JOHN R. WALKER Space and Time: 10 years in the Landscape

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Mailtand Regional Art Gallery PO Box 220 Maitland NSW 2320 EXHIBITION CURATED Phone : (02) 49349859 (gallery) | Fax: (02)4933 1657 | Email: [email protected] or [email protected] BY JOSEPH EISENBERG JOHN R. WALKER Space and Time: 10 years in the Landscape

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JOHN R. WALKER Biography

Painter, Walker was born in Sydney in 1957. From 1975 – 76 he studied Fine Art at St. George Technical College in Sutherland Shire, NSW, then at Alexander Mackie College in Sydney (now COFA) from 1976 – 78.

Graduating in 1976, Walker held his first solo show in 1979 and has been exhibiting regularly for over 30 years. Walker Featured in a major survey show at S H Ervin 2008 and is included in many public and private collections in Australia and overseas.

Andrew Sayers, director of the National Museum of Australia, in his catalogue essay states, “His interest in the landscape has been compared to Fred Williams. But ask yourself; ‘Have I ever heard the wind or felt the chill air of the bush in Fred Williams?’ You haven’t. But you can feel these things in John R. Walker.”

Represented by Utopia Art Sydney, 2 Danks Street, Waterloo, NSW, 2017 Tel: 61 2 9699 2900 Fax: 61 2 9699 2988 Born 7 February, 1957 Lives and works in Braidwood, NSW

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EDUCATION 1999 ‘Paintings for a New Republic’, Utopia Art Sydney, NSW 1976-78 Alexander Mackie College, Sydney, 1997 ‘The House of the Stare’, Utopia Art Sydney, NSW Art Diploma 1994 ‘In a Free State’, Tamworth City Gallery, NSW 1975-76 St. George Technical College, Kogarah, ‘Pictures from Home’, Utopia Art Sydney, NSW Art Certificate. 1993 ‘New Paintings’, Utopia Art Sydney, NSW 1992 ‘Recent Works’, Utopia Art Sydney, NSW ‘New Sculpture’, Austral Gallery, St Louis, USA SOLO EXHIBITIONS 1991 ‘Favourite Paintings’, Utopia Art Sydney, NSW ‘Recent Figures’, Austral Gallery, St Louis, USA 2010 ‘The Shed’, Utopia Art Sydney, NSW 1990 ‘Drawings’, Utopia Art Sydney, NSW 2008 ‘Journey through Landscape’, S. H. Ervin Tolarno Gallery, Melbourne Gallery, NSW ‘Austral Gallery’, St Louis, USA ‘Gateless Gate’, Utopia Art Sydney, NSW 1989 ‘Figures on Paper’, Austral Gallery, St Louis, USA 2007 ‘Working in the Landscape’, Utopia Art ‘Utopia Art Sydney’, NSW Sydney, NSW 1988 ‘Recent Painting’, Tolarno Gallery, Melbourne, VIC 2005 ‘Gullies, Roads, Dry Lands and Forests’, Utopia Art 1986 ‘Deceit, Desire & Narcissus’, Mori Gallery, Sydney, NSW Sydney, NSW 2004 ‘Dry Land Paintings’, Utopia Art Sydney, NSW 1985 ‘Tolarno Gallery’, Melbourne, VIC 2003 ‘Paintings from Tallaganda’, Utopia Art 1984 ‘The Family’, Mori Gallery, Sydney, NSW Sydney, NSW 1982 Mori Gallery, Sydney, NSW 2002 ‘Paintings from Bundanon’, Utopia Art 1979 The Student Gallery (later renamed Mori Gallery), Sydney, NSW Sydney, NSW 2000 ‘Gully’, Utopia Art Sydney, NSW

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GROUP EXHIBITIONS ‘2005 Robert Jacks Drawing Prize’, Bendigo Art Gallery, VIC 2010 ‘Museum III’ Utopia Art Sydney, NSW ‘Same Place Many Views’, Defiance Gallery, ‘The ’ Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW NSW (’09, ’08, ’07, ’04, ’03, ‘02) Hazelhurst Art Award 2005 - Art on Paper, ‘two six two two’, Goulburn Regional Gallery, NSW Hazelhurst Regional Gallery & Arts Centre, NSW ‘Melbourne Art Fair 2010’, Royal Exhibition Marea Gazzard ‘the odyssey’ & John R Walker ‘dry Building, Melbourne, VI land paintings’, Silvershot, Melbourne, VIC ‘KIAF 2010, Korea International Art Fair’, COEX, ‘Country Energy Art Prize for Landscape Painting’, Seoul, Korea Grafton Regional Gallery, NSW 2009 ‘pinned & framed’ Utopia Art Sydney, NSW 2004 Melbourne Art Fair 2004, Royal Exhibition ‘The Power of Print’, NG Art Gallery, NSW Building, Melbourne, VIC ‘Mono Uno: Australian Monotypes in the Charles ‘Depth of Field – Anamorphosis’, Utopia Art Sturt University Art Collection’ Wagga Wagga Sydney, NSW Art Gallery, NSW ‘A Stroke of Art’, The Gallery, NSW Parliament ‘Eutick Memorial Still Life Award (the EMSLA)’, House, Sydney, NSW Coffs Harbour Regional Gallery, NSW 2003 ‘Bloomsday Door Exhibition’, Arthouse Hotel, ‘The 23 Annual Packsaddle Selling Exhibition’, Sydney, NSW New England Regional Art Museum, NSW ‘A Stroke of Art’, The Gallery, NSW Parliament 2008 ‘The Melbourne Art Fair 2008’, Royal Exhibition House, Sydney, NSW Building, Melbourne Vic ‘The ’, Art Gallery of New South ‘North South East West’ Damien Minton Gallery, Wales touring exhibition, NSW Sydney, NSW ‘The Archibald Prize’, touring exhibition to NSW ‘Kedumba Drawing Prize’, Kedumba Regional and VIC venues Gallery, NSW ‘Arthur Guy Memorial painting Prize’, Bendigo Art ‘Art of the Nude: Work from the collection of Alex Gallery, VIC Mackay” Albury Art Gallery NSW 2002 ‘The Year In Review’, Utopia Art Sydney, NSW 2007 ‘Salon des Refuses’, S H Ervin Gallery, ‘Jacaranda Acquisitive Drawing Award’, Grafton Sydney, NSW Regional Gallery, NSW 2006 ‘Being at Bundanon’, Mosman Region Art Gallery, ‘The Fleurieu Prize’, Mclaren Vale, SA NSW (toured by Bundanon Trust), ‘Conrad Jupiters Art Prize’, Gold Coast City Art ‘The Big Picture’, The Delmar Gallery, Gallery, QLD Sydney, NSW ‘Melbourne Art Fair 2002’, Royal Exhibition ‘The Archibald Prize 06’, Art Gallery of New South Building, Melbourne, VIC Wales and touring, NSW ‘Salon des Refuses’, S H Ervin Gallery, ‘View of Maitland from the riverbank’, Maitland Sydney, NSW Regional Art Gallery, Maitland, NSW ‘The Wynne and Sulman Prizes’, Art Gallery of ‘Chroma Collection’, Macquarie University Art New South Wales, NSW Gallery, Sydney, NSW ‘Sculpture 2002’, Utopia Art Sydney, NSW ‘Truth and Likeness’, National Portrait Gallery, ‘Solstice’, Utopia Art Sydney, NSW Canberra, ACT 2001 ‘Museum’, Utopia Art Sydney, NSW ‘The Melbourne Art Fair 2006’. Royal Exhibition ‘Gone Bush’, Hazelhurst Regional Gallery and Arts Building, Melbourne VIC Centre, NSW 2005 ‘Moist’, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra ‘8th International Works on Paper Fair’, Fox and touring, ACT Studios Australia, Sydney, NSW ‘Friends and Neighbours – Togetherness’, ‘Over the Back Fence’, Bowen Galleries, Hawkesbury Regional Gallery, Windsor, NSW Wellington, NZ ‘Bleak Epiphanies’, Virginia Wilson Art, ‘The Archibald’, ‘Wynne’ and ‘Sulman Prizes’, Art Sydney, NSW Gallery of New South Wales, NSW ‘Museum II’, Utopia Art Sydney, NSW ‘Bat, Ball & Brush – A Summer of Cricket & Art’, ‘The Archibald Prize 05’, Art Gallery of New South Sydney Cricket Ground, NSW Wales and touring, NSW 2001, Utopia Art Sydney, NSW ‘New Ideas 2005’, Utopia Art Sydney, NSW ‘The Archibald Prize’, touring exhibition to NSW

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(GROUP EXHIBITIONS) and VIC venues the Allen Allen and Hemsley Collection, 2000 ‘Melbourne Art Fair 2000’, Royal Exhibition Hall, Westpac Gallery, Melbourne and Newcastle Melbourne, VIC Regional Gallery, VIC and NSW ‘The Archibald Prize’, Art Gallery of New South 1992 ‘On the Dark Side’, New England Regional Art Wales and NSW regional tour Museum, Armidale, NSW 2000 ‘SCEGGS Redlands-Westpac Invitational Art Prize’, 1992 ‘ACAF3’, Royal Exhibition Hall, Melbourne, VIC Cremorne, Sydney, NSW The Sulman Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales,NSW ‘Bloomsday Lunch Exhibition’, ASN Gallery, The 1991 ‘Images of Sydney’, Holdsworth Gallery, Sydney, NSW Rocks, Sydney, NSW ‘Images of Women from the Holmes a’Court ‘Half Metre Square’, Work by teaching staff, Collection’, S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney, NSW National Art School, Sydney, NSW ‘The Sulman Prize’, Art Gallery of New South Wales, NSW Landscape, Utopia Art Sydney, NSW 1990 ‘The Annunciation’, Mandorla Art Prize, New Norcia, WA ‘Encore’, Utopia Art Sydney, NSW ‘Windsor and Newton Painting Prize’, Coventry 1999 ‘7th International Works on Paper Fair’, Fox Gallery, Sydney, NSW Studios, Sydney, NSW ‘Religious Images in ’, National ‘’, Mosman Region Gallery, Gallery of Victoria, VIC Sydney, NSW ‘The Sulman Prize’, Art Gallery of New South ‘University and Schools Club Prize Exhibition’, Wales, NSW University and Schools Club, Sydney, NSW ‘King of the Mountain’, Noosa Regional Gallery, QLD 1998 ‘National Works on Paper Award’, Mornington ‘Visual Instincts’, Holdsworth Gallery, Sydney, NSW Peninsula Regional Gallery, VIC ‘New Year New Art’, Utopia Art, Sydney, NSW ‘Bloomsday: Joyce & the Nymph’, Coach House 1989 ‘Opening’, Utopia Art Sydney, NSW Gallery, The Rocks, Sydney, NSW ‘Intimate Drawings’, Coventry Gallery, Sydney, NSW ‘Symbiosis’, New England Regional Art Museum, 1988 ‘Drawing in the 80s’, Australian National Gallery, Armidale and Utopia Art Sydney, NSW Canberra, ACT ‘ACAF 6’, Royal Exhibition Hall, Melbourne, VIC ‘Drawing’, Tolarno Gallery, Melbourne, VIC ‘Kedumba Invitation Drawing Award’, Leura, NSW ‘Savage Club Invitation Drawing Prize’, Savage 1997 ‘Faces of Hope’, Art Gallery of New South Wales, NSW Club, Melbourne, VIC ‘Drawn from Life’, National Gallery of Australia 1987 ‘From Field to Figuration’, National Gallery of touring exhibition, ACT Victoria, VIC ‘6th International Works on Paper Fair’, State ‘Backlash’, National Gallery of Victoria, VIC Library of New South Wales, NSW ‘Best of Young Australians from the Budget ‘Bronze’, Utopia Art Sydney, NSW Collection’, National Gallery of Victoria, VIC ‘Portraits’, Utopia Art Sydney, NSW ‘Urban Anxieties’, Drill Hall Gallery, Canberra, ACT ‘Nineteeninetyseven’, Utopia Art Sydney, NSW 1986 ‘A First Look’, Drill Hall Gallery, Canberra, ACT 1996 ‘The Theresa Byrnes Foundation’, Westpac Art ‘Symbolism and Landscape’, Ivan Dougherty Auction, Westpac Plaza, Sydney, NSW Gallery, Biennale of Sydney Satellite Exhibition, NSW ‘ACAF 5’, Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne, VIC ‘Modern Australian Masters’, National Gallery of ‘Return from the Art Fair’, Utopia Art Sydney, NSW Victoria, VIC ‘Paperwork’, Utopia Art Sydney, NSW ‘Ballarat Invitation Prize’, Ballarat Fine Art Gallery, VIC ‘The Gesture’, Utopia Art Sydney, NSW 1985 ‘The Pleasure of the Gaze’, Art Gallery of Western ‘Flagging the Republic’, Sherman Galleries and Australia, WA New England Regional Art Museum touring 1984 ‘Drawing Now’, National Gallery of Victoria, VIC exhibition, NSW ‘Survey ‘84’, Michael Milburn Galleries, Brisbane, QLD 1995 ‘Ironsides’, The Powerhouse Museum, Sydney, NSW 1983 ‘D’un Autre Continent: L’Australie, le reve et le ‘The King of the Accordian’, New England Regional real’, Musee D’Art Moderne, Paris Art Museum touring exhibition, NSW ‘Australian Perspecta’, Art Gallery of New South ‘Works On Paper’, Utopia Art Sydney, NSW Wales, NSW ‘5th International Works on Paper Fair’, State 1982 ‘McCaughey Prize Exhibition’, National Gallery, Library of New South Wales, NSW Melbourne, VIC 1994 ‘ACAF 4’, Royal Exhibition Hall, Melbourne, VIC 1979 ‘Eight by Four’, Students Gallery (later Mori 1993 ‘Contemporary Australian Painting’, Works from Gallery), Sydney, NSW

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COLLECTIONS AWARDS AND COMMISSIONS

National Gallery of Australia 2009 Winner Eutrick Memorial Still Life Award Allens Arthur Robinson (EMSLA) Coffs Harbour Regional Gallery, NSW Art Gallery of New South Wales 2002 Highly Commended, Wynne Prize, Art Gallery of Art Gallery of Western Australia New South Wales Artworks Royal Alexandra Hospital for Children 1998 BT Australia, 400 George St, Sydney Ansett Collection 1990 Windsor and Newton Painting Prize, Coventry Bankers Trust Gallery, Sydney Bathurst Regional Art Gallery 1988 Savage Club Drawing Prize, Melbourne Broken Hill Regional Art Gallery 1982 Tamarisque Prize, Alexander Mackie College, Budget Collection Sydney Griffith University Collection Macquarie Group Collection Myer Collection SCHOLARSHIPS & RESIDENCIES National Gallery of Victoria New England Regional Art Museum 2002 Hill End Artist in Residence (invited artist) New Parliament House, Canberra 2002 Bundanon Trust Artist in Residence Phillip Morris Collection 2000 Bundanon Trust Artist in Residence (invited artist) Smorgen Collection 2001 New England Artist in Residence (invited artist) The Holmes A’Court Collection 2000 National Art School Staff Travelling Scholarship Wollongong City Art Gallery 2000 New England Regional Art Museum Artist’s The Savage Club Collection Travel Scholarship James Wolfensohn Collection Statewide Building Society Collection, Victoria Western Mining Corporations Campbelltown City Art Gallery The University of Sydney Union University of New South Wales Artbank Several private collections in Australia and USA. The Australia Club, Sydney

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Exhibition Rationale

John Walker has made a unique contribution to Landscape painting in Australia. As part of that journey,

his works on paper have made a major contribution to his body of work.

Walker places equal value on both his works on paper and on canvas. From his earliest exhibitions

drawings and gouaches have been a major component. Every subject Walker has explored is covered by

a signifiant body of work on paper and the National Gallery of Australia has the most significant holding.

This exhibition seeks to document the past decade and the significant contribution Walker has made to

documenting the landscape, especially the Braidwood district which he now calls home.

It is fitting that this exhibition begins its tour at Maitland, just a 30 minute drive from Mount View, where this

body of work was born.

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Exhibition details

ORGAINISED BY Maitland Regional Art Gallery

TOURED BY Maitland Regional Art Gallery

CURATOR Christopher Hodges

TOUR AVAILABLE NOV 2011 - 2013

RUNNING METRES Up to 100 running metres

PACKAGING Soft Packaging

SUPPORT MATERIAL Education kit and Exhibition manual

Glossy colour Catalogue with essay by Andrew Sayers, Director of CATALOGUE National Museum of Australia

LABELING Wall labels provided

Approximately $1000 plus cost of transport to be shared between COST exhibiting venues

INSURANCE included in fee

CONTACT: LINDA GREEDY OR MICHELLE MAARTENSZ Gallery and Collection Assistant

Mailtand Regional Art Gallery PO Box 220 Maitland NSW 2320 | Phone : (02) 49349859 (gallery) Fax: (02)4933 1657 | Email: [email protected] or [email protected]

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JOHN R. WALKER : Rubbish 2009, gouache on paper, 55 x 76 cm A MAITLAND REGIONAL ART GALLERY TOURING EXHIBITION CURATED BY JOSEPH EISENBERG : 10 JOHN R. WALKER Space and Time: 10 years in the Landscape

JOHN R. WALKER : Bedervale 8 2004, gouache on paper, 55 x 75 cm A MAITLAND REGIONAL ART GALLERY TOURING EXHIBITION CURATED BY JOSEPH EISENBERG : 10 A MAITLAND REGIONAL ART GALLERY TOURING EXHIBITION CURATED BY JOSEPH EISENBERG : 11 JOHN R. WALKER Space and Time: 10 years in the Landscape

JOHN R. WALKER : Untitled 2009, gouache on paper, 55 x 75 cm A MAITLAND REGIONAL ART GALLERY TOURING EXHIBITION CURATED BY JOSEPH EISENBERG : 12 JOHN R. WALKER Space and Time: 10 years in the Landscape

JOHN R. WALKER : Untitled 2004, gouache on paper, 55 x 75 cm A MAITLAND REGIONAL ART GALLERY TOURING EXHIBITION CURATED BY JOSEPH EISENBERG : 12 A MAITLAND REGIONAL ART GALLERY TOURING EXHIBITION CURATED BY JOSEPH EISENBERG : 13 JOHN R. WALKER Space and Time: 10 years in the Landscape

JOHN R. WALKER : Monkitie Bridge II 2009, gouache on paper, 75 x 165 cm (3 panels) A MAITLAND REGIONAL ART GALLERY TOURING EXHIBITION CURATED BY JOSEPH EISENBERG : 14 JOHN R. WALKER Space and Time: 10 years in the Landscape

JOHN R. WALKER : Gully of Cars 2005, gouache on paper, 55 x 75 cm A MAITLAND REGIONAL ART GALLERY TOURING EXHIBITION CURATED BY JOSEPH EISENBERG : 14 A MAITLAND REGIONAL ART GALLERY TOURING EXHIBITION CURATED BY JOSEPH EISENBERG : 15