Mark Howson (b.1961)

Biography
1961 Born in Whitmore, Staffordshire, England
1969 Arrived in Melbourne, Australia
1978 Completed HSC
1979 Medicine, Monash University
1980 TOP Art and Design, Prahran CAE
1981-82 Painting, Victorian College of the Arts
1982 Founding Member, Roar Studios
1983-84 Travel in Europe
1988 Travel Italy and Japan
1997 Teaching Drawing, Victoria University

Solo Exhibitions
1999 Paintings, Nellie Castan Gallery, Melbourne
1998 Drawings and Sculpture, 208 Lennox Street, Melbourne
1997 Drawings, Continental Cafe, Melbourne
1993 Paintings, William Mora Galleries, Melbourne
1991 Paintings and Sculpture, William Mora Galleries, Melbourne
1990 Paintings, William Mora Galleries, Melbourne
1989 Paintings, William Mora Galleries, Melbourne
1998 Paintings and Drawings, William Mora Galleries, Melbourne

Group Exhibitions
2000 Drawing Show, Robin Gibson Gallery, Sydney
1998 Jacaranda Drawing Prize Exhibition, Grafton Regional Gallery and touring NSW
1997 12 Melbourne Artists, Coventry Gallery, Sydney
1996 Nillumbik Art Award exhibition, Eltham
1996 First Darebin- La Trobe Acquisitive Art Prize Exhibition
1995 Biennial Spring Festival of Drawing, Mornington Regional Gallery
1994 Chandler Coventry Obsession, Drawings and Sculpture Campbelltown City Art Gallery Kyneton Collection Inaugural Exhibition, Kyneton
1993 Blake Prize Exhibition, Blaxland Gallery, Sydney and Touring Exhibition, Tweed Heads, Noosa and Adelaide
1992 The Nude, Sara Weiss Award, Heide Park and Art Gallery
Roar Studios Touring Exhibition, Heide Park and Art Gallery Shepparton Art Gallery, Benalla Art Gallery, Ballarat Art Gallery
Castlemaine Drawing Prize Exhibition, Castlemaine
1988 A New Generation, Australian National Gallery Canberra
1987 Drawings, Reconnaissance Gallery, Melbourne
Colour 2, Coventry Gallery, Sydney
1986 Colour 1, Coventry Gallery, Sydney
1985 The Melbourne Group, Coventry Gallery, Sydney
Raw Reality, Realities Gallery, Melbourne
1984 Group Show, Roar Studios, Melbourne Melbourne Painters, Chameleon Gallery, Hobart
1983 Two Person Show, Roar Studios, Melbourne
1982 Opening Exhibition, Roar Studios, Melbourne
Three Person Show, Roar Studios Melbourne
1981 Benefit Exhibition for Roar Studios, Green St Studio, Prahran

Commissions
1990 Sculpture, Entrance Foyer, Vosti House, Melbourne
1985 Murals, Gallery Restaurant, Australian National Gallery
1984 Nativity Scene, Wooden Sculpture, Australian National Gallery

Awards
1981 Painting Prize, Victorian College of the Arts

Collections
Art Bank; Australian National Gallery; National Gallery of Victoria; Ballarat Art Gallery; New Parliament House, Canberra; Monash University; Launceston College of Advanced Education Shire of Kyneton; Gardens, Sydney; Sakuma Collection, Tokyo; Private collections in Australia, Europe and USA.

Selected Biography
1988 Christopher Heathcote, review, 'Australian Art Monthly', Issue 15, Oct.
1991 Christina Lew, review, 'Tension', Vol.24
Anna Claburn, 'The Nude', Sara Weiss Award Catalogue
1992 'Roar Studios Touring Exhibition', Catalogue, Shepparton Art Gallery
1993 'New Art Eight, Profiles in Contemporary Australian Art', Craftsman House, edited by Neville Drury
1994 'Images 2', Contemporary Australian Painting Neville Drury, Craftsman House
1995 'Roar...And Quieter Moments from a group of Melbourne Artists', Traudi Allen, Craftsman House