Malcolm Benham b. 1949 Wellington NZ
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1993 Australian citizenship 1969-70 Wellington Polytechnic School of Design, New Zealand 1970-73 Dip Fine Arts (Distinction - Painting) Otago Polytechnic School of Fine Art, Dunedin, New Zealand Resides in Sydney, Australia PUBLIC COLLECTIONS National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Australia Wollongong City Art Gallery, Wollongong, Australia New England Regional Art Museum, Armidale, Australia Alice Springs Art Foundation, Australia Artbank, Australia Grafton Regional Art Gallery, Australia Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, Wellington, NZ Dowse Art Collection, Wellington, New Zealand Victoria University, Wellington, New Zealand Centre for Contemporary Art, Hamilton, New Zealand Wellington Public Library, New Zealand Christchurch Public Library, New Zealand Te Manawa formerly Manawatu Art Museum & Gallery, New Zealand Sarjeant Gallery, Te Whare o Rehua, Whanganui, New Zealand Christchurch Art Gallery, Te Puna o Waiwhetu formerly Robert McDougall Gallery, Christchurch, NZ Department of Foreign Affairs, New Zealand New Zealand Embassies - Bonn, Seoul, Washington, London, Paris CORPORATE & PRIVATE COLLECTIONS M G Dingle & G B Hughes Collection - a bequest to the Shoalhaven Regional Gallery Collection Westmead Childrens Hospital, Sydney, Australia Gadens Ridgeway, Brisbane, Australia Seiko Corporation, Tokyo, Japan Seibu, Hong Kong Khedoori, Hong Kong Ray White Real Estate, Brisbane, Australia Crown Casino, Melbourne, Australia Les Paris, New Zealand James Wallace, New Zealand Saatchi & Saatchi, New Zealand Portuguese Ambassador - Canberra, Australia New Zealand Embassies – London, Bonn & Seoul. Cassen collection - Sydney Frank Watters AM - Sydney J & N Keith Collection – Hong Kong E & W Murray Collection Richard & Carolyn Green – Sydney, Australia Ian Scott – South Coast - Australia Caldwell Collection - Sydney AWARDS/GRANTS 2008 James Kiwi Watercolour Prize – Finalist Wollongong City Art Gallery, Australia 2006 James Kiwi Watercolour Prize – commendation Wollongong City Art Gallery, Australia 2000 NSW Ministry of Arts , Gunnery Studio, Sydney, Australia 1988 Bicentennial Alice Prize for Sculpture (judge: Elizabeth Churcher) Australia Highly Commended, Bundaberg Art Prize, Australia 1987 Queen Elizabeth II Arts Award, New Zealand 1982 Todd Abstract Painting Prize, New Zealand 1979 Queen Elizabeth II Arts Award, New Zealand 1977 Queen Elizabeth II Arts Award, New Zealand 1972 Callandar Memorial Scholarship, New Zealand SOLO EXHIBTIONS 1973 Antipodes Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand 1974 based in London 1975 New Art, Chiswick, London, United Kingdom 1976 Labyrinth Gallery, Christchurch, New Zealand 1977 Elva Bett Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand 1978 Barry Lett Galleries, Auckland, New Zealand Victoria University, Wellington, New Zealand Brooke Gifford Gallery, Christchurch, New Zealand 1979-81 based in London 1979 Barry Lett Galleries, Auckland, New Zealand Galerie Legard, Wellington, New Zealand 1980 Galerie Legard, Wellington, New Zealand 1981 New Zealand House, Haymarket, London, UK 1981-85 Janne Land Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand 1985 RKS Art Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand 1986 Inc, The Bunker Above, Wellington, New Zealand 1987 Their Metal, Janne Land Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand Red Metro Gallery, Dunedin, New Zealand Red Metro Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand 1988 emigrated to Australia Roz MacAllan Gallery, Brisbane, Australia Reality Wrecking, Bowen Galleries, Wellington, New Zealand 1989 The Pleasure of It, Bowen Galleries, Wellington, New Zealand Frightening Facts Made Dead Simple, Roz MacAllan Gallery, Brisbane 1990 Famous Times, Bowen Galleries, Wellington, New Zealand 1991 Kiss It, Bowen Galleries, Wellington, New Zealand based in Hong Kong 1992 Delicate Balance, Wattis Fine Art, Hong Kong 1993 moved permanently to Sydney Australian citizenship Seibu Galleries, Hong Kong Toward Real Objects, Bowen Galleries, Wellington, New Zealand Toward Real Objects, Beatty Gallery, Sydney, Australia 1994 Witness, Michael Burke Gallery, Brisbane, Australia Witness, Beatty Gallery, Sydney, Australia 1995 Witness - Southern Gothic, Bowen Galleries, Wellington, New Zealand Witness - Southern Gothic, Beatty Gallery, Sydney, Australia Southern Gothic - In and Out of Light, Beatty Gallery, Sydney 1996 Scrap Culture, Beatty Gallery, Sydney, Australia 1997 Sign Language, Beatty Gallery, Sydney, Australia No Tribe Likes a Stranger, Bowen Galleries, Wellington, New Zealand 1998 Big Island, Beatty Gallery, Sydney, Australia Big Island, Bowen Galleries, Wellington, New Zealand Big Island Cut Outs, Beatty Gallery, Sydney 1999 Guerilla Bay - South Coast Paintings, Beatty Gallery, Sydney Guerilla Bay Part II , Beatty Gallery, Sydney 2000 The Gunnery Paintings, Beatty Gallery, Sydney, Australia Big Island - Southern Paintings, Project Centre for Contemporary Art, Wollongong, NSW, Australia Drawings 1980 - 2000, Beatty Gallery, Sydney 2001 Coast to Coast, Beatty Gallery, Sydney, Australia In and Out of Light - South Coast Paintings, Wollongong City Art Gallery Federation Year Exhibition 2002 Cargo Cult, Beatty Gallery, Sydney Close Range, Ben Grady Gallery, Canberra, Australia 2003 King Country & Tokaanu Paintings, Beatty Gallery, Sydney King Country - Collage & Drawings, Beatty Gallery, Sydney 2004 King Country & The Lakes, Bowen Galleries, Wellington, NZ Brouhaha, Beatty Gallery, Sydney 2005 1990-2005 – A Survey, Beatty Gallery, Sydney 2006 Innocent Bystander – Collages, Beatty Gallery, Sydney Innocent Bystander – (from the archive) Sofitel Hotel – Melbourne, Australia 2007 Fair & Square – selected paintings 1993-2007. Beatty Gallery, Sydney GROUP EXHIBITIONS 1974 Young Artists, NZ Academy of Fine Arts, New Zealand Antipodes Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand 1975 Antipodes Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand 1976 New Zealand House, Haymarket, London, UK Tokoroa Paintings Award Exhibition, New Zealand 1977 Young Contemporaries, Auckland City Art Gallery, New Zealand Pakaranga Painting Award Exhibition, New Zealand 1978 Three Wellington Painters, Brooke Gifford Gallery, Chch, New Zealand Zig Zag, Bosshard Gallery, Dunedin, New Zealand Benson & Hedges Painting Award Touring Exhibition, New Zealand New Year New Works, Barry Lett Galleries, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 Artists Flags, National Art gallery, Wellington, New Zealand Three Painters, Manawatu Art Gallery, Palmerston North, New Zealand Current Trends, Central Regional Arts Council Jamboree, Wairarapa, NZ Seven NZ Artists, Wairarapa Art Gallery, New Zealand 1980-85 Red Metro Gallery, Auckland and Dunedin, New Zealand 1987 Off The Wall, Wellington City Art Gallery, New Zealand 1988 migrated to Australia Bicentennial Alice Prize for Sculpture, Araluen Art and Cultural Centre, Alice Springs, Australia Artists as Designers, (furniture) Roz MacAllan Gallery, Brisbane, Australia 1989 Assembled Art, The Centre Gallery, Gold Coast, Australia 1990 Melbourne Art Fair, Roz MacAllan Gallery 1992 East/West, Seibu Gallery, Hong Kong 1993 Inaugural Exhibition, Beatty Gallery, Sydney Winter Drawings, Beatty Gallery, Sydney MCA Young Artists New Galleries, Beatty Gallery, Sydney 1994 Small Gallery Big Paintings, Beatty Gallery, Sydney Random, Beatty Gallery, Sydney Jacaranda Drawing Prize, Grafton Regional Art Gallery, Australia Fishers Ghost Painting Award, Campbelltown City Art Gallery, NSW, Aust 1995 Bathurst Art Purchase Prize, Bathurst, Australia Fishers Ghost Painting Award, Campbelltown City Art Gallery, Australia 1996 Random - Three Sydney Painters, Bowen Galleries, Wellington, NZ Scrap Culture & Spellbound, Michael Burke Gallery, Brisbane, Aust Jacaranda Drawing prize, Grafton Regional Art Gallery, Grafton, Australia The Pleasure of It, Beatty Gallery, Sydney, Australia Mosman Art Prize, Mosman, Sydney 1997 The Directors Cut, Beatty Gallery, Sydney, Australia 1998 The Directos Cut, Beatty Gallery, Sydney, Australia Art For Small Places, Beatty Gallery, Sydney 1999 Synchronicity, Beatty Gallery, Sydney Delicious, Beatty Gallery, Sydney Redlands Westpac Art Prize (by invitation) Sydney, Australia Fisher Ghost Paintings Award, Campbelltown City Art Gallery, Australia 2000 Airline Friendly - Olympic 2000, Beatty Gallery, Sydney 2001 New Gallery New Work, Beatty Gallery, Sydney HAKO + niwa - 3D Arts 21 Aug - 14 Sept, Japan Cultural Centre (The Japan Foundation) Sydney Almost White, Ben Grady Gallery, Canberra, Australia 2002 Painted Constructions, Beatty Gallery Sydney 2003 Celebrating 10 Years, Beatty Gallery Survey, Sydney Bowen Galleries, Wellington, New Zealand 2004 Drawn from Nature - curated by Louise Brand, Dickson Gallery, Wollongong City Art Gallery, NSW, Australia. Art For Labour (fund raiser) Michael Nagy Gallery, Woollahra, Sydney Small Works Big Thoughts, (fund raiser) Bridge for Asylum Seekers & Labour MP for Sydney, Tap Gallery, Sydney Mosman Art Prize (finalist), Mosman Art Gallery, Sydney Directors Cut, Beatty Gallery, Sydney 2005 Round Up, Beatty Gallery, Sydney 2006 Blaze, Beatty gallery, Sydney Finalist James Kiwi Watercolour Prize – Wollongong City Art Gallery, Australia Eye Candy from the Vault – Beatty Gallery, Sydney 2008 Finalist James Kiwi Watercolour Prize – Wollongong City Art Gallery, Australia MALCOLM BENHAMS BIBLIOGRAPHY 1975 Evening Post, Wellington, New Zealand West London Gazette & Post, London, United Kingdom 1976 Christchurch Press, Christchurch, New Zealand Christchurch Star, Christchurch, New Zealand 1977 Evening Post, Wellington, New Zealand New Zealand Listener, Hamish Keith, New Zealand Auckland Star, T J McNamara, Auckland, New Zealand 1978 Auckland Star, Gordon Brown, Auckland, New Zealand Christchurch Press, Micael Thomas, Christchurch, New Zealand Otago Daily Times, Raymond Ward, Dunedin, New Zealand New Zealand Listener, Neil Rowe, New Zealand National Business Review, Neil Rowe, New Zealand Auckland Star, Gordon Brown, Auckland, New Zealand Evening Post, Neil Rowe, Wellington, New Zealand Evening Post, Neil Rowe, (solo review), Wellington, New Zealand Art New Zealand, Gordon Brown, New Zealand 1979 Christchurch Star, John Coley, Christchurch, New Zealand Christchurch Press, Michael Thomas, Christchurch, New Zealand Art New Zealand, Neil Rowe, New Zealand Evening Post, Neil Rowe, Wellington, New Zealand Auckland Star, T J McNamara, Auckland, New Zealand Manawatu Art Gallery Quarterly, John Tarlton, New Zealand 1980 Evening Post, Neil Rowe, Wellington, New Zealand 1981 Dominion Times, Wellington, New Zealand 1982 Evening Post, Elva Bett, Wellington, New Zealand Art New Zealand, Ray Thorburn, New Zealand Auckland Star, Cheryll Sothern, Auckland, New Zealand 1983 New Zealand Times, Warwick Brown, New Zealand Victoria University Salient, Rob Taylor, New Zealand 1984 Victoria University Salient, Rob Taylor, New Zealand 1985 Victoria University Salient, Rob Taylor, New Zealand Evening Post, Susan Chetwin, Wellington, New Zealand 1986 New Zealand Art - A Modern Perspective, Elva Bett, Reed Methuen Evening Post, Ian Wedde, Wellington, New Zealand Sunday Times, Rod Taylor, New Zealand 1987 Dominion Sunday Times, Warwick Brown, New Zealand Evening Post, Ian Wedde, Wellington, New Zealand North South Magazine, Rosemary MacLeod - (feature article) Evening Post, Rod Taylor, Wellington, New Zealand Dominion Times, Ian Wedde, Wellington, New Zealand Off The Wall, Ian Wedde, Wellington City Art Gallery (catalogue) Kaleidoscope, Television New Zealand (30 minute documentary) 1989 Assembled Art, Mark Bayley, The Centre Gallery Australia (catalogue) Courier Mail, Michael Richards, Brisbane, Australia Museum of Contemporary Art Journal, July, Leone Stanford, Sydney 1990 Dominion Times, Rob Taylor, Wellington, New Zealand Evening Post, Rob Taylor, Wellington, New Zealand Focus, ONZ Magazine, March, New Zealand 1992 South China Morning Post, Nigel Cameron, Hong Kong Asian Art News, Volume 2 - Jan/Feb, Jeffrey Hantover, Hong Kong 1993 Sydney Morning Herald, Bronwyn Watson, Australia Dominion Times, Rob Taylor, Wellington New Zealand Profile, Art Almanac, Sydney 1994 Sydney Morning Herald, 29 Oct, John MacDonald, Australia 1995 Dominion Times, 25 March, Pauline Swain, Wellington, New Zealand City News, 16 March, Wellington, New Zealand Evening Post, Wellington, New Zealand 1996 Sydney Morning Herald, Spectrum section feature 'Tit Bits', 30 March John MacDonald, Australia Sydney Morning Herald, Metro section feature 'Bubble Bubble Painter Double', 1 -7 November, Sebastian Smee, Australia 1997 Sydney Morning Herald, Spectrum section article 'The Best Game in Town', 12 April, John MacDonald, Australia Sydney Morning Herald, Metro section feature 'Lush Is', 28 March - 3 April, Sebastian Smee, Australia 1999 Sydney Morning Herald, Metro section feature 'Guerilla Tactics', 30 March Sebastian Smee, Australia Catalogue, Redlands Westpac Art Prize, 10 - 19 September, Mosman Art Gallery, Sydney, Australia Catalogue, Fishers Ghost Painting Award, Campbelltown City Art Gallery 2001 Catalogue, 'In and Out of Light - South Coast Paintings' Wollongong City Art Gallery July/August essay by Peter O'Neill (director) Sydney Morning Herald, Metro , 27 July p.27, Victoria Hynes,Australia Illawara Mercury, 28 July p. 45, Deborah McIntosh, (July 17 Life & Style) Tertangala, Issue 3 p.76, Arianne Lewis ,Australia This Month from the Highlands to the Sea, p. 37 July & August ABC Radio Illawara, interview Morning Programme 16 July HAKO + niwa - 3D Arts Exhibition - catalogue 2002 Sydney Morning Herald, Metro, 2 August p. 27, Victoria Hynes, Australia Canberra Times, 27 September, Australia 2003 Sydney Morning Herald, 23 August, Metropolitan, Lenny Ann Low 2004 Featured ‘Directors Choice’ – Sydney Morning Herald website video Interview Re ‘Directors Cut’ exhibition with Catherine Beatty, Beatty Gallery, Sydney. Directed by Aysha Leo of Sydney Morning Herald. 2005 Sydney Morning Herald, 18 October, Spotlight (edited Edmund Tadros) featured colour image Sign Language 98-99 100 x 96cm Catalogue – 1990-2005 A Survey, Beatty Gallery, Sydney 2006 Catalogue, Innocent Bystander, essay by Dr Craig Douglas, QCA, Australia. Art Almanac – Profile – September Issue p200 Daily Telegraph – Sydney Exhibition Picks ‘Innocent Bystander’– 23rd September p93 (featured colour image of Amerika, America) – Elizabeth Fortescue. 2007 Sydney Morning Herald, Spectrum, Kerry Coleman 2008 Australian Art Collector – issue 43 January – March page 100 2010 Black is the Colour... Max Dingle, Shoalhaven City Arts Centre ISBN 978 0 646 52904 2 2012 Less is More : More or Less Max Dingle, Shoalhaven City Arts Centre ISBN 978 0 646 57149 2 |