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Biographical Notes

1942 Born Sydney
1966 Graduated with Honours, National Art School Sydney
Awarded the Dept of Technical Education bronze medallion
1966-2000 Taught Painting and Drawing (National Art School, City Art and College of Fine Arts UNSW)
1967-1969 Study Tour of Canada, USA, Mexico, Europe, Middle East, Afghanistan, India and Nepal
1979 Study Tour of Italy, Switzerland, Paris, London, New York and Toronto
1983 Landscape studies in Central Australia and the Northern Territory
1986 Landscape studies in Queensland (Mount Isa Region)
1989 Landscape studies in Western MacDonnell Ranges, Northern Territory
1990 Landscape studies in NW Queensland (Lawn Hill Region)
1991-2006 Landscape studies in far western NSW and Flinders Ranges South Australia
1998 Study Tour of Europe (France, Belgium, London, Switzerland and Italy).
During this year painted an Altarpiece for Saint Brendan’s Annandale
2000 Retired from position of Senior Lecturer and Head of Painting Studies (COFA) to concentrate on full time painting in the studio: major landscape paintings and commenced Stations of the Cross
2001 Installed the completed Stations of the Cross in St Paul of the Cross Catholic Church, Dulwich Hill
Invited to Membership of the Australian Watercolour Institute
2002 Relocated to Hazelbrook NSW
2003 Commenced Way of the Cross for the Chapel of the Seminary of the Good Shepherd, Homebush NSW
2004 Installation of the Way of the Cross Paintings
2005 Commission for Saint Mel’s Catholic Church, Campsie Sydney
2007 Landscape Studies, Central Australia

Solo Exhibitions:

1991, 2007 Artarmon Galleries Sydney
1971 Arts Council Gallery Sydney
1975, 1979 Bonython Gallery
1978 (two exhibitions), 1985, 1987, 1994, 1996, 2002 Robin Gibson Gallery Sydney
1995 Gallery 460 Gosford
1974 Toorak Gallery Melbourne

Awards:

1966 English Speaking Union’s Travelling Art Scholarship; Stocks and Holdings Painting Prize; Park Regis – Canadian Pacific Painting Prize
1970 Ashfield Prize; Otis 70 Film Prize; Script, Screen & Art Film Prize
1971 Ashfield Prize
1985 Gosford Drawing Prize
1991 Delmar Drawing Prize
1992 Office of Research & Development College of Fine Arts UNSW, Research Grant to investigate a remote desert landscape
1993 North Sydney Open Prize; Office of Research & Development College of Fine Arts UNSW, Research Grant for ‘Common Ground – landscapes of far western NSW’ Exhibition with Idris Murphy at UNSW Library Gallery
1997 Facaulty Research Grant, COFA UNSW; assistance with altarpiece panels for St Brendan’s Catholic Church Annandale.

Selected Bibliography:

The Australian WATERCOLOUR Institute, Peter Pinson, Jean Campbell, Peter Laverty (Phillip Mathews, 2006)
Catholic Weekly, ‘New Icons for our time March 25, 2001
Encyclopaedia of Australian Art, Alan McCullock (Hutchinson London)
A Vision Realised, Max Taylor (Trinity Grammar School ,1997)

From the studio of T E R E N C E O ‘ D O N N E L L
All of the Paintings illustrated below are available at 22.9.2007 from Terence’s recent August exhibition
‘Meditations in an Arid Landscape’ 2007.
The exhibition was opened by J O S E P H E I S E N B E R G O.A.M., Cultural Director, Maitland Regional Art Gallery

Please telephone the Gallery for the catalogued price and the titles of the images are as follows:

12 Gum in the afternoon, 30.5 x 40.6 cm, oil
11 Redgum at the waterhole, 30.4 x 40.6 cm, oil
44 Rocky Ridge Fowlers Gap, 64 x 89 cm, watercolour
Uncatalogued Charcoal Drawing
17 Two old redgums, 30.5 x 51 cm, oil
7 Two white trees, 19.5 x 38.8 cm, oil
41 Wana Karnu, 101.5 x 152.5 cm, oil
15 White tree, dark rock, 30.4 x 40.7 cm, oil
37 White tree, dark rock 97 x 102 cm, oil
19 White trees, dark hillside 30.5 x 51 cm, oil