Brian Dunlop (b.1938)
Biography
1938 Born Sydney, Australia
1995-2006 Visited Turkey, Italy and the United States
1984- Lives and paints in Melbourne and Port Fairy, Victoria
1982-83 Lived and worked in Tuscany
1980-81 Artist-in Residence, University of Melbourne
1975-79 Part-time teaching at Alexander Mackie College, Sydney
1973-80 Painted in Sydney
1972-75 Part-time teaching at N.S.W. University, School of Architecture
1970-73 Lived and painted in Ebenezer, New South Wales
1969-74 Part-time teaching at East Sydney Technical College
1965-68 Painted in Rome, Skyros, Majorca, Morocco and London
1962 Travelled mainly through southern Europe
1954-59 Studied at the National Art School, Sydney
Solo Exhibitions
2008 Eva Breuer Art Dealer, Sydney
2007 Dandenong Regional Gallery, Dandenong, Victoria
2006 Eva Breuer Art Dealer, Sydney
2004 Eva Breuer Art Dealer, Sydney
2003 Australian Galleries, Melbourne
2003 Eva Breuer Art Dealer, Sydney
2001 Eva Breuer Art Dealer, Sydney
2001 Eva Breuer Art Dealer, Sydney
1999 Eva Breuer Art Dealer, Sydney
1998 Eva Breuer Art Dealer, Sydney; Axia Modern Art, Melbourne
1997 Eva Breuer Art Dealer, Sydney; Editions Gallery, Melbourne; Survey portrait exhibition (Waverley, Warrnambool, Castlemaine & Hamilton Galleries)
1989-97 4 solo exhibitions Australian Galleries, Melbourne & Sydney
1992 Carrick Hill, Adelaide
1988 Agnews Gallery, London
1986 Beehive Gallery, Adelaide
1985 Realities Gallery, Melbourne
1971-1984 10 solo exhibitions, Macquarie Galleries, Sydney
1980 University of Melbourne Gallery
1977 Victor Mace Gallery, Brisbane
1974 Adelaide Festival of Arts
1963-66 Barry Stern Gallery, Sydney
Awards
1999 Savage Club Drawing Prize
1981 Sulman Prize
1978 Andrew & Lilian Pedersen Drawing Prize
1977 Civic Permanent Award, Canberra; Coffs Harbour purchase; Gold Coast purchase
1976 Civic Permanent Award, Canberra; R N Ansett Hamilton Award
1958 Le Gay Brereton Drawing Prize
Collections
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
Australian National University, Canberra
all State Galleries
Benalla Art Gallery
Hamilton Art Gallery
Newcastle Regional Art Gallery
University of Melbourne
University of Sydney
La Trobe University
Monash University
Rockhampton Gallery
La Trobe Valley Gallery
Wollongong Gallery
Darwin Gallery
Canberra College
Castlemaine Gallery
Ballarat Gallery
Parliament House, Canberra
Ipswich Gallery
Government House, Melbourne
Parliament House, Sydney
State Bank of South Australia
State Bank of New South Wales
High Court, Canberra
State Bank of Victoria
Artbank
Mornington Peninsula Arts Centre
Warrnambool Gallery
Hamilton Gallery
Mt Gambier Gallery
Wagga Gallery
Geelong Gallery
Bendigo Gallery
National Portrait Gallery, Canberra
Commissions
National Capital Development Commission, ACT
Australia Post (two sets of postage stamps)
Sydney Stock Exchange
Over ninety portrait commissions, including a Governor-General, three Chief Justices, three Archbishops and Victoria’s sesquicentenary portrait of the Queen (1984)
Bibliography
2001 Strahan, L. Stone Music: A New Zealand Sequence, Craftsman House
2001 Art and Australia
1999 Strahan, L. Brian Dunlop, 2nd edition, Craftsman House, 1999
1997 Craft International No.89
1996 Australian Printmakers in the 1990’s , Sasha Grishin
1994 What have these eyes seen? Catalogue for survey portrait exhibition
1994 Eumeralla Paintings Lynne Strahan, Australian Galleries
1990 Strahan, L.Brian Dunlop, Craftsman House, 1990
1986 Artists’ Gardens , Jennifer Phipps, Bay Books
1986 Drawing in Australia, Janet McKenzie, Macmillan
1984 Artists and Galleries of Australia, Max Germaine, Boolarong QLD
1984 Australian Artists December, Vol.1, No.6
1984 This Australia Spring
1984 Belle Magazine July-August, No.64
1984 The Art of Brian Dunlop, Paul William White, The Craftman’s Press
1983 Australian Water Colour Painters 1780-1980, Jean Campbell, Rigby
1982 Art and Australia Vol.19, Winter
1981 Modern Australian Painting 1975-80, Kim Bonython, Rigby
1979 Art and Australia Vol.16, Autumn
1976 National Archives Interview, Canberra
1976 A Matter of Taste, Terry Ingram, Collins
1976 Modern Australian Painting 1970-75, Kim Bonython, Rigby.