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Felt - Textile - Fashion - Art
Catherine O'Leary
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Exhibitions and Awards
2023 Awarded the Small Sculpture Prize, Newstead, Victoria
2021 Awarded Australian Fibre Art Award, NSW
2019 Finalist in Petite exhibition, Wangaratta , Victoria
2018 Finalist in Textile Awards, Wangaratta, Victoria
2017 3rd prize Wearable Art Awards, New Zealand
2015 Awarded first prize, 'Friendship Lost and Found', crosspollination, Colac, Victoria
2014 Finalist in Wearable Art Awards, New Zealand
2013 Selected exhibition, Miniatures Poland
2013 Awarded 3rd prize, Selected exhibition, Filzrausch, Gottingen,
Germany
2012 Invited exhib. Museum Natural DyeArts, Daega, Korea
2012 Finalist in Wearable Art Awards, New Zealand
2011 Finalist in Australian Wool Fashion Awards, Sydney
2011 Finalist in Wearable Art Awards, New Zealand
2011 Awarded the Beechworth Texile Award
2011 Invited touring exhibition ‘Hands of Korea’,
MOCFA Museum, San Fransisco USA
2010 Group exhibition ‘Five Australian Artists’,
Heyri Artists Village, Korea
2008 Solo exhibition, Gana Gallery, Seoul, South Korea
2008 Shortlisted/exhibited in Ula Cohn Sculpture Prize
2006 Sculpture Installation, Fracture Gallery,
National Gallery Victoria, for Craft Victoria
2004 Solo exhibition, Ranfurlie Gallery, Melbourne
2000 Commission ‘Celebrating Federation’, EGV
1990 First Prize n Mornington Peninsula Craft Event
2011 Awarded the Beechworth Texile Award
Group exhibitions in Australia
Carrick Hills Gallery, South Australia
National Wool Museum,
‘Running Stitch’
Metro Craft Centre, Melbourne
Immigration Museum, Melbourne
‘Journeys’
Lumina Gallery, Melbourne
Linden Gallery,
‘Postcard Exhibition’
VIC
Brunswick Street Gallery, Melbourne
Stanthorpe Regional Art Gallery, QLD
Old Schoolhouse Gallery, Beechworth VIC
Wangaratta Gallery, Petite and Textile Award
TAMA regional Gallery, Ararat, Vic
Books and Publications
'From Felt to Fabric' written by
Catherine O'Leary
was published by Lark Books in 2011
out of print currently
Represented in Textile art around the World by Ellen Bakker, 2014
Represented in
‘A sense of Place, Contemporary Needlework’
by Jerry Rogers, Harper/Collins 1992
Contributing artist and mentor,
'Felt'
by Robyn Steel-Strickland Penguin Books
Included in
'Textiles'
by Mary Schoeser, Thames/Hudson 2012
Represented in ‘
500 Felt Objects’
,
Lark Books 2011
Represented in ‘
500 Tables’
,
Lark Books 2009
Represented in ‘
Fabulous Felted Scarves’
C A Hagan and Jorie Johnson,
Lark Books 2009
Featured in Australian and International textile magazines
Ver Filzt Und Zuge Naht , 2014
Felt Fashion, (Russian) 2014
Textiles Down Under, issue 13, 2013
Felt (Austalia) 2013
Get Creative 2011
Art Price 11 vol.61 2008 (Korean)
Textile vol.21 issue 4, no.68 2002
Textile no. 64 2001
Textile vol.18 issue 1, no.44 1999
Craft Arts International no.21, March/June 1991
Art Price 11 vol.61 2008 (Korean)
Textile vol.21 issue 4, no.68 2002
Textile no. 64 2001
Textile vol.18 issue 1, no.44 1999
Craft Arts International no.21, March/June 1991