Education:

Associate Diploma Visual Arts (Textiles) – Brisbane CAE 1983
Bachelor of Arts (Art and Architectural History) – Deakin University 1992
Graduate Cert. Special Education – Flinders University 2000
Associate Degree MultiMedia – Charles Sturt University 2002

Solo Exhibitions:

2022 the pretence of wallflowers Grainger Gallery Canberra

2022 from the studio Cagallery Sunshine Coast

2021 conversations with my Aunt Anthea Polson Art October
2021 Adorn at Rochfort Gallery Sydney with Izette Felthun
2020 the games that play us and dancing on the moon March Anthea Polson Art
2019 2blues&afroginatawneysuit – joint exhibition with David Green at CoolArtGallery
2018 reflections from the rabbit hole Anthea Polson Art – sept.
2018 making connections with Pauline Hughes -EditionsGallery Liverpool UK
2017 folly of angels Bird’s Gallery Melbourne
2017 portraits from an ordinary life Anthea Polson Art (February 2017)
2015 Roma Regional Gallery with David Green Feb/April
2013 ‘song of the siren’ with David Green, Rosebed Street Gallery, Eudlo Oct.
2013 ‘drawer(n) from life’  Noosa Regional Gallery, April
2008 ‘memory of being’  Wagga Wagga City Art Gallery

Selected Exhibitions /  Finalist in Prizes & Awards

2021 Selected Finalist Clayton Utz Art Prize Queensland

2020
Selected Finalist Sunshine Coast Art Prize Queensland
Selected Finalist Lethbridge 20,000 small works award Brisbane

2019
Selected Finalist Lethbridge 20,000 small works award
Selected Finalist Clayton Utz Art Prize Brisbane
Selected Finalist Lyn McCrae Drawing Prize Noosa Regional Gallery

2018
Selected finalist Lyn McCrae drawing Prize – Noosa Regional Gallery

2017
Selected Finalist Adelaide Perry Drawing Award Sydney
Selecled Finalist Lethbridge 10,000 small works award Brisbane
Selected Finalist 2D Moreton Bay Art Prize Brisbane

2016
Selected Finalist JADA Drawing Prize Grafton Regional Gallery NSW
Selected Finalist Lethbridge 10,000 Small Works Award Brisbane
Selected Finalist 2D and 3D Moreton Bay Art Prize Brisbane

2015
Selected Finalist Moreton Bay Art Award (3D) Queensland
Selected Finalist Lethbridge 10,000 Small Works Award Brisbane

2014
Selected Finalist Moreton Bay (sculpture) QLD
Selected Finalist Gold Coast International Ceramic Award QLD
Selected Finalist Ignition Ceramic Award – Sunshine Coast QLD

2013
Selected Finalist Kenilworth Art Prize (Mayor’s 15) QLD
Selected Finalist Moreton Bay Art Award 2D QLD
Selected Finalist Wilson Art Prize Lismore NSW

2012
Selected Finalist Moreton Bay Art Award 2D and 3D sections QLD
Xstrata Portrait Prize, Perc Tucker Regional Gallery, Townsville QLD
Judges Selection Touring Xstrata Portrait Award, Mt Isa QLD
Wangaratta Petite Textile Exhibition, Wangaratta VIC
ArtFelt Art Prize Ballina NSW
‘Ignition’ Ceramic Prize, Sunshine Coast , QLD

2011   
Selected Finalist Gold Coast Art Prize (Duke Art Award), Gold Coast QLD
Selected Finalist Waterhouse Art Prize, Museum of South Australia
(Highly Commended and touring to National Archives Museum Canberra)
Selected Finalist Moreton Bay Regional Art Award 2D and 3D sections Queensland
Selected Finalist Prometheus Art Award, All Saints Anglican College Queensland
Selected Finalist Toorak Village Sculpture Award Melbourne Victoria
Selected Finalist Noosa Travelling Scholarship Sculpture Award Queensland
Selected Finalist Wangaratta Textile Art Award Wangaratta Regional Gallery Victoria

2010  
Retrospective National Fibre Collection Tamworth Regional Gallery

Pre-2000        
1993 Port of Call H.R.Gallop Gallery Charles Sturt University Wagga
1986 Tamworth National Textiles Biennale  toured
1984 Tamworth National Textiles Biennale purchased for collection

Group Exhibitions:

2021 Transcendence – an abstract group show Grainger Gallery Canberra
2021 Facet – a group figurative exhibition c a gallery Coolum 

2020 Opening exhibition Grainger Gallery Canberra
2020 Annual Christmas Exhibition Anthea Polson Art

2019 Affordable Art Fair Hamburg – Art Now Gallery
2019 The shape of things – sculpture exhibition Anthea Polson Art
2019 Winter and Spring Exhibitions – Studio Gallery Melbourne
2019 Annual Christmas Exhibition Anthea Polson Art

2018 Studio Gallery Melbourne – Grand Opening
2018 About Face – AmberCreswellBell – Sydney
2018 Hamburg Art Fair – ArtNow Gallery
2018 Christmas Exhibition Anthea Polson

2016 ArtNow Gallery Berlin November Berlin Germany
2016 Anthea Polson goes to Melbourne (Feb)
2016 New Generation Anthea Polson Art (April)

2015 Precious things come in small parcels Anthea Polson Christmas Ex
2015 Loss Reverence and Longing Wagga City Art Gallery
2015 Matchbox 5th Birthday exhibition Brisbane

2014 Miniatures Anthea Polson Christmas Exhibition Gold Coast
2014 The Sketchbook Show Charles Sturt University and then Brooklyn 
2014 Urban Amazons and other Eclecticities, Tusk Gallery, Melbourne

2013 Red – Christmas Exhibition Anthea Polson Art Gallery, Gold Coast
2013 Roses – Rosebed Street Gallery, Eudlo Queensland

2012 Smalls Rosebed Street Gallery, Eudlo Queensland
2012 Melbourne Affordable Art fair, Melbourne, Vic.
2012 ‘Dare to do Square’ Pine Rivers Regional Gallery Brisbane QLD

2011Selected – Jan. Small Sculpture Exhibition Brunswick Street Gallery Melbourne
2011Selected – Oct. Sculpture Exhibition Brunswick Street Gallery Melbourne Victoria
2011 The Matchbox Show (still touring Australia and the world in 2011)
2011 Revisiting Childhood, Art Piece Gallery, Mullumbimby NSW

2011 Drawing Connections Siena Institute of Art Siena, Italy
2011 Artslabour Exhibition Parliament House Brisbane
2011 Exhibition and Auction Martin Galleries Brisbane
(Donated work to raise funds for Flood Appeal)
2011 Exhibition and Auction ‘Cathartic”  Bleeding Heart Gallery Brisbane
(Donated work to raise funds for Queensland Flood Appeal)
2010 BSG small works exhibition Brunswick Street Melbourne
2010 Group Exhibition Martin Galleries Brisbane 2010
2010 Sydney Art Fair – Sheahan Galleries
2010 Group Show Martin Galleries Brisbane
2010 ArtsLabour 2 Martin Galleries Brisbane
2008 Summer – Docker Street Gallery Wagga Wagga
2008 Text / Object: Collaboration – Wagga City Art Gallery
2007 Rebirth – Docker St Gallery  – Wagga Wagga

Collections:

Siena Institute of Art, Italy
National Fibre Collection  Tamworth NSW
Private collections Australia, United Kingdom, Hong Kong, Canada, United States, Germany, New Zealand, Italy, Portugal