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Davida Frances Allen
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Born | Charleville, Queensland, Australia
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20 October 1951
Alma mater | Brisbane Central Technical College |
Known for | Painting, writing |
Awards | Archibald Prize, 1986 |
Davida Frances Allen (born 20 October 1951) is an Australian painter, filmmaker and writer.
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Early life and education
Davida Allen was born on 20 October 1951 in Charleville, Queensland.
She studied under Betty Churcher at the Stuartholme School, Brisbane (1965–69) and later under Roy Churcher (Betty Churcher's husband) at Brisbane Central Technical College (1970–72).
Career
..... The film was invited to the Venice Film Festival. .....
Allen is represented in all major public collections in Australia, and the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa.
Awards and nominations
- 1986: Archibald Prize, for her portrait of her father-in-law, John Shera (My father-in-law watering his garden)
- 1999: Film Critics Circle of Australia Awards, nominated for "Best Direction", won "Best Original Screenplay" award
- 2010: Tattersalls Club Landscape Art Prize
Exhibitions
Solo exhibitions
- College Gallery (Brisbane College of Advanced Education), 1984
- Museum of Contemporary Art in South Brisbane, 1987, a major retrospective survey
- Griffith University Art Museum, Brisbane, 2018
Group exhibitions
- Ray Hughes Gallery at Pinacotheca, Pinacotheca Art Gallery (Richmond, Victoria), 1981
- Nine Queensland artists, Perc Tucker Regional Gallery, Townsville, 1981
- Contemporary Art in Australia – A Review, inaugural exhibition of the Museum of Contemporary Art in South Brisbane, 1987
- Blue chip X : the collectors' exhibition, Niagara Galleries, Melbourne, 2008
Commercial galleries
- Ray Hughes Gallery, Brisbane, in 1973, 1975, 1978, 1979, 1981, 1982, 1985 and 1986
- Australian Galleries, Sydney, in 1993, 1996, 2001
- Philip Bacon Galleries, Brisbane, in 1999, 2001, 2003, 2005, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2016.
International group exhibitions
- D'un autre continent: l'Australie le rêve er le réel, curated by Suzanne Page/Leon Paroissien, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris; shown internationally in Vienna, Texas and Venice (1983)
- An international survey of recent painting and sculpture, curated by Kynaston McShine, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York City (1984)
- Kunst mit Eigen-Sinn, curated by Silvia Eiblmayr, Valie Export, Monika Prischl-Maier, Museum des 20. Jahrhunderts (Museum of the 20th Century), Vienna (1985)
- Davida Allen, curated by Anne Kirker, National Art Gallery of New Zealand; touring to four other New Zealand museums: Sarjeant Gallery, Wanganui; Fisher Gallery, Pakuranga, Auckland; Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth; Manawatu Art Gallery, Palmerston North (1986)
- Painters and sculptors, curated by Michael Sourgnes, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane; travelling to Museum of Contemporary Art, Saitama, Japan (1987)
- ROSC, an International Exhibition, Dublin, Ireland (1988)
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