JOHN SMITH

Born 1952, Sydney

Studies

1991 Master of Arts Sydney University, Sydney College of the Arts

1974 Bachelor of Arts Sydney University

Diploma in Education Sydney Teacher's College

Relevant Employment

Head of Painting, Director of Research,

School of Arts, Southern Cross University

Solo Exhibitions

1983 Goanna Art Co. Mori Gallery, Sydney

1986 Recent Works Michael Milburn Gallery, Brisbane

1986 Recent Works Painter's Gallery, Sydney

1987 Towards Punch and Judy Painter's Gallery, Sydney

Michael Milburn Gallery, Brisbane

1989 D-C Art Gallery, Sydney

1990 Out of Site/Out of Mind Tin Sheds Gallery, Sydney

Regressions Michael Milburn Gallery, Brisbane

1991 Out of Site/Out of Mind Gold Coast Art Gallery

Regressions Legge Gallery

1992 Selling Off The Herd Legge Gallery

1994 Patterns Of Loss: Lapses In Taste Legge Gallery

Personal Development: Public Issue Crossovers Symposium,

University of Tasmania

1996 More Good News Legge Gallery

1997 Cross Words and Letter Heads Legge Gallery

Cross Words and Letter Heads Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, New York

1998 Scribbling Rivalry Legge Gallery

1999 Just Failing Legge Gallery

2001 As Easy as Pulling Teeth Legge Gallery

2002 Standing on Your Head Legge Gallery

2003 For Crying Out Loud Gallery TenEleven, Melbourne

Weedbeds and Sandbars Legge Gallery

2004 For Crying Out Loud Gallery 482, Brisbane.

2005 Slow Readers Legge Gallery

2006 Washing and Irony Legge Gallery.

Group Exhibitions

1981 Tooth Medal (Goanna Art Company) Lismore Regional Art Gallery

1982 Northern Rivers Artists and Craftspersons Show Lismore Regional Gallery

Flatworks (Goanna Art Company) Lismore Regional Gallery

1983 Landscape Mori Gallery, Sydney

1985 Four Young Painters Painters Gallery, Sydney

Small Works Michael Milburn Gallery, Brisbane

1987 Sulman Prize Exhibition Art Gallery of New South Wales

1988 New Generation Australian National Gallery, Canberra

Landmarks Lismore Regional Art Gallery

Invited Artists Gold Coast Art Gallery

First Australian Contemporary Art Fair Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne

1989 Inside The Greenhouse Tin Sheds Gallery, Sydney University

1990 Sulman Prize Exhibition Art Gallery of New South Wales

1991 Works on Paper Legge Gallery

When Love Blooms Legge Gallery

1992 Works from Stock and Studio Legge Gallery

Thisness Legge Gallery

1993 Ten Large Works Legge Gallery

Tempest - Stormy Works Legge Gallery

1994 Fourth Australian Contemporary Art Fair Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne

Packsaddle New England Regional Art Museum, Armidale

1995 Digitally Devised Gallery 101, Melbourne

Machined S.C.U. Art Museum, Lismore

Ironside Powerhouse Museum, Sydney

Summer Exhibition Legge Gallery

1996 Scan Lismore Regional Art Gallery

Fifth Australian Contemporary Art Fair Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne

Mellow Down Easy Legge Gallery

1997 Group Show Legge Gallery

Transported University of Humberside Hull, England

1998 Collected Knowledge Lismore regional Art Museum

1999 Evolution Legge Gallery

Fukuoka International Fukuoka, Japan

10th Summer Exhibition Legge Gallery

2000 Ten Year Show Legge Gallery

11th Summer Exhibition Legge Gallery

Seventh Australian Contemporary Art Fair Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne

2001 Legge Gallery Painters Use Atelier Artists' Acrylics Legge Gallery

2002 Seamless Grafton Regional Gallery, Grafton

Sesquicentenary of the University of Sydney Sir Hermann Black Gallery, Sydney

Melbourne Art Fair 2002 Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne

Group Show Legge Gallery

Summer Show Legge Gallery

2003 Recent Works of John Smith and Shelagh Morgan Gallery Teneleven, Melbourne

Summer Show Legge Gallery

2004 Melbourne Art Fair 2004 Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne

2005 Works on Paper Legge Gallery

AAAF Melbourne

Art Almanac Cover Stories, Sir Herman Black Gallery. University of Sydney.

Packsaddle, New England Regional Art Museum, Armidale

Southern Cross University, Acquisitive Artists Book Award, Lismore.

Summer Show Legge Gallery

Reflections Lismore Regional Art Gallery

2006 Interrogating Whiteness Next Contemporary Art Space, Lismore.

Oceans Eleven Lismore Regional Art Gallery.

e-Merge, Piece Gallery, Mullumbimby.

Works on Paper Legge Gallery

Melbourne Art Fair 2004 Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne

Collections

National Gallery of Australia

Phillip Morris Collection

Queensland Art Gallery

Artbank

Museum Of Contemporary Art, Brisbane

Southern Cross University

Lithgow Art Gallery

Stanthorpe Regional Gallery

Brisbane City Gallery

Norco Cooperative

Lismore Regional Art Gallery

Prizes

Portland Art Prize

Stanthorpe Art Prize

Swan Hill Print and Drawing Prize

Kyogle Art Prize

Byron Bay Art Prize

Trinity College Art Prize

Drawing Australia: Innovative Drawing Award 2005.

Bibliography

Dunn, Richard:'Alias Smith and Morgan, A catalogue essay',

with 'Selling off the Herd', catalogue, Eureka Edition,1992

Furlong, A: 'Selling Off The Herd', Eyeline #21, 1993

Hatch, M: 'Symbolic Inversions', exhibition review, Periphery #5, 1990

Landmarks catalogue, Lismore Regional Gallery

Lord, A: 'Outlying and Far Reaching', Umbrella Studios, Townsville

Lynn, Elwyn: Review of Sulman Art Prize, The Sydney Morning Herald, 12/86

Magon, J: exhibition review, EYELINE#4, March 1988, p.26

Millington J: exhibition review, Gold Coast Bulletin, February 1991

MOCA Newsletter October, #36

Periphery front cover, September

Ravenswood, Kate: 'Metaphorical Denial', Eureka Editions

Stanford, L: 'Rich mix twixt mountain & the sea', Financial Review, 14/3/86, p.41

Watson, Bronwyn: gallery review, The Sydney Morning Herald, September 23

Woolcock, P: exhibition review, Brisbane Courier Mail, 5/12/87, p.48

Publications

1989 The Northern Rivers access To The Visual Arts Continues Periphery #1

1990 ACCESS Periphery #12

1991 Off Centre Conference Townsville EYELINE Autumn

1992 The Ocean Indoors: Mostyn Bramley-Moore EYELINE, Brisbane #18

1993 The New Agency Periphery #14

2003 Booralee: the Lost Fishing Village of Sydney. George Hanna Memorial Museum, Sydney.

Conference Papers

2004 Fisherman’s Village: A Cultural Retrieval Project

Oral History Association Meeting, Portland, USA

2005 Fisherman’s Village. The Poetics of Australian Space.

Sydney University.

2005 Fisherman’s Village: Australian Council of University Art and Design Schools, Annual Conference, Perth.

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