Represented by Utopia Art Sydney, 2 Danks Street, Waterloo, NSW, 2017
Tel: 61 2 9699 2900  Fax: 61 2 9699 2988

Born 7 February, 1957
Lives and works in Braidwood, NSW

education

1976-78 Alexander Mackie College, Sydney, Art Diploma
1975-76 St. George Technical College, Kogarah, Art Certificate

solo exhibitions

2010 'The Shed', Utopia Art Sydney, NSW
2008 'Gateless Gate', Utopia Art Sydney, NSW
  'Journey Through Landscape', S H Ervin Gallery, Sydney, NSW
2007 'Working in the Landscape', Utopia Art Sydney, NSW
2005 'Gullies, Roads, Dry Lands and Forests', Utopia Art Sydney, NSW
2004 'Dry Land Paintings', Utopia Art Sydney, NSW
2003 'Paintings from Tallaganda', Utopia Art Sydney, NSW
2002 'Paintings from Bundanon', Utopia Art Sydney, NSW
2000 'Gully', Utopia Art Sydney, NSW
1999 'Paintings for a New Republic', Utopia Art Sydney, NSW
1997 'The House of the Stare', Utopia Art Sydney, NSW
1994 'In a Free State', Tamworth City Gallery, NSW
  'Pictures from Home', Utopia Art Sydney, NSW
1993 'New Paintings', Utopia Art Sydney, NSW
1992 'Recent Works', Utopia Art Sydney, NSW
  'New Sculpture', Austral Gallery, St Louis, USA
1991 'Favourite Paintings', Utopia Art Sydney, NSW
  'Recent Figures', Austral Gallery, St Louis, USA
1900 'Drawings', Utopia Art Sydney, NSW
  Tolarno Gallery, Melbourne
  Austral Gallery, St Louis, USA
1989 'Figures on Paper', Austral Gallery, St Louis, USA
  'Utopia Art Sydney', NSW
1988 'Recent Painting', Tolarno Gallery, Melbourne, VIC
1986 'Deceit, Desire & Narcissus', Mori Gallery, Sydney, NSW
1985 Tolarno Gallery, Melbourne, VIC
1984 'The Family', Mori Gallery, Sydney, NSW
1982 Mori Gallery, Sydney, NSW
1979 The Student Gallery (later renamed Mori Gallery), Sydney, NSW

group exhibitions

2011 'Heads', Utopia Art Sydney, NSW
  'Salon des Refuses', S. H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney, NSW
2010 'Museum III', Utopia Art Sydney, NSW
  'The Wynn Prize', Art Gallery of New South Wales, NSW
  'two six two two', Goulburn Regional Gallery, NSW
  'Melbourne Art Fair 2010', Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne VIC
  'KIAF 2010, Korea International Art Fair', COEX, Seoul, Korea
2009 'pinned & framed', Utopia Art Sydney, NSW
  'The Power of Print', NG Art Gallery, NSW
  'Mon Uno: Australian Monotypes in the Charles Sturt University Art Collection', Wagga Wagga Art Gallery, NSW
  'The Wynne Prize', Art Gallery of New South Wales, NSW
  'Eutick Memorial Still Life Award (the EMSLA)', Coffs Harbour Regional Gallery, NSW
  'The 23rd Annual Packsaddle Selling Exhibition', New England Regional Art Museum, NSW
2008 ' The Wynne Prize', Art Gallery of New South Wales, NSW
  'The Melbourne Art Fair 2008', Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne VIC
2007 'Salon des Refusés', S H Ervin Gallery, Sydney, NSW
  'The Wynne Prize', Art Gallery of New South Wales, NSW
2006 'Being at Bundanon', Mosman Region Art Gallery, NSW (toured by Bundanon Trust)
  'The Big Picture', The Delmar Gallery, Sydney, NSW
  'The Archibald Prize 06', Art Gallery of New South Wales and touring, NSW
  'View of Maitland from the riverbank', Maitland Regional Art Gallery, Maitland, NSW
  'Chroma Collection', Macquarie University Art Gallery, Sydney, NSW
  'Truth and Likeness', National Portrait Gallery, Canberra, ACT
2005 2005 'Moist', National Gallery of Australia, Canberra and touring, ACT
  'Friends and Neighbours - Togetherness', Hawkesbury Regional Gallery, Windsor, NSW
  'Bleak Epiphanies', Virginia Wilson Art, Sydney, NSW
  'Museum II', Utopia Art Sydney, NSW
  'The Archibald Prize 05', Art Gallery of New South Wales and touring, NSW
  'New Ideas 2005', Utopia Art Sydney, NSW
  '2005 Robert Jacks Drawing Prize', Bendigo Art Gallery, VIC
  'Same Place Many Views', Defiance Gallery, Sydney, NSW
  'Hazelhurst Art Award 2005 - Art on Paper', Hazelhurst Regional Gallery & Arts Centre, NSW
  Marea Gazzard 'the odyssey' & John R Walker 'dry land paintings', Silvershot, Melbourne, VIC
  'Country Energy Art Prize for Landscape Painting', Grafton Regional Gallery, NSW
2004 Melbourne Art Fair 2004, Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne, VIC
  'Depth of Field - Anamorphosis', Utopia Art Sydney, NSW
  'The Wynne Prize', Art Gallery of New South Wales, NSW
  'A Stroke of Art', The Gallery, NSW Parliament House, Sydney, NSW
2003 'Bloomsday Door Exhibition', Arthouse Hotel, Sydney, NSW
  'A Stroke of Art', The Gallery, NSW Parliament House, Sydney, NSW
  'The Archibald Prize', Art Gallery of New South Wales touring exhibition, NSW
  'The Wynne Prize', Art Gallery of New South Wales, NSW
  'The Archibald Prize', touring exhibition to NSW and VIC venues
  'Arthur Guy Memorial painting Prize', Bendigo Art Gallery, VIC
2002 'The Year In Review', Utopia Art Sydney, NSW
  'Jacaranda Acquisitive Drawing Award', Grafton Regional Gallery, NSW
  'The Fleurieu Prize', Mclaren Vale, SA
  'Conrad Jupiters Art Prize', Gold Coast City Art Gallery, QLD
  'Melbourne Art Fair 2002', Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne, VIC
  'Salon des Refusés', S H Ervin Gallery, Sydney, NSW
  'The Wynne and Sulman Prizes', Art Gallery of New South Wales, NSW
  'Sculpture 2002', Utopia Art Sydney, NSW
  'Solstice', Utopia Art Sydney, NSW
2001 'Museum', Utopia Art Sydney, NSW
  'Gone Bush', Hazelhurst Regional Gallery and Arts Centre, NSW
  '8th International Works on Paper Fair', Fox Studios Australia, Sydney, NSW
  'Over the Back Fence', Bowen Galleries, Wellington, NZ
  'The Archibald', 'Wynne' and 'Sulman Prizes', Art Gallery of New South Wales, NSW
  'Bat, Ball & Brush - A Summer of Cricket & Art', Sydney Cricket Ground, NSW
  2001, Utopia Art Sydney, NSW
  'The Archibald Prize', touring exhibition to NSW and VIC venues
2000 'Melbourne Art Fair 2000', Royal Exhibition Hall, Melbourne, VIC
  'The Archibald Prize', Art Gallery of New South Wales and NSW regional tour
  'SCEGGS Redlands-Westpac Invitational Art Prize', Cremorne, Sydney, NSW
  'Bloomsday Lunch Exhibition', ASN Gallery, The Rocks, Sydney, NSW
  'Half Metre Square', Work by teaching staff, National Art School, Sydney, NSW
  Landscape, Utopia Art Sydney, NSW
  'Encore', Utopia Art Sydney, NSW
1999 '7th International Works on Paper Fair', Fox Studios, Sydney, NSW
  'Mosman Art Prize', Mosman Region Gallery, Sydney, NSW
  'University and Schools Club Prize Exhibition', University and Schools Club, Sydney, NSW
1998 'National Works on Paper Award', Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, VIC
  'Bloomsday: Joyce & the Nymph', Coach House Gallery, The Rocks, Sydney, NSW
  'Symbiosis', New England Regional Art Museum, Armidale and Utopia Art Sydney, NSW
  'ACAF 6', Royal Exhibition Hall, Melbourne, VIC
  'Kedumba Invitation Drawing Award', Leura, NSW
1997 'Faces of Hope', Art Gallery of New South Wales, NSW
  'Drawn from Life', National Gallery of Australia touring exhibition, ACT
  '6th International Works on Paper Fair', State Library of New South Wales, NSW
  'Bronze', Utopia Art Sydney, NSW
  'Portraits', Utopia Art Sydney, NSW
  'Nineteeninetyseven', Utopia Art Sydney, NSW
1996 'The Theresa Byrnes Foundation', Westpac Art Auction, Westpac Plaza, Sydney, NSW
  'ACAF 5', Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne, VIC
  'Return from the Art Fair', Utopia Art Sydney, NSW
  'Paperwork', Utopia Art Sydney, NSW
  'The Gesture', Utopia Art Sydney, NSW
  'Flagging the Republic', Sherman Galleries and New England Regional Art Museum touring exhibition, NSW
1995 'Ironsides', The Powerhouse Museum, Sydney, NSW
  'The King of the Accordian', New England Regional Art Museum touring exhibition, NSW
  'Works On Paper', Utopia Art Sydney, NSW
  '5th International Works on Paper Fair', State Library of New South Wales, NSW
1994 'ACAF 4', Royal Exhibition Hall, Melbourne, VIC
1993 'Contemporary Australian Painting', Works from the Allen Allen and Hemsley Collection, Westpac Gallery, Melbourne and Newcastle Regional Gallery, VIC
and NSW
1992 'On the Dark Side', New England Regional Art Museum, Armidale, NSW
  'ACAF3', Royal Exhibition Hall, Melbourne, VIC
  The Sulman Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, NSW
1991 'Images of Sydney', Holdsworth Gallery, Sydney, NSW
  'Images of Women from the Holmes a'Court Collection', S H Ervin Gallery, Sydney, NSW
  'The Sulman Prize', Art Gallery of New South Wales, NSW
1990 'The Annunciation', Mandorla Art Prize, New Norcia, WA
  'Windsor and Newton Painting Prize', Coventry Gallery, Sydney, NSW
  'Religious Images in Australian Art', National Gallery of Victoria, VIC
  'The Sulman Prize', Art Gallery of New South Wales, NSW
  'King of the Mountain', Noosa Regional Gallery, QLD
  'Visual Instincts', Holdsworth Gallery, Sydney, NSW
  'New Year New Art', Utopia Art, Sydney, NSW
1989 'Opening', Utopia Art Sydney, NSW
  'Intimate Drawings', Coventry Gallery, Sydney, NSW
1988 'Drawing in the 80s', Australian National Gallery, Canberra, ACT
  'Drawing', Tolarno Gallery, Melbourne, VIC
  'Savage Club Invitation Drawing Prize', Savage Club, Melbourne, VIC
1987 'From Field to Figuration', National Gallery of Victoria, VIC
  'Backlash', National Gallery of Victoria, VIC
  'Best of Young Australians from the Budget Collection', National Gallery of Victoria, VIC
  'Urban Anxieties', Drill Hall Gallery, Canberra, ACT
1986 'A First Look', Drill Hall Gallery, Canberra, ACT
  'Symbolism and Landscape', Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Biennale of Sydney Satellite Exhibition, NSW
  'Modern Australian Masters', National Gallery of Victoria, VIC
  'Ballarat Invitation Prize', Ballarat Fine Art Gallery, VIC
1985 'The Pleasure of the Gaze', Art Gallery of Western Australia, WA
1984 'Drawing Now', National Gallery of Victoria, VIC
  'Survey '84', Michael Milburn Galleries, Brisbane, QLD
1983 'D'un Autre Continent: L'Australie, le reve et le real', Musee D'Art Moderne, Paris
  'Australian Perspecta', Art Gallery of New South Wales, NSW
1982 'McCaughey Prize Exhibition', National Gallery, Melbourne, VIC
1979 'Eight by Four', Students Gallery (later Mori Gallery), Sydney, NSW

collections

National Gallery of Australia Allen, Allen & Hemsley
Art Gallery of New South Wales Art Gallery of Western Australia
Artworks Royal Alexandra Hospital for Children Ansett Collection
Bankers Trust Bathurst Regional Art Gallery
Broken Hill Regional Art Gallery Budget Collection
Griffith University Collection Macquarie Group Collection
Myer Collection National Gallery of Victoria
New England Regional Art Museum New Parliament House, Canberra
Phillip Morris Collection Smorgen Collection
The Holmes A'Court Collection Wollongong City Art Gallery
The Savage Club Collection J ames Wolfensohn Collection
Statewide Building Society Collection, Victoria Western Mining Corporations
Campbelltown City Art Gallery The University of Sydney Union
University of New South Wales Artbank
Several private collections in Australia and USA The Australia Club, Sydney

publication inclusions

2010 Artist Profile, ‘John R Walker responds to Joe Frost’s article “Bad words and             thoughts”, issue 12:  Mag-blog, August 2010
2009 Arts Etcetera ‘Walker finalist in Wynne Prize’ Bungendore Mirror, March 11.
  Mono Uno catalogue, Australian Monotypes in the Charles Sturt University Ar Collection
2008 Journey through Landscape podcast interview with Sean O'Brien, May 2008: http://arttalk.podomatic.com/entry/2008-05-09T02_10_17-07_00
  Critics' Choice - 'John R. Walker Journey Through Landscape' Time Out Magazine, May 21 - 27
  'Poetry through Landscape - Poetic interpretations of the artworks of John R. Walker', DiVerse, At the S. H. Ervin Gallery
  Art Talk: Talking to Artists and Curators, Sean O'Brien May 2008 at the S. H. Ervin Gallery transcript
  National Trust S. H. Ervin Gallery 2008 Exhibition Calender
  John R. Walker - Journey Through Landscape invitation card, National Trust S. H. Ervin Gallery
  John R. Walker - Journey Through Landscape public program of guest talks list, National Trust, S. H. Ervin Gallery
  'Secrets of the Self Unearthed', John McDonald, Spectrum, Sydney Morning Herald, June 7 - 8
  'Lure of the Land', Libby Peacock, Panorama, The Canberra Times, May 31
  'Exposing the Scars on Nature', Elizabeth Fortescue, Sydney Live, Daily Telegraph, May 27
  John R. Walker, Journey Through Landscape, Calender entry: The Rocks - a story around every corner, official Rocks website, May 21
  'Walker Retrospective at S. H. Ervin', press release, Bungedore Mirror, May 21
  'Journey Through Landscape', What's On, Central Magazine, May 21
  Critics Choice, Time Out Sydney, May 21 - 27
  John R. Walker, Journey Through Landscape, What's On, Time Out Magazine,
June 4 - 10
  John R. Walker, Journey Through Landscape, What's On, Time Out Magazine,
June 11 - 17
  'A Journey of Landscape', June, Winter Diary, The Rocks official website
  Event Diary, Sunday Arts, ABC TV Sunday 5pm, June 6
  What's On Elsewhere, Look Magazine
  John R. Walker, Journey Through Landscape, 'Exhibitions' section: National Trust Magazine, Winter
2007 Essay by Andrew Sayers in Working in the Landscape, (cat), Utopia Art Sydney
  'The best of the rest actually the best', Sebastian Smee, The Australian, 8 March, p,14
  'Anything goes in the silly season', John McDonald, SMH Spectrum, 24-24 March 2007, pp16-17
  'Robert Kennedy - Salon des Refusés 2007', State of the Arts Online/reviews, 2 March 2007
  Painting Australia, ABC TV series Episode #3, 11 April, 2007
  Exhibition Calendar 2007, National Trust S.H. Ervin Gallery
2006 2006 Art in Restaurants, Australian Art Review, p82
  Archibald 06 (cat), Art Gallery of New South Wales
  Winter Crow, a collection of poems by Jeremy Nelson, illustrations by John R Walker
  'Is the truth of portraiture vested exclusively in likeness?', Michael Desmond, Portrait 21, National Portrait Gallery, Canberra.
  CAPO Annual Auction 2006 (cat), Canberra Arts Patrons Organization, Canberra
2005 Australian Artist, No.253 July 2005, p.25
  Archibald 05 (cat), Art Gallery of New South Wales
  Essay by Simeon Kronenburg in being at Bundanon (cat), Bundanon Trust touring exhibition
  Essay by William Wright in Gullies, Road, Dry Lands and Forests (cat), Utopia Art Sydney
  Moist: Australian Watercolours (cat), National Gallery of Australia
  'Moist: Australian Watercolours 27 August-4 December 2005', Anne McDonald, Artonview, Spring 2004 'Art Now', Laura Murray Cree, State of the Arts Magazine (The Design Issue), July - September
2003 'Generations of Collecting', Jenna Price, Australian Art Collector, July- September 2003
  Australian Artist, No.12 Vol. XIX, June 2003, p.29
2002 'Experiencing the Land', Simeon Kronenberg, Asian Art News Vol.12 No.2 March/April 2002
  'Money and Collecting', Michael Reid, The Weekend Australian 20-21 April
  'Critics Picks', Victoria Hynes, SMH Metro 26 April - 2 May
  'The Plains: Wimmera and the imaging of the Australian Landscape', Simeon Kronenberg, Art Monthly, November 2001, #45
  'Days in Body Country', Simeon Kronenberg, Artlink, June 2002, Vol.22 #2
  Paintings from Bundanon, (cat) Simeon Kronenberg, Utopia Art Sydney
2001 'Gone Bush: Artists in the Royal', Tracy Sorensen, St George and Sutherland Shire Leader, October 18
  Over the back fence (cat), Bowen Galleries, NZ
  Gone Bush (cat), Jennifer Hardy, Hazelhurst Regional Gallery and Arts Centre, NSW
  Australian Artist, Vol.XVII No.11, May 2001, p.49
2000 Beyond the Fatal Shore, Interview with Robert Hughes, Episode #6 BBC TV serie
  'The Odds on the Archibald', Sebastian Smee, SMH, March 16
  'On the Canvas', Elizabeth Fortescue, Daily Telegraph, March 15
  'Go you good thing', Sharon Vergis, SMH, March 15
  'Framed and they've got form', Darren Knight and John McDonald, SMH, March 15
  'Hanging out for the Archibald', Giles Auty, The Australian
  'Frame and Fortune', Edmund Capon, SMH, March 20
  Australian Artist, Vol. XVI No.12 June 2000, p.21
  'Bright-Eyed and Bushy-Tailed', Sebastian Smee, SMH Metro May 26
  'Utopia Art', Andrew G Frost, Australian Art Collector, Issue #8
1998 'Interview with collector, Hugh Jamieson', Australian Art Collector Issue #2
  'Porn Again NETurally', Sebastian Smee, SMH Metro, October 24
  Faces of Hope (cat), Amnesty International
  Drawn from Life (cat), Deborah Edwards and Andrew Sayers, National Gallery of Australia
1995 King of the Accordian (cat), J. Eisenberg, New England Regional Art Museum, NSW
1994 Who's Who of Australian Artists, National Association of Visual Arts (NAVA)
  The Encyclopedia of Australian Art, revised and updated by Susan McCulloch
  Contemporary Australian Painting from the Allen Allen and Hemsley Collection (cat.)
1992 Communicative Abstraction/Philosophical Reflections, Rudolf Talmacs, Utopia Art Sydney
  On the Dark Side (cat), Belinda Cotton, New England, Regional Art Museum, NSW
  King of the Mountain (cat), Noosa Regional Gallery, Queensland
1990 Artists and Galleries of Australia Volume II 1990, Max Germaine, Craftsman House Press
  Images of Religion in Australian Art (cat), Rosemary Crumlin, Bay Books
1988 Australian Contemporary Drawing; Resurgence and Redefinition, Arthur McIntyre, Boolarong Press
1987 Best of Young Australians Exhibition from the Budget Collection (cat.), National Gallery of Victoria
1986 Drawing in Australia, Contemporary images and ideas, Janet McKenzie, Macmillan, Melbourne
  Backlash: The Australian Drawing Revival 1976-1986 (cat), Ted Gott, National Gallery of Victoria
  6th Biennale of Sydney: Origins Originality + Beyond (cat), satellite exhibition, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney
  Review 'Pleasure of the Gaze', ArtNetwork, Summer-Autumn 1986, p.19
1985 Pleasure of the Gaze (cat), Art Gallery of Western Australia
1984 Australian Art Review, Leon Parossien
1983 Australian Perspecta (cat), Bernice Murphy, Art Gallery of New South Wales
  D'Un Autre Continent: L'Australie le reve et le real (cat), Musee D'Art Moderne, Paris

awards and commissions

2009 Winner Eutrick Memorial Still Life Award (EMSLA) Coffs Harbour Regional             Gallery, NSW
2002 Highly Commended, Wynne Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales
1998 BT Australia, 400 George St, Sydney
1990 Windsor and Newton Painting Prize, Coventry Gallery, Sydney
1988 Savage Club Drawing Prize, Melbourne
1982 Tamarisque Prize, Alexander Mackie College, Sydney

teaching experience

2007 'Walking the Landscape', Art Workshops Australia, Byron Bay, QLD
2000 'Drawing the Nude', Workshop, Hazelhurst Regional Gallery and Arts Centre, NSW
1998-2000 Painting lecturer, National Art School, Sydney
  Life Drawing teacher, National Institute of Dramatic Art, UNSW
2000 Visiting lecturer in Drawing and Painting, Calrossy School, Tamworth
1987-94 Art Program Co-ordinator, Panania East Hills Vocational Skillshare
1988-89 Drawing teacher, College of Fine Art, UNSW
1987 Visiting lecturer, Canberra School of Art, ANU

scholarships and residencies

2002 Hill End Artist in Residence (invited artist)
  Bundanon Trust Artist in Residence
2001 Bundanon Trust Artist in Residence (invited artist)
  New England Artist in Residence (invited artist)
2000 National Art School Staff Travelling Scholarship
  New England Regional Art Museum Artist's Travel Scholarship

 

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