Mary Tonkin

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Mary Tonkin is an Australian artist, who in 2002 won the Dobell Prize, the highest prize for drawing in Australia.[http://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/exhibitions/archived/2002/archibald_prize_2002/winning_works Art Gallery of New South Wales: Winning Works] She was awarded her prize for her work Rocky Outcrop, Werribee Gorge 2000.

Tonkin was born in Melbourne, Australia in 1973.[http://www.australiangalleries.com.au/ag/artist/mary_tonkin/ Australian Galleries – Artists – Mary Tonkin] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080719234217/http://www.australiangalleries.com.au/ag/artist/mary_tonkin/ |date=2008-07-19 }} In 1992, she was accepted to study at the Faculty of Art and Design at Monash University. She went on to obtain a Bachelor of Arts (Fine Arts) with honours and a Masters in Fine Arts.

From 1996 to 2004, she was a lecturer at Monash University.[http://www.artdes.monash.edu.au/finearts/profiles.html Student Profiles]

Major recent exhibitions of Tonkin's works include Near the top dam (2007), a retrospective exhibition Home 2000-2010 (2011–2) at the Burrinja Gallery in Upwey, Victoria, and at the Sydney Contemporary in 2022, which included the major, 21-panel work Ramble, Kalorama (2017–19), which was featured in [https://www.art-almanac.com.au/mary-tonkin-ramble/ Art Almanac] in 2019.