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Philip Davey

SELECTED WORKS

 
1949Born Devon, UK
  
1958 Emigrated to Australia 
1974-76 Bachelor of Education, State College of Victoria, Rusden, VIC 
1977-91 Secondary teacher, VIC 
1992 Full time artist 
1990-98 Artist in residence programs: Camberwell Grammer School, VIC; Eltham College, VIC; Ivanhoe Girls Grammer School, VIC; Surrey Hills Primary School, VIC 
1993-97 Sessional teaching, Council of Adult Education, Melbourne 
2003 Bundanon trust Artist in Residence program, North Nowra, NSW 
2004 Waverley City Gallery public education program, Wheelers Hill, VIC 
 Briagalong Art School workshop program, Briagalong, VIC

Solo Exhibitions

2012'This Fantastic Land of Monstrosities', Australian Galleries, Melbourne
2008Eastgate & Holst, Melbourne
2007Colville Street Gallery, Hobart
Eastgate & Holst, Melbourne
2005Australian Galleries, Painting & Sculpture, Melbourne
2003Australian Galleries, Melbourne
2002Australian Galleries, Melbourne
2001Australian Galleries, Melbourne
2000Australian Galleries, Melbourne
Australian Galleries, Sydney
Driden Fine Arts, McLaren Vale, SA
1998Australian Galleries, Melbourne
1997Gallery 101, Melbourne
1996Access Contemporary Art Gallery, Sydney
1995Driden Fine Arts, McLaren Vale, SA
Gallery 101, Melbourne
1994Access Contemporary Art Gallery, Sydney
Gallery 101, Melbourne
1993Access Contemporary Art Gallery, Sydney
1992Gallery 101, Melbourne
1991Gallery 101, Melbourne
1990Roar Studios, Melbourne
1989Reflections Gallery, Melbourne
1988Indec Galleries, Melbourne

Group Exhibitions

2011'large exhibition of small works', Australian Galleries, Derby Street, Melbourne
'large exhibition of small works', Australian Galleries, Roylston Street, Sydney
2007Castlemaine Regional Art Gallery, Castlemaine, VIC
‘Works on paper’, Eastgate & Holst, Melbourne
2006‘Recently’, Australian Print Workshop, Melbourne
Fleurieu Peninsula Art Prize, Fleurieu Peninsula, SA
Savage Club Prize, Melbourne
2005‘Newhaven Art Exhibition’, Uber Gallery, Melbourne
‘Locality’, Australian Print Workshop, Melbourne
‘Transit’, Australian Print Workshop, Melbourne
2004Norvill Art Prize, Murrurundi, NSW
Fleurieu Art Prize, Fleurieu Peninsula, SA
‘In the presence of all creatures great and small’, Australian Galleries Works on Paper, Sydney
‘Group exhibition’, Australian Galleries, Melbourne
2003‘500 Fridays: Ten years of contemporary en plein air painting’, Geelong Gallery, VIC; Touring: Benalla Art Gallery, VIC; Monash Gallery of Art, VIC; Latrobe Regional Gallery, VIC; Castlemaine Art Gallery, VIC; Bundoora Homestead Foundation, NSW
‘500 Fridays, Plein Air Painters; Panel paintings by artists from the 500 Fridays group’, Australian Galleries, Melbourne
2001‘William Buckley: Rediscovered’, Geelong Gallery, VIC; Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, VIC
1999‘The artists’ retreat: Discovering the Mornington Peninsula 1850’s to present’, Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, Mornington, VIC
‘Paintings and Sculpture’, Australian Galleries, Melbourne
1996‘Annual Birthday Survey Exhibition’, Access Contemporary Art Gallery, Sydney
‘Art Workz 7’, Gallery 101, Melbourne
Australian Contemporary Art Fair, Melbourne
‘Re-view ’96’, Gallery 101, Melbourne
1995‘Access to Adelaide II’, BMG Fine Art, Adelaide
‘Annual Birthday Survey Exhibition’, Access Contemporary Art Gallery, Sydney
1994Landmark Art Gallery, Cairns, QLD
Gallery 101, Melbourne
1993P & O Art Award, Australian National Maritime Museum, Sydney
‘Annual Birthday Survey Exhibition’, Access Contemporary Art Gallery, Sydney
Gallery 101, Melbourne
1992Roar 2 Members Show, Melbourne
City of Richmond Art Exhibition, Melbourne
Australian Contemporary Art Fair, Melbourne
1991‘Not The Archibald’, Fringe Studio, Fringe Festival, Melbourne
ACTA Maritime Art Award, Touring: Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide
1990ACTA Maritime Art Award, Touring: Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide
Australian Contemporary Art Fair, Melbourne
1987Garth Galleries, Melbourne

Bibliography

Australian Business, 26 June 1991

Australian Contermporary Art Fair, Exhibition catalogue, Melbourne, 1996

Bock, Andrew; "Ghost of a chance", The Age, May 2001

Burchill, Greg; The Age, 11 August 1996

Collectable Australian Maritime Art, 1991

Davey, Phillip; "Our Robinson Crusoe", Book review of, The Life and Adventures of William Buckley, 1996

Davidson, Robyn; "Back to the heart", The Australian, July 205

Dober, Mark; Artists' vision pulps the fiction of a magnificent, maligned outback", The Age, 23-24 December 2005

Drury, Neville; Images 2, Craftsman House, 1990

Germaine, Max; Artists & Galleries of Australia, Craftsman House, 1990

Heathcote, Chrisrtopher; The Age, 12 August 1992

James, Rodney; "The artists'; retreat: Discovering the Mornington Peninsula - 1850's to the present", Exhibition catalogue, Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, 1999

Lambert, Catherine; "Nature Inspires Artist", Herald Sun, March 2000

Lynn, Elwyn; The Australian, 31 July - 1 August 1993

Makin, Jeff; "A breath of plain air", Herald Sun, 23 April 2007

Makin, Jeff; "Critic's Choice", Herald Sun, 7 August, 2006

Makin, Jeff; 'Open air on canvas", Herald Sun, July 2003

Morgan, John; Herald Sun, 30 November 1996

Nelson, Robert, "Landscape artists reversing the trend", The Age, March 2000

Nelson, Robert; Landscape painting no picnic outing", The Age, February 2003

Robert, Rooney; The Australian, 9-10 April 1994

Thorpe, D.W.; Who's Who of Australian Visual Artists, 1995

Whateley, Gerald; Herald Sun, 21 August 1995

William, Buckley; "The Wild White man", Exhibition catalogue, Gallery 101, Melbourne, 1995

William, Buckley; "Rediscovered", Exhibition catalogue, Geelong Gallery, VIC, 2001

Collections

Art Bank, Sydney

Australian Meatworkers' Union, Australia

BHP Collection, Australia

Blake Dawson and Waldron, Australia

Camberwell Gammer School, Melbourne

Castlemaine Regional Art Gallery, Castlemaine, VIC

Commonwealth Funds Management, Australia

CS First, Boston, USA

Council of Adult Education, Melbourne

Department of Education, VIC

Education Department of Victoria, Treasury Place, Melbourne

Geelong Regional gallery, Geelong, VIC

KPMG, Australia

Methodist ladies' College, Melbourne

Parliament House, Canberra

Private collections in Australia, Asia and Europe

Scots College, Albury, NSW

State Library of Victoria, Melbourne

Tennis Australia, Australia

Western Mining, Australia

Whitehorse City Councill, VIC