Deborah Beck

Deborah Beck has held 18 solo exhibitions in Sydney and Melbourne, participated in multiple group exhibitions throughout Australia, and has been a finalist in the Dobell prize for drawing, the Sulman Prize, the Blake Prize and the Portia Geach Memorial Prize for portrait painting. She studied at the National Art School and Alexander Mackie CAE in the 1970's and received a Master of Arts (History) at the University of Sydney in 2010. She has taught in art schools in Sydney for over twenty years and is currently a lecturer, historian, collections manager and archivist at the National Art School in Darlinghurst. She co-curated major exhibitions at the NAS Gallery in 2008, 2011, 2013 and 2016.
Deborah Beck is also an author and her first book Hope in Hell: a history of Darlinghurst Gaol and the National Art School, was published by Allen and Unwin in 2005. Her second book Set in Stone: the Cell Block Theatre was published by UNSW press in April 2011. She received a NSW Premier's History award for Set in Stone in 2012, and in 2013 held a residency at the Royal College of Art, London. Her third book, Rayner Hoff: the life of a sculptor, NewSouth Publishing, was launched in March 2017 during an exhibition of Hoff’s work which Deborah curated in his former studio at the National Art School.

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Pat Harry

Patricia Harry OAM: Curriculum Vitae

Qualifications and Experience

1951 - 54 Solicitors’ Admission Board, Sydney 1960 - 66 Painting, Sculpture, Ceramics, Wollongong Technical College 1966 - 69 St Pauls College, Bellambi

1972 - 73 Illawarra Grammar School, Wollongong

1974 - Daramalan College, Canberra

1974 - 75 Canberra Technical College

1976 - 96 Australian National University, Institute of the Arts, Canberra School of Art, Painting and Foundation Workshops

1987 - Triangle Art Workshop and Exhibition, New York State, USA

1990 - A/g Senior Lecturer, Head of workshop (Painting), Canberra School of Art

1992 - Visiting Artist, Silpakorn University, Bangkok, Thailand

1995 - 96 Artist in residence, Silpakorn University, Bangkok, Thailand

1996 - Artist- in-residence, Faculty of Painting, Sculpture & Graphic Arts, Silpakorn University, Bangkok, Thailand

1998 - ‘L’ete’; ‘Au carrefours de l’arbre at le croix’, Appelboom, La pommerie, St Setiers, France

Solo Exhibitions

1971Ronlyn’s Gallery, Wollongong

1971Lidums Gallery, Adelaide

1972Ronlyn’s Gallery, Wollongong

1974‘Buy Them Before It’s Too Late’, Hogarth Galleries, Sydney

1975‘It’s Never Too Late’, Hogarth Galleries, Sydney

1976University of Wollongong Union

1983Roslyn Oxley9, Sydney

1984Christine Abrahams Gallery, Melbourne

1985The Irving Sculpture Gallery,

1985Sydney Arts Council Gallery, Canberra

1986Solander Gallery, Canberra

1988DC - Art, Sydney

1989‘Monotypes’, Ben Grady Gallery, Canberra

1991Ben Grady Gallery, Canberra

1992‘The Family’, Crawford Gallery, Sydney

1993‘A Company of Strangers’, Crawford Gallery, Sydney

1993Sydney Anima Gallery, Adelaide

1994Meridian Gallery, Melbourne

1995‘Occupied Territory’, Crawford Gallery, Sydney

1995‘The Participants’, Anima Gallery, Adelaide

1996Gallery of the Faculty of Painting, Sculpture & Graphic Arts, Silpakorn University, Bangkok, Thailand

1996‘Pat Harry:Silver Anniversary, 25 Years of the Artist’s Work’, Nolan Gallery, Canberra

1997‘The Participants and Others’, Olsen Carr Art Dealers, Sydney

1998Olsen Carr Art Dealers, Sydney

1999Olsen Carr Art Dealers, Sydney

2000‘Pat Harry: Cadenza; paintings 1999-2000’ Michael Carr Art Dealer, Sydney

2001‘A thousand whispers’ Michael CarrArt Dealer, Sydney

2002‘this form, this face, this life..’, Michael Carr Art Dealer, Sydney

2003‘The Lotus Eaters’, Michael Carr Art Dealer, Sydney

2004‘Emerald City’, Michael Carr Art Dealer, Sydney

2004‘Hanging out’ William Mora Gallery, Melbourne

2004‘Recent works’ Solander Gallery Canberra

2007 ‘Pat Harry: A Life in Paint’ Michael Carr Art Dealer, Sydney

2009 ‘A Retrospective’ July-September 2009, Wollongong City Gallery

2017 Heads UpJanet Clayton Gallery, Sydney

Group Exhibitions

1973Wollongong Art Prize, Wollongong

1974Daramalan College Invitation Art Exhibition, Canberra

1974Wollongong Art Prize, Wollongong

1975‘Capital Art’ Anna Simons Gallery, Canberra

1975‘Artists for Labor’

1975‘It’s Great to be an Australian Woman’, Hogath Galleries, Sydney

1981University of N.S.W. Union, Sydney

1982Canberra School of Art Staff Exhibition, CSA Gallery, Canberra

1986‘Time & Place’, CSA Gallery, Canberra

1987Triangle ArtWorkshop and Exhibition, New York State, USA

1987 & 89 Canberra School of Art Staff Exhibition, CSA Gallery, Canberra

1992 ‘Drawing ‘92’, CSA Gallery, Canberra

1992 ‘Compact Art’, Ben Grady Gallery, Canberra

1993‘Post Script’, Meridian Gallery, Melbourne

1994‘Furniture by Pat Harry & Philip Spelman’, Meridian Gallery, Melbourne

1994‘Playing with Fire’, Canberra School of Art Staff Exhibition, CSA Gallery, Canberra

1995Canberra National Sculpture Forum

1996‘Speculations 1’, ANCA Gallery, Canberra

1997‘Devoured by Paint’, Olsen Carr ArtDealers, Sydney

1998‘Desperately seeking Canberra’, Canberra Musum and Gallery

1998‘L’ete’; ‘Au carrefours de l’arbre at le croix’, Appelboom, La pommerie,

1998St Setiers, France

1999‘Collective wisdom’, Canberra Museum and Gallery

1999 ‘A Selection of Important International and Australian

1999Paintings and Sculpture’, Michael Carr Art Dealer , Sydney

1999‘Old and New - The Millennium Summer exhibition 1999-2000’, Michael Carr Art Dealer, Sydney

2000‘Summer Exhibition’, Michael Carr Art Dealer, Sydney

2000‘Sculpture from the Sea’ (touring exhibition New South Wales), Hazelhurst Regional Gallery & Art Centre, Campbelltown City Bicentennial Art Gallery, Manly ArtGallery & Museum

2003‘Permanent Visions’ Canberra Museum and Gallery, ACT

2016 People: Janet Clayton Gallery

Commissions

* 1996 South Sydney City Council in assoc. Soroptomists Society. Pat Harry and Philip Spelman - Sculptural chair for King Street, Newtown

* 2000 ACT Government. Pat Harry and Philip Spelman, sculptural furniture (seats) for Civic Square Canberra.

* 2001 ACT Government. Pat Harry and Philip Spelman, sculptural furniture (seats) for Civic Square Canberra. (Second commission)

Selected Bibliography

- Haynes, Peter‘Pat Harry’, Canberra School of Art Staff Exhibition, 1982

- Lynn, Elwyn‘Australian Newsletter’, Art InternationalVol. XXV/3-4, March 1992

- Haynes, Peter‘Canberra Scene’, Art & Australia, Autumn, 1986 & 1987

- ‘Triangle Art Workshop’, New York, 1988

- Haynes, Peter‘Pat Harry: Through Two Decades’, Canberra, 1989

- Kleinert, Sylvia‘The Family Series’, Sydney, 1992

- Anderson, Partricia‘A Company of Strangers’, Sydney, 1993

- Haynes, Peter ‘Capital Art’, Art & Australia, Sydney, 1993

- Haynes, Peter‘Pat Harry, The Business of Painting’, Craft Arts International, No. 32, 1994

- Haynes Peter ‘Pat Harry; Silver Anniversary’, Nolan Gallery, Canberra, 1996

- Barbara Tuckerman, ‘Cadenza: paintings 1999-2000’ , Michael Carr Art Dealer, Sydney, 2000

- Peter Harris, ‘Driven to abstraction’ , Asian Art News, Vol 11, No 5, 2001 pp 52-55

- Patricia Anderson, ‘The Trouble with Harry’ Australian Art Review’ issue 3 Nov 2003 - Feb 2004 p 103

Reviews

‘Adelaide Advertiser’, Adelaide JN 1993

‘Age’, Melbourne. Sue Cramer 5/1984

‘Australian’, Sydney. Elwynn Lynn 10 11/1981

Elwynn Lynn 2/1985

‘Canberra Times’, Canberra. G de Groen 10/1975.

Sasha Grishin 24/6/1982

Sasha Grishin 2/4/1989

Sasha Grishin 6/1991

Sasha Grishin 17/7/1996

‘Daily Telegraph’, Sydney. G Richardson 20/4/1974

W E Pidgeon 7/1975

‘Sydney Morning Herald’. Sandra McGrath 17/4/1983

Lynette Fern 1/5/1992

‘Wollongong Mercury’. Col Jordan8/1971

Col Jordan6/1972

Col Jordan 2/11/1972

Dennis Kocks 11/1975

Collections

National Gallery of Australia

Wollongong University Art collection

Artbank

ACT Arts Council

Australian National University

Canberra Museum and Gallery

Canberra School of Art

Australian National University

Australian Embassy, Bangkok

Australian Embassy, Dubai

Corporate and private collections throughout Australia and in London, Vienna and Washington

The University of Wollongong Art Collection

The Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart