DEBRA DAWES
  • Exhibitions
    • Measure
    • At Her Majesty's Pleasure
    • Complete?
    • Blind Faith
    • Double-dealing
    • Cover up
    • Everydaynow
    • clock wise
    • Afterthought Series 2
    • Glare
    • Lifting the Sky
    • Trace of Passage
    • Afterthought Series 1
    • Gray Spectra
    • Gingham
    • Starlite
    • On the Edge
    • Dazzle
    • Houndstooth
    • Anticipating
    • Between Certitude & Flux
    • Abstract Painting 1989
    • Abstract Painting 1988
  • Catalogues
  • CV
  • Bibliography
  • Contact
   Selected Bibliography
  
2017
Gouriotis, Kon, 'Debra Dawes', Artist Profile, April 2017
Nicholls, Lara, 
Abstraction: Celebrating Australian women abstract artists exhibition catalogue, National Gallery of Australia
Sangster, Gary, "Debra Dawes: Measure", Measure: Debra Dawes exhibition catalogue, Tamworth Regional Gallery

​2015            
Fuller, Kelly, "In Conversation" Debra Dawes interview, ABC Radio, 7 June 2015
Sangster, Gary, "Critical Intent", Tactical Imaginary exhibition catalogue, Sydney College of the Arts, The University of Sydney, Sydney 

2013                              
Fitzgerald, Michael, "Camouflage Cultures" in Open Gallery, Spectrum, Sydney Morning Herald, February 2013
McDonald, John, "Lure of the North", Spectrum, Sydney Morning Herald, 17-18 August 2013, p13
Tsoutas, Nicholas, "Camouflage seems to be the only game in town", Camouflage exhibition catalogue, Sydney College of the Arts, The University of Sydney, 
Sydney 

2012            
Carroll-Fairhall, Helen, Luminous World exhibition catalogue, Art Gallery of Western Australia and Fremantle Press, Perth
Gibson, Ross, Sentencing exhibition catalogue, Gallery Barry Keldoulis
Millner, Jacqueline, The Baker’s Dozen exhibition catalogue, UTS Gallery,  University of Technology, Sydney 
The Baker’s Dozen, Spectrum, Sydney Morning Herald, March
Were, Ian (ed.), NEWv2: Selected recent acquisitions 2009–2011 exhibition catalogue, The University of Queensland Art Museum, St. Lucia

 2011 
Holder, Jo & Mundine, Djon, Twining: Weaving and abstraction, Dawes/ Djunginy/ Mills/ MacDonald , February 2011
Elias, Ann, Camouflage Australia: Art, nature, science and war, Sydney University Press, Sydney, 2011, p203

2010                              
15 Years of Contemporary Art: Redlands Westpac Art Prize 2010, ex cat, Mosman Art Gallery, Sydney, 2010
Millner, Jacqueline, Double-dealing exhibition catalogue, Gallery Barry Keldoulis.
Fairley, Gina, “Art Month Sydney Precinct 3: Waterloo”, Art Guide Australia, March/April 2010, pp. 32-35
Dawes, Debra. “Q&A: Debra Dawes”, Art Month Sydney 2010 Guide by Vogue Living
Clement, Tracey. “Metro Picks”, Metro: Art, Sydney Morning Herald, 19-25 March, 2010, p. 14

2009                              
Kelly, Miriam, "Debra Dawes: Parallel Planes", Art on View, National Gallery of Australia, 2009, p.38.
Serisier, Gillian, "Show and Tell", Art Market, 2009, p.30-34.

2008                              
Stephen, Ann, “Cross Currents: Focus on Contemporary Australian Art”, Art & Australia, Vol 45, No.3 Autumn 2008 p. 473

2007                              
Lewis, Clare, "A Life Examined", Cross Currents: Focus on  Contemporary Australian Art exhibition catalogue, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney

2006                              
Boulten, Phillip, “Cover Up/Terror Wars” exhibition catalogue, Gallery Barry Keldoulis.
Grace, Helen, 'clock wise', 21st Century Modern: 2006 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art exhibition catalogue, Art Gallery of  South Australia, Adelaide

2005                               
Grace, Helen, “Debra Dawes: The Dynamism of Equilibrium”, Everydaynow exhibition catalogue, Drill Hall Gallery, Australian National University.
Stubbs, Mike, 'A Leap Into the Light', White Noise exhibition catalogue, Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Melbourne

2004                              
Gibson, Ross, ‘Debra Dawes clock wise’ exhibition catalogue, Gallery Barry Keldoulis, 2004
Fenner, Felicity, Talking About Abstraction exhibition catalogue, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales, Sydney
Garside, Sioux, Sightseeing exhibition catalogue, Sydney  College of the Arts, University of Sydney, Sydney

2002                              
Schwarz, Katrina, ‘Art as Theatre’, Reviews, Monument, 46 February/March 2002
Stanhope, Zara, ‘Good Vibrations: the legacy of Op art in Australia’, 2002, Heide Museum of Modern Art

2000                              
Broadfoot, Keith, 'In The Name of Painting’, Postwest, No. 16, 2000 
Broadfoot, Keith, Lifting the Sky exhibition catalogue, Sherman Galleries, Goodhope, Sydney

1999                              
Quillaen, Diana, ‘Verve and After The Masters’, Art Monthly, No. 110, pp. 8-9, June 1999

1998                              
Hallet, Bryce, ‘Sorry seems to be the hardest word - to see’, The Sydney Morning Herald, 26 May 1998

1996                              
Auty, Giles, ‘Obsessive Convulsive’, The Australian: The Weekend Review, 13 April 1996
Gibson, Ross, ‘Restless, Abstract and Realist’, Art & Australia, Vol. 34, No. 2 1996
McNeill, David, ‘Debra Dawes’, Art + Text, May 1996
Mendelssohn, Joanna, ‘Sydney Art: Bill Henson, Debra Dawes’, The Australian, 19 April 1996
Moore, Catriona, ‘Supermodels: Women artists enter the mainstream’, in Butler, Rex, What is Appropriation: An Anthology of Critical Writings on Australian Art in the 1980s, IMA and Power Institute publication, 1996

1995                              
Bruce, Candice, Performance Peace exhibition catalogue, Robert Lindsay Gallery, Melbourne, 1995
Green, Charles, ‘Peripheral Vision: Contemporary Australian Art 1970 – 1994’, A World of Art Book, Craftmans House, 1995
Kent, Rachel, Reinventing the Grid catalogue essay
McKenzie, Robyn, ‘Gingham: Debra Dawes’ The Age, 17 May 1995

1994                              
Rooney, Robert, ‘How lines of thought converge on the grid’, The Weekend Review, (Sydney) October 22-23 1994

1993                              
Gibson, Ross, ‘A Constellation of Options’, Starlite catalogue, 1993

1992                              
Holder, Jo, Wish Hard exhibition catalogue, December 1992
O’Donnell, Marcus, ‘Debra Dawes ‘On the Edge’’, Agenda 25 Sept/Oct 1992
Rooney, Robert, ‘Reductive Geometry in Many Colourful Guises’, The Weekend Review, 4-5 July 1992

1991                              
Forsyth, Graham, ‘Houndstooth - Debra Dawes’, Agenda  No. 19 September 1991
Green, Charles, ‘Debra Dawes’, Artforum , October 1991
Green, Charles and Stephen Wickham, ‘Abstract?’, West, Vol. 3, No. 2 1991
Kleinert, Sylvia, ‘On the idea of being sub.ver'sive’, Crafts NSW, Summer 91, p. 18-19 1991
Lynn, Elwyn, ‘Modernism minus authoritarian bombast’, The Weekend Review,  7-8 December 1991, p.10 
Lynn, Elwyn, ‘Back to the square ones’ The Weekend Australian (Sydney), 22-23 June 1991
Murray, Kevin, ‘Contemporary Twists’, Craft Victoria, Oct/Nov. p.13 1991
Rooney, Robert, ‘Serious funny business’, The Weekend Australian Review, 21-22 September 1991

1990                              
Kirby, Vicki, ‘Interview with Debra Dawes’, West, Vol. 2, No. 1 (Sydney) 1990
Lumby, Catherine, ‘Abstraction’, Tension, No.22 1990
Abstraction exhibition catalogue, Art Gallery of New South Wales, June 1990
McDonald, Ewen, ‘Variations on a Minimalist Theme’, Eyeline, No. 13 1990
Snell, Ted, ‘Abstraction’, Art and Australia, 1990

1989                              
Lindsay, Eloise, Australian Perspecta catalogue essay, 1989
Lynn, Elwyn, ‘The individual in perspective’, The Weekend Australian Review, 10- 11 June 1989
McDonald, John, ‘This Perspecta relies on blind faith’, The Sydney Morning Herald, (Sydney), 3 June 1989
Moore, Catriona, ‘Debra Dawes’, Flash Art, No. 144 Jan/Feb 1989

1988                              
Hansford, Pam, Abstract Paintings catalogue essay 1988
Lindsay, Eloise, ‘Abstract Paintings’, Eyeline, No. 7, Dec 1988
Lynn, Elwyn, ‘Unashamedly Abstract’, Weekend Australian, (Sydney),  10-11 September 1988
Rooney, Robert, ‘Mapping the realm of ambiguous vision’, Weekend Australian,  19-20 November 1988
Watson, Bronwyn, ‘The power of the grid’, The Sydney Morning Herald, (Sydney), 9 September 1988

1987                              
Holder, Jo, ‘Who is Mondrian’, Feminist Narratives, June 1987

1986                              
McDonald, John, ‘Dawes shares the crest of a new feminist wave’, National Times, 31 August 1986
Maloon, Terence, ‘Union Street’ exhibition catalogue, 1986
Mendelssohn, Joanna, ‘Voice of reason in a revival of past styles’ The Sydney Morning Herald, (Sydney), 22 August 1986
Short, Susanna, ‘Not so boring students' work’, The Daily Telegraph, (Sydney), 28 February 1986

1985                              
Maloon, Terence, “Critics Choice 85, Part II’, The Sydney Morning Herald, 30 December 1985
Moore, Catriona, ’Deborah Singleton and Debra Dawes at Union Street Gallery’, Art Network, Spring 1985