine Arts Gallery, Moss Vale NSW.
            Liverpool City Art Prize, Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre, Sydney NSW.
            Hunters Hill Art Exhibition 2010, Sydney NSW.
            Waverley Art Prize exhibition, Waverley-Woollahra Art School, Bondi NSW.
            North Sydney Art Prize, Hutley Hall, North Sydney Council NSW.
            Still Life Treasures, Robin Gibson Gallery, Sydney NSW.
            Bellingen Art Prize, Bellingen NSW.
2009    Winter’s Journey into Poetry and Art, The Sheep’s Back Gallery, Yass NSW.
            Waverley Art Prize, Bondi Road Art School, Sydney.
            Bayswater Art Awards and Exhibition, Perth.
            Bellingen Art Prize, Memorial Hall, Bellingen NSW.
            Darlington Arts Festival, Perth WA.
            Gold Rush Art Competition, Gympie Regional Gallery, QLD.
2008    IT’S THE small THINGS THAT COUNT! Defiance Gallery, Sydney.
            2008 Telstra Art Show, Gundaroo, NSW
            Fisher's Ghost Art Award, Campbelltown City Bicentennial Art Gallery, NSW.
2006    All Women, Stephanie Burns Fine Art, Canberra.
            Contemporary, Stephanie Burns Fine Art, Canberra.
2005    6 x 6 x 6” Miniature Sculpture Exhibition, Defiance Gallery, Sydney.
            Brisbane Art Fair, Stephanie Burns Fine Art, Brisbane.
            Capo, National Portrait Gallery, Canberra.
2004    The March of the Miniatures, Defiance Gallery, Sydney.
            The Melbourne Affordable Art Fair, Stephanie Burns Fine Art, Melbourne.
            The Sydney Affordable Art Fair, Stephanie Burns Fine Art, Sydney.
2003    Annual Sculpture Exhibition, Robin Gibson Gallery, Sydney.
2002    Melbourne Art Fair (ACAFS), Stephanie Burns Fine Art.
            Annual 6” Miniature Sculpture Show, Defiance Gallery, Sydney.
            Sculpture 2002, Campbelltown City Bicentennial Art Gallery, Campbelltown NSW.
            Beauty & Violence, Stephanie Burns Fine Art, Canberra.
2001    Small Wonders, Defiance Gallery, Sydney.
            Mine is Bigger than His!, Stephanie Burns Fine Art, Canberra.
2000    'idea and influence', 3 May-27 May, Annandale Galleries, Sydney.
            The Miniature Sculpture Show, Defiance, Sydney.
            Sculpture by the sea, Bondi Beach, Sydney.
            Australian Drawing Biennale, Drill Hall Gallery, ANU Canberra.
1999    Primary Colours- Red, June 15-July 10, Annandale Galleries, Sydney
            still life, King St Gallery, Sydney.
            Big Thoughts Small Works, Defiance Gallery, Sydney.
            Stained Glass Windows Competition, 25 Feb-25 Mar, St John's Cathedral, Brisbane.
1998    Pas D'Accrochage En Publique (Not a Public Hanging), Cellblock Theatre,
            East Sydney Campus, Sydney.
            A Contretemps, Annandale Galleries, Sydney.
            Primary Colours, Annandale Galleries, Sydney.
            Figure in the Landscape: An Exhibition by 67 Sculptors, King St Gallery, Sydney.
            Melbourne Art Fair (ACAFS), Annandale Galleries, Sydney.          
Fisher's Ghost Art Award, highly commended, Campbelltown City Bicentennial Art Gallery, NSW.
1997    Flagging the Republic, Sherman Galleries, Sydney.
            Diary, Coventry Gallery, Sydney.
            Anon, Sherman Galleries, Sydney.
Blake Prize for Religious Art, State Library of NSW, Sydney.  St Johns Cathedral, Brisbane, Noosa Regional Art Gallery, Tewantin, Qld, Cathedral of St Paul, Melbourne.
            Salon des Refuses, S.H. Ervin, Sydney
            Sculpture 9, Robin Gibson Gallery, Sydney.
            The biggest little sculpture show in town, Defiance Gallery, Sydney.
            Stiletto, Delaney Gallery, Perth, WA.
Fisher's Ghost Art Award, highly commended, Campbelltown City Bicentennial Art Gallery, NSW.
Martin Hanson Memorial Art Award, Gladstone Regional Art Gallery & Museum, QLD.
            Still-Life, Cintra Galleries, Brisbane.
1996    Flagging the Republic, Sherman Galleries, Sydney.
            Sculpture 8, Robin Gibson Gallery, Sydney.
            Still Life, Robin Gibson Gallery, Sydney.
            Melbourne Art Fair (ACAFS), Christine Abrahams Gallery, Melbourne.
            Size is (not) important, Defiance Gallery, Sydney.
            Christmas Show, Coventry Gallery, Sydney.
1995    Generation, Delaney Gallery, Perth, WA.
            Diary, Coventry Gallery, Sydney.
            Perth Art Fair, Delaney Gallery, Perth.
1994    Diary, Coventry Gallery, Sydney.
            Summer Show, Royal Academy of Arts, London.
1993    London Art Fair, Beaux Arts Gallery, UK.
            Bath Art Fair, Beaux Arts Gallery, UK.
1990    Beaux Arts Gallery, Bath, UK.

Stephanie Burns:         “An Artist’s life”, Independent Retiree, Spring 2007.
Stephanie Burns:         “Art for Pleasure”, Independent Retiree, Winter 2007.
Stephanie Burns:         “Valuing Art”, Independent Retiree, Autumn 2007.

            

 

 

 

Bibliography
Susan Parsons:            “The Art of a Garden Park”, The Canberra Times, 3 November 2010.
David Curry:               “Creative community throws open its doors to create Yass arts trail”, Sunday Canberra Times, 25 Oct 2009.
Arts Corner, Yass Tribune, 29 Oct 2009.
Diana Streak:              “Burns earns two”, Panorama, The Canberra Times, 18 July 2009.
What’s going on, The Canberra Times, 9 Feb 2009.
Philip O’Brien:            “At home with sculpture”, The Canberra Times, 10 Sept 2007.
Helen Musa:                Capital Life, The Canberra Times, 11 Nov 2005.
Sonia Barron:              “A Rodin-style renaissance” The Canberra Times, 27 March 2005.
Helen Musa:                “100 Kg bronze sculpture taken from Deakin gallery”, The Canberra Times, 29 June 2004.
Lyn Mills:                    “Circus comes to town just at the right time”, The Canberra Times, 18 Feb 2003.
John Paul Moloney:    “Risk or Risqué, it’s enough to drive you up the wall”, The Canberra Times, 25 Aug 2002.
                                    Look Out, Times Out, The Canberra Times, 15 Aug 2002.
Des McNicholas:         “Vibrant display of artistic talent”, Canberra Sunday Times, 27 Jan 2002.
Norma Allen:              “New circle of friends meets at gallery lunch”, “Hats off”, front page, The Canberra Times, 13 Nov 2001.
Sonia Baron:               “Deserves ‘adults only’ tag”, The Canberra Times, 31 July 2001.
Ian Warden:                “Lust and laughs – the funny side of erotic art”, The Canberra Times, 31 May 2001.
Shaun Burns:               “Win News”, Win TV, 16 March 2001.
Ron Cerabona:            “Contemporary Insights”, The Canberra Times, 8 Mar 2001.
                                    The Chronicle, March 6 2001.
                                    Portrait 2, Summer 2001.
Georgina Safe:            “Neckwear exhibit as artwork to tie for”, The Australian, 6 Oct 2000.
Norma Allen:              “Ties as gorgeous snippets of paintings”, The Canberra Times, 3 Oct 2000.
Helen Musa:                “Sculptures display a Passion for Tulips”, Canberra Times, 18th September, 2000.
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Jewel Topsfield:          “Community Catch-Up”, Melbourne Times, 13th December 2000.
Stephanie Burns:         'Towards The Baroque', Annandale Galleries Catalogue, March 1999.
Sebastian Smee:          “The galleries”, The Sydney Morning Herald, 30th March, 1999.
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John McDonald:         Christine Abrahams Gallery Catalogue, April 1996.
Giles Auty:                  “Added Dimension”, The Australian, The Weekend Review, 20th July 1996
Jenny Zimmer:            “Burns Draws on Wealth of References”, The Age, 1 Oct, 1996.
David Bromfield:        The West Australian, 29th August, 1995.
Elwyn Lynn:               "Critical Depth to Serious Studies", The Australian, 10 September, 1994.
Jacques Delaruelle:      "Demanding Attention", The Sydney Review, September, 1994.
David Matthews:        Coventry Gallery Catalogue, September, 1994.