Davida Allen
{{short description|Australian artist, writer}}
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Davida Frances Allen (born 20 October 1951) is an Australian painter, filmmaker and writer.
Early life and education
Davida Allen was born on 20 October 1951 in Charleville, Queensland.{{cite web|url = http://www.printsandprintmaking.gov.au/catalogues/artist/7327/davida-allen.aspx|title = Davida Allen|access-date = 23 June 2008|publisher = National Gallery of Australia}}
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).{{Cite web|url=https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/prizes/archibald/1986/|title=Archibald Prize finalists 1986|publisher=Art Gallery of New South Wales|access-date=2018-03-11}}
Career
Allen has written and illustrated two books,What Is a Portrait – Images of Vicki Myers, {{ISBN|978-1-875505-02-9}}The Autobiography of Vicki Myers – Close to the Bone, {{ISBN|978-0-7318-0207-4}} and has created a 50-minute film, Feeling Sexy (1999), on the struggles of an artist attempting to reconcile the conflicting demands of bohemia and suburbia.[https://web.archive.org/web/20051002025808/http://www.binnaburrafilm.com/director.html Davida Allen's film Feeling Sexy] The film was invited to the Venice Film Festival.{{cite web|url=http://australianart.com.au/artists.php?ID=144| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080719184903/http://australianart.com.au/artists.php?ID=144| title=Allen, Davida, 1951-| archive-date= 19 July 2008| website=Australian Art}}
She frequently confronts the themes of family and sexuality; regarding the latter she has said: "if we are truly feminist in the fullest sense of the word, we shouldn't have felt we had to lock it away or be really careful about it. We should be chauvinist in our womanhood."[http://www.art-galleries-schubert.com.au/www/artist_info/Davida_Allen.htm Davida Allen at Art Galleries Schubert] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050620230117/http://art-galleries-schubert.com.au/www/artist_info/Davida_Allen.htm |date=20 June 2005 }}
Allen is represented in all major public collections in Australia, and the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa.{{cite web|url=https://www.griffith.edu.au/art-museum/whats-on/2018/davida-allen|title=Davida Allen: In the Moment (3 May – 30 June 2018)|publisher=Griffith University|access-date=1 December 2022}}
= Awards and nominations =
- 1986: Archibald Prize, for her portrait of her father-in-law, John Shera (My father-in-law watering his garden){{cite web | title=Archibald Prize Archibald 1986 work: Dr John Arthur McKelvie Shera by Davida Allen |publisher=Art Gallery of New South Wales| url=https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/prizes/archibald/1986/14517/ | access-date=11 March 2022}}
- 1999: Film Critics Circle of Australia Awards, nominated for "Best Direction", won "Best Original Screenplay" award{{Citation needed|date=June 2024}}
- 2010: Tattersalls Club Landscape Art Prize {{Cite news|url=http://tattersallsclub.com.au/news/335/tattersalls-club-landscape-art-prize-2010|title=Tattersall's Club Landscape Art Prize 2010|publisher=Tattersalls Club|location=Brisbane|access-date=2018-03-11}}
Exhibitions
=Australian exhibitions=
=Solo exhibitions=
- College Gallery (Brisbane College of Advanced Education), 1984{{Cite book|url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/8531535|title=Appositions : 14 November – 7 December 1984, College Gallery, Brisbane CAE|year=1984|publisher=Brisbane College of Advanced Education|isbn=9780868566108}}
- Museum of Contemporary Art in South Brisbane, 1987, a major retrospective survey{{Cite book|url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/version/39803770|title=Davida Allen : survey exhibition 24th October – 5th December| last1=Allen| first1=Davida| last2=Nye| first2=Atherton| last3=Hughes|first3=Annette|year=1987|publisher=Museum of Contemporary Art, Brisbane|isbn=1862670021|via=Trove}}{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article132155992 |title=Another challenge from Queensland |newspaper=The Canberra Times |volume=61 |issue=18,957 |date=29 August 1987|first=Sasha|last= Grishin|author-link=Sasha Grishin |access-date=11 March 2022 |page=2 |via=National Library of Australia}}
- Griffith University Art Museum, Brisbane, 2018{{Cite book|url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/version/253787374|title=Davida Allen: in the moment|year=2018|location=Brisbane|publisher=Griffith University Art Museum|isbn=9781925455601}}
= Group exhibitions =
- Ray Hughes Gallery at Pinacotheca, Pinacotheca Art Gallery (Richmond, Victoria), 1981{{Cite book|url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/version/9861800|title=Ray Hughes Gallery, Brisbane, 4th–18th April, 1981 at Pinacotheca|last1=Ray Hughes Gallery (Brisbane, Qld.)|last2=Pinacotheca Art Gallery (Richmond, Vic.)|year=1981}}
- Nine Queensland artists, Perc Tucker Regional Gallery, Townsville, 1981{{Cite book|url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/version/9864810|title=Nine Queensland artists|year=1981|publisher=Townsville, : Perc Tucker Regional Gallery}}
- 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{{Cite book|url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/version/45121924|title=Blue chip X : the collectors' exhibition : 4 March – 5 April 2008, Niagara Galleries, Melbourne|last1=Cruthers|first1=John|last2=Niagara Galleries|year=2008|location=Richmond, Victoria|publisher=Niagara Publishing|isbn=978-1920857509}}
=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,{{Cite book|url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/version/43869834|title=Out of Queensland : exhibition current 16 June – 14 July 2001|year=2001|location=Brisbane|publisher=Philip Bacon Galleries}} 2003,{{Cite book|url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/version/16827797|title=Davida Allen : diary of a bushwalker|last1=Allen|first1=Davida|year=2003|location=Brisbane|publisher=Philip Bacon Galleries}} 2005, 2008,{{Cite book|url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/version/46659641|title=Davida Allen : the light within|last1=Allen|first1=Davida|year=2008|location=Fortitude Valley, Queensland|publisher=Philip Bacon Galleries}} 2010,{{Cite book|last=Allen|first=Davida|url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/version/48764265|title=Davida Allen : new life|location=Fortitude Valley, Queensland|publisher=Philip Bacon Galleries|year=2010|isbn=}} 2012,{{Cite book|url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/version/178013499|title=Davida Allen : Tasmanian lovers|last1=Allen|first1=Davida|year=2012|location=Brisbane|publisher=Philip Bacon Galleries}} 2014,{{Cite book|url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/version/209171647|title=Davida Allen : new paintings|last1=Allen|first1=Davida|last2=Salmon|first2=Gerard|year=2014|location=Fortitude Valley, Queensland|publisher=Philip Bacon Galleries}} 2016.{{Cite web|url=https://www.philipbacongalleries.com.au/artists_and_stockroom?id=452544&m=b|title=Philip Bacon Galleries – Artists & Stockroom|last=Digital|first=Cru|website=www.philipbacongalleries.com.au|access-date=2018-03-11|archive-date=11 March 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180311140727/https://www.philipbacongalleries.com.au/artists_and_stockroom?id=452544&m=b|url-status=dead}}
= 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){{Cite book|title=D'un autre continent : l'Australie la reve et le reel|year=1983|publisher={{ill|Association française d'action artistique|fr}}, Department for animation, recherche, confrontation (ARC) at the Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris|last1=Pagé|first1=Suzanne|isbn=978-2-86545-022-0}}
- An international survey of recent painting and sculpture, curated by Kynaston McShine, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York City (1984){{Cite web|url=https://www.moma.org/calendar/exhibitions/2220|title=An International Survey of Recent Painting and Sculpture (May 17 – August 19, 1984)|publisher=Museum of Modern Art|access-date=2018-03-11}}
- Kunst mit Eigen-Sinn, curated by Silvia Eiblmayr, Valie Export, Monika Prischl-Maier, Museum des 20. Jahrhunderts (Museum of the 20th Century), Vienna (1985){{Citation|title=Kunst mit Eigen-Sinn : aktuelle Kunst von Frauen : Texte und Dokumentation|year=1985|author1=Eiblmayr, Silvia|author2=Export, Valie|author3=Prischl-Maier, Monika|author4=Museum Moderner Kunst (Austria)|author5=Verein Frauen '84 (Austria)|publisher=Löcker Verlag|isbn=978-3-85409-070-0}}
- 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){{Citation|title=Davida Allen|url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/19526688|year=1986|author1=Allen, Davida|author2=National Art Gallery (N.Z.)|publisher=National Art Gallery|access-date=11 March 2018}}
- Painters and sculptors, curated by Michael Sourgnes, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane; travelling to Museum of Contemporary Art, Saitama, Japan (1987){{Citation|title=Painters & sculptors : diversity in contemporary Australian art|year=1987|last=Hogan|first=Janet|publisher=Queensland Art Gallery|isbn=978-0-7242-2648-1}}
- ROSC, an International Exhibition, Dublin, Ireland (1988)
References
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External links
- {{IMDb title|0208948|Feeling Sexy}}
- [https://www.daao.org.au/bio/davida-allen/ Davida Allen] at Design & Art Australia Online
- [https://www.philipbacongalleries.com.au/artists/davida-allen Profile and artworks], Philip Bacon Galleries
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Category:Archibald Prize winners
Category:Artists from Queensland
Category:Australian women painters
Category:20th-century Australian women artists
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Category:Neo-expressionist artists
Category:People from Charleville, Queensland