Landscape painter Mary Tonkin completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Honours) in 1995 and a Master of Fine Arts in 2002 at Monash University, where she has also lectured. Tonkin has held solo exhibitions in Melbourne and Sydney since 1999. Her work has been included in group exhibitions at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery and internationally in New York. A survey exhibition titled ‘Home’ was held at Burrinja Gallery in the Dandenong’s in 2012. Tonkin was awarded the National Gallery of Victoria Trustee award in 1994 and 1995 and Dobell drawing prize in 2002. She was the recipient of the Elizabeth Greenshield foundation grant in 1998 and Australian post-graduate fellowship award in 2000. Tonkin’s work is held by the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney; the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne; the Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, VIC and several regional and tertiary institutions.
PAST EXHIBITIONS
Image above: Mary Tonkin Crack, Kalorama 2012 oil on linen 62 x 68 cm Featuring a selection of artworks from …
Image above: Mary Tonkin King wave, Kalorama 2019 oil on linen 69 x 139 cm (photograph by Matthew Stanton) Congratulations …
Mary Tonkin’s landscape paintings will be featured in an upcoming exhibition The Ranges / 3 Perspectives at Burrinja alongside works by …
Image: Pam Tippett Together – Amanda Bell AM 2021 oil on linen on panel 70 x 70 cm Australian Galleries …
Image: Stephanie Monteith Gunyah Beach Summer 2021 oil on panel 33 x 93cm To celebrate the re-opening of Hazelhurst Art …
Image: Danielle Creenaune Cascade Falls watercolour on Saunders Waterford 56 x 76 cm Congratulations to Danielle Creenaune who has been …
Image above: Rodney Pople Self portrait after Courbet (2) Congratulations to Graeme Drendel, Martin King, Lewis Miller, Paul S. Miller …
Image: Sarah Tomasetti From Balpatta IV 2021 oil and incision on fresco plaster with muslin, mounted on stretched canvas 145 …
David Frazer’s latest artist book, Love Letter, has recently been featured in the Sydney Morning Herald in an article written …
Image: Jennifer Keeler-Milne Spring Wattle I 2021 oil on linen 92 x 198 cm Congratulations to Jennifer Keeler-Milne who has …
Image above: Chris Ingham Urban mission I 2019 lithograph edition 3 76 x 56 cm Printmaker and sculptor, Chris Ingham …
Image above: Sue Anderson Christmas Island Pipistrelle coloured pencil on paper 30.5 x 22 cm ‘Extinct’ is a recently published book by …
Image: Angus Fisher Rosellas and Banksias 2021 ink pen and watercolour on paper 76 x 56 cm Angus Fisher has …
