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John Rigby's Biographical Details

INTRODUCTION	CAREER	AWARDS
REPRESENTED	BIBLIOGRAPHY	MEDIA

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SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

Early 1940s: exhibited in the annual exhibitions of the Royal Queensland Art Society. 
During 1950s: showed in various annual exhibitions of Brisbane's Half Dozen Group of
Artists and the Queensland Artists of Fame and Promise Annual exhibitions.

Not listed: National touring exhibitions (often involving State or regional galleries) where
either winning, finalist or selected works were included, e.g. Women's Weekly Portrait Prize,
Archibald, Wynne, Sulman, Uncommon Australians, and Doug Moran National Portrait Prizes.

Note:	Solo exhibitions unless otherwise noted.
1949	Strath Art Exhibition, Sydney (mixed exhibition)	1951	Marodian Gallery, Brisbane (mixed exhibition: The Strath Art Group)
1954	Johnstone Gallery, Brisbane (1st solo)	1955	Johnstone Gallery, Brisbane (mixed exhibition: Four Queensland Artists)
1956	Johnstone Gallery, Brisbane	1958	Terry Clune Gallery, Sydney Johnstone Gallery, Brisbane
1961	Rudy Koman Gallery, Sydney (mixed exhibition: A Group of Brisbane Painters) Johnstone Gallery, Brisbane Raymond Burr Galleries, L.A., USA (mixed exhibition: Australian Painting)	1962	Johnstone Gallery, Brisbane (mixed exhibition: 14 Queensland Painters)
1963	Johnstone Gallery, Brisbane	1964	Rudy Koman Gallery, Sydney (mixed exhibition: Brisbane Artists) Macquarie Galleries, Sydney Leveson Street Gallery, Melbourne
1965	Leveson Street Gallery, Melbourne (mixed exhibition) Johnstone Gallery, Brisbane	1966	Leveson Street Gallery, Melbourne (mixed exhibition) Rudy Koman Gallery, Sydney (mixed exhibition: Brisbane Painters) Macquarie Galleries, Sydney
1967	Design Arts Centre, Brisbane	1969	Leveson Street Gallery, Melbourne Macquarie Galleries, Sydney Mixed exhibition aboard the Italian cruise ships Galileo and Marconi.
1970	Johnstone Gallery, Brisbane	1973	Young Australian Gallery, Brisbane Reid Gallery, Brisbane
1974	Verlie Just Town Gallery, Brisbane	1976	Verlie Just Town Gallery, Brisbane
1978	Verlie Just Town Gallery, Brisbane	1981	Verlie Just Town Gallery, Brisbane
1984	Broadbeach Gallery, Gold Coast, Queensland	1985	Wagner Gallery, Sydney Verlie Just Town Gallery, Brisbane
1986	Downs Gallery and Arts Centre, Toowoomba (with Judith Laws) Wagner Gallery, Sydney	1988	Verlie Just Town Gallery, Brisbane
1989	Wagner Gallery, Sydney	1990	Verlie Just Town Gallery, Brisbane
1992	Verlie Just Town Gallery, Brisbane Wagner Gallery, Sydney	1993	Verlie Just Town Gallery, Brisbane
1994	Buderim House, Buderim, Queensland	1995	Verlie Just Town Gallery, Brisbane
1997	Wagner Gallery, Hong Kong (mixed exhibition: Out of Queensland - three Contemporary Painters) Wagner Gallery, Sydney	1998	Verlie Just Town Gallery, Brisbane Liu Hai-su Art Museum, Shanghai, China  (mixed exhibition: Out Of Australia: An Exhibition of Australian Contemporary Paintings in Shanghai) Bruce Watling Galleries, Gold Coast, Queensland (joint exhibition: Five Men and a Houseboat)
1999	Verlie Just Town Gallery, Brisbane (mixed exhibition: International Year of Older Persons Exhibition)	2000	Wagner Gallery, Sydney (mixed exhibition: Modern Masters of Australian Painting ) Wagner Gallery, Sydney (Oct/Nov)
2001	Wagner Gallery, Sydney (Collectors’ Choice mixed exhibition) Visual Arts Centre, Hong Kong (mixed exhibition: Out of Australia)	2002	Visual Arts Centre, Hong Kong (mixed exhibition: Australian Realists  & Modern Painters)
2004	Wagner Gallery, Sydney	2005	Art Gallery Collections, Surfers Paradise, Queensland
2006	Gallery G, Brisbane	2007	Pollock Gallery, Melbourne
2009	Wagner Gallery, Sydney

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