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John Bokor
Andrew Christofides
Elisabeth Cummings
Jayne Dyer
Robert Eadie
John Edwards
John Elliott
Rachel Ellis
Gail English
Paul Ferman
David Floyd (Estate)
Salvatore Gerardi
Jon Gintzler
Frank Hinder (Estate)
Robert Hirschmann
James Jones
Jan king
Martin King
Idris Murphy
Peter O'Doherty
Amanda Penrose Hart
Jenny Sages
Wendy Sharpe
Kensuke Todo
Shona Wilson
John Turier
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Elisabeth Cummings

Born1934 Brisbane Queensland
  
Studies & Travel
  
2006Part-time teaching, various TAFE and colleges
1975-87Part-time teaching, various TAFE and colleges
1975Part-time teaching, various colleges
1969-2001Part-time teaching, National Art School, Sydney
1958-68Lived and studied in Italy & France
1961School of Vision, Salzburg, with Oskar Kokoschka
1953-57National Art School, Sydney
  
Solo Exhibitions
  
2007Monotypes, King Street Gallery on Burton, Sydney
2006New Paintings, King Street Gallery on Burton
2005Chapman Gallery, ACT
2004Painting, King Street Gallery on Burton
2003Painting, King Street Gallery at Span Galleries, Melbourne
paintings, Pandanus Art, Currumbin Beach, Qld
2002New Paintings, King Street Gallery on Burton
elisabeth cummings & clara hali, Orange Regional Gallery, NSW
2001Paintings and Prints, Chapman Gallery, ACT
Collaborative Pots, (Barbara Romalis & Elisabeth Cummings), Chapman Gallery
2000Recent Work, King Street Gallery on Burton
Works on Paper, Sturt Gallery, Mittagong, NSW
1998Recent Work, King Street Gallery on Burton
1997 Survey Show (1965-1995), Gold Coast City Art Gallery, Qld
Chapman Gallery, Canberra
1996Survey Show (1965-1995), Campbelltown City Bicentennial Art Gallery, NSW
Recent Paintings, King Street Gallery on Burton
Sturt Gallery, Mittagong, NSW
1994New Work, King Street Gallery on Burton
1992Paintings, King Street Gallery on Burton
Schubert Art Gallery, Queensland
1991Budds Beach Gallery, Gold Coast, Queensland
1990Victor Mace Fine Art Gallery, Brisbane
1989Painters Gallery, Sydney
1988Victor Mace Fine Art Gallery
1987Mori Gallery, Sydney
1985Broadbeach Gallery, Queensland
Victor Mace Fine Art Gallery
1984Mori Gallery
1982Broadbeach Gallery
Victor Mace Fine Art Gallery
Mori Gallery
1978Design Arts Centre, Brisbane
1977Raffin Gallery, Orange
1976Design Arts Centre, Brisbane
1975Roslyn Gallery, Wollongong, NSW
1974Design Arts Centre, Brisbane
1970Design Arts Centre
1969Design Arts Centre
1966Johnstone Gallery, Brisbane
1965Darlinghurst Gallery, Sydney
1963Johnstone Gallery
  
Selected Group Exhibitions
  
2007Cross Currents, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney NSW
The Salon Des Refuse Exhibition, S.H.Evin Gallery, Sydney
Group Show, Chapman Gallery, Canberra
2006King Street Gallery at Doggett St Studios (Cummings, Elliott, Penrose Hart, Murphy Sages) Brisbane, QLD
The Chroma Collection, Macquarie University Art Collection, Sydney
Prints From Cicada Press, Micheal Nagy Gallery, Sydney
Same Place Different Views, Defiance Gallery, Sydney
Framed, Framed Gallery, Darwin, NT
2005Open Bite (selected prints from Cicada Press), COFA Exhibition/Performance Spaces, UNSW, Sydney
Salon Des Refuse S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney
Fireworks, Artspace, Mackay, Qld (and regional galleries in Qld); Wagga Wagga Regional Art Gallery, NSW (and regional galleries in NSW)
Trinity Grammar School, Custom Prints Unpacked!, The Delmar Gallery,Sydney
Rivers SOS, Campbelltown Regional Gallery, Campbelltown
2004Fire Dreaming, University Art Gallery, University of Sydney, Sydney
Bukmak - Galiwinku (Talking and Sharing - Elcho Island), Framed: The Darwin Gallery, NT
Same Place, Many Views, Defiance Gallery, Sydney
Framed, Framed Gallery, Darwin, NT
Kedumba Drawing Award, Kedumba Gallery, Blue Mountains Grammar, Wentworth Falls
Sulman Prize, Art Gallery on New South Wales, Sydney
Salon des Refuse, SH Ervin Gallery, Sydney
2004: The Year in Art, National Trust, S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney
Prints from Whaling Road Studios, Australian Galleries, Sydney
20034 Wedderburn painters: common ground, Campbelltown Bicentennial Art Gallery
64 Years, King Street Gallery on Burton
20022002: The Year in Art, SH Ervin, Sydney
Salon des Refuses, SH Ervin
The Sulman Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales
King Street Gallery at Span Galleries, Melbourne
A Silver Lining & A New Beginning, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney
2001Floating, King Street Gallery on Burton
2000Women and the Landscape, King Street Gallery
Common Ground, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney
The Archibald Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales & touring throughout Australia
The Wynne Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales
Dogma, King Street Gallery on Burton
1999The Wynne Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales
Last show of the Year, King Street Gallery on Burton
1998The Wynne Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales
Symbiosis, Utopia Art, Sydney; New England Regional Art Museum, Armidale, NSW
Six from Wedderbutn, Casula Power House Museum, NSW
Last show of the Year, King Street Gallery on Burton
The Theresa Byrnes Foundation Inc. Art Auction, ASN Gallery, Sydney
1997The Wynne Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales
The Archibald Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales
1996First Night, King Street Gallery, Sydney
The Theresa Byrnes Foundation Inc. Westpac Art Auction, Westpac Plaza, Sydney
1995Gallery Artists, King Street Gallery on Burton
The Easter Show, Hidden Vallet Gallery, Bodalla, NSW
1994The Lost Valley of the Springs, Blaxland Gallery, Sydney
The Wynne Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Gallery Artists, King Street Gallery on Burton
Australian Contemporary Art Fair 4, Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne
Where The Two Worlds Meet, Mary Place Gallery, Sydney
1993A Stone's Throw Project, Cambelltown City Art Gallery
The Wynne Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales
Landscape Exhibition, Cell Block Theatre, Sydney
1992Terracollaboratis, King Street Gallery on Burton
South Stradbroke Project, Gold Cost City Art Gallery
1991Microcosm, Garry Anderson Gallery, Sydney
1990Mass Media, Mixed Media, Painters Gallery, Sydney
Visual Instincts, Holdsworth Galleries, Sydney
19889 x 5 Mail, The Centre Gallery, Gold Coast
1984Fruit and Flowers Exhibition, David Jones, Sydney
Landscape Exhibition, Mori Gallery
1976-90Modern Art Gallery, Casula
  
selected Awards
  
2005Artist in residence, COFA printmaking department, UNSW, Sydney
2000Fleurier Prize for Landscape, SA
1996Mosman Prize, NSW
1995Camden Prize, NSW
1992Tattersalls Art Prize, QLD
1991Fishers Ghost Prize, Campbelltown City Bicentennial Art Gallery
1989Gold Coast Purchase Prize, QLD
1988REIQ Bicentennial Art Award, QLD
1987Open Section, Camden Art Prize
Faber Castell Drawing Prize
1984Mervyn Horton Memorial Prize, Berrima, NSW
Camden Purchase Prize, NSW
Friends of the Campbelltown Art Gallery Purchase
1983Lane Cove Purchase Prize, NSW
1982Lane Cove Purchase Prize
1981Macquarie Towns Purchase Prize, NSW
1979Peter Stuyvesant Prize, Shoalhaven
Fishers Ghost Prize, Campbelltown City Bicentennial Art Gallery
Gosford Purchase Prize, NSW
1978Gold Coast Purchase Prize
1977Landscape and Still Life Prizes, RAS, Sydney
Lismore Prize, NSW
Fishers Ghost Prize, Campbelltown City Bicentennial Art Gallery
1976Drummoyne Prize, NSW
1974Grafton Prize, NSW
1972Human Image Prize, RAS, Sydney
Cheltenham Prize, NSW
Portia Geach Portrait Prize, Sydney
1971Gold Coast Purchase Prize, QLD
1960Dyason Bequest
1958NSW Travelling Art Scholarship
1957Le Gay Brereton Prize for Drawing
  
Collections
Artbank, Australia
Bathurst Regional Art Gallery, NSW
College of Fine Arts, Uni of NSW, Sydney
Gold Coast City Art Gallery, Qld
Griffith University, Brisbane
Jackson Smith Solicitors
Kelvin Grove Teachers College, Brisbane
Kedumba Drawing Collection
Macquarie Bank
National Gallery of Australia, ACT
University of Queensland Art Museum, Brisbane
Art Gallery of New South Wales
Campbelltown City Bicentennial Art Gallery, NSW
Grafton Regional Art Gallery, NSW
Hawkesbury Regional Art Gallery
James Cook University, Townsville, Qld
Lismore Regional Art Gallery
Manly Art Gallery and Museum, NSW
The Redcliffe City Art Gallery, Qld
Queensland Art Gallery
  
Bibliography
  
2007Waterlow, Nick: Elisabeth Cummings, Cross Currents Catalogue essay, pgs.34-35
Smee, Seabstian: Beauty and Brains, The Weekend Australian Review, 13-14 October pg.18
McDonald, John: A palette of local colour, the Sydney Morning Herald, 3-4 November pgs.16-17
Rowe, Amy: Double Visions, Exhibition Catalogue, Orange Regional Gallery November - December, COFA space UNSW October
McDonald, John: Anything goes in the silly season, The Sydney Morning Herald, 24-25 March pg.16
2006Minick, Scott: Drawing Attention Global Style-Gulf Air, April pg.16
2005McDonald, John: The guiding lights, Spectrum-Sydney Morning Herald, 23-25 December pgs.18-19
McDonald, John: Drawn to the flames, Spectrum-Sydney Morning Herald, 10-11 December pg.29
McDonald, John: Out of art?s boiler room, Spectrum-Sydney Morning Herald, 8-9 October pg.28
Garside, Sioux: Fire Dreaming (catalogue), University Art Gallery, University of Sydney
Johnston, Jay: Hot off the Press-Australia's Best Raise the Stakes, COFA, Winter Issue, pg.12-13
Grishin, Dr Sasha: Lyrical and resonant, Canberra Times, Monday 28 November
2004Hill, Peter: Favourite things, Specturm-Sydney Morning Herald, 4-5 December pg.19
Beecher, Eric [editor]: Vintage Verve, The Reader, 12 November pg.34
Fortesque, Elizabeth: Interpreting: Elisabeth Cummings, Lino Magazine September
Lloyd, Ian: Australian Painters in Residence, R.Ian Lloyd Productions
Smee, Sebastian: Intimate portrayals coloured by interior dialogue, The Australian, 2 November
Hunter, Catherine: Elisabeth Cummings: the quiet master, Ninemsn Website, 24 October
2003Higson, Rosalie: The Face, The Weekend Australian, 20-21 December pg.3
Backhouse, Megan: Cummings shows the benefit of experience, Indoors and out, Review-The Age, pg.7
Loxley, Anne: Rapt in the spirit of ancient tradition, The Sydney Morning Herald, 11 July
2002Lumby, Carrie: Two Kings, Australian Art Collector (19), January-March, pg.62
Pinson, Peter: Common Ground-Four Wedderburn Painters, Art & Australia (92)
Mcdonald, John: Elisabeth Cummings: The Invisible Woman of Australian Art, Australian Art Collector (22), October-December, pg.68-7
Pryor, Lisa: Cummings Exhibition, Spotlight-Sydney Morning Herald, 24 September pg.17
Dutkiewicz, Adam: Winning scene-The Fleurieu Biennale 2002, South Australian Times, 24 November
Cummings, Elisabeth Catalogue: publishers-king street gallery on burton
2001Grishin, Sasha: Two artists expanding vision and expertise, Panorama-Canberra Times, 6 October
2000Kidd, Courtney: Painters & their Pampered Pets, Sydney Morning Herald, 29 March pg.14
Backhouse, Megan: Review, Fleurieu Prize, The Age, 15 November pg.7
Smee, Sebastian: The ground crew, Spectrum-Sydney Morning Herald, 14 March pg.14
Pinson, Peter: catalogue essay for Common Ground, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, February-March
Smee, Sebastian, The odds on the Archibald, Sydney Morning Herald, 16 March 16 pg.1
Sykes, Jill: The Art of Wine, Qantas, December pg.13
1998Smee, Sebastian: Streets ahead, The Sydney Morning Herald, 1 October
1997McDonald, John: The schlock of the new, The Sydney Morning Herald, 22 November pg.16
Watson, Bronwyn: It pays to read between the lines, The Bulletin, 23 September pg.73
Portrait of the artists: The Daily Telegraph, 21 March 21 pg.44
James, Bruce: The Sydney Morning Herald, 31 January
1996Smee, Sebastian: King on King, Metro-The Sydney Morning Herald, 15 November
James, Bruce: The Sydney Morning Herald, 21 September
Auty, Giles: Isolated Ideas, The Australian, 31 August
Garside, Sioux: catalogue introduction for Survey Exhibition 1965-95, Campbelltown City Bicentennial Art Gallery, August - September pg.5-6
McDonald, John: Country pleasures, The Sydney Morning Herald, 10 August pg.14
Van den Bosch, Annette: From the Inside to the Outside, catalogue essay for Survey Exhibition 1965-95, Campbelltown City Bicentennial Art Gallery, August-September pg.8-18
1995Delaruelle, Jacques: Pick of the year, The Independent Monthly, December
1994McDonald, John: The Australian Landscape in a Visionary's Eyes, The Sydney Morning Herald, 10 September pg.15
Lynn, Elwyn: Eighteen Gallery Artists, The Australian, January
Delaruelle, Jacques: Accordance with Nature, The Sydney Review
1993Delaruelle,Jacques: A Stones Throw, Catalogue Essay Campbelltown City Art Gallery
1992MacDonald, John: of Riley, The Sydney Morning Herald
1985Leckie, Mal: Fresh look gives the feel of the aussie bush, The Gold Coast Bulletin, 1 January
1982Langer, Gertrude: Bushland inspiration, The Courier Mail, 5 May
Leckie, Mal: This may open eyes and minds, The Gold Coast Bulletin, 9 January
Gleeson, James: Hall paints moods of the sea
 

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