New Paintings + Works on Paper 2012
Exhibition dates: Tue 4 to Sat 29 September 2012
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New Paintings and Works on Paper 2012
“In the electric action of Ross Laurie’s painting you can see the marks of progress. These steps are important to the artist in documenting the creative journey, while also giving the wider audience clues to the structure and sequence behind the total view. Laurie likes to examine, or read, a painting – whether one of his own making or that of another painter. He looks closely at the combination of gesture, abrasion, colour, form and flow. Through the textures of the paint’s physical application, the artwork becomes a landscape in itself. These contours have to hang together in a composite tension, or it simply isn’t working…”
James Compton, 2012. Read the full essay here
Ross Laurie Artist Profile Feature
Not the Way Home: VIEW HERE
Born
Walcha, 1961
Education
1986 Painting, Victorian College of the Arts, Prahan Campus, Melbourne 1985 Painting, printmaking and sculpture, Newcastle Polytechnic, UK 1984Painting and drawing, Foundation Course, St Martins School of Arts, London 1983Painting and Printmaking, Mitchell College, Bathurst 1982Visual Art, Sydney College of the Arts
Solo exhibitions
2011Paintings and Works on Paper, Scott Liversey Gallery, Melbourne
Paintings, Damien Minton Gallery, Sydney2010Paintings and Works on Paper, Damien Minton Gallery, Sydney2009 Damien Minton Gallery, Sydney
Moree Plains Regional Gallery 2008Damien Minton Gallery, Sydney 2007Damien Minton Gallery, Sydney 2006Damien Minton Gallery, Sydney 2005Damien Minton Gallery, Sydney
Wrestles with Landscape, New England Regional Art Museum 2002Damien Minton Gallery, Newcastle 1999Coventry Gallery, Sydney 1998Old School Gallery, Walcha 1997Coventry Gallery, Sydney 1996Coventry Gallery, Sydney 1995Coventry Gallery, Sydney 1994 Coventry Gallery, Sydney 1993William Mora Galleries, Melbourne 1992New England Art Museum 1991Tamworth City Gallery
William Mora Galleries, Melbourne
Ben Grady Gallery, Canberra 1990Linden Gallery, Melbourne 1988Girgis and Klym Gallery, Melbourne 1981Tamworth City Gallery
Parmenter Gallery, Walcha
Selected group exhibitions
2012Not the Way Home: 13 Artists Paint the Desert, S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney, and touring nationally
Melbourne Art Fair, Damien Minton Gallery and Artist Profile stands
Salon des Refuses, S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney
In Two Art, S.H Ervin Gallery
Big Picture Show, King Street on William Gallery, Sydney
Landscape Show, Defiance Gallery, Sydney
Five Bells, Damien Minton Gallery 2011Salon des Refuses, S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney
Works on Paper Award, Hazelhurst Regional Gallery, Gymea 2010 Dobell Prize for Drawing, Art Gallery NSW
Melbourne Art Fair 2009Hazelhurst Regional Gallery, Gymea, Works on Paper Award
New England Regional Art Museum, ‘New England Views’
Defiance Gallery, Sydney, ‘Same Place, Many Views’
Salon des Refuses, S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney 2008Melbourne Art Fair, Damien Minton Gallery
Paddington Art Prize (winner of the COFA Print Award) 2008North South East West, Damien Minton Gallery 2007Salon des Refuses, S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney 2006Salon des Refuses, S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney
Regional Encounters, Tamworth City Gallery
Walcha – City of Art, Gallery Karlovy Vary, Ostrov, Czech Republic
Same Place Different Views, Defiance Gallery, Sydney 2005The Year in Art, S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney
(Going) Out There, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, COFA, UNSW
Country Energy Art Prize, Coffs Harbour Regional Gallery and NSW Parliament House 2004England Picture, New England Regional Art Museum, Armidale
azelhurst Work on Paper Award, Hazelhurst Regional Gallery, Gymea 2003Surface Memories, Tamworth City Gallery
Country Energy Art Prize, New England Regional Art Museum, Armidale
Walcha – City of Art, New Contemporaries Gallery, Sydney 2000Melbourne Art Fair, Bryan Hooper Gallery, Sydney 1998Coventry Diary, Coventry Gallery, Sydney 1997Salon des Refuses, SH Ervin Gallery, Sydney 1995Salon des Refuses, SH Ervin Gallery, Sydney 1991Syme Dodson Gallery, Sydney 1989Drawings, William Mora Galleries, Melbourne 1988New Art Melbourne, Ivan Dougherty, Sydney
Gallery Artists, Girgis and Klym Gallery, Melbourne
Moet and Chandon Touring Exhibition 1987Moet and Chandon Touring Exhibition 1982New England Artists, Tamworth City Gallery
Commissions
2004Sculpture, Walcha Central School, Walcha 2001Preschool entrance sculpture, Walcha Preschool Inc, Walcha 1998Town entrance sculpture, Walcha Shire Council, Walcha
Prizes
2010Kings Art Prize winner 2008Paddington Art Prize (winner of the COFA Print Award) 1999Inaugural winner of the Norville Prize for Landscape Painting, Murrurundi
Collections
Macquarie Bank Art Collection
Australian National Gallery, Canberra
State Bank Collection, Victoria
Maritime Museum, Sydney
NRMA Collection, Sydney
Artbank
Gaden Ridgeway
La Trobe University Collection, Melbourne
New England Regional Art Gallery
Benalla Regional Art Gallery
Tamworth City Gallery
Coventry Collection, Sydney
Laverty Collection, Sydney
Newcastle Region Art Gallery
Private Collections, Australia, New Zealand and United Kingdom
Publications
‘Outback Inspiration’, review of Not the Way Home, John McDonald, Sydney Morning Herald Spectrum, 16 June 2012
‘Ross Laurie’ Artist Profile feature, 2012, Issue 18, February, 2012
‘Uncertain Moments’, review of Salon de Refuses, John MacDonad, Sydney Morning Herald, 28 April 2012
‘Current Affairs’, John McDonald, Sydney Morning Herald, 4 June 2005
New England Picture Catalogue, NERAM
Surfaces Memories Catalogue, Tamworth City Gallery
Walcha City of Art Catalogue, New contemporaries Gallery, Sydney
‘Past Master’, John McDonald, Sydney Morning Herald, 26 June 1996
‘Paintings that peer behind the shadows of reality’, Christopher Heathcote, Age, 19 May 1993
New Melbourne Catalogue, 1988
Moet and Chandon Catalogue 1987 and 1988