Biography

Born in 1929 in Chicago, USA - Australian resident since 1996
1950s Trained at the School of Art Institute of Chicago
1959 Arrived in Australia
Taught at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology
1960-66 Moved to Adelaide to set up a painting studio and consequently was appointed lecturer of painting at the South Australian School of Art, establishing a school of contemporary painting
Elected President of Contemporary Art Society
Moved to Sydney to establish an art studio
1967 Returned to the USA due to visa restrictions
1970 Recieved the Tiffany Foundation Grant for painting
1970-92 Taught as Professor at Indiana State University in Terre Haute, Indiana in charge of graduate painting
1992-2001 Took up Artist-in-Residency throughout Europe, Australia and USA
Appointed Professor Emeritus and artist in residence at The Art Museum of La Trobe University, Melbourne. He now lives on the mid-north coast of NSW

Exhibitions

over 22 international & national Solo Exhibitions
over 20 Group exhibitions

Public Collections

National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
Art Gallery of NSW
National Gallery of Victoria
La Trobe University, Melbourne, Vic
Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, Tasmania
The Newcastle Region Art Gallery, NSW
Western Australian Art Gallery, Perth
Commonwealth Government Collection of Painting, Australia House, London
University of Wollongong, NSW
Phillippine Embassy, Canberra
University of Southern Illinois
Indiana State University
University of Kentucky, Moorehead

Corporate, Institutional and Private Collections

Australia:
Rio Tinto Research & Development Centre, Melbourne
La Trobe Business Development College
Lucios Restaurant, Sydney
Dr Joseph Brown Collection, Melbourne
Ansett Corporation, Airport Sydney
Y’s Advertising Agency, Sydney

USA:
Harold Mertz Public Collection, New York
Planned Parenthood, Chicago
Azriel, Kaplan & Osiol, Public Accounts Office, Chicago
Corbett & Matthews, Attorneys at Law, Chicago
Elliot Petlak, Attorney at Law Office, Chicago

Awards and Grants

W.D. & H.O. Wills Painting Award, W.H.O Wills Corp., Sydney
The Helena Rubinstein Travelling Art Scholarship, 1963
The Helena Rubinstein Travelling Art Scholarship, 1965
Tumut Art Prize
Tamworth Art Prize
Toowoomba Art Prize
The Mosman Art Prize
The Maitland Art Prize
Louis Comfort Tiffany Grant
Indianapolis Museum of Art Merit Award: ‘Works on Paper’
Travel Grant from Greenwich, American Institute for Foreign Study, Conneticut to London
Research Grant, Indiana State University: ‘The Italian Sense of Space, Old and New’
Art Alliance Merit Recognition, Swope Art Museum, Terre Haute, Indiana
Merit Award, Swope Art Museum, Terre Haute, Indiana
Research Grant, Indiana State University, Visual Interpretation of the Australian Continent and Culture

Select Bibliography

The Quiet Revolution, Christopher Heathcote
The Art of Australia, Robert Hughes
Australian Painting 1788-1990, Bernard Smith
Artists and Galleries of Australia, Max Germaine
Who’s Who in American Art, Jaques Cattell Press