| |  | 1925 | Born Ingham, Queensland | | 1947-50 | Studied at National Art School, East Sydney Technical College | | 1947-50 | A.S.T.C. Diploma of Painting | | 1959-68 | Teacher, National Art School, Sydney and Canberra | | 1969-72 | Lived in France. Designed tapestries for Aubusson Workshops including two tapestry curtains for the Sydney Opera House and a series of seven tapestries (The Creation) for the John F. Kennedy Centre for the Performing Arts, Washington, USA | | 1972-74 | Head, National Art School, Sydney | | 1977-80 | Trustee, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney | | 1980 | Awarded Order of Australia (A.M.) | | 1991 | Awarded Honorary Doctorate of Literature, James Cook University, Townsville | | 2003 | Awarded Painters and Sculptors Association Medal | | 2004 | Awarded Fellowship of the National Art School, Sydney | | 2006 | John Coburn passed away, aged 81, in November, 2006 |
Solo Exhibitions | | | 2004 | S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney
| | 2003 | Australian Galleries, Sydney
| | 2002 | ‘John Coburn’, Australian Galleries, Sydney
| | ‘Australian Galleries, Melbourne
| | 2001 | ‘John Coburn: recent work’, Australian Galleries, Melbourne
| | 2000 | ‘John Coburn: prints 1959-2000’, Australian Galleries, Works on Paper, Sydney
| | ‘John Coburn: prints 1959-2000’, Australian Galleries, Melbourne
| | ‘John Coburn: new work’, AXIA Modern Art, Melbourne
| | ‘John Coburn Jazz – a tribute to Graeme Bell’, Eva Breuer Art Dealer, Sydney
| | 1999 | ‘John Coburn: paintings and studies 1998-99’, Australian Galleries, Sydney
| | ‘John Coburn: paintings and drawings’, von Bertouch Galleries, Newcastle
| | 1998 | ‘John Coburn: The Four Seasons of Nature and other graphic works’, Lauraine Diggins Fine Art, Melbourne
| | 1997 | ‘John Coburn’, Philip Bacon Galleries, Brisbane
| | Greythorn Galleries, Melbourne
| | ‘John Coburn: a survey 1980-1997’, Ipswich Regional Art Gallery
| | 1996 | ‘John Coburn’, Australian Galleries, Melbourne
| | ‘John Coburn, paintings and work on paper’, von Bertouch Galleries, Newcastle
| | 1995 | ‘John Coburn: recent paintings’, Australian Galleries, Sydney
| | Australian Galleries, Melbourne
| | 1994 | ‘John Coburn: Recent paintings and works on paper’, Wagner Art Gallery, Hong Kong
| | ‘John Coburn: recent work’, BMG Art, Adelaide
| | 1993 | ‘John Coburn: recent paintings’, Australian Galleries, Sydney
| | ‘John Coburn’, Solander Gallery, Canberra
| | ‘Cowie+Coburn: 48’ Queensland Art Gallery
| | 1992 | Australian Galleries, Melbourne
| | ‘Garden of life’, Solander Gallery, Canberra
| | 1991 | ‘John Coburn: The desert and the rainforest’, Macquarie Galleries, Sydney
| | ‘John Coburn’, Grahame Galleries, Brisbane
| | ‘John Coburn’, Greenhill Galleries, Perth
| | 1990 | ‘John Coburn’, Australian Galleries, Melbourne
| | ‘Drawing survey’, Macquarie Galleries, Sydney
| | ‘John Coburn: paintings’, Solander Gallery, Canberra
| | ‘John Coburn: paintings’, Cooks Hill Galleries, Newcastle
| | 1989 | ‘John Coburn’, BMG Fine Art, Adelaide
| | ‘Living Symbols: A survey of works from the 1980s’, Perc Tucker Regional Art Gallery, Townsville
| | 1988 | ‘John Coburn: Recent Paintings’ Macquarie Galleries, Sydney
| | 1986 | ‘John Coburn’, Australian Galleries, Melbourne
| | ‘John Coburn: Landscape Paintings and Watercolours’, Solander Gallery, Canberra
| | ‘John Coburn’, Bonython Meadmore Gallery, Adelaide
| | 1985 | ‘John Coburn’, Australian Galleries, Melbourne
| | ‘John Coburn’, Barry Stern Exhibiting Gallery, Sydney
| | ‘John Coburn: a major exhibition’, Philip Bacon Galleries, Brisbane
| | 1983 | Solander Gallery, Canberra
| | Quentin Gallery, Perth
| | 1982 | ‘John Coburn’, von Bertouch Galleries, Newcastle
| | ‘John Coburn: Earth Series’, Barry Stern Exhibiting Gallery’
| | 1981 | ‘The Four Seasons by John Coburn: Tapestries, paintings, screenprints’, Australian Galleries, Melbourne
| | ‘John Coburn’, David Reid Gallery, Sydney
| | 1980 | ‘John Coburn’, Barry Stern’s Exhibiting Gallery, Sydney
| | 1979 | ‘John Coburn: paintings and graphics’, von Bertouch Galleries, Newcastle
| | ‘John Coburn’, Barry Stern’s Exhibiting Gallery, Sydney
| | 1978 | Anna Simons Gallery, Canberra
| | ‘John Coburn: paintings, drawings, prints and a tapestry’, Australian Galleries, Melbourne
| | ‘John Coburn’, Philip Bacon Galleries, Brisbane
| | 1977 | Genesis Galleries, New York
| | Martin Gallery, Townsville
| | ‘John Coburn: recent paintings, prints and tapestries’, Australian galleries, Melbourne
| | ‘John Coburn’, Barry Stern’s Exhibiting Gallery, Sydney
| | ‘John Coburn Prints’, Philip Bacon Galleries, Brisbane
| | ‘John Coburn’, Rex Irwin Art Dealer, Sydney
| | 1976 | ‘John Coburn’, Lister Galleries, Festival of Perth, Perth
| | ‘Von Bertouch Galleries, Newcastle
| | ‘John Coburn’, the Town Gallery’, Queensland Festival of Arts, Brisbane‘John Coburn: recent paintings, prints and tapestries’, Australian Galleries Melbourne
| | 1975 | ‘John Coburn’, Anna Simmons Gallery, Canberra
| | ‘John Coburn: paintings, tapestries and prints’, Bonython Art Gallery, Sydney
| | ‘John Coburn: screenprints retrospective 1959-1975’, Stadia Graphics Gallery, Sydney
| | 1974 | ‘Tapestries and small paintings by John Coburn’, Australian Galleries, Melbourne
| | 1973 | ‘John Coburn: tapestries, paintings and prints’, Lister Galleries, Festival of Perth
| | ‘John Coburn: tapestries, paintings and prints’, Bonython Art Gallery, Sydney
| | 1972 | ‘John Coburn: tapestries, paintings and prints’, Australian Galleries Melbourne
| | ‘John Coburn: Aubusson tapestries’, Newcastle City Art Gallery, Newcastle
| | 1971 | ‘Tapestries recentes’, Galerie Verriere, Paris
| | ‘John Coburn’, Bonython Art Gallery, Sydney
| | ‘John Coburn: Paintings and prints sent from Paris’, Bonython Art Gallery, Adelaide
| | 1970 | ‘Coburn in Paris’, Macquarie Galleries, Canberra
| | 1969 | ‘Coburn: gouaches and paintings’, Australian Sculpture Gallery, Canberra
| | 1968 | ‘John Coburn: paintings and tapestries’, Bonython Art Gallery, Sydney
| | 1967 | ‘John Coburn’, von Bertouch Galleries, Newcastle
| | 1966 | ‘Paintings by John Coburn’, The Johnstone Gallery, Brisbane
| | 1965 | ‘John Coburn’ Hungry Horse Art Gallery, Sydney
| | 1964 | ‘Paintings by John Coburn’, The Johnstone Gallery, Brisbane
| | ‘John Coburn: Religious and Abstract Paintings’, Museum of Modern Art and Design of Australia, Melbourne
| | 1963 | ‘Coburn 63’, Hungry Horse Art Gallery, Sydney
| | 1962 | ‘Paintings by John Coburn’, The Johnstone Gallery, Brisbane
| | 1960 | ‘ John Coburn’, Macquarie Galleries, Sydney
| | 1958 | ‘John Coburn: paintings’, Macquarie Galleries, Sydney
| | 1957 | ‘John Coburn’, Gallery of Contemporary Art, Melbourne
| | 1993_‘Australia Day Exhibition featuring books, photographs and works of art by John Coburn’, 1993_Herbert River Museum Gallery, Halifax
| | 1988-92_Touring exhibition of The Seasons tapestries, Paris, Bologna, Arhus,
| | 1977_ ‘Seven Days of Creation: Seven screen prints designed by John Coburn and made by Barbara 1977_Coburn’, Australian Galleries, Melbourne
| | 1988-92_Istanbul, Ankara, Moscow, Sydney, Brisbane, Townsville, Canberra, Hobart and Armidale
| | 1957-95_Exhibitions of paintings and tapestries in the following galleries: Australian Galleries, Barry Stern Gallery, Sydney; Bonython Gallery, Sydney; Macquarie Galleries, Sydney; Rex Irwin Art Dealer, Sydney; Australian Galleries, Melbourne; Gallery of Contemporary Art, Melbourne; Johnstone Galleries, Brisbane; Phillip Bacon Galleries, Brisbane; BMG Art, Adelaide; Bonython Galleries, Adelaide; Greenhill Galleries, Perth; Lister Gallery, Perth; Quentin Gallery, Perth; Solander Gallery, Canberra; Cooks Hill Gallery, Newcastle; Von Bertouch Gallery, Newcastle; Perc Tucker Regional Gallery, Townsville |
Group Exhibitions | | | 2008 | 'Stock show', Australian Galleries, Sydney | | 2006 | '50th Anniversary Exhibition', Australian Galleries, Melbourne | | 'Fine Australian Prints and Drawings', Australian Galleries, Melbourne | | 'New Year Group Exhibition', Australian Galleries, Melbourne | | 2005 | ‘Place made, Australian Print Workshop’, A National Gallery of Australia travelling exhibition
| | 2004 | ‘In the presence of all creatures great and small’, Australian Galleries- Works on paper, Sydney
| | 2002 | ‘The Big Picture Show’, Perc Tucker Regional Gallery, Townsville
| | 2001 | ‘The Geometry of the Earth’, Orange Regional Gallery
| | ‘Gallery 460: 20 years on’, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
| | 2000 | ‘Fine Paintings, Sculpture & Tapestry’, Australian Galleries, Sydney
| | 1999 | ‘Fine Paintings and Sculpture’, Australian Galleries, Sydney
| | ‘Fine Paintings and Sculpture’, Australian Galleries, Melbourne
| | ‘The Dobell Prize’, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
| | 1998 | Fine Paintings and Sculpture’, Australian Galleries, Sydney
| | 1997 | Victorian Tapestry Workshop’, Australian Galleries, Sydney
| | ‘Australian Drawings from the gallery’s collection’, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
| | ‘The Dobell Prize’, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
| | 1996 | ‘The Wynne Prize’, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
| | ‘Summer Exhibition’, Eva Breuer, Sydney
| | ‘Riverview 25th Anniversary Art and Craft exhibition’, St Ignatius’ College, Sydney
| | 1995 | ‘Interweave: Tapestry a collaborative art’, Museum of Modern Art Heide, Melbourne
| | ‘The stuff of dreams: Masterworks from the Victorian Tapestry Workshop’, Australian High Commission, London
| | ‘Australian Watercolours 1880s-1990s, from the gallery’s collection’, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
| | 1994 | Kedumba Drawing Prize
| | 1992 | ‘Contemporary Australian masters and Art from Utopia’, Aptos Cruz Galleries, Stirling, South Australia
| | 1991 | ‘Fine Paintings’, Australian Galleries, Sydney
| | ‘Modern Australian paintings 1991’, Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne
| | ‘New Directions 1952-1962’, Lewers Bequest and Penrith Regional Art Gallery, Emu Plains
| | ‘Graphics by the famous: etchings, lithographs, screenprints’, von Bertouch Galleries, Newcastle
| | ‘Mandorla Prize for Religious Art’
| | ‘Blake Prize for Religious Art’, The Blaxland Gallery, Sydney
| | 1990 | ‘Green is a hot colour’, Greenhill Galleries, Perth
| | ‘10th Birthday in Perth Exhibition’, Greenhill Galleries, Perth
| | 1989 | ‘The Wynne and Sulman Prizes’, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
| | ‘Jack Monton Prize’, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane
| | ‘Modern Australian paintings’, Bridget McDonnell Gallery, Melbourne
| | 1988 | ‘Bicentennial collection: a portfolio of Australian artists’, Macquarie Galleries, Sydney‘Australian Tapestries: from the Victorian Tapestry Workshop’, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
| | ‘The Rural and Industries Bank of Western Australia collection: a bicentenary exhibition of selected works’, The Rural and Industries Bank of Western Australia, Perth
| | ‘Recent acquisitions: a selection of works acquired for the collection between 1981 and 1987’, Flinders University Art Museum, Bedford Park
| | ‘A selection from the Victoria College of the Arts Collection’, Victoria College of the Arts, Melbourne
| | 1987 | ‘Mandorla Prize for Religious Art’, New Norcia Gallery, Perth
| | 1986 | ‘Tapisseries d’Aubusson Contemporaines’, Galerie Pinton, Paris
| | ‘Selected Australian Works: from the collection of the Western Australian College of Advanced Education’, Western Australian College of Advanced Education, Perth
| | ‘Modern Australian paintings’, Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne
| | The Blake Prize for Religious Art
| | 1985 | ‘The Wynne Prize’, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
| | ‘Modern Australian paintings’, Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne
| | The Blake prize for Religious Art
| | 1984 | ‘The Blake Prize for Religious Art – the first 25 years: a survey’, Monash University Gallery,
| | ‘The great decades of Australian art – selected masterpieces from the JGL Collection’, National
| | 1983 | ‘University Art Museum Acquisitions 1973-1983’, University Art Museum, University of Queensland, Brisbane
| | ‘The Wynne Prize’, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
| | 1982 | ‘The Seventies – Australian paintings and tapestries from the collection of the National Australia Bank’, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
| | 1981 | ‘The Wynne and Sulman Prizes’, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
| | ‘The Blake prize for Religious Art
| | 1980 | ‘Contemporary Australian Printmaker’, USA
| | ‘Twelve Artists: paintings, prints, drawings’, The Murray Crescent Galleries, Canberra
| | ‘The Blake prize for religious Art
| | 1978 | ‘Contemporary Australian drawing: 1978 Perth survey of drawing’, Festival of Perth, Western Australian Art Gallery, Perth
| | 1977 | ‘Art Sacre’, L’Orangerie de Versailles, France
| | 1974 | ‘Expo 74’, Spokane, Washington
| | 1972 | ‘Australian paintings and tapestries of the past 20 years’, New South Wales House, London
| | 1971 | ‘Australian Printmakers’, South East Asia
| | ‘International Biennale of Tapestry’, Lausanne
| | ‘Aubusson Tapestries’, Galerie Garnier, Paris
| | ‘Expo 70’, Osaka, Japan
| | 1970 | ‘Aubusson Tapestries’, Bonython Gallery, Sydney
| | 1969 | ‘Georges’ Invitation Art Prize’ Georges’ Gallery, Melbourne
| | 1968 | ‘One hundred years of Australian landscape painting’, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
| | ‘Aubusson Tapestries’, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
| | ‘Transfield Prize Exhibition’, Sydney
| | 1967 | Expo 67: Man and his world’, Australian Pavilion, Montreal, Canada
| | ‘The Australian painters 1964-1966: Contemporary Australian painting from the Mertz collection’, The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington
| | 1966 | ‘Acquisitions and purchases 1965’, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
| | 1965 | ‘TE Wardle Invitation Prize’, Skinner Gallery, Perth
| | ‘Young Australian painters’, Keio Department Store, Tokyo, Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
| | 1964 | ‘Australian Painting Today’, Europe
| | ‘Painters’ sculpture exhibition’, Hungry Horse Gallery, Sydney
| | ‘Eight painters’, Hungry Horse Gallery, Sydney
| | 1963 | ‘Australian Painting’, Tate Gallery, London
| | ‘Art in Décor Exhibition’, Dominion Art Galleries, Sydney
| | ‘Drawings and prints’, Macquarie Galleries
| | ‘1963 Australian Fashion Fabric Design Award’, Farmer’s Blaxland Gallery, Sydney
| | ‘Metropolis 1: an Exhibition by Twenty-One Prominent Sydney Painters’, Crana Gallery, Wollongong
| | ‘Group Exhibition’, von Bertouch Galleries, Newcastle
| | ‘Barry Stern Galleries, Sydney
| | ‘Fifth Anniversary Art Exhibition’, Farmer’s Blaxland Gallery, Sydney
| | ‘Australian painting today’, toured Australian state galleries and Europe
| | ‘Collector’s choice’, von Bertouch Galleries, Newcastle
| | ‘Australian print survey’, toured Australian state galleries
| | 1962 | Farmer’s Blaxland Gallery, Sydney
| | ‘2nd International Young Artists exhibition – Pan Pacific’, Japan Cultural Forum, Tokyo
| | ‘Show of Eights’, Macquarie Galleries, Sydney
| | ‘Australian Painting: Colonial, Impressionist, Contemporary’, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide and Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth
| | ‘Survey 2: recent Sydney painting’, Farmer’s Blaxland Gallery, Sydney
| | ‘Trends and Development Exhibition’, Dominion Art Gallery, Sydney
| | ‘The Helena Rubinstein Travelling Art Scholarship’, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
| | ‘Fifth Anniversary Show’, Terry Clune Galleries, Sydney
| | ‘Transfield Art Prize 1962’, David Jones’ Art Gallery, Sydney
| | ‘Religious Art in our Time’, St Peter’s Parish Hall, Melbourne
| | ‘Mattara Art Exhibition’, Newcastle Regional Art Gallery, Newcastle
| | ‘Transfield Art Prize’, Museum of Modern Art and Design, Melbourne
| | ‘Tamworth Art Society Prize’, Tamworth Festival of Light, Tamworth
| | ‘Sydney Printmakers Exhibition’, Dominion Art Galleries, Sydney
| | ‘Commonwealth Art Today’, Commonwealth Institute, London
| | ‘Third Anniversary Show’, Rudy Komon Gallery, Sydney
| | ‘12 Guineas and Under Christmas Art Exhibition’, Farmer’s Blaxland Gallery, Sydney
| | 1961 | ‘Acquisitions and purchases 1960’, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
| | ‘Easter Exhibition’, Macquarie Galleries, Sydney
| | ‘Abstracts and Antiques’, Terry Clune Galleries, Sydney
| | ‘Survey 1: Sydney Avant Garde Painting’, Farmer’s Blaxland Gallery
| | ‘Fourth Anniversary Show’, Terry Clune Galleries, Sydney
| | ‘The Helena Rubinstein Travelling Art Scholarship’, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
| | ‘VI Bienal Internacional de Sao Paulo’, Museu de Arte Moderna, Sao Paulo, Brazil
| | ‘Recent Australian Paintings’, Whitechapel Gallery, London
| | ‘The Arts Council of Australia: Loan exhibition – Artists as Collectors’, Wales House Gallery, Sydney‘Contemporary Drawings and Sketches’, Barry Stern Galleries, Sydney
| | 1960 | ‘The Blake Prize for Religious Art’, Mark Foy’s Art Gallery, Sydney
| | ‘Mervyn Horton Collection’, The Museum of Modern Art, Sydney
| | ‘Contemporary Australian Art’, Charles Birks, Adelaide
| | ‘Collectors’ Exhibition’, Chatteron Gallery, Sydney
| | ‘15 Contemporary Australian Painters’, New Vision Centre Gallery, London
| | ‘Contemporary Australian art’, Auckland City Art Gallery, New Zealand
| | ‘Eight Sydney Painters’, 43 Dalgety Street, Melbourne
| | ‘Collection of paintings of Dr George Berger’, Chattertons Galleries, Sydney
| | ‘Group Show’, Weekend Gallery, Melbourne
| | ‘The Society of Artist’s Spring Exhibition’, Farmers Blaxland Gallery, Sydney
| | ‘Art Exhibition of Modern Sydney Paintings’, Marrickville Town Hall, Sydney
| | ‘Macquarie Galleries Adelaide Exhibition’, Royal South Australian Society of Artists, Adelaide
| | ‘Australian Painting Today’, Legacy House, Orange
| | ‘Contemporary Art Society’s 22nd Annual exhibition’, Farmer’s Blaxland Gallery, Sydney
| | ‘First Anniversary Show’, Rudy Komon Gallery, Sydney
| | ‘Christmas Exhibition’, Terry Clune Galleries, Sydney
| | ‘Christmas Exhibition’, Macquarie Galleries, Sydney
| | 1959 | ‘Acquisitions and purchases 1958’, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
| | ‘The Blake Prize for Religious Art’, Mark Foy’s Art Gallery, Sydney
| | ‘Show of Eights’, Macquarie Galleries, Sydney
| | ‘Nine Sydney Painters’, Skinner Galleries, Perth
| | ‘Easter Exhibition’, Macquarie Galleries, Sydney
| | ‘Nine Sydney Painters’, Terry Clune Galleries, Sydney
| | ‘Australian Landscape Exhibition’, Farmer’s Blaxland Gallery, Sydney‘An Exhibition by thirty-eight Mid-Century Sydney Painters’, Civic Theatre, Albury
| | ‘Opus 1 1959’, Little Paris Gallery, Sydney
| | ‘Paintings and drawings’, Little Paris Gallery, Sydney
| | ‘Eight Australians’, Gallery A, Melbourne
| | ‘Second Anniversary Exhibition’, Terry Clune Galleries, Sydney
| | ‘Private Collection of Robert Shaw, Esq., Chatterton Galleries, Sydney
| | ‘Maston Lines Exhibition of Australian Art’, Farmers Blaxland Gallery then travelling to the USA
| | ‘First Exhibition of the Sydney Modern art Gallery and Museum of Modern Art’, Sheppard’s Bookshop, North Sydney
| | ‘Muffled Drums (Brain-washing taken in)’, Terry Clune Galleries, Sydney
| | ‘A Loan Collection from Private Collections’, The Museum of Modern Art’, Sydney
| | ‘Christmas Art Show – twelve Guineas and under’, Farmer’s Blaxland Gallery, Sydney
| | ‘An exhibition of Modern Sydney Paintings’, The Art Department of Fairfield Girls High School, Sydney
| | ‘A Loan Exhibition from Artists’ Private Collections’, The Museum of Modern Art, Sydney
| | ‘Christmas Exhibition of Abstract Group’, Terry Clune Galleries, Sydney
| | ‘Christmas Exhibition’, 43 Dalgety Street, Melbourne
| | ‘Christmas Exhibition’, Macquarie Galleries, Sydney
| | ‘Tom Roberts to Jon Movig: a retrospective Australian Collection’, Rudy Komon Art Gallery, Sydney
| | 1958 | ‘Acquisitions and purchases 1957’, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
| | ‘The Helena Rubinstein Travelling Art Scholarship’, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
| | 1952 | Strath Art Group, Nock and Kirby’s 5th floor Gallery, Sydney
| | 1950 | Strath Art Group, Waratah Gallery, Parramatta City
| | Strath Art Group, 2nd annual open air exhibition, Hyde Park, Sydney
| | 1949 | Strath Art Group, open air exhibition by students of the Commonwealth Reconstructions Training Scheme, Hyde Park, Sydney | | Melbourne
| | 1953-68_Contemporary Art Society, New South Wales
| | 1996_‘Synergy: and exhibition of Contemporary Australian Tapestries’, Jehangir Nicholson Gallery, 1996_National Performing Arts Centre, Mumbai
| | Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
| | 1991-92_Collaborative Paintings with Dale Frank, Brisbane, Newcastle, Canberra
| | 2001_‘O Soul O Spirit O Fire: celebrating fifty years of the Blake Prize for Religious Art’, 2001_Queensland University of Technology Art Museum, Brisbane
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Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth
Australian Broadcasting Commission, Perth
Australian National University Art Collection, Canberra
Bathurst Art Gallery, NSW
Benalla Regional Gallery, VIC
Bendigo Art Gallery, VIC
Broken Hill Art Gallery, NSW
Capricornia Institute of Advanced Education, QLD
Cairns Regional Gallery, QLD
Campbelltown City Bicentennial Art Gallery, Sydney
City of Ipswich Collection, Global Arts Link, QLD
Flinders University Art Museum, Adelaide
Geelong Art Gallery, VIC
Gold Coast City Art Gallery, QLD
Griffith University Art Collection, Queensland College of Art, QLD
Hamilton Art Gallery, VIC
Heide Museum of Modern Art, VIC
Ian Potter Museum of Art, Melbourne
Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, University of Western Australia, Perth
Macquarie College of Advanced Education, Sydney
Macquarie University, Sydney
Maitland City Art Gallery, NSW
Manly Art Gallery, Sydney
Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
New England Regional Art Museum, Armadale, NSW
Newcastle Region Art Gallery, NSW
Northern Territory Museum and Art Gallery, Darwin
Orange Regional Art Gallery, NSW
Parliament House Art Collection, Canberra
Parliament House, Sydney, NSW
Parliament House, Brisbane, QLD
Penrith Regional Art Gallery, NSW
Perc Tucker Regional Gallery, Townsville, QLD
Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane
Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane
Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, Launceston
Rockhampton Art Gallery, QLD
S.H. Ervin Gallery, National Trust, Sydney
State Planning Authority, Sydney
Sunshine Coast University, QLD
Sydney Country Council, Sydney
Sydney Opera House Trust, Sydney
Tamworth Art Gallery, NSW
Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart
Telstra, Australia
Toowoomba Art Gallery, QLD
Tweed River Art Gallery, NSW
University Art Museum, University of Queensland, Brisbane
University of New England, NSW
University of New South Wales Collection, Sydney
University of Sydney Art Collection, Sydney
University of Technology Art Collection, Sydney
Victoria College of the Arts Collection, Melbourne
Wagga Wagga Art Gallery, NSW
Warrnambool Art Gallery, VIC
Western Australian Ballet Company, Perth
Western Australian College of Advanced Education, Perth
Wollongong City Art Gallery, NSW
Australian corporate
All Saints Cathedral, Bathurst, NSW
American Express, Sydney
AMP Place, Brisbane
Artbank, Sydney
Banque National de Paris, Sydney
Catholic Institute of Sydney
Dunmore Lang College, Sydney
Ensemble Theatre, Sydney
Hilton Hotel, Adelaide
Hyde Park Barracks Café, Sydney
JGL Collection, Melbourne
J. Walter Thomson Australia Pty Ltd, Sydney
Leeuwin Estate Wines, Perth
Loreto Convent, Sydney
Marist Seminary, Sydney
Monash Medical Centre, Melbourne
National Bank of Australasia, Melbourne
National Mutual Centre, Sydney
Northpoint Business Centre, Sydney
OTC building, Sydney
Paddington Uniting Church, Sydney
Qantas Airways Limited, Sydney
St George Building Society, Sydney
St Joseph’s College, Sydney
St Paul’s Anglican Cathedral, Melbourne
The Broken Hill Proprietary Co. Ltd., Melbourne
The Sydney Morning Herald, Sydney
Thredbo Hotel, New South Wales
Transfield Pty Ltd, Sydney
Victorian Tapestry Workshop, Melbourne
Westpac Corporate Art Collection, Sydney
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Auckland City Art Gallery, New Zealand
Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna
John F. Kennedy Centre for the Performing Arts, Washington
Hilton Hotel, Hong Kong
Vatican Museum, Rome
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