EDUCATION
2019 Master by Research, Charles Darwin University, NT, Australia
2009 Bachelor of Creative Arts and Industries, Honours (First Class) Charles Darwin University, NT, Australia
2008 Bachelor Visual Art (majoring in painting), Charles Darwin University NT, Australia
2005 Cert. IV Workplace Training and Assessment, Darwin Skills Development Scheme, NT, Australia
1992 Diploma of Art (majoring in Fine Art Photography), RMIT, VIC, Australia
PROFFESIONAL EXPERIENCE
Current
Creative Practice includes exhibition, education, consultation, collaboration, commission residency, fellowships and travel.
2012-2024
Arts Development Consultation within Indigenous fashion and art sector outcomes through collaboration, mentoring and exhibition with Anindilyakwa Arts, Nintyi Nintyi Arts, Kelly Koumalatsos.
Community Arts highlight- Anindilyakwa Arts collaboration to develop innovative textile design and fashion production outcomes award received for Community Collaboration at National Indigenous Fashion Award 2021 textile works collected by South Australian Art Gallery, Bendigo Art Gallery, Charles Darwin University Art Collection, Private collections -national and international.
2029-2022
Darwin Community Arts board member and treasurer
2006-12
Darwin Visual Art Association general board member
2015-2025
Cloth by Artist Anna Reynolds, Queenscliff, Vic & Darwin NT, Australia
an evolving project fashioned as a small intimate shop/studio that has championed sustainable textile production producing unique and original print on natural fibre handloom cloth. Print innovation includes digital print, screen print and traditional wood block printing
2010
Charles Darwin University Casuarina campus NT Casual lecturer VET Digital Imaging
2004-2015
Batchelor Institute of Indigenous Education BIITE Batchelor NT
VET Casual lecturer, tutor, community librarian, consultant, working primarily in visual art contemporary craft as a tutor/lecturer included printmaking processes, dry point, screen printing, fabric printing, painting, drawing, sculpture.
1995-2000
Anna Reynolds Art Productions, Hardware Street Melbourne VIC
Freelance black and white large format darkroom, studios and gallery space
working with clients to facilitate bespoke fine art black and white prints
clients included Performing Arts Museum, Concert Hall, The Falls Festival, The Public Bar
1995-1998
Performing Art Museum Melbourne
Casual Machinist/Photographer/ Technician
PRIZES AND AWARDS
2024 The Northern Territory Art Prize, 2nd Place, Darwin NT
2022 Churchill Fellowship, Winston Churchill Memorial Trust
2022 Quick Response Grant, Regional Arts Fund, supporting participation and attendance to Lorne Sculpture Biennale
2022 Professional Development Grant, Arts NT. supporting participation and attendance to Lorne Sculpture Biennale
2021 Winner of the National Indigenous Fashion Award for Community Collaboration Anindilyakwa Arts with Anna Reynolds and Dr. Aly de Groot,
2019 Churchill Fellowship, Winston Churchill Memorial Trust -pandemic delayed
2016 Winner - Use of Colour, Scarf Festival, National Wool Museum, Geelong VIC, Australia
2012 Winner -18th Rights-On Show Award Darwin Community Legal Service, Supreme Court, Darwin NT, Australia
2012 Australian Post Graduate Award (APA)
2011 Arts Development, Arts NT
2011 New Work Emerging, Australia Council for the Arts
2011 Art Start, Australia Council for the Arts Initiative
2011 Quick Response Grant, Arts NT
2011 Chancellor’s Medal for the Higher Education sector at Charles Darwin University, NT, Australia
2010 Winner People’s Choice, Togart Contemporary Art Award, Darwin NT
2010 NT Winner Qantas Foundation Encouragement of Australian Contemporary Art Award
2010 Bronze Award, The Epson International Photographic Pano Awards, www.panoawards.com
2009 Edgar Dunis Art Scholarship, Charles Darwin University, Darwin NT
2009 Dean of Law, Business & Arts Bursary Award, Charles Darwin University, NT
1996 First Prize, Dinah Beach Maritime Art Award, Darwin NT
1996 The People’s Choice, Dinah Beach Maritime Art Award, Darwin NT
1995 The Duke of Edinburgh Award, Preston TAFE NIES, Melbourne VIC
1992 Outstanding Student – Kodak Prize RMIT, Melbourne VIC
1992 Award of Excellence, National Gallery of Victoria, RMIT, VIC
1991 First Prize – The First National Student Art and Design Exhibition, VIC
EXHIBITIONS
2025 From The Ground Up, Midpul Gallery, Charles Darwin University NT
2024 Building the building, Charles Darwin University Darwin, NT
2023 PRINT SCULPTURE TEXTILE, Eve & the Serpent Gallery, Queenscliff, Vic
2023 Wear your art, Arts Ink, Apollo Bay, Vic
2017-25 CLOTH ~ongoing living/working CREATIVE-PRACTICE LAB- SHOP/STUDIO shop 6 35 Cavenagh St Darwin NT
2018 Plans for World Domination - Art to Textile - Master by Research, final presentation, Electric Gnome, Air Raid Arcade, Darwin, NT Australia
2015-17 CLOTH ~ongoing living/working CREATIVE PRACTICE LAB- SHOP/STUDIO, Queenscliff, Vic, Australia
2014 Untitled, A La Grecque, Airey Inlet, Vic, Australia
2013 Mangrove Esperanto - pop up shop and exhibition, Darwin Festival, Darwin Entertainment Centre, NT
2012 Reconstructed Empires - a collaboration with Fiona Morrison, Museum and Art Gallery Northern Territory, NT
2011 Introducing 2 Good Dogs, a collaboration with Fiona Morrison, Huantie Times Art Museum, Beijing, China
2011 Generic Metropolis, Point B, Brooklyn New York, NY
2011 Generic Metropolis, Litchfield Butterfly Retreat, Batchelor NT
2010 Awesome Atrocity, 24HRArt Darwin, NT
2009 amidst the Mangrove and Metropolis, Wood Street Gallery, Darwin, NT
2009 Darwin's Bold New Future, Art Warehouse, Darwin NT
2008 A Big City Up There, Charles Darwin University Art School Space, Bld. 14 Casuarina Campus NT
2008 Experiments with Light, Deaf Space, Darwin Visual Arts Association NT
2007 Dinah Beach, installation at Arts NT Office, Darwin NT
2006 India and I, installation at Darwin Visual Arts Association, NT
2003 Paintings and Sculpture, Nectar Bar, VIC
1994 North West from where I stand, Helen Schutt Gallery CCP, VIC
1991 The everything Anna Reynolds has done at school ½ price clearance sale, Café to go-go, Geelong VIC
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023 New Acquisition, CDU Gallery, NT
2022 NCCA, 24 HR Art Members Show, NT Australia
2022 Frock on, Songlines Arts, NT Australia
2022 Apollo Bay Art Show, Apollo Bay, Vic Australia
2022 Small Sculpture Award, Lorne Sculpture Biennale, Vic Australia
2022. Destination, Tactile Arts, NT Australia
2021-22 Drawn from the CDU art collection, CDU, NT, Australia
2021 Recycle, Rework, Remake, NCCA, NT, Australia
2019 Refugia, Nan Giese Gallery, Northern Editions Gallery, Charles Darwin University, NT Australia
2019 Art Mart, Northern Centre Contemporary Art, NT Australia
2019 Fluidity, DVAA, Darwin NT
2018 The Rogue Collective, DVAA, Darwin NT
2018 Frog Hollow, what it means to you, DVAA, Darwin NT
2016 Scarf Festival, National Wool Museum, Geelong, Vic
2016 The Alice Prize, Alice Springs NT
2015 Fabric of the Domestic, Boom Gallery, Geelong Vic, AUST.
2014 Charles Darwin University Post Graduate Exhibition Nan Giese Galley, Charles Darwin University, NT
2014 Botanica II, Chan Contemporary Art Space, Darwin, NT
2014 Botanica, Godinymayin Yijard Rivers Arts and Culture Centre, Katherine, NT
2013 She's a Pearler DVAA Retrospective Exhibition, Woods St Gallery, NT
2013 Togart Contemporary Art Exhibition, Chan Contemporary Art Space, Darwin NT
2013 CDU Visual Arts- Here and Now, Chan Contemporary Art Space, Darwin NT
2012 Rights on Show, Supreme Court of the Northern Territory, Darwin NT
2012 Togart Contemporary Art Exhibition, Chan Contemporary Art Space, Darwin NT
2012 Artists at work, Darwin Visual Arts Association, Darwin NT
2012 The Little Prick Editions, Gallery Two Six, Winnellie, NT
2012 intimate residues, Nan Giese Galley, Charles Darwin University, NT
2012 Picture this Prize, Brunswick Street Gallery, Melbourne Vic
2012 Here and or There, Nan Giese Galley, Charles Darwin University, NT
2012 Look - Looking at art in the CDU art collection, Charles Darwin University Art Gallery, Darwin NT
2011 Here and or There, Yogja Gallery, Yogjakarta, Indonesia
2011 Backyard Wild, Nomad Art, Darwin NT
2011 Togart Contemporary Art Exhibition, Chan Contemporary Art Space, Darwin NT
2011 Vast Expanses Shrinking Spaces curated by Pop-up Art, Paul Vincent Gallery, Jersey City New York, NY
2011 6-Pack, Happy Yess and Darwin Visual Arts Association, Darwin NT
2011 Artist Trading Cards, Darwin Visual Arts Association, Darwin NT
2011 Dreaming Hazel Dooney, Latrobe Contemporary Gallery, Morwell Vic
2011 Fiber Face 3 Transformations, Taman Budaya, Yogjakarta Indonesia
2010 Eating Cheese with glee, bad terrible spelling, guilt and other pleasures, Darwin Visual Arts Association, Darwin NT
2010 Senior Territorian Portrait Award, Parliament House, Darwin NT
2010 Kodak Salon, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Fitzroy, Vic
2010 Togart Contemporary Art Exhibition, Chan Contemporary Art Space, Darwin NT
2009 Senior Territorian Portrait Award, Parliament House, Darwin NT
2009 Before and After, Art Warehouse Darwin NT
2009 Creationism, Darwin Visual Arts Association, Darwin NT
2009 Green and Gold, Territory Craft, Darwin NT
2008 Cube 24HR Art, Parap NT
2008 Rights on Show, Supreme Court of the Northern Territory, Darwin NT
2008 Territory Landscape, Art Warehouse, Darwin NT
2007 One Thread, Charles Darwin University Art School Space, Bld 14, Casuarina NT
2007 Territory Icon, 24HR Art, Parap NT
2007 Board+1, Darwin Visual Arts Association, Darwin NT
2007 Onirique, Darwin Visual Arts Association, Darwin NT
2007 BIITE Graduate Show, Coomalie Cultural Centre, Batchelor NT
2005 Caravan and Camping, 24HR Art, Parap NT
2004 Alien Show, Yarra Sculpture Space, Collingwood Vic
2000 Dolls, Territory Craft, Darwin NT
2000 Beyond Barbie, Territory Craft, Darwin, Katherine, Tennant Creek & Alice Springs, NT
1999 Millenium, 24HR Art, Parap NT
1995 Summer Show, Qdos Gallery, Lorne Vic
1995 Dinah Beach Cruising Yacht Association Art Award, Darwin NT
1993 Summer Salon, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Fitzroy, Vic
1993 Summer Show, Qdos Gallery Lorne, Vic
1993 The NT Environment Centres almost Annual Art Auction, Stokes Hill Wharf, Darwin NT
1992 Three, Fringe Festival, Ertia Gallery, Port Melbourne Vic
1992 Booked up, Little Collins St Melbourne Vic
1992 Push up Art Travelling Umbrella Show, Fitzroy Vic
1992 Kircaldy Davies Galleries Group Show, South Yarra, Vic
1991 First National Student Art and Design Exhibition, Exhibition Buildings, Melbourne, Vic
2018-21 Workshop based collaboration with artists from Anindilyakwa Arts Groote Eylandt- Textile development for Darwin Aboriginal Art Fair and Country to Couture work included in Piinpi exhibition - survey of Indigenous Textile Bendigo Art Gallery & Australian National Gallery
2019 Darwin Fringe Festival, Strange Glamour sewing workshops
2018 ARTBIZ, business of being an artist, DVAA @ Happy Yess artist talks and forum
2008 Moil Primary School – Culture Day Stencil Workshops
2006-10 Lingalonga Festival – Batchelor, Art Workshops Co-ordinator
2005 Darwin High School – Puppet-making with recycled materials
2006 Vacation Care Millner School OSHC – Puppet-making workshop
2006 Vacation Care Moulden Park OSHC – Mural design and painting, puppet-making workshop and performance
2005 The Batchelor Amazing Race Recycled art segment (Youth Affairs NT funded activity for Batchelor Youth Group)
2005 Gowrie Centre Recycled art and puppet-making workshop (Visionz seminar, Holiday Inn, NT)
2005 Darwin High School Puppet-making workshop – Year 8
2005 Batchelor Institute Indigenous Tertiary Education – part-time instructor RACSSU: Remote Vacation care and out-of- school hours arts’ facilitator at Milikapiti, Galiwinku, and Nguiu: puppet-making, painting and art and craft
2005 Batchelor Institute Indigenous Tertiary Education – part-time instructor, RACSSU for Deadly Kids Deadly Programs Expo
2000 Northern Territory Libraries – Consultant for remote library art projects at Peppimenarti, Mataranka, Pularumpi, Barunga, Batchelor – puppet-making, masks, art and craft consulting for Remote Sport and Recreation
RESENDENCIES
2023/24. Lorne Community Connect Artist in Residence Dec- April
2022. Bhooi Farm Uttrakund India Dec-Feb
2016 The Stitching Project, Pushkar Rajasthan, India
2011 24HR Art – International Studio Residency Beijing China Oct-Nov
2011 point b Brooklyn NYC USA - July
2011 Brama Tirta Sari Studio, Yogjakarta Indonesia - Jan-Feb
2006 Borderline (not for profit -artist run initiative) Maesot, Thailand - May
1996-98 Nelson Park School Geelong West Victoria Australia
1998 Grovedale West Primary School Victoria Australia
Anna Reynolds is a contemporary artist currently focused on projects and ideas that look at sustainable textile as a platform of expression. Resourcefulness, recycling, re-purposing, slow production and creative village clusters that predominately promote and support women have become key areas of her creative practice.
Anna Reynolds graduated in 2019 with a Masters by Research in Visual Art at Charles Darwin University, Northern Territory, Australia.
Reynolds has a demonstrated history of creative production with local and international arts and craft through community engagement. Experiences include collaborating to facilitate and tailor creative outcomes through residencies, exhibitions, education, commission and consultation. Her skills include, but are not limited to, analogue and digital photography, adobe software, drawing, painting, printmaking, sculpture, textile, ceramic, jewellery making, puppet making and staging
Reynolds returned early 2022from a 6-month adventure, made possible by a Churchill Fellowship. Her journey took her through India, Scotland, Germany, Austria, and Spain, where she delved into art, textiles, sustainable manufacturing, and global markets. This exploration was deeply intertwined with her own creative practice, allowing her to gain valuable insights and experiences in these areas.
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