b 1945, Oban, Argyleshire, Scotland
| 1960/70 |
Various occupations, including four years as merchant seaman travelling worldwide |
| 1970/75 |
Diploma & Post Diploma of Art, Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art, Dundee, Scotland |
| 1995 |
Master of Arts (research), Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology
University, Melbourne, Australia |
Other activities of the artist include teaching in Scotland, Italy and Australia. Currently, Associate Professor in Fine Art (Part Time), Faculty of Art and Design, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Solo Exhibitions
| 2004 |
Elsewhere, 2004 Melbourne Art Fair, Australian Galleries |
| 2003 |
Watercolours & Prints, Greenhill Galleries, Perth, WA |
| 2002 |
Recent Works on Paper, Australian Galleries, Sydney & Melbourne |
| 2001 |
Abracadabra, Australian Galleries, Melbourne & Sydney |
| 2000 |
Watercolours and Drawings, Australian Galleries Works on Paper, Melbourne, Victoria |
| 2000 |
Graffiti: Project Space (wall drawing), Faculty Gallery, Faculty of Art and Design, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria |
| 2000 |
Another Riddle: Greenhill Galleries and The Perth International Arts Festival, Perth, WA |
| 1999 |
Work in Progress: British School at Rome, Rome, Italy |
| 1997 |
Recent Works on Paper: Australian Galleries, Melbourne, Victoria |
| 1996 |
Works on Paper: Greenhill Galleries, Perth, WA |
| 1995 |
Paintings and Prints: Australian Galleries, Melbourne, Victoria |
| 1995 |
Studio Notes: McClelland Art Gallery, Langwarren, Victoria |
| 1992 |
Paintings and Watercolours: Australian Galleries, Melbourne, Victoria & Sydney, NSW |
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Paintings and Watercolours: Greenhill Galleries, Perth, WA |
| 1991 |
Cycle: Latrobe Regional Gallery, Morwell, Victoria |
| 1990 |
Watercolours: Australian Galleries, Melbourne, Victoria |
| 1989 |
Paintings: 70 Arden Street Gallery, Melbourne, Victoria |
| 1988 |
Paintings, Watercolours and Drawings: 70 Arden Street Gallery, Melbourne, Victoria |
| 1987 |
Survey of Selected Work (1977 to 1987): Latrobe Regional Gallery, Victoria |
| 1987 |
Drawings: Switchback Gallery, Gippsland Institute of Advanced Education, Churchill, Victoria |
| 1985 |
Paintings and Drawings: Australian Galleries, Melbourne, Victoria |
| 1984 |
Paintings and Prints: Australian Galleries, Melbourne, Victoria |
| 1980 |
Paintings and Prints: Editions Gallery, Melbourne, Victoria |
| 1979 |
Paintings and Prints: Arts Council Gallery, Canberra, ACT |
| 1976 |
Paintings and Prints: Stirling Gallery, Stirling, Scotland |
| 1974 |
Prints: Stirling Gallery, Stirling, Scotland |
Group Exhibitions (selected)
| 2005 |
Contrasts, (Within the Charles Sturt University Art Collection), Wagga Wagga Regional Art Gallery
Academici, Faculty Gallery, Monash University, Melbourne & The British School at Rome. Italy |
| 2004 |
Species, Australian Galleries Works on Paper, Melbourne
Paper Animals, Maroondah Art Gallery, Melbourne
Impressions 2004, Australian Print Workshop Gallery, Melbourne
Pelt, Project Space, RMIT, Melbourne
In the presence of all creatures great and small, Australian Galleries Works on Paper, Sydney
Shell Fremantle Print Award: Fremantle Arts Centre, WA
place made, National Gallery of Australia, ACT
Panorama, Australian Galleries Works on Paper, Melbourne |
| 2003 |
Ubiquitous Beauty, Latrobe Regional Gallery, Morwell, Victoria
odd, RMIT School of Art & Culture, Melbourne (Melbourne Comedy Festival)
wall \ paper, Australian Galleries Works on Paper, Melbourne, (Loreal Melbourne Fashion Festival Program)
Wildlife, Australian Print Workshop Gallery, Melbourne
Edition + Artist Book Survey, The Canberra Museum and Gallery, Canberra, ACT
People in a Landscape: Contemporary Australian Prints, German Foreign Office, Berlin, Germany
Workings of The Mind, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne |
| 2001/2 |
Landscape and environment, Australian Galleries, Melbourne |
| 2000/1 |
People in a Landscape: Contemporary Australian Prints: Cultural
Centre of the Philippines, Manila and touring: Taiwan, China, Singapore, Sri Lanka & Thailand |
| 2001 |
15th Asian Arts exhibition, Tainnan, Taiwan, ROC |
| 2000 |
Liberty, RMIT Gallery, Melbourne, Victoria
Small Tapestries, Victorian Tapestry Workshop, Melbourne
Australian Identities in Printmaking: Wagga Wagga Regional Gallery, NSW
2000 Cutting Comments - Contemporary Linocuts: 1995 - 1998, NETS Victoria Touring Exhibition
Reciprocal Moves, Warrnambool Art Gallery, Victoria
Proof Positive: Gold treasury Museum, Melbourne, Victoria |
| 1999 |
Pleasure: Australian Galleries, Melbourne, Victoria
Cabinet Works, Compass Gallery, Glasgow |
| 1998 |
Notations: Victoria University Gallery, Melbourne, Victoria
Orientations: New Parliament House, Canberra, ACT
Gone to the Dogs: Grahame Galleries + Editions, Brisbane, Qld
From The Block: Queensland Art Gallery, Qld
Metamorphosis: Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, Victoria
Primary Colours - Blue: Annandale Galleries, Sydney, NSW
Magic Realism: Australian Galleries, Melbourne, Victoria
Decalogue: Metropolitan Museum of Seoul, Korea
Recent Acquisitions: National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne |
| 1997 |
Knock Knock: Australian Galleries, Melbourne, Victoria
Figurative Forces: Latrobe Regional Gallery, Morwell, Victoria
Spring Festival of Drawing: Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, Victoria
Rena Ellen Jones Memorial Print Award: Warrnambool Art Gallery, Victoria |
| 1996 |
Blake Prize for Religious Art: State Library of NSW, Sydney, NSW
Call of the Wild: New Parliament House, Canberra, ACT
Australian Print Workshop (Selected Works 1992 to 1996): Gippsland Art Gallery, Sale. Victoria
Australian Printmaking In The 1990's: APW Gallery, Melbourne, Victoria |
| 1995/96/97 |
Fremantle Print Award: Fremantle Arts Centre, Fremantle, WA |
| 1995 |
50th Anniversary Exhibition (Migration - Enriching Australia (1945 - 1995) The Australian National Maritime Museum, Sydney, NSW |
| 1994 |
Watercolour Exhibition by the Artists of ROC, USA & Australia: Chung Cheng Gallery,The Taiwan Art Education Institute, Taiwan, ROC
Margaret Stewart Endowment: National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
1994 Mixed Impressions: Ivan Dougherty Gallery, University of NSW, Sydney |
| 1992 |
Recently Seen: McClelland Art Gallery, Langwarren, Victoria |
| 1991 |
Indo-Echo: Latrobe Regional Gallery, Morwell, Sale Regional Gallery, Sale and Linden Gallery, Melbourne, Victoria
At-tension to the Line (Australian Drawing): Greenhill Galleries, Perth, WA
1991 Transitional Times: Australian Print Workshop Gallery, Melbourne |
| 1990 |
Contemporary Gippsland Artists: Latrobe Regional Gallery, Victoria and touring all states and territories
1990 Modern and Contemporary Australian Watercolours and Gouaches: John Buckley Fine Art, Melbourne, Victoria |
| 1988 |
The October Show: Latrobe Regional Gallery, Morwell, Victoria
100 x 100: Print Council of Australia Bicentennial Touring Exhibition |
| 1985 |
The Relief Print: Scottish Arts Council Exhibition touring Scotland
Australian Print 85: Memphis Brooks Museum and touring USA |
| 1984 |
Contemporary Australian Printmakers: Harbourfront Gallery, Toronto, Canada, Pratt Graphic Centre, New York, USA
Australian Printmakers (Victoria): Aichi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts, Ogisu Memorial Museum of Inazawa City, Japan |
| 1983 |
Seven Painters Different Viewpoint: The University of Melbourne Art Gallery, Melbourne, Victoria
1983 International Print Exhibit: Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taiwan, ROC |
| 1977 |
10 Years, Dundee Young Painters: Dundee Museum and Art Gallery, Dundee, Scotland |
| 1976 |
Pernod - Scottish Art: Arts Centre, Edinburgh, Scotland |
| 1975 |
Trees: Stirling Gallery, Stirling, Scotland |
| 1974 |
Scottish Young Contemporaries: McClelland Galleries, Glasgow, Scotland |
| 1973 |
International Print Exchange: Compass Gallery, Glasgow, Montpellier Ecole des Beaux Arts, France, Illinois State University, USA and DJCA |
Commissions
| 1999 |
Commissioned Print Project for Westin Hotel, Melbourne, in collaboration with the Australian Print Workshop, Melbourne, Victoria; 1999 Small Tapestries Project, Victorian Tapestry Workshop, Melbourne, Victoria
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| 1997 |
Edition and Artist Book 1997 Relief Folio, Institute of the Arts, Australian National University, ACT |
| 1995 |
Commissioned Print Edition, (50th Anniversary of Migration 1945 - 1995) Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, Canberra |
| 1991 |
Commissioned 25th Anniversary Print Edition, Print Council of Australia |
| 1988 |
Commissioned 100 x 100 Bicentennial Portfolio, Print Council of Australia
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| 1984 |
Commissioned Member Print Edition, Print Council of Australia |
Awards /Grants
| 2004 |
ACUADS Distinguished Research Award |
| 1999 |
Australia Council Residency, British School at Rome |
| 1976 |
Scottish Arts Council Short Term Bursary |
| 1976 |
A Pernod Prize - Scotland (Painting) |
| 1974 |
GTV Prize (Printmaking) |
| 1974 |
Post Graduate Scholarship |
| 1973 |
BMK Travelling Award (Paris) |
| 1971 |
Pat Homes Memorial Prize |
Public Collections
National/State
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane
Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart
State Library of Victoria, Melbourne
New Parliament House Collection, ACT
Art Bank, Sydney
Print Council of Australia Archives
Australian Print Workshop Archives
Regional
Ballarat Fine Art Gallery, Vic
Bathurst Art Gallery, NSW
Bendigo Art Gallery, Vic
City of Whitehorse Collection,Vic
Dubbo Regional Gallery,NSW
Gippsland Regional Art Gallery, Vic
Gladstone Art Gallery, Qld
Geelong Art Gallery, Vic
Latrobe Regional Gallery, Vic
McLelland Art Gallery, Vic
Mildura Art Centre, Vic
Mornington Peninsula Art Centre, Vic
Naracoorte Art Gallery, SA
New England Regional Museum, NSW
Queen Victoria Museum & Art Gallery, Tas
Toowoomba City Gallery,Qld
Wagga Wagga Regional Gallery, NSW
Warnambool Art Gallery, Vic
Educational Institutions
Aquinas College, Melbourne
Ballarat University, Vic
Box Hill College of TAFE, Vic
Charles Sturt University, NSW
Faculty of Art and Design, Monash University, Gippsland Campus
Griffith University,Brisbane,Qld
Institute for the Arts, ANU, Canberra
Lawrence Wilson Gallery, University of WA
MLC, Melbourne
Monash Museum of Art, Monash University, Melbourne
Queensland University of Technology
RMIT University
Stonington Stables Museum of Art, Deakin University, Melbourne
University of Southern Queensland
Stirling University, (Scottish Arts Council Gift), Stirling, Scotland
Bibliography (selected)
Books
Laura Murray Cree, Awesome! Australian Art for Contemporary Kids, Craftsman House, Australia, 2002
Gary Catalano, Building a Picture: Interviews with Australian Artists, McGraw-Hill, Australia, 1997
Sasha Grishen, Australian Printmaking in the 1990's, Artist Printmakers, 1990 to 1995, Craftsman House, Sydney, 1996
Alan McCulloch, revised and updated by Susan McCulloch, The Encyclopaedia of Australian Art, Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 1994
Catalogues
Dr Faye Glinister, Academici, Monash University & The British School at Rome, Melbourne 2005
Contrasts, (Within the Chares Sturt University Art Collection), CSU & Wagga Wagga Regional Art Gallery, NSW 2005
Elsewhere, (dedication to & poetry by Gary Catalano), Australian Galleries, Melbourne 2004
Jazmina Cininas, Pelt, Project Space/Spare Room, RMIT University, Melbourne, 2004
place made, (various writers), APW/National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, 2004
Anna Clabburn, The distress of excess, Australian Galleries Publishing, Melbourne, 2003
Anne Virgo, 'Wildlife', Australian Print Workshop Gallery, Melbourne, 2002
Rosemary Adam, 'Abracadabra', Australian Galleries, Melbourne, 2001
Stephen Rainbird, 'Workings Of The Mind: Melbourne Prints 1960's to the 1990's', QUT Art Museum, Brisbane, Qld, 2000
Sasha Grishin, 'Australian Identities in Printmaking', The Australian Print Collection of the Wagga Wagga Regional Gallery, NSW, 2000
Kirsty Grant, 'Cutting Comments - Contemporary Linocuts 1995 - 1998', NETS, Victoria, 2000
Noela Stratford, 'Reciprocal Moves' Warrnambool Art Gallery, September/October 2000
Deborah Hart, 'Call of the Wild', Parliament House Art Collection, February 1996
Gary Catalano, 'Euan Heng', Australian Galleries, Melbourne, May, 1995
Ann Carew, 'Excalibur', Geelong Art Gallery, March 1993
Rodney Scherer and David Hansen, 'Indo-Eco', Latrobe Valley Arts Centre, Morwell, April 1991
Rosemary Adam, 'Cycle', Latrobe Valley Arts Centre, Morwell, October 1991
David Hansen, 'Contemporary Gippsland Artists', Latrobe Valley Arts Centre, Morwell, June, 1990
Lesley Duxbury, '100 x 100', Print Council of Australia, 1989
'The October Show', Latrobe Valley Arts Centre, Morwell, 1988
Christopher Coventry, 'The Style is the Man', Latrobe Valley Arts Centre, Morwell, May, 1987
David Thorp, 'Euan Heng', Australian Galleries, Melbourne, 1984
Betty Clarke, 'Seven Painters: Different View Point', The University of Melbourne, June 1983
Journals
Vivien Gaston, 'Sleuth, Euan Heng', Art & Australia. Vol. 40 no 2, summer 2002
Charles Green, 'Euan Heng, Australian Galleries', Artforum International, XL No 2, October 2001
Roger Taylor, 'Euan Heng at Australian Galleries', Asian Art News, Vol. 10, No 3,May/June 2000
'Navigation', Australian Book Review, No, 221, June, 2000 (Front Cover)
'Stargazer', Australian Book Review, No, 192, July, 1997 (Front Cover)
Sheriden Palmer, 'Euan Heng: The Landscape of Art - an artist's tale', Imprint, Vol. 32 No. 3, Spring, 1997
'(D) Rover', Australian Book Review, No, 173, August, 1995 (Front Cover)
Robert Nelson, 'Euan Heng and the archaeology of the modern', Imprint, Vol. 30 No. 2, Winter, 1995
Peter Hill, 'Euan Heng', Asian Art News, Vol. 4. No. 4, July/August 1994
Renita Glencross, 'Euan Heng', Australian Style, issue. No. 1, December/January, 1993
Christopher Heathcote, 'A fresh direction', Art Monthly Australia, No. 57, March 1993
Gary Catalano, 'Something Here: an interview with Euan Heng', Art Monthly Australia, No, 55, November 1992
Robert Nelson, 'Realism in Melbourne', Agenda 20/21, November 1991/January 1992
Sheridan Palmer, 'Transitional Times', Imprint, Vol. 26 No. 3, Print Council of Australia, Spring/Summer, 1991
Rosemary Adam, 'Euan Heng', Art and Australia, Vol. 27/1, Spring, 1989
Newspaper Reviews
Megan Backhouse, 'The freedom of years', The Age, Review 16 October, 2004
Peter Hill, 'Zero Hour', Sydney Morning Herald, Spectrum, 2003
Robert Cook, 'In the picture', The West Australian, Weekend Extra, 26 April, 2003
Victoria Hynes, 'Line Dancer', Sydney Morning Herald, Metro, 28 June, 2002
Peter Hill, 'In flight with snails and shoes', Sydney Morning Herald, 26 June, 2002
Lenny Ann Low, 'Euan Heng', Sydney Morning Herald, 22 ~ 23 June, 2002
Kourtney Kidd, 'Cartoon in colour', Sydney Morning Herald, 20 June, 2001
Robert Nelson, 'A strong showing' - Visual arts year in review, The Age, 27 December, 2000
Anna Clabburn, 'Trappings of success', The Australian, 17 November, 2000
Robert Nelson, 'Seeing is believing', The Age, 24 November, 2000
Peter Timms, 'Tell-tale signs of Renaissance Italy', The Age, 19 April 2000
Anna Clabburn, 'Inspired artists push the parameters', The Australian, 14 April 2000
David Bromfield, 'Arts Review', The West Australian, 5/6 February, 2000
Peter Timms, 'Not all magic in this realism', The Age, 12 August 1998
Robert Rooney, 'Magic realism tour waiting to take you away', The Australian, 14 August 1998
Sasha Grishin, 'Elegant, intimate little exhibition', Canberra Times, 7 February 1998
Neville Weston, 'Supping with the devil', The Western Review, No. 31, September 1997
Ted Snell, 'Much more to life beyond politics', The Australian, September 1997
Robert Nelson, 'Modern art for modern life's sake', Age, 11 June 1997
Josephine Allison, 'Selective approach sharpens up satire', West Australian, Perth, 11 April 1996
Robert Nelson, 'Blockbuster to schlockbuster - in 1995 the world of visual arts has taken flight' The Age, 27 December 1995
Robert Nelson, 'Cool sympathies in a bleak landscape', The Age, August 1995
Robert Rooney, 'Melbourne Art', The Australian, 11 August 1995#
Christopher Heathcote, 'Lighthearted paintings and sculpture get year into gear', The Age, 3 February 1993
Christopher Heathcote, 'Imagined worlds provide the inspiration for a new movement', The Age, 9 December 1992
David Bromfield, 'On show', The West Australian, 26 September 1992
Ron Banks, 'Pictures that tell their tale', The West Australian, Perth, WA, 29 September 1992
Christopher Heathcote, 'Unassuming pictures from an alcove at an imaginary exhibition', The Age, 3 September 1992
Christine France, 'Dark expressions of self-alienation', The Weekend Australian, August 1992
Bronwyn Watson, 'Surrealists with attitude', Sydney Morning Herald, 28 June 1992
Christopher Heathcote, 'Lucid stirring pictures that linger in the mind', The Age, June 1992
Louise Dauth, 'Hard questions' Artlink, Vol. 12 No. 2, 1992
Peter Hill, 'Rich narrative behind Heng imagery', Age, September 1990
Gary Catalano, 'Blake questions today's artists', The Age, December 1989
Gary Catalano, 'Heng's deep emotional resonances', The Age, September 1989
Gary Catalano, 'When construction is the key', The Age, April 1988
Robert Rooney, 'Once an Englishman', The Weekend Australian, April 1988
Jeannie Heynatz, 'Individual look at industry', Latrobe Valley Express, July 1987
Sonia Baron, 'Print and paint artists compared', Canberra Times, 1984
Rod Carmichael, 'The look of real things', Sun, Melbourne, June 1983
Robert Rooney, 'Realism all but forgotten', The Weekend Australian, June 1983
Elizabeth Bates, 'Queensland College of Art Gallery', Art Network 11, Spring, 1983
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