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Biographical Notes

Born 1952 - Brisbane

Solo Exhibitions
2025 - Philip Bacon Galleries, Brisbane
2024 - Michael Reid Sydney
2023 - Philip Bacon Galleries, Brisbane
2022 - Michael Reid Sydney
2021 - Philip Bacon Galleries, Brisbane
2020 - Michael Reid Sydney
2019 - Philip Bacon Galleries, Brisbane
2018 - Michael Reid Gallery, Sydney and Murrurundi
2018 - Hold this closely - 15 year survey exhibition, Artspace Mackay, Mackay
2017 - Philip Bacon Galleries, Brisbane
2015 - Philip Bacon Galleries, Brisbane
2013 - Philip Bacon Galleries, Brisbane
2011 - Philip Bacon Galleries, Brisbane
2009 - Philip Bacon Galleries, Brisbane
2007 - Philip Bacon Galleries, Brisbane
2005 - Philip Bacon Galleries, Brisbane
2003 - Philip Bacon Galleries, Brisbane
1991 - 1993 - 1996 - Grahame Galleries & Editions
1987 - 1989 - Grahame Galleries, Brisbane
1985 - Crossroads Bazaar Gallery, Brisbane
1983 - Bundaberg Art Gallery, Bundaberg
1975 - 1981 - Allamanda Art Gallery, Bundaberg (7 exhibitions)
1974 - Bargara Kiosk (Bundaberg)

Selected Group Exhibitions
2026 - Still Life and Interiors Philip Bacon Galleries, Brisbane
2025 - The Summer Exhibition Philip Bacon Galleries, Brisbane
2024 - Gold Award 2024 Invitational Painting Prize, Rockhampton Museum of Art
2023 - 2025 - Sydney Contemporary Art Fair (Michael Reid Sydney)
2022 - An artist’s view: Margaret Olley and contemporaries Tweed Regional Gallery
2021 - Savour Bundaberg Regional Art Gallery
2020 - Sir John Sulman Finalist Exhibition Art Gallery of New South Wales
2020 - (in situ) Selected works from Daryl Hewson Collection Brisbane Club
2019 - Sydney Contemporary Art Fair (Michael Reid Sydney)
2019 - Out of the Allamanda Bundaberg Regional Art Gallery
2018 - Sydney Contemporary Art Fair (Michael Reid Gallery)
2018 - A painter’s house Tweed Regional Gallery / Margaret Olley Art Centre
2017 - Artist Profile Australasian Painters 2007 - 2017 Orange Regional Gallery
2017 - Harvest to Hearth Museum of Brisbane
2011 - Finalist, Gold Coast Art Prize
2011 - Ten Degrees of Separation Poimena Gallery, Launceston, Tasmania
2010 - Finalist, Redlands Art Awards
2009 - Tattersalls Landscape Art Prize, Brisbane
2003 - 2005 - The Artist’s Studio Touring Exhibition: Qld, NSW, Vic & ACT galleries + regional galleries
2004 - Fifteen Artists Invitational exhibition, Redcliffe City Gallery
1998 - Gone to the Dogs, Grahame Galleries and Editions
1996 - Artists' Books & Multiples Fair, Metro Arts, Brisbane and London
1995 - BEWARE Books by Artists, Gladstone Regional Gallery, Gladstone
1995 - Book Artists Booked In, Toowoomba Regional Art Gallery, Toowoomba
1994 - BEWARE Books by Artists, Australian Artists Book Fair, State Library of Qld
1993 - Artists’ Books by Australian Artists, Grahame Galleries & Editions
1992 - From Dixie to Down Under, Perc Tucker Regional Gallery, Townsville; Sarratt Gallery, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, U.S.A.
1991 - Aberdare Invitational Prize, Ipswich Art Gallery
1991 - Suncorp Finalist Exhibition, Brisbane
1990 - Bigger Than Ben Hur, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane
1990 - Canson Print Award, Melbourne
1984 - Slants, Illuka Gardens Gallery, Bundaberg
1980 - Allamanda Art Gallery, Bundaberg
1975 - 76 - Australian Flying Art School, Bundaberg

Awards
2020 - Finalist, Sulman Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales
2019 - Inaugural ‘Open Studio’ artist, QAGOMA, June - September
2017 - Residency, Tweed Regional Art Gallery
2007 - Australia Council Grant ‘New Work Established’
2004 - Winner, ‘Fifteen Artists’, Redcliffe City Gallery
2002 - Still Life Award, Courier Mail Art Prize
2000 - Editor’s Choice Award, Sunday Mail Art Prize
2000 - Watercolour Award, Courier Mail Art Prize
1999 - Landscape Award, Sunday Mail Art Prize
1998 - Caloundra Art Festival Open Painting Award
1996 - Toowoomba Biennial Acquisitive Fine Art Award
1995 - Maroochy Arts Festival Drawing Award
1993 - Maroochy Arts Festival Open Painting (Watercolour Award)
1992 - Logan Art Award (Watercolour)
1990 - Caloundra Art Festival Open Painting Award
1990 - Maroochy Arts Festival Open Painting Award
1990 - Aberdare Purchase Prize
1988 - Bundaberg Art Festival Drawing Prize
1980 - Bundaberg Sugar Company Award (Bundaberg Art Festival)
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Collections
Anglican Church of England Grammar School, Brisbane
Artspace Mackay, Mackay
Australian National Library, Canberra
Brisbane Grammar School
Bundaberg Regional Art Gallery
Bundaberg Sugar Company
Hewlett Packhard, Brisbane
James Hardie Collection, State Library of Queensland, Brisbane
Logan City Art Collection
Museum of Brisbane
Perc Tucker Regional Gallery, Townsville
Queensland Art Gallery / Gallery of Modern Art
Queensland Building Services Authority, Brisbane
QUT Art Museum
Redcliffe City Art Gallery
Rockhampton Museum of Art
Somerville House, Brisbane
St Edmund's College, Ipswich
Toowoomba Regional Art Gallery
Tweed Regional Art Gallery
University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba
South Queensland TAFE
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