David Fairbairn
Solo exhibitions (Selected)
2016 Overview Stella Downer Fine Art Sydney
2014Drawing on the Past Stella Downer Fine Art Sydney
2013 Encounters King St Gallery on William Sydney
2012 Sight-Line James Makin Gallery Melbourne
2011/12Lineage: Campbelltown Arts Centre Touring exhibition.
2011Insight Stella Downer Fine Art Sydney
2010Contour James Makin Gallery Melbourne
2009Captured Stella Downer Fine Art Sydney
2007Marking Time Stella Downer Fine Art Sydney
2005 Headline Stella Downer Fine Art Sydney
2003Overdraft Stella Downer Fine Art Sydney
Group Exhibitions (Selected)
2016 Adelaide Perry Prize PLC Sydney
2013 Contemporary Australian Drawing (20yrs of the Dobell Drawing Prize) Travelling Exhibition
2011/12 Dobell Drawing PrizeA.G.N.S.W.
2010In (two)art Maitland Regional Art Gallery & Tour
2004/06 Salon desRefusesSH Ervin Gallery Sydney
2004 RedlandsInvitational Art Award MosmanArtGallery
2003/04International Contemporary Drawing Art to BeijingGuangzhouChina
2003Dobell Prize for Drawing: First Ten Years 1993-2002AGNSW
2003 Love Letter to China (Drawings by 35 artists). Ivan Dougherty Gallery
2002The Doug Moran Portrait Prize Exhibition State Library of NSW & Tour
2000Common GroundIvan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney (Archer, Cummings, Fairbairn & Peart)
00/02/03/12Archibald Prize ExhibitionAGNSW
1998Six from WedderburnCasula Powerhouse Arts Centre
1997/03/09KedumbaDrawingPrizeBlue Mountains Grammar School
Prizes & Awards (Selected)
2014 Redgate Gallery Residency Beijing China
2012 Sunshine Coast Art Prize & residency
2012 Mosman Art Prize
Australia Print Council Commission
2009 Kedumba Drawing Award
2007Willoughby Prize (Works on Paper)
2006Calleen Acquisition Prize, CowraArtGallery
2003Art on the Rocks Prize
2002Doug Moran National Portrait Prize
1999Dobell Drawing Prize AGNSW
Collections Represented (Selected)
Print Council of Australia Archive
SydneyHarbour Foreshore Authority
Doug Moran Art Foundation Collection
AGNSW
Myers Art Foundation
Faber-CastellDrawing Collection
University of New England
Australian National Gallery
NERAM
WollongongUniversity Collection
State Bank
LatrobeValley Arts Centre
GoldCoastCityArtGallery
Art Gallery of S.A
Bibliography (Selected)
2012 Catalogue: 20 yrs of the Dobell Drawing PrizeAGNSW
2012 Australian Contemporary Drawingby Janet McKenzie Publisher Macmillan
2011 Catalogue: Lineage Selected Portrait 1998-2010 A CAC touring exhibition
2010 Catalogue: In (two)artMaitland Regional Art Gallery
2008 Artist Profile: issue 5 article by Prue Gibson
2005 Australian Contemporary Painting Shanghai Peoples Fine Arts Publishing House 2005
2003 Catalogue: International Contemporary Drawing Art Exhibition touring to Central Academy of Art
Beijing,Xi’anAcademy of Fine ArtsGuangzhouAcademy of Fine ArtsChina.
2003 Catalogue: Dobell Prize for Drawing: First Ten Years 1993-2002AGNSW
2002 Art & AustraliaCommon Ground – Four Wedderburn Painters
2002 Catalogue: Doug Moran National Portrait Prize
2000 Catalogue Common GroundIvan Dougherty Gallery (Archer, Cummings, Fairbairn, Peart)
1998 Catalogue Six fromWedderburnCasula Powerhouse Art Centre