Curriculum Vitae
Born 1945, Connecticut, USA
1956 Arrived Western Australia.
1962 Achieved Leaving Certificate - Year 12 High School.
1963 - 1966 Perth Technical College, Associate Diploma Fine Art, Diploma Graphic Design.
1968 - 1974 Bathurst Island NT - taught Aboriginal artists wood block and screenprinting. Started Tiwi Designs.
1975 - 1991 Art Lecturer with TAFE.
1991 - 1997 Member of Board of Management of Mundaring Arts Centre.
1996 Painting & Study in Florence, Italy.
1999 Travelled Central and Northern Australia - Painting/Study
2004 Research and painting trip in Paris and France
12006 Overseas travel: England, Scotland, Ireland, Italy (Venice)
2007 Five month painting trip through outback Northern Territory, Queensland, New South Wales and South Australia
2009 Three months painting trip in Pilbara WA
2015 Visited the UK, speaking by invitation at The Festival of Ideas, Cambridge University about the origins of Tiwi Designs
Solo Exhibitions:
1981 Greenhill Galleries, Perth.
1983 Greenhill Galleries, Perth.
1985 Alexander Galleries, Perth.
1987 Greenhill Galleries, Perth.
1989 Greenhill Galleries, Perth.
1990 Greenhill Galleries, Adelaide.
1991 Greenhill Galleries, Perth.
1992 Houghton's Winery in association with Greenhill Galleries, Perth.
1993 Greenhill Galleries, Perth.
1993 Greenhill Galleries, Adelaide.
1994 Greenhill Galleries, Perth.
1995 Holdsworth Galleries, Sydney.
1996 Greenhill Galleries, Perth.
1997 Greenhill Galleries, Adelaide.
1997 Greenhill Galleries, Perth.
1998 North Shore Fine Art, Sydney.
2000 Greenhill Galleries, Perth.
2001 Greenhill Galleries, Adelaide.
2003 Greenhill Galleries, Perth
2005 Greenhill Galleries, Perth
2006 Greenhill Galleries, Adelaide
2009 Greenhill Galleries, Perth
2012 FRAGMENTS, Greenhill Galleries, Perth
Group Exhibitions:
1966 Perth Prize for Drawing, Art Gallery of WA.
1982 Hills Artists Exhibition.
1982 Fremantle Art Gallery: 30 Western Australian Painters.
1983 One Hundred Years of WA Art, Austmark, Perth.
1983 Christmas Exhibition - Mundaring Arts Centre, WA.
1985 Christmas Exhibition - Gomboc Gallery, WA.
1986 Art from the Hills - Invited WA Artists - Gomboc Gallery, WA.
1986 Mixed Exhibition - Gomboc Gallery, WA.
1987 Observation City - America’s Cup Exhibition, WA.
1988 Burswood Resort Exhibition, WA.
1988 Figures of Eight - Fremantle Art Centre.
1988 - 1991 Invitational Exhibition, Darlington Arts Festival.
1989 ACTA Maritime Art Award Travelling Exhibition.
1989 WA Agricultural Society Invitation Prize.
1990 Green is a Hot Colour - Greenhill Galleries, Perth.
1991 From a High Place - Allendale Square, Perth.
1991 Views and Visions - Greenhill Galleries, Adelaide.
1991 Shire of Mundaring Acquisition Exhibition.
1991 Shire of Swan Acquisition Exhibition.
1991 The Postcard Exhibition - Mundaring Arts Centre.
1991 Perth College Invitation Exhibition.
1991 La Salle College Invitation Exhibition.
1992 Gallery Braun, Mundaring, WA.
1992 Ninety Years: A Retrospective Exhibition of Art from Perth Technical College. Alexander Library, Perth
1992 Tenth Anniversary Exhibition - Gomboc Gallery, WA.
1993 10 Women Artists - Greenhill Galleries, Perth.
1994 Junction - Kalla Yeedip Gallery.
1994 ACAF Melbourne.
1995 Mine Own Executioner - Self Portraits, Mundaring Arts Centre.
1995 Landscape as Metaphor - Claremont School of Art.
1996 Mandorla Prize for Religious Art - selected as finalist.
1997 Unearthed - Greenhill Galleries, Perth.
1997 Fears & Fantasies of the Middle Aged - Mundaring Arts Centre.
1997 Redlands Westpac Art Prize, Sydney.
1997 Fremantle 6160 - Fremantle Arts Centre.
1998 There was a Presence - Mundaring Arts Centre.
1998 Spiritus ‘98 - Highly Commended.
1998 Fleurieu Biennale - South Australia.
1998 Art Exchange International - London.
1999 Eclectic Selectives - Greenhill Galleries, Perth.
2000 Vast - Max Lawson Gallery, Sydney
2000 ‘100 Years of Art & Design; Perth Tech to Central TAFE’, curated by David Bromfield, PICA, Perth
2000 Mandorla Art Awards - selected as finalist.
2000 Fleurieu Biennale - South Australia - selected as finalist.
2001 Australian Women Artists - Vanessa Wood Fine Art, Sydney
2002 Transpositions- Museum of WA - Art on the Move
2002 Mandorla Art Award – Finalist
2003 Living on the Edge, WA Maritime Museum
2003 Remembering: Women Working for Women, Moores Building Fremantle
2005 SQUARED, Greenhill Galleries, Perth
2006 SQUARED, Greenhill Galleries, Perth
2007 SQUARED, Greenhill Galleries, Perth
Mandorla Prize For Religious Art – Finalist
Maxwells Gallery of Fine Art, WA
Opening Exhibition, Greenhill Galleries, Perth
2008 ROADWORKS Mundaring Arts Centre
2008 SQUARED, Greenhill Galleries, Perth
Christmas Exhibition, Greenhill Galleries, WA
2009 ESTABLISHED Mundaring Arts Centre
2009 SQUARED, Greenhill Galleries, WA
2010 Shire of Mundaring Open Art Acquisition – major purchase
New To The Walls – Contemporary Art Gallery, New Norcia WA
Cerebral Sanctum – Mundaring Arts Centre WA
SQUARED, Greenhill Galleries, Perth
Mandorla Art Award
The Twelve Days of Christmas – Mundaring Arts Centre WA
2011 SQUARED, Greenhill Galleries, Perth
2012 HOME GROWN, Greenhill Galleries, Perth
2012 40 Years of Greenhill Galleries Exhibition, Perth
2012 A CHILD IS BORN, Wesley Church in the City, curated by Catherine Czerw
2014 WOMEN OF THE HILLS - Influential Artists from the 1930s to the 1980s, Mundaring Arts Centre, Curated by Emma Mahanay-Bitmead
Represented the collections of:
Art Gallery of Western Australia;
The Robert Holmes a Court Collection;
Learmonth Duffy;
Robinson Cox;
Sedgewick;
Joondalup Development Corporation;
Shire of Armadale;
Shire of Bayswater;
Shire of Kalamunda;
Shire of Swan;
Shire of Mundaring;
ARTBANK
SGIO;
BHP, Utah Collection;
SECWA;
Department for the Arts,
La Salle College;
Water Corporation WA
Sun Casino, Sydney
Swan valley Tourism Council
Perth College;
Minproc;
CSBP (Wesfarmers);
Arthur Andersen;
Skinner Collection;
New Norcia Art Gallery;
Lotteries Commission;
State Director of Public Prosecutions’
Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions;
Bar Chambers Perth;
CRA Corporation;
Ernst Young & Associates;
Bureau of Census & Statistics, Perth;
Princess Margaret Hospital;
Galliers Private Hospital;
St John of God Hospital;
Armadale–Kelmscott Hospital;
Scotch College Perth;
Chisolm College;
Numerous private collections nationally and internationally
Awards:
2010 Shire of Mundaring Acquisition Award
2001 City of Armadale Prize.
2000 Arts WA Travel Grant.
1997 Christos ‘97 - First Prize.
1995 La Salle College Acquisition Award.
1995 Shire of Mundaring Acquisition Award
1993 Department for the Arts Travel Grant
1991 Shire of Swan Purchase Award.
1991 Shire of Mundaring Acquisition Award.
1989 Perth College Acquisitive Award.
1987 Houghton's Art Award - Darlington Art Festival.
1987 Bayswater Shire Award.
1982 Floreat Forum Art Award.
1982 Shire of Kalamunda Art Purchase Exhibition.
1981 Gosnells Prize for Painting.
1964 Commonwealth 2 Year Scholarship for Tertiary Study.
1964 Jackson’s Scholarship
1963 Jackson’s Art Prize
Commissions:
Numerous corporate and private commissions undertaken since 1983 including:
BHP - Boardroom work
Learmonth Duffy
Robinson Cox
Sedgewick
Joondalup Development Corporation
SGIO, SECWA, Minproc
Arthur Anderson
State Director of Public Prosecutions
Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions
CRA Corporation
Galliers Private Hospital
Princess Margaret Hospital
Oceaneering Australia.
Swan Valley Tourism Council
Matilda’s Estate, Denmark WA
Designed commemorative stained glass window for Sacred Heart School, Mundaring. Fabricated by Judy Kotai & Joannah Luscombe.
Bibliography:
Paintings by West Australian Artists, Access Press, 2 yr Calendar.
Fremantle 6160 catalogue published by Fremantle Society inc.
Mason, Murray,Surveying Styles of W.A. Painters, The West Australian, June 16, 1983.
Germaine, MaxArtists and Galleries of Australia, 1984.
Artists and Galleries of Australia, 1990.
Women Artists of Australia, 1991
Prott, Julie Art by, West Australian, July 15, 1987.
Davis, Annette, Ninety Years, catalogue for retrospective, (Illustrated).
Cochrane, Grace, The Crafts Movement in Australia, J.N. Adelaide Review, November 1993.
Green, Jean, Arts Effects, 1993.
Van Der Merwe, J. Mine Own Executioner
There was a Presence catalogue
Bromfield, David, Lust Takes over Temple of Beauty, The West Australian, October 29, 1988.
On Show , West Australian, April 11, 1992.
Discipline Marks Clear’s Work, West Australian, July 10, 1993.
Images Reflect the Fragments of Life, West Australian, July 2, 1994
On Show, The West Australian, October 25, 1997.
Now and Then catalogue
McGrath, Judy, Art Seen, Hills Gazette, June 3, 1991.
Art Seen Hills Gazette, April 5, 1992.
Art Seen, Hills Gazette, May 10, 1992.
Talent that’s Clear, Sunday Times, June 27, 1993.
A Clear View , Arts Unlimited, November 1993.
Crystal Clear Portrait of Oz in all its Colourful Grandeur,
Sunday Times, July 3, 1994.
Frost, Annabel, Time Exposure, Australian Country Style Magazine.
Scourfield, Steven, In Search of Light, The West Magazine.
Auty, Giles, Lines from Another Planet review,
The Weekend Australian, 20 - 21 February, 1999.
Erikson, Dorothy (ed) Art & Design in Western Australia, Perth Technical College 1900-2000
Rinske Carr(curator) Transpositions (exhibition catalogue), 2002
Remembering: Women Working for Women (exhibition catalogue),
The Artist’s Chronicle, Perth WA, 2003
McCullochs Encyclopedia of Australian Art 2006
ROAD WORKS catalogue by Catherine Czerw exhibition curator 2008
‘Down to Earth Awareness’ by Ric Spencer West Australian April 8 2009
Born 1945, Connecticut, USA
1956 Arrived Western Australia.
1962 Achieved Leaving Certificate - Year 12 High School.
1963 - 1966 Perth Technical College, Associate Diploma Fine Art, Diploma Graphic Design.
1968 - 1974 Bathurst Island NT - taught Aboriginal artists wood block and screenprinting. Started Tiwi Designs.
1975 - 1991 Art Lecturer with TAFE.
1991 - 1997 Member of Board of Management of Mundaring Arts Centre.
1996 Painting & Study in Florence, Italy.
1999 Travelled Central and Northern Australia - Painting/Study
2004 Research and painting trip in Paris and France
12006 Overseas travel: England, Scotland, Ireland, Italy (Venice)
2007 Five month painting trip through outback Northern Territory, Queensland, New South Wales and South Australia
2009 Three months painting trip in Pilbara WA
2015 Visited the UK, speaking by invitation at The Festival of Ideas, Cambridge University about the origins of Tiwi Designs
Solo Exhibitions:
1981 Greenhill Galleries, Perth.
1983 Greenhill Galleries, Perth.
1985 Alexander Galleries, Perth.
1987 Greenhill Galleries, Perth.
1989 Greenhill Galleries, Perth.
1990 Greenhill Galleries, Adelaide.
1991 Greenhill Galleries, Perth.
1992 Houghton's Winery in association with Greenhill Galleries, Perth.
1993 Greenhill Galleries, Perth.
1993 Greenhill Galleries, Adelaide.
1994 Greenhill Galleries, Perth.
1995 Holdsworth Galleries, Sydney.
1996 Greenhill Galleries, Perth.
1997 Greenhill Galleries, Adelaide.
1997 Greenhill Galleries, Perth.
1998 North Shore Fine Art, Sydney.
2000 Greenhill Galleries, Perth.
2001 Greenhill Galleries, Adelaide.
2003 Greenhill Galleries, Perth
2005 Greenhill Galleries, Perth
2006 Greenhill Galleries, Adelaide
2009 Greenhill Galleries, Perth
2012 FRAGMENTS, Greenhill Galleries, Perth
Group Exhibitions:
1966 Perth Prize for Drawing, Art Gallery of WA.
1982 Hills Artists Exhibition.
1982 Fremantle Art Gallery: 30 Western Australian Painters.
1983 One Hundred Years of WA Art, Austmark, Perth.
1983 Christmas Exhibition - Mundaring Arts Centre, WA.
1985 Christmas Exhibition - Gomboc Gallery, WA.
1986 Art from the Hills - Invited WA Artists - Gomboc Gallery, WA.
1986 Mixed Exhibition - Gomboc Gallery, WA.
1987 Observation City - America’s Cup Exhibition, WA.
1988 Burswood Resort Exhibition, WA.
1988 Figures of Eight - Fremantle Art Centre.
1988 - 1991 Invitational Exhibition, Darlington Arts Festival.
1989 ACTA Maritime Art Award Travelling Exhibition.
1989 WA Agricultural Society Invitation Prize.
1990 Green is a Hot Colour - Greenhill Galleries, Perth.
1991 From a High Place - Allendale Square, Perth.
1991 Views and Visions - Greenhill Galleries, Adelaide.
1991 Shire of Mundaring Acquisition Exhibition.
1991 Shire of Swan Acquisition Exhibition.
1991 The Postcard Exhibition - Mundaring Arts Centre.
1991 Perth College Invitation Exhibition.
1991 La Salle College Invitation Exhibition.
1992 Gallery Braun, Mundaring, WA.
1992 Ninety Years: A Retrospective Exhibition of Art from Perth Technical College. Alexander Library, Perth
1992 Tenth Anniversary Exhibition - Gomboc Gallery, WA.
1993 10 Women Artists - Greenhill Galleries, Perth.
1994 Junction - Kalla Yeedip Gallery.
1994 ACAF Melbourne.
1995 Mine Own Executioner - Self Portraits, Mundaring Arts Centre.
1995 Landscape as Metaphor - Claremont School of Art.
1996 Mandorla Prize for Religious Art - selected as finalist.
1997 Unearthed - Greenhill Galleries, Perth.
1997 Fears & Fantasies of the Middle Aged - Mundaring Arts Centre.
1997 Redlands Westpac Art Prize, Sydney.
1997 Fremantle 6160 - Fremantle Arts Centre.
1998 There was a Presence - Mundaring Arts Centre.
1998 Spiritus ‘98 - Highly Commended.
1998 Fleurieu Biennale - South Australia.
1998 Art Exchange International - London.
1999 Eclectic Selectives - Greenhill Galleries, Perth.
2000 Vast - Max Lawson Gallery, Sydney
2000 ‘100 Years of Art & Design; Perth Tech to Central TAFE’, curated by David Bromfield, PICA, Perth
2000 Mandorla Art Awards - selected as finalist.
2000 Fleurieu Biennale - South Australia - selected as finalist.
2001 Australian Women Artists - Vanessa Wood Fine Art, Sydney
2002 Transpositions- Museum of WA - Art on the Move
2002 Mandorla Art Award – Finalist
2003 Living on the Edge, WA Maritime Museum
2003 Remembering: Women Working for Women, Moores Building Fremantle
2005 SQUARED, Greenhill Galleries, Perth
2006 SQUARED, Greenhill Galleries, Perth
2007 SQUARED, Greenhill Galleries, Perth
Mandorla Prize For Religious Art – Finalist
Maxwells Gallery of Fine Art, WA
Opening Exhibition, Greenhill Galleries, Perth
2008 ROADWORKS Mundaring Arts Centre
2008 SQUARED, Greenhill Galleries, Perth
Christmas Exhibition, Greenhill Galleries, WA
2009 ESTABLISHED Mundaring Arts Centre
2009 SQUARED, Greenhill Galleries, WA
2010 Shire of Mundaring Open Art Acquisition – major purchase
New To The Walls – Contemporary Art Gallery, New Norcia WA
Cerebral Sanctum – Mundaring Arts Centre WA
SQUARED, Greenhill Galleries, Perth
Mandorla Art Award
The Twelve Days of Christmas – Mundaring Arts Centre WA
2011 SQUARED, Greenhill Galleries, Perth
2012 HOME GROWN, Greenhill Galleries, Perth
2012 40 Years of Greenhill Galleries Exhibition, Perth
2012 A CHILD IS BORN, Wesley Church in the City, curated by Catherine Czerw
2014 WOMEN OF THE HILLS - Influential Artists from the 1930s to the 1980s, Mundaring Arts Centre, Curated by Emma Mahanay-Bitmead
Represented the collections of:
Art Gallery of Western Australia;
The Robert Holmes a Court Collection;
Learmonth Duffy;
Robinson Cox;
Sedgewick;
Joondalup Development Corporation;
Shire of Armadale;
Shire of Bayswater;
Shire of Kalamunda;
Shire of Swan;
Shire of Mundaring;
ARTBANK
SGIO;
BHP, Utah Collection;
SECWA;
Department for the Arts,
La Salle College;
Water Corporation WA
Sun Casino, Sydney
Swan valley Tourism Council
Perth College;
Minproc;
CSBP (Wesfarmers);
Arthur Andersen;
Skinner Collection;
New Norcia Art Gallery;
Lotteries Commission;
State Director of Public Prosecutions’
Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions;
Bar Chambers Perth;
CRA Corporation;
Ernst Young & Associates;
Bureau of Census & Statistics, Perth;
Princess Margaret Hospital;
Galliers Private Hospital;
St John of God Hospital;
Armadale–Kelmscott Hospital;
Scotch College Perth;
Chisolm College;
Numerous private collections nationally and internationally
Awards:
2010 Shire of Mundaring Acquisition Award
2001 City of Armadale Prize.
2000 Arts WA Travel Grant.
1997 Christos ‘97 - First Prize.
1995 La Salle College Acquisition Award.
1995 Shire of Mundaring Acquisition Award
1993 Department for the Arts Travel Grant
1991 Shire of Swan Purchase Award.
1991 Shire of Mundaring Acquisition Award.
1989 Perth College Acquisitive Award.
1987 Houghton's Art Award - Darlington Art Festival.
1987 Bayswater Shire Award.
1982 Floreat Forum Art Award.
1982 Shire of Kalamunda Art Purchase Exhibition.
1981 Gosnells Prize for Painting.
1964 Commonwealth 2 Year Scholarship for Tertiary Study.
1964 Jackson’s Scholarship
1963 Jackson’s Art Prize
Commissions:
Numerous corporate and private commissions undertaken since 1983 including:
BHP - Boardroom work
Learmonth Duffy
Robinson Cox
Sedgewick
Joondalup Development Corporation
SGIO, SECWA, Minproc
Arthur Anderson
State Director of Public Prosecutions
Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions
CRA Corporation
Galliers Private Hospital
Princess Margaret Hospital
Oceaneering Australia.
Swan Valley Tourism Council
Matilda’s Estate, Denmark WA
Designed commemorative stained glass window for Sacred Heart School, Mundaring. Fabricated by Judy Kotai & Joannah Luscombe.
Bibliography:
Paintings by West Australian Artists, Access Press, 2 yr Calendar.
Fremantle 6160 catalogue published by Fremantle Society inc.
Mason, Murray,Surveying Styles of W.A. Painters, The West Australian, June 16, 1983.
Germaine, MaxArtists and Galleries of Australia, 1984.
Artists and Galleries of Australia, 1990.
Women Artists of Australia, 1991
Prott, Julie Art by, West Australian, July 15, 1987.
Davis, Annette, Ninety Years, catalogue for retrospective, (Illustrated).
Cochrane, Grace, The Crafts Movement in Australia, J.N. Adelaide Review, November 1993.
Green, Jean, Arts Effects, 1993.
Van Der Merwe, J. Mine Own Executioner
There was a Presence catalogue
Bromfield, David, Lust Takes over Temple of Beauty, The West Australian, October 29, 1988.
On Show , West Australian, April 11, 1992.
Discipline Marks Clear’s Work, West Australian, July 10, 1993.
Images Reflect the Fragments of Life, West Australian, July 2, 1994
On Show, The West Australian, October 25, 1997.
Now and Then catalogue
McGrath, Judy, Art Seen, Hills Gazette, June 3, 1991.
Art Seen Hills Gazette, April 5, 1992.
Art Seen, Hills Gazette, May 10, 1992.
Talent that’s Clear, Sunday Times, June 27, 1993.
A Clear View , Arts Unlimited, November 1993.
Crystal Clear Portrait of Oz in all its Colourful Grandeur,
Sunday Times, July 3, 1994.
Frost, Annabel, Time Exposure, Australian Country Style Magazine.
Scourfield, Steven, In Search of Light, The West Magazine.
Auty, Giles, Lines from Another Planet review,
The Weekend Australian, 20 - 21 February, 1999.
Erikson, Dorothy (ed) Art & Design in Western Australia, Perth Technical College 1900-2000
Rinske Carr(curator) Transpositions (exhibition catalogue), 2002
Remembering: Women Working for Women (exhibition catalogue),
The Artist’s Chronicle, Perth WA, 2003
McCullochs Encyclopedia of Australian Art 2006
ROAD WORKS catalogue by Catherine Czerw exhibition curator 2008
‘Down to Earth Awareness’ by Ric Spencer West Australian April 8 2009