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Peter Tilley biography
 
Born           1946 Williamstown, Vic
   
EDUCATION
1978-79 Certificate of Art, Newcastle School of Art & Design
1975-77 Studied Sculpture, Private Tutor, University Sains, Malaysia
1973-75 Ceramics (p/t) - Newcastle School of Art & Design
   
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2005 Dickerson Gallery, Richmond, Melbourne
Art Sydney 05, Collectors Room, Hordern Pavilion, Sydney
1999 Access Contemporary Art Gallery, Sydney
1997 Access Contemporary Art Gallery, Sydney
1996 Access Contemporary Art Gallery, Sydney
1994 Access Contemporary Art Gallery, Sydney
1992 Access Contemporary Art Gallery, Sydney
1990 Melbourne Contemporary Art Gallery
Access Gallery, Sydney
1989 Access Gallery, Sydney
1988 Gryphon Gallery, Melbourne
1987 Von Bertouch Galleries, Newcastle
1985 Gabriel Gallery, Footscray Community Arts Centre
1984 Butchers Exhibit, Sydney
   
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2004 "Chalk & Cheese: Cris Capper & Peter Tilley," Newcastle Art Space, Newcastle
2000 "Contemporary Sculpture: Peter Tilley & Leslie Oliver" Penrith Regional Gallery, Penrith
1999 "New Sculpture 1999", Access Contemporary Art Gallery, Sydney
1998 "Steel Works - a Regeneration", Lake Macquarie City Art Gallery, NSW.
"The Rose", Lake Macquarie City Art Gallery, NSW.
"Stretched, (5 artists)" Newcastle Region Art Gallery
1997 "Nexus II", The Arts Space, Newcastle, NSW.
"Newcastle National Ceramic Award", Newcastle Region Art Gallery, NSW
1996 "Artistic Relationship", Maitland City Art Gallery, NSW
1995 "Selected, 3rd Annual Contemporary Collection Benefactors' Art Auction", AGNSW
1994 "Survey of Men Artists of the Hunter Region", Maitland City Art Gallery, NSW.
"The First Eleven, Inaugural Exhibition", Faculty of Art & Design Gallery, University of Newcastle, NSW
1993 "New Art Eight", Access Contemporary Art Gallery, Sydney
1992 "Access to Adelaide, 7 Sculptors", BMG Fine Art, Adelaide.
"Stanthorpe Heritage Arts Festival", Qld.
"Objective Subjects - Subjective Objects", with Lezlie Tilley, Newcastle Region Art Gallery, NSW.
"Small Works - Wide Visions", Downlands Exhibition, QLD.
"Festival of Port Stephens Art Exhibition"., NSW.
"Newcastle AH & I Regional Art Competition", Newcastle Showground, NSW.
"ACAF.3 Sculpture Exhibition", Curated by Ken Scarlett, Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne
1991 "Little Works", Newcastle Contemporary Gallery, NSW.
"Warpaint", Newcastle Contemporary Gallery, NSW.
"Eltham Invitational Art Award", Vic
"Archival Revival", Newcastle Contemporary Gallery, NSW.
"3 Artists, Recent Works", Maitland City Art Gallery, NSW.
"Saltwater Acquisitive Show", Footscray, Vic
"Acquisitions 1990-91", Newcastle Region Art Gallery, NSW
1990-98 "Australian Contemporary Art Fair", Royal Exhibition Building, Melb.
"Shifting Ground, Newcastle Artists", Art Gallery of NSW.
"The Artistic Relationship", Maitland City Art Gallery, NSW.
"Sydney Myer Fund Australia Day Ceramics Award Exhibition", Shepparton Art Gallery, Vic
"Birthday/Survey Exhibition", Access Contemporary Art Gallery, Syd
1989 "Acquisitions 1988-89", Newcastle Region Art Gallery, NSW.
"Diamond Valley Art Award", Greensborough, Vic
1988-89 "Little Works", Newcastle Contemporary Gallery, NSW.
"Sculpture Now", Maitland City Art Gallery, NSW
1988 "Objects & Images", Newcastle Contemporary Gallery, NSW.
"Sculpture", Access Gallery, Sydney
1987 "Innovations Past & Present", Von Bertouch Galleries, Newcastle, NSW.
"Acquisitions 1986-87", Newcastle Region Art Gallery, NSW
1986 "Fletcher Jones Invitational", Warrnambool Art Gallery,Vic
"Tilley Morrison Tilley", Newcastle Contemporary Gallery, NSW.
"Hunter Valley Sculptors", Newcastle Region Art Gallery, NSW
1985 "Acquisitions 1984-85" - Newcastle Region Gallery, NSW
1983 "Works on Paper", with Lezlie Tilley, Port Stephens,NSW
   
AWARDS/PRIZES/COMMISSIONS
1998 Newcastle AH & I Association Special Prize.
1997 Public Sculpture, commissioned by Maitland Mercury for the City of Maitland
1992 Pottery Prize, Festival of Port Stephens Art Exhibition.
Acquisitive, Tomago Aluminium Sculpture Prize, Festival of Port Stephens Art Exhibition.
Newcastle AH & I Association Sculpture Prize.
Acquisitive, Maitland Art Prize, Maitland City Art Gallery.
Acquisitive, Beyond the Vessel, Ceramic Prize, Stanthorpe Heritage Arts Festival, Qld.
Acquisitive, Costain Ceramic Award, Muswellbrook Regional Gallery
1979 Von Bertouch Gallery Prize
   
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
1998 Thinking Business, University of Newcastle Publication, Issue No.11, March.
Exhibition views steelworks closure through artists' eyes, Newcastle Herald, Donna Page, March 30, p4.
Newcastle Herald, Jill Stowell, May 16, p6.
1997 The Mercury, Aug 4, p23.
Newcastle Herald, Aug 6.
Port Stephens Examiner, Oct 15.
Article/Reproduction, Maitland Mercury, Oct 22, front page
1995 Who's Who of Australian Visual Artists, DW Thorpe (in association with NAVA)
1994 Newcastle Herald, Jill Stowell, Feb 4, April 15.
Encyclopedia of Australian Art, Alan & Susan McCulloch, Allen & Unwin.
Catalogue Reproduction, ACAF´4
1993 Newcastle Herald, Michael Hedger, Jan 2.
New Art Eight, Nevill Drury, Craftsman House.
New Sculpture, Nevill Drury, Craftsman House
1992 Adelaide Advertiser, Noris Ioannou, Feb 5.
Newcastle Herald, Jill Stowell, Feb.
Article/Reproduction, Port Stephens Examiner, Feb 19.
Reproduced, Interiors Magazine, New Art, Vol.6 No.1, Feb/Mar, p17.
Article/Reproduction, State of the Art, Sculpture Features at Access, Courtney Kidd, March, p13.
Port Stephens Examiner, June 3.
Newcastle Herald, Margaret Ely, June 15.
Catalogue, Small Works, Wide Vision, Downlands Art Exhibition, Jul.
Reproduced, Asian Art News, Sculpture at the Third Australian Contemporary Art Fair, Peter Hill, Nov/Dec p62
1991 Newcastle Herald, Jill Stowell, Jan 7, Apr 8, Jun 11, Oct 28, Dec 10, Dec 16.
Art City, Warpaint, Maria T Raper, No.10, July.
Article/Reproduction, Maitland Herald, Recent works featuring Hunter Valley sculptures, Oct 23.
Art City, Sculpture for a Post-Modern World, Margaret Turner, No.14, Nov
1990 Craft Arts, Iconic Assemblages, Isabel Thompson, No.18, Mar/Jun.
Artemis, Newcastle Gallery Society Magazine, Jan Chesterfield-Evans, Vol.20 No.3, July/Sept.
Catalogue, Shifting Ground, Newcastle Artists, AGNSW, Aug 15-19.
Newcastle Herald, Jill Stowell, Aug 22, Oct 29
Art City, Out of Town, Volume 2, Sept.
Artists & Galleries of Australia, Max Germaine, Craftsman House
1989 Port Stephens Times, June 27
1988 Newcastle Herald, Yvonne Colelough, Jan 21.
Newcastle Herald, Margaret Ely, Jan 25.
Newcastle Herald, Jill Stowell, Nov 1
1987 Newcastle Herald, Elizabeth Potter, Feb 6.
Newcastle Herald, Ann-Maree Lourey, Aug 21.
The Sun Herald, Jill Stowell, Aug 23
1986 Newcastle Herald, Jill Stowell, April 29
   
COLLECTIONS
Public Newcastle Region Art Gallery;
Warrnambool Art Gallery;
Campbelltown Regional Gallery;
Maitland City Art Gallery;
Tomago Aluminium Collection;
Stanthorpe Art Gallery;
Muswellbrook Regional Gallery;
Private Clayton Utz, corporate & private collections around Australia
 

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