“I find my paintings hard to accept for what they might be saying about me.
My scrapbooks are weighty with disparate images of moody atmospheres, drama, fragility, melancholia, loneliness and despair. I find them beautiful…

I bend to optimism by combining these images with others more sanguin, stitching together something poignant and new without destroying the precious nature of them.

I have learned that Paint has a mind of its own so painting is also collaborating. I am never sure if a work is succeeding so I toil to convince myself that it is. A painting always looks terrible until it is suddenly sublime and the change can happen in seconds. The transformative process is crucial, for what emerges is always far more original than my preconception.”

Gillian Warden October 2010

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2010 Jackman Gallery, Melbourne
2008 'Party Animals' Jackman Gallery, Melbourne
2008 'Cat On The Island' Book Launch/Exhibition, Delshan Gallery
2007 'Paintings For Robin' Jackman Gallery, Melbourne
2006 'Show + Tell' Jackman Gallery, Melbourne
2005 'Mystery Tour' Gallery East WA
2003 'Parade' Gallery East WA
1998 'Wish' Moores Building, Fremantle
1993 Artshouse Gallery, Perth
1992 The Drillhall Arts Centre, London
1991 Mildred's, London
1990 Artshouse Gallery, Perth

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2008 'The Affordable Art Fair' Melbourne Exhibition Centre
2006 Landscape, Delshan Gallery, Melbourne
2005 New Artists, Melbourne Fine Art Gallery
2003 The Affordable Art Fair, Melbourne Exhibition Centre
2002 'Exhibition of Form' Delshan Gallery, Melbourne
2002 'The Art of Refuge' The Moores Building, Fremantle
2001 'Uglieland' Fremantle Arts Centre
2000 'Ho Ho Ho' AFWA members exhibition, Moores Building, Fremantle
1999 'Quotes; Appropriation as subtext' Perth College
1998 Preselected for the Moet & Chandon
1998 '#10' Old Customs House tenth anniversary exhibition
1998 'Being' Charles Gairdner Hospital, Perth
1998 Albany Art Award, Vancouver Arts Cenre, Albany
1997 'Stiletto' Hellenic Gallery, Museum of W.A.
1997 '#9' Old Customs House Artists, Moores Building, Fremantle
1996 'One World' Vast Gallery, Perth
1996 '#8' Old Customs House Artists, Moores Building, Fremantle
1996 'Queer In the West' Perth Institute of Contemporary Art
1996 Mandorla Art Award, Moores Building, Fremantle
1995 'Paradise in a scrapyard' Fremantle Arts Centre
1995 Albany Art Award, Vancouver Arts Centre, Albany
1995 '#7' Old Customs House Artists, Moores Building, Fremantle
1994 'Cat lovers' Pakenhams, Fremantle
1994 Albany Art Award, Vancouver Arts Centre, Albany
1994 'Masquerade' Park Gallery, Perth
1994 '#6' Old Customs House Artists, Moores Building, Fremantle
1992 'Sea containers international' Amsterdam
1991 Zeppelin Gallery, Amsterdam
1989 'Picture This' Art Gallery of Western Australia
1989 Paint for Peace, Artemis collective, Fremantle
1988 'No second thoughts' Artemis collective, Fremantle
1987 'Praxis triptych show' Praxis Gallery, Fremantle
1986 'Paint for Peace' Film and TV Institute, Fremantle
1986 'Inner City Living' Brixton Gallery, London

MAJOR COLLECTIONS
Art Gallery of Western Australia; Australian Capital Equity Collection; City of Wanneroo; Royal Perth Hospital; Bankwest; St John of God Hospital