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An exhibition of recent work by John R Walker

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John R Walker

The End of All Our Exploring

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22 March - 26 April, 2014

© Utopia Art Sydney

John R Walker

The End of All Our Exploring

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We shall not cease from exploration And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time.

T.S. Eliot -- “Little Gidding” Four Quartets

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The Badja, 2014, archival oil on polyester, 171 x 214cm

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Doughboy Hill is a high ridge on the western edge of the upper Shoalhaven Valley about 25 kms from Braidwood. It is big sky country – a place where the land feels like its melting into the sky; sky touching the high, cold, intense bony structure of a place. From the higher points, you can see all the country that I have been painting and living in for years now. It’s a place where you can sit on a ridge, brew a cup of tea and actually see Bedervale in the distance, Monga, the course of the Shoalhaven River, the paddocks and roads that I have worked in for more than a decade – almost like a map. This experience connected with the themes of my previous show, Winter in the Fire Forest: of cycles, maps in which my ‘east and west are one’. It’s part of the reason why I chose the title for this exhibition from a line from one of T S Eliot’s most famous poems – ‘and the end of all our exploring’ – a poem about returning to something previously known and finally seeing it as though for the first time.

The next suite of pictures is centred around The Badja. Most of the gouaches were done fairly quickly as immediate responses, plus one larger painting which was done in the studio. Badja is really the first place where I wandered for days up and down valleys painting. It is a place where you can just wander freely: the fences are not very serious. It has beautiful swampy, sphagnum moss plains and open grassy alpine woodlands where navigation is easy.

It is a beautiful place. A lot of the paintings are about the pleasures of just wandering up and down a valley that I now know well. There are special places: there is a canyon with a permanent stream running over rocky rapids and a paddock of native irises of vivid purple. There are hidden, shallow alpine lakes, special valleys with sphagnum moss that is more than waist high. Some of the trees and cold crystal streams feel like old friends.

The painting entitled The Darling at Kalyanka derives from a trip we made out to Wilcannia last year. I was really struck by how deep a trench the Darling River forms at that location. There is something about a river that is sometimes so big and powerful that it can carve such a deep-sided trench and yet it is often, as when we visited, close to empty. It is that sense of extravagance: bare, eroded and very steep banks that never support plant growth because they are either under flood or too dry, that was the genesis of this painting.There are two famous metaphors for time: the great wheel of time– things recur, cycles – and time as an arrow – the irreversible process of birth, growth and death. Nothing ever quite repeats and yet somehow they do repeat, as variations upon a theme.

Most of all, I just love looking.

John R Walker, February 2014

Recollections

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Doughboy Morning, 2013/14, archival oil on polyester, 142.5 x 177.5cm

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Doughboy Hill, 2013, archival oil on polyester, 173.5 x 217cm

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Doughboy Track, 2012, archival oil on polyester, 109.5 x 168cm (diptych)

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The Darling at Kalyanka, 2013, archival oil on polyester, 178 x 186cm

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Dawn, 2013, archival oil on polyester, 123 x 91cm

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Doughboy V, 2013, archival oil on polyester, 106 x 127cm

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Badja Walking III, 2013, gouache on paper, 112 x 76cm

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Badja Walking 5, 2013, gouache on paper, 112 x 76cm

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Badja Walking II, 2013, gouache on paper, 112 x 76cm;

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The Badja - Christmas Eve, 2013, gouache on paper, 112 x 76cm

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Badja Walking 4, 2013, gouache on paper, 112 x 76cm

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Born 7 February, 1957Lives and works in Braidwood, NSW

Education

1976-78 Alexander Mackie College, Sydney, Art Diploma1975-76 St. George Technical College, Kogarah, Art Certificate.

Solo Exhibitions

2014 ‘Terroir: Big Land Pictures’, Orange Regional Gallery, NSW

‘The End of All Our Exploring’, Utopia Art Sydney, NSW2012 ‘Winter in the Fire Forest’, Utopia Art Sydney, NSW2011 ‘Space & Time: 10 Years in the Landscape’ Maitland Regional Art Gallery, NSW

‘Site’ Utopia Art Sydney, NSW2010 ‘The Shed’, Utopia Art Sydney, NSW2008 ‘Journey through Landscape’, S. H. Ervin Gallery, NSW ‘Gateless Gate’, Utopia Art Sydney, NSW2007 ‘Working in the Landscape’, Utopia Art Sydney, NSW2005 ‘Gullies, Roads, Dry Lands and Forests’, Utopia Art Sydney, NSW2004 ‘Dry Land Paintings’, Utopia Art Sydney, NSW2003 ‘Paintings from Tallaganda’, Utopia Art Sydney, NSW2002 ‘Paintings from Bundanon’, Utopia Art Sydney, NSW2000 ‘Gully’, Utopia Art Sydney, NSW1999 ‘Paintings for a New Republic’, Utopia Art Sydney, NSW1997 ‘The House of the Stare’, Utopia Art Sydney, NSW1994 ‘In a Free State’, Tamworth City Gallery, NSW ‘Pictures from Home’, Utopia Art Sydney, NSW1993 ‘New Paintings’, Utopia Art Sydney, NSW1992 ‘Recent Works’, Utopia Art Sydney, NSW ‘New Sculpture’, Austral Gallery, St Louis, USA1991 ‘Favourite Paintings’, Utopia Art Sydney, NSW ‘Recent Figures’, Austral Gallery, St Louis, USA1990 ‘Drawings’, Utopia Art Sydney, NSW Tolarno Gallery, Melbourne ‘Austral Gallery’, St Louis, USA1989 ‘Figures on Paper’, Austral Gallery, St Louis, USA

‘Utopia Art Sydney’, NSW1988 ‘Recent Painting’, Tolarno Gallery, Melbourne, VIC1986 ‘Deceit, Desire & Narcissus’, Mori Gallery, Sydney, NSW1985 ‘Tolarno Gallery’, Melbourne, VIC1984 ‘The Family’, Mori Gallery, Sydney, NSW1982 Mori Gallery, Sydney, NSW1979 The Student Gallery (later renamed Mori Gallery), Sydney, NSW

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2013 ‘The Salon’, Utopia Art Sydney, NSW ‘Angus Nivison & Friends: Christopher Hodges, Helen

Eager & John R. Walker’, Walcha Gallery of Art, NSW ‘No Boundaries’, Bayside Arts & Cultural Centre, VIC ‘LANDSCAPE’, Utopia Art Sydney, NSW2012 ‘Bronze’, Utopia Art Sydney, NSW ‘paperworks’, Utopia Art Sydney, NSW ‘Repertoire’, Utopia Art Sydney, NSW ‘Big Scope: painting and place’, Lake Macquarie City Art Gallery, NSW2011 ‘Heads’, Utopia Art Sydney, NSW ‘Salon des Refuses’ S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney, NSW ‘Alone off the Press’ Braidwood, NSW

‘Up Close and Personal: works from the collection of Dr Peter Elliott AM’, S. H. Ervin Gallery, NSW‘Fleurieu Art Prize’, Hardys Winery, McLaren Vale, SA

2010 ‘Museum III’ Utopia Art Sydney, NSW ‘The Wynne Prize’ Art Gallery of New South Wales, NSW ‘two six two two’, Goulburn Regional Gallery, NSW ‘Melbourne Art Fair 2010’, Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne, ‘KIAF 2010, Korea International Art Fair’, COEX, Seoul, Korea2009 ‘pinned & framed’ Utopia Art Sydney, NSW ‘The Power of Print’, NG Art Gallery, NSW

‘Mono Uno: Australian Monotypes in the Charles Sturt University Art Collection’ Wagga Wagga Art Gallery, NSW

John R WalkerBiography

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‘The Wynne Prize’, Art Gallery of New South Wales, NSW

‘Eutick Memorial Still Life Award (the EMSLA)’, Coffs Harbour Regional Gallery, NSW

‘The 23 Annual Packsaddle Selling Exhibition’, New England Regional Art Museum, NSW2008 ‘The Wynne Prize’, Art Gallery of New South Wales, NSW ‘The Melbourne Art Fair 2008’, Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne Vic ‘North South East West’ Damien Minton Gallery, Sydney, NSW

‘Art of the Nude: Work from the collection of Alex Mackay” Albury Art Gallery NSW

2007 ‘Salon des Refuses’, S. H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney, NSW ‘The Wynne Prize’, Art Gallery of New South Wales, NSW2006 ‘Being at Bundanon’, Mosman Region Art Gallery,

NSW (toured by Bundanon Trust), ‘The Big Picture’, The Delmar Gallery, Sydney, NSW ‘The Archibald Prize 06’, Art Gallery of New South Wales and touring, NSW

‘View of Maitland from the Riverbank’, Maitland Regional Art Gallery, Maitland, NSW

‘Chroma Collection’, Macquarie University Art Gallery, Sydney, NSW ‘Truth and Likeness’, National Portrait Gallery, Canberra, ACT ‘The Melbourne Art Fair 2006’. Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne VIC2005 ‘Moist’, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra and touring, ACT

‘Friends and Neighbours – Togetherness’, Hawkesbury Regional Gallery, Windsor, NSW

‘Bleak Epiphanies’, Virginia Wilson Art, Sydney, NSW ‘Museum II’, Utopia Art Sydney, NSW ‘The Archibald Prize 05’, Art Gallery of New South Wales and touring, NSW ‘New Ideas 2005’, Utopia Art Sydney, NSW ‘2005 Robert Jacks Drawing Prize’, Bendigo Art Gallery, VIC

‘Same Place Many Views’, Defiance Gallery, Sydney, NSW

Hazelhurst Art Award 2005 - Art on Paper, Hazelhurst Regional Gallery & Arts Centre, NSWMarea Gazzard ‘the odyssey’ & John R Walker ‘dry land paintings’, Silvershot, Melbourne, VIC‘Country Energy Art Prize for Landscape Painting’, Grafton Regional Gallery, NSW

2004 Melbourne Art Fair 2004, Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne, VIC

‘Depth of Field – Anamorphosis’, Utopia Art Sydney, NSW

‘The Wynne Prize’, Art Gallery of New South Wales, NSW‘A Stroke of Art’, The Gallery, NSW Parliament House, Sydney, NSW

2003 ‘Bloomsday Door Exhibition’, Arthouse Hotel, Sydney, NSW ‘A Stroke of Art’, The Gallery, NSW Parliament House, Sydney, NSW

‘The Archibald Prize’, Art Gallery of New South Wales touring exhibition, NSW

‘The Wynne Prize’, Art Gallery of New South Wales, NSW ‘Arthur Guy Memorial Painting Prize’, Bendigo Art Gallery, VIC2002 ‘The Year In Review’, Utopia Art Sydney, NSW

‘Jacaranda Acquisitive Drawing Award’, Grafton Regional Gallery, NSW

‘The Fleurieu Prize’, Mclaren Vale, SA‘Conrad Jupiters Art Prize’, Gold Coast City Art Gallery, QLD‘Melbourne Art Fair 2002’, Royal Exhibition Building,

Melbourne, VIC ‘Salon des Refuses’, S H Ervin Gallery, Sydney, NSW

‘The Wynne and Sulman Prizes’, Art Gallery of New South Wales, NSW

‘Sculpture 2002’, Utopia Art Sydney, NSW‘Solstice’, Utopia Art Sydney, NSW

2001 ‘Museum’, Utopia Art Sydney, NSW‘Gone Bush’, Hazelhurst Regional Gallery and Arts

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Centre, NSW‘8th International Works on Paper Fair’, Fox Studios Australia, Sydney, NSW‘Over the Back Fence’, Bowen Galleries, Wellington,

NZ‘The Archibald’, ‘Wynne’ and ‘Sulman Prizes’, Art Gallery of New South Wales, NSW‘Bat, Ball & Brush – A Summer of Cricket & Art’, Sydney Cricket Ground, NSW

2001, Utopia Art Sydney, NSW ‘The Archibald Prize’, touring exhibition to NSW and VIC venues2000 ‘Melbourne Art Fair 2000’, Royal Exhibition Hall, Melbourne, VIC

‘The Archibald Prize’, Art Gallery of New South Wales and NSW regional tour‘SCEGGS Redlands-Westpac Invitational Art Prize’, Cremorne, Sydney, NSW

‘Bloomsday Lunch Exhibition’, ASN Gallery, The Rocks, Sydney, NSW

‘Half Metre Square’, Work by teaching staff, National Art School, Sydney, NSW‘Landscape’, Utopia Art Sydney, NSW

‘Encore’, Utopia Art Sydney, NSW1999 ‘7thInternational Works on Paper Fair’, Fox Studios, Sydney, NSW

‘Mosman Art Prize’, Mosman Region Gallery, Sydney, NSW‘University and Schools Club Prize Exhibition’, University and Schools Club, Sydney, NSW

1998 ‘National Works on Paper Award’, Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, VIC

‘Bloomsday: Joyce & the Nymph’, Coach House Gallery, The Rocks, Sydney, NSW

‘Symbiosis’, New England Regional Art Museum, Armidale and Utopia Art Sydney, NSW

‘ACAF 6’, Royal Exhibition Hall, Melbourne, VIC ‘Kedumba Invitation Drawing Award’, Leura, NSW 1997 ‘Faces of Hope’, Art Gallery of New South Wales, NSW ‘Drawn from Life’, National Gallery of Australia touring exhibition, ACT

‘6th International Works on Paper Fair’, State Library of New South Wales, NSW

‘Bronze’, Utopia Art Sydney, NSW ‘Portraits’, Utopia Art Sydney, NSW ‘Nineteeninetyseven’, Utopia Art Sydney, NSW1996 ‘The Theresa Byrnes Foundation’, Westpac Art Auction,

Westpac Plaza, Sydney, NSW ‘ACAF 5’, Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne, VIC ‘Return from the Art Fair’, Utopia Art Sydney, NSW ‘Paperwork’, Utopia Art Sydney, NSW ‘The Gesture’, Utopia Art Sydney, NSW

‘Flagging the Republic’, Sherman Galleries and New England Regional Art Museum touring exhibition, NSW

1995 ‘Ironsides’, The Powerhouse Museum, Sydney, NSW ‘The King of the Accordian’, New England Regional Art Museum touring exhibition, NSW ‘Works On Paper’, Utopia Art Sydney, NSW

‘5th International Works on Paper Fair’, State Library of New South Wales, NSW

1994 ‘ACAF 4’, Royal Exhibition Hall, Melbourne, VIC1993 ‘Contemporary Australian Painting’, Works from the

Allen Allen and Hemsley Collection, Westpac Gallery, Melbourne and Newcastle Regional Gallery, VIC and NSW

1992 ‘On the Dark Side’, New England Regional Art Museum, Armidale, NSW ‘ACAF3’, Royal Exhibition Hall, Melbourne, VIC The Sulman Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, NSW1991 ‘Images of Sydney’, Holdsworth Gallery, Sydney, NSW ‘Images of Women from the Holmes a’Court Collection’, S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney, NSW ‘The Sulman Prize’, Art Gallery of New South Wales, NSW1990 ‘The Annunciation’, Mandorla Art Prize, New Norcia, WA ‘Windsor and Newton Painting Prize’, Coventry Gallery, Sydney, NSW ‘Religious Images in Australian Art’, National Gallery of Victoria, VIC ‘The Sulman Prize’, Art Gallery of New South Wales, NSW ‘King of the Mountain’, Noosa Regional Gallery, QLD ‘Visual Instincts’, Holdsworth Gallery, Sydney, NSW

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‘New Year New Art’, Utopia Art, Sydney, NSW1989 ‘Opening’, Utopia Art Sydney, NSW ‘Intimate Drawings’, Coventry Gallery, Sydney, NSW1988 ‘Drawing in the 80s’, Australian National Gallery, Canberra, ACT ‘Drawing’, Tolarno Gallery, Melbourne, VIC ‘Savage Club Invitation Drawing Prize’, Savage Club, Melbourne, VIC1987 ‘From Field to Figuration’, National Gallery of Victoria, VIC ‘Backlash’, National Gallery of Victoria, VIC ‘Best of Young Australians from the Budget Collection’,National Gallery of Victoria, VIC ‘Urban Anxieties’, Drill Hall Gallery, Canberra, ACT1986 ‘A First Look’, Drill Hall Gallery, Canberra, ACT ‘Symbolism and Landscape’, Ivan Dougherty Gallery,

Biennale of Sydney Satellite Exhibition, NSW ‘Modern Australian Masters’, National Gallery of Victoria, VIC ‘Ballarat Invitation Prize’, Ballarat Fine Art Gallery, VIC1985 ‘The Pleasure of the Gaze’, Art Gallery of Western Australia, WA1984 ‘Drawing Now’, National Gallery of Victoria, VIC ‘Survey ‘84’, Michael Milburn Galleries, Brisbane, QLD1983 ‘D’un Autre Continent: L’Australie, le reve et le real’,

Musee D’Art Moderne, Paris ‘Australian Perspecta’, Art Gallery of New South Wales 1982 ‘McCaughey Prize Exhibition’, National Gallery, Melbourne, VIC1979 ‘Eight by Four’, Students Gallery (later Mori Gallery), Sydney, NSW

COLLECTIONS

Artbank Allens + Linklaters Art Gallery of New South Wales Art Gallery of Western Australia Artworks Royal Alexandra Hospital for Children ACT Legislative Assembly

Bankers Trust Bathurst Regional Art Gallery Broken Hill Regional Art Gallery Campbelltown City Art Gallery Coffs Harbour Regional Gallery Commonwealth Bank of Australia Griffith University Collection Holmes A’ Court Collection James Wolfensohn Collection Macquarie Group Collection Myer Collection National Gallery of Australia National Gallery of Victoria New England Regional Art Museum New Parliament House, Canberra Phillip Morris Collection Smorgon Collection

State Library of New South Wales The Savage Club Collection The University of Sydney Union The Australia Club, Sydney University of New South Wales Western Mining Corporation Wollongong City Art Gallery

Publication inclusions

2014 Andrew Sayers, ‘On Doughboy Hill’, catalogue essay for ‘Terroir Big Land Pictures’, Orange Regional Gallery

2013 Gavin Fry, The Peter Elliott Collection of Australian Art, The Beagle Press,

2012 ‘The Macquarie Group Collection: the Land and its Psyche’, Editors: Julian Beaumont, Felicity Fenner and John McDonald, UNSW PressChloe Watson, ‘Winter in the Fire Forest’ , exhibition online catalogue, Utopia Art Sydney.

‘His eyes wide shut on an indelible landscape’ Elizabeth Fortescue, The Daily Telegraph, 24 October, 2012.

Alexander Sussman, ‘John R Walker artist books’, State

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Library of New South Wales Acquisitions Blog, 27th November

2011 Chloe Watson, ‘Site’ (pamphlet), Utopia Art Sydney‘Space & Time: 10 Years in the Landscape – John R Walker’, exhibition catalogue, Maitland Regional Art Gallery, 7 October – 4 December 2011 (essays by Andrew Sayers and Joe Eisenberg)

2010 Artist Profile, ‘John R Walker responds to Joe Frost’s article “Bad words and thoughts”,issue 12: Mag- blog, August 2010 ‘Naturally Inspired’, Nigel Featherstone, Panorama, Canberra Times, 10 September, 20102009 Arts Etcetera ‘Walker finalist in Wynne Prize’ Bungendore Mirror, March 11.

Mono Uno catalogue, Australian Monotypes in the Charles Sturt University Art Collection‘John R. Walker Interviewed’, Artist Profile # 6, March 2009, pp. 28 - 35

2008 ‘No Thanks, I Don’t Want the Money’, Australian Financial Review, Perspective, Sep 10 - 11Journey through Landscape podcast interview with Sean O’Brien, May 2008: http://arttalk.podomatic.com/entry/2008-05-09T02_10_17-07_00Critics’ Choice - ‘John R. Walker Journey Through Landscape’ Time Out Magazine, May 21 - 27 ‘Poetry through Landscape – Poetic interpretations of the artworks of John R. Walker’, DiVerse, At the S. H. Ervin GalleryArt Talk: Talking to Artists and Curators, Sean O’Brien May 2008 at the S. H. Ervin Gallery transcriptJohn R. Walker, Journey Through Landscape Media Archive, National Trust, S. H. Ervin Gallery‘Secrets of the Self Unearthed’, John McDonald, Spectrum, Sydney Morning Herald, June 7-8.‘Lure of the Land’, Libby Peacock, Panorama, The Canberra Times, May 31st.‘Exposing the Scars on Nature’, Elizabeth Fortescue, Sydney Live, Daily Telegraph, 27th May.‘Walker Retrospective at S. H. Ervin’, press release, Bungedore Mirror, 21st May.‘Journey Through Landscape’, What’s On, Central

Magazine, 21st May.Critics Choice, Time Out Sydney, 21st – 27th May.John R. Walker, Journey Through Landscape, What’s On, Time Out Magazine, June 4th – 17th. ‘A Journey of Landscape’, June, Winter Diary, The Rocks official website.Event Diary, Sunday Arts, ABC TV Sunday 5pm, 6th June.Whats On Elsewhere, Look Magazine.John R. Walker, Journey Through Landscape, ‘Exhibitions’ section: National Trust Magazine, Winter 2008

2007 Essay by Andrew Sayers in Working in the Landscape, (cat), Utopia Art Sydney

“The best of the rest actually the best”, Sebastian Smee, The Australian, 8 March, p,14 “Anything goes in the silly season”, John McDonald,

SMH Spectrum, 24-24 March 2007, pp16-17“Robert Kennedy – Salon des Refuses 2007”, State of the Arts Online/reviews, 2 March 2007

Painting Australia, ABC TV series Episode #3, 11 April, 2007 2006 Art in Restaurants, Australian Art Review, p82 Archibald 06 (cat), Art Gallery of New South Wales

Winter Crow, a collection of poems by Jeremy Nelson, illustrations by John R Walker“Is the truth of portraiture vested exclusively in likeness?”, Michael Desmond, Portrait 21, National Portrait Gallery, Canberra.CAPO Annual Auction 2006 (cat), Canberra Arts Patrons Organization, Canberra

2004 Australian Artist, No.253 July 2005, p.25Archibald 05 (cat), Art Gallery of New South WalesEssay by Simeon Kronenburg in being at Bundanon (cat), Bundanon Trust touring exhibitionEssay by William Wright in Gullies, Road, Dry Lands and Forests (cat), Utopia Art Sydney

Moist: Australian Watercolours (cat), National Gallery of Australia

“Moist: Australian Watercolours 27 August-4 December 2005”, Anne McDonald, Artonview, Spring 2004 “Art

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Now”, Laura Murray Cree, State of the Arts Magazine (The Design Issue), July - September

2003 “Generations of Collecting”, Jenna Price, Australian Art Collector, July-September 2003 Australian Artist, No.12 Vol. XIX, June 2003, p.29 Experiencing the Land”, Simeon Kronenberg, Asian Art News Vol.12 No.2 March/April 2002

“Money and Collecting”, Michael Reid, The Weekend Australian 20-21 April“Critics Picks”, Victoria Hynes, SMH Metro 26 April - 2 May“The Plains: Wimmera and the imaging of the Australian Landscape”, Simeon Kronenberg, Art Monthly, November 2001, #45“Days in Body Country”, Simeon Kronenberg, Artlink,

June 2002, Vol.22 #2Paintings from Bundanon, (cat) Simeon Kronenberg,

Utopia Art Sydney2001 “Gone Bush: Artists in the Royal”, Tracy Sorensen, St

George and Sutherland Shire Leader, October 18 Over the back fence (cat), Bowen Galleries, NZGone Bush (cat), Jennifer Hardy, Hazelhurst Regional Gallery and Arts Centre, NSWAustralian Artist, Vol.XVII No.11, May 2001, p.49

1999 Beyond the Fatal Shore, Interview with Robert Hughes, Episode #6 BBC TV series

“The Odds on the Archibald”, Sebastian Smee, SMH, March 16“On the Canvas”, Elizabeth Fortescue, Daily Telegraph, March 15“Go you good thing”, Sharon Vergis, SMH, March 15“Framed and they’ve got form”, Darren Knight and John McDonald, SMH, March 15“Hanging out for the Archibald”, Giles Auty, The Australian“Frame and Fortune”, Edmund Capon, SMH, March 20Australian Artist, Vol. XVI No.12 June 2000, p.21“Bright-Eyed and Bushy-Tailed”, Sebastian Smee, SMH

Metro May 26 “Utopia Art”, Andrew G Frost, Australian Art Collector,

Issue #8

1998 “Interview with collector, Hugh Jamieson”, Australian Art Collector Issue #22000 “Porn Again NETurally”, Sebastian Smee, SMH Metro,

October 24 Faces of Hope (cat), Amnesty InternationalDrawn from Life (cat), Deborah Edwards and Andrew Sayers, National Gallery of Australia

1995 King of the Accordian (cat), J. Eisenberg, New England Regional Art Museum, NSW

1994 Who’s Who of Australian Artists, National Association of Visual Arts (NAVA)

The Encyclopedia of Australian Art, revised and updated by Susan McCulloch Contemporary Australian Painting from the Allen Allen and Hemsley Collection (cat.)

1992 Communicative Abstraction/Philosophical Reflections, Rudolf Talmacs, Utopia Art SydneyOn the Dark Side (cat), Belinda Cotton, New England, Regional Art Museum, NSW

King of the Mountain (cat), Noosa Regional Gallery, Queensland1990 Artists and Galleries of Australia Volume II 1990, Max

Germaine, Craftsman House PressImages of Religion in Australian Art (cat), Rosemary Crumlin, Bay Books

1988 Australian Contemporary Drawing; Resurgence and Redefinition, Arthur McIntyre, Boolarong Press

1987 Best of Young Australians Exhibition from the Budget Collection (cat.), National Gallery of Victoria

1986 Drawing in Australia, Contemporary images and ideas, Janet McKenzie, Macmillan, Melbourne

Backlash: The Australian Drawing Revival 1976-1986 (cat), Ted Gott, National Gallery of Victoria

1986 6th Biennale of Sydney: Origins Originality + Beyond (cat), satellite exhibition, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney

Review “Pleasure of the Gaze”, ArtNetwork, Summer-Autumn 1986, p.19

1985 Pleasure of the Gaze (cat), Art Gallery of Western Australia1984 Australian Art Review, Leon Parossien

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1983 Australian Perspecta (cat), Bernice Murphy, Art Gallery of New South WalesD’Un Autre Continent: L’Australie le reve et le real (cat), Musee D’Art Moderne, Paris

Awards and Commissions

2009 Winner Eutick Memorial Still Life Award (EMSLA) Coffs Harbour Regional Gallery, NSW2002 Highly Commended, Wynne Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales1998 BT Australia, 400 George St, Sydney1990 Windsor and Newton Painting Prize, Coventry Gallery, Sydney1988 Savage Club Drawing Prize, Melbourne1982 Tamarisque Prize, Alexander Mackie College, Sydney

Teaching experience

2007 “Walking the Landscape”, Art Workshops Australia, Byron Bay, QLD2000 “Drawing the Nude”, Workshop, Hazelhurst

Regional Gallery and Arts Centre, NSW1998-2000 Painting lecturer, National Art School, Sydney Life Drawing teacher, National Institute of

Dramatic Art, UNSW2000 Visiting lecturer in Drawing and Painting,

Calrossy School, Tamworth1987-94 Art Program Co-ordinator, Panania East Hills

Vocational Skillshare1988-89 Drawing teacher, College of Fine Art, UNSW1987 Visiting lecturer, Canberra School of Art, ANU

Scholarships & Residencies

2002 Hill End Artist in Residence (invited artist)2002 Bundanon Trust Artist in Residence2000 Bundanon Trust Artist in Residence (invited artist)

2001 New England Artist in Residence (invited artist)2000 National Art School Staff Travelling Scholarship2000 New England Regional Art Museum Artist’s Travel Scholarship

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Utopia Art Sydney2 Danks StreetWaterloo NSW 2017

Telephone: + 61 2 9699 2900email: [email protected]

© Utopia Art Sydney

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John R Walker

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Utopia Art Sydney2 Danks StreetWaterloo NSW 2017

Telephone: + 61 2 9699 2900email: [email protected]