Born: South Australia
Now lives and works in Hobart, Tasmania
1998-2003 Ph.D., Fine Art, Faculty of Art and Design, Monash University
1997 New York Studio School Drawing Marathon, Central School of Art, Adelaide
1975 Certificate in Film Studies, Australian Film and Television School
1967 Post Graduate studies in Drama, Adelaide Teachers College (now UniSA)
1962-1964 Dip. T. Art, S.A. School of Art
Professional Activity
2009 Examiner PhD candidate Victoria University
2007-2008 External MA supervisor Ballarat University
2005-present Examiner MA and MFA candidates Monash University
Awards, Prizes, Grants
2009 Commended Award, Sunshine Coast Art Prize
2008 Inaugural artist in residence, Carr Design Group, Melbourne
2008 Winner Mitchell Family Award, Montalto Sculpture Prize
2006 Arts Victoria, Arts Development Grant, Presentation
2005 Invited artist, Post Office Installations Series, Castlemaine State Festival
2003 Awarded Mollie Holman Doctoral Medal, Monash University
2003 Winner, World Sculpture News Prize (Fundere Sculpture Prize)
2003 Winner, Yering Station Sculpture Prize
2002 Awarded Doctoral Completion Scholarship, Monash University
2002 Winner, Coates and Wood Foundry Prize (Central Goldfields Sculpture Prize and Exhibition)
2000 Winner, Allport Writing Award, ‘Textile Fibre Forum’magazine
Solo Exhibitions
2010 Secrets (and lies), Flinders Lane Gallery (October 2010)
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, School of Art Gallery, RMIT, 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, Dr Louiseann Zahra-King
Selected Group and Collaborative Exhibitions
2010 Finalist Sunshine Coast Art Prize
2010 Finalist, Tidal: City of Devonport Art Award
2010 Playing Field, Craft Cubed Festival, Craft Victoria, curator, Joe Pascoe
2010 Vision, Glen Eira City Council Gallery, curator, Diane Soumilas
2010 The View From Here, Flinders Lane Gallery
2009 Finalist Lorne Sculpture Exhibition
2009 Finalist Hutchins Art Prize
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, curator Tara Gilbee
2009 20 plus: the sum of us, Flinders Lane Gallery
2009 Finalist DLAP the City of Darebin and La Trobe University Art Prize
2009 Finalist Sunshine Coast Art Prize
2009 Finalist Prometheus Visual Art Award
2008 Treasures, Flinders Lane Gallery
2008 Here and Now, Flinders Lane Gallery
2008 Surface Tension, Flinders Lane Gallery
2008 <the space in between> book project, Bendigo Art Gallery, Latrobe Regional Gallery and Umbrella Studio Contemporary Arts, Townsville,
curator, Tara Gilbee
2008 The Green Zone, Academy Gallery, University of Tasmania, curator, Malcom Bywaters
2008 The Perfumed Garden, Flinders Lane Gallery, curator, Phe Rawnsley
2008 Finalist Montalto Sculpture Prize
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, Margaret Lawrence Gallery, VCA, curator, Tara Gilbee
2006 The Velvet of Uncertainty, Greer Honeywill (AUS) Carole Shepheard (NZ), Spare Room, RMIT, 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 Prize
2003 Finalist, Fundere Sculpture Prize, Yarra Sculpture Gallery
2002 Undercurrent, idSpace contemporary art gallery, Melbourne, curator, Asim Memishi
2002 Finalist, Fundere Sculpture Prize, Yarra Sculpture Gallery
2002 Finalist, Central Goldfields Sculpture Prize and Exhibition, Central Goldfields Art Gallery
2001 Monash University, Survey Show, Arts Victoria, curator, Malcom Bywaters
2001 Powder – the controlled space, Faculty Gallery, Monash University, curator, Malcom Bywaters
Collections
BHP Billiton, Art Gallery Ballarat, National Library of Australia, Melbourne Convention Centre, UniSA
and Private collections in the USA, Canada, New Zealand and Australia
Bibliography: Catalogues
2010 Sunshine Coast Art Prize, Caloundra, Queensland
2009 Lorne Sculpture Exhibition 09, Lorne, Victoria
2009 Hutchins Prize, Works on Paper, Hobart, Tasmania
2009 Geelong Acquisitive Print Awards, Geelong Gallery
2009 Sunshine Coast Art Prize, Caloundra, Queensland
2009 DLAP, City of Darebin La Trobe University Acquisitive Art Prize
2009 The Prometheus Visual Art Award, Merrimac, Queensland
2009 Kit Wise, ‘Greer Honeywill: Everyday Utopia’, Off the plan, Flinders Lane Gallery, catalogue essay
2008 Tracey Avery, ‘Greer Honeywill’, Here and Now, catalogue essay, Flinders Lane Gallery
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, Span Galleries, catalogue essay
2005 Leanne Fitzgibbon, Ground Cover, catalogue introduction, Bendigo Art Gallery
2002 Dr Robert Nelson, 2002 Central Goldfields Sculpture Prize and Exhibition, catalogue essay
Bibliography: Selected Articles/Reviews
2010 Penny Webb, ‘Greer Honeywill’, Box Office/Galleries, The Age (Melbourne) Magazine, issue #72, p. 104
2010 Clyde Selby, ‘Secrets (and lies)’, Saturday Magazine, The Mercury, (Tas.) August 21, p. 23
2010 ‘Kidding around’, Dumbo Feather, pass it on, issue 24, Autumn, p.99
2010 Dylan Rainforth, ‘Visual Art’, The Arts, The Age, June 9, p. 15
2010 Eliza Hope, ‘Beauty Within’, Home, Herald Sun, February 6, pp. 26-28
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 ‘Exhibition’, The Examiner, Northern Tasmania, 11 April, p. 14
2008 ‘Home is where the art is’, Unitas, April, issue number 318, p. 8
2008 Harbant Gill, ‘Wired for Sculpture’, Herald Sun, Entertainment, 13 February, pp. 52-53
2008 Simon Gregg, ‘Reviews’, <the space in between> book project, Artlink, Vol 28, #1, p. 97
2008 Profiles, ‘Montalto Sculpture Prize Exhibition’, Art Almanac, March, p. 191
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, 18 December
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
2002 Naomi Cass, 'Yet another new sculpture prize,' Art Monthly, March edition, p. 43
Bibliography: Selected Electronic and Web Media
2010 Lee Tran, Inside Out – homelife, blog, ‘Off the plan’ and interview, AUS, 11 August
2010 ‘Secrets (and lies)’, Breakfast with Michael Veitch, 936 ABC Radio Hobart, 10 August
2009 Australian Art Collector Magazine ‘Exhibition of the Week’, Greer Honeywill, Off the plan
2009 Holly D. Gomez (intern architect), aplaceimagined, Embroidered House and Off the plan, 3 August
2009 Emma Kirsopp. ‘Off the plan’, The Melbourne Art Review, 12 April
2008 Alison Gibson. DailyServing, ‘Greer Honeywill’, blog, USA, 7 October
2008 Lisa Tilse. theredthread, ‘Embroidered House’, blog, Aus. 29 September
2008 Camilla Engman. camillaengman, ‘greerhoneywill.com’, blog, Sweden, 9 June
2008 Online editor unknown. dearada, ‘Art about Architecture – Embroidered House’, blog, NY, USA, 19 April
2008 Bill Kratz. Shedworking, ‘Embroidered House’, blog, UK, 30 March
2008 Andree-Anne Dupuis-Bourret. le territoire des sens, ‘Embroidered House, Anthology of Sadness, Consumer Music’, Canada, (French), blog, 31 March
2007 Online editor unknown. Pol Oxygen, ‘Home Sculptures’, January
2007 Online editor unknown. Design Hub (hosted by the Powerhouse Museum, Sydney), April
2007 Byres, Melanie. producer, ‘Greer Honeywill’, Sunday Arts, ABC TV Arts, 15 April, 3 minutes
Bibliography: Selected Published Works
2009 Honeywill, G. Architecture of the Heart #3, Prometheus Foundation, Visual Arts Awards invitation (image)
2009 Honeywill, G. ‘Exquisite Enticement’, Sculpture Coast, Ian Macrae Publisher, 2009, p.14 (images)
2008 Honeywill, G. Vertical Transmission, Carr Design Group 2008 yearbook (image)
2008 Honeywill, G. Emotional Stillness – The Art of Rex Turnbull, Koru Contemporary Art, Hong Kong
2007 Honeywill, G. Embroidered House, Arts Victoria Christmas card (image)
2007 Honeywill, G. ‘Euan Heng’ in Sonia Payes, Untiled: Portraits of Australian Artists, Macmillan Art Publishing, p.164
2007 Honeywill, G. ‘Robert Rooney’ in Sonia Payes, Untiled: Portraits of Australian Artists, Macmillan Art Publishing, p. 290
2007 Honeywill, G. ‘Greer Honeywill, Against the Grain’, Textile Fibre Forum, issue 3, no. 87, p.24
2006 Honeywill, G. ‘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 Honeywill, G. ‘Patterns of Desire’, Lino, issue 14, pp. 98-101
2005 Honeywill, G. ‘Scarring the Land’, Ground Cover, catalogue essay, Bendigo Art Gallery
2003 Honeywill, G. Anthology of Sadness and Memento Mori in 'Art and the pursuit of excellence', The
Australian, 9 July, p.- (images)
2001 Honeywill, G. ‘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 Honeywill, G. 'Stories from the Kitchen: Heavenly Tart,' Copia, Vol. 04, issue 01, California, USA, pp. 18-21
2000 Honeywill, G. 'Table Eight on the Floor' International Tapestry Journal, Vol. 3, no. 2 pp. 25, 26 and Textile Fibre Forum, Vol. 19, issue 4, no. 60, pp. 24, 25
