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| 1938 |
Born Poona, India |
| 1962 |
Arrived in Australia |
| 1954-59 |
BA (Fine Arts), Birmingham College of Art, England |
| Present |
Lives and works in Sydney and France |
Residencies
| 1979-1980 |
Artist-in-Residence, S.U.N.Y. Purchase, New York, USA |
| 1982 |
Australian representative, 5th Indian Triennial, New Delhi, India |
| 1986 |
Artist-in-residence, Curtin University, Perth, Australia |
| 1992 |
Studio, Cité International des Arts, Paris, Fance |
| 1995 |
Judge, Sulman prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney |
Solo Exhibitions | | | 2008 | 'Allusions', Australian Galleries, Melbourne | | 2007 | 'Aspects', Australian Galleries, Sydney | | 2006 | 'Glimpses', Australian Galleries, Sydney | | ‘Sojourns', East West Gallery, London
| | 2005 | 'Facets', Australian Galleries, Melbourne | | Annandale Galleries, Sydney
| | Robert Steele Gallery, New York
| | BMGART Gallery, Adelaide
| | 2004 | East West Gallery, London
| | 2003 | Robert Steele Gallery, New York
| | Australian Galleries, Sydney
| | Australian Galleries, Melbourne
| | 2002 | BMGART, Adelaide
| | East West Gallery, London
| | Annandale Gallery, Sydney
| | 2001 | Chapman Gallery, Canberra
| | Australian Galleries, Melbourne
| | ‘Australian Prints and Drawings’, Australian Galleries, Melbourne
| | 2000 | Annandale Galleries, Sydney
| | East West Gallery, London
| | BMGART, Adelaide
| | 1999 | BMGART, Adelaide
| | 1998 | Annandale Galleries, Sydney
| | 1997 | Christine Abrahams Gallery, Melbourne
| | 1996 | Annandale Galleries, Sydney
| | 1995 | BMGART, Adelaide
| | ‘Survey 1988-1995’, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
| | Espace Alliance, Sydney
| | 1994 | Christine Abrahams Gallery, Melbourne
| | 1993 | BMGART, Adelaide
| | 1992 | Christine Abrahams Gallery, Melbourne
| | BMGART, Adelaide
| | 1990 | BMGART, Adelaide
| | Macquarie Galleries, Sydney
| | 1989 | Macquarie Galleries, Sydney
| | 1988 | Christine Abrahams Gallery, Melbourne
| | 1987 | Survey exhibition, Orange Regional Gallery
| | Macquarie Galleries, Sydney
| | Macquarie Galleries, Sydney
| | 1985 | Christine Abrahams Gallery, Melbourne
| | Macquarie Galleries, Sydney
| | Macquarie Galleries, Sydney
| | 1983 | Christine Abrahams Gallery, Melbourne
| | Macquarie Galleries, Sydney
| | 1981 | Axiom Gallery, Melbourne
| | 1980 | VA Gallery, Purchase, New York, USA
| | Ludlow-Hyland Gallery, New York, USA
| | Gallery A, Sydney
| | 1978 | Gallery A, Sydney
| | Powell Street Gallery, Melbourne
| | 1977 | Gallery A, Sydney
| | Powell Street Gallery, Melbourne
| | 1976 | Gallery A, Sydney
| | Powell Street Gallery, Melbourne
| | 1975 | Powell Street Gallery, Melbourne
| | 1974 | Powell Street Gallery, Melbourne
| | 1973 | Powell Street Gallery, Melbourne
| | 1972 | Powell Street Gallery, Melbourne
| | Bonython Gallery, Adelaide
| | 1971 | Gallery One Eleven, Brisbane
| | 1967 | Bonython Gallery, Adelaide
| | Leveson Street Gallery, Melbourne
| | 1966 | Leveson Street Gallery, Melbourne
| | 1965 | Argus Gallery, Melbourne |
Group Exhibitions | | | 2008 | 'Stock show', Australian Galleries, Sydney | | 2007 | 'Small Pleasures: Painting and Sculpture', Australian Galleries, Melbourne | | 2006 | '50th Anniversary Exhibition', Australian Galleries, Melbourne | | 'New Year Group Exhibition', Australian Galleries, Melbourne | | 'Stock Show', Australian Galleries, Melbourne | | 'Summery', Australian Galleries, Sydney | | 2005 | 'End of Year Group Exhibition', Australian Galleries Painting and Sculpture, Sydney
| | ‘Art for Asia’, Museum of Brisbane, Brisbane
| | 2004 | ‘A Freudian Slip’, BMG Gallery, Adelaide
| | ‘Place made’, Australian Print Workshop at the Australian National Gallery, Canberra
| | ‘Salon des refuses’, S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney
| | 2003 | ‘Prizewinners’, East West Gallery, London
| | ‘Arthur Guy Memorial Prize, Bendigo Art Gallery
| | 2002 | ‘21 years of printmaking’, Australian Print Workshop, Melbourne
| | 2001 | ‘A.S.A.P.’, Vanessa Wood Fine Art, Sydney
| | ‘Extinction denied’, Volvo Art Gallery, Sydney
| | ‘Harmonic Visions’, Tamworth City Art Gallery, Tamworth
| | 2000 | ‘Interpretation’, Muka Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
| | ‘Sulman Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney‘Australian Identities in Printmaking’,
| | ‘Wagga Wagga Regional Art Gallery
| | 1999 | ‘La Collection Novotel d’art Contemporain’, L’Espace Paul Ricard, Paris, France
| | ‘Red’, Annandale Galleries, Sydney
| | ‘We are Australian’, Victorian Art Centre, Melbourne; touring regional galleries
| | 1998 | ‘Littoral Art’, Greenhill Galleries, Perth
| | ‘Home Thoughts from Abroad’, Fairfield Regional Heritage Centre
| | ‘Keduma Drawing Prize, Keduma
| | ‘Blue’, Annandale Galleries, Sydney
| | 1997 | ‘Faces of Hope’, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
| | ‘Ten Important Artists’, Solander Gallery, Canberra
| | ‘Archibald, Sulman and Dobell Prizes, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney; Victorian Arts Centre, Melbourne
| | ‘Four + Six’, Annandale Galleries, Sydney
| | 1996 | ‘Australian Masters 1996’, Solander Gallery, Canberra
| | 1995 | Archibald Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
| | 1993 | ‘On Paper’, Christine Abrahams Gallery, Melbourne
| | ‘Tattersalls Club Landscape Award, Brisbane
| | ‘Archibald and Dobell Prizes, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney; touring regional galleries
| | ‘The Print. The Press. The Artist. And The Printer’, Drill Hall, Australian National University, Canberra
| | 1992 | ‘Contemporary Australian Drawings’, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
| | Archibald and Dobell Prizes, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
| | 1991 | Group Show, Macquarie Galleries, Sydney
| | ‘Prints Galore’, Wollongong City Art Gallery, Wollongong
| | A Guide to the Collection’, Ipswich Regional Art Gallery, Brisbane
| | The Total Look’, Plimsoll Gallery, Centre for the Arts, Hobart
| | 1990 | ‘Campus Collections’, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney
| | ‘Painters vision’, Macquarie Galleries, Sydney
| | ‘Australian Masters’, Solander Gallery, Canberra
| | ‘The Portrait and the Nude’, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
| | ‘Archibald Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
| | 1989 | ‘Portrait Today’, Westpac Gallery, Victorian Arts Centre, Melbourne
| | ‘Intimate Drawing’, curated by Arthur McIntyre, Coventry Gallery, Sydney
| | ‘Aberdare Prize’, Ipswich Regional Art Gallery, Queensland
| | ‘Kingfisher Art Prize’, Gosford
| | ‘Fremantle Print Award, Fremantle
| | 1988 | Archibald Prize(winner), Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
| | ’Bicentennial Collection Print Portfolio’, Macquarie Galleries, Sydney; touring regional galleries
| | ’ Aspects of Australian Art’, Houston International Festival, Texas, USA
| | ’ Self-Portrait’, David Jones Gallery, Sydney
| | ’ Australian Drawings’, curated by John Coburn, Galerie Anne Gregory
| | 1987 | ‘Field to Figuration’, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
| | ‘Backlash – the Australian Drawing Revival 1976-86’, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
| | ‘Painters Visions II’, Macquarie Galleries, Sydney
| | ‘Four Australian Artists’, Gillian Jason Gallery, London
| | 1986 | ‘Modern Australian Masters’, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
| | ‘Krugier Collection’, Musee d’arte histoire, Geneva, Switzerland
| | ‘Painters Visions’, Macquarie Galleries, Sydney
| | ‘Hugh Williamson Invitations’, Ballarat Regional Art Gallery, Victoria
| | ‘The Portrait Today’, Westpac Gallery, Victorian Art Centre, Melbourne
| | ‘Painters’ Prints’, Mitchelton Print Show, touring regional galleries
| | ‘Five Paintings’, Christine Abrahams, Melbourne
| | ‘Sulman Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
| | ‘Fremantle Drawing Exhibition, Fremantle Arts Centre
| | ‘Artists Salute to Lloyd Rees’, Macquarie Galleries, Sydney
| | ‘Mahlab Law Prize Exhibition, Melbourne
| | ‘Archibald Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
| | ‘9th Anniversary Show’, Galerie Dusseldorf, Perth
| | ‘Image and Fabric’, Penrith Regional Gallery, Penrith
| | 1984 | ‘Paradoxical Abstraction’, Macquarie Galleries, Sydney
| | 1983 | Sulman Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
| | McCaughey Prize, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
| | Archibald Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
| | ‘Attitude to Drawing’, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney
| | ‘Dawn Decades’, Penrith Regional Art Gallery, Penrith
| | ‘Australian Painting 1970-83’, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
| | 1982 | 5th Triennial of India, New Dehli, India
| | ‘The First Show’, Macquarie Galleries, Sydney
| | ‘Australian Art; The Last 10 Years’, Melville Hall, Canberra
| | ‘The Seventies’, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
| | 1980 | Print Survey, Sydney
| | 1978 | ‘Contemporary Australian Drawings’, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth; Art Gallery of New
| | ‘South Wales, Sydney; Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane
| | ‘Works on Paper’, Cunningham Gallery, New York, USA
| | ‘Works on Paper’, Miller Gallery, Perth
| | 1977 | ‘Australian Colourists’, West Australian Institute of Technology, Perth
| | 1976 | ‘Port Jackson Press Prints’, Barry Stern Gallery, Sydney
| | ‘Twenty Australians’, West Australian Institute of Technology, Perth
| | Coventry Collection, Armidale
| | Besen Collection, Monash University, Melbourne
| | 1975 | ‘Artists Artists’, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
| | ‘Australian Image’, Benalla Art Gallery Inaugural Exhibition
| | ‘Selected Paintings from the Monash Collection’, Monash University, Melbourne
| | Phillip Morris 2nd Annual Grants Exhibition
| | ‘Ten Australians’, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
| | 1974 | Angliss Invitation Prize, Melbourne
| | Ten Australians’, touring Paris, Stuttgart, Venice, Milan, Florence and Rome
| | 1973 | 1st Biennale of Sydney, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
| | 1972 | Georges Invitation Prize | | 1981 ‘Second Sydney Annual’, David Reid Gallery, Sydney
| | 1986-87 ‘Surface for Reflection’, Art Gallery of New South Wales and National Gallery of Victoria
| | 2000_‘Evolution’, New Acquisitions from the Collection, Gold Coast Art 2000_‘Centre‘Direct/Conscious/Reflection/Reconnection’, The Amos Collection, Toowoomba Regional Art Gallery, Toowoomba
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BibliographyBooks
Bonython, K.; Modern Australian Painting 1960-70;1970-75; 1975-80, Rigby
Chanin, E. (Ed); Contemporary Australian Painting, Craftsman House, Sydney 1990
Darby, M.; Australian Artlook, Heinemann, 1997
De Groen, G.; Conversations with Australian Artists, Quartet Books, 1978
Drury, N.; Images in Contemporary Australian Painting, Craftsman House, Sydney, 1992
Drury, N.; Images 2, Craftsman House, Sydney, 1994
Drury, N.; Images 3, Craftsman House, Sydney, 1998
Fry, G.; Fred Cress, Beagle Press, 2000
Gelleto/Fisher; The Art of Food at Lucios, Craftsman House, 2000
Germaine, M.; Artists and Galleries of Australia and New Zealand, Lansdowne Press, 1979
Grishin, S.; Australian Printmaking in the 1990’s, Craftsman House, 1996
Hunt, S.; Archibald Prize 1921-1993, Art Gallery of NSW
Krell, A.; Fred Cress; Stages, Wild and Woolley, Sydney 1989
McCulloch, A.; Australian Contemporary Drawing, Boolarung Publications, 1988
Murray Cree/Drury Australian Painting Now, Craftsman House, 2000
Ross, P.; Let’s Face it! The history of the Archibald Prize, AGNSW, 1999
Smith, B. and Smith T.; Australian Painting 1788-1990, Oxford University Press, 1991 Catalogues and periodicals
“Artists and Masters of the 20th Century”, Les Editions Art et Images du Monde, Paris, 1991
Art & Australia, (exhibition commentary), Vol. 18, No. 4, 1981
Bell, A.; “North Shore goes to West”, State of the Arts, Dec 1997-Mar 1998
Berlind, R.; Art in America, (review), N.Y. September 1980
Bond, A. and Snell, T.; Surface for Reflection, catalogue, AGNSW 1996
Bond, A.; A Balance of Power: the Battle of Line and color, catalogue essay, AGNSW
Bond, A.; catalogue essay, BMGART, Adelaide, 1993
Bond, A.; Fred Cress: Paintings 1968-1995, catalogue with Foreword by Edmund Capon, AGNSW
Brenchley, E.; “Cress clears His Head”, International Gazette/Australian Art collector 6, Oct-Dec 1998
Capon, E.; Fred Cress, catalogue essay, Christine Abrahams Gallery, Melbourne, 1992
Clark, A.; Fred Cress: When Reality meets Metaphysics, catalogue essay, BMGART, Adelaide Festival of the Arts, 1992
Dupain, M.; “The two of us; Fred and Julian Cress”, Sydney Morning Herald; Good Weekend, March 2004
Fry, G.; “Surprise and Control”, International Artist, No. 2, Aug-Sept 1998
Fry, G.; Style, Substance and the Will: a Painter’s Progress, produced by Lou Klepac, Beagle Press, 1995
Gott, E.; Backlash – The Australian Drawing Revival 1976-86, catalogue with forward by McCaughey, P. NGV, 1987
Grishin, S.; “Fred Cress figured it out”, Australian Art Collector, Issue 38, Oct-Dec 2006, p.174-183
Grishin, S.; “Fred Cress and the iconography of secrecy”, Art and Australia, Vol.40, No. 1, Sept 2002
Grishin, S.; Australian Identities in Printmaking, catalogue, Wagga Wagga Regional Art Gallery, Oct 2000
Hampel, S.; Aspect, Vol 2, No. 1, 1975
Krell, A.; “A Receiver of Secrets”, Studio Magazine, Vol. 3, No. 10, March 1986
Krell, A.; Drawn Decades, catalogue, Penrith Regional Gallery, 1983
Krell, A.; Fred Cress, catalogue, Macquarie Galleries, Sydney, 1989
Leffingwell, E.; “Fred cress at Robert Steele”, Art and America, April 2004
Lindsay, R.; Field to Figuration: Australian Art 1960-86, catalogue with forward by McCaughey, P., NGV, 1987
Lindsay, R.; The Seventies, (National Bank Collection) catalogue essay, NGV, Melbourne 1982
Lynn, E.; “Letter from Australia”, Art International, Vol. XXV,
Sept-Oct 1982 and Art and Australia, (exhibition commentary), Vol. 21.
No. 1, 1983
Lynn, E.; “View over a Curatorium”, Studio International, Vol. 199, No. 1015, 1986-87
Magnusson, A.; “Tracing the life line”, catalogue essay, Fred Cress The
Figure Side: Drawings 1955 – 2002, Australian Galleries, Sydney,
October 2003
McCaughey, P. “Fred Cress and the new Painterliness”, Art and Australia, Vol. 13, 1975
McCaughey, P.; “Surviving the seventies in Australia”, Artscribe, 23 June 1980
McCaughey, P.; “Ten Australians, Anything Goes”, Art & Australia 1970-80, Ed. Paul Taylor, 1984
McCaughey, P.; Australian Art Forum, October, 1972
McCaughey, P.; Eva and Marc Besen Collection, catalogue essay, March 1977
McCaughey, P.; Fifth Indian Triennial, catalogue essay, New Dehli, 1982
McCaughey, P.; Ten Australians, catalogue essay, NGV, 1974
McCaughey, P.; Varieties of the Painterly in Recent Austrlaian Art, M.U.M., 1974
McCulloch, S.; review, State of the Art, Issue II, December 1994
McDonald, G.; Image and Fabric, catalogue, Penrith Regional Gallery, Dec 1985 and Art & Australia, Vol. 23, No. 2 1985
McGilchrist, M.; Art and Australia, Vol 12, No. 2 & 3, 1974
McGillick, P.; catalogue, Powell Street Gallery, Melbourne 1978
McGillick, P.; Parle moi… J’ai des choses a te dire, catalogue with forward by Jacques Salome, BMGART, Adelaide, 1995
Mendelssohn, J.; Art Network, review, Vol. 10, 1983
Morgan, J.; “Enter at your own risk”, Sydney Morning Herald; Spectrum, March 2004
Morgan, J.; “Fame and misfortune”, Sydney Morning Herald; Spectrum, March 2004
Murray-Cree, L.; “Gardens of Night and Shadow”, Art & Australia, Vol. 35, No. 4, 1998
O’Neill, P.; “Stages 1972-86”, Fred Cress Survey Exhibition, catalogue essay, Orange Regional Art Gallery, 1987
Radford, R.; Recent Australian Painting 1970-83, catalogue, AGSA
Russell-Taylor, J.; “Meetings”, catalogue essay, East West Gallery, London, October 2002
Solomon, D.; “Turntables”, catalogue essay, East West Gallery, London, October 2004
Van Nunen, L.; “The Face Race”, Time Magazine, April 10, 1995
Viewseum, Department of Fine Arts, University of Melbourne, 1991
Weston, N.; Fred Cress, catalogue essay, BMGART, Adelaide, 1990
White, P.; “Fred Cress”, Art & Australia, Vol. 21, No. 2, 1983-84
Films
Garner, S.; “Fred Cress”, ABC TV, (‘Ten Australians’ Series), 1975
Snell, E.; “Statements Fred Cress”, Curtin University, WA, 1986
Hunter, C.; “Fred Cress – A Profile”, Channel 9,( Sunday Programme), Sydney 1995
McGillick, P.; “Fred Cress”, SBS, (‘Imagine’), 1996
Mordaunt/Barbara; “Brushes with Fame”, ABC TV, (Archibald Prize documentary), 1998 Awards
| 2003 |
Awarded Member in the Order of Australia (AM) |
| 1988 |
‘Archibald Prize for Portraiture’, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney |
| 1988 |
‘People’s Prize’, Archibald Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney |
CollectionsGalleries
Albury Art Gallery
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth
Australian National Gallery, Canberra
Ballarat Art Gallery
Benalla Art Gallery
Bendigo Art Gallery
Bibliotheque Nationale de France
Broken Hill Art Gallery
Burine Art Gallery
Gold Coast City Art Gallery
Hamilton Art Gallery
Lalit Kala Adademi, New Dehli, India
McClelland Art Gallery, Langwarrin
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
New England Regional Art Museum, Armidale
Newcastle Art Gallery
Parliament House Collection, Canberra
Peninsula Art Gallery, Mornington
Queen Victoria Art Gallery and Museum, Launceston
Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane
Rockhampton Art Gallery
Shepparton Art Gallery
Tasmanian Art Gallery and museum, Hobart
Townsville Art Gallery
Wagga Wagga Regional Art Gallery
Wollongong Art Gallery
Universities and colleges
Brisbane Grammar School
Campbelltown College
Canberra College of Advanced Education
Curtin University
Darwin Community College
Griffith University
Macquarie University
McGregor College
Melbourne Grammar School
Monash University
Murdoch University
NSW College of Fine Arts
Riverina College
St Gregory’s
Sydney College of Fine Arts
University of Melbourne
University of New South Wales
University of Queensland
University of Western Australia
Corporate
Arab-Australia Bank
Art Bank, Sydney
Aunger Group of Companies, Adelaide
Chartwell Trust Collection, New Zealand
Christensen Fund
Fairfax & Sons LTD
Kemps Mercantile Collection, Adelaide
Myer Foundation
National Bank of Australia, Sydney
News Corp
NWS Channel 9, Adelaide
Pan-Continental Mining Co.
Phillip Morris Collection
Qantas
Rural and Industrial Bank, Perth
Santos Ltd
Sons of Gwalia, WA
State Bank of New South Wales
Private collections in Australia, England, France, Holland, USA, Switzerland, Italy , New Zealand, Ireland, Germany, Belgium.
Commissions
| 1991 |
Kym Aunger (Chairman, Aunger Group of Companies, South Australia), portrait commissioned by Mrs Julie Aunger |
Selected ReviewsNew Year Group Exhibition | The Sunday Age, Preview | 6 Jan 2005
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