Tessa Perceval (b.1947)

Biography

Tessa Perceval was born in Melbourne in 1947, the eldest daughter of John Perceval and Mary Boyd. She is primarily a self taught painter, although she studied art for a short time in London in the 1960's and in Florence in 1971. She held her first solo exhibition in London in 1971 and since then has exhibited widely in Australia and the U.K.

Throughout her career as a landscape painter she has travelled extensively, painting on location in many parts of Europe, the UK, Ireland and Australia. Based in London for most of her adult life, she now lives with her family in Herefordshire near the south Wales border, returning to Australia periodically.  Her work is in public collections in Australia and in private collections internationally.

Solo Exhibitions  

1971 The Hilton Gallery, London  
1972 Australian Galleries, Melbourne
1973 Australian Galleries, Melbourne
1976 Australian Galleries, Melbourne
1976 Bonython Galleries, Sydney
1977 Von Bertouch Galleries, Newcastle, N.S.W.
1977 Philip Bacon Galleries, Brisbane
1978 Australian Galleries, Melbourne
1979 Qantas Gallery, London
1979 Barry Stern Galleries, Sydney
1980 Chapel Vale Cellars, South Australia
1981 Abercrombie Galleries, Melbourne
1995 Von Bertouch Galleries, Newcastle, N.S.W.

Selected Group Exhibitions

1974 Bonython Galleries, Sydney
1976, 77, 81, 93, 94, 95, 96 'Collectors Choice', Von Bertouch Galleries, Newcastle, N.S.W.
1979, 80 'Australian Artists of Fame and Promise', New South Wales House, London.
1980 Abercrombie Galleries, Melbourne
1981 Qantas Gallery, London; Toxana Gallery, Richmond, N.S.W.
1981 'Apmira' Artists for Aboriginal Land Rights, Sydney
1984 - 1994 Blue Boy Gallery, Melbourne
1989, 90, 94, 95 Border Arts Festival, Wales
1994 - 2002 Aviva Campell Galleries, Melbourne
1995 'The Rodd Collection', The Sidney Nolan Trust, Herefordshire, England
1996 Tidal Wave Gallery, Hereford, England
1996 'The Mappa Mundi Exhibition', the Bishop's Palace, Hereford, England             
1997 'Ten of the Best', Tidal Wave Gallery, Hereford, England     
1997 'The Boyds and Tessa Perceval', Galeria Aniela, Kangaroo Valley, N.S.W.
1998 Tidal Wave Gallery, Hereford England
1998 King's Head Gallery, Presteigne, Wales
1999 Tidal Wave Gallery, Hereford; The Bishop's Palace, Hereford, England
2000 King's Head Gallery, Presteigne, Wales
2001 Left Bank Gallery, Hereford, England
2002 Aviva Fine Art, Melbourne
2005 'The Boyds – An Artistic Dynasty since 1858', Wagner Art Gallery, Sydney; Solander Gallery, A.C.T.

Public Collections

Bundanon Collection
Gold Coast Arts Centre
Heide Museum of Modern Art (Collection John and Sunday Reed)

Publications & Reference

P. Dobrez and P. Herbst, The Art of the Boyds, Bay Books, 1991
P. Dobrez, 'The Boyds: A Post Colonial Retrospective', The Journal of Australian Art, 1990
M. Germaine, Artists and Galleries of Australia
M. Germaine, A Dictionary of Woman Artists of Australia

Source: The artist