TED MAY ART
Abridged Biography and Qualifications

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Birth Date:   27th January 1939 in Ryde, N.S.W.                                    
Status:   Single

Education:       

  Diploma of Fine Art - National Art School, Sydney
     

Positions :

                                                                                                                                             
2001 - Current   Painting and Drawing Full Time
2001   Resigned from Melbourne Arts Club to concentrate on painting
1999 -2000   President / Director Melbourne Arts Club                                                                    
1995 -1998   Executive Director Melbourne Arts Club                   
1994   Instigated & formed the Constitution / Business Plan for the Melbourne Arts Club
1988 -1990   Partner in Real Estate Agency
1985 -1991   Part Time Lecturer in Drawing at Monash University Caulfield Campus
1985 - 1988   Part Time Lecturer in Drawing at the Victorian College of theArts, Arts School
1980 -1989   Part Time Lecturer in Drawing at RMIT Art School
1980 -1985   Gallery Director RMIT Gallery and Faculty Gallery
1977 -1980   Part Time Lecturer in Drawing at RMIT Art School
1975 -1976   Full time Lecturer in Painting and Drawing at RMIT Art School
1974    Part Time Lecturer in Drawing at Caulfield & Prahran Art Schools, Melbourne
1972 -1974   Overseas – Returning June 1974
1965 -1972    Part Time Teacher - National Art School and subsidiary colleges Sydney
1965 -1970   Part Time Teacher - Newcastle Art School
1964    Part Time Art Teacher - Belmore Boys & Auburn Girls High Schools,Sydney
1963   Diploma of Fine Art
1962   Commenced Full Time Art Course - National Art School, East Sydney Tech
1955 -1961   Attended part time Art Classes - East Sydney Technical College
    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   Depositions Clerk – Supreme Court of NSW
1958   National Service 17/18th Infantry Battalion, Holdsworthy Military Camp
1956 -1958   Accounts Clerk – John Fairfax Ltd. (Sydney Morning Herald)  
1954 -1956   Clerk Herald Sun Newspaper  
1954   Apprentice Wall and Floor Tiler
   

 

    Other Relevant Experiences
2004   Visited - Vienna, Paris, London
2003   Judged the 31st Meeniyan Art and Craft Exhibition
1999   Elected as a member of the Federation of International Tsai-mo Artists
1986   Organised & conducted 1st Artist in Residence Program, Tafe Colleges, Perth WA
1984   Public Relations Officer for RMIT Careers Program
1982   Guest Lecturer at the Western Australian Institute of Technology
1980   Judged the Warburton Art Prize
1979    Guest Lecturer at the University of New England in Armidale, NSW
1978   Instigated & conducted 1st Summer School at the National Gallery of Victoria
1975 -1978   Conducted Summer Schools at numerous country centres in Victoria
1972 -1974   Toured - Pacific Islands, South & Central America, Mexico, U.S.A., and Canada
1964 -1972   Conducted numerous Summer Schools throughout NSW Rural Communities

 

   
1980 -2000   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.

 

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