Reference: from artist’s website:
WILLIAM WRIGHT
1937 - 2014. Born: Sydney Australia,
1937 - 1959 Sydney Australia
1954 - 1958 Attended National Art School, Sydney, Diploma in Painting (A.S.T.C.)
1959 – 1960 Florence
1959 – 1960 Florence, Italy. Attended the Accademia di Belle Arti with part time study of
Restoration at the Museo del Accademia
1960 - 1976 London, United Kingdom
1961 Attended Central School of Art and Design (printmaking, lithography)
1964 Attended Goldsmiths College, London (printmaking, relief etching)
1965 First Solo exhibition, Traverse Gallery, Edinburgh
1965 - 1968 Exhibited in Edinburgh, London, Warsaw, Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide.
1967 Solo exhibition Komon Gallery, Sydney
Solo exhibition Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne
1970 - 1976 Head, Department of Painting, Winchester School of Art. U K.
1976 - 1981 New York, Unites States of America
1976 - 1979 Associate Dean (Programme Director) New York Studio School.
1979 -1980 Acting Dean, State University of New York at Purchase.
1981 - 2014 Sydney, Australia
1980 - 1982 Artistic Director, Vision in Disbelief 4th Biennale of Sydney.
1982 - 1991 Assistant Director Professional Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
1992 Lecturer/coordinator, Post Graduate Museum and Gallery Management
University of New South Wales
1982 - 1997 Member, Board of Directors, Biennale of Sydney
1991 - 2002 Curatorial Director, Sherman Galleries.
2002 Awarded the Australia Council Emeritus Medal
for services to art, art education, curatorship and artists.
2002 - 2005 Director, Sherman Galleries
2003 Appointed AM, Member of the Order of Australia
2003 - 2008 President, Australian Chapter, AICA (International Association of Art Critics)
2004 - 2014 Director, William Wright Consulting
2005 - 2008 Member, Board of Directors, NAVA (National Association for the Visual Arts)
2006 - 2010 Sherman Foundation Fellow in Contemporary Art
Department of Art History and Theory, University of Sydney
2009 - 2014 Tutor (painting), National Art School
2010 Appointed Fellow, National Art School
2010 - 2014 Director, William Wright • Artists Projects
EXHIBITIONS
Solo Exhibitions:
1965 Traverse Gallery, Edinburgh
1966 Richard Demarco Gallery, Edinburgh
1967 Rudy Komon Gallery, Sydney
Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne
North Adelaide Gallery, Adelaide
Edinburgh College of Art, 1967 Edinburgh Festival
British Architectural Association, London
1968 Essex University Gallery, Essex
Richard Demarco Gallery, Edinburgh
Continued studio practice but ceased actively exhibiting in 1968
2008 Triptych (3 solo exhibitions) Galerie Dusseldorf, Perth
2014 Eclipse, Drawing Room Gallery, Kings Cross, Sydney
2014 This is not an Exhibition, William Wright • Artist Projects, Sydney
Selected Group Exhibitions:
1966 Richard Demarco Gallery Inaugural Exhibition,
Contemporary British Artists, Edinburgh Festival.
Richard Demarco Gallery, Edinburgh
Australian Artists, South London Gallery, London
Gallery Artists, Richard Demarco Gallery, Edinburgh
1967 Contemporary British Painting, Gallery of the Union
of Polish Artists, Warsaw
1968 Edinburgh Festival Exhibition, Richard Demarco
Gallery, Edinburgh
1984 The 1960s, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
1985 20th Anniversary Exhibition, Traverse Gallery, Edinburgh
2008 Triptych. Dusseldorf Gallerie Perth.
2011 Triptych: Mais Mais Wright Wright
Drill Hall Gallery, Australian National University, Canberra
2012 Tr. 3, WW/Artists' Projects, Sydney
2013 ORBIT: works on paper, Drawing Room, Sydney
2014 Returning to The Field, SNO Contemporary Art Projects, Sydney
DE COLORI, WW Artists Projects, Sydney
2015 The Triumph of Modernism in the Art of Australia, Hazelhurst Regional Gallery, Hazelhurst
Tarrawarra Museum of Art, Victoria.
Painting 1: ANGLE, EDGE, GRID. William Wright • Artists Projects, Sydney
REVIEWS:
1965 Cordelia Oliver, The Guardian, March
Sydney Goodsir-Smith, William Wright at the Traverse;
Painter who loves world, The Scotsman, March
1966 Edwin Mullins, The Sunday Telegraph,
London, August 21st
Cordelia Oliver, The Guardian, August
Terence Mullaly, London Daily Telegraph, 26th August
Cordelia Oliver, The Glasgow Herald, 24th August
Anne Matheson, Sunday Telegraph, Sydney 17th April
1967 Elwyn Lynn, William Wright at Komon, The Bulletin,
Sydney, March 4th
Elwyn Lynn Art & Australia(DATE?)
George Berger, The Jewish News, Sydney, March
Wallace Thornton, Sydney Morning Herald, March
Elwyn Lynn The Australian
Alan McCulloch, Stimulus to use of one colour,
The Melbourne Herald, Melbourne, April
Art that’s different and worthwhile
Melbourne Sun 18th April
Patrick McCaughey, Gifts and Guesses
The Age, Melbourne, 19th April
Martin Collins, The Australian, 21st April
Ronald Millar, The Australian, 29th April
Elizabeth Young, Adelaide
Guy Brett, The Times, London, August 25th
Cordelia Oliver, Six One-Man Shows, The Guardian,
London, August 23rd
John Russell, A Challenge Won, The Sunday Times,
London, August,
1968 S L, A square view of squares,
review, Essex University exhibition
2009 Douglas Sheerer, Many Hands: Mais Wright Work
Australian Art Collector, Jan - Mar, p 87
2011 Michael Desmond, Triad, Cat Essay Triptych Exhibition
Drill Hall Gallery, Australian National University, Canberra
Sasha Grishin Talented Family has Broad Brush
Canberra Times Weekend Review 15 Oct
Collections:
Art Gallery of New South Wales
Stirling University, Perthshire, Scotland
New England Regional Art Museum, New England
Richard Demarco European Art Foundation Collection
The University of Dundee, Dundee, Scotland
Australian National University, Canberra
Tarra Warra Museum, Melbourne
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