ALAN PHILLIPS ARTIST
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Alan Phillips, artist
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Born Melbourne, Australia 

Education :
Associate Diploma of Art, (Industrial Design)
Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology.  1968
Trained Technical Teachers Certificate (TTTC) 1971
Graduate Diploma Teaching Gifted Children
Mitchell CAE.  1988

Exhibitions :
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Solo shows
1989     Desert Paintings. Framed Gallery. Darwin. NT
1990      Spinifex and Sand. Emerald Hill Gallery, South Melbourne. Victoria
1991      New works. Studio 3 Darwin NT
1994     Desert Gouaches. Aries Art Gallery, Armidale, NSW
1999      Drawings. Nightcliff Gallery, Darwin. NT
2004     A Retrospective: Desert Paintings 1988-2002 Creators Artspace Wodonga. Victoria.
2005     A Studio in Umbria-Drawings from the Sketchbook, Italy. Beehive Artspace, Albury.
2006     Moving Pictures. Paintings from NE Victoria. Creators Artspace. Wodonga. Victoria
2009     Muse Gallery Milawa. Alan Phillips New Work- 2006-2008
2010     Muse Gallery Milawa. 'A View from Above' paintings after the fires.
2012     Muse Gallery Milawa. ‘Gentle Afternoons- New Works, 2012’
2013     Art Imitates Life. Photographs, Collages and Diary Entries. Wangaratta Art Gallery. Victoria
2014     New work- Toy Workshop Studio, Mayday Hills Beechworth
2016     New work- Finch Street Studio. Beechworth
2017    Paintings from the Gibson Desert. Olive Pink Gallery Alice Springs
2018    Carpe Diem. Collages, Pages from the Diaries. Old Beechworth Gaol.
2019    Stillness. Listening to landscape. Old Stone Hall, Beechworth. Victoria.
2022    50 years Behind the Lens. 5 Photographic Books. Beechworth Contemporary
2024    Lake Hart and Beyond. Paintings Along the Stuart Highway. Olive Pink Gallery Alice Springs
Group Shows
1977     Selected. International Hasselblad Masters Travelling Photography Exhibition.
1978     Selected work for Alice Prize. NT
1978     Acquired for the Caltex Collection, Alice Springs
1979     Joint show (4 Artists from Alice). The Residency, Alice Springs.
1980     Joint show (4 Artists from Alice). Museums Display gallery NT, Darwin
1980     Selected work Alice Prize. NT
1981     Selected work Alice Prize. NT
1983     Selected work Alice Prize. NT
1983     Museums and Art Galleries of the NT. Darwin
1983     Museums and Art Galleries of the NT. Alice Springs.
1985     Selected work Alice Prize. NT
1986     Commonwealth Bank, Darwin
1990     Amnesty International Show, Framed Gallery Darwin.
1992     Selected Brian Lambert Art Award. Katherine NT
1992     Selected NT Art Award. Alice Springs
1993     Selected for Mornington Peninsula Spring Festival of Drawing. Victoria
1993      Bougainvillea Art Festival, Sunstorm Gallery Darwin
1993      Entered Wynn Prize. NSW Art Gallery
1994      Selected work Alice Prize. NT
1994      Aries Art Book Project. Armidale NSW
1995      White Egret Gallery Darwin
1995      Members show ‘Snakes and Serpents’. 24 hour Art. Darwin
1995      Selected 'Year of the Family' exhibition, Parliament House Darwin
1998      Exhibited Human Rights Show. Parliament House Darwin
1998      St Stephan’s Art Exhibition Melbourne Victoria.
2011      Paintworks. Recent paintings by NE Artists. Wangaratta Art Gallery
2014      Alice Springs Craft Council group show.
2018      Spring Arts Indigo . Landscapes Beechworth Victoria
2021      Spring and Summer Collection Beechworth Contemporary Artspace
2022      5 Photographers from NE Victoria. Beechworth Contemporary Artspace


Acquisitions/Commissions/Permanent Collections
1979     NT Art Award. Permanent Collection
1981     NT Art Award. Permanent Collection
1995     Triptych. Commissioned by RPScherer Holdings. Melbourne
2001     Araluen Permanent Collection, ‘Skin’ 2 works on show. Alice Springs
2004     Painting commissioned by the Australian Golf Union.  Moonah Links, Victoria.
1996     Works on permanent display at the NT Museums and Art Gallery
1997     Selected. Wodonga Hume Building Award.
2008     Judge — Culcairn Rotary Art Show
2009     Judge — Culcairn Rotary Art Show
2009     Commission. Strathewen Community- Bush Fire Painting.
2009     Highly Commended. Wodonga Hume Building Award.
2010-2015
          Various commissions for institutions and private collectors.

                 
Alan graduated in Industrial Design from R.M.I.T. in 1969, and in his the final year won the Sebel Design Award. For the next two years Alan worked for a consultant graphic designer in Melbourne. In 1970 he trained as an Art Teacher before taking up a teaching position in Alice Springs in the Northern Territory.  Alan lived in the Alice for ten years teaching Art at an Aboriginal College. 
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In 1985, Alan moved to Darwin and from 1991 to 2000, worked as the Director in charge of Public Relations and the Print and Publications Unit for the Northern Territory Department of Education. In 1998 Alan took 3 months leave and traveled extensively throughout Europe. 

After leaving the Public Service in 2002, Alan started his own publishing, art/ Investment consultancy and divided his time between publishing duties and painting in his Darwin studio. 

In 2003 Alan and his wife sold their Darwin house and studio and returned to Italy to live and work. Alan completed a major body of work whilst living in Umbria particularly concentrating on the landscape and the surrounding hill top towns. 

After returning from Europe, Alan moved to Beechworth where he built a house and studio on 18 acres of natural bush. Since moving to Beechworth Alan has written and published five books and is currently cataloguing his paintings from 1988 to the present under the title 'Paintings From the Heart'.  Alan also teaches drawing classes on a regular basis and conducts weekend retreats on landscape painting and drawing for beginning and experienced artists.

Alan has journeyed long to reach his current destination. The genesis for his paintings comes from, and is rooted in the deserts of central Australia. The wide open spaces littered with spinifex and long languid sand dunes stretching to the horizon spoke to him of a timeless landscape.  Something happened there, which resonated with him and so changed his view of the land forever. His first encounter with this ancient land brought about a perception of the bush that has not ceased to excite him some 40 years later. He works with oil paint often making sketches on site.

Alan has been represented over the years in galleries in Melbourne, Darwin, Armidale and the Gold Coast. His work is in the permanent collection at Araluen Art Gallery in Alice Springs and private institutions and company boardrooms across Victoria. He is currently represented by Beechworth Contemporary Art Space in Beechworth Victoria.

Alan lives in Beechworth, Victoria, Australia and is married with two sons

Alan Phillips PO Box 458 Beechworth Victoria Australia. 3747. email  [email protected]  



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