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1913 |
Born - Adelaide South Australia |
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EDUCATION |
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1930 |
Matriculated at Unley High School
Adelaide South Australia |
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1931 - 33 |
Studied Science/Engineering at
Adelaide University |
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1933 - 36 |
Apprenticeship in Commercial Art at
Charles Rawlings Studio |
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Adelaide |
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Attended Art classes at night |
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Rented studio in Collins Street
Melbourne |
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Attended night classes at National
Gallery School Victoria |
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Director - Charles Wheeler |
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1937 -39 |
Studied at the London Institute
Central School of Art and Craft. Taught by |
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John Farleigh
James Grant & Bernard Menisky |
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1946 |
Offered a place at Reding University
studying Fine Art. |
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Declined for family reasons |
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WAR SERVICE |
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1938 |
Volunteered and joined RAF.
Commissioned as Squadron Leader |
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1939 |
Posted to Scotland |
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1942 |
Posted to Peshawar East
Bengal |
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SOLO EXHIBITIONS |
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1960 |
Southern Cross Hotel Courtyard |
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1965 |
The Argus Gallery
Melbourne Australia |
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1968 |
Leveson Street Gallery
Including Ulysses series |
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1969 |
Victorian Artists Society
The Nude |
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1985 |
Niagra Galleries Richmond
Victoria Australia |
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1980 - 92 |
Home Gallery/Studio
Broome Street Wonthaggi Victoria
Australia |
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GROUP EXHIBITIONS |
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1943 |
Inaugural Services Art Exhibition
Calcutta |
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1944 |
Two man show with Charles Coventry
John Martins Lounge Adelaide |
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1947 - 54 |
Various group shows in London |
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1960 - 64 |
Leveson Street Gallery
Group Show Selected Australian drawings |
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Springfield Auxiliary group
exhibition |
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1965 |
Corio 5 Star Whisky Prize |
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1986 |
Leveson Street Gallery
Group Show The Nude |
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1975 |
Melbourne City Council Prize
Victorian Artists Society |
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1980 |
Three man show with Jason Monet
Don Wills Wonthaggi Victoria Australia |
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1985 |
Sherbrooke Arts Society |
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COMMERCIAL ART |
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1944 - 49 |
Freelance Visualiser
Commercial Artist London |
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1949 - 52 |
Designer and Art Director
London Press Exchange |
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1954 - 59 |
Freelance for advertising agents
Adelaide and Melbourne |
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EDUCATOR |
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1960 - 64 |
Art Teacher Education
Department |
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Art therapist at Larundel Psychiatric
Hospital |
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1964 - 69 |
Taught privately at Howard Street
North Melbourne |
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Taught privately at Riversdale Road
Hawthorn |
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Teaching at Victorian Artists Society |
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PUBLICATIONS |
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1944 |
Esmond G. the Mail Adelaide
19.5.1944 |
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1944 |
Adelaide Advertiser |
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1944 |
Womens Weekly May |
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1944 |
H.E. Fuller Adelaide
Paper Unknown 16.5.1944 |
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1945 |
Our Art Critic
Calcutta Paper & date unknown |
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1965 |
Bernard Smith "Art Notes"
The Age Melbourne 1.9.1965 |
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Alan McCullough The
Herald 2.9.1965 |
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Alan Warren "Shouldering
into Art" The Sun Melbourne 1.9.1965 |
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1968 |
Patrick MacCaughey The
Age Melbourne 8.5.1968 |
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Alan McCullough The
Herald 14.5.1968 |
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Alan Warren "Some Experiment.
Some Just Agree" The Sun Melbourne 14.5.1968 |
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1970 |
Alan Warren "Nudes make good
show" The Sun Melbourne July |
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1985 |
Heather Kennedy "Coventry
lets his 'living' work speak for him" The Age Extra |
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Melbourne 17.8.1985 |
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COLLECTIONS |
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Private
Vincent Price United States of America
Public |
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TRAVEL |
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1936 |
Travelled to Ceylon. Seaman
travelling to Canada Egypt Greece
France |
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and London |
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1942 |
East Bengal RAF |
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1982 |
Spain London |
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POST DEATH |
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1996 |
Works catalogued and exhibited at his
Broome St Gallery by Heather Tobias |
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and Neil Massey Chase |
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Paper for BA
Heather Tobias |
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1997 - 99 |
Collection Stored |
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1999 |
Collection received at Island
Influence Gallery - December |
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Cleaned catalogued and
curated |
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2000 |
April 16 - May 7
Exhibition Fred Coventry |
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Selected Works 1961 - 1987 at
Island Influence Gallery 87-89 Settlement |
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Road Cowes Phillip
Island Victoria Australia |
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2000 |
Profiled in Art Almanac -
April |
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Article Phillip Island &
San Remo Advertiser 19.4.2000 |
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"Major Exhibition for the Island" |
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2001 to Oct 2003 |
Exhibited at Island Influence Gallery
at The Big Flower Farm Newhaven |
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Phillip Island Victoria
Australia |
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Oct 2003 to date |
Exhibited on Island Influence Art
Online Gallery |
