Born
South Australia
EDUCATION
1998-2003 Ph.D., Fine Art, Faculty of Art and Design, Monash University
1961-1963 Dip. T. Art, S.A. School of Art/ Western Teachers College (now
UniS.A.)
As
an adjunct to her studio practice Greer regularly presents lectures, is an examiner
of Masters candidates (Monash University) and acts as an external Masters supervisor
(University of Ballarat). From 1994 to 2000 she worked as a freelance creative
director.
SOLO
EXHIBITIONS
2007 Against the Grain: works in wood 2000-2007, Craft
Victoria
2006 she had many offers of marriage #2, curator Dr Louiseann
Zahra-King
2006 Patterns of Desire, Span Galleries
2005 she
had many offers of marriage, The Castlemaine State Festival, Post Office Installation
series
2003 Colours of the Kitchen Cabinet, Faculty Gallery, Monash
University
2002 Heavenly Tart, Spare Room, RMIT, curator Louiseann
Zahra,
GROUP
AND COLLABORATIVE EXHIBITIONS
2008Treasures,
Flinders Lane Gallery
2008 Here
& Now,
Flinders Lane Gallery
2008 the space in between book project,
Bendigo Art Gallery
2008 The Green Zone, Academy Gallery,
University of Tasmania
2008 The Perfumed Garden, Flinders Lane Gallery
2007 Treasures, Flinders Lane Gallery
2007 For Every Bird,
[MARS] Melbourne Art Rooms
2007 Don't call me a Domestic Goddess, [MARS]
Melbourne Art Rooms
2007 Artefact, City Museum at Old Treasury, Melbourne,
curator Simon Gregg
2007 <the space in between> book project,
VCA Margaret Lawrence Gallery, curator, Tara Gilbee
2006 The Velvet of
Uncertainty, Greer Honeywill (AUS) Carole Shepheard (NZ) curator Dr Louiseann
Zahra-King
2006 12 by 12, [MARS] Melbourne Art Rooms
2006 Finalist,
New Social Commentaries, Warrnambool Art Gallery
2006 Finalist, Yering
Station Sculpture Prize
2005 Ground Cover, Bendigo Art Gallery,
Greer Honeywill and Megan Campbell, curator Leanne Fitzgibbon
2004 Narrative
Voices, 45 downstairs, curator Tyra Hutchens
2004 Finalist, John Leslie
Art Prize, Gippsland Art Gallery
2003 Kitchen Sacraments, Ararat
Art Gallery, Greer Honeywill and Megan Campbell
2003 Finalist, Yering
Station Sculpture Exhibition and Awards
2003 Finalist, Fundere Sculpture
Prize, Yarra Sculpture Gallery
2002 Finalist, Fundere Sculpture Prize,
Yarra Sculpture Gallery
2002 Undercurrent, idSpace contemporary art
gallery, Melbourne, curator, Asim Memishi
2002 Finalist, Central Goldfields
Sculpture Prize and Exhibition, Central Goldfields Art Gallery
2001-2002
Monash University, Survey Show, Arts Victoria, curator, Malcom Bywaters
2001 Powder - the controlled space, Faculty Gallery, Monash University,
curator Malcom Bywaters
1998 Australian in New York, Gelabert Studios,
New York, curator Simmone Jameson
1997 Australian in Paris, Miromesnil
Fine Art, Paris, curator Simmone Jameson
1995 The Great Australian Dream,
Gallery 101, Melbourne, Greer Honeywill, Lynette Zeeng and Rodney Lowe
COLLECTIONS
BHP Billiton
National Library of Australia
Art Gallery Ballarat
Melbourne Convention Centre
(new)
UniS.A.
Private collections in the USA, New Zealand and Australia
AWARDS
AND GRANTS
2008 Montalto Sculpture Prize, Mitchell Family Award
2006 Arts Victoria, Arts Development Grant, Presentation
2005 Invited artist,
Castlemaine State Festival
2003 Awarded Mollie Holman Doctoral Medal,
Monash University
2003 Winner, World Sculpture News Prize
2003
Winner, Yering Station Sculpture Prize
2002 Awarded Doctoral Completion
Scholarship, Monash University
2002 Winner, Coates and Wood Foundry
Prize
2000 Winner, Allport Writing Award
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2008 Montalto Sculpture Prize, Montalto
2007 Simon Gregg, 'Artefact,
A Melbourne Keepsake', Artefact, catalogue essay
2007 Kelly Gellatly,
Against the Grain, catalogue essay
2006 Alex Gawronski, Contemporary
Art and Social Justice; How Soon is Now? 'New Social Commentaries 06', catalogue
essay
2006 Dr Louiseann Zahra-King, Into A Mirror Darkly, catalogue
essay
2006 Kit Wise, 'Proclaiming Space', Patterns of Desire, catalogue
essay
2005 Leanne Fitzgibbon, Ground Cover, catalogue introduction
2002 Dr Robert Nelson, 2002 Central Goldfields Sculpture Prize and Exhibition,
catalogue essay
SELECTED
ARTICLES AND REVIEWS
2008 Megan Backhouse,Prized moments, The Age,
Mixed Media, 20 February, p. 18
2007 Inga Walton, Artefact: A Melbourne
Keepsake, ‘Craft Culture’, Craft Victoria, online publication,
18 December 2007
2007 Andrew Stephens, "Debunking the domestic goddess",
The Age, 8 September, p. 19
2007 Tracey Avery, "Against the Grain",
Artichoke, Issue. 20, pp. 64-67
2007 Stephen Crafti, "Tales of
the Everyday", indesign, Vol. 30, p. 68
2007 Adriana Tarascio-Agosta,"Against
the Grain Works in Wood 2000-2007 by Greer Honeywill", DATTA Vic Newsletter,
Vol. 20, Issue 3, p.3
2007 Kate Rhodes, "The Art of the Dwelling Space",
Lino, Issue No 18, pp. 66-71
2007 Linda Nathan, "Against the Grain",
Australian Wood Review, Issue 55, pp. 76-77
2007 Kathy Kernohan, "Wooden
sprawl of Australiana", Melbourne's City Weekly, #21, 31 May, p. 29
2007 Andrew Stephens, "Singing in the Grain", The Age, 19
May, pp. 17-18
2007 "Box Office", The Age (Melbourne) magazine,
Issue #31, p.89
2007 "May Salon", Embroidered House, Trouble,
pp. 32-33
2007 "Radar Headlines", Architecture Australia,
Vol. 96, no. 2, p. 22
2007 "News Diary", Artichoke issue
18, (March) p. 38
2007 "Exhibitions 2 Watch", Artlink, Vol.
27, no. 1, p. 14
2006 Simon Gregg, "Melburnin December 2006", Trouble,
pp. 18-19
2006 Megan Backhouse, "Art Galleries", The Age,
9 September, p. 17
2006 Megan Backhouse, "Art Galleries", The
Age, 14-15 April, p.19
2005 Leanne Fitzgibbon, "Artists Cover New
Ground", The Advertiser, 21 April, p. 22
2003 Megan Backhouse,
"Chris Bell gets the Fundere", The Age, 5 November, p. 8
2003 'Another Award - Cheese graters make great art', Telegraph, Tuesday
4 November, p. 10
2003 Megan Backhouse, 'Finalists picked for sculpture prize',
The Age, 1 November, p. 7
2003 Megan Backhouse, 'Honeywill Skewers
Yering prize', The Age, 15 October, p. 8
2003 "Visual feast with
sculpture-scape", Lilydale Yarra Valley Leader, 29 September, p. 8
2003 Prof. David Williams, "Art and the pursuit of excellence", The
Australian 9 July, p.-
2002 Naomi Cass, "Yet another new sculpture
prize," Art Monthly, March edition, p. 43
1995 Alison Barclay,
'Where the heart is', Herald Sun, 24 July, p. 53
1995 Michael Harden,
"Dreams are just castles in the clouds", The Melbourne Times,
12 July, pp. 1, 27
1995 Jason Steger, "Putting the great Australian dream
in the picture," The Sunday Age, 16 July, p. 7
ELECTRONIC
MEDIA
2007 'Greer Honeywill', Sunday Arts, ABC TV Arts, Melanie
Byres, Producer, 15 April
1995 Thompson, Jeremy. 'The Great Australian Dream',
Today Tonight, HSV7, Melbourne, 1 August
1995 Whaley, Jim. 'The Great
Australian Dream', Sunday, GTV 9, Sydney, 30 July
1995 Gillespie Productions.
'The Great Australian Dream', House Hunt, HSV 7, Melbourne, 29 July
1995 Gregory, Anna. 'The Great Australian Dream', Today, GTV 9, Sydney,
18 July
1995 'The Great Australian Dream', News segment, GTV9, Melbourne,
18 July
1995 'The Great Australian Dream', News segment ABC TV, Melbourne,
18 July
PUBLISHED
WORKS
2008 Avery, Tracey, Here and Now exhibition catalogue, pp16
- 21, 2008
2007 Honeywill, G. Embroidered House, (image) Arts Victoria
Christmas card
2007 'Euan Heng' in Sonia Payes, Untitled: Portraits of
Australian Artists, Macmillan Art Publishing, p.164
2007 'Robert Rooney'
in Sonia Payes, Untitled: Portraits of Australian Artists, Macmillan Art
Publishing, p.290
2007 'Greer Honeywill, Against the Grain', Textile Fibre
Forum, Issue 3, no. 87, p.24
2006 'Shared Narratives: Remembering and
Forgetting in Academic Research', in Art-Based research: a proper thesis?
edited by Elaine Martin and Judith Booth, Common Ground, p. 97-110
2006 'Patterns
of Desire', Lino, issue 14, pp. 98-101
2005 'Scarring the Land', Ground
Cover, catalogue essay, Bendigo Art Gallery
2001 'Table Eight on the Floor,
the work of Flossie Peitsch,' Setting the American Table, Copia: The American
Center for Wine Food and the Arts, California, USA, pp. 78-83
2001 'Stories
from the Kitchen: Heavenly Tart,' Copia, Vol. 04, Issue 01, California,
USA, pp. 18-21
2000 'Table Eight on the Floor' International Tapestry Journal,
Vol. 3, no. 2 pp. 25, 26
2000 'Table Eight on the Floor' Textile Fibre
Forum, Vol. 19, Issue 4, no. 60, pp. 24, 25
1997 'Contempora5 - new prize,
new art!', The View, Issue 7, pp.32-35
1997 'Combing the World,' The
View, Issue 6, p.36
1995 'Seasonal Changes', the work of Lynette Zeeng,
Professional Photography in Australia, pp. 41, 42
1995 'The Great Australian
Dream', The View, Issue 2, pp. 18-21