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Raymond Arnold - Curriculum Vitae (August 2008)

1950 Born, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
1972 Dip. Teaching (Art-Craft) Melbourne State College
1978 Dip. Art and Design Chisholm Institute. Melbourne
1979 Member Print Commission. Print Council of Australia
1981 Grad. Dip. Art (Printmaking) Chisholm Institute Melbourne

1972-79

Secondary Teaching. Victorian Education Department
1981-82 Tutor, Printmaking. Various Melbourne Colleges
1983-86 Tutor, School of Art. University of Tasmania, Hobart, Tasmania
1983-91 Studio member Chameleon Artists Co-operative, Hobart, Tasmania
1984 Artist in the Community. Screenprinting Project, Risdonvale CYSS. Tasmania
1985 Curator Approaching Landscape exhibition, Chameleon Contemporary Art Space, Hobart
1986 Curator The Geeveston Print Project for the TAAB’s Art for Public Buildings Scheme
Print commission. Burnie Art Gallery. Tasmania
1987 Mural. Warrane Neighbourhood House. Hobart
Visiting Artist/Tutor, Canberra School of Art
Community Artist in Residence. Savage River, Tasmania
Patron Print commission. Print Council of Australia
Australian National Gallery. Bicentennial Print portfolio commission
Print commission. Wilderness Society. Melbourne
1988 Poster commission. Parliament House Construction Authority
Poster commission. Office of Multi-Cultural Affairs. Canberra
Commission for Launceston General Hospital. Art for Public Buildings Scheme
1988-90 Panel member. National Infrastructure Committee. Visual Arts and Crafts Board of the Australia Council
Board member. Tasmanian Arts Advisory Board
1988-91 Chairperson, NETS committee Tasmania
1989 Community Artist in Residence. Savage River. Tasmania
Banners in collaboration with David Keeling. Tasmanian Trades and Labor Council
1990 Art co-ordinator. Summer School. Victorian Department of Sport and Recreation
Artist in Residence. Rosebery District High School. Tasmania
1991-03 Tutor/Lecturer. Printmaking. University of Tasmania. School of Art. Hobart
1991 Artist in Residence. University of Western Sydney. Kingswood NSW
Participant Common Ground Seminar, Arts Tasmania
Print Commission, Print Council of Australia
1992-95 Board member Contemporary Art Services Tasmania. Chair 1993
1993 Curator To the Surface-Contemporary Landscape
Exhibition at Plimsoll Gallery, Hobart
Public painting, Redline Bus Depot, Hobart with David Keeling and Helen Wright
Research Fellowship/ Australia Council. $35,000
Source - Collaborative book project with Milan Milojevic, Penny Carey Wells and Peter Jackson
University of Tasmania
1993-94 Research - Paris, France
1994 Participant. Lost in Landscape Seminar, Island Magazine. Hobart
Moet Chandon Fellowship judging panel
1995 Consultant West Coast Cultural Trail CEAD project development
Curator Figure-Ground, Dick Bett Gallery, Hobart
Participant in School of Art research team for small ARC grant on Picturing Wilderness
Commission of Public Artwork for Lake St Clair Visitors Centre
Keynote Speaker TATA conference, Launceston
1996 Research - Paris, France
Judge - University of Western Sydney Printmedia Prize. NSW
Print commission. Lacourière et Frélaut. Paris
1996-03 Development of Cultural Landscape Research/Teaching Program, School of Art, Hobart
1997 Poster commission. Megalo Access Arts, Canberra
Public Art Project - The City Provoked. Melbourne Festival
Australia Council Project Grant $20,000
Curator. Excursive Sight - Contemporary Prospect and Historic Precedent, Plimsoll Gallery. University of Tasmania
1998 Research - Paris France
1999 Print commission. Lacourière et Frélaut. Paris
Research - France
Geelong Print Prize. Victoria - Purchased
Fremantle Print Prize. WA - Award
2000 Study for Master of Fine Art – Monash University. Melbourne
Etching Master Class - National Art School Sydney
Curator. Between Phenomena - The Panorama in Tasmania. Plimsoll Gallery. Hobart
2001 Research, France
VACB Skills and Development grant
2002 Research, France
Federation Medal – Commonwealth Government
2003 Research, France
2004 Research, France
Masters of Fine Art (Research) Monash University Melbourne
Retire from University of Tasmania
2005 Artist in Residence, School of Art, Canberra
Research, France
VACB Development Grant
Establishment of Landscape Art Research Queenstown (LARQ). Tasmania
Rochester NY Print Club Commission. USA
2006 Artist in Residence, School of Art, Canberra
Research France and Scotland

Solo Exhibitions

1981 Hawthorn City Art Gallery. Melbourne
1982 Robin Gibson Gallery. Sydney
1983 Australian Galleries. Melbourne
1984 Robin Gibson Gallery. Sydney
1985

Australian Galleries.Melbourne

1987 Screenprint Poster Survey. Fine Arts Gallery. University of Tasmania. Hobart
1988 Australian Galleries. Melbourne
Salamanca Place Gallery. Hobart
1990 Cockatoo Art Space. Launceston. Tasmania
Australian Galleries. Melbourne
Dick Bett Gallery. Hobart
1992 Grahame Galleries. Brisbane
Australian Galleries. Melbourne
School of Art Gallery. University of Western Sydney. Penrith
1995 Australian Galleries. Melbourne
Grahame Galleries. Brisbane
Dick Bett Gallery. Hobart
1996 Lacouriére et Frèlaut. SAGA Print Fair. Paris
Nisart Gallery. Launceston
1997 Australian Galleries. Sydney
Australian Galleries. Melbourne
1998 Dick Bett Gallery. Hobart
Musée des Beaux Arts. Le Locle, Switzerland
1999 Lacourière et Frélaut. SAGA Print Fair, Paris
Bett Gallery Hobart, Tasmania
Australian Galleries, Melbourne
2000 Gallery 482. Brisbane
2001 Atelier Lacourière et Frélaut
Cité Internationale des Arts
2002 Bett Gallery Hobart, Tasmania
Gallery 482 Brisbane
Australian Galleries Works on Paper, Melbourne
2003 Australian Galleries Sydney
Cité Internationale des Arts Paris
2004 Australian Galleries Melbourne
Gallery 482 Brisbane
2005 New French Prints - Bett Gallery Hobart
Nature/Culture - Raymond Arnold Survey - Australian Embassy Washington DC USA
Double Vision - Timespan Gallery, Helmsdale, Scotland UK
Double Vision - Australian Galleries, Melbourne
Australian Galleries Sydney
Double Vision - Atelier Lacourière et Frélaut, Paris
2006 Double Vision – Albury Regional Gallery
2007 In Harm’s Way – Carnegie Gallery. Hobart
2008 Timber Mill / The Fetish of the Painted Subject - Bett Gallery Hobart

Group Exhibitions

1977 Henri Worland Print Prize - Warrnambool Victoria
Student Exchange – Print Council of Australia Exhibition (Touring Europe)
1978 Exhibition - Print Council of Australia 1978
Invitation Art Exhibition, Purchase Award - Caulfield Arts Centre. Victoria
Second Western Pacific Print Biennale - Print Council of Australia (Touring Exhibition)
Prints - Mornington Peninsula Arts Centre. Victoria
1979 Australian Student Printmakers - Print Council of Australia (Touring Exhibition)
Oz Print Gallery. Victoria
1980 Contemporary Australian Printmakers - Print Council of Australia (Touring USA and UK)
1982 Michelton Print Exhibition - Monash University Gallery, Shepparton and Benalla Art Galleries, Victoria
Print Council Exhibition 10 - Print Council of Australia (touring exhibition)
1982-85 Australian Screenprints - Print Council of Australia in conjunction with Festival ’82 Warana and
Commonwealth Festival (toured Australian State and Regional Galleries)
1983 Chameleon Members Exhibition, ANZART in Hobart - Chameleon Gallery, Hobart
1984 The Chameleon Print Show - Chameleon Gallery Hobart
1985 8+Tasmania, recent works by Tasmanian Artists - Editions Gallery, Fremantle, Western Australia
Approaching Landscape - Chameleon Gallery, Hobart
1986 The Geeveston Print Project - Chameleon Gallery, Hobart, installed Geeveston High School
Prints from the Collection - Fine Arts Gallery, University of Tasmania, Hobart
1987 Fabrications: recent contemporary art from Tasmania - Hobart and George Paton Gallery Melbourne
A New Romance - University Drill Hall Gallery, ANG extension, Canberra
The October Show - Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, Launceston
1988 Right Here-Right Now - Co-Media, Adelaide
LandFall - Chameleon Gallery, Hobart
Early Efforts - Bicentennial Exhibition, Chameleon Gallery, Hobart
1989 Paradise Lost- Tasmanian Prints, Regionalism, Postmodernity - The Print Council of Australia (touring exhibition)
Recent Contemporary Prints - University Drill Hall Gallery, Canberra
Pre-settlement to Present’, Survey of Printmaking in Australia – ANG Canberra
One Country- Two Views - Araluen Arts Centre, Alice Springs, Northern Territory
1990 Palimpsest - Fine Arts Gallery, University Centre, Sandy Bay, Hobart
Australian Printmakers-Ray Arnold, Rod Ewins, Bea Maddock – TMAG Hobart
Contemporary Print Show - Callery Cimitiere, Launceston
What Happened to the Gum Trees - Fifth Biennial Mitchelton Print Exhibition
Shifting Parameters- Photo based work - Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane
1991 Abadare Art Prize - Ipswich Regional Art Gallery, Queensland
Reflexion - David Stephenson and Ray Arnold - Cradle Mountain Visitors Centre
Group exhibition, Gallery Two. Ritchies Mill, Launceston
South of No North - Group exhibition, Dick Bett Gallery, Hobart
1991 The Melbourne Savage Club, Invitation Print Prize - Bendigo Art Gallery
1992 ‘6x6’ Australian Prints - Exhibition for Thailand
Henri Worland Print Survey Exhibition, - Warrnambool Art Gallery, Warrnambool
Tasmanian Tiger Shows - CAST, Long Gallery, Hobart, Arthouse, Launceston
Selected Prints-Australian Print Workshop - Fitzroy, Victoria
Wilderness Society Benefit Exhibition - Lyndon Gallery, St Kilda, Victoria
My Head is a Map - Prints of the Decade - Australian National Gallery, Canberra
1993 To the Surface-Contemporary Landscape - Plimsoll Gallery, Hobart
The 2nd Kochi International Triennial Exhibition of Prints - Kochi. Honmachi. Japan
1993 Pacific Rim International Print Exhibition - Hawaii
1993 International Biennale of Graphic Arts - Ljubyjana, Slovenia
History of Australian Posters - National Gallery of Australia
Small Works - Exit 339, North Hobart.Tasmania
Source- A collaborative book - Entrepot, School of Art, Hobart
1994 Cite Internationale des Arts - Paris, France
Brisbane Book Fair, State Library. Queensland
1995 Chameleon: A Decade - Long Gallery, Hobart
Aspects of Australian Printmaking - The Last Ten Years, National Gallery of Victoria
Sydney, Canberra, Melbourne, Hobart - A Print Portfolio, APW Melbourne
Prints from Australian Galleries - Latrobe Regional Arts Centre, Morwell.
Art of Reproduction - Plimsoll Gallery School of Art, University of Tasmania
Blundstone Invitation Art Prize - Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery
Poets and Painters - Dick Bett Gallery, Hobart
1996 City of Hobart Invitation Art Prize - Carnegie Room, Hobart City Hall
Imagine Nature - Plimsoll Gallery, University of Tasmania
1997 Le mois de l’estampe à Cambrai - Ecole supérieure d’art Cambrai. France
Knock Knock - Australian Galleries. Melbourne
Excursive Sight- Contemporary Prospect/Historic Precedent - Cradle Mountain Visitors Centre Gallery
1998 Excursive Sight - Contemporary Prospect/ Historic Precedent - Plimsoll Gallery
Decalogue - A catalogue of Australian Printmaking 1987/97- co-curated by Ruth Johnstone and Di Waite. Metropolitan Museum of Seoul, Korea.
Nisart Gallery. Launceston
1999 L’Atelier Lacourière et Frélaut - Cabinet des Estampes et des Dessins - Liège. France
On or About the Surface - Creative Paper, Burnie touring to Hobart, Sydney, Melbourne
Zero Horizon - Contemporary Art Services. Hobart. Tasmania
2000 Death and Decoration - University of Tasmania, Plimsoll Gallery
2001 No Muttering - Ivan Dougherty Gallery and touring venues
Poets and Painters - Bett Gallery Hobart
The Macau International Exhibition of Prints – Macau Museum of Art
2002 Memory Becomes History - Imperial War Museum, London
VII Bienal Internacional de Grabado - Ourense, Spain
Aspects of Tasmania Art – QVMAG. Launceston
2003 Future Perfect - Bett Gallery Hobart
Profane ou Sacre - Musée Courbet Ornans France
ACT 12 New Works on Paper – George Adams Gallery. Melbourne
2004 23 - Port Jackson Press Melbourne
Contemporary Australian Prints - Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney
Modern Master Printmakers - Port Jackson Press Melbourne
Tasmanian Printmakers - Port Jackson Press Melbourne
2005 Benefit Exhibition - Australian Print Workshop
Notes from the Natural World, - Australian Galleries Works on Paper
Gravures Monumentales - Atelier Lacouriere et Frelaut, Paris
25 x 25 Megalo Print Centre. Canberra
IVth Novosibirsk International Biennale of Contemporary Graphic Art – Third prize
Source – Scotch Oakburn School, Launceston
2006 National Works on Paper – Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery
50 Years at Australian Galleries – Australian Galleries, Melbourne
Australian Galleries - Melbourne Art Fair
Hobart Art Prize – TMAG, Hobart
Marks and Motifs: Prints from the PCA Collection – QUT Art Museum, Queensland
John Leslie Environmental Art Prize – Sale Regional Gallery
Annual exhibition – Coastal Art Group. Burnie Art Gallery
Conrad-Jupiters Invitation Art Prize – Gold Coast Art Centre
2007 Artists’ INK – Warrnambool Art Gallery
The Story of Australian Printmaking 1801/2005. National Gallery of Australia

Collections

Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris
Musée Courbet, Ornans, France
Imperial War Museum, London
V & A Museum London
Musée des Beaux Arts, Le Locle, Switzerland
British Museum, London
Rochester Print Society, Rochester USA
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, Launceston
Burnie, Devonport, Maitland, Mornington, Newcastle, Shepparton, Warrnambool, Wollongong, Ipswich, La Trobe Valley, Ballarat, Hamilton, Wagga Wagga and Geelong Regional Art Galleries
Alice Prize Collection
Artbank
Australian Parliament House Collection
Monash University, Melbourne
Print Council of Australia Collection
Deakin University Collection
Arts Tasmania Collection

Diamond Valley Collection, Eltham, Victoria

Geeveston and Rosebery District High Schools, Tasmania
Launceston General Hospital
University of Tasmania
Westin Hotel Melbourne
Fremantle Arts Centre
Australian War Memorial
Australian Galleries/Stuart Purves collection
Queensland Library Collection
Private collections throughout Australia and Europe

Bibliography

Sue Backhouse, Tasmanian Artists of the Twentieth Century, Pandani Press Hobart 1988
Roger Butler, Australian Prints, Australian National Gallery 1989
Roger Butler, Ray Arnold -Ten years of Screenprinting, Imprint Vol. 22 No3-4 Winter 1985
Jonathan Holmes, Resuming our journey into the landscape, Art and Australia Vol. 22 No 4 Winter 1985
Stephanie Wallace, Interpretation of landscape-Ray Arnold, Imprint No 2 1982
Ray Arnold, Locale - Our Common Ground, The Australian Institute of Landscape Architects & the Centre for Environmental Studies 1994. 10 pages. 8 Illus.
Robert Nelson, Beguiling touch in Printmaking, Age Newspaper February 1995
Katherine McDonald, Ray Arnold – Printmaker, Imprint. Summer 1992
Roger Butler, My Head is a Map, Australian National Gallery. 1992
Peter Hill, Cheap Lace, Synthetic Hair and Remarkable Cave, Imprint. Autumn 1995
Robyn Daw, Unfinished Business, Imprint. Autumn 1995
Katherine McDonald, The Paris Factor, Art Monthly. April 1995
Peter Hay, Imagine Nature, School of Art, Hobart, January 1996
Marie Leroy-Crèvecoeur, Le SAGA a soufflé ses dix bougies, Arts et Metiers, July 1996
Filomena Coppola, Arnold mirrors Arnold, Imprint. Winter 1996
Robyn Daw, Reflexion, Object, autumn 1997
Anne Kirker, Reciprocal Terrains, Art and Australia. Spring 1998
Katherine McDonald, Double Camouflage/Hymen Skins, Catalogue, Australian Galleries, October 1999
Caroline Durre, Raymond Arnold/Danny McDonald, Imprint 34 Summer 1999
Anne Gray, Editor, Australian Art in the National Gallery of Australia, NGA 2002
Heather Hesterman, Amour or ‘Armour’, Imprint. Autumn 2002
Phillip Hutch, Traversing South, Australian Galleries, March 2002
Jörge de Sousa Noronha, L’estampe - object rare, Editions Alternatives 2002
Katherine McDonald, Nicely at Odds , Printmaking Today Vol.13 No 1. Spring 2004
Katherine McDonald Ed., Anne Kirker, Jonathan Holmes, Raymond Arnold Print Survey - Nature/Culture, Australian Galleries February 2005
Katherine McDonald, Body Armour / Char Corps, Limited Edition, Partners Press 2005
Robert Nelson, Double Vision just Splendid, The Age, Wednesday July 13 2005
Penny Thow, Prints come to Life, The Sunday Tasmanian, July 24 2005
Sasha Grishin, Printmaker: Raymond Arnold, Australian Art Collector, Issue 36 – April/June 2006
Jonathan Holmes, Blind spot – Regional Art Histories in Australia, Art Link Vol. 26 No 1 2006
Jonathan Holmes, Australian Artist in Europe, Imprint – Print Council of Australia, Winter 40th anniversary edition 2006
Lola Wilkins. Editor, Australian Artists in action, Australian War Memorial 2003
Jonathan Holmes, Senses of Place, School of Art, University of Tasmania 2006
Katherine McDonald, In Harm’s Way, Carnegie Gallery, Hobart 2007
Katherine McDonald, Protecting the Soldier, IMPRINT Magazine, Vol 42 Autumn 2007
Sean Kelly, Raymond Arnold: The Spectacle of Nature, A Tasmanian Monograph, Quintus Publishing 2008

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