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Heather
2006
Oil on canvas
76 x 71cm
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Timmins
2006
Oil on canvas
76 x 61cm
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Jane
Oil on board
57 x 45cm
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Lyn - Pregnant
Oil on board
57 x 45cm
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Sarah Scott
2006
Oil on canvas
115 x 76cm
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Essie in transit, West End/Broadway 6/7
Sept 2004
Oil on canvas
76 x 60.5cm
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The right hand of god – Mars rising, 27 August 2003,” it's closest approach in 57,000 years” (Martin George QVMAG)
2006
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| george davis portraiture |
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| George Davis is extremely well known for his portraiture work. His work has included; |
- Theatre Royal, commissioned portraits 10 composers
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- Doug Lowe, former Premier Tasmania
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- Vivian Smith/ Dorothy Kate Stoner'
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| born |
1930 Hobart , Tasmania
Lives and works in Hobart |
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| studies and travel |
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| 1958-59 |
Part-time teacher, painting, Hobart Technical College (under
Carington Smith)
and later for Adult Education Board, Hobart |
| 1952-54 |
Royal Academy Schools under Bernard Fleetwood-Walker(1892-1965)
Travelled in UK , Ireland & Europe |
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| solo exhibitions |
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Colville Street Art Gallery, Hobart, Tasmania |
| 2000 |
“En Plein Air” Salamanca Collection, Hobart |
| 1988 |
“George Davis:portraits, people and the Figure” TMAG, Hobart |
| 1987 |
Sadler's Court Gallery, Richmond |
| 1985 |
“Portraits of Composers” TMAG, Hobart |
| 1981 |
Harrington Street Gallery, Hobart |
| 1980 |
“George Davis: the Man and his Art” Fine Arts Gallery, University of Tasmania |
| 1978 |
1978 “ Tasmania 's Islands ” TMAG, Hobart and Sadler's Court Gallery, Richmond |
| 1975 |
Sadler's Court Gallery, Richmond |
| 1970 |
Salamanca Place Gallery, Hobart |
| 1956 |
Arts Council of Australia , Civic Centre, Canberra |
| 1951 |
Hedy Juer, Hobart |
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| selected group exhibitions |
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| 2005 |
Fleurie Landscape Prize, SA |
| 1995 |
Kedumba Drawing Award, NSW |
| 1992 |
Kedumba Drawing Award, NSW |
1984 |
Freemantle Drawing Prize, Freemantle
Art Gallery
“Burning Desires” Salamanca Arts Festival
Long Gallery, Salamanca Place , Hobart |
| 1983 |
“Arts & Crafts Exhibition” Australian Freedom From Hunger, Campaign, Long Gallery, Salamanca Place , Hobart |
| 1981 |
John McCaughey Memorial Art Prize, National Gallery Victoria , Melbourne |
| 1980 |
“Exhibition of Antarctic Artists, Antarctic Division, St Kilda Road , Melbourne
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| 1980 |
“Burnie Works on Paper”, Burnie Art Gallery, Burnie
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| 1979 |
“Contemporary Tasmanian Drawings” University of Tasmania , Hobart
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| 1978 |
Southlands Gallery, Canberra |
| 1976 |
“Opening Exhibition” Coughton Galleries, Hobart |
| 1973 |
“Tasmanian Artists”, TMAG, Hobart |
| 1964 |
Launceston Purchase Prize, QVMAG Launceston
“Tasmainian Painters”, Bible House, Canberra
Contemporary Art Society, Tasmania
South Yarra Gallery, Melbourne |
| 1963 |
“2 nd Paris Biennale for Young Painters” by invitation of Arts Council Australia South Yarra Gallery, Melbourne |
| 1962 |
Contemporary Art Society, Tasmania |
| 1961 |
“Recent Australian Painting” Whitechapel Art Gallery, London |
| 1959, 60 |
The Perth Prize for Drawing, AGWA, Perth |
| 1958-61 |
“ Tasmanian Art Gallery Exhibition” TMAG, Hobart
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| 1956 |
The Australian Woman's Weekly Portrait Prize, AGNSW, Sydney |
| 1951, 54-61 |
“Tasmanian Group of Painters” TMAG, Hobart |
| 1954 |
“First Exhibition of Paintings and Drawings by Brian Couch, George Davis, Mary Oliver and Donald Pass ” 63 Elm Park Gardens , London |
| 1951 |
Dunlop Art Competition, Melbourne |
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| commissions and awards |
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| 1984 |
Paint replacement for 10 portraits of composers in the renovated dome The Theatre Royal, Hobart , after fire damaged the originals
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| 1981 |
Restored Lyndon Dadswell wall sculptures, The Commonwealth Bank, Liverpool St, Hobart , with Stephen Walker |
| 1976 |
Commission from Tasmanian Arts Advisory Board for a series of drawings and paintings of Tasmania 's islands. Visited Macquarie , Goose, Fisher and Albatross Islands . |
1961 |
Won design competition for the external wall Mural on the ABC Television Studio Building, Sandy Bay Road, Hobart |
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| bibliography |
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Barry Pearce Australian Artists, Australian Birds Angus Robertson, 1989
Century Hobart :Pandani Press, 1988
Hendrik Kolenberg ‘Three painters in Tasmania – George Davis, David Chapman and Anton Holzner' Art in Australia Volume 22 no 4, Winter 1985
Alan McCulloch Encyclopedia of Australian Art Melbourne : Hutchinson , 1984
Barbara Chapman Catalogue of Oil Paintings from the Permanent collection of the Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery , Launceston: Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery , 1984
Paul William White ‘Coming or Going:Eight Tasmanian Artists' The Tasmanian Review no.3, Autumn, 1980
Max Germaine Artists and Galleries of Australia and New Zealand Sydney :Landsdown Editions, 1979 |
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| contributions to scientific journals |
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George Davis and Marcus Mykytowycz ‘Further Breeding records of the white-fronted terns in Tasmania ' The Australian Bird Watcher Volume 9 March 1982
Aurora (Antartic Division Journal) No.13 September 1984 (cover)
G Davis and E H Guiler ‘On the occurrence of the southern bottle-nosed whale in Tasmanian waters' Papers and Proceedings, Royal Society of Tasmania, Volume 118, August 1984
NP Brothers and G Davis ‘Bird Observations on Albatross Island 1981 to 1985' Tasmanian Bird Report no 14: Journal of the Bird Observers' Association of Tasmania Hobart , November 1985
I J Skira and G Davis ‘The short-tailed shearwater Colonies of King Island ' The Tasmanian Naturalist Hobart no. 90, July 1987 |
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| collections |
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Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery , Hobart
Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery,
Launceston
University of Tasmania , Hobart
Lands, Parks and Wildlife Department, Hobart
Sea Fisheries Department, Hobart |
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