John Waterhouse

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Contemplation2

Acrylic on paper

45 x 58 cm

 

 

Reverie

Acrylic on paper

56 x 71 cm

 

 

Pending

Acrylic on paper

44 x 57 cm

 

 

Bush Fragment1

Acrylic on paper

36 x 52 cm

 

 

Bush Fragment 3

Acrylic on paper

35 x 50 cm

 

 

River  Murray

Acrylic on paper

35 x 50 cm

 

 

 

 

John Waterhouse.

 

.Biographical Data:

 

Born New Zealand 1933, arrived Australia 1949,SeIf-taught semi-abstract painter.

While on the staff of Monash University (1962-1969), among other responsibilities, he was Curator of the University Art collection. From then until 1990 he was Curator of Art works at La Trobe University and responsible for the University Gallery and the University Collection. Since 1990 full time painter.

 

1979 Study tour of Greece, the United Kingdom &France

1988 and 1991 Study tour of China ,

1993 Study tour of Canada, the United Kingdom and Italy

1995 Study tour of France and the United Kingdom

 

Solo Exhibitions:

 

1971 Crackenback Gallery & Manyung Gallery, Melbourne

 

1972 Manyung Gallery, Melbourne

 

1974 Manyung Gallery, Melbourne

 

1975 Manyung Gallery, Melbourne

 

1977 Hawthorn City Art Gallery, Melbourne

 

1978 Clive Parry Galleries, Melbourne

 

1982 Raya Gallery, Melbourne

 

1984 Raya Gallery, Melbourne

 

1986 Raya Gallery, Melbourne

 

1986 Giles Street Gallery, Canberra

 

1986 Raya Gallery, Melbourne

 

1992 Recent Works on Paper, David Ellis Fine Art Melbourne.

 

1992 QDOS Gallery Lorne.

 

1994 Meditative Journey, Recent Works on Paper, Lyall Burton Gallery, Melbourne.

 

1996 Nocturne, Lyall Burton Gallery, Melbourne.

 

2001 Inner & Outer Landscapes, Gallery 101, Melbourne (with sculpture Bart Sanciolo);

also at La Trobe University Art Museum, Melbourne.

 

2002 Tony Smibert Gallery, Evelyn County Estate, Kangaroo Ground.

 

 

 

 

 

Selected Group Exhibitions:

 

1977 Joint Exhibition with Gareth Jones-Roberts,Manyung Gallery, Melbourne

 

1978 'Still-life Interpretations', with GarethJones-Roberts, Robert Grieve, Charles McCubbin,

Tim Guthrie and Anne Graham, Yarra GlenGallery, Melbourne

 

1981 'Then and Now - Twq Hundred Years of Watercolour', McClelland Gallery, Melbourne

 

1983 'Watercolour Today, Australia and America', McClelland Gallery, Melbourne

 

1989 'Christine and Friends', Raya Gallery, Melbourne

 

1991 'Quorum', With Gareth Jones-Roberts, Norma Jean Sherriff and Bart Sanciolo, ChisholmCollege AIt Centre, La Trobe University

 

1992 A.C.A.F.3, Third Australian Contemporary Art Fair, Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne

 

1992 'A Review of the Year with Works on Paper', David Ellis Fine Art, Melbourne

 

1993 'Gallery Artists - Works on Paper', Lyall Burton Gallery, Melbourne

 

1994 'Watercolor Exhibition by the AItists of ROC, USA & Australia, Chung Cheng Gallery, The National Taiwan Art Education Institute, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China –

 

1994 A.C.A.F.4, Fourth Australian Contemporary Art Fair, Royal Exhibition

Building,Melbourne,.

 

1995 Chinese - Australian Watercolor Exchange Exhibition, Taipei Cultural Centre, Taiwan

 

1995 Chinese - Australian Watercolor Exchange Exhibition, Australian Chinese Museum,Melbourne

 

1995 'Gallery Artists', Lyall Burton Gallery, Melbourne

 

1996 A.C.A.F.S, Fifth Australian Contemporary Art Fair, Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne

 

1996 Asian Pac.ific Watercolour Painting Exhibition, Taipei, Taiwan.

 

2001 Melaleuca Gallery, Anglesea with Robert Holcombe,John Hunt & Robert Wilson.

 

2001 Fragments of the Landscape with Jean Baggaley, Windows on Church Galleries, Richmond.

 

2003 Xmas Windows Exhibition, Windows on Church Galleries, Richmond.

 

2004 Mixed Exhibition at Affordable Art Show, Pollock Gallery.

 

2004. Mixed Exhibition with Jean Baggaley&Neville Pilven at Pollock Gallery,Richmond.

 

 

Collections.

 

ANZ Bank, Artbank, Australian Council for Educational Research, Australian National

University,BP Australia, Carnberwell High School, Canberra University, Council of Adult Education Victoria,Deakin University, Flinders University, Glenormiston Agricultural College, Graduate HouseUniversity of Melbourne, Kodaly Institute Hungary, La Trobe University, McClelland Art Gallery,Monash University, Momingcon Peninsula Art Centre, Mount Scopus College, St Patrick's College Goulburn, Melbourne Savage Club, St Catherine's College Oxford, St Kevin's College, Strathcona Baptist Girls Grammar School, Taylor's College, Telstra, Tintern Anglican Grammar School,University of Melbourne, University of New England, University of New South Wales, University of Papua New Guinea, University of the South Pacific, University of Western Australia, Wescpac Banking Corporation.

 

 

 

Publications

 

1984 Alan McCulloch. Encyclopedia of Australian Art, Hutchinson.

Max Germaine, Artists and Galleries of Australia and New Zealand, Craftsman Press

1991 Max Germaine, Artists and Galleries of Australia and New Zealand, Craftsman Press

1994 .AIan McCulloch. Encyclopedia of Australian Art, revised and updated by Susan McCulloch,Hutchinson.

Watercolour Exhibition by the Artists of ROC, USA and Australia, National Taiwan Art Education Institute, Chung Cheng Gallery, Exhibition Catalogue

ACAF 4: Fourth Australian Contemporary Art Fair, represented by Lyall Burton Gallery, Catalogue.

1995 Chinese-Australia Watercolour Exchange Exhibition. Taipei County Cultural Foundation,

Exhibition Catalogue

1998 ACAF 5: Fifth Australian Contemporary Art Fair, represented by Lyall Burton Gallery, Catalogue

Asian Pacific Watercolour Painting Exhibition, Taipei, Taiwan, Exhibition Catalogue

 

 

Work Reproduced

 

1986 Andrew Taylor, Travelling Poems, UQP (Cover)

1989 Australian Arts Diary (Frontispiece)

Art and Australia, 19/4 p. 472; 20/2 p.191; 21/4 p. 470; 23/4 p. 535; 25/4 p. 537

1994 Watercolour Exhibition by the Artists of ROC, USA and Australia, National Taiwan Art Education Institute, Chung Cheng Gallery, Exhjbition Catalogue, p.l00

ACAF 4: Fourth Australian Contemporary Art Fair, represented by Lyall Burton Gallery, Catalogue,p.84

1996 ACAF 4: Fourth Australian Contemporary Art Fair, represented by Lyall Burton Gallery, Catalogue,p.25