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C Harles N Odrum G Allery CHARLES NODRUM GALLERY 267 C HURCH STREET RICHMOND MELBOURNE VICTORIA 3121 AUSTRALIA www.charlesnodrumgallery.com.au g a l le r y@c harlesnodrumgallery.com.au ABN 22 007 380 136 T EL (61 3) 9427 0140 Hours: Tues – Sat 11 – 6 GEORGE JOHNSON 1926 Born Nelson, New Zealand 1951 Arrived Australia EDUCATION 1943-47 Wellington Technical College, New Zealand 1955-56 Certificate of Art, RMIT 1966-68 Diploma of Art, RMIT 1964-65 Technical Teachers Certificate, Melbourne Teachers College. SOLO EXHIBITIONS 1948 Hitchings Gallery, Wellington, NZ 1956 Tasmanian Government Tourist Bureau Gallery, Melbourne 1962 Argus Gallery, Melbourne Terry Clune Gallery, Sydney 1965 Argus Gallery, Melbourne 1966 Barry Stern Gallery, Sydney 1967 Barry Stern Gallery, Sydney 1968 Pinacoteca, Melbourne Ararat Art Gallery, Ararat 1970 City of Hamilton Art Gallery, Hamilton Shepparton Art Gallery, Shepparton 1972 Gallery A, Melbourne 1975 Stuart Gerstman Galleries, Melbourne 1977 RMIT Gallery, Storey Hall, Melbourne 1978 Ray Hughes Gallery, Brisbane Susan Gillespie Galleries, Canberra 1983 Realities, Melbourne 1984 Rudy Komon Gallery, Sydney 1986 Brooker Gallrey, Wellington, NZ 1987 Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne 1988 Coventry Gallery, Sydney 1989 Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne Coventry Gallery, Sydney 1992 Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne 1995 Coventry Gallery, Sydney 2001 George Johnson: 50 years of Abstract Art 1952-2002, Ballarat Fine Art Gallery 2006 Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne 2009 Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne 2011 Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne 2014 Abstraction by Three, Nancy Sever Gallery, Canberra 2016 90th Birthday Show, Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne GROUP EXHIBITIONS 1956 ‘Contemporary Australian Painting: The Pacific Loan Exhibition 1958 Survey 1, National Gallery of Victoria Modern Australian Art, Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne 1962 Inaugural Exhibition, Gallery A, Melbourne 1963 Helena Rubenstein Scholarship Exhibition, Sydney 1964 Young Australian Painters, Tokyo 1965 George’s Invitation Art Prize, Melbourne Survey, National Gallery of Victoria (Crawford, French, Kemp, Johnson & Senbergs) 1966 Felton Bequest Acquisitions Exhibition, National Gallery of Victoria 1967 Benalla Art Gallery Acquisitive Award 1968 Tenth Sao Paulo Biennale 1970 George’s Invitation Art Prize, Melbourne 1975 George’s Invitation Art Prize, Melbourne McCaughey Prize, National Gallery of Victoria 1976 Caulfield Invitation Exhibition, City of Caulfield Art Gallery 1981 ‘Animals and Animism in Australian Art, RMIT Gallery 1983 ‘Abstract Art in Australia’, RMIT Gallery 1986 Abstract Painting in Melbourne from the Mid 1950s to Mid 1960s, RMIT Gallery Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne 20 Years of Abstraction, Part 2. Ivan Dougherty Gallery, College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales, Sydney 1988 Modern Australian Painting, Charles Nodrum Gallery 1989 Modern Australian Painting, Charles Nodrum Gallery Consciousness, David Jones Art Gallery, Sydney 1990 Modern Australian Painting, Charles Nodrum Gallery 1994 First Australian Artists’ Books Fair, Queensland State Library, Brisbane 1995 Circle, Line and Square: Aspects of Geometry, Campbelltown City Art Gallery, touring to Newcastle Region Art Gallery, Albury Regional Art Centre and New England Regional Art Museum, Armidale The Situation Now: A Survey of Local Non-Objective Art, University Art Museum, LaTrobe University, Melbourne 1996 Non-Objective Presence, Australian Galleries, Sydney 1997 Australia Comes of Age, Museum of Modern Art at Heide Geometric Painting in Australia 1941-1997, University Art Museum, The University of Queensland, Brisbane 1998 The Niland Collection, Penrith Regional Gallery and Lewer Bequest 2004 Fresh Fields: Charles Nodrum Collection, touring Ballarat Fine Art Gallery & Benalla Art Gallery 2005 Abstraction 4, Charles Nodrum Gallery 2007 Abstraction/Architecture/Space, RMIT University New Abstraction: 1965 to 1985, Crawford, Johnson & King, RMIT Gallery 2009 Drawing Folio, Block Projects, Melbourne 2010 Abstraction 9, Charles Nodrum Gallery 2012 Melbourne Art Fair, Charles Nodrum Gallery 2013 Abstraction 12, Charles Nodrum Gallery 2014 The less there is to see, the more important it is to look, Ian Potter Museum of Art, University of Melbourne, curated by Vince Alessi 2015 Art & Furniture II, Charles Nodrum Gallery 2017 Call of the Avant-Garde: Constructivism and Australian Art, Heide Museum of Modern Art PUBLIC COLLECTIONS National Gallery of Australia National Gallery of Victoria Art Gallery of New South Wales Museum of Contemporary Art, Brisbane Art Gallery of the Northern Territory MOMA Heide University of Melbourne Ballarat Fine Art Gallery Ballarat Teachers’ College Benalla Art Gallery Bendigo Teachers College Geelong Art Gallery German High Commission, Melbourne City of Hamilton Art Gallery Newcastle City Art Gallery Warrnambool Art Gallery RMIT Art Collection Artbank Chartwell Collection, Auckland Art Gallery, Toi o Tamaki, New Zealand AWARDS 1966 Albury Art Prize 1971 Orange Art Prize 1973 Visual Arts Board of the Australia Council Grant 1975 George’s Invitation Art Purchase Prize 1977 Visual Arts Board of the Australia Council Grant SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY CRAMER, S. & HARDING, L. et al. Call of the Avant-Garde: Constructivism and Australian Art, exhibition catalogue, Heide MOMA, illus p. 119 HAMMONDS, L., WAITE, J. et al. Gordon Walters: New Vision, exhibition catalogue, Auckland Art Gallery & Dunedin Public Art Gallery, 2018, pp 25, 140, 224 HEATHCOTE, Christopher & ZIMMER, Jenny. Goerge Johnson – World View, MacMillan, Melbourne 2006 JOHNSON, George H. ‘Art and the World Around Us: An Essay on Experimental Art’, Parent and Child (Wellington, N.Z.) Vol. 3, No. 6, August 1957 JOHNSON, George H. ‘Art Education: A Viewpoint’ Art Craft Teachers’ Association Magazine, (Victoria) No. 16, August 1973 McCULLOCH, Alan, Encyclopedia of Australian Art, Hutchinson, Melbourne 1987 REED, John (Ed.) New Painting 1952-62. The Arts in Australia Series. Longmas 1963 REID, Barrie (Ed.) Modern Australian Art: A Melbourne Collection of Paintings and Drawings, Museum of Modern Art of Australia Publications No. 1, Melbourne 1958 SMITH, Bernard, Australian Painting 1788-1970. Oxford University Press, Melbourne 1958 ZIMMER, Jenny. ‘Recent Australian Paintings and Sculpture. The Influence of Aboriginal Culture and the Landscape. Journal of the Royal Society of Arts (London), Vol. CXXX, No. 5307 ZIMMER, Jenny, George Johnson and ineluctable abstraction Art and Australia Vol 24. No. 2, Summer 1986 .
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