'Mirren'
by Brian Dunlop
1938 - Born in Sydney, NSW
Brian Dunlop has never deviated from his commitment to an aesthetic that values the endless resources of the traditional skills of painting and the paradigm of nature. Trends and fads have never enticed him from his course. The price of this stubborn integrity has often seen him disregarded by the fashion-makers and fashion-followers of art, who accept obsolescence as the inevitable consequence of change and who have set up an often spurious and unacceptable notion of what it means to be radical in art. The gain has been that, deferring to an ideal that transcends individual ego, he has been able to develop a body of work unmistakably his own and capable of continual renewal within its own terms. Another benefit has been that he can reach out to an audience who respond to the humanity and harmony of his images with relief and with a conviction that they are not being condescended to or misled.
Solo Exhibitions (selected)
1998
Eva Breuer, Sydney
Axia Modern Art, Melbourne
1997
Survey portrait exhibition (Waverley, Warrnambool, Castlemaine and
Hamilton Galleries)
Editions Gallery, Melbourne
Eva Breuer, Sydney
1994
Australian Galleries, Melbourne
Australian Galleries, Sydney
1992
Carrick Hill, Adelaide
1990
Australian Galleries, Melbourne
Australian Galleries, Sydney
1989
Australian Galleries, Melbourne
1988
Agnews Gallery, London
1986
Beehive Gallery, Adelaide
1985
Realities Gallery, Melbourne
1984
Macquarie Galleries, Sydney
1983
Macquarie Galleries, Sydney
1980
Macquarie Galleries, Sydney
University of Melbourne Gallery
1978
Macquarie Galleries, Canberra
1977
Macquarie Galleries, Sydney
Victor Mace Gallery, Brisbane
1976
Macquarie Galleries, Canberra
1975
Macquarie Galleries, Sydney
1974
Adelaide Festival of Arts
1973
Macquarie Galleries, Sydney
1972
Macquarie Galleries, Canberra
1971
Macquarie Galleries, Sydney
1969
Macquarie Galleries, Sydney
1967
Macquarie Galleries, Sydney
1965
Barry Stern Gallery, Sydney
1963
Barry Stern Gallery, Sydney
Group Exhibitions (selected)
1988
Doug Moran Portrait Prize
The Michelton Print Exhibition (Interior Motives)
Australian Drawing, Australian National Gallery, Canberra
1987
Jack Manton Prize, Art Gallery of Queensland
1986
The Australian Drawing Revival (Backlash), National Gallery of Victoria
1977
Australian Realists, Art Gallery of South Australia
Australian Drawing, Art Gallery of Western Australia
1981
- Sulman Prize
1978 - Andrew & Lilian Pedersen Drawing Prize
1977 - Civic Permanent Award, Canberra
1977 - Coffs Harbour purchase
1977 - Gold Coast purchase
1976 - Civic Permanent Award, Canberra
1976 - R N Ansett Hamilton Award
1958 - Le Gay Brereton Drawing Prize
National Capital
Development Commission, ACT
Australian Post (for two sets of postage stamps)
Sydney Stock Exchange
Over ninety portrait commissions, including a Governor-General, three
Chief Justices, three Archbishops and Victoria's sesquicentenary portrait
of the Queen (1984)
National
Gallery of
Australian National University, Canberra
Benalla Art Gallery
Newcastle Regional Art Gallery
Hamilton Art Gallery
University of Sydney
University of Melbourne
Monash University
La Trobe University
La Trobe Valley Gallery
Rockhampton Gallery
Darwin Gallery
Wollongong Gallery
Castlemaine Gallery
Canberra College
Ipswich Gallery
Parliament House, Canberra
Parliament House, Sydney
Government House, Melbourne
State Bank of New South Wales
State Bank of Victoria
High Court, Canberra
Mornington Peninsula Arts Centre
Artbank
ICI Collection
Warrnambool Gallery
Mt Gambier Gallery
Hamilton Gallery
Geelong Gallery
Wagga Gallery
Bendigo Gallery
National Portrait Gallery, Canberra
Information sourced from: Strahan, L. (1999) Brian Dunlop North Ryde Sydney, Craftsman House