Tony Woods

Born Hobart Tasmania (1940 – 2017)

Studied under J.Carington Smith, Dorothy Stoner, George Davis F.A.D. Hobart 1963

 

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2022    Upon the Stairs, Colville Gallery Hobart

2021    Chasing the Shadows, COlville Gallery, Hobart 

2007    Mahoneys Galleries Melbourne

2005    Fox Gallery, Queensland

2002    Honeyeaters Gallery Melbourne 5opt Studio/Gallery Hong Kong

2000    A.R.T. Gallery Eden Melbourne

1995    Dianne Tanzer Gallery Melbourne

1991    Elaine Gallerie Melbourne

1990    Tony Woods at ACCA: 28 year retrospective ACCA Melbourne

1989    Girgis & Klym Gallery Fitzroy Melbourne

1989-86    Rhumbarellas Gallery Melbourne

1984    Bolitho Gallery Canberra

1982    Quentin Gallery Perth

1982 - 81    Axiom Gallery Melbourne

1980    Tolarno Print Gallery Melbourne

1980    Hogarth Gallery Sydney

1980 - 63    Commercial galleries Tasmania

1978    S.Gerstman Gallery Melbourne

1975 - 63    Australian Galleries Melbourne

1975 - 63    Saddlers Court Gallery Richmond Tasmania

1972 - 67    Devonport Gallery and Art Centre Tasmania

1972 - 67    Bonython Galleries Adelaide

1971, 68    Bonython Sydney

1966    Art Centre Gallery Hobart

1965    Adult Education Board Gallery Hobart

1962    Hobart, sponsored by English Speaking Union

 

TWO PERSON ARTIST EXHIBITION

2003    with John Bartlett, Geelong Victoria 

2000    with John Aslandis Melbourne

1976    with John Williams Hogarth Galleries Sydney 

1971    with Brett Whiteley, Festival of Perth WA 

1968    with Bea Maddock Q.V.Museum & Art Gallery, Launceston 

1965    with David Warren Hobart 

1964    with Margaret Roxbourgh Hobart

 

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2024    MAGMAVERSE 24, Annual Group Exhibition, MAGMA Galleries, Melbourne

2008    Personal Perspectives: artists & their portraits Tasmanian Museum & Art Gallery

2000    Project 2/2000 Biennale of Sydney Sydney University

2000    Art by 4 (Johns, Bartlett, Proebsting, Woods) D.A.A>G. House Melbourne Portraits of the 20 th Century Monash University Gallery Melbourne Art with Text Monash University Gallery Melbourne 

1986    Six Contemporary Artists Tasmanian Museum & Art Gallery

1981    Tasmanians in Exile - Bea Maddock, T.Bridley-Bucknell, K.Lincoln and T.Woods Harrington St Gallery Hobart 

1980    Victorian Printmakers Group travelling exhibition of lithographs, etchings and relief prints 

Drawings 1979 Stuart Gerstman Galleries Melbourne

1975    The Australian Image - Work of living Australian artists Arts Victoria

1975    The Blue Gum Festival od Tasmania Tasmanian Museum & Art Gallery

1971    Bonsai show Australian Galleries Melbourne

1971    Mini Documenta Bonython Gallery & National Gallery of Victoria

1971    John Kaldor Art Project 2 - Harold Szeemann in Australia First Leasing Art Prize National Gallery of Victoria

1970    Bonsai show Yellow House Sydney

1968    Tasmanian Drawing Prize QV Museum & Art Gallery

1968 - 60    Tasmanian Watercolour Society; Tasmanian Group of Painters; Tasmanian Contemporary Art Society

1966 - 67    The Australian Painters 1964-66 Contemporary Australian Paintings from the Mertz 1966 - 67    Collection Adelaide Festival of Arts AGSA, the Corcoran Gallery Washington and toured USA 

1967    Harkness Invitation Exhibition

1966    Helena Rubinstein Scholarship Exhibition Adelaide

 

AWARDS
1969    Power Fund Studio Fellowship France

1968    Harkness Fellowship (21 months painting) New York

 

COLLECTIONS

Artbank

Australian National University Canberra

Ballarat Fine Art Gallery, Gary Catalano Collection

Burnie Regional Art Gallery

Chelsea Hotel New York USA

Devonport Regional Art Gallery

Flinders University South Australia

D.Ardean Collection London UK

Mertz Collection USA (now dispersed by auction in Australia)

National Gallery of Australia Canberra

National Gallery of Victoria

Queen Victoria Museum & Art Gallery

Reserve Bank of Australia

Tasmanian Museum & Art Gallery

Tasmanian University Art Collection

University of Texas USA

 

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

2004    David King Metro Magazine

1998    Sue Backhouse Tasmanian Artists of the 20th Century

1998    Vikki Riley Photophile Sydney issue no53

1986    Alan McCulloch & Susan McCulloch

1986    Encyclopaedia of Australian Art

1986    SBackhouse, HKolenberg Six Contemporary Artists Tasmanian Museum & Art Gallery

Max Germaine Artists & Galleries in Australia Craftsman House Sydney

1984    Jean Campbell Australian Watercolour Painters 1880-1980 Rigby SA

1983    Gary Catalano ‘Tony Woods and the Remembered Image’ Art and Australia vol 18 no 3