Vicki Varvaressos

Born in Sydney in 1949, Vicki Varvaressos attended the National Art School, Sydney in the early 1970s. Since graduating in 1973 Varvaressos’ work has continued to be exhibited throughout Australia. She held her first solo exhibition with Watters Gallery, Sydney in 1975 and in a career spanning thirty years continues to exhibit with that gallery. Her work was first seen by Melbourne audiences in the exhibition Lost and Found, Ewing Gallery, University of Melbourne in 1978 and soon after Varvaressos’ pictures were shown at Melbourne’s Stuart Gerstman Galleries and later at Niagara Galleries. Although Brisbane audiences were first introduced to her work in an exhibition held at the Institute of Modern Art in 1976 titled East Coast Drawing: Towards Some Definitions, this is Varvaressos’ first commercial exhibition in Brisbane.

Selected group exhibitions the artist’s work has been curated in include Australian Perspecta, Art Gallery of New South Wales (1981 & 1985); Romanticism and Classicism in Contemporary Australian Painting, Geelong Art Gallery and touring (1983); Pleasure of the Gaze, Art Gallery of Western Australia (1985);  Art in Architecture: Selections from the New Parliament House Collection, Canberra Contemporary Art Gallery (1987); Her Story: Images of Domestic Labour in Australian Art, S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney (1991);  The Baillieu Myer Collection of the 80s, Museum of Modern Art, Heide, Melbourne (1994); Review: Works by Women in the Collection , Art Gallery of New South Wales (1995); A Face in the Crowd, National Portrait Gallery, Canberra (1997); Visions of their World, La Trobe University, Melbourne (2001); King of the Accordion, New England Regional Art Museum (2001); and Contemporary Australian Portraits, National Portrait Gallery, Canberra (2003).

The artist’s work is represented in numerous collections including the National Gallery of Australia, National Gallery of Victoria, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Queensland Art Gallery, Art Gallery of South Australia, New Parliament House Collection, Canberra, Heidi Museum of Modern Art, Gold Coast City Art Gallery, University Art Museum, University of Queensland, University of New South Wales, University of Tasmania, Artbank, Geelong Gallery, Shepparton Art Gallery, Wollongong Art Gallery, Warrnambool Art Gallery, Chartwell Collection, New Zealand, and the National Art Gallery, New Zealand.