Kristin Headlam

Kristin Headlam was born in Launceston, Tasmania in 1953. In 1976 Headlam completed a Bachelor of Arts, University of Melbourne and in 1980 and 1981 studied painting at the Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne. In 1982 the artist left Australia to travel, exhibiting in England (Tricycle Theatre Complex, London, 1982) and Thailand (Nielson Hayes Library, Bangkok, 1984).

Since returning to Australia in 1986 Headlam’s work has continued to be exhibited at commercial galleries (Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne, Bett Gallery, Hobart, Tony Palmer, Sydney, and Heiser Gallery, Brisbane) and curated in institutional exhibitions. These exhibitions have included Approaches to the Sublime, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney (1993); Brushing the Dark: Recent Art and Tasmania, Contemporary Art Services Tasmania and touring (1996); Exquisite Corpse, Bendigo Art Gallery, Victoria (2000); Just Married, Monash Gallery of Art, Victoria (2002); Look, Hunter 1, Newcastle Region Art Gallery (2004); A Rose is a Rose is a Rose, Latrobe Regional Gallery, Victoria (2006); and The Idea of the Animal, RMIT Gallery, Melbourne (2006).

In 1991 Headlam won the Conrad Jupiters Acquisitive Art Prize, Gold Coast City Art Gallery, and in 2000 was awarded the Doug Moran National Portrait Prize for her painting Self portrait in bed with the animals 2000.

Headlam’s work is represented in numerous institutional collections including the National Gallery of Australia, National Gallery of Victoria, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Artbank, The Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, The Ian Potter Museum of Art, University of Tasmania, Deakin University, Victoria, La Trobe University, Victoria, Gold Coast City Art Gallery, and the Tweed Heads Regional Art Gallery.