GERA WOLTJER
art
2024--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
09.2024 - 02 2025: Studio Residency at Fremantle Arts Centre, Fremantle WA
OMETEPE SOLO EXHIBITION
07.02 - 25.02.2024 Rockingham Arts Centre, Rockingham WA
Continuation of One Percent for Art for Kelmscott Senior High School, WA
2023--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Public art commission: Kelmscott Senior High School, new sports hall + performaing arts, Percent for Art Project
05.08 - 22.10.2023 Finalist Fremantle Arts Centre Print Award, finalist, FAC WA
03.12 - 22.12.2023 : Optimierung, Projekt3drei, Das Gedok, Karlsruhe, Germany
09.09 - 21 09 2023 : Prize Collection,GRAG, Geraldton WA
24.08 - 14.10.2023 : PhotoAccess Canberra Contemporary Photographic Prize, Huw Davies Gallery, Canberra ACT
TRAVEL to Tasmania, Malasya, Cambodia, the Netherlands
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GR#D SOLO EXHIBITION
10.12. 2022 - 04.02.2023 at PCP-Perth Centre for Photography WA
Link to catalogue: https://store.pcp.org.au/collections/vendors?q=Gera Woltjer
Installation view GR#D, Perth Centre for Photography, 2023. Photo: Kate Webb
26.11 - 18.12 2022 : AUS: RICHTUNG | Projekt3drei, der Gedok | Photo installation, Karlsruhe, Germany
Studio artist, 07, Victoria Street, Fremantle
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12.2021 - 01 2022: Collective, Perth Centre for Photography, Perth WA
14.08 - 19 09 2022: Now You See Me, Woman artists from the CGG Collection, Geraldton Regional Art Gallery, Geraldton WA
23.09 - 08.10 2022: The Quarantine Project, Playford Hotel, Adelaide SA
03 -06 2021: HE | SHE | THEY; Bunbury Biennale 2021, invited artist, Bunbury Regional Art Gallery, Bunbury WA
30.04 - 22.05.2021: Between the Sheets, Artists' Books, Gallery East, at Gallery Central, Northbridge
Image: ©Gera Woltjer, Hair Studies (In No Particular Order) #1. VI, 2021, Digital image, print on various materials
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Image:©Gera Woltjer, WS-Tone #3,, #4,#5, 2020, pigment ink print on archival cotton rag
10.07. - 12.07.2020: ECHOES, Gera Woltjer and Sam Bloor, Studio 09, 51 Queen Victoria Street, Fremantle WA
05.06 - 28.06.2020: Tekenkabinet XS, Amstelpark in Amsterdam. https://www.tekenkabinet.nl/gera-woltjer/
Pool works in de webshop van Perth Centre for Photography :
Image:©Gera Woltjer State of Mind; TSample #3; State of Mind; Print Drawing #2; Grid; Sample #2
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03.02 - 21.02.2020: Stuff, Gallery Central, Northbridge WA
12.19 - 01.2020: Trip to the Netherlands and Hong Kong
Image: ©Gera Woltjer, State of Mind; Sample Book #1, V1, 2019
23.11.19 - 09 02 2020: Linden Postcard Show, Linden New Art, St. Kilda VIC
22.11 2019: Collective, PCP, Perth WA
29.08 - 22.09.2019: Between the Sheets, Curated by Gallery East, Gallery Central, Northbridge WA
06.07 - 03.08.2019: Abstracted, Curator Sandra Murray, Flux Gallery Perth WA
18.05 - 21.07.2019: Finalist Bunbury Biennale 2019, Curator Caroline Lunel, BRAG, Bunbury WA
01.07.2019 Moved into new studio Spacemarket/LIV appartments, Fremantle WA
30.04.2019 End five year Studio lease Artsource, Fremantle
Image: ©Gera Woltjer, Pool Sketch #1-8, ⊢ C R O S S I N G 3 ⊣ , Solo exhibition BRAG, WA
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01.12.- 23.12.2018: Participation in Projekt3drei. A conceptual art project by Astrid Hansen, Birgit Spahlinger and Katrin Eschenberg. Department of digital media GEDOK, Karlsruhe DE
27.11 - 24.11.2018: New Customs, Group exhibition Artsource Old Customs House, Fremantle WA
01.09 - 28.10.2018: ⊢ C R O S S I N G 3 ⊣ , Solo exhibition Bunbury Regional Art Galleries, WA
08.2018 Essay in publication Contesting Space 1, Women in Sport. Centre of Sprot and Recreation Research and John Curtin Gallery
Finalist in the Community Invitation Art Award, Joondalup. Exhibition 14.10 - 28.10.2018, Lakeside, Joondalup WA
04.2018 Participation with video works in ATRO City, Artsource Old Customs House, Fremantle WA
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29. 12. 2017 - 05. 01. 2018: Coördinaten, Jos Verschaeren & Gera Woltjer, Garnizoenskerk, Ravenstein, the Netherlands
03.12.- 23.12.2017: Participation in Projekt3drei. A conceptual art project by Astrid Hansen, Birgit Spahlinger and Katrin Eschenberg. Department of digital media GEDOK, Karlsruhe DE
Collected by the City of Melville Art Collection: Pool Drawings #8 & #9, 2017
Public Art Commission for Geraldton Senior College, One Percent for Art, Department of Finance–Building Management and Works, Western Australia
08.07-10.09.2017 Bunbury Biennale 2017 | Bunbury Regional Art Galleries WA
13.06-2.07.2017 Between the Sheets, Artists' Books 2017 | Australian Galleries, Melbourne VIC
Collected by Artbank Australia | Video work: Pool Drawings #4, 2015
16-25.02.2017 | Solo exhibition C R O S S I N G 2 | Gallerysmith Project Space, Melbourne VIC
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Mentoring Project between Gera Woltjer and Gosia Wlodarczak: From February 2016 to March 2017 Woltjer has received mentorship from senior artist Gosia Wlodarczak. This project was funded by the Department of Culture and the Arts to further her artistic career.
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Image 1: Detail of drawing performance by Gosia Wlodarczak at The Street Theatre for Segue 16: stCloud, Frost Drawing
Image 2: Melbourne (Photo credit:Longin Sarnecki | Image 3; Gosia Wlodarczak in NGA (National Gallery of Australia)