Born 28th March 1957
Warwickshire, England
Adelaide, Australia from 1969
Currently lives in Canberra, A.C.T
1986-88: Batchelor of Arts (Visual), Canberra School of Art, A.C.T
1983-85: Painting and Drawing, Central School of Art, Adelaide, South Australia
1981-83: Associate Diploma of Liberal Studies (painting), Hartley College Adelaide, South Australia
1992 Paintings Legge Gallery
1993 Paintings Legge Gallery
1994 Paintings Dick Bett Gallery, Hobart, Tasmania
1995 Paintings Legge Gallery
1996 Paintings, Dick Bett Gallery
1997 Cold Stripp Gallery, Melbourne
New Works Legge Gallery
First Love: Paintings by Derek O'Connor and Robert Cleworth Legge Gallery
1998 Cabin Fever Lovers Gallery, Melbourne
1999 Pairs Legge Gallery
Duo Dick Bett Gallery
2000 Paintings Legge Gallery
2001 Paintings Legge Gallery
Reciprocal Translocations First Floor Gallery, Melbourne
1988 Persistent Memories EMR Gallery, Sydney
1989 Eastern States, Western States Beach Gallery, Perth
1990 Works from the Studios Ben Grady Gallery, Canberra
Sue Andrews, Derek O'Connor, Glenn Murray Legge Gallery
1991 When Love Blooms Legge Gallery
Works On Paper Legge Gallery
Group Of Five Legge Gallery
1992 Thisness Legge Gallery
1993 Moet & Chandon Touring Exhibition
A Show of Strength Dick Bett Gallery, Tasmania
Canberra Contemporary Art Fair Australian National University Drill Hall Gallery, Canberra
The Allen Allen and Hemsley Collection Westpac Gallery, Melbourne
Tempest Legge Gallery
1994 Zac Patafta 108 Gertrude Street, Melbourne
Fourth Australian Contemporary Art Fair Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne
Artists Don’t Believe in Sanity Clause Legge Gallery
1995 Drawings Part B Legge Gallery
Carlos Raz Studio 12, 200 Getrude Street, Melbourne
Chameleon: A Decade Contemporary Art Services Tasmania, Long Gallery, Hobart
The Derwent Collection: Australian Art of the 1980s and 1990s Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart
Summer Exhibition Legge Gallery
1996 Dirty Surface, Stripp Gallery, Melbourne
Snow Stripp Gallery, Melbourne
Restless and Messy curated by Bala Starr, Contemporary Arts Centre South Australia
Acquisitions of Contemporary Australian Art National Gallery of Victoria
First Love: Paintings by Robert Cleworth and Derek O’Connor Legge Gallery
Fifth Australian Contemporary Art Fair Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne
Abstraction Now curated by Simeon Kronenberg, touring exhibition
Fuss, Gallery Constantinople, Queanbeyan
1997 Living with Art, Spiral Arm Gallery, Canberra
Recent Acquisitions National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
Alumni Painting Show Photospace, Canberra School of Art
Sanguine Valediction Legge Gallery
Wer Schutzt un Fuor HANSI? Kunstwerk Kard, Cologne Art Fair 1997, Germany
1998 Tennants Show Spiral Arm Gallery, Canberra
Go Home, There’s Nothing to See Spiral Arm Gallery, Canberra
Sixth Australian Contemporary Art Fair Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne
Christmas Show Legge Gallery
1999 Tennants Show Artspace 71, Kingston, Canberra
Contemporary Australian Paintings from the Allen Allen & Hemsley Collection University of Technology, Sydney
Group Show Legge Gallery
Show (with Peter Vandermark) Artspace 71, Canberra
10th Summer Exhibition Legge Gallery
2000 On the brink: abstraction of the 90s curated by Kelly Gellatly, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne
Seventh Australian Contemporary Art Fair Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne
Ten Years Legge Gallery
Summer Exhibition Legge Gallery
2001 Coincidence: an exhibition of abstract painting: curated by Geoff Newton, Spiral Arm Gallery, Kingston, Canberra
Legge Gallery Artists Use Atelier Artists' Acrylics Legge Gallery
1988 Lend Lease Painting Award
1990 Capital Arts Patrons Organisation Individual Arts Grant
1992 Tasmanian Arts Advisory Board Individual Arts Grant
1995 Pat Corrigan award for exhibition development
1998 Department of Arts and Culture A.C.T Individual Artist Grant,
Studio Residency, Cologne, Germany
National Gallery of Australia
National Gallery of Victoria
Allen, Allen and Hemsley, Sydney
Pan Pacific Collection
Derwent Collection, Hobart
Artbank
ABN AMRO, Renzo Piano Building, Sydney
ABC: Coast to Coast, television arts program, August 1991
Annear, J.: Moet & Chandon Touring Exhibition, catalogue, Melbourne, 1993
Cato, N. (Ed): Fourth Australian Contemporary Art Fair, Australian Commercial Galleries Association, Melbourne, 1994
Fern, L.: People at Play, The Sydney Morning Herald, 23 March
Hammond, V.: The Derwent Collection: Australian Art of the 1980s and 1990s, Tasmanian Museum
and Art Gallery, Hobart, 1995
Hammond, V.: Chameleon: A Decade, exhibition catalogue, Contemporary Art Services, Tasmania,
Hobart, 1995
Haynes, Peter: The Land Sited, Unreal City, Canberra Contemporary Art Space, no.1, 1990
Haynes, Peter: Reviews, Art Monthly, September, 1990
Heathcote, Christopher: Contemporary Australian Paintings, The Age, 1993
Heathcote, Christopher: Moet & Chandon, review, The Age, 1993
King, N. and Kronenberg, S.: Abstraction Now, exhibition catalogue, Geelong Art Gallery,
Melbourne, 1996
Malone, Gavin: Restless and Messy, Artlink, vol. 17, no. 1, 1996
Mendelssohn, Joanna: Popping the Cork, The Bulletin, March 1993
O’Donall, S.: Restless and Messy, exhibition catalogue, Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia, 1996
Currently employed National Gallery of Australia, Installations Department
Part-time lecturer at the Canberra School of Art, Core/Complimentary Studies, 1998-9
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