BIOGRAPHY |
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| 1942 |
Born, Sydney, Australia |
| 1961-62 |
Studied at National Art School
Published cartoons in Oz; The Bulletin; Sydney Morning Herald & Honi Soit |
| 1963-67 |
Scenic Artist with ABC Television |
| 1967 |
Young Contemporaries Prize |
| 1972 |
Artist in Residence, Power Studio, Cite des Ars, Paris |
| 1981 |
Artist in Residence, Michael Karolyi Foundation, France |
| 1982 |
Lived in Hungary |
| 1986 |
Mahlab Art Prize, New South Wales Law Society |
| 1987 |
Finalist, Doug Moran National Portrait Prize |
| 1993 |
Winner, The Archibald Prize, Art Gallery of NSW |
| 2004 |
Winner, Dobell Prize for Drawing |
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| SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS |
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| 2009 |
Precursive Paintings, Greenaway Art Gallery, Adelaide |
| 2008 |
Australian Galleries, Sydney |
| 2007 |
Australian Galleries, Sydney |
| 2006 |
The Apotheosis of Ern Malley, Philip Bacon Galleries, Qld |
| 2005 |
The Apotheosis of Ern Malley, Australian Galleries, Melbourne |
| 2004 |
The Apotheosis of Ern Malley, Hazelhurst Regional Gallery and Arts Centre, Sydney |
| 2003 |
The Apotheosis of Ern Malley, Greenaway Art Gallery, Adelaide
Ern Malley Series, Australian Galleries, Sydney
Ern Malley Series, Bathurst Regional Gallery - ceramic urns in collaboration with Lino Alvarez |
| 2001 |
Artist and Muse, Australian Galleries, Melbourne |
| 2000 |
Artist and the Muse, Greenaway Art Gallery, Adelaide
Artist and Muse, Australian Galleries, Sydney |
| 1999 |
Artist and the Muse, Philip Bacon Galleries, Brisbane |
| 1997 |
Seywald Gallery, Salzburg, Austria
Dance, Greenaway Art Gallery, Adelaide
The Royal Suite, Michael Nagy Fine Art, Sydney |
| 1996 |
Phillip Bacon Gallery, Brisbane
Lyall Burton Gallery, Melbourne |
| 1995 |
The Royal Suite, Greenaway Art Gallery, Adelaide
The Royal Suite, Solander Gallery, Canberra
The Royal Suite, Michael Nagy, Sydney |
| 1994 |
Dover Street Gallery, London, UK |
| 1993-94 |
DH Lawrence Series, Art Gallery of New South Wales |
| 1993 |
DH Lawrence Series, Greenaway Art Gallery, Adelaide;
Lyall Burton, Melbourne; Phillip Bacon Galleries, Brisbane |
| 1992 |
Solander Gallery, Canberra; Wollongong City Gallery; Michael Nagy Fine Art, Sydney |
| 1991 |
Solander Gallery, Canberra; Phillip Bacon Galleries, Brisbane |
| 1990 |
BMG Gallery, Adelaide |
| 1989 |
Greenhill Galleries, Perth |
| 1988 |
William Mora Galleries, Melbourne; Artmet, Sydney |
| 1987 |
Gary Anderson Gallery, Sydney |
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| SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS |
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| 2008 |
Australian Galleries, Sydney
Wish you were here, Tweed River Art Gallery, Murwillumbah South, NSW |
| 2007 |
Judit and Garry Shead, Greenaway Art Gallery, Adelaide |
| 2006 |
50th Anniversary Exhibition, Australian Galleries, Melbourne
Fine Australian Prints and Drawings, Australian Galleries, Melbourne
Australian Galleries, Melbourne
Australian Galleries, Sydney |
| 2005 |
Australian Galleries, Painting and Sculpture, Sydney
Archibald Prize exhibition, Art Gallery of NSW
Fireworks, Tracing the incendiary in Australian Art, Artspace travelling exhibition, Mackay, Rockhampton, Townsville, Gladstone, Hazelhurst, Wagga Wagga, Bathurst, Ballarat, Mornington Peninsula, and University Art Museum, QLD |
| 2004 |
Dobell Prize for Drawing, The Art Gallery of NSW
ILLOS the art of contemporary illustration, New Contemporaries, Sydney
In the presence of all creatures great and small, Australian Galleries Works on Paper, Sydney |
| 2003 |
Kelly Culture, Reconstructing Ned Kelly, State Library of Victoria, Melbourne |
| 2000 |
Archibald Prize, Art Gallery NSW [Sasha Grishin] |
| 1998 |
Sulman Prize, Art Gallery NSW [The bearers]
Blake Prize, Darling Park Gallery [Epiphany]
Swingtime: East coast – West coast, Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, University of Western Australia |
| 1997 |
Archibald Prize, Art Gallery NSW [Carpe(t) Diem – Adam Rish]
Sulman Prize, Art Gallery NSW [Sacred cow] |
| 1996 |
Archibald Prize, Art Gallery NSW and national tour [Jacqui McKenzie]
5th Doug Moran Portrait Prize and touring exhibition [Jacqui McKenzie]
Sulman Prize, Art Gallery NSW [Visitation] |
| 1995 |
Archibald Prize, Art Gallery NSW [Alice Kalmar-Spigelman]
Sulman Prize, Art Gallery NSW [Parable of the ointment] |
| 1993 |
Archibald Prize, Art Gallery NSW [Tom Thompson] (Awarded)
Blake Prize, Blaxland Gallery, and national tour [The Magdalene in the Pharisees house] |
| 1992 |
Tony Coleing and friends, National Gallery of Australia
Blake Prize Exhibition, Blaxland Gallery, Sydney [The Marriage in Cana] |
| 1991 |
Archibald Prize Exhibition, Art Gallery NSW [Robert Adamson] |
| 1989 |
Prints and Australia, National Gallery of Australia |
| 1988 |
Portraits of Australia, Doug Moran National Portrait Prize Collection, National Touring Exhibition [Portrait of Martin Sharp] |
| 1987 |
Archibald Prize, Art Gallery NSW [Frank Watters] |
| 1985 |
Archibald Prize, Art Gallery NSW [Bruce Petty]
Recent Acquisitions of Australian Prints, National Gallery of Australia
Archibald Prize, Art Gallery NSW [Martin Sharp] |
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| SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY |
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Adamson, Robert; Cross the Border, Prism Books, Sydney, 1977
Auty, Giles; ‘Modern Mutants’, Weekend Review, The Australian, 4-5 Nov 1995
Bonython, Kym; Modern Australian Painting 1950-75, Rigby, Adelaide, 1980
Bonython, Kym; Modern Australian Painting 1970-75, Rigby, Adelaide, 1975
Bonython, Kym; Modern Australian Painting 1975-80, Rigby, Adelaide, 1980
Catalano, Gary; What Are the Wild Waves Saying?, Watters Gallery, Sydney, 1974
Catalano, Gary; Watercolours of Garry Shead, Aspect, No. 2/1, 1976, pp10-14
Catalano, Gary; Years of Hope: Australian Art and Art Criticism 1959-1968, Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1980
Catalano, Gary; Building a Picture: Interviews with Australian Artists, McGraw-Hill, Sydney, 1997
Cantrill, Arthur and Corinne, Garry Shead Interview, Cantrills Film notes, 13 April 1973
Dodd, Terri; ‘Garry Shead wins the 1993 Archibald prize – At Last!’, Australian Artist, May 1993
Frost, Annabel; ‘Shedding connections’, Australian Country Style, May 1994
Gleeson, James; ‘Open Verdict on Violence’, Sunday Telegraph, 3 December 1967
Grishin, Sasha; Garry Shead and the Erotic Muse, Craftsman House, 2001
Grishin, Sasha; ‘Garry Shead: Kangaroo’, Canberra Times, 13 June 1992
Grishin, Sasha; Garry Shead: The D.H. Lawrence Paintings, Craftsman House, Sydney, 1993
Grishin, Sasha; ‘Fleshing Out a Royal Debate’, Canberra Times, 1 Sept 1995
Hard, Lynn; ‘Australia Suite’, ETT Imprint, Sydney 1998
Hawley, Janet; ‘Just one look’, Good Weekend, Sydney Morning Herald, 18 August 2001
Horton, Mervyn; Present Day Art in Australia, Ure Smith, Sydney 1969
Horton, Mervyn; Australian Painters of the Seventies, Ure Smith, Sydney 1975
Krausmann, Rudi; Poems- Shead, Garry: Drawings, Fast Books, Sydney 1991
Krausmann, Rudi; The Journey and other poems, Fast Books, Sydney 1999
Lynn, Elwynn; ‘The Use of Pornography in Painting’, The Bulletin, 20 Nov 1971
McKenna, Mark; This Country – A reconciled republic?, UNSW Press, Sydney 1999
McKenna, Mark: ‘Poetics of place’, Griffith Review, Griffith University, QLD, Summer 03-04
McDonald, John; ‘Garry Shead: The Royal Suite’, Sydney Morning Herald, 18 Nov 1995
McGregor, Craig; In the Making, Nelson, Sydney 1969
McGregor, Craig; People, Politics and Pop: Australia in the Sixties, Ure Smith, Sydney 1968
McGregor, Craig; ‘For the Love of Lawrence’, Good Weekend, Sydney Morning Herald, 25 July 1992, pp 10-15
Mendelssohn, Joanna; Kangaroo, D.H. Lawrence at Thirroul: Paintings by Garry Shead, Wollongong City Gallery, Wollongong, 1992
Rish, Adam; The Royal Suite: Paintings by Garry Shead, catalogue essay, 1995
Smith, Bernard; Australian Painting 1788-1970, Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1971
Tubb, Rochelle; ‘Look, The Queen Has No Clothes’, Sun Herald, 22 October 1995
Weight, Greg’ ‘Garry Shead’s tribute to D.H. Lawrence’, Australian Artist, August 1993 |
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| COLLECTIONS |
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Artbank, Sydney; Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney; Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide; Australian National University Art Collection, Canberra; Ballarat Fine Art Gallery, Victoria; Brisbane City Art Collection, Qld
Lake Macquarie City Art Gallery, NSW; Mildura Arts Centre, VIC; National Film Library, Canberra; National Gallery of Australia, Canberra; National Museum of Budapest, Hungary; National Portrait Gallery, Canberra; Newcastle Region Art Gallery, NSW; Northern Territory University Art Collection, Alice Springs; Parliament House Art Collection, Canberra; Philip Morris Collection, Canberra; Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane; Queensland University of Technology Art Collection, Brisbane; Shepparton Art Gallery, VIC; State Bank Collection, Sydney; Sydney Morning Herald Collection, Sydney; University of New South Wales Collection, Sydney; University of Western Australia Art Collection, Perth; Visual Arts and Crafts Board, Sydney; Wollongong City Art Gallery, NSW. |
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