Education

• Bette Mifsud, June 2009 Photo Credit: Sally Tsoutas

  2007 - 2010 Doctorate of Creative Arts scholar, University of Western Sydney

• 1996 Master of Fine Arts (First Class Honours), University of New South Wales College of Fine Art.
  

• 1982-84 Bachelor of Visual Art, Sydney College of the Arts.

Exhibition History  

Bette has been exhibiting large-scale photo-media works, installations and portraiture in Australia and overseas since 1985.

In 1990, she had a solo exhibition Mute at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, and Landmarks Watermarks II at The National Museum of Fine Art in Malta in 1995.

In 1991 her installation, Vault Suite, was exhibited in the prestigious Australian Perspecta, also at the Art Gallery of New South Wales.

Bette's work has also been shown in numerous group exhibitions overseas.

Awards and Grants

• 2007 Australian Postgraduate Award                                 

• 2006 Marketing grant, National Association for Visual Arts.

• 2003 Hazelhurst Art Award for Art on Paper, Major Prize.

• 2002 Inaugural NSW Ministry for the Arts Western Sydney Artist Fellowship.

• 1998 New Work Grant, Visual Arts/Craft Board, Australia Council.

• 1997 Blue Mountains Art Prize1997 (Photography).

• 1995 Project Grant, Visual Arts/Craft Board, Australia Council.

• 1992 Project Grant, Visual Arts/Craft Board, Australia Council.

• 1989 Project Grant, Australian Network for Art and Technology.

• 1988 Australia Council Tokyo Studio Residency,

• 1987 Project Grant, Visual Arts/Craft Board, Australia Council.

Collections

• Art Bank

• Art Gallery of New South Wales

• Imax Cinemas

• Macquarie Bank

• National Museum of Fine Art, Malta

• National Portrait Gallery, Canberra

• National Library of Australia, Canberra        

• Private collections                

Teaching

Bette Mifsud has taught art and photography since 1990 at the universities of Sydney, Western Sydney and the Western Sydney Institute Nepean. 

Professional Memberships

• UNESCO's Association Internationale des Arts Plastiques,

• The National Association for the Visual Art

• Arts Law Centre of Australia.