Bob Baird CV
Title
Bob Baird CV
Author
Bob BairdDetails
2019Publication date
2019Type
CV
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EnglishCountry of context
Australia
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Bob Baird
EDUCATION.
Born Sydney: Studied at St, George Technical College 1965-66, Julian Ashton Art School 1968-69, National Art School Sydney and Alexander Mackie College of Advanced Education 1974-77, Sydney Teachers’ College 1978-79.( University of Sydney) He traveled extensively on study tours through Europe, England, Scotland, Ireland, Italy, America, Middle East, South East Asia, and North Africa.1978-79, 2001-2006 studying the works of the Classical Masters, and Modern Masters.
Bob has been the recipient of numerous commissions in portraiture and in landscape painting. His landscape Paintings and Drawings, where under contract, exclusively to Holdsworth Gallery, Woollahra and Holdsworth Contemporary Gallery Sydney 1987- 1998 where he conducted yearly solo and group exhibitions. Also many group exhibition in Australia, Mexico, England, China, Taiwan.
SELECTED MAJOR EXHIBITIONS.
He has been a finalist in prizes including: the Doug Moran National Portrait Prize 1988, 1992, 1996, 2000; the Archibald Prize 1994; and the Dobell Prize for Drawing 1997. He was appointed Artist-in-Residence at Dobell House and Studio in 1998, where his solo exhibition, ‘A tribute to Dobell’ was held in 1999. He participated in the exhibition ‘Portraits 2001; An Australian Odyssey’ which toured NSW, QLD, VIC, SA, Regional Galleries in 2001-2002. Shirley Hannan National portrait Award.2010.
Bob Baird was employed as a full-time Fine Arts Educator with NSW TAFE Commission 1980-2008. He has practiced extensively as a professional musician working in Cabaret in Sydney,1970-80’s backing many prominent entertainers. He is engaged in jazz performances in Sydney and Interstate. He has been touring yearly since 1999-2006, playing Jazz in British, European, American and Australian Jazz Festivals.
COLLECTIONS.
He is represented in collections including: the Reserve Bank of Australia; College of Fine Arts Sydney; the University of New South Wales; Australian Workers’ Union Head Office, South Australia; His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales; IBM Australia and the United States of America; The Art Gallery of New South Wales; (Edmond and Joanne Capon rear books collection) the National Library of Australia; the State Library of New South Wales; Warringah Shire Libraries; Westmead Children Hospital Art Collection; Sydney Teachers Credit Union; the Pastel Society of America Collection NY; University of Technology, Sydney; Bathurst Regional Art Gallery; Bundaberg Regional Art Gallery; Tweed Heads Regional Art Gallery (Australian Portrait Collection) Australian National Gallery Canberra; University of Wollongong; Maitland Regional Art Gallery; Campion College Australia Collection; The Barbara Morrison California Jazz and Blues Museum, United States of America.
Private Collections in: England, Scotland, Ireland, Japan, Estonia, Switzerland, USA, Colombia, and Australia.
PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS.
Member of the Australian Watercolour Institute. Fellow of the Royal Art Society of New South Wales, member Pastel Society of America (NY).
Portrait Artist Australia.
BIBLIOGRAPHY.
6th International Print Biennale. Bradford Art Gallery, England 1979.
Directory of Australian Printmakers. Biographical Centre, Cambridge, United Kingdom 1987.
Warringah 1988 A Celebration by its Artists and Writers. Published 1989.
Edwards and Shaw.
Australian Artist magazine. No. 94 April 1992, No. 119 May 1994, No. 128 February 1995.
Australian Watercolour Institute 75th Anniversary 1923-1998. The Beagle Press, 1998.
Australian Watercolour Institute 2006. Phillip Mathews Book Publishers 20006.
Pastel Artist International. November/December 1999, January 2000.
Australian Watercolour Institute. Ninety years of the Australian Watercolour Institute. Beagle Press 2015.
100 prints by 100 Australian Artists. Print Council of Australia 1988.
Annual Bell Jazz Lecture. 2013 Doubly Gifted: What is it all about. Waverley Library 2013. National Library of Australia.