Stuart Watters
1979-1983
Bachelor of Arts (Visual Arts), City Art Institute, Sydney
1989
Awarded Inaugural Sir William Dobell Art Foundation Art Award
Master of Fine Arts, University of NSW, College of Fine Arts
Lecturer in Painting and Drawing, Australian Catholic University, Syd.
2007-2010
2008-
Solo Exhibitions
2013
If squares could talk, Gallery 9, Sydney
2010
The Shape of Language, Kudos Gallery, Sydney
2006
Wall Painting, Slot, Sydney
2005
Lines of Engagement, Boutwell Draper Gallery, Sydney
2003
Duplicity, Boutwell Draper Gallery, Sydney
2001
Repicturing Abstraction, Kaliman Gallery, Sydney
1999
Recent Paintings, Crawford Gallery
1997
Abstract Etcetera, Recent Paintings, Crawford Gallery
1996
Raw Geometry, Recent Paintings, Crawford Gallery, Sydney
1993
Non-Depictive Realism, ROM Gallery, Sydney
1985
Recent Paintings & Drawings, Hogarth Galleries
1984
Constructions & Silkscreens, Hogarth Galleries
Selected Group Exhibition
2015
Group Show, Gallery 9, Sydney
2015
Muswellbrook Art Prize, (Highly Commended finalist), MRAC
2012
Dobell Prize for Drawing, Art Gallery of New South Wales
2012
Salon des Refusés, S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney
2010
Dobell Prize for Drawing, Art Gallery of New South Wales
2010
Show and Tell, ACU National Gallery, Sydney
2009
Group Exhibition, ACU National Gallery, Sydney
2006
Fishers Ghost Art Prize, Campbelltown Arts Centre
2006
Still Life, Heiser Gallery, Brisbane
2006
Who Cares?, Boutwell Draper Gallery, Sydney
2005
Redlands Westpac Invitational Art Prize, Mosman Regional Gallery
2005
Salon des Refusés, S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney
2005
Liquid Properties, Boutwell Draper Gallery, Sydney
2005
Small Wonders, Delmar Gallery, Sydney
2004
Melbourne Art Fair, Exhibition Building, Melbourne
2004
Base Ten, Side On Gallery, Sydney
2002
Art on Paper, Kaliman Gallery
2002
Packsaddle Invitation, New England Regional Art Museum, Armidale
2002
Seven Artists, Kaliman Gallery
2001
Desires, Sir Herman Black Gallery, University of Sydney
2001
Inaugural Exhibition, Kaliman Gallery, Sydney
2000
The 1st Show Last Year of the Millennium, Robin Gibson Gallery, Syd. 1995
Gallery Artists, King Street Gallery, Sydney
1994
Gallery Artists, King Street Gallery, Sydney
1994
Melbourne Art Fair, Exhibition Building, Melbourne
1994
Studio Exhibition, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
1992
10 Square, Linden Gallery, Melbourne
1989
Sir William Dobell Art Foundation Art Prize, Art Gallery of NSW
1985
From Here and Beyond, Hogarth Galleries, Sydney
1984
New Works by Gallery Artists, Hogarth Galleries, Sydney
1983
Six New Printmakers, Hogarth Galleries, Sydney
Collections
Artbank; Sir William Dobell Art Foundation; University of NSW, College of Fine Arts & corporate and
private collections in Australia and overseas.
Selected Bibliography
ARTIST PROFILE, Process - Stuart Watters, Issue 22, 2013 p. 126-127
Gibson, Prue, Salon des Refuse, Australian Art Review, Issue 34, p.22
McDonald, John, Salon des Refuse, Spectrum, Sydney Morning Herald, August 28, 2012
McCulloch, Susan, Encyclopaedia of Australian Art, 2006
VOGUE Living, Living high, January/February 2005
Low, Lenny Ann, Pylon the Art, Exhibitions, Sydney Morning Herald, October 13, 2001
Art Almanac, Profile, September 2001
Lopez, Anne Marie, Kaliman Inaugural Exhibition, CitySearch, April 2001
Hynes, Victoria, Hip Joint, Metropolitan - Exhibitions, Sydney Morning Herald, March 23, 2001
Smee, Sebastian, Colour Clash, Arts, Sydney Morning Herald, August 31, 1999
Chance, Susan, Artful Lodgers, SHE, February 1998, p.132-5
Hampson, Jane, The best of what’s on this week, Timeout, Sun-Herald, November 23, 1997
Smee, Sebastian, Paint in the arts, Metro, Sydney Morning Herald, November 21,1997
Art Almanac, Profile, November,1997
McCulloch, Susan, Encyclopaedia of Australian Art, Allen & Unwin, 1994
Lynn, Elwyn, Curtain-raiser for an excellent year, The Australian, 5-6 February, 1994 p.13
Hutak, Michael, Walk into a garret today, Sydney Morning Herald, September 4, 1993
Lynn, Elwyn, The shape of abstract ambitions, The Australian, 20-21November, 1993 p.13
Lynn, Elwyn, War as an emotion in motion, The Australian, 8-9 May,1993 p.13.
Annual Report, Art Gallery of NSW, 1990, p.4 & p.17
Lynn, Elwyn, Mood, mass and melancholy, The Australian, 11-12 November, 1989 p.10
Exhibition Commentary, ART and Australia, Vol.22 No.3 p.321
Maloon.Terence, Little joy in a wet trudge around the galleries, Sydney Morning Herald, March, 1985