Stella Downer Fine Art Dealer Consultant & Valuer ABN 86 229 108 803
GUY STUART Born 1942 Canberra, Australia
EDUCATION 2002 Fully funded residency, The Hill End Artists, NSW 1985 Revisited Japan to draw a rural environment Studied Painting at Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology 1957,59 Travelled to Japan 1956-60 Student of John Brack, Melbourne Grammar
SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2010 Guy Stuart: A Continuous Wooden Floor Revisited, Australian Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide 2008 Guy Stuart: Writing the Picture, Stella Downer Fine Art, Sydney 2007 Guy Stuart: Bowls, Vats, Discs and Baffles, Tarra Warra Museum of Art, Melbourne Guy Stuart: Writing the Picture, Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne 2006 Nillumbik Shire Council Offices, Greensborough, Melbourne 2004 Paintings, Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne 2003 Paintings and Drawings, Stella Downer Fine Art, Sydney Guy Stuart – Works from Hill End, Bathurst Regional Gallery, NSW 2002 Intimate Portraits, National Portrait Gallery, Canberra 2001 Paintings, Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne 1998 Paintings and Drawings, Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne 1997 Paintings from the Wimmera, Horsham Gallery, Vic 1996 Recent Paintings, Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne 1990, 92, 94 2 Painting and 1 Drawing exhibition, Australian Galleries, Melbourne 1986 Japanese Diary, Drawings from North Kyoto, Australian Centre of Contemporary Art, Melbourne 1982 Guy Stuart – A Brief Retrospective, Heide Art Gallery, Melbourne 1981 Paintings and Drawings, Gallery A, Sydney 1977 Drawings, Tony Coleing’s Works on Paper Gallery, Sydney 1975-80 3 Painting and 2 Drawing Exhibitions, Pinacotheca, Melbourne 1973 Studio Exhibition, Lattice Structures, Kensington, Melbourne 1970 A Continuous Wooden Floor, Gallery A, Melbourne 2 Danks Street, Waterloo NSW 2017 T: 02 9319 1006 F: 02 9319 1086 E: [email protected] W: www.stelladownerfineart.com.au
Stella Downer Fine Art Dealer Consultant & Valuer ABN 86 229 108 803
1969 Guy Stuart: Bowls & Walls. Drawings for Metal Castings Paintings and Drawings, Gallery A, Melbourne Lock Span, A proposal for a monumental sculpture, Gallery A, Melbourne
27 exhibitions overall
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2013 Resonances, Stella Downer Fine Art, Sydney 2012 Contemporary Australian Drawing 2, University of Arts, London Less is More, Minimal & Post Minimal Art in Australia, Bulleen, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Vic 2011 Japonisme, Stella Downer Fine Art, Sydney Works on Paper, Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne Modern Australian Paintings, Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne 2010 Modern Australian Paintings and Abstraction 9, Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne '(to) give time to time', Australian Experimental Arts Foundation (AEAF), Adelaide 2009 Paint, Stella Downer Fine Art, Sydney 2008 Abstraction 7, Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne 2007 Bodies & Minds, Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne Eye to ‘I’ - The Self in Recent Art, Ballarat Fine Art Gallery, Vic 2006 Paul Guest Acquisitive Award, Bendigo Art Gallery, Vic (Winner) Robert Jacks Drawing Prize, Bendigo Art Gallery, Vic (Winner) Two Paintings, The Union Club, Bent Street, Sydney Contours: Merran Esson, Miik Green, Guy Stuart, Stella Downer Fine Art, Sydney 21 Landscapes, Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne Abstraction 5, Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne 2005 Mosman Art Prize, Sydney The Arthur Guy Memorial Painting Prize, Bendigo Art Gallery, Vic 21st Birthday Show, Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne Now- Contemporary Australian Art, Mossgreen Gallery, Melbourne Works on Paper, Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne 2004 Passages, Terrance Henningsen & Guy Stuart, Stella Downer Fine Art, Sydney
2 Danks Street, Waterloo NSW 2017 T: 02 9319 1006 F: 02 9319 1086 E: [email protected] W: www.stelladownerfineart.com.au
Stella Downer Fine Art Dealer Consultant & Valuer ABN 86 229 108 803
Fresh Fields, Charles Nodrum Collection, Ballarat Fine Art Gallery, Victoria Melbourne Art Fair 2004, Stella Downer Fine Art, Melbourne Kedumba Drawing Award, Kedumba Gallery, Wentworth Falls, NSW Works on Paper, Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne 2003 Dobell Drawing Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney The New Beaut Country, TarraWarra Museum of Art, Healesville, Vic National Works on Paper, Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, Vic Still: Tarrawarra Museum of Art, Metropolitan Meat Market Art Centre, Melbourne Paper 3, Stella Downer Fine Art, Sydney 2002 Colour. From Monochrome to Polychrome, Kerry Stokes Collection, Cannery Art Centre, Esperence, WA Intimate Portraits, an exhibition with 6 artists; Andrew Daly, Mary Moore, Kevin Lincoln, Salvatore Zofrea, Janet Dawson and Guy Stuart; Participating with 12 paintings and drawings, National Portrait Gallery, Canberra The Doug Moran National Portrait Prize 2002, State Library of NSW, Sydney 2001 Nillumbik Art Award, Montsalvat Barn Gallery, Eltham, Vic Surface Tension, Recent Acquisitions, Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, Vic 2000 Wynne Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney Project 2/2000: Revisiting the 1971 John Kaldor exhibition curated by Harald Szeemann, The Sir Hermann Black Gallery, University of Sydney Doug Moran National Portrait Prize, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney 1969 10TH Biennale of Modern Art, Sao Paulo, Brazil 1961 The McCaughey Prize, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne over 200 exhibitions overall
AWARDS & GRANTS 2006 The Paul Guest Acquisitive Award, Bendigo Art Gallery, Vic 2002 Fully Funded Residency, The Hill End Artists in Residence Program 2000 Australia Council New Work Grant 1999 Mornington Regional Gallery Drawing Award 1979 Glenfiddich Art Award, Melbourne
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Stella Downer Fine Art Dealer Consultant & Valuer ABN 86 229 108 803
1977 Darnell de Gruchy Art Award, Brisbane 1976 Australia Council Travel Grant 1969 10th Sao Paulo Biennale, Brazil 1967 Crouch Prize, Ballarat Art Gallery, Vic 1965 National Gallery of Victoria Drawing Prize, Melbourne
COLLECTIONS ANZ Bank, Melbourne; Artbank; Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney; Art Gallery of Queensland, Brisbane; Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth; Australia Club, Sydney; Baker Medical Research Institute, Melbourne; Ballarat Art Gallery, Vic; Baker Medical Research Institute; Bankers Trust / Deutschers Bank, Melbourne; Bathurst Regional Art Gallery, NSW; Benalla Art Gallery, Vic; Bendigo Art Gallery, Vic; Burnie Art Gallery, Tas; Clayton UTZ, Sydney; Deacons, Melbourne; Deakin University, Geelong, Vic; Department of Education, Vic; Edith Cowan University, Perth; Falkiners Stockbroking, Melbourne; Griffith University, Brisbane; Latrobe Regional Gallery, Vic; Latrobe University, Melbourne; Leeuwin Estate, Margaret River, WA; Monash University, Melbourne; Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, Vic; National Australia Bank, Melbourne; National Gallery of Australia, Canberra; National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne; New England Art Museum, NSW; Nillumbik Shire Council, Melbourne; Parliament House Art Collection, Canberra; Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane; Queensland University, Brisbane; RACV Collection, Melbourne; TarraWarra Museum of Art, Melbourne; University of Ballarat, Vic; University of Melbourne; Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne; Wollongong City Gallery, NSW and numerous private collections including those of Eva and Mark Besen; Sandra and David Bardas, Holmes a Court; Ann Lewis, James Mollison, Charles Nodrum, Bruce Pollard; Kerry Stokes and Gavin Wilson.
179 works are held in significant collections.
BIBLIOGRAPHY 2012 Janet McKenzie, Contemporary Australian Drawing, Masenta, MacMillan Sue Cramer, Less is More. Minimal and Post Minimal Art in Australia, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Bulleen Patrick McCaughey, ‘Enjoy Your Diversity: The 60’s Revisited’, Meanjin Quarterly, Vol.71, No.3 2011 Jeannette Davison, ‘Guy Stuart, still making his mark.’, isiiad, http://www.isiiad.com.au, 23 August ‘Stark beauty of the bush’, Warrandyte Diary, July
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Stella Downer Fine Art Dealer Consultant & Valuer ABN 86 229 108 803
Yoshiko Arakawa, ‘Artistic Expression of Japanese & Australian Culture’, Jenta, 1 May ‘Japonisme’, Open Gallery, Spectrum, Sydney Morning Herald, 30 April Leah Haynes, ‘Artnotes’, Art Monthly, April ‘Japonisme exhibition’, The Japan Foundation, Sydney, http://www.jpf.org.au, April Janet McKenzie, Contemporary Drawing in Australia, Metasenta, Macmillan Australia The Coppin Grove Collection of Sandra and David Bardas, Macmillan Australia The Estate of Ann Lewis AO, Mossgreen Auctions 2009 Sophie Forbat, Editor, 40 Years Kaldor Public Art Projects, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney 2008 Encounters with Australian Modern Art, Hermann with English and French editions Robyn Dold, Constancy and Evolution, exhibition essay, Stella Downer Fine Art, Sydney 2007 Sue Walker, Artists Tapestries from Australia 1976 – 2005, The Beagle Press Robyn Dold, Guy Stuart: 1967 – 1972, exhibition essay, TarraWarra Museum of Art, Vic Maudie Palmer, Guy Stuart. Bowls, Vats, Discs and Baffles, catalogue, TarraWarra Museum of Art, Vic 2006 Peter Dougherty, ‘Abstracting a view of wild bush landscape’, Diamond Valley Leader, 1 March Patrick McCaughey, Voyage and Landfall, The Art of Jan Senbergs, The Miegunyah Press, p.12 Allan and Susan McCulloch, Emily McCulloch Childs, The New McCulloch’s Encyclopedia of Australian Art, Aus Art Editions, The Miegunyah Press 2004 Patrick Hutchings, ‘Guy Stuart’, Australian Art Collector, Issue 29, July 2003 Dominique Angeloro, ‘Critics Pics’, Metro, Sydney Morning Herald, July 4 -10 Lenny Ann Low, ‘Exhibitions’, Metro, Sydney Morning Herald, July 5-6 Les Murray, The Full Dress, An Encounter with the National Gallery of Australia, NGA publication Gavin Wilson, Guy Stuart at Hill End, exhibition essay Bathurst Regional Art Gallery, NSW Patrick Hutchings, Utter Classicism and Shallow Depth, Australian Art Review, Issue 3 November
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Stella Downer Fine Art Dealer Consultant & Valuer ABN 86 229 108 803
Bryony Marks, Big Wheels Keep On Turning the Tarrawarra Museum of Art Collection 2002 Andrew Sayers, Intimate Portraits catalogue, National Portrait Gallery, Canberra 2001 Ken McGregor, Robert Jacks – Past Unfolded, Craftsman House 2000 Clay Lucas, ‘Through the Looking Glass – The collection of Etta and Manny Hirsch’, Art & Australia vol. 38, no. 1 1999 Bruce James, ‘The Innovators: 5 Collectors Who Shaped Sydney’s Avant-garde, Sydney Morning Herald, 10 July Gavin Wilson, John Firth Smith: A voyage that never ends, Craftsman House, p. 37, 114 1996 Charles Green, ‘Pinacotheca: A Private Art History’, Art & Australia vol. 34, no. 4 1995 Charles Green, Peripheral Vision: Contemporary Australian Art 1970-94, Craftsman House 1994 Susan and Alan McCulloch, Encyclopedia of Australian Art, Allen & Unwin
61 books and catalogues on Australian art since 1969.
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