Embroidery by T Kohschulte (godmother), 1956

 

MONIQUE VAN NIEUWLAND
CURRICULUM VITAE

 

 

I was born in the Netherlands and grew up in a large family where birth and death occurred in cycles. As a teenager I worked as a baby sitter as well as an aid in an old people's nursing home. After obtaining my High School Certificate I studied at the Kopse Hof in Nymegen, a Tertiary Social Educative Course with emphasis on visual arts, drama and music. I cut these studies short and for a few years worked different jobs and attended several arts and weaving workshops. In 1978 I met my Australian partner and three years later I emigrated with our first born baby to Australia.

In 1983 I started my B.A.Visual Arts (Textiles) studies at the Canberra School of Art at the Australian National University. From the time of my graduation in 1988 until 1998 I facilitated many community arts projects in the Canberra region as well as exhibiting my own work. Some of the community arts pojects were set within health facilities and dealt with issues of health, living and dying.

Questions raised during these experiences inspired me to start my Masters(phil) Visual-Textiles studies. I am now combining part-time work (Technical Officer in the Textiles Workshop) and Master studies at the Canberra School of Art.


SELECTED EXHIBITIONS:
2000 More Swanky Hankies, travelling in France
1998 Dog's Breakfast, ANCA Gallery, ACT
"More Swanky Hankies, Jam Factory/Adelaide, CCA/Sydney, ANCA/Canberra
The Rembrandt Connection, Erasmus Foundation, Malthouse, Melbourne, V.I.C.
1997 Living until you die, Australian Hospice Palliative Care, Convention Centre, Canberra.
Rough Trade, ANCA Gallery, A.C.T.
Mostly Textiles, Long Gallery, Wollongong University, N.S.W.
1996 Self/Edge, Rotunda Gallery, Nielson Hays Library, Bangkok, Thailand
Swanky Hankies, A.N.C.A. Gallery, Canberra
TAT 2, Foyer Gallery, Canberra School of Art
Art Show, ACT Ethnic Community Council, Canberra Theatre
1995 Self/Edge, XTEX, A.N.C.A. Gallery, A.C.T.
Other duties as required, Foyer gallery, Canberra Sch of Art
1993 Interface, XTEX, Gallery III , Canberra Contemp Art Space, A.C.T.
1992 Addressing the chair, C.C.A.S., A.C.T.
Rug Show", XTEX, Gorman House, Fireplace room A.C.T.
Artstop, Shopfront, CIVIC, A.C.T.
Staff Show, Goulburn TAFE, Goulburn Regional Art Gallery, Goulburn
1991 Common Threads, Gallery III , C.C.A.S., A.C.T.
Sightlines,straight, curved..., Crafts Council A.C.T./National Word Fest.
1990 Vezels, Gallerie Het Koetshuis, Amersfoort, Holland
Context, XTEX, Canberra School of Art. Gallery Foyer, A.C.T.
1989 1988-Touring Exhibition,Tamworth Regional gallery, N.S.W.
1988 Textile works",Disposals Artspace, Wagga Wagga, N.S.W.
Tamworth National Fibre Exhibition, Tamworth Regional Gallery, N.S.W.

SELECTED COMMISSIONS:
2000 "Letting Go", viewing cloth, mortuary, Nepean Hospital, Sydney
1998 Vaarwel, viewing cloths, Braeside Hospital, Sydney
1995 Birds, Malacky PTY LTD, North Sydney
1993 Looking Out, Woden Valley Hospital, Community project, A.C.T.

SELECTED COMMUNITY ARTS PROJECTS:
1995-96   "Living Until You Die", ACT Hospice Palliative Care Society Arts Residency. Working with patients, their families and staff expressing the experience of living until you die, using various media.
1995 "Art Workshops", ACT Hospice Palliative Care Society. Organising and giving several workshops to volunteers of the Society, making work for a display.
1993 Looking Out, textile project, Woden Valley Hospital. Designing and production of large textile mural with community groups in Errindale and Narrabundah, as well as patients in the Rehabilitation Creative Activities Unit at Woden Valley Hospital.
1992-93 Community Consultation, Woden Valley Hospital Redevelopment, ACT Arts Council. Consulting with community groups, staff, visitors and patients at Woden Valley Hospital, and developing a proposal for incorporation of artworks as well as community artworks at the redeveloped hospital.
1991

Health and Healing, Royal Canberra Hospital, A.C.T Arts Council. Working with child-oncology patients as well as anti-natal patients in the hospital making work expressing the patients’ feelings of well-being.

 

   "So many tears"    "Vaarwel"    "Letting go"