ARTIST BIO

SELECTED CURRICULUM VITAE:

Name: JO REITZE (Mrs. Josephine Ann de Carteret)

Address: 108 Broughton Road, Surrey Hills Vic 3127 Phone: 03 9808 2611

Commissions: Jo Reitze paints your garden (commenced 2005) ABN: 41 096 245 430

Website: www.joreitzeartist.com.au Email: jo@joreitzeartist.com.au Instagram: joreitzeartist

Qualifications: Higher Diploma of Teaching (Secondary Art & Craft) Painting Major

Affiliations: Fellow Victorian Artists’ Society (FVAS), Past President / Bulletin Editor, Melbourne Society

of Women Painters & Sculptors, Member Women’s Art Register

Solo Exhibitions (recent):

2023 'Lon Surrounds' Lon Retreat & Spa Point Lonsdale (Artist in Residence)

2023 'Garden Delights' Art at St Francis' Lonsdale St. Melbourne

2022 'Booming Beautiful' VAS Mackley Members' Room

2021 'Celebrating Life in Oil, Gouache & Pen' (Retrospective Exhibition 2) Victorian Artists' Society Galleries

2021 'Garden Delights' The Hive Gallery, Ocean Grove

2020  'Celebrating Life ( Small Works)' Retrospective Exhibition 1

2018 'Succulents in Situ' Kinross Arts Centre, Toorak

2015 ‘Garden Glimpses’ Tacit Contemporary Art, Abbotsford

2014 ‘Ocean Grove Impressions’ Ocean Grove Uniting Church Hall

2013 ‘The Artist Garden’, Whitehorse Artspace, (invited artist) Box Hill Town Hall

(Opened by Sophie Matthiesson, Curator Monet’s Garden NGV)

2012 ‘Cloudehill Impressions’ Chapel on Station Gallery, Box Hill

2009 ‘Sea Air,’ Geelong Gallery (Shell Regional Artist’s Program)

Group /Joint Exhibitions (recent):

2023 'Surrounds' with Alexandra Lewisohn at The Hive Gallery, Ocean Grove

2022  'Sage Advice'  with 16 selected artists Whitehorse Artspace

2022 'Gifted' Whitehorse Artspace

2021 Geelong Contemporary Art Prize, Geelong Gallery 28 selected from 60 works

2017 ‘90x90’ 90 artworks from 90 years of collecting (Whitehorse Art Collection)

2016 ‘Legacy of the Impressionists’ Whitehorse Artspace, Box Hill Town Hall

Invited to show with works of The Australian Impressionists and three other contemporary artists: Mark Dober, Kathy Fahey & Philip Davey

2016 ‘Little Gems’ with Marion Chapman Chapel on Station Gallery, Box Hill

2016 ‘Recollections’ with Louise Foletta, Celia Beeton, & Marian Rennie VAS Galleries

2012 ‘Come into the Garden’ with Marion Chapman Gallery at BACC, Brighton Town Hall

Finalist Selected Exhibitions:

2023 Polish Art Foundation Biennial Drawing Prize

2016, 14, 12, Finalist A.M.E. Bale Art Awards Glen Eira Gallery

2017, 14, 13, VAS Artist of the Year Final Victorian Artists Society Galleries

2013 Finalist Len Fox Award, Castlemaine Gallery

2013 Finalist, Borough of Queenscliffe, 150th Anniversary Art Exhibition

Recent awards & commendations:

2023 Highly Commended Drawing Camberwell Rotary Art Show

2022 Highly Commended Drawing, Ocean Grove Rotary Art Show

2022 VAS Contemporary Exhibition

2017 Danks Trust Award MSWPS 108th annual Exhibition

2017 Best Australian Environment Angair Inc Art Exhibition

2016 Annie Davison Oliver Award, MSWPS (107th Annual Exhibition)

2015 Best Oils Bacchus Marsh Rotary Art Show

2014 Best in Show Rotary Club of Ocean Grove Fourth Annual Art Show

2013 Gordon Moffatt Award, Artist of the Year Award Exhibition, Victorian Artists Society

2012 Best in Show, Rotary Club of Ocean Grove Second Annual Art Show

2012 Water colour Society Australia, Kenneth Jack Memorial Award Best Flowers/Gardens

2017 Highly Commended VAS Applied International Contemporary Award

2016 Highly Commended MSWPS Danks Trust Award Exhibition,

2014 Highly Commended Strathdon Community Art Show

2013 Highly Commended Strathdon Community Art Show

1972 - 2010 Received over 30 painting prizes including The VAS Lord Mayor’s Prize 1985 and The Royal

Overseas League, Mountbatten Award 1986 and numerous Highly Commended certificates.

Art Teaching:

2018-22 Victorian Artists Society Thursday mornings

2018 Relief teaching Surrey Hills Neighbourhood Centre

2018 Workshop Friends Royal Botanic Gardens

2005-7 VCE Art Teacher, Canterbury Girls’ Secondary College

1984 - 2005 Art Coordinator, Canterbury Girls’ Secondary College

2000 (January) Exchange Art Teacher, Bunkyo University High School, Japan

1972-84 Taught Art & Craft at Bacchus Marsh, Camperdown and Parkwood High Schools

Major Art Projects:

2022-3 Artist in Residence Lon Retreat & Spa Point Lonsdale 

2015 Filmed painting at Cloudehill for ‘Colour in Your Life’ (View on www.joreitzeartist.com.au)

2009-11 Artist in Residence, Cloudehill

2008 Beyond the Garden Wall (A Surrey Hills Neighbourhood Centre project in which I painted 20 gardens)

Publications:

2016 Imago Mundi, Looking Down Under 200 Contemporary Australian Artists, Luciano Benetton Collection

2015 ‘An invitation to wonder’ (26 selected artists) Chapel on Station Gallery 10th Anniversary Tribute Book

2009 ‘Beyond the Garden Wall’, Twenty two Gardeners and their Gardens Sue Barnett & Jo Reitze

2010 MSWPS – In Celebration of the 100th Annual Exhibition

Selected articles:

2011 ‘Verdant Landscapes Close to Home’ by Denise Gadd, The Age, Melbourne Life, 24 Nov 2011

2005 ‘Gardens on Canvas’ `` by Janet De Silva, The Age, A2 Gardening, 16 July

Represented: Melbourne City Council and Civic Collections of Banyule, Monash, Moorabool, Preston and

Whitehorse as well as ANZ Bank, Victorian Artist’s Society and private Collections in Australia and Overseas