Adrienne Doig
She/Her

Born in Wangaratta, Victoria 1963
Studied in Norway at Ryfylke FolKehogskule 1982 -83 and in Sydney at College of Fine Arts 1984 -89 and Sydney College of the Arts 1996.

Adrienne Doig has been the recipient of the Austrian Federal Chancellery Studio Residency in Vienna, Austria 2001, Visual Arts Craft Board of the Australia Council Studio Residency, Milan, Italy 2003, The AGNSW Moya Dyring Studio, Cite International, Paris, France in 2007, and was a visiting resident at the American Academy in Rome, Rome, Italy in 2014.

She received funding from Create NSW Small Projects Grant in 2020, the New Media Arts Board of the Australia Council, Project Grant in 1996, a Project Grant (with Lee Paterson) from the Visual Arts Craft Board of the Australia Council in 1992. She was awarded a Minnefondet Foundation Scholarship, Norway in 1982. She has also had artist Studio Residencies in Vienna, Milan, and Rome.
Doig has exhibited in contemporary art spaces, artist run and commercial galleries in Australia and abroad. Her work is held in public and private collections in Australia, Europe and the United States.

Doig’s work has featured in many publications and online articles and blogs including CoUNTess: Spoiling Illusions Since 2008, The Art Guide, Australian Art Collector, and Artist Profile. During the Covid lockdown in 2019 Doig created a video project for the AGNSW which was a participatory online activity made for the Together in Art. Recent exhibitions of her work include the travelling exhibition It’s About Me! (which, toured regional galleries in NSW and Victoria) as well as OH MY GODDESS shown at Martin Browne Contemporary Sydney and soon to be exhibited at the Hellenice Museum Melbourne. Doig’s work playfully explores the politics of a feminine ideal, beauty myths and female architypes.  Her portraits of the Australian Treasures Jenny Kee and Linda Jackson in the nesting doll format were recently aquired for the National Portrait Gallery. The site specific work ‘What Do We Want?’ a 13 metre mural that focused on the covid lockdowns was commissioned by the AGNSW as part of Archie Plus in 2020.

Doig’s work is held in the following collections The National Art Archive at the Art Gallery of NSW, National Portrait Gallery Canberra, National Museum of Australia  Canberra, Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art, HOTA Gold Coast, Bathurst Regional Art Gallery, Deakin University Art Gallery, Artbank, Sydney, Harry Seidler and Associates, Sydney, Deloitte, Sydney, and other private collections in Australia, USA, United Kingdom, Italy, Türkiye and Norway.

She works in a variety of media including embroidery, applique, drawing, sculpture, video and multimedia. A recurring image or theme in her work is self-portraiture.

Adrienne Doig lives and works on Dharug and Gundungurra Country Katoomba, NSW