CHARLES NODRUM GALLERY 267 C HURCH STREET RICHMOND 3121

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TREVOR VICKERS

BORN 1943, ADELAIDE

Lived in Perth 1944-59, 1972-78, 1995 - present Lived in Melbourne 1959-72 Lived in Brighton, England 1978-95

TEACHING APPOINTMENTS 1967 Lecture series, National Gallery School 1968 Visiting Lecturer, National Gallery & Preston Institute of Technology 1969 Visiting Lecturer, National Gallery School 1974 Advanced Painting Classes, Foster Victoria Visiting Lecturer, Churchill College, La Trobe Valley Visiting Lecturer, Preston Institute of Technology 1975 Churchlands Teachers college, Perth 1976 Part Time Teaching, Claremont Art School

AWARDS 1978 Creative Fellowship Australia Council (to work and travel in UK & Europe)

SOLO EXHIBITIONS 1966 Strines Gallery, Melbourne 1967 Strines Gallery, Melbourne 1968 Gallery A, Melbourne 1969 1972, 1974, Pinacotheca, Melbourne 1977 Undercroft Gallery, University of Western Australia 1986 Catalan Series, Lennox Street Gallery, Melbourne 1991 Works on Paper, Lennox Street Gallery, Melbourne 1992 Farm Road Studios, Brighton Festival, England 1996 Festival of Perth, Goddard de Fiddes Contemporary Art, Perth 1998 Goddard de Fides Contemporary Art, Perth 2002 Perth Galleries, Perth Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne 2004 Perth Galleries, Perth 2008 Charles Nodrum Gallery 2014 Art Collective WA, Perth 2015 Trevor Vickers, Charles Nodrum Gallery 2018 Trevor Vickers, Charles Nodrum Gallery Art Collective WA at Sydney Contemporary

GROUP EXHIBITIONS 1964 Young Minds, MOMAD, Melbourne 1965 New Generation, MOMAD, Melbourne 1967 Art in the Church, Healesville, Victoria McCaughey Art Prize, Mildura Sculptural Triennial, Mildura Arts Centre & Travelling 1968 Crouch Prize, Ballarat Fine Art Gallery Group Three, Gallery A, Melbourne The Field, National Gallery of Victoria 1969 Watters Gallery, Sydney Geelong Art Gallery Moomba Balloon Project, Melbourne Art In the Community Project, Carlton & Richmond 1970 Opening Show, Pinacotheca, Melbourne 1971 Pinacotheca, Melbourne The Situation Now, C.A.S., Sydney Street Poster Project, Carlton 1972 Transfield Prize, Sydney 1973 Minimal, Ewing Gallery, University of Melbourne Recent , Art Gallery of New South Wales South Gippsland Artists, travelling exhibition Some Stuff from Foster, with Mike Brown, Pinacotheca, Melbourne Vickers, Brown & Zen, Watters Gallery, Sydney 1974 Art in the Community Project, Richmond 1975 Travelling Exhibition – Victorian Regional Galleries 1977 Undercroft Gallery, University of Western Australia 1978 Minimal Art, National Gallery of Victoria 1985 Thirty Years On, Pinacotheca, Melbourne 1986 Field to Figuration, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne 1988 Minimal Art in Australia, Museum of Contemporary Art, 1990 Central Street, Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne 1995 1970s Abstraction, Goddard de Fiddes, Perth Pinacotheca, Melbourne Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne Blast from the Past, Geelong Art Gallery 1996 West of West, Goddard de Fiddes Contemporary Art, Perth 1997 Reduction, Goddard de Fiddes Contemporary Art, Perth Geometric Painting in Australia 1941-97, University of Princess Margaret Hospital Annual Exhibition, Freemantle, WA 1998 Art & Furniture of the 1960s, Charles Nodrum Gallery Australian Contemporary Art Fair, Melbourne 2000 Art & Furniture, Charles Nodrum Gallery Mike Brown & Other Collaborators, Gippsland Art Gallery Sale, VIC 2001 Sydney Exhibition, Charles Nodrum @ Deutscher-Menzies Galleries, Sydney Modern Australian Paintings, Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne 2002 Abstraction, Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne Charles Nodrum @ Studio 91B, Studio 91B, Adelaide Sydney Exhibition, Charles Nodrum @ Deutscher-Menzies Galleries, Sydney 2003 Curwen Gallery – Fitzrovia, (with Bridget Riley) Perth Galleries – Perth (with Jeremy Kirwan-Ward and Giles Hohnen) Affordable Art Fair – Battersea, London Brighton Festival – Brighton, UK Modern Australian Painting, Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne Abstraction III, Charles Nodrum Gallery 2004 Affordable Art Fair – Battersea, London Affordable Art Fair – Bristol, UK Brighton Festival – Brighton, UK Robert Bailey – Affordable Art, Fair, Petworth, West Sussex Modern Australian Painting, Charles Nodrum Gallery Fresh Fields: The Charles Nodrum collection, Ballarat Art Gallery & Benalla Art Gallery & Macquarie University, 2004-5 2006 Abstraction 5, Charles Nodrum Gallery 2008 Rubik, Charles Nodrum Gallery 2009 Abstraction 8, Charles Nodrum Gallery 2012 Melbourne Art Fair, Charles Nodrum Gallery Less is More: Minimal & Post-Minimal Art in Australia, Heide Museum of Modern Art Abstraction 11, Charles Nodrum Gallery 2013 Like Mike! Utopian Slumps, Melbourne Flying a Kite: Mike Brown vs. the rest of the (art) world, curated by Charles Nodrum, The Australia Club 2014 30th Birthday Show, Charles Nodrum Gallery Abstraction by Three (Vickers, George Johnson, Jon Plapp), Nancy Sever Gallery, Slow Worlds, curated by Andrew Gaynor, Strange Neighbour SNO 106 – Returning to the Field, SNO, Sydney 2015 Art Collective WA Down South, Holmes a Court Gallery, Vasse Felix, Cowaramup 2018 The Field Revisited, National Gallery of Victoria

COLLECTIONS National Gallery of Australia National Gallery of Victoria Art Gallery of South Australia Art Gallery of Western Australia Queensland Art Gallery Edith Cowan University, WA King Edward Memorial Hospital, WA Heide Museum of Modern Art Museum of Contemporary Art, Queensland Curtin University Holmes à Court Collection Royal Perth Hospital University of Melbourne Wesfarmers BankWest TarraWarra Museum Macquarie University

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS Partos, Paul, 1967. Manifesto, Trevor Vickers, invitation card and catalogue introduction, 2nd one man exhibition at Strines Gallery, Carlton, Nov Vickers, Trevor, 1970. ‘My Paintings are rather large and galleries are rather small’, an interview with Trevor Vickers, Manic, pp. 38-41 Smith, Terry, 1970. ‘Reviews’ in Other Voices!, 2 (August-September) p. 45, illus. p.46 Catalano, Gary, 1980. ‘The New Painters’, The Years of Hope: Australian Art and Criticism 1959-1968 (Melbourne, Wellington, New York: Oxford University Press, 1980), p.165 Smith, Bernard, 1978. Australian Painting 1788-1970, second edition (Melbourne: Oxford University Press), Dust over and p.439 Taylor, Paul, 1984. Anything Goes: Art in Australia 1970-1980, ed. Paul Taylor (Melbourne: Art & Text) Sweet, Jonathan, 1989. Pinacotheca 1967-1973, (Melbourne: Prendergast), passim Smith, Bernard and Terry Smith, 1990. Australian Painting 1788-1970, third edn (Melbourne: Oxford University Press), p.467 Heathcote, Christopher, 1995. A Quite Revolution, OUP Bromfield, David, 1996. Abstraction at its Vivid Best, West Australian Pestorius, David, 1997. Geometric Painting in Australia 1941-1997, ed. David Pestorius, exhibition catalogue (Brisbane: University Art Museum, The ,) p.21, illus, p.23 Read, Richard, 1997. An Abstract Work by Trevor Vickers: Untitled, (Perth), University of Western Australia School of Architecture and Fine Arts Catalogue, term one and two, 1997 (Crawley: School of Architecture and Fine Arts, University of Western Australia, 1997), pp/ 44- 45, illus. Bromfield, David, 1997. The Art of Making a Living, West Australian, Dec, 1997 Selinitsch, Alex, 2000. Minilya Avenues, Mark Howlett Foundation, Commission No. 6 (Perth: Mark Howlett Foundation), pp.3-4 Selinitsch, Alex, 2000. Symmetry, Not Symmetry, Trevor Vickers, exhibition catalogue, Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne Haese, Richard, 2000. The View from the Bush, n Mike Brown: Collaborators + Conspirators. Gippsland Art Gallery, Vic, 6pages, Reed, John, 2001. Letters of John Reed: Defining Australian Cultural Life 1920-1981, ed. Barrett Reed and Nancy Underhill (Ringwood, Vic, Viking) Stringer, John, 2002. The Field, in Fieldwork: Australian Art 1968-2002, curated by Jason Smith and Charles Green (Melbourne: National Gallery of Victoria) Burke, Janine, 2002. Australian Gothic (Milson’s Point, Knopf), p288 Jones, Philip, 2004. Art & Life, Allen & Unwin Blond, Simon, Art, West Australian, 25 September 2004, p.10 Burke, Janine, 2004. The Heart/Garden: Sunday Reed and Heide (Sydney: Knopf), illus. 8, facing p.120 Newton, Geoff, Like Mike, Neonparc printed with help by Copyright Agency Cultural Find, 2013 Cramer, Sue, Less is More: Minimal & Post-minimal Art in Australia, Heide Museum of Modern Art, 2012 The Australia Club Exhibitions and selected works from the Collection, Volume 2, The Australia Club, foreward by Tony Ellwood Sasha Grishin, Review of Abstracton x3 at Nancy Sever Gallery, Sydney Morning Herald, 14 November 2014 Gaynor, A. Willingam, A. Selenitsch, A. Trevor Vickers: Untitled Painting, Art Collective WA, 2016