Represented by Utopia Art Sydney
Tel: 61 2 9319 6437
email: art@utopiaartsydney.com.au
Born 7 February 1957, Sydney
Lives and works in Braidwood, NSW 2622
Education
1976-78 Alexander Mackie College, Sydney, Art Diploma
1975-76 St. George Technical College, Kogarah, Art Certificate.
Solo Exhibitions
2022 ‘Deep Time Painting’, Utopia Art Sydney
‘Hidden River’, Barton Artbox, Canberra Art Biennial, ACT
2021 ‘ACROSS COUNTRY’ works on paper, Burra Regional Art Gallery, SA
2020 ‘Fireground’, Utopia Art Sydney
2018 ‘Pictures from Time Beneath’, Utopia Art Sydney
‘Burra works on paper’, Burra Regional Art Gallery, South Australia
2017 ‘Hay Plain’, Utopia Art Sydney
2015 ‘John R Walker: Here I give thanks…’, Drill Hall Gallery, ANU Canberra
‘Here I give thanks…’, Utopia Art Sydney
2014 ‘John R Walker: Site’, Moree Plains Regional Gallery, NSW
‘the end of all our exploring’, Utopia Art Sydney
‘terroir big land pictures’, Orange Regional Gallery, NSW
2012 ‘Winter in the Fire Forest’, Utopia Art Sydney
2011 ‘Space & Time: 10 Years in the Landscape’ Maitland Regional Art Gallery, NSW
‘Site’, Utopia Art Sydney
2010 ‘The Shed’, Utopia Art Sydney
2008 ‘Journey through Landscape’, S. H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney
‘Gateless Gate’, Utopia Art Sydney
2007 ‘Working in the Landscape’, Utopia Art Sydney
2005 ‘Gullies, Roads, Dry Lands and Forests’, Utopia Art Sydney
2004 ‘Dry Land Paintings’, Utopia Art Sydney
2003 ‘Paintings from Tallaganda’, Utopia Art Sydney
2002 ‘Paintings from Bundanon’, Utopia Art Sydney
2000 ‘Gully’, Utopia Art Sydney
1999 ‘Paintings for a New Republic’, Utopia Art Sydney
1997 ‘The House of the Stare’, Utopia Art Sydney
1994 ‘In a Free State’, Tamworth City Gallery
‘Pictures from Home’, Utopia Art Sydney
1993 ‘New Paintings’, Utopia Art Sydney
1992 ‘Recent Works’, Utopia Art Sydney
‘New Sculpture’, Austral Gallery, St Louis USA
1991 ‘Favourite Paintings’, Utopia Art Sydney
‘Recent Figures’, Austral Gallery, St Louis USA
1990 ‘Drawings’, Utopia Art Sydney
Tolarno Gallery, Melbourne
Austral Gallery, St Louis USA
1989 ‘Figures on Paper’, Austral Gallery, St Louis USA
Utopia Art Sydney
1988 ‘Recent Painting’, Tolarno Gallery, Melbourne
1986 ‘Deceit, Desire & Narcissus’, Mori Gallery, Sydney
1985 Tolarno Gallery, Melbourne
1984 ‘The Family’, Mori Gallery, Sydney
1982 Mori Gallery, Sydney
1979 The Student Gallery (later renamed Mori Gallery), Sydney
Group Exhibitions
2023 ‘The Wynne Prize’, Art Gallery of New South Wales
‘The Spirit of Place’, Macquarie University Art Gallery, Sydney
2022 ‘The Wynne Prize’, Art Gallery of New South Wales
‘ACROSS COUNTRY 2’, Burra Regional Art Gallery, SA
2021 ‘Tree of Life: a testament to endurance’, S H Ervin Gallery, NSW
‘Salon des Refuses’, S H Ervin Gallery, Sydney and David Roche Foundation, Adelaide
‘Across Country Artist Camp select works’, Burra Regional Art Gallery, SA
‘Paddington Art Prize’, Defiance Gallery @ 12 Mary Place, Paddington
2020 ‘The Wynne Prize exhibition’, Art Gallery of New South Wales
2019 ‘River on the Brink: Inside the Murray Darling Basin’, S H Ervin Gallery and touring to Broken Hill Art Gallery
2018 ‘Divided Worlds’ Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art, Art Gallery of South Australia
‘Interiors’, Orange Regional Art Gallery, NSW
‘The Wynne Prize exhibition’, Art Gallery of New South Wales
2017 ‘The Wynne Prize exhibition’, Art Gallery of New South Wales
‘Artist Profile: Australasian Painters 2007-2017’, Orange Regional Art Gallery, NSW
2016 ‘Salon des Refuses’, S H Ervin Gallery, Sydney
‘Country and Western: Landscape re-imagined 1988-2013’, touring
‘The Drawing Room’, Tamworth Regional Gallery, NSW
‘Cornucopia’, Utopia Art Sydney
2015 ‘The Wynne Prize exhibition’, Art Gallery of New South Wales
‘Country and Western: Landscape re-imagined 1988-2013’, Perc Tucker Regional Gallery, Townsville and touring
‘Chroma: The Jim Cobb Gift’, Orange Regional Gallery, Orange NSW
2014 ‘Drawing Out: Dobell Australian Drawing Biennale’, Art Gallery of New South Wales
‘Masterpieces from the Peter Elliott Collection’, Maitland Regional Art Gallery and touring
‘Redlands Konica Minolta Art Prize’, National Art School Gallery
artist-book, Utopia Art Sydney
‘The Wynne Prize exhibition’, Art Gallery of New South Wales
Amaze Gallery, State Library of New South Wales
2013 ‘The Salon’, Utopia Art Sydney
2012 ‘Bronze’, Utopia Art Sydney
‘paperworks’, Utopia Art Sydney
‘Repertoire’, Utopia Art Sydney
‘Big Scope: painting and place’, Lake Macquarie City Art Gallery
2011 ‘Heads’, Utopia Art Sydney
‘Salon des Refuses’ S H Ervin Gallery, Sydney
‘Alone off the Press’ Left Hand Gallery, Braidwood
‘Up Close and Personal: works from the collection of Dr Peter Elliott AM’, S H Ervin Gallery, Sydney
‘Fleurieu Art Prize’, Hardys Winery, McLaren Vale
2010 ‘Museum III’, Utopia Art Sydney
‘The Wynne Prize’, Art Gallery of New South Wales
‘two six two two’, Goulburn Regional Art Gallery
‘Melbourne Art Fair 2010’, Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne
‘KIAF 2010, Korea International Art Fair’, COEX, Seoul, Korea
2009 ‘pinned & framed’ Utopia Art Sydney
‘The Power of Print’, NG Art Gallery, Sydney
‘Mono Uno: Australian Monotypes in the Charles Sturt University Art Collection’, Wagga Wagga Art Gallery
‘The Wynne Prize’, Art Gallery of New South Wales
‘Eutick Memorial Still Life Award (the EMSLA)’, Coffs Harbour Regional Gallery
‘The 23 Annual Packsaddle Selling Exhibition’, New England Regional Art Museum
2008 ‘The Wynne Prize’, Art Gallery of New South Wales
‘The Melbourne Art Fair 2008’, Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne
‘North South East West’, Damien Minton Gallery, Sydney
‘Art of the Nude: Work from the collection of Alex Mackay’, Albury Art Gallery
2007 ‘Salon des Refuses’, S H Ervin Gallery, Sydney
‘The Wynne Prize’, Art Gallery of New South Wales
2006 ‘Being at Bundanon’, Mosman Region Art Gallery and touring
‘The Big Picture’, The Delmar Gallery, Sydney
‘The Archibald Prize 06’, Art Gallery of New South Wales and touring
‘View of Maitland from the riverbank’, Maitland Regional Art Gallery
‘Chroma Collection’, Macquarie University Art Gallery, Sydney
‘Truth and Likeness’, National Portrait Gallery of Australia
‘The Melbourne Art Fair 2006’. Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne
2005 ‘Moist’, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra and touring nationally
‘Friends and Neighbours – Togetherness’, Hawkesbury Regional Gallery
‘Bleak Epiphanies’, Virginia Wilson Art, Sydney
‘Museum II’, Utopia Art Sydney
‘The Archibald Prize 05’, Art Gallery of New South Wales and touring
‘New Ideas 2005’, Utopia Art Sydney
‘2005 Robert Jacks Drawing Prize’, Bendigo Art Gallery
‘Same Place Many Views’, Defiance Gallery, Sydney
‘Hazelhurst Art Award 2005’, Hazelhurst Regional Gallery & Arts Centre
Marea Gazzard ‘the odyssey’ & John R Walker ‘dry land paintings’, Silvershot, Melbourne
‘Country Energy Art Prize for Landscape Painting’, Grafton Regional Gallery
2004 Melbourne Art Fair 2004, Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne
‘Depth of Field – Anamorphosis’, Utopia Art Sydney
‘The Wynne Prize’, Art Gallery of New South Wales
‘A Stroke of Art’, The Gallery, NSW Parliament House, Sydney
2003 ‘Bloomsday Door Exhibition’, Arthouse Hotel, Sydney
‘A Stroke of Art’, The Gallery, NSW Parliament House, Sydney
‘The Archibald Prize 03’, Art Gallery of New South Wales and touring
‘The Wynne Prize’, Art Gallery of New South Wales
‘Arthur Guy Memorial Painting Prize’, Bendigo Art Gallery
2002 ‘The Year In Review’, Utopia Art Sydney
‘Jacaranda Acquisitive Drawing Award’, Grafton Regional Gallery
‘The Fleurieu Prize’, Mclaren Vale, SA
‘Conrad Jupiters Art Prize’, Gold Coast City Art Gallery
‘Melbourne Art Fair 2002’, Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne
‘Salon des Refuses’, S H Ervin Gallery, Sydney
‘The Wynne and Sulman Prizes’, Art Gallery of New South Wales
‘Sculpture 2002’, Utopia Art Sydney
‘Solstice’, Utopia Art Sydney
2001 ‘Museum’, Utopia Art Sydney
‘Gone Bush’, Hazelhurst Regional Gallery & Arts Centre
‘8th International Works on Paper Fair’, Fox Studios Australia, Sydney
‘Over the Back Fence’, Bowen Galleries, Wellington, NZ
‘The Archibald 01, Wynne and Sulman Prizes’, Art Gallery of New South Wales (4 works)
‘Bat, Ball & Brush – A Summer of Cricket & Art’, Sydney Cricket Ground
2001 ‘Group Show’, Utopia Art Sydney
‘The Archibald Prize 01’, Art Gallery of New South Wales and touring
2000 ‘Melbourne Art Fair 2000’, Royal Exhibition Hall, Melbourne
‘The Archibald Prize 2000’, Art Gallery of New South Wales and touring
‘SCEGGS Redlands-Westpac Invitational Art Prize’, Cremorne, Sydney
‘Bloomsday Lunch Exhibition’, ASN Gallery, The Rocks, Sydney
‘Half Metre Square’, Work by teaching staff, National Art School, Sydney
‘Landscape’, Utopia Art Sydney
‘Encore’, Utopia Art Sydney
1999 ‘7thInternational Works on Paper Fair’, Fox Studios, Sydney
‘Mosman Art Prize’, Mosman Region Gallery
‘University and Schools Club Prize Exhibition’, University and Schools Club, Sydney
1998 ‘National Works on Paper Award’, Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery
‘Bloomsday: Joyce & the Nymph’, Coach House Gallery, The Rocks, Sydney
‘Symbiosis’, New England Regional Art Museum, Armidale and Utopia Art Sydney
‘ACAF 6’, Royal Exhibition Hall, Melbourne
‘Kedumba Invitation Drawing Award’, Leura
1997 ‘Faces of Hope’, Art Gallery of New South Wales
‘Drawn from Life’, National Gallery of Australia touring exhibition
‘6th International Works on Paper Fair’, State Library of New South Wales
‘Bronze’, Utopia Art Sydney
‘Portraits’, Utopia Art Sydney
‘Nineteeninetyseven’, Utopia Art Sydney
1996 ‘The Theresa Byrnes Foundation’, Westpac Art Auction, Westpac Plaza, Sydney
‘ACAF 5’, Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne
‘Return from the Art Fair’, Utopia Art Sydney
‘Paperwork’, Utopia Art Sydney
‘The Gesture’, Utopia Art Sydney
‘Flagging the Republic’, Sherman Galleries and New England Regional Art Museum touring exhibition
1995 ‘Ironsides’, The Powerhouse Museum, Sydney
‘The King of the Accordian’, New England Regional Art Museum touring exhibition
‘Works On Paper’, Utopia Art Sydney
‘5th International Works on Paper Fair’, State Library of New South Wales
1994 ‘ACAF 4’, Royal Exhibition Hall, Melbourne
1993 ‘Contemporary Australian Painting’, Works from the Allen Allen and Hemsley Collection,
Westpac Gallery, Melbourne and Newcastle Regional Gallery
1992 ‘On the Dark Side’, New England Regional Art Museum
‘ACAF3’, Royal Exhibition Hall, Melbourne
‘The Sulman Prize’, Art Gallery of New South Wales
1991 ‘The National Australia Bank Collection: Rivers in Australian Art’, Heide Park and Art Gallery, Melbourne
‘Images of Sydney’, Holdsworth Gallery, Sydney
‘Images of Women from the Holmes a’Court Collection’, S H Ervin Gallery, Sydney
1990 ‘The Annunciation’, Mandorla Art Prize, New Norcia, WA
‘Windsor and Newton Painting Prize’, Coventry Gallery, Sydney
‘Religious Images in Australian Art’, National Gallery of Victoria
‘The Sulman Prize’, Art Gallery of New South Wales
‘King of the Mountain’, Noosa Regional Gallery
‘Visual Instincts’, Holdsworth Gallery, Sydney
‘New Year New Art’, Utopia Art, Sydney
1989 ‘Opening’, Utopia Art Sydney
‘The Sulman Prize’, Art Gallery of New South Wales
‘Intimate Drawings’, Coventry Gallery, Sydney
1988 ‘Drawing in the 80s’, Australian National Gallery
‘Drawing’, Tolarno Gallery, Melbourne
‘Savage Club Invitation Drawing Prize’, Savage Club, Melbourne
1987 ‘From Field to Figuration’, National Gallery of Victoria
‘Backlash’, National Gallery of Victoria
‘Best of Young Australians from the Budget Collection’, National Gallery of Victoria
‘Urban Anxieties’, Drill Hall Gallery, Canberra
1986 ‘A First Look’, Drill Hall Gallery, Canberra
‘Symbolism and Landscape’, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Biennale of Sydney Satellite Exhibition
Modern Australian Masters’, National Gallery of Victoria
‘Ballarat Invitation Prize’, Ballarat Fine Art Gallery
1985 ‘The Pleasure of the Gaze’, Art Gallery of Western Australia
1984 ‘Drawing Now’, National Gallery of Victoria
‘Survey ’84’, Michael Milburn Galleries, Brisbane
1983 ‘D’un Autre Continent: L’Australie, le reve et le real’, Musee D’Art Moderne, Paris
‘2nd Australian Perspecta’, Art Gallery of New South Wales
1982 ‘McCaughey Prize Exhibition’, National Gallery of Victoria
1979 ‘Eight by Four’, Students Gallery (later Mori Gallery), Sydney
Collections
ACT Legislative Assembly
Allens + Linklaters
Artbank
Art Gallery of New South Wales
Art Gallery of Western Australia
Artworks Royal Alexandra Hospital for Children (now Westmead)
Australian Parliament House, Canberra
Bankers Trust
Bathurst Regional Art Gallery
Broken Hill Regional Art Gallery
Campbelltown City Art Gallery
Coffs Harbour Regional Gallery
Commonwealth Bank of Australia
Griffith University Collection
Holmes A’ Court Collection
James Wolfensohn Collection
Macquarie Group Collection
Myer Collection
National Gallery of Australia
National Gallery of Victoria
Nock Art Foundation
New England Regional Art Museum
Orange Regional Art Gallery
Phillip Morris Collection
Smorgen Collection
State Library of New South Wales
The Savage Club Collection
The University of Sydney Union
The Australia Club, Sydney
University of New South Wales Collection
Western Mining Corporation
Wollongong City Art Gallery
Numerous private collections in Australia, UK, France, USA and China
Publication inclusions
2022 Deep Time Paintings, e-catalogue, Utopia Art Sydney
‘Review of Deep Time Paintings‘, Vault Art Magazine
2021 Tree of Life, e-catalogue, S H Ervin Gallery
2020 ‘Of fire and the plague’, John R Walker ARENA, June 2020
‘Six Questions’ John R Walker, Artist Profile #51 p.161
Fireground, e-catalogue, Utopia Art Sydney
‘Darkest hours inspire artistic response‘, Sydney Morning Herald, 6 July 2020
‘John R Walker, Elizabeth Cummings, Ian Grant, Maria Contos‘, Sydney Morning Herald, 18 July 2020
‘The Wynne Prize 2020‘, Sydney Morning Herald, 3 November 2020
‘After the Black Summer bushfires: embers of hope’, Sydney Morning Herald, 18 December 2020
2019 River on the Brink: Inside the Murray Darling Basin e-catalogue
‘Health check due on Resale Royalty Scheme as data murky on Indigenous beneficiaries‘, Meaghan Wilson Anastasios, The Age 3 October
‘River on the Brink’, John McDonald, Sydney Morning Herald, 5 October
2018 Amber Cresswell Bell, A Painted Landscape: Across Australia from Bush to Coast, Thames and Hudson
‘Divided Worlds’, 2018 Adelaide Biennial catalogue essay by Dr Deborah Hart
January 2018 Art Guide, interview with John R Walker by Varia Karipoff
‘Review of Adelaide Biennial’ in Vault #22, by Chloe Wolifson, pp.110-115
Review ‘Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art: Divided Worlds’ in Art Press by Miriam Cosic, 26 March 2018
Review ‘ “Divided Worlds” documents wholeness’ in The Monthly by Miriam Cosic, 28 March 2018
2015 John Zubrzycki, ‘ John R Walker: The catching point’, Art Monthly Australia no.282 August 2015
Glenn Barkley, ‘John R Walker in conversation with Glenn Barkley’, John R Walker: Here I give thanks…, Drill Hall Gallery exhibition catalogue
Brad Hammond, Chroma: The Jim Cobb Gift, Orange Regional Gallery exhibition catalogue
2014 Anne Ryan, Drawing Out: Dobell Australian Drawing Biennale, Art Gallery of New South Wales, exhibition catalogue
Andrew Sayers, ‘On Doughboy Hill’, online exhibition catalogue for Terroir big land pictures, Orange Regional Art Gallery
Katrina Rumley, ‘John R Walker: Site’, online catalogue exhibition for Moree Plains Regional Gallery
2013 Gavin Fry, The Peter Elliott Collection of Australian Art, The Beagle Press
2012 Chloe Watson, ‘Winter in the Fire Forest’ online exhibition catalogue, Utopia Art Sydney.
The Macquarie Group Collection: the land and its psyche, eds. Julian Beaumont, Felicity Fenner and John McDonald, UNSW Press
‘His eyes wide shut on an indelible landscape’ Elizabeth Fortescue, The Daily Telegraph, 24 October, 2012.
‘John R Walker artist books’, Alexander Sussman, State Library of New South Wales Acquisitions Blog, 27th November 2012
2011 Chloe Watson, ‘Site’ (pamphlet), Utopia Art Sydney
‘Space & Time: 10 Years in the Landscape – John R Walker’, exhibition catalogue, Maitland Regional Art Gallery, 7 October – 4 December (essays by Andrew Sayers and Joe Eisenberg)
2010 Artist Profile, ‘John R Walker responds to Joe Frost’s article ‘Bad words thoughts’, issue 12: Mag-blog, August 2010
Nigel Featherstone ‘Naturally inspired’, Panorama, Canberra Times, September 10, 2010
2009 ‘John R Walker interviewed’ Artist Profile #6 March 2009 pp.28-35
Arts Etcetera ‘Walker finalist in Wynne Prize’, Bungendore Mirror, March 11.
Thomas Middlemost, Mono Uno: Australian Monotypes in the Charles Sturt University Art Collection, exhibition catalogue
2008 Australian Financial Review, ‘No thanks, I don’t want the money’, Perspective September 10-11, 2008
‘Journey through Landscape’ podcast interview with Sean O’Brien, May 2008: //arttalk.podomatic.com/entry/2008-05-09T02_10_17-07_00
Critics’ Choice – ‘John R. Walker Journey Through Landscape’ Time Out Magazine, May 21 – 27
‘Poetry through Landscape – Poetic interpretations of the artworks of John R. Walker’, DiVerse, At the S. H. Ervin Gallery
Art Talk: Talking to Artists and Curators, Sean O’Brien May 2008 at the S. H. Ervin Gallery transcript
‘John R. Walker – Journey Through Landscape’ public program of guest talks list, National Trust, S. H. Ervin Gallery
‘John R. Walker, Journey Through Landscape’ Media Archive, National Trust, S. H. Ervin Gallery
‘Secrets of the Self Unearthed’, John McDonald, Spectrum, Sydney Morning Herald, June 7-8, 2008
‘Lure of the Land’, Libby Peacock, Panorama, The Canberra Times, May 31, 2008.
‘Exposing the Scars on Nature’, Elizabeth Fortescue, Sydney Live, Daily Telegraph, 27th May.
‘John R. Walker – Journey Through Landscape’, Calender entry: The Rocks – a story around every corner, official Rocks website, 21st May.
‘Walker Retrospective at S. H. Ervin’, Bungendore Mirror, 21st May.
‘Journey Through Landscape’, What’s On, Central Magazine, 21st May.
Critics Choice, Time Out Sydney, 21st – 27th May.
‘John R. Walker – Journey Through Landscape’, What’s On, Time Out Magazine, June 4th – 10th.
‘John R. Walker – Journey Through Landscape’, What’s On, Time Out Magazine, June 11th – 17th.
‘A Journey through Landscape’, June, Winter Diary, The Rocks official website.
Event Diary, Sunday Arts, ABC TV Sunday 5pm, 6th June.
‘Whats On Elsewhere’, Look magazine, AGNSW
‘John R. Walker – Journey Through Landscape’, ‘Exhibitions’ section: National Trust Magazine, Winter 2008
Credit Suisse end of year party invitation, November 12th
2007 Andrew Sayers, ‘Working in the Landscape‘, (catalogue essay), Utopia Art Sydney
“The best of the rest actually the best”, Sebastian Smee, The Australian, 8 March 2007, p,14
“Anything goes in the silly season”, John McDonald, Sydney Morning Herald Spectrum, 24-24 March 2007, pp16-17
“Robert Kennedy – Salon des Refuses 2007”, State of the Arts Online, 2 March 2007
‘Painting Australia’, ABC TV series Episode #3, 11 April, 2007
Exhibition Calendar 2007, National Trust S.H. Ervin Gallery
2006 ‘Art in Restaurants’, Australian Art Review, p82
Archibald 06 (cat), Art Gallery of New South Wales
‘Winter Crow’, a collection of poems by Jeremy Nelson, illustrations by John R Walker
‘Is the truth of portraiture vested exclusively in likeness?’, Michael Desmond, Portrait 21, National Portrait Gallery, Canberra.
CAPO Annual Auction 2006 (cat), Canberra Arts Patrons Organization, Canberra
2004 Australian Artist, No.253 July 2005, p.25
Archibald 05 (cat), Art Gallery of New South Wales
Essay by Simeon Kronenburg in being at Bundanon (cat), Bundanon Trust touring exhibition
Essay by William Wright in Gullies, Road, Dry Lands and Forests (cat), Utopia Art Sydney
Moist: Australian Watercolours (cat), National Gallery of Australia
‘Moist: Australian Watercolours 27 August-4 December 2005’, Anne McDonald, Artonview, Spring 2004
“Art Now”, Laura Murray Cree, State of the Arts Magazine (The Design Issue), July – September
2003 ‘Generations of Collecting’, Jenna Price, Australian Art Collector, July-September 2003
Australian Artist, No.12 Vol. XIX, June 2003, p.29
2002 ‘Experiencing the Land’, Simeon Kronenberg, Asian Art News Vol.12 No.2 March/April 2002
‘Money and Collecting’, Michael Reid, The Weekend Australian 20-21 April
“Critics Picks”, Victoria Hynes, Sydney Morning Herald, Metro 26 April – 2 May
“The Plains: Wimmera and the imaging of the Australian Landscape”, Simeon Kronenberg, Art Monthly, November 2001, #45
“Days in Boyd Country”, Simeon Kronenberg, Artlink, June 2002, Vol.22 #2
‘Paintings from Bundanon’, (cat) Simeon Kronenberg, Utopia Art Sydney
2001 ‘Gone Bush: Artists in the Royal National Park’, Tracy Sorensen, St George and Sutherland Shire Leader, 18 October
‘Over the back fence’ (cat), Bowen Galleries, NZ
‘Gone Bush’ (cat), Jennifer Hardy, Hazelhurst Regional Gallery and Arts Centre, NSW
Australian Artist, Vol.XVII No.11, May 2001, p.49
2000 ‘Beyond the Fatal Shore’, Interview with Robert Hughes, Episode #6 BBC TV series
‘The Odds on the Archibald’, Sebastian Smee, Sydney Morning Herald, March 16
“On the Canvas”, Elizabeth Fortescue, Daily Telegraph, March 15
“Go you good thing”, Sharon Vergis, Sydney Morning Herald, March 15
“Framed and they’ve got form”, Darren Knight and John McDonald, Sydney Morning Herald, March 15
“Hanging out for the Archibald”, Giles Auty, The Australian
“Frame and Fortune”, Edmund Capon, Sydney Morning Herald, March 20
Australian Artist, Vol. XVI No.12 June 2000, p.21
‘Bright-Eyed and Bushy-Tailed’, Sebastian Smee, Sydney Morning Herald, Metro May 26
‘Utopia Art’, Andrew G Frost, Australian Art Collector, Issue #8
1998 ‘Interview with collector, Hugh Jamieson’, Australian Art Collector, Issue #2
1997 ‘Porn Again NETurally’, Sebastian Smee, Sydney Morning Herald, Metro, October 24
‘Faces of Hope ‘(cat), Amnesty International
‘Drawn from Life’ (cat), Deborah Clark and Andrew Sayers, National Gallery of Australia
1995 ‘King of the Accordian’ (cat), J. Eisenberg, New England Regional Art Museum
1994 Who’s Who of Australian Artists, National Association of Visual Arts (NAVA), Sydney
The Encyclopedia of Australian Art, revised and updated by Susan McCulloch, Macmillan
‘Contemporary Australian Painting from the Allen Allen and Hemsley Collection’ (cat.)
1992 ‘Communicative Abstraction/Philosophical Reflections’, Rudolf Talmacs, Utopia Art Sydney
‘On the Dark Side’ (cat), Belinda Cotton, New England, Regional Art Museum
‘King of the Mountain’ (cat), Noosa Regional Gallery
1990 Artists and Galleries of Australia Volume II 1990, Max Germaine, Craftsman House Press
Images of Religion in Australian Art, Rosemary Crumlin, Bay Books
1988 Australian Contemporary Drawing; Resurgence and Redefinition, Arthur McIntyre, Boolarong Press
1987 ‘Best of Young Australians Exhibition from the Budget Collection’ (cat.), National Gallery of Victoria
1986 Drawing in Australia, Contemporary images and ideas, Janet McKenzie, Macmillan, Melbourne
‘Backlash: The Australian Drawing Revival 1976-1986’ (cat), Ted Gott, National Gallery of Victoria
1986 ‘6th Biennale of Sydney: Origins Originality + Beyond’ (cat), satellite exhibition, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney
1985 ‘Pleasure of the Gaze’ (cat), Art Gallery of Western Australia
1984 Australian Art Review, Leon Parossien
1983 ‘Australian Perspecta’ (cat), Bernice Murphy, Art Gallery of New South Wales
‘D’Un Autre Continent: L’Australie le reve et le real’ (cat), Musee D’Art Moderne, Paris
Awards and Commissions
2015 Highly commended, Wynne Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales
2011 Highly commended, Fleurieu Landscape www.ravencontemporary.com.auArt Prize, SA
2009 Winner Eutick Memorial Still Life Award (EMSLA) Coffs Harbour Regional Gallery
2002 Highly Commended, Wynne Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales
1998 BT Australia, 400 George St, Sydney
1990 Windsor and Newton Painting Prize, Coventry Gallery, Sydney
1988 Savage Club Drawing Prize, Melbourne
1982 Tamarisque Prize, Alexander Mackie College, Sydney
Teaching experience
2021 ‘Across Country’ artist/mentor workshop, Pitcairn Station, SA organised by Burra Regional Art Gallery
2013 ‘Portrait drawing workshop’, National Portrait Gallery, Australia
2007 ‘Walking the Landscape’, Art Workshops Australia
2000 ‘Drawing the Nude’, Workshop, Hazelhurst Regional Gallery and Arts Centre
1998-2000 Painting lecturer, National Art School, Sydney
Life Drawing teacher, National Institute of Dramatic Art, UNSW
2000 Visiting lecturer in Drawing and Painting, Calrossy School, Tamworth
1987-94 Art Program Co-ordinator, Panania East Hills Vocational Skillshare
1988-89 Drawing teacher, College of Fine Art, UNSW
1987 Visiting lecturer, Canberra School of Art, ANU
Scholarships & Residencies
2002 Hill End Artist in Residence (invited artist)
2002 Bundanon Trust Artist in Residence
2001 Bundanon Trust Artist in Residence (invited artist)
2001 New England Artist in Residence (invited artist)
2000 National Art School Staff Travelling Scholarship
2000 New England Regional Art Museum Artist’s Travel Scholarship