Kerrie Poliness

Kerrie Poliness is a contemporary Australian artist, known for her rule-based painting and drawing works that revisit the ideas and practices of conceptual art.

Poliness was born in 1962 and grew up in Melbourne. She completed her Bachelor degree in Victoria University in 1984, majoring in fine art.

She was a co-founder of the Store 5 group of artists, an artist-run space focusing on geometric abstraction.

Public collections
Poliness's work uses a palette of red, green, yellow and some black, and appears in public and private collections across Australia and New Zealand.

She is featured in major state galleries such as Art Gallery of Western Australia, National Gallery of Australia, National Gallery of Victoria, Queensland Art Gallery, as well as corporate, private and university collections throughout Australia, including Artbank Australia, Bendigo Art Gallery, Deakin University, Dowse Museum, Griffith University, Maddocks, Margaret Stewart Endowment, Monash University, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Museum of Modern Art at Heide, University of Melbourne, and the University of Wollongong.

Exhibitions
Her exhibitions and collections throughout Australia as well as overseas include:

Solo exhibitions

 * 2018  Field Drawing #1, hota, Gold Coast
 * 2016  Red Matter Wall Drawing #2, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia
 * 2014  Landscape Paintings (Lake Bolac and Zagreb) and Wave Drawings (orange and green), G-MK, Zagreb
 * 2013  Field Drawing, the Agora, La Trobe University; Kerrie Poliness: Black O, Dowse Art Museum
 * 2008  Blue Wall Drawing #1, University of Wollongong
 * 2007  Blue Wall Drawing, Anna Schwartz Gallery
 * 2006  Wall Drawings, Dunedin Public Art Gallery
 * 2004  Something & Something Somewhere Else, North Melbourne Town Hall; Wall Works, National Gallery of Australia
 * 1999  The Pipestacks (permanent installation), Pipemakers Park
 * 1998  Wall Drawings, Artspace, Auckland; Wall Drawings, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth
 * 1997  Black O Wall Drawings 1 - 6, Sarah Cottier Gallery, Sydney
 * Red Matter Wall Drawings 1 - 3, Kovacka 3 gallery, Dubrovnik\
 * Black O Wall Drawings 3 & 4, Museum of the City of Rovinj, Istria
 * 1996  Red Matter Wall Drawings #1 - #4, Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne
 * 1995  Wall Drawing #1, Phoenix Hotel, San Francisco
 * Drawings, Sarah Cottier Gallery, Sydney
 * Black O Wall Drawings 3 & 4, CBD Gallery, Sydney
 * 1994  Pavilion #2, Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne
 * Red Matter Wall Drawings #1 - #4, Sarah Cottier Gallery, Sydney
 * 1993  Pivilion #1, No. 140, Store 5, Melbourne
 * 1992  136 Paintings, Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne
 * No. 123, Store 5, Melbourne
 * 1991  12 Paintings, Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne
 * 104 Paintings, Deakin University Gallery, Geelong, Victoria
 * Wall Painting, No. 99, Store 5, Melbourne
 * 1990   No.55, Store 5, Melbourne
 * 1989  No.4, Store 5, Melbourne, No.25, Store 5, Melbourne
 * 1987  Shattered Plywood Paintings, 312 Lennox Street, Melbourne

Site-specific public artworks

 * 2014 Field Drawing #1, Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane
 * 2013 Wave Drawings, Highpoint Shopping Centre, Melbourne
 * 1998 The Agora, La Trobe University, Melbourne
 * Black O Wall Drawings, Monash University Library, Melbourne
 * 2000 The Government Superannuation Building, Melbourne