Stuart Watters
1979-1983 Bachelor of Arts (Visual Arts), City Art Institute, Sydney 1989 Awarded Inaugural Sir William Dobell Art Foundation Art Award 2007-2010 Master of Fine Arts, University of NSW, College of Fine Arts 2008- Lecturer in Painting and Drawing, Australian Catholic University, Syd.
Solo Exhibitions
2013If squares could talk, Gallery 9, Sydney 2010 The Shape of Language, Kudos Gallery, Sydney 2006 Wall Painting, Slot, Sydney 2005 Lines of Engagement, Boutwell Draper Gallery, Sydney 2003 Duplicity, Boutwell Draper Gallery, Sydney
2001 Repicturing Abstraction, Kaliman Gallery, Sydney
1999 Recent Paintings, Crawford Gallery
1997 Abstract Etcetera, Recent Paintings, Crawford Gallery
1996 Raw Geometry, Recent Paintings, Crawford Gallery, Sydney
1993 Non-Depictive Realism, ROM Gallery, Sydney
1985 Recent Paintings & Drawings, Hogarth Galleries
1984Constructions & Silkscreens, Hogarth Galleries
Selected Group Exhibition
2015Group Show, Gallery 9, Sydney 2015 Muswellbrook Art Prize, (Highly Commended finalist), MRAC 2012 Dobell Prize for Drawing, Art Gallery of New South Wales 2012 Salon des Refusés, S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney 2010 Dobell Prize for Drawing, Art Gallery of New South Wales 2010 Show and Tell, ACU National Gallery, Sydney 2009 Group Exhibition, ACU National Gallery, Sydney 2006 Fishers Ghost Art Prize, Campbelltown Arts Centre 2006 Still Life,Heiser Gallery, Brisbane 2006 Who Cares?, Boutwell Draper Gallery, Sydney 2005 Redlands Westpac Invitational Art Prize, Mosman Regional Gallery 2005 Salon des Refusés, S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney 2005 Liquid Properties, Boutwell Draper Gallery, Sydney 2005 Small Wonders, Delmar Gallery, Sydney 2004 Melbourne Art Fair, Exhibition Building, Melbourne 2004 Base Ten, Side On Gallery, Sydney 2002 Art on Paper, Kaliman Gallery
2002 Packsaddle Invitation, New England Regional Art Museum, Armidale
2002 Seven Artists, Kaliman Gallery
2001 Desires, Sir Herman Black Gallery, University of Sydney
2001 Inaugural Exhibition, Kaliman Gallery, Sydney
2000 The 1st Show Last Year of the Millennium, Robin Gibson Gallery, Syd. 1995 Gallery Artists, King Street Gallery, Sydney
1994 Gallery Artists, King Street Gallery, Sydney
1994 Melbourne Art Fair, Exhibition Building, Melbourne
1994 Studio Exhibition, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
1992 10 Square, Linden Gallery, Melbourne
1989 Sir William Dobell Art Foundation Art Prize, Art Gallery of NSW
1985 From Here and Beyond, Hogarth Galleries, Sydney
1984 New Works by Gallery Artists, Hogarth Galleries, Sydney
1983 Six New Printmakers, Hogarth Galleries, Sydney
Collections
Artbank; Sir William Dobell Art Foundation; University of NSW, College of Fine Arts & corporate and private collections in Australia and overseas.
Selected Bibliography
ARTIST PROFILE, Process - Stuart Watters, Issue 22, 2013 p. 126-127
Gibson, Prue, Salon des Refuse, Australian Art Review, Issue 34, p.22
McDonald, John, Salon des Refuse, Spectrum, Sydney Morning Herald, August 28, 2012
McCulloch, Susan, Encyclopaedia of Australian Art, 2006
VOGUE Living, Living high, January/February 2005
Low, Lenny Ann, Pylon the Art, Exhibitions, Sydney Morning Herald, October 13, 2001
Art Almanac, Profile, September 2001
Lopez, Anne Marie, Kaliman Inaugural Exhibition, CitySearch, April 2001
Hynes, Victoria, Hip Joint, Metropolitan - Exhibitions, Sydney Morning Herald, March 23, 2001
Smee, Sebastian, Colour Clash, Arts, Sydney Morning Herald, August 31, 1999
Chance, Susan, Artful Lodgers, SHE, February 1998, p.132-5
Hampson, Jane, The best of what’s on this week, Timeout, Sun-Herald, November 23, 1997
Smee, Sebastian, Paint in the arts, Metro, Sydney Morning Herald, November 21,1997
Art Almanac, Profile, November,1997
McCulloch, Susan, Encyclopaedia of Australian Art, Allen & Unwin, 1994
Lynn, Elwyn, Curtain-raiser for an excellent year, The Australian, 5-6 February, 1994 p.13
Hutak, Michael, Walk into a garret today, Sydney Morning Herald, September 4, 1993
Lynn, Elwyn, The shape of abstract ambitions, The Australian, 20-21November, 1993 p.13
Lynn, Elwyn, War as an emotion in motion, The Australian, 8-9 May,1993 p.13.
Annual Report, Art Gallery of NSW, 1990, p.4 & p.17
Lynn, Elwyn, Mood, mass and melancholy, The Australian, 11-12 November, 1989 p.10
Exhibition Commentary, ART and Australia, Vol.22 No.3 p.321
Maloon.Terence, Little joy in a wet trudge around the galleries, Sydney Morning Herald, March, 1985