JOHN MORRIS
1954 Born Newcastle
SOLO EXHIBITION
2014 “Visibility” NAS Gallery, Hamilton
East, Newcastle
2010 Moree Region Art Gallery
2008 "Second Life" NAS Gallery
Newcastle
2006 Boutwell Draper Gallery,
Sydney
2004 Boutwell Draper Gallery,
Sydney
2003 “Nearby” Von Bertouch Gallery,
Newcastle
2002 “Out of the Dark”- Ten years of
painting, Lake Macquarie City Art
Gallery
2002 Von Bertouch Gallery,
Newcastle
2001 BBA Gallery, Sydney
2000 “Weather” Von Bertouch
Gallery, Newcastle
1998 “Land” Von Bertouch Gallery,
Newcastle
1998 “Winter” Coventry Gallery,
Sydney
1997 “Landscapes from Limbo” Von
Bertouch Gallery
1997 “A Change of Light”, Coventry
Gallery, Sydney
1996 “Half Light” Rocket Art,
Islington, Newcastle
1993 “Recent Works” Newcastle
Region Art Gallery
1992 “Worlds Away” 249 Gallery,
Newcastle
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2015 Spring, NAS Gallery, Newcastle
2015 Wynne Prize, Salon de Refuse,
Mornington Peninsula Region Art
Gallery
2015 Wynne Prize, Salon de Refuse,
S.H.Evin Gallery, Sydney
2015 Weswal Gallery, Tamworth
2015 Calleen Art Prize, Cowra
Regional Art Gallery
2014 “Salon” NAS Gallery, Newcastle
2013 Finalist, Gosford Art Prize
2013 Finalist, Glover Prize, Evandale,
Tasmania
2013 Eternity, Damien Minton Gallery,
Redfern
2012 Norvill Art Prize, Murrurundi
2011 Macquarie Bank Collection, S H
Ervin Gallery, Sydney
2011 “Up Close & Personal” Collection
of Dr Simon Power, S H Ervin
Gallery,Sydney
2011 “New Romantics” Gippsland Art
Gallery, Victoria
2011 “New Romantics” Mars Gallery,
Melbourne
2011 Calleen Art Award, Cowra
Regional Art Gallery
2010 Norvill Art Prize, Murrurundi
2010 John Leslie Art Prize, Gippsland
Art Gallery
2010 "Painters and Perception"
Newcastle Region Art Gallery
2009 Muswellbrook Art Prize
2009 Glover Prize, Evandale,
Tasmania
2007 ‘Location’ Boutwell Draper
Gallery, Sydney
2007 ‘Launch’ Front Room Gallery,
Newcastle Art School
2007 ‘Green’ John Paynter Gallery,
Newcastle
2006 ‘Unlocked’ John Paynter Gallery,
Newcastle
2006 Melbourne Art Fair, Boutwell
Draper Gallery
2006 ‘Who Cares’ Boutwell Draper
Gallery
2006 ‘Swell’ Lake Macquarie City Art
Gallery
2006 Maitland City Art Prize
2006 ‘Drawing In’ Newcastle Art
School Gallery
2004 Melbourne Art Fair, Boutwell
Draper Gallery
2004 “City Unfolding:Newcastle from
1807-2004”
Newcastle Region Art Gallery
2003 Sydney Art Fair, Boutwell
Draper Gallery
2003 Rocketart, Newcastle
2003 “Hidden Treasures” the Maitland
Collection Maitland Regional Gallery
2003 Maitland City Art Prize
2003 Collectors Choice, Von Bertouch
Gallery
2002 Collectors Choice, Von
Bertouch Gallery, Newcastle
2002 Norvill Art Prize, Murrurundi
2002 Salon de Refuses, SH. Ervin
Gallery, Sydney
2002 Maitland City Art Prize
2001 Fisher’s Ghost Award, Campbell
town Art Gallery
2001 Collectors Choice, Von Bertouch
Gallery, Newcastle
2001 Tattersall’s Art Prize, Tattersall’s
Club, Brisbane
2001 “Well Connected”, Inaugural
exhibition, Lake Macquarie City Art
Gallery
2001 “Common Ground”, University
of Newcastle
2000 Melbourne Art Fair, BBA Gallery
2000 Norvill Art Prize
2000 BBA Gallery, Sydney
2000 Acquisitions, Manning Region
Art Gallery, Taree
2000 Rocket Art, Newcastle
2000 Community Arts, Newcastle
1999 Collectors Choice, Von
Bertouch Gallery, Newcastle
1999 Fisher’s Ghost Award, Campbell
town Art Gallery
1998 Diary Show, Coventry Gallery,
Sydney
1998 Christmas Show, Coventry
Gallery, Sydney
1998 Collectors Choice, Von
Bertouch Gallery, Newcastle
1997 Diary Show, Coventry Gallery,
Sydney
1997 Christmas Show, Coventry
Gallery, Sydney
1997 Collectors Choice, Von
Bertouch Gallery, Newcastle
1996 Collectors Choice, Von
Bertouch Gallery, Newcastle
1996 Rocket Art, Newcastle
1996 Menkins Art Prize, Newcastle
1996 Acquisitions, Newcastle Region
Art Gallery
1996 Maitland City Art Prize
1996 Newcastle Show Art Prize
1995 Prime Television Art Prize,
Newcastle Region Art Gallery, Gold
Coast City Art Gallery, Ballarat City Art
Gallery, Lanyan Gallery, ACT
1995 Rocket Art, Newcastle
1995 Newcastle Show Art Prize
1995 Crawford Gallery, Sydney
1994 Prime Television Art Prize,
Newcastle Region Art Gallery, Dubbo
Regional Art Gallery, Tamworth City
Art Gallery
1994 A.A.A. Gallery, Chippendale
1994 “Survey of Male Artists of the
Hunter Region” Maitland City Art
Gallery
1993 Prime Television Painting Prize,
Newcastle Region Art Gallery, Dubbo
Regional Art Gallery, Gold Coast City
Art Gallery
1992 Maitland Art Prize
1992 “Tilt into Light”, View Factory,
Newcastle
1989 Graduate Diploma Exhibition,
Newcastle University
1989 “Arterial”, Newcastle
Contemporary Gallery, Newcastle
1988 Drawing Prize, Grafton Region
Art Gallery
1987 “Drawn Show”, Newcastle
Contemporary Gallery
1986 “Foreign Landscapes”, Cafe
Gritz, Newcastle
1986 “Little Works”, Newcastle
Contemporary Gallery
1983 “Garden follies”-Neogardenism Chelsea Flower Show, London
PRIZES / AWARD
2013 Norvill Art Prize – winner
2009 Muswellbrook Art Prize –
Regional winner
2009 Gosford City Art Prize –
Regional winner
2000 Norvill Art Prize - Highly
Commended
1996 Newcastle Show Art Prize
1995 Newcastle Show Art Prize
1992 Maitland Art Prize
PUBLIC PROJECTS
1990 Town Art Mural, Hunter Street,
Newcastle
REPRESENTED
Art bank
Lake Macquarie City Art Gallery
Macquarie Bank, Sydney
Maitland City Art Gallery
Newcastle Region Art Gallery
New England Region Art Gallery,
Armadale
NRMA Collection, Sydney
Private Collections in Australia, New
Zealand, England & US
PUBLICATIONS
New Romantics, Darkness and Light
in Australian Art
Simon Gregg 2011
Australian Scholarly Publishing
The Macquarie Group Collection
“The Land and its Psyche”
Julian Beaumont, Felicity Fenner,
John McDonald
Newsouth Publishing 2012