CV | Elisabeth Cummings
| Born | |
| 1934 | Brisbane, Queensland |
| 2006 | Lives and works in Wedderburn, NSW |
| 1957 | Part-time teaching, various colleges |
| 1969-2001 | Part-time teaching, National Art School, Sydeny |
| 1958-68 | Lived and studied in Italy & France |
| 1961 | School of Vision, Salzburg with Oskar Kokoschka |
| 1953-57 |
National Art School [E.S.T.C], Sydney |
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Solo Exhibitions |
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| 2012 Luminous: Landscapes of Elisabeth Cummings, SH Ervin Gallery, Sydney |
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| Interiors, Monotype Exhibition, King Street Gallery on William, Sydney |
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| 2011 |
New Paintings and Monotypes King Street Gallery on William, Sydney |
| 2010 | Paper Trail: 20 Years King Street Gallery on William |
| 2008 |
New Paintings King Street Gallery on William |
| 2007 | monotypes king street gallery on burton, sydney |
| 2006 | new paintings king street gallery on burton |
| 2005 | Chapman Gallery, Canberra, ACT |
| 2004 | painting king street gallery on burton, sydney |
| 2003 | painting king street gallery at Span Galleries, Melbourne |
| paintings Pandanus Art, Currumbin Beach, Qld | |
| 2002 | new paintings king street gallery on burton, sydney |
| elisabeth cummings & clara hali Orange Regional Gallery, NSW | |
| 2001 | Paintings and Prints Chapman Gallery, ACT |
| Collaborative Pots (Barbara Romalis & Elisabeth Cummings) Chapman Gallery | |
| 2000 | recent work king streeet gallery on burton |
| Works on Paper Sturt Gallery, Mittagong, NSW | |
| 1998 | recent work king street gallery on burton |
| 1997 | Survey Show (1965-1995) Gold Coast City Art Gallery, Qld |
| Chapman Gallery, Canberra | |
| 1996 | Survey Show (1965-1995) Campbelltown City Bicentennial Art Gallery, NSW |
| recent paintings king street gallery on burton, Sturt Gallery, Mittagong, NSW | |
| 1994 | new work king street gallery on burton |
| 1992 | paintings king street gallery on burton |
| Schubert Art Gallery, Qld | |
| 1991 | Budds Beach Gallery, Gold Coast, Qld |
| 1990 | Victor Mace Fine Art Gallery, Brisbane |
| 1989 | Painters Gallery, Sydney |
| 1988 | Victor Mace Fine Art Gallery |
| 1987 | Mori Gallery, Sydney |
| 1985 | Broadbeach Gallery, Qld |
| Victor Mace Fine Art Gallery | |
| 1984 | Mori Gallery |
| 1982 | Broadbeach Gallery |
| Victor Mace Fine Art Gallery | |
| Mori Gallery | |
| 1978 | Design Arts Centre, Brisbane |
| 1977 | Raffin Gallery, Orange, NSW |
| 1976 | Design Arts Centre, Brisbane |
| 1975 | Roslyn Gallery, Wollongong, NSW |
| 1974 | Design Arts Centre, Brisbane |
| 1970 | Design Arts Centre |
| 1969 | Design Arts Centre |
| 1966 | Johnstone Gallery, Brisbane |
| 1965 | Darlinghurst Gallery, Sydney |
| 1963 | Johnstone Gallery |
| Selected Group Exhibitions | |
| 2012 |
Marling Press Exhibition Maitland Regional Gallery NSW |
| Virtual Reality, Newcastle University, Newcastle, NSW | |
| THE BIG PICTURE, King Street Gallery on William, Sydney |
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| Animal, King Street gallery on William, Sydney | |
| Not the way home , SH Ervin Gallery Sydney & travelling Orange, Broken Hil, Stella Downer Fine Art Walcha Art Gallery, NERAM Armidale, NSW |
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| 2011 Tattersalls Landscape Prize Waterfront Place Brisbane |
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| Australia Day Exhibition, Tim Olsen Gallery, Sydney |
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| 2010 |
Everything and Nothing King Street Gallery on William |
| Zoo Air University Gallery of Newcastle, NSW |
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| Sotheby’s Taronga Exhibition and Auction, Sydney |
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| Tattersalls Landscape Art prize Brisbane QLD |
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| Larapinta Exhibition, Doggett Street Studios, Brisbane,QLD | |
| Stations of the Cross St Ives Uniting Church, Sydney |
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| The Drawing Show Defiance Gallery, Sydney |
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| Prints from Cicada Press (curated by Michael Kempson) Bowen Galleries, Wellington, NZ |
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| 2009 | Same Place Many Views Defiance Gallery |
| Flora: Still Life Moving Fast Hazelhurst Regional Gallery & Arts
Centre, NSW |
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| Tattersall’s Landscape Prize Waterfront Place Brisbane | |
| Salon Des Refuse SH Ervin Gallery, Sydney | |
| Ceramics Mary Place Gallery, Sydney
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| The Drawn Line King Street Gallery on William, Sydney | |
| Personal Journeys (40 years of Australian Women’s Abstract Art) Shoalhaven City Arts Centre, NSW | |
| 2008 | Silk + Sand - Chinese and Australian Prints Ivan Dougherty Gallery, COFA, Uni of NSW |
| On the Heysen Trail, Nine artists, eight days in the landscape S.H Ervin Gallery, Sydney | |
| 2007-08 | Harbourlife Manly Art Gallery & Museum, Sydney |
| 2007 | Double Visions College of Fine Arts, Sydney; touring to Orange Regional Gallery, NSW |
| Cross Currents Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney NSW | |
| Salon Des Refuses S.H Ervin Gallery, Sydney | |
| Group Show Chapman Gallery, Canberra | |
| 2006 | King 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 Michael Nagy Gallery, Sydney | |
| Same Place Different Views Defiance Gallery, Sydney | |
| Framed Framed Gallery, Darwin, NT | |
| 2005 | open bite (selected prints from Cicada Press) COFA Exhibition/Performance Spaces, UNSW, Sydney |
| Salon des Refuses SH Ervin Gallery, Sydney | |
| Firworks 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 | |
| 2004 | Fire Dreaming University Art Gallery, University of Sydney, Sydney |
| Kedumba Drawing Award Kedumba Gallery, Blue Mountains Grammar, Wentworth Falls | |
| Bukmak Galiwinku (Talking and Sharing - Echo Island) Framed: The Darwin Gallery, NT | |
| Same Place, Many Views Defiance Gallery, Sydney | |
| 2004 The Year in Art National Trust, S.H Ervin Gallery, Sydney | |
| Framed Framed Gallery, Darwin, NT | |
| Sulman Prize Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney | |
| Salon des Refuses SH Ervin Gallery, Sydney | |
| Prints from Whaling Road Studios Australian Galleries, Sydney | |
| 2003 | 4 Wedderburn painters: common ground, Campbelltown Bicentennial Art Gallery |
| 64 Years, king street gallery on burton | |
| 2002 | 2002: 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 | |
| 2001 | floating, king street gallery on burton |
| 2000 | woman 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 | |
| 1999 | The Wynne Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales |
| last show of the year, king street gallery on burton | |
| 1998 | The Wynne Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales |
| Symbiosis, Utopia Art Sydney; New England Regional Art Museum, Armidale, NSW | |
| Six from Wedderburn, 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 | |
| 1997 | The Wynne Pize, Art Gallery of New South Wales |
| The Archibald Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales | |
| 1996 | first night, king street gallery, sydney |
| The Theresa Byrnes Foundation Inc, Westpac Art Auction, Westpac Plaza, Sydney | |
| 1995 | gallery artists, king street gallery on burton |
| The Easter Show, Hidden Valley Gallery, Bodalla, NSW | |
| 1994 | The Lost Valley of the Springs, Blaxland Gallery, Sydney |
| The Wynne Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales | |
| gallery artists, king street gallery on burton | |
| Australian Contemporary Art Fair 4, Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne | |
| Where Two Worlds Meet, Mary Place Gallery, Sydney | |
| 1993 | A Stone’s Throw Project, Campbelltown City Bicentennial Art Gallery |
| The Wynne Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales | |
| Landscape Exhibition, Cell Block Theatre, Sydney | |
| 1992 | Terracollaboratis, king street gallery on burton |
| South Stradbroke Project, Gold Coast City Art Gallery | |
| 1991 | Microcosm, Garry Anderson Gallery, Sydney |
| 1990 | Mass Media, Mixed Media; Painters Gallery, Sydney |
| Visual Instincts, Holdsworth Galleries, Sydney | |
| 1988 | 905 Mail, The Centre Gallery, Gold Coast |
| 1984 | Fruit and Flowers Exhibition, David Jones, Sydney |
| Landscape Exhibition, Mori Gallery | |
| 1978 | Blaxland Gallery, Sydney |
| 1976-1990 | Modern Art Gallery, Casula |
| Selected Awards/Residencies | |
| 2010 Tattersalls landscape Prize Second Place, Brisbane |
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| 2005 | Artist in residence, COFA printmaking department, UNSW, Sydney |
| 2000 | Fleurier Prize for Landscape, S.A |
| 1996 | Mosman Art Prize, NSW |
| 1995 | Camden Art Prize, NSW |
| 1992 | Tattersall’s Club Art Prize, Qld |
| 1991 | Fishers Ghost Prize, Campbelltown City Bicentennial Art Gallery |
| 1989 | Gold Coast Purchase Prize, Qld |
| 1988 | REIQ Bicentennial Art Award, Qld |
| 1987 | Open Section, Camden Art Prize |
| Faber Castell Drawing Prize | |
| 1984 | Mervyn Horton Memorial Prize, Berrima, NSW |
| Camden Purchas Prize, NSW | |
| Friends of the Campbelltown Art Gallery Purchase | |
| 1983 | Lane Cove Purchase Prize, NSW |
| 1982 | Lane Cove Purchase Prize |
| 1981 | Macquarie Towns Purchase Prize, NSW |
| 1979 | Peter Stuyvesant Prize, Shoalhaven |
| Fishers Ghost Prize, Campbelltown City Hall | |
| Gosford Purchase Prize, NSW | |
| 1978 | Gold Coast Purchase Prize |
| 1977 | Landscape and Still Life Prizes, RAS, Sydney |
| Lismore Prize, NSW | |
| Fishers Ghost Prize, Campbelltown City Hall | |
| 1976 | Drummoyne Prize, NSW |
| 1974 | Grafton Prize, NSW |
| 1972 | Human Image Prize, RAS, Sydney |
| Cheltenham Prize, NSW | |
| Portia Geach Portrait Prize, Sydney | |
| 1971 | Gold Coast Purchase Prize, Qld |
| 1960 | Dyason Bequest |
| 1958 | NSW Travelling Art Scholarship |
| 1957 | Le Gay Brereton Prize for Drawing |
| Collections | |
| Art Gallery of New South Wales | |
| Artbank, Australia | |
| National Art Gallery of Australia, ACT | |
| Lismore Regional Art Gallery | |
| Manly Art Gallery and Museum, NSW | |
| Jackson Smith Solicitors | |
| Macquarie Bank | |
| Bathurst Regional Art Gallery, NSW | |
| Campbelltown City Bicentennial Art Gallery, NSW | |
| Queensland Art Gallery | |
| Grafton Regional Art Gallery, NSW | |
| Gold Coast City Art Gallery, Qld | |
| University of Queensland Art Museum, Brisbane | |
| Griffith University, QCE, Brisbane | |
| James Cook University, Townsville, Qld | |
| Long Gallery & Art Collection, University of Wollongong, NSW | |
| The Hawkesubry City Art Collection | |
| Kelvin Grove Teachers College, Brisbane | |
| The Redcliffe City Art Gallery, Qld | |
| Kedumba Drawing Collection | |
| College of Fine Arts, Uni of NSW, Sydney | |
| Hawkesbury Regional Art Gallery | |
| Museum of Brisbane, Qld | |
| Outback Arts International | |
| Ormond College Victoria |
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| Shoalhaven City Arts Centre, NSW | |
| Bibliography | |
| 2012 | McDonald John: Beyond The Pale Sydney Morning Herald Jan 21 -22 p20 |
| McDonald John: Outback Inspiration, Sydney Morning Herald June 16 |
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| Anderson Patricia: Not The Way Home Sun herald June 24 |
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| Meacham, Steve: Lanscape and Private Views Jan 5 p15 |
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| 2010 |
Robba, Leo: ‘Elisabeth Cummings’, Artist Profile Magazine, Issue 11, 2010, pp 60-68 |
| Iconic works on display in drawing exhibition, Blue Mts GazetteNov 3p47 |
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| McDonald, John: ‘A brilliance the defies fashion’ SMH July 17 - 18 p14-15 |
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| Schwartkoff, Louise: ‘Freedom Gets a Seat at the Table’, Sydney Morning Herald - Spectrim, May 15-16, p. 37 |
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| 2009 | McDonald, John: When losers are winners, Sydney Morning Herald, Mar 14-15, p17 |
| Australia Day 2009, Beach Life, Sydney Morning Herald, Jan 26, p2 | |
| Personal Journeys, 40 years of Australian Women’s Abstract Art,
Shoalhaven City Art Centre Catalogue, p13 |
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| 50 Most Collectable Gadly Media Art Collector Magazine | |
| Christopher, Lissa: ‘Open Gallery: The Drawn Line’ Sydney Morning Herald
Spectrum, Nov 28-29, p14 |
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| 2008 | Smee, Sebastian: Forget Me Not, The Weekend Australian, April 5-6, pp18-19 |
| McDonald, John: Return of the Natural Order, Sydney Morning Herald, Dec 6-7 p19-20 | |
| McDondald, John: Echoes of Greatness, Sydney Morning Herald, Nov 22-23 | |
| 2007 | Crisp, Lyndal: The art that artists collect, The Australian Financial Review, Dec 15 |
| The Sydney Morning Herald, Good Weekend, June | |
| McDonald, John: Studio Australia (extracted from Studio: Australian Painters on the nature of Creativity), Orient-Express Magazine, Volume 15 number 4 p40-48 | |
| Waterlow, Nick: Elisabeth Cummings, Cross Currents Catalogue essay, p34-35 | |
| Smee, Sebastian: Beauty and Brains, The Weekend Australian Review, Oct 13-14 p18 | |
| McDonald, John: A palette of local colour, Sydney Morning Herald, November 3-4 p16-17 | |
| Rowe, Amy: Double Visions, Exhibition Catalogue, Orange Regional Gallery | |
| Nov-Dec, COFA space UNSW October | |
| McDonald, John: Anything goes in the sill season, Sydney Morning Herald, March 24-25 p16 | |
| Smee, Sebastian: The best of the rest actually the best, The Australian, March 8 p14 | |
| Lloyd, Ian (photographer) and McDonald, John: Studio: Australian Painters on the Nature of Creativity, published by Tower Books Australia | |
| 2006 | Minick, Scott: Drawing Attention, Global Style-Gulf Air, Apr, p16 |
| Elisabeth Cummings, The Sydney Magazine, Nov | |
| Delaruelle, Jacques: Art Exhibition (Sydney), The Independent Monthly, Dec | |
| 2005 | McDonald, John: The guiding lights, Spectrum - Sydney Morning Herald, Dec 23-25, p18-19 |
| McDonald, John: Drawn to the flames, Spectrum - Sydney Morning Herald, Dec 10-11, p29 | |
| McDonald, John: Out of art’s boiler room, Spectrum - Sydney Morning Herald, Oct 8-9, p28 | |
| 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, p12-13 | |
| Grishin, Dr Sasha, Lyrical and resonant, Canberra Times, Mon. Nov 28 | |
| McDonald, John: Hanging offences, The Sydney Morning Herald Spectrum, May 7-8 | |
| 2004 | Hill, Peter: Favourite things, Spectrum, Sydney Morning Herald, Dec 4-5, p19 |
| Beecher, Eric (editor): Vintage Verve, The Reader, Nov 12, p34 | |
| Fortescue, Elizabeth: Interpreting: Elisabeth Cummings, Lino Magazine, September | |
| Lloyd, Ian: Australian Painters in Residence, R.Ian Lloyd Productions | |
| Smee, Sebastian: Itimate portrayals coloured by interior dialogue, The Australian, Nov 2 | |
| Hunter, Catherine: Elisabeth Cummings: the quiet master, ninemsn website, Oct.24 | |
| Garside, Sioux: Fire Dreaming, Exhibition Catalogue essay, Sept-Dec | |
| 2003 | Higson, Rosalie: The Face, The Weekend Australian, Dec, 20-21 p3 |
| Artists - different strokes, Herald Sun, October 13 | |
| Blackhouse, Megan: Cummings shows the benefit of experience, Indoors and out, Review - The Age, p7 | |
| Loxley, Anne: Rapt in the spirit of ancient tradition, The Sydney Morning, July 11 | |
| Delaruelle, Jacques: Within a Stone’s Throw, Exhibition Catalogue Essay, Feb-March | |
| 2002 | Pinson, Peter: Common Ground - Four Wedderburn painters, Art & Australia, p270-77 |
| Lumby, Carrie: Two Kings, Australian Art Collector, Issue 19, Jan-March, p62 | |
| Pinson, Peter: Common Ground - Four Wedderburn Painters, Art & Australia, No 2 | |
| McDonald, John: Elisabeth Cummings: The Invisible Woman of Australian Art, Australian Art Collector, Issue 22, Oct-Dec, p68-7 | |
| Pryor, Lisa: Cummings Exhibition, Spotlight - Sydney Morning Herald, Sept 24, p17 | |
| Dutkiewicz, Adam: Winning scene - The Fleurieu Biennale 2002, South Australia Times, Nov 24 | |
| Cummings, Elisabeth: Catalogue: publishers - king street gallery on bruton | |
| 2001 | Grishin, Sasha: Two artsits expanding vision and expertise, Panorama - Canberra Times, Oct 6 |
| Noyes, Nigel: Harmonious Blend, Australian Country Style, May | |
| 2000 | Kidd, Courtney: Painters & their Pampered Pets, Sydney Morning Herald, April p 14 |
| Blackhouse, Megan: Review, Fleurieu Prize, The Age, Nov 15, p7 | |
| Smee, Sebastian: The ground crew, Spectrum - Sydney Morning Herald, March 14, p14 | |
| Pinson, Peter: catalogue essay for Common Ground, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Feb-March | |
| Smee, Sebastian, The odds on the Archibald, Sydney Morning Herald, March 16, p1 | |
| Sykes, Jill: The Art of Wine, Qantas, December, p13 | |
| 1998 | Smee, Sebastian: Streets ahead, Sydney Morning Herald, Oct 1 |
| 1997 | McDonald, John: The schlock of the new, The Sydney Morning Herald, Nov 22, p16 |
| Watson, Bronwyn: It pays to read between the lines, The Bulletin, Sept 23, o73 | |
| Portrait of the artists: The Daily Telegraph, March 21, p44 | |
| James, Bruce: Sydney Morning Herald, Jan 31 | |
| 1996 | Smee, Sebastian: King on King, Metro - Sydney Morning Herald, Nov 15 |
| James, Bruce: Sydney Morning Herald, Sept 21 | |
| Auty, Giles: Isolated Ideas, The Australian, August 31 | |
| Garside, Sioux: catalogue introduction for Survey Exhibition 1965-95, Campbelltown City Bicentennial Art Gallery, August - Sept, pp5-6 | |
| McDonald, John: Country pleasures, The Sydney Morning Herald, August 10, p 13 | |
| Van den Bosch, Annette: From the Inside to the Outside, catalogue essay for Survey | |
| Exhibition 1965-95, Campbelltown City Bicentennial Art Gallery, August - Sept, pp8-18 | |
| 1995 | Delaruelle, Jacques: Pick of the year, The Independent Monthly, Dec |
| 1994 | McDonald, John: The Australian Landscape in a Visionary’s Eyes, Sydney Morning Herald, September 10, p15 |
| Lynn, Elwyn: Curtain Raiser for an excellent year, The Australian, jn | |
| Delaruelle, Jacques: Accordance with Nature, The Sydney Review | |
| 1993 | Delaruelle, Jacques: A Stones Throw, Catalogue Essay Campbelltown City Art Gallery |
| 1992 | McDonald, John: Of Riley, Sydney Morning Herald |
| 1985 | Leckie, Mal: Fresh look gives the feel of the aussie bush, Gold Coast Bulletin, Jan 1 |
| 1982 | Langer, Gertrude: Bushland inspiration, Courier Mail, May 5 |
| Leckie, Mal: This may open eyes and minds, Gold Coast Bulletin, Jan 9 | |
| Gleeson, James: Hall paints moods of the sea | |
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