Biography

Born: Sale, Victoria 1940
Studied: 1958-60 Caulfield Technical College, Melbourne
1967 Royal College of Art, London
Senior Lecturer Printmaking, Fine Art Department, Monash University, Caulfield Campus 1970-1994
President Print Council of Australia – 1978-85
External Examiner: Latrobe University, Bendigo Campus; RMIT, Deakin University Warrnambool, University of New England
Chairperson: We Are Australian Art Inc.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

1963 Leveson Street Gallery, Melbourne
1965 Leveson Street Gallery, Melbourne
1972 Osbourne Polak Gallery, Melbourne
1974 Stuart Gerstman Gallery, Melbourne
1976 Coventry Gallery, Sydney
Victor Mace Gallery, Brisbane
1977 Coventry Gallery, Sydney
1978 Tolarno Gallery, Melbourne
1979 Coventry Gallery, Sydney
Museum and Art Gallery, Darwin
1980 Coventry Gallery, Sydney
1981 Victor Mace Gallery, Brisbane
1983 Coventry Gallery, Sydney
1983 Tolarno Gallery, Melbourne
1984 Victor Mace Gallery, Brisbane
1985 Quentin Gallery, Perth
1986 Coventry Gallery, Sydney
1988 Coventry Gallery, Sydney
Christine Abrahams Gallery, Melb
1989 Coventry Gallery, Sydney
1991 Adrian Slinger Galleries, Brisbane
1992 Coventry Gallery, Sydney
1994 Westpac Gallery, Melbourne Arts Centre
Coventry Gallery, Sydney
1997 Lyall Burton Gallery, Melbourne
1997 Stafford Studios, Perth
1999 Axia Modern Art, Melbourne
2000 Barn Gallery, Monsalvaat, Vic
2002 Framed Gallery, Darwin

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

1967 Royal College Exhibition, London (Toured USA)
1969 Studio Prints, London
1970 Royal Society of Painters, Etchers, London
1975 'Artists's Artists; National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Six Australian Printmakers, New Zealand
1976 West Pacific Print Biennale
Coventry Collection, 1966-76 University of New England, Armidale
1977 Japan Print Association - Selection of prints from America
1978 'Selections from the Coventry Collection', MonashUniversity, Melbourne
1979 'Contemporary Australian Printmakers 1 & 11 (Touring USA)
1980 'Survery of Australian Landscapes', Wollongong City Art Gallery.
1982 'The Seventies, Australian Paintings and Tapestries” National Gallery of Victoria
1985 "Four Landscape Artists" Chameleon Gallery, Hobart
1988 9 x 5 Mail City Art Gallery Southport, Qld. (Toured) Regional Galleries, Aust)
1989 Drawings Black/White Coventry Gallery
1990 2nd Australian Contemporary Art Fair, Melb
Coventry Christmas Collection
A Selection from the Wynne Prize, Westpac Gallery, Melbourne
1991 Coventry Collection 91
Rivers in Australian Art, National Bank Collection, Heidi
1992 Diary 1992 Coventry Gallery, Sydney
Aspects of Landscape, Coventry Gallery, Sydney
1993 Great Australians, Framed The Showcase Gallery, Darwin
Chandler Coventry - A Private Collection, Cambelltown City Art Gallery
1993 Great Australians, Framed The Showcase Gallery, Darwin
Chandler Coventry, A Private Collection, Cambelltown City Art Gallery
1994 The Baillieu Myer Collection of the 80' Museum of Modern Art, Heidi
Obsession, Chandler Coventry's Private Collection
Works on Paper and Sculpture, Cambelltown City Art Gallery
1994 Exhibition of Prints, Chrysalis Publishing, Fitzroy
1995 The Web of Magic, Portrait of Tasmanian Landscape, Swing Bridge Gallery, Tasmania
The Web of Magic, Portrait of Tasmanian Landscape, Solander Gallery, Deakin, ACT
1996 Artcenta '96, Newman College Perth: featured artist
1996 Mandorla Invitation Art Prize, WA
1996 China Art Exposition, Beijing
1999 We Are Australian Exhibition, George Adam Gallery, Art Centre Melbourne
2000 We Are Australian Exhibition, Volvo Gallery, Sydney Adelaide Festival Centre, Adelaide
2000 We Are Australian Exhibition, Canberra, Albury/Wodonga, Hobart, Durban South Africa
2001 We Are Australian Exhibition, Geelong, Latrobe Gallery
2002 Bid for Freedom, Caulfield Town Hall
2003 White Bull, Geelong City Art Gallery
Selected for exhibition in Archibald, Wynne and Sulmann Prizes consistently since 1976.
Tattersalls Club Invitation Prize, 1993,94,95,96,97,98
2004 Each day a picture – The art of Chrysalis, Monsalvat Barn Gallery, Victoria
Landscape in me, Museum&Art Gallery, NT, Darwin
2006 Marvellous Melbourne, Crown Melb

COLLECTIONS

ANZ Bank
Artbank
Art Gallery of New South Wales
Art Gallery of South Australia
Art Gallery of Western Australia
Australian National Gallery
Australian National University
Aararat City Art Gallery
Alice Springs City Art Collection
Benalla Art Gallery
Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory
BHP Collection
Brisbane Council
Council for the Arts, Victoria
Coventry Collection, New England Regional Art Museum
Dunedin Art Gallery, New Zealand
Fremantle Art Gallery
Gold Coast City Collection
IBM Australia
Institute of Early Childhood Development, Victoria
Maitland Art Gallery
Mildura Arts Centre
Macquarie University
Myers Collection
National Gallery Society of Victoria
National Bank of Australasia
Philip Morris Collection
Print Council of Australia
Queensland Art Gallery
Royal College of Art, London
Royal Commonwealth Society, London
Rothchilds Collection, London
Rockhampton Art Gallery
Shaklee Corporation, USA
Torrens College of Advanced Education
University of Melbourne
University of South Australia
University of New South Wales
University of Queensland
University of Western Australia
Vincent Price Collection, USA
Warrnambool City Art Gallery

PRIVATE COLLECTIONS

Vincent Price Collection USA
Rothchild London
Coventry Collection
Mark Besen Melbourne
Omark Industries Oregan
IBM Sydney
James Fairfax
Kerr McGee Chemical Group
Coopers and Lybrand, Perth
Freehill Holindale & Page, Barristers & Solicitors, Perth
KPMG - Peat Marwick, Perth
Ti West Minerals, Perth
Commonwealth Director Public Prosecution, Perth

COMMISSIONS (recent)
1977 Melbourne University, Portrait of Graeme Allen
1991 Dayton Corporation, Perth
1992 Coopers and Lybrand, Perth
1992 Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions, Perth

AWARDS AND PRIZES

Warrnambool Print Prize 1974
Darnell de Gruchy Purchase Prize 1975
"Alice Prize" 1976
Gold Coast City Art Prize 1976
Print Council Patron Prize 1975
Benalla Art Gallery Invitation Acquisition Prize 1977
Rockhampton Art Prize 1977
Toowoomba Peter Styvesant Trust Prize 1978
Maitland Prize 1978
Artist-in-Residence, Darwin Community College 1979
Visual Arts Board Grant to Individuals 1981-2
Michelton Print Purchase Prize 1982
Western Mining Acquisition Prize 1982

PUBLICATIONS

Directory of Australian Printmakers - Landsdown Press 1976
Contemporary Australian Printmakers - Landsdown Press 1976
Art in Australia, Vol 14 No 2, October 1976.
The 1960's Into the 70's - Selections from the Chandler Coventry Collection, Monash University
Australian Realist Painting - David Thomas, Art Gallery of South Australia
Australian Etching - 1978. Print Council of Australia
Colour Magazine - The Sunday Mail, Brisbane Courier Mail, Cover Feature, Russell Kerrison.
Australian Painting - 1975-80 Bonython
15 Australian Printmakers - Queensland Arts Council
Contemporary Australian Printmakers,1, New York USA
Overlander Magazine - 1981, Jan/Feb
Art in Australia - March 1982
The Seventies, Australian Paintings and Tapastries, National Bank Collection, 1985
1985 Calendar - Australian Information Services
Australian Art International - 1984 Catalogue.
Art Network - New York 1987
Who's Who in Australasia - Cambridge 1989
The Sculpture of John Davis - Places and Locations, Ken Scarlett,Hyland House, 1989
International Leaders in Achievement - Cambridge 1990
Contemporary Australian Prints - Eileen Chanin Craftsman Press Pty Ltd 1991
Art Five Coventry Gallery Artists - Bay Books, 1991
Artists and Galleries of Australia - Max Germaine,Craftsman House Press, 1992
Images in Contemporary Australian Painting - Neville Drury, Craftsman House Press, 1992
Images 2 in Contemporary Australian Painting - Neville Drury, Craftsman House Press, 1994
"Surveying the Landscape", Robert Nelson, catalogue, 1994
Concise Dictionary of Australian Artists, Gwenda Robb and Elaine Smith, MelbUni Press, 1993
The Encyclopedia of Australian Art, Alan McCulloch & Susan McCulloch, Allen & Unwin, 1994 Australian Artlook, Rigby Heinemann,1997 We Are Australian, David Thomas for We Are Australian Art Inc Craft Arts International, Romancing the Landscape, Michelle Payne No 35, 1995, pp 49-54

OVERSEAS REFERENCE TOURS

1980/81 9 Weeks USA Visited American artists: Chuck Close, Neil Welliver, Philip Pearlstein, Janet Fish, Richard McLean, Joseph Raffael
1993/94 6 Weeks trekking in Nepal
1996/97 12 weeks touring USA, Israel, Jordan, UK, India and trekking in Nepal.
2001 South Africa, 7 Weeks
2003 Peru - 10 weeks
2004 Belgium and Southern France

AUSTRALIAN REFERENCE TOURS

1979 – Extensive touring of the Centre and Northern Territory whilst Artist-in Residence, Darwin Community College
1987,89,91 – Trips to Riversleigh in Northern Queensland
1993/1995 Trips to Western Australia to reference paintings for commissions
1993 Overland Track in Tasmania, Walls of Jerusalem, Freycinet National Park
1985/1999 Several trips in Coastal area of Southern New South Wales
1984/1997 Canoeing the rivers of Victoria
2000 – Nine week tour of the Kimberley Region of Western Australia
2002 Five weeks – Arnhem Land and Kakudu National Park
2003 South East Western Australia, 3 weeks, Arnhem Land – 2 weeks

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