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Nick Howson

SELECTED WORKS

 Nick Howson
1963 Born United Kingdom

Lives and works in Melbourne
1986 Dip. Fine Art, Prahran College, Melbourne

Solo Exhibitions

2008'Recent Works', Australian Galleries, Melbourne
2006'Recent Paintings', Australian Galleries, Sydney
2005‘Recent paintings’, Australian Galleries, Melbourne
2004‘Paintings’, Win Schubert Galleries, Gold Coast
2003‘Recent paintings’, Australian Galleries, Melbourne
2002‘Paintings’, Win Schubert Galleries, Queensland
2001‘Gipsy Point’, Australian Galleries, Melbourne
2000‘Struggletown II’, Australian Galleries, Melbourne
1999‘Struggletown’, Australian Galleries, Melbourne
‘Recent works’, Australian Galleries, Melbourne
1996‘Football paintings’, Australian Galleries, MelbournE
‘Paintings’, Australian Galleries, Melbourne
1994‘Paintings’, Gallery Rhumbarallas, Melbourne
1993‘Works on Paper’, Gallery Rhumbarallas, Melbourne
1991‘Paintings’, Girgis & Klym Gallery, Melbourne
1988‘Works on Paper’, Girgis & Klym Gallery, Melbourne

Group Exhibitions

2007'Small Pleasures: Painting and Sculpture', Australian Galleries, Melbourne
'Stock Show', 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
‘City of Whitehorse Art Collection: Recent Contemporary Acquisitions’, Deakin University
2005'End of Year Group Exhibition', Australian Galleries Painting and Sculpture, Sydney
‘Eureka Revisited: The Contest of Memories’, touring exhibition, Ballarat Fine Art Gallery,
Ballarat, Old Parliament House, Canberra, State Library of Victoria, Melbourne
2004‘Panorama’, Australian Galleries Works on Paper, Melbourne
‘Australian Galleries, Melbourne
‘In the presence of all creatures great and small’, Australian Galleries Works on Paper, Sydney
‘Freaks, Feinds and Folly’, City of Port Phillip
‘Between a rock and a hard place’, Lancaster Press, Melbourne
Art and Champagne Auction, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
‘Great Grand Finals’, Artist’s Garden, Melbourne
2003Tattersalls Art Prize, Brisbane
2002Australian Contemporary Art Fair 8
2001‘Three Artists’, Win Schubert Galleries, Queensland
Australian Galleries, Melbourne
‘Packsaddle’, New England Regional Art Museum, Armidale, New South Wales
‘Bring Back the Biffo’, Artist Garden
2000Australian Contemporary Art Fair 7
Australian Galleries, Melbourne
Win Schubert Galleries, Queensland
Team of the century’, Artist’s Garden, Melbourne
Australian Galleries, Melbourne
‘Luna Park and the Art of Mass Delirium’, Museum of Modern Art at Heide, Melbourne
‘We are Australian’, touring exhibition
1998Australian Contemporary Art Fair 6
The Theresa Byrnes Foundation Charity Art Auction
‘Archiball’ football prize, Artist Garden, Fitzroy
1997Australian Galleries, Melbourne
Sydney City Mission Heartworks Auction
1996Australian Contemporary Art Fair 5
‘Packsaddle’, New England Regional Art Museum, Armidale, New South Wales
1995Herald Sun Art Prize
Eltham Art Prize
‘The football show’, Artist’s Garden, Melbourne
1994Australian Contemporary Art Fair 4
Amnesty International “Faces of Hope”, Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney
Postcard Show, Linden Gallery
1993Linden Gallery, Melbourne
1992Girgis & Klym, Melbourne
1991Girgis & Klym, Melbourne
Green Peace Exhibition, Linden Gallery, Melbourne
1990Australian Contemporary Art Fair 2
‘Works on Paper’, Girgis & Klym, Melbourne
1989Girgis & Klym, Melbourne
‘Heidelberg & Heritage-Two Visions of Australia 100 Years Apart’, Linden Gallery, Melbourne
1988Swan Hill Art Prize, Swan Hill Regional Gallery, Victoria
1987Girgis & Klym, Melbourne
1986Castlemaine Drawing Show, Castlemaine Regional Art Gallery, Victoria
Rhumbarallas Gallery, Melbourne

Bibliography

‘Bring Back the Biffo’, ABC Arts Show, 27 September 2001
‘City Search’, The Age, 18 March 1999
‘The Goodlife’, The Age, 20 December 1999
Backhouse, Megan; “Colour separation makes the art grow yonder”, Age, November 2004
Catalano, Gary; ‘Artist casts rebellion aside’, The Age, 9 December 1987
Cawthorne, Zelda; ‘Harmony After the Battles’, Herald Sun, 16 March 1999
De Bolfo, Tony; ‘Art of the Game’, Herald Sun, September 1996
Flanagan, Martin; ‘Turning Plugger & Co into an Art Form’, The Age, 30 September 1995
Lew, Christine; ‘Colouring a bold new world’, Melbourne Times, 29 May 1991
Makin, Jeff; Herald Sun, 23 March 1999
McLean, Sandra; “Show and tell”, Courier Mail, 17 October 2002
Mossop, Brian; “Birds play vital role”, Gold Coast Weekender, 4 September 2004
Whateley, Gerard; ‘Football get a guernsey in art’, Herald Sun, 9 September 1995
Collections
Art Bank, Sydney
Australian Tennis Centre, Melbourne
Crown Casino, Melbourne
Horsham Regional Art Gallery, Horsham
St.Kilda City Art Collection, St Kilda
Tullamarine Airport, Tullamarine
Commissions
Australian Open Tennis Poster
Prahran Market Mural
National Gallery of Australia, Restaurant Mural
SPECIAL NOTES

Published works

‘Sunday Life! Magazine’ The Age, (“Eat Streets” illustrator), 1997-2001
‘Sunday Life! Magazine’ The Age, February 1994
A History of Hawthorn (book cover), 1994
Australian Book Review (magazine cover), June 1996
Bring back the biffo, ABC Arts show, 27 September 2001
Chapel Street Calender, 1997
Chemistry in Australia, March 1995
Contemporary Art Fair 7 Catalogue 2000
Eureka Stockade, ABC News, 4 December 2004
Football Card series, 1996
Mt. Hotham Ski Postcards, 1995
Prahran Calender, 1993
Prahran Community Guide, 1993
Storm Magazine (illustrations), November-December 1994, January-February 1995
The Melbourne Report (cover design), May 1990, November 1992
The Melburnian (cartoonist illustrations), 1993 - 1995
The Melburnian, March 1995, March 1996, March 1997

Collections

Art Bank, Sydney
Australian Tennis Centre, Melbourne
Crown Casino, Melbourne
Horsham Regional Art Gallery, Horsham
St.Kilda City Art Collection, St Kilda
Tullamarine Airport, Tullamarine

Commissions

Australian Open Tennis Poster
Prahran Market Mural
National Gallery of Australia, Restaurant Mural

Selected Reviews

New Year Group Exhibition | The Sunday Age, Preview | 6 Jan 2005

Special Notes

Published works
‘Sunday Life! Magazine’ The Age, (“Eat Streets” illustrator), 1997-2001
‘Sunday Life! Magazine’ The Age, February 1994
A History of Hawthorn (book cover), 1994
Australian Book Review (magazine cover), June 1996
Bring back the biffo, ABC Arts show, 27 September 2001
Chapel Street Calender, 1997
Chemistry in Australia, March 1995
Contemporary Art Fair 7 Catalogue 2000
Eureka Stockade, ABC News, 4 December 2004
Football Card series, 1996
Mt. Hotham Ski Postcards, 1995
Prahran Calender, 1993
Prahran Community Guide, 1993
Storm Magazine (illustrations), November-December 1994, January-February 1995
The Melbourne Report (cover design), May 1990, November 1992
The Melburnian (cartoonist illustrations), 1993 - 1995
The Melburnian, March 1995, March 1996, March 1997