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.

CV

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