MY PROFILE

About Bryony Dade

‘The World Around Us – Patterns Surround Us’

On completion of my Bachelor of Arts (Textile Design) I joined the sales team of Comspring Fabrics, a fashion and furnishing fabric wholesaler in Melbourne, and designed both fashion and furnishing prints for the company.  Within a few years I was invited by Warwick Fabrics to become their designer and worked on a broad range of company design projects.

I exhibited work a number of times in the Derinya 1996, 1997 and 1998, Toorak College and Canterbury Art Exhibition in 2005, 2006 and 2007 winning the Acquisition Prize at Derinya for the Best Pastel in 1997.   In May 2004 I held a one-man exhibition at Jean Michel Cousteau Fiji Resort, a series of 23 pastels, most on paper, most of which sold to people the world over. 

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I worked full time as an artist from my home in Plenty, Victoria, between 2004 ​and 2010, at which time I returned to work.

In 2005 my painting “Red Line Waiting’ inspired by my experience in undertaking radiotherapy for breast cancer, was selected to be exhibited in the Daffodil Day Arts Awards, but it was at the centre of controversy when removed from the exhibition, placed on the ground, face to the wall, as a result of a complaint that it was offensive as it showed a bare breast. Commonsense prevailed after intervention by Neil Mitchell (3AW Radio) and it was reinstated to be exhibited. This work was bought to be donated to the Women’s Breast Clinic of Maine General Hospital in San Fransisco. 

In my solo exhibition at Eltham Community Library 2005 “The World Around Us”
I selected a wide range of subjects to depict my keen interest in the multitude of patterns created by nature.  The interplay of patterns of colour and light are a constant source of fascination to me.

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In 2012 I joined two other local artisits Ron Brincat and Jenardiy Zabenko to display works in an exhibition titled 'Eclectic' at Montsalvat.

Many of the pieces from these exhibitions are represented on this site.