Bill Brown: Curriculum Vitae
Education
1961-1964 Evening classes, The National Art School
1965-1967 Full-time study, The National Art School Diploma in Painting and Drawing
1981-1982 Graduate Diploma in Education, Sydney Teachers College
Employment
1961-1964 Art Department Trainee, J Walter Thompson Advertising
1969-1974 Part-time painting and drawing lecturer, The National Art School
1975 Drawing tutor for Faculty of Architecture, Fine ArtsWorkshop, Sydney University
1976-1979 Drawing lecturer in creative illustration, Sydney College ofthe Arts
1979-2008 Part and Full time lecturer at the National Art School
Solo Exhibitions
1968 Rudy Komon Gallery, Sydney
1969 Rudy Komon Gallery, Sydney
1973 South Yarra Galleries, Melbourne
1974 Bonython Galleries, Sydney, Ray Hughes Gallery, Brisbane
1975 Bonython Galleries, Sydney
1976 Rex Irwin, Sydney, Ray Hughes, Brisbane
1978 Wollongong City Gallery – A 10-year Survey 1968-1978, Rex Irwin, Sydney
1980 Rex Irwin, Sydney
1982 Macquarie Galleries, Sydney
1984 Canberra School of Art – A 20-year Retrospective
1985 Macquarie Galleries, Sydney
1988 Macquarie Galleries, Sydney
1989 Macquarie Galleries, Sydney
1990 Gore St Gallery, Melbourne
1996 Australian Galleries, Sydney
1999 Mary Place Gallery, Sydney
2001 Manet’s Garden Sir Hermann Black Gallery, SydneyUniversity
2008 Ship of Fools Wilson Street Gallery, Sydney
2010 Soliloquy Wilson Street Gallery Sydney
2014 The Elephant in the Room, Janet Clayton Gallery, Sydney
2014; Wanderlust: 50 Year Survey of the work of Bill Brown, S.H. Ervin Gallery
Selected Group Exhibitions
1968 Survey 8 Blaxland Gallery, Sydney
1970 Australian Art Today – Travelling exhibition to South EastAsia
1972 Australian Paintings and Tapestries of the Past 20 Years.NSW House, London, Bonython Galleries, Sydney
1973 Works on Paper - Bonython Galleries, Sydney
1974 Georges Invitation Art Prize, Melbourne, Australian Pavilion Expo ’74 Spokane, USA
1977 Australian Colourists ’77 – West Australian Institute ofTechnology
1981 Continuum Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney
1982 4th Biennale of Sydney – Vision of Disbelief
1983 Drawn Decades - Travelling Exhibition Penrith,Wollongong, Lake Macquar Regional Galleries
1984 Paradoxical Abstraction Form – Macquarie Gallery
Sign & Image – Art Gallery of Western Australia
1986 Cross Currents - Heide Park and Art Gallery, Melbourne
Australian Perspecta - Art Gallery of New South Wales
1987 Surface for Reflexion – Art Gallery of New South Wales and Selected RegionalGalleries
1988 Wynne Prize – Art Gallery of New South Wales
1998 Symbiosis: a joint exhibition by 45 artists Utopia ArtSydney, New England Regio Art Museum
2010 CarriageArtworks, Sydney
Awards
1967 National Art Students’ Club Prize
1968 Berrima Open Art Prize
1973 Georges Invitation Prize (acquisitive)
1974 Visual Arts Board Special Project Grant
1978 Georges Invitation Prize (acquisitive)
1982 Gold Coast Art Prize (acquisitive)
1983 Visual Arts Board StandardGrant
1988 Visual Arts Board Special Project Grant
2014;
Represented in the collections of:
Art Gallery of New South Wales
Art Gallery of Newcastle City
Art Gallery of Western Australia
Canberra School of Art
Cartwell Collection, Hamilton New Zealand
Commonwealth Collection, Canberra
Gold Coast City Gallery
Museum of Contemporary Art Sydney
National Gallery Canberra
New Houses of Parliament Canberra
South Australian Art Gallery
Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery
University of Wollongong
University of Western Sydney
Union of the University of New England
Macquarie University
Victorian Regional Galleries of Swan Hill, Mornington, Hamilton
Wollongong City Gallery
New England Regional Art Museum