David Aspden (1935-2005)

Biography
Born Boulton, England, 1935

Collections
Aspden is represented in National Gallery of Australia, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Museums and Galleries of the Northern Territory, National Gallery of Victoria, Art Gallery of South Australia, and other state galleries. His work is found in regional galleries including Wollongong, Gold Coast, Orange, Armidale, Ballarat, Southern Highlands and Geelong. Aspden’s paintings are hung in New Parliament House, Canberra and the NSW State Parliament. David’s work is in the collections of Artbank, Macquarie University, National Bank of Australia, Macquarie Bank, St George Bank, numerous hotels, Festival Hall in Adelaide, Allan Allan and Hemsley, Clayton Utz, Melbourne Casino, Fairfax, News Limited, University of Western Australia, Monash University, the Beljourno Group, Shell Australia Limited, and numerous other corporate and private collections.

Individual Exhibitions
1965 Watters Gallery, Sydney
1966 Watters Gallery, Sydney
1967 Watters Gallery, Sydney / Strines Gallery, Melbourne
1968 Farmers‚ Blaxland Gallery, Sydney / Gallery A, Melbourne
1970 Rudy Komon Art Gallery, Sydney
1971 Rudy Komon Art Gallery, Sydney
1973 Rudy Komon Art Gallery, Sydney
1974 Rudy Komon Art Gallery, Sydney
1975 Solander Gallery, Canberra
1976 Monash University, Victoria / Rudy Komon Art Gallery, Sydney
1977 Rudy Komon Art Gallery, Sydney
1981 Rudy Komon Art Gallery, Sydney / Realties Gallery, Melbourne
1982 Roslyn Oxley 9 Gallery, Sydney
1983 Realities Gallery, Melbourne
1985 Roslyn Oxley 9 Gallery, Sydney
1986 Charles Nodrum, Melbourne / Realties Gallery, Melbourne
1988 Realties Gallery, Melbourne / BMG Fine Art, Sydney
1990 Studio Exhibition
1991 Studio Exhibition
1992 Studio Exhibition
1993 Studio Exhibition
1994 Anima Gallery, Adelaide
1995 Australian High Commission, Singapore
1996 Gallery 482, Brisbane
1996 Wagner Gallery
1997 Annandale Gallery, Sydney
1997 Anima Gallery, Adelaide
1997 Gallery 482, Brisbane
2000 Wagner Gallery, Sydney
2002 Vanessa Wood Fine Art, Sydney
2002 Celebration of Colour, Orange Regional Art Gallery

Group Exhibitions
1966 Contemporary Australian Painting‚, Los Angeles and San Francisco
1968 Group 1, Gallery A, Sydney and Melbourne / Group 3‚ Gallery A, Melbourne
1969 The Field, National Gallery of Victoria
1970 Colour and Structure‚ Blaxland Gallery, Sydney
1971 XI Biennale of San Paulo, Brazil
1972 Australian Landscape‚ Adelaide Festival of Arts, then to all state galleries, Australian Paintings and Tapestries of the Past 20 Years‚ NSW House, London and Bonython Gallery, Sydney
1974 Five Festival Artists‚, Greenhill Galleries, Adelaide
1981 Perspecta, Art Gallery of NSW / 6 Artists‚ Wollongong City Art Gallery
1983 12 Australian Painters‚ Art Gallery of W.A.
1984 David Aspden‚ Warwick Arts Trust, London
1986 Resistant Spirit‚ Roslyn Oxley 9 Gallery
1987 Painters and Sculptors‚ Queensland Art Gallery and Japan / Surface for Reflection, Art Gallery of NSW
1990 David Jones Gallery
1991 Wollongong Regional Gallery, Prints Galore.
1992 Wynne Prize Exhibition, Art Gallery New South Wales
1993 Contemporary Australian Paintings, Works from the Allen Allen and Hemsley collection
1993 Wynne Prize Exhibition, Art Gallery New South Wales
1994 Wynne Prize Exhibition, Art Gallery New South Wales
1995 Wynne Prize Exhibition, Art Gallery New South Wales
1995 Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne
1995 Wagner Gallery, Sydney
1996 Collectors show, Wagner Gallery, Sydney
1996 new paint new work, Utopia Art, Sydney
1997 Wynne Prize Exhibition, Art Gallery New South Wales
1997 Wynne exhibition at the Wynne Estate, Mount Wilson, NSW
1997 North Newtown School, Sydney
1998 Robert Steele Gallery, Adelaide
1998 Symbiosis, Utopia Art, Sydney and New England Regional Art Museum, Armidale
1998 Eva Brewer, Sydney
1999 Refuse (Wynne Prize), Sydney
1999 Wagner Gallery, Sydney
1999 Geelong Contemporary Art Prize
1999 Redlands Art Prize Exhibition
1999 Sydney Art Gallery
1999 New England Regional Art Museum, Print Portfolio 1
2000 Sydney Art Gallery, Ultimo
2000 We Are Australian, Victorian Arts Centre and travelling
2000 Idea and Influence, Annandale Gallery
2000 Artists in the Field: a Retrospective. MAGNT, Northern Territory
2001 Gallery 482, Brisbane
2001 Investment Paintings, Wagner Gallery, Sydney
2001 Paper, Stella Downer Fine Art, Sydney
2001 Modern and Contemporary Australian Art, Charles Nodrum, Sydney, Melbourne
2001 Australian Watercolour Institute, annual exhibition
2001 Colour, Studio 91B, Adelaide Charles Nodrum Gallery Melbourne
2002 Refuse (Wynne Prize), Sydney
2002 Stella Downer Fine Art, Sydney

AWARDS
1963 Wollongong Drawing Prize
1965 Wollongong and Drummoyne Prizes, NSW
1967 Muswellbrook Prize, Joint Winner of Berrima Prize, NSW
1970 Crough Prize, Ballarat, Victoria
1971 Gold Medal, XI Biennale of San Paulo / Alice Prize, Alice Springs, NT / H.C. Richards memorial prize, Queensland Art Gallery
1972 Gold Coast City Art Prize, Queensland
1973 Travelodge Art Prize, Queensland
1984 Received grant from V.A.B. to be artist in residence at Institute of Marine Science, Cape Ferguson, Queensland
1995 Wynne Prize, New South Wales

BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCES
Horton, M. (ed), Present Day Art in Australia, Ure Smith, Sydney, London, 1969
McGreggor C., Beal, D., Moore, D., Williamson,H., In the Making, Thomas Nelson (Aust) 1969 SBN 17001819
Smith, Terry Colour-Form Painting, Sydney 1965-70, Other Voices, Melbourne, Vol 1, No 1, June/July 1970
Smith, Terry 'The Painting of David Aspden', Art International, Vol XIV, No 8, October 1970
Hutchison Noel 'The Dynamiting of the Picture - David Aspden's Paintings', Art and Australia, Vol 9, No 3, December 1971
Smith Bernard Australian Painting 1880 - 1970, Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1971
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Lloyd, Tim The Adelaide Review, 24/09/1994, "Camouflage Lifts to Reveal a Hidden Nature"
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