Gareth Sansom
Born 1939, Melbourne, Australia. Currently lives and works in Melbourne, Australia.
Education
1959 - 64
Studied at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology
Selected Artist Residencies
1989
Artist in Residence, Lalit Kala Academy, New Delhi
1985
Artist in Residence, The University of Melbourne
1982
Visiting Artist, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Holland
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2018
New Paintings, Milani Gallery, Brisbane
2017
Gareth Sansom: Transformer, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
2016
New Paintings, Station Gallery, Melbourne
2015
Four Paintings, Milani Gallery, Brisbane
Just Painting, Roslyn Oxley9, Sydney
2013
Milani Gallery, Brisbane
2012
Alternative Persona, Ballarat Fine Art Gallery, Melbourne
Milani Gallery
Roslyn Oxley9, Sydney
2011
New Paintings, John Buckley Gallery, Melbourne
2010
Milani Gallery, Brisbane
Roslyn Oxley9, Brisbane
2009
Gareth Sansom, John Buckley Gallery, Melbourne
2008
Recent Work, Milani Gallery, Brisbane
2007
New Paintings, John Buckley Gallery, Melbourne
2005
The Ian Potter Museum of Art, The University of Melbourne
John Buckley Fine Art, Melbourne
2004
John Buckley Fine Art, Melbourne
2003
John Buckley Fine Art, Melbourne
2002
John Buckley Fine Art, Melbourne
2001
John Buckley Fine Art, Melbourne
2000
John Buckley Fine Art, Melbourne
1997
Muka Gallery, Auckland, NZ
1996
West Space Inc., Footscray, Victoria; Ray Hughes Gallery, Sydney
1994
Villa Delirium, Australian Print Workshop, Melbourne
1993
Sherman Galleries, Goodhope, Sydney
1991-92
Seventh Triennale, New Delhi, India
1991
Recent Work, Luba Bilu Gallery, Melbourne
Seventh Triennale, New Delhi, India
Recent Work, Roslyn Oxley9, Sydney
Australian Tour: University of Melbourne, Canberra School of Art Gallery, South Australian School of Art Gallery, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Geraldton Regional Art Gallery, Bunbury Art Gallery, University of Tasmania Fine Arts Gallery, University of Tasmania - Launceston, Mornington Peninsula Arts Centre, Mildura Arts Centre, Wagga Wagga City Art Gallery, Campbelltown City Art Gallery, Shepparton Art Gallery
1990
Out of India, Roslyn Oxley9, Sydney
1989
Roslyn Oxley9, Sydney
1987
Victorian College of the Arts Gallery, Melbourne
Roslyn Oxley9, Sydney
1986
Gareth Sansom: Paintings 1956-1986, University Gallery, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne
Gareth Sansom: Recent Paintings, Powell Street Gallery, Melbourne
Gareth Sansom: Works of the 60s and 70s Charles Nodrum, Melbourne
1983
Realities Gallery, Melbourne
Roslyn Oxley9, Sydney
Ray Hughes Gallery, Brisbane
1982
Roslyn Oxley9, Sydney
Realities Gallery, Melbourne
Prinseneiland, Amsterdam, Holland
Ray Hughes Gallery, Brisbane
1979
Studio Exhibition, Napier Lane, Richmond, Melbourne
1978
Survey Exhibition, 1964-78, RMIT Gallery, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Melbourne
1977
Warehouse Gallery, Melbourne
1975
Sweeney Reed Gallery, Melbourne
Warehouse Gallery, Melbourne
1973
Sweeney Reed Gallery, Melbourne
1970
Gallery A, Melbourne
1968
South Yarra Gallery, Melbourne
1966
Gallery A, Melbourne and Sydney
1965
South Yarra Gallery, Melbourne
1963
Argus Gallery, Melbourne
1959
Richman Gallery, Melbourne
Selected Group Exhibitions
2019
Ways of Seeing: recent acquisitions from the collection, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
2016
Painting, More Painting, ACCA, Melbourne
Today, Tomorrow, Yesterday, MCA, Sydney
Magic Object, Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art, Adelaide
2015
Propositions Three, Milani Gallery, Brisbane
Pop to Popism, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
2014
Liminal Narratives, The Gallery, Bayside Arts & Cultural Centre, Brighton, Victoria
2013
Melbourne Now, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
New 2013, University of Queensland Art Museum, Brisbane, Queensland
Mixtape, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Censored, Fehily Contemporary, Victoria
2012
Visions past and present, The Ian Potter Museum of Art, The University of Melbourne
Volume 1, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
Melbourne Art Fair, Roslyn Oxley9, Melbourne
Art with TEXT, THIS Gallery, Los Angeles, California, USA
2011
Artwork to Tapestry, TarraWarra Museum of Art
Shoes Too, White Canvas Gallery, Brisbane, Queensland
ARTHK11, Hong Kong International Art Fair
Artist Artists, Benalla Regional Gallery, curated by Robert Hirschmann
TEN YEARS OF CONTEMPORARY ART: The James C Sourris AM Collection, Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, Queensland
Forever Young, curated by Linda Michael, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Victoria
2010
TarraWarra Modern, TarraWarra Museum of Art, Victoria
Basil Sellers Art Prize, The Ian Potter Museum of Art, The University of Melbourne
Melbourne Art Fair 2010, Melbourne
Stick it! Collage in Australian art, NGV Australia
Canadian Pharmacy, Neon Parc, Melbourne
We Call Them Pirates Out Here: MCA Collection selected by David Elliot, MCA, Sydney
Contemporary Encounters, NGV Australia
Berlin Art Fair, Berlin Germany
Change, curated by Max Delany MUMA, Melbourne
The Naked Face, NGV Australia
2009
Gallery A Sydney 1964-1983, Campbelltown Arts Centre, Newcastle Region Art Gallery
Quirky, Newcastle Art Gallery, New South Wales
Building a Collection: Recent Acquisitions of Prints and Drawings, National Gallery of Victoria
The Shilo Project, The Ian Potter Museum of Art, The University of Melbourne
Group Show, Roslyn Oxley9, Sydney
2008
The Contemporary Collage: Australian collage and assemblage, John Buckley Gallery
The Led Zeppelin World Tour (A Lismore Gallery touring exhibition), Mornington Peninsula Art Gallery
Melbourne Art Fair 2008, Melbourne
Preserving the past, enriching the future ~ Hugh Williamson’s legacy, National Gallery of Victoria
Recent acquisitions, Newcastle Art Gallery,New South Wales
2007
Cross Currents: Focus on Australian art, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
Eye to Eye, Ballarat Fine Art Gallery, Victoria
Bodies and Minds, Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne
Arthur Guy Memorial Art Prize, Bendigo Art Gallery, Victoria
From Here to Eternity, S.H.Ervin Gallery, Sydney; Benalla Art Gallery, Victoria; (plus, Hamilton Art Gallery; Castlemaine Art Gallery; Anne + Gordon Samstag Museum of Art, University of South Australia, 2008; and Maitland Regional Gallery, 2009)
Abstraction 6, Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne
2006
Snapshot, John Buckley Gallery, Melbourne
The Tallis Foundation National Works on Paper, Mornington Peninsula Art Gallery
A Man's World, Museum of Brisbane, Queensland
Australian Drawing Part 1, John Buckley Gallery, Melbourne
Fletcher Jones Art Prize, Geelong Art Gallery
For Matthew and Others: Journeys with Schizophrenia, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney
2005
Tales of the City, Australian Galleries, Melbourne
Citibank Photographic Portrait Prize finalist, AGNSW
Wynne Prize finalist, AGNSW 2005 This and Other Worlds: Contemporary Australian Drawing, National Gallery of Victoria at Federation Square
'I'm travellin' light'...'No, no you don't travel light' [Tindersticks, self titled 1995], Spacement Gallery
"Twentieth Century", Bendigo Art Gallery, Victoria
2004
Freaks, Fiends, and Folly, Bright Gallery, Melbourne
The Citigroup Private Bank Australian Photographic Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales
The Sulman Prize, AGNSW
The Spirit of Football, NGV
Recent Acquisitions, National Gallery of Victoria at Federation Square
Arthur Guy Memorial Art Prize, Bendigo Art Gallery
Geelong Art Prize, Geelong Art Gallery
2003
X Melbourne, Contemporary Art Space Canberra, Sydney College of the Arts
The Citigroup Private Bank Australian Photographic Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales
Modern Australian Paintings, Charles Nodrum Gallery Melbourne
Arthur Guy Memorial Art Prize, Bendigo, Victoria
2002
Nocturne, Mornington Peninsula Art Gallery, Geelong Art Gallery
National Works on Paper, Mornington Peninsula Art Gallery (Acquired)
Nick Cave:The Good Son, Mornington Peninsula Art Gallery
2001
Painting – an arcane technology, Ian Potter Gallery, The University of Melbourne
2000
Proof Positive, Gold Treasury Museum, Melbourne
Modern Australian Painting, Charles Nodrum Gallery Melbourne
Thinking Aloud, Ray Hughes Gallery, Sydney
Exquisite Corpse, Bendigo Art Gallery, Victoria
Geelong Art Prize, Geelong Art Gallery, Victoria
Desire, RMIT Gallery, Melbourne
1999
Impressions, Australian Print Workshop, Melbourne
1998
The Mecenet Collection, Sherman Galleries Goodhope, Sydney
The Mentors, Deans of the VCA School of Art, George Adams Gallery, Melbourne
Proof Positive, Carnegie Gallery, Hobart
Australian Contemporary Art Fair
1997
Australian Printmaking in the 90’s, Australian Print Workshop, Melbourne
Art and Furniture of the 60’s, Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne
1996
The Clemenger Triennial Exhibition of Contemporary Australian Art, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
ART at UNSW: Collecting from a University's Perspective; Selected Acquisitions 1991-95, University of New South Wales, Sydney
Love, Carlisle Motel, St Kilda, Victoria
AFL EXPO, Melbourne Park, Melbourne, Victoria (Curated by Robert Lindsay)
Synergy, Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi, India
1995
The Loti and Victor Smorgon Gift of Contemporary Australian Art, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
Modern Australian Paintings, Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne
Australian Watercolours; Selected Works from the Collection, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Kedumba Drawing Prize, Leura, New South Wales
1994
Charles Nodrum Gallery,Melbourne
Art Asia Hong Kong, Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, Hong Kong (Nov 17-21)
1993
On Paper, Sherman Goodhope, Sydney, Solander Gallery, Canberra4.
Asia Pacific Triennial, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane
Political Bedrooms, Fireworks Gallery, Brisbane
Contemporary Australian Printmaking, Sherman Hargrave, Sydney
On Paper, Solander Gallery, Canberra
Still Life, Temple Gallery, Melbourne
Virtuosi - Youth Music Australia Portfolio of Prints, Sherman Hargrave, Sydney1993
Modern Australian Paintings
Love and Ruin, Art and St Kilda in the Twentieth Century, St Kilda Town Hall, Melbourne
Australian Contemporary Art Fair, Melbourne
Persona Cognita, Museum of Modern Art at Heide
Contemporary Australian Tapestry, Australian Embassy, Paris
1992
OZPOP (with Colin Lanceley, Richard Larter and Mary Moore), Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth
Contemporary Australian Drawing, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Works on Paper by Australian Contemporary Artists, R.M.I.T. Gallery, Melbourne
Third Australian Contemporary Art Fair, Royal Exhibition Buildings, Melbourne
Review 1992, Luba Bilu Gallery, Melbourne
1991
Modern Australian Painting, Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne
Off the Wall, In the Air: A Seventies Collection, Monash University Gallery and Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne
Diverse Visions, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane
Australian Painting, Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne
Interpretations - The Woven Language of the Victorian Tapestry Workshop,
Ian Potter Gallery, University of Melbourne, and Australian touring - 1991/97
1990
Mass Media Mixed Media, Painters Gallery, Sydney
Out of Asia, Heide Gallery, Melbourne
Second Contemporary Art Fair, Royal Exhibition Buildings, Melbourne
Word as Image, Art as Text, Monash University Gallery, Melbourne
Defective Models, Australian Portraiture 19th and 20th Century, Monash University Gallery, Melbourne
SPECIAL...it's been used before..., Luba Bilu Gallery, Melbourne
1989
Imaging AIDS, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne
Prints and Australia: Pre-Settlement to Present, Australian National Gallery, Canberra
Intimate Drawing, Coventry Gallery, Sydney
A Tribute to Rod Withers, Reconnaissance Gallery, Melbourne
Irony Humour and Dissent, Manly Art Gallery, Sydney
Modern Australian Painting, Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne
Freestyle, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
1988
The Ammunition Show, Victorian College of the Arts Gallery, Melbourne
From the Southern Cross, A View of the World c.1940-1988, Australian Biennale, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
First Australian Contemporary Art Fair, Royal Exhibition Buildings, Melbourne
Drawings 1970's-1980's, Australian National Gallery, Canberra
Australian Art Post - 1960, Deutscher Gertrude Street, Melbourne
New Work, Powell Street Gallery, Melbourne
The Cocktail Party, Roslyn Oxley9, Sydney
1987
Modern Australian Masters, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
From Field to Figuration, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
John McCaughey Memorial Art Prize, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Painters and Sculptors - Diversity in Contemporary Australian Art, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane
Gallery Survey, Powell Street Gallery, Melbourne
The ANZ Bicentennial Commissioning Series, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Collage Survey, Holdsworth Gallery, Sydney
1986
6th Biennale of Sydney, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Modern Australian Paintings, Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne
Works on Paper, Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne
Slouching Towards Bethlehem, 200 Gertrude Street, Melbourne
Selections from RMIT Collection, RMIT Gallery, Melbourne
1985
Visual Tension, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne
Realities Salutes Victoria's 150th Birthday, Realities Gallery, Melbourne
6 Drawings, Tasmanian School of Art Gallery, University of Tasmania, Hobart
Survey Exhibition, Powell Street Gallery, Melbourne
Twenty Paintings from the 1960's, Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne
1984
Vox Pop: Into the Eighties, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Recent Australian Painting, A Survey 1970 -1983, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
1983
Australian Perspecta, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
1982
Collage, Regional Development Exhibition, Visual Arts Board, Australia Council
4th Biennale of Sydney, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
1981
Frame of Reference, George Paton Gallery, The University of Melbourne
McCaughy Prize, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Selections from CAE Collection, RMIT Gallery, Melbourne
Spectres of our Time, Royal South Australian Society of the Arts Gallery, Adelaide
Realities Gallery, Melbourne
Recent Acquisitions, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
1980
Self Portrait/Self Image, Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne
Recent Acquisitions, Ballarat Fine Art Gallery, Victoria
1979
Images, Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne
1978
Recent Acquisitions, Ballarat Fine Art Gallery, Victoria
Baldessin Memorial Exhibition, Realities Gallery, Melbourne
1977
Collage, Ray Hughes Gallery, Brisbane
Georges Prize, Melbourne
1975
Artists' Artists, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Recent Drawings, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Ten Caufield Artists, Monash University Gallery, Melbourne
Georges Prize, Melbourne
1973
Travelling Exhibition of Australian Art, New Zealand
1970
Travelling Exhibition of Australian Art, South East Asia
1968
Georges Prize, Melbourne
1967
Group Exhibitions in Los Angeles, San Francisco and Washington
Georges Prize, Melbourne
1966
Carnegie Collection, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
The Nude in Australian Art, Gallery A, Melbourne
Young Melbourne Painters, Gallery A, Sydney
McCaughey Prize, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
1965
McCaughey Prize, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Recent Acquisitions, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
New Generation, MOMAD, Melbourne
Decade, Storey Hall, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Melbourne
Georges Prize, Melbourne
1964
CAS Exhibition, Argus Gallery, Melbourne
1964
Survey Exhibition, MOMAD, Melbourne
1963
CAS Exhibition, Argus Gallery, Melbourne
1962
Italian Travelling Scholarship Exhibition, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Collections
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
National Art Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand
Museum Of Contemporary Art, Sydney
Australian National Gallery, Canberra
Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane
Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart
Artbank, Sydney
TarraWarra Museum of Art
Museum of Modern Art at Heide, Victoria
Geelong Art Gallery, Victoria
Shepparton Art Gallery, Victoria
Benalla Art Gallery, Victoria
Ballarat Fine Art Gallery, Victoria
Bendigo Art Gallery, Victoria
Mornington Peninsula Art Gallery, Victoria
Wollongong City Art Gallery, New South Wales
Newcastle Region Art Gallery, New South Wales
Latrobe Valley Regional Collection, Victoria
Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Melbourne
Monash University, Victoria
University of Melbourne, Melbourne
University of New South Wales, Sydney
Western Australian University Art Gallery, Perth
UQ Art Museum, University of Queensland
Griffith University, Queensland
Ormond College, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne
Ballarat College of Advanced Education, Victoria
Museum of Contemporary Art, Brisbane
Loti and Victor Smorgon Collection of Contemporary Australian Art (MCA, Sydney) McClelland Gallery, Langwarren, Victoria
Horsham Regional Gallery
Price Waterhouse Coopers, Australia
Swan Hill Regional Gallery
BHP Billiton Collection, Melbourne
Dr Paul Eliadis Collection of Contemporary Art
One Art Collection
Wesfarmers Collection
Private collections in Australia, Europe, India, NZ, and USA
Selected Grants and Awards
1975 Visual Arts Board, Special Projects Grant
1976 Visual Arts Board, Travel Grant
1979 Victorian Ministry of the Arts, Tram Project
1981 Visual Arts Board, Standard Grant
1982 Visiting Artist Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Holland
1984 Hugh Williamson Prize, Ballarat Fine Art Gallery
1984 Visual Arts Board, Standard Grant
1986 Henry Salkauskas Art (Purchase) Award
1987 ANZ Bicentennial Commissioning Series
1989 Victorian Tapestry Workshop Commission
1991 VII - The Indian Triennale, New Delhi
1993/94 Collie Fellowship, Australian Print Workshop, Melbourn
1994 Virtuosi - Youth Music Australia Portfolio of Prints
2006 John Tallis Acquisitive Award, Mornington Peninsula Art Gallery
2008 John McCaughey Memorial Prize, National Gallery of Victoria
2012 Dobell Prize, Art Gallery of NSW
Selected Reviews
Hannon, Bill, "Savagery and Subtlety", The Bulletin, 25 May, 1963
Warren, Alan, "Pop Art That's Romantic Too", The Sun, 21 April, 1965
Smith, Bernard, "Provocation and Courage on Canvas", The Age, 21 April, 1965
McCulloch, Alan, "Striking Painting", The Herald, 21 April, 1965
McCaughy, Patrick, "He Really Reflects World Events", The Age, 22nd June, 1966
Warren, Alan, "New Art Form in Paste and Paint", The Sun, 22nd June, 1966
Lynn, Elwyn, "Turmoil in the Void", The Australian, 30 July, 1966
Warren, Alan, "Artist Tries a Change", The Sun, 8 April, 1970
Makin, Jeff, "Sansom's Now More Dynamic", The Sun, 5 September, 1973
Makin, Jeff, "Bumps and Grinds Make a Fine Show", The Sun, 26 February, 1975
Makin, Jeff, "Gareth Has Put in the Lot", The Sun, 19 November, 1975
Gilchrist, Maureen, "From Expressionism Back to Images", The Age, 19 November, 1975
McCulloch, Alan, "Bizarre Force", The Herald, 20 November, 1975
Gilchrist, Maureen, "Compelling Sansom Offers an Electric Experience", The Age, 6 April, 1977
Sturgeon, Graeme, "Wilder Shores", The Australian, 19 April, 1977
Eagle, Mary, "Pop Goes the Easel", The Age, 12 April, 1978
Millar, Roland, "Identity Search", The Australian, 20 April, 1978
Rooney, Robert, "Sansom Looks to the Past", The Age, 21 March, 1979
Sturgeon, Graeme, "Fire and Fury in a Richmond Back Alley", The Australian, 29 March, 1979
Maloon, Terence, "Sansom is Riveting", Sydney Morning Herald, 6 March, 1982
McIntyre, Arthur, "A Very Photographic Biennale", The Age, 14 April, 1982
Rooney, Robert, "Private Obsessions Sansom's Strength", The Age, 5th May, 1982
Millar, Ronald, "The Artist Exposed", The Herald, 6 May, 1982
Holloway, Memory, "Sansom Cool and Nasty (Alert)", The Age, 27 April, 1983
Rooney, Robert, "Sansom: Escaping the Monster", The Australian, 22 March, 1986
Millar, Ronald, "Pictures That Put You on Edge...” The Herald, 21 March, 1986
Catalano, Gary, "An Array of Obscure Facts", The Age, 21 March, 1986
McDonald, John, "Non Conformist's Mad Movie of Life", The Sydney Morning Herald, 22 August, 1987
Lynn, Elwyn, "A Vision of Dedicated Lives", The Australian, 22 August, 1987
Allen, Christopher, "Art can help with political will and vision", Sydney Morning Herald, 11 May, 1990
Rooney, Robert, "Pilgrims of the Inner Site", The Australian, 26 November, 1988
McDonald, John, "The Good, The Twee, and Old Boofhead", Sydney Morning Herald, 27 May, 1989
Rooney, Robert, "Quirky Delicacy alongside Questionable Taste", The Australian, 1 June, 1991
Heathcote, Christopher, "Sansom Exhibition Raises Critical Problems", The Age, 29 May, 1991 Burke, Janine, "Borderline Position", Australian Society, July, 1991
Grishin, Sasha, "Sansom Opens Up in New Form", Canberra Times, 22 July, 1991
Fern, Lynette, "Even Bald Heads", Sydney Morning Herald, 23 August, 1991
Neylon, John, "Autobiographical", Adelaide Review, October 1991
Osborne, Margot, "India's Impact on the Artist", The Advertiser, 10 October, 1991
Simon, Matthew, "Sansom in India: Artist in the Flesh", Broadsheet, Vol.20 No.4, December, 1991
Bolton, Ken, "Inbuilt Bad-Faith", Artlink, Vol.II No.4, Dec. 1991
Timms, Peter, "Painting by Numbers - Melbourne Report, 1991", Art & Australia, Vol.24 No.4 1991
George Petelin, "Riches From the East", The Weekend Australian, 11 - 12 September, 1993
Allan, Christopher,"Gareth Sansom at Sherman Galleries", Asian Art News, Vol.3 No.6 Nov/Dec 1993 p.116-17
Hill, Peter, "Into The New Asia-Pacific Art Age", Asian Art News, Vol.3 No.6 Nov/Dec 1993 p.74
Nicklin, Lenore & Mendelssohn, Joanna, "Bunch of Tens", The Bulletin, 7 December, 1993
Doyle, Celestine, "Asia-Pacific Triennial", Craft Arts International, 1993-94
Grishin, Sasha, "Outstanding work meets international standards", The Canberra Times, 26 February, 1994
Rooney, Robert, "Distant Notes Compare Well", The Australian, 16 April, 1994
Heathcote, Christopher, "Seers and visionaries should not be missed", The Age, Melbourne, 11 May 1994
Rooney, Robert, "Gender benders all dressed up, but Daffy steals the show", The Australian, 5 November, 1994
Joanna Mendelssohn, "Kedumba Drawing Award", The Australian (Sydney) 13 October 1995
Robert Rooney, "Melbourne Art, TECCA", The Australian, 22 March, 1996
Robert Nelson, “Fairs and prizes enhance art’s allure”, The Age, Melbourne, 4 October, 2000
Peter Timms, “Party like there’s no tomorrow”, The Age, 6 December, 2000
Robert Nelson, “Canvassing a theory of painting”, The Age, 18 February, 2001
Anna Clabburn, “Powerful Narratives”, The Australian, 16 February, 2001
Chris Reid, “Painting: reinvigorating the arcane”, RealTime 42 April-May 2001
Jeff Makin, “Only a paper world”, Herald Sun, 8 July, 2002 “Voices of a Generation”, The Age, 3 April, 2004
Ashley Crawford, “Gareth Sansom – Don’t Look Now”, The Sunday Age - agenda, August 29, 2004
Backhouse,Megan, “Layers of agitation”, The Age, August 28, 2004
Crawford, Ashley, "Tales of the City", The Sunday Age Preview, January 30, 2005
Ashley Crawford, "This and Other Worlds: Contemporary Australian Drawing", The Sunday Age Preview, September11th, 2005
Megan Backhouse, "Gareth Sansom", The Age Melbourne Magazine: Galleries, Issue #12 October 2005
Ashley Crawford, "Welcome to My Mind", Australian Art Collector, Issue 34, October-December 2005
Jeff Makin, "Shocker turns master", Herald-Sun, 24 October 2005
Ashley Crawford, "Gareth Sansom: Welcome to my mind" Sunday Age Preview, Dec 11, 2005
Sebastian Smee, "Works of perpetual motion to needle staid Melbourne" The Australian, Dec 15, 2005
Mixed Media, Megan Backhouse, "A win on paper" The Age, June 16, 2006
The BUZZ, "Rapt in paper", Herald Sun, June 13, 2006
Drawing on life lessons - Jeff Makin, Herald Sun, Monday, August 7, 2006
Sebastian Smee, "In the mind's eye", The Weekend Australian, Oct 21-22, 2006
Ashley Crawford, "Sansom and the post-punk intellect", The Age, July 4, 2007
Sebastian Smee, "Beauty and Brains", The Australian, October 13, 2007
Sasha Grishen, "Work of tribal elders takes centre stage", Sunday Canberra Times, October 28, 2007
John McDonald, "A palette of local colour", The Sydney Morning Herald, November 3-4, 2007
Sebastian Smee, "Forget me not", The Australian, April 5, 2008
Edward Colless, "Bad boy makes an exquisite corpse", The Australian, June 25, 2009
Peter Hanlon, "Picture this: taking art into the sporting arena", The Age, August 7, 2010
Sasha Grishen, "New Realities", Canberra Times, July 29 2010
John McDonald, "A nose for wild invention", Sydney Morning Herald, July 31, 2010
Selected Interviews
Hannon, Bill, "Melbourne Painters, a Bulletin Portfolio", The Bulletin, 5 December, 1964
Staff Reporter, "Gareth's Easel Did Not Go 'Pop' !", The Sun, 22 April, 1965
Wright, Claudia, "Claudia Wright Meets Gareth Sansom", The Herald, August, 1968
Milson, Wendy, "Gareth Sansom - Artist Worried by his 'Symbols'", The Age, 23 April, 1977
Hawker, Phillipa, "An Artist Involved", The Age, May 1982
Staff Reporter, "A Little Bit of Ballarat", The Courier Ballarat, 7 July, 1984
Murdoch, Anna, "Sansom's Burning Urge to Paint", The Age, 8 September, 1984
Howard, Jane, "Sansom's Plan to Attack Myths About Art", The Australian, 8 May, 1985
Leonard, Christopher, "The Art of Teaching", Vogue Living, October, 1986
McIntyre, Arthur, "Sansom Tests Nature of Art", The Age, April, 1987
Lancashire, Rebecca, "Sansom Returns to Full Time Painting", The Age, 27 May, 1991
Heathcote, Christopher, "Responding to India", Art Monthly, June 1991
Lowe, Geoff, "Interview with Gareth Sansom", Seventh Triennale, India, catalogue, 1991
Stephens, Andrew, "Prints provide new adventure in creativity", The Age, 13 April, 1994
Burchall, Greg, "Drawing Fragments Together", The Age, 1 May 1996
Julian Holcroft, “Gareth Sansom”, LIKE magazine, December, 2000
Ashley Crawford, “Relaxed but not comfortable”, The Age, April 13, 2001
Ashley Crawford, “The Artist as an Older Man”, The Age, September 13, 2003
Gabriella Coslovich, "Sansom wins $100,000 art prize", The Age, February 2008
Annemarie Kiely, "Gareth Sansom: A Fine Figure", Vogue Living, July/August 2009
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John Buckley “Nocturne”, Mornington Peninsular Art Gallery, 2002
Linda Michael, Monash University Collection: Four Decades of Collecting, MUMA, 2002
Roger Butler+Anne Virgo, ‘place made’ –Australian Print Workshop, National Gallery of Australia, 2004
Bernard Smith, Two Centuries of Australian Art from the Collection of the National Gallery of Victoria, Thames & Hudson, 2004
Bala Starr, "Welcome To My Mind - Gareth Sansom, A Study of Selected Works 1964-2005", The University of Melbourne, 2000
Anne Kirker "Dude Ranch Dada" Art Monthly, December 2006
McCulloch Alan; McCulloch, Susan and Childs, Emily McCulloch, The New McCulloch's Encyclopedia of Australian Art, 2006
Julie Ewington, Brought to Light II: Contemporary Australian Art 1966-2006, Queensland Art Gallery, 2007
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John Stringer, Cross Currents: Focus on Australian Art, Catalogue, MCA, 2007
Geoff Wallis, " Eye to I, Catalogue", Ballarat Fine Art Gallery, 2007
Harriet Edquist, Elizabeth Grierson, "A Skilled Hand and Cultivated Mind - A Guide to the Architecture and Art of RMIT University", RMIT, 2008
Ashley Crawford, "Gareth Sansom", Art World, August/September 2008
Ashley Crawford, "Gareth Sansom", Australian Art Review, August - October 2008
Vivien Gaston, "The Naked Face: Self Portraits", Catalogue, NGV 2010
Geoff Wallis, "gareth sansom - on being of the moment", magazine of the Ballarat Fine Art Gallery Association, Autumn 2012
Ashley Crawford, "Standout Exhibitions", Australian Art Collector, January/March 2012
Kelly Gellatly, "101 Contemporary Australian Artists", NGV Publication 2012
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