Robert McLeod

Appendix four

Born: Glasgow 1948
Educated:Glasgow School of Art, 1965 – 1969.
Diploma of Art, Drawing and Painting.
Jordanhill College of Education, 1970.
Diploma of Teaching.
Arrived New Zealand 1972.
Work in the collections of
Te Papa, Wellington
Pataka Museum of Art and Cultures, Porirua.
The Auckland City Art Gallery, Auckland
The Robert McDougall Gallery, Christchurch
The Sarjeant Gallery, Wanganui
Manawatu Art Gallery, Palmerston North.
Dowse Art Gallery, Lower Hutt.
The Bath House, Rotorua.
Victoria University, Wellington.
Wellington College of Education, Wellington.
Christchurch College of Education, Christchurch.
Christchurch Institute of Technology, Christchurch.
James Wallace Collection, Auckland.
The Real Art Roadshow.
                                                
Awards
2005
Runner up Prize, Wallace Art Awards
2004
Jury Prize, Wallace Art Awards.
1998
Lillian Ida-Smith Award for Painting.
1981
QEII Arts Council Grant.
1978
Rotorua Art Award.
1977
QEII Arts Council Grant.       
Selected Solo exhibitions
2011
Bath Street Gallery, Auckland. The Three Graces Struggle with the Goochi Handbag.
2011
Paulnache at the Art Fair, Auckland. Proud to Commit Commercial Suicide.
2009
Paulnache, Gisborne. Small Men, Imposters, Imperialists and Banshees.
2009
Beatty Gallery, Sydney, Australia. Imperialists, Impostors, Banshees and Small Stories.
2008
Bath Street Gallery, Auckland. Great moments in the History of Painting.
2008
The Pencil Gallery, Gisborne. The Not Poussin Paintings.
2008
Campbell Grant Gallery, Christchurch. Pages From The DMB.
2007
Dunedin Public Art Gallery.  No Stop, No Pause, No Fast Forward.
2006
Edmiston Duke Gallery, Auckland. Giving Colour to Mister Serious and Other Works.
2006
Expressions Arts Centre, Upper Hutt  The Rob McLeod Show (Mickey Paintings)
2006
Eastern Southland Gallery, Gore. No stop, No Pause, No Fast Forward.
2005
Judith Anderson Gallery, Hawkes Bay. Paintings,1995 to 2005.
2005
Southland Museum and Art Gallery, Invercargill. No Stop, No Pause, No Fast forward.
2005
The Pencil Gallery, Gisborne. To Mickey.
2005
Campbell Grant Gallery, Christchurch. Large Paintings.
2005
Edmiston Duke Gallery, Auckland. Talking About Art and Other Small Paintings.
2004
Bowen Galleries, Wellington. True Kiwi Content and Puppet Games.
2004
Campbell Grant Gallery, Christchurch. Thin Culture and Other Paintings.
2003
Judith Anderson Gallery, Auckland. Pointless Political Piece and Other Paintings.
2002
Pataka Museum, Porirua.  A Long Way Home: Three Decades Of Painting.
2002
Ashburton Art Gallery, Ashburton.  Meet Mutant Mickey.
2002
Bowen Galleries, Wellington.  Small Mickey Paintings.
2001
Judith Anderson Gallery, Auckland.  Meet  Rapunzel, Mutant Mickey, Joseph and Other Large Paintings.
2001
Bowen Galleries, Wellington.  Meet Mutant Mickey.
2000
Campbell Grant Gallery, Christchurch.  Small Shelf Paintings.
2000
University of Canterbury, Fine Arts Gallery.  Large Shelf Paintings.
1999
Bowen Galleries, Wellington.  Paintings Large and Small.
1998
Judith Anderson Gallery. Auckland.  Paintings.
1998
Campbell Grant Gallery, Christchurch.  New Works.
1997
Sarjeant Gallery, Wanganui.  The Objects, the Game and the Life: a Survey
Show, 1972-97.
1997
Bowen Galleries, Wellington.  The Doctor’s Dog, Visitors, Dead Cowboys and other Paintings.
1996
Bowen Galleries, Wellington.  Small Paintings.
1996
Hawkes Bay Exhibition Centre.  Shaped Paintings.
1995
Bowen Galleries, Wellington.  Paintings.
1994
New Work Studio, Wellington.  New Works.
1993
Gow Langsford  Gallery, Auckland. Minimalist Paintings 1981- 1982.
1993
New Work Studio, Wellington. Small Shaped Paintings.
1991
Gow Langsford  Gallery, Auckland.  Large Drawings.
1991
Gow Langsford  Gallery, Auckland.  Shaped Paintings.
1991
CSA Gallery, Christchurch.  High School Exercise Drawings.
1990
Gow Langsford  Gallery, Auckland.  Domestic Flavours Paintings, Two Large Floor Works and High School Exercise Drawings.
1990
Gregory Flint Gallery, Wellington.  New and Old Paintings.
1989
Louise Beale Gallery, Wellington.  Domestic Flavours Paintings.
1988
Louise Beale Gallery, Wellington.  Small Paintings1972-82.
1987
Artis Gallery, Auckland.  Buchanan Paintings.
1986
Artis Gallery, Auckland.  Paintings and Drawings (Shaped Minimalist Paintings. Lanark Drawings).
1985
Louise Beale Gallery, Wellington.  Lanark Drawings.
1985
Red Metro Gallery, Auckland.  Lanark Drawings.
1985
Dowse Art Museum, Lower Hutt.  Paintings and Drawings (Shaped Minimalist Paintings, Lanark Drawings).
1984
Louise Beale Gallery, Wellington.  Stiff Jumble Paintngs.
1983
Louise Beale Gallery, Wellington.  Lanark Drawings.
1981
City Art Gallery, Wellington.  Paintings and Drawing, 1972-81.
1981
Petar James Gallery, Auckland.  Minimalist Paintings.
1980
Petar James Gallery, Auckland.  Splatter Paintings.
1979
Elva Bett Gallery, Wellington.  Splatter Paintings.
1979
Petar James Gallery, Auckland.  Splatter Paintings.
1978
Elva Bett Gallery, Wellington.  Splatter Paintings.
1977
Govett Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth.  Paintings 1974-77.
1977
Peter Webb Galleries, Auckland.  Grids.
1977
Elva Bett Gallery, Wellington.  Grids and Tartans.
1974
Antipodes Gallery, Wellington.  Paintings.
            
Selected Group Shows
2011
Merkland, Adam Art Gallery, Victroria University Wellington. Behind Closed Doors.
2010
Group Show, Paulanche, Gisborne.  paper$money.
2008
Paulanche, Gisborne. 2 Degrees: An Exhibition of Association within NZ Art.
2005
Wallace Art Award. Touring Exhibition.
2004
Wallace Art Award. Touring exhibition.
2004
Pataka Museum of Art and Cultures (touring). Representation and Reality.
2000
Pataka Museum of Art and Cultures.  Think Colour.
2000
Te Papa.  Collectors Choice. 
1997
Page 90, Porirua.  Common Ground: 10 Male Artists.
1997
Manawatu Art Gallery, Palmerston North.  More than a Floor.
1995
Wellington City Art Gallery.  Local Colour.
1994
Wellington City Arts Festival.  Strange New Land.
1990
CSA Gallery, Christchurch.  Hogging the Floor.
1987
Wellington City Art  Gallery.  Off the Wall.
1987
Wellington City Art  Gallery.  Drawing Analogies. 
1986
National Art Gallery, Shed 11, Wellington.  Content/Context.
1985
Stephen Mori Gallery, Sydney.  Perspecta.
1978
Dowse Art Gallery, Lower Hutt.  Three Painters.
1976
Auckland City Art Gallery, Auckland.  New Zealand Drawing.
1976.
Manawatu Art Gallery, Palmerston North.  Four Wellington Artists.
1975
Barrington Gallery, Auckland.  Figurative Art Now.
1973
New Zealand Academy of Fine Arts, Wellington.  Eight Young Artists.
Artist Residencies
2006
Mataura Licensing Trust 50th Anniversary Inaugural  Artist In Residence .
Selected Bibliography                                         
Dandini Comes Clean: Paintings by Robert McLeod (2011). Edited by Aaron Lister; published by Paulnache Publishing.
Aaron Lister (2004) Robert McLeod,Travelling With The Happy Worm. Art New Zealand No 109, pp66-69.
An Orange In A Fried Fish Shop:Paintings by Robert McLeod (2003). Essay ,Aaron Lister: published Craig potton Ltd.
Katy Corner   Postcards p 26 ( illus) Art News New Zealand  Spring 2002 
            
A Long Way Home:Rob McLeod. (2002). Catalogue essay, H. Kedgley; published by Pataka Museum of Art and Cultures.
Think Colour. (2000). Catalogue essay, J. Mane-Wheoki; published by Pataka Museum of Art and Cultures.
Allan Smith. (1998). Robert McLeod and the Giggler in the Wood (illus). Art New Zealand, No 85, pp.37-41.
The Objects, the Game and the Life: A Survey Show. (1997). Catalogue essay, M. Scaife; published by Sarjeant Gallery. 
Local Colour. (1995).  Catalogue essay, A. Smith; published by Wellington City Art Gallery.
Warwick Brown. (1995). One Hundred New Zealand Paintings.  Auckland: Godwit. 
Allan Smith. (1990). Ways to do More and More (illus). Art New Zealand, No 56, pp70-74.
Susan Foster.  (1988). Robert McLeod: An Interview (illus). Art New Zealand, No 46, pp.64-67.
Soft Paradigms. (1987).  Catalogue essay, I. Wedde; published by Wellington City Art Gallery.
The Grid: Lattice and Network.  (1987).  Catalogue essay, A. Bogle; published by Auckland City Art Gallery.
Content/Context: A Survey of Recent New Zealand Art. (1986).  Catalogue essay, L. Bieringa: published by National Art Gallery. 
Elva Bett. (1986). New Zealand Art: A Modern Perspective. Auckland: Reed and Methuen.
Six New Zealand Artists:Perspecta 85. (1985).  Catalogue essay, C. Sotheran: published by Mori Gallery, Sydney. 
Susan Foster.  (1985). Wellington Review (illus).  Art New Zealand, No 36, p.22.
            
Jim and Mary Barr.  (1980). Contemporary New Zealand Painters.  Martinborough: Alister Taylor.
Peter Cape.  (1979). New Painting since 1960.  Auckland: Collins. 
Neil Rowe.  (1978). Wellington Review (illus).  Art New Zealand, No 11, pp.19, 61.


 
     
 
   
 
 
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