BIO
My life is a fleeting visit. I am a visual story-teller.
There are dark places in my dreams and a ceaseless tickling of fear as I run between yesterday, today and tomorrow.
I hope that my paintings will intrigue you and that you may smell the imbalance and fragility of our lives.
QUALIFICATIONS
1977-79 Diploma of Art & Design, Prahran CAE
1985-86 Post-Graduate Diploma (Painting) VCA
Collections
Prahran CAE; National Gallery of Australia (Phillip Morris Collection); National Gallery of Victoria; St Kilda City Council; Artbank; Monash University Gallery; Private Collections Australia, Thomas Olbricht Collection
Art Awards
1985 Eric Westbrook Drawing Prize
1986 St Kilda Arts Festival Drawing Prize
1986 National Gallery of Victoria Acquisition Prize
Bibliography
1984 'A Time to Choose' (a collection of anti-nuclear poems by Australian poets,
Illustrated by Australian artists)
1985 'Art Review', Gary Catalano, The Age, Wednesday, October 2, 1985
1985 'A Master Painter's Game with Letters', Rod Carmichael, The Sun, Leisure Supplement, Thursday, October 3, 1985
1985 'True Art of Expression', Gary Catalano, The Age, Wednesday, December
11, 1985
1986 Scripsi, Volume 4 No. 1
1986 'Arts of '85', Gary Catalano, The Age, Tuesday, January 7,1986
1986 'Exhibition Commentary', Art and Australia, Winter Edition, 1986
1987 'Drysdale Photographs the Pick in Trio of Exhibitions', Gary Catalano, The
Age, Wednesday, February 25, 1987
1988 'Puzzling Over the Pieces of the Self, Gary Catalano, The Age, Friday,
May 6, 1988
1988 Bob Evans, The Age, Friday, June 10, 1988
1991 Scripsi.
1991 'Drawing the Lines', Art Monthly, Christopher Heathcote, April 1991
1992 'Bad Aesthetic Times', Christopher Heathcote, The Age, Wednesday,
Jan 1,1992
1994 'Taking a Dark View of the Human Body', Christopher Heathcote, ARTS,
The Age, Page 15, March 3,1994
1994 'The Encyclopedia of Australian Art', Alan McCulloch, revised and
updated by Susan McCulloch, Alien & Unwin
1996 ' Provocative Opening for New Location', ARTS, BRIEFS, The Age,
Thursday, March 21,1996 Terry Taylor Exhibition Black, White & Gray
2001 Art at School and at Home Art Monthly Australia (AMA144) pp 13, 14
2002 'Oil and water do mix', Rachelle Unreich, The Herald Sun, Saturday 1st
June, p. 116
2005 Rallying Call to Arts Community Peter Lamb, Sunraysia Daily,
Jan 18, p. 1&2
2005 WIN Television, Interview with Pat Coopman, Jan 18 , 6.00pm News
2005 3MA Radio Interview with Barry Bishop (MLC) Jan 19, Morning Show
2005 3MA Radio Interview with Robert Roper, Jan 19, Midday News
2005 WIN Television, Interview with Pat Coopman, Nov 14, 6.00pm News
2005 ABC Radio, 104.3 AM, Toxic Waste Interview, Nov 17
2006 Art Galleries, Megan Backhouse, The Age, July 15.
Exhibitions
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
1985 70 Arden Street, Melbourne, VIC
1988 City Gallery, Melbourne, VIC
1989 City Gallery, Melbourne, VIC
1991 City Gallery, Melbourne, VIC
1994 Lyall Burton Gallery, Melbourne, VIC
1996 'Black, White & Grey', Lyall Burton Gallery, Melbourne, VIC
1997 'The Table is Set', Lyall Burton Gallery, Melbourne, VIC
1999 'Forty Pink Paintings as a Parting Present', Bulle Galleries, Melbourne, VIC
2000 'Recent Drawings', Bulle Galleries, Melbourne, VIC
2002 'Oil and Water', Mira Fine Art Gallery, Melbourne, VIC
2002 Recent Work. Smyrnios Gallery Australia, Melbourne, VIC
2004 Falling Span Galleries, Melbourne, VIC
2006 Without Voice O.P.T. Gallery, Hong Kong
2006 Aquarius Horoscope Ochre Gallery Melbourne, VIC
2008 Smart Art Fair Melbourne
2008 'Memento Mori' Scott Livesey Galleries, Melbourne, VIC
2009 Terry Taylor, Gallery Frank Schlag, Essen, Germany
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
1979 Prahran CAE Graduate Show, Hawthorn City Art Gallery, Hawthorn, VIC
1980 Two-person show, Prahran Gallery, Prahran, VIC
1985 Diamond Valley Art Award
1985 Spring Festival of Drawing, Mornington Peninsula Arts Centre, VIC
1986 Artists for Peace, Waverley City Gallery4, Waverley, VIC
1987 St Kilda Festival, St Kilda, VIC
1987 Group Drawing Show, 70 Arden Street, Melbourne, VIC
1987 Post Graduate Show, Melbourne University Gallery, Melbourne, VIC
1987 Post Graduate Show, VCA Gallery, Melbourne, VIC
1988 Artbank, 'Big Paintings', Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney, NSW
1988 Group Exhibition, United Artists Gallery, Melbourne, VIC
1988 'A New Generation 1983-88, The Phillip Morris Arts Grant Purchases',
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, ACT
1988 ACAF.1, First Australian Contemporary Art Fair, Royal Exhibition Building,
Melbourne, VIC
1988 'Directors' Choice', RMIT Gallery, Melbourne, VIC
1988 Savage Club Drawing Prize, RMIT Gallery, Melbourne, VIC
1990 ACAF.2, Second Australian Contemporary Art Fair, Melbourne, VIC
1990 19th & 20th Century Portraiture, Monash University Gallery, Melbourne, VIC
1992 'Works on Paper', RMIT Gallery, Melbourne, VIC
1994 'Drawing from Inspiration', Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney, NSW
1994 ACAF.4, Fourth Australian Contemporary Art Fair, Melbourne, VIC
1994 'Recent Works on Paper', Four Person Exhibition with Godwin Bradbeer,
Neil Chenery and Stephen Spurrier, Lyall Burton Gallery,
1995 'Save Albert Park 9 x 5 Invitation Exhibition', Robert Lindsay Gallery, Melbourne, VIC
1995 'The Situation Now: A Survey of Local Non-Objective Art', University Art
Museum, La Trobe University, Bundoora, VIC (Guest Curator: Christopher
Heathcote PhD)
1995 'Gallery Artists', Lyall Burton Gallery, Melbourne, VIC
1996 ACAF.5, Fifth Australian Contemporary Art Fair, Melbourne, VIC
1996 'Gallery Artists', Lyall Burton Gallery, Melbourne, VIC
1997 'Preview 1997', Lyall Burton Gallery, Melbourne, VIC
1997 'Gallery Artists', Lyall Burton Gallery, Melbourne, VIC
1998 '9 x 5 by 25', George Adams Gallery, Melbourne, VIC (25 years of VCA)
1998 'Gallery Artists', Lyall Burton Gallery, Melbourne, VIC
1998 'Selected Works by Invited Artists', Bulle Galleries, Melbourne, VIC
1999 James Farrell'Self Portrait Award 1999', Castlemaine Art Gallery, Castelmaine, VIC
2000 'Postcard Show 2000', Linden Art Centre & Gallery, St. Kilda, VIC
2000 Anti-Cancer Council, Daffodil Day, 'Removing the Mask', St. Paul's
Cathedral, Melbourne, VIC
2001 'Works on Paper', Mira Fine Art Gallery, Melbourne, VIC
2001 Anti-Cancer Council, Daffodil Day, 'Facing the Challenge', Telstra, Melbourne, VIC
2002 'Gallery Artists', Mira Fine Art Gallery, Melbourne, VIC
2002 'In3Door/Out3Door', Mira Fine Art Gallery, Melbourne, VIC
2003 Smyrnios Gallery Australia, Melbourne, VIC
2003 Art & Peace Kultur Etxea, Guernica, Spain
2004 Summer Exhibition, Span Galleries, Melbourne, VIC
2005 Postcard Show 2005, Linden Centre for Contemporary Arts, St Kilda, VIC
2005 Works on Paper 1, Gallery 25, Mildura, VIC
2005 Toxic Waste, Gallery 25, Mildura, VIC
2005 Works on Paper, Ochre Gallery, Melbourne, VIC
2005 Small Paintings, Ochre Gallery, Melbourne, VIC
2008 Group Show 08, Scott Livesey Galleries, Melbourne, VIC