My prints are a reflection of me and my environment. Living on the banks of the Tamar River, I see its great beauty. I watch the river from my studio: the daily rhythms of tides, the rustle of reeds, and the migratory birds drawing patterns in the sky oblivious to the distant sounds of passing cars.

Curriculum Vitae

Dallas Richardson

QUALIFICATIONS:

1981 Diploma of Fine Art,

Alexander Mackie College, Sydney

ACADEMIC HISTORY;

1969-1970 R.M.I.T Diploma of Fine art

Although incomplete, benefited from the tuition of the following artists;

Udo Selbach, Andrew Sibley, George Baldessin and Peter Clarke.

1977-1979 University of Miami, Florida, U.S.A

Printmaking, painting and Art History

GROUP EXHIBITIONS:

1979 University of Miami, U.S.A

1991-92 Gallery Two, Launceston 6 group exhibitions

1993 Snakepit Gallery, Launceston

Freeman Gallery, Hobart

1994 Snakepit Gallery, Launceston

Launceston Hospital fund raising art auction

1995 Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, Launceston,’ Tasmanian Print Guild Exhibition’

1996 Nisart Gallery, Launceston, ‘Quantum Images’ – nine leading Tasmanian Printmakers

Inspration Gallery, Cradle Mountain, Tasmania, ‘Topographies’, an exhibition of Printmakers

Snakepit Gallery, Launceston, ‘Prints on View,’ eight Launceston Artists Co-operative Printmakers

1997 Nisart Gallery, Launceston, ‘Catalyst and Catastrophy’

1998 Nisart Gallery, Launceston, ‘Flourishing Ecology – from stone to digital’

Long Gallery, Hobart, ‘A Survey of Tasmanian Printmakers’

Long Gallery, Hobart, ‘Images’

Gallery Two. Launceston, ‘Nudes’ an interpretation of the human figure

1999 Launceston Festivale, ‘Art in the Park’

Nisart Gallery, ‘Tones and Textures’

Nisart Gallery, Launceston, ‘N/S Art, Printmakers from North and South Tasmania’

1998-2014 The Design Centre, Launceston Tasmania

2001-2007 Delamere Vineyard Gallery, Pipers Brook, Tasmania

2004-2005 Gallery 242, Launceston

2004-2006 The Strahan Woodworks Gallery

2007 Academy Gallery, ‘Carbon Trading’

2003-2009 Academy Gallery, Academy of the Arts, Launceston

2010 WTAG (West Tamar Arts Group) ‘Art-intwine’ Linocuts at Elmslie Vineyard

2011 WTAG - Group exhibitions at Moores Hill Vineyard

2012 Academy Gallery, ‘Shelly Beach – a poem by Margret Scott’ Academy of the Arts Launceston

2013 Artrium Art Space, Launceston General Hospital, ‘ Colonial Tench to Launceston General Hospital’

2014 Academy Gallery ‘Launceston my City’

2014 Oneira Farnhouse Gallery ‘A Winter Conversation’

ART AWARD SELECTIONS

1981 Michael Cotts Art Award,

Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney, New South Wales

1981 University of New South Wales Art Prize

1989 Henry Worland Memorial Print Award,

Warrnambool, Victoria

1993 Trust Bank Award, Launceston

Eskleigh Art Award, Launceston

2003 ‘The Blake Prize for Religious Art’

Sir Herman Black Gallery and Sculpture Terrace, University of Sydney

2014 Material Girl, ‘Tall Poppies: Late Bloomers’.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS:

1992 Gallery Two, Launceston, ‘Horizons of the Mind’

1995 Snakepit Gallery, Launceston ‘Recent Figure Drawings’

University Gallery, Newnham Campus, University of Tasmania,’Solid Ground’ Rock Series etchings

1996 Snakepit Gallery, Launceston

‘Skin Deep’ Recent Figure Drawings

1997 Nisart Gallery, Launceston ‘Squaring the Circle’ Recent Etchings

2012-14 Design Tasmania Centre, ‘Imprimo’ Linocuts

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

1982-2007 Delamere Vineyard, Pipers Brook, Co-manager and Co-Director

1990-1994 Institute of TAFE

Art Craft Design North Teacher of Printmaking

1995 University of Tasmania, Visual Arts Drawing Studio lecturer

1998-2008 Institute of TAFE Teacher of Printmaking

Art Craft Design North

2009-2013 Tasmanian Polytechnic Creative Arts Teacher of Printmaking

2013to present TasTafe, Creative Arts Inveresk Teacher of Printmaking

REPRESENTED Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery ‘Rock Series #19’