Curriculum Vitae - MARCUS BEILBY

Born	1951 Western Australia
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Address	East Fremantle, Western Australia

Professional Experience

1972-1975	Studied for and attained Diploma of Fine Arts (painting), Claremont Technical College. Painted and lectured in painting and printmaking at Claremont Technical College and Curtin University of Technology.
1980-1982	Painted and lectured in Art at Carine Technical College
1983-1984	Painted, travelled and studied art movements throughout the U.S.
1985-1988	Painted and lectured in painting and design at Claremont School of Art.
1989-present	Painting full time.

Solo Exhibitions

1975	Collectors Gallery, Perth.
1978	Fremantle Arts Centre.
1985	Gallery 52.
1987	Art Gallery of Western Australia – Artist in Focus.
1988	Fremantle Arts Centre – Review of a Realist Painter. The State Bank of South Australia – The Marcus Beilby Exhibition.
1992	A Realist’s Eye – Ipswich Regional Art Gallery, Queensland.
1994	Parliament House. Canberra.
1998	Marcus Beilby Paintings
1992-1998	Sydney N.S.W.
2001	Blackswan Theatre Company, University of Western Australia. "Marcus Beilby – Postcards from the Everyday." Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, University of Western Australia.
2003	"Marcus Beilby – City to Surf" Lister Calder Gallery W.A.
2006	"Urban Narratives" Marcus Beilby – Lister Calder Gallery W.A.
2011	"People and Places" Perth Galleries W.A.

Group Exhibitions

1975	"Three Realists"- University of Western Australia.
1977	"Spectrum WA"- Greenhill Galleries, Adelaide.
1980	"High Street Studio Realists" - Art Gallery of Western Australia, National Gallery of Victoria, Art Gallery of New South Wales.
1981	"Aspects of Realism" - National Gallery of Victoria.
1982	"High Street Realists II" - University of Western Australia.
1983	"New Talent 1983" - Allan Stone Gallery, New York.
1984	"On Tour: Destination China" - Guang Dong Academy of Fine Arts, The Peoples Republic of China.
1987	"Field to Figuration: Australian Art 1960-1986" - National Gallery of Victoria.
1987	Archibald, Wynne and Sulman Prizes - Art Gallery of New South Wales.
1988	"Bicentennial Exhibition of Selected Works from the Bankwest Collection" - Art Gallery of Western Australia.
1989	"Drawing Water" - Fremantle Arts Centre.
1990	"Commentaries: Artist as Social Critic" - Art Gallery of Western Australia.
1990	"What Images Return: Australian Art Since 1940" - Art Gallery of Western Australia.
1990	"Archibald Prize" - Art Gallery of New South Wales.
1991	"Song of the Earth" - Delaney Galleries, Perth.
1991	"Festival of Perth, Artists’Artists" - Fremantle Arts Centre.
1991	"Born in the CSA" - Claremont School of Art. W.A.
1991	"Wildflowers In Art" – Art Gallery of W.A.
1993	"Greenhill Pays Homage to Claremont School of Art" – Greenhill Galleries. W.A.
1993	"Tangerine Dreams" - University of Western Australia.
1993	"Images of War" - Art Gallery of Western Australia.
1993	"Tattersall’s Club Landscape Art Prize" Brisbane, Queensland
1994	"City of Fremantle Art Collection" – Fremantle, W.A.
1994	"Paint on the Tracks" - S H Ervin Gallery, National Trust of Australia.
1995	"Bankwest Centenary Art Exhibition – Shaping Western Australia" - Art Gallery of Western Australia.
1995	"Harnessing the Horse" – Fremantle Trotting Association, W.A.
1996	"In the Picture, Creative Australians from the National Library’s Portrait Collection" - National Portrait Gallery, Canberra.
1996	"The Royal Institute for the Blind Exhibition" – W.A.
1997	"Swingtime: East Coast – West Coast" - Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, University of Western Australia.
1997	"Fremantle 6160" – Fremantle Arts Centre, W.A.
1998	"Being" - Invitation Art Exhibition, Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital W.A.
1999	"Images of the City" - City of Perth and Rotary Club of WA Art Award.
2002	"Love Your Work" - Fremantle Arts Centre.
2002	City of Perth Cultural Art Award
2003	"Animalistic" – Edith Cowan University
2004	"Mine Own Executioner" – Mundaring Arts Centre, W.A.
2005	"Revealing"- The City of Fremantle Art Collection. Fremantle Art Gallery W.A.
2006	"CRASH (and other earthly pleasures)" – Lawrence Wilson art Gallery – U.W.A.
2008	"Western Australian Landscapes" - Lister Gallery, W.A.
2008	"Fertile Soil: 50 years of the City of Fremantle Art Collection." Fremantle Arts Centre
2008	Artist Oral History Project – 50th year Anniversary Project. City of Fremantle.
2009	"You show us yours, we’ll show you ours" Public and Private works from Edith Cowan University and Holmes a Court Collections.
2009	Vogue Living – 2009 Art Series Dinner
2009	Waves - The Edith Cowan University Art Collection. ECU November 2009
2010	"Fertile Soil: 50 years of the City of Fremantle Art Collection." Touring Exhibition.

Prizes and Awards

1987	The Sir John Sulman Prize for Australian Genre Painting.
1993	Commemorative painting of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II opening Parliament House on 9.5.88 - Historical Memorials Committee, Parliament House, Canberra
1996	Commemorative painting of "The Opening of the High Court of Australia in 1903", High Court of Australia, Canberra.
1998	McDonald’s Australia Limited 1998 Art Commission, N.S.W.
2000	"In Die Vitae All Saints College MM" commission Western Australia.
2001	"Hazel Day" Portrait Commission Perth, Western Australia.
2002	"City of Perth Cultural Award – Art Award" 2002
2005	"Portraits of the First and Second Chief Justices of Western Australia – Sir Archibald Burt and Sir Henry Wrenfordsley"
2008	"Garth Wynne" Principal Christ Church Grammar School Portrait
2009	"Professor Robin Warren; Nobel Laureate" Portrait
2010	"Mr Philip Grutzner" Headmaster St Peter’s College, Portrait
2010	"Dr Jeffery Driver" Anglican Archbishop of Adelaide, Portrait

Grants

• Western Australian Arts Council
• Visual Arts Board, Australia Council
• Western Australian Arts Council

Represented

• Art Gallery of Western Australia
• University of Western Australia
• National Gallery of Victoria
• Visual Arts Board
• Curtin University of Technology
• Edith Cowan University
• City of Fremantle
• Bank West
• Alexander Library
• State Bank of South Australia
• Australian War Memorial, Canberra
• National Library of Australia
• Parliament House, Canberra
• Holmes a Court Collection
• High Court of Australia
• Numerous private collections

Selected Bibliography

• Mason, Murray (Ed) Contemporary Western Australian Painters and Printmakers, 1979.
• High Street Studio Realists, Art Gallery of Western Australia, 1980.
• Toy, Ann. Aspects of New Realism. National Gallery of Victoria, 1981.
• Hawthorn, Bill. Some Contemporary Western Australian Painters and Sculptors, 1982.
• Jackson, Janice, Marcus Beilby: Mixing Ideas into a Single Vision, Australian Artist, 1985.
• Field to Figuration: Australian Art 1960-1986. National Gallery of Victoria, 1986.
• Morrison, Elizabeth The Legitimacy of the Camera, 1987.
• Artist in Focus I: Marcus Beilby. Art Gallery of Western Australia, 1988.
• Jackson, Janice: Marcus Beilby, Three Phases of Realism, Fremantle Arts Review, 1988.
• Shearman, Carla: Snap Frozen Moments, 1988.
• Chapman, Barbara. The BankWest Art Collection, 1988.
• Artist in Focus: Marcus Beilby, State Bank of South Australia.
• Pierce, P., Grey, J. & Doyle, J. Whatever Happened to Sunday Mourning in Vietnam Days, Penguin Publishers, Melbourne, 1991.
• Williams, Don: Look Again: An Appreciation of Art. McGraw Hill Book Co., Sydney, 1990.
• Lachlan, R. Larger Than Life: Marcus Beilby’s Paintings. Australian Photography, 1993. Claremont School of Art: A Spirited Place, 1993.
• The House Magazine – The House of Representatives, Parliament House, Canberra, 1994.
• The Artist’s Chronicle: Marcus Beilby – The New Tom Roberts, April-June, 1994.
• Expressing Australia – Art in Parliament House, Canberra, 1994.
• The Encyclopaedia of Australian Art. Allen & Unwin, NSW, 1994.
• Psychology: Learning, Thinking and experiencing. Rawlings & Badcock, Victoria, 1995
• The Artist’s Chronicle: Speaking of Success – Marcus Beilby June 1997.
• Brief, The Law Society of WA August 1997.
• Marcus Beilby – The Tom Roberts Connection, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Public Education Program, 1997.
• History Court on Canvas. The Bulletin, June 1997.
• Artist’s Photofinish: Marcus Beilby. The Bulletin, July, 1997.
• Swingtime East Coast West Coast Anne Grey, University of Western Australia
• Living History on Canvas – The New Tom Roberts, Sydney Morning Herald.
• Timms, Peter. The Real Thing (catalogue), Museum of Modern Art, Heide, 1998.
• Marcus Beilby: The Financial Investment Benefits – The Financial Review May 1999.
• Light Relief Wins Top Art Award – The West Australian November 9, 2002.
• Real Life View of Planet Earth – The West Australian April 9^th 2003.
• City of Light – A History of Perth since the 1950’s, Jenny Gregson
• National Library Of Australia, 2004.
• Revealing – City of Fremantle Art Collection publication, 2005.
• "A Survey of Western Australian Art from 1696." A.Spartalis, 2008.
• "You show us yours, we’ll show you ours." Public and Private works from the Edith Cowan University and Holmes a Court Collections – Seven decades of exceptional artists. 2008
• "Mega Show on Two Fronts." West Australian Newspapers. January 16th 2009
• "Waves – The Edith Cowan Art Collection." D. Bromfield 2009
• "Scenes of Somerville." UWA News, June 2010
• "Marcus Beilby: A Big Night Out" Spice Publications, Winter 11, 2011

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