Paul Higgs (b.1954)

Education/Experience
1989 Art Study Tour of London & Paris
1984 Winner of the NSW Travelling Art Scholarship
6 month residency with Patrick Herron in Cornwall, UK
8 month residency at the NSW Paris Studio
Art Study Tour of Greece, Italy & Egypt
1980-81 Art Study Tour of Easter Island, Peru, Mexico, Yucatan, New York. Washington, UK, Europe, Greece & Egypt with painter Ron Lambert
1975-77 Studied painting at Winchester School of Art, UK
B. A Fine Arts Degree – 3 years painting/drawing
1974 Foundation Art Course, Sutton College of Art, UK

Teaching
1979-present Part-time painting/drawing teacher at West Wollongong
TAFE Arts and Media
1997-present Part-time painting/drawing teacher at National Art School
*also part-time painting/drawing teacher at Wollongong University, Gymea TAFE, COFA Sydney, East Sydney TAFE

Solo Exhibitions
2002 King Street On Burton Gallery, Sydney
2000 SURVEY SHOW 1983-2000. Wollongong City Art Gallery
1999 King Street Gallery Newtown, Sydney
1997 King Street on Burton Gallery, Sydney
1994 Chandler Coventry Gallery, Sydney
1993 Chandler Coventry Gallery, Sydney
1991 Chandler Coventry Gallery, Sydney
1989 Chandler Coventry Gallery, Sydney
1987 Chandler Coventry Gallery, Sydney
Travelling Ideas 1984-86, Wollongong City Art Gallery
1984 Chandler Coventry Gallery, Sydney
1983 Solander Gallery, Canberra
1982 Chandler Coventry Gallery, Sydney
1981 Chandler Coventry Gallery, Sydney
1980 Wollongong City Art Gallery, Wollongong

Group Exhibitions
2004 Sculpture 2004, Stella Downer Fine Art, Sydney
2003 Endurance, Cell Block Gallery, National Art School
2001 Works on Paper, Hazelhurst Regional Gallery
2000 Afloat, King Street On Burton Gallery
1999 Anniversary Staff Show, Ivan Dougherty Gallery
1997-98 various group shows at King Street On Burton and Newtown
1993 Ironsides, The Powerhouse Museum
Xmas Show, Coventry Gallery, Sydney
The Digital Alice Art Prize
Fairfield and Mosman Art Prizes
Chandler Coventry Private Collection, Campbelltown City Art Gallery
1992 Aspects of Landscape, Coventry Gallery
1991 Diary, Coventry Gallery
New Art 5 book launch exhibition
1990 From the Stockroom, Coventry Gallery
1989 Intimate Drawing, Coventry Gallery
1988 Black and White, Coventry Gallery
1987 Newcastle Regional Gallery, Newcastle
Ausgraph ’87, Computer Graphics Show, Perth
Colour II, Coventry Gallery, Sydney
1986 The Scanned Image, Arts Council Gallery, Canberra
20 Years of Australian Abstraction, Ivan Dougherty Gallery
Colour I, Coventry Gallery
1985 Red, Salt House Gallery, Cornwall
1984 Solander Gallery, Canberra
Coventry Gallery
1983 Private Collection of Chandler Coventry, Coventry Gallery
Attitudes of Drawing, Ivan Dougherty Gallery & The Lewers Bequest and Penrith Regional Gallery
1982-83 The NSW Travelling Art Scholarship Prize, Blaxland Gallery
1982 The 4th Biennale , Coventry Gallery
1980 Coventry Gallery
The NSW Young Contemporaries, Wollongong City Art Gallery
Wollongong Art Purchase Prize, Wollongong City Art Gallery
1979 Wollongong Art Purchase Prize, Wollongong City Art Gallery

Awards
1997 Campbelltown Art Prize
1984 Art Gallery of New South Wales Studio, Paris
Dyson Bequest, Sydney
1983 NSW Travelling Art Scholarship, Sydney
Highly Commended, The Hunters Hill Art Prize
1982 Highly Commended, The NSW Travelling Art Scholarship
1978 The Lloyd Rees Drawing Prize, Port Kembla

Collections
Art Gallery of NSW; Artbank; New England Regional Art Museum; Newcastle Regional Art Gallery; Wollongong City Art Gallery; Wollongong University Collection; Campbelltown City Art Gallery; many private collections in Australia, UK & Norway

Publications
Art and Australia, Winter 1998
Art and Australia, Summer 1991 vol. 29, no. 2 (colour reproduction)
New Art Five, Craftsman House, June 1991 (colour reproduction & text)
Art and Australia, Spring 1989, vol. 27, no. 1 (colour reproduction)
Art and Australia, Winter 1984, vol. 21, no. 4 (colour reproduction)
Art and Australia, Autumn 1984, vol. 21, no. 3 (colour reproduction)
Images in Australian Art, Vol. 1 & 2, Craftsman House (colour reproduction and text)