CAROL RUFF

 

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

 

2010 Empowering Women, International Women's Day lecture, Bondi Pavilion
2009 Love Creek Bitter Springs, Australian Galleries, Sydney
2008 cLOVElly artists, curator , exhibitor, composer, Gallery East Sydney
2007 Desert Air, Australian Galleries W.O.P. with Greg Weight, Sydney
2006 Habitat, Gallery East, Sydney
2004 Emoh Ruo, Gallery East, Sydney
2003 Crossed Cultures, Addison Road Gallery, Sydney

2002 No Hiding Place, Migration Museum, Adelaide
2001 Coast, Gallery East, Sydney
1999 Back to Alice, Gallery East, Sydney
1994 - 97 Site Seeing, collaborative touring exhibition with Jon Rhodes
  Araluen Centre, Alice Springs
  Hogarth Gallery, Sydney
  Cairns Regional Gallery, Nth Qld
  Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane
1996 - 97 Java to Gepps Cross touring exhibition
  Tin Sheds Gallery Sydney
  Griffith Regional Gallery, NSW
  Port Pirie Regional Gallery, SA
  Dutch Australia Centre, Sydney
  Prospect City Gallery, Adelaide
1993 Around Alice, Helen Maxwell Gallery, ACT
1991 Once a Catholic, Helen Maxwell Gallery, ACT

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

 
2009 Shelf Life, Delmore Gallery, Sydney
2008 cLOVElly Artists, Gallery East
2008 Shelf Life, Delmore Gallery
2008 Small Images / Grand Visions, Wagner Gallery
2008 The Coloured Digger, Damien Minton Gallery
2007 Hula Dreams, Gallery East, Sydney
2007 Shelf Life, Delmore Gallery
2006 The Sound of the Sky, Museum and Art Gallery N.T.
2006 Bondi a Biography, Museum of Sydney
2004 Hula Dreams, Gallery East , Sydney
1996 5 Bondi Artists curated by Damien Minton
1995 International Works on Paper Fair, Sydney
1994 Watch This Space, Alice Springs
1993 Commitments, Art Space, Sydney
  Institute of Modern Art, Queensland
  Canberra School of Art Gallery

FILM AND THEATRE

 
1995 - 97 Co-Producer/Director documentary film, 50 Years of Silence
  Winner T.V.Logie, Most Outstanding Doc.
  Winner Australian Film Institute Awards
  Winner EAC Dendy Award, Sydney Film Festival
  Best Film Non-Fiction, Asia Pacific Film Festival
  Winner Atom Award,Sydney
  Winner World Film and T.V. Festival, Japan
1989 Production Designer The Castanet Club’s Big Night Out, director Neil Armfield
1981 Stills Photographer Wrong Side of the Road, director Ned Lander

1981 Scenic painter Circus Oz

1979 Prison tours NSW, singer / performer with Chicka Dickson
1979 International Year of the Child storytelling tour with Pipi Storm
1978 Prison tour Northern Territory, story / musician
1977 Scenic artist, Australian Performing Group, Pram Factory Melbourne
1976 The Four Little Girls, play by Pablo Picasso, Pram Factory Melbourne
1972 - 74 John and Carol, guests on Johnny Mac’s Country and Western Hour, Adelaide

SELECTED MURALS AND PUBLIC ART

2002 Design co-ordinator, Native Title Holders Mural, Alice Springs Hospital foyer
1999 St Andrews Cathedral School Auditorium
1997 Royal Blind Society multi mural project, Sydney.

1996 World Instrument Mural, Marrickville
1990 Enmore Swimming Pool Marrickville

1988 Bicentennial Mural, Collingwood Melb.

1987 Bush Tucker Murals, Yeperenye Centre, Alice Springs

1986 Bondi Beach Public School Peace Mural
1984 Niugini Panorama, University of Papua New Guinea, Port Morsby PNG
1984 International Children’s Centre mural Port Morsby
1983 Redfern Railway Bridge Mural, 40,000 Years is a Long, Long Time
1983 We Are Still Here, Coles New World, Tasmania
1982 Adelaide Festival Centre Mural, Aboriginals Discovered Cook
1982 Domain Parking Station Mural, Women and Arts Festival, Sydney
1981 Proud of Our Elders mural, for Randwick City Council

1981 Townsville Aboriginal and Islander Medical Centre multi mural project
1980 Townsville Daily Bulletin mural, Townsville Pacific Festival
1980 Pedestrian underpass murals, Mt Druitt, for Blacktown City Council

COLLECTIONS

 
2006 War and Women's Human Rights Museum, Korea
2005 Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory
2004 Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory
2003 Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory
1999 Human Rights Commission NSW
1997 Araluen Cultural Centre, Alice Springs
1997 Flinders University, SA
1997 Prospect City Council, SA
1986 Bondi Pavilion NSW

PUBLICATIONS AND REVIEWS

The Sound of the Sky, Daena Murray, Museum and Art Gallery of the N.T. 2006 
Artlink 'remote' Women's Business by Daena Murray vol 25 no 2.2005   
Australian Artists Portraits by Greg Weight, Chapter and Verse 2004                 
Art and Australia Site Seeing, Vol 3 no.961996            
Site Seeing, Paintings by Carol Ruff, Photographs by Jon Rhodes, published by Jon Rhodes, 1994,                
Site Seeing, Russell Goldflam, Periphery Issue 25 1994        
Arena Magazine Review, Site Seeing, by Tim Rowse. Oct 94   
Australian Painting 1788-1990 by Bernard Smith with Terry Smith, Oxford.University Press

EXPERIENCE

 
1996 - 10 Gallery East Director, NSW
1991 - 01 Desart Gallery Manager, Desart Aboriginal Enterprises
1995 Visions Australia Grant
1995 Pat Corrigan Grant
1995 NAVA Grant
1994 Sydney University Arts Workshop Drawing Lecturer
1986 Artist-in-Residence Bondi Beach Public School
1985 Artist-in-Residence Bondi Pavilion Community Centre
1983 Fellowship from Community Arts Board, Australia Council

1976 -78 Established pilot Community Arts Programme, Carringbush Regional Library Service, Victoria
1973 Diploma Fine Art Painting, South Australian School of Art