Roy Dalgarno

Essay
Port Kembla to Paris (And Back Again): The Port Kembla prints of Roy Dalgarno.

Biography
Address: 12 St Georg’s Road Parnell Auckland New Zealand
Born: Melbourne 1910 Died Auckland 2001
Secondary education: Ballarat Grammar School

Training
1926 - 30 Melbourne: National Gallery Art School.
1932 - 4 East Sydney Technical College Painting & Drawing
1930 - 32 Academy of Art. Dattilo Rubbo.
1951 - 53 Paris: Ecole des Beaux Arts
1951 - 52 William Hayter’s Atelier 17 (etching)
1980 Pratt Graphic Centre, New York. etching and collography

Prizes & Awards
1945 Australians at War exhibition (Industrial Section) second prize
1953 Diploma Students, lithography. Ecole des Beaux Arts, Paris . First Prize
1957 Mahasartra State (India) exhibition. First Prize
1965 Bombay society of Arts (India) . Bronze medal for special contribution to graphics

Professional Activities
1946 - 49 Co-founder, Studio of Realist Art (SORA) Sydney, Lecturer, East Sydney Technical college
1947 - 49 Co-founder, Editions Anarkali, publisher of fine arts Bombay
1965 Visiting lecturer, lithography. School of Fine Arts, Bombay
1965 - 73 Board of Studies (Member, faculty of fine Arts)
1965 - 70 University of Baroda, India. Lecturer in drawing and composition. Auckland
1975 - 80 Society of Arts
1956 - 74 Art Director of Lintas Ltd India
1964 - 76 Printing, painting and exhibiting in India and Australia
1976 Settled in auckland, New zealand, where he continued printmaking, painting and exhibiting in Australia and New Zealand

Commissions
1947 - 48 Commissioned by the four main Australian trades unions to paint and draw the work activities of their members. Later exhibited in Sydney and Canberra as Australians at Work.
1983 - 84 Commissioned by the Waterside Union & the Maritime Union to update the 1948 work by doing a further 45 drawings of the activities of their members.
Many commissions for illustrations including Club Francais du Livre, Paris and Time-Life Publications New York

Exhibitions Summary
1940 - 80 One-man shows - 4 in Brisbane, 3 in Paris, 3 in Sydney, 18 in India, 4 in Auckland, 1 in Canberra, 1 in Philadelphia. also many group shows.
1951 London
1952 Paris, Salon des Etrangers
1953 Johnstone Gallery Brisbane and Sydney. (this exhibition sent from Paris)
1956 - 74 Regular shows in Bombay, Delhi, Barida
1967 USA Philadelphia Print Club
1970 Rudy Komon Gallery, Sydney
1980 New Vision Gallery, Auckland
1981 Auguste Blackman Graphics, Sydney Whitecliffe Galleries Auckland
1984 Rudy Komon Gallery, Sydney Retrospect exhibition travelled to six New Zealand galleries
1985 Portfolio Gallery, Auckland Whitecliffe Galleries
1986 Holdsworth Galleries, Sydney
1988 Holdsworth Galleries, Sydney
1989 Grey St Gallery, Hamilton NZ
1991 Holdsworth Galleries, Sydney ASA Gallery, Auckland David Ellis Gallery, Melbourne
1997 Joseph Lebovic Gallery, Sydney John Leach Gallery Auckland
1999 Port Folio Gallery Auckland
2000 Wollongong City Gallery

Books & Folios
Incantations for Warriors. Pilgrims South Press, Dunedin
The Judges of the High Court. RKS Art, Auckland. Limited edition folio of etched and aquatinted and engraved prints.

Selected Bibliography
Smith, Bernard. Australian Painting 1788—1970, Oxford University Press 1974
Haese, Richard. Rebels and Precursors, Allen Lane/Penguin 1981
Badham, Herbert, A Study of Australian Art, Currawong Press, 1949
Turnbull, Clive, Art Here — Buvelot to Nolan, Hawthorn Press, 1947
McCulloch, Alan, Encyclopedia of Australian Art, Hutchinson, 1984
Germaine, Max, Artists and Galleries of Australia and New Zealand, Boolarong, 1984
Lynn, Elwyn. Weekend Australian Review 19/7/86
Murdoch, Anna. The Age 2/12/88
Pilgrims of the Arts, NZ, vol. 2/2
Art New Zealand No. 4

Represented
National Gallery of Australia
Art Gallery of New South Wales
Queensland Art Gallery
Auckland City Art Gallery
Newcastle Regional Gallery
Ballarat Fine Art Gallery
Parliament House, Canberra
Australian War Memorial Museum, Canberra
Wollongong City Gallery
University of Wollongong

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