John Anderson
John Anderson was born in 1947 in Melbourne. He received his Diploma of Fine Art, Painting at RMIT and his Secondary Teacher's Certificate from Melbourne Teachers' College in 1969. Anderson has had sixteen solo shows since 1972 in Melbourne, Brisbane and Sydney including nine with William Mora Galleries in Melbourne and one each with Annandale Galleries and Brian Moore in Sydney.
His works are held in numerous collections including Artbank, Western Mining, BHP, the Smorgon Collection and the Monash University Collection. In 2001, Anderson's work was hung in the Ill Met by Moonlight exhibition at the Sir Herman Black Gallery at the University of Sydney.
"I acquired my first John Anderson from William Mora in 1996. On the day of the Mertz auction, the only painting I bought was another John Anderson. I am most taken by his work. I believe he will leave his mark on Australian art in the years to come."
- Kym Bonython
"You only have to look at John Anderson's paintings to guess that he's an artist who gets his hands dirty... Anderson's paintings [are] just incredibly vigorous. The real vigour doesn't come from the shoulder or the wrist but a finely honed decision making process... Many of the paintings have a sexual charge...showing a world on the prowl or engaged in hot and grimy rituals. His pictures reflect contemporary circumstances in a filmic way; he paints freshly and usually retains a curiosity for the forms of his motifs, so that he avoids formulae and imaginatively follows his obsession.
The beauty of getting your hands dirty in the sense of Anderson's painting is that you communicate an experience, real or imagined, to an audience with an air of immediacy and sympathy. It's an aesthetic of not being detached but allowing yourself to be implicated in the scandals of other people's peccadilloes. Anderson's pictorial honesty is to paint directly and valiantly the shamelessness of his own imagination."
- Dr Robert Nelson
Associate Dean, Faculty of Fine Arts and Design, Monash University. The Sunday Age, October 1, 2000.
| BIOGRAPHY | |
| 1947 Born Melbourne, VIC | |
| 1965-69 | Diploma in Fine Art (Painting), RMIT |
| 165-69 | Secondary Teacher's Certificate, Melbourne Teachers' College |
| Selected Solo Exhibitions | |
| 2008 | Tim Olsen Gallery Sydney |
| 2006 |
Tim Olsen Gallery Sydney |
| 2005 | William Mora Galleries Melbourne |
| 2004 | Greenhill Galleries Adelaide The Melbourne Arts Fair- Showcase Artist William Mora Galleries |
| 2002 | Greenhill Galleries Adelaide |
| 2001 | Greenhill Galleries Adelaide Brian Moore Galleries, Sydney |
| 1996-00 | William Mora Art Galleries, Melbourne |
| 1995 | Annandale Galleries, Sydney Recent Painting and Sculpture, William Mora Galleries, Melbourne Brisbane City Hall Art Gallery and Museum |
| 1994 | William Mora Galleries, Melbourne |
| 1993 | The Waking Dream: John Anderson, Mornington Peninsula Arts Centre |
| 1990-92 | John Anderson, William Mora Galleries, Melbourne |
| 1989 | Works on Paper, William Mora Galleries, Melbourne |
| 1988 | William Mora Galleries, Melbourne |
| 1981 | Stanfield Gallery, Melbourne |
| 1978 | Warehouse Gallery, Richmond |
| 1973-74 | Stuart Gerstman Gallery, Melbourne |
| 1972 | Warehouse Gallery, Richmond |
| Selected Group Exhibitions | |
| 2008 | 2x2 Group Exhibition, Tim Olsen Gallery Annex, Sydney |
| 2004 | Greenhill Galleries Adelaide |
| 2001 | Ill Met By Moonlight, Sir Hermann Black Gallery, Sydney University Greenhill Galleries Adelaide |
| 1996 | Geelong Contemporary Art Fair, William Mora Galleries at the Royal |
| 1992 | Mornington Contemporary Artists, Mornington Peninsular Art Centre |
| 1991 | The Alice Prize, Art Gallery of Alice Springs |
| 1989 | Preview 1990, William Mora Galleries, Melbourne |
| 1982 | Irving Sculpture Gallery, Sydney Andrew and Lilian Pederson Memorial Prize for Small Sculpture, QLD Art Gallery |
| 1979 | Sculpture, Warehouse Gallery, Melbourne |
| 1977 | Mildura Sculpture Triennial, Mildura |
| 1974 | Drawing '74, Stuart Gerstman Gallery |
| 1973 | Inez Hutchinson Painting Prize George Painting Prize Corio Painting Prize Young Generation Painters, Mornington Peninsular Arts Centre |
| 1972 | Corio Painting Prize Exhibition |
| Collections | |
| Art Bank Western Mining BHP The Smorgon Collection Monash University Collection Tarra Warra Museum of Art The Yarra Collection Savoy Plaza Hotel Collection Western Mining Collection Gadens Melbourne Collection Applied International Collection Deakin University Collection Sydney University Collection |
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