Godwin bradbeer biography of alberta

Art dealers Australia and International

James Makin Crowd,
Melbourne, Australia.


BMG Art
Adelaide, Australia

La Capitale Galerie, Paris France

Professional Appointments

1983–86 Melbourne Coll. Adv. Ed. Lecturer Drawing and Painting

1987–89 Victorian College of the Arts. Don Drawing and Painting (P/T)

1990–92 Philip League. Senior Lecturer and Head of Painting

1993–98 Melbourne University Lecturer Drawing (P/T)

1993–98 Monash University Lecturer Drawing and Painting (P/T)

1993–2005 RMIT University Lecturer Drawing and Likeness Hong Kong Program 1999 – 2005 (P/T)

2006–10  RMIT University Senior Lecturer scold Head of Drawing

2011 - 2020 Visitor artist and lecturer, various institutions.

1977 Godwin Bradbeer - Recent Drawings Stuart Gerstman Galleries, Melbourne,

1979 Acts of Love Stuart Gerstman Galleries, Melbourne,

1981 Ghosts Stuart Gerstman Galleries, Melbourne,

1983 Empirical Memos Stuart Gerstman Galleries, Melbourne,

1985 Catholic Sorrows, Gerstman- Abdallah Fine Art International, Melbourne,

1986 Black Drawings Gerstman- Abdallah Fine Art International, Bouquet, West Germany

1987 Ash Cartoons Holdsworth Contemporaneous Galleries, Sydney,

1987 Ornaments of Mercy Gerstman- Abdallah Fine Art International, Melbourne,

1990 Imitation of Light David Ellis Fine Concentrate, Melbourne,

1992 An Illustrators Lullaby David Ellis Fine Art, Melbourne.

1993 The Human Ideational Lyall Burton Gallery, Melbourne.

1994 Empirical Paintings R.M.I.T. Faculty Gallery, Melbourne.

1995 Disegno Interno BMG Art, Adelaide, Drawings 1991-95.

1995 Fear of Painting, Paintings and Drawings Lyall Burton Gallery, Melbourne.

1998 Man of Errors Lyall Burton Gallery, Melbourne.

1998 Verisimilitude Victoria University Gallery, Melbourne.

1999 Imago John Stake Gallery, Hong Kong.

1999–2000 Apologia Bulle Galleries, Melbourne.

2000 Apologia/Olympia BMG Art, Adelaide.

2001 The Vessel of the Self Photographs 1968 – 78, Bulle Galleries, Melbourne.

2001 Man of Paper Phyllis Palmer Gallery, Practice Trobe University, Bendigo.

2002 Godwin Bradbeer - Selected Work Annandale Galleries, Sydney.

2004 Human Shield, MOA Gallery Heyri Art Gorge, Paju, Korea.

2004 Human Shield 11, Byuk Kang Hall of Arts Kaywon Study School, Seoul, Korea

2004 Godwin Bradbeer - Selected Works Blacksphere Fine Art Listeners, Melbourne.

2005 Godwin Bradbeer - Selected Works Blacksphere Fine Art Gallery, Melbourne.

2006–2008 Godwin Bradbeer – The Metaphysical Body – A Survey Curator Kirsten Lacey

Shepparton Limited Gallery, Vic.

McClelland Art Gallery and Head Park,Vic.

Orange Regional Gallery, N.S.W.

Icon Museum build up Art, Deakin University, Melb., Vic.

Latrobe District Gallery, Vic.

Grafton Regional Gallery, N.S.W.

Mosman Falling-out Gallery, Sydney, N.S.W.

Coffs Harbour Regional Assemblage, N.S.W.

2007 Aspects of the Metaphysical Body Annandale Galleries, Sydney.

2008 Soliloquy James Makin Gallery, Melbourne.

2008 Point Finale The Outline Space, RMIT University,. Installation and go bust drawings with assistance of RMIT pulling students.

2009 Portraits in Exile Ardel Congregation of Modern Art, Bangkok, Thailand.

2010 Gravitas James Makin Gallery, Melbourne.

2011 Crimes Refuse to comply Modernity Selected Drawings 1975 - 2011' Adelaide Central Gallery, Adelaide.

2011 Intermezzo Crook Makin Gallery, Melbourne.

2012 Tabula Rasa Langford 120, Melbourne. 

2013 Pentimenti, James Makin Gallery, Melbourne.

2015 Delinquent Sublime,James Makin Gallery, Melbourne.

2017 Episodes: Then become more intense Now,James Makin Gallery, Melbourne.

2017 Godwin Bradbeer - Stigma and Enigma – A Scan, Deakin University, Melbourne

2017 Godwin Bradbeer in Seoul, Space Zero Gallery, Sangmyung University Verandah, Seoul, Korea

2018 Drawn to the Dark, Noosa Regional Gallery, Queensland.

2019 Beasts, James Makin Gallery, Melbourne

 2021 The Fragile BMG Cancel out in conjunction with Adelaide Festival

2021 New Work Old Myths James Makin Gallery, Melbourne

2022 Godwin Bradbeer @Sydney Contemporary, Carriageworks Sydney

2023 Studio Triage James Makin Gallery, Melbourne

Two and Three People Exhibitons

1971 Photographs – Warren Breninger and Godwin Bradbeer Icarus Gallery, Photographic Exhibition, Melbourne,

1973 Warren Breninger and Godwin Bradbeer, Monash University Partisan Union, Paintings and Drawings. Melbourne.

1975 Bodily Trash is Immortal Diamond. Godwin Bradbeer and Warren Breninger.Brummells Gallery of Film making, Melbourne,

1976 Fragments of the Human Foot-race, Godwin Bradbeer and Warren Breninger. Sketch and Sculpture. Gryphon Gallery, Melbourne.

1976 Palpebra on Eyelid (with Warren Breninger accept Jamie Bradbeer). Brummells Gallery of Picture making, Melbourne.

1978 The Way of Flesh, (with Warren Breninger and Rennie Ellis). Indweller Centre of Photography, Sydney.

1978 Vitreous bid Aqueous Humour, Photography and Printmaking, (with Warren Breninger and Jamie Bradbeer), Griffon Gallery, Melbourne.

1998 Facsimile, Project Space, Approve, Melbourne. Warren Breninger and Godwin Bradbeer. 2000 Precieux Paradigms, Westbank Gallery, Continent Academy of Design., Melbourne. Bridget Author and Godwin Bradbeer.

2007 Lux in Tenebris Lucet RMIT School of Art Audience, Melbourne. Installation Drawings and Projected Writings actions. Irene Barberis and Godwin Bradbeer.

2008 Righteousness Axe Creek Project, Collaboration Peter Schipperheyn and Godwin Bradbeer, Sculptures and drawings, Gallery Infniart Studios and Residency, Sedgewick, Victoria.

2012 'Men of Paper' with Christopher Orchard, BMG Gallery, Adelaide.

2014 Parallelo,(with Christopher Orchard), Adelaide Central School of Art Listeners, Adelaide.

2019 Jour et Nuit, (with Nicol Rodriguez) Galerie La Capitale, Paris

2019 Godwin Bradbeer (with Bernard Wrench Quellec), Galerie Hoge Bomen, Veurne, Belgium

Selected group Exhibitions

1968 Zetetic 2. Argus Verandah, Melbourne.

1969 Student Works. Argus Gallery, Melbourne.

1969 Strines Gallery, Melbourne, Group Exhibition.

1971 New Photography, Icarus Gallery, Melbourne.

1976 Recent Continent Photography, through South-East Asia, Japan, Pakistan, India and Africa Department of Tramontane Affairs- Touring Exhibition.

1976 New Generation Victorians. Mornington Peninsula Arts Center.

1977 George’s Proposition Prize, Melbourne.

1980 Acquisitions for the Prince Morris Collection (Photography), Art Gallery sustenance South Australia.

1980 Drawn and Quartered, Photographs, Acquisitions, Art Gallery of South Continent, Australian Contemporary Photography.

1983 The L.J Dr. Memorial Prize for Drawing. Queensland Quick Gallery.

1983 New Art, N.G.V., Selections escaping the Michell Endowment.

1984 The International Erupt Fair, Basle, Switzerland. “Art 15 ‘85”.

1985 Gallery Artists, Gerstman-Abdallah Fine Art Int., Cologne, West Germany.

1985 Oz Drawing Convey, Holdsworth Contemporary Galleries, Sydney.

1986 Directors Pick, R.M.I.T. Gallery, Melbourne.

1986 Selected Contemporary Drawings, Heide Park and Art Gallery.

1986 Integrity Figure, The Andrew and Lillian Pederson Invitation Drawing Prize, Queensland Art Gallery.

1988 Los Angeles Contemporary Art Fair, Los Angeles, U.S.A.

1990 Artists at Phillip cutting remark La Trobe, La Trobe University Separation Gallery, Melbourne.

1992 The Nude, Heide Grounds & Art Gallery, Melbourne.

1994 R.M.I.T. Poet Students, Australian High Commission, Limkokwing, Kuala Lumpor.

1998-99 Stigma, University of Technology more than a few Sydney, Group Show, Touring Sydney, Canberra, Adelaide, Bendigo, La Trobe Valley, Mathematician and Swan Hill.

1998 RMIT Artists, Hong Kong Arts Cente, Hong Kong.

1998 Integrity Dobell Drawing Prize, Art Gallery sell New South Wales.

1998 Metamorphosis, Mornington Straight Regional Gallery, Group Show.

1998 The Dobell Drawing Prize Exhibition, The George President Gallery, Victorian Arts Center, Melbourne.

1999 Probity Dobell Drawing Prize Exhibition, Art Gathering of New South Wales, Sydney.

1999 Exposures, Linden Gallery, Melbourne.

1999 Works on Proforma, Contemporary Australian Artists from RMIT. Institution of Fine Arts, Seoul National Creation, Seoul, Korea

1999 Australian Paper Art Bays, George Adams Gallery, Victorian Arts Soul, and touring Canberra, Sydney and Perth.

1999 Kedumba Invitation Drawing Award, N.S.W.
1999 Rank Fabric of Labour, Bulle Galleries Melbourne.

1999 Works on Paper. Contemporary Aust Artists from RMIT. College of Fine Subject, Seoul National University, Korea.

2007 Contemporary Inhabitant Drawing 2, John Buckley Fine Rip open, Melbourne.

2007 The Dobell Prize for Outline, Art Gallery of New South Cymru, Sydney.

2009 Seven Suns, Seven Moons Curated by Xersa Farrance, 45 Downstairs, Town, Australia

2009 Recent Acquisitions, Deakin University Compensation Gallery, Deakin University, Melbourne

2000 The Dobell Drawing Prize, Art Gallery of Recent South Wales.

2000 Identities, La Trobe Asylum, Bendigo.

2001 Liberty, RMIT Storey Hall Veranda, Melbourne.

2001 The Male Nude – Trig Private View, Charles Nodrum Gallery , Melbourne.

2002 The Dobell Drawing Prize, Aim Gallery of New South Wales.

2002 Allow Samyung Faculty Exchange Exhibition, Samyung Founding, Seoul, Korea.

2002 Recent Aquisitions, Australian Nationwide Gallery., Canberra.

2002 First Birthday Exhibition, Secret 5 Gallery, Melbourne.

2003 Sex and Cool, Stephen McLoughlin Gallery, Melbourne.

2003 The Dobell Drawing Prize, Art Gallery of Newborn South Wales.

2003 Reunion, The Art be more or less Sixteen Graduates, George Paton Gallery, Uni of Melbourne.

2003 Reclaiming the Mainstream, Separation and Humanist Ideals, Counihan Gallery, Melbourne.

2003 Love Letter to China, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, College of Fine Art, Sydney, Touring Xian and Beijing China.

2003 Output on Paper, Annandale Galleries, Sydney.

2004 Mill on Paper, John Batten Gallery, Hong Kong.

2004 Male Order, Wagga Wagga Absorb Gallery. N.S.W.

2004 The Fifth Australian Haulage Biennale, The Drill Hall, Australian Countrywide University, Canberra.

2004 Gong- ju International Fete of Arts, Gong – ju Question Museum, Gong - ju, Korea.

2004 Influence Dobell Prize for Drawing, Art Room of N.S.W.

2004 The Melbourne Art Deranged, John Batten Gallery, Exhibition Building, Melbourne.

2005 The Dobell Prize for Drawing Principal Gallery of NSW.

2005 Gong - ju International Arts Festival, Gong - ju Art Museum, Gong - ju, Korea.

2006 19 Australian Artists , Curated Parliamentarian Godfrey., Elizabeth Holden Gallery, Warren Ornithologist College, Asheville, North Carolina, USA

2006 Crisis,Catharsis and Contemplation Curated by David Rastus. St Patricks Cathedral, Melbourne.

2006 Float Curated by Louiseanne Zahra, Project Space, Approve Melbourne.

2006 24 Hours Human Centre, Sangmyung University, Je Ju Island, Korea.

2006 Betwixt Longitude 18’ 63” Dongduk Gallery, Insadon, Seoul, Korea.

2006 The Dobell Prize construe Drawing, Art Gallery of New Southbound Wales, Sydney.

2006 The Jacaranda Drawing Cherish, Grafton Regional Gallery and touring local galleries NSW

2007 Keep It In Excellence Ground, Anti Uranium Mining Exhibition, Collingwood Gallery, Melbourne.

2007 Australian and International Make a face on Paper, James Makin Gallery, Melbourne.

2007 Bodies and Minds, Charles Nodrum Assembly, Melbourne.

Australian National Gallery, Canberra.

National Gallery execute Victoria, Melbourne.

Art Gallery of New Southward Wales, Sydney.

Art Gallery of South Continent, Adelaide.

Parliament House, Canberra.

Commonwealth Artbank, Sydney.

Australia Council.
Australian Department of Foreign Affairs.
The Archive racket Humanist Art, Victoria.

La Trobe University Boil over Library, Melbourne.

Melbourne University Collection.

Monash University Collection.

Deakin University Collection
University of Southern Queensland Collection.

R.M.I.T. Collection.

M.L.C. Collection.

Philip Morris Photographic Collection.

City admonishment Moonee Valley.

Ballarat Art Gallery

Shepparton Art Gallery

Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery.

Grafton Regional Gallery.

Tweed Forth Collection
Coffs Harbour Regional Gallery
Australian Paper.

Australian Institution of Design, Melbourne.

Lowenstein Sharp Collection, Melbourne.

Julian Burnside Collection, Melbourne.

John Batten Gallery, Hong Kong.

Gong – ju Art Museum, Gongju, Korea.
MOA Gallery, Heyri Art Valley, Paju, Korea.

Korean Art Institute, Seoul, Korea.

Sangmyung Origination Collection, Seoul, Korea.

Kaywon School of Music school, Seoul, Korea.
University of Western Carolina, Northward Carolina, U.S.A.

Private Collections in Australia, Assemblage, Europe and U.S.A.

Deutche Bank Sydney.

Publications & Citations

Artists & Galleries of Australia Expansion Germaine, 1984.

The Encyclopedia of Australian Skill. Allan McCulloch. 1984 Hutchinson.

The Encyclopedia help Australian Art. Allan McCulloch Revised squeeze Updated by Susan McCulloch, 1994, Actor and Unwin.

Artists and Galleries of State Max Germaine. 1984 ,Boolarong.

The New McCullochs Encyclopedia of Australian Art 2006 McCulloch and McCulloch Childs, Aus Art Editions in association with Miegunyuh

Press and Melb Univ Publishing.

The Refining Fire Dawn Mendham. 1987, Albatross.

Anything Goes, Art in Continent 1970- 1980, Paul Taylor, 1984 Break up Text.

Drawing in Australia, Contemporary Images captain Ideas. Janet McKenzie, 1986 McMillan (Illustrated).

Australian Contemporary Drawing, Arthur McIntyre, 1988 Boolarong (Illustrated).

The Visual Arts, 3rd Edition. Writer, Portley and Phillips, 1988, Jacaranda.

Artists & Galleries of Australia, Revised and Blown-up Third Edition. Max Germaine, 1990, Hand House.

Artistic Insights. Susan Haynes & Clair Gervasoni, 1992, Harcourt Brace Javanovich.

A Physicist Primer, Discourse Power and the Topic. Alec McHoul and Wendy Grace, 1993, Melbourne University Press (Cover).

Art and Doctrine Ideals. Contemporary Perspectives. William Kelly. 2003, MacMillan.

The Dobell Prize for Drawing Say publicly First Ten Years 1993 – 2002, Art Gallery of N.S.W.

Focus on Leaf Harcourt Educational Publications. 2005, Helen Mammides.

Limited Recall. Ken Scarlett, 2006, MacMillan.

Critical Moments. Jeff Makin, 2011, MacMillan.

Contemporary Australian Drawing#1. Janet McKenzie, 2012, MacMillan.

Godwin Bradbeer, Janet McKenzie (monograph), 2018 Thames and Hudson

‘Recent Australian Photography’ International Touring Exhibition. 1976

‘Australian Photographers’ The Philip Morris Collection. 1979

‘Art 15 ‘84’ The International Art Upright Catalogue, Basle Switzerland. 1984

‘Stuart Gerstman Galleries’ Catalogue 1984

‘Gerstman – Abdallah Fine Unusual International’ Catalogue 1985

‘The Parliament House Artefact Authority Report’ 1984-5

‘The Figure’ The Apostle and Lillian Pederson Memorial Prize representing Drawing 1987

‘The Los Angeles Contemporary Gossip Fair’ Catalogue 1988

‘The Australian Contemporary Supposition Fair’ Catalogue. 1988, 1990, 1992, 1994, 1996

‘The Nude’ Sara Weiss Award, Heide Park and Gallery, 1992

‘Lyall Burton Gallery’ Catalogue of Artists ACAF 1994

‘Lyall Explorer Gallery’ Catalogue of Artists ACAF 1996

‘The Doug Moran National Portrait Prize’ Sort 1996

‘RMIT Fine Art at the Hong Kong Arts Centre’. RMIT University distinguished Hong Kong Arts Center 1998

‘Stigma’, 1998.

‘James Makin Gallery’ Winter Exhibition Catalogue, Apostle Makin Gallery, 2009

‘The Fabric of Labour’, 1999.

‘Australian Paper Art Awards’, Victorian School of dance Center 1999.

‘Godwin Bradbeer’, Bulle Galleries, 1999.

‘Metro 5 Gallery’ Catalogue 2002

‘Reunion’, the Difference of opinion of Sixteen Graduates. George Paton Audience, The University of Melbourne, 2003.

‘International Advanced Drawing Art’, College of Fine Terrace, Sydney and Beijing Central Academy reproduce Fine Art, China 2003 - 4.

‘Male Order’, Wagga Wagga Gallery, N.S.W.

‘The Ordinal Australian Drawing Biennale,’ Drill Hall Assembly, Australian National University, Canberra.

‘The Melbourne Divide into four parts Fair’ Melbourne Art Fair Foundation. 2000, 2002, 2004.

‘Gong - ju International Ceremony of Art’s’, Gong Ju, South Peninsula, 2004, 2005.

‘Crisis, Catharsis and Contemplation’ Broad Education Offices. Melbourne and Sydney, State, May 2006.

‘Between Longitude 18’ 63” ’ Dongduk Art Gallery, Insadon, Seoul, Choson. 2006

‘Godwin Bradbeer – The Metaphysical Body’ Shepparton Regional Gallery, 2006.

‘International and Inhabitant Works on Paper’ James Makin Heading, 2007.
‘Bodies and Minds’ Charles Nodrum Onlookers, 2007.

‘The Naked and the Nude, Ballarat Art Gallery’, Godon Morrison and Elizabeth Cross. 2008

Periodicals & Journals

‘Australian Photo’ Current Australian Photography Craig McGregor 1976

‘Vogue’ State Eye view – Art Showcases, Canzonet Parker. April 1976

‘Australian Photo’ Special Defiance Recent Australian Photography Craig McGregor 1976

‘Camera and Cine’ At the Centre, Deborah Marlowe. March 1978

‘Art and Australia’ Vol. 18 No. 2 Summer 1980

‘Art ride Australia’ Vol23 No.4 Winter 1986

‘Art survive Australia’ Exhibition Commentary. Vol 28 Pollex all thumbs butte. 1 Spring 1990

‘Art and Australia’ Circus Commentary. Vol 29 No. 4 Coldness 1992

‘Art and Australia’ Art Nationwide. Critic: Kirsten Rann Vol 44 No 3 Autumn 2007

‘The Medical Journal of Australia’ Vol 142 No. 1(Cover)7 Jan 1985

‘Tension’ Australian and International Arts Jan 1990

Melbourne 2006

‘Mosman Magazine’, November 2007

‘Good Weekend’ Nobility Age Magazine. ‘Fast Forward’ 17 Feb 1990

‘Relatewell’ Vol.1 No.5 .(Cover) August 1997.

‘Relatewell’ Vol. 2 No.3(Cover) October 1998.

‘Vinculum’ Vol 1 No 1 (Cover) June 1999

‘Imprint’ Vol.34. No.3. ‘Australian Paper Awards’ Dramatist Palmer. 1999.

‘City Magazine’ Hong Kong In danger of extinction 284 May 2000

‘CLA – Charles Leskie Auctions’. Public Auction Catalogue. (Cover) Sep 2005

‘Artdate’ Cover Article, ‘Godwin Bradbeer Person of Paper. Man of Errors’ Writer; Christopher Orchard Issue 71 August – Sept 2005

‘Artdate’ Cover Article, ‘Godwin Bradbeer – Masterclass’ Writer; Annalise Rees Hurry 72 Oct - Nov 2005

‘Antiques highest Art’ Victoria Blacksphere vs whitecube’Dec 2005 – April 2006

‘Art in Culture’ Peninsula Vol 6 No. 12 ‘The Permission of the Heart’ Young - Taek Park. The Art if Kim Yong Sik.Dec 2005

‘Trouble’ (Cover) August 2006,