| 1922 |
Born Melbourne, Victoria |
| 1937 |
Employed in Advertising Agency. Attended evening
art classes, Swinburne Technical College, Melbourne |
| 1941 |
Joined Australian Infantry Forces |
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Studied drawing (correspondence course), Douglas
Dundas, East Sydney Technical College, Sydney |
| 1946 |
Discharged from army and returned to Melbourne |
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Enrolled in rehabilitation program - art school,
Swinburne Technical College |
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Exhibited work in Melbourne |
| 1949 |
Moved to Sydney and then Thursday Island |
| 1951 |
Married June Bethell |
| 1953 |
Commissioned paintings for St Paul Lockhart Mission |
| 1955 |
Lived in Melbourne - Art Teacher, Swinburne Technical
College |
| 1961 |
Returned to live in Queensland |
| 1961-68 |
Numerous painting trips to Cape York, Western
Australia, New Guinea and Fiji |
| 1968 |
Moved to Sydney |
| 1968-76 |
Painting trips to Tahiti, Samoa, Fiji, New Caledonia
and Cape York |
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Travel to Europe |
| 1975 |
Commissioned panels for Australia House, London,
UK |
| 1976 |
Resettled permanently in Queensland |
| 1993 |
Received the O.A. for services to the visual arts,
in particular landscape painting |
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| Selected Solo Exhibitions |
| 1948 |
Wartime Sketches, Kozminsky Galleries, Melbourne |
| 1957 |
Kozminsky Galleries, Melbourne |
| 1959 |
Australian Galleries, Melbourne |
| 1960 |
Johnstone Galleries, Brisbane |
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Terry Clune Galleries, Sydney |
| 1961 |
Australian Galleries, Melbourne |
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Johnstone Galleries, Brisbane |
| 1962 |
Macquarie
Galleries, Sydney |
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Johnstone Galleries, Brisbane |
| 1964 |
Johnstone Galleries, Brisbane |
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Darlinghurst Gallery, Sydney |
| 1965 |
Von Bertouch Galleries, Newcastle, NSW |
| 1966 |
Johnstone Galleries, Brisbane |
| 1967 |
Johnstone Galleries, Brisbane |
| 1969 |
Skinner Galleries, Sydney |
| 1970 |
Holdsworth Galleries, Sydney |
| 1972 |
Johnstone Galleries, Brisbane |
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Retrospective, Adelaide Festival of the Arts |
| 1973 |
Skinner Galleries, Perth |
| 1974 |
Leicester Galleries, London, UK |
| 1976 |
Australian Galleries, Melbourne |
| 1978 |
Holdsworth Galleries, Sydney |
| 1979 |
Paintings, Memories & Records, Philip Bacon
Galleries, Brisbane |
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Thursday Island and Cape York, Cintra House Galleries,
Brisbane |
| 1980 |
Sydney Harbour and Its Environs, Holdsworth Galleries,
Sydney |
| 1982 |
Philip Bacon Galleries, Brisbane |
| 1984 |
Fijian Landscapes, Holdsworth Galleries, Sydney |
| 1986 |
Philip Bacon Galleries, Brisbane |
| 1988 |
Von Bertouch Galleries, Newcastle |
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Philip Bacon Galleries, Brisbane |
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Recent Works, Holdsworth Galleries, Sydney |
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Agnew Gallery, London, UK |
| 1989 |
Greenlhill Galleries, Perth |
| 1990 |
Holdsworth Galleries, Sydney |
| 1992 |
Holdsworth Galleries, Sydney |
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Greenhill Galleries, Perth |
| 1995 |
Philip Bacon Galleries, Brisbane |
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| Selected Group Exhibitions |
| 1949 |
Georges Gallery, Melbourne (two person) |
| 1964 |
Commonwealth Institute, London, UK (two person) |
| 1968 |
Winner, Archibald Prize, Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney |
| 1970 |
Archibald Prize, Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney |
| 1980 |
Blake Prize, Commonwealth Bank, Sydney |
| 1982 |
Archibald Prize, Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney |
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Upstairs Gallery, Cairns (two person) |
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Inaugural Exhibition, Barry Stern Gallery |
| 1983 |
Australian Landscapes, Thos. Agnew & Sons
Gallery, London, UK (two person) |
| 1990 |
Prints, Australian Galleries, Melbourne |
| 1991 |
Diverse Visions, (23 mid to late career Australian
artists), Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane |
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| Collections |
St
Pauls, Lockhart Mission
National
Gallery of Australia, Canberra
Art
Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Art
Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
National
Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Northern
Territory Museum of Arts and Sciences
Tasmanian
Museum and Art Gallery
Art
Gallery of Western Australia, Perth
Queensland
Art Gallery, Brisbane
Northern
Territory Regional Art Gallery
University
of New South Wales
University
of Queensland
National
Library, Canberra
Australia
House, London, UK
Vatican
Collection of Contemporary Religious Art, Rome,
Italy |
Artists
Represented
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