SYDNEY BALL

Born 1933, , SA Died 2017, , NSW

1963-65 Art Students League, New York, USA (under Theodore Stamos) 1950s South Australian School of Art, Adelaide

AWARDS AND COMMISSIONS

2013 Honorary Award ‘Doctor of the University’ (DUniv), University of South , Adelaide 1995-97 Opera Trust of , Artists Commission, Sydney 1991 Governor Phillip Tower, Sydney 1988 Two Print Purchase Awards, Tenth British International Print Biennale Exhibition, Bradford, United Kingdom 1988 Leeuwin Estate Wine Label, 1984 Painting Purchase Award, Muswellbrook Painting Awards, Muswellbrook 1984 Gold Coast City Gallery, Gold Coast, Painting Purchase Award 1980 Patron Print Commission, Print Council of Australia, 1978 Print Purchase Award, Caulfield City Council Permanent Collection, Caulfield 1977 Painting Purchase Award, Australian Colourist 1977 1977 Annual Invitation Exhibition, Western Australian Institute of Technology, Perth 1977 Print Purchase Award, National Print and Drawing Exhibition, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Tasmania 1977 Print Purchase Award, The Alice Springs Art Awards, Alice Springs 1973 Art Gallery, , Trustees Prize 1973 Commonwealth Visual Arts Grant, Sydney 1972 La Trobe Valley Invitation Art Purchase Prize, La Trobe Valley Arts Centre, Morwell 1968 Corio Prize, Art Gallery, Geelong 1968 Georges Invitation Art Prize, Georges Gallery, Melbourne 1968 Benalla Invitation Purchase Art Prize, Benalla Regional Art Gallery, Benalla 1967 Special Prize, Perth Festival Invitation Exhibition, Perth 1964 Ford Foundation Scholarship for Painting, New York, USA

COLLECTIONS

Artbank Adelaide Festival Theatre, Adelaide Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, Connecticut, USA Alice Springs Art Foundation, Alice Springs American Express Art Foundation, New York, USA Armidale City Art Gallery, Armidale Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide Art Gallery of , Perth ANZ Banking Corporation, Melbourne Auckland Art Gallery - Chartwell Collection, Auckland, New Zealand Australian Broadcasting Commission, Adelaide Australian Department of Foreign Affairs, Bathurst Regional Gallery, Bathurst Brazilian Embassy, Canberra BHP Collection, Melbourne Art Gallery of Ballarat, Ballarat Benalla Art Gallery, Benalla Bendigo Art Gallery, Bendigo Caulfield Municipal Art Collection, Melbourne Christchurch City Art Gallery, Christchurch, New Zealand Christensen Collection, Perth College of Fine Art Collection, University of New South Wales, Sydney Curtin University, College of Art, Perth Darwin Community College, Darwin Deakin University, Melbourne Edith Cowan University, Perth Eyton on Yarra Estate Collection, Melbourne Family Court of Australia, Canberra Fremantle Arts Centre, Melbourne Geelong Art Gallery, Geelong Gold Coast City Gallery, Gold Coast Griffith University, Griffith Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne Holmes a' Court Collection, Perth Holmes Glen Institute of TAFE, Melbourne Irving Deal Collection, Dallas, Texas, USA

Kerry Stokes Collection, Perth Kuringai College, University of Technology, Sydney La Trobe Valley Art Gallery, Morwell La Trobe University, Geelong Leeuwin Estate Collection, Margaret River Macquarie University, Sydney Mildura Art Gallery, Mildura Monash University, Melbourne Munsen-Williams-Proctor Arts Centre, New York, USA Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin Murdoch University, Perth Muswellbrook Regional Art Gallery, Musswellbrook National Australia Bank, Melbourne National Gallery of Australia, Canberra National Gallery of , Melbourne National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea Newcastle City Art Gallery, Newcastle New South Wales Government Collection Parliament House Collection, Canberra Penrith Regional Gallery and the Lewers Bequest, Sydney Print Council of Australia, Melbourne Perth Cultural Centre, Perth Queensland Arts Council, Brisbane Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane Rural and Industries Bank, Perth RMIT University, Melbourne State Bank of New South Wales, Sydney Reserve Bank of New Zealand, Wellington, New Zealand Sonje Museum of Contemporary Art, Kyongju, Korea Sydney College of the Arts, , Sydney Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart TarraWarra Museum of Art, Healesville UBS Collection, Sydney University of Canberra, Canberra University of Melbourne, Melbourne University of New England, Armidale University of New South Wales, Sydney University of South Australia, Adelaide University of Western Australia, Perth Val Morgan Collection, Melbourne Wollongong City Art Gallery, Wollongong Private Collections throughout Australia and overseas

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2016 Infinex IV: Chromix Lumina and Modular, Sullivan+Strumpf, Sydney 2015 Sydney Ball: Infinex IV: Chromix Lumina and Modular, Sullivan+Strumpf, Sydney 2014 Sydney Ball: Infinex III, Sullivan+Strumpf, Sydney 2013 The Stain Paintings 1971-1980, Sullivan+Strumpf, Sydney 2013 Sydney Ball, Sydney Contemporary 13, Sullivan+Strumpf, Carriageworks, Sydney 2012 Sydney Ball: Infinex II, Sullivan+Strumpf, Sydney 2011 Sydney Ball: Infinex Series and Structures 4, Sullivan+Strumpf, Sydney 2010 Sydney Ball: Structures 3 and the New York Stain Paintings, Sullivan+Strumpf, Sydney 2009 Sydney Ball: Structures 2 Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne 2009 Sydney Ball: The Colour Paintings 1963-2007, The Anne and Gordon Samstag Museum of Art, Adelaide 2009 Sydney Ball: The Colour Paintings 1963-2007, McClelland Gallery and Sculpture Park, Langwarrin 2008 Sydney Ball: The Colour Paintings 1963-2007, Penrith Regional Gallery and the Lewers Bequest, Sydney 2008 Sydney Ball: Prints: Canto and Stain, 1976-2000, Sullivan + Strumpf, Sydney 2007 Sydney Ball: In Light of Colour 1965-2008, Sullivan + Strumpf, Sydney 2007 Structures 2: Abstract Architecture, Sullivan+Strumpf, Sydney 2006 The Stain Paintings 1973-79, Sullivan+Strumpf, Sydney 2005 Structures 1, Sullivan+Strumpf, Sydney 2004 That Which Colours Space, BMG Art Gallery, Adelaide 2003 Modular Paintings 1968-69 + Canto 2003 edition, Sarah Cottier Gallery, Sydney 2003 Sydney Ball: Painting with a View to Landscape, Solander Gallery, Canberra 2001 Sydney Ball: Painting with a View to Landscape, Robert Lindsay Gallery, Melbourne

2001 Sydney Ball: Painting with a View to Landscape, Michael Carr Gallery, Sydney 2000 Sydney Ball: Vermeer's Mirror, Solander Galleries, Canberra 1999 Sydney Ball: Defining Journeys, Anima Gallery, Adelaide 1998 Sydney Ball: Enigmas and Variations, Robert Lindsay Gallery, Melbourne 1996 Sydney Ball: Images From Along the Way (A Tribute to Alexandra David-Neel), Robert Lindsay Gallery, Melbourne 1995 Sun Gallery, Seoul, Korea 1994 Sydney Ball: Vermeer's Mirror, Robert Lindsay Gallery, Melbourne 1993 Christine Abrahams Gallery, Melbourne 1990 Sun Gallery, Seoul, Korea 1989 Christine Abrahams Gallery, Melbourne 1988 Bicentennial Festival, Perth 1988 Gallery Dusseldorf, Perth 1988 Macquarie Galleries, Sydney 1987 Macquarie Galleries, Sydney 1987 Christine Abrahams Gallery, Melbourne 1987 Survey Paintings 1985-86, Wollongong City Art Gallery, Wollongong 1986 Macquarie Galleries, Sydney 1986 Solander Gallery, Canberra 1985 Macquarie Galleries, Sydney 1985 Gallery Dusseldorf, Perth 1985 Christine Abrahams Gallery, Melbourne 1984 Bonython Meadmore Gallery, Adelaide 1984 Macquarie Galleries, Sydney 1984 Solander Gallery, Canberra 1983 Christine Abrahams Gallery, Melbourne 1983 Macquarie Galleries, Sydney 1982 Macquarie Galleries, Sydney 1981 Macquarie Galleries, Sydney 1981 Prints and Drawings, Tynte Gallery, Adelaide 1980 Solander Gallery, Canberra 1980 Axiom Gallery, Melbourne 1978 Contemporary Art Society, Adelaide 1976 Rex Irwin Gallery, Sydney 1976 Powell Street Gallery, Melbourne 1976 Survey Exhibition, St John's Cathedral, Brisbane 1976 Solander Gallery, Canberra 1975 Solander Gallery, Canberra 1975 Greenhill Galleries, Adelaide 1975 Survey Exhibition 1965-75, Newcastle City Art Gallery, Newcastle 1974 Chapman Powell Street Gallery, Melbourne 1973 Bonython Galleries, Sydney 1971 Bonython Galleries, Adelaide 1969 John Gild Gallery, Perth 1969 Bonython Galleries, Sydney 1969 Bonython Galleries, Adelaide 1968 South Yarra Gallery, Melbourne 1967 Bonython Galleries, Adelaide 1967 Prints and Sculptures, Strines Gallery, Melbourne 1966 South Yarra Gallery, Melbourne 1966 Watters Gallery, Sydney 1965 Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne 1964 Westerly Gallery, New York, New York, USA

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2018 The Field Revisited, National Gallery of Victoria, Australia 2018 Superposition: Equilibrium and Engagement, 21st Biennale of Sydney, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Australia 2018 Modern Currents, TarraWarra Museum of Art, Victoria, Australia 2018 Group Show, Sullivan+Strumpf Sydney, Australia 2017 Group Exhibition, Sullivan+Strumpf Sydney, Australia 2016 Shut up and Paint NGV Collection, NGV International, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne 2016 Arrival, Sullivan+Strumpf, Singapore 2016 Art Stage Singapore, Sullivan+Strumpf, Marina Bay Sands, Singapore 2016 Group Exhibition, Sullivan+Strumpf, Sydney 2015 Birth of the Cool, Samstag Museum of Art, Adelaide 2015 Ten Year Anniversary Group Show, Sullivan+Strumpf, Sydney 2015 Do It [at Samstag], Samstag Museum of Art, Adelaide 2014 Abstract, Benalla Art Gallery, Benalla 2014 The Less There Is To See The More Important It Is To Look, Ian Potter Museum of Art, Melbourne

2014 SSFA14, Sullivan+Strumpf, Sydney 2012-13 20th and 21st Century Australian Art, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney 2012 Hard Edge and Colour Field Paintings and Sculpture, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide 2012 Sixties Explosion, Macquarie University Art Gallery, Sydney 2012 Abstraction 10, Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne 2011 Recent Past, Australian Painting of the 70s and 80s, University of Western Australia, Perth 2011 SSFA11, Sullivan+Strumpf, Sydney 2011 Art Stage Singapore, Sullivan+Strumpf, Marina Bay Sands, Singapore 2010 SSFA10, Sullivan+Strumpf, Sydney 2010 Group Exhibition 57, SNO Gallery, Sydney 2010 Gallery 9, SNO Gallery, Sydney 2010 Abstraction 9, Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne 2010 Placed and Spaced, Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne 2010 Abstraction – Form + Content: Cowarra Art Space, Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne 2009 SSFA09, Sullivan+Strumpf, Sydney 2009 Abstraction 8, Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne 2009 Reductive, Australian Commercial Galleries Association Gallery, Federation Square, Melbourne 2009 Tackling ‘THE FIELD’, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney 2009 After ‘THE FIELD’, Peter Pinson Gallery, Sydney 2009 Gendered Abstraction, Sydney Ball and Lesley Dumbrell, George Petelin Gallery Sydney; CAPS Gallery, Brisbane 2008 SSFA08, Sullivan+Strumpf, Sydney 2008 This Way Up: Abstract Works from the La Trobe University Collection, La Trobe University Art Museum, La Trobe University, Melbourne 2007 The Year in Art, S.H.Ervin Gallery, Sydney 2007 SSFA07, Sullivan+Strumpf, Sydney 2007 Abstraction 6, Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne 2007 Often Spotted Rarely Seen…Celebrating 40 years of Collecting, La Trobe University Art Museum, La Trobe University, Melbourne 2007 Australian Abstraction 1965-1985 from the Collection of the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney 2006 SSFA06, Sullivan+Strumpf, Sydney 2006 New to the Modern – Heide 25 Years On, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne 2006 Big Paintings, Mandurah Performing Arts Centre, Perth 2006 SNO Gallery Group Exhibition: Eastaway, Butroni, Ball, Jan, Kammerling, Konsortium: Breuer, Freytage, Munch, SNO Gallery, Sydney 2006 SNO Group Exhibition 14, SNO Gallery, Sydney 2005 SNO Galley Group Exhibition, Panatteri, Andrews, Eastaway, Ball, SNO Gallery, Sydney 2005 SSFA05, Sullivan+Strumpf, Sydney 2005 60 Years Abstraction, TarraWarra Museum of Art, Healesville 2004 Fresh Fields, The Charles Nodrum Collection, Macquarie University Art Gallery, Sydney 2003 Fieldwork: Australian Art 1968-2003, Ian Potter Centre, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne 2003 Art 34, Sarah Cottier Gallery, Basel, Switzerland 2003 TEN, Sarah Cottier Gallery, Sydney 2003 This Was the Future – Australian Sculpture of the 50s – Today, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne 2003 Australian Masters, Solander Gallery, Canberra 2003 Abstraction 3, Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne 2003 The Year in Art, S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney 2002 Paperwork2, Sarah Cottier Gallery, Sydney 2001 Australian Art: The '60s til Now, Kaliman Gallery, Sydney 2001 Australian Colour Field and Hard Edge Painting of the 1960s and 1970s, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney 2001 Australian Masters, Solander Gallery, Canberra 2001 Inside and Out: Sculpture from the Collection, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne 1999 25th Anniversary Exhibition, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales, Sydney 1999 Three Generations, Solander Gallery, Canberra 1999 Collage, Curated by Professor Jenny Zimmer, Smyrnios Gallery, Melbourne 1999 Artifice: The Heide II Decades, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne 1998 Geometric Painting in Australia 1941-1997, University Art Museum, the University of Queensland, Brisbane 1998 Sydney Ball, Dale Hickey, David Rankin, Andrew Christofides and David Serisier, Robert, Steele Gallery, Adelaide 1997 I Had a Dream, Australian Art in the '60s, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne 1997 Swingtime-East Coast Works from the 1960s-70s, The University of Western Australia, Perth 1992 Sydney Ball & Hoon Kwak, Macquarie Galleries, Sydney 1991 Tribute to Ian Fairweather, Macquarie Galleries, Sydney 1990 Circa 69 AD, Contemporary Art Centre, Adelaide 1989 3rd International Contemporary Art Exposition, Los Angeles, California, USA 1988 Contemporary Australian Art, Houston International Festival, Houston, Texas, USA 1988 International Art Exposition, Chicago, Illinois USA 1987 Surface for Reflexion, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

1987 Second International Art Exposition, Los Angeles, California, USA 1986 International Art Exposition, Chicago, Illinois, USA 1986 Paradoxical Abstraction-New Paintings, Macquarie Galleries, Sydney

1986 Field to Figuration: Australian Art 1960-1986, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne 1986 Backlash: the Australian Drawing Revival, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne 1985 Australian Art in our Time, Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Tennessee, Nashville, USA 1984 The Australians, CDS Gallery, New York, USA 1984 The Field Now, Heide Park and Art Gallery, Melbourne 1984 Selections from the Chartwell Collection, Hamilton Art Centre, Hamilton, New Zealand 1983 The John McCaughey Memorial Art Prize 1983, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne 1983 Australian Perspecta II, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney 1983 The Wrong Place: Five Sydney Painters, Tasmanian School of Art, University of Tasmania, Hobart 1983 Twelve Australian Painters, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth 1982 Visions in Disbelief: 4th Biennale of Sydney, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney 1982 The Seventies: Paintings and Tapestries from the Collection of the National Australia Bank, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne 1981 Visions After Light: Art in South Australia 1836-1981, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide 1981 The Joseph Brown Collection, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne 1978 Artists from Australia, Powell Street Gallery at Cunningham-Ward Gallery, New York, USA 1976 Australian Colourists '77, Western Australian Institute of Technology, Perth 1975 Ten Australians, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney 1974 Expo '74, Spokane, Washington, USA 1974 First Biennale of Sydney, Gallery, Sydney 1974 Ten Australians, International Tour: Musee d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris; Institut fur Aslandabeziehungen, Stuttgart; Galleria Internazionale, Milan; L'Accademia dell' Arte e Disegno, Florence; Palazzo Braschi, Rome, Ca'pesaro, Venice 1973 Trustees Invitation Prize, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane 1972 Australian Paintings of the Past 20 Years, London, United Kingdom; Sydney 1968 The Field, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne; Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney 1968 Georges Invitation Art Prize, Georges, Melbourne (winner) 1967 Contemporary Australian Painting, Los Angeles; San Francisco, California USA 1967 The Mertz Collection, Art Gallery of South Australia and the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., USA 1967 Corio Prize Invitation Exhibition, Geelong Art Gallery, Geelong 1967 Contemporary Australian Painting, New Delhi, India 1967 Benalla Invitation Prize, Benalla Art Gallery, Benalla 1967 Directions, Arts Council of Australia, Canberra 1966 Contemporary Australian Drawing, Newcastle City Art Gallery, Sydney 1966 T.E Wardle Invitation Exhibition, Perth. 1965 The Mirror-Waratah Invitation Prize Exhibition, Sydney 1965 The New Edge, Westerly Gallery, New York, USA 1964 Drawing 64, Green Gallery, New York, USA 1964 The New York Scene, Travelling Exhibition, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA 1964 American Drawing Now, Westerly Gallery, New York, USA

PRINTMAKING EXHIBITIONS

1989 Sydney Ball: A Jubilant Light: A Survey of Prints 1964-1988, Wollongong City Art Gallery, Wollongong; Orange Regional Art Gallery, Orange; Garrick Hill Museum, Adelaide 1988 Tenth British International Print Biennale Exhibition, Bradford, United Kingdom 1988 Bicentennial Collection: A Portfolio of Australian Artists, Macquarie Galleries, Sydney 1988 Prints and Australia-Pre-settlement to Present, Australian National Gallery, Canberra, 1988 Woodcut 1905-1989, Macquarie Galleries, Sydney and Penrith Regional Gallery and the Lewers Bequest, Sydney 1982 Recent Australian Screen Prints, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra 1981 Recent Serigraphs, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney 1978 Australian Printmaking, Stockholm, Sweden 1978 Screen Prints, Printmakers Gallery, Brisbane 1978 Patron Print Commission, Print Council of Australia, Melbourne 1977 National Print and Drawing Exhibition, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart 1977 Alice Springs Art Awards: Print Exhibition, Alice Springs 1975 Twentieth Century Graphics-A Selection from the Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide 1974 Bonython Gallery, Sydney 1972 Printmaking in Australia 1912-1972, Newcastle Art Gallery, Sydney 1968 6th International Biennial Exhibition of Graphic Art, National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan; National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Japan 1966 Australian Print Council Survey, National Australian tour

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BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES

2012 Artist Talk, Sydney Ball: Infinex II, Sullivan+Strumpf, Sydney, accompanied by Anne Loxley, Curator, MCA, Sydney 2009 Artist Talk, Sydney Ball: The Colour paintings 1963 -2007, Penrith Regional Gallery and the Lewers Bequest, 2008 and Samstag 2009 1996 Travelled to Nusa Tenggara Islands of Indonesia visiting Animist villages in Lombok, Sumbawa and Flores 1993 Travelled to China, journeyed to Wutai Mountains visiting Tang and Song Dynasty Temples; the Buddhist caves at Datong and Luoyang 1991 Travelled to Korea, visited Buddhist temples of Kyongju, Pulguk, Pusok, T'ongdo and Haein. Travelled to China visiting Wei Jin and Han Dynasty sites of Jiayuguan and Mogao caves at Dunhuang as well as the Buddhist caves at Bingliza, Lanzhou 1990 Travelled to Korea, lectured on Australian Art at the Hong-Ik University, Suwon University and the National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul. Studied in the studio of Master Ceramist Kim Ki-Chul. 1989 Travelled to India, trekking to Ladakh. Of special interest-the Buddhist monasteries of Lamayuru, Sheh, Tikse and Hemis 1988 Guest Lecturer, Arts Forum, Gippsland College of Advanced Education, Gippsland, Victoria 1987 Visited China and Tibet; lectured on Australian Art at the Central Academy of Art, Beijing; The China Publishing Company, Beijing; Chengdu Academy of Art, Chengdu, Sichuan Province; the University of Tibet, Lhasa; Lhasa Artists Association, Lhasa. Of special interest-the Buddhist and B'on symbols of Lamaseries, Serra, Drepung, Ganden, Jokhang. Journeyed to the Sacred Lake of Nam-Tso 1985 Travelled to Nepal and India, trekking to Khumbu glacier, the Himalayan High Plateau. Of special interest- Buddhist art and symbols; visited Buddhist monasteries and temples in Khatmandu, Hille, Bung and Thangboche. Journeyed to Western India, visiting Hindu and Jain temples in New Delhi, Jaipur and Agra Artist-in-Residence, School of Art, Western Australian Institute of Technology, Perth, WA 1984 Panel member, Australian Art of the '80s seminar, Christine Abrahams Gallery, Melbourne VIC 1983 Guest Lecturer, Arts Forum, Tasmanian School of Art, University of Tasmania, TAS 1981 Panel member, Australian and European Imagination seminar, Humanities Research Centre, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 1979 Six-month study tour of England, Western Europe, Greece and Hungary. Of special interest were the prehistoric sites of England, France and Spain; and ethnographical museums, especially the British Museum, Paris, Vienna, Cologne and Basel 1978 Panel member, Art Gallery of New South Wales seminar-Painting in the '70s

1975 Travelled to the islands of the South Pacific. Special interest in Polynesian and Melanesian art and artefacts Artist-in-Residence, University of New England (summer school) 1974-88 Appointed Senior Lecturer in Art, City Art Institute, SCAE, Sydney, NSW

1969-71 Returned to New York and full-time painting, extensive museum study and travel in USA. Returned to Australia 1965-69 Lecturer at the South Australian School of Art, Adelaide 1963-65 Travelled to New York. Full-time studies at the Art Students League of New York. Travelled to Canada and Japan. Of special interest-the Buddhist and Shinto shrines of Kyoto