G . W . B O T Born in Pakistan 1954; arrived in Australia 1955 SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2017 ‘Grasslands – Glyphs’, Australian Galleries, Melbourne 2016 ‘Riverbend Glyphs’, Australian Galleries, Sydney ‘Endangered Glyphs', Beaver Galleries, Canberra 2015 ‘Glyphs and the elements: Air, fire, water and earth’, Australian Galleries, Derby Street, Melbourne 2014 ‘Glyphs – Between Worlds’, Australian Galleries, Roylston Street, Sydney 2013 ‘Glyphmetric’, Beaver Galleries, Canberra 2012 ‘Dancing Glyphs’, Australian Galleries, Smith Street, Melbourne ‘Glyphmaker’, Tweed River Regional Art Gallery, Murwillumbah, NSW 2011 ‘Glyphs’, Australian Galleries, Roylston Street, Sydney ‘Australian Glyphs’, Hart Gallery, London, England 2010 ‘G.W. Bot: The long paddock: a 30 year survey’, Touring exhibition to 2013: Goulburn Regional Art Gallery, NSW; Grafton Regional Art Gallery, NSW; Hawkesbury Regional Gallery, NSW; Mosman Art Gallery, Sydney; Margaret Carnegie Art Gallery, NSW; Wagga Wagga Art Gallery, NSW; Orange Regional Art Gallery, NSW; Tamworth Regional Art Gallery, NSW; Stanthorpe Regional Art Gallery, QLD; Artspace Mackay, QLD; Toowoomba Regional Art Gallery, QLD; Perc Tucker Regional Gallery, QLD; Maitland Regional Art Gallery, NSW ‘A morphology of glyphs’, Beaver Galleries, Canberra 2009 ‘Fire Glyphs and Spirits’, Artspace Mackay, Mackay, QLD ‘Field of glyphs’, Hart Gallery, London, England 2008 ‘Paddock glyphs’, Australian Galleries, Smith Street, Melbourne ‘Paddock glyphs’, Australian Galleries, Glenmore Road, Sydney 2007 ‘Glyphs’, Hart Gallery, London, England ‘G.W. Bot – Glyphs, works on paper and sculptures’, Beaver Galleries, Canberra ‘Glyphs’, Gadfly Gallery, Perth 2006 ‘Glyphs’, Australian Galleries, Works on Paper, Sydney ‘Glyphs’, Australian Galleries, Works on Paper, Melbourne 2005 ‘Certainties and Uncertainties’, Grahame Galleries + Editions, Brisbane ‘Figure in landscape’, Maunsell Wicks at Barry Stern Galleries, Sydney ‘An Australian Symphony’, 5 + 5 Gallery, New York, USA ‘Morphic Fields’, Hart Gallery, London, England ‘Paths of being’, Chapman Gallery, Canberra ‘Morphic fields and gardens’, Gadfly Gallery, Perth 2004 ‘Earth and Sky’, Australian Galleries, Works on Paper, Melbourne ‘An island of life’, Barry Stern Galleries, Sydney 2003 ‘The Garden of Possibilities’, Canberra Museum and Gallery, Canberra ‘Gardens’, Canberra Museum and Gallery, Canberra 2002 ‘Suburban Gardens: arrivals and journeys’, Barry Stern Galleries, Sydney ‘The Body in Question’, Gadfly Gallery, Perth 2001 ‘Gardens: Rites of Passage’, Barry Stern Galleries, Sydney ‘Gardens: Rites of Passage’, Hart Gallery, London, England ‘Gardens: Rites of Passage’, Chapman Gallery, Canberra 2000 ‘Mystic Language’, Grahame Galleries + Editions, Brisbane ‘Bundanon Series’, Barry Stern Galleries, Sydney ‘Recent Relief Prints’, Bulle Galleries, Melbourne ‘Ancestral Landscapes’, Port Jackson Fine Art, Los Angeles, USA 22 March 2019 1999 ‘Enclosures’, Chapman Gallery, Canberra ‘Semiotics of the Australian Wilderness’, Bulle Galleries, Melbourne ‘Works on Paper’, Barry Stern Galleries, Sydney ‘The Australian Wilderness and Garden: Language, calligraphy and semiotics’, Hart Gallery, London, England 1998 ‘Paper Garden’, Barry Stern Galleries, Sydney 1997 ‘The Lady and the Unicorn’, Hart Gallery, London, England ‘Journeys of a Poet’, Lyall Burton Gallery, Melbourne ‘Sacred Gardens: drypoint and relief prints’, Hart Gallery, Nottingham, England 1996 ‘The Lady and the Unicorn’, Chapman Gallery, Canberra 1995 ‘Journeys’, Australian Embassy, Paris, France ‘Journeys’, Australian Centre, Manila, Philippines 1994 ‘Journeys’, Chapman Gallery, Canberra 1993 ‘Crucifixion’, Criterion Gallery, Braidwood, NSW 1992 ‘Crucifixion’, Dubbo Regional Art Gallery, Dubbo, NSW ‘An Enclosed Space’, Canberra Contemporary Art Space, Gallery3, Canberra GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2019 ‘About the land’, Australian Galleries, Melbourne ‘papermade’, Australian Galleries, Melbourne ‘Imprint: A Survey of the Print Council of Australia’, Parliament House Gallery, Parliament House of Australia, Canberra 2017 'Coast, The Artists' Retreat: Cape Schanck to Point Nepean', Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, Mornington Peninsula VIC ‘Sculpture by the Sea’, Bondi, Sydney Geelong acquisitive print awards, Geelong Gallery, Geelong, VIC ‘The Artist and the Book’, Curated by Nicholas Pounder, Australian Galleries, Sydney ‘Sculpture: medium and small scale – Mixed Sculptors’, Australian Galleries, Sydney 2016 Tattersall’s Club Landscape Art Prize, touring Redland Art Gallery, Cleveland, QLD, Gympie Regional Gallery, Gympie, QLD, Gladstone Regional Art Gallery and Museum, Gladstone Central, QLD, Childers Art Space, Childers, QLD, Toowoomba Regional Art Gallery, Toowoomba, QLD and Roma on Bungil Gallery, Roma, QLD ‘Three Ways: G.W. Bot, Meg Buchanan, Anita McIntyre’, Cowra Regional Art Gallery, Cowra, NSW ‘Life: Limited edition etchings, lithographs and linocuts’, Australian Galleries, Melbourne ‘2°’, Canberra Contemporary Art Space, Canberra ‘Eventide – Print Exchange’, Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, Mornington Peninsula, VIC 2015 ‘An exhibition of paintings, sculpture & works on paper’, Australian Galleries, Roylston Street, Sydney ‘Auditory Visions’, Lismore Regional Gallery, Lismore, NSW ‘The Warming and An Anthropocene Cabinet of Curiosities’, Australian Galleries, Stock Rooms, Melbourne ‘Just Paper – The piano has been drinking (not me)’, Maitland Regional Art Gallery, Maitland, NSW 2014 ‘International Print Exhibition, Australia and Japan’, Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art, Kyoto, Japan; Fukuyama Museum of Art, Hiroshima, Japan Wynne Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney ‘one of each’, Australian Galleries, Derby Street, Melbourne ‘Australia Day 2014 Celebratory Exhibition’, Australian Galleries, Roylston Street, Sydney ‘Australia Day 2014 Celebratory Exhibition’, Australian Galleries, Derby Street, Melbourne 2013 ‘Australia Day 2013 Celebratory Exhibition’, Australian Galleries, Derby Street, Melbourne 22 March 2019 ‘Works from the Stock Rooms’, Australian Galleries, Smith Street, Melbourne Wynne Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney ‘Australia’, Royal Academy, London, England ‘Treaty, yeah?’ Chan Contemporary Art Space, Darwin 2012-13 ‘Summer Stock Show’, Australian Galleries, Derby Street, Melbourne ‘Works from the Stock Rooms’, Australian Galleries, Smith Street, Melbourne 2012 ‘Marking Place’, Canberra Museum and Gallery, Canberra ‘Inkmasters Cairns Inc’, Tanks Arts Centre, Cairns, QLD Caleen Art Award, Cowra Regional Gallery, Cowra, NSW 2011 ‘Artwork to Tapestry’, TarraWarra Museum of Art, Healesville, VIC ‘large exhibition of small works’, Australian Galleries, Roylston Street, Sydney ‘large exhibition of small works’, Australian Galleries, Derby Street, Melbourne Dobell Prize for Drawing, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney ‘Nature of the Mark’, Australian Galleries, Smith Street, Melbourne ‘Mixed Exhibition’, Hart Gallery, London, England ‘Out of Australia: prints and drawings from Sidney Nolan to Rover Thomas’, British Museum, London, England ‘Personal Space: Contemporary Chinese and Australian Prints’, Manly Art Gallery and Museum, Sydney Sulman Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney ‘Summer Exhibition’, Australian Galleries, Roylston Street, Sydney 2010 ‘Summer Show’, Australian Galleries, Glenmore Road, Sydney ‘Summer Stock Show’, Australian Galleries, Smith Street, Melbourne Dobell Prize for Drawing, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney ‘Artists’ Prints made with Integrity I’, Australian Galleries, Smith Street, Melbourne ‘Joseph Banks: a regional response’, Goulburn Regional Art Gallery, Goulburn, NSW Swan Hill Print and Drawing Acquisitive Award, Swan Hill Regional Art Gallery, Swan Hill, VIC ‘Art Loan Collection 2009/10’, Bournemouth University, Dorset, UK ‘Royal Academy Summer Exhibition’, London, England ‘Australian Trilogy: Dennis Nona, Abie Loy Kemarre, G.W. Bot’, Arts d’Australie, Paris, France ‘8éme Mondial de l’Estampe et de la Gravure Originale‘, Triennale de Chamaliéres, France ‘Abstract nature’, Samstag Museum, Adelaide ‘Audible surface’, M16 Artspace, Canberra ‘Lake’ Lake Macquarie City Art Gallery, Lake Macquarie NSW 2009-10 ‘Summer Stock Show’, Australian Galleries, Smith Street, Melbourne ‘Summer Stock Show’, Australian Galleries, Derby Street, Melbourne 2009 ‘Stock Show’, Australian Galleries, Glenmore Road, Sydney Silk Cut Award 2009, Glen Eira City Council Gallery, Melbourne Sulman Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney ‘Salon des Refusés’, S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney ‘Surfacing’, Belconnen Arts Centre, Canberra ‘Stories of our making’, Tweed River Art Gallery, Murwillumbah, NSW ‘Stories of our making’, University of the West of England, Bristol, England and Tweed River Regional Gallery, Murwillumbah, NSW ‘1: 100,000 Mapping the island’, IXL Atrium, Hobart The International Print Triennial, Krakow, Poland ‘Art London’, Chelsea, London 2008 ‘Stock Show’, Australian Galleries, Glenmore Road, Sydney ‘Summer Stock Show’, Australian Galleries, Smith Street, Melbourne Dobell Prize for Drawing, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney Tallis Foundation 2008 National Works on Paper, Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, Mornington Peninsula, VIC ‘Recent acquisitions’ Prints and Drawings Gallery, British Museum, London, England Sulman Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney Melbourne Art Fair, Melbourne 22 March 2019 Robert Jacks Drawing Prize, Bendigo Art Gallery, Bendigo, VIC Silkcut Award 2008, Glen Eira City Council, Melbourne Fremantle Print