Elisabeth Cummings a selection of works 1982-2013
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front cover Minerva Waterhole 1982 acrylic on canvas 180x180cm $55,000 right Untitled [landscape] 1984 oil on canvas 120x109cm $35,000 2
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right Untitled 1993 oil on canvas 62x92cm $25,000
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right Wedderburn After the Fires 1994 oil on canvas 180x180cm $80,000 left After Piero della Francesca 1994 oil on board 46.5x46.5cm $11,000 6
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right Crossing the Gully 1996 oil on canvas 114x149cm $48,000 8
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right Rain Clouds Over the Tweed 1999 oil on canvas 195x220cm $95,000
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right Wattle in July 2000 oil on board 64.5x92cm $25,000 left Small Billabong 2001 oil on board 45x45cm $11,000
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right Journey Through the Studio 2004 oil on canvas 175x300cm $140,000
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Studio in the Bush 2006 oil on canvas 115x130cm $48,000
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right Birds Over Waterhole 2008 oil on canvas 86x100cm $35,000
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right Still Life with Black Olives 2011 oil on canvas 51x64.5cm $17,000 left The Pink Tree 2011 oil on canvas 45x45cm $11,000
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right To the River 2011 oil on canvas 75x75cm $22,000 left Vessels 2011 oil on canvas 45x45cm $11,000
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right Creek Bed at Dusk 2011 oil on board 45x60cm $16,500 top left Euriowie Fowlers Gap 2012 oil on canvas 37x40cm $9,900 lower left Untitled [in orange] 2012 oil on canvas 40x37cm $9,900
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right Working Harbour 2012 oil on canvas 45x45cm $11,000 left Still Life on Pink 2012 oil on canvas 45x45cm $11,000 Still Life on Yellow 2012 oil on canvas 45x45cm $11,000 26
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right Euriowie 2012 oil on canvas 115x130cm $45,000
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Sunrise The Kimberleys 2012 oil on canvas [diptych] 175x300cm $140,000 Currently on exhibition at AGNSW Wynne Prize
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Elisabeth Cummings 1934! ! 2006! ! 1975-87! 1975! ! 1969-2001! 1958-68 ! 1960! ! 1953-57!
Born Brisbane Queensland Lives and works in Wedderburn, NSW Part-time teaching, City Art Institute, Sydney Part-time teaching, various colleges Part-time teaching, National Art School, Sydney Lived and studied in Italy & France School of Vision, Salzburg, with Oskar Kokoschka National Art School [E.S.T.C], Sydney
Selected Solo Exhibitions 2012!
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Luminous: Landscapes of Elisabeth Cummings [curated by Jane Watters], SH Ervin, Observatory Hill, Sydney Monotypes: Interiors, King Street Gallery on William, Sydney Elisabeth Cummings, New Paintings, King Street Gallery on William Paper Trail: 30 Years, King Street Gallery on William New Paintings, King Street Gallery on William monotypes, king street gallery on burton, sydney new paintings, king street gallery on burton Chapman Gallery, Canberra ACT painting, king street gallery on burton, sydney painting, king street gallery at Span Galleries, Melbourne paintings, Pandanus Art, Currumbin Beach, Qld new paintings, king street gallery on burton, sydney elisabeth cummings & clara hali, Orange Regional Gallery, NSW Paintings and Prints, Chapman Gallery, ACT Collaborative Pots, (Barbara Romalis & Elisabeth Cummings), Chapman Gallery recent work, king street gallery on burton Works on Paper, Sturt Gallery, Mittagong, NSW recent work, king street gallery on burton Survey Show (1965-1995), Gold Coast City Art Gallery, Qld Chapman Gallery, Canberra Survey Show (1965-1995), Campbelltown City Bicentennial Art Gallery, NSW recent paintings, king street gallery on burton Sturt Gallery, Mittagong, NSW new work, king street gallery on burton paintings, king street gallery on burton! Schubert Art Gallery, Queensland Budds Beach Gallery, Gold Coast, Queensland Victor Mace Fine Art Gallery, Brisbane 32
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Looking Forward, King Street Gallery on William, Sydney Walcha Gallery of Art, Walcha, NSW The Big Picture, King Street Gallery on William, Sydney Lyricism the Abstract in Art, King Street Gallery on William, Sydney Fowlers Gap [13 artists paint the desert], Stella Downer Fine Art, Sydney Not the Way Home [curated by Owen Craven], SH Ervin, Sydney & traveling Marnling Press and Whaling Road Studio: Survey, Wilson Street Gallery, Sydney Marnling Press; Michelle Perry and Whaling Road Studio; Diana Davidson I A Survey Exhibition Celebrating Two Sydney Print Workshops, Maitland Regional Art Gallery, NSW Virtual Reality, Newcastle Regional Gallery, Newcastle, NSW Animal King Street Gallery on William Tattersall’s Landscape Price Waterfront Place, Brisbane, Qld Last Show of the Year, King Street Gallery on William Australia Day Exhibition Tim Olsen Gallery, Sydney! Lino Alvarez: Collaborations in Clay Bathurst Regional Art Gallery, NSW The River Project, Campbelltown Arts Centre, NSW Solitary Pursuits in Red Maitland Regional Art Gallery, NSW The Drawing Show Defiance Gallery Sydney Stations of the Cross St Ives Uniting Church Easter Exhibition, Sydney Tattersall’s Landscape Price Waterfront Place, Brisbane Prints from Cicada Press [curated by Michael Kempson], Bowen Galleries, Wellington, NZ On the Larapinta 2010 Doggett Street Studio, Brisbane, QLD Same Place Many Views Defiance Gallery, Sydney Flora: Still Life Moving Fast Hazelhurst Regional Gallery & Arts Centre, NSW Tattersall’s Landscape Price Waterfront Place, Brisbane Salon De Refuse SH Ervin Gallery, Sydney Ceramics Mary Place Gallery, Sydney The Drawn Line drawing show, King Street Gallery on William, Sydney Personal Journeys [40 years of Australian Women’s Abstract Art], Shoalhaven City Arts Centre, NSW Silk + Sand–Chinese and Australian Prints Ivan Dougherty Gallery, COFA, Uni of NSW On the Heysen Trail Nine artists, eight days in the landscape, S.H. Ervin Gallery ,Sydney Harbourlife, Manly Art Gallery & Museum, Sydney Double Visions, College of Fine Arts, Sydney; touring to Orange Regional Gallery, NSW Cross Currents, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney NSW Salon Des Refuse, S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney Group Show, Chapman Gallery, Canberra King street gallery at Doggett St Studios (cummings, elliott, penrose hart, murphy sages) Brisbane, QLD The Chroma Collection, Macquarie University Art Collection, Sydney Prints From Cicada Press, Micheal Nagy Gallery, Sydney 33
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Selected Awards/ Residencies 2011! ! Awarded OAM in recognition of services to the visual arts in Australia 2005-pres ! Artist in residence, COFA printmaking department, UNSW, Sydney 2000! ! Fleurier Prize for Landscape, S.A. 1996! ! Mosman Art Prize, NSW 1995! ! Camden Art Prize, NSW 1992! ! Tattersall's Club Art Prize, Qld 1991! ! Fishers Ghost Prize, Campbelltown City Bicentennial Art Gallery 1989 ! ! Gold Coast Purchase Prize, Qld 1988 ! ! REIQ Bicentennial Art Award, Qld 1987! ! Open Section, Camden Art Prize ! ! Faber Castell Drawing Prize 1984! ! Mervyn Horton Memorial Prize, Berrima, NSW ! ! Camden Purchase Prize, NSW ! ! Friends of the Campbelltown Art Gallery Purchase 1983! ! Lane Cove Purchase Prize, NSW 1982! ! Lane Cove Purchase Prize 1981! ! Macquarie Towns Purchase Prize, NSW 1979 ! ! Peter Stuyvesant Prize, Shoalhaven ! ! Fishers Ghost Prize, Campbelltown City Hall ! ! Gosford Purchase Prize, NSW 1978 ! ! Gold Coast Purchase Prize 1977! ! Landscape and Still Life Prizes, RAS, Sydney ! ! Lismore Prize, NSW ! ! Fishers Ghost Prize, Campbelltown City Hall 1976! ! Drummoyne Prize, NSW 1974! ! Grafton Prize, NSW 1972! ! Human Image Prize, RAS, Sydney ! ! Cheltenham Prize, NSW ! ! Portia Geach Portrait Prize, Sydney 1971! ! Gold Coast Purchase Prize, QLD 1960! ! Dyason Bequest 1958 ! ! NSW Travelling Art Scholarship 1957! ! Le Gay Brereton Prize for Drawing
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Elisabeth Cummings at her Wedderburn studio photograph courtesy of Adrienne Richards
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Collections Art Gallery of New South Wales ! ! ! ! National Gallery of Australia, ACT! ! ! ! Manly Art Gallery and Museum, NSW! ! ! Bathurst Regional Art Gallery, NSW! ! ! ! Charles Sturt University, Wagga Wagga, NSW! ! Campbelltown City Bicentennial Art Gallery, NSW! ! Grafton Regional Art Gallery, NSW! ! ! ! University of Queensland Art Museum, Brisbane! ! James Cook University, Townsville, Qld! ! ! Long Gallery & Art Collection, University of Wollongong, NSW! Kelvin Grove Teachers College, Brisbane! ! ! Kedumba Drawing Collection! ! ! ! Hawkesbury Regional Art Gallery! ! ! ! Outback Arts Inc, Qld! ! ! ! ! Queensland University Art Museum! ! ! ! Ormond College, Victoria! ! ! ! !
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Artbank, Australia !! Lismore Regional Art Gallery Jackson Smith Solicitors Maroondah Regional Gallery, Vic Macquarie Bank Queensland Art Gallery Gold Coast City Art Gallery, Qld Griffith University, QCE, Brisbane Newcastle Region Art Gallery, NSW The Hawkesbury City Art Collection The Redcliffe City Art Gallery, Qld College of Fine Arts, Uni of NSW, Sydney Museum of Brisbane, Queensland Shoalhaven City Arts Centre, NSW Rockhampton Art Gallery State Gallery of NSW
Full CV available at www.kingstreetgallery.com.au
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