LEZLIE TILLEY

Born: 1949 Sydney, NSW.

• Established

Lezlie Tilley

SELECTED BIOGRAPHY
1949 Born in Sydney.
1967 National Art School, ESTC.
1973-75 Ceramics, (p/t) Newcastle School of Art & Design.
1979-80 Cert. of Art, Newcastle School of Art & Design.
1981-83 BA (Visual Art), Newcastle CAE.
1984-85 Illustrated Children's Book, Hodder & Stoughton.
1986- Curently - Lecturer (p/t) Arts & Media, Hunter Institute of Tech.
1994-97 Lecturer (p/t) Fine Arts, Newcastle University.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
1988 Gryphon Gallery, Melbourne.
1991 Access Gallery, Sydney.
1992 Access Contemporary Art Gallery, Sydney
1993 Access Contemporary Art Gallery, Sydney.
1995 Access Contemporary Art Gallery, Sydney.
1996 Access Contemporary Art Gallery, Sydney.
1998 Access Contemporary Art Gallery, Sydney.
1999 Access Contemporary Art Gallery, Sydney.
2000-1 Parallels & Crossovers: An Artistic Relationship, Peter & Lezlie Tilley 1991-2000, Touring Show curated by Anthony Bond, Maitland City Art Gallery, NSW; Muswellbrook Regional Arts Centre, NSW; Manning Regional Art Gallery, NSW; New England Region Art Museum, NSW; Campbelltown City Bicentennial Art Gallery, NSW; Brenda May Gallery, Sydney (formerly Access Contemporary Art Gallery).
2001 Nick Mitzevich Gallery, Newcastle
2002 53 Part-Landscape Parts, Newcastle Region Art Gallery, NSW.
2003 Brenda May Gallery, Sydney.
2004 A Narrative of Infinite Possibilities, Brenda May Gallery, Sydney.

SELECTED MIXED EXHIBITIONS
1980 Armstrong Gallery, Morpeth, NSW.
1981 Seven Hunter Valley Artists, Newcastle University, NSW.
Newcastle Printmakers, Tynte Gallery, Adelaide.
1983 Gallery 62, Newcastle, NSW.
Graduate Exhibition, Newcastle CAE, NSW.
1986 Newcastle Contemporary Gallery, NSW.
Fletcher Jones Invitation, Warrnambool Art Gallery, Vic.
1987 Staff Show, Maitland City Art Gallery, NSW.
Rites, Newcastle Contemporary Gallery, NSW.
Not Just Another Womens Show, Holdsworth Gallery, Syd.
1987-91 Little Works, Newcastle Contemporary Gallery, NSW.
1988 3 Artists,Objects & Images, Newcastle Contemporary Gallery, NSW
1989 Contemporary Blast II, Newcastle Contemporary Gallery, NSW.
1990 Invitational, Artistic Relationship, Maitland City Art Gallery, NSW.
Collectors Choice, Von Bertouch Galleries, Newcastle, NSW.
1991 War Paint, Newcastle Contemporary Gallery, NSW.
Hunter Valley Print, Maitland City Art Gallery, NSW.
Archival Revival, Newcastle Contemporary Gallery, NSW.
Eltham Invitation Art Award, Vic
Postcards On The Edge, Watt Space, Newcastle, NSW.
Primitive Concepts - The Four Elements, Dissonance Project Travelling Exhibition, Maitland City Art Gallery, Lake Macquarie City Art Gallery, Muswellbrook Regional Gallery, NSW.
1992 Milestones, Newcastle University Former Student Survey, Newcastle Contemporary Gallery, NSW.
2 Artists, Objective Subjects, Subjective Objects, Newcastle Region Art Gallery, NSW.
1992-98 Australian Contemporary Art Fair, Royal Exhibition Building, Melb.
1993 New Art Eight, Access Contemporary Art Gallery, Sydney.
Invited Artists Acquisition Exhibition, Inaugural Exhibition, University of Newcastle, NSW.
1993,94 Prime Television Painting Prize, Newcastle Region Art Gallery, Travelling NSW and QLD.
1994 Images 2, Access Contemporary Art Gallery, Sydney.
Preconceptions, Watt Space, Newcastle, NSW.
New Works, Flinders Lane Gallery, Melbourne.
1995 Access to Adelaide II, BMG Fine Art, Adelaide.
Selected, 3rd Annual Contemporary Collection Benefactors' Art Auction, Art Gallery of NSW.
1996 Redlands Westpac Invitational Art Prize, Sydney.
About Face - A Portrayal, Curator Lee Zaunders, Maitland City Art Gallery, NSW.
Artistic Relationship, Maitland City Art Gallery, NSW.
1997 Nexus II, The Arts Space, Newcastle, NSW.
In-Between, Manning River Regional Art Gallery, Taree, NSW.
1998 Steel Works - A Regeneration, Curator Rodney Cones-Browne, Faculty of Art & Design Gallery, University of Newcastle, NSW.
New Sculpture 1999, Access Contemporary Art Gallery, Sydney.
2000 A Contemporary Perspective, Maitland City Art Gallery, NSW.
2000 The Masters Apprentices, Lake Macquarie City Art Gallery, NSW.
Nick Mitzevich Gallery, Newcastle, NSW.
The Frank Saxby Art Acquisitions 2000, Manning Regional Art Gallery, Taree, NSW.
Redlands Westpac Art Prize, Mosman Art Gallery, NSW.
Artfair 2000, Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne.
Fisher's Ghost Art Award, Campbelltown City Art Gallery, NSW.
2001 Represented Artists, Brenda May Gallery, Sydney.
Salon de Refuse, Sydney.
2002 New Objects/New Things, Brenda May Gallery, Sydney.
Three Colours - Red, Brenda May Gallery, Sydney.
Self Portrait, Brenda May Gallery, Sydney.
1st Birthday Show, Brenda May Gallery, Sydney.
2003 Three Colours - Blue, Brenda May Gallery, Sydney.
Recent Acquisitions, Newcastle Region Art Gallery, NSW.
Fisher's Ghost Art Award, Campbelltown City Art Gallery, NSW.
2004 Three Colours - White, Brenda May Gallery, Sydney.
The Mosman Art Prize, Mosman Art Gallery, Sydney.
The Winners, Muswellbrook Regional Art Gallery, NSW.

AWARDS, PRIZES & SCHOLARSHIPS
1967 NSW Special Art Scholarship.
1980 Von Bertouch Gallery Prize.
1984 Signor A Dattilo Rubbo Prize, University of Newcastle.
1989 H Commended, 31st Muswellbrook Art Prize.
1991 H Commended, Maitland Art Prize.
1992 Acquisitive Drawing Prize, Weston Art Prize, NSW.
H Commended, Miniature,Singleton Art Prize.
Contemporary Painting Section, Singleton Art Prize.
1993 Acquisitive, 33rd Muswellbrook Art Prize.
1994 Acquisitive, Newcastle AH&I Art Prize.
1997 Hunter Valley Award, 37th Muswellbrook Art Prize.
1998 Acquisitive, Maitland Art Prize.
Acquisitive, Newcastle AH&I Art Prize.
1999 Newcastle Regional Art Show Competition.
H Commended, Maitland Art Prize.
H. Commended, Open Section, Fisher's Ghost Art Award.
2000 Acquisitive, 2000 Muswellbrook Art Prize,.
H. Commended, Open Section, Fisher's Ghost Art Award.
2002 Acquisitive, Maitland Art Prize.
2003 H. Commended, Open Section, Fisher's Ghost Art Award.

PUBLISHED/REPRODUCED - SELECTED
1986 Newcastle Herald, Jill Stowell, April 29.
1988 Newcastle Herald, Yvonne Colelough, Jan 21.
Newcastle Herald, Margaret Eley, Jan 25.
1990 Newcastle Herald, Jill Stowell, Oct 29, Dec10
1991 Newcastle Herald, Jill Stowell, June 11, Dec 16
Women Artists of Australia, Max Germaine, Craftsman House.
1992 Newcastle Herald, Jill Stowell, Feb
Catalogue, Milestones, Newcastle University Former Student Survey, Newcastle Contemporary Gallery, NSW.
Newcastle Herald, Margaret Eley, June.
Newcastle Herald, Margaret Eley, June 15.
1993 Newcastle Herald, Michael Hedger, Jan 2.
New Art Eight, Nevill Drury, Craftsman House.
Newcastle Herald, Jill Stowell, Oct 18.
Australian, Weekend Review, Elwyn Lynn, Oct 23-24.
1994 Images 2, Nevill Drury, Craftsman House.
Newcastle Herald, Jill Stowell, April 29.
Catalogue Reproduction, ACAF•4.
Newcastle Herald, Jill Stowell, Sept 30, p10.
1995 Sydney Morning Herald, Felicity Fenner, Mar 17.
Who's Who of Australian Visual Artists, DW Thorpe (with NAVA).
1996 New Visions, New Perspectives, Anna Voigt, Craftsman House.
1998 Galleries, Sydney Morning Herald, Bruce James, Mar 10.
Images 3, Nevill Drury, Craftsman House.
1999 City File, Bruce James, Spectrum, SMH, Jan 23.
Past Present, The National Women's Art Anthology, Joan Kerr & Jo Holder, Craftsman House.
2000 Newcastle Herald, Jill Stowell, July 8.
Exhibition Catalogue, The Masters' Apprentices, Lake Macquarie City Art Gallery.
Art Market, Victoria Hynes, Art and Australia, Vol 37 No 4.
Harmonious marriage, M. Ryan, Newcastle Herald, Nov. 11,
p 26.
2001 Art and Soul, Victoria Hynes, Metro, SMH, Sept 21-27
2002 Newcastle Herald, Jill Stowell, May 11.
2003 Human Rights Defender, Vol.12, issue 3, p12, 18 & 29.
Reproduced, Inside Out, Nov, pp83,88.

REPRESENTED
Artbank; Warrnambool Art Gallery, Vic; Maitland City Art Gallery, NSW; Muswellbrook Regional Art Gallery, NSW; University of Newcastle (TUNAC), NSW; Newcastle Region Art Gallery, NSW; Newcastle City Council, NSW; Newcastle AH&I Ass, NSW ; Stamford Plaza Hotel, Sydney.