Anthony John Coleing b. 1942

Also known as Tony Coleing, Tony Coeling
  • Artist (Printmaker),
  • Artist (Painter),
  • Artist (Sculptor)
Tony Coleing first came to national prominence as a sculptor but he has also produced over 200 prints since the 1960s, Coleing has exhibited at the National Gallery of Australia, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Brisbane, and the Print Council of Australia, Melbourne.
exhibited at
Tony Coleing: collaborative prints
Date
1993
Place
Plimsoll Gallery, University of Tasmania, Hobart, TAS
Description

Organised by Plimsoll Gallery Committee, Tasmanian School of Art. Funding ministry for Education and the Arts through Arts Tasmania. An exhibition of prints that resulted from collaborations by the artist with other artists, including Robin Wallace-Crabbe, Garry Shead, Helen Eager, Bruce Latimer, Shayne Higson and Kevin Sheehan.

Source: Solo Survey Exhibition Linkage Project, Tasmanian School of Art, UTAS
Plimsoll archive

Exhibition Catalogue:
Tony Coleing: collaborative prints. Hobart, Tasmania: The artists and the University of Tasmania, 1993
6p. : ill. : bio., bib

Type
Exhibition
Tags
Major Solo, Printmaking
exhibited at
"Post-Object Show" Revisited
Date
June 1986 - 5 July 1986
Place
Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide, SA
Description

Organised and toured by EAF in 1976- based on the notion of communication within a uniform format the exhibition included work by Micky Allan, Alex Danko, Sue Ford, Imants Tillers, Robin Wallace Crabbe, Tim Burns, Tony Coling, Phil Dadson, Virginia Coventry and others

Type
Exhibition
Tags
Experimental Art Foundation, Group exhibition, Post-object art
Website
http://aeaf.org.au/
exhibited at
Tony Coleing
Date
1981
Place
Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, QLD
Description

Source: Solo Survey Exhibition Linkage Project, Tasmanian School of Art, UTAS
Institute of Modern Art exhibition archive

Type
Exhibition
Tags
Minor Solo, Installation
exhibited at
Venice Biennale 1980 : art from 1968-1980, Australia : Mike Parr, Kevin Mortensen, Tony Coleing
Date
1980
Place
Australia Pavilion, Venice Biennale, Italy
Description

Australia Council Visual Arts Board, Funded by Australia Council of the Arts. Australia’s exhibition at the 40th Venice Biennale, 1980.

Source: Solo Survey Exhibition Linkage Project, Tasmanian School of Art, UTAS
UTAS catalogue

Exhibition Catalogue:
Australia Council, Venice Biennale 1980 : art from 1968-1980, Australia : Mike Parr, Kevin Mortensen, Tony Coleing. [Sydney] : Visual Arts Board, Australia Council, 1980.
ISBN 0642894450

Type
Exhibition
Tags
Group, Venice, Mixed media
exhibited at
7th Mildura Sculpture Triennial
Date
25 March 1978 - 28 May 1978
Place
Mildura, Vic.
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Biennale of Sydney: Recent International Forms in Art
Date
13 November 1976 - 19 December 1976
Description

Recent International Forms in Art : The 1976 Biennale of Sydney …

Type
Other event
Website
http://scanlines.net/node/855
exhibited at
Sculpture 75: young Australian sculptors
Date
7 March 1975 - 16 March 1975
Place
Commonwealth Gardens, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory
Type
Exhibition
Tags
Australia 75
exhibited at
Recent Australian Art
Date
19 October 1973 - 18 November 1973
Place
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
The Situation Now: Object and Post Object Art
Date
16 July 1971 - 6 August 1971
Place
Central Street Gallery, Sydney, NSW
Description

Curated by Terry Smith and Donald Brook, The Situation Now: Object and Post Object Art, was a survey exhibition of conceptual and experimental works in Australia, sponsored by the Contemporary Art Society (CAS) held at Central Street. David Aspden’s work listed in the catalogue was replaced by a work by James Doolin in the exhibition itself.

Type
Exhibition
Tags
One Central Street
exhibited at
Marland House sculpture competition
Date
22 June 1971 - c.June 1971
Place
Age Gallery, 250 Spencer Street, Melbourne, Victoria
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
John Kaldor Art Projects 2, Szeemann: I want to leave a nice, well done child here (20 Australian Artists)
Date
29 April 1971 - 13 May 1971
Place
Bonython Art Gallery, Sydney, NSW
Description

ALSO: National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Victoria, with additional installation by Mike Brown

Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Sculpture 1970: the fourth Mildura Sculpture Triennial
Date
28 February 1970 - 18 April 1970
Place
Mildura Arts Centre, Mildura, VIC
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
The Field
Date
1968
Place
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, VIC
Description

The Field was the first temporary exhibition in the newly opened National Gallery of Victoria building in St Kilda Road. Its curators, John Stringer and Brian Finemore, proudly proclaimed its partisanship as it celebrated the work of a new generation of Australian abstract artists.
“It is not impartial and comprehensive. It is biassed to define one particular direction in contemporary Australian art,” they wrote.
The Field was held a year after MoMA’s Two Decades of American Painting travelled to Sydney and Melbourne, and both its content and its catalogue were significantly influenced by that exhibition. Its professional production as much as the content of the lively hard edge abstract works encouraged the perception that this was the avant garde in Australia in 1968.
In 2018, the 50th anniversary of The Field, the National Gallery of Victoria recreated the exhibition at Federation Square.

Type
Exhibition
Tags
Colour field, Abstract, Hard edge, Minimalism