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William FERGUSON
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Click on Thumbnails Below to View Individual Exhibitions​
"Colour Dreaming" 23 Aug - 15 Sep 2018
"My Dream Time and Spirit of Place", 30 Jun - 23 Jul 2016
"Evocation and Eros", 5 June - 5 July 2014

WILLIAM FERGUSON

Curriculum Vitae

1932                    Born Melbourne, Australia
                           Studied Painting at RMIT & Melbourne Teachers College
1982/89               Senior Lecturer, Painting RMIT Melbourne
                           Presently painting full time

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

1962/63               Argus Gallery – Melbourne
1968                    Barry Stern Gallery – Sydney
                           Strines Gallery – Melbourne
1971                    Osborne Pollack Gallery – Melbourne
1972                    Holdsworth Galleries – Sydney
1973                     Llewellyn Galleries – Adelaide
1974/75                Stuart Gerstman – Melbourne
1976/78                Stuart Gerstman – Melbourne
1979                    Solander Gallery – Canberra
1986                    Europa Gallery – Ulm, Germany
                           Gallery Haus – Hof, Germany
1987                    Distelfink Gallery – Melbourne
1989                    Realities Gallery – Melbourne
1990                    B.M.G Fine Art – Sydney
                           Solander Gallery – Canberra
1991                    Flinders Lane Gallery – Melbourne
                           Dresdner Bank – Ulm, Germany
1993                    Flinders Lane Gallery – Melbourne
1994                    B.M.G Fine Art – Adelaide
                           Flinders Lane Gallery – Melbourne
1995                    Flinders Lane Gallery – Melbourne
1996                    Crawford Gallery – Sydney
                           Flinders Lane Gallery – Melbourne
1997                    Beaver Gallery – Canberra
1998                    B.M.G Fine Art – Adelaide
                           Flinders Lane Gallery – Melbourne
2000                    Flinders Lane Gallery – Melbourne
2002/04               Flinders Lane Gallery – Melbourne
2007                   Catherine Asquith Gallery – Flinders St Melbourne
2008                   Catherine Asquith Gallery – Flinders St Melbourne
2009                   Catherine Asquith Gallery – Oxford St Collingwood, Melbourne
2011                   Catherine Asquith Gallery – Oxford St Collingwood, Melbourne
2014                   Evocation and Eros, Quadrant Gallery, Hawthorn, Melbourne
2016                   My Dream Time and Spirit of Place, Quadrant Gallery, Hawthorn, Melbourne

  

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

1962                    Commonwealth Games Prize – Perth
1963                    Fourteen Painters, Argus Gallery – Melbourne
1965                    Decade Exhibition, RMIT – Melbourne
                           10th Hobart Art Gallery Exhibition – Hobart, Tasmania
1966                    Barry Stern Gallery – Sydney
1967                    Texture Survey, Barry Stern Gallery – Sydney
1968                    Monash University Collection Exhibition – Melbourne
                           Flotto Lauro Prize – Melbourne
1970                    George's Prize – Melbourne
1972                    Von Bertouch Gallery – Newcastle, NSW
1973                    Llewellyn Galleries – Adelaide
                           George's Prize – Melbourne
                           Von Bertouch Gallery – Newcastle, NSW
                           Australian Pavilion Dusseldorf International – Germany
1974                    Drawings ’74, Stuart Gerstman – Melbourne
                           Festival Exhibition – Adelaide
1975                    Artists' Artists, National Gallery – Melbourne
1977                    McCaughey Prize, National Gallery – Melbourne
                           William Angus Prize, National Gallery – Melbourne
1978/79               Drawings ’78 & ’79 , Stuart Gerstman – Melbourne
1981                   Pastel Exhibition, Benalla Art Gallery – Victoria
                          Pastel Exhibition, McClelland Gallery – Langwarren, Victoria
1984                   Victorian Arts 9 x 5 Exhibition – Melbourne
1985                   Distelfink Gallery – Melbourne
                          Mandorla Prize – Fremantle, WA
                          Europa Gallery – Ulm, Germany
1988                   Bi-Centenary Art Fair – Melbourne
1989                   B.M.G Fine Art – Sydney
                          Wilderness 9 x 5 Exhibition – Melbourne
1991/92              Works on Paper, BMG Fine Art Gallery – Adelaide
                          The Nude Show, Flinders Lane Gallery – Melbourne
1993                   The Interiors Show, Flinders Lane Gallery – Melbourne
                          The Blake Prize – Sydney
                          Alice Springs Prize – NT
1994                   Art Fair – Melbourne
1995                   Nillumbik Art Award – Victoria
1996                   Works on Paper, Flinders Lane Gallery – Melbourne
1999                    Gallery Savah – Sydney
2004                    Art Fair – Melbourne
2007                    Festivite, Catherine Asquith Gallery – Flinders St, Melbourne
2008                    Catherine Asquith Gallery – Flinders St, Melbourne
2010                    RMIT School of Art Exhibition

REPRESENTED IN COLLECTIONS

National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart
Mornington Peninsula Regional Art Gallery
Parliament House, Canberra
Monash University, Melbourne
Whitley College, University of Melbourne
Artbank
Maryvale Foundation – Gippsland, Victoria
Holmes à Court Collection
Visual Arts Board
Casino – Canberra
Arnold Block & Leiber – Melbourne
Commonwealth Bank – Adelaide
KPMG – Melbourne
BHP – Melbourne
Stress Technology Incorporation – Rochester USA (24 Works)
Casino – Melbourne
Leeuwin Estate WA (2 labels 1995 & 2005)
Rothschilds Bank Collection – London
Germany Ministry – Bonn Germany

PRIVATE COLLECTIONS in Australia, New Zealand, United Kingdom, India, United States of America, Germany, Switzerland, Hong Kong, Japan

COMMISSIONS

Woodside Oil Company – Mural
ANZ Bank – Darwin Mural
Casino – Canberra
Endeavour Oil Company – Mural

AWARDS

1963                    Kanyana Prize – Colac, Victoria
1966                    ESU Watercolour Prize – Melbourne
1967                    City of Doncaster Prize – Melbourne
1974                    Inez Hutchinson Prize – Beaumaris, Melbourne
1994                    Blake Prize, Commendation – Sydney

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

McCulloch, A           Encyclopaedia of Australian Art
Germaine, M            Artists and Galleries of Australia and New Zealand
Art & Australia          Vol. 9, No.4, 1972
Lynn, E (ed)             Australian Art Forum, Vol. 1, No 1, 1972
Sasha Grishin          Direct Surfaces, Vibrant Colour, Life Style 3, August 1979
Art & Australia         Vol. 29, No. 1, 1991
Artfile                      Craft Arts, International, 1992
State of the Art        Issue 6, July – October 1993
Dury, N (ed)            New Art Eight, Craftsman House, 1993
Dury, N (ed)            Images 2, Craftsman House, 1994
Voit, A & Dury, V    Fire & Shadow, Craftsman House, 1996 
Review                   Calalano, G. The Age, 6 October 1989
Review                   Lynn, E. The Weekend Australian, 17 March 1990
Review                   Barron, Sonia. Canberra Times, 17 June 1990
Drury, N & Cree, L   Australian Painting Now, Craftsman Press & Thames & Hudson, 2000                        

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Greg Gliddon, "Veteran Bill young at art", Progress Leader, 3 June 2014, p. 8.
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