Diana Lee-Gobbitt
Date of birth
10 Oct 1943
Place of birth
Nationality
Biography
Curriculum Vitae of Diana Lee-Gobbitt
NEW ZEALAND – SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
Diana Lee-Gobbitt
1992
Waikato Museum Taonga o Waikato – Invited Artist – ‘Star Space’ – Astros One, Neon Construction.
1987
Potter Blair Associates – ‘Art in Public Spaces – Summer Gardens’ in Association with Auckland City Artists.
Charlotte H Gallery, Auckland, ‘Women Artists in the City - Winter Bloom’- Invited Artist.
Judith Anderson Gallery, Auckland – ‘Auckland Women Painters.’ Invited Artist.
1986
Denis Cohn Gallery in Association with Last and First Café, Symonds Street, Auckland – ‘Inter-Act’ Invited Artist.
Waikato Museum Taonga o Waikato – ‘Star Space – Haley’s Comet.’ Invited Artist.
Robert McDougall Art Gallery – Christchurch, -‘Objects Trouve’ – Invited Artist.
1985
John Leech Gallery, Auckland. – ‘Robots in Space Habitats’ – Time Capsules and Kosmadars.’ Individual Exhibit.
David Charteris Gallery, Symonds Street, Auckland – ‘Nothing Over $150’ Auckland Artists.
John Leech Gallery in Association with Last & First Café, Symonds Street, Auckland ‘Decoration as Camouflage – A Collaboration with Luise Fong.
Auckland Society of Arts, Emily Place - ‘Auckland Artists’ - Mixed media.
Auckland Society of Arts, Emily Place. ‘Christmas X-Travaganza’ – Invited Artist.
RKS Gallery, Auckland. ‘Pipe Dreams’ – Individual Exhibit – constructions based on ‘robotics’ of contractor plant and machinery, demolition sites.
1984
Whangarei Arts Festival – Forum North Gallery – ‘Full Sail’ – Guest Artist with Astros One – Neon interactive constructions.
John Leech Gallery, Albert Street, Auckland. ‘Focus On – Satellite Valley, Warkworth’ Works on Paper exploring 21st century communication phenomena. Individual Exhibit.
John Leech Gallery, Albert Street, Auckland - ‘Time Capsules.’ With Myffanwy Rees and Grant Leigh Mitchell.
OutReach Art Gallery Ponsonby, Auckland. ‘Artists’ Arcana – Women Artists and the Diary of Assemblage’
1983
ANZART in HOBART – Invited Artist – Video of ‘Alternative Projections – Art, Science, Industry and Technology - A Collaboration with Grant Leigh Mitchell.
Room Service Gallery – Fort Street, Auckland – ‘Art You Can Afford.’ North Island and South Island Artists.
1982
QEII Arts Council of New Zealand Award $4,000 for ‘Alternative Projections’ a multi-media interactive installation in collaboration with Grant Leigh Mitchell, Composer and Musician. For Opening Night Piano Performance and soundtrack – available on cassette Opening Night. Sponsorship support of eighteen companies and sixty three individuals involved in Art, Science, Industry and Technology - Room Service Gallery, Directors Tim Coffey and John Draper.Auckland October/November 1982.
‘Alternative Projections’ was voted ‘Installation of the Year in North Island Galleries 1982’, by Video Dispatch and Kaleidescope, Television New Zealand. DVD /CD available)
Room Service Gallery, Fort Street, Auckland ‘Home Improvements to Wind Up This Decade’. Invited Artists.
1981
Govett Brewster Gallery, New Plymouth. Invited Artists. ‘Taranaki Review.’
Closet Artists’ Gallery, Upper Queen Street, Auckland. Invited Artists. ‘New Zealand Erotica – An Act of Love.’
Closet Artists’ Gallery, Upper Queen Street, Auckland. Invited Artist. ‘Higgledy Piggledy Pop – There Must Be More to Life than This’.
Women’s Gallery Wellington – ‘Sexuality’ – Invited Artist.
Denis Cohn Gallery, Darby Street, Auckland ‘What’s In Store’ Invited Artists.
OutReach Art Gallery, Ponsonby, Auckland – ‘Works on Paper by Women’ – Invited Artist.
1980
Auckland City Art Gallery in Association with United Nations ‘Women in the Arts.’ Oil paint on canvas ‘In Articulo Mortis - Dream for New Zealand.’
1979
International Year of the Child – ‘Target Painting for Children’ – Interactive Art with renowned Painter, Michael Duncan Smither, at Domain Park, Auckland.
John Leech Art Gallery, Albert Street, Auckland – First individual Exhibit – ‘Magic Rattles – An Adventure into a Private Mythology.’
1979
Dunham Gallery, Remuera, Auckland. ‘Night and Day, Wainui – North Island.’Group Exhibit. Works on Paper.
1977
National New Zealand Women Artists’ Gallery, Christchurch. ‘Weiti River, Whangaparaoa, North Island’ – Group Exhibit. Works on Paper.
The Balcony Gallery, Wellington – ‘Annual NZ Artists Group Exhibit’ – Works on Paper.
Dunham Gallery Remuera, Auckland – Individual Exhibit ‘Whangaparaoa Environs.’ Works on Paper.
1976
Finalist Tokoroa Art Award – ‘Portrait of Lynda Welborn – oil on board.
1975
Arts Festival of Warkworth. ‘North Auckland Painters. Invited Artists. Polymer/Canvas ‘Weiti River Series.’
1971
University of Otago, Dunedin School of Fine Arts – ‘Students’ Summer Exhibition.’
1969
New Plymouth Art Society Inc, Taranaki – Annual Members Group Exhibit. ‘Imaginary Landscapes -‘Nara Nari’ oil on board.
1969
Bizarre Gallery, Stratford, Taranaki. Curator for First Summer Exhibit ‘Taranaki Artists, Painters, Weavers, Ceramists’.
1968
Stratford Art Society: Curator: Annual Exhibition ‘Taranaki Landscapes.’
AUSTRALIA – SELECTED EXHIBITIONS & EVENTS
Diana Lee-Gobbitt – Windsor NSW
2020
Hawkesbury Regional Gallery Art Fair – ‘Shadow Bird Over Silent Waters. Polymer/gold leaf/canvas 30 x 90cm.
Friends of the Hawekesbury Art Community – Stan Stevens Studio Hawkesbury Regional Gallery ‘New Works’ group exhibit ‘Beyond the Megalong – Ned Kelly Revisited.
2018
Friends of the Hawkesbury Art Community and Regional Gallery Inc 29th Anniversary Celebration Exhibition ‘Landscapes – Town and Country’ – Stan Stevens Studio, Hawkesbury Regional Gallery. Guest Speaker: Councillor Paul Rasmussen, Hawkesbury City Council.
2018
Public Launch, of the SX-70 Polaroid Photographs into the Elliott Eyes Collection, Sunday 4 March 2018. Curators and Custodians Gordon Elliott and Michael Eyes. Brochure Author Tim Walker, Former Director The Dowse Art Museum and Senior Curator, National Art Gallery of New Zealand and Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa. Grant Munro (formerly Grant Leigh Mitchell) attended the Launch
Acquisition “Deed of Gift” – four framed ‘Paludia Delta’ – Clarendon Series. Charcoal/Arches for the prestigious Susan Templeman MP for Macquarie Art Collection, Windsor NSW, October 2018.
2017
Acquisition of #21 digitally remastered SX-70 Polaroid photographs of Grant Leigh Mitchell, Musician/Composer/Actor, Auckland, 1981-1985 including ‘Divine Androgyny’, ‘Shaman’ and ‘My Hollywood’ series for the prestigious Elliott Eyes Collection, Erskineville, Sydney. Digitally Remastered by David Henry-Myers, Digital Masters Australasia. (refer Vogue Livng Australia July/August 2018)
2010
Hawkesbury Regional Gallery – Macquarie Bi-centennial Exhibit ‘New Visions – 1810-2010.’ Friends of the Hawkesbury Art Collection & Regional Gallery Inc ‘Guest Speaker: Ms Gaye Hendriksen, Curator, Parramatta Heritage Centre.
2009
Breewood Gallery, Richmond, NSW ‘A Celebration Exhibition with Artists from the Gallery Collection.’ Guest Speaker: Kath von Witt, Director, Hawkesbury Regional Gallery.
2007
MacQuarie Towns Art Society – ‘A Spring Affair’ – Richmond School of Arts.
Hawkesbury Regional Gallery – Friends of the Hawkesbury Art Collection & Regional Gallery Inc. ‘Equine-imity – the Story of the Horse – ‘Bloodlines – Art and the Horse.’ Guest Speaker: Councillor Christine Paine.
Breewood Gallery, Richmond, NSW: ‘Xmas Festive Season Works – Hawkesbury Artists and Beyond.’
Hawkesbury Regional Gallery - Friends of the Hawkesbury Community Art Collection Inc –. ‘Silent Spaces - Artists’ Response to Environmental/Climate Changes.’ Guest Speaker: Councillor Leigh Williams.
2006
Breewood Gallery, Richmond, NSW – Individual Exhibit – ‘MorphMaps – Eucalypts as Sculptural Symbols of the Land.’ – Guest Speaker: Ingrid Hoffman, Director, Hawkesbury Regional Gallery.
2005
Hawkesbury Regional Gallery – Invited Artist for the Inaugural Opening of the Deerubbin Cultural Centre, George Street, Windsor NSW: Opening Exhibit: ‘Agri-CULTURE – The Living Landscape’ – Sponsored by The Australia Council for the Arts, Hawkesbury City Council, Western Sydney Region of Councils (WSROC). Guest Speaker: Amanda Smith, Director and Presenter, ABC RN ‘Bush Telegraph.’
Macquarie Towns Art Society Inc. ‘A Spring Affair’ – Annual Fruits of the Hawkesbury Festival – Sponsored by Hawkesbury City Council.
2005
St Kilda Centre for Contemporary Art – Melbourne – The Linden Post Card Exhibit.’ Invited Artist.
2004
Breewood Gallery, Richmond, NSW – Individual Exhibit – ‘CroSSover’ – A response to local landscape, fire ritual, signs, symbols, myths and legends of the Hawkesbury. Guest Speaker: Peter Boggs, painter, Leura, Blue Mountains.
Fitzgerald Street Gallery, Windsor, NSW - Friends of the Hawkesbury Art Community and Regional Gallery Inc: ‘Florabundance - ‘Fruits of the Hawkesbury Celebrations.’ Guest Speaker: Dr Rex Stubbs.
2003
Fitzgerald Street Gallery, Windsor, NSW - Friends of the Hawkesbury Art Community and Regional Gallery Inc – ‘Rite of Spring’ – Annual Fruits of the Hawkesbury Celebrations. Guest Speaker: President: FOHAC&RAG Inc. Michael Ginnings
2002
Fitzgerald Street Gallery, Windsor, NSW - Friends of the Hawkesbury Art Community and Regional Gallery ‘Top Crop’ – Annual Fruits of the Hawkesbury Celebrations. Guest Speaker: President: Dr Rex Stubbs.
2001
Fitzgerald Street Gallery, Windsor NSW. ‘Beyond Federation’ - Sponsored by Friends of the Hawkesbury Art Community and Regional Gallery Inc; Hawkesbury City Council. Guest Speaker: Councillor Christine Paine.
2000
Fitzgerald Street Gallery, Windsor NSW. ‘Cloud After Heat’ - Members and Friends of the Hawkesbury Art Community & Regional Gallery, Sponsored by Hawkesbury City Council. Guest Speaker: Councillor Paul Rasmussen.
Fitzgerald Street Gallery, Windsor NSW. ‘Wrapped Up’ - Members Friends of the Hawkesbury Art Community & Regional Gallery, Sponsored by Hawkesbury City Council. Guest Speaker: Councillor Leigh Williams.
1999
Fitzgerald Street Gallery, Windsor NSW. – ‘Annual Fruits of the Hawkesbury Celebrations’ Members and Friends of the Hawkesbury Art Community & Regional Gallery, Sponsored by Hawkesbury City Council. Guest Speaker: Councillor Christine Paine.
1996
Studio Exhibit – ‘Private View – Woollahra Ridge’ – Oxford Street, Bondi Junction. Sydney, NSW
1992 Palm Court Gallery, Northbourne Property Development – ‘Spatial Projections - Art in Public Spaces’ – No 1 O’Connell Street, CBD Sydney – Invited Artist Individual Exhibit – Guest Speaker: Project Manager, Peter McTaggart, Northbourne Property Development.
Studio Open Day – ‘Cross Currents’ – 112 Buckingham Street, Surry Hills, Sydney NSW. Studio Exhibit – ‘Density and Diversity’ - 4/580 Oxford Street, Bondi Junction. Sydney, NSW
Portland Arts Festival, Blue Mountains. ‘Zyxotropic Landscapes – Imaginary Galactic Terrains.’
ENGLAND 1960
Braintree Art Society, Essex, England. Chair: John Jake Clark with Deirdre Mackay Clark: Tutors at Braintree College. – Group Exhibit - ‘Essex and Suffolk Landscapes.’
BIOGRAPH
Arts Education: Diana Lee-Gobbitt: B.19 October 1943, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, England. Studied Braintree International College, 1958-1960, Essex: Dip FA Painting Dunedin School Fine Arts, Otago, 1970; Dip FA Painting Elam School Fdine Arts, University Auckland, 1971-1973; Sir John Cass College of Art, London Polytechnic, Printmaking and Photography, Whitechapel, London 1980-81; Meister Gilder Diploma, Art Gilding Academy, Sydney 2001-2002. Arrived Australia 1988. Australian Citizenship 1996. Full retirement from TAFE NSW November 2013. A multi-disciplinary creative, Lee-Gobbitt’s work includes painting, constructions/assemblage; interactive public installations, printmaking, photography, poetry with works in Public, Corporate, Trust, Government and Private Collections, Australia, New Zealand, England.
MEMBERSHIPS
Friends of the Hawkesbury Art Community and Regional Gallery Inc.
National Association of Visual Artists, Sydney (NAVA)
VisCopy; Sydney
ArtsLaw; Sydney
bentArt Blue Mountains:
Hawkesbury Historical Society
Macquarie Towns Art Society MTAS
PUBLICATIONS
Stratford Press - 1968 – Stratford’s First Primary Art Gallery ‘Bizarre’
New Zealand Art News – “ Dazzling Perception with Image Evolution’
Auckland Star – ‘Your Stomach or Your Art’ – Anne Fenwick 27 August 1979
Art New Zealand – Outreach Women Artist’s Auckland
Art New Zealand Issue 27 1982
Art Upside Down – Anne Kirker, Port Nicholson Press 1984
Metro Magazine Auckland 1982/83
Vogue Australia – Living – Art – July August 2018
Friends of the Hawkesbury Arts Community & Regional Gallery Inc.
Diana Lee-Gobbitt has been a member of Friends of the Hawkesbury Arts Community & Regional Gallery Inc. (FOHAC&RAG Inc) since 1999. As Publicity Officer and Public Officer, with two hundred members of the Society, a twenty year recommendation was encouraged by the Society that a Public Art Gallery be built for purpose in Windsor. Hawkesbury City Council received initial funding from the Ministry for the Arts and WSROC. The Deerubbin Centre Hawkesbury City Council and all Residents, acknowledge Hawkesbury and Nepean Indigenous peoples, the Dharug.
CULTURAL HERITAGE The vision and mandate for the Gallery, designed by Architects Pont Williams & Leroy Pty Ltd was to recognize and welcome local and travelling exhibitions, to conserve Hawkesbury City Council’s Art Collection, and to ensure historical, Indigenous cultural heritage, and artistic endeavour could be further developed and shared with Hawkesbury, Nepean and Blue Mountains creatives. Ingrid Hoffman appointed Director. June 2005. The inaugural exhibition ‘Agri-Culture – ‘Recreating the Living Landscape’ Curated by, Cheryl Lin Yo. Lee-Gobbitt was an invited artist for this exhibition with a work from her individual exhibit ‘CroSSover’ Breewood Galleries, 2004. Mayor Councillor Bart Bassett, Hawkesbury City Council welcomed Guest Speaker, Amanda Smith, Director ABC Radio National’s ‘Bush Telegraph.’ John MacDonald, Art Critic, Sydney Morning Herald attended the Opening Ceremony with 400 Guests.
NEW ZEALAND – SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
Diana Lee-Gobbitt
1992
Waikato Museum Taonga o Waikato – Invited Artist – ‘Star Space’ – Astros One, Neon Construction.
1987
Potter Blair Associates – ‘Art in Public Spaces – Summer Gardens’ in Association with Auckland City Artists.
Charlotte H Gallery, Auckland, ‘Women Artists in the City - Winter Bloom’- Invited Artist.
Judith Anderson Gallery, Auckland – ‘Auckland Women Painters.’ Invited Artist.
1986
Denis Cohn Gallery in Association with Last and First Café, Symonds Street, Auckland – ‘Inter-Act’ Invited Artist.
Waikato Museum Taonga o Waikato – ‘Star Space – Haley’s Comet.’ Invited Artist.
Robert McDougall Art Gallery – Christchurch, -‘Objects Trouve’ – Invited Artist.
1985
John Leech Gallery, Auckland. – ‘Robots in Space Habitats’ – Time Capsules and Kosmadars.’ Individual Exhibit.
David Charteris Gallery, Symonds Street, Auckland – ‘Nothing Over $150’ Auckland Artists.
John Leech Gallery in Association with Last & First Café, Symonds Street, Auckland ‘Decoration as Camouflage – A Collaboration with Luise Fong.
Auckland Society of Arts, Emily Place - ‘Auckland Artists’ - Mixed media.
Auckland Society of Arts, Emily Place. ‘Christmas X-Travaganza’ – Invited Artist.
RKS Gallery, Auckland. ‘Pipe Dreams’ – Individual Exhibit – constructions based on ‘robotics’ of contractor plant and machinery, demolition sites.
1984
Whangarei Arts Festival – Forum North Gallery – ‘Full Sail’ – Guest Artist with Astros One – Neon interactive constructions.
John Leech Gallery, Albert Street, Auckland. ‘Focus On – Satellite Valley, Warkworth’ Works on Paper exploring 21st century communication phenomena. Individual Exhibit.
John Leech Gallery, Albert Street, Auckland - ‘Time Capsules.’ With Myffanwy Rees and Grant Leigh Mitchell.
OutReach Art Gallery Ponsonby, Auckland. ‘Artists’ Arcana – Women Artists and the Diary of Assemblage’
1983
ANZART in HOBART – Invited Artist – Video of ‘Alternative Projections – Art, Science, Industry and Technology - A Collaboration with Grant Leigh Mitchell.
Room Service Gallery – Fort Street, Auckland – ‘Art You Can Afford.’ North Island and South Island Artists.
1982
QEII Arts Council of New Zealand Award $4,000 for ‘Alternative Projections’ a multi-media interactive installation in collaboration with Grant Leigh Mitchell, Composer and Musician. For Opening Night Piano Performance and soundtrack – available on cassette Opening Night. Sponsorship support of eighteen companies and sixty three individuals involved in Art, Science, Industry and Technology - Room Service Gallery, Directors Tim Coffey and John Draper.Auckland October/November 1982.
‘Alternative Projections’ was voted ‘Installation of the Year in North Island Galleries 1982’, by Video Dispatch and Kaleidescope, Television New Zealand. DVD /CD available)
Room Service Gallery, Fort Street, Auckland ‘Home Improvements to Wind Up This Decade’. Invited Artists.
1981
Govett Brewster Gallery, New Plymouth. Invited Artists. ‘Taranaki Review.’
Closet Artists’ Gallery, Upper Queen Street, Auckland. Invited Artists. ‘New Zealand Erotica – An Act of Love.’
Closet Artists’ Gallery, Upper Queen Street, Auckland. Invited Artist. ‘Higgledy Piggledy Pop – There Must Be More to Life than This’.
Women’s Gallery Wellington – ‘Sexuality’ – Invited Artist.
Denis Cohn Gallery, Darby Street, Auckland ‘What’s In Store’ Invited Artists.
OutReach Art Gallery, Ponsonby, Auckland – ‘Works on Paper by Women’ – Invited Artist.
1980
Auckland City Art Gallery in Association with United Nations ‘Women in the Arts.’ Oil paint on canvas ‘In Articulo Mortis - Dream for New Zealand.’
1979
International Year of the Child – ‘Target Painting for Children’ – Interactive Art with renowned Painter, Michael Duncan Smither, at Domain Park, Auckland.
John Leech Art Gallery, Albert Street, Auckland – First individual Exhibit – ‘Magic Rattles – An Adventure into a Private Mythology.’
1979
Dunham Gallery, Remuera, Auckland. ‘Night and Day, Wainui – North Island.’Group Exhibit. Works on Paper.
1977
National New Zealand Women Artists’ Gallery, Christchurch. ‘Weiti River, Whangaparaoa, North Island’ – Group Exhibit. Works on Paper.
The Balcony Gallery, Wellington – ‘Annual NZ Artists Group Exhibit’ – Works on Paper.
Dunham Gallery Remuera, Auckland – Individual Exhibit ‘Whangaparaoa Environs.’ Works on Paper.
1976
Finalist Tokoroa Art Award – ‘Portrait of Lynda Welborn – oil on board.
1975
Arts Festival of Warkworth. ‘North Auckland Painters. Invited Artists. Polymer/Canvas ‘Weiti River Series.’
1971
University of Otago, Dunedin School of Fine Arts – ‘Students’ Summer Exhibition.’
1969
New Plymouth Art Society Inc, Taranaki – Annual Members Group Exhibit. ‘Imaginary Landscapes -‘Nara Nari’ oil on board.
1969
Bizarre Gallery, Stratford, Taranaki. Curator for First Summer Exhibit ‘Taranaki Artists, Painters, Weavers, Ceramists’.
1968
Stratford Art Society: Curator: Annual Exhibition ‘Taranaki Landscapes.’
AUSTRALIA – SELECTED EXHIBITIONS & EVENTS
Diana Lee-Gobbitt – Windsor NSW
2020
Hawkesbury Regional Gallery Art Fair – ‘Shadow Bird Over Silent Waters. Polymer/gold leaf/canvas 30 x 90cm.
Friends of the Hawekesbury Art Community – Stan Stevens Studio Hawkesbury Regional Gallery ‘New Works’ group exhibit ‘Beyond the Megalong – Ned Kelly Revisited.
2018
Friends of the Hawkesbury Art Community and Regional Gallery Inc 29th Anniversary Celebration Exhibition ‘Landscapes – Town and Country’ – Stan Stevens Studio, Hawkesbury Regional Gallery. Guest Speaker: Councillor Paul Rasmussen, Hawkesbury City Council.
2018
Public Launch, of the SX-70 Polaroid Photographs into the Elliott Eyes Collection, Sunday 4 March 2018. Curators and Custodians Gordon Elliott and Michael Eyes. Brochure Author Tim Walker, Former Director The Dowse Art Museum and Senior Curator, National Art Gallery of New Zealand and Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa. Grant Munro (formerly Grant Leigh Mitchell) attended the Launch
Acquisition “Deed of Gift” – four framed ‘Paludia Delta’ – Clarendon Series. Charcoal/Arches for the prestigious Susan Templeman MP for Macquarie Art Collection, Windsor NSW, October 2018.
2017
Acquisition of #21 digitally remastered SX-70 Polaroid photographs of Grant Leigh Mitchell, Musician/Composer/Actor, Auckland, 1981-1985 including ‘Divine Androgyny’, ‘Shaman’ and ‘My Hollywood’ series for the prestigious Elliott Eyes Collection, Erskineville, Sydney. Digitally Remastered by David Henry-Myers, Digital Masters Australasia. (refer Vogue Livng Australia July/August 2018)
2010
Hawkesbury Regional Gallery – Macquarie Bi-centennial Exhibit ‘New Visions – 1810-2010.’ Friends of the Hawkesbury Art Collection & Regional Gallery Inc ‘Guest Speaker: Ms Gaye Hendriksen, Curator, Parramatta Heritage Centre.
2009
Breewood Gallery, Richmond, NSW ‘A Celebration Exhibition with Artists from the Gallery Collection.’ Guest Speaker: Kath von Witt, Director, Hawkesbury Regional Gallery.
2007
MacQuarie Towns Art Society – ‘A Spring Affair’ – Richmond School of Arts.
Hawkesbury Regional Gallery – Friends of the Hawkesbury Art Collection & Regional Gallery Inc. ‘Equine-imity – the Story of the Horse – ‘Bloodlines – Art and the Horse.’ Guest Speaker: Councillor Christine Paine.
Breewood Gallery, Richmond, NSW: ‘Xmas Festive Season Works – Hawkesbury Artists and Beyond.’
Hawkesbury Regional Gallery - Friends of the Hawkesbury Community Art Collection Inc –. ‘Silent Spaces - Artists’ Response to Environmental/Climate Changes.’ Guest Speaker: Councillor Leigh Williams.
2006
Breewood Gallery, Richmond, NSW – Individual Exhibit – ‘MorphMaps – Eucalypts as Sculptural Symbols of the Land.’ – Guest Speaker: Ingrid Hoffman, Director, Hawkesbury Regional Gallery.
2005
Hawkesbury Regional Gallery – Invited Artist for the Inaugural Opening of the Deerubbin Cultural Centre, George Street, Windsor NSW: Opening Exhibit: ‘Agri-CULTURE – The Living Landscape’ – Sponsored by The Australia Council for the Arts, Hawkesbury City Council, Western Sydney Region of Councils (WSROC). Guest Speaker: Amanda Smith, Director and Presenter, ABC RN ‘Bush Telegraph.’
Macquarie Towns Art Society Inc. ‘A Spring Affair’ – Annual Fruits of the Hawkesbury Festival – Sponsored by Hawkesbury City Council.
2005
St Kilda Centre for Contemporary Art – Melbourne – The Linden Post Card Exhibit.’ Invited Artist.
2004
Breewood Gallery, Richmond, NSW – Individual Exhibit – ‘CroSSover’ – A response to local landscape, fire ritual, signs, symbols, myths and legends of the Hawkesbury. Guest Speaker: Peter Boggs, painter, Leura, Blue Mountains.
Fitzgerald Street Gallery, Windsor, NSW - Friends of the Hawkesbury Art Community and Regional Gallery Inc: ‘Florabundance - ‘Fruits of the Hawkesbury Celebrations.’ Guest Speaker: Dr Rex Stubbs.
2003
Fitzgerald Street Gallery, Windsor, NSW - Friends of the Hawkesbury Art Community and Regional Gallery Inc – ‘Rite of Spring’ – Annual Fruits of the Hawkesbury Celebrations. Guest Speaker: President: FOHAC&RAG Inc. Michael Ginnings
2002
Fitzgerald Street Gallery, Windsor, NSW - Friends of the Hawkesbury Art Community and Regional Gallery ‘Top Crop’ – Annual Fruits of the Hawkesbury Celebrations. Guest Speaker: President: Dr Rex Stubbs.
2001
Fitzgerald Street Gallery, Windsor NSW. ‘Beyond Federation’ - Sponsored by Friends of the Hawkesbury Art Community and Regional Gallery Inc; Hawkesbury City Council. Guest Speaker: Councillor Christine Paine.
2000
Fitzgerald Street Gallery, Windsor NSW. ‘Cloud After Heat’ - Members and Friends of the Hawkesbury Art Community & Regional Gallery, Sponsored by Hawkesbury City Council. Guest Speaker: Councillor Paul Rasmussen.
Fitzgerald Street Gallery, Windsor NSW. ‘Wrapped Up’ - Members Friends of the Hawkesbury Art Community & Regional Gallery, Sponsored by Hawkesbury City Council. Guest Speaker: Councillor Leigh Williams.
1999
Fitzgerald Street Gallery, Windsor NSW. – ‘Annual Fruits of the Hawkesbury Celebrations’ Members and Friends of the Hawkesbury Art Community & Regional Gallery, Sponsored by Hawkesbury City Council. Guest Speaker: Councillor Christine Paine.
1996
Studio Exhibit – ‘Private View – Woollahra Ridge’ – Oxford Street, Bondi Junction. Sydney, NSW
1992 Palm Court Gallery, Northbourne Property Development – ‘Spatial Projections - Art in Public Spaces’ – No 1 O’Connell Street, CBD Sydney – Invited Artist Individual Exhibit – Guest Speaker: Project Manager, Peter McTaggart, Northbourne Property Development.
Studio Open Day – ‘Cross Currents’ – 112 Buckingham Street, Surry Hills, Sydney NSW. Studio Exhibit – ‘Density and Diversity’ - 4/580 Oxford Street, Bondi Junction. Sydney, NSW
Portland Arts Festival, Blue Mountains. ‘Zyxotropic Landscapes – Imaginary Galactic Terrains.’
ENGLAND 1960
Braintree Art Society, Essex, England. Chair: John Jake Clark with Deirdre Mackay Clark: Tutors at Braintree College. – Group Exhibit - ‘Essex and Suffolk Landscapes.’
BIOGRAPH
Arts Education: Diana Lee-Gobbitt: B.19 October 1943, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, England. Studied Braintree International College, 1958-1960, Essex: Dip FA Painting Dunedin School Fine Arts, Otago, 1970; Dip FA Painting Elam School Fdine Arts, University Auckland, 1971-1973; Sir John Cass College of Art, London Polytechnic, Printmaking and Photography, Whitechapel, London 1980-81; Meister Gilder Diploma, Art Gilding Academy, Sydney 2001-2002. Arrived Australia 1988. Australian Citizenship 1996. Full retirement from TAFE NSW November 2013. A multi-disciplinary creative, Lee-Gobbitt’s work includes painting, constructions/assemblage; interactive public installations, printmaking, photography, poetry with works in Public, Corporate, Trust, Government and Private Collections, Australia, New Zealand, England.
MEMBERSHIPS
Friends of the Hawkesbury Art Community and Regional Gallery Inc.
National Association of Visual Artists, Sydney (NAVA)
VisCopy; Sydney
ArtsLaw; Sydney
bentArt Blue Mountains:
Hawkesbury Historical Society
Macquarie Towns Art Society MTAS
PUBLICATIONS
Stratford Press - 1968 – Stratford’s First Primary Art Gallery ‘Bizarre’
New Zealand Art News – “ Dazzling Perception with Image Evolution’
Auckland Star – ‘Your Stomach or Your Art’ – Anne Fenwick 27 August 1979
Art New Zealand – Outreach Women Artist’s Auckland
Art New Zealand Issue 27 1982
Art Upside Down – Anne Kirker, Port Nicholson Press 1984
Metro Magazine Auckland 1982/83
Vogue Australia – Living – Art – July August 2018
Friends of the Hawkesbury Arts Community & Regional Gallery Inc.
Diana Lee-Gobbitt has been a member of Friends of the Hawkesbury Arts Community & Regional Gallery Inc. (FOHAC&RAG Inc) since 1999. As Publicity Officer and Public Officer, with two hundred members of the Society, a twenty year recommendation was encouraged by the Society that a Public Art Gallery be built for purpose in Windsor. Hawkesbury City Council received initial funding from the Ministry for the Arts and WSROC. The Deerubbin Centre Hawkesbury City Council and all Residents, acknowledge Hawkesbury and Nepean Indigenous peoples, the Dharug.
CULTURAL HERITAGE The vision and mandate for the Gallery, designed by Architects Pont Williams & Leroy Pty Ltd was to recognize and welcome local and travelling exhibitions, to conserve Hawkesbury City Council’s Art Collection, and to ensure historical, Indigenous cultural heritage, and artistic endeavour could be further developed and shared with Hawkesbury, Nepean and Blue Mountains creatives. Ingrid Hoffman appointed Director. June 2005. The inaugural exhibition ‘Agri-Culture – ‘Recreating the Living Landscape’ Curated by, Cheryl Lin Yo. Lee-Gobbitt was an invited artist for this exhibition with a work from her individual exhibit ‘CroSSover’ Breewood Galleries, 2004. Mayor Councillor Bart Bassett, Hawkesbury City Council welcomed Guest Speaker, Amanda Smith, Director ABC Radio National’s ‘Bush Telegraph.’ John MacDonald, Art Critic, Sydney Morning Herald attended the Opening Ceremony with 400 Guests.
