BiographyBorn 1935 Melbourne VictoriaStudies
1951-52 Caulfield Institute of Technology (CIT) 1953-54 Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) Awards and Appointments 1956-66 Lecturer in Fine Art, RMIT 1965 Commendation Award Georges Art Prize 1967-69 Harkness Fellowship of the Commonwealth Fund, USA 1970 Commendation Award Alice Springs Art Prize 1970-80 Lecturer in Fine Art RMIT 1981-82 Appointed International Visiting Artist, Georgia State University Atlanta USA 1982 Appointed artist-in-residence, Spring Arts Festival, University of South Carolina, USA 1981-94 Senior Lecturer RMIT 1987 Gold Coast Art Award Solo Exhibitions 1960 Gallery A Melbourne
1963 Australian Galleries 1965 Bonython Galleries, Adelaide 1966 Australian Galleries, Melbourne 1966 Bonython Hungry Horse Gallery, Sydney 1967 Bonython Gallery Adelaide 1969 Australian Galleries Melbourne, Selected New York Paintings 1970 Bonython Galleries Sydney and Adelaide 1971 Australian Galleries Melbourne-Cow Series 1974 Macquarie Gallery Sydney 1976 Macquarie Gallery Sydney 1978 Melbourne University Gallery, Profile Works 1958-78 1980 Macquarie Gallery Sydney - Farewell Ballet 1982 Lagerquist Gallery Atlanta USA, Atlanta Pastels University of South Carolina Beaufort, USA Spring Arts Festival Georgia State University Gallery, USA 3 Points Survey Show 1986 Powell Street Gallery Melbourne; Summer Diary Lagerquist Gallery Atlanta, USA 1989 BMG Fine Art Gallery Sydney, The Journey 1991 Kenthurst Gallery Sydney, Summer Diary 2 1992 Kenthurst Gallery Sydney, Childhood Album 2002 Lauraine Diggins Fine Art Melbourne, The Far Shores 2009 Eastgate & Holst Fine Art Melbourne, Survey 1955 - 1975 2011 Eastgate & Holst Fine Art Melbourne, Works from the Studio 2012 Castlemaine Art Gallery & Historical Museum. Profile-Selected Works 2014 Eastgate & Holst Fine Art Melbourne, Works from the Studio 2016 Eastgate Gallery Melbourne. Campfires, Journeys and Other Things. Works from Arnhem Land Represented National Gallery of Australia Georgia State University Collection Atlanta USA National Gallery of Victoria Castlemaine Art Gallery & Historical Museum Victoria University of Melbourne and Newman College Collections University of Adelaide Collection Perc Tucker Regional Gallery Townsville Gold Coast Arts Centre Flinders University Adelaide High Court of Australia Canberra Parliament House Sydney Reserve Bank of Australia Sydney Art bank Collection Ballarat Gallery of Art Latrobe University Collection International and National Private and Corporate Collections Invitation and Group Exhibitions 1955 Victorian Artists Society, Spring Exhibition Melbourne 1956 Peter Bray Gallery Group Melbourne 1960 Blake Prize Exhibition Sydney 1961 Italian Government Invitation Prize NGV Melbourne 1965 McCaughey Memorial Invitation Prize NGV Melbourne Ninth Tasmanian Art Gallery Invitation, Exhibition Hobart 1966 Georges Art Prize Exhibition Melbourne Victoria Mertz Collection Adelaide Festival Exhibition, South Australia Mirror Waratah Art Festival Sydney 1967 Australian Painters Corcoran Gallery, Washington DC USA 1969 Young Painters from around the World Invitation Exhibition New York USA 1970 Expo Tokyo Japan The lrresistibles Group Exhibition, Bonython Gallery Sydney 1971 Melbourne University Collection NGV Melbourne Corio Prize Exhibition Geelong Gallery Victoria 1972 Trustees Art Prize Exhibition Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane Corio Prize Exhibition Geelong Gallery Victoria 1973 Alice Springs Art Prize Exhibition Cairnmillar Invitation Exhibition Georges Art Gallery Melbourne Group Exhibition Macquarie Gallery Sydney 1975 McCaughey Memorial Invitation Prize NGV Melbourne Ninteenth Tasmanian art Gallery Invitation Exhibition Hobart Group Exhibition Macquarie Gallery Sydney 1976 Blake Prize Exhibition Sydney 1977 Sulman Prize Exhibition Sydney |
1978 Group Exhibition Macquarie Gallery Sydney 1979 Group Exhibition Macquarie Gallery Sydney Drawing Exhibition Mornington Peninsula Art Gallery Victoria McCaughey Memorial Invitation Prize Exhibition NGV Melb Invitation Art Exhibition University of NSW Sydney 1980 Recent Acquisitions to the Collection Melbourne University 1981 Animals and Animism in Australian Art, RMIT Melbourne 1982 Group Exhibition, Albany Museum Albany Georgia USA Georgia State University Madison-Morgan Cultural Centre, Madison Georgia USA Archibald Prize Exhibition NSW Art Gallery University of South Carolina Spring Arts Festival Exhibition, Beaufort USA 1986 Moments of Vision International Exhibition Corfu Greece 1987 Gold Coast Art Prize Centre Gallery Surfers Paradise QLD 1989 Sulman Prize Exhibition NSW Art Gallery Sydney BMG Gallery Inaugural Boundary Road Exhibition Sydney 1991 Mixed Exhibition Kenthurst Gallery Sydney Boys and Girls Exhibition Gold Coast City Art Gallery QLD 1992 Mixed Exhibition Kenthurst Gallery Sydney 2001 Annual Collectors Exhibition Lauraine Diggins Fine Art, Melb. 2002 Paperworks Lauraine Diggins Fine Art Melb Annual Collectors Exhibition Lauraine Diggins Fine Art Melb Inspiration NQ. Perc Tucker Gallery Townsville QLD 2003 Annual Collectors Exhibition Lauraine Diggins Fine Art Melb 2004 Annual Collectors Exhibition Lauraine Diggins Fine Art Melb Works from the Stockroom Lauraine Diggins Fine Art Melb 2005 From Colonial to the Present Lauraine Diggins Fine Art Melb 2008 Directors Choice Eastgate & Holst Fine Art Melb 2010 Collectors Exhibition Eastgate & Holst Fine Art Melb 2013 Vista Exhibition. Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melb 2016 Diversity Exhibition. Eastgate & Holst Fine Art, Melb 2017 Seeing is Believing. Alliance Francaise Gallery, Melb 2018 Spring-Selected Works. Chapman and Bailey Gallery, Melb 2019 Works on Paper-Old & New. Eastgate Gallery, Melb 2020 Selections from the Paul Guest Collection. Bendigo Art Gallery Commissions 1965 Mural Ballarat Television Station 1967 Mural H J Heinz Head Office Melbourne Publications 1965 Interview. Sound Recording Hazel de Berg. National Library Collection 481134 1965 Survey-The Lively Arts ABC TV Profile 1965 Georges Invitation Art Prize, John Brack article in Art and Australia, Vol 3, No 1 1967 The Australian Painters 1964-66 Corcoran Museum Washington DC USA Life Magazine Australia Vol 42 No 6 Photograph of 'Sentinel' 1968 Encyclopedia of Australian Art, Alan McCulloch + 2nd (1984) + 3rd (1994) Alan and Susan McCulloch and 4th (2008) 1969 Guide to Modern Australian Painting Ross Luck 1970 Australian Painting 1788 - 1970, Bernard Smith Modern Australian painting 1960 - 1970, Kym Bonython Art & Australia Vol. 17 Art International Jan 20 VoL XIV/1 1980 Modern Australian Painting 1960- 1970, Kym Bonython Art & Australia Vol.17 No 3 Cover & Betty Clarke monograph. 'Richard Crichton' (1980) International Repository of Literature on Art, Massachusetts, USA Artists and Galleries in Australia and NZ Max Germaine 1981 Animal and Animism in Australia Art Jenny Zimmer 1990 Australian Painting 1788-1999 Bernard Smith 1992 State of the Art issue 3 1993 Concise Dictionary of Australian Artists G Robb & E Smith Melb Uni Press 1996 Art & Australia Vol.33 no.3 Joan Kerr Colonial Quotations 2002 The Far Shores Ronald Millar Catalogue Lauraine Diggins Fine Art 2009 Richard Crichton A Survey 1955-1975 Catalogue Foreword Jenny Zimmer Eastgate & Holst Fine Art 2012 Richard Crichton Profile-Selected Works. Castlemaine Art Gallery & Historical Museum. Ronald Millar ISBN:978-0-646-58042-5 2014 Eastgate & Holst Melbourne, Works from the Studio 2019 Paul Guest Collection. Bendigo Art Gallery Catalogue ISBN 978-0-949215-96-3 |