Peter Upward
Artist’s Statement
Born 1932, Melbourne, and lived in Melbourne 1955-60
Lived in London, 1962-71
Died 1983, Sydney
Education: Julian Ashton School, Sydney (1951-55 under John Passmore)
Biography
Collections
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney Art Gallery of South Australia
Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane Mornington Peninsula Regional Art Gallery Penelope Seidler, Sydney
Sussan Corporation, Melbourne
James Fairfax, Sydney
Joseph Brown Collection, NGV, Melbourne
Australian and International Private and Corporate Collections
Selected Bibliography
Bonython, Kim, Modern Australian Painting 1950-1975 (Adelaide, 1980)
Brook, Donald, “Critical Saints and Sinners”, Sydney Morning Herald, 16.04.1970; p. 16 Buschtedt, Irene, “Home from London – with Tropical Touch”
Catalano, Gary, The Years of Hope: Australian Art & Criticism 1959-68, (Melbourne, 1981) France, Christine, New Directions 1952-62 (exhibition catalogue Penrith Art Gallery, 1991) Francis, Ivor, “Splosh, Just Like Old Times”, Sunday Mail (Adelaide), 23.04.1973
Gleeson, James, “Art Review”, The Sun, 15.04.1970;
Heathcote, Christopher, A Quiet Revolution, (Melbourne, 1995)
Hall, Sandra, “Portrait of the Painter”, Pol, January 1973; pp. 60-63
Hicks, David, David Hicks on Decoration (London, 1966)
Hughes, Robert, The Art of Australia (London, 1970)
Hughes, Robert, Nation, 10.09.1961; p. 18
Hughes, Robert, “Upward’s Shorthand”, Nation, 3.06.1961; p. 18
Hughes, Robert, Nation, 8.04.1961; p. 18
Hughes & Thomas, Australian Painting Today (exhibition catalogue – Q.A.G. 1963)
Lane, Jessica, “Peter Upward’s Chi”, Antiques & Art Australasia, vol 3, no 9, May 1973
Lurie, Maurice, “On Opening Upward”, The Sunday Review, 6.06.1971; p 1004
Lynn, Elwyn, “Australian Painting Today”, Texas Quarterly, vol 5, no 2, Summer 1962
Lynn, Elwyn, “Avant-Garde Painting in Sydney”, Meanjin, 3/1961; pp. 302-6
Lynn, Elwyn, “Over the Edge”, The Bulletin, 1970
Lynn, Elwyn, “In the Lollipop Movement”, Bulletin, 29.04.1972
McCulloch, A., Encyclopedia of Australian Art, (Melbourne, 1968)
Menzies, J. The Calligraphic Image, (exhibition catalogue – A.G.N.S.W., Sydney, 1976)
Mertz Collection: The Australian Painters 1964-66 (Adelaide, 1966)
Olsen, John, “Peter Upward”, Art & Australia, v.21, no.4, winter 1984; pp. 456-8
Olsen, John, “Upward Trend Revealed in Modern Art”,
Phipps, Jennifer, I had a dream (exhibition catalogue – N.G.V., Melbourne, 1997)
Pinson, Peter, Abstract Expressionism in Australia (exhibition cat. - Ivan Dougherty, 1980) Rooney, Robert, ”Art Review”, The Australian, 9.12.1984,
Smith, Bernard, Australian Painting – 1788-1970, (Melbourne, 1971); pp. 359-60
Thomas, Daniel, “Motion Pictures”, Sunday Mirror, 1.09.1964; p. 46
Thomas, Laurie, 200 Years of Australian Painting, (Sydney, 1971)
Upward, Peter, The Subject of Art, Gallery A (Sydney, 1960)
Upward, Peter, “Reply to Robert Hughes”, Nation, 17.06.1961; p. 16
Woodward, Margaret, “Peter Upward: Appreciation”, Art & Australia, v.21, no.4, winter 1984 Young, Elizabeth, “Art Exhibitions”, Advertiser (Adelaide), 18.04.1973Exhibitions
Selected Solo Exhibitions
1959 Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne
1960 Gallery A, Melbourne
1961 Macquarie Galleries, Sydney
Terry Clune Gallery, Sydney
1962 Rowan Gallery, London
1964 Rowan Gallery, London
Rudy Komon Gallery, Sydney
1970 Rudy Komon at Holdsworth Gallery, Sydney
1971 Clytie Jessup Gallery, London
1972 Rudy Komon Gallery, Sydney
Reid Gallery, Brisbane
1973 University of New South Wales, Sydney
Atelier 72, Adelaide
1975 Bonython Gallery, Sydney
1984 Survey Exhibition, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney 1986 Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne
1994 Utopia Art, Sydney
2000 Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne
2007 Retrospective: Penrith Regional Gallery
Selected Group Exhibitions
1961 Sydney 9, Sydney (David Jones Art Gallery) & Melbourne
1962 Helena Rubenstein Scholarship, AGNSW
Rowan Gallery, London
1963 Australian Painting, Folkestone (UK) & Berlin
1963-64 Australian Painting Today, touring QAG, AGNSW, TMAG, NGV, AGSA, AGWA and then
touring Europe
1965 Mertz Collection of Australian Art, Los Angeles 1970 Rowan Gallery, London
1972 Australian Art, NSW House, London
1973 The Calligraphic Image, A.G.N.S.W., Sydney (with Whiteley & Harpur)
1980 Abstract Expressionism in Australia, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney 1984 John Olsen / Peter Upward, Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne 1985-99 Modern Australian Paintings, Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne 1989 Absolute Form, David Jones Art Gallery, Sydney
1991 New Directions: 1952-1962, Lewers Bequest & Penrith Regional Art Gallery
1992 I had a dream – Australian Art in the 1960s, N.G.V., 1997
Australian Contemporary Art Fair, Melbourne
1994 The Expressionist Aesthetic, Penrith Regional Art Gallery 1996 The Gesture, Utopia Art, Sydney
1998 Primary Colours: Blue, Annandale Galleries, Sydney
Australian Contemporary Art Fair, Melbourne
2001 A Century of Collecting: 1901-2001, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, UNSW 2013 Abstract Expressionism, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
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Peter Upward
Untitled, 1971
78.5 x 78.5 cm Resin and acrylic on canvas