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| 1939 |
Born, San Biaggio di Callalta, Italy |
| 1949 |
Emigrated to Australia |
| 1958-61 |
Diploma Fine Arts (painting), RMIT |
| 1962 |
Studies in printmaking, Chelsea Art School, London |
| 1963 |
Further studies, Brera Academy, Milan |
| 1964 |
Part-time lecturer, RMIT |
| 1965-66 |
Full-time lecturer, RMIT |
| 1965-66 |
Alcorso-Sekers Travelling Scholarship for Sculpture (went to Japan) |
| 1967 |
Winner: Maitland Print Prize |
| 1970 |
Winner: Second International Biennale for Drawing, Yugoslavia |
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Winner: Geelong Print Prize |
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Shared winner: Shepparton Print Prize (with Jan Senbergs) |
| 1971 |
Comalco Invitation Award for Sculpture |
| 1973 |
Ballarat Gallery Prize |
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La Trobe Valley Ronald Award |
| 1975 |
Represented Australia at Bienal de Sao Paulo, Brazil (with Imants Tillers) |
| 1976 |
Worked at Atelier Lacouriere et Freault etching workshop, Paris; Completed MM of Rue St Denis drawings in Paris |
| 1977 |
Returned to Australia |
| 1978 |
Lecturer, RMIT; Died in car accident, aged 39 |
Solo Exhibitions | | | 2006 | 'Portraits and Performers', Australian Galleries, Sydney | | 2004 | ‘George Baldessin – Prints of Darkness’, Australian Galleries Works on Paper, Melbourne
| | 2003 | ‘George Baldessin 1939-1978’, La Trobe Regional Gallery
| | 2001 | ‘George Baldessin – drawings, sculpture, etchings’, Australian Galleries Works on Paper, Melbourne and Sydney
| | 2000 | ‘George Baldessin – Occasional Images from a City Chamber 1975, Australian Collection Focus’, Art Gallery of New South Wales
| | 1998 | ‘George Baldessin Estate Prints 1963 – 1978’, Brisbane
| | 1997 | ‘George Baldessin Estate Prints 1963 – 1978’, Australian Galleries, Melbourne and Sydney
| | 1992 | ‘George Baldessin Prints and Drawings’, Sherman Galleries, Sydney
| | ‘Etchings Prints 1963 – 1978’, Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne
| | 1991 | ‘Drawings and selected sculpture’, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney
| | ‘Exhibition of drawings’, Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne
| | ‘An exhibition of drawings’, Heide Park and Art Gallery, Melbourne
| | 1987 | ‘Selected prints and bronzes’, Powell Street Gallery, Melbourne
| | 1983 | ‘George Baldessin Retrospective’, Wollongong City Gallery, NSW
| | ‘Etchings’, Stuart Gerstman Galleries, Melbourne
| | ‘George Baldessin: Sculpture and etchings – a memorial exhibition’, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
| | 1978 | ‘Personages, remnants and discards’, Bonython Gallery, Adelaide
| | 1977 | ‘M M of Rue St Denis’, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane
| | ‘Etchings’, Ray Hughes Gallery, Brisbane
| | ‘M M of Rue St Denis’ (drawings), Rudy Komon Art Gallery, Sydney
| | 1974 | ‘Etchings’, Rudy Komon Art Gallery, Sydney
| | ‘George Baldessin: Complete etchings’, Mornington Peninsula Arts Centre, Victoria
| | ‘Etchings’, Festival of Perth, Desborough Galleries, Perth
| | 1972 | (Etchings), Crossley Gallery, Melbourne
| | ‘Sculpture 1971-72’ Rudy Komon Art Gallery, Sydney
| | 1971 | ‘Drawings and sculpture’, Ballarat Art Gallery, Victoria
| | 1970 | ‘Etchings’, Gallery One Eleven, Brisbane
| | ‘(Etchings), Crossley Gallery, Melbourne
| | ‘Sculpture’, Rudy Komon Art Gallery, Sydney
| | 1967 | ‘Exhibition of prints by George Baldessin’, Geelong Art Gallery, Victoria
| | 1965 | ‘Drawings, sculpture and etchings’, Rudy Komon Art Gallery, Sydney
| | 1964 | ‘Sculpture, etchings and drawings’, Argus Gallery, Melbourne |
Group Exhibitions | | | 2007 | 'Stock Show', Australian Galleries, Melbourne | | ‘European sensibilities: Baldessin and his circle’, Castlemaine Art Gallery and Historical Museum, Castlemaine
| | 2006 | 'Fine Australian Prints and Drawings', Australian Galleries, Melbourne | | 'New Year Group Exhibition', Australian Galleries, Melbourne | | 'Summer Stock Show', Australian Galleries, Melbourne | | '50th Anniversary Exhibition', Australian Galleries, Melbourne | | 2005 | ‘A selection of works on paper’, Australian Galleries Works on Paper, Melbourne
| | 2003 | ‘Pen to Pixel: 200 years of Australian Prints & Drawings’, NGV Australia, Ian Potter Centre, Melbourne
| | ‘Sculpture at RMIT during the Jomantas years’, RMIT Gallery, Melbourne
| | ‘This was the future…Australian sculpture of the 1950’s, 60’s, 70’s + today’, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne
| | 1997 | ‘I had a dream: Australian art in the 1960’s’, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
| | 1996 | ‘Occasional screens with seating arrangement, Grahame Sturgeon Memorial Trust’, Museum of Modern Art at Heide, Melbourne
| | 1995 | ‘Rites for an Anxious Spring, selected acquisitions 1981-1995’, Museum of Modern Art at Heide, Melbourne
| | 1978 | ‘A tribute to George Baldessin’, Realities, Melbourne
| | ‘Contemporary Australian Drawing’, Perth Survey of Drawing, Festival of Perth, Art Gallery of Western Australia and touring
| | 1975 | ‘Australian Graphics 1974’, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney (organised VAB touring South America 1975)
| | ‘3 Printmaker: Maddock, Shomaly, Baldessin’, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
| | ‘XIII Biennale de Sao Paulo’, Brazil
| | 1974 | ‘Tamarind: Homage to lithography’, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
| | ‘International Biennale of Prints’, Tokyo
| | 1973 | ‘Print Council of Australia Print Prize’, National Gallery of Victoria
| | ‘Ballarat Gallery Prize’, Ballarat Fine Art Gallery
| | ‘First Biennale of Sydney’, Sydney Opera House, Sydney
| | 1971 | ‘1971 Victorian Contemporary Sculpture Exhibition’, Geelong Art Gallery
| | ‘Multiples’, Crossley Gallery, Melbourne
| | ‘Comalco Invitation Award for Sculpture’, National Gallery of Victoria
| | 1970 | ‘Ten printmakers’, National Gallery of Victoria
| | ‘Shepparton Print Prize Exhibition’, Shepparton Art Gallery, Victoria
| | ‘Geelong Print Prize Exhibition’, Geelong Art Gallery
| | ‘Second International Biennale for Drawing’, Yugoslavia
| | 1969 | ‘International Print Biennale’, Cracow, Poland
| | ‘International Print Biennale’, Bradford, UK
| | 1968 | ‘International Print Biennale’, Ljubljana, Yugoslavia
| | 1967 | ‘11th Annual Maitland Art Prize Exhibition’, Maitland Art Gallery
| | ‘Georges Invitation Art Prize’, Georges Art Gallery, Melbourne
| | 1966 | ‘Australian Prints Today’, Smithsonian Institute, Washington DC, USA
| | ‘Alcors-Sekers Travelling Scholarship for Sculpture’, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
| | 1965 | ‘Recent Australian Sculpture’, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
| | 1964 | ‘Australian Print Survey 1963-64’, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
| | ‘Mildura Sculpture Triennial’, Mildura Art Gallery, Victoria |
BibliographyBooks and catalogues
Connors, Anne; Seven Printmakers, Tasmanian School of Art Gallery, Tasmania 1976
Cross, Elizabeth; Artists’ Objects, Heide Park and Art Gallery, Melbourne 1988
Draffin, Nicholas; Australian Graphics, AGNSW, Sydney 1974
Kempf, Franz; Contemporary Australian Printmakers, Lansdowne Editions, Melbourne 1976
Klepac, Lou; Contemporary Australian Drawing, AGWA, Perth 1978
Lindsay, Robert and Holloway, Memory; George Baldessin: Sculpture and etchings, a memorial exhibition, NGV, Melbourne 1983
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Mornington Peninsula Arts Centre, Mornington Peninsula Art Gallery, 1984
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Art, Allen and Unwin, Sydney 1994 (and all previous editions by
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Mollison, James and MacKean, Margaret; Australian Prints, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 1972
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Periodicals
Allen, Christopher; “Images of the body”, Sydney Review, November 1991
“Aluminium legs walk off with $2,000 prize”, Sydney Morning Herald, 26 July 1966
Baily, John; “George Baldessin”, Bulletin of the Art Gallery of South Australia, Vol 33 No 3, January 1971
Borlase, Nancy; “We lose a complete artist”, Sydney Morning Herald, 19 August 1978
Campbell, Richard; “The cool breed”, Bulletin, 18 November 1972
Catalano, Gary; “The secret Italian”, Aspect No 29/30, Autumn 1984
Davies, Suzanne; “Occasional images from a city chamber”, Imprint No 4, 1975
Dolan, David; “Baldessin the professional”, Advertiser, Adelaide, 19 August 1978
Eagle, Mary; “Tribute to a winner”, Age, Melbourne, 6 November 1978
Galbally, Ann; “Familiar threshold for a top sculptor”, Age, Melbourne, 15 December 1972
Galbally, Ann; “Enigma of the brooding mysterious figures”, Age, Melbourne, 11 November 1970
Gleeson, James; “Earle treads a different path”, Sun, Sydney, 30 September 1970
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Hocking, Ian; “An artist in female guise”, News, Adelaide, 26 April 1978
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“Is this decent? Sexy girl at open window”, Sun, Sydney, 26 July 1966
Jach, Antoni; “George’s important obscurity”, Melbourne Times, 31 August 1983
Langer, Gertrude; “Two shows are tops”, Courier Mail, Brisbane, 1 October 1977
“Long live memories of the new”, Sun, Melbourne, 17 August 1983
“Lost for words about a winner”, Daily Telegraph, Sydney, 26 July 1968
Lynn, Elwyn; “Popularity without compromise – seriously”, Weekend Australian, 26-27 October 1991
Lynn, Elwyn; “Triumphant first show”, Australian, Sydney, 13 November 1965
McCaughey, Patrick; “Superb etchings from Baldessin”, Age, Melbourne, 22 November 1972
McCaughey, Patrick; “Disconcerting and surprising”, Age, Melbourne, 23 October 1971
McCaughey, Patrick; “The graphic work of George Baldessin”, Art and Australia, Vol 7 No 2, September 1969
McCaughey, Patrick; “After the art boom”, Age, Melbourne, 10 July 1967
McCaughey, Patrick; “Paintings that bounce off the wall”, Age, Melbourne, 10 May 1967
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plate: According to des Esseintes”, Art Bulletin of Victoria, No 22,
1982
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Pidgeon, W. E.; “A taste for the sinister”, Sunday Telegraph, Sydney, 28 August 1977
Rooney, Robert; “Warmth lost in ‘cool’ quest”, Weekend Australian, Sydney, 6-7 April 1991
Rooney, Robert; “Baldessin tribute in perspective”, Weekend Australian, Sydney, 27-28 August 1983
Smith, Bernard; “Baldessin sculpture a welcome change”, Age, 17 June 1964
Taylor, Paul (editor); “Anything goes: Art in Australia 1970-1980”, Art and Text, Melbourne, 1984
Thomas, Daniel; “Tillers and Baldessin for Sao Paulo”, Sydney Morning Herald, 31 July 1975
Wallace, Thornton; “Baldessin show at Rudy Komon”, Sydney Morning Herald, 3 November 1965
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Waterlow, Nick; “Art: Global crayons”, Nation Review, 1 September 1977
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