Loene Furler
PO Box 3107 North Adelaide 5006
email: loene.furler@gmail.com mobile: 0438440722
website: loenefurlerartworks.com
Academic Qualifications
Master of Visual Arts University of South Australia
A practicing artist for over 30 years. Previously a Lecturer at Adelaide College for the Arts (ACARTS). She also taught Drawing at SASA in 1971, night class. Loene was a Ministerial Adviser to the Minister for Arts 1989-1992 and CEO of the JamFactory Craft and Design Centre 1993-1996.
Loene was artist in residence at Bundanon NSW in 2010.
Loene has held many positions on boards and committees, including Deputy Chair of NAVA and Chair of various art committees in SA and was Ambassador for the Australian Experimental Art Foundation and is currently a member of the UNESCO Adelaide City of Music Advisory committee.
Loene has exhibited regularly since 1965 locally, nationally and internationally and has works in numerous collections including Art Gallery of South Australia, Janet Holmes a Court, Bundanon Collection, Faulding Collection and Tweddell Collection. In 2022 she was awarded the JamFactory Lifetime Honouree Award.
Selected solo exhibitions
2007 Recent paintings Harrison Galleries Paddington Sydney
2002 From the shed to the dining room and back Light Square Gallery
2000 Slippage Greenaway Art Gallery Adelaide
1997 The Tourist Greenaway Art Gallery Adelaide
1994 Baggage Greenaway Art Gallery Adelaide
1981 Macquarie Galleries Sydney NSW
1966 White Studios Adelaide
Group exhibitions
2022 & 2023 Melbourne Street Open AirGallery for SALA
2019 Landmarks Signal Point Gallery Goolwa SA
2018 Atlas Signal Point Gallery Goolwa SA
2017 From there to here South Australian School of Art Gallery UNISA Adelaide
2017 Hill Smith Gallery Adelaide SA
2017 FRAN exhibition Experimental Art Foundation Adelaide SA
2017 Purple and Green Worth Gallery Kent Town SA
2017 Curious Objects Signal Point Gallery Goolwa SA
2016 Fluerieu Food and Wine exhibition McLaren Vale SA
2015 Postcards elsewhere/home Malmo Sweden
2014 Macau- elsewhere and Elsewhere: Home Lingnan University of Hong Kong
2012 70th Anniversary Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia
2010 Intangibles in Terra Australis- Kuba Kuxta S. Sabastian Spain
2009 Quid Nunc Light Square Gallery Adelaide SA
2007 Snapshot Australian Experimental Art Foundation SA
1992 Forensic Post West Gallery Adelaide SA
1988 Hill-Smith Gallery Adelaide SA
1982 Macquarie Galleries Sydney NSW
1981 Ten Australian Ceramic Artists, Powell Street Melbourne Victoria
1981 Lovely Motherhood Show EAF Adelaide
1980 Arts Council Gallery Canberra ACT
1978 Contemporary Art Centre SA
1977 Women’s Show Experimental Art Foundation SA
Marathons
2014 Painting Marathon New York Studio School New York
2013 Drawing Marathon New York Studio School New York
Publications in which my work features
From the shed to the dining room and back 2002 Jane Hylton catalogue for exhibition of same exhibition
Chris Reid Eyeline 50, 2002/2003 p.53
Mum Shirl Catalogue 2000 p. 24
Wendy Walker The Advertiser August 8 2000 p.64
The Advertiser Wendy Walker Yeah baby, Its 70s art p. 61 17th December 1999
The Adelaide Review John Neylon September 1997 p. 24
The Advertiser August 26 21997 Adam Dutkiewicz p. 35.
The Advertiser 30th March 1994 Transition of love, Davis O’Halloran p. 30
Suzanne Triester CACSA Broadsheet Forensic September 1992 p. 8
Steffensen, J This is a Forensic Sentence 1992 p. 2
Membership of Professional Organisations
Experimental Art Foundation
Contemporary Arts Centre
Artslaw
National Association for Visual Artists
Australia Performing Rights Association
Art Gallery of South Australia Foundation Council
Art Association of Australian and New Zealand
Australian Institute of Company Directors
Papers Presented or Published
Papers presented at UNISA for MVA
Paper given on Pitjanjatjara Art and Education at conference of International Council for Distance Education ICDE held in Oslo, Norway, August 1988
Co-author with Carol Scott: Negotiating a new Model for Aboriginal Teacher Education: ANTEP- a case study.
A chapter in Towards New Horizons for Women in Distant Education: International Perspectives, published by Routledge Imprint 1988
Policy documents for S.A government.
Course booklets on art for Distance Education
Art critiques for Artlink, 1987
Employment history
2010-2025
Part-time private teaching
2009-10
BVAD Coordinator (ACART)
Lecturer Visual Arts (ACARTS)
Chair-Institute Consultative Committee (ACARTS)
Union representative and Delegate for Australian Education Union
Member Art Gallery of South Australia Foundation Council
Member Australian Experimental Art Foundation Adelaide South Australia
Member Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia
Member National Association for the Visual Arts
2008
BVAAD Coordinator (ACARTS)
Lecturer Visual Arts (ACARTS)
Member Institute Consultative Committee (ACARTS)
Chair, Quality Assurance Group for Visual Arts (TAFESA)
Union Representative for ACARTS
Member Review Working Group for BVAAD
Member, Arts Industry Council of South Australia
Member, AGSA Foundation Council
Member Experimental Art Foundation, SA
Member Contemporary Art Centre, SA
Member National Association of Visual Arts (NAVA)
Member Viscopy
2007
BVAAD Coordinator (ACARTS)
Lecturer Visual Arts (ACARTS)
Member, Institute Consultative Committee (ACARTS)
Chair, Quality Assurance Group (TAFESA)
Union Representative (ACARTS)
Member AGSA Foundation Council
Member Experimental Art Foundation
Member Contemporary Art Centre SA
Member National Association of Visual Arts (NAVA)
Member Viscopy
Attended Perth Institute of Art forum and PICA National Graduate exhibition
2006
Lecturer Visual Arts (ACArts)
Visual Arts Degree Coordinator
Member AGSA Foundation Council
Participated in Xpress 06 Zero Waste SA + Collaborations
2005
Lecturer, Visual Arts/ Visual Arts Coordinator (ACArts)
Member, Art Gallery of South Australia Foundation Council
Member of Experimental Art Foundation
Member of Contemporary Art Centre SA
2004
Lecturer, Visual Arts/Visual Arts Coordinator (ACArts)
Chair, Experimental Art Foundation
Member, Art Gallery of South Australia Foundation Council
Attended John Glover Symposium AGSA
2003
Lecturer, Visual Arts 0.4 (ACArts)
Visual Arts Coordinator 0.4
Release time for study (MVA) 0.2
Chair, Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide
Member, Art Gallery of South Australia Foundation Council
Member, Festival, Events and Commissions committee ARTSA
Attended symposium- College of Fine Arts, UNSW
Attended conference- AAANZ Ethics &Aesthetics, Art Gallery of NSW
2002
Lecturer, Visual Arts 0.8 (ACArts)
Release time for study (MVA) 0.2
Chair, Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide
Member, Art Gallery of South Australia Foundation Council
Member, Festival, Events and Commissions committee ARTSA
Chair, Elastic Artist Week Committee for Adelaide Festival of Arts
2001
Lecturer, Visual Arts 0.8 (ACArts)
Release time for study (MVA) 0.2
Deputy Chair, Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide
Member, Art Gallery of South Australia Foundation Council
Chair, Elastic Artist Week Committee
Attended conference Visual arts in the 21st century: from museum to cyberspace. Melbourne Victoria
Attended conference A fairer deal- the way forward for visual arts and crafts, Canberra ACT
2000
Lecturer, Visual Arts (ACArts)
Deputy Chair, Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide
Member, Art Gallery of South Australia Foundation Council
1999
Lecturer, Visual Arts (North Adelaide School of Art)
Member, Contemporary Art Centre, S.A.
1998
Lecturer, Visual Arts (North Adelaide School of Art)
Participated in New York Drawing Marathon (Adelaide Central School SA)
Attended AAANZ conference held in Adelaide S.A.
1997
Lecturer, Visual Arts (North Adelaide School of Art)
1996
Executive Chair, Jam Factory Craft and Design Centre, Adelaide
(later Director, Jam Factory Craft and Design Centre)
Member, Craft Australia board
1995
Executive Chair, Jam Factory Craft and Design Centre, Adelaide
Member Craft Australia board
1994
Lecturer Visual Arts (North Adelaide School of Art)
Chair, Jam Factory Craft and Design Centre until appointed Executive Chair Jam Factory Craft and Design Centre
1992 –1993
Lecturer Visual Arts (North Adelaide School of Art)
Deputy Chair of Jam Factory Craft and Design Centre
1990 –1990
Ministerial Assistant to the Minister for the Arts & Cultural Heritage, Local
Government Relations and State Services
Deputy Chair, National Association for the Visual Arts (NAVA)
Member of Art Gallery of South Australia Foundation Council
1989 –1990
Ministerial Assistant to the Minister of Local Government, Arts and State Services
Member National Executive, National Association for the Visual Arts.
1989 – May- December
Ministerial Adviser to the Minister of Local Government and Minister for the Arts, the
Hon. Anne Levy
Member of National Association for the Visual Arts, National Executive (NAVA)
Chairperson, State Management of committee of NAVA
Chairperson of South Australian Visual Arts Committee (SAVAC)
1986 – 1989
Lecturer, Visual Arts, North Adelaide School of Art
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