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Courtesy by "Niagara Galleries", Richmond, Vic
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1937
Born in Sydney (AU)
Dick Watkins was born in Sydney in 1937. As an artist he is largely self-taught although between 1955 and1958 he occasionally attended the Julian Ashton School and East Sydney Technical College in Sydney.
Dick Watkins held his first solo exhibition at Barry Stern Galleries in 1963 and from 1966-69 was a driving force amongst the artists of Sydney's Central Street Gallery. In 1968 he was a key participant in the National Gallery of Victoria's landmark exhibition, The Field, the first major survey exhibition of colour-field painting and geometric abstraction in Australia. In 1970 he began a decade-long association with Chandler Coventry, exhibiting at the Hargrave Street Gallery and at Coventry Gallery until 1980. In 1985, while associated with Yuill/Crowley Gallery, Watkins represented Australia at the XVIII Bienal de Sao Paulo. In 1989 the Wagga Wagga Regional Art Gallery celebrated Watkins' significant contribution to Australian art with a major retrospective exhibition and 1993 the National Gallery of Australia mounted the exhibition Dick Watkins in Context, a show of work drawn from the gallery's substantial collections.
A pioneer of abstract painting in Australia, Watkins is represented in the collections of the National Gallery of Australia, National Gallery of Victoria, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Art Gallery of South Australia, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Queensland Art Gallery, most regional gallery collections and numerous distinguished corporate and private art collections.
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Public exhibitions 3 
Group shows 3
2008
BLUE CHIP X: The Collectors’ Exhibition
 Niagara Galleries, Richmond, VIC
2006
DICK WATKINS / TERRY BATT - Double Happiness - 20th Anniversary Exhibition
Niagara Galleries, Richmond, VIC
Blue Chip VIII
Niagara Galleries, Richmond, VIC
Dealer Directory 2
Australia
Niagara Galleries, Richmond, VIC
Liverpool Street Gallery, Sydney, NSW
Public collections 1
Australia
Museum of Contemporary Art Sydney, Sydney, NSW
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