TRAINING                         

 

Rhodes University Art School

B.A. in Fine Arts; University Art Teachers' Diploma

Founder Member, Grahamstown Group        

               

               

FURTHER STUDIES       

 

City of London Polytechnic (etching)

Willoughby Workshop Arts Centre (sculpture)

 

 

EXHIBITIONS              

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Solo Shows
 

1974   Exhibition, British Council, Lusaka

1999 "Ark", Robin Gibson Gallery, Sydney

2002 “The Bag Lady Show”, Robin Gibson Gallery, Sydney

2005 “The Horse Show”, Robin Gibson Gallery, Sydney

2013 “Travelling Light”, Brenda May Gallery Sydney

 

 

Selected Awards and Award Exhibitions
 

1996 Wynne prize exhibition, Art Gallery of New South Wales

1998 Salon de Refusés, SH Ervin Gallery, National Trust, Sydney

2001 Roche Contemporary Art Prize exhibition

2003 Willoughby Art Prize, received People’s Choice Award

2006 Montalto Sculpture Award finalist, Victoria

2008 Sculpture by the Sea, Bondi, awarded Sydney Water Environmental Prize

2009 Waterhouse Natural History Prize, Adelaide, Highly Commended 

2009 Salon de Refusés, S H Erwin Gallery, Sydney

2011 Waterhouse Natural History Prize, Adelaide

2015 Art on Paper Award exhibition, Hazelhurst Art Gallery.

2016 Waterhouse Natural History prize, Adelaide

 

 

Selected group and shared shows

Grahamstown Group

1964 Cape Town, 1965 Johannesburg Gallery 101, 1966 Port Elizabeth Art Gallery

Cambridge Gallery on the Cam UK, 1980

Robin Gibson Gallery Sydney,

1992 Sculpture 4, 1993 Sculpture 5, 1994 Sculpture 6, 1995 Sculpture 7, 1996 Sculpture 8, 1997 Sculpture 9, 1998 Sculpture 10, 1999 Sculpture 11, 2000 Sculpture 12,

2001 Sculpture 13, 2002 Sculpture 14, 2003 Sculpture 15, 2004 Sculpture 16,

2005 Sculpture 17, 2006 Sculpture 18, 2007 Sculpture 19, 2008 Sculpture 20

1992 Christmas Show

1993 Dogs, cats and other critters

2006 Year of the Dog

2007 Year of the Pig

Sculpture by the Sea

1997 Bondi, 1998 Bondi, 1999 Bondi, 2000 Bondi, 2004 Bondi, 2007 Bondi,

2008 Bondi, 2009 Bondi, 2019 Bondi

2001 Sculpture in the City

 

Campbelltown and Hazelhurst Regional Galleries, 2002 Sculpture from the Sea

 

Defiance Gallery

1998 The Defiant 6", 2000 The Defiant 6", 2001 The Defiant 6", 2002 The Defiant 6",

2003 The Defiant 6", 2004 The Defiant 6", 2005 The Defiant 6", 2006 The Defiant 6",

2007 The Defiant 6", 2008 The Defiant 6”, 2009 The Defiant 6”, 2010 The Defiant 6",

2011 The Defiant 6", 2012 The Defiant 6”, 2013 The Defiant 6”, 2014 The Defiant 6”,

2015 The Defiant 6”.

2021 The Defiant 6”

2022 The Defiant 6

 

Willoughby Workshop Arts Centre

1995 Ten Dimensions, 2002 Birds of a Feather

2006 Arts Centre Members, awarded Sculpture Prize

 

ARDT Gallery Leichhardt, 1996 The Real Salon de Refusés

 

Regional Galleries Association of New South Wales, 1996 Touring exhibition

 

Humane Society exhibitions,

2001 Volvo Gallery Sydney, 2002 Art House Gallery Sydney,

2002 Art House Gallery Sydney, 2003 Art House Gallery Sydney, 2004 Art House Gallery Sydney, 2005 Art House Gallery Sydney

 

Campbelltown Regional Gallery, Sydney Sculpture 2003

 

Sculpture for the Garden, Wombarra NSW, 2001, 2002

 

PCL Exhibitionists, Sydney Sculpture 2003

 

Seymour Centre Sydney, 2004 Sculpture exhibition

 

Trevor Victor Harvey Gallery Sydney, 2004 Sculptors who Draw

 

Brenda May Gallery, Sydney

2007 Art and Humour too, 2007 Mad as Hell, 2008 Sculpture Outside,

2009 Sculpture 2009: Animal Farm, 2011 Sculpture 2011, 2012 Sculpture 2012,

2013 Sculpture 2013, 2016 Sculpture 2016: Bronze

 

Willoughby Incinerator Art Space,

2011 Willoughby Sculpture Prize, 2012 Paper Now, 2013 Willoughby Sculpture Prize

 

NG Art Gallery Sydney, 2012 Here Today, Gone Tomorrow.

 

Sculpture at Sawmillers, Sawmillers Reserve, McMahons Point 2014, 2016, 2022.

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Artisans in the Garden Sydney, 2022

 

Stanley Street Gallery Sydney, Borne: sculpture for the body, 2016.

 

Commissions and collections

 

1994 Commission for The Australian Opera, Sydney: sculptures for set of Handel, Julius Caesar

 

1997 “A Day Out”, Commission for City of Adelaide, Rundle Mall, awarded from Rundle Mall National Sculpture Competition (installed 1999)

 

2004 “Big Boy”, Seymour Centre, Sydney

 

2005 “Big Boy Blue”, Allen & Unwin roof terrace, Crows Nest

 

2006 “Swallow Rising” Macquarie University Sculpture Park

 

2008 “The Flight of the Bogong” BHP Billiton, Port Hedland

 

2010 Commission Qualia Resort Hamilton Island Queensland

 

2015 “Paper Birds” Commission Hornsby Hospital NSW

 

2016 “The Gathering” Commission Fitzgibbon Chase Brisbane

 

2018 Commission Coroner’s Court Lidcombe NSW (four sculptures)

 

Commissions for private clients in Australia, United Kingdom, United States of America, Singapore and Zambia (including Mural for Barclays Bank).

 

Paintings and drawings in private collections in Australia, United Kingdom, United States of America, Canada, South Africa, Zambia.

               

REVIEWS 

 

The Australian, The Weekend Australian, Sydney Morning Herald, Art and Australia,

 

 

TEACHING & EXPERIENCE     

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Painting Teacher, Disabled Artists, Hornsby Rehabilitation Centre

 

Sculpture teacher, Workshop Art Centre, Willoughby (teaching day and evening classes to adults, including drawing for sculpture, the making of metal armatures, clay modelling from life, plaster waste mould technique and casting into various media including ciment fondue. This position was a partially independent one, involving organising student numbers, purchase of relevant materials and planning class structures and budgets.)

 

Ravenswood School for Girls, Gordon, NSW Casual Art Teacher - years 4 - 12.

 

Illustrator, York Archaeological Trust, York, UK

 

Illustrator for book and periodical publications

 

Museum display artist. Grahamstown, South Africa.

 

Art teacher in secondary and primary schools, including Marsh Court Preparatory School,. UK

 

Grosvenor Girls' High School, Durban, South Africa Art Teacher: all levels.

 

Short courses, Australian primary and secondary schools