ICY CREEK, VICTORIA    3833
Phone/Fax (03) 56 210 139
Mobile: 0418 318 187
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About the artist:

Life

First day of Spring, 1944: born
‘50’s: started painting in oils .
Mid ‘60’s: married, raised five children and worked as specialist contractor in the construction industry.
Early new century: closed down the construction contracting business and moved to Icy Creek, where there are Lyrebirds for breakfast and mountains as far as the eye can see.

Education

  • 1962 Matriculated, Marcellin College, Melbourne
  • !963/64 Architecture, RMIT.
  • 1966/68 Religious study, Pallotti College
  • 1969 Short art course, Caulfield Institute

Exhibitions

  • 1976 Group Exhibition, Young Originals Gallery, Prahran.
  • 1999 Tmesis Gallery, Mt Eliza(“Continentscape”)
  • 2000 Group exhibition at Serigraph Gallery, Neerim South, Vic (“Inside Out”)
  • 2001 Collingwood Gallery (Artist Space) (“I was just passing by a fence at Kilcunda”)
    Collingwood Gallery (“A Deconstructed Life”)
    Old Drouin Butter Factory, Drouin, Vic (“Landscapes and other Emotions”)
  • 2002 Group exhibition, Mira Fine Art Gallery (Emerging Artists)
    Shared exhibition Collingwood Gallery (“Are we Having Fun Yet?”),
    Artist of the Month, Serigraph Gallery (“Wilsons Promontory-The Granites”),
  • 2002/’03 Meeniyan Art Gallery, Meeniyan, Vic (“Wilsons Promontory-The Granites”),
  • 2003 West Gippsland Arts Centre, Warragul, Vic (“Baw Baw Plateau – snow gums and granites”),
  • 2004 Meeniyan Art Gallery “William Buckley Series”
  • 2005 West Gippsland Arts Centre (“Icy Creek Aspective” & “Journey to Bonnum Pic”),
  • 2006 West Gippsland Arts Centre, Warragul, Vic (“'Ligion, Land and Lazy Auction ”),
  • 2010 LaTrobe Reg Gallery (Hazelwood Power Community Access) ('Perspectives on the Pilbara')

Publications

  • 1981 “The Foot Soldier of Ephesus”, A comic strip
  • 2004 “William Buckley – A Visual Narrative”

Cred

  • 2002 Shortlisted, Daffodil Day Arts Awards
    Highly Commended, Aurora Australis Art Show (“Crucifiction 2”)
  • 2003 Winner Spiritual Section, Aurora Australis Art Show (“Cathedral”)
  • 2004 Shortlisted, John Leslie Art Prize (Gippsland Regional Art Gallery) (“Ridge”)
  • 2005 Shortlisted, Tattersall’s Contemporary Art Prize (Williamstown Festival) (“Yarra Gorge”)
    Highly Commended, Daffodil Day Arts Awards (“Kent…not drowning, living!”)
  • 2006 Highly commended ALVARO PAINTING PRIZE ("Great Western " CH 2 of the story "Returning Home from Brunswick Heads"
  • 2008 Shortlisted, Flanagan Art Prize (Ballarat) ("Canyon")
  • 2009 Shortlisted Flanagan Art Prize ("From Caldera to City")

Collections

Baw Baw Shire Council (“Icy Creek Aspective”)

   

There's More!

 Creativity workshops "ARTIST'S BREATH"

     

Ben Hall: "The Lachlan Cavalier"

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