Solo Exhibitions

Group Exhibitions

Bibliography

rt and Australia, exhibition commentary, Spring 1991
Bendle, Lawrence and Hansen, David; Middle Earth, Green Triangle Galleries Association, Adelaide, 1984
Bensley, Karen and Hansen, David; Contemporary Gippsland Artists, Latrobe Valley Arts Centre, 1990   
Blensdorf, Jan; “Come to the Fair”, OZ ARTS, no.3 1992
Coventry, Donald;  The October Show Latrobe Valley Arts Centre, 1988
Craft Arts International, No.25, 1992
Directory 1988: Australian Artists Producing Prints, Print Council of Australia, 1988  
Durre, Caroline; More songs about dancing and horses, catalogue essay, Australian Galleries, Melbourne, 2001
Duxbury, Lesley; 100 x100 Portfolio, Print Council of Australia, 1988
Educational Quarterly, cover, October 1992
Forbes, Rodney; Flow, Latrobe Regional Gallery, Morwell, 1999
Germaine, Max; Artists and Galleries of Australia, 1992
Hammond, Victoria; When you’re a boy, catalogue essay, Australian Galleries, Melbourne, 2004
Hansen, David; The Breath of Memory, catalogue essay, Latrobe Valley Arts Centre, 1994
Heynatz, Jeannie; “Birth of a new artform”, Latrobe Valley Express, 1987
Hill, Peter; “Finding ways out of a tight squeeze”, review, The Age, 19 September 1990
Homes, Emma; A Painter of Warmth and Light, Gippsland Magazine, Spring 1994 
Millar, Ronald; “Through the Looking Glass”, review, Melbourne Herald, 15 August 1989
Nelson, Robert; “Artist toys with a cute naive style”, review, The Age, 3 August 2002
Nelson, Robert; Ballroom dancing according to a contented misfit, exhibition catalogue, Switchback Gallery, Monash University, 2000
Nott, Michael; Artsafe: First Steps, video Melbourne University Dept. of  Pharmacology, 1990
Ollis, Bernard; Comedie Humaine, catalogue essay, Australian Galleries, Sydney, 1995
On the Other Hand, S. H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney, 1993
Regional Artists - 1, Gippsland Victorian Ministry for the Arts, Melbourne, 1984
Rosewarne, Julie; Revealing Art, education kit, Latrobe Regional Gallery, 1997
Scherer, Rodney; Art and Work, Latrobe Valley Arts Centre, 1989
Shackleton, Nerida; “Rodney Forbes: Like Fire Like Ice”, The Age, 23 November 1998
The Age Good Weekend Magazine, 14 March 1992
The Found Project, exhibition catalogue, Latrobe Regional Gallery, Morwell, 2004
Thorp, David; Rodney Forbes: Paintings and Drawings, Switchback Gallery, Gippsland Institute of Advanced Education, 1984
24 Hour Love presented by Clubs in the Pines, CLUBS project, Melbourne and Gippsland Centre for Art and Design, collaborative zine, 2004

Awards

Collections

AGNSW
Artbank
Australian National Gallery, Canberra
Australian National Gallery, Canberra (Wearable art collection)
Blake Dawson Waldron, Melbourne
Box Hill Municipal Collection, Victoria
Buxton Collection, Melbourne
City of Whitehorse, Victoria
Freehill, Hollingdale & Page, Melbourne
Gippsland  Art Gallery, Sale,  Victoria
Law Institute of Victoria
Latrobe Regional Gallery, Victoria
Latrobe Regional Arts Board, Victoria
MAB Corporation, Melbourne
Monash University, Gippsland Campus
Print Council of Australia
Private Collections Australia and USA



Photograph courtesy of Michel Lawrence

Selected Reviews

Wild at art | The Age, Sightlines - A critical guide | 15 Sep 2006
New Year Group Exhibition | The Sunday Age, Preview | 6 Jan 2005