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27th January 1939 in Ryde, N.S.W. |
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Single |
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Education:
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Diploma of Fine Art - National Art School, Sydney |
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Positions :
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| 2001 - Current |
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Painting and Drawing Full Time |
| 2001 |
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Resigned from Melbourne Arts Club to concentrate on painting |
| 1999 -2000 |
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President / Director Melbourne Arts Club |
| 1995 -1998 |
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Executive Director Melbourne Arts Club |
| 1994 |
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Instigated & formed the Constitution / Business Plan for the Melbourne Arts Club |
| 1988 -1990 |
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Partner in Real Estate Agency |
| 1985 -1991 |
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Part Time Lecturer in Drawing at Monash University Caulfield Campus |
| 1985 - 1988 |
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Part Time Lecturer in Drawing at the Victorian College of theArts, Arts School |
| 1980 -1989 |
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Part Time Lecturer in Drawing at RMIT Art School |
| 1980 -1985 |
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Gallery Director RMIT Gallery and Faculty Gallery |
| 1977 -1980 |
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Part Time Lecturer in Drawing at RMIT Art School |
| 1975 -1976 |
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Full time Lecturer in Painting and Drawing at RMIT Art School |
| 1974 |
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Part Time Lecturer in Drawing at Caulfield & Prahran Art Schools, Melbourne |
| 1972 -1974 |
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Overseas – Returning June 1974 |
| 1965 -1972 |
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Part Time Teacher - National Art School and subsidiary colleges Sydney |
| 1965 -1970 |
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Part Time Teacher - Newcastle Art School |
| 1964 |
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Part Time Art Teacher - Belmore Boys & Auburn Girls High Schools,Sydney |
| 1963 |
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Diploma of Fine Art |
| 1962 |
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Commenced Full Time Art Course - National Art School, East Sydney Tech |
| 1955 -1961 |
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Attended part time Art Classes - East Sydney Technical College |
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Subjects : Fashion Design, Commercial Art, Illustration,Still Life, General
Drawing, Anatomy, Life Drawing, Still Life Painting,Composition Painting,
Methods & Materials, Silk Screen Painting & Etching, Portraiture Drawing
and Painting, Life Painting |
| 1958 -1962 |
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Depositions Clerk – Supreme Court of NSW |
| 1958 |
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National Service 17/18th Infantry Battalion, Holdsworthy Military Camp |
| 1956 -1958 |
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Accounts Clerk – John Fairfax Ltd. (Sydney Morning Herald) |
| 1954 -1956 |
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Clerk Herald Sun Newspaper |
| 1954 |
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Apprentice Wall and Floor Tiler |
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Other Relevant Experiences |
| 2004 |
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Visited - Vienna, Paris, London |
| 2003 |
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Judged the 31st Meeniyan Art and Craft Exhibition |
| 1999 |
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Elected as a member of the Federation of International Tsai-mo Artists |
| 1986 |
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Organised & conducted 1st Artist in Residence Program, Tafe Colleges, Perth WA |
| 1984 |
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Public Relations Officer for RMIT Careers Program |
| 1982 |
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Guest Lecturer at the Western Australian Institute of Technology |
| 1980 |
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Judged the Warburton Art Prize |
| 1979 |
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Guest Lecturer at the University of New England in Armidale, NSW |
| 1978 |
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Instigated & conducted 1st Summer School at the National Gallery of Victoria |
| 1975 -1978 |
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Conducted Summer Schools at numerous country centres in Victoria |
| 1972 -1974 |
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Toured - Pacific Islands, South & Central America, Mexico, U.S.A., and Canada |
| 1964 -1972 |
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Conducted numerous Summer Schools throughout NSW Rural Communities |
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| 1980 -2000 |
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Regular overseas trips for periods of up to three months working and exhibiting with artists in Spain at the Negro Gallery, Majorca; London at the Loiuse Hallett
Gallery, Pimblico; Germany at the Inter-Art Gallery-Reich, Cologne; and Italy at the Barberino val d'Elsa Gallery, Florence. |