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Roles	Artist (Painter)	Artist
Periods active	c.1960 -
Residences	1937 - 1959 Sydney, NSW 1959 - 1961 Europe, United States of America, United Kingdom (travel)	- Sydney, NSW
Tags	Colour field Abstract
References	[<ExternalResource: 'Dick Watkins'.>, <ExternalResource: Terry Smith (1970), 'Color-form Painting: Sydney 1967-70'.>]	[<ExternalResource: 'Dick Watkins'.>]
Trainings	1955 - 1958 Julian Ashton Art School, Sydney, NSW 1955 - 1958 National Art School, East Sydney Technical College, Darlinghurst, New South Wales	occasional classes, 1955 - 1958 Julian Ashton Art School, Sydney, NSW Occasional classes, 1955 - 1958 East Sydney Technical College, Sydney, NSW
Related people	McGillick, Tony (associate of) Smith, Terry (associate of)
Related events	'Better git it in your soul' (exhibited at) Colour and Movement: Abstract Painting from the Collection of the Geelong Gallery (exhibited at) 13 landscapes (exhibited at) Dick Watkins (exhibited at) Lloyd Rees and Contemporaries (exhibited at) The Moderns: 20th Century Painting and Sculpture (exhibited at) New Work 2005 (exhibited at) New Paintings 2003 (exhibited at) Fieldwork: Australian Art 1968 - 2002 (exhibited at) Abstraction (exhibited at) Newcastle Lights (exhibited at) Marks and Angels (exhibited at) New Paintings (exhibited at) Recent Work 1998-1999 (exhibited at) solo exhibition (exhibited at) I Had a Dream: Australian Art in the 1960s (exhibited at) Triennale Exhibition of Contemporary Australian Art (exhibited at) Paintings 1993-1996 (exhibited at) Australian art 1940-1990 from the collection of the National Gallery of Australia (exhibited at) solo exhibition (exhibited at) Twilight of the Gods (exhibited at) Twin Peaks (exhibited at) Dick Watkins in Context: An Exhibition from the Collection of the National Gallery of Australia (exhibited at) solo exhibition (exhibited at) solo exhibition (exhibited at) Works on Paper (exhibited at) solo exhibition (exhibited at) Survey (exhibited at) Arteries (exhibited at) The Great Australian Art Exhibition: 1788-1988 (exhibited at) solo exhibition (exhibited at) solo exhibition (exhibited at) solo exhibition (exhibited at) Field to Figuration: Australian Art 1960-1986 (exhibited at) Paintings - Drawings (exhibited at) The Biennale of Sydney (exhibited at) Dick Watkins: A Retrospective (exhibited at) XVIII Bienal de Sao Paulo (exhibited at) The Field Now (exhibited at) Apocalypse + Utopia (exhibited at) Style Master (exhibited at) solo exhibition (exhibited at) Recent Australian Painting: A Survey of the 70s and 80s (exhibited at) solo exhibition (exhibited at) solo exhibition (exhibited at) solo exhibition (exhibited at) solo exhibition (exhibited at) Australian Perspecta (exhibited at) Australian Colourists 77 (exhibited at) Fifty Years of the National Art School (exhibited at) The Biennale of Sydney (exhibited at) solo exhibition (exhibited at) solo exhibition (exhibited at) 'The Field' (exhibited at) Dick Watkins (exhibited at) Exhibition of Interesting Pictures (exhibited at) solo exhibition (exhibited at) Young Commonwealth Painters (exhibited at)	'Better git it in your soul' (exhibited at) Colour and Movement: Abstract Painting from the Collection of the Geelong Gallery (exhibited at) 13 landscapes (exhibited at) Dick Watkins (exhibited at) Lloyd Rees and Contemporaries (exhibited at) The Moderns: 20th Century Painting and Sculpture (exhibited at) New Work 2005 (exhibited at) New Paintings 2003 (exhibited at) Fieldwork: Australian Art 1968 - 2002 (exhibited at) Abstraction (exhibited at) Newcastle Lights (exhibited at) Marks and Angels (exhibited at) New Paintings (exhibited at) Recent Work 1998-1999 (exhibited at) solo exhibition (exhibited at) I Had a Dream: Australian Art in the 1960s (exhibited at) Triennale Exhibition of Contemporary Australian Art (exhibited at) Paintings 1993-1996 (exhibited at) Australian art 1940-1990 from the collection of the National Gallery of Australia (exhibited at) solo exhibition (exhibited at) Twilight of the Gods (exhibited at) Twin Peaks (exhibited at) Dick Watkins in Context: An Exhibition from the Collection of the National Gallery of Australia (exhibited at) solo exhibition (exhibited at) solo exhibition (exhibited at) Works on Paper (exhibited at) solo exhibition (exhibited at) Survey (exhibited at) Arteries (exhibited at) Creating Australia: 200 Years of Australian Art 1788-1988 (exhibited at) solo exhibition (exhibited at) solo exhibition (exhibited at) solo exhibition (exhibited at) Field to Figuration: Australian Art 1960-1986 (exhibited at) Paintings - Drawings (exhibited at) The Biennale of Sydney (exhibited at) Dick Watkins: A Retrospective (exhibited at) XVIII Bienal de Sao Paulo (exhibited at) The Field Now (exhibited at) Apocalypse + Utopia (exhibited at) Style Master (exhibited at) solo exhibition (exhibited at) Recent Australian Painting: A Survey of the 70s and 80s (exhibited at) solo exhibition (exhibited at) solo exhibition (exhibited at) solo exhibition (exhibited at) solo exhibition (exhibited at) Australian Perspecta (exhibited at) Australian Colourists 77 (exhibited at) Fifty Years of the National Art School (exhibited at) The Biennale of Sydney (exhibited at) solo exhibition (exhibited at) solo exhibition (exhibited at) The Field (exhibited at) Dick Watkins (exhibited at) Exhibition of Interesting Pictures (exhibited at) solo exhibition (exhibited at) Young Commonwealth Painters (exhibited at)

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