Ann Thomson - CV

1933	Born Brisbane, Australia
1956	Studied with Jon Molvig, Brisbane
1957-62	Studied at National Art School, Sydney
1978	Resident at Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, studying etching with Paul Frank and Henri Goetz
1985	Resident ‘Parataio’ Studio, Tuscany, Italy

Solo Exhibitions

2008	Heiser Gallery, Brisbane Oceans Apart, Australian Galleries, Sydney
	La Luz Galeria de Arte, Mérida, Mexico
2006	Heiser Gallery, Brisbane, QLD
2005	Other, Australian Galleries Works on Paper, Sydney
2004	Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne
	Australian Galleries, Sydney
	Ann Thomson, Cité Internationale de Arts , Paris
2003	Anne Thomson, Galerie Walter Bischoff, Berlin
	Stephan Jacob, Paris
2001	Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne in conjunction with Ralph Renard
	The Studio, Opera House, Sydney
	Annandale Galleries, Sydney
1997	Peter Gant Gallery, Melbourne
1996	Australian Galleries, Sydney
1994	Australian Galleries, Sydney
1993	Australian Galleries, Melbourne, in conjunction with Meridian
	Sculpture Gallery
	Australia Felix Sculpture, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
1992	Australian Galleries, Sydney
	Sculptures, Mary Place, Sydney
1990	Coventry Gallery, Sydney
1989	Australian Galleries, Melbourne
	BMG Fine Art, Adelaide
1988	Australian Galleries, Melbourne
	Coventry Gallery, Sydney
1986	Michael Milburn Gallery, Brisbane
	Coventry Gallery, Sydney
1985	Michael Milburn Gallery, Brisbane
1984	Stadia Graphics Gallery, Sydney
	Christine Abrahams Gallery, Melbourne
1983	Coventry Gallery, Sydney
1982	Gallery A, Sydney
1980	Monash University, Melbourne
1979	Gallery A, Sydney
1977	Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane
	Gallery A, Sydney
1976	Ray Hughes Gallery, Sydney
1974	Gallery A, Sydney
1973	Gallery One Eleven, Brisbane
1965	Watters Gallery, Sydney

Group Exhibitions

2007	Small Pleasures: Painting and Sculpture, Australian Galleries, Melbourne
	Stock Show, Australian Galleries, Melbourne
2006	50th Anniversary Exhibition, Australian Galleries, Melbourne
	Summery, Australian Galleries, Sydney
	Dobell Prize for Drawing 2006, Art Gallery of New South Wales
	The Big Picture, Delmar Gallery, Sydney
	Same Place, Many Views – Painting the Australian Landscape, Defiance Gallery, Sydney
	Who Cares?, Boutwell Draper Gallery, Sydney
	Salon des Refusés, S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney
	Wynne Prize Exhibition, Art Gallery of New South Wales
2005	Kedumba Drawing Award, Winner, Blackheath Gallery, NSW
	End of Year Group Exhibition, Australian Galleries Painting and Sculpture, Sydney
	10th Annual 6”x6”x6” Miniature Sculpture Show, Defiance Gallery, Sydney
	Salon start, Galerie Arts d’Australie, Stéphen Jacob, Strasbourg
	Personage the figure on paper, Australian Galleries Works on Paper, Sydney
2004	Salon Art Event, Galerie Arts d’Australie, Stéphen Jacob, Lille
	Salon Art Paris, Galeirie Arts d’Australie, Stéphen Jacob, Paris, France
2002	Salon Art Paris, Carrousel du Louvre, Galeirie Arts d’Australie, Stéphen Jacob, Paris, France
	La loire-Atlantique donne rendez-vous à l’Australie, Art et Culture des Antipodes, Galeirie Arts d’Australie, Stéphen Jacob/Conseil Général de Loire-Atlantique, Nantes
2001	5 Artistes Australiens, Galerie Odile Boïcos, Paris
	Salon Art Paris, Carrousel du Louvre, Galeirie Arts d’Australie, Stéphen Jacob, Paris, France
	Voyage dan la matière, Galeirie Arts d’Australie, Stéphen Jacob/atelier Claude Cerf, Paris, France
	Australie, visages d’un continent, Galeirie Arts d’Australie, Stéphen Jacob/ Galerie Visages de l’art, Marly-le-Roi, France
2000	Arts d’Australie, Stéphanie Jacobs, Paris, France
	Archibald Prize Exhibition, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
	Sulman Prize Exhibition, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
	Fleurieu Art Prize SA
	Art on Paper, Art Fair, London
	Kunstral, Art Fair, Amsterdam
	Accents Australiens, Espace Adamski Designs, Paris, France
1999	Prize Pictures, King Street Gallery on Burton, Sydney
	Icarus, Goulburn Regional Gallery, NSW
	Visy Board Art Prize Exhibition
	Redlands Westpac Art Prize
	Skin Culture, Tin Sheds, Sydney
	Wynne Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
	Primary Colours – Red, Annandale Galleries, Sydney
	Silver, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney
	Toys by Artists, New England Regional Art Gallery, Armidale
	Visy Board Art Prize Exhibition, Hill Smith Fine Art Gallery, Adelaide
	Grans et jeunes d’Aujourd’hui, Galerie Arts d’Australie, Stéphen Jacob, Paris
	Arts on paper Fair, London
	Annandale Galleries, Sydney
1998	The George Gallery, Melbourne
	Art & Music, Axia Modern Art, Melbourne
	Lui Hat-su National Art Museum, Shanghai
	University of Newcastle, NSW
	Wynne Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
	Primary Colours – Blue, Annandale Galleries, Sydney
	Skin Culture, The Georges Gallery, Melbourne, Sydney & Beijing
	Australian Contemporary Paintings, Lui Hai-su National Art Museum, Shanghai
	Toys by Artists, University of Newcastle, NSW
	Le Temps du Rêve, Galerie Arts d’Australie, Stéphen Jacob/Bibliothèque municipale, Le
	Perreux-sur-Marne
	Propositions Australiennes, Galerie Arts d’Australie, Stéphen Jacob/Luc Queyrel, Paris
	Annandale Galleries, Sydney
1997	L’Art des Aborigènes d’Australie (section Clin d’oeil sur l’art occidental), Galerie Arts d’Australie, Stéphen Jacob/ Espace Paul Riquet, Béziers
1994	Drawing on Inspiratio’, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney
1993	Chandler Coventry Collection, Campbelltown Art Gallery, NSW
1992	Interpretations, Goulburn Regional Art Gallery, NSW
	Ann Thomson represents l’Australie à l Exposition Universelle de Seville, Australia
	Felix, for the Australian Pavilion
1990	A Young Collector’s Exhibition, Coventry Gallery, Sydney
	Campus Collections, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney
	Portfolio of Women Artists, Macquarie Galleries, Sydney
1989	Intimate Drawing, Conventry Gallery, Sydney
1988	Solo Images, Blaxland Gallery, Sydney
	Tenth British International Print Biennale – Britain and Australia, Bradford UK
	Contemporary Views of New England, New England Regional Art Museum, Armidale, NSW
	Drawing in Australia: Drawings, Watercolours and Pastels from the 1770’s to the 1980’s, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
1987	Australia on Paper, Queensland Arts Council
	Surface for Reflexion, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
	The Jack Manton Prize, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane
	Colour II, Coventry Gallery, Sydney
	Australian Works on Paper, Oion Fine Art, Dallas, USA
1986	Colour I, Conventry Gallery, Sydney
1985	Sydney Morning Herald Art Prize (Winner), Sydney
	Salute to Lloyd Rees, Macquarie Galleries, Sydney
	Contemporary Australian Art, The Warwick Arts Trust, London
	Galleriea Lillo, Venice, Italy
	Australian Perspecta ‘85, Artspace, Sydney
1984	Musée de l’Art Walloon, Liège, Belgium
	University of New South Wales Purchase Prize, (Winner), Sydney
1983	Christine Abrahams Gallery, Melbourne
1982	Anzacs 8’, Macquarie University, Sydney
1981	Canberra Times National Art Award Exhibition Canberra
1980	Summer Exhibition, Gallery A, Sydney
1978	Landscape and Image, Contemporary Australian Art in Indonesia
	Australian Women Artists, Contemporary Art Society, Sydney
	Exposition, Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, France
1977	Gallery A, Sydney
1976	David Jones Art Prize, (Winner), Brisbane
1975	Ten Australian’, Gallery A, Sydney
	Opening Exhibition, Warehouse Gallery, Melbourne
1974	Gallery A, Sydney
	Ten Years, Watters Gallery, Sydney
1962	Clune Galleries, Sydney
	Seven Figurative Painters, Barry Stern Gallery, Sydney
	Blaxland Gallery, Sydney
	Von Bertouch Galleries, Newcastle
	Bonython Galleries, Adelaide

Bibliography

Australia Felix Catalogue, World Expo, Seville, Spain, 1992
Drury, Neville; Images 2. Contemporary Australian Paintings, Craftsman House, 1994
McCulloch, Alan. & Susan; The Encyclopaedia of Australian Art, Allen & Unwin, 3rd edition, 1994
Ann Thomson exhibition catalogue, Coventry Gallery, Sydney 1990
Ann Thomson exhibition catalogue, Australian Galleries, Sydney 1993 – 94
Ann Thomson exhibition catalogue, Annandale Galleries, Sydney 2001
Ann Thomson exhibition folio, Australian Galleries, Sydney 2004

Awards

2006	Artist in residence, Cité Internationale de Arts, Paris
2005	Kedumba Drawing Award
2003	Artist in residence, Cité Internationale de Arts, Paris
2002	Winner, Geelong Contemporary Art Prize, Geelong
1999	Artist in residence, Cité Internationale de Arts, Paris
1998	Wynne Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
1995	Artist in Residence, Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, France
1986	John McCaughey Award, Art Gallery of New SouthWales, Sydney
1985	Winner, Sydney Morning Herald Art Prize, Sydney
	Awarded Arthur Boyd studio in Tuscany, Italy
1984	University of New South Wales Purchase Prize, Sydney
1981	Winner, Canberra Times National Art Award, Canberra
1980	Visual Arts Board Grant
1978	Visual Arts Board Grant to Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris
1976	David Jones Art Prize, Brisbane

Collections

Alcoa Foundation, USA
Artbank
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Australian Consolidated Press, Sydney
Australian National University, Canberra
Coventry Collection, New England Regional Art Museum, Armidale, NSW
50th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights Collection, Paris
Griffith University, Queensland
James Cook University, Townsville
Macquarie Bank, Sydney
Macquarie University, Sydney
Medibank Collection, Canberra
Myer Collection, Melbourne
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
Newcastle Region Art Gallery
Organisation des Nations Unis (O.N.U.), New York, USA
Parliament House, Canberra
Perc Tucker Gallery, Townsville
Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane
Queensland University of Technology Art Collection, Brisbane
Sydney College of Advanced Education
The Darling Harbour Authority, Sydney
Thyssen-Bornmisza Collection, Madrid
University of Western Australia, Perth
Visual Arts Board
Western Mining Company, WA
Wollongong University College, NSW
Villa Haiss, Germany

Commissions

1992	Centrepiece for the Australian Pavilion at World Expo in Seville, Spain
1990	The Australian Legal Group Contemporary Print Collection
	A Portfolio of Australian Women Artists, NSW Cancer Council
1987	Commissioned by The Darling Harbour Authority to create a work 4.5 x 5 metres for the Sydney Convention Centre
1977	Commissioned by the University of Queensland to create a nine metre mural for the Malley Refectory