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Leonard Brown, One can cross barefoot (2008), Oil on Belgian linen, 92 x 102 cm |
Chronology
| 1949 | Born Brisbane |
| 1961 | Performed with the Bee Gees, Christmas Show, Waltons Fortitude Valley, Brisbane |
| 1963-64 | Studied with Betty Churcher, Central Technical College Art School, Brisbane |
| 1965-69 | Full-time studies, Central Technical College Art School, Brisbane |
| 1966 | Received into the Anglican Church |
| 1969-73 | Novice of the Society of St. Francis Anglican Franciscan Community, Brookfield |
| 1971-72 | Lived in the Northern DIstrict of Papua New Guinea, outside Poppindetta |
| 1975 | Special
Projects Grant from the Visual Arts Board of the Australia Council
Part-time lecturer, Department of Cultural Activities, Regional Education Programme, Queensland |
| 1975- | Began the study and practice of Byzantine painting under the direction of Bishop Constantine, Russian Orthodox Bishop of Brisbane |
| 1976 | Baptised Russian Orthodox in Sydney |
| 1978-91 | Lecturer in art history, painting and drawing, Brisbane Institute of Art |
| 1981 | Travelled to the USA as a guest of the Russian Orthodox Church in Exile, staying at the Synod Cathedral in New York City and the Holy Trinity Monastery in New York state |
| 1986 | Travelled to Italy, France and Great Britain |
| 1987 | Part-time lecturer in painting, Kelvin Grove College (QUT), Brisbane |
| 1988 | Travelled to Italy |
| 1989 | Travelled to USA and Arnhem Land |
| 1991 | Travelled to study with the Australian Institute of Archeology, Athens: in Greece and Turkey |
| 1992 | Travelled to New Zealand, Greece and USA |
| 1992-99 | Resumed earlier vocation living an idiorythmic monastic life with the status of priest-monk |
| 1996 | Randell
Studio, artist-in-residence
Retrospective exhibition, Brisbane City Council Art Gallery and Museum |
| 2003 | Travelled to Italy, Greece and Turkey |
| 2004 | Moved from Brisbane to Ipswich, Queensland |
Solo Exhibitions
| 2010 | I Promised a Rainbow, Andrew Baker Art Dealer, Brisbane |
| 2009 | In the eternal now, Andrew Baker Art Dealer, Brisbane |
| 2008 | Three
four sixteen eighty and a hundred, Andrew Baker Art Dealer, Brisbane
Time, Time, Time again, paintings, Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne |
| 2007 | Petrified
Time: paintings and monoprints, Andrew Baker Art Dealer, Brisbane
Recent Works, Michael Reid Art Merchant, Sydney |
| 2006 | All a swan needs is another swan, Michael Reid Art Merchant, Sydney |
| 2005 | In
the Steppes of Central Asia, Andrew Baker Art Dealer, Brisbane
Sedimentary Painting, Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne Painting by Numbers, Andrew Baker Art Dealer, Brisbane |
| 2004 | Brisbane
or the Bush, Andrew Baker Art Dealer, Brisbane
Sydney or the Bush, Michael Reid Art Merchant, Sydney |
| 2003 | Paintings:
Old and New, Andrew Baker Art Dealer, Brisbane
Up & Down, Backwards & Forwards Paintings, Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne New Paintings, Michael Reid Art Merchant, Sydney |
| 2002 | Songs of Ascent and Descent: paintings and collages, Andrew Baker Art Dealer, Brisbane |
| 2001 | Love Life Paintings, Andrew Baker Art Dealer, Brisbane |
| 1998 | Mountains Old and New 1978-1998, Bellas Gallery, Brisbane |
| 1996 | Cave Painting, Bellas Gallery, Brisbane |
| 1995 | Brisbane Painting--Leonard Brown, Brisbane City Gallery |
| 1993 | Milky
Way, Mori Gallery, Sydney
Drawing in the ‘90s, Cafe Tempo, Brisbane |
| 1992 | Survey of Work 1983-92, Mori Anex, Sydney |
| 1991 | Paintings
for the Evening, Deutscher Gallery, Melbourne
Selected Drawings and Paintings, 11 Enoggerra Terrace, Brisbane |
| 1990 | Niagara Galleries, Melbourne |
| 1989 | Garry Anderson Gallery, Sydney |
| 1988 | Niagara Galleries, Melbourne |
| 1987 | Garry
Anderson Gallery, Sydney
Niagara Galleries, Melbourne |
| 1986 | Niagara Galleries, Melbourne |
| 1985 | Niagara
Galleries, Melbourne
The Painters Gallery, Sydney |
| 1984 | The Painters Gallery, Sydneye |
| 1968 | Design Arts Centre, Brisbane |
Group Exhibitions
| 2009 | The
Sulman Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Spin, QUT Art Museum, Brisbane Abstraction 8: Mostly Minimal and Monochrome, Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne |
| 2008 | New:
Selected recent acquisitions 2007–2008, The University of Queensland
Art Museum, Brisbane
Repeat that again!: The serial impulse in art since the 'sixties, The University of Queensland Art Museum, Brisbane The Tallis Foundation 2008 National Works on Paper, Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, Mornington, Victoria Sacred Art: Icons in Australia, Riddoch Art Gallery, Mount Gambier, South Australia Contemporaneous: Contemporary Australian Painting, Wangaratta Exhibitions Gallery, Victoria Rubik, Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne Works on Paper, Michael Reid Art Merchant, Sydney From Minimal to Maximal, Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne That 80’s Show, QUT Art Museum, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane Art of the Nude: Works from the Alex Mackay Collection, Albury City Art Gallery, New South Wales Point of View: Eugene Carchesio Explores The Collection, QUT Art Museum, Brisbane |
| 2007 | Earthly
reflections of heavenly things: Emily Kngwarreye, Asher Bilu and Leonard
Brown, The Ian Potter Museum of Art, The University of Melbourne, Victoria
The Unusual Suspects III, Andrew Baker Art Dealer, Brisbane Paintings and Works on Paper, Michael Reid at Murrurundi, New South Wales |
| 2006 | The
Tallis Foundation 2006 National Works on Paper, Mornington Peninsula
Regional Gallery, Victoria
Doubletake, Museum of Brisbane, Brisbane Colonial to Contemporary, Dell Gallery, Queensland College of Art, Griffith University, Brisbane Into the Mystic: black and white prints, Andrew Baker Art Dealer, Brisbane Abstraction V, Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne Gallery Artists, Charles Nudrum Gallery, Melbourne |
| 2005 | The
Recent Past: Contemporary Acquisitions, 1995–2004, Queensland University
of Technology Art Museum, Brisbane
A Celebration: Charles Nodrum Gallery's 21st Birthday, Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne |
| 2004 | Avalon:
Artists in Residence, Museum of Brisbane, Brisbane
The Sulman Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney Significant Tilt: Art and the Horizon of Meaning, Macquarie University, Sydney Modern Australian Paintings, Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne The Unusual Suspects II, Andrew Baker Art Dealer, Brisbane |
| 2003–04 | Home Sweet Home: works from the Peter Fay collection, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra |
| 2003 | The
Unusual Suspects, Andrew Baker Art Dealer, Brisbane
Abstraction III, Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne |
| 2002 | Far
From Home, Andrew Baker Art Dealer, Brisbane
Gallery Artists Exhibition, Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne Sydney Exhibition: Selected Paintings from the 1960s to the Present, Charles Nodrum Gallery @ Deutscher-Menzies Gallery, Sydney Abstraction, Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne Abstraction II, Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne |
| 2001 | Paperworks: Australian artists exploring drawing and the printed image, Queensland Art Gallery |
| 2000 | Conrad
Jupiters Art Prize, Gold Coast Arts Centre
Flash: a lucky dip fundraiser, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane |
| 1999 | The Drawing Room: Contemporary Queensland Drawing, Brisbane City Gallery |
| 1998 | ex. cat., Smith and Stonely, Brisbane |
| 1997 | Now:
10th Anniversary of the Gallery Exhibition, Bellas Gallery, Brisbane
New Works on Paper: Annaoutopoulos, Brown, Cattapan, Staunton, Bellas Gallery, Brisbane |
| 1996 | Recent Acquisitions, Brisbane City Gallery |
| 1995 | Contemporary
Australian and International Art, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Salon x 3, Leonard Brown, Eugene Carchesio, Anne Wallace, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane |
| 1994 | An
Exotic Otherness, ‘Crossing Brisbane Lines’, Travelling Exhibition
The Baillieu Meyer Collection of the 1980s, Museum of Modern Art, Heide, Melbourne Remain in Light: Queer Photography, Blaxland Gallery, Sydney The John McCaughey Memorial Art Prize, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne |
| 1993 | Contemporary
Australian Painting: Works from the Allen, Allen and Hemsley Collection,
Westpac Gallery, Victorian Arts Centre, Melbourne
Art right--in the public eye, School of Arts, Brisbane Remain in Light, Grace Brothers Gallery, Sydney Sshh..., Mori Gallery, Sydney Approaches to the Sublime: Aspects of the Esoteric in Contemporary Painting, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney Homage (International Aids Day) Artists’ Friends Remembered, Rick’s Bar, Brisbane Thought Painting: Leonard Brown, Elizabeth Coates, Clint Doyle, Susan Norrie, Stig Pearson, Scott Redford, Carole Roberts, Michael Milburn Gallery, Brisbane Selected Works from the Margaret Stewart Endowment, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne |
| 1992 | Seven,
Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney
The Real Category (You Are Here), Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane |
| 1991 | Microcosm, Garry Anderson Gallery, Sydney |
| 1990 | 100
Artists Against Animal Experimentation, Deutscher Gallery, Melbourne
Second Contemporary Art Fair, Melbourne L’ete Australian Montpelier, Musee Fabre, Galerie Saint Ravy, Montpelier, France ‘4’ Leonard Brown, Nicholas Nedekopoulos, Gwen Hanson Piggott, Patsy Healy, Garry Anderson Gallery, Sydney Homage to Morandi, Garry Anderson Gallery, Sydney Niagara Galleries Melbourne at Hill-Smith Fine Art Gallery, Adelaide Festival of Arts Exhibition, Adelaide |
| 1988 | A
New Generation: Phillip Morris Arts Grant, Australian National Gallery,
Canberra
Drawing in Australia: Drawings, Watercolours and Pastels from the 1770s to the 1980s (Bicentennial Exhibition), Australian National Gallery, Canberra First Contemporary Art Fair, Melbourne 9 x 5 mail, Gold Coast City Art Gallery The Melbourne Savage Club Invitation Art Prize, RMIT Gallery, Melbourne |
| 1987 | Cool,
Quiet, Art: Recent Work by Leonard Brown, Helen Lillicrap-Fuller, Madonna
Staunton and June Tupicoff, City of Ipswich Gallery
Aberdare Prize for Landscape, Ipswich City Gallery Director’s Choice, RMIT Gallery, Melbourne |
| 1986 | Aberdare
Prize for Still Life, Ipswich City Gallery (acquired)
A First Look, Phillip Morris Arts Grant Purchases 1983-86, Australian National Gallery, Canberra December Exhibition, Garry Anderson Gallery, Sydney |
| 1979 | Trustees’ Purchase Exhibition, L. J. Harvey Memorial Prize for Drawing, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane |
| 1973 | Blake Prize for Religious Art, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney |
| 1968 | Winter Exhibition, Contemporary Art Society, Brisbane |
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| 17th
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Collections
| National
Gallery of Australia, Canberra
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne Queensland Art Gallery/Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, Launceston Chartwell Collection, Centre for Contemporary Art, Hamilton, New Zealand Artbank, Sydney Parliament House Art Collection, Canberra Museum of Brisbane, Queensland Gold Coast City Art Gallery, Queensland Griffith University, Brisbane Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne Holmesglen Institute of TAFE, Melbourne LaTrobe University, Melbourne Newcastle Region Art Gallery, Newcastle, NSW Macquarie University, Sydney Queensland College of Art, Griffith University, Brisbane Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane The University of Melbourne, Melbourne The University of Queensland, Brisbane Toowoomba City Art Collection, Queensland Allen, Allen and Hemsley Collection, Sydney Allied Queensland Coalfields Limited Collection, Brisbane CRA Western Mining, Melbourne The Baillieu Myer Collection, Melbourne The Philip Morris Art Grant Collection, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra |