artist & educator
born Hobart, Tasmania. lives and works in Melbourne, Australia.
e anna.parry (gmail)
education
2013 Grad Dip. Ed. ACU
2012 M.F.A. VCA, University of Melbourne.
2010 BFA (Hons) VCA, University of Melbourne.
awards & achievements
2024 Artwork acquired by the National Herbarium of Victoria for the State Botanical Collection
2013 Artwork published in antithesis Vol 23 Live
2011 Australian Postgraduate Award
2010 Galloway Lawson Acquisitive Prize (Painting)
2010 Pigment Gallery Award
2009 Gary Grossbard Drawing Prize
2008 John Vickery Drawing Scholarship
recent exhibitions & projects
2024 The Art of Botanical Illustration 17th Biennial Exhibition, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne
2022 The Art of Botanical Illustration Sixteenth Biennial Exhibition, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne
2020 The Art of Botanical Illustration, Australia’s Fifteenth Biennial Exhibition of selected botanical artwork, Royal Botanic Gardens Vic, online exhibition
2019 ReFraming Nature, Natural History Art Exhibition, Domain House, Melbourne
2019 1000 Finches Project, Black Throated Finch Creative Protest, curated by Charlotte Watson
2018 The Art of Botanical Illustration, Fourteenth Biennial Exhibition, Australia's foremost exhibition of selected botanical works. Domain House, Dallas Brooks Drive, Melbourne.
2017 The Museum of Lost Public Notices, curated by David Dellafiora & Phil Edwards. George Paton Gallery, Lv 2 Union House, University of Melbourne
2016 Heathen, with Valentina Palonen and Belle Bassin, curated by Mitchel Brannan, Mailbox Art Space, 141-143 Flinders Lane, Melbourne.
2016 Strange Brew, responding to the works of John Vickery, curated by Toby Miller, Vickery Room Project. rm 207 Nicholas Building
2015 Why am I so Behind? An exhibition of Wild Australia Series with Rhonda Dredge & Helen Braun at The Vickery Room, Nicholas Building, Melbourne CBD
2015 Summer Viewing, Paintings. Coordinated by Kate Stedman from French Fusion, Toorak Road, South Yarra.
2015 Miniatures, a Solo exhibition of miniature artworks, insects and wildlife, exhibit design by Robyn Bunting, Harold & Maude, Nicholas Building, Melbourne
2014 Pocket Melbourne Now, Moth miniatures series, Pursuit mobile Gallery by Peter Burke, NGV
2013 Precious, curated by Timo Juntunen, Chapman & Bailey Gallery, Abbotsford
2013 Pursuit, courtesy of Peter Burke performance artist, Art Stage Singapore
2013 Tasmania's Toy Box, Series of artworks featuring the Tasmanian Devil, Solo Exhibition at Carbon Black Gallery, High St, Prahran
2012 Wild vs Man, curated by Caroline Phillips, Goodtime Studios, Carlton.
2012 Pursuit mobile Gallery with Peter Burke, Moth miniature paintings, Melbourne Art Fair
2012 Neon Forest c3 Gallery, Abbotsford Convent
2011 Ramekin & Shirt, conceived & curated by Blue Dahlia Films Pty Ltd, Craig Brookes. Neerim Road, Murrumbeena on the former historic site of Open Country, Boyd Pottery studios.
2011 Paint-6. Pigment Gallery, award exhibition of selected prize winning artists, Nicholas Building
2011 Symbiosis, fundraising auction curated by Kylie Blackley, Nicholas Building Print Workshop, Melbourne
2010 Launch 2 Carbon Black, Gallery Launch exhibition, curation by director Tim Bruce, High St, Prahran
2010 Honours VCA Graduate Exhibition, sequence of paintings of Moths exhibited at Magaret Lawrence Gallery, Southbank.
2009 Motion Pictures, with Louise Minahan and Cait Burgoyne, Pigment Gallery, Nicholas Building
Select publications
Art Smitten Review by Jim Thomas
http://syn.org.au/review-heathen-mailbox-art-space/
Celestial calling for CBD foyer, written by Rhonda Dredge
https://cbdnews.com.au/celestial-calling-cbd-foyer/
Review of Strange Brew for CBD news
https://cbdnews.com.au/new-visibility/
New Visibility CBD news, review of Vickery Room exhibition