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Nick Howson
Born 1963, United Kingdom
Lives and works in Melbourne
1986 Dip. Fine Art, Prahran College, Melbourne
Solo Exhibitions
2024 ‘From The Bush To The Sea’, Anthea Polson Art, Qld
2024 ‘A Trip To Sydney Dedicated To Tim ‘Ace’ Klingender’, Australian Galleries, Sydney
2021 Marvelous Melbourne, Australian Galleries, Melbourne
2019 ‘Recent Works’ Australian Galleries, Melbourne
2018 ‘The World Is My Village’, Anthea Polson Art, Qld
2018 ‘Suburbia’ Australian Galleries, Melbourne
2017 Gallows Gallery, Perth
2016 ‘Heroes’, Australian Galleries, Melbourne
2015 ‘Recent Paintings’, Australian Galleries, Melbourne
2014 ‘New Works’, Gallows Gallery, Perth
2013 ‘Lore’ Anthea Polson Art, Qld
2012 ‘A New Land’ Gallows Gallery, Perth WA
2012 ‘Icons’ Australian Galleries, Melbourne
2011 ‘Allegories and Chronicles’, Anthea Polson Art, Queensland
2009 ‘Recent Works’ Anthea Polson Art, Queensland
2008 ‘Recent works’, Australian Galleries, Melbourne
2006 ‘Recent paintings’, Australian Galleries, Sydney
2005 ‘Recent paintings’, Australian Galleries, Melbourne
2004 ‘Paintings’, Art Gallery Schubert, Gold Coast
2003 ‘Recent paintings’, Australian Galleries, Melbourne
2002 ‘Paintings’, Art Gallery Schubert, Queensland
2001 ‘Gipsy Point’, Australian Galleries, Melbourne
2000 ‘Struggletown II’, Australian Galleries, Melbourne
1999 ‘Struggletown’, Australian Galleries, Melbourne
1998 ‘Recent works’, Australian Galleries, Melbourne
1996 ‘Football paintings’, Australian Galleries, Melbourne
1995 ‘Paintings’, Australian Galleries, Melbourne
1994 ‘Paintings’, Gallery Rhumbarallas, Melbourne
1993 ‘Works on Paper’, Gallery Rhumbarallas, Melbourne
1991 ‘Paintings’, Girgis & Klym Gallery, Melbourne
1988 ‘Works on Paper’, Girgis & Klym Gallery, Melbourne
Selected Group Exhibitions
2020 Gallipoli Art Prize (finalist) Merrylands RSL club NSW
2015 ‘First Landing to Last Post: contemporary perspectives on 100 years of service’ Parliament House, Canberra
2006 ‘City of Whitehorse Recent Contemporary Acquisitions’, Icon Museum of Art, Melbourne
2005 ‘Eureka Revisited: the contest of memories’, touring exhibition, Ballarat Fine Art Gallery, Old Parliament House, Canberra, State Library of Victoria, Melbourne
2003 Tatterstalls Art Prize, Brisbane (finalist)
2001‘Three Artists’, Win Schubert Galleries, Queensland
1999 ‘Luna Park and the Art of Mass Delirium’, Museum of Modern Art at Heide, Melbourne
1999 ‘We are Australian’, Touring Exhibition
1996 ‘Packsaddle’ exhibition, Armidale, New South Wales
1995 Herald-Sun Art Prize (finalist)
1995 Eltham Art Prize (finalist)
1989 ‘Heidelberg & Heritage-Two Visions of Australia 100 Years Apart’, Linden Gallery, Melbourne
1988 Swan Hill Art Prize, Swan Hill Regional Gallery, Victoria (finalist)
1986 Castlemaine Drawing Show, Castlemaine Regional Art Gallery, Victoria
Artist Residency
2005 Bunandon, NSW
Select Bibliography
Wright, Jessica; “Artist Nick Howson paints Tiger Legend mural at rail station, but he has a secret”, The Age, 18 April 2014
The Western Australian, “Hazy History”, Oct 3 2012
Scoop Homes & Art, Spring Edition 2012 40:34 “Galleries Choice”
Marina Saint Martin; ‘Nick Of Time’ The Weekend Bulletin Paradise Magazine January 2010
Marina Saint Martin; ‘A Rich Tapestry Of Life’ The Weekend Bulletin Paradise Magazine October 2007
Backhouse, Megan; ‘Colour separation makes the art grow yonder’, Age, November 2004
Catalano, Gary; ‘Artist casts rebellion aside’, The Age, 9 December 1987
Cawthorne, Zelda; ‘Harmony After the Battles’, Herald Sun, 16 March 1999
De Bolfo, Tony; ‘Art of the Game’, Herald Sun, September 1996
Lew, Christine; ‘Colouring a bold new world’, Melbourne Times, 29 May 1991
Makin, Jeff; Herald Sun, 23 March 1999
McLean, Sandra; ‘Show and tell’, Courier Mail, 17 October 2002
Mossop, Brian; ‘Birds play vital role’, Gold Coast Weekender, 4 September 2004
