Tony Convey, artist
exhibitions, collections, selected bibliography
exhibitions, collections, selected bibliography
Tony Convey, 2015
Tony Convey at his first show (with Sylvia) at the Canberra Theatre Centre Gallery in 1973
A radiant conundrum by Tony Convey, poupee etching, 1989
Two Outsider artists: the great Gunther Deix and Tony Convey at the opening of Double Vision at Orange Regional Gallery in 2015
Tony Convey and his painting, Little People Who Don't Want War, Weston, ACT, 1990
Tony Convey, Victoria, Australia, 2015
From 'Enchantment: Paintings by Tony Convey', curated by Sylvia Convey, Callan Park Gallery, SCA, 2014
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Born: 1946, Prahran, Victoria
Tony’s career spans more than 40 years and includes paintings, drawings, prints, sculpture, assemblage, writings, sound recordings and films. Solo exhibitions Tony has had 23 solo exhibitions including: 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: 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 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 |
