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Sandra Tobias
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She graduated from Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology in 1984 and since then has spent time traveling, teaching art and producing her own paintings, prints, and sculptures.


She spent two years living in Tokyo where she was selected for the annual PARCO Urban Art exhibition (a traveling group exhibition), Absolut Vodka exhibition at Spiral Gallery and several others.
When she returned to Australia in 1995 she was selected to be Artist-In-Residence at Bundanon, the late Arthur Boyd's property "Shoalhaven", a unique place where the works were inspired by the Australian landscape. During this time she also held an exhibition at Perth Institute of Contemporary Art.


As a practising artist of nearly twenty years, she says, "My work is definitely a reflection of my environment and present predicament of which I am in at the time of producing the work. My work is like a diary of events and situations that effect society and me at the time. Births, Marriages, Deaths, Wars, etc. In Hong Kong I am constantly traveling, moving at a somewhat frantic pace, riding buses, trams, ferries all these times. I try to capture an essence of what I'm feeling, being artist, art teacher at Quarry Bay School and mother to Kai and Aki."

 

CURRICULUM VITEA
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1962
Born in Melbourne, Australia

1984
Bachelor of Fine Art and Design, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology

1987
Diploma of Education, The University of Melbourne

1991
Post Graduate diploma, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology

 

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SOLO EXHIBITIONS

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2002
"This is the Life", The Fringe Economist Gallery, Hong Kong

1997
"EBB", Helengory Galerie, Melbourne

1994
"With Imagined Wings", The Edge, Shibuya, Tokyo

1993
"Boat People", Flinders Lane Gallery, Melbourne

1990
"Urban Mania", Women's Gallery, Melbourne

 

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GROUP EXHIBITIONS

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2000
Swan Hill National Print and Drawing Exhibition
Mildura Palimpsest#3
Williamstown Woodworkers Gallery, group show


1999
Castlemaine State Festival Art House exhibition / boxworks
Central Goldfields Sculpture Award Exhibition
"Journey", Group Show Woodworkers Gallery, Williamstown


1998
"Return Orbit", Woodworkers Gallery, Williamstown


1997
"In-Between" Customs Wharf Gallery, Williamstown
123 Smith Street, Collingwood


1996
Annual Summer Print Show, Helengory Galerie
ncinerator 5, Studio shows


1995
Next Generation, Delaney Gallery, Perth
Installation, Perth Institute of Contemporary Art


1994
Absolut Art, Absolut Vodka selected works, Spiral Gallery, Tokyo


1993
Young Collector's Exhibition, Flinders Lane Gallery
Jewish Arts Festival, Westpac Gallery and Caufield Arts Complex
Group Show, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Art
PARCO Urban Art Exhibition, Selected Works toured Japan


1992
Post Graduate show, Roar Gallery
Small Works Wide Vision, Downlands, Queensland
City Show, Flinders Lane Gallery


1991
International Women's Exhibition
Women's Trust Group Show
Eltham Art Award Exhibition
Art Installation, Collins Street, Melbourne (N.A.V.A.)
M.L.C. Art Acquisition Exhibition

 

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COLLECTIONS

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M.L.C.
Artbank
Trades Hall Council.O.P.D.U.
Footscray Council
ArtVivant, Tokyo
Bundanon Trust
Private and Public Collections in Australia, U.K. and Japan

 

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ARTIST IN RESIDENCE

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1995
Bundanon, N.S.W.

 

LECTURE
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1995
Guest Lecturer, John Curtin University, Perth, Western Australia
On Professional Practices and Workshops, Fine Art Department


Goulburn Tertiary Institute, N.S.W.
Art tutor, Fine Art Department

 

BOOK REFERENCE
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Parco Tokyo, Japan Catalogue
Small Works Wide Vision