Tim Allen
TIM ALLEN
ARTIST CV
Biography
1996-7 Awarded MFA
2012
2011
2010
2008
2007
2003
2002
1988 Graduate Diploma (Visual Art)
1985-7 BA (Visual Art)
1984 Studied
Solo Exhibitions
2015 Weswal Gallery
2014
2014
2013
Defiance Gallery
Milton House Gallery
Catherine Asquith Gallery
Defiance Gallery
Adelaide Perry Gallery
Defiance Gallery
Defiance Gallery
Defiance Gallery
Bryan Hooper Gallery
Bryan Hooper Gallery
2001
1999
1998
1997
Bryan Hooper Gallery
Coventry Gallery
Coventry Gallery
First Draft Gallery
Selected Group Exhibitions
2015
‘Art from Australia’
2014
Hong Kong Affordable Art Fair
Adelaide Perry Prize for Drawing
Coorah Contemporary Gallery
Paddington Art Prize
Opening Exhibition, Gallery Klei
NSW Parliament Plein Air Painting
Prize
Adelaide Perry Prize for Drawing
College of Fine Arts, UNSW,
Sydney
City Art Institute, Sydney
City Art Institute, Sydney
Meadowbank TAFE, Sydney
Tamworth, NSW
Sydney
Mackay, QLD
Melbourne
Sydney
Sydney
Sydney
Sydney
Sydney
Sydney
Sydney
Sydney
Sydney
Sydney
Sydney
Gail Art Museum, Seoul, South
Korea
Hong Kong
Adelaide Perry Gallery, Sydney
Wentworth Falls, NSW
Sydney
Gallery Klei, Sydney
NSW Parliament, Sydney
Adelaide Perry Gallery, Sydney
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2013
2012
2011
2010
2009
2008
2007
2006
Stations of the Cross 2014
Abstracting the Landscape
Coorah Contemporary Gallery
Kedumba Drawing Award
Sydney
Defiance Gallery, Sydney
Wentworth Falls, NSW
Wentworth Falls
The PLC Sydney Collection Exhibition Adelaide Perry Gallery, Sydney
The Landscape Exhibition Gate Gallery, Wollombi
Dobell Prize
Paddington Art Prize
Larapinta Trail Artists
Art Gallery of NSW
Mary Place Gallery, Sydney
Shoalhaven City Arts Centre,
Nowra
Milton House Gallery, Mackay Seeing the same landscape through different eyes
Painting the Everglades, Tim Allen and
Michael Herron
Everglades Gallery, NSW
NSW Parliament Plein Air Painting
Prize
Adelaide Perry Prize for Drawing
Abstraction in Landscape
Larapinta Trail Artists
Norvill Art Prize
The Great Australian Landscape
The Larapinta Exhibition
Ship Shape: The Boat Show
The Landscape Show
The Drawing Show
2 nd
Annual Drawing Exhibition
Norvill Art Prize
NSW Parliament, Sydney
Adelaide Perry Gallery, Sydney
Defiance Gallery, Sydney
Moree Plains Gallery, Moree
Murrurundi, NSW
Tim Olsen Gallery, Sydney
Defiance Gallery, Sydney
Defiance Gallery, Sydney
Defiance Gallery, Sydney
Defiance Gallery, Sydney
Adelaide Perry Prize for Drawing
The Drawing Show
Dobell Prize
Kedumba Drawing Award
Nolan on Lovel Gallery, NSW
Murrurundi, NSW
Adelaide Perry Gallery, Sydney
Defiance Gallery, Sydney
Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney
Kedumba Gallery, Wentworth
Same Place, Many Views
Falls
Defiance Gallery, Sydney
Defiance Gallery Drawing Exhibition Defiance Gallery, Sydney
Alan Cleary Collection
Stations of the Cross 2008
Same Place, Many Views
Wynne Prize
Same Place, Many Views
Shelf Life
Dobell Prize
Hawkesbury Regional Gallery
St Ives Uniting Church
Defiance Gallery, Sydney
Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney
Defiance Gallery, Sydney
Delmar Gallery, Sydney
Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney
Paddington Art Prize
Norvill Art Prize
Michael Nagy Fine Art, Sydney
Murrurundi, NSW
Art on the Rocks Exhibition Sydney
Defiance Gallery Drawing Exhibition Defiance Gallery, Sydney
Shelf Life Delmar Gallery, Sydney
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2005
2004
2002
2000
1999
Same Place, Many Views Defiance Gallery, Sydney
The Defiance Drawing Show Defiance Gallery, Sydney
Tim Allen and Dave Horton, new work Defiance Gallery, Sydney
Six Artists Paint Greece
S H Ervin Café, Sydney
Art in Food
S H Ervin Café, Sydney
Melbourne Art Fair Melbourne, Vic
Melbourne Art Fair
Contemporary Landscape
Inaugural Exhibition
Tutors Exhibition
Kedumba Drawing Award
Melbourne, Vic
Bryan Hooper Gallery, Sydney
Bryan Hooper Gallery, Sydney
Grafton Regional Gallery
Kedumba Gallery, Wentworth
1998
1997
1996
1995
Residencies
Coventry Diary
Coventry Diary
Stripp Gallery
Ether Ohnetitel Gallery
International Contemporary Painting
Festival
James Harvey Gallery
Arthaus Gallery
2015
2014
2013
2011
2008
1991
Falls
Coventry Gallery, Sydney
Coventry Gallery, Sydney
Melbourne, Vic
Melbourne, Vic
Seoul Fine Arts Centre, Seoul,
Korea
Sydney
Sydney
Artist Residency, Nock Art Foundation, Hong Kong
Artist in Residence, Pymble Ladies College
Artist in Residence, Pymble Ladies College
Artist in Residence, PLC, Croydon, Sydney
Bundanon Trust, Artist in Residence Program, NSW
WASPS Studio Residency, Glasgow, Scotland
Awards
2012 Highly Commended, Norvill Art Prize
2010
People’s Choice Award, Adelaide Perry Prize for Drawing
2010 Commended, Norvill Art Prize
Collections
Supreme Court of Victoria
Allens Arthur Robinson
Artbank
Kedumba Collection of Contemporary Australian Drawings
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Bundanon Trust Collection
PLC Sydney Collection
Hawkesbury Regional Gallery
TAFE NSW, Western Sydney Institute
Seoul Fine Arts Centre, Korea
Chandler Coventry collection
Selected Bibliography
Richard Morecroft and Alison Mackay; Artist Profile issue 26, Feb 2014, pgs. 90-95
Alison Mackay, ‘Desert landscapes visit the coast’, South Coast Style, Summer 2012/13
Elizabeth Fortescue, ‘Green thumbs’, Daily Telegraph, September 22 2012
Lynne Dwyer, Open Gallery, Spectrum, Sydney Morning Herald, July 28 2012
‘The Great Australian Landscape’, Australia Day wrap, Sydney Morning Herald, January
26 2012
Elizabeth Fortescue, ‘Off the wall’, Daily Telegraph, December 10 2011
Open Gallery, Spectrum, Sydney Morning Herald, June 5-6 2010
Andrew Taylor, ‘Splendour in the grass’, The Sun-Herald, May 30 2010
Christopher Allen, ‘Dobell Drawing Prize’, The Australian, November 13 2009
‘Drawing Success’, Penrith Press, November 24 2009
John McDonald, ‘Wynne and Sulman Prizes’, Sydney Morning Herald, March 24-25
2007
‘Landscape Show’ Sydney Morning Herald, March 29 2007
Jaqui Knox, ‘Artists star for a day’, Blue Mountains Gazette, March 7 2007
Valerie Kabov, ‘Paddington Art Prize 2006’ artbusiness.com.au, December 1 2006
‘Taking Form’, Vogue Living, March/April 2006
Erin O’Dwyer, Sun Herald, March 12 2006
‘Mountain Fresh’, Sun Herald, May 15 2005
Elizabeth Fortescue, Daily Telegraph, August 9 2003
Elizabeth Fortescue, Daily Telegraph, November 9 2002
Sasha Grishin, ‘Chandler Coventry’, Art and Australia Vol 37 No 2 1999
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