DIED 2009
STUDIES
1954-1958 National Art School [East Sydney Technical College], Darlinghurst, NSW
Background
Brian Dunlop has never deviated from his commitment to an aesthetic that values the endless resources of the traditional skills of painting and the paradigm of nature. Trends and fads have never enticed him from his course. The price of this stubborn integrity has often seen him disregarded by the fashion-makers and fashion-followers of art, who accept obsolescence as the inevitable consequence of change and who have set up an often spurious and unacceptable notion of what it means to be radical in art. The gain has been that, deferring to an ideal that transcends individual ego, he has been able to develop a body of work unmistakably his own and capable of continual renewal within its own terms. Another benefit has been that he can reach out to an audience who respond to the humanity and harmony of his images with relief and with a conviction that they are not being condescended to or misled.
1995-2006 Visited Turkey, Italy and the United States
1984 Lived and paints in Melbourne and Port Fairy, Victoria
1984 Painted portraits of public figures, including Queen Elizabeth II
1982-83 Lived and worked in Tuscany
1980-81 Artist-in Residence, University of Melbourne
1975-79 Part-time teaching at Alexander Mackie College, Sydney
1973-80 Painted in Sydney
1972-75 Part-time teaching at N.S.W. University, School of Architecture
1970-73 Lived and painted in Ebenezer, New South Wales
1969-74 Part-time teaching at East Sydney Technical College
1965-68 Painted in Rome, Skyros, Majorca, Morocco and London
1962 Travelled mainly through southern Europe
1954-59 Studied at the National Art School, Sydney
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2008 Eva Breuer Art Dealer, Sydney
2007 Dandenong Regional Gallery, Dandenong, Victoria
2006 Eva Breuer Art Dealer, Sydney
2004 Eva Breuer Art Dealer, Sydney
2003 Australian Galleries, Melbourne
2003 Eva Breuer Art Dealer, Sydney
2001 Eva Breuer Art Dealer, Sydney
2001 Eva Breuer Art Dealer, Sydney
1999 Eva Breuer Art Dealer, Sydney
1998 Eva Breuer Art Dealer, Sydney;
1998 Axia Modern Art, Melbourne
1997 Eva Breuer Art Dealer, Sydney;
1997 Editions Gallery, Melbourne; Survey
1997 Portrait exhibition (Waverley, Warrnambool, Castlemaine & Hamilton Galleries)
1989-97 4 solo exhibitions Australian Galleries, Melbourne & Sydney
1992 Carrick Hill, Adelaide
1988 Agnews Gallery, London
1986 Beehive Gallery, Adelaide
1985 Realities Gallery, Melbourne
1971-1984 10 solo exhibitions, Macquarie Galleries, Sydney
1980 University of Melbourne Gallery
1977 Victor Mace Gallery, Brisbane
1974 Adelaide Festival of Arts
1963-66 Barry Stern Gallery, Sydney
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
1988 Doug Moran Portrait Prize
1988 The Michelton Print Exhibition (Interior Motives)
1988 Australian Drawing, Australian National Gallery, Canberra
1987 Jack Manton Prize, Art Gallery of Queensland
1986 The Australian Drawing Revival (Backlash), National Gallery of Victoria
1977 Australian Realists, Art Gallery of South Australia
1977 Australian Drawing, Art Gallery of Western Australia
AWARDS
2004 Finalist in the 2004 Archibald Prize with Brian Kenna
1999 Savage Club Drawing Prize
1981 Sulman Prize
1978 Andrew & Lilian Pedersen Drawing Prize
1977 Civic Permanent Award, Canberra; Coffs Harbour purchase; Gold Coast purchase
1977 Gold Coast purchase
1977 Coffs Harbour purchase
1976 Civic Permanent Award, Canberra; R N Ansett Hamilton Award
1976 R N Ansett Hamilton Award
1958 Le Gay Brereton Drawing Prize
COLLECTIONS
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
Australian National University, Canberra
all State Galleries
Benalla Art Gallery
Hamilton Art Gallery
Newcastle Regional Art Gallery
University of Melbourne
University of Sydney
La Trobe University
Monash University
Rockhampton Gallery
La Trobe Valley Gallery
Wollongong Gallery
Darwin Gallery
Canberra College
Castlemaine Gallery
Ballarat Gallery
Parliament House, Canberra
Ipswich Gallery
Government House, Melbourne
Parliament House, Sydney
State Bank of South Australia
State Bank of New South Wales
High Court, Canberra
State Bank of Victoria
Artbank
Mornington Peninsula Arts Centre
Warrnambool Gallery
Hamilton Gallery
Mt Gambier Gallery
Wagga Gallery
Geelong Gallery
Bendigo Gallery
National Portrait Gallery, Canberra
COMMISSIONS
National Capital Development Commission, ACT
Australia Post (two sets of postage stamps)
Sydney Stock Exchange
Over ninety portrait commissions, including a Governor-General, three Chief Justices, three Archbishops and Victoria’s sesquicentenary portrait of the Queen (1984)