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Tony Coleing Hannah (2000) Acrylic on canvas 178 x 109 cm (detail) |
| 1942 | Born, Warnambool, Victoria |
Studies
| 1963-68 | England |
| 1958-59 | National Art School, Sydney |
| 2004 | Alice Springs Art Prize, Joint 1st Prize |
| 1987 | Australia
Council Visual Arts Board Studio, New York
Bicentennial Print Commission, Australian National Gallery |
| 1986 | Muswellbrook Art Prize, Print Section |
| 1976 | Sculpture
Commission, Norwich Union Building, O’Connell Street, Sydney
Australia Council Arts Board Grant |
| 1974 | Australia Council Arts Board Grant |
| 1973 | Australia Council Arts Board Grant |
| 1971 | Flotta Lauro Prize |
| 1968 | Kolotex Award, 1st Prize |
Solo Exhibitions
| 2008 | Weather or not, Andrew Baker Art Dealer, Brisbane |
| 2007 | 27 Days, Araluen Art Centre, Alice Springs, NT |
| 2006 | 27
Days, Andrew Baker Art Dealer, Brisbane
27 Days, Utopia Art, Sydney 27 Days, Helen Maxwell Gallery, Canberra |
| 2004 | Just words I heard, Andrew Baker Art Dealer, Brisbane |
| 2003 | A communication error has occurred!, Utopia Art, Sydney |
| 2002 | What channel are we on?, Helen Maxwell Gallery, Canberra |
| 2001 | Are
you receiving me?, Andrew Baker Art Dealer, Brisbane
Sculpture—A Collaboration, with Stephen Killick, Port Macquarie Hastings Regional Art Gallery, Port Macquarie |
| 2000 | Bad Weather, Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne |
| 1992 | Tony
Coleing & Friends, collaborative prints, Australian National Gallery
Heads & Bodies, Julie Green Gallery, Sydney M.A.D., Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne |
| 1991 | M.A.D.
Paintings, Julie Green Gallery, Sydney
Maybe we should have stuck with the camel, prints, Arts Multiplicata, Sydney |
| 1988 | Looking, survey of prints, Museum of Contemporary Art, Brisbane |
| 1985 | Works
from a Journey--Sydney to New York, 1984, Ray Hughes Gallery, Brisbane
Ray Hughes Gallery, Brisbane Avago Gallery, Sydney |
| 1984 | Nine New Prints, Ray Hughes at Reconnaissance, Melbourne |
| 1983 | Nine New Prints, Ray Hughes Gallery, Brisbane |
| 1982 | Roslyn
Oxley 9, Sydney
Clocks and Lorries, with Margaret Dodd, Adelaide Festival of the Arts Recent Wars, with Adrian Hall, Ray Hughes Gallery, Brisbane |
| 1981 | Institute
of Modern Art, Brisbane
We Point the Bone/Ban the Bomb, collaborative with Kevin Mortensen, Ray Hughes Gallery (Downtown), Brisbane |
| 1980 | Ray
Hughes Gallery, Brisbane
The Biennale: Visual Arts '80, 39th Venice Biennale, Australian Pavilion, Venice, Italy |
| 1979 | Ray Hughes Gallery, Brisbane |
| 1978 | Ray Hughes Gallery, Brisbane |
| 1977 | Surfboard Rider Drawings, Ray Hughes Gallery, Brisbane |
| 1975 | Gallery A, Sydney |
| 1974 | To Do with Blue Series, Watters Gallery, Sydney |
| 1973 | Watters
Gallery, Sydney
Watters Gallery, Sydney |
Group Exhibitions
| 2007 | All
Tastes Catered For: Politics, Sport, Religion, Climate, Charles Nodrum
Gallery, Melbourne
Turning 20, Utopia Art Sydney, Sydney 21st Birthday Exhibition, Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne Bodies and Minds, Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne Auction Art Australia, Helen Maxwell Gallery, Canberra The Story of Australian Printmaking: 1801–2005, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra |
| 2006 | Melbourne Art Fair 2006, Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne |
| 2005 | Museum II, Utopia Art Sydney, Sydney |
| 2004 | Place
Made: Australian Print Workshop, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra;
Australian Print Workshop, Melbourne
The 33rd Alice Prize, The Alice Springs Art Foundation, Araluen Art Centre, Alice Springs, NT The Unusual Suspects II, Andrew Baker Art Dealer, Brisbane |
| 2003 | Confluence,
Port Macquarie Hastings Regional Gallery, Port Macquarie,NSW
The Human Experience (Collaborations with Sam Bullock), Andrew Baker Art Dealer, Brisbane Synergies, The Australian National University Drill Hall Gallery, Canberra (A) WAR, College of Fine Arts Gallery, COFA, University of NSW, Sydney Spoiled Earth: War on Land, Helen Maxwell Gallery, Canberra |
| 2002 | Dreams and Realities
(Collaborations with Sam Bullock), Andrew Baker Art Dealer, Brisbane
Gallery Artists Exhibition, Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne Shell Fremantle Print Award Exhibition, Fremantle, W.A. Jo Sonjas/Packsaddle Exhibition, New England Regional Art Museum, Armidale, N.S.W. |
| 2001 | Close
to Home, Andrew Baker Art Dealer, Brisbane
Play—An Exhibition for Children, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane Viet Nam Voices—Australians and the Vietnam War, touring exhibition developed by the Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre, Sydney A Century of Collecting 1901–2001, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney |
| 2000 | Project
2/2000, The Sir Hermann Black Gallery and Sculpture Terrace, Sydney
Art and Furniture, Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne Triptych: Opening Group Exhibition, Helen Maxwell Gallery, Canberra Australian Identities in Printmaking, Wagga Wagga Regional Art Gallery |
| 1999 | We Are Australian, The George Adams Gallery, Melbourne |
| 1997 | Bronze--New Sculpture, Utopia Art, Sydney |
| 1996 | UWS Macarthur National Printmedia Acquisitive Exhibition, University of Western Sydney, Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre, NSW |
| 1994 | Commitments, collaborative work with Robert Campbell Jnr, Art Space, Sydney |
| 1993 | Art
and Politics, Museum of Contemporary Art, Brisbane
Commitments, collaborative work with Robert Campbell Jnr, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane Collaborative Prints: Tony Coleing, Plimsoll Gallery, Hobart On the Other Hand, S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney Group Show, Coffin Creek, Mudgee, NSW |
| 1992 | Henri
Worland Memorial Print Award 1972-1992, Warrnambool Art Gallery, Victoria
My Head is a Map: A Decade of Australian Prints, Australian National Gallery, Canberra Synthesis: Art and Architecture, a collaborative work with Paul Pholeros (architect), M.S.B. Bond Store, Sydney Australian Masters '92, Solander Gallery, Canberra Group Show of early works, Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne |
| 1991 | Prints
Galore, Woollongong City Gallery
Off the Wall in the Air, A Seventies Selection, Monash University Gallery and the Australian Centre of Contemporary Art, Melbourne Her Story: Images of Domestic Labour in Australian Art, S.H. Ervin Museum and Art Gallery, Sydney The Melbourne Savage Club Invitation print prize, Bendigo Art Gallery Microcosm, Gary Anderson Gallery, Sydney From the Landscape: a review of the influence of the Landscape in Contemporary Art, Museum of Contemporary Art, Brisbane Group Drawing Show, Julie Green Gallery, Sydney Modern Australian Paintings, Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne Third International Master Print Fair, Hotel Inter-Continental, Sydney |
| 1989 | Irony,
Humour and Dissent: Recent Australian Drawings 1, Manly Art Gallery
and Museum, Sydney
Prints and Australia: Pre-settlement to Present, Australian National Gallery, Canberra Works on Paper, Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne Australianarama, Plimsoll Gallery, Centre for the Arts, Hobart Moral Censorship and the Visual Arts in Australia, The Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne Heildelberg and Heritage, Two Visions of Australia--One Hundred Years Apart, Linden Gallery, Melbourne China Cries Exhibition, Pailou Plaza, Sydney Wild Art Exhibition, Bondi Pavilion, Sydney International Master Print Fair, Hotel Inter-Continental, Sydney Recent Acquisitions of Contemporary Australian Art, The Drill Hall Gallery, Australian National Gallery, Canberra Sets and Series: Recent Prints from the Collection, Robert Raynor Gallery, National Gallery of Victoria Inside the Greenhouse, Tin Sheds Gallery, Sydney |
| 1988 | A
Changing Relationship: Aboriginal Themes in Australian Art 1938-1988,
S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney
Towers of Torture Exhibition, Tin Sheds Gallery, Sydney Australian Photography 1928-1988, Gary Anderson Galley, Sydney Drawing in Australia: Drawings, Watercolours and Pastels from the 1770s to the 1980s, Australian National Gallery, Canberra |
| 1987 | Shocking
Diversity, Print Council of Australia Touring Exhibition, Opening Exhibition,
Museum of Contemporary Art, Brisbane
The Age of Collage, Perspecta, Holdsworth Galleries, Sydney Urban Anxieties: Australian Drawings of the 1980s, Australian National Gallery, Canberra Here and There, Monash University, Melbourne |
| 1986 | The
Biennale of Sydney, Art Gallery of New South Wales
The Biennale Des Friedens, Hamburg, Germany Battlefield, Artspace, Sydney Gold Coast City Art Prize Exhibition, Queensland Kino Kapers, Contemporary Films by Australian Artists and Independant Filmakers, Australian National Gallery, Canberra Post-Perspecta, Artworkers Union Exhibition, Artspace, Sydney |
| 1985 | Invitation
Art Purchase Exhibition, Roundhouse Gallery, University of New South
Wales, Sydney
Sydney Art of the Sixties, Gary Anderson Gallery, Sydney International Biennial of Graphic Art, Lubljana, Yugoslavia The First Exhibition, Ray Hughes Gallery, Sydney Racism, (A collaborative project by T. Coleing, P. Burges and R. Cooney), George Paton Gallery, Melbourne The Politics of Picturing, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane Artists for Peace Exhibition, Mori Art Gallery, Sydney Australian Prints in the Australian National Gallery, Australian National Gallery, Canberra |
| 1984 | Inaugural
Exhibition, Hugh Williamson Prize, Ballarat Fine Art Gallery, Victoria
Super 8 Film Festival, Sydney The Politics of Picturing, Tasmanian School of Art, University of Tasmania, Hobart International Survey of Painting and Sculpture, Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA Austauch/Exchange, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney 21 Australian Prints, Griffith University, Brisbane Recent Acquisitions of Australian Prints, Australian National Gallery, Canberra 8th British International Print Biennale, Bradford, UK Sculpture Submission for the Queensland Cultural Centre Hiroshima Commemoration Art Exhibition, Sydney Lower Town Hall Artworks Union Fundraising Show, Artspace, Sydney |
| 1983 | Anzart
in Hobart, performance piece with Adrian Hall entitled Dance, Dance,
Hobart
Henry Worland Memorial Print Award Exhibition, Warrnambool Art Gallery, Victoria Opening exhibition, Artspace, Sydney Perspecta '83, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney and touring Minor pieces out of Seventies (or Tall Poppies as Cloned Weeds), Avago Gallery, Sydney |
| 1981 | Lisbon
International Exhibition of Drawings, Portugal
Ray Hughes at Pinacotheca, Melbourne Landscape into Art, Australian National Gallery, Canberra Morceau d’echangers, Group Show, collaboration with Marr Grounds, Ray Hughes Gallery, Brisbane Ab Origine, National Trust Centre, Observatory Hill, Sydney Ten Years, George Paton Gallery, Melbourne University, Victoria Artists for Aboriginal Land Rights, Paddington Town Hall, Sydney |
| 1980 | The
Queensland Connection, Contemporary Art Society, Adelaide
Drawn and Quartered, Australian Contemporary Paperworks, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide The Ian Potter Foundation Sculpture Commission Exhibition, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne |
| 1979 | European
Dialogue, 3rd Biennale of Sydney, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
The Griffith Workshop Exhibition (prints), Black Friars Gallery, Sydney Sculpture Submission, Unley Civic and Community Centre, Adelaide |
| 1978 | Mildura
Sculpture Tiennial, Victoria
Collaborative Work with Marr Grounds, Watters Gallery, Sydney William Dobell Foundation Exhibition, Competition for Martin Place Sculpture, Sculpture Centre, Sydney The Map Show, Ewing Gallery, Melbourne Recent Experimental Australian Art, Canberra |
| 1977 | Christmas
Card Show, Abraxas Gallery, Canberra
Watters at Pinacotheca, Melbourne Sculpture Competition Exhibition, Griffith University, Brisbane Artists Against Uranium, Sydney Opera House, Sydney World Print Competition, Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco |
| 1976 | Contemporary
Australian Sculpture, North Terrace, Adelaide, organised by the Art
Gallery of South Australia
Australian Post-Object Art, Experimental Art Foundation, Jam Factory, Adelaide Phillip Morris Art Grant, 3rd Annual Exhibition, Melbourne Outlines of Australian Printmaking, Ballarat Fine Art Gallery Recent International Forms in Art, Biennale of Sydney, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney Drawing Show, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane Group Show, Abraxas Gallery, Canberra November 11th Remembrance Day Exhibition, Hogarth Galleries, Sydney |
| 1975 | Phillip
Morris Arts Grant, 2nd Annual Exhibition, City Square, Melbourne
Arts Australia '75, Canberra Survival Kits, Ewing and George Paton Gallery, Melbourne University, Melbourne Australian Council for the Arts, A.M.P. Building, Sydney The Apocolypse Show, Hogarth Gallery, Sydney Mildura Biennale, Mildura Arts Centre, Victoria Artists for Labor, sale and auction at Anna Symonds Gallery, Canberra and then Paddington Town Hall, Sydney |
| 1974 | Wit
Works, Mildura Arts Centre, Victoria
Australian Graphics, travelling exhibition The Eutectic Design Award Exhibition, Melbourne Group Show, Ewing and George Paton Gallery, Melbourne University, Melbourne |
| 1973 | Sculpturescape
'73, Mildura Arts Centre, Victoria
Six Sculptors, Watters Gallery, Sydney Recent Australian Art, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney Object and Idea, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne Seventeenth Tasmanian Art Gallery Exhibition, Hobart Launceston Art Purchase Exhibition, Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, Launceston Caltex Acquisitions Exhibition, Ballarat Fine Art Gallery, Victoria |
| 1972 | Sixteenth
Tasmanian Art Gallery Exhibition, Hobart
Australian Sculpture, John Gild Gallery, Perth Australian Prints, Victoria and Albert Museum, London Stanthorpe Centenary Arts Festival, Stanthorpe, Queensland Contemporary Art Society of Australia (NSW), 34th Annual Interstate Exhibition, Woollahra Gallery, Sydney Harold Szeeman in Australia, Bonython Gallery, Sydney and National Gallery of Victoria Henry Worland Memorial Art Prize, Warrnambool Art Gallery, Victoria |
| 1971 | Penelope's
Sculpture Garden, Sydney (in association with Watter's Gallery, Sydney)
The Situation Now: Object or Post Object Art?, Central Street Gallery, Sydney (Contemporary Art Society of NSW) Flotta Lauro Prize, Commonwealth Bank, Sydney Marland House Sculpture Competition, Age Gallery, Melbourne Australian Imprint: Lithographs, etchings and silkscreens by Australian artists, Kuala Lumper, Malaysia Under $1,000 Potential, Gallery A, Sydney |
| 1970 | Fourth
Mildura Sculpture Triennial, Mildura Arts Centre, Victoria
Works on Paper, Gallery A, Sydney Group 4, Gallery A, Sydney Transfield Art Prize, Bonython Gallery, Sydney Gold Coast City Art Prize, Southport, Queensland Comalco Invitation Award for Sculpture, Adelaide The Ian Potter Foundation Sculpture in Aluminium, National Gallery of Victoria Flotta Lauro Prize for Sculpture, Sydney 5c and up Wonder Christmas Show, Gallery A, Sydney Sculpture Competition Exhibition, IBM Centre, Wellington, New Zealand Contemporary Art Society of Australia (NSW), 32nd Annual Interstate Exhibition (incorporating the Hunter Douglas Prize), Farmer's Blaxland Gallery, Sydney |
| 1969 | Contemporary
Art Society of Australia (NSW), 31st Annual Interstate Exhibition (incorporating
the Hunter Douglas Prize), Farmer’s Blaxland Gallery, Sydney
Transfield Art Prize, Bonython Gallery, Sydney Royal Easter Show Art Prize Exhibition, Sydney Australia Art Today, Albert Hall, Canberra and tour of South-East Asia |
| 1968 | The
Field, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne and Art Gallery of New
South Wales, Sydney
Young Contemporaries, Farmer's Blaxland Gallery, Sydney Alcorso-Sekers Travelling Scholarship for Sculpture, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne Beginning of the Fifth Year Exhibition, Gallery A, Sydney Arts Vietnam, Gallery A, Sydney The Contemporary Art Society of Australia (NSW), 30th Annual Interstate Exhibition (incorporating the Kolotex Prize), Farmer's Blaxland Gallery, Sydney |
| 1964 | National
Society, Thirty-First Exhibition, Royal Institute Galleries, London
Young Commonwealth Artists, Whitechapel, London |
| 1963-64 | Group Show, Heales Department Store Art Gallery, London |
Selected Bibliography
| Catalano,
Gary. ‘An Art about Suburbia’, Aspect, Vol. 4, Autumn 1976
Catalano, Gary. ‘About the house: the domestic theme in Australian art’, Art & Australia, Vol. 21, No. 1, Spring 1983 Davies, Suzanne. ‘Australians in Venice’, Art Network 2, Spring 1980 Fern, Lynette. ‘Giggles in the gloom’, Sydney Morning Herald, 14 February 1992 Gidney, Eric. ‘Art and Telecommunications—ten years on’, Leonardo, Vol. 24, No. 2, 1991 Gray, Anne. Australian Art In The National Gallery, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, 2002 Green, Charles. ‘Tony Coleing’, Artforum, No. 6, February 1992 Hardwick, Dr Deanne. Australian Installation Art, Craftsman House, 2000 Heath, Tom. ‘Sculpture by Tony Coleing, Gallery A Sydney’, Architecture in Australia, Vol. 59, No. 6, December 1970 Hennessey, W. J., Art Journal, [USA], Vol. 41, Spring 1981 Hutchinson, Noel. ‘Sculpturescape ‘73’, Art & Australia, Sydney, Vol. 11, No. 1, July 1973 Klaosen, Diane. ‘Review/Overview, Siglo 7’, Journal for the Arts, Issue 7, Writing Borders, ‘96/97 Lansell, Ross. ‘Melbourne Comentary: Harold Szeeman in Australia’, Studio International, London, Vol. 182, October 1971 Macleod, Di. ‘Aspects of Australian Printmaking 1984–1994’, Imprint, Vol 30, No. 1 Autumn 1995 McCulloch, Alan. ‘Australia’, Art International, Lugano, Vol. XIV, No. 4, April 1970 McCulloch, Alan. ‘Letter from Australia’, Art International, Lugano, Vol. XIV, No. 10, December 1970 McGrath, Sandra. ‘Tony Coleing’, Art & Australia, Sydney, Vol. 10, No. 4, April 1973 Malko, George. Lithopinion, Vol. 6, No. 1, Issue 21, 1971 Martin-Chew, Louise. Australian Painting Now, Craftsman House, 2000 Martin-Chew, Louise. ‘The Thick Plottens’, Art & Australia, Vol 39, No. 3, 2002 Plant, Margaret. ‘Gnomes etc in the Garden: An Encounter with Compost’, Art & Australia, 1996 Smith, Terry. Art International, Vol. XV1-3 Smith, Terry. ‘The Provincial Problem’, Artforum, New York, September 1974 Sturgeon, Graeme. The Development of Australian Sculpture 1788–1975, Thames and Hudson, London, 1978 Wallace-Crabbe, Robin. ‘Tony Coleing’, Venice Biennale 1980: Australia, Visual Arts Board, Australia Council, Sydney, 1980 Webster, Sue. Australian Art Review 1981–82, Edited by Leon Paroissien |
Collections
| National
Gallery of Australia, Canberra
Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, Wellington, New Zealand 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, Brisbane Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, Launceston Ballarat Fine Art Gallery, Victoria Geelong Art Gallery, Victoria Griffith University Art Collection, Brisbane La Trobe Regional Gallery, Victoria Mildura Art Centre, Victoria Muswellbrook Regional Art Gallery, New South Wales Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane Swan Hill Regional Art Gallery, Victoria University of Queensland, Brisbane Wagga Wagga City Art Gallery, New South Wales Warrnambool Art Gallery, Victoria Wollongong Art Gallery, New South Wales The Harland Collection, New South Wales |