Ross Laurie

Born: Walcha NSW 1961

Study

1986Painting, Victorian College of the Arts, Prahan
Campus, Melbourne 1984-1985Painting, printmaking and sculpture, Newcastle
Polytechnic, UK 1983-1984Painting 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

2010Paintings and Works on Paper.Damien Minton Gallery, Sydney 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

2011Salon des Refuses, S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney 2010Melbourne Art Fair 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