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 |