Jeannette Dyson

Jeannette Dyson was born in South Australia in 1949, but came to Perth as a small child.

She attained her Diploma of Art Studies at Forrestfield Technical College, receiving awards in the final year of painting and studio ceramics.

Jeannette, is married and has a son and daughter,

Jeannette was Vice President of the Kununurra Arts Council created and Managed two Kununurra Art Galleries, Resident Artist at the Kununurra District High School, teaching at Kimberley College of TAFE and private tuition.

Among the many prizes and Art Awards she has won, have been the Royal Agricultural Show (Rural Artist of the Year), City Of Belmont Art Award, Liddelow Bicentennial Art Awards (both Oil and Watercolour sections), Cockburn Bicentennial Art Awards and culminating in the prestigious Melville Art Awards, Ord Festival and East Kimberley Acquision Award , Shinju Matsuri, Kimberley Art Award , Cossack Major Art Award and the Beverley Contemporary Art Award.

Her paintings are included in many private collections, sponsored acquisitions purchases, overseas and Government collections (Premiers & Minister of Health Offices) and has exhibited in London, Paris and New York.

Her love of the Western Australian landscape is apparent throughout her work.  Capturing the unique colours and textures, Flora and Fauna of the Northwest, using a variety of techniques in oils, acrylics, ochres (Kimberley) and gouache.

This has made her aware of all the influences that have formed her own identity, specifically that of the Kimberley, Pilbara and the Northern Territory (Kakadu) enabling her to present exciting new exhibitions.

Having spent 6 years in the Avon Valley wheat belt & due to her husbands appointment as Senior Inspector, WAQIS on the NT / WA border & subsequent transfer back to Kununurra, and a return in 2006 to the Bedfordale Hills area, the Kimberley still  remains a constant inspiration for her painting. 

Due to a promotion for my husband and subsequent transfer to the Kimberley as Senior Inspector at the WA/ NT border, a life time change developed for me as an artist.

A resident in the Kimberley for a decade, I painted daily at the Red Rock Art Gallery in a cultural exchange Studio environment sharing Kimberley ochres (with my addition of gold and pearl dust) with Indigenous artists.

There is a certain feeling and attitude that evolves from living in a place considered to be isolated, wild, natural and untouched which makes you feel free spirited and gives me inner peace and a desire to express through my art.

In my paintings I seek to portray and celebrate the Uniqueness of the Australian North, the spatial isolation and texture of the landscape in a contemporary interpretation.

Solo or Joint Exhibitions

2010        Bunbury Regional Art Gallery           

2010        Red Rock Art Gallery Kununurra

2009        Red Rock Art Gallery Kununurra

2008        Jah Roc Galleries Margaret River

Red Rock Art (Colours of the Kimberley)

                Maxwell’s Fine Art Gallery

2007        Maxwell’s Fine Art Gallery

                Kimberley Fine Art & Diamonds Kununurra

2006        Red Rock Art Gallery

                Kimberley Fine Art & Diamonds Kununurra

                Orient Expressions

2005        Pearlers Row Gallery Broome

2004        Red Rock - Kimberley Red Art Gallery

   Framed Gallery Darwin

2003        Red Rock, Contemporary Women Of The East Kimberley, Darwin

                Kimberley Fine Art & Diamonds Gallery Kununurra

                Pearlers Row Gallery Broome                            

2000        Kimberley Fine Art & Diamonds Gallery Kununurra

                Pilbara Fine Art Gallery Karratha

2001        Pilbara Fine Art Gallery Karratha

                Inside Out Design Perth

                Pearlers Row Gallery Broome       

2000        Maxwells Fine Art Gallery

1999        Wildwood Art Gallery Yallingup

                Framed Gallery Darwin

                Old Mill Gallery York

1999        Pearler’s Row Gallery, Broome

1998        Diversion Gallery, Kununurra

1998        Design Inside-Out Gallery Perth

1997        Pearl Fishers Gallery, Broome

                Framed Gallery, Katherine: NT

                Cunderdin District High School

1996        Convent Gallery Victoria

                Cunderdin District High School

                Pearlfishers Gallery, Broome

1995        Inside Out Design Gallery Perth

                Romantiques, Kimberley

1994        Kimberley Kreations, Broome

                Goldfields Art Centre, Kalgoorlie

1993        Reflections of the Kimberley Gallery, Derby

                Framed Gallery, Katherine NT       

                Kimberley Kreations Gallery, Broome

                Kimberley Collective Red Ochre Gallery Perth

                Framed Showcase Gallery, Darwin NT           

                Six of the Best Kimberley Artist, Kimberley Kreations, Broome

                Alice Springs Art Awards

1990        Royal Centenary Celebrations Exhibition, South Perth Heritage Awards

1991        Kimberley Fine Arts and Diamonds, Kununurra

                Shards Gallery, Fremantle

1989        Film and Television Institute, Fremantle

Group Exhibitions   

2003 Diversion Art Gallery Kununurra

2000 Maxwells Art Gallery, Nude Exhibition

1999   Old Mill Gallery York

   Framed Gallery Darwin

1998 Australian in New York Gelabert Studios, Broadway New York

1997 Australian in Paris, Miromesnil Fine Arts Paris

   Australian in London, Mall Galleries London

  Convent Gallery, Victoria

1995 Made in the Kimberley Exhibition

Moore’s Building, Fremantle

Kimberley Inspired, Exhibition                       

1990   City Of Melville Art Awards

1990 Darlington Invitation Exhibition

1989     Cystic Fibrosis Invitation Exhibition

1989   Royal Perth Hospital and R & I Bank Awards

1988   Shire of Kalamunda Invitation Award

1987   America's Cup Invitation, Observation City

1984 to 2002 Royal Agriculture Society

1984   Newman College

1983 Katanning Art Prize

1983     City Of Bunbury Art Gallery

1982     Torchbearers for Legacy, City of Fremantle

Awards           

1982 St John's Art Exhibition, Most Popular Vote

       Pinjarra Rotary Art Award - Winner, Still Life Section

1984 + 1987 Annual Royal Agriculture Society Show - Awarded many Highly commended and Sponsor Purchase Awards

1986     Harvey Art Gallery Exhibition, Winner, Still Life Section

1987     City Of Belmont Art Awards - Winner Oil Section

           Won several Highly Commended Judgers Awards - Liddelow

           Kelmscott Society Show - First and Second Prizes in all sections entered and Overall Best Exhibit

     Cockburn Cultural Art Exhibition - Winner, Drawing Section

1988     Received "Peters Purchase Award ", Busselton

         Cockburn bicentennial Art Awards - Won Drawing Section

           Merredin Art Award - Won Sponsored Place of Nature Award

           Liddelow Bicentennial Art Award - winner of both Oils and Watercolours section

1989     Melville Art Award - Winner, Open Section

1990 Cockburn Art Prize - Highly Commended, Oil and Water colour sections

               Royal Agriculture Society, Perth Show Awards - Highly Commended

1991   Wyndham Shire Acquisition Art Award, First Oils, First Water Colour and two Seconds

     Ord Festival Art, Kununurra - Merit Award

     Kununurra Agriculture Show - First and Second Prizes in all sections entered, Highly Commended and overall winner.

1992       Wyndham Shire Acquisition Art Award (+ two firsts)

   Kimberley Art Award Overall Winner               

1992 Katanning Art Award Highly Commended

1993 Shinju Matsuri Art Prize

1994 S W E K - East Kimberley Art Awards, Two Firsts

           Ord Festival - Kununurra Arts Council - Major Acquisition Purchase Award

1994 Cossack Art Awards Hamersley Iron Major Acquisition Award

1995 Cossack Art Award

1996   Cossack Art Award, MAJOR Acquisition Award

1996   Tammin Art Prize First Prize, Drawing & Water Colour

         Highly Commended, Drawing Oils & Acrylics

1996     Northam Art Prize, Highly Commended, Drawing & Water Colour Sections                     

1997   Albany Art Awards, Highly Commended

1997   Northam Art Awards, Highly Commended, Drawing and Water Colour sections

1997   Tammin Art Prize, First Prize, Drawing and Water Colour

1997     Highly Commended Drawing’s and Oil’s/Acrylics

1997 Royal Agricultural Society, Rural Artist of the Year

1999 Albany Art Awards Highly Commended

1999 York Art Awards. Purchased award

1999 Beverley Contemporary award, Art purchased. Highly commended Contemporary and Acrylics sections.

2000     Cossack Art Award Contemporary Section

2003 Commission Acquisition for MGM Darwin

2004     Commission Kimberley Quest Cruise Boat

2004   Commission Acquisition for Sky City Casino Darwin.

2009   Mirrawarra Armadale Art purchase Award