Ian Fairweather (1891 - 1974)

1891 Born Scotland
1914 – 17 Commissioned Second-Lieutenant, captured in France by the Germans and placed in a P.O.W. camp, studies drawing and Japanese, illustrated P.O.W. magazines
1918 Stdied at The Academy, the Hague, then privately with Johann Hendrik van Mastenbroek
1919 Enrolled in Commonwealth Forestry Institute, Oxford
1920 Slade School, London
1921 studied Japanese at School of Oriental Studies
1922 Second prize for figure drawing, Slade School
1924-25 Travels to Germany, Oslo, Norway and near Kuam
1929 – 32 Travels through Asia, mainly China
1934 Mural commissioned for Menzies Hotel
1935 Returns to China
1936 First solo exhibition at Redfern gallery, London
1937 Manila, invited to exhibit at the Carnegie International
1939 Cairns, lived with Aboriginal and Islander people, and paints first Australian subjects
1940 Hong Kong, Saigon, Bankok, Singapore
1940s – 1950s Lives in different parts of Australia and continues to travel
1953 Bribie Island, builds thatched house
1955 – 7 Aboriginal painting and Cubism become major liberating influences, returned to study of Chines
1963 Represented Australia in VII Bienal de Sao Paulo, and Australian painting Today in Europe
1966 John McCaughey Prize
1973 International Co-operation Art Award
1974 Died, BrisbaneSelected Exhibitions
1934 Cynthia Reed’s, Little Collins Street, Melbourne
1935 Redfern Gallery, London
1936 Ian Fairweather, Redfern Gallery, London
1937 Recent paintings by Ian Fairweather, Redfern Gallery, London
1942 Paintings of China and the Philippines by Ian Fairweather, Redfern Gallery, London
1948 Paintings by Ian Fairweather, Redfern Gallery, London
1949 Exhibition of Drawings, Macquarie Galleries, Sydney
1950 Gouache Paintings, Macquarie Galleries, Sydney
1951 Gouache Drawings, Stanley Coe Gallery, Melbourne
1954 Ian Fairweather, Macquarie Galleries, Sydney
1955 Ian Fairweather, Macquarie Galleries, Sydney
1956 Ian Fairweather, Macquarie Galleries, Sydney; Ian Fairweather, Peter Bray Gallery, Melbourne
1957 Ian Fairweather, Macquarie Galleries, Sydney
1958 Ian Fairweather, Macquarie Galleries, Sydney; Ian Fairweather, Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne
1959 Ian Fairweather, Macquarie Galleries, Sydney
1960 Ian Fairweather, Macquarie Galleries, Sydney
1961 Ian Fairweather, Macquarie Galleries, Sydney
1962 Ian Fairweather, Macquarie Galleries, Sydney
1963 Exhibition of Paintings, Macquarie Galleries, Sydney
1964 Exhibition of Paintings, Macquarie Galleries, Sydney
1965 The Drunken Buddha and Other Recent Works, Macquarie Galleries, Sydney; Fairweather: A Retrospective Exhibition, Queensland Art Gallery, Art Gallery of New South Wales, National Gallery of Victoria, National Gallery of South Australia, Western Australian Art Gallery, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery
1968 Recent Paintings, Macquarie Gallery, Sydney
1970 Recent Paintings, Macquarie Gallery, Sydney
1975 A Posthumous Exhibition of Paintings and Drawings, Macquarie Galleries, Sydney
1988 The Great Australian Art Exhibition 1788 – 1988
1992 The Face of Australia, and Classical Modernism: The George Bell Circle, National Gallery Victoria

Represented
National Gallery of Australia, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Art Gallery of South Australia, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, National Gallery of Victoria, Queensland Art Gallery, Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, Tasmania Museum and Art Gallery; many regional and other public galleries; Tate Gallery, London; Leicester Art Gallery; Ulster Museum, Belfast.

Selected Bibliography
Abbott-Smith, N Ian Fairweather: Profile of a Painter, University of Queensland Press, Brisbane, 1978
Bail, Murray Ian Fairweather, Bay Books, Sydney and London, 1981
Fairweather, I The Drunken Buddha, University of Queensland Press, Brisbane, 1965
Smith, R Ian Fairweather: A Retrospective Exhibition, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, 1965