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Don Heron
Toowong Cemetery hillside (detail), 1994

Don Heron
Toowong Cemetery hillside, 1994
Oil on canvas
100 x 120cm
Purchased 1995. Queensland Art Gallery Foundation
Queensland Art Gallery Collection
Reproduced with permission

Don Heron
Glen Aplin landscape (9), 1998
Oil on paper
40 x 50cm
Private collection
Reproduced with permission

Don Heron
Glen Aplin landscape (12), 1998
Oil on paper
40 x 50cm
Private collection
Reproduced with permission

Don Heron
Streetscape, Stanthorpe (2), 1998
Oil on paper
40 x 50cm
Private collection
Reproduced with permission

Don Heron
Ballandean Gun Club, 1998
Oil on paper
40 x 50cm
Private collection
Reproduced with permission

Don Heron
Cunningham Highway, 1998
Oil on paper
40 x 50cm
Private collection
Reproduced with permission

Don Heron
Cottonvale, 1998
Oil on paper
40 x 50cm
Private collection
Reproduced with permission

Don Heron was born in Mackay in 1970. He completed a Bachelor of Arts (Visual Arts) degree at the then Brisbane College of Advanced Education in 1989. In 1992 he received the Queensland Art Gallery’s Melville Haysom Memorial Art Scholarship. In 1995 Heron was awarded the National Australia Day Council’s Artist-in-Residence Program at Bundanon. His work was included in the Queensland Art Gallery travelling exhibition, ‘The Urban Edge’ in 1997–98 and the 1998 Wynne Prize Exhibition at the Art Gallery of New South Wales.

Selected bibliography

Burnett, D., The Urban Edge [exhibition catalogue], Queensland Art Gallery, South Brisbane, 1998.

Heathcote, C., ‘A post-war rebel without a cause for controversy’, The Age, 3 August 1994, p. 22.

Marzik, Michael, Fields of Vision: Eight Queensland Artists [exhibition catalogue], Cairns Regional Gallery, Cairns, 1997.

Murphy, J., Don Heron [exhibition catalogue], Darren Knight Gallery, Sydney, 2000.

Murray Cree, L. and Drury, N. (eds), Australian Painting Now, Craftsman House, Sydney, 2000.

Nelson, R., ‘Beyond the gene gallery’, The Age, 27 March 1996, p. 20.

Smith, S., ‘Inner city blues’, Courier-Mail, 17 February 1996, p. 13.

Smith, S. ‘Tried techniques sustain shock of the new talent’, Courier-Mail, 13 May 1999, p. 12.

Solo exhibitions

2000

Darren Knight Gallery, Sydney.

1999

Smith + Stoneley, Brisbane (presented by Darren Knight Gallery, Sydney).

1998

Darren Knight Gallery, Sydney.

1996

Darren Knight Gallery, Melbourne.

Doggett Street Studio, Brisbane.

1994

Darren Knight Gallery, Melbourne.

1991

‘Landscape Paintings’, The Butter Factory Artspace, Dayboro.

Group exhibitions

2000

‘Unveiling the QUT Art Collection’, Queensland University of Technology Art Museum, Brisbane.

1998

‘1998 Wynne Prize’, Art Gallery of New South Wales,

‘Stanthorpe Arts Festival 1998’, Stanthorpe Regional Art Gallery, Stanthorpe.

1997

‘The Urban Edge’, Queensland Art Gallery Touring Exhibition, Queensland Art Gallery, South Brisbane.

‘Fields of Vision’, Cairns Regional Gallery, Cairns.

1996

‘On Paper in Practice’, Doggett Street Studios, Brisbane

1994

‘Small Monuments’, Queensland Art Gallery, South Brisbane.

‘Tattersall’s Club Landscape Art Prize 1995’, Waterfront Place, Brisbane.

Benalla Easter Arts Festival’, in Association with Darren Knight Gallery (DKW) and Australia Felix, Benalla, Victoria.

1994 ‘Year’s Finale’, Doggett Street Studios, Brisbane.

‘Darren Knight in Sydney’, in association with Rex Irwin Art Dealer, Sydney.

Darren Knight Gallery, Melbourne.

1993

‘Darren Knight at Gadens Ridgeway’, Level 39, Central Plaza One, Brisbane.

‘The Last Showdown’, The Butter Factory Artspace, Dayboro.

1991

‘Potential Space’, regional touring exhibition organised by The Butter Factory Artspace, Dayboro and the Regional Galleries Association of Queensland.

‘Nine Brisbane Artists’, The Butter Factory Art Space, Dayboro.

1990

‘New Works’, The Palace Gallery, South Brisbane.

1989

‘Graduate Exhibition’, The Old Museum, Brisbane.