Born 1937, Sydney, Australia

Solo Exhibitions
2008 Invisible Pictures, Liverpool Street Gallery, Sydney
2007 ‘better git it in your soul’, Liverpool Street Gallery, Sydney
2006 13 Landscapes, Liverpool Street Gallery, Sydney
Dick Watkins, Niagara Galleries, Melbourne
2005 New Work 2005, Liverpool Street Gallery, Sydney
2003 New Paintings 2003, Liverpool Street Gallery, Sydney
2002 Abstraction, Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne
Newcastle Lights, John Miller Galleries, Newcastle
2001 Marks and Angles, Martin Browne Fine Art, Sydney
2000 New Paintings, Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne
1999 Recent Work 1998-1999, Martin Browne Fine Art, Sydney
1998 Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne
1997 Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne
1996 Paintings 1993-1996, Martin Browne Fine Art, Sydney
1995 Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne
Twilight of the Gods, Yuill/Crowley, Sydney
1994 Twin Peaks, Yuill/Crowley, Sydney
1993 Dick Watkins in Context: An Exhibition from the Collection of the National Gallery. 1993:
15 January-15 July, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
Yuill/ Crowley, Sydney
Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne
1992 Yuill/ Crowley, Sydney
1991 Works on Paper, Yuill/Crowley, Sydney
Yuill/Crowley, Sydney
1990 Yuill/Crowley, Sydney
1989 Wagga Wagga City Art Gallery, New South Wales
Arteries, Yuill/Crowley, Sydney
Pinacotheca, Melbourne
1988 Pinacotheca, Melbourne
Yuill/Crowley, Sydney
1987 Yuill/Crowley, Sydney
Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne
Paintings - Drawings 1981-1987, Galerie Dusseldorf, Perth
1986 Dick Watkins: Australia, XVlll Bienal de Sao Paulo, Heide Park and Art Gallery, Victoria
Dick Watkins: A Retrospective, Broken Hill City Art Gallery, New South Wales; Manly Art
Gallery and Museum, Sydney
Pinacotheca, Melbourne
Yuill/Crowley, Sydney
1985 Dick Watkins: Australia, XVlll Bienal de Sao Paulo, Parque Iberapuera, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Yuill/ Crowley, Sydney
1984 Style Master, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane
Recent Paintings, Yuill/Crowley, Sydney
Pinacotheca, Melbourne
1983 Yuill/Crowley, Sydney
Pinocotheca, Melbourne
1982 Yuill/Crowley, Sydney
1981 Paintings 1981, Coventry Gallery, Sydney
1980 Paintings 1980, Coventry Gallery, Sydney
1979 Landscapes, Coventry Gallery, Sydney
Recent Paintings, Coventry Gallery, Sydney
1977 Paintings from Hong Kong, Coventry Gallery, Sydney
1975 Coventry Gallery, Sydney
New Paintings from Paris, Coventry Gallery, Sydney
1973 Coventry Gallery, Sydney
1972 38 Hargrave Street, Paddington, Sydney
1971 38 Hargrave Street, Paddington, Sydney
1970 38 Hargrave Street, Paddington, Sydney
1969 Retrospective, Central Street Gallery, Sydney
1968 Central Street Gallery, Sydney
1967 Recent Paintings, Central Street Gallery, Sydney
1966 Paintings, Central Street Gallery, Sydney
1965 Exhibition of Interesting Pictures, Watters Gallery, Sydney
1963 The Barry Stern Galleries, Sydney

Group Exhibitions
2009 Summer Exhibition, Liverpool Street Gallery, Sydney
In Paradise: Artists of the Northern Beaches, Manly Art Gallery & Museum, Sydney
2008 Abstraction 7, Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne
Melbourne Art Fair, (Liverpool Street Gallery), Melbourne, Victoria
Wonderlust, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth
2007 2007: The Year in Art, S H Ervin Gallery, National Trust of Australia, Sydney
Abstraction 6, Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne
Art on Paper – The 2007 Hazelhurst Art Award, Hazelhurst Regional Gallery and Arts
Centre, New South Wales
Wynne Prize (finalist), Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Summer Exhibition, Liverpool Street Gallery, Sydney
A Taste of the Chandler Coventry Collection, New England Regional Art Museum, New
South Wales
2006 Blue Chip VIII: The Collectors’ Exhibition, Niagara Galleries, Melbourne
Painting, Liverpool Street Gallery, Sydney
Melbourne Art Fair 2006, Liverpool Street Gallery, Melbourne
Summer Exhibition, Liverpool Street Gallery, Sydney
Ink: Whiteley and Others, The Brett Whiteley Studio, Sydney
The Chroma Collection, Macquarie University Art Gallery, Macquarie University, New
South Wales
Picture the Seventies from the Macquarie University Collection, Macquarie University Art
Gallery, New South Wales
Colour and Movement: Abstract Painting from the Collection of the Geelong Gallery,
Monash Gallery of Art, Victoria
2005 Liverpool Street Gallery 2005, Liverpool Street Gallery, Sydney
The Salon Exhibition, Liverpool Street Gallery, Sydney
The Moderns: 20th Century Painting and Sculpture, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery,
Hobart
Newcastle Region Art Gallery, New South Wales
A Partial View: Australian Art in the University of Western Australia Collection, Lawrence
Wilson Art Gallery, University of Western Australia, Perth
Lloyd Rees and Contemporaries, New England Regional Art Museum, New South Wales
2004 Liverpool Street Gallery 2004, Liverpool Street Gallery, Sydney
Collection Focus: Gunter Christmann, Dick Watkins and Jenny Watson, National Gallery
of Victoria, Melbourne
100 Years on the Edge of Sundown: An Art Auction for the Broken Hill Regional Art
Gallery, National Council of Jewish Women, Sydney; Broken Hill Regional Art Gallery,
New South Wales
Modern Australian Paintings, Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne
2003 Abstraction III, Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne
A New Outfit: Australian Artists Redress Modernism, Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery,
University of Western Australia, Perth
2002-03 Central Street Live, Penrith Regional Gallery and the Lewers Bequest; Macquarie
University Art Gallery, New South Wales
A Summer Show, Martin Browne Fine Art, Sydney
2002 Fieldwork: Australian Art 1968-2002, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
The Archibald Prize, (finalist) Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Monash University: Four Decades of Collecting, Monash University Museum of Art,
Victoria
Abstraction II, Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne
Selected Paintings from the 1960s to the Present, Charles Nodrum Gallery: Deutscher -
Menzies Gallery, Sydney
2001 The Archibald Prize, (finalist) Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Metro 5 Gallery, Melbourne
A Century of Collecting: 1901-2001, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney
2000 The Blake Prize for Religious Art, (finalist), S H Ervin Gallery, National Trust of Australia,
Sydney
Spring: Sensational Painting, Holmes a Court Gallery, Perth
1999 Wall to Wall, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
1998 Summer Exhibition: Dick Watkins and Brent Harris, Martin Browne Fine Art, Sydney
The Archibald Prize, (finalist), Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Art and Furniture of the 1960s, Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne; Luke Design,
Melbourne
1997 I Had a Dream: Australian Art in the 1960s, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
A View of the Collections, New England Regional Art Museum, New South Wales
Swingtime East Coast West Coast: Works from the 1960s and 1970s in the University of
Western Australia’s Art Collection, Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, University of Western
Australia, Perth
Geometric Painting in Australia 1941-1997, University Art Museum, The University of
Queensland, Brisbane
The Archibald, Wynne and Sulman Prizes, (finalist), Art Gallery of New South Wales,
Sydney
A Cross Section of Original Prints by Artists of the Warringah Print Workshop, Studio One
Gallery, Canberra
Permanent Collection, Sunday and John Reed Galleries, Museum of Modern Art at
Heide, Victoria
39 Paintings and 2 Sculptures, Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne
1996 TECAA 2: Joan and Peter Clemenger Triennial Exhibition of Contemporary Australian
Art, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Into and Out of Abstraction, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Obsession – Works on Paper and Sculpture from the Chandler Coventry Collection, New
England Regional Art Museum, Armidale
Hidden Treasures II: Art in Corporate Collections, S H Ervin Gallery, The National Trust
of Australia, Sydney
Stock Exhibition, Martin Browne Fine Art, Sydney
1995-96 Blast from the Past: Works from the 60s, Geelong Art Gallery, Victoria
1995 Australian Art 1940-1990: From the Collection of the National Gallery of Australia: In
Search of an Inner Landscape, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra; Museum of Fine
Arts, Gifu, Japan
The Loti and Victor Smorgon Gift of Contemporary Australian Art, Museum of
Contemporary Art, Sydney
The Sulman Prize, (finalist), Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Australian Art: Colonial to Contemporary, Deutscher Fine Art, Melbourne
Contemporary Art from the Collection, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
1994 Chandler Coventry: Obsession: Works on Paper and Sculpture, Campbelltown City Art
Gallery, Sydney
The Baillieu Myer Collection of the 80s, Museum of Modern Art at Heide, Victoria
The Beach, Museum of Modern Art at Heide, Victoria
1993 The Warringah Print Workshop Exhibition, Great Hall, Pittwater High School
Chandler Coventry: A Private Collection, Campbelltown City Art Gallery, Sydney
Contemporary Australian Paintings: Works from the Allen Allen & Hemsley Collection,
Melbourne International Festival, Westpac Gallery, Victorian Arts Centre, Melbourne
1992 Third Australian Contemporary Art Fair, Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne
Distraction, Yuill/Crowley, Sydney
20th Century Australian and New Zealand Painting, Martin Browne Fine Art, Sydney
1991-92 New Acquisitions and a Selection from the Monash University Collection, Monash
University Gallery, Victoria
1991 Penultimate, Yuill/ Crowley, Sydney
3: Robert Hunter, Dick Watkins, Robert Macpherson, Yuill/Crowley at the Chicago
International Art Exposition, Chicago, United States of America
Modern Australian Paintings, Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne
1990-91 Selections from the Monash University Collection, Monash University Gallery, Victoria
Highlights of the Permanent Collection, Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, University of
Western Australia, Perth
Acquisitions 1989-90, Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, University of Western Australia,
Perth
1990 Central Street: An Exhibition of Selected Paintings Shown at Central Street Gallery in
Sydney Between 1966 and 1969, Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne; Ray Hughes
Gallery, Sydney
The Moet & Chandon Acquisitions in the Art Gallery of Western Australia, Art Gallery of
Western Australia, Perth
Crouch Prize Winners, Ballarat Fine Art Gallery, Victoria
Geelong Art Prize Exhibition, Geelong Art Gallery, Victoria
Yuill/Crowley, Sydney
A Rebours, Yuill/Crowley, Sydney
Scotchmans Hill Vineyard Art Prize, Geelong Art Gallery, Victoria
Monash University Collection: A Selection Including Recent Purchases, Russell Drysdale
Gallery
From the Collection: Selections from the Monash University Collection, Monash
University Gallery, Victoria
1989 Australian Paintings from the Joseph Brown Collection, Art Gallery of New South Wales,
Sydney
Australian Watercolours, Drawings, Prints 1935-1989, Charles Nodrum Gallery,
Melbourne
A Private Collection, Garry Anderson Gallery, Sydney
1988 Creating Australia: 200 Years of Australian Art 1788-1988, Queensland Art Gallery,
Brisbane; Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth; Art Gallery of New South Wales,
Sydney; Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart; National Gallery of Victoria,
Melbourne; Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
Loti and Victor Smorgon Collection of Contemporary Art, Australian Centre for
Contemporary Art, Melbourne; touring to Europe and the United States of America
Yuill/Crowley, Sydney
The Caddy Collection, Watters Gallery, Sydney
Australian Art Post-1960, Deutscher Gertrude Street, Melbourne
Pinacotheca Gallery, Melbourne
Heidelberg and Heritage: Two Visions of Australia - One Hundred Years Apart, (Memorial
to Lloyd Rees), Linden Gallery, Melbourne
First Australian Contemporary Art Fair, Yuill/Crowley, Royal Exhibition Buildings,
Melbourne
An Exhibition of Selected Paintings from the 1960s and 1970s, Charles Nodrum Gallery
at Mary Place, Sydney
1987 Field to Figuration: Australian Art 1960-86, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Minimal Art in Australia, Museum of Contemporary Art, Brisbane
Contemporary Art in Australia – A Review, Museum of Contemporary Art, Brisbane
1986-87 Surface for Reflexion, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney: The Lewers Bequest and
Penrith Regional Art Gallery, New South Wales; New England Regional Art Museum,
New South Wales; Bathurst Regional Art Gallery, New South Wales; Newcastle Region
Art Gallery, New South Wales; Orange Regional Gallery, New South Wales; Wollongong
City Gallery, New South Wales
1986 Origins, Originality and Beyond: The Biennale of Sydney, Art Gallery of New South
Wales, Sydney
Paintings 1955-1985, 312 Lennox Street, Melbourne
33 Men Painters (The Male Sensibility?), Heide Park and Art Gallery, Victoria
1985 On the Beach, Macquarie Galleries, Sydney
Selected Works from the Last Two Decades, Pinacotheca, Melbourne
1984 Apocalypse + Utopia, University Gallery, The University of Melbourne, Victoria
The Field Now, Heide Park and Art Gallery, Victoria
Form - Image - Sign: Biannual Survey of Contemporary Australian Art No. 3, Art Gallery
of Western Australia, Perth
Australian Paintings, Colonial/ Contemporary, Deutscher Fine Art, Melbourne
The Hugh Williamson Prize, Ballarat Fine Art Gallery, Victoria
1983 Recent Australian Painting: A Survey 1970-1983, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
New England Regional Art Museum, New South Wales
Survey ’83, Commonwealth Savings Bank, 48-50 Martin Place Art Gallery, Sydney
1982 The Seventies - Australian Paintings and Tapestries Collection of the National Australia
Bank, Temporary Exhibitions Gallery, Great Hall, National Gallery of Victoria
Phillip Morris Arts Grant: Australian Art of the Last Ten Years, National Gallery of
Australia, Canberra
Christmann, Hall, Lethbridge, Sheehan, Watkins, Yuill/Crowley, Sydney
Mixed Exhibition, Coventry Gallery, Sydney
1981 Australian Perspecta 1981: A Biennial Survey of Contemporary Australian Art, Art Gallery
of New South Wales, Sydney
Spectres of Our Time, Royal South Australian Society of Arts Gallery, Adelaide
Continuum; NAS 60 – AMC 80, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney
Gallery Artists Group Show, Coventry Gallery, Sydney
1980 Melbourne/Monash Exchange Exhibitions, Melbourne University Gallery, Victoria;
Monash University Gallery, Victoria
1979 The John McCaughey Memorial Art Prize Exhibition, National Gallery of Victoria,
Melbourne
Trustees’ Purchase Exhibition: LJ Harvey Memorial Prize for Drawing, Queensland Art
Gallery, Brisbane
1978 The 1960s into the 1970s: Selections from the Chandler Coventry Collection, Monash
University Exhibition Gallery, Melbourne
Autumn Exhibition, Joseph Brown Gallery, Melbourne
1977 Australian Colourists ‘77, Western Australian Institute of Technology, Perth
1976 Coventry Collection 1966-1976, University Hall, University of New England, Armidale
Phillip Morris Arts Grant Third Annual Exhibition 1976, Adelaide Festival of the Arts,
South Australia
1975 Coventry Gallery, Sydney
Phillip Morris Arts Grant, Second Annual Exhibition, Melbourne City Square, Melbourne
1974 Fifty Years of the National Art School, Bonython Gallery, Sydney
The Phillip Morris Arts Grant First Annual Exhibition 1974, Ballarat Fine Art Gallery,
Victoria
Gifts from Patrick White, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Recent Acquisitions, Theatre Centre, National Gallery
1973 The Biennale of Sydney, Sydney Opera House
Recent Australian Art, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Contemporary Australian Painting and Sculpture, New Zealand
1972 Sir William Angliss Memorial Art Prize, Royal Melbourne Show, Royal Agricultural Society
of Victoria
1970 Colour and Structure: Recent British and Australian Paintings, Blaxland Gallery, Sydney
The Tenth Transfield Art Prize, Bonython Gallery, Sydney
1969 Australian Art Today, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra; South East Asia
Dick Watkins/ Tony McGillick: A Selection of Work 1962-1967, Central Street Gallery,
Sydney
Mixed Exhibition, Central Street Gallery, Sydney
A Group Exhibition, Central Street Gallery, Sydney
Central Street Gallery: Sydney Painters, South Yarra Gallery, Melbourne
1968 The Field, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne; Art Gallery of New South Wales,
Sydney
Arts Vietnam, Gallery A, Sydney
Stock Show, Watters Gallery, Sydney
21st Show, Central Street Gallery, Sydney
Group Exhibition, Central Street Gallery, Sydney
Young Contemporaries, Farmers’ Blaxland Gallery, Sydney
Western Australian Contemporary Art Society Annual Invitation Section, Western
Australia
Georges Invitation Art Prize, Georges Gallery, Melbourne
Pinacotheca, Melbourne
United, Gallery A, Sydney
1967 The Australian Painters 1964-1966: Contemporary Australian Painting from the Mertz
Collection, The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, United States of America
New Generation Sydney, Gallery A, Melbourne
Black and White, Central Street Gallery, Sydney
Contemporary Art Society 29th Annual Interstate Exhibition, Farmer's Blaxland Gallery,
Sydney
Contemporary Art Society Autumn Exhibition, The Macquarie Galleries, Sydney
The Big Show, Strines Gallery, Melbourne
Royal Easter Show: Art, Sculpture and Human Image Exhibitions, Art and Crafts Pavilion
and AMP Pavilion, The Royal Agricultural Society of New South Wales, Sydney
The Woman Collector: A Loan Exhibition from 30 Sydney Collections, Art Gallery of New
South Wales; Darlinghurst Galleries, Sydney
1966 Contemporary Australian Painting: Australian Trade Fair Display, Los Angeles, San
Francisco
Daily Mirror Waratah Art Festival Prize Exhibition, Sydney
28th Annual Interstate Exhibition of the Contemporary Art Society incorporating the R H
Taffs Prize, Farmer’s Blaxland Gallery, Sydney
Survey Six: Recent Sydney Painting, Farmer’s Blaxland Gallery, Sydney
Central Street Gallery, Sydney
Purchases and Acquisitions for 1966, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Watkins, Christmann, Szabo, Paramor, McGillick, Schlicht, Central Street Gallery,
Sydney
Young Contemporaries, Farmer's Blaxland Gallery, Sydney
1965 W.D. & H.O. Wills Art Prize, David Jones’ Art Gallery, Sydney
Young Contemporaries, Farmer’s Blaxland Gallery, Sydney
New Generation 1965, Museum of Modern Art and Design of Australia, Melbourne
Sydney Young Painters, Gallery A, Melbourne; Gallery A, Sydney
Drawings and Paintings – A Group Show, Watters Gallery, Sydney
Paintings & Sculpture, Watters Gallery, Sydney
A Unique Exhibition of Avant Garde Art, Contemporary Art Society, Sydney
Contemporary Art Society Mid Year Exhibition, Dominion Art Galleries, Sydney
The Transfield Art Prize, David Jones' Art Gallery, Sydney
1964 The Transfield Art Prize, David Jones’ Art Gallery, Sydney
Survey Four Exhibition: Recent Sydney Painting, Farmer’s Blaxland Gallery, Sydney
Contemporary Art Society Autumn Exhibition, David Jones' Art Gallery, Sydney
Young Contemporaries Exhibition, Farmer’s Blaxland Gallery, Sydney
Contemporary Art Society Annual Interstate Exhibition, Argus Gallery, Melbourne
Contemporary Art Society 26th Annual Interstate Exhibition, Farmer's Blaxland Gallery,
Sydney
Young Minds 1964, Museum of Modern Art and Design of Australia, Melbourne
1963 Survey 1963, Museum of Modern Art and Design of Australia, Melbourne
Transfield, Farmer’s Survey, W.D. & H.O. Wills, Georges
The Wynne Prize, (finalist), Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
The Helena Rubinstein Travelling Art Scholarship, Art Gallery of New South Wales,
Sydney
1st Contemporary Art Society Young Painters Exhibition, Farmer's Blaxland Gallery,
Sydney
Survey Three Exhibition: Recent Sydney Painting, Farmer’s Blaxland Gallery, Sydney
Contemporary Art Society Autumn Exhibition, David Jones’ Art Gallery, Sydney
Dominion Art Galleries, Sydney
1962 Young Commonwealth Artists, RBA Galleries, London
24th Annual Interstate Exhibition of the Contemporary Art Society incorporating the R H
R H Taffs Prize, Farmer’s Blaxland Gallery, Sydney
The Wynne Prize, (finalist), Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
1958-59 The Archibald Prize, (finalist), Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
The Wynne Prize, (finalist), Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

Awards and Prizes
1990 Scotchmans Hill Art Prize, Geelong Art Gallery, Victoria
1976-77 Visual Arts Board Grant
1973 Visual Arts Board Grant
1966 R.H. Taffs Prize, 28th Annual Interstate Exhibition of the Contemporary Art Society,
Farmers’ Blaxland Gallery, Sydney
Daily Mirror-Waratah Festival Art Prize/ Competition (joint winner)
1961 Hunters Hill Art Prize

Collections
Allens Arthur Robinson
Artbank
Art Gallery of New South Wales
Art Gallery of South Australia
Art Gallery of Western Australia
Ballarat Fine Art Gallery
Bathurst Regional Art Gallery
Bendigo Art Gallery
Benalla Art Gallery
Gold Coast City Art Gallery
Geelong Art Gallery
High Court of Australia
Holmes à Court Collection
Queensland Art Gallery
Laverty Collection
Loti and Victor Smorgon Collection
Macquarie University
Monash University
Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
Museum of Modern Art at Heide
National Australia Bank
National Gallery of Australia
National Gallery of Victoria
Newcastle Region Art Gallery
New England Regional Art Museum
Parliament House Art Collection, Canberra
Philip Morris Collection
RGC Limited Collection
Sports and Entertainment Ltd
Sydney Children’s Hospital, Randwick
TarraWarra Museum of Art
Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery
The British Museum, London
The Laverty Collection
The University of Queensland Art Museum
The University of New South Wales
The University of Melbourne
The University of Western Australia
University of Tasmania
Wollongong City Art Gallery

BIBLIOGRAPHY
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Abstraction 7, (exhib. Cat.), Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne, 2008
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Australian Paintings from the Joseph Brown Collection, (exhib. cat.)
The Beagle Press, Sydney, 1989
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Australian Perspecta 1981: A Biennial Survey of Contemporary
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Art Gallery of Western Australia, Form - Image - Sign: Biannual Survey of Contemporary Australian
Art, (exhib. cat.) Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, 1984
Australian Art Today = Kesenian Australia Dewasa Ini = Seni Australia Hari Ini, (exhib. cat.) Sydney;
South East Asia, 1969
Ballarat Fine Art Gallery, The Philip Morris Arts Grant: First Annual Exhibition 1974, (exhib. cat.)
Ballarat Fine Art Gallery, Victoria, 1974
Biennale of Sydney, Origins, Originality + Beyond, (exhib. cat.) Art Gallery of New South Wales; Pier
2/3 Walsh Bay; Biennale of Sydney, Sydney, 1986
Blaxland Gallery, Colour & Structure: Recent British and Australian Painting, (exhib. cat.) Farmer's
Blaxland Gallery, Sydney, 1970
Bond, Anthony, Surface for Reflexion: Part I & II, (exhib. cat.) Art Gallery of New South Wales;
Beaver Press, Sydney, 1986-1987
Bonython Gallery, 50 Years of the National Art School: A Retrospective Exhibition of Major Works by
Past Students and Staff of the National Art School, (exhib. cat.) Bonython Gallery; National Art
School, Sydney, 1974.
Broken Hill Regional Art Gallery and National Council of Jewish Women, 100 Years on the Edge of
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Buckley, John, The Loti and Victor Smorgon Collection of Contemporary Australian Art, (exhib. cat.)
Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, 1988
Contemporary Art Society, Contemporary Australian Painting: Australian Trade Display, (exhib. cat.),
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Dowse, Barbara, "Dick Watkins", New Work 2005, (exhib. cat.) Liverpool Street Gallery in association
with SEL, Sydney, 2005
Dowse, Barbara, and Eagle, Mary, Dick Watkins in Context: An Exhibition from the Collection of the
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Deutscher Fine Art, Australian Paintings, Colonial/ Contemporary, Deutscher Fine Art, Melbourne,
1984
Eisenberg, Joseph, A View of the Collections, (exhib. cat.) New England Regional Art Museum, New
South Wales, 1997
Galerie Dusseldorf, Dick Watkins: Paintings - Drawings 1981-1987, (exhib. cat.) Galerie Dusseldorf,
Perth, 1987
Gray, Anne, Swingtime: East Coast - West Coast: Works from the 1960s-70s in the University of
Western Australia Art Collection, (exhib. cat.) Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, The University of Western
Australia, Perth, 1997
Green, Charles and Smith, Jason, Fieldwork: Australian Art 1968-2002, (exhib. cat.) National Gallery
of Victoria, Melbourne, 2002
Heide Park and Art Gallery, The Field Now, (exhib. cat.) Heide Park and Art Gallery, Victoria, 1984
Hooper, Bryan, Chandler Coventry: A Private Collection, (exhib. cat.) Campbelltown City Art Gallery,
New South Wales, 1993
Hooper, Bryan, Chandler Coventry: Works on Paper and Sculpture: Obsession, (exhib. cat.)
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Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Continuum; NAS 60-AMC 80, Ivan Dougherty Gallery; Alexander Mackie
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Janiszewski, Leonard, and Davis, Rhonda, and Howe, Elin, Central Street Live: A Joint Exhibition,
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Legge, Geoffrey, The Caddy Collection, (exhib. cat.) Watters Gallery, Sydney, 1988
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Melbourne, 1982
Loxley, Anne, Hidden Treasures II: Art in Corporate Collections, (exhib. cat.) The National Trust of
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Australian Painting from the Mertz Collection, (exhib. cat.) Griffin Press, Adelaide, 1966
Macquarie University, The Chroma Collection, (exhib. cat.) Macquarie University, Sydney, 2006
Martin Browne Fine Art, 20th Century Australian and New Zealand Painting, (exhib. cat.) Martin
Browne Fine Art, Sydney, 1992
McCaughey, Patrick, Central Street Live, (exhib. cat.) Central Street Gallery, Paramac Printing
Company, Sydney, 1968
McDonald, Ewen, Contemporary Australian Paintings: Works from the Allen Allen & Hemsley
Collection, (exhib. cat.) Allen Allen & Hemsley, Sydney, 1993
McGillick, Paul, Central Street: An Exhibition of Selected Paintings shown at the Central Street
Gallery in Sydney Between 1966 and 1969, (exhib. cat.) Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne, 1990
McPhee, John, TECAA 2: Joan and Peter Clemenger Triennial Exhibition of Contemporary Australian
Art, (exhib. cat.) National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 1996
Monash University Department of Visual Arts Exhibition Gallery, The 1960's into the 70's: Selections
from the Chandler Coventry Collection, (exhib. cat.) essay by Grazia Gunn, Monash University,
Melbourne, 1978
Montana, Adrian, "Dick Watkins", Geelong Art Gallery Education Kit, Geelong Art Gallery, Victoria,
1997
Museum of Contemporary Art, Contemporary Art in Australia - A Review, (exhib. cat.) Museum of
Contemporary Art, Brisbane, 1987
Museum of Contemporary Art, Minimal Art in Australia: A Contemplative Art, (exhib. cat.) Museum of
Contemporary Art, Brisbane, 1987
Museum of Modern Art at Heide, The Beach, (exhib. cat.) The Museum of Modern Art at Heide,
Victoria, 1994
National Gallery of Victoria, The Field, (exhib. cat.) National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 1968
National Gallery of Australia, The Philip Morris Arts Grant: Australian Art of the Last Ten Years,
(exhib. cat.) National Gallery of Australia, Canberra; Philip Morris (Australia), 1982
Nixon, John, Apocalypse + Utopia, (exhib. cat.) University Art Gallery Melbourne, Melbourne, 1984
Nodrum, Charles, 39 Paintings and 2 Sculptures, (exhib. cat.) Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne,
1997
Nodrum, Charles, Art and Furniture of the 1960s, (exhib. cat.) Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne,
1998
Nodrum, Charles, Abstraction II, (exhib. cat.) Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne, 2002
Nodrum, Charles, Abstraction III, (exhib. cat.) Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne, 2003
Nodrum, Charles, Australian Watercolours, Drawings, Prints 1935-1989, (exhib. cat.) Charles Nodrum
Gallery, Melbourne, 1989
Nodrum, Charles, Modern Australian Paintings, (exhib. cat.) Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne,
2004
Nodrum, Charles, Modern Australian Paintings 1991, (exhib. cat.) Charles Nodrum Gallery,
Melbourne, 2001
Radford, Ron, RAP: Recent Australian Painting: A Survey 1970-1983, (exhib. cat.) Art Gallery of
South Australia, Adelaide, 1983
Radford, Ron, Spectres of Our Time, (exhib. cat.) The Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, 1981
Pestorius, David, Geometric Painting in Australia 1941-1997, (exhib. cat.) University Art Museum,
The University of Queensland, Brisbane, 1997
Phipps, Jennifer, I Had a Dream: Australian Art in the 1960s, (exhib. cat.) National Gallery of Victoria,
Melbourne, 1997
Pier 2/3 and Art Gallery of New South Wales, Origins, Originality + Beyond, (kit) Biennale of Sydney,
Sydney, 1986
Shomura, Misato and Yamamoto, Atsuko, eds., Australian Art 1940-1990: From the Collection of the
National Gallery of Australia: In Search of an Inner Landscape, (exhib. cat.) National Gallery of
Australia, Canberra; Museum of Fine Arts, Gifu, Japan, 1995
Sydney Opera House, Australia Council for the Arts, and Transfield Pty Ltd, The Biennale of Sydney,
(exhib. cat.) Biennale of Sydney, Sydney, 1973
The Blake Society, The Blake Prize for Relgious Art, (exhib. cat.) Sydney, 2000
Thomas, Daniel, ed., Creating Australia: 200 Years of Art 1788-1988, Art Gallery of South Australia,
Adelaide, 1988
Thomas, Daniel, Gifts from Patrick White, (exhib. cat.) Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 1974
Thomas, Daniel, Recent Australian Art, (exhib. cat.) Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 1973
Tillers, Imants, "Dick Watkins: Style Master", (exhib. cat.) Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, 1984
Waterlow, Nick, A Century of Collecting, 1901-2001, (exhib. cat.) Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney,
2001
Watkins, Dick, Abstraction, (exhib. cat.) Tolarno Galleries in association with SEL, Melbourne, 2002
Watkins, Dick, Dick Watkins, (exhib. cat.) Tolarno Galleries in association with SEL, Melbourne, 1997
Watkins, Dick, Dick Watkins, (exhib. cat.) Wagga Wagga City Art Gallery, New South Wales, 1989
Watkins, Dick, New Paintings 2003, (exhib. cat.) Liverpool Street Gallery in association with SEL,
Sydney, 2003
Watkins, Dick, New Work 2005, (exhib. cat.) Liverpool Street Gallery in association with SEL, Sydney,
2005
Watkins, Dick, Marks and Angles, (exhib. cat.) Martin Browne Fine Art in association with SEL,
Sydney, 2001
Watkins, Dick, Recent Work 1998-1999, (exhib. cat.), forward by James Erskine, Martin Browne Fine
Art in association with SEL, Sydney, 1999
Watkins, Dick, Paintings 1993-1996, (exhib. cat.) essays by Martin Browne and James Erskine,
Martin Browne Fine Art in association with IMG, Sydney, 1996
Watters Gallery, Watters, Ten Years: Portrait of a Gallery, Watters Gallery, Sydney, 1974
Watters Gallery, Watters, Twenty-Five Years: Portrait of a Gallery, Watters Gallery, Sydney, 1989
Western Australian Institute of Technology, Australian Colourists '77, (exhib. cat.) Western Australian
Institute of Technology, Perth, 1977
Williams, Caroline, 33 Men Painters (The Male Sensibility?), (exhib. cat.) Heide Park and Art Gallery,
Victoria, 1986
Yuill, Noela, Dick Watkins: Australia, (exhib. cat.) Broken Hill City Art Gallery, New South Wales,
1985
ESSAYS, JOURNAL ARTICLES AND REVIEWS
Sarah Hetherington, “Dick Watkins: New Work,” Artworld, Issue 6, Dec 2008 / Jan 2009, Sydney
Borlase, Nancy, "A Time of Uncertainty: The Visual Arts in Sydney", Australian Art Review, Sydney,
1982
Clark, Deborah, "Hanging Watkins, but in Context", Art Monthly Australia, number 57, March
1993
Clark-Coolee, Bronwyn, "Critiques: Dick Watkins", Art-Network, summer 1985
"Cherry Hood wins $35,000 Archibald Prize: All the Finalists in this Year's Archibald Prize", Australian
Artist, no.218, August 2002, 18, (colour illustration)
"Clinton Tweedie's Gallery for Living", Vogue Living, volume XXIII number 2, March 1989
Crawford, Billy, "VAB: Biennales", October 1985
Delaruelle, Jacques, "Looby, Watkins and McDonald's Duck Project", Art Monthly Australia,
number 19, April 1989
"Dick Watkins: Tolarno Galleries", Preview, Australian Art Collector, April - June 2000
Dodd, Terri, "1998 Archibald Prize: That's Entertainment", Australian Artist, volume XIV, number 11,
May 1998, 12, (colour illustration)
Dodd, Terri, "Class Act", Australian Artist, volume XVII, number 11, May 2001, 53, (colour
illustration)
Eagle, Mary, "Dick Watkins", Art Monthly Australia, number 35, October 1990
Eagle, Mary, "Young, Bold and Innovative - The Philip Morris Arts Grant", Wall to Wall, National
Gallery of Australia, Canberra, 1999
Grishin, Sasha, "Chandler Coventry - A Beautiful Obsession", Art and Australia, volume 37 number 2,
summer 1999
Gunn, Grazia, "Dick Watkins", Art and Australia, volume 21 number 2, summer 1983
Harrison, Sylvia, "Sydney Pop and Social Internationalism in the 1960s", Art and Australia, volume 25
number 4, winter 1988
Holloway, Memory, "Sao Paulo Bienal - The Last Picture Show", Art and Australia, volume 23 number
4, winter 1986
Honey, Ennis, "Furnished to Suit Paintings", The Australian Women's Weekly, 1 January 1975
Huckstep, Anthony, "Decorative Degustation", Australian Art Review, February 2007
Hutchinson, Carrie, "Creative Spaces", Vogue Australia Business
Kavanagh, John, "Fine Form Amid the Abstraction", Business Review Weekly, 20 June 1994
Lumby, Carrie, "Dick Watkins: An Artist's Artist", Australian Art Collector, issue 31, January - March
2005
Lumby, Carrie, "The Serious Business of Collecting Art", Australian Art Collector, issue 22, 2002
"Making the Unbuyable: Galleries for Sale, Art Works Otherwise", The Nation, 2 October 1971
Manning, Charles, "Lofty Ideals", Interior Architecture, issue 26, 1990
McCulloch, Susan, "Dick Watkins at Flinders Lane Gallery", Exhibition Reviews, Asian Art News,
November-December 1997
McGillick, Paul, "Gertrude and Alice Dig It?", Vogue Australia, January 1986
Morrell, Timothy, "Bright and Bushy: Contemporary Australian Painting", Art and Australia, volume 29
number 2, summer 1991
Periz, Ingrid, "Dick Watkins: The Eighties and After", Art and Australia, volume 31 number 2, summer
1993
Periz, Ingrid, "Hot Nude Pearl", February 1995
Smith, Terry, "Colour-Form Painting Sydney 1965-1970", Other Voices, volume 1 number 1, June/
July 1970
Smith, Terry, "Dick Watkins/ Tony McGillick: A Selection of Work", Honi Soit, volume 42 number 13,
The University of Sydney, Sydney, 12 June 1969
Smith, Terry, "First Thoughts on a 'Style of the Sixties' in Recent Sydney Painting", Uphill, volume 1,
number 1, September 1969
Smith, Terry, "Lyrical Abstraction", 1970
Taylor, Paul, "The Instrumentality of Dick Watkins", Art & Text, volume 12 and 13, Summer 1983/
Autumn 1984
Thomas, Daniel, "Dick Watkins and the Flood of Art", Dick Watkins: Australia XVIII Bienal de Sao
Paulo, Brazil, 1985
Tillers, Imants, "Dick Watkins: Style Master", Contemporary Arts and Popular Culture, special edition,
Express Australia, New York, August 1984
Tillers, Imants, "In Perpetual Mourning", ZG/Art & Text, volume 11, New York, September 1984
Tillers, Imants, "The Paradox of Dick Watkins", Dick Watkins: Australia: XVIII Bienal de Sao Paulo,
Brazil, 1985
"Updating a 1950s House: An Architect's View", Australian House and Garden, November 1991
Vogue Australia, February 1980, p83
Wagga Wagga City Art Gallery, "Report of the Board of Trustees", Annual Report, Wagga Wagga
City Art Gallery, New South Wales, 1989-1990
Wertheim, Margaret, "The Shape of Things to Come", POL Magazine, August 1983
Yuill, Noela, "Dick Watkins", Arty Facts, Wagga Wagga City Art Gallery, New South Wales, 1989
NEWSPAPER ARTICLES AND REVIEWS
"21st Show: Central Street Gallery", The Sydney Morning Herald, March 1968
Adam, Rosemary, "Sydney Artist Chooses Wagga for Display", Daily Advertiser, Wagga Wagga, 20
June1989
Adams, Bruce, "Arts", The Sydney Morning Herald, 16 August 1996
Adams, Bruce, "Galleries", The Sydney Morning Herald, 4-29 April 1987
Adams, Bruce, "Competence and Complacency", The Australian, 4 June 1972
Adams, Bruce, "Stating the Obvious", The Australian, 10 December 1972
Adams, Bruce, "Sculptors Avoid Tricks and Hype", The Sydney Morning Herald, 4 April 1987
Adams, Bruce, "The Watkins Enigma", The Australian, 12 December 1971
Allen, Christopher, "Dribbling Paint Masks the Furtive Washing Machine", The Sydney Morning
Herald, 11 March 1989
Andrews, John, Architecture Australia, July-August 1993
"Archibald-Wynne-Sulman", Sunday Telegraph, 20 January 1963
Armstrong, Marcia, "The Abstract of a Dandy Doodle", The Northern Herald, 16 December 1993
Art Monthly Australia, number 82, August 1995 (illustration)
"Art Prize Entrants Named", The Sydney Morning Herald, 26 June 1963
"Artists Back Street Protest", The Australian, 11 May 1973
"Artist's Two Prizes in One", The Telegraph, 6 October 1966
Auty, Giles, "Good Lord, Religion is Everywhere", The Sydney Morning Herald, 17 November 2000
Bennie, Angela, " Eruptions from the Volcano", The Sydney Morning Herald, 13 April 2004
Bennie, Angela, "Still a life for Art, Agent and All", Metropolitan, The Sydney Morning Herald, 3
October 2003
Bertini, Jo, "Art Beat", The Sydney Morning Herald, 15 September 1995
Birch, Robert, "Beauty and Power", Weekender, The Newcastle Herald, 2002
Bolt, Cathy, "Force of Habit: One Man's Appetite for Art", The Australian Financial Review, 23
October 2003
Borlase, Nancy, "A Sculptor's Search", The Sydney Morning Herald, 15 November 1980
Borlase, Nancy, "Art", The Sydney Morning Herald, 31 December 1971
Borlase, Nancy, "Four Painters: 38 Hargrave Street", The Bulletin, 24 March 1973
Borlase, Nancy, "Refreshing Dick Watkins", The Sydney Morning Herald, 11 December 1975
Borlase, Nancy, "Search for a Style", The Bulletin, 24 March 1973
Borlase, Nancy, "The Emphasis is on Youth", The Sydney Morning Herald, 24 March 1979
Brook, Donald, "Action in the Sixties", The Sydney Morning Herald, June 1969
Brook, Donald, "Mixed Displays Odd and Stimulating", The Sydney Morning Herald, 13 November
1969
Brook, Donald, "Oldfield's Nostalgia", The Sydney Morning Herald, 6 February 1969
Brook, Donald, "Someone to Complain to", The Sydney Morning Herald, 1972
Brook, Donald, "The Cults that Make Reputations", The Sydney Morning Herald, December 1970
Brook, Donald, "The Use of Art", The Sydney Morning Herald, 16 December 1971
Brook, Donald, "To Coin a Phrase", The Sydney Morning Herald, 1969
Burke, Kelly, "Box Office", The Sydney Morning Herald, 12 August 1996
Casey, Marcus, "A Sitting Ovation: Packers Pick Their Pet Portrait", The Daily Telegraph, 11 March
1998
Carmichael, Rod, "Artscene", Sun Herald, Melbourne, 13 April 1983
Catalano, Gary, "A Style That Won’t Stand Still", The Age, 9 July 1986
Catalano, Gary, "Artists whose Renown Rings but in the Distance", The Age, 22 November 1989
"Chris and Dixie Deutscher: A Dealer's Dilemma", The Australian Magazine, 3-4 June 1989
"Colourful Conversation Pieces", The Manly Daily, 17 December 1999
"Contemporary Art Show for the Autumn", The Sydney Morning Herald, 20 May 1964
Cramer, Sue, "The Colourful Mood of Abandon", The Age, 28 November 1984
"Curious Kinships of Myth and Man", The Weekend Australian, 18-19 June 1994
"Driven to Abstraction", The Sydney Morning Herald, 5 November 1989
Edgar, Ray, "First Fitzroy Then the World", The Melbourne Times, 31 March 1993
"Exhibition at David Jones' Art Gallery", The Sydney Morning Herald, 2 September 1964
Fenner, Felicity, "Eclectic Currents Flowing on Canvas", The Sydney Morning Herald, 31 July 1993
Fenner, Felicity, "Veil of Prejudice Lifts at Last", The Sydney Morning Herald, 1 January 1994
Follent, Sarah, "Reflections on Dance Intrigue and Disturb", The Australian, 16 November 1984
"From Archibald Crown to Archibald Frown", The Manly Daily, 16 March 2001
"Galleries: Dick Watkins", The National Times, 1-7 April 1983
"Gallery Acquires Allen Work", Brisbane Courier Mail, 16 October 1984
Gibson, Joel, "Today's Best", Metropolitan, The Sydney Morning Herald, 11 March 2003
Grishin, Sasha, "A Strong, Coherent Offering", The Canberra Times, February 1998
Grishin, Sasha, "Intelligent Assembly in Context", Canberra Times, 13 March 1993
Grishin, Sasha, "Strong Showing Let Down by Some Sloppy Presentation", Art, The Canberra Times,
26 March 1997
Gleeson, James, "A Holiday Collection", The Sun, December 1971
Gleeson, James, "A Likeness to Francis", The Sun, 2 December 1970
Gleeson, James, "A Look Back - and Forward", The Sun, 31 December 1972
Gleeson, James, "A Real Tour de Force", The Sun, 1972
Gleeson, James, "A Study in Contrast", The Sun, 1971
Gleeson, James, "Art Review", The Sun, December 1969
Gleeson, James, "Alternative Moods of Art", The Sun, 1963
Gleeson, James, "Colour Change for Restless Artist", The Sun, 6 December 1970
Gleeson, James, "New Approach by an Old Path", The Sun, 17 December 1972
Gleeson, James, "Nothing in Common, but…", The Sun, 19 November 1972
Gleeson, James, "The Rubenstein Award", The Sun, 14 July 1963
Gleeson, James, "To Sum up: Not at all a Bad Year", The Sun Herald, 26 December 1971
Gleeson, James, "Uninhibited painter…", The Sun, 20 May 1964
Gleeson, James, "Watkins at Barry Stern Gallery", The Sun, November 1963
Gleeson, James, " Watkins/ McGillick", The Sun, June 1969
Harpur, Royston, "A Painter Watched by Painters", The Australian, 18 December 1971
Heathcote, Christopher, "Audacious Works are a Fine Farewell to Powell Street Gallery", The Age, 24
March 1993
Heathcote, Christopher, "Shock of the New", The Age, 14 August 1993
Henshaw, John, "Greater Skill Less Conviction", The Australian, 23 May 1970
Henshaw, John, "More Emblems of Mass Culture", The Sun, 21 November 1973
Holloway, Memory, "Primitive Attempt at Feeding a Myth", The Age, 29 February 1984
Hope, Deborah, "Corporate Art - it's the Image that Matters", The Sydney Morning Herald, 15
December 1983
James, Bruce, "Arts", The Sydney Morning Herald, 16 August 1996
James, Bruce, "God Moves in Mysterious Ways", The Sydney Morning Herald, 2 December 2000
James, Bruce, "Death's Great Frame of Reference", The Sydney Morning Herald, 12 June 2002
Ingram, Terry, "Erskine adds Watkins to his Stable", The Australian Financial Review, 25 July 1996
Ingram, Terry, "Photo Finish Makes New Phillips a Force", The Australian Financial Review, 2 August
2001
Kidd, Courtney, "The Casual Look, Going on Nonchalance", Metropolitan, The Sydney Morning
Herald, 18 July 2001
Lewis, Ayleen, "Home Improvement: Perfect Pictures", The Sydney Morning Herald, 31 May 1968
Lindsay, Francis, "'The Field Now' Shows Worth of 'The Field'", The Age, 19 September 1984
Loxley, Anne, "Retro Perspective", The Sydney Morning Herald, 8 January 2003
Loxley, Anne, "Two Triumphs of Generosity", Arts, The Sydney Morning Herald, 17 June 1994
Lynn, Elwyn, "A Field of Creatures and Kitsch", The Australian, 9 September 1984
Lynn, Elwyn, "A Hard Edged Wheel Turns", The Australian, 12 January 1991
Lynn, Elwyn, "All or Nothing Individualism - and International, too", The Bulletin, 7 June 1969
Lynn, Elwyn, "Art with the Icing", The Australian, 17 April 1965
Lynn, Elwyn, "Beholder's Eye", The Bulletin, 26 August 1967
Lynn, Elwyn, "Bits and Pieces Fit and Fitting", Review, The Weekend Australian, 8-9 September 1990
Lynn, Elwyn, "Bold Light Brings Masters to Life", The Australian, 2-3 July 1994
Lynn, Elwyn, "Burst of Life", The Bulletin, 27 May 1967
Lynn, Elwyn, "Civilised Collecting Despite the Abstract Cringe", The Australian, 3 May 1992
Lynn, Elwyn, "Demonic Brutality a Test of Strength", Arts, The Weekend Australian, 6-7 April 1991
Lynn, Elwyn, "Look out! The Livid Looby's on the Loose", The Weekend Australian, 25-26 February
1989
Lynn, Elwyn, "Modern Echoes of Primitivism", The Australian, 5 August 1984
Lynn, Elwyn, "No Room for the Willing Disbelievers", Review, The Weekend Australian, 15-16
September 1990
Lynn, Elwyn, "Oriental Art and its Traces Around Sydney Galleries", The Bulletin, 18 December 1970
Lynn, Elwyn, "Prizes to Unleash Passion, Envy and Anger", The Australian, 15-16 February 1992
Lynn, Elwyn, "Shifting of Shape and Form", The Australian, 25-26 June 1994
Lynn, Elwyn, "Sun Shines on Op", The Australian, 9 October 1965
Lynn, Elwyn, "The Year Discussion Died", The Australian, 1965
Lynn, Elwyn, "Vast Canvasses", The Australian, 7 August 1965
Lynn, Elwyn, "Versatile Switching of Style", The Australian, 10-11 July 1993
Lynn, Elwyn, "Watkins: Central Street", The Bulletin, 2 November 1968
Lynn, Elwyn, "Watkins/ McGillick, 1962-1967, Central Street", The Bulletin, 7 June 1969
Lynn, Elwyn, "Worried, Contented", The Bulletin, 2 November 1968
Maloon, Terence, "Kevin Lincoln's Paintings Say it With Bowls", The Sydney Morning Herald, 24 July
1982
Maloon, Terence, "Watkins and Whisson Produce a Pair of Intriguing Exhibitions", The Sydney
Morning Herald, 5 May 1984
Maloon, Terence, "Watkins Springs Some Surprises", The Sydney Morning Herald, 2 June 1983
Marsh, Anne, "Abstract View of a Past World", Herald Sun, 17 January 1996
McCaughey, Patrick, "A Flat Abstractionist's Victory", The Age, 29 May 1968
McCaughey, Patrick, "Field Sets the Pace", The Age, 20 August 1968
McGrath, Sandra, "Convert to Stridency", The Australian, 24-25 March 1979
McGrath, Sandra, "Dick Watkins: Coventry", The Weekend Australian, 8 November 1980
McGrath, Sandra, "It's a Question of Horses for Courses", The Weekend Australian, 8 November
1982
McGrath, Sandra, "Sold Short at the Biennale", The Australian, November 1973
McDonald, John, "A Decent Obsession", The Sydney Morning Herald, 1 June 1996
McDonald, John, "Black Art of a Puppeteer", The Sydney Morning Herald, 7 October 1995
McDonald, John, "Marking Time", The National Times, 25-31 July 1986
McDonald, John, "Memories of Many in One", Spectrum, The Sydney Morning Herald, 24 August
1996
McDonald, John, "The Familiarity Breeds Content", The Sydney Morning Herald, 15 April 1995
McDonald, John, "The Winner By a Head", The Sydney Morning Herald, 21 March 1998
McDonald, John and Knight, Darren, "Framed and They've Got Form too", Metropolitan, The Sydney
Morning Herald, 15 March 2001
Millar, Ronald, "Back to the Somme…and on to Half Moon Bay", The Melbourne Herald, 21 April
1983
Millar, Ronald, "Olsen's Wriggling Linear Tentacles", The Melbourne Herald, 11 May 1988
Mitchell, Colette, "Painting at NERAM", The Armidale Express, 26 May 1984
Moses, John, "It's a Question of Horses for Courses", The Australian, 8 November 1980
Myer, Rod, "Sharing the Nation's Cultural Heritage", The Age, 3 July 2004
Nelson, Robert, "When Positive Discrimination Becomes Simply Indiscriminate", The Age, 12 April
1986
Nelson, Robert, "Beguiling Touch in Printmaking", The Age, 22 February 1995
Newton, John, "Secret Meat-Ins", The Sydney Morning Herald, 10 May 2005
Ogburn, John, "Plain Rather Than Simple", 1965
"Op Art and Real Life", 1966
Our Art Critic, "Growing Maturity in Show Art Entries", The Sydney Morning Herald, 1962
Our Art Critic, "The Archibald Prize: A Pedestrian Level of Achievement", The Sydney Morning
Herald, 20 January 1962
"Peace Among the Artists", The Sydney Morning Herald, 25 September 1968
Pidgeon, W E, "Gouaches at Coventry", Sunday Telegraph, 7 December 1975
Pidgeon, W E, "Flashes of Faces", Sunday Telegraph, 6 March 1977
Pidgeon, W E, "Paintings from Hong Kong", Sunday Telegraph, 6 April 1977
Pidgeon, W E, "Youngsters Stay Pure", Sunday Telegraph, 7 December 1975
Pitt, Helen, "Artist Brushes up on Life with the Stars", The Sydney Morning Herald, 21 August 1996
Prerauer, Maria, ed., "Curator Grasps the Nettle", The Weekend Australian, 24-25 December 1983
Reid, Michael, "Hard Edge Shows True Colours", The Weekend Australian, 21-22 July 2001
Rooney, Robert, "Contemporary Exhibition Brings some Welcome Relief", The Australian, 8 April
1984
Rooney, Robert, "Dick Watkins, Sao Paulo Bienal, Museum of Modern Art at Heide", The Australian,
10-11 May 1986
Rooney, Robert, "Exhibitions", The Australian, 3 October 1995
Rooney, Robert, "Making a Wrong Turn at Central Street", The Australian, 3-4 November 1990
Rooney, Robert, "Mid-Career Artist Goes South", The Australian, 9 April 1983
Rooney, Robert, "More of the Old Dick Watkins Would be Nice", The Australian, 10-11 May 1986
Rooney, Robert, "Murdoch Court: Spacious and Flexible", The Weekend Australian, 28 February - 1
March 1987
Rooney, Robert, "Museum's Modern Past", The Australian, 25-26 June 1994
Rooney, Robert, "Relevance Takes a back Seat", The Australian, 30 March 1979
Rooney, Robert, "Return of the Genre Bender", The Australian, 20-21 March 1993
Rooney, Robert, "A Symphony of Colour and Vision", The Weekend Australian, 18-19 November
1989
Rooney, Robert, "Melbourne Art: TECCA 2", The Age, 1996
Sexton, Jennifer, "By Delivering the Archies, Neil gets the Wrap", The Sydney Morning Herald, 2001
Short, Susanna, "Group Draws Inspiration from Mainstream Artform", The Sydney Morning Herald, 1
March 1984
Smee, Sebastian, "Between Lines and Layers of Paint", The Australian, 14 December 2006
Smee, Sebastian, "When Prize Art is a Matter of Faith", Metropolitan, The Sydney Morning Herald, 17
November 2000
Sweeney, Helen, "All the Fun of the Fair", Sunday Telegraph, October 1966
Sweeney, Helen, "Dick Watkins", Sunday Telegraph, 1968
Sweeney, Helen, "Society's Quiet Middle-Age", Sunday Telegraph, 1964
Sweeney, Helen, "The Week in Art", Sunday Telegraph, 1966
Sweeney, Helen, "Watkins: Central Street", Sunday Telegraph, 1966
"The Pace Makers", The Australian, 24 January 1964
The Sunday Telegraph, Sydney, 20 January 1963, (illustration)
Thomas, Daniel, "A Most Refreshing Affair", Sunday Telegraph, 27 October 1963
Thomas, Daniel, "Christmas Fare Mixed", Sunday Telegraph, 13 December 1970
Thomas, Daniel, "Contemporary Art Society Young Painters", Sunday Telegraph, 21 April 1963
Thomas, Daniel, "Eyes and Ears of a Camera", Sunday Telegraph, 12 December 1972
Thomas, Daniel, "Importance of Not Being too Original", Sunday Telegraph, 1972
Thomas, Daniel, "It was the Year that Central Street Closed", The Sun, 30 December 1970
Thomas, Daniel, "Music to Sculpt By", The Sun, 1972
Thomas, Daniel, "Paintings by Dick Watkins", The Sydney Morning Herald, 22 November 1973
Thomas, Daniel, "Permanent Revolution: Watkins", Sunday Telegraph, 27 October 1963
Thomas, Daniel, "Revolution and Resentment", Sunday Telegraph, September 1968
Thomas, Daniel, "Serious, Ambitious and Gifted Artist", Sunday Telegraph, 7 December 1972
Thomas, Daniel, Sunday Telegraph, 1964
Thomas, Daniel, "The Archibald Prize Competition has the Reputation of Being the Most Important
Art Prize in Australia", Sunday Telegraph, 20 January1963
Thomas, Daniel, "The More They Change", Sunday Telegraph, 8 June 1969
Thomas, Daniel, "The Power of Primitive Art", The Sydney Morning Herald, 22 November 1973
Thomas, Daniel, "The Week in Art", Sunday Telegraph, 20 January 1963
Thomas, Daniel, "The Week in Art", Sunday Telegraph, 21 April 1963
Thomas, Daniel, "The Week in Art", Sunday Telegraph, 1965
Thomas, Daniel, "The Week in Art", Sunday Telegraph, 13 December 1970
Thomas, Daniel, "The Year in Art", Sunday Telegraph, December 1963
Thomas, Daniel, "The Year in Art", Sunday Telegraph, 10 January 1965
Thomas, Daniel, "The Year in Art", Sunday Telegraph, 2 January 1966
Thomas, Daniel, "These were the top 12 shows of 1973", The Sydney Morning Herald, December
1973
Thomas, Daniel, "Sydney Ball Joins Revival", The Sydney Morning Herald, 22 March 1973
Thomas, Daniel, "Watkins/ McGillick at Central Street", Sunday Telegraph, 8 June 1969
Thomas, Daniel, "Watkins/ Watters Gallery", Sunday Telegraph, March 1965
Thomas, Daniel, "What Happened to Happenings", Sunday Telegraph, 1972
Thomas, Daniel, "Wynne Prize", Sunday Telegraph, 20 January 1963
Thomas, Daniel, "Young Contemporaries at Blaxland Gallery", Sunday Telegraph, 1965
Thomas, Laurie, "Artist Who Likes Joking About Art", The Australian, 19 October 1968
Thomas, Laurence, "Most notable Art of Them All", University of Queensland, Brisbane, 1976
Thomas, Laurie, "Arts Cool Youngsters: Central Street Group", The Australian, 1967
Thornton, Wallace, "A New Puritanical Discipline", The Sydney Morning Herald, November 1963
Thornton, Wallace, "Blaxland Galleries", The Sydney Morning Herald, 24 October 1962
Thornton, Wallace, "Contemporary Art Society Show for the Autumn", The Sydney Morning Herald,
20 May 1964
Thornton, Wallace, "Helena Rubenstein Travelling Art Scholarship", The Sydney Morning Herald, July
1963
Thornton, Wallace, "Op Art Colour is its Strength", The Sydney Morning Herald, 28 September 1966
Turner, Brook, "Glossy Tome Will Sell AGNSW Here and Abroad", The Sydney Morning Herald, 22
August 1995
Vogue Australia, February 1980
Watkins, Dick, "Billy Cart Theory", The Manly Daily
Watkins, Dick, "Footnote to Controversy", The Manly Daily, 19 June 1982
Watkins, Dick, "Offensive Viewing", The Manly Daily, 19 May 1982
Watkins, Dick, "Who Pays for Pornography", The Manly Daily, 18 April 1982
Watson, Bronwyn, "Class Shows in Student Display", The Sydney Morning Herald, 3 March 1989
Watson, Bronwyn, "Dawson Shakes off the Abstract Tag", The Sydney Morning Herald, 17 February
1989
Watson, Bronwyn, "Left of Central", Metropolitan, The Sydney Morning Herald, 11 January 1991
Woolcock, Phyllis, "Artist's First Brisbane Exhibition is 'a Must'", Brisbane Courier Mail, 26 October
1987
Woolcock, Phyllis, "Significant, but Disappointing", The Courier Mail, 8 October 1987
Zimmer, Jenny, "Driven to Abstraction", Sun Herald, Melbourne, 5 November 1989

Interviews
Gunn, Grazia, Interview with Dick Watkins, transcript, 30 May 1981
Watkins, Dick, Conversation with Dick Watkins: Interviewer: Hazel de Berg, sound recording, 1 sound
tape reel, 13 minutes, 16 November 1965
Watkins, Dick, Conversation with Dick Watkins: Interviewer: Hazel de Berg, transcript, 16 November
1965

Radio and Television
Australian Broadcasting Commission, "Australian Artists: an ABC Radiovision Feature for Schools",
(transcript) Australian Broadcasting Commission, Sydney, 1978
Bowen, Jennifer, "Central Street Lives", Radio National, Australian Broadcasting Commission,
Sydney, 27 February 2005
Kohn, Rachel, "The Art of the Spiritual: The Blake Prize for Religious Art", Australian Broadcasting
Commission, Sydney, 26 November 2000
"Wendy Paramor: Lost and Found", Radio National, Australian Broadcasting Commission, Sydney, 3
September 2000
FILMS
Mok, Rebecca and Sieders, Michael, Abstraction: Dick Watkins, mini DV, 7:24, 2005