About the Artist
Kirsten Jeffcoat is a drawer, painter, printmaker and photographer.
She has taught Art at Australian High Schools and at the Sorbonne University in Paris; worked as Education Officer at the Goulburn Regional Art Gallery and the National Gallery of Australia. She has three degrees in Art from universities including a Masters from the University of Paris VIII.
Kirsten Jeffcoat has worked as an assistant to two French Master Lithographers. Her own lithographs are represented in the collection of the National Gallery of Australia.
Kirsten Jeffcoat’s artistic travels have taken her to Africa, America and Europe. She has been artist-in-residence in the ghost town of Cossack in the north west of Western Australia and in the Wilderness Gallery at Cradle Mountain in Tasmania.
During the 17 years she spent based in Paris her exhibitions toured to 21 venues including three solo exhibitions at the Australian Embassy in Paris, the Discover Australia Festival in Bonn, Germany and the St James Centre for Creativity in Valetta, Malta to celebrate Australia’s Centenary of Federation.
Drawing "en plein air" in the Dordogne region in France
Artist's Bio
Kirsten JEFFCOAT
kirstenjeff@hotmail.com
EDUCATION
1997 Maitrise d'Arts Plastiques, Masters of Visual Arts, University of Paris VIII
1991 License d'Arts Plastiques, BA Visual Arts, University of Paris VIII, France
1983 Bachelor of Education (Art), University of Newcastle, NSW
2009 Certificate II Photography – Goulburn- Illawarra TAFE, NSW
2004-5 Studies towards Graduate Diploma in Art History and Curatorship, Australian National University
MAJOR PROJECTS AND EXHIBITIONS
2020-2022 Exploring cultural landscapes in the Southern Tablelands, NSW
2003-2006 Retracing the Steps of the French Explorers Alliance Française Cultural Centres in Australia. Residency in Tasmania with grant from the French Govt.
1994-2002 Created and managed travelling exhibitions of drawings, paintings and photographs in France, Germany and Malta: Taking the Pilbara to Paris; Australia at Heart; Images of Australia. Exhibitions toured to 21 venues including three solo exhibitions at the Australian Embassy in Paris, Musee Halle Saint Pierre, Paris, the Discover Australia festival in Bonn, Germany and the St James Centre for Creativity in Valetta, Malta to celebrate Australia's Centenary of Federation. 1992-1993 Artist in Residence, Cossack Historic Town, Pilbara, W.A. Researched Aboriginal Rock Art on the Burrup Peninsula in collaboration with the Ngarluma and Yindjibarndi peoples and undertook painting and photographic journeys in the Pilbara and Kimberley for Master’s Thesis: “A history of the Pilbara as shown through the Rocks”.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2012 Something Blue The Goulburn Club, Goulburn
2011 Nature Bound South Hill Gallery, Goulburn
2008 The Wandering Line Tales of Travels from a Previous Life, TGC, Goulburn
2006 Wilderness Collector Gallery, NSW
2004 Retracing the Steps of the French Explorers, Alliance Française, Sydney
2003 Retracing the Steps of the French Explorers, Alliance Française, ACT
2002 Images of Terra Australis, Sydney University, NSW
2001 Images of Australia, St James Centre for Creativity, Valetta, Malta
2000 Australie au coeur, Amiens 2000, University of Picardie, Amiens, France
Images d’australie, Rougier et Ple & Classe Croute, Nanterre, France
Images d’australie, Air France, Orly, France
Australie au coeur, Le Domino, Draguignon, France
1999 Australie au coeur, Australia in Provence Festival, Bandol, France
True Blue - Images d’australie, Blue de lecture Gallery, Lecture, France
1998 Australie au coeur, FNAC Bellecour, Lyon, France
Australie: pays neuf, Terre ancienne, FNAC Part Dieu, Lyon
1997 Australie au coeur, Australian Embassy, Paris.
Exhibition accompanied forum on Aboriginal Rock art from the Kimberley at UNESCO;
Australie au coeur, Galerie les lumières, Nanterre Municipal Gallery, France
1995 Australie: pays neuf, Terre ancienne, Musee Municipal Draguignan, France
Rock Art, Festival Erlibnis Australien, Gallery KFM, Bonn, Germany
Festival Musiques Métisses, Angoulême, France
Australie: pays neuf, Terre ancienne, Musée Halle Saint Pierre, Paris
1994 Taking the Pilbara to Paris, Rougier et Plé, Paris, France
Taking the Pilbara to Paris, Australian Embassy, Paris, France
1992 Taking the Pilbara to Paris, Karratha, Western Australia
1988 Lithographies, Gallery Cannibal Pierce, St Denis, Paris, France
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2021 Fonds Artistiques Jean-Michel Caron, Salle France Quere, Paris, France
2019 Art+Feminism 2019 St James Cavalier Centre for Creativity, Malta
2019 John Copes Watercolour Prize, BDAS, Bowral
2019 Photography and Sculpture Show, Crookwell Art Gallery
2019 My Highland Home, Belle Property Bowral Prize, BDAS, Bowral
2019 Artheart “Blues” Competition, Millis Gallery, Moss Vale
2019 Spring Fling, Crookwell Art Show, Crookwell Art Gallery
2019 Birds and their habitats, Helen Stephens Gallery, Collector
2018 In a Country Garden, Art on the Range, Crookwell Art Gallery
2018 Luminous, Bundanoon Winter Fest, Bundanoon
2018 Mary Gilmore Festival Exhibition, Crookwell Tea House and Art Gallery
2018 Artheart “Blues” Competition, Millis Gallery, Moss Vale
2018 The Painted Garden, Helen Stephens Gallery, Collector
2018 Goulburn Art Award, Goulburn Regional Art Gallery
2016 Goulburn Art Award, Goulburn Regional Art Gallery
2015 Athens in the West, West Wyalong, NSW
2014 A Month of Sundays, Collector Gallery and Books, Collector
2014 Art for Mart, South Hill Gallery, Goulburn
2014 Art for You - Art on the Range, Crookwell Art Gallery
2013 Local Eyes - Four Local Photographers, Picture House Gallery, Gunning
2013 Elvis in Goulburn – Moody Blues, South Hill Gallery, Goulburn
2013-2019 The Art Show, Taralga Memorial Hall, Taralga, NSW
2002 Acquisitions of the Warrnambool Art Gallery, Victoria
1999 Rencontres Internationales du Cinema des Antipodes - honouring Australian Cinema, Creteil, France
1997 Galerie Dizian, Paris, France; Salon des Arts, Croissy sur Seine, France
1995 Un jour Australia, Toulouse, France Eyes on Australia, Cafe Oz, Paris, France
1994 Photofolies, Rodez, France
1993 Salon Cimaises, College des Cordeliers, Dinan, France
1992 Le Trait - gravers d’aujourd’hui, Cite Internationale des Arts, Paris, France
Mini Print International, Cadaques, Spain and Japan;
Lithographs by Artists of the Atelier Point et Marge, Paris, Fr
1991-92 A Change of Image, Ferens Art Gallery, Hull, Manchester, Belfast, UK
1991 Penser Art - Self-portraits by Australian artists, Gallery Cannibal Pierce, St Denis, Paris, France
1987 SAGA - Salon de l’Estampe, Grande Palais, Paris, France
1985 Peace Art, Awarded first prize, Griffith Regional Art Gallery, NSW
1984,1985 Mornington Peninsula Prints Acquisitive, M.P. Arts Centre, Victoria
Warrnambool Art Gallery Acquisitive Arts Prize, Warrnambool Art Gallery, Victoria
COLLECTIONS
The National Gallery of Australia;
Warrnambool Art Gallery, Victoria;
St James Cavalier Centre for Creativity, Valetta, Malta;
Municipal Museum of Draguignan, France;
Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris, France;
Australian Embassy, Paris;
ASIA Voyages, France;
ACCOR;
Private Collections in Australia, France, Spain, England, Ireland, Malta and USA.
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