William Delafield Cook
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| CV |
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| 1936 |
Born |
| 1962 | Married Sally Bovington |
| EDUCATION: | |
| 1953-55 | Teachers' Secondary Training Certificate (Art & Craft), Caulfield |
| Technical College, RMIT, University of Melbourne | |
| 1959-60 | Italian Government Scholarship |
| 1960-62 |
Bath Academy of Art, Corsham |
| TERTIARY TEACHING AND RESIDENCIES: |
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| 1962-73 |
Lecturer in Liberal Studies, including the history of art, photography and film, Maidstone Art School, Kent |
| 1968 | Lecturer in Photography, Bath Academy of Art, Corsham |
| 1970 | Lecturer in Painting, Prahran Technical College, Melbourne |
| 1973-74 | Artist in Residence in Berlin at the invitation of the DAAD Program |
| 1975-77 | Artist in Residence, University of Melbourne, |
| AWARDS: |
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| 1957 | Joint Winner of the Aubrey Gibson Prize, Melbourne |
| 1971 |
Georges Invitation Prize, Melbourne |
| 1980 |
Wynne Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney |
| 1981 | Sulman Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney |
| SOLO EXHIBITIONS: | |
| 2011 | William Delafield Cook: Survey Exhibition, Gippsland Regional Art Gallery, and Tarrawarra Museum of Art, Victoria |
| 2006 | William Delafield Cook and Jonathan Delafield Cook, Rex Irwin Art Dealer |
| 2004, 2008 | William Delafield Cook: Paintings, Rex Irwin Art Dealer |
| 1998 |
William Delafield Cook: Paintings, Rex Irwin Art Dealer, Sydney, William Delafield Cook: Drawings, Sherman Galleries, Sydney William Delafield Cook: Paintings & Drawings, Australian Galleries, Melbourne, |
| 1987 | William Delafield Cook: Mid-career Survey, AGNSW, Sydney William Delafield Cook: Selected Works:1958-1987, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, |
| 1976 | William Delafield Cook: Survey Exhibition, University of Melbourne Gallery, plus tour to Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Newcastle Region Art Gallery, Art Gallery of South Australia |
| 1974 |
William Delafield Cook, Berliner Kuenstlerprogramm (DAAD), Akademie der Kunste, Berlin, June-July |
| 1973, 75, 79 | William Delafield Cook: New Paintings & Drawings Redfern Gallery, London |
| 1972 |
William Delafield Cook: Ten Drawings, Powell Street Gallery, Melbourne |
| 1971 | William Delafield Cook: Redfern Gallery, London |
| 1970 |
Bill Delafield Cook : Real Art, Powell Street Gallery, Melbourne |
| 1967 | William Delafield Cook: English Paintings 1966-67, Leveson Street Gallery, Melbourne |
| SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITION: |
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| 2013 |
Syney Contemporay Art Fair, Olsen Irwin, Sydney |
| 2003 |
Trees, Rex Irwin Art Dealer |
| 2001 |
Ten Paintings, Rex Irwin Art Dealer |
| 1997 | The Real Thing, The Museum of Modern Art at Heide, Melbourne |
| 1997 |
Important Works on Paper, Rex Irwin Art Dealer, Sydney |
| 1995 | Dobell Drawing Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney |
| 1989 | Important Works on Paper, Rex Irwin Art Dealer, Sydney |
| 1989 | The Jack Manton Exhibition 1989: Recent Works by Twelve Australian Artists, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane |
| 1987-1988 |
The ANZ Bicentennial Art Commissions, Toured nationally |
| 1987 | Field of Figuration, NGV, Melbourne The Jack Manton Prize 1987: Recent Works by Fourteen Australian Artists, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane Australian Landscape Painting, Heide Park and Art Gallery, Melbourne (Museum of Modern Art, Heide) |
| 1983 | Recent Australian Painting ? A Survey:1970-1983, AGSA, Adelaide A Melbourne Mood: Cool Contemporary Art, Australian National Gallery, Melville Hall, Australian National University, Canberra Backlash: The Australian Drawing Revival 1976 – 1986, NGV |
| 1982 | Patrick White?s Choice, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney |
| 1981 |
Sulman Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney Aspects of New Realism:1981 ? Travelling Art Exhibition, NGV, Melb Spring Exhibition, Joseph Brown Gallery, Melbourne |
| 1980 |
Spring Exhibition, Joseph Brown Gallery, Melbourne Realist Art: Selected Works from the Permanent and Michell Endowment Collections, Banyule Gallery, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne |
| 1978 |
Some Recent Acquisitions, Australian National Gallery, Canberra Autumn Exhibition, Joseph Brown Gallery, Melbourne |
| 1977, 78, 81, 83, 85, 86, 88 | Wynne Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, |
| 1977 | Illusion and Reality, Australian National Gallery Canberra (National Gallery of Australia) Toured all Australian State Galleries. Winter Exhibition, Joseph Brown Gallery, Melbourne |
| 1976 |
Australian Realist Painters, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide |
| 1975 |
Contemporary Art Society Art Fair, Mall Galleries, Melbourne Realismus und realitat (Realism and Reality) , Kunsthalle, Darmstadt |
| 1974 | Freie Berliner Kunsteaustellung (Free Berlin), Berlin The Supernatural Image, Geelong Art Gallery and Ballarat Fine Art Gallery, Victoria |
| 1973 |
Perth International Drawing Prize, Art Gallery of Western Australia Recent Australian Art, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney Dusseldorf Art Fair, Maltzhan Gallery Travelodge Art Prize, Sydney 30 International Artists, DAAD, Bonn |
| 1972 | Relativerend Realisme, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, Holland, and Palais des Beaux Arts, Brussels |
| 1971 | Georges Invitation Prize, Melbourne |
| 1970 | Gardens of Delight, Powell Street Gallery, Melbourne |
| 1967 |
Hungry Horse Gallery, Sydney |
| 1965 | New Arts Centre, London |
| 1963 | Australian Painting and Sculpture in Europe Today, New Metropole Arts Centre, Folkestone and Frankfurt |
| 1962 | Artists of Promise, Nottingham New Arts Centre, London |
| 1961 | Young Contemporaries, Royal British Society of Artists, London Moulton Gallery, London |
| 1956-58 |
Victorian Artists Society, Melbourne Contemporary Art Society, Melbourne |
| COLLECTIONS: | |
| Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne National Gallery of Australia, Canberra Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin Newcastle Region Art Gallery, New South Wales Bendigo Art Gallery, Victoria Rockhampton City Art Gallery, Queensland University of Melbourne Art Collection, Melbourne Monash University Collection, Melbourne Deakin University Collection, Melbourne Artbank, Sydney Joseph Brown Collection, Melbourne Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Zealand Wesfarmers Collection, Perth Pacific Road, Sydney ANZ Bank Collection, Sydney Commonwealth Bank Collection, Melbourne Commercial Union Insurance, Melbourne State Bank of Victoria Collection, Melbourne National Australia Bank Collection Sussan Corporation Collection, Melbourne BHP Collection, Melbourne Coles-Myer Collection, Melbourne ACTU Collection, Melbourne Heracles Nominees Collection, Melbourne TAN Airlines, Miami Numerous private and corporate collections in Australia, the United Kingdom, the United States and Europe. |
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