PETER PINSON

Born: North

Studies B.Art(Ed.) [Alexander Mackie College] M.A. [Royal College of Art] Ph.D. [School of Creative Arts, University of Wollongong].

Prizes Travelling Art Scholarship Drummoyne Printmaking Prize Drummoyne Painting Prize Drummoyne Grand Prize Campbelltown Prize RAS Drawing Prize Pat Corrigan Grant Dyason Bequest Grant (3) Manly Art Gallery and Museum Purchase Prize

Solo Exhibitions Painters Gallery, Sydney (3) Robin Gibson Gallery, Sydney (2) Syndicate @ Danks, Sydney Warehouse Gallery, Melbourne Mossenson Gallery, Melbourne Bathurst City Gallery Maitland Regional Gallery

Mixed Exhibitions International Watercolour Biennale, Mexico International Watercolour Biennale, South Korea Contemporary Drawing, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney International Graphics, Monaco Australian Watercolour Institute annual exhibitions at the S. H. Ervin Gallery; the Gosford Regional Gallery; the Wagner Gallery, Sydney; and the Mosman [Regional] Art Gallery.

Artist-in-Residences Bundanon Trust Residency Riversdale Residency Bellette/Haefliger House, Hill End Residency Cite Internationale des Arts, Paris

Books Elwyn Lynn. Two Decades. Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney, 1977. (Soft-bound.) Eric Thake, War Artist. The Institute of Contemporary Art, Sydney, 1991. (Soft-bound.) Abracadabra [The sculptures of Geoff Harvey]. Darlo Books, Sydney, 1994. (Soft-bound.) Rodney Milgate. Craftsman House, Sydney 1995. (Hard-bound.) John Passmore - the Late Works. Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney, 1997. (Soft-bound.) Emanuel Raft. Craftsman House, Sydney, 1997. (Hard-bound.) Christopher Gentle. Instinct and the Responsive Mark. Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney, 1998. (Soft-bound.) (with Brian Kennedy, Graham Austin, Jean Campbell, Earle Backen, Brian Stratton, and Frederic Bates), The Australian Watercolour Institute. 75th Anniversary 1923-1998. Beagle Press, Sydney, 1998. (Hard-bound.) Elwyn Lynn. Metaphor + Texture. Craftsman House, Sydney, 2002. (Hard-bound.) Wang Xu. Paintings of Sydney. Wild Peony Press, Sydney, 2003. (Soft-bound.) (with Jean Campbell and Peter Laverty), The Australian Watercolour Institute. Phillip Matthews, Sydney, 2006. (Hard-bound.) Winterlude. The painting expeditions of Nicholas Canosa, Patrick Carroll, Alvaro Castagnet, Herman Pekel and Joseph Zbukvic. Nic Canosa, Wollongong, 2007. (Hard-bound.) Bert Flugelman. On Further Reflection. The Watermark Press, Boorowa, 2008. (Hard-bound.) 90 Years of the Twenty Melbourne Painters Society. The Twenty Melbourne Painters Society, Melbourne, 2008. (Soft-bound.) Col Jordan. Edge and Paradox. 10group, Sydney, 2010. (Hard-bound.) (with Nick Vickers and Joanna Mendelssohn), Kate Briscoe. Geologica. 10group, Sydney, 2013. (Soft-bound.)

Chapters in Books Peter Pinson, “Abstract Expressionism in Sydney 1956-1964” in Jenny Zimmer (ed.), Abstract Art in . RMIT Gallery, Melbourne, 1983. “Foreword” in Ria Murch, Arthur Murch. An Artist’s Life. Ruskin Rowe Press, Sydney, 1997. Peter Pinson, “Earle Backen. The Artist” in William Carter (ed.), Earle Backen. Sacred Art. St Laurence Press, Sydney, 2009. “Foreword” in Gillian McCracken, Larsen & Lewers. A 50 Year Partnership 1961-2011. Piccadilly Press, Sydney, 2011 “Foreword” in Ken Woolley, Making Marks. The Watermark Press, Boorowa, 2013.

Journal essays “Ad Reinhardt, Yves Klein and Zen”, Journal of the Department of General Studies, Royal College of Art, , 1972. “Abstract Expressionism in Sydney 1956-1964”, Art Network. Winter/Spring 1981. “Gerald and Margo Lewers” (book review), Art Network. Spring 1982. “Artists Gardens” (book review), The Australian Art Collector, June-December 1990. “Elwyn Lynn Retrospective”, Look. Art Gallery Society of New South Wales, Sydney, March 1991. (with Ria Murch), “Arthur Murch as Official War Artist”, The Journal of the Australian War Memorial. April 1995. “[Godfrey Miller. A Recollection]”, Miller and Post war Sydney, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney, 1996. “Anthony Galbraith. Pictures of an interior with an interior space”, Art and Australia. Vol 36 No 3, 1999. “Common Ground. Four Wedderburn Painters,” Art and Australia. Vol 40 No 2, 2002. “Earle Backen 1927-2005”, Art and Australia. Vol 44 No 21, 2006. “Elwyn Lynn. Master of Arts and Letters”, Quadrant. July-August 2007. “Gallery A Sydney, 1964-1983”, Art and Australia, Spring 2009. (with Guy Warren), “Vale Bernard Sahm 1926-2011”. The Journal of Australian Ceramics. July 2011. “Remembering Peter Laverty”, Look. Art Gallery Society of New South Wales, Sydney, 2013. “Sixties Explosion”, Art and Australia, Vol 50 No 4 2013.

Exhibition Catalogue Texts and Essays Abstract Expressionism in Sydney 1956-1964. Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney, 1980. Rodney Milgate. Decade - A Selection of Paintings 1970-1980, Macquarie Galleries, Sydney, 1980. Elwyn Lynn. Retrospective Exhibition. Art Gallery of New South Wales, 1991. Peter Laverty. North of Capricorn. David Jones Art Gallery, Sydney, 1992. Peter Hardy. Echoes and Refindings. Wollongong City gallery, Wollongong, 1992. Points of View. Rod Milgate Paintings. Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney, 1994. Elwyn Lynn. Robin Gibson Gallery and Sherman Galleries, Sydney, 1994. John Caldwell. Coal Fields. Trinity Delmar Gallery, Sydney, 1994. Patrick Carroll. Gravitas. Manly Art Gallery and Museum, Sydney, 1995. Vivienne Dadour. Certain Selves. King Street Gallery on Burton, Sydney, 1995. Contemporary Drawing. 35 Years On. Kedumba Drawing Award and Kedumba Gallery, Wentworth Falls, 1998. After the Bell. Penrith Regional Gallery and the Lewers Bequest, Emu Plains, 1998. Common Ground [Cummings, Archer, Fairbairn, Peart]. Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney, undated. From the Peter and Ursula Boehm Collection: Paintings and Works on Paper 1958-1984. Michael Nagy Gallery, Sydney, 2004. Col Jordan. Sculptures. Harrison Galleries, Sydney, 2006. Rockfaces. Kate Briscoe. Harrison Galleries, Sydney, undated. “Alun Leach-Jones: painter, Sculptor, Printmaker”, Australian Art Collector. September 2006. Kate Briscoe. Rockfaces. Harrison Galleries, Sydney, undated. Col Jordan. Circling Back 1966-2007. Mossenson Galleries, Melbourne and Perth, 2007. George Raftopoulos. Mapping the Memory. Australian Art Resources, Melbourne. undated but 2007. “Robyn Gordon. Coastal Paradox”, Autumn 08 @ Wilson Street. Wilson Street Gallery, Sydney, 2008. “Bill Brown: Ship of Fools”, Autumn 08 @ Wilson Street. Wilson Street Gallery, Sydney, 2008. Nancy Borlase. Expressive Abstraction 1960-1968. Peter Pinson Gallery, 2008. “Abstraction”. Summer 08/09 @ Wilson Street. Wilson Street Gallery, Sydney, 2012. “Synecdoche”. Autumn/Winter 2010 @ Wilson Street. Wilson Street Gallery, Sydney, 2012. Doreen Gadsby. 2012. Four Seasons. Eva Breuer Gallery, 2012. Peter Pinson, “Margo Lewers” in Peter Pinson, Tanya Crothers and Gillian Mitchell, Expansion. Margo Lewers Mosaic Mural, Canberra Rex Hotel. ACT Heritage, ACT. not dated. “Sandra Leveson. „Dot Screen‟ works of the late 1960s”, in Rhonda Davis and others, Sixties Explosion. Macquarie University Art Gallery, 2012. “Col Jordan”, in Rhonda Davis and others, Sixties Explosion. Macquarie University Art Gallery, 2012. “Essay. Bert Flugelman AM (1923-2013), Sculpture by the sea. Seventeenth Annual Exhibition. Sculpture by the Sea, Sydney, 2013.

Miscellaneous Publications. (with Robert Emerson Curtis, Renée Free, John Henshaw, and Lin Bloomfield), Frank Hinder AM. Orations. Published by Margel Hinder AM and the Hinder family, 1993. Obituary articles on Alan Oldfield and Bernard Sahm for “Timelines”, The Sydney Morning Herald.