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Curriculum Vitae


Solo Exhibitions
2018: Eros et Thanatos, Arts Open Castlemaine, Australia
​2017: Fragments, Castlemaine State Festival, Castlemaine, Australia
2016: Nature Brute, Lost Ones Gallery, Ballarat, Australia
2016: "As it is .....Still" Castlemaine Open Studios, Castlemaine, Australia
2015:  "As it is" Tinning Street Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
2015: "And so it is" Castlemaine State Festival, Castlemaine, Australia
2014: "Verum et Falsum" Lot 19, Castlemaine, Australia
2013: "Traffic" and "I am one too" Tinning Street Gallery, Melbourne Australia
2007: "Risky Business" Brunswick Street Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
2005: "The Angels Have Left The Building" Goya Galley, Melbourne' Australia
2004: "10 Artists, 10 Countries" Featured Artist Online Exhibition, Noosa Gallery, Noosa, Australia
2003: "Dreams and Whispers" Pantechnicon Gallery, Daylesford, Australia
2003: "I Should be so Bold" Bold Gallery, Castlemaine, Australia
1992: Togs Galley, Castlemaine, Australia

Group Exhibitions
2018: Maldon Portrait Prize, Winner
2018: Swan Hill Print and Drawing Prize, Finalist
2018: My Big Back Yard Returned, Caspa, Castlemaine
2017: My Big Back Yard: Reflections on Landscape, Gallery arc, Yinnar, Gippsland
2017: Adelaide Perry Drawing Prize, Finalist
2016: New Works, Possum Gully Gallery, Maryborough, Australia
2016: Swan Hill Drawing Prize, Selected
2016: Maldon Portrait Prize, Finalist
2014: Maldon Portrait Prize, Finalist
2009: Qudos Gallery, Lorne
2009: Corangamarah Art Prize, Finalist
2009: Ministry of Delight Exhibition, Castlemaine State Festival
2008: Corangamarah Art Prize, Finalist
2007: Ministry of Delight Exhibition, Castlemaine State Festival
2005: "Chiaroscuro" Goya Gallery, Melbourne
2005: Ministry of Delight Exhibition, Castlemaine State Festival
​2004: Group Exhibition, Pantechnicon Gallery, Daylesford
2004: Group Exhibition, Qudos Gallery, Lorne
2003: James Farrell Self Portrait Prize, Castlemaine Art Gallery, Castlemaine
2003: Artholes Gallery, Fitzroy, Australia
2003: Ministry of Delight Exhibition, Castlemaine State Festival
2001: Ministry of Delight Exhibition, Castlemaine State Festival​
1995: "Three Wild Roses" Togs Gallery, Castlemaine
1993: "To The Guggenheim" Alchemy Gallery, Melbourne
1979: ​Royal Academy Summer Show, London

Residencies
2016: Mountain Seas Artist Residency, Flinders Island
2015: International Centre for the Arts, Montecastello di Vibio, Italy
2013: International Centre for the Arts, Montecastello di Vibio, Italy

Education

1979: Post Graduate Diploma Printmaking, Wimbledon School of Art, London
1975-1978: Diploma Fine Art, Painting, City and Guilds School of Art, London

Bibliography
Artists Open Doors, Di Dempsey, Bendigo Weekly, 9 March 2018
Beauty in the Bleak, The Courier, 16 September, 2016
Chewton Chat, April, 2016
Creatives and Makers, 24 October, 2015
Beat Magazine, 19 September, 2013



Roz Avent is an artist currently living in Central Victoria, Australia, who's work confronts the struggle to survive  and thrive in hostile environments. These environments might be psychological, physical or existential.

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