CV | Rebecca Driffield

Born Sydney

Selected solo exhibitions:
2007 Galerie Peirce, Paris
2005 Thanassis Frissiras Gallery, Athens
2001 Jean Boucher Gallery, Cesson-Cevigny, France
Le Presidal, Quimperle, France
2000 Charles Hewitt, Sydney
1998 Tavistock Centre, London
Gourlary’s Gallery, Melbourne
Les 7 Lezards Jazz Club, Paris
1993 Jazzmen, Hot Brass Jazz Club, Parc de la Villette, Paris
Galerie Façade, Beaubourg, Paris
1988 Grand Palais, Paris
1985 Pinacotheca Gallery, Melbourne
1983 Pinacothetca Gallery, Melbourne – large collages on paper
1981 Auguste Blackman Gallery, Sydney, large etchings

Selected group exhibitions:
2007 Portes Ouuvertes, St. Germain des pres, Paris
Art London, London
Exposition AIDS, Galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris
Portia Geach Prize, S.H.Ervin Gallery, Sydney – finalist
Art Athina, Thanassis Frissiras Gallery, Athens
Autumn Exhibition, Charles Hewitt Gallery, Sydney
2006 Mystery postcards: 150 Gala Exhibition, National Portrait Gallery, London
Anthropography, Frissiras Museum, Athens
2005 The Figure Show, Jill George Gallery, London
Star Portraits – group exhibition from BBC series – County Hall Gallery, London
New Walk Art Gallery, Leicester; Naughton Gallery Queens University, Belfast;
Shipely Art Gallery, Gateshead
Fresh Ground, Thanassis Frissiras Art Gallery, Athens
Art Contemporain, Drouot, Paris
The Frissiras Collection, Frisira Museum, Spanbroek
Star Portraits, Walsall Gallery, U.K.
2000 Kuturaustausch 2000 Berlin/Paris, Berlin
Frissiras Museum, Athens – inaugural exhibition

1999 BP Portrait Award, National Gallery, London – 2nd prize – chosen as publicity image
For Award Exhibition: press; subway posters

1989 XXI International Festival of Painting, Cagnes sur Mer, France
Premio Internazionale di Pittura VIII Francia D’Argento, Tuscany, Italy
8 Artistes Australiens en marge du bicentenaire de la Revolution, Australian
Embassy, Paris
1988 Salon de la Jeune Peinture, Grand Palais, Paris – special mention
1986 Salon d’Automne, Grand Palais, Paris
1984 Printmakers from Victoria, Aichi Gallery, Inazawa Museum & Toyohashi Museum,
Japan
1982 Directions Now, Mitchelton Print Exhibition, Victorian Ministry for the Arts –
2nd prize
Canberra Times National Prize, Canberra, - 2nd prize

Commissions & Awards:
2002 eight portraits – Australia & France
1987 Visual Arts Board – Australia Council – 1 year residency, Paris
1987 Visual Arts Board – Australia Council – 3 month residency, Michael Karoyli
Centre, Vence, France