Dick Watkins b. 1937

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exhibited at
Colour and Movement: Abstract Painting from the Collection of the Geelong Gallery
Date
2006
Place
Monash Gallery of Art, Melbourne, VIC
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Lloyd Rees and Contemporaries
Date
2005
Place
New England Regional Art Museum, Armidale, NSW
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
The Moderns: 20th Century Painting and Sculpture
Date
2005
Place
Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart, TAS
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Fieldwork: Australian Art 1968 - 2002
Date
2002
Place
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Vic.
Description
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
I Had a Dream: Australian Art in the 1960s
Date
1997
Place
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, VIC
Description
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Triennale Exhibition of Contemporary Australian Art
Date
1996
Place
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, VIC
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Australian art 1940-1990 from the collection of the National Gallery of Australia
Date
28 July 1995 - 3 September 1995
Place
Museum of Fine Arts, Gifu, Japan
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Creating Australia: 200 Years of Australian Art 1788-1988
Date
1988
Place
Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, SA
Description

Toured to all State galleries

Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Field to Figuration: Australian Art 1960-1986
Date
1987
Place
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Vic.
Description
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
The Biennale of Sydney
Date
1986
Place
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
The Field Now
Date
1984
Place
Heide Park and Art Gallery, Melbourne, VIC
Description
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Apocalypse + Utopia
Date
1984
Place
University Art Gallery, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Recent Australian Painting: A Survey of the 70s and 80s
Date
1983
Place
Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, SA
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Australian Perspecta
Date
1981
Place
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW
Description
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Australian Colourists 77
Date
1977
Place
Western Australian Institute of Technology, Perth, WA, Australia
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Fifty Years of the National Art School
Date
1974
Place
Bonython Galleries, Sydney, NSW
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
The Biennale of Sydney
Date
1973
Place
Sydney Opera House, Sydney, NSW
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
exhibited at
Young Commonwealth Painters
Date
1962
Place
RBA Galleries, London, England
Description
Type
Exhibition

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