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Tony Convey, artist
exhibitions, collections, selected bibliography
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Tony Convey, 2015
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Tony Convey at his first show (with Sylvia) at the Canberra Theatre Centre Gallery in 1973 
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A radiant conundrum by Tony Convey,  poupee etching, 1989
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Two Outsider artists: the great Gunther Deix and Tony Convey at the opening of Double Vision at Orange Regional Gallery in 2015
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Tony Convey and his painting, Little People Who Don't Want War, Weston, ACT, 1990
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Tony Convey, Victoria, Australia, 2015
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From 'Enchantment: Paintings by Tony Convey', curated by Sylvia Convey, Callan Park Gallery, SCA, 2014
Born: 1946, Prahran, Victoria

Tony’s career spans more than 40 years and includes paintings, drawings, prints, sculpture, assemblage, writings, sound recordings and films. 
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Solo exhibitions

Tony has had 23 solo exhibitions including:
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1985 ‘Rites of Salvage’ Kingston Art Space Canberra
1986 ‘Radiance Of Life’ Gallery Art Naive South Yarra
1987 ‘Rites Of Salvage’ Chameleon Gallery Hobart
1988 Cooks Hill Gallery Newcastle
1988 ‘The Black Night Gold Grubbers’ Canberra Contemporary Art Space
1989 ‘Seek Shining Life’ Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia
1994 Arte En Marge Brussels
​2011 ‘The Rapture’ Gallery Stimuleye Melbourne
2013 ‘Hope’ Gallery Stimuleye Melbourne
2014 ‘Enchantment’ Callan Park Gallery, Sydney College of the Arts 


Group exhibitions

Tony participated in numerous group shows between 1974-2014 including:
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1981 ‘Australian Primitives’ Anvil Gallery Kergunyah, Victoria
1983-84 ‘Wonderland’ toured NSW Regional Galleries
1984 ‘Naives and Visionaries’ Howard Street Gallery Perth
1984 ‘Australian Naives’ Rainsford Gallery Sydney
1984 ‘Post Atomic Card Show’ Bitumen River Gallery Canberra
1985 ‘Bah Humbug’ Bitumen River Gallery Canberra
1986 ‘Drawings’ Praxis Gallery Perth
1986 ‘The Printed Image’ Canberra Contemporary Art Space
1987 ‘The Autistic Theatre:Art Brut In Australia’ Kelly Street Kollectiv Sydney
1987 ‘True Signs’ Art Zone Adelaide
1988 ‘Outsider Art’ Street Level Gallery Penrith
1988 ‘Tenth Anniversary Exhibition’ Gallery Art Naive Melbourne
1988-1989 ’10:1 Print Project’ Toured Galleries in the ACT, NSW and Victoria
1989 ‘Australian Art Brut’ Gallerie Cannibal Pierce Paris
1989 ‘The Magic Eye and Its Dream Rivers’ Iwalewa Haus, University Of Bayreuth
1989 ‘Outsider Art From Europe, Australia and the United States’ Bockley Gallery Minneapolis
1989 ‘Serbian and Australian Naive Art’ Art Connections Gallery Melbourne
1990 ’15 Australian Outsider Artists’ Orange Regional Gallery
1990-1992 ‘Pacific Rim Book Works Exhibition’ Toured Galleries in the USA, Australia & Japan
​1990 ‘12th Annual Naive Art Exhibition’ Gallery Art Naive Melbourne
1992 ‘A Cerebral Odyssey’ James Harvey Gallery Sydney
1993 ‘The Convey Family:Australian Outsiders’ Site De La Creation Franche Begles
1993 ‘Refusing Any Annexation’ Wollongong City Gallery
1993 ‘Wild’ Tin Sheds Gallery University Of Sydney

1994 ‘The Print, The Press, The Artist and the Printer’ Drill Hall Gallery Canberra
1994 ‘Australian Naive Art’ Barry Stern Gallery Sydney
1994 ‘Relatively Speaking’ James Harvey Gallery Sydney
1994 ‘The Naives’ Libby Edwards Gallery Melbourne
1995 ‘Ding, Dang, Don’t’ Leichhardt Street Gallery Canberra
1999 ‘Raw Art’ Australian Naive Art Gallery Darlinghurst
2004 ‘The CMAG Collection:Studio One Prints’ CMAG Canberra
2007 ‘CMAG’S Studio One Print Collection’ Nara Japan
2007 ‘Australian Outsiders’ Halle St. Pierre Paris
2009 ‘Prints and Drawings From the Permanent Collection’ CMAG Canberra
2010 ‘Summer Exhibition’ Arte En Marge Brussels
2010 ‘Light On the Landscape’ Wangaratta Exhibitions Gallery
2010 ‘Thirteen Australian Outsider Artists’ Callan Park Gallery, Sydney College Of the Arts
2011 ‘On the Outer’ Gallery Stimuleye Melbourne
2011 ‘Just Imagine’ Wqllongong City Gallery
2011 ‘Monoprints’ [With Sylvia Convey] Gallery Stimuleye Melbourne
2014 ‘Rainbows and Darkness’ [With Sylvia Convey] Gallery Stimuleye Melbourne
2014 ‘Paper Aeroplanes’ Studio B Pennsylvania
2014 ‘Make It Sew’ Wollongong City Gallery

2014 'Raw Edge' Gallery Stimuleye Richmond Victoria
2015  'Double Vision: A Survey Of the Art Of Sylvia and Tony Convey' Orange Regional Gallery
2015 'A Shared Journey' Gallery Stimuleye Richmond Victoria
2016 'Creatures' Queenscliff Gallery and Workshop Victoria
2017 'Bellarine Printmakers' Queenscliff Gallery and Workshop Victoria
2017 'Haunted House' screened at the inaugural North Bellarine Film Festival
2018 'Celebration - 20 Years Of Collecting Visual Art At CMAG' CMAG Canberra

Collections include

ACT Legislative Assembly; Australian Gallery Of Sport, MCG, Melbourne; Canberra Times; Canberra Hospital; Canberra Museum and Art Gallery; Neuve Invention Gallery, Lausanne, Switzerland; Iwalewa Haus, University Of Bayreuth; Melbourne City Council; National Gallery Of Australia; STOARC Archive, Sydney College Of the Arts; Wangaratta Shire Council; Wollongong City Gallery

Selected bibliography
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1980 ‘Days of Gold’ Tony Convey [Thompsons] Albury
1983 ‘Wonderland’ Audray Banfield [Albany Regional Art Centre]
1985 ‘World Encyclopedia of Naïve Art’ Oto Bihalji-Merin,
Nebojša Bato Tomašević [eds]
[Scala:Harper and Row] New York
1985 ‘Rites of Salvage’ Tony Convey [Kingston Art Space]
1986 ‘Unreal City’ Stephanie Radok, eX de Medici [eds] [Bitumen River Gallery] Canberra
1986 ‘Radiance of Life’ Tony Covey [Gallery Art Naïve] Melbourne
1987 ‘Earth Skin Heart’ Sylvia Convey, Andrew Powell, Tony Convey [Heart Press] Canberra
1987 ‘Tall Tales’ Sylvia Convey, Andrew Powell, Tony Convey [Heart Press] Canberra
1988 ‘Unreal City 2’ Stephanie Radok, eX de Medici [eds] [Canberra Contemporary Art Space]
1988 ‘The Black Night Gold Grubbers’ Philip Hammial, Tony Convey [Canberra Contemporary Art Space]
1988 ’10:1 Print Project’ Basil Hall [Studio One] Canberra
1988 ‘Art Brut: Madness and Marginalia’ Allen S Weiss [ed] [Special Issue of Art and Text]
1989 ‘Outsider Art in Australia’ Ulli Beier, Philip Hammial [eds] [Special Issue of Aspect]
1989 ‘Blast 8’ Ann Nugent, Bill Tully [eds] Canberra
1989 ‘The Magic Eye and its Dream Rivers’ Stephen Convey, Sylvia Convey, Anthony Mannix, Tony Convey [Iwalewa Haus] Bayreuth
1989 ‘Serbian and Australian Naïve Art’ Vasa Karapic, Koviljka Smiljkovic [Museum of Naïve Art Svetozarevo]
1989 ‘Seek Shining Life’ Jenny McFarlane, Tony Convey [Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia] 1989 ‘Outsider Kunst Aus Australien’ Ulli Beier [Iwalewa Haus] Bayreuth
1989 ‘Australian Art Brut: An Art Beyond Intimidation’ Ken Shepherd [Gallerie Cannibal Pierce] Paris 1989 ‘Sophisticated Naïves’ Elana Steinberg [Vive la Vie December]
1990 ‘Artists and Galleries of Australia’ Max Germaine [ed] [Craftsman House]
1990 ’15 Australian Outsider Artists’ Peter O’Neill [Orange Regional Gallery]
1990 ‘Figures and Faces in Outsider Art’ Roger Cardinal in ‘Portraits from the Outside’ [Groegfeax] NY
1991 ‘7 Australian Outsider Artists’ Angela Wong [Grafton Regional Gallery]
1991 ‘Sun, Smoke and Steel’ Basil Hall [Studio One] Canberra
1991 ‘Cross Currents’ Judith Hoffberg [Umbrella Associates] Pasadena California
1992 ‘Scarp 21’ R. K. Pretty [ed] [University of Wollongong]
1993 ‘Artlink Vol 12 No. 4’ [Special Issue on Naïve and Outsider Art]
1994 ‘Australian Naïve Art’ Sandra Warner [Craftsman House]
1994 ‘The Encyclopedia of Australian Art’ Alan McCulloch, Susan McCulloch [eds] [Allen and Unwin]
1994 ‘The Print, The Press, The Artist and The Printer’ Sasha Grishin, Dianne Fogwell [Drill Hall Gallery] 1994 ‘Australian Printmaking in the ‘90’s’ Sasha Grishin [Craftsman House] Sydney
1999 ‘Allegemeines Kunstler Lexicon Vol 21’ [K.G. Verlag] Munich
2006 ‘The New McCulloch’s Encyclopedia of Australian Art’ [Aus Art Editions The Miegunyah Press] Melbourne
​2013 ‘The Outsider: Patricide 6’ Neil Coombs [Dark Windows Press] UK
2014 'Patricide 7 Surrinema - Surrealism and the Cinema' Neil Coombes [ed] [ Dark Windows Press ] UK. Includes Tony's film 'Haunted House'
2014 'Enchantment: Paintings by Tony Convey' Sylvia Convey [ Callan Park Gallery SCA ]
2015 'Double Vision: A Shared Journey' Professor Colin Rhodes, Sylvia Convey, Tony Convey [ Tellurian Research Press ] Melbourne
2015 'Double Vision: A Survey Of the Art Of Sylvia and Tony Convey over the last 44 years' Lisa Loader [ Orange Regional Gallery ] 
2017 'Spirit Lines Graphics by Sylvia and Tony Convey' Essay By Colin Rhodes [ Tellurian Research Press ] Melbourne
2018 'La Vertebre et le Rossignol 5: Vies de Saint-Artaud' David Nadeau [ Hiver ]
2018 'Celebration - 20 Years Of Collecting Visual Art At CMAG' Deborah Clark, Shane Breynard [ CMAG ] Online Catalogue 



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