biography

born
1939 Sydney, Australia


studies, work & travel
1995-pres.
Full time painting
1988-96
Produced limited edition prints for Port Jackson Press, Melbourne
1984-94
Visual Co-ordinator, Blaxland Art Gallery, Sydney
1980
Studied screenprinting, East Sydney Technical College
1973-74
Lived in France
1966-70
Interior designer & colourist, Marion Hall Best Interior Design, Sydney
1965-66
Lived and worked as an interior designer in New York
1963-64
Married and lived at Stanford University California
1960-63
Travelled in Europe
1958-60
Studied painting & drawing, East Sydney Technical College, Sydney
1950
Family moved to Young, NSW (sheep, cattle & farming region)


2008
Winner of Country Energy Art Prize, $35,000


solo exhibitions
2007
‘south pacific’, King Street Gallery on Burton, Sydney
Earthworks Winterowd Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM, USA
2005
 ‘carefully designed environmental accidents’, King Street Gallery on Burton, Sydney
2004
Landlocked, Sturt Gallery, Mittagong
2003
river and ellis, king street gallery on burton, sydney
2002
ACA [Anderson Contemporary Art] Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
2001
cultivation, king street gallery, sydney
2000
paddocks, king street gallery
1998
earth walls, king street gallery on burton
1997
Autumn Paddocks, Art House Gallery, Sydney
1995
Bondi Walls, Art House Gallery
1994
Earth Works, New England Regional Art Gallery, Armidale, NSW
1993
Earth and Wall Series, Blaxland Art Gallery
1992
Burrangong Art Gallery, Young, NSW
1990
Abstraction and the Land, Blaxland Art Gallery
1988
Landscape on Fire, Blaxland Art Gallery
1987
Kakadu, Caves and Country, Blaxland Art Gallery
1986
A Little Bit of Country, (screenprints and sculptures from animal bones), Blaxland Art Gallery


selected group exhibitions
2007
‘Paintings 2007’ John Gordon Gallery, Coffs Harbour NSW
Last show of the year, King Street Gallery on Burton, Sydney
2006
Tattersalls Landscape Prize, Brisbane Qld
Last show of the year, King Street Gallery on Burton, Sydney
Norville Landscape Prize, NSW
2005
Country Energy Art Prize for Landscape Painting, Grafton Regional Art Gallery
Fishers Ghost Prize, Campbelltown Bicentennial City Art Gallery, NSW
Mosman Art Prize, Mosman Regional Gallery, Sydney, NSW
Tattersalls Art Prize, Tattersalls Club, Brisbane Qld
Conservation Prize, Scone Art Gallery, Scone NSW
Last show of the year, King Street Gallery on Burton, Sydney
 2004
 Tattersall’s Art Prize, Tattersalls Club, Brisbane
‘Banool Conservation Prize’, Scone Art Gallery, Scone, NSW
Norvill Art Prize, RSL Gallery, Murrurundi NSW
The Tattersalls Landscape Art Prize, Brisbane
The Country Energy Art Prize, NSW
John Leslie Environmental Prize, Gippsland Regional Art Gallery, Vic
2003
2003-The Year in Art, SH Ervin Gallery, Sydney
330, show, king street gallery on burton
Timber Stories, Port Mcquarie Regional Gallery, NSW
Country Energy Art Prize, New England Regional Art Museum, Armidale, NSW
The Tattersall's Landscape Prize, [highly commended] Brisbane, QLD
2002
John Leslie Environmental Prize, Gippsland Regional Art Gallery, Vic
king street gallery at Span Gallery, Melbourne
Landmarks, Bathurst Regional Art Gallery, Bathurst, NSW
Art on Kavanaugh, Little Rock, Arkansas, USA
2001
Creative Madness, The Garvan Institute of Medical Research, Volvo Gallery, Sydney
Sulman Prize Exhibition, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Bat, Ball and Brush, A Summer of Cricket and Art at the S.C.G, Sydney
2000
women and the landscape, king street gallery on burton
Melbourne Art Fair 2000, Melbourne Exhibition Building, Melbourne
last show of the year, king street gallery on burton
1999
Wynne Prize Exhibition, Art Gallery of New South Wales
prize pictures, (paintings previously selected for major prize exibitions), king street gallery on burton
last show of the year, king street gallery on burton
1998
Wynne Prize Exhibition, Art Gallery of New South Wales
1997
Awarded Muswellbrook Open Art Prize, Muswellbrook Art Prize, Muswellbrook Regional Art Gallery, NSW
Tattersals Prize, Brisbane
Sceggs Redlands Prize, Sydney
1996/95

1994
Salon des Refuses, S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney

Memories, Dreams and Reflections – 65th Anniversary, Blaxland Gallery
1993
Mosman Art Prize, Mosman Council, Sydney
Muswellbrook Art Prize, Muswellbrook Regional Art Gallery, Muswellbrook, NSW
Broken Hill Art Prize, Broken Hill Regional Art Gallery, NSW
1992
Australian Contemporary Art Fair 3, Melbourne Exhibition Building, Melbourne
1991
Three Australian Landscape Painters - Hills, Trees and Markers, Blaxland Galler
Blake Prize for Religious Art, Blaxland Gallery
1990
Alice Springs Art Prize, N.T.
1989
Celebrating the Landscape, Blaxland Gallery
Sydney Morning Herald Art Prize, Blaxland Gallery
Alice Springs Art Prize
1984
Three Women, (screenprints), Bridge Street Gallery, Sydney
1960
Young Painters, Clune Galleries, Sydney


commissions
Leo Burnett House, North Sydney
Sydney International Airport


collections
Artbank, Australia
Coles Myer, Melbourne
Austel
Reserve Bank
Australia Bank
Sydney International Airport
Australian GasLight Company
Macquarie Bank



bibliography
2000
Ducker, Amanda: My Place, Inside Out Magazine, 1, June, 31
Smee, Sebastian: Review, Metro:
The Sydney Morning Herald, March 2001
Hynes, Victoria: Critics Pick,
The Sydney Morning Herald, September 1998
Smee, Sebastian: Critics Pick,
The Sydney Morning Herald
1997
James, Bruce: Review, The Sydney Morning Herald
Exhibition Commentary:
Art and Australia, Summer 35(2):258
1993
Interview, ABC Radio National
Interview, Radio Eastern Sydney
1992
Review, The South West News (Young, NSW), August
Interview, ABC Radio National
1991
Lynn, Elwyn: Blake Prize Review, The Australian, December
Interview, Radio Eastern Sydney
Dysart, Dinah: Blake Prize Review,
The Sydney Morning Herald, December
1990
The Telegraph Mirror, November
Banerjee, Juliette:
Eastern Express
Goldie, Vivienne:
Country Style Magazine, June
Australian Style (book of interior design), publishers: Hamlyn
1987
Illustration, Art and Australia
1960
Gleeson, James: Young Painters at the Clune Galleries, The Sydney Morning Herald