GIVEN NAMES:  RYLLTON LEMUEL DAVID


DATE OF BIRTH: 5th May 1944




Studies and Qualifications:


Bachelor of Education (Art - Craft)
State College of Victoria - Burwood Campus 1978 - 1979
Diploma of Arts (Fine Art)
Tasmanian College of Advanced Education 1972 - 1974
Certificate of Art Launceston Technical College 1969 - 1971
Certificate of Education Launceston Teachers' College 1961 - 1963




Further Studies:


Printmaking (Photo- Etching)
    with Bea Maddock, National Gallery School 1979
Traditional Icon Painting:
    with Bishop John Bayton, St. Peters, Eastern Hill 1990
N.E.I.S. for Artists 1994
Printmaking:
    Lowick House Print Workshop, Cumbria, U.K. 1996





Employment History:


1992 - Current  Professional Artist Full-time
1994 - 1996     Art Column Journalist The Southern Sta~ Leongatha
1989 - 1992     Head of Department, Visual Arts
                St. Catherine's Girls' School, Melbourne
1988            Painting and Drawing Teacher Atelier `74
                Melbourne Contributor
                Art Almanac
1976 - 1988     Head of Faculty of Art & Curator of College Collections
                Wesley College, Melbourne
1986 - 1975     Head of Faculty of Visual Arts
                Launceston Church Grammar School
1964- 1965      Art and Humanities Teacher
                Tasmanian Education Department

Awards and Commissions:

Fellowship of Australian Writers; Poetry Competition, 1974. Highly Commended
Western Australian Art Gallery International Prize for Drawing, 1975.
Two works selected.
Australia Council Visual Arts Board:
        Special Purpose Grant, 1975
Wesley College, Melbourne:
        Staff Overseas Scholarships awarded: 1976, 1982, 1985
Wesley College, Melbourne:
        Painting of Wesley College Boathouse for Alan Mitchell Club Commissioned, 1987
Wesley College, Melbourne:
      Design of Coates Memorial Window Commissioned, 1987
Pastel Society of Victoria:
     Annual exhibition, 1994. Highly Commended
Mount View Art Show:
        Miniature Work, 1995. Highly Commended
Jabiru Gallery Award:
        Gold Coast, 1995. Highly Commended
Lowick House Print Workshop:
        Printmaking residency, 1996. Lowick House Print Workshop, Cumbria, U.K.





Memberships:


International Association of Art (I.A.A.)
National Association for the Visual Arts (N.A.V.A.)
Art Resource Collective (A.R.C.)
Pastel Society of Victoria
Print Council of Australia
Australian Society of Miniature Art
Australian College of Education (M.A.C.E.)




Exhibitions:


1996    Art Resource Collective (A.R.C.)
        The Big Print Show - Etchings (Group)
        Australian Catholic University, A.C.T Campus
        Miniature dmwings (Group)
        Storey Institute, Lancaster, England
        Etchings - Miniature (Group)
1995    Stuart Gerstman Gallery, Melbourne
        Recent Works on Paper
        Mteiki Gallery, Newhaven
        " Faces " - drawings, paintings and pastels (2 Person)
        Cowwarr Artspace, Cowwarr
        " The Cow Pasture Road " - drawings, paintings, prints, sculptures
        Latrobe Regional Gallery, Morwell
        " The New Energy " - drawings (Group)
        The Robb Street Gallery, Bairnsdale
        " Heaven By a String " (Group)
        Jabiru Gallery, Gold Coast, Queensland - Miniature Drawings
1994    Latrobe Regional Gallery, Morwell
        " Response " (Group)
        Stockyard Gallery, Foster
        " Sacred Sites " - recent drawings (2 Person)
1993    Stockyard Gallery, Foster
        Celebrate the South' (Group)
        Leongatha Gallery, Leongatha
        Drawings, Paintings and Prints (2 Person)
1992    Stuart Gerstman Gallery, Melbourne
        " Celtic Myths Series "
1991    Gallery Two, Launceston
        Cornish Landscape Series (3 Person)
1989    Latrobe University Gallery, Melbourne
        " The Pllgrimage Series "
1988    Disteltink Gallery, Melbourne
        Recent Works
1986    Distelfink Gallery, Melbourne
        " Modem Icons " - paintings
1984    Bowerbank Gallery, Tasmania
        Drawings
1983    Hawthorn City Art Gallery
        " Russia: A Visual Diary "
1981    Bowerbank Gallery, Tasmania
        Drawings
1980    Hawthorn City Art Gallery
        " Celestial Gardens Series '
1979    Stuart Gerstman Gallery, Melbourne
        Works on Paper
        Burwood State College Art Centre
        " Recent Works " (Group)
1975    The Little Gallery, Devonport
        " Recent Works on Paper " (2 person)
        The Art Gallery of Western Australia
        Drawings (Group)
        Salaimanca Place Gallery, Hobart
        Drawings (2 Person)
1974    Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, Tasmania
        Paintings (Group)
1973    Albert Hall, Launceston
        Poetry and Other Readings', performance (Group)





Represented:


Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, Tasmania
Artbank Collection, Sydney
Tasmanian College of Advanced Education (now University of Tasmania)
Burnie Regional Gallery
Devonport Regional Gallery
Melbourne College of Advanced Education (now University of Melbourne)
Hobart Technical College Collection
Wesley College Cato Collection, Melbourne
" The Examiner " Collection, Launceston
" The Mercury " Collection, Hobart
The Launceston Grammar School Collection
The Little Gallery Society Collection, Devonport
State College of Victoria (now Deakin University)
Lowick House Print Workshop Collection, United Kingdom
Private Collections - Australia, United Kingdom, United States of America and New Zealand




Study Tours:


1996    United Kingdom, Ireland, Sweden, South Africa Study Tour
1985    United Kingdom for l~N.S.E~A. Conference and to study Stone circle Sites
1982    Soviet Union, to study Russian Icons
1979    Western Europe, specifically France and Germany
1976    Western Europe, specifically Italy
1972    Outback Australia Drawing Tour




Bibliography:


Writer Unknown: Unusual Drawings, The Mercury, 11/8/75
Patricia Dewar: "Little Gallery Top Art Venue", The Advocate, 8/12/75
Alan McCulloch: "Exhibition Review", The Herald, 28/6/79
Alan Mcculloch: "Drawing asa Way of Life', The Herald, 19/6/80
Writer Unknown: "Seen in a New Light', The Examiner, 22/4/81
Writer Unknown: "Emphasis is on Colour at the Bowerbank", The Examiner, 1414181
Writer Unknown: "Exhibition Review", The Sun, 6/83
Writer Unknown: "Wednesday Magazine", The Examiner, 2/11/88
Sue Backhouse:  "Tasmanian Artists of the Twentieth Century", Pandani Press, Hobart, 1988
Tony Winder:    "The Coates Window", The Chronicle, 12/88
D.W. Thorpe:    "Who's Who of the Australian Visual Artist", National Association for the Visual Arts, 1991
Writer Unknown: "Felted Sculpture and Drawings", The Mirror, 21/10/94
Writer Unknown: "Inverloch Couple Stage Exhibition", The Star, 8/11/94
Catherine Fook: "Ancient Sites and Lore Speak in Viney Exhibition', The Star, 25/4/95
Janice Orchard: "In the Studio", The Star, 20/8/96