Background
She won the Archibald Prize in 1986 for her portrait of her father-in-law Doctor John Shera (My father-in-law watering his garden).
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Davida Allen
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Allen studied under Betty Churcher at the Stuartholme School, Brisbane (1965-1969) and later under Roy Churcher (Betty Churcher"s husband) at Brisbane Central Technical College.
Career
Allen has written and illustrated two books, and has created a 50-minute film, Feeling Sexy (1999), on the struggles of an artist attempting to reconcile the conflicting demands of bohemia and suburbia. The film was also invited to the Venice Film Festival. She frequently confronts the themes of family and sexuality.
Regarding the latter she has said: "if we are truly feminist in the fullest sense of the word, we shouldn"t have felt we had to lock it away or be really careful about lieutenant
We should be chauvinist in our womanhood." Allen is represented in most major public collections in Australia. Australian exhibitions
Ray Hughes Gallery, Brisbane, in 1973, 1975, 1978, 1979, 1981, 1982, 1985 and 1986.
Australian Galleries, Sydney, in 1993, 1996, 2001
Philp Bacon Galleries, Brisbane, in 1999, 2003, 2005, 2008
International exhibitions
Doctorate"un autre continent: l"Australie le rêve er le réel, curated by Suzanne Page/Leon Paroissien, Musée d"Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris. Shown internationally in Vienna, Texas and Venice.
An international survey of recent painting and sculpture, curated by Kynaston McShone, Museum of Modern Art, New York City
Davida Allen, curated by Anne Kirker, National Art Gallery of New Zealand.
Touring to four other New Zealand museums. Painters and sculptors, curated by Michael Sourgnes, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane. Travelling to Museum of Contemporary Art, Saitama, Japan.
ROSC, ann International Exhibition, Dublin, Ireland.
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Australia