Ross Laurie

New paintings and works on paper

Exhibition dates: Wed 1 Sept to Sat 29 Sept 2009
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There is something magical at the core of Ross Laurie's art. That his work relates intimately to the landscape around Walcha, indeed is inspired by it, we know. Yet it is the language he has developed to express a special place that elicits a unique understanding of this natural order in all its guises.
 
His art hovers between the visible world and the unseen rhythms of a land that only deep acquaintance and affection can capture. The strength and vibrancy of his use and choice of colour, and his creation of the contours and complex interweaving of undulating terrain, with the presence of tree, shrub and other forms, punctuate the picture plane to produce dynamic, earthily constructed and felicitously choreographed images that I believe are of lasting significance.

NICK WATERLOW, OAM, Director Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney

 

Born: Walcha NSW 1961

Study

1986Painting, Victorian College of the Arts, Prahan
       Campus, Melbourne
1984-85Painting, printmaking and sculpture, Newcastle
       Polytechnic, UK
1983-84Painting and drawing, Foundation Course,
       St Martins School of Arts, London
1983Painting and Printmaking, Mitchell College, Bathurst
1982Visual Art, Sydney College of the Arts

Solo exhibitions

2009Damien Minton Gallery, Sydney
2009Moree Plains Regional Gallery
2008Damien Minton Gallery, Sydney
2007Damien Minton Gallery, Sydney
2006Damien Minton Gallery, Sydney
2005Damien Minton Gallery, Sydney
2005Wrestles with Landscape, New England Regional
       Art Museum
2002Damien Minton Gallery, Newcastle
1999Coventry Gallery, Sydney
1998Old School Gallery, Walcha
1997Coventry Gallery, Sydney
1996Coventry Gallery, Sydney
1995Coventry Gallery, Sydney
1994Coventry Gallery, Sydney
1993William Mora Galleries, Melbourne
1992New England Art Museum
1991Tamworth City Gallery
1991William Mora Galleries, Melbourne
1991Ben Grady Gallery, Canberra
1990Linden Gallery, Melbourne
1988Girgis and Klym Gallery, Melbourne
1981Tamworth City Gallery
1981Parmenter Gallery, Walcha

Selected group exhibitions

2009Hazelhurst Regional Gallery, Gymea, Works on
       Paper Award
2009New England Regional Art Museum,
       'New England Views'
2009Defiance Gallery, Sydney, 'Same Place, Many Views'
2009Salon des Refuses, S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney
2008Melbourne Art Fair, Damien Minton Gallery
2008Paddington Art Prize (winner of the COFA Print Award)
2008North South East West, Damien Minton Gallery
2007Salon des Refuses, S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney
2006Salon des Refuses, S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney
2006Regional Encounters, Tamworth City Gallery
2006Walcha - City of Art, Gallery Karlovy Vary, Ostrov,
       Czech Republic
2006Same Place Different Views, Defiance Gallery, Sydney
2005The Year in Art, S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney
2005(Going) Out There, Ivan Dougherty Gallery,
       COFA, UNSW
2005Country Energy Art Prize, Coffs Harbour Regional
       Gallery and NSW Parliament House
2004England Picture, New England Regional Art Museum,
       Armidale
2003Surface Memories, Tamworth City Gallery
2004Hazelhurst Work on Paper Award, Hazelhurst
       Regional Gallery, Gymea
2003Country Energy Art Prize, New England Regional Art
       Museum, Armidale
2003Walcha - City of Art, New Contemporaries Gallery,
       Sydney
2000Melbourne Art Fair, Bryan Hooper Gallery, Sydney
1998Coventry Diary, Coventry Gallery, Sydney
1997Salon des Refuses, SH Ervin Gallery, Sydney
1995Salon des Refuses, SH Ervin Gallery, Sydney
1991Syme Dodson Gallery, Sydney
1989Drawings, William Mora Galleries, Melbourne
1988New Art Melbourne, Ivan Dougherty, Sydney
1988Gallery Artists, Girgis and Klym Gallery, Melbourne
1988Moet and Chandon Touring Exhibition
1987Moet and Chandon Touring Exhibition
1982New England Artists, Tamworth City Gallery

Commissions

2004Sculpture, Walcha Central School, Walcha
2001Preschool entrance sculpture, Walcha Preschool Inc,
       Walcha
1998Town entrance sculpture, Walcha Shire Council,
       Walcha

Prizes

2008Paddington Art Prize (winner of the COFA Print Award)
1999Inaugural winner of the Norville Prize for Landscape
       Painting, Murrurundi

Collections

Macquarie Bank Art Collection
Australian National Gallery, Canberra
State Bank Collection, Victoria
Maritime Museum, Sydney
NRMA Collection, Sydney
Artbank
Gaden Ridgeway
La Trobe University Collection, Melbourne
New England Regional Art Gallery
Benalla Regional Art Gallery
Tamworth City Gallery
Coventry Collection, Sydney
Laverty Collection, Sydney
Private Collections, Australia, New Zealand and England
Newcastle Region Art Gallery

Publications

Spectrum Review by John McDonald, Sydney Morning Herald, 1 April 2006
‘Current Affairs’, John McDonald, Sydney Morning Herald, 4 June 2005
New England Picture Catalogue, NERAM
Surfaces Memories Catalogue, Tamworth City Gallery
Walcha City of Art Catalogue, New contemporaries Gallery, Sydney
‘Past Master’, John McDonald, Sydney Morning Herald, 26 June 1996
‘Paintings that peer behind the shadows of reality’, Christopher Heathcote, Age, 19 May 1993
New Melbourne Catalogue, 1988
Moet and Chandon Catalogue 1987 and 1988