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Mostyn
Bramley-Moore, Piano (2005)
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Summary
| 1952 | Born in Wollongong, NSW, Australia |
| 1977 | First individual exhibition: New York |
| 1977-78 | Resident artist at the Power Studio, Cité Internationale des Arts, ParisGrant |
| 1980-81 | Resident artist at the University of St. Andrews, Scotland |
| 1982 | Visiting Fellow, Hirshhorn Museum, Smithsonian Institution |
| 1995 | Visiting Professor of Art, University of Hawaii |
| 1997-99 | Professor and Dean, School of Art, Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne |
| Current | Professor and Director, Queensland College of Art, Griffith University, Brisbane |
Education
| 1977 | Master of Fine Arts (Painting), Pratt Institute, New York |
| 1974 | Diploma in Education (Visual Art), Sydney Teachers' College |
| 1974 | Bachelor of Arts (Fine Arts and English), University of Sydney |
Solo Exhibitions
| 2006 | Poco Mosso, Andrew Baker Art Dealer, Brisbane |
| 2005 | Red and Blue Places, Watters Gallery, Sydney |
| 2004 | Red
Velvet, Andrew Baker Art Dealer, Brisbane
Evidence, Shandong College of Art and Music, Jinan, China |
| 2003 | Red Diaries: recent paintings, Watters Gallery, Sydney |
| 2002 | Tuesdays and Thursdays, Brisbane City Gallery, Brisbane |
| 2001 | Weather,
Andrew Baker Art Dealer, Brisbane
Recent Studies and Paintings, Watters Gallery, Sydney |
| 2000 | Travel Notes, Watters Gallery, Sydney |
| 1999 | Cities,
Storms, Floods, Watters Gallery, Sydney
Amalon, Niagara Galleries, Melbourne |
| 1997 | The Idea: Ocean, Watters Gallery, Sydney |
| 1996 | Being on an Island, Delaney Gallery, Perth |
| 1995 | Paintings
& Drawings, Watters Gallery, Sydney
Solomon, Niagara Galleries, Melbourne Drawings, Delaney Gallery, Perth |
| 1994 | Diary, Michael Milburn Galleries, Brisbane |
| 1993 | Recent
Paintings, Watters Gallery, Sydney
Port of Shadows, Niagara Galleries, Melbourne |
| 1992 | Around the Room, Delaney Galleries, Perth |
| 1991 | Watters
Gallery, Sydney
Michael Milburn Galleries, Brisbane |
| 1990 | Niagara Galleries, Melbourne |
| 1989 | Water
and Night, New England Regional Art Museum, Armidale
Water and Night, Watters Gallery, Sydney Night, Milburn + Arté, Brisbane |
| 1988 | Niagara Galleries, Melbourne |
| 1987 | Michael
Milburn Galleries, Brisbane
Watters Gallery, Sydney |
| 1986 | Niagara Galleries, Melbourne |
| 1985 | Watters
Gallery, Sydney
Michael Milburn Galleries, Brisbane |
| 1984 | Gallery Fifty Two, Perth |
| 1983 | Watters Gallery, Sydney |
| 1982-83 | All About Rain, New South Wales House, London; MacRobert Centre, University of Stirling, Scotland; Crawford Centre for Creative Arts, University of St. Andrews, Scotland; Shetland Islands Museum |
| 1982 | Gallery Fifty Two, Perth |
| 1981 | Watters Gallery, Sydney |
| 1979 | Watters Gallery, Sydney |
| 1977 | Lotus
Gallery, New York
Pratt Institute, New York |
Group Exhibitions
| 2007 | The Unusual Suspects III, Andrew Baker Art Dealer, Brisbane |
| 2006 | Revisited,
Watters Gallery, Sydney
Man’s Best Friend, Southern Cross University Art Gallery, Lismore, NSW Enigmatic, Shandong College of Art and Music, Jinan, China |
| 2004 | Melbourne Art Fair, Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne. |
| 2003 | The
Unusual Suspects, Andrew Baker Art Dealer, Brisbane
Flood Sign: memories of a city under water, Lismore Regional Gallery, NSW |
| 2002–03 | Transit Narratives, Centro per la Cultura e le Arti Visive Le Venezie, Villa Letizia, Treviso, Italy; Auronzo di Cadore, Salone espositivo- Municipio, Italy: Queensland College of Art Gallery, Brisbane; Victorian College of the Arts Gallery, Melbourne; Tasmanian School of Art, Hobart; Melbourne Artfair, Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne |
| 2001 | A studio in Paris: Australian artists at the Cité Internationale des Arts 1967–2000, National Trust S H Ervin Gallery, Sydney; Summer, Watters Gallery, Sydney |
| 2000 | Fukuoka
International Exhibition, Acurosu Fukuoka Gyarari, Kyushu, Japan
Abstract paintings from the Landscape, Watters Gallery (selected), Sydney Melbourne Artfair, Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne |
| 1998 | Mentors,
George Adams Gallery, Victorian Arts Centre, Melbourne
Two Sculptures and Seven Paintings, Watters Gallery, Sydney Sixth Australian Commercial Galleries Art Fair, Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne |
| 1997 | Stories Blown by the Wind, Gallery Kaze, Fukuoka, Japan |
| 1996 | The
Usual Suspects, Dunev Gallery, San Francisco
Faces, Watters Gallery, Sydney Into Darkness, Southern Cross University Art Museum Transported, University of Humberside, UK Artists' Books + Multiples Fair, Brisbane Fifth Australian Contemporary Art Fair, Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne |
| 1995 | Ironside,
New England Regional Art Museum benefit exhibition at the Powerhouse Museum,
Sydney
Art Faculty Exhibition, University of Hawaii Art Gallery, Honolulu Recent Small Works & Summer, Watters Gallery, Sydney A Centre of Culture: artists and Ballarat art schools, 1870 to 1995, Ballarat Fine Art Gallery |
| 1994 | Treasures
from the Art Trail, Regional Galleries Association of NSW
Water & References, XX Space, Lismore Australian Commercial Galleries Art Fair, Melbourne |
| 1993 | Alumni
International, Pratt Institute, New York
Le Cose Italiane (with Ted Snell), Michael Milburn Galleries, Brisbane Wynne Prize Exhibition, Art Gallery of NSW Artright in the Public Eye, The School of Arts, Brisbane |
| 1992 | Contemporary
Australian Drawing, Museum of Contemporary Art, Brisbane
Australian Contemporary Art Fair, Melbourne Landscape, Michael Milburn Galleries, Brisbane Just Looking, Eagle Street Pier Exhibition Space, Brisbane |
| 1991 | Doors,
Gold Coast City Art Gallery
Objects of Fascination and SHE: Portrayals of Women, Watters Gallery, Sydney |
| 1990 | By
the Sea, Gold Coast City Art Gallery
Australian Contemporary Art Fair, Melbourne Works on Paper, Watters Gallery, Sydney 10 X 10, Milburn + Arté, Brisbane Icons, Lismore Regional Gallery |
| 1989 | Key
Works 1968-1988, Gold Coast City Art Gallery
Heidelberg and Heritage, Linden Gallery, Melbourne A Touch of Black and Portrait of a Gallery: 25 Years, Watters Gallery, Sydney (touring to institutional galleries in NSW & Qld) David Rankin and Mostyn Bramley-Moore, Marina Meucke Gallery, Cairns |
| 1988 | A
New Generation, National Gallery of Australia
Landmarks, Lismore Regional Gallery Tamworth Environs, Tamworth City Gallery and New England Regional Art Museum, Armidale Australian Contemporary Art Fair, Melbourne A Strange Set of Sea Pictures, Watters Gallery, Sydney Degrees of Abstraction, Milburn + Arté, Brisbane Gold Coast City Invitational Art Prize and 9 X 5 Mail, Gold Coast City Art Gallery |
| 1987 | Chicago
Art Fair, Gillian Jason Gallery (London)
Australia on Paper, touring exhibition to Queensland regional galleries |
| 1986 | A
First Look: Phillip Morris Art Grant Purchases 1983-86, National Gallery
of Australia
Landscape and Beyond, New England Regional Art Museum, Armidale 37 Artists 37 Works, Watters Gallery, Sydney Nustart, Michael Milburn Galleries, Brisbane Visual Spaces, Gallery Fifty Two, Perth |
| 1985 | The
Challenge of the Landscape, Watters Gallery, Sydney
In All Directions and Small Works, Michael Milburn Galleries, Brisbane |
| 1984 | 9th
International Exhibition of Drawings, Museum of Modern Art, Rijeka,
Yugoslavia
Survey '84, Michael Milburn Galleries, Brisbane Still Life and Some Quieter Statements, Watters Gallery, Sydney Middle Earth, South Australian and Victorian Regional Galleries Eight Local Artists, Ballarat Fine Art Gallery, Victoria |
| 1983 | Animal
Imagery in Contemporary Art,
Ballarat Fine Art Gallery, Bendigo Art Gallery and Wollongong City Gallery
Drawings, Watters Gallery, Sydney Artists in Residence, University of St. Andrews, Scotland |
| 1981 | Seoul International Print Biennale, National Museum, Korea |
| 1978 | Artists'
Books/Bookworks, touring exhibition within Australia and the United
States of America
Towards a Local Art, LaTrobe Valley Arts Centre, Victoria |
Selected Bibliography
| 9
X 5 Mail, [ex. cat.], Gold Coast City Art Gallery, 1988
ACAF I: First Australian Contemporary Art Fair, [ex. cat.], Melb, 1988 Ahrens, Prue, Synaesthesia and the redemption of painting, Art Monthly, Nov 2005, No.185, pp.29-30 Alumni International, [ex. cat.], Pratt Institute, New York, 1993 Anderson, Peter, Just Looking, M.O.C.A. Bulletin, Brisbane, No. 51, March 1992, pp 7–8 Animal Imagery in Contemporary Art, [ex. cat.], Ballarat Fine Art Gallery, 1983 Australia on Paper, [ex. cat.], Queensland Arts Council and Michael Milburn Galleries, Brisbane, 1987 Australian Art: Artists' Working Names Authority List, Australian National Gallery, 1989 Baker, James, Contemporary Australian Drawing, M.O.C.A. Bulletin, Brisbane, No. 51, March 1992, p. 3 Bishop, Karin, Mostyn Bramley-Moore, Sydney Morning Herald, June 18-19, 2005, Spectrum p. 29. Brown, Phil, Two Preoccupations—Mostyn Bramley-Moore, The Brisbane Review, No. 12, December 5, 1991, p.5 Brown, Phil, Heaven and Earth, Brisbane News, April 21, 2004, p. 37 Brown, Phil, Calling the Shots, The Brisbane News, issue 388, 20–26 March 2002, p. 27 Chanin, Eileen, Contemporary Australian Painting, Craftsman House, Sydney, 1990 Cochrane, Peter, Pizza with the iron works, The Sydney Morning Herald, September 19, 1995, p. 16 Collins, Kate, exhib. rev., Brisbane Sunday Mail, Jan 20, 1985, p. 34 Drury, Nevill, Images 3, Craftsman House, Sydney Drury, Nevill, New Art Two, Craftsman House, Sydney, 1988 Edwards G., & Sullivan T. (eds), The Australian Directory of Faculties, 3rd edition, Universal Consultancy Services, Kenmore (Qld.), 1995 Edwards G., & SullivanT. (eds), The Australian Directory of Academics, 4th edition, Universal Consultancy Services, Kenmore (Qld.), 1995 Eight Local Artists, [ex. cat.], Ballarat Fine Art Gallery, 1984 Eisenberg, Joe, Mostyn Bramley-Moore: Water and Night, Periphery, Issue 2, February 1990, pp 10–11 Exhibition review, Ballarat Courier, February 16, 1984, p. 18 Germaine, Max, Artists and Galleries of Australia, Craftsman House, Sydney, 1990 Grahame, Noreen, Artists' Books + Multiples Fair '96, [ex. cat.], Numero Uno Publications, Brisbane Grishin, Sasha, Contemporary Australian Printmaking: An Interpretive History, Craftsman House, Sydney Heathcote, Christopher, Back to the Beginning of Communication, The Age, Melbourne, March 10, 1993, p. 14 Heathcote, Christopher, The Mark in Question—Allan Mitelman, Mostyn Bramley-Moore, Art & Australia, Sydney, Vol 37 No 4, June/August, 2000, pp 572–579 Huntington, Tony, exhibition review, Time Off (Brisbane), Issue 185, January 19, 1985, p. 8 IXeme Exposition Internationale de Desssins Originaux, [ex. cat.], Moderna Galerija, Rijeka, Yugoslavia, 1984 Kenyon, Therese, Under a Hot Tin Roof: art, passion and politics at the Tin Sheds Art Workshop, Power Publications, University of Sydney, 1995 Key Works from the Gold Coast Art Prize Acquisitions, 1968–88, [ex. cat.], Gold Coast City Art Gallery, 1989 Landmarks, [ex. cat.], Lismore Regional Gallery, 1988 Lynn, Elwyn, Funny how varied expression can be, The Australian (Weekend Review), October 30–31, 1993, p. 13 McLean, Sandra, Quiet on Tuesdays and Thursdays, The Courier Mail, Brisbane, March 30, 2002, p. Arts 4 Magon, Jane, exhib. rev., Eyeline, Brisbane, No.4, March 1988, p.26 Martin-Chew, Louise, Everyday life and other abstractions, The Australian, April 5, 2002, p. 16 McCulloch A. & McCulloch S., Encyclopedia of Australian Art, 3rd edition, Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 1994 McIntyre, Arthur, Rural Landscapes—The City Folks Do Them Best, Sydney Morning Herald, May 18, 1985, p. 47 Middle Earth, [ex. cat.], Green Triangle Galleries Association, 1984 Mostyn Bramley-Moore: Port of Shadows, [ex. cat.], Niagara Galleries, Melbourne, 1993 Portrait of a Gallery: Watters, 25 Years, [ex. cat.], Watters Gallery, Sydney, 1989 Smith, Bernard, Smith, Terry & Heathcote, Christopher , Australian Painting 1788–2000, Oxford University Press, 2001 Smith, John L., The Ocean Indoors: Mostyn Bramley-Moore, Eyeline, Brisbane, No. 18, Autumn 1992, pp 45–46 Smith, Sue, exhib. review, Brisbane Courier Mail, December 19, 1991, p.36 Solomon, [ex. cat.], Niagara Galleries, Melbourne, 1995 Stanford, Leonie, Rich Mix Twixt Mountain and the Sea, Financial Review, March 14, 1986, p.41 Ten Works Documented Between October 1975 and December 1978, Magic Sam, Sydney, 1978 The 3rd Seoul International Print Biennale, [ex. cat.], National Museum of Modern Art, Korea, 1981 The Idea: Ocean, Watters Gallery, Sydney, with essay by Fazal Rizvi (in preparation), 2001 Transit Narratives, [ex. cat.], Queensland College of Art, Griffith University, 2002 Transported, [ex. cat.], Southern Cross University and the University of Humberside, UK Vale-Slattery, Thomas, Mostyn Bramley-Moore, ONEWS, Brisbane, issue 33, March 8, 2002, p. 12 Water and Night, [ex. cat.], New England Regional Art Museum, Armidale, 1989 Who’s Who in Australia 2004, Crown Content, Melbourne, 2004 Who's Who in Australia, 32nd edition, Information Australia, Melbourne, 1996 Who's Who of Australian Visual Artists, D.W. Thorpe and the National Association for the Visual Arts, Melbourne, 1991 Woolcock, Phyllis, exhib. review, Brisbane Courier Mail, December 5,1987, p. 48 Woolcock, Phyllis, exhib. review, Brisbane Courier Mail, January 22,1985 |
Collections
| National
Gallery of Australia, Canberra
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane Artbank, Sydney Waikato Museum of Art and History, New Zealand Brisbane City Gallery, Queensland Gold Coast City Gallery, Queensland Lismore Regional Gallery, NSW New England Regional Art Museum, NSW Stanthorpe Regional Gallery, Queensland Swan Hill Regional Gallery, Victoria Pratt Institute, New York, USA University of Southern Queensland, Queensland Allen, Allen & Hemsley, NSW Baker & McKenzie, NSW Macquarie Bank, NSW NRMA Collection, NSW State Government Insurance Office of WA, WA Western Mining Corporation, NSW |