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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

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