Dr. Yvonne Rees-Pagh

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Multi-award winning artist, curator and art educator, Dr Yvonne Rees-Pagh is an established artist primarily working in painting, drawing and printmaking. Her practice exists within a contextual framework often expressing environmental concerns where she employs a sometimes subtle and ambiguous visual language.

Rees-Pagh holds a Doctor of Philosophy 2007 & Master of Fine Art 2007 University of Tasmania, Master of Visual Arts 2003 & Post Graduate Diploma in Painting 1999 Monash University. Dip Fine Arts 1972 Claremont School of Art WA.

Further Rees-Pagh has always combined her art practice with art lecturing. Her early lecturing career began at the Claremont School of Art in Perth WA where she was a Lecturer in Fine Arts and Senior Lecturer in Printmaking. Rees-Pagh went on to tutor drawing and printmaking at the University of Tasmania.

In 2003 and 2005 she was awarded the Premium Second Prize Award and the Award for Best Curated Exhibition at the Novosibirsk III and IV International Biennials of Modern Graphics in Russia. In 2009 she received The Award of the Rector of Katowice Academy of Fine Arts at the Krakow Print Triennial in Poland.

Rees-Pagh exhibits nationally and internationally and her works are held in The Holmes a Court Collection WA, The National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Museu Do Douro Regua Portugal, Frans Masereel Centrum Belgium, Edith Cowan University WA, Education Dept of Western Australia, Novosibirsk State Art Museum Russia and the Burnie Regional Art Gallery Tasmania.

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• About the artist

  Lives and works in Western Australia, WA

  • PhD — University of Tasmania, School of Art
    Awarded Research Scholarship

  • Master of Fine Arts — University of Tasmania, School of Art
    Awarded Research Scholarship

  • Master of Visual Arts — Monash University, Victoria
    Awarded High Distinction

  • Graduate Diploma of Arts (Visual Arts) — Monash University, Victoria
    Awarded High Distinction

  • Post Graduate Studies in Printmaking — Curtin University, Perth WA

  • Diploma in Fine Art (Painting) — Claremont Technical College, Perth WA

  • Certificate in Fine Art — Claremont Technical College, Perth WA

  • The Graphic Arts Studio — Leeds, UK
    Graphic Design Apprenticeship

• Exhibition history

  Solo Exhibitions

  2018

  • Push, Pull, Press — Biblioteca Central de Cantabria, Santander, Spain

  2015–17

  • Colonial Afterlives — CAT Touring Exhibition, Australia and United Kingdom

  2013

  • International Print Triennial — Krakow / Dalarnus Museum, Falun, Sweden

  2012

  • MTG-Kraków International Print Triennale Main Exhibition / Bunkier Sztuki Gallery, Kraków, Poland

  2011

  • Chronotop Exhibition — Rock Art in Modern Society International Conference, Kemerovo Museum of Fine Arts, Siberia

  • Chronotop Exhibition — Siberian Gallery, Krasnoyarsk, Siberia, Russia

  2010

  • Seeing Double — UTAS & Universiti Pendidikan Sultan Idris Malaysia / Plimsoll Gallery & Tanjin Malim, Malaysia

  • 5th International Printmaking Biennial — Douro, Portugal

  • Taiwan 14th International Biennial Print Exhibition — Taiwan National Gallery

  • International Print Network Exhibition — Oldenburg, Germany

  2009

  • MTG-Kraków International Print Triennale — Bunkier Sztuki Gallery, Kraków, Poland

  • Print Art Kraków-Katowice — Rondo Sztuki Gallery, Katowice, Poland

  2005

  • Novosibirsk IV International Biennial of Modern Graphics — Novosibirsk State Gallery, Russia

  • Exhibited and curated exhibition of works by twelve Tasmanian artists

  2003

  • Novosibirsk III International Biennial of Modern Graphics — Novosibirsk State Gallery, Russia

  • Exhibited and curated exhibition of works by six Tasmanian artists

  1992

  • New Pisage Gallery of Contemporary Art — St Petersburg, Russia

  • Omsk & Tomsk State Museums and Art Gallery — Russia

  1991

  • Tomsk & Novosibirsk State Galleries and Museums — USSR, with artist Pippin Drysdale

  Group Exhibitions

  2026

  • Marginalia: At the Edges of Visibility in WA — Alcoa Mandurah Art Gallery

  2024

  • Highly Commended — Fremantle Print Award, Fremantle Arts Centre, WA

  2021

  • Forest Obscura — Moonah Arts Centre, Hobart

  • Inkmasters Print Award — Cairns Regional Gallery, Queensland

  • Summer Showcase Exhibition — Gallery Pejean, Launceston

  2020

  • Forest Obscura — Burnie Regional Gallery, Burnie, Tasmania

  2018

  • Push, Pull, Press — Burnie Regional Art Gallery, Burnie, Tasmania

  2017

  • Push, Pull, Press — 3 Master Printers Exhibition, Moonah Arts Centre, Hobart

• Awards and Collections

  Awards

  2023

  • Fremantle Print Award — Finalist and Highly Commended

  2009

  • Award of the Rector of the Katowice Academy of Fine Arts — MTG-Kraków International Print Triennale

  • The Hutchins Art Prize Student Award

  • Marie Edwards Travelling Scholarship — University of Tasmania

  2005

  • Novosibirsk IV International Biennial of Modern Graphics, Siberia — Award for Best Curated Exhibition

  • Arts Tasmania / Artsbridge International Grant

  2003

  • Novosibirsk III International Biennial of Modern Graphics, Siberia — Premium 2003 Second Prize Award

  • Arts Tasmania / Artsbridge International Grant

  1997

  • Australian Printmedia Award & Logan Art Award — Highly Commended

  1985

  • Printmakers Association of Western Australia Prize

  1976

  • Undercroft Gallery, University of WA Art Prize — Winner

  1972

  • Mount Barker Painting Prize — Winner, Perth WA

  Collections

  • National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts

  • Frans Masereel Centrum, Belgium

  • Petrozavodsk Museum of Fine Arts, Russia

  • Edith Cowan University, WA

  • Russian Museum, St Petersburg

  • St Hilda Collection, WA

  • Tomsk Art Gallery of the Soviet Union

  • Novosibirsk State Art Museum, Siberia

  • Burnie Regional Art Gallery

  • TMAG, Hobart, Tasmania

  • The Robert Holmes a Court Collection

  • Education Department of Western Australia

  • Exploration House, Norseman Gold

  • Prudential Insurance Buildings

  • Hendry Rae & Court Solicitors, Perth WA

  • Jacob Allom Wade Architects, Hobart

  • Medibank Private, Hobart

  Public Artworks

  • Sculpture — Sacred Heart College Performing Arts Centre, Hobart

  • Forecourt sculpture, paving and security screen — Tasmanian Art for Public Buildings Scheme, Clarence High School

  • Entry mural and screen sculpture — Sexual Health Unit, 60 Collins Street, Hobart / Department of Health & Human Services

  • Animated sculpture — Dismal Swamp Interpretation Centre / Forestry Tasmania

  • Foyer artwork — Tasmania Police / Tasmanian Art for Public Buildings Scheme

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Works by the artist