Bio - David Palliser

David Palliser

Born 1960, Melbourne, Australia
Lives and works in Melbourne, Australia

1978-80 - Bachelor of Fine Art (Painting), RMIT, Melbourne
1982 - Post Graduate Diploma of Fine Art (Painting), VCA

Solo Exhibitions

2022 -Endless Conditions, recent paintings, Jacob Hoerner Galleries 2021-Subjects In Orbit, recent paintings, Jacob Hoerner Galleries, Melbourne. 2018-Deep Sneeze, recent paintings, Fort Delta, Melbourne
2017-Autumn's Atom, recent paintings,Gallery 9, Sydney
2016- Wait Koala, recent work on paper from Leipzig, Conduit Arts,Melbourne
2014 - Send Nurse, recent paintings, Chapman&Bailey, Melbourne
2013 - Moodmesh recent paintings, Boutwell Draper Gallery, Sydney
2012 - Extended Foot recent paintings, Anna Pappas Gallery, Melbourne
2011 - Vague Season recent paintings, Boutwell Draper Gallery, Sydney
2010 - Nerve Bangle recent paintings, Anna Pappas Gallery, Melbourne
2009 - Boiled Fog CD Launch, Horse Bazaar, Melbourne
2007 - Mostly Sloped, FortyFive Downstairs, Melbourne
2006 - Recent Work, Crossley and Scott, Melbourne
2004 - Recent Work, Crossley and Scott, Melbourne
2003 - Recent Paintings, Kaliman Gallery, Sydney
2001 - Works on Paper, Crossley and Scott, Melbourne
2001 - Recent Paintings , Kaliman Gallery, Sydney
2000 - Recent Work, Smyrnios Gallery, Melbourne
1999 - Recent Work, Temple Studio, Melbourne
1997 - Recent Work, Temple Studio, Melbourne
1995 - Recent Paintings, Michael Wardell Gallery, Melbourne
1993 - Recent Paintings, Michael Wardell Gallery, Melbourne
1992 - Recent Paintings, Michael Wardell Gallery, Melbourne
1991 - Lithographs, Michael Wardell Gallery, Melbourne
1990 - Recent Works, Michael Wardell Gallery, Melbourne
1989 - Recent Works, Ben Grady Gallery, Canberra
1988 - Recent Paintings, Michael Wardell Gallery, Melbourne

Selected Group Exhibitions

2021- How It Happened Here, duo show with Julia Powles, Five Walls, Melbourne 2018-Open Eye Signal, Fort Delta, Melbourne
2018-Wonderlust, Bus Projects, Melbourne
2017- Weep for Painting, Mars Gallery, Melbourne
2017- Trachea, in colaboration with Philippe Vranje,Five Walls, Melbourne
2017-HyperHyper, Michael Reid Gallery,Berlin
2016- Bilder Bilder, Neon Parc, Melbourne
2016- The Hunch, Incinerator Gallery, Moonee Ponds Melbourne
2016-Sublunar, Rubicon,Melbourne
2015- Return, Daine Singer Gallery, Melbourne
2015- Hearse, with Philippe Vranjes,Conduit Arts, Melbourne
2015- Rundgang, LIA,the Spinnerei, Leipzig,Germany
2014- Liquid Architecture, The Damage Begins at the Mouth, The Charles Ives Singers, Tote, Melbourne
2014 - Kippenberger Salon,Neon Parc, Melbourne
2014 - Subject To Sound-The Charles Ives Singers,improvised music and visual art,Kings ARI, Melbourne
2013 - Melbourne Now,National Gallery of Victoria. Paul Guest Drawing Prize, Bendigo Art Gallery
2013 - National work on paper prize, Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery
2011 - Anna Pappas Gallery, Korean International Art Fair,Seoul
2011 - Art Month Group Show, Boutwell Draper Gallery, Sydney
2010 - Fletcher Jones Art Prize, Geelong Art Gallery
2010 - Anna Pappas Gallery, Danks St Galleries, Sydney
2010 - Anna Pappas Gallery, Melbourne Art Fair
2009 - Group Exhibition, Anna Pappas Gallery, Melbourne
2008 - Painting Exhibition, Neon Parc, Melbourne
2008 - United Artists, Palais Theatre, Melbourne
2007 - You Don't Have to Call it Music, Toff in Town, Melbourne
2006 - Imagine, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne
2002 - Figure Out, Mass Gallery, Melbourne
2002 - New Paintings, Coffs Harbour Regional Gallery, Melbourne
2001 - Inaugural Exhibition: Gallery Artists, Kaliman Gallery, Sydney
2001 - Seen Something More, RMIT Project Space
1997 - Geelong Contemporary Art Prize, Geelong Art Gallery
1997 - I, Shadow, Australian Galleris, Melbourne
1997 - Five Quiet Years, St Kilda Town Hall, Melbourne
1996 - Working in Collaboration, West Space, Melbourne
1995 - Herald Sun Art Prize, Melbourne
1993 - Primal Drawings, Michael Wardell Gallery, Melbourne
1991 - The John McCaughney Memorial Art Prize, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
1991 - Artworkz Three, The BP Australia Acquisitive Prizes, Caulfield Art Complex, Melbourne
1990 - Works on Paper, Michael Wardell Gallery, Melbourne
1988 - A New Generation: 1983-1988, The Phillip Morris Arts Grant Purchases, Australian National Gallery, Canberra
1988 - The Melbourne Savage Club Invitation Drawing Prize, RMIT Gallery, Melbourne
1987 - Keith and Elizabeth Murdoch Travelling Fellowship, Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne, Runner-up
1986 - Ben Grady Gallery, Canberra

Bibliography

'My Mind is Made Up', Laura Skerlj, catalogue essay for Endless Conditions 2022
'Subjects in Orbit', Saskia Beudel. catalogue 2021
'Inhale and Let Go', Julia Powles. catalogue essay for Deep Sneeze 2018
‘The Hand Brain Thing’, Peter Westwood, “Imagine” catalogue, Museum of Modern Art at Heide, Melbourne, 2006
'Seen Something More', catalogue, RMIT , Peter Westwood
Gregory Pryor, Interview, Dialogue, September, 1995
Gerard Whateley, ‘Brush with Destiny’, Herald-Sun, 19 July 1995.
Bob Hart, Feature Article, Herald-Sun, 14 January 1995.
Nevill Drury, Images II: Contemporary Australian Painting, 1994, p. 72, 89.
Christopher Heathcote, Review, The Age, 1 January 1992
Gary Catalano, Review, The Age, 22 August 1990
Nevill Drury (Ed.), New Art Three, 1989, pp. 148-151.

Collections

Australian National Gallery, Canberra
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
John McBride Collection
Phillip Morris Collection
Horsham City Art Gallery
Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery
Australian Taxation Office, Melbourne
Artbank
Macquarie Bank
Private Collections, Australia and UK

Residencies