DICK WATKINS
Born 1937, Sydney
When the high-priest of American modernism, critic Clement Greenberg, visited Australia in the early 1960s he singled out one artist for especial praise: Dick Watkins. In 1968 when Watkins was featured in the ground-breaking exhibition, The Field, the then art critic for The Age, Patrick McCaughey declared that in Watkins’ painting, The Mooch, both “the opening of the field and the loosening of the paint promise a view of the future.” It is little wonder that national, state and private museums Australia-wide clamour to secure his works - The National Gallery of Victoria alone holds 21 of his works.
Now in his late 80s, it has become abundantly apparent that the shy and retiring artist is amongst the ranks of the Grand Old Masters of Australian art. His gestural mastery of the brush secures his place alongside the likes of Tony Tuckson and Ian Fairweather. Whether he is dealing with harsh calligraphic monochromes or howling, anarchic colouration, the sheer boldness of his line-work is without peer.
It is an understatement to say that the gestural and the abstract are difficult to master, as most artists learn. Most despair of achieving the Zen-like potency of simplicity that is required. The challenge is in both composition and execution both of which Watkins has clearly conquered, despite, or perhaps because of, being largely self-taught (between 1955-1958 he did occasionally attend the Julian Ashton Art School and East Sydney Technical College, Sydney). If Watkins had teachers, they are Picasso and Pollock, the maestros of the Gesture.
Watkins is renowned as an ‘artists’ artist’, one happiest in the studio rather than sipping champagne at openings. He is rigorously devoted to his practice. Each canvas exudes a stringent physicality, tearing into the retina like the crashing crescendo of an operatic extravaganza. Wherever they reside they make the walls hum with almost hallucinatory vigour. Amongst the last of his generation, Watkins paints like a man a third of his age while his paintings remain inarguably ageless. (Dr. Ashley Crawford, 2018)
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024 Dick Watkins, Scott Livesey Galleries, Melbourne
2023 Abstract and sketches of pain done under duress with eyebrow pencil and lipstick, Liverpool Street Gallery, Sydney
2022 Black & White Paintings, Scott Livesey Galleries, Melbourne
2019 Dick Watkins 2019, Scott Livesey Galleries, Melbourne
2018 Iconic Paintints, Scott Livesey Galleries, Melbourne
2018 Painting Against Time, Liverpool Street Gallery, Sydney
2016 Prime Numbers, Liverpool Street Gallery, Sydney
2015 Torrid Zone Storm Tactics, Liverpool Street Gallery, Sydney
2014 Dick Watkins: Love of Women, Maitland Regional Art Gallery, Maitland
2014 Six Paintings You Must See Before You Die, NKN Gallery, Melbourne
2014 Seven Paintings You Must See Before You Die, Liverpool Street Gallery, Sydney
2013 ‘The Great Contender’, Liverpool Street Gallery, Sydney
2012 Welcome to Chagrin Falls, Liverpool Street Gallery, Sydney
2011 Currents, Liverpool Street Gallery, Sydney
2010 Recent Work, Liverpool Street Gallery, Sydney
2010 Round the World in 56 Days, Mary Place Gallery, Sydney
2008 Invisible Pictures, Liverpool Street Gallery, Sydney
2007 ‘better git it in your soul’, Liverpool Street Gallery, Sydney
2006 13 Landscapes, Liverpool Street Gallery, Sydney
2006 Dick Watkins, Niagara Galleries, Melbourne
2005 New Work 2005, Liverpool Street Gallery, Sydney
2003 New Paintings 2003, Liverpool Street Gallery, Sydney
2002 Abstraction, Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne
2002 Newcastle Lights, John Miller Galleries, Newcastle
2001 Marks and Angles, Martin Browne Fine Art, Sydney
2000 New Paintings, Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne
1999 Recent Work 1998-1999, Martin Browne Fine Art, Sydney
1998 Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne
1997 Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne
1996 Paintings 1993-1996, Martin Browne Fine Art, Sydney
1995 Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne
1995 Twilight of the Gods, Yuill/Crowley, Sydney
1994 Twin Peaks, Yuill/Crowley, Sydney
1993 Dick Watkins in Context: An Exhibition from the Collection of the National Gallery.
1993 15 January-15 July, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
1993 Yuill/ Crowley, Sydney
1993 Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne
1992 Yuill/ Crowley, Sydney
1992 Works on Paper, Yuill/Crowley, Sydney
1992 Yuill/Crowley, Sydney
1990 Yuill/Crowley, Sydney
1989 Wagga Wagga City Art Gallery, New South Wales
1989 Arteries, Yuill/Crowley, Sydney
1989 Pinacotheca, Melbourne
1988 Pinacotheca, Melbourne
1988 Yuill/Crowley, Sydney
1987 Yuill/Crowley, Sydney
1987 Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne
1987 Paintings - Drawings 1981-1987, Galerie Dusseldorf, Perth
1986 Dick Watkins: Australia, XVlll Bienal de Sao Paulo, Heide Park and Art Gallery, Victoria
1986 Dick Watkins: A Retrospective, Broken Hill City Art Gallery, New South Wales; Manly Art
1986 Gallery and Museum, Sydney
1986 Pinacotheca, Melbourne
1986 Yuill/Crowley, Sydney
1985 Dick Watkins: Australia, XVlll Bienal de Sao Paulo, Parque Iberapuera, Sao Paulo, Brazil
1985 Yuill/ Crowley, Sydney
1984 Style Master, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane
1984 Recent Paintings, Yuill/Crowley, Sydney
1984 Pinacotheca, Melbourne
1983 Yuill/Crowley, Sydney
1983 Pinocotheca, Melbourne
1982 Yuill/Crowley, Sydney
1981 Paintings 1981, Coventry Gallery, Sydney
1980 Paintings 1980, Coventry Gallery, Sydney
1979 Landscapes, Coventry Gallery, Sydney
1979 Recent Paintings, Coventry Gallery, Sydney
1977 Paintings from Hong Kong, Coventry Gallery, Sydney
1975 Coventry Gallery, Sydney
1975 New Paintings from Paris, Coventry Gallery, Sydney
1973 Coventry Gallery, Sydney
1972 38 Hargrave Street, Paddington, Sydney
1971 38 Hargrave Street, Paddington, Sydney
1970 38 Hargrave Street, Paddington, Sydney
1969 Retrospective, Central Street Gallery, Sydney
1968 Central Street Gallery, Sydney
1967 Recent Paintings, Central Street Gallery, Sydney
1966 Paintings, Central Street Gallery, Sydney
1965 Exhibition of Interesting Pictures, Watters Gallery, Sydney
1963 The Barry Stern Galleries, Sydney
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2017 Carry On Luggage, Liverpool Street, Gallery,Sydney
2015 Sydney Contemporary Art Fair, Liverpool Street Gallery Booth, Carriageworks, Sydney
2015 Luminous World: Contemporary Art from the Wesfarmers Collection, Ian Potter Museum of Art, Melbourne
2014-15 Pop to popism, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
2014 The less there is to see. the more important it is to look, Ian Potter Museum of Art, University of Melbourne, Melbourne
2014 Luminous World: Contemporary Art from the Wesfarmers Collection, National Library of Australia, Canberra; University of Tasmania, Tasmania; Samstag Museum of Art, Adelaide
2013 LSG2013, Liverpool Street Gallery, Sydney
2013 Time/Date/Year, Geelong Art Gallery, Victoria
2013 Heavenly Stems, Neon Parc, Melbourne
2013 Luminous World: Contemporary Art from the Wesfarmers Collection, Charles Darwin University, Darwin
2012-13 Abstract Expressionism, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
2012 Luminous World: Contemporary Art from the Wesfarmers Collection, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth
2012 *Murr-ma: Uncovering Australian and Aboriginal Contemporary Art, Michael Reid Gallery Berlin, Germany
2011 Fieldwork: Abstraction and the Collection, Bathurst Regional Art Gallery, New South Wales
2011 Arthur Guy Memorial Painting Prize, Bendigo Art Gallery, Victoria
2010 In Paradise: Artists of the Northern Beaches, Manly Art Gallery & Museum, Sydney
2009-10 Cubism & Australian Art, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Victoria
2009 THE FIELD Revisited, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
2009 Summer Exhibition, Liverpool Street Gallery, Sydney
2008 Abstraction 7, Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne
2008 Melbourne Art Fair, (Liverpool Street Gallery), Melbourne, Victoria
2008 Wonderlust, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth
2007 2007: The Year in Art, S H Ervin Gallery, National Trust of Australia, Sydney
2007 Abstraction 6, Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne
2007 Art on Paper - The 2007 Hazelhurst Art Award, Hazelhurst Regional Gallery and Arts Centre, New South Wales
2007 Wynne Prize (finalist), Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
2007 Summer Exhibition, Liverpool Street Gallery, Sydney
2007 A Taste of the Chandler Coventry Collection, New England Regional Art Museum, New South Wales
2006 Blue Chip VIII: The Collectors’ Exhibition, Niagara Galleries, Melbourne
2006 Painting, Liverpool Street Gallery, Sydney
2006 Melbourne Art Fair 2006, Liverpool Street Gallery, Melbourne
2006 Summer Exhibition, Liverpool Street Gallery, Sydney
2006 Ink: Whiteley and Others, The Brett Whiteley Studio, Sydney
2006 The Chroma Collection, Macquarie University Art Gallery, Macquarie University, New South Wales
2006 Picture the Seventies from the Macquarie University Collection, Macquarie University Art Gallery, New South Wales
2006 Colour and Movement: Abstract Painting from the Collection of the Geelong Gallery, Monash Gallery of Art, Victoria
2005 Liverpool Street Gallery 2005, Liverpool Street Gallery, Sydney
2005 The Salon Exhibition, Liverpool Street Gallery, Sydney
2005 The Moderns: 20th Century Painting and Sculpture, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart
2005 Newcastle Region Art Gallery, New South Wales
2005 A Partial View: Australian Art in the University of Western Australia Collection, Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, University of Western Australia, Perth
2005 Lloyd Rees and Contemporaries, New England Regional Art Museum, New South Wales
2004 Liverpool Street Gallery 2004, Liverpool Street Gallery, Sydney
2004 Collection Focus: Gunter Christmann, Dick Watkins and Jenny Watson, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
2004 100 Years on the Edge of Sundown: An Art Auction for the Broken Hill Regional Art Gallery, National Council of Jewish Women, Sydney; Broken Hill Regional Art Gallery, New South Wales
2004 Modern Australian Paintings, Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne
2003 Abstraction III, Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne
2003 A New Outfit: Australian Artists Redress Modernism, Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, University of Western Australia, Perth
2002-03 Central Street Live, Penrith Regional Gallery and the Lewers Bequest; Macquarie
2003 University Art Gallery, New South Wales
2003 A Summer Show, Martin Browne Fine Art, Sydney
2002 Fieldwork: Australian Art 1968-2002, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
2002 The Archibald Prize, (finalist) Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
2002 Monash University: Four Decades of Collecting, Monash University Museum of Art, Victoria
2002 Abstraction II, Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne
2002 Selected Paintings from the 1960s to the Present, Charles Nodrum Gallery:
Deutscher-Menzies Gallery, Sydney
2001 The Archibald Prize, (finalist) Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
2001 Metro 5 Gallery, Melbourne
2001 A Century of Collecting: 1901-2001, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney
2000 The Blake Prize for Religious Art, (finalist), S H Ervin Gallery, National Trust of Australia, Sydney
2000 Spring: Sensational Painting, Holmes a Court Gallery, Perth
1999 Wall to Wall, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
1998 Summer Exhibition: Dick Watkins and Brent Harris, Martin Browne Fine Art, Sydney
1998 The Archibald Prize, (finalist), Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
1998 Art and Furniture of the 1960s, Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne; Luke Design, Melbourne
1997 I Had a Dream: Australian Art in the 1960s, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
1997 A View of the Collections, New England Regional Art Museum, New South Wales
1997 Swingtime East Coast West Coast: Works from the 1960s and 1970s in the University of Western Australia’s Art Collection, Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, University of Western Australia, Perth
1997 Geometric Painting in Australia 1941-1997, University Art Museum, The University of Queensland, Brisbane
1997 The Archibald, Wynne and Sulman Prizes, (finalist), Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
1997 A Cross Section of Original Prints by Artists of the Warringah Print Workshop, Studio One Gallery, Canberra
1997 Permanent Collection, Sunday and John Reed Galleries, Museum of Modern Art at Heide, Victoria
1997 39 Paintings and 2 Sculptures, Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne
1996 TECAA 2: Joan and Peter Clemenger Triennial Exhibition of Contemporary Australian Art, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
1996 Into and Out of Abstraction, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
1996 Obsession - Works on Paper and Sculpture from the Chandler Coventry Collection, New England Regional Art Museum, Armidale
1996 Hidden Treasures II: Art in Corporate Collections, S H Ervin Gallery, The National Trust of Australia, Sydney
1996 Stock Exhibition, Martin Browne Fine Art, Sydney
1995-96 Blast from the Past: Works from the 60s, Geelong Art Gallery, Victoria
1995 Australian Art 1940-1990: From the Collection of the National Gallery of Australia:
1995 In Search of an Inner Landscape, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra; Museum of Fine Arts, Gifu, Japan
1995 The Loti and Victor Smorgon Gift of Contemporary Australian Art, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
1995 The Sulman Prize, (finalist), Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
1995 Australian Art: Colonial to Contemporary, Deutscher Fine Art, Melbourne
1995 Contemporary Art from the Collection, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
1994 Chandler Coventry: Obsession: Works on Paper and Sculpture, Campbelltown City Art Gallery, Sydney
1994 The Baillieu Myer Collection of the 80s, Museum of Modern Art at Heide, Victoria
1994 The Beach, Museum of Modern Art at Heide, Victoria
1993 The Warringah Print Workshop Exhibition, Great Hall, Pittwater High School
1993 Chandler Coventry: A Private Collection, Campbelltown City Art Gallery, Sydney
1993 Contemporary Australian Paintings: Works from the Allen Allen & Hemsley Collection, Melbourne
1993 International Festival, Westpac Gallery, Victorian Arts Centre, Melbourne
1992 Third Australian Contemporary Art Fair, Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne
1992 Distraction, Yuill/Crowley, Sydney
1992 20th Century Australian and New Zealand Painting, Martin Browne Fine Art, Sydney
1991-92 New Acquisitions and a Selection from the Monash University Collection,
1992 Monash University Gallery, Victoria
1991 Penultimate, Yuill/ Crowley, Sydney
1991 3: Robert Hunter, Dick Watkins, Robert Macpherson, Yuill/Crowley at the Chicago
1991 International Art Exposition, Chicago, United States of America
1991 Modern Australian Paintings, Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne
1990-91 Selections from the Monash University Collection, Monash University Gallery, Victoria
1991 Highlights of the Permanent Collection, Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, University of Western Australia, Perth
1990 Acquisitions 1989-90, Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, University of Western Australia, Perth
1990 Central Street: An Exhibition of Selected Paintings Shown at Central Street Gallery in Sydney Between 1966 and 1969, Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne; Ray Hughes Gallery, Sydney
1990 The Moet & Chandon Acquisitions in the Art Gallery of Western Australia, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth
1990 Crouch Prize Winners, Ballarat Fine Art Gallery, Victoria
1990 Geelong Art Prize Exhibition, Geelong Art Gallery, Victoria
1990 Yuill/Crowley, Sydney
1990 A Rebours, Yuill/Crowley, Sydney
1990 Scotchmans Hill Vineyard Art Prize, Geelong Art Gallery, Victoria
1990 Monash University Collection: A Selection Including Recent Purchases, Russell Drysdale Gallery
1990 From the Collection: Selections from the Monash University Collection, Monash University Gallery, Victoria
1989 Australian Paintings from the Joseph Brown Collection, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
1990 Australian Watercolours, Drawings, Prints 1935-1989, Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne
1990 A Private Collection, Garry Anderson Gallery, Sydney
1988 Creating Australia: 200 Years of Australian Art 1788-1988, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane; Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth; Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney; Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart; National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne;
Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
1988 Loti and Victor Smorgon Collection of Contemporary Art, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne; touring to Europe and the United States of America
1988 Yuill/Crowley, Sydney
1988 The Caddy Collection, Watters Gallery, Sydney
1988 Australian Art Post-1960, Deutscher Gertrude Street, Melbourne
1988 Pinacotheca Gallery, Melbourne
1988 Heidelberg and Heritage: Two Visions of Australia - One Hundred Years Apart, (Memorial to Lloyd Rees), Linden Gallery, Melbourne
1988 First Australian Contemporary Art Fair, Yuill/Crowley, Royal Exhibition Buildings, Melbourne
1988 An Exhibition of Selected Paintings from the 1960s and 1970s, Charles Nodrum Gallery at Mary Place, Sydney
1987 Field to Figuration: Australian Art 1960-86, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
1987 Minimal Art in Australia, Museum of Contemporary Art, Brisbane
1987 Contemporary Art in Australia - A Review, Museum of Contemporary Art, Brisbane
1986-87 Surface for Reflexion, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney: The Lewers
1986 Bequest and Penrith Regional Art Gallery, New South Wales; New England Regional Art Museum, New South Wales; Bathurst Regional Art Gallery, New South Wales; Newcastle Region Art Gallery, New South Wales; Orange Regional Gallery, New South Wales; Wollongong City Gallery, New South Wales
1986 Origins, Originality and Beyond: The Biennale of Sydney, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
1986 Paintings 1955-1985, 312 Lennox Street, Melbourne
1986 33 Men Painters (The Male Sensibility?), Heide Park and Art Gallery, Victoria
1985 On the Beach, Macquarie Galleries, Sydney
1985 Selected Works from the Last Two Decades, Pinacotheca, Melbourne
1984 Apocalypse + Utopia, University Gallery, The University of Melbourne, Victoria
1984 The Field Now, Heide Park and Art Gallery, Victoria
1984 Form - Image - Sign: Biannual Survey of Contemporary Australian Art No. 3, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth
1984 Australian Paintings, Colonial/ Contemporary, Deutscher Fine Art, Melbourne
1984 The Hugh Williamson Prize, Ballarat Fine Art Gallery, Victoria
1983 Recent Australian Painting: A Survey 1970-1983, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
1983 New England Regional Art Museum, New South Wales
1983 Survey ’83, Commonwealth Savings Bank, 48-50 Martin Place Art Gallery, Sydney
1982 The Seventies - Australian Paintings and Tapestries Collection of the National Australia Bank, Temporary Exhibitions Gallery, Great Hall, National Gallery of Victoria
1982 Phillip Morris Arts Grant: Australian Art of the Last Ten Years, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
1982 Christmann, Hall, Lethbridge, Sheehan, Watkins, Yuill/Crowley, Sydney
1982 Mixed Exhibition, Coventry Gallery, Sydney
1981 Australian Perspecta 1981: A Biennial Survey of Contemporary Australian Art, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
1981 Spectres of Our Time, Royal South Australian Society of Arts Gallery, Adelaide
1981 Continuum; NAS 60 - AMC 80, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney
1981 Gallery Artists Group Show, Coventry Gallery, Sydney
1980 Melbourne/Monash Exchange Exhibitions, Melbourne University Gallery, Victoria; Monash University Gallery, Victoria
1979 The John McCaughey Memorial Art Prize Exhibition, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
1979 Trustees’ Purchase Exhibition: LJ Harvey Memorial Prize for Drawing, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane
1978 The 1960s into the 1970s: Selections from the Chandler Coventry Collection, Monash University Exhibition Gallery, Melbourne
1978 Autumn Exhibition, Joseph Brown Gallery, Melbourne
1977 Australian Colourists ‘77, Western Australian Institute of Technology, Perth
1976 Coventry Collection 1966-1976, University Hall, University of New England, Armidale
1976 Phillip Morris Arts Grant Third Annual Exhibition 1976, Adelaide Festival of the Arts, South Australia
1975 Coventry Gallery, Sydney
1975 Phillip Morris Arts Grant, Second Annual Exhibition, Melbourne City Square, Melbourne
1974 Fifty Years of the National Art School, Bonython Gallery, Sydney
1974 The Phillip Morris Arts Grant First Annual Exhibition 1974, Ballarat Fine Art Gallery, Victoria
1974 Gifts from Patrick White, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
1974 Recent Acquisitions, Theatre Centre, National Gallery
1973 The Biennale of Sydney, Sydney Opera House
1973 Recent Australian Art, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
1973 Contemporary Australian Painting and Sculpture, New Zealand
1972 Sir William Angliss Memorial Art Prize, Royal Melbourne Show, Royal Agricultural Society of Victoria
1970 Colour and Structure: Recent British and Australian Paintings, Blaxland Gallery, Sydney
1970 The Tenth Transfield Art Prize, Bonython Gallery, Sydney
1969 Australian Art Today, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra; South East Asia
1969 Dick Watkins/ Tony McGillick: A Selection of Work 1962-1967, Central Street Gallery, Sydney
1969 Mixed Exhibition, Central Street Gallery, Sydney
1969 A Group Exhibition, Central Street Gallery, Sydney
1969 Central Street Gallery: Sydney Painters, South Yarra Gallery, Melbourne
1968 The Field, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne; Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
1968 Arts Vietnam, Gallery A, Sydney
1968 Stock Show, Watters Gallery, Sydney
1968 21st Show, Central Street Gallery, Sydney
1968 Group Exhibition, Central Street Gallery, Sydney
1968 Young Contemporaries, Farmers’ Blaxland Gallery, Sydney
1968 Western Australian Contemporary Art Society Annual Invitation Section, Western Australia
1968 Georges Invitation Art Prize, Georges Gallery, Melbourne
1968 Pinacotheca, Melbourne
1968 United, Gallery A, Sydney
1967 The Australian Painters 1964-1966: Contemporary Australian Painting from the Mertz Collection, The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, United States of America
1967 New Generation Sydney, Gallery A, Melbourne
1967 Black and White, Central Street Gallery, Sydney
1967 Contemporary Art Society 29th Annual Interstate Exhibition, Farmer's Blaxland Gallery, Sydney
1967 Contemporary Art Society Autumn Exhibition, The Macquarie Galleries, Sydney
1967 The Big Show, Strines Gallery, Melbourne
1967 Royal Easter Show: Art, Sculpture and Human Image Exhibitions, Art and Crafts Pavilion and AMP Pavilion, The Royal Agricultural Society of New South Wales, Sydney
1967 The Woman Collector: A Loan Exhibition from 30 Sydney Collections, Art Gallery of New South Wales; Darlinghurst Galleries, Sydney
1966 Contemporary Australian Painting: Australian Trade Fair Display, Los Angeles, San Francisco
1966 Daily Mirror Waratah Art Festival Prize Exhibition, Sydney
1966 28th Annual Interstate Exhibition of the Contemporary Art Society incorporating the R H Taffs Prize, Farmer’s Blaxland Gallery, Sydney
1966 Survey Six: Recent Sydney Painting, Farmer’s Blaxland Gallery, Sydney
1966 Central Street Gallery, Sydney
1966 Purchases and Acquisitions for 1966, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
1966 Watkins, Christmann, Szabo, Paramor, McGillick, Schlicht, Central Street Gallery, Sydney
1966 Young Contemporaries, Farmer's Blaxland Gallery, Sydney
1965 W.D. & H.O. Wills Art Prize, David Jones’ Art Gallery, Sydney
1965 Young Contemporaries, Farmer’s Blaxland Gallery, Sydney
1965 New Generation 1965, Museum of Modern Art and Design of Australia, Melbourne
1965 Sydney Young Painters, Gallery A, Melbourne; Gallery A, Sydney
1965 Drawings and Paintings - A Group Show, Watters Gallery, Sydney
1965 Paintings & Sculpture, Watters Gallery, Sydney
1965 A Unique Exhibition of Avant Garde Art, Contemporary Art Society, Sydney
1965 Contemporary Art Society Mid Year Exhibition, Dominion Art Galleries, Sydney
1965 The Transfield Art Prize, David Jones' Art Gallery, Sydney
1964 The Transfield Art Prize, David Jones’ Art Gallery, Sydney
1964 Survey Four Exhibition: Recent Sydney Painting, Farmer’s Blaxland Gallery, Sydney
1964 Contemporary Art Society Autumn Exhibition, David Jones' Art Gallery, Sydney
1964 Young Contemporaries Exhibition, Farmer’s Blaxland Gallery, Sydney
1964 Contemporary Art Society Annual Interstate Exhibition, Argus Gallery, Melbourne
1964 Contemporary Art Society 26th Annual Interstate Exhibition, Farmer's Blaxland Gallery, Sydney
1964 Young Minds 1964, Museum of Modern Art and Design of Australia, Melbourne
1963 Survey 1963, Museum of Modern Art and Design of Australia, Melbourne
1963 Transfield, Farmer’s Survey, W.D. & H.O. Wills, Georges
1963 The Wynne Prize, (finalist), Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
1963 The Helena Rubinstein Travelling Art Scholarship, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
1963 1st Contemporary Art Society Young Painters Exhibition, Farmer's Blaxland Gallery, Sydney
1963 Survey Three Exhibition: Recent Sydney Painting, Farmer’s Blaxland Gallery, Sydney
1963 Contemporary Art Society Autumn Exhibition, David Jones’ Art Gallery, Sydney
1963 Dominion Art Galleries, Sydney
1962 Young Commonwealth Artists, RBA Galleries, London
1962 24th Annual Interstate Exhibition of the Contemporary Art Society incorporating the R H Taffs Prize, Farmer’s Blaxland Gallery, Sydney
1962 The Wynne Prize, (finalist), Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
1958-59 The Archibald Prize, (finalist), Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
1958 The Wynne Prize, (finalist), Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
AWARDS AND PRIZES
1990 Scotchmans Hill Art Prize, Geelong Art Gallery, Victoria
1976-77 Visual Arts Board Grant
1973 Visual Arts Board Grant
1966 R.H. Taffs Prize, 28th Annual Interstate Exhibition of the Contemporary Art Society,
1966 Farmers’ Blaxland Gallery, Sydney
1966 Daily Mirror-Waratah Festival Art Prize Competition (joint winner)
1961 Hunters Hill Art Prize
COLLECTIONS
Allens Arthur Robinson
Artbank
Art Gallery of New South Wales
Art Gallery of South Australia
Art Gallery of Western Australia
Ballarat Fine Art Gallery
Bathurst Regional Art Gallery
Bendigo Art Gallery
Benalla Art Gallery
Broken Hill City Art Gallery
Gold Coast City Art Gallery
Geelong Art Gallery
High Court of Australia
Holmes à Court Collection
Queensland Art Gallery
Laverty Collection
Loti and Victor Smorgon Collection
Macquarie University
Maitland Regional Gallery
Monash University
Moree Plains Regional Gallery
Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
Museum of Modern Art at Heide
National Australia Bank
National Gallery of Australia
National Gallery of Victoria
Newcastle Region Art Gallery
New England Regional Art Museum
Parliament House Art Collection, Canberra
Philip Morris Collection
RGC Limited Collection
Sports and Entertainment Ltd
Sydney Children’s Hospital, Randwick
TarraWarra Museum of Art
Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery
The British Museum, London
The Laverty Collection
The University of Queensland Art Museum
The University of New South Wales
The University of Melbourne
The University of Western Australia
University of Tasmania
Wesfarmers Collection, Western Australia
Wollongong City Art Gallery
