about doug...

QUALIFICATIONS
TSTC, SATC ( 4 years ), Dip. Of Art - Fine Art [ Painting ] RMIT

E: doug@doug-wright.com    W: www.doug-wright.com

Residencies
Australia, University of Ballarat, 2008
Italy, March to June 1990 & Edinburgh, April to June 2007

Solo Exhibitions
2007 Salt Contemporary Art, Queenscliff
2007 Patriothall Gallery, Edinburgh
2007 Flinders Lane Gallery, Melbourne
2006 Harrison Galleries, Sydney
2005 Flinders Lane Gallery, Melbourne ‘The Scottish series’
2003 Flinders Lane Gallery, Melbourne
2001 Flinders Lane Gallery, Melbourne
1999 Flinders Lane Gallery, Melbourne
1996 Lyall Burton Gallery
1994 Lyall Burton Gallery ‘The Kimberly Works’
1993 McClelland Gallery, Langwarrin, Victoria (Survey 1973-1993)
1993 Mildura Arts Centre, (Survey 1973-1993)
1993 Lyall Burton Gallery, Melbourne (Survey 1973-1993)
1993 City of Hamilton Gallery, (Survey 1973-1993)
1993 Ballarat Fine Art Gallery, (Survey 1973-1993)
1991 David Ellis Fine Art Gallery, Melbourne
1990 David Ellis Fine Art Gallery, Melbourne
1989 Swan Hill Regional Art Gallery, (Earlier Works)
1989 Holdsworth Galleries, Sydney
1989 David Ellis Fine Art Gallery, Melbourne
1988 David Ellis Fine Art Gallery, Melbourne
1987 David Ellis Fine Art Gallery, Melbourne
1987 Michael Milburn Galleries, Brisbane
1986 David Ellis Fine Art Gallery, Melbourne
1985 David Ellis Fine Art Gallery, Ballarat
1985 Manuka Gallery, Canberra
1981 Prahran School of Art  & Design Gallery, Melbourne
1977 Stuart Gerstman Galleries, Melbourne
1976 Stuart Gerstman Galleries, Melbourne
1975 Stuart Gerstman Galleries, Melbourne
1974 Stuart Gerstman Galleries, Melbourne

Group Exhibitions
2007 Greenwood Gallery, Melbourne
2006 Art Singapore, East and West Art
2006 Art Melbourne, Flinders Lane Gallery
2005 Sabrina Gallery, Singapore
2005 Australian High Commission, Singapore
2005 Gallery Artists, Flinders Lane Gallery
2005 Art Sydney
2005 Art Singapore
2004 Sydney Art Show
2004 Guide Dogs Exhibition, Queen Victoria Building, Sydney
2003 Melbourne Art Show
2003 Gallery Artists, Flinders Lane Gallery, Melbourne
2003 Art Show, Sydney
2002 Bendigo Bank Acquisitive Exhibition
2002 Gallery Artists, Flinders Lane Gallery, Melbourne
2002 Depot Gallery, Sydney
2001 Gallery 2021, Auckland N.Z.
2000 Gallery Artists, Flinders Lane Gallery, Melbourne
1999 Gallery Artists, Flinders Lane Gallery, Melbourne
1998 Finalist:  Wynne Prize Exhibition (Juried) Art Gallery of NSW
1997 Gallery Artists, Flinders Lane Gallery, Melbourne
1996 Staff Arts Exhibition, University of Ballarat
1996 Castlemaine Drawing Prize Exhibition
1996 Gallery Artists, Flinders Lane Gallery, Melbourne
1996 ACAF 5, Melbourne
1996 Selected for Salon des Refuses, S. H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney
1995 Prime Prize Exhibition (juried), touring 4 Regional Victorian Galleries
1995 Finalist: Wynne Prize Exhibition (Juried), Art Gallery of NSW
1995 Gallery Artists, Flinders Lane Gallery, Melbourne
1994 ACAF 4, Melbourne
1994 Joint Exhibition, Oita - Japan
1993 Group Works on Paper Exhibition, Lyall Burton Gallery, Melbourne
1992 David Ellis Fine Art Gallery, Melbourne
1992 BMG Fine Art, Adelaide Gallery Artists
1992 ACAF3, Melbourne
1990 ACAF2, Melbourne
1989 Finalist: Wynne Prize Exhibition (juried), Art Gallery of NSW
1988 Group Drawing Exhibition, David Ellis Fine Art Gallery, Melbourne
1987 Director’s Choice Exhibition, R.M.I.T. Gallery
1986 Hugh Williamson Prize Exhibition, Ballarat Fine Art Gallery
1985 4 Contemporary Approaches to Drawing, Rankin, Sibley, Lanceley, Wright
Naracoorte Regional Art Gallery, SA
1984 Pioneer Purchase Award, Swan Hill (purchased)
1984 Inez Hutchison Prize (highly commended), Melbourne
1984 8 Ballarat Artists, Ballarat Fine Art Gallery
1983 Mornington Peninsula Drawing Prize Exhibition
1983 Stuart Gerstman Galleries, Melbourne
1983 City of Caulfield Invitation Drawing Exhibition, Melbourne
1980 8 Ballarat Artists, Ballarat Fine Art Gallery
1980 Opening Exhibition, Stuart Gerstman Galleries
1979 Drawings ‘79, Stuart Gerstman Galleries
1978 Swan Hill Pioneer Art Award (highly commended)
1978 Drawings ’78, Stuart Gerstman Galleries, Melbourne
1977 Twenty First Tasmanian Art Gallery Exhibition
1976 Drawings ’76, Stuart Gerstman Galleries, Melbourne
1975 4 Painters, Stuart Gerstman Galleries, Melbourne
1974 Artists of the Bellarine Peninsular, Age Gallery Victoria

Collections
University of Melbourne - School of Education
La Trobe University
University of Ballarat
University of Tasmania
Deakin University, Burwood Campus
Latrobe University, School of Health Sciences, Melbourne
Mornington Peninsula Art Centre
Philip Morris Collection
Maryvale Art Foundation
Ballarat Fine Art Gallery
New Parliament House Collection, Canberra
National Gallery, Canberra - Print Collection
Art Bank
AMP Collection
IBM Collection, Brisbane
Robert Holmes-a-Court Collection
National Gallery, Canberra - Drawing
Ansett Industries, Melbourne
Collection Tricom Corporation, Melbourne
Shell Company of Australia
Crown Casino Collection (Melbourne)
Nillumbuk Shire Art Collection
National Gallery of Victoria
Geyer Design, Melbourne
Western Mining Corporation

Private Collections:
Australia, New Zealand
France, Italy, Belgium
Singapore, Hongkong
U.K.
USA

Publications
Ainslie. S. (2007) Lothian Stones, Salt. Baxter and Stubbs Pty Ltd
Susan Hayes & Clare Gervasonii (1991) Artistic  Insights. Queensland University Press
Susan Keneally & Peter Ward. (1991) ‘In a different Light’, Australian Artists in Italy.
Queensland University Press, St Lucia

My early training was in traditional landscape painting, predominantly in watercolour: Over the years and since working in oil there has been a gradual refinement of those early approaches and a general move towards abstraction and the present 'field' works where the complexity of surface marks creates an atmosphere.

Landscape is never far from my mind when working, however I paint less directly from an actual landscape site than previously. Memory of landscape phenomena, changing seasons and particular unusual situations that occur in the environment have more impact nowadays.

Edges became significant stemming from a painting trip to Italy in 1990. It was there that the current format of edges and boundaries was initiated. In Italy the compositions turned vertical, framed by architectural windows and the common thin Cyprus pines which I used often to frame a central space. I also included ledges and steps at the base and distant horizon at the top. I started experimenting with multiple horizons and introduced metallic colours for the first time. This gave the work a strange luminosity.

I find atmosphere very important in establishing a mood in the work. This can shift subtly from painting to painting by the gradual shift of colours. The complex layered paint surfaces enables me to control the luminosity and translucency of the paint surfaces which in turn alters the atmospheric feel of the work.

Returning from Italy in 1990 I painted an exhibition from the gathered reference material. This resulted in a successful exhibition at David Ellis gallery in Gore Street, Fitzroy. I felt this body of work formed the foundation of works to follow, up to the present.

ubsequent recent trips to the U.K. have also allowed me to study northern hemisphere light and colour sensations, further adding to my experiences of landscape types from which to work.
- DOUG WRIGHT