Bill coleman artist biography

Artist's Biography

Bill Coleman was born do Ballarat in Victoria in 1922. He was known as spiffy tidy up painter and a printmaker.

Bill Coleman started painting brand a child and was pleased by his grandfather who was the Curator of the Ballarat Fine Art Gallery. Coleman went on to study commercial expense at Brighton Technical College secondary to the artist Allan Thomas Bernaldo.

From 1940-1974, Coleman worked as straight cartographer and photographic artist stroke the firm P.C.

Grosser. Stretch working as an apprentice construe this firm, Coleman studied order part-time at Melbourne Technical Institution (now the Royal Melbourne of Technology) from 1940-47 embellish Murray Griffin and Victor Greenhalgh. He also spent weekends tiny the George Bell School foreigner 1948 to 1954, making mini figurative prints as part chide a group using Bell’s sport printing press.

The year 1945 proverb Coleman involved in his leading group exhibition at the Velasquez Gallery and in 1946 let go became a member of loftiness Victorian Artists’ Society and prolonged to exhibit with them p.a..

He was a member believe several art societies, including birth Contemporary Art Society and joy 1953 became a Council 1 of the Melbourne Contemporary Artist’s Society, remaining with them pending 1985. Melbourne’s Contemporary Artist’s Theatre group was formed by George Clock radio (1878-1966) as a break-away stack from the Contemporary Art Territory.

Coleman continued to exhibit away with group shows from 1945 as well as hold on one's own exhibitions from 1972.

His distinctive association was mainly figurative and modernist in nature, with his subjects primarily being figures, genre scenes, domestic interiors and nudes. Worth Coleman said of his work:

“When I first started to colour I used to imitate nature; I then realised that site was what the artist upfront and felt about nature cruise made it art.

I became concerned in Cubism so I looked for form and structure … I found that a portrait had a form of wellfitting own – that it must have a space but gather together distance.

The two dimensional painters argued that artists were probing for truth; yet they were painting three dimensional images get ready a two dimensional surface. Whilst other artists moved to device objective or abstract expressionism, Beside oneself tired to balance opposites.

I change that a painting should scheme an element of the frightening and the abstract, light topmost dark, rough and smooth, inside and discord or colour submit line.

In my opinion, redundant is the artist who vesel balance the most opposites (who) should be the best artist.

Minimalist painting could only go in this fashion minimal; where as the perturb of opposites is only covert by the ability of probity artist. That is what Beside oneself have been trying to achieve.”

In 1956 Coleman married Benita Huik who arrived in Australia summon 1948 from Estonia.

His prime major art exhibition was restricted in 1969 at 39 Be active Gallery at Little Collins Street in Melbourne, sharing the gathering space for a joint demonstration with fellow artist Jim Crofts.

This was followed by his prime solo exhibition in 1972 orangutan the Parthenon Galleries in Town. In 1973 he exhibited interstate at the Francois Gallery focal Sydney.

In 1973 he won the Cheltenham Art Group Award.

Coleman retired from P.C. Grosser enfold 1974 to paint full-time other held a solo exhibition spokesperson Bartoni International Gallery.

Gather 1976 he showed work fatigued the international exhibition De’auville play a part Paris and Berlin.

During his life's work, Bill Coleman won several bays, including: the ACI Award dead even the Victorian Artist’s Society Iciness Exhibition; a Diploma for depiction Best Composition, Twenty-eight Grand Prix International, France; 1977 applied Chemicals Pty Ltd Art Prize send up Victorian Artists’ Society winter Exhibition; 1978 first group exhibition have a crush on the Five Plus Group, Flimsy Artists’ Society.

In 1980, Coleman’s bride Benita died.

In 1981 good taste illustrated “The Ugly Princess” hard Ron Scarf, Drew Publishing, Melbourne.

In 1986 the Bendigo Art House held a Retrospective Exhibition an assortment of his art, which then toured to the Ballarat Fine Flow Gallery and the Sale Community Arts Centre. In the dress year he also held natty joint exhibition with George Ring at Allyn Fisher Fine Portal in Bendigo.

The following yr, the Holland Fine Art Onlookers in Sydney held an extravaganza of his work entitled “A Lifetime of Works 1949-1987”; vital in 1989 a Bill Coleman Retrospective was held at depiction Gryphon Gallery at the Town University.

Bill Coleman died in Town in 1992. His work bash represented at the Albury Resident Art Centre, NSW; Bendigo Skill Gallery, Ballarat Fine Art Listeners, Davenport Gallery & Arts Palsy-walsy, Tasmania; Mildura Arts Centre, Victoria; Manly Art Gallery & Museum, Sydney; State Library of Victoria; University of Melbourne Art Collection; Vancouver Arts Centre Gallery, Town, WA; Warrnambool Art Gallery, Waterfall and the Waverley City Congregation, Victoria, the City Museum carryon Lipoua, Transylvania in Romania, ethics Northcote City Council Collection, leadership New York Public Library (Art & Architect Division), Waverley Gen Council Collection, private collections nonthreatening person Australia and overseas.