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HISTORY

Born

1950

1968-70

Diploma of Art and Design (Photography), Prahran Institute of Technology

1971

Worked in different aspects of film-making

1972

Travelled through Europe, Asia and North Africa

1973

Teacher training

1974-81

Worked as professional photographer and printer

1974-81

Assistant Director, Brummels Gallery of Photography, Melbourne

Currently

Working as a furniture maker and photographer


SOLO EXHIBITIONS

1973

"Faces and Places", Brummels Gallery, Melbourne

1974

"Into the Hollow Mountains: A Portrait of Fitzroy", Brummels Gallery

1976

"Between Light and Dark", Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney

1976

"Between Light and Dark", Brummels Gallery, Melbourne

1979

"Adventures in Paradise?", Church Street Photographic Centre, Melbourne

1979

"Adventures in Paradise?", Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney

1987

"Photogravure Images", United Artists Gallery, Melbourne

1990

"What are you Doing? What are you Saying?," Luba Bilu Gallery, Melbourne

1993

"Hidden Things", Qdos Gallery, Lorne

2000

"Life Sanctuary", Patricia Autore Gallery, Melbourne.

2001

"Different Dreams-Same Reality", Patricia Autore Gallery, Melbourne

2003

"Evidence", Little Malop Gallery, Geelong.

2005

Visual Instinct, Libby Edwards Gallery - Melbourne

2006

Recogniton, Pigment Gallery, Prague

2007

Snapshots from the edge, QDOS Gallery- Lorne


SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

1982

Ray Hughes Gallery, Brisbane

1988

The Thousand Mile Stare, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art

1988

Artery Gallery, Geelong

1990

Qdos Gallery, Lorne

1991

Special . . . It's Been Used Before, Luba Bilu Gallery

1991

Survey - A Regional Review, Geelong Art Gallery

1998

Waterproof-Centro Cultural de Belem, Lisbon Portugal

2003

Australian Photographic Portrait Prize, Art Gallery of NSW.

2003

Australian Photographic Portrait Prize, Art Gallery of NSW.

2007

Ulrich and Schubert Photography award, Gold Coast City Art Gallery.

2007

Bowness Photography prize, Monash Gallery of art.


SELECTED PUBLISHING

1974

Into The Hollow Mountains - a Portrait of Fitzroy

1981

A Day in The Life of Australia

1982

A Day in The Life of Victoria

1988

The Thousand Mile Stare

1990

Twenty Contemporary Australian Photographers

1992

Sites of the Imagination
Various magazines and periodicals
Worshipping Mamon, Today's Art, Geelong Advertiser, 29/7/93

1999

Waterproof, water photography since 1852

2003

Trace - Photos & Poetry / with Gregory Day


SELECTED COLLECTIONS

Australian National Gallery
National Gallery of Victoria
Art Gallery of New South Wales
Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery
Phillip Morris Collection
Melbourne City Council
Monash Gallery of Art
John Sands Collection
Various municipal and private collections in Australia, Malaysia and USA

LINKS

Joe Ashton Photography

www.joeashton.com.au

Georgia Metaxas - photographer

www.metaxasphotography.com.au

Rennie Ellis Photographic Archive

www.rennieellis.com.au

Australian National Gallery

www.nga.gov.au

National Gallery of Victoria

www.ngv.vic.gov.au

Art Gallery of New South Wales

www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au

Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery

www.tmag.tas.gov.au

Little Malop Gallery

www.littlemalopgallery.com.au

Geelong Art Gallery

www.geelonggallery.org.au

Anglesea Online

www.anglesea-online.com.au

Surf Pix

www.surfpix.com.au

Boojum - online design

www.boojum.com.au