Shadows by Deborah Metz

About the Artist

Curriculum Vitae

1969 Prahran Tech., Victoria.  Foundation Year

1970 -1972  RMIT.,   Associate Diploma, Printed Textile Design

1973 -1977  The Ruskin, Oxford, OXON UK. Certificate in Drawing and  Fine Art Printmaking

1978   State College, Victoria. Dip Ed,. Art, Graduate Diploma

1979 –1980 Teacher of Art Padua College, Mornington, Victoria

1979  Teacher Monash University Summer [Screen Printing ]

1984 -1986 Teacher, Dickson College Community art courses at night

1981 -1993 ACT Dept., Ed., Relief teaching of art in colleges and high schools

1993 -2006 permanent Specialist Teacher of art and printmaking Daramalan College Dickson

Biography

Born in Melbourne Australia, Deborah Metz has resided in Canberra for 38 years.

Initially trained as a printed textile designer at RMIT; followed by three years full time at Oxford University UK attending the Ruskin School, studying Fine Art Drawing and Printmaking.

After completing a Graduate Diploma in Education Deborah spent 28 years as an arts educator, including fourteen years as a specialist printmaking teacher.

She attended MI LAB Lake Kawaguchiko AIR for mid career artists 2013

and continues to exhibit in group and solo shows within Australia and overseas.

Exhibitions

2024  IMC2024 [April,] International Mokuhanga exhib., Echizen, Japan

2023  Australian Mokuhanga, Brisbane

2022 IMC2022 Nara International Mokuhanga exhib, Japan

2022 Megalo International Relief Print Online Exhibition

2021 Megalo International Relief Print Online Exhibition

2019 Gallery Of Small Things Canberra

2017 IMC2017 Hawaii USA, International Mokuhanga Exhibition

2017 Two Person Show ‘Spiral Gallery’, Bega, NSW

2017 Awagami International Miniature Print Exhibition

2017 ‘Your Mokuhanga’@ Firestation Print Studio, Melbourne

2014 Solo Show ‘Elemental’, Megalo Print Studio and Gallery, ACT

2014 Lithographs ‘Hard Rock’, Megalo Litho print members, ACT

2013 Center for the Science of Human Endeavour Gallery, Tokyo [Mokuhanga], Japan

2013 Two Person Show FORM Studio and Gallery, Queenbeyan NSW

2012 ‘True Grit’ Megalo Litho print members, ACT

IMC2011 Kyoto, Japan  International Exhibition at  first Mokuhanga Conference

2004 ‘Common Ground’ Exhibition and Research, Australian Centre for Christianity and Culture, ACT

2001 ‘Reflections 0n Inner Landscapes’ Galeria del Centro, Boorowa, NSW

2013  Japanese Government sponsored Artist in Residence at MI Lab ( Mokuhanga Investigative Laboratory ) in Kawaguchiko The A.I.R. was 5 weeks in duration.