Biography

1933          Born in Brisbane, Queensland
1960          Diploma of Painting - National Art School, Sydney
1969          Teaching – Roma de Wolff’s Studio
1972          Silver Jewellery Course
1973          Sculpture classes – Woolloomooloo
1975          Appointed Commonwealth Development Officer for the City of
                  Sydney by the Federal Government under AAP
1981          Travelled to Sri Lanka

Solo Exhibitions

Exhibited in over 16 solo exhibitions throughout Sydney

Selected Group Exhibitions

1990          ACAF – 2 Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne
1985-1987  Portia Geach Award
1983          Portia Geach Award
1982          Waverley Art Prize
1981          Mornington Peninsula Drawing Prize
1980,1981  Portia Geach Award
1978          Condobolin Art Prize
1974          Wynne Prize, Art Gallery NSW
1964          Blue Mountains City Council  

Awards and Prizes
1993          Bega – Contemporary Open (1st)
1984          Berrima Art Prize – Commended Landscape
1982          Portia Geach Portrait Prize
1981          Portia Geach Portrait Prize Award – Highly Commended Portrait
1981          Arthur Phillip Cumberland Artist  - (1st and 2nd) Portrait Prize
1980          South Sydney Prize
1978          South Sydney Prize
1977          South Sydney Prize
1976          South Sydney Prize  

Publications

2000          World Sculpture News, Vol. 6
1998          Images 3, Contemporary Art Painting, Nevill Drury, Craftsman House
1998          Sydney Morning Herald, Spectrum, Bruce James
1997          Max Germaine’s Artists and Galleries on CD ROM
1995          Insight, Wentworth Courier
1994          Review – Newcastle Herald          
1994          ‘Of Australia Art Masters’, Women Artists - Flowers
1994          Images 2, Contemporary Art Painting, Nevill Drury, Craftsman House
1993          New Art Eight - Nevill Drury, Craftsman House
1991          Article – Ansett Golden Wing Magazine
1990          Catalogue Reproduction – Australian Contemporary Art Fair 2
1990          Australian Business Magazine, ‘Collectables’ June 6, p. 93 
1990          Gold Coast Bulletin, September 22
1990,1984 ‘Artists & Galleries of Australia’, Max Germaine
1984          Art & Australia, ‘The Printmakers’, Vol 22, No. 2
1984          Portrait of Lee Howlett reproduced for Book Cover ‘Against the Odds’
1982          Art & Australia, ‘Artists to Watch’, Vol 20, No. 3

Represented
Artbank Collection, Sydney 

New Parliament House, Canberra                                                                                                                                                                   Reserve Bank of Australia Collection 

University of NSW 

IBM Collection, Sydney 

Mackay City Library, Queensland

 

Private and corporate collections in Australia, Canada, Japan, UK and USA