Biography – Janet Parker-Smith
Janet Parker-Smith is a Sydney based artist who works with cross disciplinary processes using Printmedia, Sculpture, collage and Altered books. She has been exhibiting nationally and internationally for over 30 years. Her work deals with identity, displacement and the environment.
Janet has held several solo exhibitions at May Space Gallery and has been represented by Van Rensburg Gallery, Hong Kong. She exhibits at Sydney Contemporary and has been a finalist in many art competitions. She has had work purchased by the Art Gallery of NSW and National Gallery of Victoria. Her work is held in numerous public and private collections. She was recently commissioned by Willoughby Council to create a large-scale copper art work for the Chatswood Library.
Janet works in teaching Public Programs across Australia and is a sessional teacher in Printmedia at the National Art school and Sydney College of the Arts. She has also been involved in public arts projects with various councils across Sydney as an arts worker.
She is an experienced Printmaker and has printed for various artists including Locust Jones, Debra Dawes, Rebecca Beardmore, Pia Larsen and UK artist, Mario Minichello.
Biography – Janet Parker-Smith
Janet Parker-Smith is a Sydney based artist who works with cross disciplinary processes using Printmedia, Sculpture, collage and Altered books. She has been exhibiting nationally and internationally for over 30 years. Her work deals with identity, displacement and the environment.
Janet has held several solo exhibitions at May Space Gallery and has been represented by Van Rensburg Gallery, Hong Kong. She exhibits at Sydney Contemporary and has been a finalist in many art competitions. She has had work purchased by the Art Gallery of NSW and National Gallery of Victoria. Her work is held in numerous public and private collections. She was recently commissioned by Willoughby Council to create a large-scale copper art work for the Chatswood Library.
Janet works in teaching Public Programs across Australia and is a sessional teacher in Printmedia at the National Art school and Sydney College of the Arts. She has also been involved in public arts projects with various councils across Sydney as an arts worker.
She is an experienced Printmaker and has printed for various artists including Locust Jones, Debra Dawes, Rebecca Beardmore, Pia Larsen and UK artist, Mario Minichello.
Janet Parker-Smith CV
Born Sydney, Australia, 1971.
Email: janet.parkersmith71@gmail.com
BIOGRAPHY
2023.Willoughby Council Art Commission for Public Library
2022.Arts Worker on the North Sydney Art Prize
2021-cont. Director, Running Editions
2021-22.NEIS Small Business course
2010-cont. University of Sydney, SCA Printmedia Sessional academic
2017-cont. National Art School, Sessional academic and Student Supervisor
2017-cont. National Art School, Public Programs design and delivery
2021.Master Printer for artist Rebecca Beardmore
2006-21.University of Sydney, SCA Printmedia Studio Supervisor
2010.Master Printer for artist Debra Dawes
2009-18.Master Printer for artist Locust Jones
2007.Master Printer for UK artist Mario Minichello
1996-06.Western Sydney University. Printmaking Senior Technical Officer
2005.Master Printer – Commissioned Western Sydney University to Edition prints for Whitlam Institute. Etching plates of Gough Whitlam made by artist Luis Martinez. Signed and Dated by Gough Whitlam.
2003-06.Western Sydney University, Printmaking Lecturer.
2001-06.Teacher TAFE NSW, Printmaking and WH&S.
2001.TAFE Childhood Protection Training.
1998-01.UWS Nepean. Lecturer in Fine Arts for Exchange Singapore. Teaching printmaking to Singapore students & teachers.
1998-.UWS Nepean, Lithography Tutor, Printmaking.
1995-98.South Sydney Council Creative Arts Centre. Tutor.
1997.South Sydney Council, Mascon Arts Festival.
1995-96.South Sydney Council. Creative Arts Officer
1995.UWS, Macarthur. Assistant to Student with a Disability and Lecturer in Visual Arts and Printmaking Technician
1995.Communication and Facilitation Skills Training Workshop. Conservation and Restoration, State Library of NSW.
1995.NAVA Research Paper, Students with Disabilities in the Arts, Workshops and design for Immigrant Women’s Speakout & NSW Working Womens’ Centre.
1994.Master of Art – Printmaking. College of Fine Arts, UNSW.
1991-93.Bachelor of Arts, Fine Arts, Western Sydney University.
1988.Higher School Certificate.
1971.Born Sydney, Australia.
EXHIBITIONS CURATED
2021 Irreverent Matter, Hazelhurst Gallery
2018 Unlimited Sydney – Sydney Contemporary
2018 In the Shade, Umbrella Studio, Townsville
2017 Unlimited Sydney – Sydney Contemporary
SOLO EXHIBITIONS & EXHIBITIONS BY INVITATION
2022 Cities Fortold – Willoughby Council
2019 Kyoto Hanga – International Print Exhibition/Symposium, Brisbane
2016-21 As far as the eye can see – Travelling regional Galleries, Australia
2018 Santander Spain – Impact 2018
2016 Amor Idem, M. Contemporary, Sydney.
2015 Questionable Intentions, Brenda May Gallery, Sydney.
2015 Aberrant Play, Grafton Regional gallery, Grafton.
2013 Small Wonders, Brenda May Gallery, Sydney.
2011 Still Alive & Still Well, Brenda May Gallery, Sydney.
2010 Prints, collages & sculptures, Horus & Deloris Gallery, Sydney.
2009 Print Council of Australia, Various galleries throughout Australia.
2005 Journeys, Prints and collages at Global Galleries, Paddington, Sydney.
2003 Prints & Collages, Global Gallery, Paddington, Sydney.
2000 Prints & Collages, PCL Exhibitionists, Strawberry Hills, Sydney.
1998 Facades, prints, Sweet Foray Gallery, Katoomba, Sydney.
1997 Subversion, Nelson St Gallery, Annandale, Sydney.
1995 Printmedia, University of Western Sydney.
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2021 Irreverent Matter, Hazelhurst Regional Gallery
2021 To the Edges, Manly art Gallery and Museum
2017 Art Basel Hong Kong, Van Rensberg Galleries.
2017 Sydney Contemporary, Paper Contemporary
2016 New York Affordable art Fair. Van Rensberg Galleries, Hong Kong
2016 Hong Kong Art Fair, Art Basel. Van Rensberg Galleries, Hong Kong
2015 Sydney Contemporary, Paper Contemporary.
2015 Mythology of the Land, M Contemporary, Sydney
2014 Beastarium, Dubbo Regional Gallery
2012 Hello Dollies, Penrith Regional Gallery, NSW.
2012 Familiar Unfamiliar, Tweed River Art Gallery, Murwillumbah
2011 Freak of Nature, Monash University, Victoria
2011 Familiar Unfamiliar, C3 Contemporary Art space, Melbourne
2011 Hot off the Press, Manly Art Gallery and Museum, Manly.
2011 Art + Humour Me, Brenda May Gallery, Sydney.
2010 Green, Brenda May Gallery, Sydney.
2010 Paper Works, Brenda May Gallery, Sydney.
2010 Diversity, Depot Gallery, Danks street, Sydney.
2009 From Print to Print, Hardware Gallery, Newtown.
2009 Animal Farm, Brenda May Gallery, Sydney.
2008 Printmedia, Atelier Skara, Gressvik, Norway.
2008 Sydney Printmakers, Taylors Gallery, Summer Hill, Sydney.
2007 Urban Animal, Marianne Newman, Crows Nest, Sydney.
2007 Urban Animal, Impressions on Paper, Canberra.
2007 Partners in Print – Printmedia, Fire Station, Melbourne.
2007 Pulse, Ground Floor Gallery, Balmain, Sydney.
2007 Portfolio 20, Exchange Exhibition, Exit Gallery SCA.
2006 Sydney Printmakers 45th Anniversary, Taylors Gallery, Syd.
2006 Love Lives 2, Global Galleries, Paddington.
2004 Love Lives, Global Galleries, Paddington.
2003 Collages at Global Gallery, Paddington, Sydney
2003 Hazelhurst Regional Gallery Print Award, Hazelhurst, Sydney.
2002 Prints and Collages, Penrith Regional Gallery.
2000 Show Us the Proof, Kudos Gallery, Paddington, Sydney.
1994 Her, Gallery on Booth, Annandale.
1994 Exhibition of Prints by the Contemporary Printmakers Assoc., Australian Centre for Photography, Paddington.
1994 Taylormade-Works on Paper, Gallery on Booth, Annandale.
1994 Gash, Arthaus, Taylor Square, Sydney, Mary Alice Evatt Art Award Selection Exhibition, The Gunnery, Woolloomooloo, Sydney.
1993 East-West, Bridge Gallery, Perth, and Artery UWS.
COMMISSIONS
2022 Willoughby Council – Chatswood Library art work.
2022 Print Council of Australia 2022 Print Commission.
2014 Print Council of Australia 2014 Print Commission.
2009 Print Council of Australia 2009 Print Commission.
2005 Channel 9 – Art Work for Set
2002 Bikrams Yoga College Sydney
PRIZES
2021 Geelong Acquisitive Print Award, Finalist
2020 Meroogal Women’s Art Prize, Finalist
2019 Fremantle Print Award Finalist, Finalist
2018 Grace Cossington Smith Award
2018 Australian Print Triennial 2018, Finalist
2017 Fremantle Print Award Finalist, Finalist
2017 Geelong Print Award Finalist, Finalist
2016 Fremantle Print Award Finalist, Finalist
2015 Grace Cossington Smith Award
2015 Fremantle Print Award Finalist, Finalist
2014 Fremantle Print Award Finalist, Finalist
2014 Woollahra Small Sculpture Award Finalist
2012 Woollahra Small Sculpture Award Finalist
2012 Fremantle Print Award Finalist, Finalist
2011 Fremantle Print Award Finalist, Finalist
2011 Geelong Print Award Finalist, Geelong City Art Gallery.
2009 Print Council of Australia Print Commission
2008 Fremantle Print Award Finalist, Finalist
2007 Fremantle Print Award Finalist
2006 Silk-Cut Award finalist
2003 Works on Paper Print award, Hazelhurst Gallery
1994 Alfred Altshuler Memorial Award for excellence in Printmaking.
PUBLICATIONS
2017 Oz Arts Magazine, Winter issue
2013 Imprint Magazine, by Pia Larsen.
2011 ‘Still Alive & Still Well’, Sydney Morning Herald website, 3 Sept.
2011 ‘Keeping Art a cut above the crowd’ Andrew Taylor, The Sun-Herald, 4 September, p.28.
2011 (illustrated) ‘Artnotes’, Leay Haynes, Art Monthly, April, p.62.
2011 (illustrated) ‘Profiles’, Art Almanac, April, p.178.
2011 (illustrated) ‘Sydney’s Amusing Art’, Karen Carmichael, National Geographic website, 17 March.
2007 Imprint Magazine
GRANTS & ORGANISATIONS
2004-22 Sydney Printmakers, Secretary and member
2006.Research Seed Grant – Feasibility study on an Access Printmaking workshop in the Greater Western Sydney area.
2003.SoCA Research Grant, Practicing artist grant.
1996.NAVA -Research Grant for Students with disabilities in Fine Arts.
RESIDENCES
2019 Baldessin Press, Victoria
2018 Art Vault, Mildura
2016 Umbrella Studio, Townsville.
2012 Fremantle Art Centre.
2011 Fremantle Art Centre
PRINTER OF ARTIST WORKS
- Locust Jones
- Rebecca Beardmore
- Pia Larsen
- Mario Minichello
- Nicole Miranda
COLLECTIONS
- Art Gallery of New South Wales
- National Gallery of Victoria
- Print Council of Australia, Arjo Wiggins/Canson Australia PTY LTD,
- Gladstone Regional Art Gallery,
- Genazzano Gollege Kew VIC,
- State Library of Victoria, City of Whitehorse VIC,
- The Art Vault Mildura, New Expressions Gallery Canberra,
- Shelford Girls Grammar Caufield VIC,
- Tintern Schools Ringwood VIC,
- St Ursula’s College Toowoomba,
- Monash University Churchill VIC,
- National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
- Channel 9 Studios
- Global Gallery, Paddington
- University of Western Sydney
- Evatt Foundation, Sydney.
- Private Collections.
REFERENCES
Associate Professor Julie Rrap
Co-Director and Co-Chair, Sydney College of the Arts
Ph: 9351-1032
Email: julie.rrap@sydney.edu.au
Rebecca Beardmore
Lecturer, Visual Art
Sydney College of the Arts
Ph: 9351-1059
Email: Rebecca.beardmore@sydney.edu.au
Dr Carolyn McKenzie-Craig
Lecturer, Head of Printmaking, National Art school
Ph: 9339-8611
Email: Carolyn.mckenzie-craig@nas.edu.au