Contact
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Morgan works from her studio in the Adelaide Hills, South Australia.
Representation & Exhibitions
Morgan is currently self-representing, please contact her by email for all enquiries and solo/group exhibition proposals internationally.
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Morgan Allender
Born 1982, lives and works in the Adelaide Hills, South Australia
Qualifications
2011-16 Director, The Tenth Meadow
2009-11 Lecturer, Painting, Adelaide Central School of Art, SA
2004 Bachelor Fine Art (Honours), Adelaide Central School of Art, SA
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2023 Inside Your Hearth There Is A Garden, morganallender.com
2023 Soft Skin, Warm Earth, Edwina Corlette, Brisbane, QLD
2021 My Studio Is A Walled Garden, morganallender.com
2020 Soft Grass And Silence, morganallender.com
2019 The Garden, morganallender.com
2018 Recent Works, morganallender.com
2017 A Restless Green, morganallender.com
2017 New Paintings, morganallender.com
2015 Seeing Spring, Artspace Gallery, Adelaide Festival Centre, SA
2013 Recent Works, Helen Gory Galerie, Melbourne, VIC
2011 The Grove, BMG Art, Adelaide, SA
The Golden Hour, Helen Gory Galerie, Melbourne, VIC
2009 Wildwood Bower, Helen Gory Galerie, Melbourne, VIC
Recent Works, BMG Art, Adelaide, SA
2008 Realm, Helen Gory Galerie, Melbourne, VIC
2007 Landscape Lost, Helen Gory Galerie, Melbourne, VIC
2006 The Flood, Helen Gory Galerie, Melbourne, VIC
Selected Group Exhibitions
2017 Spring Art, (guest feature artist), Loreto, SA
2016 Even Still, Adelaide Town Hall, SA
2014 How Does Your Garden Grow, Murray Bridge Regional Gallery, Murray Bridge, SA
2014 Florabotanica, Adelaide Central Gallery, Adelaide, SA
2013 Wonderfall, Hill Smith Gallery, Adelaide, SA
Crystal Palace, Flinders University Art Museum & City Gallery, SA
2012 Conversations in Ellipsis, SASA Gallery. SA
2011 Double Vision, curated Mary-Jean Richardson, Adelaide Central Gallery, Adelaide, SA
Selected Group Exhibitions (cont’d)
2010 Short Stories, Helen Gory Galerie, Melbourne, VIC
Melbourne Art Fair, Helen Gory Galerie stand, Melbourne, VIC
2009 Whyalla Art Prize, Middleback Theatre Gallery, Whyalla, SA
2008 Fleurieu Biennale Landscape Prize, Hardys Tintara Winery, McLaren Vale, SA
Contemporaneous, Wangaratta Gallery, Wangaratta, VIC
Selected Awards & Grants
2018 Finalist, Muswellbrook Art Prize, NSW
Finalist, Fleurieu Biennale Prize, SA
Finalist, Hutchins Australian Contemporary Art Prize, TAS
Finalist, Waterhouse At Prize, SA
Research expedition, France, UK
2017 Research expedition, UK, Fance, Italy
2015 Winner, Country Arts Breaking Ground Award, SA
2008 Highly Commended, Fleurieu Art Prize, SA
2006 Winner, Fleurieu Art Prize Youth Scholarship, SA
2005 Winer, The Advertiser Oscart Award – Best Emerging Painter, SA
2000 Winner, Pro Hart Scholarship, Bachelor Fine Art, Adelaide Central School of Art, SA
Bibliography
2022 Artists At Home, Karina Dias Pires, October.
2020 ABC Arts – The Mix, Episode 27.
2020 John Neylon, Morgan Allender: Soft Grass and Silence, Adelaide Review, August.
2016 Virginia Imhoff, Country Style Magazine, March.
2015 Jane Llewellyn, Morgan Allender : Breaking Ground, Adelaide Review, July.
2013 Vogue Living, Next Generation, September Issue.
Caroline Roessler, Remain in Light. Country Style Magazine July 2013, pg 32-39.
2012 Kate Bowden, Bloom, The Adelaide Magazine, August 2012, pg 26-30.
2011 Leta Keens, Art 101, Inside Out, May/ June 2011, pg 133.
2009 Jemima Kemp, Em Files, Australian Art Monthly, August.
Karen McCartney, Editors Choice: Dark Star, Inside Out, Sept-Oct, pg 170.
2008 Penny Modra, Realm, Visual Arts Review, The Age, August 3.
Frances Johnson, Realm, Sightlines, The Age, July 25.
Collections
Artbank
Private collections throughout Australia and United Kingdom, United States, Italy.