REBECCA PIERCE
Born 1963 Sydney
NSW Australia
EXHIBITIONS AND
REPRESENTATIONS
EXHIBITIONS – SOLO
2008 Galerie Dauphin - Singapore
2007 Gallery 53 - Cairns
2007 Gallery at The Wentworth - Sydney
2007 Blacksphere Gallery - Melbourne
2007 Cooks Hill Galleries - Newcastle
2006 Gallery at The Wentworth - Sydney
2005 Cooks Hill Galleries
2005 Gallery 53 Cairns
2004 Cooks Hill Galleries - Newcastle
“Melting Pot”
2003 Cooks Hill Galleries - Newcastle
2002 Vista Blue – North Sydney
2001 Pacific Mercantile Bank – Beverly
Hills USA
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2007 Blacksphere Gallery Christmas Exhibition
2007 ART at CHRISTMAS – Gallery Oscar - November
2007 ART Sydney – Gallery Oscar 25th -
28th October
2007 Finalist BMDI ‘Touch of Red Competition’ Melbourne
2007 Cystic Fibrosis Australia’s 65 Roses Day Gallery
Art Event and Auction
2007 Gallery Oscar Art Show – Turramurra NSW
2007 LK Galleries – Perth – New Years Mixed Exhibition
2006 Gallery Oscar – Christmas Exhibition
2006 ArtSingapore Expo - Singapore
2006 Good Beginnings Exhibition – Rushcutters Bay, Sydney – 2 Artists
2006 Finalist THE HILLS GRAMMAR SCHOOL
Art Prize
2006 Finalist BMDI ‘Touch of Red Competition’ Melbourne
2006 Art
Gallery Collections - Surfers Paradise, Queensland
2005 Red Hill Gallery – Brisbane – Christmas Exhibition
2005 Art
Gallery Collections - Surfers Paradise, Queensland
2005 Galeria Aniela, Kangaroo Valley
– exhibition – 3 Artists
2005 Opera Gallery Hong
Kong
2005 Opera
Gallery Singapore
– Second International Exhibition – 2 Artists
2004 St
Joseph’s College 28th Annual Art &
Craft Exhibition
2004 CCC Complex – Easter ’Passion’ Exhibition
2004 Red Hill Gallery “The Designing Women of
2004” – 3 Artists
2003 Willoughby Art Prize final selection
2003 House of Phillips Fine Art – Mosman
2003 2nd Prize Great
South Land
Art Award
2003 Royal Easter Show NSW – Still Life
2003 Artexpo New York – Javits Convention Center
2002 Hills – The Flower Mart
2002 Display Unit Exhibit No.2 – Seaforth
Panorama Opening
2002 Red Hill Gallery – Brisbane
– Christmas Exhibition
2002 The Gallery - CCC Complex ‘She Worships’
Exhibition
2002 Display Unit Exhibit - Seaforth Panorama
Opening
2002 Willoughby Art Prize final selection
2002 Capricorn
Coast Art Festival
2002 Royal Easter Show NSW – Still Life
2002 Norton
Gallery – McMahons Point
NSW
2001 Sceggs Darlinghurst Art Show 2001 Exhibit
2001 Norton
Gallery – McMahons Point
NSW (4 artists)
2001 Frances Keevil Gallery – Woollahra NSW
1980 Selected to exhibit HSC Art in today’s
equivalent of Art Express
AWARDS
2007 Finalist BMDI ‘Touch of Red Competition’ Melbourne
2006 September – Finalist THE HILLS GRAMMAR SCHOOL
Art Prize
2006 September – Finalist BMDI ‘Touch of Red
Competition’ Melbourne
2005 Awarded the Order of Australia (OAM) for
service to child protection through
Good Beginnings and the National
Association for the Prevention of Child Abuse
and Neglect as the designer of
community awareness and educational materials
2003 Finalist
Willoughby Art
Prize
2003 2nd
Prize Great Southland Art Award
2002 Finalist
Willoughby Art
Prize
2001 Good Beginnings Macquarie Bank Foundation
National Awards -
Appreciation Award awarded at
Parliament House Canberra
2000 Awarded The Reed Gift Award – Category :
Apparel
1993 Awarded Thomson World Trade Exhibitions Gift
of the Year
– Category : Garments
1984 Awarded Develop Victoria Council Award T shirt design
HIGHLIGHTS
2005 Awarded the Order of Australia (OAM) for
service to child protection through
Good Beginnings and the National
Association for the Prevention of Child Abuse
and Neglect as the designer of
community awareness and educational materials
2005 Hong Kong
– February - Third International Exhibition
2005 Singapore –
January - Second International Exhibition
2003 One
of a panel of judges by invitation of The Royal Australian Mint Canberra for
Primary School Designs National Coin
Competition
2003 Successful
showing at New York Artexpo
2000 Created Limited Edition Collector Designs
for Wedgwood and The Royal
Australian Mint Canberra
2000 NAPCAN Certificate Of Appreciation awarded
by The Honourable Sir William
Deane
1999
Contracts for
exclusive concepts with Crown Casino, Ayers Rock Resort
Management
,Nuance Global Traders and Taronga Zoo
1999 Appointed
as Principal Artist for Australia’s
Centenary of Federation (1901-2001)
1993 Contracted by The Sydney 2000 Olympic Bid to
design and produce silk scarves
For the IOC Delegates and amend the ‘Flash’
for ties
1992 Selected as artist for the charity Peter
Pan Japan
1988 Appointed as Artistic Director
for NAPCAN-National Association for the
Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect
1980 Completed
HSC .Accepted into Law and Architecture
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
Bulletin Magazine Cover 1991
on behalf of NAPCAN - ’Listen to Children’ Campaign
‘The Play School Red Book’
‘Little Red Engine’ Illustration hardback edition 1985
‘The Play School Red Book’
‘Little Red Engine’ Illustration released in paperback 1996
Profile Magazine Issue 22
Oct-Dec 2001
North Shore Times ,Cumberland
Newspaper Group ,August 2 2002
North Shore Times ,Cumberland
Newspaper Group ,August 9 2002
Mosman Daily ,Cumberland
Newspaper Group ,November 21 2002
Newcastle Herald ,June 30th 2003
Newcastle Herald ,The Art Reviewer ,July 5 2003
Newcastle Herald , Weekender , October 9 2004
Manly Daily , Cumberland
Newspaper Group , January 26 2005
North Shore Times ,
Cumberland Newspaper Group ,March 11 2005
Illawarra Mercury , THE
WEEKENDER , March 26 2005
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
continued
Cairns City Life Magazine , “Rebecca Pierce Returns” , August
2005
Cairns Post ,Timeout, ‘States of Transcendence’ , Thursday
August 11 2005
Northern Beaches Community
Paper , Cairns
,August 2005
Play School ‘The Rainbow
Book’ – ‘Little Red Engine’ Illustration published 2005
Hunter Lifestyle Magazine,
Edition 20, June:July 2006, Pages 44,46 and 48
House Beautiful United Kingdom,
P.71 , March 2007
The Cairns Post timeout, Thursday,
December 13 2007
TELEVISION AND RADIO
WIN Channel 9, North Queensland Regional News Feature ,August 18 2005
ABC Far North Radio ‘The Art
Show’ August 2005
PRIVATE COLLECTIONS ABROAD
California, New Jersey, Italy, London, New Zealand, Korea,
New York, Florida,
Singapore, Hong Kong, Japan, Philadelphia,
Germany, Texas
and Dubai .
CORPORATE COMMISSIONS
BSM Baggage Sortation
Management (Australia) Pty
Ltd, Sydney, Australia
Hamilton Island Resort
CORPORATE COLLECTIONS
WITHIN AUSTRALIA
Edna Cuthburtonson
Solicitors, Cairns, Australia
Lionel Busquets Prestige Real
Estate
PRIVATE COLLECTIONS WITHIN
AUSTRALIA
NSW ,South
Australia ,Queensland ,Western Australia ,Northern
Territory and Victoria
UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS 2008
2008 Blacksphere Gallery – Melbourne – solo exhibition
2008 Gallery at The Wentworth – Sydney – solo
exhibition