Simonne Jameson, Art Sans Frontieres Curator

Simonne Jameson is the sole proprietor of Art Sans Frontieres, International Art Exhibitions, a non-profit organisation which promotes exhibitions of works by artists from around the world, and works by Australian artists overseas. Her purpose is to promote, through art, a more harmonious multicultural world.

Born in Paris, Simonne's interest in art was cultivated when she married an art historian and lecturer in Asiatic Art. During this time she also studied psychoanalysis with Carl Jung, graduating as a child psychologist.

She moved to Italy with her four children and opened an art gallery in Rome, in partnership with the well known art critic and journalist, Aurelio T. Prete. Simonne was in charge of the promotion and exhibitions in Italy and France, with artists of international reputation like Pietro Annigoni, Guttuso, Prokov, Carlo Levi, Secan, Farba, Ciavatta and Purificato.

Simonne was also art critic and editor of the art magazine "La Voce delle Arte and delle Lettere", art critic for the newspapers "Corriere di Roma" in Rome, and "Figaro Litteraire" in Paris. Editor for the "ERS" art publication in Rome, and collaborated to over 100 monographs of artists. Registered at the College of Experts of Art in Rome in 1965, under the number 29.

Simonne moved to England in 1973, where she learned English and worked in her academic profession. In 1975 moved to Australia, accepting an academic position at Flinders Medical Centre in the Paediatric Department under Professor Gary Kneebone.

In 1995, after leaving her academic profession, Simonne came back to art where she has been able to offer all her experience and knowledge in the field, and utilise her connections with the European artistic world.

In 1996 she began the first of a series of exhibitions "Australian in London", at the Mall Galleries in London. In 1997 "Australian in Paris" at the Gallerie Miromesnil in Paris, and "Women's Dreaming", Aboriginal women artists in London Gallery 47. In 1998 "Australian in New York", Gallery Gelabert in Broadway, and in the same year "Le Temps du Reve" Aboriginal exhibition in Paris.

In May 1999 Simonne opened the Gallery ART SANS FRONTIERES, International Art Exhibitions. The Gallery donates 20% of the profits to Medecins Sans Frontieres, recipients of the 1999 Peace Prize, through the Children's Rights Foundation Inc., which was established in 1981, after adopting a child - to become her fifth child.

Simonne speaks five languages and in 1967 was awarded the Gold Medal of France for Services to Humanity. Other awards Simonne has received recently include, in 2005 she was a nominee for the Premiers Award for Victorian Senior of the Year and the Human Rights Medal. And in 2006 Simonne was a nominee for the Australian of the Year Award.

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