Wayne Eager (b.1957)

Biography
1976-79 Diploma of Fine Arts (painting), Victorian College of the Arts
1981-82 Travelled Europe, Turkey and Morocco
1982 Founding Member, Roar Studios
1990 Travelled in the Northern Territory
Painted at Kapalga Research Station, Kakadu, NT
1992-97 Lived and painted at Haasts Bluff NT
Involved in the establishment of the Inkuntji Women's Centre
1996-2000 Field Officer Papunya Tula Artists
1998-2003 Living and painting in Alice Springs, Tutoring at Batchelor Institute
2006 Etching and Lithography, Northern Editions, CDU Darwin

Solo Exhibitions (Selected)
2009 Chapman Gallery, Canberra
2008 Jan Murphy Gallery, Brisbane
2007 Nellie Castan Gallery, Melbourne
2006 Jan Murphy Gallery, Brisbane
2005 Raft Art Space, Darwin
2004 Jan Murphy Gallery, Brisbane
2004 Nellie Castan Gallery, Melbourne
2003 Greenhill Galleries, Perth
2002 Nellie Castan Gallery, Melbourne
2001 Araluen Art Centre, Alice Springs
1995 William Mora Galleries, Melbourne
1994 William Mora Galleries, Melbourne
1992 Coventry Gallery, Melbourne
1992 William Mora Galleries, Melbourne
1991 William Mora Galleries, Melbourne
1990 William Mora Galleries, Melbourne
1989 William Mora Galleries, Melbourne

Group Exhibitions
2009 For Pete's Sake, Deutscher and Hackett, Charity, Melbourne
2008 The Other Thing - a survey show, CDU, Darwin
Big Country, Gallery Gondwana, Alice Springs
2007 Alice 5, A P Bond Art Dealer, Adelaide
Marina Strocchi and Wayne Eager, Northern Editions, CDU, Darwin
Squared, Greenhill Galleries, Perth
Marina Strocchi and Wayne Eager, Etchings, Michael Reid, Sydney
Big Country, Gallery Gondwana, Alice Springs
2006 Big Country, Gallery Gondwana, Alice Scprings
The Sound of the Sky, MAGNT, Darwin
Art for Peace, Counihan Gallery, Melbourne
The Artist the community and the Land, Plimsoll Gallery, Hobart
2 x 1 Group Show, Nellie Castan Gallery, Melbourne
Christmas Show, Jan Murphy Gallery, Brisbane
2005 Group Show, Peter Walker, Adelaide
Jan Murphy Gallery 10 Year Exhibition
Christmas Show, Jan Murphy Gallery
Raft Artspace, End of Year Show
2004 33rd Alice Prize, Alice Springs
Floranova, Nellie Castan Gallery, Melbourne
Christmas Show, Jan Murphy, Gallery
2003 Red Spot Special, Nellie Castan Gallery, Melbourne
Jan Murphy Gallery, Christmas Show, Brisbane
2002 Windows on Australian Art, Museum and Art Gallery of NT
Two Painters, Gallery Gondwana, Alice Springs
2001 Four Person Show, Watch This Space, Alice Springs
‘Roar Again’, Metro 5 Gallery, Melbourne
1999 The Alice Prize, Araluen Art Centre, Alice Springs
1998 NT Art Award, Araluen Art Centre, Alice Springs
1997 The Melbourne Group 12 Years On, Coventry Gallery, Sydney
1996 Contemporary Territory 1996, MAGT, Darwin
Diary Show, Coventry Gallery, Sydney
1995 The Alice Art Prize & NT Art Award, Araluen Art Centre, Alice Springs
A Territory Picture Show, MAGT, Darwin
1994 Coventry Collection: Works on Paper, Campelltown City Art Gallery, NSW
The Alice Art Prize & NT Art Award, Araluen Art Centre, Alice Springs
1992 Ten Square Works for Wilderness, Linden Gallery, Melbourne
Roar, Touring: Heide Art Gallery, Benalla Art Gallery, Ballarat Fine Art Gallery, Shepparton Art Gallery
1991 Seven Roar Artists 10 Years On, Gallery 2, Launceston
New Art Five Book Launch, Coventry Gallery, Sydney
1990 A Young Collectors Exhibition, Coventry Gallery, Sydney
Greenpeace, Linden Gallery, Melbourne
1989 9 x 5 Wilderness Exhibition, Linden Gallery, Melbourne
1988 Black and White Show, Coventry Gallery, Sydney
Three Person Show, Figaro Café, Melbourne
1987 Colour 2, Coventry Gallery, Sydney
1986 Tea Chest Show, Rhumbarella’s, Melbourne
Colour 1, Coventry Gallery, Sydney
1985 Raw Realities, Realities Gallery, Melbourne
1984 Four Melbourne Painters, Cockatoo Gallery, Launceston
1982 Roar Opening Show, Roar Studios, Melbourne

Commissions
1986 Mural Cleopatra's Restaurant, Fitzroy Street, St Kilda
1986 National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
(Phillip Morris Art Grant)

Publications
Grishin, Sasha, A culture absorbed by osmosis, The Canberra Times, December 12, 2008
Murray, Daena, The Sound of the Sky, Charles Darwin University Press, 2006
Murray, Daena, The Sound of the Sky, MAGNT Exhibition catalogue, 2006
Isaacs, Jennifer, Outback Renaissance, Australian Art Review, Issue 10, 2006
Izett, Erica, Sitting Down with Indigenous artists, Artlink Vol 25 #2, 2005
Jan Murphy Gallery "2005:10 years" catalogue
McDonald, John "Future Dreaming" Quantas, December 2005
"Resident Artists" Resident Magazine, Issue 1 May-Oct 2005
Robertson, Christian Clare, "Raising the Rafter", Australian Art Review, March 2003
Gallery Section, Art and Australia, June 2002
Makin, Jeff, "Hot Spell moves in", Herald Sun 22 April, 2002
Centrlian Advocate "Abstracts in Alice Showing", 25 May, 2001
Crawford, Ashley, Communing with a Territory’s Soul, The Australian, 15.5.2001
Kieran Finnane, In Love with Colour, Stroke, Alice Spring News, 6.6.2001
Marie Claire Living, September ’99
Art and Australia, Volume 35 # 1, September ’97
Kieran Finnane, Words in Harmony, Alice Springs News, 6.11.1996
Daena Murray, Contemporary Territory, MAGNT, ’96
Daena Murray, Territory Picture Show, MAGNT, ’95
Mary Lou Jelbart, Eager for More Space, Herald Sun, 23.5.1995
Dorothy Grimm, Bluff Art Show in Melbourne, Centralian Advocate, 9.5.1995
Nevill Drury Images 1,2 & 3: Contemporary Australian Painting, Craftsman House, ’90, ’94,’98
Trudi Allen, Roar and Quieter Moments from a Group of Melbourne Artists 1980-1993, Craftsman House, 1992
Christopher Heathcote, The Roaring Eighties, Art Monthly #52, August ’92
Joseph Pascoe & Katrina Fraser, Roar Studio’s Touring Exhibition Catalogue, Shepparton Art Gallery, ’92
Robert Rooney, Eager Discipline, The Australian, April, ’91
Nevill Drury, New Art 5, Craftsman House, 1990
Janina Green, Roar or Whimper, Art and Text #14, Winter Edition, ’84

Collections
National Gallery of Australia
Museum of Contemporary Art, sydney
Artbank
Araluen Art Centre
Coventry Collection
Crown Casino, Melbourne
Myer ROAR Collection
Museum & Art Gallery of the Northern Territory
Shepparton Art Gallery
Smorgon Collection
Northern Territory University
Ballarat Regional Gallery