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| 1939 |
Born Melbourne, Australia |
| 1957-60 |
Diploma of Education, Melbourne State College |
| 1961-71 |
Teacher, Secondary Art & Craft |
| 1962-65 |
Diploma of Art (Sculpture), Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology |
| 1971-75 |
Lecturer in Sculpture, Burwood State College |
| 1975-83 |
Lecturer in Sculpture and Drawing, RMIT |
Solo Exhibitions | | | 2007 | 'World View', Australian Galleries, Melbourne | | 2006 | 'Bronze Sculpture. Jewellery. Drawings & Etchings.', Australian Galleries, Melbourne | | 2003 | ‘Like a Dog with a Bone’, Australian Galleries, Melbourne
| | 2001 | ‘What the Raven Saw (Thought and Memory)’, Australian Galleries, Melbourne
| | 1998 | ‘Man and the Bird – Man and the Sea’, Australian Galleries, Melbourne
| | 1997 | ‘Inside the Bower: Kevin Mortensen’, Latrobe Regional Gallery, VIC
| | Canberra School of Art Gallery, Australian National University, ACT
| | Benalla Art Gallery, VIC
| | 1996 | Australian Galleries, Sydney
| | 1994 | Australian Galleries, Melbourne
| | 1992 | Sale Regional Art Gallery, VIC
| | Powell Street Gallery, Melbourne
| | 1991 | Powell Street Graphics, Melbourne
| | 1986 | Ray Hughes Gallery, Sydney
| | 1981 | Ray Hughes Gallery, Brisbane Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane
| | 1979 | Watters Gallery, Sydney
| | 1975 | ‘Shards from a cave-carters backyard’, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
| | 1974 | Pinacotheca Gallery, Melbourne
| | 1971 | Pinacotheca Gallery, Melbourne
| | 1967 | Argus Gallery, Melbourne |
Group Exhibitions | | | 2008 | ‘Who let the dogs out’, Lake Macquarie City Art Gallery, NSW
| | 2007 | 'Stock Show', Australian Galleries, Melbourne | | 'Small Pleasures: Painting and Sculpture', Australian Galleries, Melbourne | | 2006 | 'New Year Group Exhibition', Australian Galleries, Melbourne | | 'Stock Show', Australian Galleries, Melbourne | | '50th Anniversary Exhibition', Australian Galleries, Melbourne | | ANL Maritime Art Prize, Melbourne
| | 2005 | ‘Notes from the Natural World’, Australian Galleries, Melbourne
| | 2004 | ‘Species’, Australian Galleries, Melbourne
| | ‘The Australian Print Workshop Archive 2’, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
| | 2003 | ‘This was the Future’, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne
| | ‘The Jomantis Years’, RMIT, Melbourne
| | ‘The sea, the sea’, Horsham Regional Art Gallery, Horsham, VIC (touring)
| | 1995 | ‘Illuminaries’, Monash University Gallery, Melbourne
| | 1993 | ‘Dame Edna Regrets She is Unable to Attend’, Latrobe Valley Arts Centre, VIC
| | Barwon Wetlands Art Project, Geelong Art Gallery, VIC
| | 1991 | ‘Off the Wall in the Air: Art of the Seventies’, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art and Monash University Gallery, Melbourne
| | 1989 | ‘Prints and Australia, Pre-settlement to Present’, Australian National Gallery, Canberra
| | ‘Three Days of Performance’, Monash University, Melbourne
| | Fourth Australian Sculpture Triennial, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
| | 1988 | ‘Drawing in Australia 1970s-1980s’, Australian National Gallery, Canberra
| | 1987 | ‘Why People Go To Traffic Accidents’, Theatre Works, Melbourne
| | ‘Gravity’s Angels’, Wangaratta Artspace, VIC
| | 1985 | ‘Works from the Monash Collection’, Monash University Gallery, Melbourne
| | 1984 | Second Australian Sculpture Triennial, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
| | 1983 | ‘Continuum’, Awajicho Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
| | 1982 | ‘Eureka! Artists from Australia’, ICA, London
| | 1981 | ‘Australian Perspecta’, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
| | First Australian Sculpture Triennial, Latrobe University, Melbourne
| | ‘Anzart’, The Boiler House, Christchurch, New Zealand
| | ‘Animals and Animism in Australian Art’, RMIT Gallery, Melbourne
| | 1980 | Adelaide Festival of Art, Performance Week, Adelaide
| | Venice Biennale, Australian Pavilion, Italy
| | 1978 | ‘Act 1’ Performance Festival, Australian National University, Canberra
| | ‘Lost and Found: Objects and Images’, Ewing and George Paton Gallery,
| | The University of Melbourne Union, Melbourne
| | 1976 | Biennale of Sydney, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
| | ‘Link Exhibition’, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
| | 1975 | ‘Artist’s Artists’, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
| | Mildura Sculpture Triennial, VIC
| | 1973 | Mildura Sculpture Triennial, VIC
| | 1972 | Group Exhibition, Pinacotheca Gallery, Melbourne
| | 1970 | Mildura Sculpture Triennial, VIC
| | 1968 | ‘24 Point Plug Show’, Argus Gallery, Melbourne
| | ‘Alcorso-Sekers’, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne | | 2003-04_‘A Modelled World’, McClelland Gallery & Sculpture Park, Langwarrin, VIC
| | 1990-92_‘Contemporary Gippsland Artists’, Latrobe Valley Arts Centre, VIC, touring exhibition
| | 1994-95_‘25 Years of Australian Performance Art’, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney; Australian tour
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Davies, Suzanne; La Biennale: Visual Arts 80 – General Catalogue,
Visual Arts Board, Australia Council and Biennale di Venezia, 1980
Eureka! Artists from Australia, exhibition catalogue, ICA Arts Council of Great Britain, London, 1982
Gates, Merryn; ‘Time and Tide; Daniel Thomas, ‘Birdman from Venus Bay’, Inside the Bower, exhibition catalogue, Canberra School of Art Gallery, Australian National University, Canberra, 1997
Green, Charles; “Pinacotheca: A private art history”, Art and Australia, Vol 34:4, 1997
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Sturgeon, Graeme; The Development of Australian Sculpture 1788-1975, Thames & Hudson, London, 1978
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Zimmer, Jenny ed.; Animals and Animism in Australian Art, RMIT Gallery, Melbourne 1981 CollectionsArt Gallery of New South Wales
Art Gallery of South Australia
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City of Ballarat Fine Art Gallery
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Private collections
Tasmanian Musuem & Art Gallery
University of Queensland Selected ReviewsNew Year Group Exhibition | The Sunday Age, Preview | 6 Jan 2005
Special NotesPerformances
| 2007 | ‘Woman in the window’, Australian Galleries Painting & Sculpture, Melbourne |
| 2003 |
‘Like a Dog with a Bone’, Australian Galleries, Melbourne |
| 2000 |
‘Limnophilous Longirostral’, Noosa, Queensland |
| 1998 |
‘Display of the Bird King’, Lake Burley Griffin, Canberra |
| 1993 |
‘The
Ibis and the Song’, 18 September, with Pat Freeman (singer), Kevin
Alder (second birdman), Mark 1993 Althorpe (sound), Barwon Wetlands
Project, Hospital Swamp, Lake Connewarre wetlands, Geelong Art Gallery |
| 1989 |
‘Self
Portrait as the Seagull Salesman’, Three Days of Performance, Lecture
Theatre, Visual Arts Department, Monash University, Melbourne |
| 1987 |
‘Why People go to Traffic Accidents’, performance/theatre, with Peter Sommerfield, Theatre Works, Melbourne |
| 1986 |
‘Kinetic Sunrise’, The Performance Space, Sydney |
| 1985 |
‘Kinetic Sunrise’, Alexander Theatre, Monash University, Melbourne |
| 1982 |
‘60 Ways to Fool a Trout’, Eureka! Artists From Australia, ICA and Serpentine Gallery, London |
| 1981 |
‘Camp Atavism’, Preston Institute of Technology, First Australian Sculpture Triennial, Melbourne |
| 1981 |
‘We Point the Bone: Bone the Bomb’, in collaboration with Tony Coleing, Ray Hughes Gallery, Brisbane |
| 1980 |
‘Even the hairs on your forearm grow in the same direction as their feathers’, Venice Biennale, Italy |
| 1979-80 |
‘The
Rowing’, in collaboration with Steve Turpie, Bruce Lamrock, Peter
Hopcraft, Murdoch Court, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne |
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‘The Rowing’, Carclew House, Adelaide Festival of Art, Adelaide |
| 1979 |
‘The Rocking’, Watters Gallery, Sydney |
| 1978 |
‘The Rocking’, with Kevin Alder, ACT 1 Performance Festival, Australian National University, Canberra |
| 1975 |
‘The Delicatessen’, environment at Mildura, VIC |
| 1975 |
Sculpture Triennial, Actor: Eddie Rosser |
| 1973 |
‘St. Paul’s performance’, with John Davis, Spring Festival, St Paul’s Cathedral, Melbourne |
| 1972 |
‘The Opening Leg Show Party Bizarre’, Happening with Mike Brown and Russell Dreever, Pinacotheca, Melbourne |
| 1971 |
‘The Seagull Salesman; his stock & visitors, or Figures of Identification’, Pinacotheca, Melbourne |
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