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.)
PROFESSIONAL
ACTIVITIES
2009 Examiner PhD candidates Victoria
University
2007-2008 External MA supervisor Ballarat University
2005-present
Examiner MA and MFA candidates Monash University
2003-present Invited speaker:
RMIT, Melbourne University, Victoria University,
Ballarat Art Gallery Woodbine
Art Gallery
SOLO
EXHIBITIONS
2010 Secrets & Lies, Flinders
Lane Gallery
2009 Off
the Plan, Flinders Lane Gallery
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
2010 View
From Here V,
Flinders Lane Gallery, Melbourne
2009 Finalist
Lorne Sculpture Exhibition
2009 Finalist Hutchins Print
Prize (Tasmania)
2009 Finalist inaugural Deacon University
Small Sculpture Award
2009 Finalist Geelong Acquisitive
Print Awards
2009 Finalist Yering Station Sculpture
Prize
2009 <the space in between> book project,
Wagga Wagga Art Gallery
2009 20 plus: the sum of us,
Flinders Lane Gallery
2009 Finalist DLAP the City of
Darebin and La Trobe University Art Prize
2009 Winner
of Commended Award, Sunshine Coast Art Prize
2009 Finalist
Prometheus Visual Art Award
2008 Treasures, 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,
GRANTS, PRIZES
2009 Commended award, Sunshine
Coast Art Prize
2008-2009 Inaugural artist in residence, Carr Design Group,
Melbourne
2008 Inaugural artist in residence, Carr
Design Group, Melbourne
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
2009 Kit Wise, 'Everyday Utopia', catalogue essay
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
2009 Dawn Felstead,
'Woodend artist exhibits', Macedon Ranges Guardian, September 25, p. 4
2009 Josie
Gagliano, 'White Lodge', Home Beautiful, June, pp. 22-29
2009 Frances
Johnson, 'Clubby Cubbies', Sightlines Galleries, The Age, p.19
2009 'Estate
jewellery', Life and Leisure Luxury magazine, Australian Financial Review,
p.5
2009 Carole Shepheard, 'Greer Honeywill',
Artist Profile, issue 6, February, pp.46-48
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 ason 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
