Born: South Australia
Currently lives and works in Melbourne

Education

2015 PhD, (Art), School of Creative Arts, University of Tasmania
2003 PhD, (Fine Art), Monash University
1998-1999 MFA, (Fine Art), part time, Monash University, upgraded to PhD
1997 New York Studio School Drawing Marathon, Central School of Art, Adelaide
1975 Certificate in Film Studies, Australian Film and Television School
1967 Post Graduate studies in Drama, Adelaide Teachers College (now part of UniSA)
1964 Dip. T. Art, S.A. School of Art (now part of UniSA)

Professional Activity

2023
Lost in Palm Springs, a national touring exhibition, launched at HOTA (Home of the Arts) Gold Coast on 11 March (until 21 May). Developed by Museums & Galleries Queensland in partnership with HOTA. Curator: Dr Greer Honeywill

2023
Lost in Palm Springs, the book, published on 1 March by Melbourne Books. Author: Dr Greer Honeywill

2022
Proposal for Lost in Palm Springs, the book, accepted for publication by Melbourne Books

2020
Proposal for Lost in Palm Springs, the touring exhibition, accepted by Museums Galleries Queensland

2019
Presenter, Museums & Galleries Queensland seminar, Perspectives on Contemporary Sculpture
Opening speech, A Recollection of Symmetry, Heinz Boeck, Yarra Sculpture Gallery

2017
Opening speech and essay, Louiseann King: arbor, temporis, momentum, Bendigo Art Gallery

2017 – 2019
Three annual, research/residencies, Palm Springs, California, ongoing project, ‘Lost in Palm Springs’

2015
Initial visit to Palm Springs, California, to research potential for a large on-going project
Presenter, AAANZ conference Image Space Body, GOMA, Brisbane

2007 – present
External supervisor (MFA) and examiner (MFA and PHD) Federation University

2005 – 2016
Examiner and adjudicator MFA and PhD candidates, Monash University

2000 – present
Full-time studio practice, writer, researcher and speaker

Solo Exhibitions

2015
The Ever Present Eye, Plimsoll Gallery, Tasmanian College of the Arts

2012
IN-Grained: works in wood (exposed and disguised) 2003-2012, Carnegie Gallery, Hobart, curator, Peta Heffernan
Veiled, The Gallery @ Bayside Arts & Cultural Centre, Victoria

2010
Secrets (and lies), Flinders Lane Gallery, Melbourne

2009
Off the plan, Flinders Lane Gallery, Melbourne

2007
Against the Grain: works in wood 2000-2007, Craft Victoria, curator, Kate Rhodes

2006
she had many offers of marriage #2, School of Art Gallery, RMIT, curator, Dr Louiseann King
Patterns of Desire, Span Galleries, Melbourne

2005
she had many offers of marriage #1, The Castlemaine State Festival, Post Office Installation series

2003
Colours of the Kitchen Cabinet, Faculty Gallery, Monash University, Melbourne

2002
Heavenly Tart, Spare Room, RMIT, curator, Dr Louiseann King

Selected Group and Collaborative Exhibitions

2015
Model Urban, Manningham Art Gallery, curator Davey Warnock

2013
Investigations, Plimsoll Gallery, Tasmanian College of the Arts, curators Annie Geard and Julien Scheffer

2013 – 2014
WOOD art design architecture, travelling exhibition, Jam Factory and Botanic Gardens of Adelaide, Museum of Economic Botany, Adelaide, Riddoch Regional Gallery, Mt Gambier, Design Centre Tasmania, Launceston, Bathurst Regional Gallery, Lake Macquarie City Art Gallery, Booragal, QUT Art, Museum, Brisbane, Kick Arts, Cairns, Object Gallery, Sydney, curators Brian Parkes and Elliat Rich

2013
Construction, The Incinerator Gallery, Melbourne, curator Richard Ennis

2012
The Research Life of Arts Objects, Entrepot Gallery, Tasmanian College of the Arts, curator Paul Zika

2011
Finalist, Geelong acquisitive print awards, Geelong Gallery, Victoria.
Finalist, City of Hobart Art Prize, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart

2010 / 2011
Finalist, Tidal: City of Devonport Art Award, Devonport Regional Gallery, Tasmania

2010
Finalist Sunshine Coast Art Prize, Caloundra Regional Gallery, Queensland
Playing Field, Craft Cubed Festival, Craft Victoria, curator Joe Pascoe
Vision, Glen Eira City Council Gallery, Victoria, curator Diane Soumilas
The View from Here, Flinders Lane Gallery, Melbourne

2009
Finalist Lorne Sculpture Exhibition, Victoria
Finalist Hutchins Art Prize, Hobart, Tasmania
Finalist inaugural Deacon University Small Sculpture Award, Victoria
Finalist Geelong Acquisitive Print Awards, Geelong Gallery, Victoria
Finalist Yering Station Sculpture Prize, Victoria
Finalist the City of Darebin and La Trobe University Art Prize, Victoria
Finalist Sunshine Coast Art Prize, Queensland

2008
Here and Now, Flinders Lane Gallery, Melbourne
Surface Tension, Flinders Lane Gallery, Melbourne, curator Phe Luxford
The Green Zone, Academy Gallery, University of Tasmania, Launceston, curator Malcom Bywaters
The Perfumed Garden, Flinders Lane Gallery, Melbourne, curator Phe Luxford
Finalist Montalto Sculpture Prize, Victoria

2007
Treasures, Flinders Lane Gallery, Melbourne
For Every Bird, [MARS] Melbourne Art Rooms, Port Melbourne
Don’t call me a Domestic Goddess, [MARS] Melbourne Art Rooms, Port Melbourne
Artefact, City Museum at Old Treasury, Melbourne, curator Simon Gregg

2007 – 2009
the space inbetween, book project, Margaret Lawrence Gallery, VCA, Bendigo Art Gallery, Latrobe Regional Gallery, Umbrella Studio Contemporary Arts, Townsville, Wagga Wagga Art Gallery, curator Tara Gilbee

2006 
The Velvet of Uncertainty, Greer Honeywill (AUS) Carole Shepheard (NZ), Spare Room, RMIT, curator Dr Louiseann Zahra King
Finalist, New Social Commentaries, Warrnambool Art Gallery, Victoria
Finalist, Yering Station Sculpture Prize, Victoria

2005
Ground Cover, Bendigo Art Gallery, Greer Honeywill and Megan Campbell, curator Leanne Fitzgibbon

2004
Narrative Voices, 45 downstairs, Melbourne, curator Tyra Hutchens
Finalist, John Leslie Art Prize, Gippsland Art Gallery

2003
Kitchen Sacraments, Greer Honeywill and Megan Campbell, Ararat Art Gallery, Victoria
Finalist, Yering Station Sculpture Prize, Victoria
Finalist, Fundere Sculpture Prize, Yarra Sculpture Gallery, Melbourne

2002
Undercurrent, idSpace contemporary art gallery, Melbourne, curator Asim Memishi
Finalist, Fundere Sculpture Prize, Yarra Sculpture Gallery, Melbourne
Finalist, Central Goldfields Sculpture Prize, Central Goldfields Art Gallery, Maryborough, Victoria

2001
Monash University, Survey Show, Arts Victoria, Melbourne, curator Malcom Bywaters
Powder – the controlled space, Faculty Gallery, Monash University, Melbourne, curator Malcom Bywaters

Awards, Grants, Residencies

2019
Research Residency Palm Springs, California

2018
Research Residency Palm Springs, California

2017
Research Residency Palm Springs, California

2011
Awarded Arts Tasmania Grant supporting the exhibition, IN-Grained
Awarded Tasmanian Graduate Research Scholarship
Awarded survey exhibition, IN-Grained, Carnegie Gallery, Hobart

2009
Commended Artist Award, Sunshine Coast Art Prize

2008
Inaugural artist in residence, Carr Design Group, Melbourne
Winner Mitchell Family Award, Montalto Sculpture Prize

2006
Awarded Arts Victoria, Arts Development Grant, Presentation

2005
Invited artist, Post Office Installations Series, Castlemaine State Festival

2003
Awarded Mollie Holman Doctoral Medal, Monash University
Winner, World Sculpture News Prize (Fundere Sculpture Prize)
Winner, Yering Station Sculpture Prize

2002
Awarded Doctoral Completion Scholarship, Monash University
Winner, Coates and Wood Foundry Prize (Central Goldfields Sculpture Prize and Exhibition)

2000
Winner, Allport Writing Award, ‘Textile Fibre Forum’ magazine

Collections

State Library of Queensland, Art Gallery Ballarat, Melbourne Convention Centre, National Library of Australia (Canberra), Museum of Old and New Art (Library), University of Tasmania (Morris Miller Library), BHP Billiton, UniSA and private collections in the USA, Canada, New Zealand and Australia

Bibliography: Selected Articles/Reviews

2015
Tim Martain, ‘Eye of the Beholder’, Tasweekend, The Mercury, February 21-22, p. 19
Tim Martain, ‘Please Explain! Billboard in Hobart CBD’, Tasweekend, The Mercury, February 14-15, p. 5

2014
Phil Brown, ‘Grain of Truth’, Canvas, The Courier Mail, Brisbane, p.75

2013
Damian Madigan, ‘WOOD art design architecture’, Houses, issue 92, p. 105

2012
Andrew Harper, ‘Beautiful Lines and Melancholy Buildings’, (review) Warp Magazine, Arts, August, p. 30
Amanda Ducker, ‘Subliminal’, The Mercury, Last Word, 13 July, p.44
Esther Anatolitis, ‘Greer Honeywill, Veiled, the sense of home’, (review) Houses, issue 85, pp. 96, 97
Robert Nelson, ‘Occupy movement lingers over impersonal exteriors and personal interiors’, (review) The Age, The Arts, 15 February, p.15
Alice Blackwood, Editor, DQ, ‘News’, p. 15
Anne-Maree Sargeant, ‘Right Now Art’, Belle, February/March, p. 56

2010
Penny Webb, ‘Greer Honeywill’, The Age (Melbourne) Magazine, issue #72, p. 104
Dylan Rainforth, ‘Visual Art’, The Arts, The Age, June 9, p. 15
Eliza Hope, ‘Beauty Within’, Home, Herald Sun, February 6, pp. 26-28

2009
Josie Gagliano, ‘White Lodge’, Home Beautiful, June, pp. 22-29
Frances Johnson, ‘Clubby Cubbies’, Sightlines Galleries, The Age, 24 April p.19
Brook Turner, ‘Estate jewellery’, Life and Leisure Luxury Magazine, Australian Financial Review, issue 7, p.5
Carole Shepheard, ‘Greer Honeywill’, Artist Profile, issue 6, February, pp.46-48

2008
Harbant Gill, ‘Wired for Sculpture’, Herald Sun, Entertainment, 13 February, pp. 52-53
Simon Gregg, ‘Reviews’,  book project, Artlink, Vol 28, #1, p. 97
Megan Backhouse, ‘Prized moments’, The Age, Mixed Media, 20 February, p. 18

2007
Inga Walton, Artefact: A Melbourne Keepsake, ‘Craft Culture’, Craft Victoria online, 18 December
Andrew Stephens, ‘Debunking the domestic goddess’, The Age, 8 September, p. 19
Tracey Avery, ‘Against the Grain’, Artichoke, issue 20, pp. 64-67
Stephen Crafti, ‘Tales of the Everyday’, indesign, Vol. 30, p. 68
Kate Rhodes, ‘The Art of the Dwelling Space’, Lino, issue No 18, pp. 66-71
Andrew Stephens, ‘Singing in the Grain’, (review) The Age, 19 May, pp. 17-18

Bibliography: Selected Published Works

2017
Honeywill, G. ‘Louiseann King, arbor temporis momentum,’ commissioned essay, Bendigo Art Gallery

2013
Honeywill, G. ‘Greer Honeywill’, catalogue essay, WOOD art design architecture, national touring exhibition 2013/2014, pps. 109-113
Honeywill, G. ‘The Music In Between – Cath Robinson’, commissioned essay Tasmanian Life, Summer, 2013, pps. 36-37
Honeywill, G. ‘The Secret Cello Maker’, commissioned essay, Tasmanian Life, Spring 2013, pps. 28-31
Honeywill, G. ‘Artist Profile – Marcus Tatton’, commissioned essay, Tasmanian Life, Winter, pps. 36-38
Honeywill, G. ‘Ten Days on The Island – Greer Honeywill discusses a marathon art collaboration across Tasmania’, commissioned essay, Australian Art Review, issue 38, pps. 20-22
Honeywill, G. ‘Greer Honeywill explores hidden treasures on The Island of Secrets –Tasmanian
Museum and Art Gallery’, commissioned essay, Australian Art Review, issue 37, pps. 44-47

2012
Honeywill, G. ‘IN-Grained: works in wood (exposed and disguised) 2003-2012’, commissioned essay, Australian Art Review, issue 36, pps.50-53, cover page and index pps.10-11

2011 
Honeywill, G. Still Life Pudding, commissioned essay, Island Magazine, issue 127, pps. 56-63
Honeywill, G. Home As Museum – The New Temples of Art, commissioned essay, Island Magazine, issue 125, pps. 82 – 88

2008
Honeywill, G. Emotional Stillness – The Art of Rex Turnbull, essay, Koru Contemporary Art, Hong Kong

2007
Honeywill, G. ‘Euan Heng’, essay in Sonia Payes, Untiled: Portraits of Australian Artists, Macmillan Art Publishing, p.164, 166
Honeywill, G. ‘Greer Honeywill, Against the Grain’, Textile Fibre Forum, issue 3, no. 87, p. 2
Honeywill, G. ‘Robert Rooney’, essay in Sonia Payes, Untiled: Portraits of Australian Artists, Macmillan Art Publishing, p. 290

2006
Honeywill, G. ‘Shared Narratives: Remembering and Forgetting in Academic Research’, peer reviewed, in Art Based research: a proper thesis? edited by Elaine Martin and Judith Booth, Common Ground, pps. 97-110
Honeywill, G. ‘Patterns of Desire’, commissioned essay, Lino, issue 14, pps. 98-101

2005
Honeywill, G. ‘Scarring the Land’, Ground Cover, catalogue essay, Bendigo Art Gallery

2003
Honeywill, G. Anthology of Sadness and Memento Mori in ‘Art and the pursuit of excellence’, The Australian, 9 July, p. –

2001
Honeywill, G. ‘Table Eight on the Floor – Flossie Peitsch’, commissioned essay, Setting the American Table, Copia: The American Center for Wine Food and the Arts, California, USA, pps. 78-83
Honeywill, G. ‘Stories from the Kitchen: Heavenly Tart,’ commissioned essay, Copia, Vol. 04, issue 01, California, USA, pps. 18-21

Bibliography: Selected Electronic Media

2012
Fiona Breen, ‘In-Grained’, Carnegie Gallery, 7.30 Tasmania, ABC TV, interview, screened Friday 13 July, 3.43 min
Louise Saunders, interview with Greer Honeywill and Peta Heffernan, In-Grained, Drive Program, radio 936 ABC Hobart, aired 13 July 4.30pm, 10 min

2010
Michael Veitch, ‘Secrets (and lies)’, interview, Breakfast, 936 ABC Radio Hobart, aired 10 August, 8 min

2007
Melanie Byres, Producer, ‘Greer Honeywill’, Sunday Arts, ABC TV Arts, screened 15 April, 3 min