Michael Herron
  • About
  • gallery
    • Weswal Exhibition
    • painting 2003-05
    • painting 2006
    • painting 2007
    • painting 2009
    • 2012 Flinders Ranges Artist Trip
    • 2014 Woodford Academy
    • NSW Plein Air Painting Prize
    • Works on paper 2006- 2007
    • Works on paper 2008- 2009
    • 2015 Moth Projects Exhibition
  • Workshops and classes
    • Larapinta Art Expedition
    • Flinders Ranges Art Trip
    • Kakadu Artist Trip
  • Contact

   After studying for 5 years at both Meadowbank TAFE ’84-’85 and City Art Institute (now UNSW College of Art and Design) ’86-’88, Michael won The Sydney Morning Herald Travelling Art Scholarship in 1988 and - combined with the Dyson Bequest from the Art Gallery of NSW - painted in the Mora Dyring Studio at the Cite Internationale des Artes in Paris for 4 months and travelled for 2 and a half years in Asia, Europe and America.

He exhibited with the Tim Olsen Gallery  2005- 2010  where he had 4 solo exhibitions and  numerous group shows.
There have been numerous artist trips to the Flinders Ranges, West MacDonnell Ranges, Cooma , Rylstone and the north coast of NSW.

Michael has taught and run workshops since the mid 90s and classes at numerous schools, art centres and art societies and has  guest lectured at COFA and TAFE, run workshops at Cockatoo island and guided art trips for World Expeditions to the West MacDonnell and Flinders Ranges. 

Michael currently resides in the Blue Mountains.

 
Curriculum Vitae - Michael Herron

 PERSONAL DETAILS

 Name:              Michael Herron

Born                  Sydney    1966

Education       1978-83  Killara High School, Sydney

                         1984-85  Meadowbank TAFE, Art Certificate, Sydney                

                         1986-88  Bachelor of Fine Art, City Art Institute, Sydney.

 
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

 1986     Lloyd Rees Photographic Award, Sydney.

1987     Three Painters, Arthause Gallery, Sydney.

1988     Two person Show, Galaxy Gallery, Sydney.

1988     Final Year Exhibition, City Art Institute, Sydney.

1988     Sydney Morning Herald Heritage Traveling Art Scholarship, Blaxland Gallery, Sydney.

1988     Gallery Artists, Galaxy Gallery, Sydney.

1988      Galaxy Gallery, Melbourne Art Fair

1988     Monotype, Galaxy Gallery, Sydney.

1989     A Romantic Vision, Two person Show, Galaxy Gallery Sydney.

1989     Douglas Art Award exhibition, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney.

1990     Young Painters, St Germaine, Paris.

1993     Observatory Heritage Exhibition, S.H.Irving Gallery, Sydney

1995     Impromptu, Arthause Gallery, Sydney.

1996     Axel Presents, Three Person Show, 235 Nelson Street Gallery, Sydney.

1996      If I had a Manifesto,  Three Person Show, 235 Nelson Street Gallery, Sydney.

1997     No Holds Barred 2, Stripp Gallery, Melbourne.

2006      Tim Olsen Gallery, Melbourne Art Fair

2008      2 x 2 Group Exhibition, Tim Olsen Gallery Annex, Sydney

2010      Tim Olsen Gallery Miscellanea

2010      Meadowbank TAFE Alumni 3 Person Show

2010      Kedumba Drawing Award

2011      Taronga Zoo Artist in Residence, Newcastle University

2011      Archibald, Salon des refuses, S.H.Irving Gallery

2011      Zoo AIR, University Gallery, Newcastle

2011      Contested Landscapes, Art and About Sydney, Customs House Forecourt.

2012      Plein Air Painting Prize, Parliament House, Sydney

2012      Painting the Everglades, with Tim Allen

2012      Flinders Ranges Exhibition, Mackay, Queensland Milton House Gallery

2012      Regent Honeyeater Show, Zoo Drawings with Michael Mandelc, Leura

2013      Plein Air Painting Prize, Parliament House, Sydney

2013      Utzon’s Opera House , S H Irving Gallery, Sydney

2014      Rick Amor Drawing Prize, Ballarat

2014      Plein Air Painting Prize, Parliament House, Sydney

2015      Confluence  Coorah Contemporary, Wentworth Falls

2017      Raglan Gallery Cooma, Kelton Plain Residency Show

2018      Project Gallery 90 Paddington Sydney

2018      Weswal Gallery Tamworth, A Shared View






SOLO EXHIBITIONS

1990     D.C. Art Gallery, Sydney.

1996      First Draft Gallery, Sydney.    phyla

2001      Works on Paper, Ewart Gallery, Sydney.

2005      Tim Olsen Gallery, Sydney 

2006      Tim Olsen Gallery, Sydney   - Confluence

2008      Tim Olsen Gallery, Sydney    - Idyll

2009      Tim Olsen Gallery, Sydney  The Chant of Edna Walling

2012      Threshold Gallery, Sydney  Garden Party, Chifley Plaza.

2013      Butchers Hook Gallery, Sydney, The Abstract heart.

2014      Woodford Academy

2015      Michael Herron Moth Project, Surrey Hills. Sydney

2017      Braemar Gallery, Springwood.  Michael Herron Recent Work

2018      Weswal Gallery,  Tamworth. Quiet Landmarks


2019      Woodford Academy


2020     Project Gallery 90  Fresh


   PRIZES AND AWARDS

 1986        Lloyd Rees Photographic Award

1988        Royal Agricultural Society, First Prize, The Under 20 Student Painting                                              
1988        Willoughby Art Prize, highly Commended

1988        Sydney Morning Herald Heritage Art Award, Traveling  Scholarship

1989        City Art Institute, Douglas Art Award, University Medal

1989        The Dyson Bequest, Art Gallery of N.S.W.Traveling  Scholarship

1989        The Moya Dyring Studio, Cite International des Arts, Paris

2002       The Sydney Grammar Prep School,  Art Award

 Teaching


1995- 2007        Waverly Woollahra Art Centre, Bondi


1999- present   Workshop Art Centre, Willoughby

2005- 08        Drawing , Art Gallery of NSW

2011-13         Knox Grammar Drawing workshops

2012-15         Blacktown Arts Centre life drawing workshops

2013              VADEA lectures and Zoo drawing workshop

2013-21         Cranbrook Drawing, painting and 
                                           Cockatoo Island Workshops


2013-18           Wenona Girls HSC Workshops

2014 -17          Knox Grammar painting and HSC  Workshops

2016-20          The Kings School painting, drawing  and HSC

2018- 2021     Glenaeon Steiner Cockatoo Island Workshops

2019 -2020         
Dulwich Hill High School  of Visual Arts and Design 
                          Art Month and Cockatoo Island Workshops

2014                 Ku-ring-gai Creative Arts High School Zoo Workshop

2015-18            Workshop Arts Willoughby Cockatoo Island Painting Workshops

2015 -19         West MacDonnell Ranges 7 day Artist Trip
                          World Expeditions
2017-18            Flinders Ranges Artist Expedition
                          World Expeditions
2019                 Kakadu Artist Trip    World Expeditions

   Travels

1989-1991           Asia, Europe, USA and 1998-1999 Asia and Europe

1998-1999           Asia, Europe

 

 

 

 

 


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