CHRIS LANGLOIS
CHRIS LANGLOIS
ARRANGEMENTS AND VARIATIO NS
I was wondering a little while ago, why I kept returning to painting the sea. It’s basically the same subject matter, same composition and so on. What sustains my interest in it?
I took some time to come to a conclusion, but what became very clear to me after a while was music. I sometimes have this experience with my paintings - an experience in that I can hear them in a musical way; just like how some music you can see, music thats visual, in the way that Debussys’ La Mar puts you way out to sea.
The sea is like one of those loved classic compositionsopen to interpretation and variation, new arrangements and complete recompositions. Each new painting offers an opportunity for a new interpretation, a new variation, a chance to play with the execution and performance. The sea can be fugue-like, shamelessly romantic, minimalistic, or abstract and it’s what draws me to paint this subject time and time again.
168
22 X 60 cm
25
oil on BOARD
30 X 30 cm
CHRIS LANGLOIS
1969 Born, Gosford NSW
1990 BA Visual Arts (Painitng and Drawing) The University of Newcastle
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2025 Scott Livesey, Melbourne
2024 Musical Variations on the Theme of the Sea, Olsen, Sydney
2023 Ocean Songs, Gould Creative, Melbourne Ocean and Earth, Olsen Annex, Sydney
2022 Where Land Ends, Olsen, Sydney
2021 Headland, Olsen Annex, Sydney
2021 Deep Blue Sea, Gould Creative, Melbourne
2020 Littoral Zone, Olsen, Sydney
2019 1066 Miles on Paper, Olsen Annex, Sydney
2018 1066 Miles, Olsen, Sydney
2017 Of Land, of Sea, Gould Galleries, Melbourne
2016 Scapes, Olsen Irwin Gallery, Sydney
2016 Atmospheres, Heiser Gallery, Brisbane
2015 Chris Langlois, Glasshouse Regional Gallery, Port Macquarie
2015 On the Nature of Air and Light, Gould Galleries, Melbourne
2014 Chris Langlois Points in Time, Manly Art Gallery and Museum and Gippsland
Art Gallery Touring Exhibition, Gippsland Art Gallery, Hamilton Art Gallery, Lake Macquarie City Art Gallery, Gold Coast City Gallery, Orange Regional Gallery.
2014 Weather Systems, OlsenIrwin, Sydney
2013 Chris Langlois Points in Time, Manly Art Gallery and Museum and Gippsland
Art Gallery Touring Exhibition
2013 Close Space, Gould Galleries, Melbourne
2013 Sketches, Heiser Gallery, Brisbane
2012 Waterfield, Rex Irwin Art Dealer, Sydney
2011 Another Place, Gould Galleries, Melbourne
2011 Darkwood, Heiser Gallery, Brisbane
2010 Quietude, Rex Irwin Art Dealer, Sydney
2009 Heiser Gallery, Brisbane
2009 Michael Reid, Murrurundi
2008 Rex Irwin Art Dealer, Sydney
2007 Rex Irwin Art Dealer, Sydney
2007 Moree Plains Art Gallery, Moree
2006 Winter Weather, Martin Browne Fine Art at Silvershot Gallery, Melbourne
2005 Landscape Variations, Martin Browne Fine Art at the Yellow House, Sydney
2004 Vanishing Point, Martin Browne Fine Art at the Yellow House, Sydney
2004 Variations, Martin Browne Fine Art at Fortyfivedownstairs, Melbourne
2003 Half light, Martin Browne Fine Art, Sydney
2002 Everything and Nothing, Chris Langlois’ Landscape Paintings, Newcastle Regional Art Gallery
2002 Imperfect Isolation, Doggett Street Studios, Brisbane
2001 Land sea sky, Metro Arts, Brisbane
2001 Fading to Nought, Martin Brown Fine Art, Sydney
2001 Nick Mitzevitch Gallery, Newcastle
2000 Melancholy, Legge Gallery, Sydney
1999 A Point In Time, Legge Gallery, Sydney
1998 Landscape and Memory, Legge Gallery, Sydney
1997 Autumn Park, Legge Gallery, Sydney
1996 Detached Shadows, Legge Gallery, Sydney
Rocket Gallery, Newcastle
1995 Legge Gallery, Sydney
1994 Legge Gallery, Sydney
1993 Newcastle Region Art Gallery Legge Gallery, Sydney
1992 Legge Gallery, Sydney
1991 Veiw Factory, Newcastle
1990 Watt Space, The University of Newcastle
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023 Upriver Downriver, Maitland Regional Art Gallery
2023 Winter, Gippsland Art Gallery, Sale
2022 Life, Still, Maitland Regional Art Gallery
2022 A Little Further North, Milton Gallery, Mackay
2022 Postcode 5730, Blinman South Australia
2021 Postcode 5730, Blinman South Australia
2021 Crepuscule, Olsen Annex, Sydney
2020 Collectivus, A Summer Group Show, Olsen, Sydney
2020 Northern Beaches Art Prize, Sydney
2019 Oratunga and Back, Adelaide Fringe Festival
2019 Recent Acquisitions, Manly Art Gallery and Museum
2019 Nillumbik Art Prize, Melbourne
2019 Tattersall’s Club Landscape Art Prize, Brisbane
2019 Kings School Art Prize,Sydney
2018 2 x 2, Olsen Gallery, Sydney
2017 North Head Project, Manly Art Gallery and Museum
2016 Geelong Contemporary Art Prize, Geelong Gallery
2015 Signature, Newcastle University
2015 Keeping Company: Saltwater, Manly Art Gallery and Museum
2015 Directors Choice 2015, Celebrating 35 years, Gould Gallery, Melbourne
2015 Sydney Contemporary, Sydney
2014 The Gold Award, Rockhampton Art Gallery, Rockhampton, Queensland
2014 Sublime Points, Hazelhurst Regional Gallery & Arts Centre
2014 John Leslie Art Prize, Gippsland Art Gallery, Sale Victoria
2014 Tattersalls Landscape Art Prize, Brisbane
2014 Watt Space 25th Year Anniversary, Watt Space, The University of Newcastle
2013 Summer Show, Chris LANGLOIS, Hyojin PARK, Konstantin BESSMERTNY,
2013 LIU XiaoFang, Amelia Johnson Contemporary, Hong Kong
2013 Fleurieu Art Prize, South Australia
2013 Tattersall’s Club Landscape Art Prize, Brisbane
2012 Within Sight of Land, Newcastle Art Gallery
2012 Landscape + the Urbane Environment, Marian Drew, Koon Wai Bong, Chris Langlois, Ho-Yeol Ryu, Davis Smith, Amelia Johnson Contemporary, Hong Kong
2012 Directors Choice 2012, Gould Galleries, Melbourne
2012 Reflective Dialogues, Chris Capper, Andy Divine, Chris Langlois, Peter Tilley, The University Gallery, Newcastle University, Newcastle
2012 Winter Warmers, Gould Galleries, Melbourne
2012 Kings School Art Prize, Sydney
2012 Tattersalls Landscape Art Prize, Brisbane
2011 Water Memory, Glasshouse Regional Gallery, Port Macquarie
2011 Stan & Maureen Duke Gold Coast Art Prize, Gold Coast Art Gallery
2011 New Romantics, Gippsland Art Gallery, Sale
2011 Black & White, Rex Irwin Art Dealer, Sydney
2011 Tattersall’s Club Landscape Art Prize, Brisbane
2011 Kings Art Prize, Sydney
2011 Keeping Company Manly Art Gallery and Museum, Sydney
2011 Allsorts Gould Gallery, Melboune
2011 Salon Des Refuses, S.H Irvin Gallery, Sydney
2011 BIG/small, Rex Irwin Art Dealer, Sydney
2011 30 to collect, Arthouse Gallery, Sydney
2010 Wynne Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales
2010 Silent Spaces, Macquarie University Art Gallery, Sydney
2010 Zoo Artists in Residence, The University Gallery, The University of Newcastle
2009 In Paradise: Artist of the Northern Beaches, Manly Arts Festival, Manly Art Gallery and Museum
2009 Heads, Rex Irwin Art Dealer, Sydney
2008 Chris Langlois, Luke Pither, Paul Spencer, and Camilla Tadich, Sophie Gannon Gallery, Melbourne
2008 Painting the Land, Newcastle Region Art Gallery, Newcastle
2008 Salon des Refuses, S.H. Irvin Gallery, Sydney
2008 Salon des Refuses, Tweed River Art Gallery, Murwillumbah
2007 ‘The University Collection: Evolution’, Newcastle University Gallery, Newcastle
2007 Wynne Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales
2006 Tainted Love, Contemporary developments in Landscape, Bendigo
Art Gallery
2006 Wynne Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales
2005 The Sea, Rex Irwin Art Dealer, Sydney.
2004 Great Escapes: romantic landscape in the 21st century, Curated by Meryl Ryan, Lake Macquarie City Art Gallery
State of Art: Peace, touring exhibition, curated by Katherine Roberts, Manly Art Gallery
2003 Depth of Field, Curated by Karen Hall & Louise Tegart, Shepparton Regional Art Gallery
2003 Depth of Field, Monash University Museum of Art
2001 Volunteered Images, Campbelltown City Bicentennial Art Gallery
2001 Horizon, Newcastle Region Art Gallery
2001 Well Connected: Dobell + Company, Lake Macquarie City Art Gallery
2001 New Aquisitions, Campbelltown City Bicentennial Art Gallery
2001 University of Newcastle Art Collection, Recent Acquisitions, The University of Newcastle
2000 Watt Decade, The University of Newcastle Travelling Exhibition, Broken Hill Regional Art Gallery
1999 Contemporary, a selection from the collection of Allen, Allen and Hemsley UTS Gallery, Sydney
1999 Velocity, Evan Salmon, Niki Savvas & Chris Langlois, Newspace, Sydney College of the Arts
1999 Watt Decade, Ten Year Anniversary, Watt Space, The University of Newcastle
1999 People and Places from Hunter-Manning Regional Collections, Manning Regional Gallery, Taree
1998 The Four Elements, A Journey Across The Land, Newcastle Region Art Gallery
CATALOGUES & PUBLICATIONS
2013 J. Beaumont, F. Fenner, J. McDonald, The Land and its Psyche, the Macquarie Group Collection, NewSouth Publishing
2013 Katherine Roberts, Simon Gregg, Chris Langlois Points in Time, Manly Art Gallery and Museum and Gippsland Art Gallry
2012 Relective Dialogue, Chris Capper, Andy Divine, Chris Langlois, Peter Tilley, The University of Newcastle
2011 Simon Gregg, New Romantics Darkness and light in Australian Art, Australian Scholarly Publishing
2010 Silent Spaces, Macquarie University Art Gallery, Sydney, 2009 In Paradise, Artists of the Northern Beaches, Manly Art Gallery & Museum
2008 Chris Langlois, Paintings, exhibition catalogue, Rex Irwin Art Dealer
2007 Chris Langlois, exhibition catalogue, Moree Plains Art Gallery. Rex Irwin Art Dealer
2006 Winter Weather, exhibition catalogue, Martin Browne Fine Art
2005 Great Escapes, Lake Macquarie City Art Gallery
2003 Depth of Field, Exhibition catalogue, Karen Hall, Louise Tegart & Rex Butler, Shepparton Art Gallery
2001 Land Sea Sky, Chris Langlois, essay by Rosemary Hawker, Metro Arts
2001 Fading to Nought, Chris Langlois, essay by John Murphy, Martin Browne Fine Art & SEL
COLLECTIONS
Bendigo Art Gallery
Campbelltown City Bicentennial Art Gallery
Newcastle Region Art Gallery
Manly Art Gallery and Museum
Maitland City Art Gallery
New England Regional Art Gallery
Gold Coast City Art Gallery
Glasshouse Regional Gallery, Port Macquarie
The University of Newcastle University of Technology, Sydney Parliament House, Canberra Artbank
Sydney Children’s Hospital Allen, Aurthur, Robinson NRMA
Macquarie Bank
B.T. Funds Management
AMP
The University and Schools Club, Sydney
Gippsland Art Gallery