artists represented

Criss Canning
Stock Works
Extract
Biographical Notes
 
1947 Born Melbourne, Victoria
1964 Swinburne Technical College, Melbourne - Graphic Art
1965-1967 Max Middleton Studio - Drawing and Painting
 
Solo Exhibitions
1982 Kalorama Gallery, Victoria
1983 Hut Gallery, Victoria
1983, 84, 85 Melbourne Art Exchange
1986 Impressions of Greece, Melbourne Art Exchange
1987, 89 Melbourne Art Exchange
1991 Melbourne Fine Art Gallery
1995 In and Around Burnside, Gould Galleries, Melbourne
1998 Reflecting on Still Life, Gould Galleries, Melbourne
1999 Recent Works, Gould Galleries, Sydney
2001 Philip Bacon Galleries, Brisbane
2002 Gould Galleries, Melbourne
2004 Gould Galleries, Sydney
2006 Philip Bacon Galleries, Brisbane
2007 Major Retrospective, Ballarat Regional Gallery, Victoria
2007 Major Retrospective, Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery
2008 Metro 5, Melbourne
2010 Philip Bacon Galleries, Brisbane
 
Selected Group Exhibitions
1985 A.M.E. Bale Award Exhibition (prize awarded)
1987 Doug Moran Award (finalist)
1987, 88 Melbourne Art Exchange
1990 Australian Flower Paintings 1890-1900, Trevor Bussell Gallery, Sydney
1991 Views and Vision, Greenhill Galleries, South Australia
1992 Australian Women Artists, Capricorn Gallery, Melbourne
  Melbourne Fine Art Gallery
1993

Australian Women Artists, Melbourne Fine Art Gallery

1992-97 Gould Galleries, Hong Kong
1995 There's Still Life, Ballarat Fine Art Gallery
1996 The Blooming Exhibition, Ballarat Fine Art Gallery
2002 Favorites, Margaret Olley and Jeffrey Smart Selections, S.H. Irvin Gallery, Sydney
2005 Director's Choice 2005, Gould Galleries, Melbourne, 16 February - 13 March
  Gould Galleries, Sydney, 18 March - 24 April, no. 22 illustrated
  Swinburne Eclectics Exhibition, Delshan Gallery, Melbourne, March 2005
2006 Director's Choice 2006, Gould Galleries, Melbourne, 8 February - 26 March, no. 23, illustrated
2007 Christmas Show, Browse & Darby, London
2008 Contemporary Gallery Artists, Browse & Darby, London
 
Collections

National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Art Gallery of New South Wales

Ballarat Fine Art Gallery

Castlemaine Art Gallery

Cairns Art Gallery

Artbank

Private collections in the United Kingdom, the United States, Canada, France, Singapore, Hong Kong, and Australia.

 
Awards
1985 A. M. E. Bale Prize
1987 Doug Moran finalist
Selected Bibliography

Free Press, June, 19821

Weekly Times, 1983

Ballarat Courier, 8 January 1984

'Painting Still Life Oils in Colours that Sing', Australian Artist, August 1988

P. Williams. 'Pushing Colour to the Limit', Business Review Weekly, October 1989

P. Shrubb, Living Alone, Hale & Ironmonger, Australia 1989 (cover illustrations)

E. Hamilton & J. Livingstone, Form and Feeling, Longman Cheshire, Melbourne, 1990 (cover illustration)

L. Landy, 'Garden Artistry', Australian Country Style, June 1995

'An Artist in the Garden', Australian Garden Journal, Spring 1995

S. Pascoe, Art and Antiques, December, 1996

'Still Life, with Garden', The Australian Gardener, January/ February 1998

A. Clabburn, 'Quilting with Daylight', catalogue essay, Gould Galleries, 29 May 1998

'Kuspen Down Under', Hrymfaxe, June 1998, pp. 10-11

C. Maddocks, 'Picture This', The Age, Good Weekend, 30 October 1999

A. Clabburn, Australian Garden History Journal (cover illustration and article)

E. Yabbin, "The Face', The Australian, March 2001

S.McLean, 'Beautiful Career is Blooming', The Courier-Mail, Brisbane, October 2001

G. Auty, 'Review', The Courier Mail, Brisbane, October 201

R. Yallop, 'Outcasts you can live with', The Australian, 25 October 2002, p. 15.

Z. Crawthorne, 'Blossoming Talent', Herald Sun, Melbourne, 16 November 2002, p 12

Art Almanac, 'The Phoenix Tray', featured on the cover, may 2004.