William FERGUSON
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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
Click on thumbnails below to view selected bibliography and media articles.
Greg Gliddon, "Veteran Bill young at art", Progress Leader, 3 June 2014, p. 8.