For commissions, sales and enquiries:
betty.musgrove.art[at]gmail.com
Betty is a Naarm/Melbourne based artist with a diverse background in textiles, printmaking, book binding, 3D collage, installation, soft sculpture, wearable art and drawing.
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Solo Shows
2019: Cut From the Same Cloth, Incinerator Gallery, Moonee Valley
2018: I, Of the Needle, Bundoora Homestead, Bundoora
2016: Mother Yarns (Collaborative with Sue Musgrove), Footscray Community Art Centre, Footscray
2014: Tales from a bloodline, Pro{merging} Art gallery, Sorrento
2014: Everything as it sort of was, Off the Kerb, Collingwood
2014: As Told By My Family, Off the Kerb, Collingwood
2014: Tell Me The One About The Time, Port Jackson Press, Collingwood
2011: Michael and Wilhemina’s Family Album, Nine on Seven Gallery, Melbourne
2006: Paper People, Toowoomba Regional Gallery, Toowoomba
2005: Scissors, Paper, Doll, The Office art Space, Toowoomba
Group Shows
2024: Soft Landings (curator), for Arts Project Australia at the Australian Tapestry Workshop, Melbourne
2022/23: Merri-Bek Summer show, Counihan Gallery, Melbourne
2022: Women* Now, Queen Victorian Women’s Centre, Melbourne
2020: B-side group show, Blindside, Melbourne
2015: Confront Comfort (Art Not Apart festival), Canberra.
2014: All the worlds (a stage), The Workroom, Newcastle
2014: Found Festival, Magdeline Laundry, Abbotsford Convent, Melbourne
2014: Hatched, Perth Institute of Contemporary Art, Perth
2014: The Fold: seven Australian printmakers respond, D11 gallery, Melbourne
2014: Newer 14, Trocadero Artspace, Melbourne
2011: Off the Wall (curated by Aileen Texta Queen), Brunswick Bound, Melbourne
2011: Marie Ellis OAM Drawing Prize, Jugglers Art Gallery, Brisbane
2011: Works On Paper Prize , Brunswick Street Gallery, Melbourne
2010: Off The Wall (curated by Aileen Texta Queen), Brunswick Bound, Melbourne
Awards, Residiencies & Conferences
2022: Making Space residency, Siteworks, Melbourne
2019: And Also Presents residency, Siteworks, Melbourne
2014: Fremantle Print Awards finalist, Fremantle Arts Centre, Perth
2014: Hatched finalist, Perth Institute of Contemporary Art, Perth
2014: Newer 14 award and exhibition, Trocadero Artspace, Melbourne
2013: Impact 8 portfolio presentation, Dundee University, Ireland
2012: Vice-Chancellor’s List Award recipient, RMIT, Melbourne
2012: Artist Book Award recipient, RMIT, Melbourne
2011: Marie Ellis OAM Prize for drawing finalist, Jugglers Art Space, Brisbane
2011: Works on Paper Prize finalist, Brunswick Street Gallery, Melbourne
Education
2011-2013: Bachelor of Fine Arts Print-Making (Honours), RMIT (Melbourne).
2008-2009: Bachelor of Fine Arts, Griffith University, Brisbane.
Top photograph: Mia Mala McDonald
CV photograph: ‘Self Portrait as Rabbit’ 2019