ROGER CRAWFORD
Born 1949, Australia
Studied
1970-1973
Diploma of Painting, National Art School, Sydney
1990
Post Graduate Diploma of Visual Art, (Sculpture, Performance,
Installation),
Sydney College of the Arts, Sydney
Professional Experience
1974 Tutor, Arts Council of New South Wales
1976 Drawing and Painting Teacher, Wollongong
Art School
1978-80 Tutor,
Arts Council of New South Wales
1985-86
Board Member, Artspace, Sydney
1985-87 Founding Member, Project Coordinator,
First Draft, Sydney
1988 Guest Lecturer, Canberra School of Art
1988 Guest Lecturer, City Art Institute,
Sydney
1989 Guest Lecturer, Australian Perspecta, Art Gallery of New South Wales
1990 Drawing Teacher, Canberra School of Art
1991 Guest Lecturer, Wollongong Art School
1993 Drawing and Painting Teacher, College of
Fine Arts, University of New South
Wales
1994 Drawing Teacher, School of Design,
Visual Communications, University of
Technology, Sydney
1998 VITAL Certificate TAFE, NSW
1986-2004
Drawing and Painting Teacher, TAFE, NSW
2002 Certificate 4, TAFE, NSW
1986-2010
Drawing and Painting Teacher, National Art School, Sydney
Awards
1973
Readers Digest Drawing Prize
National Art School Prize
Basil Muriel Hooper Scholarship, Art Gallery of New South Wales
1975
Visual Arts Board Project Grant
1985 Visual
Arts Board Project Grant
Visual Arts Board Special Projects Grant for First Draft
1987
Visual Arts/Craft Board, half Standard Grant
2003
National Art School Staff Travelling Scholarship
Solo Exhibitions
1980 Australian
Image, Rod Shaw Studio, Sydney
1983 Sixty
Four Dollar Question, Art Unit, Sydney
1985 Token
Child, Art Space, Sydney
1986 Marked
Visions, Watters Gallery, Sydney
Project 14, 1209, Installation, Span Project, Sydney
1987 Passage
Part 1, Canberra School of Art, Canberra
Passage Part 11, First Draft, Sydney
Passage in Passing, Foton Photographic
Gallery, Art Bulletin, Sydney
Carriage, Camera Lucinda, Sydney
1988 Sea
Change, Watters Gallery, Sydney
1989 Sighting,
Reptilia Salon, Sydney
1991 Undercover
in Amnesia, Watters Gallery, Sydney
1992 Undercover
in Amnesia: A Self Portrait in Orientation, First Draft West, Sydney
Undercover in Amnesia, Grafton Regional Gallery, Grafton;
Access
Gallery, University of New England
1993 Between
the House and the Water, Watters Gallery, Sydney
1994 Another
Look, Watters Gallery, Sydney
1995 Metahouse, Watters Gallery, Sydney
1997 Works
in Relief, Watters Gallery, Sydney
Ground (Studio Exhibition), Sydney
1999 Land
& Flag, University of Technology Gallery, Sydney
Ripple, Watters Gallery, Sydney
2001 Channel,
Watters Gallery, Sydney
2003 (un) furling, Watters Gallery, Sydney
2005 Recent
Paintings, Watters Gallery, Sydney
2006 Scrim, Watters Gallery,
Sydney
2007 Corridor, Watters Gallery,
Sydney
2008 Transitional
Objects, Sydney Non Objective Gallery (SNO), Sydney
2010
Precincts and Peripheries, Watters Gallery, Sydney
Group Exhibitions
1973 National
Art School Prize Exhibition, Cellblock Theatre, Sydney
Basil Muriel Hooper Scholarship, Cellblock Theatre, Sydney
1974 Young
Contemporaries, Hogarth Galleries, Sydney
1975 Young
Contemporaries, Macquarie Galleries, Sydney
Arts Council Tutors, Diviola Galleries, Sydney
Six Young Painters, Macquarie Galleries, Canberra
1977 Art
Core Meltdown, University of Sydney
Blake Prize,
Blaxland Gallery, Sydney
1979 Herald Prize, Hozumi Momota Foundation,
Sydney Town Hall, Sydney
Australian Image, ANZ
Exhibition Centre, Sydney
1982 Studio Access, Cheapside Studios,
Sydney
1983 Fresh Blood, Ivan Dougherty
Gallery, Sydney; Wollongong City Art Gallery;
Canberra
School of Art Gallery, Canberra
1984 Last Past
the Post-ism, Art Unit, Sydney
1985 In Invisible Pursuit, Artspace, Sydney
Post Perspecta Third Annual Artworkers
Union Fundraiser, Artspace, Sydney
The Lounge as a Channeling Room for the Media,
Arthaus, Sydney
20x20 Minature Shows, Arthaus,
Sydney
The Most Beautiful Show on Earth, Mori Gallery, Sydney
Mahlab Law Week Prize, Law Society
Building, Sydney
Xmas Show,
Arthaus, Sydney
1986 The
Sixth Biennale of Sydney, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney
Second Nature, with Tim Maguire, the Performance Space, Sydney
Language of Action, 'How do You Cut of the Last
Hand?' performance with Ted
Riggs, The Performance Space, Sydney
Summer Exhibition, Watters Gallery, Sydney
Artworkers Fundraiser Exhibition, First
Draft, Sydney
1987 A
Self Portrait of My Mother in Two Places, collaborative exhibition with Tess
Horwitz, The
Performance Space, Sydney
University of New South Wales Art Purchase Exhibition, Sydney
Carriage, drawing installation, Camera Lucinda at ARX 87, Fremantle,
Western
Australia
Summer Exhibition, Watters Gallery, Sydney
1988 Maiden
Voyage, First Draft, Sydney
Blake Prize, Blaxland Gallery, Sydney
First Australian Contemporary Art Fair, Royal Exhibition Building,
Melbourne
Cambletown City Festival 24th Exhibition,
Campbelltown
The Bond Buildings: Towers of Torture, Tin Sheds Gallery, University of
Sydney
A Strange Selection of Sea Pictures, Watters Gallery, Sydney
1989 Australian
Perspecta, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Portrait of a Gallery, Watters Gallery, Sydney
Endangered Spaces, Artist Run Initiatives, Artspace,
Sydney
Inside the Greenhouse, Tin Sheds Gallery, University of Sydney
A Touch Of Black, Watters Gallery, Sydney
Summer Exhibition, Watters Gallery, Sydney
1990 40
Artists - 40 Works, Watters Gallery, Sydney
Second Contemporary Art Fair, Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne
Summer Exhibition, Watters Gallery, Sydney
1991 Roger
Crawford, Euan Macleod, Suzie Marston, Watters Gallery, Sydney
Faber-Castell Drawing Award, Holdsworth Galleries, Woollhara
Jacaranda Art Society Purchase Exhibition, Grafton Regional Gallery
Post Graduate Exhibition, Sydney College of the Arts, Sydney
Jacqui Horn Exhibition, Cancer Foundation, Cellblock Theatre, Sydney
1992 Contact,
Graduates of The National Art School, Ten Taylor
Street Gallery, Sydney
Third Contemporary Australian Art Fair, Royal Exhibition Building,
Melbourne
Summer Exhibition, Watters Gallery, Sydney
1994 30th
Anniversary Summer Exhibition, Watters Gallery, Sydney
Fourth Contemporary Art Fair, Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne
On your Mark, National Art School, Sydney
The Blake Prize Touring Exhibition, Blaxland Gallery, Sydney; University Drill
Hall, Canberra; St. Peters Cathedral, Adelaide; Dubbo Regional Gallery,
Dubbo;
Westpac Gallery, Melbourne
The Nineteenth Camden Art Prize, Camden, Sydney
The Balmain Link, Balmain Watch-house, Sydney
1995 Summer
Exhibition, Watters Gallery, Sydney
1996 Fifth
Contemporary Art Fair, Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne
A Special Exhibition of Paintings, Watters Gallery, Sydney
The Contemporary Collection Part 2, Sir Herman Black Gallery, Sydney
Summer Exhibition, Watters Gallery, Sydney
1997 Summer
Exhibition, Watters Gallery, Sydney
1998 The Bryan Niland Collection,
Penrith Regional Gallery & Lewers Bequest, Penrith
Two Sculptures and Seven Paintings, Watters Gallery, Sydney
The Great Art Auction, Cellblock Theatre, Sydney
Pas D'accrochange En Publique
(Not a Public Hanging), Staff of the National Art
School, Cellblock Theatre, Sydney
Summer Exhibition, Watters Gallery, Sydney
1999 We
Are Australian, Victorian Arts Centre, Melbourne and national tour
2000 Summer
Exhibition, Watters Gallery, Sydney
2001
Context, Kudos Gallery, College of Fine Arts, University of New
South Wales
The River is Dead, (long live the river), Casula Arts Centre,
Casula
Summer Exhibition, Watters gallery, Sydney
2002 Conversations:
Roger Crawford, Lyn Eastaway, Rob Eadie,
Ground Space, Studio
Exhibition, Sydney
3D and on the Wall, Watters Gallery, Sydney
Summer Exhibition, Watters gallery, Sydney
2003 Duration,
Staff of the National Art School curated by Roger
Crawford, Cellblock
Theatre, Sydney
Arcanum, First Draft, Sydney
2004
Invitation Spectrum 2004, Friends of the National Art School,
Parliament House,
Sydney
The Studio Tradition: National Art School 1883-2004, Manly Art
Gallery and
Museum, Touring Exhibition
2005 Walking
the Line, Drawings by Staff of the National Art School, National Art
School, Sydney
2006 2005
Revisited, Watters Gallery, Sydney
Works on Paper, Roger Crawford and Wally Barda,
Watters Gallery, Sydney
2007 Homage
& Histories, Roger Crawford and Lyn Eastaway,
Tin Sheds Gallery,
University of Sydney
2008 Melbourne
Art Fair 2008, Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne
2009
The Cosmic Battle for Your Hearts, Evans Street, Rozelle, Sydney
Summer Exhibition, Watters Gallery, Sydney
2010
Time and Space: Art and Artist Run Spaces 1970 to Now, Hazelhurst Regional
Gallery and Arts Centre, Gymea
Radial - Recent Acquisitions from the
National Art School, NAS Gallery,
Sydney
Bibliography
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1979
Baume, Nicholas: Review of Australian Perspecta 1989, Agenda Contemporary Art, July 1989
Burn, Ian: Catalogue essay for Symbolism and Landscape, 1986
Crawford, Roger: Catalogue essay for Land and Flag, University
of Technology, Sydney, 1999
Crawford, Roger: Catalogue essay for Duration, Cellblock Theatre,
National Art School, Sydney 2003
Crawford, Roger: Catalogue essay for Corridor, Watters Gallery 2007
Delaruelle, Jacques: Review of A Self Portrait of My
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1985
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Collections
National Gallery of Australia
Grafton Regional Gallery
Hawkesbury Regional Gallery
Bryan Niland Collection, Penrith
Regional Gallery
National Parks and Wildlife
Western Mining Corporation
University of Sydney Union
Private collections
National Art School