Lawrence Daws

1927    1948-49 1950-53    1957   1958-59 1960-69 . 1970

Born in Adelaide, South Australia Survey work  in New Guinea Melbourne National Gallery Art School Awarded Italian Travelling Scholarship Lived and worked in Rome Lived and worked in London. Travelled extensively in Europe, Russia, India, Mexico, USA and Canada Returned to Australia and moved Queensland

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

1956 . . 1957 1958 1959 . . 1961 . 1962 . 1963 . 1964 . 1965 . 1966 . 1967 . 1968 1969 . . 1970 . 1972 1973 . . 1975 1977 . 1978 . 1979 1980 1982 . 1983 1986 1987 1988 . 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1996 1997 1999 2000 . . 2001 2002 2003 2005 2006 2007 2008

Royal Society of Arts Gallery, Adelaide Macquarie Galleries, Sydney Johnstone Gallery, Brisbane Johnstone Gallery, Brisbane Royal Society of Arts Gallery,Adelaide La Salita Gallery, Rome Australian Galleries, Melbourne Macquarie Galleries, Sydney Bonython Gallery, Adelaide Skinner Galleries, Perth Matthiesen Gallery, London Skinner Galleries, Perth Bonython Gallery, Adelaide Johnstone Gallery, Brisbane South Yarra Gallery, Melbourne Bonython Gallery, Adelaide Rudy Komon Gallery, Sydney Skinner Galleries, Perth Johnstone Gallery, Brisbane South Yarra Gallery, Melbourne Bonython Gallery, Adelaide Skinner Galleries, Perth Johnstone Gallery, Brisbane Johnstone Gallery, Brisbane South Yarra Gallery, Melbourne Bonython Gallery, Adelaide Rudy Komon Gallery, Sydney Johnstone Gallery, Brisbane Johnstone Gallery, Brisbane Skinner Galleries, Perth Rudy Komon Gallery, Sydney Realities Gallery, Melbourne Philip Bacon Galleries, Brisbane Rudy Komon Gallery, Sydney Philip Bacon Galleries, Brisbane "Complete Graphics", Philip Bacon Galleries, Brisbane Bonython Gallery, Adelaide Philip Bacon Galleries, Brisbane Robin Gibson Gallery, Sydney Bonython Gallery, Adelaide Philip Bacon Galleries, Brisbane Robin Gibson Gallery, Sydney Bonython-Meadmore Galleries, Adelaide Philip Bacon Galleries, Brisbane Robin Gibson Gallery. Sydney Bonython-Meadmore Galleries Philip Bacon Galleries, Brisbane Robin Gibson Galleries, Sydney BMG Fine Art, Adelaide Philip Bacon Galleries, Brisbane Robin Gibson Galleries, Sydney Phillip Bacon Galleries, Brisbane Robin Gibson Galleries, Sydney Phillip Bacon Galleries, Brisbane Sam Hill-Smith Gallery, Adelaide Robin Gibson Gallery, Sydney Brisbane City Gallery, Brisbane, Major Retrospective, 30 Years in Queensland Lauraine Diggins Fine Art, Melbourne Phillip Bacon Gallery, Brisbane Nevill Keating Tollemache Ltd, London Philip Bacon Galleries, Brisbane Robin Gibson Gallery, Sydney Sophie Gannon Gallery, Melbourne Greenhill Galleries, Adelaide, Survey Exhibition, Paintings, Drawings and Prints 1946 - 2007 Robin Gibson Gallery, Sydney

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

1954 1955 1956 . 1959 1961 . 1962   1963 . . . . . 1964 1965 1966    . 1968 1975 1977 1979 1980 1984 . 1986 1987 1988 . 1988 - 89 1995 . 2000 2002 2004

Group 4, Victorian Artists' Society,Melb.         Group 4, Johnstone Gallery, Brisbane Group 4, Victorian Artists' Society Pacific Loan Exhibition, San Francisco House Show, La Salita Gallery, Rome Recent Australian Painting, Whitechapel Gallery, London Paris Biennale des Jeunes, Paris House Show, Matthiesen Gallery,U.K.      Sorsgie Gallery, Nairobi Dirkin Moor Exhibition, UK Australian Painting and Sculpture in Europe Today, Folkestone, UK Awarded Silver Medal, Sao Paulo Biennale   Australian Painting, Tate Gallery, UK Contemporary Australian Painting and Sculpture, Frankfurt/Main Young Australian Painters, Kyoto and Tokyo Johnstone Gallery, Brisbane Lawrence Daws Retrospective, Art Galley of South Australia Awarded the Wardle Invitation Art Prize, Perth Australian Painters, Bear Lane Gallery Oxford John McCaughey Memorial Art Prize, National Gallery of Victoria Awarded the Georges Invitation Prize 15 Australian Printmakers, Queensland Arts Council Images of Ourselves, Tate Gallery,UK Lawrence Daws Retrospective, Bendigo Art Gallery, Latrobe, Golden Age Gallery, Ballarat, Victoria Water Pictures, Robin Gibson Gallery Works on Paper, Bonython-Meadmore Gallery, Adelaide The Nude, Robin Gibson Gallery Body and Soul, MonashUniversity Images of Religion, N.G. of  Victoria      Australian Artists, Browse & Darby, London Escape Artists, Cairns Regional Gallery (toured Queensland) Nevill Keating Gallery, London Shanghai in the Eyes of World Artists, Shanghai To Look Within: Self Portraits in Australia, University of Queensland Art Museum

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

Art Gallery of New South Wales Art Gallery of South Australia Art Gallery of Western Australia Auckland City Art Gallery, New Zealand Australian National University, Canberra Ballarat Fine Art Gallery Bendigo Art Gallery Broken Hill City Art Gallery Cairns Regional Gallery Macquarie University Musee des beaux-arts de L'Ontario, Canada Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory Mildura Arts Centre Mornington Peninsula Reional Gallery National Gallery of Australia, Canberra National Gallery of China, Beijing, China National Gallery of Victoria New England Regional Art Museum, Armidale New Parliament House, Canberra Newcastle Region Art Gallery Performing Arts Complex, Brisbane Queensland Art Gallery The Royal Society, London, UK Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, Scotland Shanghai Art Gallery, Shanghai, China Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery Tate Gallery, London, UK The Art Museum at The University of Queensland The Margaret Hannah Olley Art Foundation The Supreme Court, Brisbane The Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK Tweed River Art Gallery, Murwillumbah, NSW Wollongong City Gallery, NSW Yale University, Connecticut, USA Major Australian University Collections