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David Palliser

Born

Australian

Biography/General

1978-80 Bachelor of Fine Art (Painting), RMIT, Melbourne

1982 Post Graduate Diploma of Fine Art (Painting), VCA

Exhibitions

Solo Exhibitions
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
2011 Korean International Art Fair, Seoul, Anna Pappas Gallery
2011 Group Exhibition, 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: 19831988, 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, Runnerup
1986 Ben Grady Gallery, Canberra

Collections/Commissions

Artbank, Sydney
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

Private Collections, Australia and UK

Awards/Grants

Residencies
2009 Power Studio, Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris 

2002 Bundanon Artist's Trust, Bundanon NSW

Bibliography

‘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’, HeraldSun, 19 July 1995
Bob Hart, Feature Article, HeraldSun, 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. 148151