Sandra Leveson (born 1944), also known as Sandra Leveson-Meares, is an Australian painter, printmaker, and teacher.

Training

From 1959, aged fourteen, to 1963, Leveson studied design at Caulfield Institute of Technology where she and sculptor Ken Leveson met while he was taking fashion illustration.{{Cite news , date=3 June 1971 , title=They've no time for getting bored , pages=22 , work=The Age She continued studies at the

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1959-63 and they married in 1966 and lived in Sandringham and both taught at Brighton Technical College. In 1971 they were contemplating buying nineteenth-century mill near

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"for another environment to work in," but instead converted a warehouse to a studio-cum-townhouse at 4 Tyrone Street,

South Yarra South Yarra is an inner-city suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 4 km south-east of Melbourne's Central Business District, located within the Cities of Melbourne and Stonnington local government areas. South Yarra recorded a popul ...

. She undertook overseas study in the UK and US in 1974 and 1976.

Career and reception

Teacher

While resident at 23 Tennyson Street,

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,{{Cite book , last1=De_Groen , first1=Geoffrey , url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/963500747 , title=Conversations with australian artists , last2=Mackinnon , first2=Leah , date=1978 , publisher=Quartet Melbourne , isbn=978-0-908128-00-6 , location=Melbourne , language=English , oclc=963500747 where she was photographed in 1970 by Paul Cox (lecturer at Prahran College) with her then husband Ken, Leveson taught printmaking at Brighton Technical College. From 1970 to 1982 she lectured in Fine Art at the

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where she was Head of printmaking 1972–82. In Sydney, Prahran College graduate

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made a sequence of photographs of her in 1974 for ''A Book About Australia Women.''

Artist

In the late mid-1960s Leveson adopted a geometric

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style in her early screen prints.{{Cite web , last=Leveson , first=Sandra , date=1970 , title=Optic series D 1972 , url=https://collection.qagoma.qld.gov.au/objects/13858 , access-date=2022-04-03 , website=Queensland Art Gallery {{! Gallery of Modern Art Of these reviewer

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wrote:

Good design wins out too often. These prints may contain intricacies but never real difficulties for the spectator. They do too much and make life much too easy with their bland matt colors. Pleasant enough and skilful in their decorative organisatiton, it's a pressure free art, demanding little and sustaining little. The exhibition, one suspects, hides a better artist than it reveals. The shaped polyptych upstairs promises a curtness awaiting future delivery.{{Cite news , last=McCaughey , first=Patrick , date=27 November 1968 , title=Art , pages=6 , work=The Age

Later works established her as a colourist when in 1968 they were shown at Pinacotheca Gallery, Melbourne, in a joint show ''Recent prints 18 – 29 November'' with Alan Warren.''The Sun'', 20 November 1968, p23 However, despite their adherence to the high Modernist colour field style and to

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then ascendant, as Foster points out, Leveson's work, and

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's likewise, was not included amongst the predominantly male artists' in the 1968 The Field survey. In 1971 Leveson started screen printing on her canvases. Ruth Faerber in 1972 confirmed the lyrical quality of her imagery;

Sandra Leveson uses an optical off-register dot pattern to create moire patterned surfaces in lyrical romantic color. Built up with a minute pointilistic technique, large silkscreen prints in editions, single canvases and double-sided glass images conjure up drifting recangular and diamond forms, structured by strongly contrasting stable and strict borders of flat color. Skill and sensitivity are superbly combined in works of restful elegance.{{Cite news , last=Faerber , first=Ruth , date=2 March 1972 , title=Entertainment and the Arts —Looking In-Looking Out , pages=6 , work=The Australian Jewish Times , url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-page29403754

That emphasis led her American Abstract Expressionist-influenced works of the 1970s, and first seen in Sydney in 1972 at The Holdsworth Galleries, which in turn was adapted to her semi-abstract representation of expansive Australian landscape''.'' However McCaughey continued to regard Leveson's work of this period, shown at Realties at the end of 1972, as lightweight;

They make all the right moves for seriousness. I mean they've got "color spread", "optical displacement" and even some cautious shaped prints. But we've all been dragged round this track too often for the moves to come off. There's not a twitch we can't predict, except one's own aghast grimace.{{Cite news , last=McCaughey , first=Patrick , date=13 December 1972 , title=Bauble and bon bon ring out the year , pages=2 , work=The Age

Daniel Thomas pointed out in her 1974 show at Bonython the link between Leveson's screen printing, through the use of stencils, with her painting, describing the effect in her "Optic Series" as "like looking at a pale Rothko through a flyscreen." Thomas noted that she was then selling works at around $1,000.{{Cite news , last=Thomas , first=Daniel , date=7 February 1974 , title=Art swing to the extremes , pages=7 , work=The Sydney Morning Herald Leveson in interview said the effect was inspired on her overseas residencies during which she took photographs of mist and fog, "showing images behind a curtain, a natural haze." ''Age'' reviewer Maureen Gilchrist summing up exhibitions of the year 1976 concluded that Leveson's at Realities gallery, with those of

at Powell Street, were "the year's most compelling," her "large canvases, painted and then successively silkscreened with one of the dominant colors, achieves extraordinarily subtle effects of hovering, vibration and translucency. These lyrical works have such titles as ''Lesbos'', evoking a female consiciousnses." In April, Gilchrist reviewed the survey of ten years of the artist's work held at Melbourne University, and remarked on its evolution and the influence of her overseas travel to see Noland,

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and

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;{{Cite news , last=Watson , first=Bronwyn , date=14 August 1987 , title=Galleries , pages=14 , work=The Sydney Morning Herald

In the earlier screen prints and acrylics Leveson was involved with optics and with creating a simple, clearly defined, geometric regularity. Gradually she began to relinquish this approach and is now attempting a far more complex unity. In the new canvases she begins with a brushy, gestural spread of colors, usually applied centrally, and then successively screens one of the dominant colors over these, employing a silkscreen technique. The effect is a series of semitransparent veils ..The effect is as fugitive as an apparition, but it is not amorphous. The silk-screened veil of dots acts as a regulating device, a grid, balancing the fluid, spontaneously brushed gestures of the hand.

Paul Taylor of the same retrospective also noted the synthesis of "juxtaposed gestural strokes with the screenprint grid and also...the lyrical palette." In April 1978 Leveson was invited onto a "Discussion Panel On Painting," at the

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in conjunction with the exhibition of a paintings there by John Walker, chaired by Patrick McCaughey, with David Aspden,

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, John Firth-Smith,

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and John Peart. Then in June that year joined in the symposium "Views on Recent Changes in Women's Art", with

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, Helen Geier, Memory Holloway, Jenny Watson,

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at Powell Street Gallery South Yarra. In 1987, Leveson was again invited to the

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as a speaker in "Artists on Art," beside

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, John Firth-Smith,

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, Michael Johnson, Colin Lanceley, Terence Maloon on Hilarie Mais, Susan Norrie and Richard Dunn,

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and John Wolseley for the Centre for the History of the Decorative Arts. Also by 1978, Leveson had found a receptive market in

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, Texas, for Australian landscapes that looked familiar to Texans, exhibiting paintings and prints at Gallery One, later named William Campbell Contemporary Art.{{Cite news , last=Robertson , first=Laura , date=12 November 1978 , title=Art Notes , pages=103 , work=Fort Worth Star-Telegram{{Cite news , last=Wilson , first=Wade , date=25 December 1994 , title=In the Galleries : Australian artist has landscape love affair , pages=106 , work=Fort Worth Star-Telegram

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, in 1978, reacted with a contrary view of her contributions at Susan Gillespie Galleries, Canberra; "Sandra Leveson's suite of four screenprints, 'Half Moon Bay' Nos , to 4, with its juxtaposition of photographic seascapes and soft pastel-like backgrounds, leads to nowhere and is executed with a professional slickness that leaves one uneasy."{{Cite news , last=Grishin , first=Sasha , date=20 December 1978 , title=Varied quality from five women artists , pages=26 , work=The Canberra Times Likewise

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, reviewing her contributions to a group show at Realities in early 1979 in ''The Age'' considered her lyricism as having been taken too far, with "gestures...devoid of energy and her colors favor powder puff flesh and eye shadow. ''Fresh Water Plain'' has superimposed dot screens for added strength, but it doesn't come off. Not as good as her early stuff."{{Cite news , last=Rooney , first=Robert , date=21 March 1979 , title=Art , pages=2 , work=The Age

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in 2006 characterised her style as "coolly restrained abstracts, which are often characterised by pastel blues and pinks divided by a horizon-like line."''{{Cite book , last1=McCulloch , first1=Alan , url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/80568976 , title=The new McCulloch's encyclopedia of Australian art , last2=McCulloch , first2=Susan , last3=McCulloch Childs , first3=Emily , date=2006 , isbn=978-0-522-85317-9 , language=English , oclc=80568976'' In 1980 after her second husband Russell Meares accepted a professorship in psychology at the University of Sydney, he and Leveson relocated from Melbourne to Sydney, converting a former chemical warehouse in Balmain for a large studio. However her Harbour-inspired imagery left reviewer Memory Holloway detecting no emotion and "one idea, one image which is flogged into submission: a tough and aggressive triangle," in over-simplified compositions in which "the eye is never enticed into the work, never arrested or caught in any visual tangle, but glides effortlessly over the slick surfaces without interruption." On her own work in 1987 Leveson remarked; *Basically I'm a romantic so I like that thing about the image being not quite there, fugitive, ephemeral."

Exhibitions

Solo

Leveson achieved early recognition and from 1962, then aged 18, she commenced a series of solo shows, first in Melbourne's

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, and

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and later, Greythorn,{{Cite news , date=16 June 1995 , title=Advertising , pages=26 , work=The Australian Jewish News , url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article261944610 and at

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in Sydney. Others include; * 1962, to 29 November: ''Sandra Leveson'',

, St Kilda * 1968, 18 – 29 November: ''Recent prints'' Joint show with Alan Warren. Pinacotheca''''' * 1970: Joint show, Strines Gallery, Cnr Rathdown & Faraday Sts.,

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* 1972, March: Holdsworth Art Gallery * 1972, December: Realities, Toorak * 1974, from 1 February: Sandra Leveson, paintings and prints and Gordon Andrews, jewellery and sculpture. Bonython Art Gallery, Sydney * 1976: Realities Gallery, Toorak * 1977, 26 April - 3 June: ''A Decade of Sandra Leveson'', Melbourne University * 1978, 4–18 August: Paper Works, with Peter Powditch, Powell Street Gallery * 1978, 18 November – 8 December: First US exhibition, Gallery One, Fort Worth, Texas * 1980, 29 March – 12 April: ''Sandra Leveson, New Paintings, Australia's Finest Contemporary Artist'', Gallery One, Fort Worth, Texas * 1980, to 24 December: Prints by Sandra Leveson, Axiom Gallery, Richmond * 1982, 5–26 November: ''Recent paintings and works on paper by Sandra Leveson Meares''. Realities gallery, Toorak * 1983, 7 May – 18 June: ''Sandra Leveson-Meares,'' Gallery One, Fort Worth, Texas * 1985, 5–23 February: ''Sandra Leveson-Meares - Gouaches,''

, Sydney * 1985, 22 October – 6 November: ''Paintings by Sandra Leveson-Meares'', William Campbell Contemporary Art, Fort Worth, Texas * 1987, 4–22 August: Recent Paintings by Sandra Leveson, Macquarie Galleries, Sydney * 1989, 18 March–8 April: ''Sandra Leveson : Recent Paintings,'' Macquarie Galleries, Sydney * 1991: Exhibition of works by Sandra Leveson and David Van Nunen from the 1990 Artists' Camp organised by the Museums and Art Galleries of the Northern Territory{{Cite book , last1=Leveson , first1=Sandra , url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/951486757 , title=Artists in Kakadu, 1990. , last2=Van Nunen , first2=David , last3=Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory , date=1991 , publisher=Museums and Art Galleries of the Northern Territory , location=Darwin , language=English , oclc=951486757 * 1991, 12 October – 16 November: ''Australian painter Sandra Leveson,'' William Campbell Contemporary Art, Fort Worth, Texas * 1994, to 8 January: Sandra Leveson 30 Year Survey, Campbelltown City Art Gallery * 1994:

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with a tour of regional galleries * 1994, December–January: William Campbell Contemporary Art, Fort Worth, Texas * 1994–95, 2 December to 22 January: ''Sandra Leveson 30 Year Survey'', Campbelltown City Art Gallery * 1995: Wagga Wagga City Art Gallery * 1995, June: ''Sandra Leveson : Impressions of the Landscape'', Greythorn Galleries, Toorak * 1996: ''A Decade of Sandra Leveson 1986-1996'', BMG Art Gallery, Adelaide * 2011: ''Sandra Leveson : painting of poise and passion,'' TarraWarra Museum of Art * 2015: ''Sandra Leveson : painting of poise and passion,'' Macquarie University. Art Gallery

Group

* 1971: ''A Decade of Australian Painting'', McClelland Gallery 1971 * 1973: ''Georges Invitation Art Prize'' * 1975, 26–28 November: ''Artists For Labor And Democracy : An exhibition of paintings, sculptures, prints, drawings and photographs''. Ian Armstrong,

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, Jack Courier, Peter Campbell, Liz Cross,

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, Peter Cole,

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, Keith Nicholl, John Scurry, Len French, Mary Hammond, Sandra Leveson, John Neeson,

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, Chris Pyett, Max Thompson, Bob Grieve,

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, Vic Majzner,

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, Sweeney Reed, Patrick Geir,

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, and others, at

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* 1977, 29–31 January: Brighton City Cultural Centre opening exhibition, with

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and others, Halifax St., Middle Brighton * 1978, May: Prahran College Staff exhibition,

. Vic Majzner, David Wilson, Sandra Leveson, Helen Geier, Jeff Makin and others * 1978, 29 July – 8 August: David Aspden, John Firth Smith. Sandra Leveson, Peter Powditch. Powell Street Gallery, Sth Yarra * 1978, 12–22 December: ''Works on paper'' with

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, Sandra Leveson, Kate Briscoe, Jenny Watson and

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. Susan Gillespie Galleries, Manuka * 1979, March:

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, Don Laycock, John Wolseley,

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, Realities gallery Toorak * 1979, September: Contemporary prints and paintings including artists Miro,

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, Folon, Gene Davis, Bruno Bruni,

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, Sandra Leveson,

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and

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. Gallery One, Fort Worth, Texas, USA * 1982, from September 1982 – February 1985: ''Australian Screenprints'', with Ray Arnold,

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, David Rose, Stephen Spurrier, Arthur Wicks, Norman Wight and Paul Zika. Starting

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, Brisbane and touring 21 state and regional galleries throughout Australia * 1986, April: ''ArtWalk '86'', with Dan Allison, Jack Boynton, Michel Demanche, Ken Dixon, Peter Dean,

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, A.M. Hudson, Val Hunnicutt, Doug Hill, Nancy Lamb, Sandra Leveson-Meares, Larry Millar, David McCullough, Richard Thompson,

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, Karl Umlauf and Sara Waters. William Campbell Contemporary Art, Fort Worth, Texas{{Cite news , last=Wilson , first=Wade , date=24 April 1986 , title=One Fort Worth gallery included in Art Walk '86 , pages=36 , work=Fort Worth Star-Telegram * 1986, 15 August – 21 September: ''Original prints of the 70s by Syd Ball, John Coburn, Sandra Leveson and Martin Sharp''. Lake Macquarie Gallery, Old Council Chambers, Speers Point, Lake Macquarie. * 1987, 18 September – 17 October: Gallery artists, William Campbell Contemporary Art, Fort Worth, Texas * 1988, to 16 January: Gallery artists, including work by Michael Johnson,

, John Coburn, Sandra Leveson,

John Beard John Beard may refer to: * John Beard (artist) (born 1943), Welsh artist and painter * John Beard (colonial administrator) (died 1685), Chief Agent and Governor of Bengal * John Beard (embryologist) (1858–1924), Scottish embryologist and anatomi ...

Bernard Ollis Bernard Ollis (born 1951 in Bath, England) is an Australian artist and painter who lives and works in Sydney and Paris. Ollis is the former director of the National Art School, Sydney. Born in Bath, England, Ollis is a graduate of Cardiff Scho ...

and others, Macquarie Galleries * 1988, to 17 July Contemporary views of New England with works by

Cressida Campbell Cressida Campbell (born 8 July 1960) is an Australian artist. She was born in Sydney in 1960 to Ruth and Ross Campbell. She studied at East Sydney Technical College in 1978 and 1979. Her older sister is actress Nell Campbell. Her first husba ...

, Sandra Leveson, Max Miller, Angus Nivison,

and

Guy Warren Guy Warren of Ghana, also known as Kofi Ghanaba (4 May 1923 – 22 December 2008), was a Ghanaian musician, best known as the inventor of Afro-jazz — "the reuniting of African-American jazz with its African roots" — and as a member of The T ...

. New England Regional gallery, Armidale * 1988: ''Aspects of Australian Art'', Houston International Festival exhibition, Houston, 1988 * 1988: ''Contemporary views of New England '': Cressida Campbell, Sandra Leveson, Max Miller, Angus Nivison, Ann Thomson, Guy Warren * 1991, August: Gallery artists, William Campbell Contemporary Art, Fort Worth, Texas * 1994, to 18 May: ''Prints and Etchings'' by Michael Leunig, John Spooner, Anita Lawrence, Sandra Leveson and Louis Kahan, Avant Garden, 46 Vincent St, Daylesford. * 1994, 12–30 November: ''Prints'' by Frank Hodgkinson, Sandra Leveson. Jeff Makin, Graeme Peebles, David Rankin. Distelfink, 432 Burwood Rd Hawthorn * 1995, 15–16 July: Works from Australian Galleries artists, 5th International Works on Paper Fair, Sydney * 1995, July: ''Limited edition prints'' by Lin Onus, Frank Hodgkinson, Graeme Peebles, Sandra Leveson, Gallery 130, 130 Flinders St, Melbourne * 1996, from 19 January: ''It's a Guitar Shaped World Two'', Tamworth Country Music Festival exhibition, Tamworth City Gallery * 1996, April: ''Original prints by Jan Neil, Clem Millward, Sandra Leveson and David Rose'', Steven Print, 259 Victoria St. Abbotsford * 1998, to 31 March: Summer Exhibition; Paintings by Prominent Australian Artists, Wagner Art Gallery, 39 Gurner St, Paddington * 1998, 8 October: ''Recent paintings by Sandra Leveson'', Greythom, 462 Toorak Rd, Toorak * 2000, 26 October–12 November: New Works: Paintings By Sandra Leveson, Greythorn Galleries, 462 Toorak Rd, Toorak * 2000, 9–23 December: Christmas Exhibition, Contemporary paintings by leading Australian artists including: Albert Tucker, Arthur Boyd, Charles Blackman, David Boyd, David Aspen, Judy Cassab, John Coburn, Ray Crooke, Robert Dickerson, Geoff Dyer, Donald Friend, William Boissevain, Frank Hodgkinson, Robert Juniper, Louis Kahan, Sandra Leveson! Leonard Long, Sidney Nolan, John Olsen, John Perceval, John Rigby, Susan Sheridan, Brett Whitely & Margaret Woodward. Wagner Art Gallery, 39 Gurner St, Paddington * 2001, 8–31 March: ''Australian Women Artists'': Hermia Boyd, Celia Perceval, Sandra Leveson. Elizabeth Durack, Eveline Syme, Janet Cumbrae-Stewart, Barbara Tribe. Vanessa Wood Fine Art, Mosman * 2001, 5–30 April: Autumn Collection, Fred Cress; Brett Whiteley; Sidney Long; Robert Dickerson; Arthur Boyd; Jason Cordero; David Boyd; Sandra Leveson: Frances Fussell; Elizabeth Durack; Celia Perceval; Hermia Boyd; John Firth-Smith; Charles Blackman; John Coburn; Harry Bilson; J.J. Hilder; Sir Ivor Hele; Thomas Gleghorn; Scott McDougall. Vanessa Wood Fine Art,

Mosman Mosman is a suburb on the Lower North Shore region of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Mosman is located 8 kilometres north-east of the Sydney central business district and is the administrative centre for the local governm ...

* 2001, 26 October – 25 November: Portia Geach Memorial Award, Julianne Mills, Yuri Shimmyo, Sandra Leveson, National Trust, S. H. Ervin Gallery, The Rocks, Sydney * 2012, 5 April to 3 May: ''Less is more - more or less'', with George Baker, Malcolm Benham, Virginia Coventry,

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, Ruth Faerber, Vivienne Ferguson, Victor Greenaway, Steve Harrison, Anna Herold Pola, Jenny Herbert-Smith, David Horton, Melanie Howard, Tim Maguire, Frank Marinelli, Russell McQuilty, Miranda Parkes, Robyn Quinn, Peggy Randall, Jai Smith, Carly Snoswell, Daniel Templeman,

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, Shoalhaven City Arts Centre{{Cite book , last1=Dingle , first1=Max , url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/785984364 , title=Less is More - More or Less: from the M G Dingle & G B Hughes Collection. , last2=Shoalhaven City Arts Centre (Nowra , first2=N.S.W.) , date=2012 , publisher=Shoalhaven City Arts Centre , isbn=978-0-646-57149-2 , location=Nowra, N.S.W. , language=English , oclc=785984364 * 2013: ''Great and Small'', Yvonne Boag, Ian Grant, Sandra Leveson, Alan Oldfield, Eric Smith, Anita Taylor,

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; Pinson Gallery at Syndicate at Danks, Sydney

Awards and commissions

* 1971: 1971 Corio Painting Prize, Geelong Art Gallery * 1972: Alice Prize, Painting Prize, Northern Territory Art Gallery * 1972: Trustees Award, Queensland Art Gallery * 1975: Trustees Purchase Award, Tasmanian Art Gallery & Museum * 1978: Commissioned Patron Print for Australian Print Council * 1978: Transporting Art, painted trams, Victorian Arts Board

Collections

National Gallery of Australia The National Gallery of Australia (NGA), formerly the Australian National Gallery, is the national art museum of Australia as well as one of the largest art museums in Australia, holding more than 166,000 works of art. Located in Canberra in th ...

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Art Gallery of South Australia The Art Gallery of South Australia (AGSA), established as the National Gallery of South Australia in 1881, is located in Adelaide. It is the most significant visual arts museum in the Australian state of South Australia. It has a collection of ...

Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory The Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory (MAGNT) is the main museum in the Northern Territory. The museum is located in the inner Darwin suburb of Fannie Bay. The MAGNT is governed by the Board of the Museum and Art Gallery of the ...

: MAGNT *

National Gallery of Victoria The National Gallery of Victoria, popularly known as the NGV, is an art museum in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Founded in 1861, it is Australia's oldest and most visited art museum. The NGV houses an encyclopedic art collection across two ...

Queensland Art Gallery The Queensland Art Gallery (QAG) is an art museum located in South Bank, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. The gallery is part of QAGOMA. It complements the Gallery of Modern Art (GOMA) building, situated only away. The Queensland Art Gallery ...

Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery The Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery (TMAG) is a museum located in Hobart, Tasmania. The museum was established in 1846, by the Royal Society of Tasmania, the oldest Royal Society outside England. The TMAG receives 400,000 visitors annually. ...

(TMAG) *

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Artbank Artbank is an art rental program established in 1980 by the Australian Government. It supports contemporary Australian artists and encourages a wider appreciation of their work by buying artworks which it then rents to public and private sector c ...

* International Convention Centre Sydney *

Geelong Art Gallery The Geelong Art Gallery, currently known as Geelong Gallery, is a major regional art gallery, gallery in the city of Geelong, Victoria, Geelong in Victoria (Australia), Victoria, Australia. The gallery has over 6,000 works of art in its collectio ...

Newcastle Art Gallery The Newcastle Art Gallery (formerly the Newcastle City Art Gallery, Newcastle Region Art Gallery) is a large, public art museum in Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia. History Founded in 1945 with an art collection consisting of 123 works ...

{{Cite web , title=Newcastle Art Gallery , url=https://newcastle-collections.ncc.nsw.gov.au/gallery.php , access-date=2022-04-03 , website=newcastle-collections.ncc.nsw.gov.au *

University of Melbourne The University of Melbourne is a public research university located in Melbourne, Australia. Founded in 1853, it is Australia's second oldest university and the oldest in Victoria. Its main campus is located in Parkville, an inner suburb nor ...

University of Western Australia The University of Western Australia (UWA) is a public research university in the Australian state of Western Australia. The university's main campus is in Perth, the state capital, with a secondary campus in Albany, Western Australia, Albany an ...

M.G. Dingle and G.B. Hughes Collection

Shoalhaven The City of Shoalhaven is a local government area in the south-eastern coastal region of New South Wales, Australia. The area is about south of Sydney. The Princes Highway passes through the area, and the South Coast railway line traverses t ...

City Arts Centre

References

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External links

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